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Note the similarity in how humans communicate across time via star maps: (L) stone tablet from 650 BC library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq. (R) Voyager record from 1970s now traversing #interstellar space on the twin Voyagers. #SETI #Technosignature #astrobiology
Nineveh, Moussul on the Tigris, William Radclyffe, @YaleBritishArt https://t.co/UZV20k1Knz #wikidata #digitalart #print (Palette: #LollyRocket) 🖌🎨
Photo from a British newspaper (THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS)
From 1852 it illustrates the transport of winged bulls from archaeological sites in Nineveh, northern Iraq, to British Museum’s.
#IraqMsptmia
#IRAQesque
معيار وزن اشورية من نينوى على شكل أسد مصنوع من سبيكة النحاس
للفترة من 858-824 قبل الميلاد
An Assyrian weight standard from Nineveh, in the shape of a lion made of copper alloy
From 858-824 BC.
The clay dried before I could finish it, but here's a column of the Gilgamesh epic I've been working on, copied from the famous 'Flood Tablet' from Nineveh, now in the British Museum. The cuneiform is roughly the right size, but certainly not up to Ashurbanipal's standards!
More Nineveh, now in: how hes gonna sneak into a brothel to kill his bfs boss