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 space on the twin Voyagers.

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A stream headshot for ashurbanipal
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Comms for Ashurbanipal on picarto.



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The Library of Ashurbanipal. Ink and paper, digitally coloured.

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Divine curls.
A couple of apotropaic deities —‘lahmu’ or ‘hairy’(!) with 6 curls—and two Assyrian ‘House Gods’ protecting a doorway near the throne room in the Palace at Nineveh. 645-640 BC.
And so we enter the exhibit ...

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