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#mesopotamia

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Sebastian Hageneuer

ICYMI: 🏺 How did light shape religious experience in ancient Mesopotamian temples?

We investigated this by reconstructing and analysing lighting conditions in four common types of sacred architecture from the ancient Near East.

Using standardised 3D models, we simulated how natural light entered temple spaces.

🔍 Read more about our approach and results here:
🔗 artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-

#DigitalArchaeology#AncientNearEast#Mesopotamia
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Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈

"Hear me, elders, hear me, young men,
my beloved friend is dead, he is dead,
my beloved brother is dead, I will mourn
as long as I breathe, I will sob for him
like a woman who has lost her only child."

But #Enkidu doesn't answer. #Gilgamesh touches his heart, but it does not beat.
Then he veils Enkidu’s face like a bride’s.

Distressed by Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh undertakes a long and perilous journey to discover the secret of eternal life.

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#mythology#Mesopotamia
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈

For the last day of #PrideMonth, #MythologyMonday's theme is #LGBTQ myths. There are many queer stories in mythology all over the world. Today I want to tell you about #Gilgamesh and #Enkidu. Gilgamesh is a hero in Mesopotamian mythology and the eponymous protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian ca. 2100–1200 BCE. Enkidu is a wild man created by the gods to stop Gilgamesh from oppressing the people of Uruk, the Sumerian city-state.

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#Mesopotamia#mythology
janggolan

Residents of #Jinwar women’s village are standing strong —Co-operation in #Mesopotamia…
mesopotamia.coop/iwd2025-the-r
"Established after discussions amongst the different women’s organisations in #Rojava in 2016, construction started in 2017, doors opened on 25 Nov 2018, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Jinwar, designed as a place where #women survivors of male violence can create a free life together, has also been a haven for women whose husbands have passed…"

Co-operation in Mesopotamia · IWD2025: The residents of Jinwar women’s village are standing strongFor International Women's Day 2025, we take an in-depth look into life inside Jinwar women's village in Rojava’s Cizîrê Canton, in northeast Syria. Kurdish News platform Mezopotamya Agency recently carried out an important interview with village residents about life and collective resistance at Jinw
Matt Potter

It’s important to remember how to be surprised. The band Wyatt E are from Belgium, but make “music for the gods of ancient Babylon; Gods that have been forgotten.”

They play doom or psychedelic drone metal, in Eastern keys, use odd instruments like mandolins and sax to breathe texture, & sound deep & meditative - like Mt Fuji Doomjazz Corporation at times, and Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ at others.

wyattdoom.bandcamp.com/album/l

#doommetal#babylon#mesopotamia
GastroHistory

'The identity of the world’s earliest cookbook has long been a subject of debate—and depends a lot on what you consider a cookbook. Some scholars would say that De re coquinaria, an ancient Roman collection of recipes compiled around the 5th century takes the honor. But millennia before anyone whipped up a brain souffle, the ancient Babylonians were writing down recipes, some of which still work well today.' atlasobscura.com/articles/worl #foodhistory #Mesopotamia

Atlas Obscura · What Researchers Learned From the World’s Oldest CookbookBy Diana Hubbell
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dj zenn

1000 Day Album Challenge (#86) The B-52’s: Mesopotamia (1982) [26.03.24]

turn your watch, turn your watch back / about a hundred thousand years
a hundred thousand years…

I think I always had a bit of a thing for Mesopotamia because David Byrne produced it. I certainly liked The B-52’s, but I was always more of a Talking Heads fan. I might be wrong but I think Mesopotamia was the first B-52’s record I bought. the first two albums got so much airplay and I seemed to know a number of people who owned one, the other or both. I guess I just wasn’t that compelled to shell out for them.

I’ve always been attracted to Deep Sleep and Mesopotamia because they are the two tunes here least like their first two albums. I love Deep Sleep’s slo-mo vibe. it’t the type of tune that is not meant for a typical dancefloor, but it certainly knows where the dancefloor is. no one’s gonna get down to it, but it can certainly inspire a bit of hippy swaying, if you know what I mean. not quite a party tune, Mesopotamia ups the tempo a bit, and has a compelling groove to it. I always move to it even when that just means a bit of chair dancing.

I imagine plenty of fans were turned off by Mesopotamia, but I like when bands veer off the path they seemed to have set. I find The B-52’s just as much fun here as on the debut and Wild Planet.

#1000DayAlbumChallenege#TheB52s#Mesopotamia
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