🔊🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨🔊

Thin End of the Wedge has a new episode about everyone's favourite Bronze Age copper merchant: Ea-Nasir!

Listen to hear about the historical context behind the famous complaint letter, and his new life as a meme.

open.spotify.com/episode/7jFm...

#Ea-Nasir #BronzeAgeCopper

🧵We're excited to announce a new section of the Cambridge Digital Library for the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection of Mediterranean embroideries.

View the full collection: https://loom.ly/BPvABM4

My last day of maternity leave and the forest gives me a cracking send-off. Two woodpeckers and three deer, as well as plenty of pine needles to try two batches of pine soda!

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

In ancient Assyria, scholars wrote questions in clay about events to come, intended for divine eyes.

The god Shamash would then leave his reply in the entrails of an animal, to be read by a trained seer.

There are 300+ of these.

Only two ask Shamash to overlook that they were written by a woman.

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The CFP for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2025 is now out! This year we'll be at Bryn Mawr College, June 22-27, doing our usual thing of collaboration, innovation, and fun. We're looking forward to reading your proposals!
iliads.org/call-for-pro...

Looks like in my 10-month absence I gained a lot of followers, so it's high time to introduce myself!

Hi! I'm Ellie, an Assyriologist. I research ancient Iraqi history, with special interests in: #gender #Arabia #emotions #digitalhumanities

I'm also a co-host of the pod Thin End of the Wedge!

#Callforpapers for a new journal, Epigraphy Graffiti Iconography, and an associated conference, 3rd-5th July (hybrid and in Lisbon), on historical and contemporary graffiti.

I am looking at organising a panel or special issue, let me know if interested!

journals.ap2.pt/index.php/EG...

My book 'The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period' is now available for pre-order!
www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles...

#queenship #Assyria #Arab #SaudiArabia #Assyriology #arabianstudies #QueensOfTheArabs

Scenario: well-known academic uploads something egregiously bad to academia.edu, but looks like a Word document, not an official publication from a peer-reviewed venue.

What do you do? Is it worth forming a rebuttal? And where would you publish the rebuttal?

Let me know your thoughts!

Applications for the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School at the University of Copenhagen are open!

This is a great course for introducing digital Assyriological research (including data cleaning, GIS, Python, and networks). Deadline is 31st March.

ccrs.ku.dk/education/am...

Do you use networks or network analysis in research about the ancient Near East? Consider contributing to this exciting open access edited volume! We're interested in hearing about all research using networks: archaeological, socio-historical, or lexical! Deadline is 1st March 2024.