Wow, your daughter is probably my youngest reader! Please give her my best wishes!

Proverb: etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcs..., number 3.6. Image: The Met 32.39.3, Old Babylonian plaque of two bull men flanking a tree: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Translation of this and other Sumerian proverbs: etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcs...

Thanks! I hope so! Mesopotamian history really is fascinating!

Felt it in Koreatown

Thanks for recommending my book! And I agree about @moudhy.bsky.social 's as well. No space aliens construct anything in either!

Thanks! For Mesopotamian mathematics, Mathematics in Ancient Iraq by @eleanorrobson.bsky.social is a fabulous resource: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

For more details about the mercurial Rishiya, see Ziegler, N. 2011. “Music, the Work of Professionals” in Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, K. Radner and E. Robson, eds., 290-295. The image I posted is not him, but another male musician of the same era.

That's wild. It could be!

Fascinating! Thanks!

I suspect Google's AI was the source of the crossword clue, though I have no idea where the AI summary got this!