nadia
@tamacahut.bsky.social
🇩🇿🇫🇷🇬🇧 Provenance researcher. Cuneiformist. Writes about 19th c. antiquities dealers who smuggled cuneiform tablets out of Iraq to sell to museums in EU/US. Now writing a biography of dealer & smuggler Ibrahim Elias Gejou (British Academy monograph 2026)
Folks, does anybody know of a map showing where #cuneiform collections are in museums across the world, similar to @sarabmohr.bsky.social 's map for US colleges and unis, but for museums worldwide? #assyriology
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Folks, does anybody know of a map showing where #cuneiform collections are in museums across the world, similar to @sarabmohr.bsky.social 's map for US colleges and unis, but for museums worldwide? #assyriology
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First time I see an article retracted for (likely) AI hallucinations.
N.B., the authors have PhD´s but don´t seem affiliated with a university.
N.B., the authors have PhD´s but don´t seem affiliated with a university.
"Following publication, concerns were raised by a third party regarding the accuracy and validity of many of the references in this article ... the Editor and the Publisher no longer have confidence in the content presented".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Retracted Article: Strengthening Caribbean Intelligence: Education and Training for Enhanced Intra- and Inter-Agency Collaboration
We, the Editor and Publisher of International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, have retracted the following article:Smith, T., & Short, A. (2025). Strengthening Caribbean Intelligen...
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
First time I see an article retracted for (likely) AI hallucinations.
N.B., the authors have PhD´s but don´t seem affiliated with a university.
N.B., the authors have PhD´s but don´t seem affiliated with a university.
i haven't been posting because i'm writing Gejou's biography, and what feels like a ton of articles, which is making me doubt i can ever write his or any biography, or write at all, and all i do is waver between despair and amusement at my abysmal career choices.
who else writes like this?
who else writes like this?
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
i haven't been posting because i'm writing Gejou's biography, and what feels like a ton of articles, which is making me doubt i can ever write his or any biography, or write at all, and all i do is waver between despair and amusement at my abysmal career choices.
who else writes like this?
who else writes like this?
A head, a body, and two antiquities dealers...
Have you ever come across this Gudea statue? It's in the Louvre Abu Dhabi now, but until last year it had been in the Louvre Paris since 1953. HOW did get there though?
Let me tell you the story 🕵️♀️🔎👇
www.academia.edu/144706747/Ib...
Have you ever come across this Gudea statue? It's in the Louvre Abu Dhabi now, but until last year it had been in the Louvre Paris since 1953. HOW did get there though?
Let me tell you the story 🕵️♀️🔎👇
www.academia.edu/144706747/Ib...
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A head, a body, and two antiquities dealers...
Have you ever come across this Gudea statue? It's in the Louvre Abu Dhabi now, but until last year it had been in the Louvre Paris since 1953. HOW did get there though?
Let me tell you the story 🕵️♀️🔎👇
www.academia.edu/144706747/Ib...
Have you ever come across this Gudea statue? It's in the Louvre Abu Dhabi now, but until last year it had been in the Louvre Paris since 1953. HOW did get there though?
Let me tell you the story 🕵️♀️🔎👇
www.academia.edu/144706747/Ib...
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I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀
LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF
LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF
April 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀
LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF
LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF
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Laundering looted antiquities through the use of an old collection? Forged provenance documentation? I investigate the case of Cumberland Clark, a forgotten early 20th-century collector who has become relevant again
doi.org/10.1017/S094...
doi.org/10.1017/S094...
Constructing Provenance with Old Collections: The Case of Cumberland Clark | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core
Constructing Provenance with Old Collections: The Case of Cumberland Clark
doi.org
March 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Laundering looted antiquities through the use of an old collection? Forged provenance documentation? I investigate the case of Cumberland Clark, a forgotten early 20th-century collector who has become relevant again
doi.org/10.1017/S094...
doi.org/10.1017/S094...
Congratulations on the publication of The Library of Ancient Wisdom @lswisnom.bsky.social 🥳 currently reading & loving it.
Btw, I've not come across such a cover before 😍: the cuneiform signs are deeply impressed in the paper & almost all individually so - it's like stroking a tablet's surface ❤️
Btw, I've not come across such a cover before 😍: the cuneiform signs are deeply impressed in the paper & almost all individually so - it's like stroking a tablet's surface ❤️
March 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Congratulations on the publication of The Library of Ancient Wisdom @lswisnom.bsky.social 🥳 currently reading & loving it.
Btw, I've not come across such a cover before 😍: the cuneiform signs are deeply impressed in the paper & almost all individually so - it's like stroking a tablet's surface ❤️
Btw, I've not come across such a cover before 😍: the cuneiform signs are deeply impressed in the paper & almost all individually so - it's like stroking a tablet's surface ❤️
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Anyone have the Sotheby's, New York, June 14, 2000 antiquities catalogue? I need a photo of lot 87 and its details.
March 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Anyone have the Sotheby's, New York, June 14, 2000 antiquities catalogue? I need a photo of lot 87 and its details.
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Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out!
It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out!
It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...
February 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out!
It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out!
It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...
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Parthian hedgehog from Nippur. Top 10 Mesopotamian artifact list. 🏺
December 7, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Parthian hedgehog from Nippur. Top 10 Mesopotamian artifact list. 🏺
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"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire.
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
Oathbreakers
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou...
www.harpercollins.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:38 PM
"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire.
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
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New Akkadian dictionary project at Leipzig: www.saw-leipzig.de/de/presse/pr...
November 30, 2024 at 1:40 PM
New Akkadian dictionary project at Leipzig: www.saw-leipzig.de/de/presse/pr...
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It looks like an ancient Excel spreadsheet with a doodle. But ~2,500 years ago, someone made a diagram of a 7-pointed star, and a table that seems to give instructions for how to make that diagram.
The seven points of the star are labeled with the names for the strings of a Mesopotamian harp.
The seven points of the star are labeled with the names for the strings of a Mesopotamian harp.
November 30, 2024 at 2:07 PM
It looks like an ancient Excel spreadsheet with a doodle. But ~2,500 years ago, someone made a diagram of a 7-pointed star, and a table that seems to give instructions for how to make that diagram.
The seven points of the star are labeled with the names for the strings of a Mesopotamian harp.
The seven points of the star are labeled with the names for the strings of a Mesopotamian harp.
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Through December 5 at publishersforpalestine.org
November 30, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Through December 5 at publishersforpalestine.org
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Call for papers for the colloquium “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“. Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2024: kulturgutverluste.de/termine/call... #provenanceresearch
Call for papers: “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“
Call for papers for the international colloquium on “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“ in Paris on March 27 and 28, 2025.
kulturgutverluste.de
November 15, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Call for papers for the colloquium “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“. Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2024: kulturgutverluste.de/termine/call... #provenanceresearch
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Saurel Leonce is Haitian painter in a visionary tradition evoking the Vèvè symbols of Vodou and the playful chaos of Basquiat. Due to the disintegration of Haiti's political order his family live in danger and lack food. Help him continue his work and build a decent life! Paintings below:
Donate to Protect Saurel Leonce: A Haitian Artist in Need, organized by Seth Sanders
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November 29, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Saurel Leonce is Haitian painter in a visionary tradition evoking the Vèvè symbols of Vodou and the playful chaos of Basquiat. Due to the disintegration of Haiti's political order his family live in danger and lack food. Help him continue his work and build a decent life! Paintings below:
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Tag yourselves. I'm "Now, that's Colonialism!" #atchaeosky
Brilliant idea - and a great opportunity for both, some nostalgia and to dig up (pun intended 😉) my old #archaeology🏺 take on the #TypesOfScientificPaper meme (with credit and thanks to @xkcd.com for the brilliant original idea, of course):
November 28, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Tag yourselves. I'm "Now, that's Colonialism!" #atchaeosky
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Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany?
I am scouting!
Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
I am scouting!
Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
Humboldt Fellows
www.uni-augsburg.de
November 28, 2024 at 7:11 AM
Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany?
I am scouting!
Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
I am scouting!
Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
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Come to a talk I'm giving on Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in London on Sun, Dec. 15.
There will be "revelations" - all the things I have learned since my book "The Prince and the Plunder" came out.
Come in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-prince... or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1083157466...
There will be "revelations" - all the things I have learned since my book "The Prince and the Plunder" came out.
Come in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-prince... or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1083157466...
November 27, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Come to a talk I'm giving on Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in London on Sun, Dec. 15.
There will be "revelations" - all the things I have learned since my book "The Prince and the Plunder" came out.
Come in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-prince... or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1083157466...
There will be "revelations" - all the things I have learned since my book "The Prince and the Plunder" came out.
Come in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-prince... or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1083157466...
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Ancient Babylonians kept copious records of astronomical phenomena on clay tablets that we call Astronomical Diaries.
In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
November 27, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Ancient Babylonians kept copious records of astronomical phenomena on clay tablets that we call Astronomical Diaries.
In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
Thank you Andrew 🙏
this amusing text was purchased by the Louvre from my old friend Ibrahim in 1922 collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
the Louvre hasn't preserved their correspondence w/ Gejou in 1922 (or for most years b/w 1899-1937 🤡)
but i know that Gejou was in Baghdad in early 1922 🕵️♀️
this amusing text was purchased by the Louvre from my old friend Ibrahim in 1922 collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
the Louvre hasn't preserved their correspondence w/ Gejou in 1922 (or for most years b/w 1899-1937 🤡)
but i know that Gejou was in Baghdad in early 1922 🕵️♀️
November 26, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Thank you Andrew 🙏
this amusing text was purchased by the Louvre from my old friend Ibrahim in 1922 collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
the Louvre hasn't preserved their correspondence w/ Gejou in 1922 (or for most years b/w 1899-1937 🤡)
but i know that Gejou was in Baghdad in early 1922 🕵️♀️
this amusing text was purchased by the Louvre from my old friend Ibrahim in 1922 collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
the Louvre hasn't preserved their correspondence w/ Gejou in 1922 (or for most years b/w 1899-1937 🤡)
but i know that Gejou was in Baghdad in early 1922 🕵️♀️
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Unfortunately, TCL 18, 111 (housed at the Louvre) is a tablet purchased from the famed antiquities dealer Elias Ibrahim Géjou. Thankfully, we have a world expert on Géjou here, @tamacahut.bsky.social.
She's been interviewed by @jonjtaylor.bsky.social, here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
She's been interviewed by @jonjtaylor.bsky.social, here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
November 25, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Unfortunately, TCL 18, 111 (housed at the Louvre) is a tablet purchased from the famed antiquities dealer Elias Ibrahim Géjou. Thankfully, we have a world expert on Géjou here, @tamacahut.bsky.social.
She's been interviewed by @jonjtaylor.bsky.social, here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
She's been interviewed by @jonjtaylor.bsky.social, here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
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A short review for @hyperallergic.com of one of the most powerful and inspiring books I’ve ever read - on repatriation, on collaboration, on memory and creation. Find it among other standout art books of the year at hyperallergic.com/968703/the-3...
November 26, 2024 at 1:30 AM
A short review for @hyperallergic.com of one of the most powerful and inspiring books I’ve ever read - on repatriation, on collaboration, on memory and creation. Find it among other standout art books of the year at hyperallergic.com/968703/the-3...
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"Archaeology has always been about people. We’ve become so specialized that there is a tendency sometimes to forget the people. Archaeology helps explain why we are similar and why we are different."
(B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)
(B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)
November 25, 2024 at 5:17 PM
"Archaeology has always been about people. We’ve become so specialized that there is a tendency sometimes to forget the people. Archaeology helps explain why we are similar and why we are different."
(B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)
(B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)