Ea-Naṣir did nothing wrong ever in his life

Kam - she/they - archaeologist - not a poet - Gilgamesh and Enkidu enthusiast • 🔆 • icon by the talented @other-mush •

[enkidusbi]

icon by the amazing @other-mush

info on the pinned post because some of you are new here:

i have a main fandom blog so i follow back/like posts from there, don't be surprised

please don't ask to read my thesis. i want to get it published in a journal first

i have no intention of doxxing myself so please don't ask where i graduated either

but do ask about ancient mesopotamia, especially the old babylonian period, about funerary rituals and the afterlife and about mesopotamian children! i'll do my best to answer and share knowledge or advice on academia or archaeology!

keep in mind that while i really do my best, i could very well be wrong. don't treat my answers as the be all end all of anything

and most importantly, be nice!

[sociallyunacceptableart4]

This was my art school’s water fountain. Drink from them wolf tiddies

[mando-lore]

Assignment misunderstood. I have now built a city.

[mando-lore]

[mando-lore]

Give it a day

[alexaloraetheris]

[riverlarking]

ancient peoples loooved a flood narrative it was kinda like their beatles

[quietwingsinthesky]

we’re so lucky that gilgamesh survived and is a banger. can you imagine if we found the oldest written human story ever recorded and it sucked balls.

[sheltiechicago]

The nine muses of Ancient Greece discovered in the ancient Greek city of Zeugma, now in modern-day Turkey. The mosaics have been almost perfectly preserved for over 2,000 years

[swordsman-jing-ke]

“My emperor is fine” your emperor has commissioned over 8000 life-sized terracotta soldiers and buried them facing east, in the direction of his recently conquered enemies in the hopes that they will protect him in the afterlife.

[qin-shi-huang-di]

DELETE THIS IMMEDIATELY

[alexandriad]

minoan pottery // mycenaean fresco motifs

available on merch HERE and HERE!

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[wandering-italy]

A city domus with fancy mosaics. House of the Wild Boar.

Pompeii

[heroicallynude]

People love to ask if I'm enjoying my new job as a field archaeologist but then when I say "Yes very much, I excavated a children's grave today!" They have the audacity to look at me like I'm the weird one

[heroicallynude]

It's always oh 😐 and never did you enjoy excavating the child grave? Excavating the child grave looked fun, I bet you found some nice pottery

[duckbunny]

you are fifteen thousand generations removed from stone tools

[duckbunny]

to be clear you are fifteen thousand generations removed from the invention of stone tools. not from the end of stone tools. modern humans are still using stone tools.

[pseudomasochist]

Flawless tags, @baddywronglegs

[chabochi]

Petroglyphs of Sikachi-Alyan, Nanaian village

[nietp]

Deer friends thousands of years apart

[nietp]

Elk-figure from Åskollen, Drammen, Norway.

[nietp]

Petroglyph of Sikachi-Alyan under the snow

[the-goddamn-robot]

Damn, Rome really looks great in all four seasons

Winter

Spring

Summer

Fall

[ba7raltawil]

oh my GOD

[yomikoreadsbooks]

As long as I’ve been on this site, I honestly should have seen this coming a mile away and yet…

[stranglerfigpudding]

i don't care about monday's goals, tuesday wednesday dig some holes, thursday clean my mandibles, it's friday i'm a bug

[theannoyingmosquitoinyourroom]

happy its friday im a bug friday!!

[archaeologistproblems]

I fully thought this was about being an archaeologist, excavating and cleaning bones, until the very last word.

[archaeologistproblems]

I mean, we all have mandibles, though definitely not like bugs do. Just sometimes archaeologists have extras to clean, because we dug them up.

[depsidase]

[hexjulia]

[neolithic hottie who's been easing back into the modern dating scene]: so when he said he was a pot caster i thought he was a good artisan with a reliable income. But turns out he just talks to himself all day mostly. People don't even come to listen and he doesn't know shit about ceramics. Sometimes one of his friends is there though.

[One eyed priest-king who's been frozen in the ice for 10 000 years next to a mammoth but is starting to thaw]: girl no wayyyyy. What is slip casting a pot btw. The use of that technique (not to be confused with slipware) purportedly only dates back to the Tang Era (618–917).

[hexjulia]

[cornish tin miner from 3000 years ago]: my deposits may have played a key part in the advances of sophisticated kingdoms and states more than 4,000km (2,485 miles) away. #myDeposits.

[museum-of-artifacts]

This painting of a cave bear, at the Chauvet Cave in France, was drawn with 14 lines around 32,000 years ago. The artist used a technique known as 'stump-drawing' - the use of fingers or a piece of hide to paint the muzzle and to emphasize the outlines of the head and forequarters 

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