Twitter is particularly appropriate for "propagandizing" our new book Marta Pallavidini zaphon.de/epages/8317938…

Tune in at 7pm CDT tonight for the @orientalinst members' lecture by Marian Feldman, "Charismatic Rulers and Spatial Voids in the Art of the Akkadian Empire, c. 2350–2150 BCE" youtu.be/i1HlWuMa1r4

The Spring 2022 Newsletter of PennArtHistory talks about the GALATEO Project project I am working on, which has received funding from @MSCActions In brief, the GALATEO Project investigates etiquette and hygiene practices in first-millennium Assyria!

A really incredible discovery from Turkey was published this week by Mehmet Önal, Celal Uludağ, Yusuf Koyuncu and Selim Ferruh Adalı. A 🧵 You can read about the find open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

5th GeMANE (Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East) workshop at University of Helsinki ANEE Helsinki just started!

An interesting list of questions people usually ask about Mesopotamian women. Keynote by Cécile Michel during the 5th GeMANE University of Helsinki ANEE Helsinki

Today at Nimrud the Penn Museum excavations uncovered an inscribed door threshold of Assyrian king Adad-Nerari III. Assyriologist John MacGinnis provides scale.

🗣️Call for Papers Hygiene in the Ancient Near East RAI68 Leiden Archaeologists, art historians, philologists are invited to think about a variety of subjects: water, sanitation, physical and cultic cleanliness... GALATEO Project @MSCActions Università degli Studi di Messina PennArtHistory

Here is a lovely photo of the speakers in the session I was part of ("Manners and Etiquette"). I'm the very bright one in yellow :P

If you want to know more on Assyrian queens' manners and etiquette, take a look at this recent article by Ludovico Portuese : academia.edu/98846815/A_Gen… @MSCActions EU Research Results Università degli Studi di Messina PennArtHistory

Now published! The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part II: Letters from Southern Babylonia Edited by Grant Frame and Simo Parpola Take 30% off w/ discount code NR23: eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/9…

The preliminary program of the RAI68 is now published! Check it out on our website👇 universiteitleiden.nl/en/rai68/progr…

The GALATEO Project website is live! I recommend you visit the "Exhibition" section! galateo.unime.it EU Research Results @MSCActions Università degli Studi di Messina Penn Penn Museum

New #animations! panoply.org.uk/galateo Two splendid Mesopotamian artefacts animated for the GALATEO Project project. Now you can see them online, & theyre still on show in an exhibition at the Penn Museum. Thanks to Ludovico Portuese for the chance to work with these wonderful pieces

The Banquet. Made from a Mesopotamian ivory. youtu.be/qOmWtp0WBcw GALATEO Project Penn Museum #antiquity #Assyrians #animation

Worshipping the Gods. youtu.be/yMaDl9bB4DI #AncientReligion #Antiquity #Mesopotamia Penn Museum GALATEO Project #ancientworld #teaching

Nice read for a Monday: an interview on life as a Mesopotamian expert, with Ludovico Portuese …oplyclassicsandanimation.blogspot.com/2023/06/ps-and… #ancientworld #Assyria #museums #teaching #archaeology #IndianaJones

Follow along this week for posts related to #ArtifactsAlsoDie. Today’s post links to the recent feature article on our special exhibit