THIS. (At it's best have I learnt a word in Akkadian, French, English and my mother tongue Finnish at the same time.)

Hi! I heard people miss the Akkadian letters? So, have you heard about Aššur-nādā? No worries. That's what this 🧵 is for. 1/12

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A video about 10 facts on the oldest empires in the world. And about researching and studying the ancient Near East in Finland and at ANEE Helsinki. In Finnish but with English subtitles. youtube.com/watch?v=ybsnUU…

A nice little interview of wonderful Aleksi who has taught us Sumerian😊

My 3 year old saw this and said "candy!"

Happy new year 🥳 ❤️❤️ mu-gibil húl-la

😍 (though I'm going to be a bit of a party pooper and remind followers that not even Old Persian, which is featured here, is not completely alphabetic or this simple actually)

Neo-Assyrian letters be like:

DT.273 British Museum, Neo-Assyrian (1st millennium BCE) #cuneiform tablet featuring astrological omens with a colophon in ink. Was the colophon added by a scribe after the tablet dried out? 📷 VIEWS Project 🌈, tablet also featured in -Cuneiform- by Jonathan Taylor 🐮 and Irving Finkel.

A princess & a prince, an Assyrian port, a roguish merchant, five witnesses. An international éclat, a hostage, a ransom, and death threats. This is one of the most exciting texts I have read and my favourite correspondence. Enter Aššur-taklāku at the height of his mischief!

Had the students making their own cartouches last week. They were pretty great at it! #ancientEgypt #hieroglyphs

😍 Wow!

One of the most powerful texts written in Assyrian, or well, any language <3 (I've also translated this poem... Sadly some things here work better in English than in Finnish)

Have you ever wondered how archaeologists process cuneiform tablets found on excavation? Here's how it was done at Tello (southern Iraq) in autumn 2022 youtube.com/watch?v=dwGmyy…

What age I started learning languages (some are forgotten though): 0 Finnish 6 Swedish 9 English 13 Modern Greek 15 Japanese 16 German 20 Akkadian 21 Sumerian 22-25: Hebrew, Elamite, Classical Chinese (all briefly) I miss starting a new language but I can't choose the next one!

⭕️ Take a look at the electronic version of the Gilgamesh epic in all its versions and forms, published by the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, at the “electronic Babylonian Library” (eBL) Project. ℹ️ ebl.lmu.de/corpus/L/1/4

I've tried to stop using Twitter but I can't help it, I want to say that I'll be present at RAI69 Helsinki. I'm a "student assistant" even though I'm not a student anymore, I have wanted to join RAI from the moment I heard it will be here in my home town in 2024 😍 -A