Now you can also enjoy the soothing sound of my co-author Dr Hedgehog 🦔 Hedgehog Research and myself talking about smooching in Ancient Mesopotamia🎧👂

Ah, the old omen series ‘If a city …’ would like to impart a little dose of weekend wisdom: “If idiots are numerous in a city, that city will be happy”🤔 Have a great weekend!😅

Snot i oldtiden: Har mennesker altid lidt af snue? videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund… Københavns Uni #dkvid #dkforsk

Troels Pank Arbøll and I had the honour of presenting our work on the ancient history of kissing at the #GruterInstitute conference taking place at the Royal Society in London in the company of wonderfully brilliant minds representing a vast range of research disciplines🤓

🚨 New Liverpool Egyptology Seminar at Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology at Liv Uni! 📜 Stéphane Polis - ‘The Empire Strikes Back: Revolts and protests under Ramesses IV’ 🗓️ Thursday, 18th April, 5pm UK time. 📍 In person or online. ✏️ Registration: forms.office.com/pages/response… #egyptology #liverpool #events

Not a cellphone in sight, just people living (and dying) in the moment…👀

Satan is trending on X, which reminds me of a warm summer day in Berlin. There I was, minding my own business, reading a cuneiform tablet at the Vorderasiatisches Museum. And suddenly this guy pops up, completely overlooked for over a century 👻😵

#LifeGoal 🌙

I am super excited about this volume - not least because I myself have a lengthy contribution in there providing a broad overview of the cuneiform evidence for epidemics!

🚨 NEW VIDEO: Our lecture on Hephaistion of Thebes and the Demotic handbooks of decanal astrology, delivered at the workshop "Cosmic Magic" in London, is now available to watch here: 📽️: youtu.be/jsQeDyuE4n0?si… A repost would be appreciated! Thank you! 🙏 #egyptianastrology

Journal of Cuneiform Studies has an exciting new study by George and Taniguchi, which deals with Old Babylonian eclipses of the moon (journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…). The New York Times recently had a feature on this, in which I also appear in a modest role nytimes.com/2024/08/24/sci…

Are you a PhD student in Denmark, come and participate in this great opportunity to discuss experiences of how to navigate academia following a PhD!

Very excited to participate in this gathering in late September/early October in Tübingen! This time I will talk about Esarhaddon, his health, and medicine at the Neo-Assyrian court

Happy day!🥳 My monograph The Cuneiform Texts from the Danish Excavations of Ḥamā in Syria (1931-1938) can now be downloaded with open access FOR FREE via the following link ➡️ publ.royalacademy.dk/books/755/5475…