Just barley making ends meet

Morning! Our 30 minute radio edit of the Hatshepsut episode will be on BBC Radio 4 at 10am, featuring the splendid Dr Campbell Price and the very funny KB🪞 The full length (and much ruder!) podcast version is also available on BBC Sounds, as will this version. So you can choose!

Better than the records my first psychotherapist kept of me. 🥲

Where do writers get their ideas from.

The Bm”could be a powerful agent on the other side of history, contributing its expertise and collections to simultaneously address past and present harms, and to help build world museums in other countries from the 99% of the collection not on display.” newlinesmag.com/argument/the-b…

Interesting find of the day. A fragment of a vessel stamped with the image of a peacock, Sassanian era.

it’s like gen z doesn’t even know how to impress cuneiform characters into wet clay using a stylus made from the arundo donax species of reed anymore, smh

everyone is chasing the big scoop on trans kids and they don't give a shit who gets hurt along the way. But the big scoop is and always will be that kids are happy when you listen to and try to understand them.

Watch Dr Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid on High, Low, and Broken Hearts youtu.be/ShA6lbSjnIU?si…

Sea ice across the Pacific side of the #Arctic has now dropped to the 2nd lowest on record in at least the satellite-era. This is a lot of open water. Compare 2023 compare with the purple lines (1980s)... Map of Arctic: zacklabe.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/b203f-…. Data: nsidc.org/data/seaice_in….

It's hard to get one's head around just how bad this summer has been. At least 3.8 billion people—half the world's population—suffered extreme heat that was worsened by the climate crisis in June through August. scientificamerican.com/article/half-t… by Andrea Thompson on Scientific American

I am extremely proud to announce that my second book entitled The Cuneiform Texts from the Danish Excavations of Ḥamā in Syria (1931-1938) is out now! It is published by Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, and it can be ordered here👉 gad.dk/the-cuneiform-…

It’s a wrap, “Back to School in Babylonia,” the newest special exhibit at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures museum, open to the public tomorrow & preview this evening. Learn more: isac.uchicago.edu/backtoschool ✍🏻💙 #Babylonia #Nippur #School #ScribalPractice #Iraq #Museums #Exhibits #LifeofaCurator