Write like a Babylonian →
penn.museum
See your monogram in cuneiform, the way an ancient Babylonian might have written it.
GO AHEAD :-)
July 2011
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The Ziggurat of flavour!
THE ZIGGURAT OF FLAVOUR - BOMPAS & PARR
I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS AT BIG CHILL FESTIVAL 2010
Amarna Letters →
reshafim.org.il
“ In 1887 about 350 clay tablets were found at el Amarna, the site of Akhenaten’s capital Akhetaten. Most of these are now in European Museums (200 in Berlin, 80 in the British Museum and twenty at Oxford). They are written in cuneiform characters in the diplomatic language of the day, Akkadian. Most of the letters are dated to the reigns of Amenhotep III (1402-1364) and Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV, 1350-1334).”
Newark Public Library's Special Collections Has Rare Finds →
westward.patch.com
“
Tucked inside a modest building behind the Newark Public Library are some of the nation’s most priceless treasures.
A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible. A box of 6,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablets. Fragments from an Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead dating from 1,500 BCE. A slim volume of prayers written in Medieval French and illustrated with brilliantly colored illuminations.”
