Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet. My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Solar and wind now dominate global electricity generation. Worldwide, solar and wind power will each surpass nuclear in 2026. This surge has halted fossil fuel power generation rise, with renewables overtaking coal, supported by battery storage providing system flexibility at scale.
💯 So much this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Can I recommend/plug “Between Two Rivers” by @moudhy.bsky.social to really highlight this point — we humans, connecting to humans in our deep past, who in turn were also connecting to humans in their deep past — through storytelling. The machines can *never* do this.
Dr. Sarah ParcakI think one of the reasons generative AI is so deeply grating is that storytelling was an adaptive trait that made (and makes) us human. I'm writing my communication book chapter now and this struck me- not in a present sense but in a deep time sense.
“Lebanese hilltop border towns and villages are now hard to recognise. Once characterised by their winding streets lined with stone buildings overlooking sweeping valleys, verified videos now show how they have turned grey from dust and debris of explosions.”
Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyedBBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.www.bbc.com
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Just to make it fit my preferred format “All that he has, like smoke into the sky, will evaporate.”
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
What was taxation like in the ancient world? #TaxDay In the Assyrian Empire, the imperial core extracted resources in the forms of taxation and tribute from the settlements it took over, meaning wealth disparity increased as the empire expanded. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Some beauty in this world.
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)bluebells in Bagley Wood
On my timeline on the same day . . bsky.app/profile/asls...
Association for Scottish LiteratureTo have carved on the days of our vanity A sun A ship A star A cornstalk Also a few marks From an ancient forgotten time A child may read… —“A Work for Poets”: the final #poem of George Mackay Brown (1921–1996) who died #OTD, 13 April in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon 2021) birlinn.co.uk/product/carv...
When #archaeology REALLY means something...
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"
Next book! “Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History” by Moudhy Al-Rashid. As some of you may have noticed from some of the past few books I’ve read, I’ve become quite obsessed with ancient history, particularly…(1/)
If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.
Translation: you can't take it with you.
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE
Bold to assume that the neater handwriting is the teacher’s
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE
Supervisors an students. An ancient tale. This one is about ~4,000 years old. It always feels kinda special to think that I share a deeper Mesopotamian ancestry with the authors of these works, in particular astronomy topics or as I am now, a student!
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE