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LGgahagila.bsky.social

My wife always cites my expressing passions for Gothic and Hittite early on in our acquaintance as decisive signs

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THhistoryfiles.bsky.social

Shekelesh: another group of sea pirates during the Bronze Age collapse, the Shekelesh apparently lived on ships, according to Hittite correspondence with Ugarit. www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsMid...#history#historyfiles#neareast#ancientworld#shekelesh#ugarit#bronzeage#hittites

The History Files: Shekelesh
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HGneqone.bsky.social

Latest cooking challenge with a historic cooking bent: A Hittite Pulses Hot Pot from ~1750 BCE. It is absolutely delicious with the period appropriate additions from the base recipe from the cuneiform. #CookingHistory#recipes#CookingChallenge

Bowl of Hittite Hot Pot
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Books new today - Sumerian will go well with my Hittite book - and yes, I am a closet Batman fan.

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KPkparachaud.bsky.social

variant: "I don’t know what you are eating but I want to Hittite it too." (hum, work better with French pronunciation, but still)

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BCedsbs.bsky.social

It’s huge, gargantuan, a Hittite stone, I just want to pet it and see if it has the solidity I felt petting the mossy idols of Angkor Wat

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NEnesbotetc.bsky.social

More than 50 seals belonging to members of the royal family found in the Hittite city of Šamuḫa www.resetera.com/threads/98...

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4ksh4tr4.bsky.social

My goal so far was to complete overhauling the pages for all the Neo-Hittite kingdoms, followed by all Amorite polities, then Celts, and only after that start editing anything about pre-colonial Turtle Island But, me being me, I couldn't resist editing the Purépecha Empire, so here we now are

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QSqueersatanic.bsky.social

possibly stupid question: were cuneiform scribes typically young people, or did they read the indented characters like brail? because it seems like in a world without glasses, something like this would be impossible to discern for anybody on the far side of 30 in broad daylight, much less indoors

hittite cuneiform tablet held in hand, about the size of a credit card but with dozens of characters pressed into it and hardened
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