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Ships sunk during WW2

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

According to mythology, around 450,000 years ago the Annunaki arrived on Earth in search of precious resources bringing with them 600 workers known as the Igigi. These workers spread across ancient Africa, establishing infrastructures that allowed the Annunaki to exploit the continent's rich mineral wealth. The Igigi depicted with long beards, flowing hair and wings were a lower rank of deities, predating humanity and often likened to angels.

As told in the Akkadian myth of Atrahasis, the Igigi were burdened with immense labor by the Anunnaki's, highlighting their subordinate status. Anunnaki's relentless quest for gold, vital for their survival, eventually led to the Igigi rebellion. To ease their burden humans were created to take over the laborious tasks. This story intertwines myth and speculation offering a glimpse into how ancient civilizations might have perceived divine intervention and the origins of humanity.

© Ancient Mysteries

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[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Doctor Irving Finkel holds a 3770 year old tablet containing god Enki's conversation with Sumerian king Atram-Hasis (Noah's figure in earlier versions of flood story) and instructions on how to build an ark for him. Noah's ark was first described as round boat with diameter of 220ft.

Irving Finkel, an english Philologist and Assyriologist. He is Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in Department of Middle East in British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia. Irving Finkel is the curator from central casting, where he is in charge of museum's 130,000 clay tablets, he looks after its collection of board games and has made it a personal crusade to preserve old diaries. Since a lifetime spent examining clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia has left him seemingly unaffected by the cares of the workaday world. He has spent 20 years investigating one that challenges the story of Noah and the flood...

"The man who is tired of tablets is tired of life," he announces in his delightful new book, The Ark Before Noah, which sets out to demonstrate that the biblical flood narrative was derived from stories that had been embedded in Sumerian and Babylonian society and literature for thousands of years. The book revolves around a clay tablet dating from about 1800 BC with 60 lines of cuneiform (tiny, wedge-shaped script on tablets), which relate part of the flood story. Finkel first encountered this "Ark tablet" almost 30 years ago when a member of the public brought it to show him. He has spent past 20 years translating the text and putting it in the context of other flood literature, and is now ready to unveil it to the world. This is in the form of his book and a Channel 4 documentary, shows building the ark to specifications on Finkel's tablet to see if it floats.

Finkel's bombshell and the point of the Channel 4 programme – is that he reckons original ark was round. "The fact that the ark was round is the headline finding," he says. "It's something nobody in the world had anticipated because everybody knows what Noah's ark looked like." All those pictures of oblong, multi-decked boats that look like neat country cottages will have to be redrawn.

The mobile phone-sized ark tablet is housed in a posh-looking red box with "Instructions on the Building of the Ark" written on it. Finkel takes tablet out of the box and lets me hold it – a chance to commune with the ghosts of ancient Mesopotamia. I manage not to drop it. As well as casting new light on the shape of the original ark, it also contains the first written allusion to the animals "going in two by two". In book, he describes unearthing this reference on the broken, weathered tablet with its worn-out wedges as his "biggest shock in 44 years of grappling with difficult lines in cuneiform tablets ... I nearly fell off my chair." He is good at conveying the excitement of academic discoveries, a television natural.

He could have written up his findings in an academic tome that would have pleased his peers, but he has instead produced a digressive, amusing, personal book for the general reader, a book that is willing to ask big questions – such as how did Babylonian ark story find its way into the Bible? – and make the odd educated guess. "There's very little in existence that helps people with this subject. Mostly we're orientated to make it seem forbidding and difficult."

"When I first wrote the book I did it feeling that all my colleagues were going to read it and they'd be saying [puts on whispery academic voice] 'I rather doubt ...' But when I wrote the second draft, I suddenly had this brilliant idea that I would forget my colleagues existed and write for everybody else, which was very liberating. It meant I could speak with my real voice." In the book, Finkel explains his own route into Assyriology and his continuing love affair with the subject.

British Museum

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[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

Word of the Day: DISCALCEATE (v.) to remove your shoes

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Green flashes can sometimes be observed just above the setting or rising sun ☀️.

This is an interesting phenomenon, here is why it happens:

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“We should take care to live well, not long”

non ut diu vivamus curandum est, sed ut satis #Seneca

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“We have ample time to be dead yet we live our few years badly”

πολλὸς γὰρ ἥμιν ἐστι τεθνάναι χρονος
ζῶμεν δ᾿ ἀριθμῷ παῦρα κα��ῶς ἔτεα #Semonides

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“What we’re looking for is here – or nowhere”

hic est aut nusquam quod quaerimus #Horace

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“Boy, seek out a kingdom equal to you: Macedonia will not hold you.”

„ὦ παῖ” φάναι, „ζήτει σεαυτῷ βασιλείαν ἴσην· Μακεδονία γάρ σ’ οὐ χωρεῖ.” #Plutarch

[DailySEP @dailySEP]

Consequentialism, as its name suggests, is simply the view that normative properties depend only on consequences. Learn more about Consequentialism here: https://t.co/1aNAknXo1X

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“For the sick it is sweet to know clearly what pain remains”

τοῖς νοσοῦσί τοι γλυκὺ
τὸ λοιπὸν ἄλγος προυξεπίστασθαι τορῶς #Aeschylus

[Greater Kashmir @GreaterKashmir]

"There are around 90 million people the world over who have been displaced from their own homeland" https://t.co/WFi8Cy63oH

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Here's an easy to remember approximation for the number of seconds in 1 year

[Ubayd @iamubayd]

@anandji72 @Outlookindia You can have detailed statistics here:

https://t.co/7HXB5pWbPQ

[Outlook India @Outlookindia]

There are around 90 million people the world over who have been displaced from their homeland. Among these 90 million people, 27.1 million are officially recorded as refugees & almost half of them are children.

✍️ Ubaidullah Pandit

#Refugees

https://t.co/T56DLtlFcM

[Outlook India @Outlookindia]

Although most of the children in the classroom have not seen the #violence firsthand, the fangs of #war haunt them.

✍️ @peerzadamuzamil

#Refugees

https://t.co/VgQRMqPwNM

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“So, let a number of books be gathered which is enough, but none for show.”

Paretur itaque librorum quantum satis sit, nihil in apparatum #Seneca

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“Life is neither good nor bad, but it is where good and evil happen”

Vita nec bonum nec malum est; boni ac mali locus est. #Seneca

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“For I do not think that eloquence which does not provoke wonder is eloquence at all”

nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico #Cicero #Quintilian

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“While spring is in your blood, while your age is free of wrinkle,
Use it—just in case tomorrow takes the youth from your face.”

dum vernat sanguis, dum rugis integer annus,
utere, ne quid cras libet ab ore dies #Propertius