archaeologyculture

Iraqi historian. Recently trained in Europe (Ireland) and now back in Iraq. Interested in attention to detail.

[archaeologyculture @menaarchaeology]

@KurdistanWatch Congratulations good news better than KDP thugs

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@KurdistanWatch Game over for ethno nationalist racist KDP lot. One hit after another since kirkuk. That's what happens when you hedge your bets against Iraq.

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@Geshti_Azadi Good for him

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@KurdistanWatch Well done

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@ScreenMix What a stupid low culture comment

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@ThamerBabylon @NahreinNetwork @JaafarJotheri @ZaaimiSarah What's this nonsense

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@ThamerBabylon @AqeelJahil Very poor English language skills. Tombs of Christ? Extension? Origins of Christ? Your tweet doesn't make sense.

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@jasmineelgamal @tekaldas Deserts of Iraq what a terrible terrible term and start to your book idea

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@Shqazwini Perhaps you should pray for Iraq instead

[Nicholas Guyatt @NicholasGuyatt]

Can't speak for my employer but as someone who teaches history at Cambridge I'm ashamed of our connections with David Starkey and urge both the University and Fitzwilliam College to cut all ties with him.

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@MosulEye Very sad. Not much difference. Other than clearance of rubbish on street

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@Mohamme94046612 @HassanNadhem تريد هذا من الامارات !

[Joel Baden @JoelBaden]

I'm gonna need a hard provenance check on that Nebuchadnezzar brick, Lance.

Also, spoiler: that artifact has no connection to Genesis 11:3.

Also also: is the @museumofBible provenance page down?

[Joel Baden @JoelBaden]

So this is a pretty fascinating account of how an unprovenanced artifact makes it into the @museumofBible, how they go about their internal research into provenance, and how it didn’t make a difference. All of it during what MOTB regularly describes as the “good years.”

[Joel Baden @JoelBaden]

For the curious: the “Professor” unnamed in the complaint, who published the tablet was Andrew George.

[archaeologyculture @menaarchaeology]

An important thread here about how US and UK organisations including Professor Andrew George of @SOAS and @BritishAcademy_ continue to participate in the plunder of looted and stolen Iraqi artefacts

https://t.co/KvxcXmRRct

[Candida Moss @candidamoss]

THREAD: More @MuseumofBible legal drama involving Cueniform tablets. On May 7, 2020 the eastern District of NY US Attorney filed a complaint against the Museum’s “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet” The item was seized by Homeland Security on 9/24/19. HT @KlasfeldReports @JoelBaden

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The whole affair is sordid and, because no one was held to account, people and instituitions continud to behave as if nothing had happened. It was driven 'under the carpet'

This wasnt a 'moral dilemma' but complicity in cultural plunder

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UCL @ucl academic Professor Mark Geller and Director of UCL's Institute of Jewish Studies worked closely with the Martin Schøyen's Collection of looted artefacts from #Iraq

Article from 2009:

https://t.co/Ju6KTdJnr5

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The two project curators working on the Project will be Strahil Panayotov and Krisztian Simko, both of whom previously worked in the ERC Project BabMed at the Freie Universität, Berlin'' @FU_Berlin