Mesopotamia
About Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. It corresponds roughly to the territory of modern Iraq. Just beyond it lies southwestern Iran, where the region transitions into the Persian plateau, marking the shift from the Arab world to Iran.
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When plowing is invented, suddenly the men were in charge, and in Mesopotamia there's this flip from mother goddesses to male gods.
from No Such Thing As A Squilkman, 2019-02-22 at 00:08:29 · read transcript
Other times Mesopotamia came up
Neck and ankle. Ankle's a bit of an odd one, isn't it? Like Victorians, like chiselbe. If you've got restrictive sort of social practices. What period are we talking about? This is the same study. This is ancient Mesopotamia. Oh, right. Because there's a whole subcategory now of celebrity spotting on celebrities' knees. Not in that period. We're not looking at that period. Is it like Wikine knees or something.
No Such Thing As Clay Valentines Cards, 2025-02-13 · listen
It's so exciting. This is something that I think we've probably been aware of, but we've never mentioned on the podcast, that there's a demand for a refund that is on a clay tablet from 1750 BC. It's one of the oldest ones we have, it's Mesopotamia. It's so good because it's exactly like TripAdvisor complaint today. It's a complaint to someone called Eannassia from a customer who's called Nanny.
563: No Such Thing As Bananas In The Vatican, 2024-12-26 · listen
They were useful for battles and they were used as royal vehicles. They used as dowries and marriages and cungas just were a thing. Yeah. Four and a half thousand years ago. A huge thing, right? They're all over the paintings and artworks in Mesopotamia. Exactly. They were a big deal. The other thing about it is they're hard to make because they're infertile. You create them and then they're sterile.
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- University of Arizona · United States
Coordinates: 33.7000, 43.5000