Ergative Absolutive on Nostr: I really enjoy how snooty Eckart Frahm is when he describes Ashurbanipal (king of the ...
I really enjoy how snooty Eckart Frahm is when he describes Ashurbanipal (king of the world, king of Assyria, 7th century BCE):
"Yes, yes, he assembled the world's largest library of cuneiform texts; and we're very grateful and all, but, look, despite his boasts to the contrary, the dude was not that great a scholar. His handwriting is shitty, and letters addressed to him show that his correspondents had to put in explanations of all the difficult words."
#history #archaeology '#assyria
"Yes, yes, he assembled the world's largest library of cuneiform texts; and we're very grateful and all, but, look, despite his boasts to the contrary, the dude was not that great a scholar. His handwriting is shitty, and letters addressed to him show that his correspondents had to put in explanations of all the difficult words."
#history #archaeology '#assyria