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  1. the sequel to nethack is REAL! (core) And it is known as "Venus simulator" (releasing next year every year) like and subscribe for more information #information

    #venus #simulator #epic #sumeria

  2. Just saw a post containing the simple typo "Sumercomputer", and now I can't stop thinking about how they would have implemented supercomputing in ancient Sumer. Large arrays of scribes with whittled reeds pressing cuneiform into clay tablets simultaneously?

    #Sumer #Sumeria #cuneiform #supercomputing #scribe

  3. Just saw a post containing the simple typo "Sumercomputer", and now I can't stop thinking about how they would have implemented supercomputing in ancient Sumer. Large arrays of scribes with whittled reeds pressing cuneiform into clay tablets simultaneously?

    #Sumer #Sumeria #cuneiform #supercomputing #scribe

  4. Just saw a post containing the simple typo "Sumercomputer", and now I can't stop thinking about how they would have implemented supercomputing in ancient Sumer. Large arrays of scribes with whittled reeds pressing cuneiform into clay tablets simultaneously?

    #Sumer #Sumeria #cuneiform #supercomputing #scribe

  5. Just saw a post containing the simple typo "Sumercomputer", and now I can't stop thinking about how they would have implemented supercomputing in ancient Sumer. Large arrays of scribes with whittled reeds pressing cuneiform into clay tablets simultaneously?

    #Sumer #Sumeria #cuneiform #supercomputing #scribe

  6. Just saw a post containing the simple typo "Sumercomputer", and now I can't stop thinking about how they would have implemented supercomputing in ancient Sumer. Large arrays of scribes with whittled reeds pressing cuneiform into clay tablets simultaneously?

    #Sumer #Sumeria #cuneiform #supercomputing #scribe

  7. In Sumerian folklore, bulls were important to both the religious worldview and everyday worship. They were considered powerful symbols of the gods that should be respected. #sumeria #bulls connectparanormal.net/2026/02/

  8. In Sumerian folklore, bulls were important to both the religious worldview and everyday worship. They were considered powerful symbols of the gods that should be respected. #sumeria #bulls connectparanormal.net/2026/02/

  9. In Sumerian folklore, bulls were important to both the religious worldview and everyday worship. They were considered powerful symbols of the gods that should be respected. #sumeria #bulls connectparanormal.net/2026/02/

  10. Attention : Sumeria (ex-Lydia) met en place des frais d'inactivité de 3 € par mois dlvr.it/TQJzwG #Sumeria #Lydia

  11. Attention : Sumeria (ex-Lydia) met en place des frais d'inactivité de 3 € par mois dlvr.it/TQJzwG #Sumeria #Lydia

  12. Attention : Sumeria (ex-Lydia) met en place des frais d'inactivité de 3 € par mois dlvr.it/TQJzwG #Sumeria #Lydia

  13. Attention : Sumeria (ex-Lydia) met en place des frais d'inactivité de 3 € par mois dlvr.it/TQJzwG #Sumeria #Lydia

  14. Attention : Sumeria (ex-Lydia) met en place des frais d'inactivité de 3 € par mois dlvr.it/TQJzwG #Sumeria #Lydia

  15. Enheduanna, sacerdotisa de Ur e hija de Sargón I, fue la primera autora conocida en firmar obras: himnos a Inanna que mezclan religión y política. aidoo.news/noticia/6GQllx

    #Mesopotamia #Sumeria #Enheduanna #MujeresEnLaHistoria #Arqueologia

  16. The exploration of UFOs and Ancient Sumeria investigates connections between modern unidentified phenomena and ancient narratives. #UFOs #sumeria #ancienthistory connectparanormal.net/2025/12/

  17. The exploration of UFOs and Ancient Sumeria investigates connections between modern unidentified phenomena and ancient narratives. #UFOs #sumeria #ancienthistory connectparanormal.net/2025/12/

  18. The exploration of UFOs and Ancient Sumeria investigates connections between modern unidentified phenomena and ancient narratives. #UFOs #sumeria #ancienthistory connectparanormal.net/2025/12/

  19. The exploration of UFOs and Ancient Sumeria investigates connections between modern unidentified phenomena and ancient narratives. #UFOs #sumeria #ancienthistory connectparanormal.net/2025/12/

  20. The exploration of UFOs and Ancient Sumeria investigates connections between modern unidentified phenomena and ancient narratives. #UFOs #sumeria #ancienthistory connectparanormal.net/2025/12/

  21. GILGAMESH LAMENT FOR ENKIDU

    Context (Lifted from Peter Pringle’s Video Desc.): Gilgamesh was king of the Sumerian city of Uruk in Southern Mesopotamia, some 5000 years ago. According to legend, he was a ruthless despot, so the gods created a friend for him, a kind of wild man called Enkidu, who was able to challenge him successfully in battle. This took Gilgamesh’s mind off oppressing his people, and he and Enkidu became inseparable friends. The two of them shared many remarkable adventures together but they made a fatal mistake. They traveled to the great cedar forest, where they killed a sacred beast known as “The Bull of Heaven”. This angered the gods, so they sentenced Enkidu to death.

    TABLET VIII of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, contains the text I sing in this lament. I would like to thank Andrew R. George, the translator of Gilgamesh, whose translation of the text appears in the subtitles to this video, for his generous help with the pronunciation of Old Babylonian. […]

    There are two musical instruments in this interpretation of the lament of Gilgamesh. The lute I decided to use is the Persian “setar”, which is one of the closest instruments to the ancient three-stringed lutes that is still in existence today. The setar is capable of playing a wide range of quarter tones but, according to archaeomusicologists, the Babylonians did not use them. Personally, I’m not so sure about that.

    The other musical instrument I used is a pair of reed pipes which are played together. The ones you see at the beginning of the video are copies of the pair of silver pipes that were discovered by archaeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley, during his excavations of the Sumerian city of Ur, in the 1920’s. They have a sound similar to the modern “duduk” and, like the duduk, the shehnai and the Australian didgeridoo, they are played using the technique known as “circular breathing”, in order to produce a continuous tone without interruption. The ancient Babylonian reed pipe was known as the “malilum”.

    Since I could not sing, accompany myself on the lute, and play the pipes at the same time, I sampled the sound of the pipes and used a MIDI pedal keyboard (like the ones organists use to play bass notes) to trigger the sounds - one foot for each of the two silver pipes. That way I could perform all the parts of the lament at once, without any need for overdubs.

    The glazed brick wall you see behind me in this video is part of the magnificent “Gate of Ishtar”, which was the main entrance to the ancient city of Babylon.

  22. GILGAMESH LAMENT FOR ENKIDU

    Context (Lifted from Peter Pringle’s Video Desc.): Gilgamesh was king of the Sumerian city of Uruk in Southern Mesopotamia, some 5000 years ago. According to legend, he was a ruthless despot, so the gods created a friend for him, a kind of wild man called Enkidu, who was able to challenge him successfully in battle. This took Gilgamesh’s mind off oppressing his people, and he and Enkidu became inseparable friends. The two of them shared many remarkable adventures together but they made a fatal mistake. They traveled to the great cedar forest, where they killed a sacred beast known as “The Bull of Heaven”. This angered the gods, so they sentenced Enkidu to death.

    TABLET VIII of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, contains the text I sing in this lament. I would like to thank Andrew R. George, the translator of Gilgamesh, whose translation of the text appears in the subtitles to this video, for his generous help with the pronunciation of Old Babylonian. […]

    There are two musical instruments in this interpretation of the lament of Gilgamesh. The lute I decided to use is the Persian “setar”, which is one of the closest instruments to the ancient three-stringed lutes that is still in existence today. The setar is capable of playing a wide range of quarter tones but, according to archaeomusicologists, the Babylonians did not use them. Personally, I’m not so sure about that.

    The other musical instrument I used is a pair of reed pipes which are played together. The ones you see at the beginning of the video are copies of the pair of silver pipes that were discovered by archaeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley, during his excavations of the Sumerian city of Ur, in the 1920’s. They have a sound similar to the modern “duduk” and, like the duduk, the shehnai and the Australian didgeridoo, they are played using the technique known as “circular breathing”, in order to produce a continuous tone without interruption. The ancient Babylonian reed pipe was known as the “malilum”.

    Since I could not sing, accompany myself on the lute, and play the pipes at the same time, I sampled the sound of the pipes and used a MIDI pedal keyboard (like the ones organists use to play bass notes) to trigger the sounds - one foot for each of the two silver pipes. That way I could perform all the parts of the lament at once, without any need for overdubs.

    The glazed brick wall you see behind me in this video is part of the magnificent “Gate of Ishtar”, which was the main entrance to the ancient city of Babylon.

    quokk.au/c/historymusic/p/4711

  23. GILGAMESH LAMENT FOR ENKIDU

    Context (Lifted from Peter Pringle’s Video Desc.): Gilgamesh was king of the Sumerian city of Uruk in Southern Mesopotamia, some 5000 years ago. According to legend, he was a ruthless despot, so the gods created a friend for him, a kind of wild man called Enkidu, who was able to challenge him successfully in battle. This took Gilgamesh’s mind off oppressing his people, and he and Enkidu became inseparable friends. The two of them shared many remarkable adventures together but they made a fatal mistake. They traveled to the great cedar forest, where they killed a sacred beast known as “The Bull of Heaven”. This angered the gods, so they sentenced Enkidu to death.

    TABLET VIII of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, contains the text I sing in this lament. I would like to thank Andrew R. George, the translator of Gilgamesh, whose translation of the text appears in the subtitles to this video, for his generous help with the pronunciation of Old Babylonian. […]

    There are two musical instruments in this interpretation of the lament of Gilgamesh. The lute I decided to use is the Persian “setar”, which is one of the closest instruments to the ancient three-stringed lutes that is still in existence today. The setar is capable of playing a wide range of quarter tones but, according to archaeomusicologists, the Babylonians did not use them. Personally, I’m not so sure about that.

    The other musical instrument I used is a pair of reed pipes which are played together. The ones you see at the beginning of the video are copies of the pair of silver pipes that were discovered by archaeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley, during his excavations of the Sumerian city of Ur, in the 1920’s. They have a sound similar to the modern “duduk” and, like the duduk, the shehnai and the Australian didgeridoo, they are played using the technique known as “circular breathing”, in order to produce a continuous tone without interruption. The ancient Babylonian reed pipe was known as the “malilum”.

    Since I could not sing, accompany myself on the lute, and play the pipes at the same time, I sampled the sound of the pipes and used a MIDI pedal keyboard (like the ones organists use to play bass notes) to trigger the sounds - one foot for each of the two silver pipes. That way I could perform all the parts of the lament at once, without any need for overdubs.

    The glazed brick wall you see behind me in this video is part of the magnificent “Gate of Ishtar”, which was the main entrance to the ancient city of Babylon.

    quokk.au/c/historymusic/p/4711

  24. GILGAMESH LAMENT FOR ENKIDU

    Context (Lifted from Peter Pringle’s Video Desc.): Gilgamesh was king of the Sumerian city of Uruk in Southern Mesopotamia, some 5000 years ago. According to legend, he was a ruthless despot, so the gods created a friend for him, a kind of wild man called Enkidu, who was able to challenge him successfully in battle. This took Gilgamesh’s mind off oppressing his people, and he and Enkidu became inseparable friends. The two of them shared many remarkable adventures together but they made a fatal mistake. They traveled to the great cedar forest, where they killed a sacred beast known as “The Bull of Heaven”. This angered the gods, so they sentenced Enkidu to death.

    TABLET VIII of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, contains the text I sing in this lament. I would like to thank Andrew R. George, the translator of Gilgamesh, whose translation of the text appears in the subtitles to this video, for his generous help with the pronunciation of Old Babylonian. […]

    There are two musical instruments in this interpretation of the lament of Gilgamesh. The lute I decided to use is the Persian “setar”, which is one of the closest instruments to the ancient three-stringed lutes that is still in existence today. The setar is capable of playing a wide range of quarter tones but, according to archaeomusicologists, the Babylonians did not use them. Personally, I’m not so sure about that.

    The other musical instrument I used is a pair of reed pipes which are played together. The ones you see at the beginning of the video are copies of the pair of silver pipes that were discovered by archaeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley, during his excavations of the Sumerian city of Ur, in the 1920’s. They have a sound similar to the modern “duduk” and, like the duduk, the shehnai and the Australian didgeridoo, they are played using the technique known as “circular breathing”, in order to produce a continuous tone without interruption. The ancient Babylonian reed pipe was known as the “malilum”.

    Since I could not sing, accompany myself on the lute, and play the pipes at the same time, I sampled the sound of the pipes and used a MIDI pedal keyboard (like the ones organists use to play bass notes) to trigger the sounds - one foot for each of the two silver pipes. That way I could perform all the parts of the lament at once, without any need for overdubs.

    The glazed brick wall you see behind me in this video is part of the magnificent “Gate of Ishtar”, which was the main entrance to the ancient city of Babylon.

    quokk.au/c/historymusic/p/4711

  25. GILGAMESH LAMENT FOR ENKIDU

    Context (Lifted from Peter Pringle’s Video Desc.): Gilgamesh was king of the Sumerian city of Uruk in Southern Mesopotamia, some 5000 years ago. According to legend, he was a ruthless despot, so the gods created a friend for him, a kind of wild man called Enkidu, who was able to challenge him successfully in battle. This took Gilgamesh’s mind off oppressing his people, and he and Enkidu became inseparable friends. The two of them shared many remarkable adventures together but they made a fatal mistake. They traveled to the great cedar forest, where they killed a sacred beast known as “The Bull of Heaven”. This angered the gods, so they sentenced Enkidu to death.

    TABLET VIII of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, contains the text I sing in this lament. I would like to thank Andrew R. George, the translator of Gilgamesh, whose translation of the text appears in the subtitles to this video, for his generous help with the pronunciation of Old Babylonian. […]

    There are two musical instruments in this interpretation of the lament of Gilgamesh. The lute I decided to use is the Persian “setar”, which is one of the closest instruments to the ancient three-stringed lutes that is still in existence today. The setar is capable of playing a wide range of quarter tones but, according to archaeomusicologists, the Babylonians did not use them. Personally, I’m not so sure about that.

    The other musical instrument I used is a pair of reed pipes which are played together. The ones you see at the beginning of the video are copies of the pair of silver pipes that were discovered by archaeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley, during his excavations of the Sumerian city of Ur, in the 1920’s. They have a sound similar to the modern “duduk” and, like the duduk, the shehnai and the Australian didgeridoo, they are played using the technique known as “circular breathing”, in order to produce a continuous tone without interruption. The ancient Babylonian reed pipe was known as the “malilum”.

    Since I could not sing, accompany myself on the lute, and play the pipes at the same time, I sampled the sound of the pipes and used a MIDI pedal keyboard (like the ones organists use to play bass notes) to trigger the sounds - one foot for each of the two silver pipes. That way I could perform all the parts of the lament at once, without any need for overdubs.

    The glazed brick wall you see behind me in this video is part of the magnificent “Gate of Ishtar”, which was the main entrance to the ancient city of Babylon.

    quokk.au/c/historymusic/p/4711

  26. Sumerians viewed the undead as gidim, spirits who linger due to neglect in rituals and memory. Their afterlife in Kur was bleak, causing sorrowful ancestors and vengeful spirits to emerge. #sumeria #undead connectparanormal.net/2025/10/

  27. Sumerians viewed the undead as gidim, spirits who linger due to neglect in rituals and memory. Their afterlife in Kur was bleak, causing sorrowful ancestors and vengeful spirits to emerge. #sumeria #undead connectparanormal.net/2025/10/

  28. Sumerians viewed the undead as gidim, spirits who linger due to neglect in rituals and memory. Their afterlife in Kur was bleak, causing sorrowful ancestors and vengeful spirits to emerge. #sumeria #undead connectparanormal.net/2025/10/

  29. Sumerians viewed the undead as gidim, spirits who linger due to neglect in rituals and memory. Their afterlife in Kur was bleak, causing sorrowful ancestors and vengeful spirits to emerge. #sumeria #undead connectparanormal.net/2025/10/

  30. Fiz um book trailer para meu mais recente conto: Àqueles que apagaram o Sol, uma distopia pós-nuclear com várias referências à mitologia suméria.

    amazon.com.br/dp/B0FL83T17C

    #livros #SciFi #fantasia #suméria #mesopotâmia #história #FicçãoCientífica #mecha

  31. Hackaday: Replicating The World’s Oldest Stringed Instrument. “Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated an ancient Sumerian instrument, we couldn’t wait to dig in.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/22/hackaday-replicating-the-worlds-oldest-stringed-instrument/

  32. Hackaday: Replicating The World’s Oldest Stringed Instrument. “Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated an ancient Sumerian instrument, we couldn’t wait to dig in.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/22/hackaday-replicating-the-worlds-oldest-stringed-instrument/

  33. Hackaday: Replicating The World’s Oldest Stringed Instrument. “Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated an ancient Sumerian instrument, we couldn’t wait to dig in.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/22/hackaday-replicating-the-worlds-oldest-stringed-instrument/

  34. The Sumerian Gilgamesh Epic, known for its storytelling, notably influenced the Hebrew Bible. Biblical parallels include the flood story, Garden of Eden, Tower of Babel, Moses’ birth, Proverbs, Book of Job, and Psalms. #Bible #sumeria connectparanormal.net/2024/06/

  35. The Sumerian Gilgamesh Epic, known for its storytelling, notably influenced the Hebrew Bible. Biblical parallels include the flood story, Garden of Eden, Tower of Babel, Moses’ birth, Proverbs, Book of Job, and Psalms. #Bible #sumeria connectparanormal.net/2024/06/

  36. The Sumerian Gilgamesh Epic, known for its storytelling, notably influenced the Hebrew Bible. Biblical parallels include the flood story, Garden of Eden, Tower of Babel, Moses’ birth, Proverbs, Book of Job, and Psalms. #Bible #sumeria connectparanormal.net/2024/06/