- P Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic @pharyngealschwa.bsky.social קד-אתעלם חכי מל יהוד – אללהג׳ה אלבע׳דאדיי אליהודיי🗣English, עברית, عربي
לומד את השפה העיראקית היהודית
Learning the Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic language
Eleanor Robson @eleanorrobson.bsky.social Social Media Manager and Volunteer Assistant Warden at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve; here for cats, crochet, jam and water buffaloes 😸🧶🐃
Recovering academic and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History, missing Iraq but not much else 🤷🏼♀️
Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social Visit : ociana.osu.edu
Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary @akkadiandictionary.bsky.social The Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary (LAD) is a research project at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. Starting in 2025, the 17-year project aims to create a new, up-to-date digital online dictionary of #Akkadian.
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Associate prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network.
For more information please visit our websites: https://linktr.ee/viewsproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share
Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social Berber linguistics // linguistique amazighe // ⵜⵎⵓⵙⵏⵉ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
Universiteit Leiden
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maarten-kossmann
Profile picture: Volubilis votive stone, Musée des civilisations de Rabat
Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social Ancient Historian. Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. PhD UChicago. Seleukid Empire, ancient archives, Hellenistic law, inscriptions, coins, antiquity in video games, & otters. 🇵🇷 (Bayamón) & 🏳️🌈
Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social 🎸🌱🍄🟫⚗️🧪☕️
I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts
🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian)
PLUR
IDIC
Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Comparative Semitics. Blog: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com
ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social ASOR is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world.
Subscribe to our free newsletter Ancient Near East Today: https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/- A @abuenkidu.bsky.social @abuenkidu.bsky.social
James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University in Indianapolis
Paula Gheorghiade @paulageorgiade.bsky.social Aegean archaeologist & Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeological Networks @ the Social Resilience Lab, University of Aarhus https://cas.au.dk/en/social-resilience-lab & 1/2 of the Connected Past Scientific Committee @theconnectedpast.bsky.social
WORK-IT @workit-hki.bsky.social ERC-funded research group at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology
🌐 helsinki.fi/work-it
Megan Lewis @digital-hammurabi.bsky.social Assyriologist, YouTuber and Podcaster, currently fixated on fishtanks.
Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social Mesopotamian archaeologist at Univ of Chicago; former Univ of Cambridge; ancient urbanism; Tell Brak and Nippur; Co-Editor, Iraq Journal; distance runner.
Jessica Marchetti @jessica-marchetti.bsky.social PhD Student in Assyriology / Doctorante en Assyriologie - Laboratoire HALMA, UMR 8164 / Université de Lille.
Titre de la thèse : Le dieu Nergal dans les textes suméro-akkadiens (IIe-Ier millénaires av. J.-C.)
Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social Mesopotamian archaeology (PhD UCLA); heritage (The Iraq War & Archaeology); digital humanities (Alexandria Archive Inst./Pleiades); spatial analysis of buildings; doodles; Belgian/American
Christina Tsouparopoulou @christinatsoup.bsky.social Ancient Middle East & EastMed Archaeology & History | religion, human-animal & human-environment relations, cylinder seals, early writing | Ass.Prof@UKSW Warsaw| Editor NEA | former PI @Cambridge | Hon. Fellow @Durham| mother of 2 | Living with an RD
Association des doctorant·es des mondes cunéiformes @docmoc.bsky.social DOCMOC est née en 2024, à l’initiative de doctorant·es en assyriologie. Son objectif est de rassembler des doctorant·es dont le domaine d’étude est la recherche en histoire, histoire de l’art, philologie et archéologie sur les mondes cunéiformes.
Jay Crisostomo @cjcrisostomo.bsky.social Teaching Middle East at UMich: ancient languages & histories, intellectual history, and sporting cultures.
Dr. Jim Getz @jimgetz.bsky.social Historian of ancient Near Eastern ritual, religion, and magic. Professor of Instruction in the Intellectual Heritage program at Temple U. Pedagogy wonk.
he/they/Dr
Philly AF. Speaking for no one but myself.
Repekka @repekka.bsky.social phd/assyriology/Helsinki (for now). a big fan of rodents and energy drinks
Mesopotámicas @mesopotamicas.bsky.social Cuenta seria de @enlalistanegra.bsky.social. Noticias, historia(s) y arqueología de Mesopotamia. Cuneiforme à go-go. Aprobado por Ereshkigal.
✉️ mesopotamicas@gmail.com
🌐https://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/MEricaCoutoFerreira
Erica Couto-Ferreira @enlalistanegra.bsky.social All things horror. Historian of the ANE, writer, and translator. Haunted houses and weird history feel like home.
ES, GL, EN, IT.
Martin Renger @martinrenger.bsky.social Dad | QM at Uni Heidelberg | Archaeologist at Uni Mainz | Southwest Asia | Neolithic | Theoretical Archaeology | Chair of AG TidA/TAG Germany (@agtida.bsky.social) | private account | TTRPG
https://uni-mainz.academia.edu/MartinRenger
nadia @tamacahut.bsky.social 🇩🇿🇫🇷🇬🇧 Provenance researcher. Cuneiformist. Writes about 19th c. antiquities dealers who smuggled cuneiform tablets out of Iraq to sell to museums in EU/US. Now writing a biography of dealer & smuggler Ibrahim Elias Gejou (British Academy monograph 2026)
kelsie ehalt 𒆠𒂖𒋛 @wedgie-bce.bsky.social they/them and/or she/her
phd student umich
cuneiform + ritual + magic
+ animals + monsters
+ queer theory + decolonial theory
https://linktr.ee/wedgie_bce
Ancient Near Eastern Studies Würzburg @anestudieswue.bsky.social Ancient Near Eastern Studies @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social │ #Assyriology and Near Eastern #Archaeology 🏺
Michael Lewis @michael-lewis.bsky.social Archaeology. Mesopotamia. Ceramics. Petrography. 🏺🔬
Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 🇵🇹
Former Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
George Heath-Whyte @gheathwhyte.bsky.social Assyriologist | Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford | Opinions my own
Sanna Aro-Valjus @sannaav.bsky.social Assyriologist, statue enthusiast
M. Willis Monroe @willismonroe.com Cuneiform Studies, History of Science/Religion, Quantitative Humanities, Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick, Co-Director of the Database of Religious History.
Marshall Schurtz @marshallschurtz.com PhD in Mesopotamian Archaeology | Founder | Tour Operator | Traveler
✈️ Lead archaeology themed trips at merakivatravel.com
📍Philadelphia
Imane Achouche @imaneachouche.bsky.social Doctoral student in Western Asian archaeology. Université de Liège.
(Elle ; She ; Her)
Bernhard Schneider @mcb170.bsky.social Mesopotamian Archaeologist
MSCA fellow at the University of Wroclaw
Adam Anderson @admndrsn.bsky.social Assyriologist, archaeologist & data scientist
Morgane Pique @mpique.bsky.social PhD student / Doctorante en Assyriologie, université de Lille (UMR 9028-HARTIS)
> Old Babylonian period and its merchants, institutions and society
> Page Pro : https://pro.univ-lille.fr/morgane-pique
Dr Ellie Bennett @drelliebennett.bsky.social Assyriologist at the University of Helsinki, interested in gender, emotions, and digital approaches to ancient Middle Eastern history
Also a knitter, nerd, and lover of film 🎥- D Jessie DeGrado @disorientalism.bsky.social
Jason Ur @jasonur.bsky.social Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Landscape, origins of urbanism, empires, remote sensing, geospatial, ANE
Émilie Pagé-Perron @epp.cdli.network Research Associate, Archaeology Data Service, University of York
Research Associate, University of Oxford
Co-Director, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative https://cdli.earth
Vegan, cyclist, data lover...
Dr. Petra Creamer @petramcreamer.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in the Near East/SWANA regions! Asst Prof Emory, Director of RLIIM in Iraqi Kurdistan. Remote sensing, mortuary archaeology, and ancient empires. Writing a book on imperial impacts on landscape and community in Assyria (she/they)
Shai Gordin @shgordin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Assyriology and Digital Humanities at #DigitalPastsLab. Interested in NLP for ancient languages, History of the ANE, Human-machine coop and LOD #questseeker
Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social Assyriologist, MELC UCBerkeley. Gardener, Walker.
Zach Rubin @zachrubin.bsky.social Adjunct assistant professor at Hunter and Fordham. Assyriologist, studying the dynamics of sacred knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia | ✡️&🏳️🌈
Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social Art historian, archaeologist, curator, educator 🖌️ | Assyria, Persia, Arabia 🌍 | Cultural Heritage, Museums, Provenance, Senses🪻 | Curator, ISAC Museum, UChicago 🪷 | Lecturer, Dept of Art History, UChicago 📖 | PhD, UCBerkeley 📚
Ilī-Yahu - 𒉌𒉌𒀭𒅀𒌑 @ili-yahu.bsky.social Assyriology PhD Candidate – UMR 9028 - HARTIS (Université de Lille, CNRS, MC)
Assyriologie à l'Université de Lille @en-lille.bsky.social Suivez l'actualité du pôle d'assyriologie de l'Université de Lille, composée de 2 enseignants-chercheurs et 7 doctorant·es, au sein de l'UMR 9028-HARTIS 📜
Follow the assyriologists from the University of Lille!
International Association for Assyriology @iaassyriology.bsky.social The IAA was founded in 2003 to promote and represent Cuneiform Studies, ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology on an international basis.
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social Adjunct professor, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in Late Neolithic/Halaf Şanlıurfa, Turkey; D.C.-born; foodie; astronomy & gardening buff; former guardian of Urfalı cat Commander Orion 🌈🖤; current guardian of not-a-Guest-anymore Cat Italy!
Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social "A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
Jana Mynářová @pudukhepa.bsky.social Assyriologist and Egyptologist, devoted Wagnerian. Professor at Charles University, Prague.
Troels Pank Arbøll @panktroels.bsky.social Lū šulmu. Researching ancient Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Associate Professor of Assyriology, University of Copenhagen.
https://research.ku.dk/search/result/profile/?id=276392
Member of @theyoungacademydk.bsky.social
Janine Wende @janinewende.bsky.social Assyriologist || Altorientalistin
https://shorturl.at/pUv6p
Research team leader at the Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary at the Saxon Academy of Science and Humanitites in Leipzig.
Podcast: Von Assur nach Babylon https://pod.link/1730076141
Seraina Nett @serainanett.bsky.social Assyriologist at the University of Copenhagen. Interested in languages, social and economic history, digital humanities, and cats. 🇨🇭🇩🇰🇸🇪
Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com Postdoc Associate, Yale
Ph.D. (Assyriology), Harvard
visit me at www.aandeloucas.com
Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) Core Fellow / mother / the Connected Past (TCP) steering committee. Egyptology, (social) network analysis, socio-economic history, Ptolemaic Egypt.
ANEE Helsinki @anee-helsinki.bsky.social Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires @helsinki.fi (dir. Saana Svärd).
#Assyriology #DigitalHumanities #SocialTheory #Archaeology #OpenScience
NINO Leiden @nino-leiden.bsky.social Research centre and library for Egyptology (including Coptology), Assyriology (including Hittitology), Near Eastern archaeology and connected studies.
https://www.nino-leiden.nl
Heidi Jauhiainen @heidijauhiainen.bsky.social Egyptologist working on building digital tools for the study and production of hieroglyphic /ancient texts. University of Helsinki. Finnish Egyptological Society.
Jon Taylor @jonjtaylor.bsky.social Cuneiformist. History of ancient western Asia. Likely to post on assyriology and museums. Hoping to be distracted by dogs, cows, running, zombies. Curator of cuneiform & cylinder seals at British Museum. Host of Thin End of the Wedge podcast. Views my own.
Sonia Mzali @sonia-mzali.bsky.social Doctorante en Assyriologie
(UMR 9028-HARTIS, Université de Lille)
Sumer / Pratiques cultuelles / Genre / Maternités
PhD student in Assyriology
Sumer / Cultual practices / Gender / Motherhood
co-responsable de @ama-mater.bsky.social
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Amanda Hills Podany @ahpodany.bsky.social Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona, Assyriologist, and occasional bass player
Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social Historian of the ancient world. Working on imperialism, elite competition, Global Assyria. North Carolinian.
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social Associate Professor in Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies in NELC at UCLA. Sumerian, religion & magic, demons, exorcism, and monsters. Also posts about walking in LA and my idiot cats.
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social El CCHS del CSIC es un centro de servicios para seis institutos de investigación y ciencia: #IEGD #IFS #IH #ILC #ILLA #IPP, especializados en #Humanidades #CienciasSociales
https://www.cchs.csic.es/es Tb en X @CCHS_CSIC
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