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One of the stranger ancient scripts one might come across, Ogham is also known as the 'Celtic Tree Alphabet'. Estimated to have been used from the fourth to the tenth century CE, it is believed to have been possibly named after the Irish god Ogma but this is debated widely. Ogham actually refers to the characters themselves, the script as a whole is more appropriately named Beith-luis-nin after the order of alphabet letters BLFSN. (source)

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The Hammurabi Law Stele - first collection of written laws from the ancient world. 1750 BC - Babylon - Mesopotamia Iraq

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Assyrian soldier crosses a river on inflated sheep skin, 8th - 7th BCE[770x479]

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Hi! This is a little far-fetched considering your niche is not linguistics or names (feel free to redirect me!), but I was wondering if you knew/knew where to find any specific information about the name Enki? It's my name (just about), and it's a little weird since literally nobody's heard about it, and looking around online I can't seem to find much reputable information aside from the god Enki and Enkidu's name, and I also don't know enough about Mesopotamia to be able to make cultural links or anything, and whether the name and derivatives originated from the god (and so the meaning is from there) or if there's a different source.

It doesn't have a specific meaning irl, my parents gave it to me bc they didn't want me to share a name with anyone else at school, and it's annoyingly superficial enough I've never had a strong connection to it. But idk, it'd be nice to at least know what it represents.

Thank you in advance! (And apologies if this is way out of your realm or anything!!)

hi! my apologies, this is absolutely way out of my scope of knowledge BUT i know a guy

@mostlydeadlanguages perhaps you can answer or direct anon to sources they could look into? thank you ^^

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Cosmetic Spoon from Memphis

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1292 BC. Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin. ÄM 17337

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Quetzalcoatl, detail from Teotihuacán, Mexico.

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Woman herding goats in Al Wadi Dawan, Yemen. Peter Adams

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If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday then any leader can tell you anything.

— Howard Zinn

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It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court.

In it, the magician becomes a blind harpist who later vanishes into thin air. He will then reappear as a balding child who issues edicts to King Arthur wearing no underwear.

The shape-shifting Merlin – whose powers apparently stem from being the son of a woman impregnated by the devil – asks to bear Arthur's standard (a flag bearing his coat of arms) on the battlefield. The king agrees – a good decision it turns out – for Merlin is destined to turn up with a handy secret weapon: a magic, fire-breathing dragon. 

For over 400 years, this fragile remnant of a celebrated medieval story lay undisturbed and unnoticed, repurposed as a book cover by Elizabethans to help protect an archival register of property deeds.

Now, the 700-year-old fragment of Suite Vulgate du Merlin – an Old French manuscript so rare there are less than 40 surviving copies in the world – has been discovered by an archivist in Cambridge University Library, folded and stitched into the binding of the 16th-Century register.

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Peter Birkhauser Birth from the Chrysalis 1976

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Vesuvius eruption of 1829.

La terre avant le déluge. 1874.

Internet Archive

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Petroglyphs (rock paintings) of Altai

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Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis