Engines of Our Ingenuity 1082: Cuneiform and Turbines
Episode: 1082 The last shall be first: steam turbines and cuneiform. Today, we finally get back to where we started.
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Explore "cuneiform" with insightful episodes like "Engines of Our Ingenuity 1082: Cuneiform and Turbines", "Solénoïde - Mission 207 - 11.09.2023", "Ancient Mesopotamia: Part 2, Later Empires in Mesopotamia", "Ancient Mesopotamia: Part 1, The Rise and Eclipse of Sumer" and "S03E23 - Sodom and Gomorrah" from podcasts like ""Engines of Our Ingenuity", "Solénoïde - L'émission des Musiques Imaginogènes sur 30 radios FM-DAB", "A Journey into Human History", "A Journey into Human History" and "In Research Of"" and more!
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Solénoïde - Mission 207 - 11.09.2023
Solénoïde (11.09.2023) - Notre fil rouge est un double LP qui devrait scotcher les fondus de rock expérimental et polymorphe : 'States of Minds' de MØSTER! est une offrande magistrale traversant des zones de frictions entre jazz, noise et psychédélisme. Une étourdissante production norvégienne portant le sceau du label Hubro.
Autre album qui pourrait stimuler votre imaginaire, une production venue de Turquie signée du designer sonore Koray Kantarcıoğlu. Son LP "Loopworks" est basé sur l'utilisation de samples de disques turcs des années 60 et 70 mis au service de compositions atmosphériques au parfum d'ambient-drone onirique. Un must.
Enfin, le sextet Alec K.Redfearn and The Eyesores nouera des liens invisibles entre rock progressif, folk balkanique et avant-garde minimaliste. De cette large palette de couleurs instrumentales, nos américains continuent de tirer le meilleur sur ‘Opposite’. Une expérience immanquable pour les férus de rock de traverse.
Ancient Mesopotamia: Part 2, Later Empires in Mesopotamia
The period of independent city-states came to an end with the rise of the worldâs first empire, the Akkadian Empire of Sargon of Akkad. While it lasted only about a century and a half, this empire inaugurated a new era in the region, which later saw the emergence of other powerful realms. These included the Third Dynasty of Ur and the famous Babylonian Empire of Hammurabi, who created an influential law code. These later empires preserved many elements of the earlier Sumerian civilization, including cuneiform and works of literature like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/3-2-ancient-mesopotamia
Welcome to A Journey into Human History.
This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story.
The content contained in this podcast was produced by OpenStax and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/1-introduction
Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a creative common sense production.
All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/3-2-ancient-mesopotamia
Welcome to A Journey into Human History.
This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story.
The content contained in this podcast was produced by OpenStax and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/1-introduction
Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a creative common sense production.
Ancient Mesopotamia: Part 1, The Rise and Eclipse of Sumer
The city of Uruk in the land of Sumer was one of the first true cities in world history. Advances in technology such as the invention of bronze-making techniques, a writing system called cuneiform, and a sophisticated religion with a pantheon of deities spread and facilitated the development of a complex Mesopotamian culture and the rise of other city-states there. The Sumerian city-states under the rule of their lugals or kings commonly waged war against one another and against a stream of foreign invaders.
All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/3-2-ancient-mesopotamia
Welcome to A Journey into Human History.
This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story.
The content contained in this podcast was produced by OpenStax and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/1-introduction
Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a creative common sense production.
All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/3-2-ancient-mesopotamia
Welcome to A Journey into Human History.
This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story.
The content contained in this podcast was produced by OpenStax and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/1-introduction
Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a creative common sense production.
S03E23 - Sodom and Gomorrah
We're joined by Dr. Nathan French to discuss the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah and the ISO team's efforts to examine archaeological evidence supporting its actual historical existence.
Nimoy Fashion:
Dr. Avrahamm Biran (1909 - 2008)
The concept of Biblical Maximalism
The big dig at Ebla where the library of clay tablets was found.
In 1976 Giovanni Pettinato claimed tablets found at the dig contained the names of five cities of the plain including Sodom and Gomorrah. Modern scholarly consensus is that this was incorrect.
I think this is archaeologist Paulo Matti (Pettinato's fellow researcher on the dig) alongside an unnamed female researcher.
As promised, the animated gif of the sinners in our "re-creations" of ancient Sodom.
Discussion of Baal in the episode doesn't hint that this Biblical "villain god" may actually represent an entire class of deities.
About 17 mins into the episode there's a guy who runs a hot spring and his moustache reminded Jeb of a certain someone...
Doctor Bruce Bolt sitting in front of some truly fabulous old equipment.
Finally - one more thing - the link to the Atari E.T. fiasco documentary.
Episode 59 - It Didn't Belong to Pythagoras
I have mentioned before that the Pythagorean Theorem was not Pythagoras's discovery. This podcast looks at the tangible proof of the theorem, and where it might have come from! To read the podcast's transcripts, visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com.
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Until next time, carpe diem! Gabrielle
All music by Lloyd Rodgers - No Copyright - No rights reserved
Cuneiform Discoveries from Ancient Babylon
In ancient Iraq, scribes used cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script to write hundreds of thousands of texts in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages on clay tablets. Dr Frances Reynolds, Shillito Fellow in Assyriology, Faculty of Oriental Studies and St Benet's Hall
Cuneiform Discoveries from Ancient Babylon - In ancient Iraq, scribes used cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script to write hundreds of thousands of texts in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages on clay tablets. Akkadian, a language related to Arabic and Hebrew, was still written in Babylonia after the conquest of Alexander the Great. Newly published tablets show scholars in Babylon trying to boost the temple's dwindling power under imperial rule.
Humanities Light Night – Oxford Research Unwrapped!
As part of the national Being Human Festival, and Oxford’s Christmas Light Festival, Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! was a spectacular explosion of colour, sound and activity for all, including a huge video projection onto the 3-storey Radcliffe humanities building, premiering SOURCE: CODE which featured the work of Oxford Humanities Professors Jacob Dahl, Richard Parkinson and Armand D'Angour, and co-created by Oxford Humanities researchers and The Projection Studio, world-class projection and sound-artists. A series of talks took place during the evening, relating to the theme ‘Discovery’.
This event was part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.
Cuneiform and the Invention of Writing
For our inaugural podcast episode, we chose to focus on one of the most important technological innovations of the ancient world - the invention of writing! This episode introduces you to cuneiform, the writing system developed during the late 4th millennium BCE, with an interview with Dr. Jennifer Ross of Hood College, and a narration of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, the Sumerian literary composition that explains how and why writing was invented.
Interview conducted on 2/23/2019.
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038 - The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Episode 56: Chinese Genesis - Culture of the Ancients (3 of 3)
Last in this series where we learn how the ancient Chinese people were quite familiar with the ancient record that was eventually recorded by Moses.
Episode 55: Chinese Genesis - Culture of the Ancients (2 of 3)
We continue to see how China provides a surprising source for an extra-Biblical testimony of the Genesis record.
Episode 54: Chinese Genesis - Culture of the Ancients (1 of 3)
A 4500 year unbroken language and culture reveals some interesting -even startling- insights, and reflect the story we see in Genesis.
Episode 3.5: The Necessary Tools
In this episode we look at the practice of Babylonian astronomy and the tools that made it possible: cuneiform writing and arithmetical mathematics.
005 - Neolithic Revolution
You say you want a revolution? Would you settle for the greatest invention of all time?
First cities and first writing: Mesopotamia
How is it that the first farms, cities and writing all originated in Mesopotamia, now Iraq? We explore the so-called 'fertile crescent' and fanatical record-keeping in the ancient Near East. We find out how DNA from the body of Tutankhamun hints at his numerous illnesses and we also look at who paddled across the Mediterranean first. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology Tom Birch smelts his own iron! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists