Bard spotting on Bluesky 02 March 2025

commamonger😷 (@commamonger.bsky.social):

There's more to Mesopotamia than Gilgamesh and Enkidu, it would seem. Lovely thread about bricks.

Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) (@moudhy.bsky.social):

Bricks from ancient Mesopotamia may seem boring, but there is more to them than mud and straw.

A short thread on some fun facts about bricks in ancient Mesopotamia from my book, Between Two Rivers.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

But wait, there's more —

The Greeks, under the orders of Alexander the Great, were ordered to build a temple deifying Alexander in Babylon when they conquered it.

So ~2000 years after those cuneiform bricks were made, the Greeks made very similar bricks, stamped in Ionian/Phoenician, @ 400 BCE