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12:01 ÷73 + r/AskAnthropology •• What is the oldest lullaby or nursery rhyme that... 11 upvotes • 1 comment As far as the earliest we know of, it's another Babylonian tablet, about 4000 years old and most often known as Little Baby in the Dark House. We don't have the music for it, but again, the BBC article has a good go at describing some commonalities of the music that tends to accompany lullabies, so that might inspire you. The rough translation for that Babylonian lullaby, by the way, is: Little Baby in the dark house You have seen the sun rise Why are you crying? Why are you screaming? You have disturbed the house god. 'Who has disturbed me?' says the house god. 'It is the baby who has disturbed you! 'Who scared me?' says the house god. 'The baby has disturbed you, the baby has scared you, making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool. He has disturbed your sleep! 'Call the baby now, says the house god. • 4 Reply A & Vote & Join the conversation

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

shame they don't offer pier as you og [sprints off]

Ronny Chieng: International Student (TV Series 2017) ⭐ 7.5 | Comedy 21m | TV-MA

media illiteracy & I'd argue teen films, where the way you signal college (US, always, obviously) is tartan miniskirts and gormless pen-chewing, rather than crying over essays at 2am, or fighting for the one (1) copy of set text in the library. Honourable exception for www.imdb.com/title/tt6696...

screm, as ttwt said back in the day. And great news!

Tippi? Cause you can tip tap away

congratulations!!!

A polar bear visiting one of our sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). The picture shows a polar bear and the barbed wire collecting hairs for genetic analyses.

Last year I set up four polar bear sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). Goal: collect pictures and hairs to document the understudied Arctic Basin population. This one, from 8 August 2025, is our first good photo ! 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦑🦊 (barbed wire for genetic hair collection visible)

It's called Green Ice, by Adina, and is worth every second: archiveofourown.org/series/662837

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!

Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

The revolutions will be Victorianised! Happy birth

Fences, perhaps? @subhmilis.bsky.social

One summer, when I was seven, my parents sent me to live with two aunts in PARKLIFE. I did not want to go. The elderly have that effect on children. PARKLIFE! But they loved me. And I grew to love them. PARKLIFE! ... but I am hungry. I am hungry, and want to PARKLIVE

you say goofy, I say irresistible. At least to insects

A parent had heart surgery this way - out again the same day. Some bad tech so endlessly flogged as progress that it's easy to lose sight of the stuff that is. Fingers crossed for your dad's procedure

this is one of those factoids (factdroid?) that's 75% there. But it mixes up the (abstract) etymology with the (concrete) neologism: robota means "unpaid compulsory labour" (like corvée), so vaguely "servitude". The Čapeks then coined robot ("serv") from it cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/robota

The Full Bollocks

A photo of a handwritten diary page. At the bottom it reads "A letter of Jane's to Harry of Jan 7th 1848, intended to go by the Plover to Panama..." Shelfmark: GB 237 Coll-28 Gen 296, courtesy of the Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh.

Image of a handwritten diary entry. The sentence concludes "... returned only to day". Shelfmark: GB 237 Coll-28 Gen 296, courtesy of the Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh.

4th October 1859 was a regular day for Joseph Taylor Goodsir. Wake early, think about God, pinch of snuff, meet brother John, read the day's post.

Which included an letter sent by sister Jane to their brother Harry of #HMSErebus in Jan 1848, and returned 11 years later as "undeliverable".

unsolicited, but this eats through apples like nobody's business. 10:1 ratio of fruit in to syrup out. www.toineskitchen.com/recipes/appe... assumes a juicer. More realistically, you boil the apples with a bit of water till pulpy, cool, squeeze the pulp for the juice, measure it, proceed as per

Let's just put it this way: not heard about it, read about it, Sir Edward Belcher no longer top of my shitlist

#DoesSheLoveBirds

this thread is good vibes muppetsonified (some may technically be pet pictures too but perhaps best not to dwell) bsky.app/profile/riot...

USB-port Convention
The Signal Jam
Cardiogram B

Unhelpfully, probably some Horace, who's a bugger to translate. But Odes 4.1 is an all-time banger of the "I regret nothing | everything" genre, and this version's pretty decent: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/... . The beginning is culturally bound but the break is not. Punch to the gut

Not sure what you're packing but from experience a hat and something you can use as a blanket (raincoat at a pinch) do wonders

tell him it's macho cake, problem solved

My Longest “Devastating News, Lads” Ever

illuminator newsletter #42 The final dive season.

Just as written records from the lost Franklin Expedition were within reach, Canada is having to pull the plug on archaeological excavation of HMS Erebus & Terror.

loganzachary.substack.com/p/illuminato...

Exploration 2024 Activities and new discoveries at the sites of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 2024.

Not before time, news on 2024’s finds from the investigation on Erebus & Terror, with some very interesting items found including a raincoat! welcome is the news Parks Canada won’t be doing any further active research on the wrecks, at least for the time being.

parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/e...

Image is of an oil painting of an impossibly beautiful young man. He looks early 20s, perhaps. His hair is red-gold and frames his face. And what a face. His eyes are mid-brown. His cheeks are slightly flushed. The portrait is of Alexander McDonald, a surgeon who learned his trade on whaling ships before joining the Franklin Expedition in 1845 and honestly. #SurgicalTwink Item number ZBA4548, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by Mrs A N Dew, 2007.

Image shows a roughly circular blob of bright red sealing wax. In the centre of the wax is the impression of a human skull.

A very happy birthday to Alexander McDonald, born in Laurencekirk #OTD in 1817.

Alexander was assistant surgeon on #HMSTerror and was lost with the #FranklinExpedition.

And he was, without doubt, goth AF. @scottpolar.bsky.social holds some of his letters: each one sealed with a blood red skull.