Ardashir Captures Ardava, Folio 181 From The Demotte Shahname, Ilkhanid, C. 1330-1340 CE. Freer Gallery

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an odd duck. As a young scholar, he allegedly mastered Greek and Latin by the age of 13. In 1484 he met Marsillio Ficino and fabulously wealthy italian banker Lorenzo De Medici, and promptly charmed the both of them, roping tutelage from the former, and patronage from the latter. During his time in Florence he would write the 900 Theses, a text which claimed that not only were Plato and Aristotle reconcilable, but that they were compatible with Christianity. He was quite confident in the strength of his work. In fact, he was so confident that he ended the 900 Theses with the following announcement: 

“THE CONCLUSIONS will not be disputed until after the Epiphany. In the meantime they will be published in all Italian universities. And if any philosopher or theologian, even from the ends of Italy, wishes to come to Rome for the sake of debating, his lord the disputer promises to pay the travel expenses from his own funds.”

His plan was to travel to Rome, have the theses published, hold a conference defending his work, defeat every challenger with Facts and Logic, and ride the wave of success to theological glory. On his way to Rome he stopped in the town of Arezzo, had an affair with the wife of one of Lorenzo de Medici’s cousins, attempted to run away with her, got beaten nearly to death, thrown in prison, and then released by order of Lorenzo himself. While recovering from his wounds, he became obsessed with magic.

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The Battle of Kadesh: Part II - The Stakes

The aftermath of the battle of Kadesh might have changed the future of history forever. We simply don't know how the end of the bronze age would have played out if this didn't end the war between Egypt and the Hittites. Perhaps if the Hittites won more of Canaan they would have endured the natural disasters that destroyed anatolia? Perhaps if Egypt conquered more they would have the resources to stop the neo-assyrians world domination speed run? How would the world look if the egyptians instead went on a world domination speed run instead of the persians? This shit mattered and I'm not gonna be told otherwise.

On the surface these stakes were the ownership of an unimportant town and moving the border a few hundred feet north or south, not so important after all even so what the actual battle led to was in fact very important. Even though the ownership of Kadesh had long been a symbolic one, when either the Egyptians or the Hittites owned Kadesh it showed the other side who was “winning” their ancient beef. Kadesh was undoubtedly a propaganda target. 

The aftermath would lead to the first surviving recorded peace treaty and formed an important defensive alliance creating precedence for all those to come in the millenia after. Who knows if it mattered but either way the first known peace treaty feels important to talk about. The battle of Kadesh was not the sole reason for the peace treaty, Egypt was feeling threatened by the infamous “Sea peoples” that were part of the late bronze age collapse and Egypt was quite satisfied with a propaganda victory to wrap up their long war with the Hittites and even happier to get some help from the Hittites if they the sea peoples were to invade en masse.

*The Egyptian Version of the peace treaty at the precinct of Amun-Re*

*The Hittite version of the peace treaty which is displayed at the museum of the ancient orient in Turkey*

*A third Akkadian version of the peace treaty between Ramesses II and Ḫattušili III, mid-13th century BCE. Neues Museum, Berlin

Note: Yes, military alliances existed earlier but are poorly recorded. This was the first surviving peace treaty. The Hitties did even have an alliance with the Mitanni but in our very fractured understanding of the bronze age it's hard to tell what can be considered an alliance, a vassal state or whatever else. The Mitanni were pretty interesting in this regard too, I might cover the battle of Megiddo, Thutmose III’s campaign and the Mitanni’s empire at some point in the future.

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An Armenian decorated incipit page of the Canon Tables with a portrait of its author, Eusebius, by Malnazar (active about 1630s), and Aghap'ir (active about 1630s), Isfahan, Persia, 1637-38.

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The Sennacherib prism, commissioned by the Assyrian king in the 600s BCE. Its ten sides contain records of his conquests and achievements in cuneiform. The record culminates with Sennarcherib's 15-month siege and destruction of Babylon.

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Scythian mummy tomb (Fifth Pazyryk Kurgan), Pazyryk culture 3rd C. BCE. More pictures on my blog, link at bottom.

"The pair were buried alongside nine horses, a huge cache of cannabis and a stash of priceless treasures - including the world's oldest carpet and an ornate carriage.

The man had curly hair and was aged between 55 and 60 when he died, whilst the woman was about ten years younger.

It is believed he was a chieftain or king of the Pazyryk civilisation, which lived in Kazakhstan, Siberia and Mongolia from the 6th to 3rd centuries BC."

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"The attractive log cabin was a prefabricated construction by the prehistoric Pazyryk culture to house an elite tomb - in which was buried a mummified curly-haired potentate and his younger wife or concubine.

The mound in the Altai Mountains was originally 42 metres in diameter, and this tattooed couple went to the next life alongside nine geldings, saddled and harnessed.

The house itself, recently reconstructed, was not built as a dwelling but nevertheless is seen by archeologists as showing the style of domestic architecture more than two millennia ago.

This structure was the outer of two wooden houses in the large burial mound in the valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan at an altitude of around 1,600 metres above sea level.

The core of the mound including the ice-preserved bodies of the elite couple had been excavated by Soviet archeologists in 1949, and many of the finds are on on display in the world famous State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

As we have previously written, the pair - who owned perhaps the world’s oldest carpets - are currently undergoing an ultra modern medical scan to establish the cause of death, and reconstruct the appearance of the ancient pair, and to study the techniques of mummification in more detail.

Yet in 1949 this fascinating house was left in the permafrost ground - and only retrieved now from the so-called Fifth Pazyryk Barrow, to the excitement of archeologists.

Head of the excavation Dr Nikita Konstantinov from Gorno-Altaisk State University, was full of admiration about the skills of the ancient craftsmen.

‘We took out the log house and reassembled it right next to the mound,’ he said.

‘We made kind of express reconstruction, which made it possible to study the log house in detail.

‘Notches were made on each of its logs - building marks…’.

This was like IKEA instructions today for building their products, telling modern day excavation volunteers how to correctly construct the prehistoric building kit.

The result is seen in the pictures shown here.

‘This log house was first built somewhere away from the mound, then it was dismantled, brought and reassembled in the pit,’ said Dr Konstantinov.

‘Today we build in similar way, using Roman numerals, as a rule.

‘In those times they simply made different numbers of notches.’

The archeological team followed the code left by the ancient craftsmen and reassembled the house without problems.

‘The Pazyryks knitted the corners of the building in a masterly way and chopped the attachment points of these logs.

‘They fitted very cleanly….

‘When we built the log house and began to measure the height, it turned out that the height difference in the angles is only one centimetre.’

In modern constructions, a difference of 7 cm is allowed which showed how skilful were the ancient craftsmen.

He said: ‘This is a funerary structure, but we can say with a high degree of probability that the log cabin was created in the image and likeness of the houses in which the Pazyryks lived."

-taken from siberiantimes and thesun

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Scythian mummy tomb (Fifth Pazyryk Kurgan), Pazyryk culture 4th-3rd C. BCE

Images from a 13th-century Armenian gospel from modern-day eastern Turkey. It shows the four gospel authors standing together and then, on the back, Jesus' disciples discovering his open tomb.

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I interviewed Karrar Sabah Al Ramahi, PhD student at Baghdad University, about his research on the city of Eridu! Furqan Salam helped with t

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1989 قزمان ميغالوماتيس، إنكي ( إئا أو إيا ): الأساطير العالمية، الموسوعة التربوية اليونانية،

Cosimo Megalommatis, Ea (o ENKI): mitologia mondiale, Enciclopedia pedagogica greca, 1989

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Cosmas Megalommatis, Ea (or ENKI): World Mythology, Greek Pedagogical Encyclopedia, 1989

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