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Thank you so much to @digi_hammurabi for talking and listening to me today on miscarriage, pregnancy, and women’s health in ancient Mesopotamia.

The ancient past still speaks to us and can provide meaningful ways to contextualise our experiences, including the difficult ones
If you’re interested in women’s health in ancient Mesopotamia, from menstruation to miscarriage to midwives, you can watch my conversation with the brilliant @digi_hammurabi here:
Those wish to learn more may be interested in the work of the true experts in this field:

Dr. Ulrike Steinert: fu-berlin.academia.edu/UlrikeSteinert

Dr. M. Erica Couto-Ferreira: uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/MEricaCoutoFer…
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The audience had some great questions about medicine and women’s health in ancient Mesopotamia after yesterday’s chat with @digi_hammurabi

A short thread to revisit some of them and provide some (hopefully) useful links!
To read samples of primary source material for the study of medicine in ancient Assyria and Babylonia in translation, this google books preview of JoAnn Scurlock’s “Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine” allows for some #openaccess browsing books.google.co.uk/books/about/So…
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You can browse some of those here: ccp.yale.edu
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“The human experience has changed greatly over the millennia, yet certain aspects, including a skritch behind a faithful ear, echo across the years.”

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A recipe for gingerbread adapted so you can bake a copy of a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet with a mathematical diagram that reflects an approximation of the square root of 2 aperiodical.com/2018/11/baking…
An Old Babylonian (c2000-1600 BCE) mathematical school tablet shows a diagram with numerical labels in the sexagesimal value notation, which uses a base of 60. The student was trying to find the diagonal of a square.

Further reading #openaccess cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?…
You can also read about this tablet and the context for mathematical education in ancient Babylonia here
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