PhD. Research Associate in the @crewsproject at Cambridge, working on social context of Ugaritic writing. Archaeologist, linguist, geek. Written for Eurogamer.
Feb 20, 2019 • 15 tweets • 9 min read
It's #InternationalLegoClassicismDay! So, to celebrate, here's the story of the first Ugaritic text to be discovered, via the medium of Lego. #ILCD2019#Lego
In 1929 a farm labourer at Minet el-Beida on the coast of what's now Syria struck a stone while ploughing a field. It was part of a bronze age chamber tomb. #ILCD2019
