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ooli3@sopuli.xyz Joined: 2025-06-04

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts@piefed.social/p/2496602/max-miller-approves-a-3770yo-babylonian-clay-tablet-written-in-akkadian-containing-the

Modern food blogs wish they had this level of longevity. No popups, no ads, just stew!

A Babylonian stew prepared by Tasting History if anyone wants to try out an updated recipe:

https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/babylonianlambstew

and a Babylonian tuh'u specifically made for the New Year celebrations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IYYhoO-hiY

And just yesterday Max posted a video about assyrian pomegranate beer

https://youtu.be/MO0lKDNKxmE

Table of the Gods is a similar channel specifically about recipes of ancient Mesopotamia. Very neat stuff, some of which I believe comes from this very tablet.

All this content proudly and shamelessly lifted from the evil empire. 🙂

sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2024-11-05

Yummy copper plates

fizzbang@lemmy.world Joined: 2026-04-04

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language

For my fellow amateur paleographers

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