• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Sargon was fucking nuts. From son of a gardener to king of the world.

    Fun fact: I always thought the Mask of Sargon looks like the Chad guy in soyjack memes

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      3 days ago

      Hahahaha that’s hilarious. I’ll never unsee it!

      Have you been reading books or reading through Wikipedia? The wiki pages are very thorough but I like having an author organize everything for me. I read “Mesopotamia: invention of the city” by Gwendolyn Leick and listened to the majority of the audiobook for “Weavers, Scribes, and Kings.” I was looking at a book by Echart Frohm when I started getting enamored with Rome and I kinda got sidetracked haha

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        2 days ago

        I like the details an author can give that the Wikipedia page doesn’t have room for. I was just listening to The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer which inspired my initial post.

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          2 days ago

          Would you recommend it? What sort of time span and what cultures does it cover?