Selena Wisnom
@LSWisnom
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Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East @UniofLeicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
Oxford, England
Joined April 2013
Excited to announce that my book 'The Library of Ancient Wisdom' will be released 27th Feb in the UK and 12th March in the US. Pre-orders available from wherever you get your books. Details here:.
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Super impressed with the illustrations for the @ChalkeFestival talks! Thank you for having me and for the great conversation!
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Heading off to the amazing @ChalkeFestival! Talks, living history, debate, performance – all set in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside. This Thursday, I will be discussing all things Mesopotamia with Becky Wragg Sykes - so excited!.
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Just been to this brilliant exhibition for the third time - Satta Hashem’s ‘A World of Colour and Emotion’ at Leicester Museum and Art gallery. And got a tour from the artist himself! It closes at the end of June - do go if you can!
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RT @DJMusgrove: There’s a lot to worry about in the world. But that’s nothing new. The ancient Babylonians and Assyrians were very big on w….
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Also, I will be joining 'A Drink will Idler ' this Thursday, 5th June at 6 pm, to talk about my new book and the relevance of Mesopotamia in modern times. Tickets for this online event are available here:
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Took a break from the book tour to speak about liver divination at Melammu Symposium 25 in Sofia! My talk was on what I have learned from my practical experiments forecasting elections. What a beautiful university
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Great news from Nineveh! Heidelberg University's team unearthed a stone relief depicting Ashurbanipal and major Assyrian deities.
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RT @simongerman600: When I read history or mythology of the region I search for this map of the Mediterranean that’s tilted by 90 degrees.….
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Had a great time with @HistoryExtra talking about witchcraft and wizardry in the library of Ashurbanipal, now out here!.
On the podcast | @LSWisnom transports us back to the library of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal and reveals what it can tell us about gods, ghosts and religious beliefs:
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I talked to @DJMusgrove about what we can learn from the Mesopotamians about worrying - check it out here 👇.
I'm getting life hacks from historians like @TracyBorman @LSWisnom @ClerkofOxford and more - please roll up for the historical wisdom.
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Thank you @ACFChicago for having me, I had a great time!.
Staff at the #Assyrian Cultural Foundation had the privilege of attending Dr. Selena Wisnom’s lecture at the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum. Dr. Wisnom is a Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester.
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