Comment on Of course, it's the way you tell them...
JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoEither Ea-nasir or world’s oldest joke, I think
Comment on Of course, it's the way you tell them...
JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoEither Ea-nasir or world’s oldest joke, I think
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you really want to know, the answer is long and boring (I got this from a comment where I found the meme):
Like I said, it’s how you tell them.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Translate tl;dr to cuneiform
metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 5 months ago
lol. lmao, even.
Gork@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Fun fact: When you do a Google search on Paṭṭi-galḫi Canal, this post is the only one that shows up.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
i gave up after the “great king, mighty king, king of the universe” stuff started AGAIN after i had already fought my way through the first 3 times. :-(
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They really wanted to let you know how important they were back then. Which actually makes things hard for historians sometimes because it’s not clear that when they say things like, “The king who marched from opposite Tigris (from the opposite bank of the Tigris River) up to the Lebanon and the Great Sea, ruled over the land (and) the land Šabate I brought under my authority.” if that’s actually true or just bragging.
There’s definitely a lot of bragging about sizes of armies. They’ll claim they’re things like 100,000 strong when there weren’t enough men to make up an army of that size and still have society function.