Rootless Cosmopolitan

Thanks to Vic Murayama for capturing these adorable photos of our four new capybara babies.

long day

That sigh at the end makes it

This is something I can get behind

i wish everything was quieter and softer and less often

Dead Stalin, free Borsht http://ift.tt/1gv8mwe

I hope it was one of the pink Ukrainian kinds, that woulda really stuck it to Soso

A full list of my guides to college success!

I was so focused on the first one that I didn’t even see the confed flag until I was looking at the photos

this is the worse thing I’ve ever seen in my life

beyonslayed is that you in the front?

what a strange cat

Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

old school hate mail

Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

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يافا-فلسطين |Jaffa-Palestine

What South Africans had to look at every day for four decades.

Parakeet shower

This is bird hygiene.

Archaeological Museum of Heraklion: