Hittite cookies!!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/science/cuneiform-tablet-cookies.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-2&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0

Ha, I recall that a PhD student from Cambridge was doing something similar with Lin A/B , Phoenician etc but these are something else.

Look at that. Incredible. Looks like Babylonian creation myth, but I’m bad at this stuff.

I know what I’m making for Christmas now. Ostraka cookies ostracising my family. :laughing:

I’ve never done anything even remotely as imaginative out of gingerbread, but perhaps you’ll allow me to go off-topic a bit and boast about my own achievements. At Christmas time, I often make a gingerbread church; I know that I’m not the only one, but as far as I’m aware, I’m the only one whose churchyard always has gravestones on it (and one year, even a small mausoleum for a wealthier family). Here’s the 2011 edition:

I’ll leave Gilgamesh for someone else, but maybe I should try a Greek temple some time!