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It’s hard to say just who came up with the idea of cuneiform cookies first, but The New York Times reported last year that Katy Blanchard, who runs the Near Eastern department at the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, alighted upon the idea of cuneiform cookieslast Christmas with a huge amount of enthusiasm. After all, the university she works at houses one of the biggest collections of cuneiform tablets, so why not turn her love of Mesopotamian history into something edible?
Blanchard is reported to have used a special cookie cutter, a pair of chopsticks and a fish knife to create her cuneiform tablet cookies. After wowing everyone who came into contact with her holiday offerings, a publicist from Penn Museum quickly wrote an article about these very special cookies and the internet went crazy over the idea of these Sumerian treats.
The article’s first piece of advice is also one of the most important in the creation of these cookies, and this is to choose your cuneiform tablet carefully. You could recreate part of the Epic of Gilgamesh or even try your hand at drawing the Babylonian map of the world which dates back to the 5th century BC.
The Archaeologist’s Christmas: The Exciting Trend Of Cuneiform Tablet Cookies For The Holidays
These are freaking cool!
