The Origins of Social Media in the Arabian Peninsula by Liane Al Ghusain, Image 12

Image provided by Robert Kluijver for the Modern Dilmun section of his Spring 2014 FIND Fellowship project, the Museum of Contemporary Ancient Arabia. This image is part of a project he commissioned from artist Laine Al Ghusain titled "The Origins of Social Media in the Arabian Peninsula."

Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of the mother-goddess Ninmah at Babylon. Clay tablet, 604–562 BC, 11 x 5 cm. Ninmah (also called Ninhursag) is usually considered the mother of the Goddess of love, Inanna; she is a goddess of fertility.