Hittite cookies!!!!

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Hylander
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Hittite cookies!!!!

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

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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. :lol:
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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:

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

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