From Sudan, to Palestine, genocide is a crime! 🇸🇩🇵🇸

'I saw death': Palestinian bus drivers in Jerusalem fear for their lives amid Israeli football fan violence www.middleeasteye.net/news/arab-bu...

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another." 🗣️📢 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true." #UKHE www.leicester.news/university-o...

Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language. LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying. english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Pleased that the @irishtimes.com has published this co-authored piece with a number of Palestinian academic colleagues on the destruction of higher education in Gaza. And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Pages from a beautiful hand-written and illustrated treatise on firework design and manufacture published in 1785, including ‘blue-prints’ for the devices and explosive recipes. See the full book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manuscript-handbook-of-firework-design-1785 #Fireworks

#Palestine36 is performing well at the box office (for a small independent film). Thanks to all of you who have already seen it. Given the interest in the film it is showing at even more cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland next week. Please see the listings here:

Offering bearers adding to the pile in the tomb of Horemhab. Just remnants of the colourful paint that once decorated these scenes remains. #Egyptology #Archaeology

An interesting discovery: A manuscript (shelfmark Chambers 821 b) in #Qalamos that served as an English-Bengali dictionary or glossary, in which not only the Bengali words in the right column are written in Bengali script, but also the English terms in the left. .../1

Anna St Louis – November

The Maqlû is a series of well‐known Akkadian anti‐witchcraft texts, to be recited by an exorcist. It survives in a number of tablets from the early first millennium BC, some of which also contain explanatory commentary. One such tablet belonged to the junior exorcist (‘āšipu ṣeḫru’) Kiṣir‐Nabû

The bodies of 54 unidentified Palestinians, recently returned by Israel under the exchange deal, were buried today in southern Gaza. Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.

This is (still, for a few hours EDT) the feast of Malchus of Syria, d. 390, whose Life was written by Jerome. Here's that text in an exceptionally handsome Humanist manuscript, BNF lat 1891. Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.

Medical texts were transmitted in various forms in #Syriac literature well into the modern period—for example, manuscript DFM 00696, located in Iraq. Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...

One favourite among runologists is this inscription with ciphered runes mentioning a carver “most rune-skilled west of the sea” kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/9cfa...

This 1850s cotton cloth was used by the Working Men’s Educational Union in its lectures to teach ancient scripts. It includes samples of Aramaic, ‘skeletal’ cuneiform signs, and the names of various kings from inscriptions published in ‘Nineveh and its Remains’. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

A 3,300 year-old Egyptian-Akkadian vocabulary from Amarna, with Egyptian words written in cuneiform ši-na-aḫ=šnꜥ (unit of weight) ši-na-aḫ-wu₄=šnꜥwj (dual of šnꜥ) ḫa-am-tu₄ šu-nu-uḫ=ḫmtw šnꜥw (three šnꜥ) … na-ab-na-su=nꜣ bnšw (the doorposts) DU-as-bu=tꜣ jsbt (the chair) pa-ḫa-tu₄=pꜣ ḥꜥtj (the bed)

The genocide in Palestine has not stopped.

In this hymn praising the god Marduk's great knowledge, the scribe writes niṭluššu mala tikip dešši kippatu ul imṣi In his eyes the circle [of the world] is no bigger than the mark of a wedge To mean that understanding the world for Marduk is as easy as reading cuneiform marks, 'it's an open book'

increasingly feel like every powerful person in the world has some form of early 2000s forum mod psychosis

A 1491 publication of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Housed in the Wilson Library special collections at UNC. What a marvel to be able to handle such history.

On this day, September 30th 2000 www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

In both Greek and Mesopotamian art, the κάλαθος and the 𒄭𒆷𒌅 ḫallatum became metaphors for prosperity, which is the origin of our modern notion of the cornucopia. Here for example is King Ashurbanipal of Assyria holding aloft a basket representing wealth:

A Turkic proverb recorded in the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, an Arabic-language compendium from the 11th century: 'birin birin miŋ bolur tama tama köl bolur' 'one by one becomes a thousand, drop by drop becomes a pond' dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/...

We've been working on this piece for a long time, and it's finally out! The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination Should be open access but currently behind a paywall, DM if you'd like a PDF! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You can watch the recordings of the seminars we organised with our brave Palestinian colleagues here: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/i... and here: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/i...

🧵(4) At the time, Romanian was written in the Cyrillic script (and was until the early 19th century). Today, this may be mistaken for Church Slavonic. However, as in ASNM 00419, a letter can reveal the true identity of the text: ꙟ (/î/), a character unique to the Cyrillic alphabet used for Romanian.

NEW Fragments of a wall painting from a Sogdian Royal Palace at Sanjar-Shah, Tajikistan. Reconstruction of the scene found it depicts a procession of priests approaching a large fire altar, offering a rare glimpse into ancient fire worship. Learn more🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

UNICODE 17 IS RELEASED ! Announcement: blog.unicode.org/2025/09/unic... Latest core spec online: www.unicode.org/versions/lat... New scripts: Beria Erfe, Tolong Siki, Tai Yo, Sidetic

The name Anextiomarus or Anextlomarus, from proto-Celtic *anextlom, 'protection', and *māros, 'great', is attested in several dedicatory inscriptions, including as an epithet of Apollo (from South Shields, South Tyneside), or as a female deity, Anextlomara (Avenches, Swizterland)

Some quite wonderful examples of late medieval and early modern cursive Glagolitic from Croatia www.croatianhistory.net/etf/kurziv.h...

On Israeli archaeological malpractice, heritage crimes, and US complicity #archaeology #🏺

Linguist friends… any help with script identification and possible interpretation? #mystery #mysteryscript #icon #orthodoxicon

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

A garden in Gaza: once rubble, now a lifeline. In this essay, Mariam Mushtaha shows how tending mint and basil became a way to resist hunger and reclaim dignity under genocide. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Alright I have a non monetary request to help someone in Gaza! @rerogaza8.bsky.social is working on her studies and had to produce a podcast episode- so she interviewed @ssaakkhheerr2.bsky.social about his life in Gaza. Part of her grade is based on views- so give it some views!

Next week, we will have new poetry from Palestinian poet from Gaza Fatena Abu Mostafa, one of our 2025 Gaza Literary Translation Workshop participants (supported by @PalestineWrites). Here, she talks about what writing means to her. www.youtube.com/watch?v=juU3...

Centuries before modern linguists, Andalusi scholar Isaac ibn Barūn laid the groundwork for comparative Semitic linguistics with his pioneering 12th-century Judaeo-Arabic grammar. Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina introduces his work in our PhD Research Series: uhh.de/csmc-medina

The runic text is taken from the Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror), advising one to "learn all tongues without forgetting your own". The original has "helzt latínu og völsku" 'but first Latin & French', 'völsku', cognate with Welsh, reflecting its use by Germanic speakers to refer to Romance ones

Joli ajout à mon corpus : une amphore apulienne (vers 340 av. n.è.) conservée au Musée Saint-Rémi à Rheims (musees-reims.fr/oeuvre/ampho...). On y voit une tombe (un "naiskos") occupé par une jeune femme peinte en blanc, tenant un miroir et une phiale. Les plissés de sa tenue sont très détaillés 🏺

A reminder that archaeology was identified as one of the core components of the ideological scaffolding of apartheid by Francesca Albanese in her latest report 5/ everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...

"We are facing a long standing structural system of oppression & exploitation against the Palestinians that has turned genocidal.. & Israel wouldn't have been able to do what its doing.. without the active support of far too many states" @franceskalbs.bsky.social at the Gaza Tribunal today

‘When the western-backed, Saudi-led military campaign began in March 2015, I started compiling a mental list of all the ways the war was scorching the concept of childhood in Yemen.’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Nadine Shah, Portishead, Celeste, broadcaster Louis Theroux, and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, among new names for Together For Palestine, which takes place at OVO Arena Wembley on 17 September buff.ly/1uRAP2G

3,900 years ago, an Assyrian trader named Aššur-taklāku found himself in an unfortunate situation during his travels: he was accused by local Anatolian rulers of taking orders from the king of a rival city. After being imprisoned for two months, a group of his colleagues met with the king and queen,

🚨An asbolute disgrace on the part of the EAA! "Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity" cc @archagainstaparth.bsky.social blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

The link isn't working for me for some reason but this one does www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.