7th-c. BCE Neo-Assyrian tablet from the reign of Sennacherib, held in the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... ...ša KUR.pi-liš-ta-a-[a]... ...of the land Philistia... Israel will never erase Palestine from history.

Bluesky has a copy of Eslam's passport but won't let her on the site. What is the motivation for that? Help her family btw: chuffed.org/project/1282...

Anyone who's read (or, these days, watched) Dune will remember the scene when Stilgar first meets the Duke. Think I just found where Frank Herbert took it from - an alleged Nuer practice: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

Two millennia ago, today’s Beirut  was ringed by stone walls and tombs. Parts of the Roman walls survived war and earthquakes, only to be disassembled to make way for a parking lot, sparking outrage among Lebanese archaeologists.

This is a truly sick list. Every single person represented on it actively and enthusiastically chose to participate in genocide.

Barhebraeus in the 13th century on Uyghur script being adapted for Mongolian:

An example of Judeo-Arabic, transcription of the letter geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents... There’s further commentary here and a revision to the original translation, where Peraḥyā’s wife is instead identified as Sitt al-Dār, who was born in India princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-indi...

Huda Ammori: "This is a.. victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain & in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history"

Scholars in Mesopotamia continued to study Sumerian nearly 2000 years after it stopped being spoken, and well after Aramaic replaced Akkadian as the language of everyday life. In this late 1st millennium BCE tablet the scribe Bēl-upaqqa wrote a list a Sumerian entries and their Akkadian translations

A Palestinian woman who was evacuated to Egypt for medical reasons earlier in the genocide explains why she has now returned to Gaza. It's her home.

For 200 days, Abu Ismail Hammad has been digging beneath his home in Gaza City, painstakingly collecting the remains of his wife and unborn child. He has been using a flour sifter to find their bone fragments hidden in the sand.

𐤌𐤑𐤁𐤕 𐤀𐤆 𐤀𐤔 𐤉𐤈𐤍𐤀 𐤀𐤓𐤔 𐤓𐤁 𐤎𐤓𐤎𐤓𐤌 𐤋𐤀𐤁𐤉 𐤋𐤐𐤓𐤎𐤉 𐤓𐤁 𐤎𐤓𐤎𐤓𐤌 𐤁𐤍 𐤀𐤓𐤔 𐤓𐤁 𐤎𐤓𐤎𐤓𐤌 𐤁𐤍 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤌 𐤓𐤁 𐤎𐤓𐤎𐤓𐤌 𐤁𐤍 𐤌𐤔𐤋 𐤓𐤁 𐤎𐤓𐤎𐤓𐤌 𐤁𐤍 𐤐𐤓𐤎𐤉 𐤓𐤁 𐤎𐤓𐤎𐤓𐤌 𐤅𐤋𐤀𐤌𐤉 𐤋𐤔𐤌𐤆𐤁𐤋 𐤁𐤕 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤓𐤌 𐤁𐤍 𐤌𐤋𐤊𐤉𐤕𐤍 𐤁𐤍 𐤏𐤆𐤓 𐤓𐤁 𐤇𐤆 𐤏𐤍𐤌 𐤏𐤋 𐤌𐤔𐤊𐤁 𐤍𐤇𐤕𐤍𐤌 𐤋𐤏𐤋𐤌

A book of English firsts, this book explores hawking, hunting and heraldry. 🦅🏹🛡️ By Juliana Berners, this is the first English printed work authored by a woman. It also contains the first images printed in colour in England. 📕 Boke of St Albans, 1486 (10001)

Gaza doctors say Israel delivered mutilated corpses and bags of human remains to al-Shifa. Surgical cuts in the skulls and organ theft www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Watch “Sounds of Hunger,” an excruciating short documentary on how Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. Produced by MIFTAH youtu.be/Upua4oCq3UQ?...

Never Forget Gaza Holocaust

'Arbeit macht frei'

🦁 Less is more in Egyptian chic! Look at the design of this large, beautifully sculpted lion who once guarded the entrance to a pyramid-age sanctuary, Egypt, Old Kingdom, ca. 2575–2450 B.C. L. 201 cm, w. 73 cm, made of granite. 🗃️ #arthistory #art #caturday #cat #cats #design 🏺 #lion #Egypt

BREAKING: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/yd606g

Gudea, ensi of Lagaš ca 2150 BCE, specified that his statues (𒀩 alan) were made out of diorite (𒎎𒆗 esi), not reusable materials like silver (𒆬 kug), lapis lazuli (𒍝𒆳 zagin), copper (𒍏 urud), tin (𒀭𒈾 annak) or bronze (𒌓𒅗𒁇 zabar) to prevent removal from the temple’s place of libations (𒆠𒀀𒅘 kiʾanaŋ)

Two years ago today, Israel executed Hind Rajab with 335 bullets. First, they murdered her family. Then they killed her. Then they executed the paramedics who tried to save her. She was only 5 years old. “I’m so scared, please come. Come take me. Please, will you come?”

one has not really read The Nature of the Gothic until one has read it typeset by William Morris

𒃻 𒀀𒀭𒁕𒌇𒌇 𒅆 𒀀𒀭𒁕𒌶𒂊 niŋ₂ am₃-da-tuku-tuku igi am₃-da-uru₃-e he/she who possesses things always keeps a watchful eye

I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance – to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Act Now! Israel is moving to legalize executing Palestinian hostages while denying them legal access, holding them in isolation, and granting total immunity to those who carry out the killings. This is the logical outcome of decades of impunity, racist dehumanization... 1/2

One of the bricks commemorating Untaš-napiriša’s construction of the ziggurat (zag-ra-tu₄-me) cdli.earth/artifacts/24...

Israel’s parliament will be voting shortly on a law that would permit the death penalty for Palestinians only. If settlers attack a Palestinian and they fight back, they can be hanged in 90 days.

Western-style illustration of female reproductive organs in a 17th-century Ottoman manuscript on anatomy.

My latest for @arabcenterdc.org: Another Step in the Weaponization of Aid: Israel Bans Humanitarian Agencies in Gaza Read here: arabcenterdc.org/resource/ano...

Did Viking Age rune-carvers have distinct 'handwriting'? #NationalHandwritingDay ✍️ Experienced rune-carvers had their own styles and techniques, allowing researchers to pinpoint runestones to the specific carvers who made them using 3D-scanning. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Umer Khalid’s water strike starts tonight if the UK government does not enter negotiations with Prisoners for Palestine. The human body can survive, on average, 3 days without water. The genocide in Gaza continues, solidarity with a comrade risking his own life to oppose it

You spin me right round! Got to meet our @rialibrary.bsky.social manuscript of the week, an amazing early 15th-century astronomical and medical tract in Irish complete with a volvelle and diagrams (RIA MS B ii 1) 📜✨

from a Sumerian drinking song kaš naŋ‐e me‐e sig₁₀‐ga‐ŋu₁₀‐ne kurun₂ naŋ‐a ul ti‐a‐ŋu₁₀‐ne šag₄ ḫul₂‐la ur₅ sag₉‐ga‐ŋu₁₀‐ne šag₄‐ŋa₂ šag₄ ḫul₂‐la ŋal₂‐la‐bi while I'm drinking beer (𒁉 kaš) while I'm drinking kurun happily with joy in the heart and a contented liver my heart is a heart full of joy!

Lepus leaping. From the Aratea, a 9th-century manuscript on astronomy featuring constellations comprised of words. More here: https://buff.ly/34uIsEa

Why did Hammurabi write his law code? (Music: Song of the Water, Al Andalus Ensemble)

Sami al-Saei said he heard the Israeli prison guards who raped him laughing through the assault, before they left him blindfolded, handcuffed & in agony on the floor to take a cigarette break. Hei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violence.

Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws Llyfr Ffortun Prif destun y llyfr yw astroleg, cylchred y lleuad a'r tywydd. Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws Magnus Opus Fortune Book The main text focusses on astrology, the lunar cycle and the weather 1685-1688 BMSS/4

🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#OnThisDay On 2024 Jan 19, Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social shared with us several new online resources and databases for the study of ancient Chinese manuscripts, including 戰國竹簡全文資料庫, 中國古代簡帛字形辭例數據庫 , 開放古文字字型庫, and 漢語多功能字型庫. Read more: 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/19/o...

Reminder that the United States led the charge to delegitimise UNRWA in 2024. The Biden administration and most of the Democrats in Congress passed a law banning the US from funding it, a policy which Trump extended. UNRWA is (was) the main organisation responsible for feeding refugees in Gaza.

Prayer-letter from the priest Kug-Nanna to the god Ninšubur tukum-bi diŋir-ŋu₁₀-ra an-na-kam šag₄ ib₂-ba-zu ga-ab-huŋ-e, ur₅-zu he₂-bur₂-e if it pleases you, my god let me pacify your furious heart (𒊮 šag₄), so that your spirit (𒄯 ur₅, “liver”) will be appeased cdli.earth/artifacts/46...

"Winter is now used as a weapon..." Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub explains that Israel is weaponising the weather to kill more Palestinians In passing she also mentions how Israel blocked a groups of doctors from entering Gaza because they had a stethoscope on them.

No. 23 "There's something beyond the hill." inna warāʾa al-akamati mā warāʾahā The story is a servant wanted to meet her lover beyond a local hill but the people she worked for gave her too much work and she couldn't go and said this. Said when one reveals something they had kept secret.

nirŋal-e (authoritative [one] | ergative) anam (what[ever]) b-i-n-dug (it | about, regarding smth | he/she | to say) nu-zid (not | to be true)

The dedication inscribed on the back of the statue

No. 20 "Through just a narrow opening great calamities may be seen within." inna l-khaṣāṣa yurā fī jawfihā al-raqam The meaning is that something momentous may be hidden within something modest or trivial.

Children in Darfur are expected to die from hunger ‘within days’ as famine conditions persist more than 1,000 days into Sudan’s brutal conflict, UN warns.

Maths exercise from Nippur (ca 2500-2340 BCE), here the short side (𒊕 sag) of a rectangle is calculated when the long side (𒍑 uš) and area (𒃷 gán) are known uš = 𒐕𒐌𒑏𒃻𒁺, 67½ ninda (405 m) gán = 𒁹𒃷, 1 iku (3600 m²) The answer is given as 𒁹𒃻𒁺𒐊𒌑𒈫𒋗𒆕𒀀𒐈𒋗𒋛𒑚𒋗𒋛, 1 ninda 5⅔ cubits 3⅓ fingers (8.89 m)