Notebooks of William Dawes, 1790, documenting the grammar and vocab of the language spoken in the area around Sydney, Australia. These books are the major source of information about the Aboriginal language of Sydney. #EYAHandwriting https://ow.ly/iW7n50YRHmE

For the ones willing to listen, Israel’s actions have spoken louder than any of its hasbara statements and have represented its values and norms very clearly.

Akkadian idiom (in Old Babylonian legal tablets): 𒅖𒌅 𒁉𒂊 𒀀𒁲 𒆬𒄀 ištu pê adi ḫurāṣim ‘from chaff to gold’, i.e. everything būšûša u warkassa ša Ḫunnubtum mala ibaššû ištu pê adi ḫurāṣim ša Lamassīma Ḫunnubtum, her property and estate, all that there is from chaff to gold, is Lamassi’s [her daughter]

Nothing the Israelis hate more than a ceasefire. Which is why they never, in fact, cease fire

Really quite like the careful layout and neat hand of this Hittite tablet from Hattusa written ca 1500–1100 BC; it describes instructions and incantations needed to perform two different protective rituals. The scribe, Hanikkuili, indicates the words are authored by ‘Anniwiyanni, mother of Armati’.

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Sumerian list of professions scribe, carpenter, leatherworker, stonecutter, smith, sealcutter, weaver, harp player, cultic actor singer, architect, ?-architect, barber, farmer, potter, felter, pašeš and gudug priests šimmu priest, maltster, physician, veterinary, ?-doctor, ?-doctor, cloth fuller

Handwritings of great scholars: 1. Sanskrit-devanāgarī: David Pingree (ed.), Yavanajātaka 2. Arabic & Greek: Manfred Ullmann, Wörterbuch zu den griechisch-arabischen Übersetzungen des 9. Jahrhunderts 3. Tangut: К. Б. Кепинг, Тангутский язык: морфология

The latest monthly status of key greenhouse gases shown side-by-side. These gases trap heat in our atmosphere and drive wide-ranging impacts across the Earth system. For more data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/

This is one of the oldest manuscripts of the "Canon of Medicine." Originally composed around 1025 CE by Ibn Sina at the Buyid court in Hamadan (modern Iran), it combined Greco-Roman sources with Islamic medical science and remained a key text in European medical curricula until the 19th century.

𐎰𐎠𐎫𐎡𐎹𐏐𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁𐏐𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰𐎡𐎹𐏐𐎬𐎢𐎺𐎶𐏐𐎣𐎠𐏐𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰𐎡𐎹𐏐𐏃𐎹𐏐𐎠𐎱𐎼𐎶𐏐𐎠𐏃𐎹𐏐𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹𐏐𐏃𐎹𐏐𐎭𐎼𐎢𐎩𐎴𐏐𐎠𐏃𐎫𐎡𐎹𐏐𐏃𐎹𐎺𐎠𐏐𐏀𐎢𐎼𐎣𐎼𐏐𐎠𐏃𐎫𐎡𐎹𐏐𐎠𐎺𐎡𐎹𐏐𐎶𐎠𐏐𐎭𐎢𐏁𐎫𐎠𐏐𐎲𐎡𐎹𐎠𐏐𐎢𐎳𐎼𐏁𐎫𐎠𐎮𐎡𐏁𐏐𐎱𐎼𐎿𐎠𐏐 Darius the King says: You who shall be king hereafter, the man who shall be deceitful or who shall be an evil-doer, to them do not be a friend, punish them well. (DB4.67–69)

"Irans Red Crescent Society said nearly 800 people have been killed so far, 170 of them are said to be children"

honey-bee Sumerian, nim lal 𒉏 𒋭; Akkadian, nūbtu 𒉡𒌒𒌓 my good act of the day: helped a tired bee take flight again

Beautiful diagrams from a circa 17th-century copy of Muslim polymath Ismail al-Jazarī’s *Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices*, originally published in 1206: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript

Kyiv supports killing schoolchildren.

“Zionists do not negotiate, they want the land”

The world will never be safe as long as Israel exists.

it is far, far from the most important thing, but it is still an important thing. An article that came out earlier this month theconversation.com/gazas-cultur...

The tablet of Enḫegal records the transfer of several fields owned by Enḫegal (𒂗𒃶𒅅) king of Lagaš, and one Sidu (𒋛𒆕), to Lugal-kigala (𒈗𒆠𒃲𒆷) a priest, for an amount of grain, copper, goats and pigs for each field. The name Lugalšude (𒈗𒆃𒉈), likely the scribe, was scratched at a later date on one edge

Open Letter of Scholars in Support of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. twailr.com/open-letter-...

#Nippur day off means a walk round the site, including inspection of the ziggurat of Enlil. Erosion is worsening with climate change and we hope to gain funding to restore and conserve it soon. 🏺

📢 February's Document of the Month is live on our project website. 📚 Read Bogdan C. Smarandache's fascinating piece 'Travelling in Troubled Times: A Latin Letter of Safe Passage for a Muslim Merchant Issued during the Frankish-Fatimid Wars' at bit.ly/DotMFeb26 #medievalmonday #manuscriptmonday

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"

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.