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This, with over 3k likes so far, is part of a peculiar Twitter genre: fake library photos. This is not Umberto Eco's library, just as the other equally widely distributed
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Am I the only one here who has very sensibly used this two months of quarantine to fulfill a boyhood ambition 40 years later and finally buy a chunk of
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The Meitei Mayek script ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, now being adopted for the Meitei language in the Indian state of Manipur as a replacement for Bengali script, is of ancient origins.A unique
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A long overdue article on a major under-reported scandal: the wildly inflated appraised values given to 18th & 19th century torah scrolls bought by the MOTB and other evangelical buyers.
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Extraordinary FOUR COLOUR woodblock printing from Afghanistan, three centuries before Gutenberg. A polychrome tarsh or printed amulet from Eastern Iran or Afghanistan, 12th century. Printed in Arabic on paper, five
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A classic example of the appropriation of medieval imagery by 21st century fascist movements: Old Turkic Runic script as used in the 8th century, repurposed today to reference a fantasized
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On October 7, 1992, an elderly man named Tevfik Esenç died in Turkey, and with him - on that day - died the Ubykh language. Once spoken by 50 000
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The heist in Dreden this morning, if confirmed, could be the largest art theft in history. The Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault) was founded by Augustus the Strong in 1723, and
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