Ukrainian-language books dumped in the street outside the Pryazovskyi State University in Mariupol - some thrown out directly from the windows.
Russia is systematically destroying all remaining Ukraine language and culture in the occupied towns and cities. #CulturalGenocide
This photo was taken by P. Andryushchenko, and I think first posted online by @OlenaHalushka.
Don't hesitate to share your opinion that this is "no worse than" or "just the same thing" as the removal from Ukrainian libraries of books in Russian, the language of the murdering, civilian-killing, raping, child-abducting, genocidal invaders - I look forward to blocking you.
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Roald Dahl, 2001 vs 2022 editions:
In James and the Giant Peach, the Cloud-Men have become Cloud-People, Miss Sponge is no longer “the fat one”, Miss Spider’s head is no longer “black” and the Earthworm no longer has “lovely pink” skin but “lovely smooth skin”.
Roald Dahl, 2001 vs 2022 editions:
In Fantastic Mr Fox a description of tractors, saying that “the machines were both black”, has been cut. “Bunce, the little pot-bellied dwarf”, is now plain old Bunce.
Advertising billboard for a gold merchant in Bantwal, Karnataka, written in Tigalari script. Historically used to write Sanskrit in southwest India, Tigalari is now increasingly used - as here - for the Tulu language, as a visible manifestation of Tulu culture and identity.
Naxi Dongba manuscript, Yunnan, mid 19th century. The remarkable Dongba script, both pictographic and ideographic, is the only largely hieroglyphic script to have survived into the 20th century. Used by Naxi priests, it's associated with the Bön religious tradition of Tibet. 1/
This Naxi manuscript in Dongba script was collected around Yerkalo (Yanjing in Chinese) by the French missionary and naturalist Monseigneur Felix Marie Biet (1838-1901) in the period 1865 to 1878 when he was stationed there, prior to his appointment as Bishop in July 1878. 2/
Another Naxi pictographic 納西象形文字 manuscript collected by Biet in the 1870's. Use of the script was reserved for Dongba priests, primarily for ritual purposes. The books were recited by a Dongba during the performance of religious ceremonies such as funerary rites. 3/
The publication of a paper on two cuneiform tablets of *huge* importance - collectively a kind of Rosetta Stone for the hitherto poorly attested Amorite language - is an interesting moral test case: these tablets were almost certainly recently looted. 1/ livescience.com/tablets-with-l…
The paper by two very eminent scholars - Andrew George & Manfred Krebernik - in the 'Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale' shows that the Amorite language was remarkably similar to Hebrew, previously only first attested 1000 years later. 2/ cairn.info/revue-d-assyri…
It's hard to overstate the importance of the tablets, and while the absence of provenance info means we lack important contextual data, the cuneiform inscriptions *in themselves* are immensely revealing & important, massively widening our understanding of the Amorite language. 3/
Wow. Dr. Craig Evans - a distinguished NT scholar on the board of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation - argues that the scroll fragments purchased by Martin Schøyen & the MOTB in recent decades are largely GENUINE, and have been wrongly identified as faked. 1/
This video interview, uploaded only a few hours ago, will no doubt prove very controversial. Dr Kip Davis, a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar at the forefront of identifying the recently discovered fragments as faked, has just posted a strong rebuttal to these new claims, as below. 2/
Evans' argument - which is effectively summarized in Kip Davis' rebuttal - is in essence that the physical characteristics and anomalies which resulted in the recent fragments being declared faked, are in fact ALSO found in the indisputably genuine scrolls held in Israel. 3/