NEW: Marjane Satrapi’s death has reignited a debate over whether her work challenged Western stereotypes about Iran or reinforced them. The argument speaks to a larger question: Who gets to tell Iran's story? | @chriselkholy.bsky.social and @dannypostel.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Marjane Satrapi and the 'Orientalism' Debate

The death of Marjane Satrapi has reignited a debate over whether “Persepolis” challenged Western stereotypes about Iran or reinforced them. The argument speaks to a larger question: Who gets to tell a...

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Folks, does anybody know of a map showing where #cuneiform collections are in museums across the world, similar to @sarabmohr.bsky.social 's map for US colleges and unis, but for museums worldwide? #assyriology

First time I see an article retracted for (likely) AI hallucinations. N.B., the authors have PhD´s but don´t seem affiliated with a university.

Dr. Dan Lomas@sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Following publication, concerns were raised by a third party regarding the accuracy and validity of many of the references in this article ... the Editor and the Publisher no longer have confidence in the content presented". www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

i haven't been posting because i'm writing Gejou's biography, and what feels like a ton of articles, which is making me doubt i can ever write his or any biography, or write at all, and all i do is waver between despair and amusement at my abysmal career choices. who else writes like this?

A head, a body, and two antiquities dealers... Have you ever come across this Gudea statue? It's in the Louvre Abu Dhabi now, but until last year it had been in the Louvre Paris since 1953. HOW did get there though? Let me tell you the story 🕵️‍♀️🔎👇 www.academia.edu/144706747/Ib...

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀 LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

Laundering looted antiquities through the use of an old collection? Forged provenance documentation? I investigate the case of Cumberland Clark, a forgotten early 20th-century collector who has become relevant again doi.org/10.1017/S094...

Congratulations on the publication of The Library of Ancient Wisdom @lswisnom.bsky.social 🥳 currently reading & loving it. Btw, I've not come across such a cover before 😍: the cuneiform signs are deeply impressed in the paper & almost all individually so - it's like stroking a tablet's surface ❤️

Anyone have the Sotheby's, New York, June 14, 2000 antiquities catalogue? I need a photo of lot 87 and its details.

Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿 Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out! It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

Parthian hedgehog from Nippur. Top 10 Mesopotamian artifact list. 🏺

"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire. SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1

Oathbreakers

The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou...

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New Akkadian dictionary project at Leipzig: www.saw-leipzig.de/de/presse/pr...

It looks like an ancient Excel spreadsheet with a doodle. But ~2,500 years ago, someone made a diagram of a 7-pointed star, and a table that seems to give instructions for how to make that diagram. The seven points of the star are labeled with the names for the strings of a Mesopotamian harp.

Through December 5 at publishersforpalestine.org

Call for papers for the colloquium “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“. Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2024: kulturgutverluste.de/termine/call... #provenanceresearch

Call for papers: “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“

Call for papers for the international colloquium on “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history“ in Paris on March 27 and 28, 2025.

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Saurel Leonce is Haitian painter in a visionary tradition evoking the Vèvè symbols of Vodou and the playful chaos of Basquiat. Due to the disintegration of Haiti's political order his family live in danger and lack food. Help him continue his work and build a decent life! Paintings below:

Donate to Protect Saurel Leonce: A Haitian Artist in Need, organized by Seth Sanders

I am raising money for Saurel Leonce, a Haitian painter who works in a vi… Seth Sanders needs your support for Protect Saurel Leonce: A Haitian Artist in Need

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Tag yourselves. I'm "Now, that's Colonialism!" #atchaeosky

Jens Notroff@jensnotroff.com · 2y ago

Brilliant idea - and a great opportunity for both, some nostalgia and to dig up (pun intended 😉) my old #archaeology🏺 take on the #TypesOfScientificPaper meme (with credit and thanks to @xkcd.com for the brilliant original idea, of course):

Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany? I am scouting! Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13. www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...

Come to a talk I'm giving on Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in London on Sun, Dec. 15. There will be "revelations" - all the things I have learned since my book "The Prince and the Plunder" came out. Come in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-prince... or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1083157466...

Ancient Babylonians kept copious records of astronomical phenomena on clay tablets that we call Astronomical Diaries. In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...

Thank you Andrew 🙏 this amusing text was purchased by the Louvre from my old friend Ibrahim in 1922 collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335... the Louvre hasn't preserved their correspondence w/ Gejou in 1922 (or for most years b/w 1899-1937 🤡) but i know that Gejou was in Baghdad in early 1922 🕵️‍♀️

tablette

Décor : inscription Précision sur l'objet : Document écrit

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas@aandeloucas.com · 2y ago

Unfortunately, TCL 18, 111 (housed at the Louvre) is a tablet purchased from the famed antiquities dealer Elias Ibrahim Géjou. Thankfully, we have a world expert on Géjou here, @tamacahut.bsky.social. She's been interviewed by @jonjtaylor.bsky.social, here: www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...

Unfortunately, TCL 18, 111 (housed at the Louvre) is a tablet purchased from the famed antiquities dealer Elias Ibrahim Géjou. Thankfully, we have a world expert on Géjou here, @tamacahut.bsky.social. She's been interviewed by @jonjtaylor.bsky.social, here: www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...

43. Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem: Iraqi antiquities dealers of 19th century - Thin End of the Wedge

Nadia discusses her work on the Iraqi antiquities market of the late 19th and early 20th century. She focuses on two remarkable figures from the trade. Ibrahim Gejou was perhaps the most significant d...

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Ubiquitous Kerfuffle™@eleanoraquitaine.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wish I could follow you five times, but since I can't, can you please dox this ungrateful kid?

A short review for @hyperallergic.com of one of the most powerful and inspiring books I’ve ever read - on repatriation, on collaboration, on memory and creation. Find it among other standout art books of the year at hyperallergic.com/968703/the-3...

"Archaeology has always been about people. We’ve become so specialized that there is a tendency sometimes to forget the people. Archaeology helps explain why we are similar and why we are different." (B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)

Nicolas Revire, my colleague on the Art Institute of Chicago's provenance research team, has written a fascinating article about his research into a 12th-century Khmer pilaster, which led to the museum's decision to return this ancient and sacred artifact to Thailand: www.artic.edu/articles/115...

A Sacred Pilaster Returns Home | The Art Institute of Chicago

In January 2023, I joined the provenance research team at the Art Institute, tasked with studying objects in the collection from Southeast Asia.

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Buy all banned books as presents

I’ve been putting it off because I’m awkward, but it’s probably time to introduce myself. Hi everyone 👋🏽 I’m an Assyriologist at Wolfson College, Oxford where I get to research the languages and history of ancient Mesopotamia. Okay but what exactly is that?

Ea-nāṣir is the recipient of the world’s oldest complaint letter. He’s reportedly the worst businessman of the 18th century, a mediocre conman whose actions should have him put out of business. Is this fair? Here’s a thread on the most up-to-date research on this captivating figure.