An Egyptian funerary model of a grain store, showing workers loading sacks of grain, while a scribe records it all, papyrus scroll open on his lap, reed pen in hand.

Sold by Binoche et Giquello at Drouot in Paris in October 2017 for €58 420, and then pre-emptively purchased…

The long-awaited book from famed papyrologist and provenance researcher Roberta Mazza Roberta Mazza 'Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts' is out in September.

Can think of a number of people who will be anxiously checking…

Peter Higgs, discoverer of the Higgs Boson, has blinked out of existence.
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I am proud to support Hamere Berhan's upcoming exhibition and in their endeavour to keep the Ethiopian manuscript culture alive. Hamere Berhan is the last workshop in Ethiopia that is working hard to preserve the art of traditional manuscript making & icon painting. ሐመረ ብርሃን የብራና መጻሕፍት ሥራ ድርጅት

18th-century astronomical manuscript from Timbuktu showing the rotation of the planets

one of many scientific manuscripts written by African scholars
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'The Crosby-Schoyen Codex, is written on papyrus in the Coptic language. It contains the first complete versions of the Book of Jonah and the First Epistle of Peter. In fact, it is so old that it simply calls the latter “the letter of Peter” as it has no knowledge of the further…

Regardless of what happens in the stand-off between Elon and the Brazilian judge, I want to know what derek guy thinks of his dress.

The most valuable Sherlock Holmes item ever to come up for sale, the complete original manuscript in Arthur Conan Doyle's hand for 'The Sign of Four', will be sold by Sotheby's in New York on 26th June, and is expected to fetch up to $1.2 million.
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The National Library of Haiti was looted Wednesday by armed gangs terrorising the capital Port-au-Prince, its director has told AFP.
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Great thread - 'Important moments in Church history as portrayed by the cast of Friends'.

The 4m tall Pierre du Domaine in Plerguer (Ille-et-Vilaine) was said to stand on the site of a battle between armies. When only one man survived from each army the menhir sprang out of the ground and separated them and they made peace. #FolkloreThursday .

Chakrulo ჩაკრულო is a Georgian folk song from the region of Kakheti, dramatising preparations for a battle. It is characterised by two highly ornamented individual vocal parts over a coral foundation.
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When Georgian vocal polyphony was recognized by…