Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
@fdeblauwe.bsky.social
Mesopotamian archaeology (PhD UCLA); heritage (The Iraq War & Archaeology); digital humanities (Alexandria Archive Inst./Pleiades); spatial analysis of buildings; doodles; Belgian/American
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I will post my phone doodles here. All made starting from a photograph & then filtered/collaged/cut/mirrored/etc. w. free apps using only free features & w/o any AI. First 1000, I made them basically daily; nowadays, it varies. You can see all the previous ones at www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
M. Al-Rashid (Oxford U)
>>This talk will look at a curious collection of objects … were found in the palace of a princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna in the city of Ur dated to the 6th century BCE. There, objects from much earlier eras were found on the Neo-Babylonian layer of the palace, — 1/4
>>This talk will look at a curious collection of objects … were found in the palace of a princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna in the city of Ur dated to the 6th century BCE. There, objects from much earlier eras were found on the Neo-Babylonian layer of the palace, — 1/4
Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid on The Princess and the “Key”: Archaeology in Ancient Mesopotamia
YouTube video by The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
M. Al-Rashid (Oxford U)
>>This talk will look at a curious collection of objects … were found in the palace of a princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna in the city of Ur dated to the 6th century BCE. There, objects from much earlier eras were found on the Neo-Babylonian layer of the palace, — 1/4
>>This talk will look at a curious collection of objects … were found in the palace of a princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna in the city of Ur dated to the 6th century BCE. There, objects from much earlier eras were found on the Neo-Babylonian layer of the palace, — 1/4
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
A rattle from ancient Mesopotamia, shaped like a pie crust or shell from the late third or early second millennium BCE. X-ray images show three pellets inside.
Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals.
📷 Dr K Wagensonner
Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals.
📷 Dr K Wagensonner
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A rattle from ancient Mesopotamia, shaped like a pie crust or shell from the late third or early second millennium BCE. X-ray images show three pellets inside.
Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals.
📷 Dr K Wagensonner
Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals.
📷 Dr K Wagensonner
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
Staff at the Louvre Museum in Paris today voted in favour of strike action, with rolling walk outs set to start on 15 December. If followed widely by the Louvre's 2,100-strong workforce, the move could lead to closures during this peak visiting period.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/08/l...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/08/l...
Louvre staff vote to strike, citing failures of management and building maintenance
It was yesterday revealed that that a water leak in the museum's Egyptian antiquities department had damaged hundreds of books
www.theartnewspaper.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Staff at the Louvre Museum in Paris today voted in favour of strike action, with rolling walk outs set to start on 15 December. If followed widely by the Louvre's 2,100-strong workforce, the move could lead to closures during this peak visiting period.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/08/l...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/08/l...
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
This is not a birth certificate and that footprint does not belong to the child discussed on the tablet. They're not even from the same city; the footprint is from Nippur, the text is from Ur.
So why did the Penn Museum bring these objects together like this since 2016?
So why did the Penn Museum bring these objects together like this since 2016?
Sumerian birth certificate. A clay tablet found at the Sumerian city of Nippur in southern Iraq.
Estimated to be around 2000-1600 BC. Contains a birth announcement, its gender, the names of its parents, and a footprint of the newborn.
@menavisualss #globalmuseum #history #Sumerian #archaeology
Estimated to be around 2000-1600 BC. Contains a birth announcement, its gender, the names of its parents, and a footprint of the newborn.
@menavisualss #globalmuseum #history #Sumerian #archaeology
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This is not a birth certificate and that footprint does not belong to the child discussed on the tablet. They're not even from the same city; the footprint is from Nippur, the text is from Ur.
So why did the Penn Museum bring these objects together like this since 2016?
So why did the Penn Museum bring these objects together like this since 2016?
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
I'm not sure that any of us have been able to fully process people who had some measure of power (Republicans in Congress, the Supreme Court, university presidents, high-powered lawyers, various CEOs) so casually surrendering it in ways that may not be easily reversible.
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I'm not sure that any of us have been able to fully process people who had some measure of power (Republicans in Congress, the Supreme Court, university presidents, high-powered lawyers, various CEOs) so casually surrendering it in ways that may not be easily reversible.
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
ALT-Text: Schauerliche Hände von Untoten krallen nach einer halbzerfetzten Erdkugel;
Würmer fressen Handstumpen;
überall sind Finger, einfach sehr viele gierige Finger, die grabbelig aalig nach einem dreckigen Klumpen schnappen.
(Unter allen hässlichen Preisen ist das wohl der hässlichste)
Würmer fressen Handstumpen;
überall sind Finger, einfach sehr viele gierige Finger, die grabbelig aalig nach einem dreckigen Klumpen schnappen.
(Unter allen hässlichen Preisen ist das wohl der hässlichste)
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
ALT-Text: Schauerliche Hände von Untoten krallen nach einer halbzerfetzten Erdkugel;
Würmer fressen Handstumpen;
überall sind Finger, einfach sehr viele gierige Finger, die grabbelig aalig nach einem dreckigen Klumpen schnappen.
(Unter allen hässlichen Preisen ist das wohl der hässlichste)
Würmer fressen Handstumpen;
überall sind Finger, einfach sehr viele gierige Finger, die grabbelig aalig nach einem dreckigen Klumpen schnappen.
(Unter allen hässlichen Preisen ist das wohl der hässlichste)
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
More excavation results from SE Turkey. A head carved at the base of Pre Pottery Neolithic T-Column installation. gaerhf.org#head-base-pi... . Türkiye Today article has great pics.
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
More excavation results from SE Turkey. A head carved at the base of Pre Pottery Neolithic T-Column installation. gaerhf.org#head-base-pi... . Türkiye Today article has great pics.
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
Ramener du chocolat à mon épouse, c'est maintenir l'économie belge à flot.
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Ramener du chocolat à mon épouse, c'est maintenir l'économie belge à flot.
Reposted by Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
>>Astronaut Don Pettit took this photo from space in January 2025, as the Sun began to rise over a cloudy Pacific Ocean. This long-exposure image shows off the wide band of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, above the aurora and airglow that shine closer to Earth's horizon.<< (commodorez.tumblr.com)
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
>>Astronaut Don Pettit took this photo from space in January 2025, as the Sun began to rise over a cloudy Pacific Ocean. This long-exposure image shows off the wide band of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, above the aurora and airglow that shine closer to Earth's horizon.<< (commodorez.tumblr.com)
Medjed from the anime "Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God" ;-)
I'm doing my cookie prep for the holidays and I have plenty of traditional cookie cutters to pick from.
However.
However.
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Medjed from the anime "Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God" ;-)
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM