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Four years after I got sufficiently frustrated with a silly theory about ancient armour to write about it on the Internet, my journal article explaining what is wrong with it is almost done! Turning rage into art is not a bad strategy. #writing #academe

The Archive Team is working to archive tumblr but needs lists of accounts threatened by deletion, people to run software, and donations to the Internet Archive https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Tumblr #tumblr #archiving

"I've Stopped Reading the Higher Education Press" - Jo VanEvery, 2017 https://jovanevery.ca/ive-stopped-reading-higher-education-press/ I apply the same same principles to microblogging.

https://bookandsword.com/2018/12/07/cross-post-plataea-2021-pre-registration-28-june-to-5-july-2021/

Looters during the wars in Syria and Iraq uncovered Neo-Assyrian reliefs of women at Nabi Yunus: very unusual, women in Neo-Assyrian art are usually a single queen surrounded by men or prisoners being deported https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/isis_tunnels

What are some good ways to back up a #android device onto a device in the same room (not a network of servers in other countries belonging to a corporation)? Searching just gives me sponsored content for various apps #privacy

New Post: The Biggest Assyriological Film Festival in History https://bookandsword.com/2018/12/02/the-biggest-assyriological-film-festival-in-history/

Edubba A, a short film in Sumerian with English subtitles, has now been released on the Internet after shows at several conferences and film festivals http://www.baf.unibe.ch/baf_35_mm/ #film #movie #filmfest

New Post: Textile cultures of archaic Italy and Greece https://bookandsword.com/2018/11/24/textile-cultures-of-archaic-italy-and-greece/

Cross-Post: Doug Strong's medieval armour book is out https://bookandsword.com/2018/11/22/cross-post-doug-strongs-armour-book-in-preorder/

I just added a reference to a new article in Spanish on the Amathus bowl to my old post https://bookandsword.com/2015/05/09/the-siege-on-the-amathus-bowl/ I look forward to reading it even though my Spanish no es bueno #spanish #ancient

Himyar, Axum, and the rise of India-Egyptian trade in the Hellenistic period https://bookandsword.com/2018/11/17/two-kingdoms-both-alike-in-dignity/

The Germans call scholarships to support a PhD student within a larger research program PraeDocs ;)

The Armenian Alexander Romance in English. Everyone should read a version of the romance to learn important facts about India and the true father of Alexander! http://www.attalus.org/armenian/Tales_Alexander_Wolohojian_trans.pdf #alexander_the_great #historical_documents_yes-that_kind

Haaretz has a (paywalled) article on the recent discoveries at the site where the Antikythera Mechanism was found https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-missing-piece-of-antikythera-mechanism-found-on-aegean-seabed-1.6640779

A post for two important anniversaries, 9-Nov-1938 and 11-Nov-1918 https://bookandsword.com/2018/11/11/the-9th-and-the-11th/

Seriously Mozilla? You replace Firefox's about:blank with a ''suggested sites' page that recommends serious journalism like "A GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE GETTING RICH SELLING T-SHIRTS ONLINE - WITH NO OVERHEAD, NO ..." because it is big on Facebook? Preferences . Home > New Tabs lets me turn this off.

I know that political posturing on the Internet is big this decade, but voluntary peer review is not exploitation https://bookandsword.com/2018/11/03/voluntary-peer-review-is-not-exploitation/ Look at your own subcultures through the lenses of #anthropology or #sociology