Ancient rock art has been likened to a prehistoric form of Facebook by a Cambridge archaeologist.
Mark Sapwell, who is a PhD archaeology student at St John’s College, believes he has discovered an “archaic version” of the social networking site, where users share thoughts and emotions and…
Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.
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“Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!”
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s manuscript of “Ozymiandias,” now at the NY Public Library.
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The Fitzgeralds’ passports
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The importance of punctuation in a new light. (From The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan, p. 162. Picador 2012.)
Subterranean Homesick Blues…(Bob Dylan’s manuscript!) #BobDylan #manuscript (Taken with instagram)
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A peek inside Alexander Graham Bell’s sketchbooks, joining the recently revealed sketchbooks of other great creators, including Samuel Beckett’s doodle-filled notebooks.
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spaces. Infinite, closed, in the cross section and from above, as land development.
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Measuring the Universe is a participatory installation by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák. Every visitor is encouraged to mark their height on the wall and after several months a dark band encircles the gallery (Museum of Modern Art).
