Michael Press
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The Nabi Musa festival was an important weeklong festival in Palestine between the Friday before Orthodox Good Friday and Orthodox Holy ThursdayPhoto c. 1900-1920, Matson Collection via @librarycongresshttp://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2004001124/P
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There's an amazing wealth and variety of graffiti left by pilgrims just at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Let's take a quick look . . .Photo
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Looks like the Antiquities Coalition is misrepresenting threats to Middle Eastern antiquities again -- this time for a GIS audience.https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/blog/maps-take-aim-at-antiquities-looters/ One of the main points of this article
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University of Helsinki's ‘Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions’ celebrates a new book publishing al-Yahudu tablets -- ignoring that they were likely looted & smuggled out of wartime Iraq (in
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