Good news if you like history, manuscripts, or nice books! 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' is now available at *greatly* reduced shipping costs via @theul.bsky.social (UK) and Amazon (worldwide) from this link: linktr.ee/nposegay. There's also a free sample file there with the entire first chapter.

July 22, 2025 - 11:22 UTC

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people had to bury their books to preserve them. did you see the oldest manuscript of the bible in the news today?
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Do you have a link to that?
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it may have been fortunate that the collection didn’t end up in egypt? or would it have been cared for just the same?
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Hard to say. Ultimately it was British (and French to a lesser extent) colonialism that incentivised the sale of the manuscripts to European institutions in the 1890s *while also* undermining the emergence of an Egyptian heritage sector that could've cared for them
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Oh and follow my brilliant co-author, @meloniesch.bsky.social. She's great.
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Whoa awesome!! One of the coolest bits of history ever!!
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Thanks <3
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📌
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