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The greatest treasure looted from the Ethiopian people at Maqdala in 1868 isn't in the BL or V&A. The Kwer'ata Re'esu, the most sacred icon of the Ethiopian people, was
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The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World - printed in London for Claude du Bosc, 1733-7.The first English edition of Picart & Bernard's monumental
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Script as divine revelation: Mandombe is a script invented in 1978 in the DR Congo by David Wabeladio Payi, who claimed it was revealed to him in a dream by
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45 Soviet ABC primers in 45 minority languages, written in 5 alphabets - Cyrillic, Latin, Armenian, Georgian and Hebrew. All published late 1970s - early 1980s, and once displayed in
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The myth that Africa is a continent without writing is just that, a myth, and an inexcusably racist one as well. Quite apart from ancient scripts like hieroglyphics in Egypt
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Imagine there was a script INVENTED FROM SCRATCH BY ONE MAN in the 20th century, now used by hundreds of thousands of people and becoming the defacto standard for a
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Remember when Rio Tinto, after blasting the 46 000 year-old sacred Aboriginal site in Juukan Gorge, promised that the company would "never again" destroy sites of "exceptional archaeological and cultural
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The only known copy of the world’s first electronic computer manual.Operating & maintenance manual for the BINAC binary automatic computer built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation 1949. Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp, Philadelphia
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BREAKING RUNESTONE NEWSThe runestone shown in the middle foreground in this engraving from Ole Worm's 1643 Danicorum Monumentorum was buried and lost in the 18th century.Roadworkers just accidentally found and
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THE BIBLE IN WELSH.Y Bibl Cyssegr-lan, Sef Yr Hen Destament A'r Newydd. Printed in 1620, this is the Welsh equivalent of the 1611 King James Bible. Copies were supplied to
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OCCULT ICONOGRAPHYEckhardt's 1785 "Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer" has 36 coloured plates and claims to be based on an "ancient manuscript", now published for the first time. The enduring influence of
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Alexander the Great - Submariner extraordinaire!Beneath the surface of the ocean, Alexander the Great sits in a glass bathysphere, raising his eyes to the couple above. Sitting in a boat,
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