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1/Centuries before the #printingpress took off in Europe, printers in Egypt employed a type of woodblock printing known as “tarsh” (طرش). Only around 100 of these tarsh prints are known to exist. They are also very cool, so here’s a 🧵on #Arabic block prints in @theUL. #Cambridge 
2/“Woodblock printing” is a term historians use to talk about making a big stamp and slapping paper onto it. Block printers would carve wood so the negative space looked like whatever image or text they wanted to print. Then they’d coat it in ink and stamp some paper. Easy.
3/Except it wasn’t easy. It takes a lot of skill to carve the negative image of Arabic calligraphy into a piece of wood. I mean just look at this thing. It’s an amulet quoting the #Quran that would have been carried for protection. Most tarsh prints are amulets like this.
Conf #archéologie de #Jerusalem. Finkelstein présente sa thèse (discutée): "Tout a commencé sur le Mont du Temple" -et non la Cité de David
A la 10e Conférence annuelle sur #Jerusalem et sa région aujourd'hui. Les résolutions de l'#UNESCO sont dans tous les esprits
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Au 2e jour de la conf sur l'#archéologie de #Jerusalem, le #papyrus fait grand bruit. Questions sur son authenticité
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