Just saw a video of a Palestinian man hugging the body bag of his killed brother in a moving ambulance. I can’t unsee the sheer desperation in his tears as others tried to pry him away from his brother, because they were in a military zone. Because Gaza is chopped to pieces and they’ve become prey within their own home. It’s moments like that that serve to remind me the Palestinians going through the thick of this have just as much humanity as the rest of us—that their pain and their suffering might be nothing more than a footnote in some western article, but that the agony they’re enduring could never be encapsulated in words. And yet western media still has the heart (or lack thereof) to downplay it, to mention it in passing, in their endless bid to humanize Palestinians as little as possible. But the footage is out there, and it speaks for itself.

that video of the little kid in Gaza with his cat in his lap, begging it not to eat him and his siblings when they die. videos of Palestinians giving part of whatever food they have to their animals and using precious resources to bandage their injuries. footage of Palestinians eating pet food. Footage of Palestinians being forced to eat their's and other's pets because the occupation is starving them. the occupation murdering cats and other pets they find in front of Palestinians. the clip of those children who were ecstatic because they were able to find their pets in the rubble, or take their pets with them as they flee. bisan crying because she misses her cats and has no idea if they lived. the two brothers who chose to stay in Gaza and risk their lives to continue running their cat sanctuary. Palestinian men pulling people from the rubble clutching their cats. I don't make this post to say I care for the pets more than the people, but just...as a person who loves my pet cat so much I don't understand how people can see these images, even perpetrate this horror, and do nothing. I pat my cat and I think of Palestine and Palestinians missing their pets, clutching their pets, and being forced to eat their pets. I can't imagine the pain of it. Call your reps, support BDS, go to protests, keep bearing witness. Free Palestine and end the occupation.

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thonis-heracleion the sunken egyptian city.

Inlay Depicting "Horus of Gold", Late Period–Ptolemaic Period

Paco Rabanne spring/summer (1969)

Mini-dress of chrome-plated plastic and steel disks linked by stainless steel rings.

Ancient Egyptian Nobleman This relief shows a beautiful, delicately carved depiction of an unknown Ancient Egyptian Nobleman, dating from the 19th or 20th Dynasty. It is believed that this fragment may have come from a tomb in Saqqara. Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/ancient-egyptian-nobleman/

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Wooden ushabti of king Tutankhamun with round ebony or nubian wig and golden collar.

The ushabtis, or funerary figures were intended to perform work in the place of the deceased in the afterlife. They were usually made of faience, wood, or pottery and were various sizes.

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. JE 60835; GEM 39126

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, 1968

White Chapel of Senusret I, Karnak Open Air Museum

Photo: Brian Brake

Gold and lapis lazuli figurine of the Triad of Osorkon, named after King Osorkon II of which this figurine bears his cartouche. Depicts the gods Horus, Osris, and Isis. Egypt, 865-850 BC.

from The Louvre

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Gold Mask of King Shoshenq II

Shoshenq II was the only ruler of the 22nd Dynasty whose tomb was not plundered by tomb robbers. His final resting place was discovered within an antechamber of Psusennes I’s tomb at Tanis by Pierre Montet in 1939.

Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 887-885 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 72163

Photo: Andrea Jemolo