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Are the worries of climate change threatening the world cultural heritage sites exaggerated? A collection of reports just published provide example after example of cultural sites under threat directly attributable to the climate.
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Enjoy free entry to museums on Sundays with Musei Italiani!
You can have a great time exploring the exhibits at Musei Italiani on Sunday.
In Italy, the summer of Musei Italiani continues on the exciting initiative "Sunday at the Museum" promoted by the Ministry of Culture, which gives visitors free admission every first Sunday of the month to explore the country's cultural heritage. It is a true celebration of culture that will intimately involve you. You can learn more in the bio. ⏬🤝⏬⏬
⏩ The Board Behind ⏩
#the board behind#theboardbehind#Museum Sanday#free admission#free entry#explore europe#Explore Italy#Italy culture#world history#museums#Muse Italiani#italian art#state museums#cultural sites#cultural heritage#cultural differences#patrimonio culturale
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I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times
Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use
#bearz rambling tag#no it’s not really possible to let everyone who uses this term to change#because as far as I know this is the most common word with use on Chinese websites#I didn’t know that pairing are called ‘ship’ here#like why would I even know that#‘ship’ makes zero sense to me#it took me a while to learn the fandom language people speak here#it’s hard#give people time#shipping culture is very different too#Like on Chinese site you HAVE to clarify the Top and the Bottom of this ship in the ship name#it is very very important to them#people who like the same ship but with different Top Bottom preference will fight till no end#imagine how confused I was when I first got here#where there’s no top bottom differences#it’s not really a smut thing#it’s more a dynamic thing#AxB and BxA is very different#oh I can talk so much about the differences on fandom cultures#if ya are interested in more please feel free to ask#it’s very interesting to me#I wanna talk about it
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In the weeks since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed more than 15,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, and destroyed thousands of homes in the territory.
And there have also been tremendous losses to the region's ancient and globally significant cultural heritage. The region was a hub for commerce and culture under Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine rule. It remained influential for centuries thereafter.
A recent survey by the group Heritage for Peace details the damage done so far to more than 100 of these landmarks in Gaza since the start of the present conflict.
The casualties include the Great Omari Mosque, one of the most important and ancient mosques in historical Palestine; the Church of Saint Porphyrius, thought to be the third oldest church in the entire world; a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery in northern Gaza excavated only last year; and the Rafah Museum, a space in southern Gaza which was dedicated to teaching about the territory's long and multi-layered heritage — until it was hammered by airstrikes early on in the conflict. (...)
"If this heritage be no more in Gaza, it will be a big loss of the identity of the people in Gaza," said Isber Sabrine, president of Heritage for Peace, in an interview with NPR. (...)
"The people in Gaza, they have the right to keep and to save this heritage, to tell the history, the importance of this land," he said.
The 1954 Hague Convention, agreed to by Palestinians and Israelis, is supposed to safeguard landmarks from the ravages of war. But landmarks in Gaza have been destroyed by Israeli strikes in earlier rounds of fighting. Dozens of sites, including the now-obliterated Great Omari Mosque, suffered damage in 2014. A report by UNESCO, the United Nations body that designates and protects World Heritage sites, cites further destruction to cultural and historic sites in Gaza in 2021. (...)
Destruction of historical sites and other cultural sites is part of genocide, it's the destruction of the proof of a people's relationship to the land and a horrible emotional blow at the community. UNESCO must act immediately against Israel's destruction of Palestinian heritage, and every country and international organism must expel Israel and impose sanctions to make the genocide and apartheid end.
#💬#palestine#gaza#israel#free palestine#world heritage#cultural heritage#historical sites#archaeology#cultures
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Imagine, for a moment, that your internet just stopped loading images one day. Your dash might look pretty different (and less usable), but at least you can still make posts — whether about your internet situation, or about completely unrelated topics.
Then, imagine that one or more of your posts blew up, to the tune of hundreds if not thousands of notes. Imagine people started adding images to your posts.
Imagine your post circulating almost entirely in the form with four or five images attached, and with everyone in the notes laughing about those images — except you, who started the post in the first place, who can't even see those images because you're trapped in Tumblr's loading gradient hellscape.
You're excluded from any further conversations on your own post, because someone added a mystery image with the caption "don't leave this in the tags," but you have no idea which set of tags it is, and can't tell if it's one of the good takes from the tags or one of the horrible takes from the tags. You're excluded from the Tumblr users playing with JPEGs like dolls. You can try to guess the contents of the images based on people's reactions, but it's hard. And no one adding images even seems to notice the irony.
This is, of course, a real problem plaguing Tumblr users with regularly slow internet. And it's also a huge, insidious problem plaguing blind and low vision people who rely on either screen readers, or image descriptions in combination with enlarged text on their device.
People with disabilities around comprehending images, people who have images (or gifs) disabled due to photosensitivity, and many others are also affected.
If you add an image to a post without either alt text, an in-post image description, or even both for maximal inclusivity, you don't know if OP — or the person whose tags you're peer reviewing, or whose reply you're screenshotting — will actually be able to see it. From their perspective, you might just be shoving a mystery rectangle in their face, expecting them to be able to guess — or responding to them without them being able to know.
Imagine being on the receiving end of that expectation constantly. Imagine how isolating that must feel.
We need, collectively, to stop making assumptions that everyone we interact with online will be able to access, physically see, and mentally process images. The assumption that disabled people are vanishingly rare and statistically shouldn't really need to be considered is an assumption of structural and/or implicit ableism.
Write image descriptions. Write image descriptions for every image you post, if you're able — but if you have limited energy, or you're still learning, you should at least start trying your absolute best to describe images you add to other people's posts. If you're starting a conversation, even an online conversation, you should make your best effort to be accessible.
So: Write IDs, especially if they're as simple as just text, like screenshotted tags (link to guide). Write IDs even if you think the best ID you can write is too short, or too incomplete (link to post explaining why even "bad" IDs help).
Write IDs in general (link to a huge compilation of guides). Challenge ableist assumptions and inaccessibility.
#this is not a callout post or anything - i've actually reminded a few people in my notes about this recently#pointing out the disability flag in my icon - and they've all been very courteous#it's just that the site culture as a whole needs to change. urgently#accessibility#image descriptions
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Achnabreck Prehistoric Rock Art Panels, nr. Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland
#ice age#stone age#bronze age#copper age#iron age#neolithic#mesolithic#calcholithic#paleolithic#prehistoric#prehistory#cup and ring#rock art#archaeology#landscape#ancient craft#ancient sites#ancient cultures
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i wish i could articulate my frustration with the knuckles series/scu's handling of knuckles' heritage. i just hope that people recognized that stupid 'joke' where wade couldn't pronounce pachacamac's name as the anti-Indigenous racism it was
#pachacamac is a real place. its a real historical site. the disrespect was disgusting and i mean that genuinely#i dunno. i've been frustrated about this since friday#knuckles series#i dont want to harp on this show much more i just. it stuck out to me. like cool the indigenous coded character#who is directly based on a real culture is a violent barbarian whos constantly talking about being a warrior. nice.#obviously the gamesverse isn't perfect but it has more nuance than the movies#get behind me knuckles i'll save you
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really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century
#not to mention that many mosques that /were/ restored but are in 'jewish areas' r heavily guarded & prayer is hardly if ever allowed#to anyone thinking ''you can say the same thing abt jewish sites in mena countries''. you can't have one repaired w/o the other#and ultimately the root of the problem is both the colonization of palestine + antisemitism. advocating for palestine + against#antisemitism are far from mutually exclusive#(and for the love of god please stop using mena jews as a political gotcha i swear to god#and it's not like a regime that forced everyone to integrate into the ''new jewish'' culture is any less genocidal)#as someone who comes from one of the jewish groups who was affected by that to arguably one of the highest degrees & who's also a staunch#antizionist even i know that. politics re: cultural site preservation are stupid but that doesn't make it any less stomach-wrenching#it really is just Luck. al-bahr mosque just so Happens to be in a ''mixed city'' so destroying it'd be a ''bad look''#the tomb of nahum just so Happens to be in an autonomous kurdish territory so restoring it isnt as big a deal#and then people have the gall to wonder how i could ever ever ever sympathize with those ''savage arabs''. seriously??#btw im muting notificaions on this post so if you have a problem with me just dm me or block me whatever idc
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Mosaic of Winged Medusa in Spain
The stunningly preserved Ancient Roman mosaic floor was found at the Huerta de Otero site in the city of Mérida.
In both ancient and modern interpretations, Medusa is often known as a monster — a Gorgon with tresses of serpents whose stare turned men to stone. This version typically appears in children’s movies and fantasy thrillers, but her image hasn’t always been so awe-inspiring. In late June, archaeologists in Western Spain uncovered an Ancient Roman mosaic floor that depicts Medusa with tiny wings and flowing locks of hair, thought to have been used as a protective symbol.
The mosaic was found in the city of Mérida’s Huerta de Otero archaeological site. Ancient Romans established a colony there in 25 BCE named Augusta Emerita. Traces of its former inhabitants — including an amphitheater and a bridge — can be found throughout the modern-day city. “[The site] is of an exceptional nature due to the level of conservation of the ruins and, above all, the ornamental elements that decorate the well-preserved house: not only the mosaic of the Medusa but also paintings and sculptural motifs,” said archaeologist Félix Palma in a statement.
The Huerta de Otero location was excavated in 1976 but lay untouched for decades. Research picked back up in 2019, when the city employed professional archaeologists and students from its Barraeca II Professional School to explore the ruins. Since then, the team has uncovered an Ancient Roman defensive wall, a road, and the home of a wealthy family.
The Medusa mosaic adorned the floor of this home. Depictions of fish, peacocks, and carefully tessellated patterns surround the artwork’s central figure: a human-like Medusa, her gaze turned to one side.
Although this image diverges from some contemporary renditions of the mythological figure, the mosaic’s winged version was common in Ancient portrayals of Medusa. While early Greek depictions of the mortal-turned-monster, cruelly punished for being raped by the god Poseidon, show her as grotesque, Medusa’s image softened by the time of the Ancient Romans. Beginning in the Classical Greek period, her face acquired more human attributes. It started to be rendered with symmetry and youthful beauty in the following centuries.
Other Ancient Roman mosaics featuring the head of Medusa have been discovered throughout Spain. Medusa again comprises the focal point of an Ancient Roman mosaic in a 115–150 CE work found in Rome, where she can be seen sporting human curls and a snake around her neck. A 1st-to-2nd-century ornament from a chariot pole shows a young woman with curly locks (although a couple of snakes still peer through her tangle of hair).
In Ancient Greek mythology, Perseus killed Medusa to avoid being turned to stone. Medusa, in her early terrifying form, was used as a protective symbol — “an image of evil to repel evil,” Madeleine Glennon writes in a 2017 essay for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The goddess Athena famously included a representation of Medusa’s severed head on her protective cloak or aegis. In Ancient Rome, her beautified image was still employed as a protective symbol, although the depiction shifted into a form more similar to a woman than a monster.
By Elaine Velie.
#Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Mosaic of Winged Medusa in Spain#mosaic#roman mosaic#Mérida Spain#Huerta de Otero archaeological site#ancient artifacts#archeology#archeolgst#history#history news#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient civilizations#roman history#roman empire#roman art
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Recently deep dived into all the Goncharov lore and man. I just love how this entire site set their minds (or mind seeming as it’s been buzzing like a hive) on this one, silly, stupid, and seemingly meaningless subject and expanded it to high heaven. The thing is though, despite all the speculation and discussion and the fact that it is unreal, it is not meaningless!!! The collaborative effort of so many people who have not met or spoken to each other, all to just bullshit a beautiful movie into (un)existence, it’s heartwarming in such a fever dreamish way.
Anyways rant about good of humanity is over, someone from the Humans Are Weird community make a post about tumblrinas explaining this movie to aliens please and thanksies <3
#goncharov#goncharov 1973#humans are weird#humans are space orcs#humans are space oddities#gonchposting#goncharov meme#good of humanity and blah blah blah I love this site#tumblr culture
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I feel like people tend to forget that the reason children are on websites they really shouldn't be on, like Twitter for example, is because there are no spaces on the internet anymore specifically designed for children, unless it's for babies or toddlers.
The death of Flash also meant the death of thousands of games and websites specifically designed for the 9-13 demographic. Now granted, several games died long before Flash did (like the Holy Disney MMO trio - Pixie Hollow, ToonTown and Club Penguin) but there were other websites designed around what kids would enjoy. Sites like Kongregate, Sploder, GirlsGoGames and others were designed with kids in mind.
These sites were special in the sense that it gave fun games for children to play without even really needing to interact with other people directly. They could play the games and have fun. If they wanted to make friends they could, and oftentimes these sites had moderation to prevent kids from having full control over what they could say so as to prevent bullying and potential cyberstalking.
But now Flash is dead, and there's barely any hangout spots for that demographic anymore. I think the last remaining game you can play that doesn't require Flash that was a major part of the 2010s game nostalgia was Wizard101, but that game comes with the flaw of membership programs, similar to all the other MMOs that existed at the time.
Needless to say, the next time we ask in annoyance why there's so many 12 year olds on Twitter and Tik Tok, remember that it's because there's literally no online spaces anymore solely for them and only them, that majority of adults wouldn't step foot into anymore.
#flame talks#internet culture#flash games#Edit : wtf how did this get so many likes and rbs#okay so maybe I should clarify a bit here that yes I am aware that there are still kids spaces online#but basically all the ones that exist now have a membership program#hell even roblox does and a membership isn’t required to play those games#yes ads are annoying af on games but that’s not the point#also yes I am aware that kids will walk into adult spaces online but#that would be less of a problem if there were actual sites designed for kids at all anymore#now all we have is tik tok and that site is more for teens and adults than for kids#literally kids can’t exist anywhere without being preyed upon by algorithms and shit
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#I understand that most of their interaction comes from the app. I get that their new features will be app-driven#that said. i hate the idea of tumblr being a site where it’s normal to show your face#one of the biggest draws of tumblr is that it’s totally anonymous and this? is a significant counter incentive to maintaining that culture#of anonymity#tumblr live#tunglr
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i love this constant implication that finding slurs - any slurs - that have heavy association with violence against lgbtq groups upsetting or triggering to read/hear makes you a coward, loser, or somehow a fake gay appealing to respectability politics or whatever like yes people reclaim them in association with marches and activism and lgbtq expression as they should but things like "if this gets tagged d-slur / f-slur / t-slur / q-slur i'll kill you, talk to another real gay person i'm begging you" idk have you considered like...having the absolute bare minimum respect towards other people it takes to not so flagrantly and unnecessarily mock others' trauma at the hands of a society that violently hates lgbtq people. especially when it comes to something as inconsequential as curating a social media feed? you people are so weird about this shit lol.
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Sabrina Carpenter Icons | 'Espresso' Music Video
#icons#pfps#sabrina carpenter edit#sabrina carpenter#sabrina carpenter icons#espresso#espresso mv#espresso icons#dailywomen#site girls icons#pop music#pop culture#emails i can't send#eics fwd#eics tour#eics#my edit#my icons*#messy layouts#blue moodboard#beach moodboard#summer#tropical#pink aesthetic#yellow aesthetic#cute moodboard#music#scarpenteredit#girl pfps#sabrinasource
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Puzzlewood Ancient Landscape, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
#puzzlewood#ancient woodland#woodland#ancient living#ancient cultures#ancient sites#nature#geology#scowles#rocks and trees#trees and leaves#trees and forests#wild wood#wild places#outdoors#landscape#wild#forest of dean
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the ongoing transmisogyny situation on this website is becoming something that would be almost comical if it wasnt you know genuinely impacting the lives of marginalized people. ive been using tumblr for over a decade and i dont think ive ever seen this level of cartoonish incompetence and thin-skinned behavior from staff members much less the fucking ceo. get a fucking grip guys.
#i feel sometimes my attachment to this place is a bit of a sunk cost fallacy situation#its hard for me to imagine really moving anywhere else after all this time but idk!#and when i start thinking like that i cant help but think how insulting it would feel to have some guy obliterate my whole blog and fucking#scour my posts and pictures clear off the site for no fucking reason! and then lie about it!#fuck matt mullenweg fuck this culture of transmisogyny thats been allowed to go wildly unchecked on this site#just!! ugh! whatever!!!!!!#off topic#ungodly screeching
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