Kate Franklin

Blood Red The fluids grow septic and the blood flows weak.

amazing

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The Development of Medieval Archaeology in Armenia and the “Vayots Dzor Silk Road Survey” (VDSRS) | History and Culture This article addresses the current challenges facing medieval archaeology and outlines the necessary steps to align it with global trends, ensuring its sustainable development. Key challenges include the need for methodological innovation and enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration, both of which are essential for a more comprehensive study of Armenia’s medieval past.

Astghik wrote this excellent discussion of the trajectory of medieval archaeology in the Republic of Armenia, from the perspective of our project. And the rest of this issue is awesome also!

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boosting the signal for this excellent conference in Yerevan:

📌International conference “Fortresses and Defense System in the Middle East” | October 23-25, 2025

➡️The conference program is presented below:
➡️You may also join the conference via the Zoom platform: us05web.zoom.us/j/8200944272....

you’re making a joke and the punchline is “someone thought i was a pro-trans feminist LOL”

doomed opinion but it’s a weird vibe hearing people w cancelled nsfs congratulating themselves on being mostwoke martyrs when, babes, actual critical postmodern shit didn’t get nsfs before, we’ve been poor this whole time

me and who

smiles, retitles syllabus topic heading from "anchoresses and anchorholds" to "Living Dead Girls"

bow to our varmint queen

as an inveterate lawn hater but also a human-landscape-entanglement story lover, im so excited to head to this later today---

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ugh, a new favorite panel by Vayots Dzortsi T'oros Sarkawag -- famous for putting himself into his paintings, this one of the Dormition, with a little T'oros sweetly censing in the foreground

i just love that i accidentally matched my outfit to the landscape

looking for lecture slide pics and finding only a tiny version of myself, taking dusk selfies at the arena of Siena

hmm should i work, or should i design my own ex libris book plates, a thing i cant believe i havent done

despite walking by this monument a million times, I learned today that it commemorates the saving of the Mush Homiliary by two unknown women, who cut the massive manuscript in half and carried it on their backs out of the genocide from Arakelots to Yerevan

millennials, this is a sober reminder to check in on those people you knew in college who were clearly poised for a villain arc.
are they in safe containment? could they be appointed the ceo of anything?

yeah, thats so rad

the tapestries in situ before the sale

tracked down the news article covering the SCANDALOUS purchase of the unicorn tapestries by Rockefeller
Tues Feb 27, 1923

a beautiful thing that didnt make it into the lecture today: a paradise carpet, 17th c Isfahan

back on my bullshit (reading Hafez at work)

i spent 7 years with no bluejays and i missed you you yelly little jerks

these critters and their dandy, frame-breaking tails!

new favorite Layla/Majnun illustration: Walters 611 Khamsah of the 13th c, f92b

hoooboy that douay rheims song of songs really hits

as it steadily rains all day, i am loving the watery gurgling wash of marbling in the margins of this perfect painting of nightingale and rose, lover and beloved ('Abdullah Bukhari, Ottoman Istanbul, 18th c, metmuseum 2023.217)

Boosting the important work of Tamar Shirinian today, as this colleague comes under fire for expressing her emotions in the public sphere, an act that is legal and hypothetically protected by her workplace

oh heck

just an ant farm of weird lil guys

little wierdos everywhere