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yan-wo

National Geographic, December 1989. Children watching the sunset off La Push on the Olympic Peninsula.

justaguyposting

Dave McKean - Cages

along-the-silkroad

New article!

"It was Sogdian, a language originally spoken in the province of Sogdiana and the city of Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, that became the lingua franca of the Silk Road in that part of Central Asia. Turkic peoples such as the Uyghurs, whose native language differed greatly from Indo-European Sogdian, also used this language for administration. The Sogdians were known as industrious merchants, and it was through trade that they spread their language as far as western China, among other means by founding merchant colonies in Chinese Turkestan."

Read the full piece here: https://alongthesilkroad.com/2026/02/11/the-forgotten-language-of-the-silk-road-sogdian/

cuties-in-codices

anatomical diagram of the brain, eyes, and nose

from a composite manuscript containing medical and arithmetical texts and illustrations, england, c. 1250–1310

source: Oxford, Boudleian Library, MS. Ashmole 399, fol. 22v

upennmanuscripts

Here is a bit of a video facsimile - a cover-to-cover page-turning video without commentary - of our 15th century Book of Hours, Use of Rouen. We'll see a bit of the calendar, the openings of the Gospel readings, Obsecro te, and O Intemerata, and the miniatures of the Annunciation, and the Nativity. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1056)

Record:

Access '[Book of hours] : [use of Rouen].' through the Penn Libraries catalog.

Complete Video Facsimile: