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Today is a good day to remember the 500-year-old Kwer’ata Re’esu icon, stolen from Ethiopia by the British Museum official accompanying Britain's invasion in 1868. And that was just one stage in its journey ... theprinceandtheplunder.com/2023/04/08/379…

🇬🇷☦️ When the Greek priest reenacts the excitement of the women running to tell everyone about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

“Christ is Risen” in Multiple Languages 📿

The Memphis Daily Appeal covered the death of Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu on the front of its Dec 21, 1879 edition. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn8304516… Who did they think he was? "...the last in lineal descent from Solomon and the queen of Sheba. If there is anything in blood he had it."

If I had a spare £1,000... A watercolour up for sale of British troops loading elephants onto a ship in India in 1867/8 before it set off to invade Ethiopia. The elephants carried the artillery there and, unreliable sources say, some of the plunder back. the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…

Happy Birthday to Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu ... and England's William Shakespeare

"They destroyed our identity, and our history," Ikhlas Abdel Latif Ahmed, director of museums at Sudan's National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, told the BBC's Newsday programme. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Scotland leads the way again. "Rather than a diminishment of the University's collections," Prof Gillingwater said, the returns "represent an opportunity for the University to work with communities in order to build new relationships and friendships." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Happy 5th Day of May to all who celebrate. 🎥: Bob Dylan performs “Isis” with the Rolling Thunder Revue in Montréal on December 4, 1975.

Treasure found while flat-hunting in Lewisham

"Hello there, newest successor!" 🦁 /St Peter Ethiopia, 15th c. #peter #apostle #pope #leo #leoxiv #africanart

"Leo XIV becomes proprietor in trust of the great art and architectural treasures of Vatican City, and will be looked to as a moral authority ... Under (his predecessor) Francis, the papacy made a number of symbolic gestures around cultural restitution." theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/08/rob…

A big judgment coming next Wednesday. Will Dartmoor remain the last place where we can camp freely in England? Or will the landowners win?

"Do cremated ashes classify as human remains? Should there be international trade in religious relics? What, in the words of the fictive archaeologist Indiana Jones, 'belongs in a museum'?" And don't get me started on tabots. ft.com/content/489a12… via @ft Melanie Gerlis

Very excitingly, the V&A has started taking bookings for its Order an Object scheme. You order things from the museum's vast storerooms - and they bring them out to you! Here are my 5 treasures from Britain's 1868 Abyssinian "expedition". Have a go vam.ac.uk/info/order-an-…

Wild camping won! theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

A 1930s anti-fascism poster with 'Abisinia' as the victim. "Envy and Greed have married, and from this vile marriage is born, like a fruit of rot, the law of the strongest ... or the most envious." A historical artefact with nothing to teach us today. the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…

Signed photograph of Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy and Albania, Empress of Ethiopia ... briefly Yours for up to 200 Swiss francs ($240) the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…

Bow down to him on Saturday / Salute him now his birthday's come #happybirthday #bobdylan

The South London Press - where I did my first work experience - just "abruptly" shut down. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/reg… The first newspapers to pay me - the Chard and Ilminster News and the Express & Star - are still there, but scaled down. Brave new future a little less shiny this am.