afrodesiaq:

also this is a really wild idea but like, so many people with really mediocre takes could, instead of adding a throwaway line in the middle about how We Need To Amplify The Voices Of Sex Workers, could instead consider:

  • shutting the entire fuck up
  • actually amplifying our voices instead of feeling the need to speak

sixth-light:

dramyhsturgis:

Now two anthropologists are closing in on the Inca equivalent of the Rosetta stone. That could finally crack the code and transform our understanding of a civilisation whose history has so far been told only through the eyes of the Europeans who sought to eviscerate it.

If you’re thinking ‘that’s a dumb headline, we’ve know this for a while’ then a) you are right and b) this is in fact a very good article which explains how archaeologists have moved from knowing information is encoded to possibly being able to translate it, via the ancient but surprisingly little-used method of Asking The Descendants Of The People Who Made The Thing.