Res to invade the soviet Union are different to Res used to quell uprisings. The guys in Warsaw would have been there anyway

I love museums but they sometimes thrive on artificial scarcity. I often end up buying the book about an exhibit because that’s the only way I’ll be able to see the objects after it ends.

I think in a lot of cases they don’t have the rights to publish them online. But it’s still frustrating.

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It was occupied by Vichy

If you read the article you’d see that they think they discovered paper, as in pressed fibers, not papyrus. Though it’s only a tiny piece with no context of what it was used for.

True, but the photos are almost certainly out of copyright and it should be easy enough to access high res scans for remote projects if they exist.

Data ultimately doesn't exist if it's inaccessible.

I get raising the bar for accessing stuff, but it kills the casual research curiosity for a lot of people. When I scanned 17k pages of yearbooks and docs for a school with my book scanner, I could have charged for access like all those yearbook sites. Instead I just posted it all online for free in high res. I'm never going to recoup the time costs involved in digitizing it. Might as well make sure as many people can get to it as possible. To date nobody has ever done anything particularly research worthy with that content, but I've had dozens of curious old people contact me to say thanks for letting them explore their old long lost yearbooks from their home.

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Or they want you to ask and they will be happy to show you, in person.

Museums and archives can be hilariously stingy about releasing high res scans of what they've found. Though it's possible these are just buried in some very technical obscure web portal for the museums work that I haven't found yet.

To be fair, scanning things in is expensive, boring, and extremely time consuming. The margins for historical archive work is almost always in the negative.

Museums shouldn't take donations then and pretend to be charities if they are about profit maximization.

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Isn't it pretty common knowledge that the development of Egyptian papyrus predates Chinese paper?

It should also be noted that papyrus paper is made in a completely different way to the pulp paper that the Chinese developed. With papyrus, thin strips cut from papyrus reeds are laid flat and crisscrossed in two or more layers to form a uniform sheet. With pulp paper, fiber materials are processed into a pulp and suspended in water before being screened and pressed into a sheet.

ah, thank you for the correction

There's also a fairly decent limited series made in 2001, Uprising that does a pretty decent fictionalized retelling.

yes northern part of Algeria but not with this statistics, Algeria was never occupied by Germans

Wrong Warsaw Uprising. There were two of them.

Throughout the entire war they had "other issues" yet still saw fit to divert resources to annihilate Jews. Because one of the central aims of the German war was the extermination of the Jews

>So museums should just give everything away for free

He's not asking for the negatives. He just wants to see a picture of it.

But Algeria was considered to be part of the Metropolitan at the time.

I Like this Idea

The First time i Made contact with historical fiction were the "waringham" books by Rebecca gable They are all Set around the fictional House of waringham an Take place around the 100 years war and the war of the Roses (there are some Set later and earlier now)

They are Kind of popular in Germany but not so commonly known abroad.

I recommend them! Especialy the German audio books

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I'd love if any historians could answer this: How accurate was the portrayal of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in the Leon Uris novel Mila 18? I remember reading it in highschool and absolutely loving it.

In 1943 Germany had other issues. Easier to wait them out anyway.

Fewer and fewer living survivors every day. We need to make sure we educate the future generations.