With deliberate golden strokes, artist Taipan Lucero proudly brings an ancient script back to life, in the hope of promoting an endangered but contentious part of the Philippines' heritage.
An antiquities museum in Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib, said to house one of the world's oldest dictionaries, reopened on Monday.
The #SaveAleppo tweets humanize the disaster in the besieged neigborhoods of the Syrian city, where there is no food or water, only cellular signal.