#WhyWeLoveDunhuang: On the ancient Silk Road (丝绸之路 sīchóu zhī lù), hundreds and thousands of names have disappeared with the wind and the sand, but a 4th-century Sogdian woman and her daughter have left their own legacy. Who was this woman? Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-we-love-dunhuang/id1628994770?i=1000619794781 | Learn Chinese

Today, we are featuring the Baybayin: Ancient and Traditional Scripts of the Philippines exhibition in the National Museum of Anthropology, so let’s get WRITE into it! ✏️✍️📝 Prior to the arrival of Spanish colonizers, early Filipinos already had their own systems of writing through various syllabic scripts, such as Baybayin, Hanuno’o, Buhid, and Tagbanua, among others. Unfortunately, the use of such scripts was significantly minimized after the introduction of the Latin alphabet to the archipel