Prospective students who are interested in the #ISAWNYU Doctoral Program in the Ancient World are invited to attend a "virtual" open house on November 5, 2025. A Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants.
Details, schedule, and registration info here: https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-house-2025
Boosts appreciated.
#ancientHistory #archaeology #ancientLanguage #ancientArt #ancientLiterature #classics
Early evidence of writing found at La Peña del Castro, Spain
Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking find at La Peña del Castro, an Iron Age settlement in La Ercina, León. They’ve unearthed one of the oldest known examples of writing in the region. A team from the University of León identified a Celtiberian alphabet inscription on a spindle whorl, a tool for textile production...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/02/early-evidence-of-writing-found-at-la-pena-del-castro/
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Ancient genomics reveal the origins of Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian languages
A new study revealed key insights about Mediterranean language families’ origins, including Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian branches of Indo-European. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists conducted this research...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/origins-of-italo-celtic-and-graeco-armenian-languages/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #ancientlanguage #linguistics #dnaanalysis
Rare bilingual inscription discovered in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province
During a recent excavation in the village of Alqan, located in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province, archaeologists uncovered a bilingual inscription featuring two lines of Thamudic script alongside one line in early Arabic...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/06/bilingual-inscription-in-saudi-arabia/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #semitic #alqan #philology #historicallinguistics #thamudic #ancientlanguage #linguistics
I love #kids. Always doing things their predecessors couldn’t. For the prize of $1 million he’s changed our knowledge of history.
“Farritor, then enrolled as a computer science major, learned Latin as a kid and used to spend hours in history museums, but he never considered the classics an especially lucrative pursuit. That was until he heard about the Vesuvius Challenge.”
#AI
#AncientHistory
#AncientLanguage #Scrolls
https://www.thefp.com/p/luke-farritor-vesuvius-challenge-scrolls-rome
Speaking with Angels: The Mysterious World of Enochian Language #AncientLanguage https://www.ancientoriginsunleashed.com/p/speaking-with-angels-the-mysterious?publication_id=1035345&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=fhcz
The oldest known sentence in the #AncientLanguage of Canaanites has been decoded by at team of Israeli #archaeologists, unearthed at #TelLachish, an ancient city in the #Biblical #KingdomOfJudah.
Experts translated the comb to read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”
The landmark discovery provides evidence for the use of the #alphabet 3,700 years ago.
Here is my attempt at a musical rendition of the Hymn to Hekate. I hope that it will inspire someone with more talent than I to create something better. I am no true musician, only a poor scholar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTtn8fPiU_M
#Video #Hymn #Pagan #Hekate #Hecate #AncientGreek #AncientLanguage
Can anyone recommend good #Language learning/study of/history of, accounts? Specifically #AncientLanguage or #IndigenousLanguage. I love #Cunieform especially.
#Langtoot #Languages #Histodian #Histodon #Historian #LanguageLearning
Please and thank you 😊
It occurs to me that I have taught Horace Ode 3.26 'vixi puellis' more than any other text during my career. It was an #IB set text for 6 years and is prescribed at #GCSE on Eduqas Love and Marriage for 3 years. Has anyone else experienced similar with set texts? #Classics #AncientLanguage #Latin
Today I taught #Latin composition for the first time. I absolutely loved it and the students took to it seamlessly. I think it is so important for students to use the language actively so they can get a firmer grasp of the language and how the case system works. #Classics #Teacher #AncientLanguage
@zleap
SpaceXploration is a #scam. Always has been.
Lots of #fiatMoney to produce #autonomousVehicles that withstand #hostile conditions (incl #radiation) whilst collecting #information and communicating over vast distances.
Its easy to label the following as conspiratorial, but what purpose might it *really* serve? What '#space' are they *really* talking about exploring and #dominating?
#spacex #spaceExploration #el #elevation #on #sun #ancientLanguage #God #sunGod #solarFlare
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