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Ancient Originsancientorigins
2025-07-18

AO THROWBACK - Rocks found at an Australian Standing Stones site may reveal the First Language by modern humans - a language of rock angles alignments markings letters hand signs numbers body parts animals etc. which is as cryptic as it is divine. ancient-origins.net/ancient-pl

Archaeology News :verified:archaeology@mstdn.social
2025-07-16

Hymn to Babylon discovered, revealing ancient Mesopotamian city life

In a collaboration between Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and the University of Baghdad, an ancient Babylonian hymn dating back over two millennia has been rediscovered and fully deciphered...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/07/hym

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Hymn to Babylon discovered, revealing ancient Mesopotamian city life

In a collaboration between Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and the University of Baghdad, an ancient Babylonian hymn dating back over two millennia has been rediscovered and fully deciphered. The findings, published in the journal Iraq, shed new light on Mesopotamian urban life, cultic ritual, and the nature’s impact on ancient literature. 

The researchers discovered the centuries-lost Hymn to Babylon, a 250-line poetic work in praise of the city in its grandeur. Composed in the early first millennium BCE, the hymn was widely circulated in the ancient world, as evidenced by the many surviving copies...
N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-16

Ah yes, the linguistic hipsters of the Mexican jungle 🌿 dust off their ancient scrolls 🧾 and surprise! They're speaking languages older than your grandma's fruitcake recipe 🥴. Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues to butcher Spanish after their third margarita 🍹.
yucatanmagazine.com/mayan-lang

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-24

Ah, yes, a riveting exploration of Latin's most exciting career path: Vatican Latinist! 🙄 Dive headfirst into a snoozefest of ecclesiastical grammar pedantry, where the most thrilling plot twist is conjugating verbs in ancient languages. 📜✨ Who knew the Holy See was so... thrilling? 😴
newcriterion.com/article/the-v

Archaeology News :verified:archaeology@mstdn.social
2025-02-08

$1 million prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old Indus Valley script

The government of Tamil Nadu has offered a $1-million reward for anyone who can decode the cryptic script of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), one of the world’s oldest urban cultures...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/01/pri

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$1 million prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old Indus Valley script

The government of Tamil Nadu has offered a $1-million reward for anyone who can decode the cryptic script of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), one of the world’s oldest urban cultures. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin made the announcement as a follow-up to a new study suggesting striking similarities between symbols in the Indus script and those in ancient Tamil pottery.

The Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, flourished 5,000 years ago in the fertile plains of the Indus in what is now present-day northwest India and Pakistan. Characterized by sophisticated urban planning and commercial networks, the civilization left a script that, for over a century, has resisted all efforts at deciphering by scholars...

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