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  1. 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: archaeologymag.com/2025/02/ear

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    #archaeology #archeology #ancientlanguage

  2. 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: archaeologymag.com/2025/01/ori

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #ancientlanguage #linguistics #dnaanalysis

  3. 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: archaeologymag.com/2024/06/bil

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  4. 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: archaeologymag.com/2024/06/bil

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #semitic #alqan #philology #historicallinguistics #thamudic #ancientlanguage #linguistics

  5. 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: archaeologymag.com/2024/06/bil

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #semitic #alqan #philology #historicallinguistics #thamudic #ancientlanguage #linguistics

  6. 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: archaeologymag.com/2024/06/bil

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #semitic #alqan #philology #historicallinguistics #thamudic #ancientlanguage #linguistics

  7. 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

    thefp.com/p/luke-farritor-vesu

  8. 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.

    youtube.com/watch?v=B8NHg82wbs

    #Archeology #History #Bible via @BBCWorld

  9. 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.

    youtube.com/watch?v=PTtn8fPiU_

    #Video #Hymn #Pagan #Hekate #Hecate #AncientGreek #AncientLanguage

  10. @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
    @icedquinn