The wonderful Prof. Barry Lewis @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie delivering the 22nd John V. Kelleher Lecture @harvard.edu this evening on medieval Welsh poets & poetry - an absolutely brilliant start to this year’s Celtic Colloquium! 😀

My working group on 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜 in @scs-dias.bsky.social will commence on 6 October and will continue every Tuesday at 16:00 (local Dunsink Time). If you want to join, in person or via Zoom, please let me know via email.

Many congratulations to my colleague and friend Prof Raimund Karl (Uni Vienna, formerly Uni Bangor) who last week excavated the first chariot burial in Lower Austria (Eggendorf), and only the fourth in all of Austria. TV report in German at: on.orf.at/video/143399... (starting ca. at 01:00). /1

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Lebendige Archäologie: Keltische Funde in Eggendorf | Expertengespräch über metastasierten Brustkrebs | Tier der Woche: Unfallkatzen | Gespräch: Schutz der Haustiere im Straßenverkehr | Luka Leben: Vo...

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Together with @davidstifter.bsky.social, I started at DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social this week – in my case as one of four O'Donovan scholars. I will be working on Ancient Celtic inscriptions, specifically tau gallicum, its phonetics and its spelling in various scripts used for Celtic languages, ...

Plans, plans, plans in DIAS: On the one hand, I will use the wonderful opportunity of working in DIAS to finish writing a lot of papers and books that have been piling up on my desk for countless years. More about these things anon. But more concretely for dissemination: In October, I will...

On this day in antiquity: the final known text in Egyptian hieroglyphs is written down. These two texts from Roman Egypt, written in hieroglyphs and Demotic on the Nile island of Philae, are short, but they nonetheless give us their author's name and their date of creation: August 24th 394 AD.

Because I happened to see it out in the wild today, I am doing my bit of disciplinary penance If you were good and did your homework, and learned that no Classical authors called people in Ireland and Britain Celts - actually at least one did! We were wrong and are sorry, signed, Celtic Studies

‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED

For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre-Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The seco...

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I visited the Carinthian Museum in Klagenfurt last week to re-visit, after a long time, some of the treasures they have there, such as these reproductions of the Venetic rock inscriptions from Würmlach in the Gail Valley. More info at Uni Erat Lupa: lupa.at/12954

This carved stone plaque was found in St Francis' Row in Cashel, and it is believed to be the sign for a tavern that was known as The Cat & Bagpipes, that once stood on the main street. It may date to as early as the 16-17th century, and offers a glimpse of Cashel's social life from centuries ago

Given that Rome often overshadows Greece and Latinization is so frequent, it’s only fair we try to give exact transliterations when rendering Greek names. As they say, an ai for an ae.

An exquisitely crafted ceremonial macehead dated to around 3300-2800 BC. Found in Knowth passage tomb in Ireland, It bears spiral motifs similar to those found on the megalithic art surrounding the tomb 📷 my own via Nat Museum of Ireland #findsfriday #Ancientbluesky www.museum.ie/en-IE/collec...

Thracian language, culture and history: an article for German-readers about the fragmentarily known Thracian language and the Thracians by my Vienna colleague Katsiaryna Ackermann. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Die Thraker: Gold, Gräber und eine geheimnisvolle Sprache

Goldschätze, Königsgräber und wenige rätselhafte Schriftzeugnisse eröffnen faszinierende Einblicke in die Kultur und Sprache eines antiken Volkes

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During the early Iron Age, the Pomeranian culture in Poland developed distinctive clay vessels for cremated remains, influenced by southern European cultures such as the Etruscans. These urns are characterized by human faces and hat-shaped lids, and are frequently adorned...🧵1/2 📷️me #findsfriday

Celtica ar líne Celtica online Celtica 30 (2018), Celtica 31 (2019) ar líne anois / now online. journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce... #DIASdiscovers Cuirtear seaneagráin na hirise ar líne de réir a chéile. We are gradually making the back issues of the journal available online.

Outside of Roman histories, the great Carthaginian general Hannibal makes a surprise appearance in an Etruscan tomb. This epitaph from the 2nd century BC (for a man who lived to 106!) mentions "hanipaluscle" at the end. Yet, being in Etruscan, we're not sure what this man did for/against Hannibal!

In case anyone is interested in my directionality research, here is the paper I gave at the recent Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century conference in Reading: youtu.be/jeMAj0gsNYY?...

Philippa Steele, From linguistic to material approaches: interdisciplinary entanglement…

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Una inscripción hallada en un resto cerámico de almacenaje del poblado de Irulegi podría ser testimonio del primer numeral vascónico

Una inscripción hallada en un resto cerámico de almacenaje del poblado de Irulegi podría ser testimonio del primer numeral vascónico

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Lehen zenbaki baskonikoa aurkitu dute Irulegin, "Abar", gaur egungo "hamar" zenbakiaren aurrekaria izan daitekeena: orain.eus/eu/aktualita...

Lehen zenbaki baskonikoa aurkitu dute Irulegin, "Abar", gaur egungo "hamar" zenbakiaren aurrekaria izan daitekeena

Aranzadi Zientzia Elkarteak egin du aurkikuntza, Irulegiko baskoien kanpamenduan (Aranguren Ibarra, Nafarroa). "Abar" inskripzioa, Irulegiko Eskua agertu zen etxebizitza bereko biltegi-ontzi batean au...

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Guess what? The call for papers for the XVIII Celtic Congress in Salamanca is open! internationalcelticcongresssalamanca.com/index.php/re...

Today! 10th June, 16.30 BST (online only) Sveva Elti di Rodeano Phrygian and the Spread of the Alphabet cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS Summer seminars 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS Summer seminars 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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The Origins and Evolution of Writing: A Very Brief Synthesis My talk last week at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, for the VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social youtu.be/SRC6QkiKtSo?...

Piers Kelly: The origins and evolution of writing: a very brief synthesis

YouTube video by Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems

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Anyone within travelling distance of Boston should go see Harvard Museums' exhibition "Celtic Art Across The Ages" (harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/...) – a unique opportunity to see two original Old Celtic inscription stones in the US. One of them is a relatively recent Cisalpine Celtic find, ...

Exhibitions, Celtic Art Across the Ages | Harvard Art Museums

Discover the many forms of Celtic creativity and their artistic legacies in this sweeping story that spans ancient to modern times. When you think of the word “Celtic,” what do you picture? Perhaps in...

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A new book by my colleage (and former student) Stefan Höfler on the Tocharian noun: www.winter-verlag.de/es/detail/97... Stefan Höfler, Das tocharische Nomen. Ein indogermanistisches Arbeitsbuch, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2025. €48.

✨ #28 of #85 Things About DIAS In 1950, Prof. Leo W. Pollak (Director of the School of Cosmic Physics) asked: “Is the Earth Getting Warmer?” He pointed to early climate evidence—shifting fish, melting glaciers—and a growing consensus on global warming. #DIAS85 #85ThingsAboutDIAS #DIASdiscovers

Spent a very enjoyable, informative and productive day yesterday experimenting with letter-carving under the superb guidance of stone sculptor and letter-carver Aileen Anne Brannigan. On the EMISoS project, we are analysing the palaeography of early medieval Irish inscriptions on stone monuments but

Today's Ancient Celtic Seminar was very exciting. Most of the 3 hours were devoted to the (relatively) recently discovered Cisalpine Celtic rock inscriptions from Carona (Bergamo). We were fortunate that for the past few summers one of the participants, Dr Pietro Giusteri, has been part of... /1

I didn't expect to have my own name included in @norsebysw.bsky.social's latest online offering, but you'll hear no objection to it from me. Very happy to have been the inspiration for this video on a very slim piece of evidence for runic writing among the Slavs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZZ...

Runes on a new find from the Czech Republic

YouTube video by Jackson Crawford

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