A 9/12 ARCE-Chicago talk "Ancient Egyptian Astronomy" by Dr. Alicia Maravelia: "This talk will provide a brief but sophisticated introduction to the genesis, development, use, & practice of astronomy in ancient Egypt." Zoom possible! #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #Classics arce.org/event/arce-c...

ARCE-Chicago: Ancient Egyptian Astronomy: Quest for Immortality under the Starry Firmament of Gods by Alicia Maravelia - ARCE

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Der Pontifex gegen Silicon Valley: #KI- Konzerne kaufen in großem Stil antiquarische Bücher, um die Inhalte scannen zu lassen. Gegen diese Instrumentalisierung von Wissen interveniert jetzt der #Papst:

KI-Konzerne kaufen antiquarische Bücher, um sie zu scannen – jetzt interveniert der Papst

KI-Konzerne kaufen in großem Stil antiquarische Bücher, um die Inhalte scannen zu lassen. Gegen diese Instrumentalisierung von Wissen interveniert jetzt der Papst.

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Mein neues Buch ist da: Marco Heiles: Katalog der magischen Literatur des Spätmittelalters. Band 1: Die lateinischen und deutschsprachigen Chiromantien. Berlin: DeGruyter 2026. www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/.... Infos unter: hwgl.hypotheses.org/3076

Former dual pronoun seen (and heard) in the wild: "enk" in a remote Alpine restaurant. It greets a plural 'you' on this menu, but was originally a dual pronoun for 'you two', cognate with English's lost pronoun inc.

In 2025 @bnuyaminim.bsky.social and me taught a course on Comparative Semitics at the Leiden Summer School. After some cleaning up, we've decided to upload the syllabus and release it under a CC license for you and yours to peruse through. doi.org/10.17613/b4z...

Perhaps AI will be the grit that makes the pearl: making institutions articulate, for the first time in decades if not ever, what the hell they’re about and what an education is supposed to be for. (This from the MIT committee‘s report on AI)

"New Tell Abu Seify finds illuminate Egypt’s Ancient Horus Military Road." Includes Ptolemaic and Roman material. #Egyptology #Classics #AncientBlueSky english.ahram.org.eg/UI/Front/Inn...

New Tell Abu Seify finds illuminate Egypt’s Ancient Horus Military Road - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities

A new discovery at Tell Abu Seify in Qantara East shed new light on Egypt’s Ancient Horus Military Road and the lost city of Masn. Among the most significant finds is a large sandstone lintel, broken ...

english.ahram.org.eg

Free Italian edition of the Story of SInuhe by Mario Menichetti, with hieratic and transcription into hieroglyphs. #Egyptology mediterraneoantico.it/pubblicazion...

La Storia di Sinuhe

Fuggì dall'Egitto nel cuore della notte e visse l'intera vita in esilio, con un solo desiderio: tornare in patria. La Storia di Sinuhe, capolavoro della letteratura dell'antico Egitto, in una nuova tr...

mediterraneoantico.it

This is a 12th-century list of property that a fabulously wealthy Egyptian Jewish woman is bringing into her marriage (and what she's owed in case of divorce). Items include a gold tiara (80 dinars), a crystal rooster (4 dinars), a Chinese pen set (13 dinars), and 250(!) dinars' worth of books.

"New Tell Abu Seify finds illuminate Egypt’s Ancient Horus Military Road." Includes Ptolemaic and Roman material. #Egyptology #Classics #AncientBlueSky english.ahram.org.eg/UI/Front/Inn...

New Tell Abu Seify finds illuminate Egypt’s Ancient Horus Military Road - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities

A new discovery at Tell Abu Seify in Qantara East shed new light on Egypt’s Ancient Horus Military Road and the lost city of Masn. Among the most significant finds is a large sandstone lintel, broken ...

english.ahram.org.eg

A 9/12 ARCE-Chicago talk "Ancient Egyptian Astronomy" by Dr. Alicia Maravelia: "This talk will provide a brief but sophisticated introduction to the genesis, development, use, & practice of astronomy in ancient Egypt." Zoom possible! #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #Classics arce.org/event/arce-c...

ARCE-Chicago: Ancient Egyptian Astronomy: Quest for Immortality under the Starry Firmament of Gods by Alicia Maravelia - ARCE

arce.org

Sibelius Monument (1967) by Finnish sculptor Eila Hiltunen, the sculpture is dedicated to the composer Jean Sibelius #womensart

It makes me so happy when the ginormous title of a work that I'm citing in German contains no umlauts, so I don't have to constantly "Insert Symbol" an ä or an ë or an ö or an ü. #small #victories #LangSky #Classics #Egyptology

It makes me so happy when the ginormous title of a work that I'm citing in German contains no umlauts, so I don't have to constantly "Insert Symbol" an ä or an ë or an ö or an ü. #small #victories #LangSky #Classics #Egyptology

An exciting event! "The Making of Armenian America" at Columbia this fall.

"'There are no university-level Yiddish courses in Italy...,' said Enrico Benella, the translator of the new collection... "Benella began studying through the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages, which offers free online courses..." #Linguistics www.timesofisrael.com/italy-is-hav...

"'There are no university-level Yiddish courses in Italy...,' said Enrico Benella, the translator of the new collection... "Benella began studying through the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages, which offers free online courses..." #Linguistics www.timesofisrael.com/italy-is-hav...

#OTD 136 years ago, Lorenzo Dow Turner (1890–1972) was born 🥳 A pioneer of African American studies and creole linguistics, he is known for his work on Gullah, particularly its African influences among communities on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Free online conference this Friday (8/21), put on by the University of Muenster - "Amulets: Reflections on a Multifaceted Object Category." (Link = PDF of program and Zoom info.) #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/c...

An Open Access book to know about?: "The Value of a Human Life: Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity," edited by Karel C. Innemée. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky www.sidestone.com/books/the-va...

The Value of a Human Life @ Sidestone Press

Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much has bee...

sidestone.com

Just published in 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: A volume edited by Rebecca Grollemund, Derek Nurse and John R. Watterson that examines the historical relation between Bantoid and Bantu, focusing on languages spoken in southern Cameroon and south eastern Nigeria. 🔗 lnkd.in/d63Sn_w5

The entire volume or individual articles are available online and open access at: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

New publication: The article "Caland verbs in Celtic" by Stefan Höfler and myself has just been published in: L. Grestenberger, V. Reiter, M. Malzahn (eds), Deadjectival Verb Formation in Indo-European and Beyond. Berlin: Language Science Press 2026, pp. 83-113

Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics starter pack! #LangSky #Linguistics #Egyptology 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 bsky.app/starter-pack...

An Open Access book to know about?: "The Value of a Human Life: Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity," edited by Karel C. Innemée. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky www.sidestone.com/books/the-va...

The Value of a Human Life @ Sidestone Press

Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much has bee...

sidestone.com

Free online conference this Friday (8/21), put on by the University of Muenster - "Amulets: Reflections on a Multifaceted Object Category." (Link = PDF of program and Zoom info.) #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/c...

Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics starter pack! #LangSky #Linguistics #Egyptology 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 bsky.app/starter-pack...

My first dispatch from last week's PPA conference is on a mysterious mass grave in Roman Croatia that could hold the remains of people who died from the Plague of Cyprian. (Lots more research needed to confirm it, though!) 🧪🏺

'They basically used these dried-up wells just to throw people in': 43 skeletons found in Roman-era well may be evidence of deadly plague

Archaeologists have analyzed dozens of skeletons from a mass burial in a well. The lack of injuries suggests the people may have died from a plague rather than a battle.

livescience.com

status update on the almost-4-year-old's german, for my reference and potentially your interest she has learned: - conjugating verbs - past participle goes to end of clause - most phonology stuff (front vowels etc) but also she just doesnt have the mouth dexterity yet hit or miss: - gendered nouns

"Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film," a fun-looking exhibition coming to the Bard Graduate Center in NYC in September

Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film

When films were silent, fashion spoke volumes. Goddesses in the Machine reveals the untold story of costume and style in early Hollywood, from actors wearing their own clothes to the birth of the movi...

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