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Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network. For more information please visit our websites: https://linktr.ee/viewsproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

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𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌹𐌻𐌰@hrotha.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jajajaja noooo artesano del féretro de san Cutberto cómo me escribes el nombre sacro griego ΧΡΣ (Χριστός, Cristo) como ᛉᛈᚴ, con la runa ᛈ (p) como si eso no fuera una rho, qué vergüenza pavo, que si pones XPS en el alfabeto latino tiene un pase pero con las runas menudo ridículo lol

Foto del féretro de san Cutberto. Los fragmentos de los paneles de madera que han sobrevivido están colocados sobre un soporte moderno para dar una idea del aspecto que habría tenido.Detalle de una de las ilustraciones del féretro. Aunque muy dañada y rota en varios fragmentos, se aprecia a María con el niño Jesús. Arriba a la derecha hay una inscripción rúnica, pero en la foto la verdad es que no se aprecia.Dibujo de la ilustración anterior en el que la inscripción rúnica se ve claramente.
VIEWS project@viewsproject.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm stupidly pleased with this giraffe doodle 😂 Well my son likes it, so that's enough for me. We watched a video and discovered that giraffes say "Mmmm" (having wondered what sound to ascribe to them while singing). Mirror writing speech a la Greek vase painting.

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VIEWS project@viewsproject.bsky.social · last wk.

I would urge everyone to read this response to the New Yorker's upsetting piece that really mischaracterised language revitalisation efforts.

Endangered Languages Project@e-l-p.bsky.social · last wk.

If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

Dr Danny Bate@dannybate.com · 3w ago

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!

Transcription of an Etruscan epitaph, four lines of black text, written from right to left, taken from Wikimedia Commons
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 4w ago

A game board from the forum of Timgad (Algeria) is a more Roman spin on the trite ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ sign. Replacing hunting w/cheese & and I am in, y’all. ‘venari lavari / ludere ridere / (h)oc{c} est / vivere’: ‘to hunt, to bath, to play, to laugh — This is to live!’ (CIL VIII, 17938). 🛁

A famous board from the forum of Timgad, for instance, gives us an idea of fun pastimes in and around the city: ‘venari lavari / ludere ridere / (h)oc{c} est / vivere’: ‘to hunt, to bath, to play, to laugh — This is to live!’ (CIL VIII, 17938).
Anna P. Judson@annapjudson.bsky.social · last mo.

#OnThisDay in 1952 Michael Ventris announced on the radio that he had deciphered the Linear B script, and the language it was used to write was Greek: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/maga... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 1/2

Linear B decoder Michael Ventris on BBC in 1952

For more than 50 years, the decipherment of a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles - it was eventually cracked in 1952 by a British architect.

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VIEWS project@viewsproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Seminar today! 16.30 BST (UTC+1) Vincent Morel: Inscribing Territoriality: Graffiti and the Politics of Visibility in Egypt’s Eastern Desert 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.

cam-ac-uk.zoom.us

VIEWS project@viewsproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.

cam-ac-uk.zoom.us

VIEWS project@viewsproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Red alphabets and yellow alphabets - take that, Archaic Greece! (Joke reveal: regional Archaic Greek alphabets were very diverse in letter shapes and values, and have been classified into colour-coded types by modern scholars: red, green, light blue and dark blue. But not yellow! 😁)

Wooden letters coloured red and yellow Painted red L and M about to be painted, with paintbrush and a partly painted wooden rainbow at the edge.My son Ben crouched over a partial red abecedarium from A to K
VIEWS project@viewsproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Seminar today! Jeiran Jahani: Pluriverse of animals in lexical lists of the Late Uruk period 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.

cam-ac-uk.zoom.us