Languages Archive
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How to swear (politely) in ancient Rome
Posted on July 30, 2012 | No CommentsJust use words like butubatta, spattaro or attatae. -
A Goliard Witness: The De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Martianus Capella in the Methamorphosis Golye Episcopi
Posted on July 13, 2012 | No CommentsAnother twelfth-century poem in the same goliardic metre as the two lines just cited, the Methamorphosis go lye episcopi, goes far beyond this passing mention of Martianus and makes a most unexpected use of the De Nuptiis. -
The Problem of the Early Proxen
Posted on June 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe xen -
A Vineyard in the Small Oasis:What Was the Dispute About?
Posted on June 1, 2012 | No CommentsThis article is is a paper detailing an ancient document on the Bahariya Oasis. -
Roman Imperialism and Runic Literacy : The Westernization of Northern Europe (150-800 AD)
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe onslaught of Roman imperialism caused the invention of runic literacy in Northern Europe during the Early Roman Iron Age. -
Ancient North Arabian
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsIn the western two-thirds of the Arabian Peninsula, from southern Syria to Yemen, inscriptions testify to the use of a number of different ancient languages and scripts. -
The Napoleonic Egyptian Scientific Expdition and the Ninetenth-Century Survey Museum
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsIn the eighteenth-century European imagination, however, ancient Egypt was a place of mystery. Three tangible aspects of Egyptian culture contributed to this view- mummies, hieroglyphs and the ancient Egyptian monuments present in Egypt. -
Tweets of Antiquity: Project examines ancient graffiti
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsComprehensive new collection illuminates popular history from Alexander the Great to the rise of Islam -
The beginnings of the written culture in Antiquity
Posted on November 27, 2011 | No CommentsThis paper proposes an analysis of writing as a system for communication, since its origins, in terms of its uses and socio-cultural context. -
On Kings and Nomads: New Documents in Ancient Bactrian Reveal Afghanistan
Posted on November 27, 2011 | No CommentsUntil very recently, Bactrian, the ancient language of Northern Afghanistan, had been one of the least known of the Middle-Iranian languages.
