UNICODE 17 IS RELEASED ! Announcement: blog.unicode.org/2025/09/unic... Latest core spec online: www.unicode.org/versions/lat... New scripts: Beria Erfe, Tolong Siki, Tai Yo, Sidetic

The name Anextiomarus or Anextlomarus, from proto-Celtic *anextlom, 'protection', and *māros, 'great', is attested in several dedicatory inscriptions, including as an epithet of Apollo (from South Shields, South Tyneside), or as a female deity, Anextlomara (Avenches, Swizterland)

Some quite wonderful examples of late medieval and early modern cursive Glagolitic from Croatia www.croatianhistory.net/etf/kurziv.h...

On Israeli archaeological malpractice, heritage crimes, and US complicity #archaeology #🏺

Linguist friends… any help with script identification and possible interpretation? #mystery #mysteryscript #icon #orthodoxicon

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

A garden in Gaza: once rubble, now a lifeline. In this essay, Mariam Mushtaha shows how tending mint and basil became a way to resist hunger and reclaim dignity under genocide. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Alright I have a non monetary request to help someone in Gaza! @rerogaza8.bsky.social is working on her studies and had to produce a podcast episode- so she interviewed @ssaakkhheerr2.bsky.social about his life in Gaza. Part of her grade is based on views- so give it some views!

Next week, we will have new poetry from Palestinian poet from Gaza Fatena Abu Mostafa, one of our 2025 Gaza Literary Translation Workshop participants (supported by @PalestineWrites). Here, she talks about what writing means to her. www.youtube.com/watch?v=juU3...

Centuries before modern linguists, Andalusi scholar Isaac ibn Barūn laid the groundwork for comparative Semitic linguistics with his pioneering 12th-century Judaeo-Arabic grammar. Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina introduces his work in our PhD Research Series: uhh.de/csmc-medina

The runic text is taken from the Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror), advising one to "learn all tongues without forgetting your own". The original has "helzt latínu og völsku" 'but first Latin & French', 'völsku', cognate with Welsh, reflecting its use by Germanic speakers to refer to Romance ones

Joli ajout à mon corpus : une amphore apulienne (vers 340 av. n.è.) conservée au Musée Saint-Rémi à Rheims (musees-reims.fr/oeuvre/ampho...). On y voit une tombe (un "naiskos") occupé par une jeune femme peinte en blanc, tenant un miroir et une phiale. Les plissés de sa tenue sont très détaillés 🏺

A reminder that archaeology was identified as one of the core components of the ideological scaffolding of apartheid by Francesca Albanese in her latest report 5/ everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...

"We are facing a long standing structural system of oppression & exploitation against the Palestinians that has turned genocidal.. & Israel wouldn't have been able to do what its doing.. without the active support of far too many states" @franceskalbs.bsky.social at the Gaza Tribunal today

‘When the western-backed, Saudi-led military campaign began in March 2015, I started compiling a mental list of all the ways the war was scorching the concept of childhood in Yemen.’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Nadine Shah, Portishead, Celeste, broadcaster Louis Theroux, and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, among new names for Together For Palestine, which takes place at OVO Arena Wembley on 17 September buff.ly/1uRAP2G

3,900 years ago, an Assyrian trader named Aššur-taklāku found himself in an unfortunate situation during his travels: he was accused by local Anatolian rulers of taking orders from the king of a rival city. After being imprisoned for two months, a group of his colleagues met with the king and queen,

🚨An asbolute disgrace on the part of the EAA! "Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity" cc @archagainstaparth.bsky.social blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

The link isn't working for me for some reason but this one does www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

This is precisely what this decision will do. It will absolutely render women and children radically unsafe, and closes YET ANOTHER safe and legal route. All so that a far-right mob are appeased and a far right discourse is fully entertained, in all sense of that word.

Agnes Obel – September Song

Our Neanderthal cousins have been intensively studied. But every year we learn more and more about them. A couple of recent papers highlight the kinds of hypotheses that are being tested by ongoing research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-205

People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Life takes on a different meaning in Gaza: the hungry family who gives a handful of flour to a widowed neighbour; the person who collects bones, then wraps and buries them … What survives from the city, what manages to escape the ashes of destruction, will not vanish with the smoke.’

5,000-Year-Old Tombs Reveal Links Between Mesopotamia and Ancient Oman. archaeology.org/news/2025/08...

Newborns are being forced to share an incubator at Gaza City’s al-Helou International Hospital as rising cases of acute malnutrition overwhelm the wards. Doctors say hospitals are running out of space amid Israel's man-made famine.

A favourite raga of mine from the vaults. Bhairavi is traditionally a morning raga, but in forms like Sindhi Bhairavi it often wanders into looser, more romantic, late-night moods. I often turn to it in moments of sadness or melancholy, and find it always carries me through.

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

From the Ackland Art Museum. Chapel Hill, NC. Classical reception is everywhere.

Big news in 🐴 domestication from Xuexue Liu and colleagues led by Ludovic Orlando @cnrs.fr! Out now @science.org ancient horse genomes reveal genetic changes that contributed to making the animals tame, strong, and rideable 🏇 📄: scim.ag/3Jz8qhn #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4oWdlsJ

Nemahsis - Miss Construed

New paper! ⚡ With Gabriel Aguirre and Marcelo Sánchez, looking at patterns of blowgun types and use across societies of the world. We find areal patterns, similarities mediated by cultural connections, and specific types characterizing distinct branches of the Austronesian language tree. 🎯

I have withdrawn my in-person participation from the @asor-research.bsky.social conference

Revisiting an epic and meaningful moment from North Sea Jazz Festival this summer: the very first time my beautiful sister Norah Jones and I performed together onstage. ‘Traces of You,’ a song full of memory; written in love, shared in joy.

Universities in Gaza seek practical international support www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

A heartbreaking farewell to Journalist Hala Asfour as she mourns her fiancé, journalist Mohammed Salama, an Al Jazeera cameraman, who was tragically killed this morning in the deadly Israeli massacre at Nasser Medical Complex.

Francesca Albanese to contribute to Corbyn 'Gaza tribunal' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/francesca-albanese-contribute-corbyn-gaza-tribunal

BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action' Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning

Carreg Ogham a Lladin o’r 6g, Eglwys St Illtud, Ynys Bŷr. 6thC Caldey Island Stone ✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our deep fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists, offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost: uhh.de/csmc-hensley

Shared by a friend - Classical #Nabataean #carvings in the wild. More specifically, #Hegra or #Madain #Saleh, #Saudi #Arabia. Thanks James! #writingscripts #epigraphy #archaeology #matuww

'always and forever', ḏt nḥḥ, 𓆖𓎛𓇳𓎛 This chapter has a detailed discussion on the different interpretations of 'ḏt' and 'nḥḥ' as distinct aspects of time pure.coventry.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

A new translation of an ancient Sumerian tale about a crafty fox 🦊. Clearly has been a long-running trope! news.uchicago.edu/story/uchica...

Hi, all! I help run @aothenmagazine.bsky.social. We are a Classics/Ancient Studies journal that publishes poetry, fiction, & art twice a year alongside our year-round online Columns. We aim to make Classics more accessible to a general audience. Please consider supporting us by following along. ♥️

Not all readers leave notes… Some leave with the folios. In the 16th century, five folios, including the Liber Pamphili poetae, were cut from this 14th-C manuscript. A 16th-C note records the theft: 'Huius libri fur quidam postrema quinque folia abstulit [et Lauermione] cultru excisus. /1

I WON. It did not take much pushback. They are weak! They are full of shit. And they will BS thinking you have no power against their exploitations My article is open access without them extorting 4000 British pounds from my grant, money I rather give to my students so they pay for food and rent