Principal Investigator Jonathan Valk was delighted to deliver a lecture on "The Origin of Written Aramaic" in a workshop convened by Maria Elena Balza on 25–26 May at the University of Pavia.

On April 18, our PI Jonathan Valk was honored to speak on "Ancient Assyrian Identities" at the Assyrian Cultural Foundation's Assyrian Renaissance Event in Chicago. Our thanks to the Assyrian Cultural Foundation for the invitation!

A new article published in the Journal of Open Humanities Data by T. Alstola, A. Sahala, PI J. Valk, and M. Ong is now available at openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/.../10.5334/... The article presents the methods and workflow for semi-automatic linguistic annotation of Akkadian cuneiform texts.

Ancient Assyrians - www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

We are pleased to announce Jonathan Valk’s publication of 'Ancient Assyrians Identity and Society in Antiquity and Beyond' with @universitypress.cambridge.org . The book discusses the development of Assyrian identity across the second millennium BCE.  https://aramaization.csic.es/ancient-assyrians/

On 12 December, Principal Investigator Jonathan Valk presented on 'Akkadian and Aramaic in Assyria: Between the Written and the Spoken Word' at the Seminarios MIHCA at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. https://aramaization.csic.es/seminarios-mihca-at-ucm

We’re excited to introduce our ERC-funded Starting Grant project, ARAMAIZATION, hosted at the @csic.es @cchscsic.bsky.social Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East (ILC).  We look forward to sharing our progress with you here soon. https://aramaization.csic.es/