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Sara Ahmed Abdelaziz Mostafa on Child 'Pot' Burials in Predynastic Egypt. A wonderful short article. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky arce.org/resource/pot...

A very informative and enjoyable read -- Christopher Haas's 2002 "Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict." A book to know about. #Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky muse.jhu.edu/book/3204/

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

A very informative and enjoyable read -- Christopher Haas's 2002 "Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict." A book to know about. #Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky muse.jhu.edu/book/3204/

By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025) pims.ca/publication/... Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

*The Mind of the Slave: The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society* is the most original and most compelling contribution to our understanding of Roman slavery that I have read in a long time. The Q: How were the subjectivities of enslaved persons imagined by the slave-owning class? 1/4

Nicole J. Giannella's "The Mind of the Slave" is now available! The first volume of our Empire and After series investigates slave ownership and the limits of ownership in ancient Rome. Read more: press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-...

I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...

Sara Ahmed Abdelaziz Mostafa on Child 'Pot' Burials in Predynastic Egypt. A wonderful short article. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky arce.org/resource/pot...

Does the Egyptian royal title of the NSW-BITY mean "Exalted" and "Mighty"? Further details on my theory that was debuted at NACAL 48, now up on my blog. #Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #Linguistics egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/12/does...

If you're working on new preps for the upcoming semester, consider assigning Contingent! In addition to our mailbag and How I Do History series, we've sorted our pieces by theme to make it easier to find something that fits. contingentmagazine.org/for-educators/

I just noticed that besides the inscriptions with the verb HRƔ there are other inscriptions that all seem to begin with the letters ⵏⵙ @maartenkossmann.bsky.social @phdnix.bsky.social @lameensouag.bsky.social

Call for Papers: The Greek Bible Between Judaism and Christianity research unit, EABS Annual Conference, Leuven, 20–23 July 2026. Abstracts can be submitted by EABS members through the online portal: www.eabs.net

I'm reading arguing about the correct way to say conch - conk or contsh. Greek had konkhe, Latin had concha /konkha/, French has conche. Seems plausible to me we got a doublet - Anglo-Latin konk and Norman kontsh - that just so happen to refer to the same item and be spelled the same

New Cambridge Element, Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations, by Jonathan Dunn, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/3MJQ3YK #languageandlinguistics #LangSky

A question for folks who will know why: how much genAI use do you think is happening among early program history PhD students these days?

A neat bit of Japanese orthography. Japanese uses three scripts: 1. Kanji (chinese characters), basically for native roots and chinese loanwords. 2. Hiragana, mostly for case endings and verbal inflections 3. Katakana, mostly used for (English) loanwords. But katakana have other uses...

'Blue Crocus' Art Deco (1920-30s) teapot designed by British ceramics pioneer Clarice Cliff #WomensArt

I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of mechanized plagiarism, the paper should be immediately rejected, the authors' institution should be notified, and other potential victims should be notified. doi.org/10.24318/cop...

The Rhaeto-Romance Languages (2005) by Haiman and Benincà is free on Kindle: www.amazon.com/Rhaeto-Roman...

I think I've read that Hungarian -k pluralization is distinctively innovative, over a previous -i pluralization. A random linguistic thought/question -- Could it have arisen through glide fortition? I don't know sources/scholarship, however... I might have my facts wrong. #LangSky

Glide fortition (Verschärfung) in scattered Romance dialects Surmeiran Romansh /krejr/ [krekr] ‘to believe’ Belluno Ladin *mei > /mjej/ [mjek] ‘mine (pl.)’ East Friulian *mei > míak(?) ‘mine (pl.)’

Somehow I never knew that Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was the creation of a copywriter from Chicago... And, his inspiration involved the Lincoln Park Zoo and fog from Lake Michigan! 😮 jmarkpowell.com/the-jewish-m...

Thankful as always for #OpenAccess scholarship. 🙏 And, as is so often the case, German scholars have done important work with this! Look at all of these free online volumes of the Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. 📚 #Egyptology www.orient-gesellschaft.de/publikatione...

Brent Nongbri on "A Late Example of the Biblical Majuscule":

Okay, this one's just for the early Christian studies people: I'm updating the JECS list of preferred standard abbreviations, and a lot of journals have appeared or become more used in the field since the list got generated. I'm adding SLA, JLA, JOCS, EC (1868-7032), JECH, and ZAC. What else?

Does the Egyptian royal title of the NSW-BITY mean "Exalted" and "Mighty"? Further details on my theory that was debuted at NACAL 48, now up on my blog. #Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #Linguistics egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/12/does...

An Italian archaeological missions uncovers the remains of 5th Dynasty King Nyuserre’s Solar Temple Complex in Abusir. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky english.ahram.org.eg/News/558520....

Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me. This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold. Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD. Timeless beauty! 📷 Corning Museums of Glass 🏺

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Coptic Studies (Brussels, 11–16 July 2022) @irht-cnrs.bsky.social @openedition.bsky.social #openaccess books.openedition.org/irht/1502

Our annual Loeb tree is up! It's topped with a 3D print of a 3rd century BCE terracotta figure housed in the library @palaeofuturist.bsky.social sketchfab.com/3d-models/la...

New discovery: A late Archaic marble head of a Kore discovered at Vulci represents a rare instance of Greek statuary found within Etruscan territory. uni-freiburg.de/freiburger-u...

Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #WomensArt

Just saw Sault Ste. Marie written in Yiddish for the first time. An adventure, but not as exciting as Buenos Aires.

@almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day @sleepylinguist.bsky.social Do these phrases sound natural to you in Hungarian?: tudományos óriás (e.g. Karikó) irodalmi óriás (e.g. Krasznahorkai) I googled and found these phrases used in Hungarian texts, but I'm not sure if they're valid.

Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast | Egypt | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

"Moskowitz’s frozen dinosaur steaks betray the fear that a fast-growing and poorly regulated food industry could become a black box that delivered monstrous products and, furthermore, alienated consumers from their food."

a neat pun we found in Coptic reading group: ⲡⲁⲓ ϩⲱⲱϥ ⲟⲛ ϥⲛⲁⲁⲁⲩ ⲁⲩⲱ ϥⲛⲁⲣⲛⲉⲧⲛⲁⲁⲁⲩ ⲉⲣⲟⲟⲩ. "he himself will do them too" (ⲛⲁ-ⲁⲁ-ⲩ "will do them" [great works]) ".. and he will do [things] which are greater than they" (ⲛⲁⲁⲁ-ⲩ "they are great")

Roman shears (2ndC CE): "Whoever created the design clearly had a sense of humor; when the shears are closed, the top register brings a dog face-to-face 🐕 with a cat 🐈 on one side and a lion on the other." ✂️ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

Does anyone know of any good overviews of how the world's languages use coordination (parataxis) and subordination (hypotaxis)? I'm curious about common patterns, including with impersonal verbs and the different sorts of things that get grammaticalized. #LangSky

A charming Bes jar, on display at the Petrie Museum of #Egyptian #Archaeology. Vessels with the face of the protective deity Bes were thought to impart his protection to their content. 📷 me 🏺

A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions. https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm

Dictionary of of ancient Celtic from insular sources: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Many congratulations, Simon and Sasha, and whoever else will be involved in this project!

one very specific thing that annoys me abt Semitic languages is when you're reading an unvoweled text and you know the semantics of a specific verb and, when you look it up, both Form II and IV have the expected meaning but you don't have the sprachgefühl to know whether II or IV is more likely here

Exquisite Roman glass cup signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. AD 30-70. Ennion was the first glassmaker to ‘brand’ his work by incorporating his name into the mould’s design, some 2000 years ago! Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 📷 Leonardo.disimone #Archaeology