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6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871 http://www.openculture.co... http://cdn8.openculture.c...

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"A beautiful early example of visualizing the flow of history, Sebastian C. Adams’ Synchronological Chart of Universal History outlines the evolution of mankind from Adam and Eve to 1871, the year of its first edition." - maitani - -

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David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.co... - maitani - -

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Bibliographia Iranica http://www.biblioiranica.... http://i2.wp.com/www.aras...

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"A few years ago, I started a Twitter account, where I wished to tweet about new publications in Iranian Studies. The Twitter format, however, was not suitable and I closed the account. Unsatisfied with the search capabilities of Facebook, where information is difficult to retrieve (a black hole), I decided to put together this site, where I will announce publications and events relevant to Iranian Studies. If time permits it, I will annotate new publications, and if not, they will just be announced. In the context of this site Iranian Studies refers to more than just pre-Islamic Iran and Zoroastrianism. I use the Unified Style Sheet as a bibliographic format, which is in part promoted by the Linguistics Society of America." - maitani - -

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New Book: Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds https://memiyawanzi.wordp... https://i0.wp.com/assets....

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"Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of social status and group membership. Language could reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences." - maitani - -

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Milestone: Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies http://ancientworldonline... http://journals.sub.uni-h...

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"At the beginning of May 2015, AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies passed the 1500 title mark. While I make every effort to make sure that all links are working, some come and go, and others fall out of use. If you notice any broken links, please send me a comment. I'll do my best to fix them. Likewise if you know of a title that is missing from the list, please let me know." - maitani - -

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He does great work, I couldn't appreciate it more. Thank you, Mr Jones! - maitani - -

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Now Available Online | Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām http://kleos.chs.harvard.... http://kleos.chs.harvard....

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"Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran focuses on the content of one of the most important inscriptions of the Ancient Near East: the Bisotun inscription of the Achaemenid king Darius I (6th century BCE), which in essence reports on a suspicious fratricide and subsequent coup d’état. Moreover, the study shows how the inscription’s narrative would decisively influence the Iranian epic, epigraphic, and historiographical traditions well into the Sasanian and early Islamic periods." - maitani - -

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Lexicity http://lexicity.com/

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"The first and only comprehensive index for ancient language resources on the internet." - maitani - -

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I seriously risk not doing anything else but using the links of this website, now. - Haukr - -

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A Calendar Page for May 2015 http://britishlibrary.typ... http://a4.typepad.com/6a0...

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"The Zodiac sign for May is Gemini, portrayed here unusually as conjoined twins (cephalothoracopagus twins, to be precise, who are joined at the thorax and share a single head). May is the month in which the Finding of the Holy Cross is celebrated. The event is depicted in one of the roundels, with the Pope and other figures standing as witnesses. In the scene below, the gentlewoman and her lapdog make a reappearance, boating on a river. She is playing music on a lute, while one of her companions accompanies her on an instrument resembling a recorder. In the background, two gentlemen are out hunting: they are riding on horseback, one of them bearing a hawk on his wrist. A servant follows, carrying a lance and also a hunting bird." - maitani - -

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The Great & Beautiful Lost Kingdoms http://www.nybooks.com/ar... http://www.nybooks.com/me...

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"“People of distant places with diverse customs,” wrote a Chinese Buddhist monk in the mid-seventh century, “generally designate the land that they admire as India.”" - maitani - -

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"Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, Fifth to Eighth Century an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, April 14–July 27, 2014 Catalog of the exhibition by John Guy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 317 pp., $65.00" - maitani - -

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suffrage (http://www.etymonline.com... )

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suffrage (n.) late 14c., "intercessory prayers or pleas on behalf of another," from Old French sofrage "plea, intercession" (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin suffragium, from Latin suffragium "support, ballot, vote; right of voting; a voting tablet," from suffragari "lend support, vote for someone," conjectured to be a compound of sub "under" (see sub-) + fragor "crash, din, shouts (as of approval)," related to frangere "to break" (see fraction). On another theory (Watkins, etc.) the second element is frangere itself and the notion is "use a broken piece of tile as a ballot" (compare ostracism). - Halil from Bookmarklet - -

Meaning "a vote for or against anything" is from 1530s. The meaning "political right to vote" in English is first found in the U.S. Constitution, 1787. - Halil - -

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Agriculture Came with Men to the Indian Subcontinent http://www.unz.com/gnxp/a... http://upload.wikimedia.o...

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"I am often asked by people online to give an “elevator pitch” as to the genetic history of the Indian subcontinent. At this point we’ve got ~90 percent of the story I think. Modern humans arrived in the Indian subcontinent ~50,000 years ago, and pushed onward to East Asia, but over the past ~10,000 years massive changes have occurred genetically due to the intrusion of populations form the northwest and northeast, with likely total cultural turnover. What do I mean by this? First, it’s highly probable that all of the extant language families of the Indian subcontinent are rooted in lineages which were present outside of the Indian subcontinent before the Holocene. In other words, during the Ice Age the ancestral linguistic entities which gave rise to Indo-European, Dravidian, and Austro-Asiatic, were present outside of confines of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan. The only exception here are the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islanders.*" - maitani - -

article by Razib Khan - maitani - -

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What Did Proto-Indo-European Sound Like?—And How Can We Know? http://languagesoftheworl... http://languagesoftheworl...

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"Archaeology magazine recently published an article entitled “Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European”, which included a recording of a short text in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the ancestor of modern languages in Europe and parts of Asia. This recording, made by Dr. Andrew Byrd of the University of Kentucky, a student of UCLA’s Indo-European expert H. Craig Melchert, drew considerable attention in the media (see here, here, and here). The text read by Byrd is a short parable called “The Sheep and the Horses”, which was originally written by a German philologist August Schleicher in 1868, as a way to experiment with the reconstructed PIE vocabulary. Here is the English translation of the story (which may sound familiar to people who watched the movie Prometheus):" - maitani - -

"A sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The sheep said to the horses: “My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses.” The horses said: “Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool.” Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain." - maitani - -

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Francis Walsingham matriculated at King's College, Cambridge, in 1548 with many other Protestants but as an undergraduate of high social status did not sit for a degree. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...

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I'm confused, was this normal for the time that people of so called high status enrolled but didn't actually bother to sit for the degree? So highborns got free degrees in any field they wanted? - Halil - -

It sort of sounds like legacy admissions at US universities. - John B. - -

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Alashiya; possible ancient name for Cyprus but I wonder if it's not Turkey? If you say the name slowly it has similar phoneme to the word Asia and Turkey was called Asia Minor, I know I'm pushing it with that theory! Anyway, any thoughts?

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The name of the state translated as "Alashiya" is found on texts written in Egyptian, Hittite, Akkadian, Mycenean (Linear B) and Ugaritic. http://en.wikipedia.org/w... - Halil - -

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Akkadian is the common link here! Akkadian language http://en.wikipedia.org/w... - Halil - -

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