The 2000 year old Anisa Plate shows that Greek was spoken in Anatolia at that time
anatolianarchaeology.net/the-2000-year-…

Position in Uppsala: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, Carian and Greek personal names in contact. Published now in: News from the Lands of the Hittites 7, 2023.
academia.edu/117054298/Adie…

Helena Bibowa, the oldest and only surviving native speaker of a tiny language called Wymysiöeryś is turning 102 today.
In honor of that, let me take you along on the story of Wymysiöeryś.
It's of death and resurrection, and a hefty deal of random, but I promise it's a happy one.

Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites, turned white with the snow that fell yesterday. Photo: AA

Archeologen betreuren schade historisch Gaza: ‘Verlies voor de geschiedenis’ /via NOS nos.nl/l/2512110

My new text book 'Linguistic Archaeology' will soon be out! The book deals with methods of reconstructing language in prehistory, from the comparative method to typology and phylogenetics. routledge.com/Linguistic-Arc…

Very exciting, and something that (again) lends further credence to Willemijn Waal’s (Universiteit Leiden NINO Leiden) argument for an earlier development of the Greek alphabet.

Three researchers from the #FacultyOfHumanities of #LeidenUniversity will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO Nieuws). Read more about the research of Jenneke van der Wal, Petra Sijpesteijn en Victoria Nyst. bit.ly/49WJCI5

March 11th: New publication date for David Hawkins Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions Vol. 3. degruyter.com/document/isbn/…

Clay tablets dating back thousands of years moved from NINO to UBLeiden: ‘From receipts to the oldest literary works’. Article on Universiteit Leiden website: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Kleitabletten van duizenden jaren oud verhuisd van NINO naar UBLeiden: ‘Van bonnetjes tot oudste literaire werken’. Op de website van Universiteit Leiden:
universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/02…

Duizenden jaren oude kleitabletten van Nederlands Instituut voor Nabije Oosten hebben nieuw onderkomen in Leidse UB. 'Ik ga de tabletjes wel missen, hoor.' #leidschdagblad leidschdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf2024022…

Wil jij weten hoe het is om aan Universiteit Leiden te studeren en wil je meer weten over onze bacheloropleidingen? Bezoek dan onze Bachelor Open Dag op zaterdag 2 maart in Leiden en Den Haag. universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/extra/2…

ISAC and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) at the University of Chicago invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor in Hittitology. For information, visit:
isac.uchicago.edu/article/hittit…
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Aanstaande woensdag (21 feb.) geef ik ’s avonds een lezing in het Gallo-Romeins Museum in Tongeren (Be.), ‘Op zoek naar de wortels van onze taal’.

Mocht je in de buurt zijn, kom dan vooral langs!

galloromeinsmuseum.be/zien-en-doen/o…

40 Kurgans dated between 3300 to 3200 BC from Turkey Istanbul and a massive movement.

Om nom. Proofs of my paper in Ancient History Mag on lost Hittite and Mycenaean statues. Building on my previous suggestion that a Hittite silver fist-shaped rhyton may not, in fact, be such a ceremonial vessel, I identify some other suspicious objects -this time in Greece..