Visiting Museum Moritzburg at Halle (Saale) one will notice an astonishing similarity between Nebra disk and a plate designed by bauhaus’s El Lissitzky in the 1920s 😉

Pi (π) has been known for almost 4000 years, but even if we calculated number of seconds in those 4000 years and calculated π to that number of places, we would still only be approximating its actual value. Ancient Babylonians calculated area of a circle by taking 3 times square

Pure #joy … sent to us from a distant past : fragments of a painted roof from ancient #pompeii , the city destroyed by Mt #Vesuvius in 79 AD

Cambodia's repatriation team draws on local memories to track down looted artefacts and uncover hidden histories southeastasiaglobe.com/as-looted-angk…

Curious about our highlight tablet of Back to School in Babylonia. What does it say and why do you see fingerprints and marks? Join us on October 4th at 7 pm CT and follow the endeavors of a Babylonian student who wrote this tablet.

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Im Rahmen des "Kolloquium #Provenienzforschung" lädt das #DeutscheZentrumKulturgutverluste am 20.11. zum Vortrag "Missionary ‘Collecting’ in Colonial Contexts – Aspects of the Relationship between Mission and Colonialism" ein. Mehr Infos hier: kulturgutverluste.de/termine/kolloq…

December 4-10, 2023: The 28th European Maya Conference at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Dept. of Anthropology of the Americas, in cooperation with #Wayeb, the European Assoc. of Mayanists, Workshops and Symposium, more: classicmayan.org/portal/doc/234, register: wayeb.org/conferences-ev… Maya-Wörterbuch

🗓Miércoles 15 de noviembre ⏰19:15 H 📍Auditorio del Centro Universitario de Exposiciones Descarga el programa en el siguiente enlace: drive.google.com/.../1e25rNGPve…...

Courtesy of Proyecto Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural working at Tonina, Maya-Wörterbuch is proud to present new inscriptions and drawings from the Maya site of Tonina, drawn by Bonn project member Guido Krempel classicmayan.kor.de.dariah.eu/#/new-media

A new research note by the Maya Dictionary Project Maya-Wörterbuch , authored by Sebastián Matteo on a looted Maya monument from the Classic Maya site of La Corona (Saknikte'), see also classicmayan.kor.de.dariah.eu/#/entities/299… and classicmayan.org, classicmayan.org/portal/doc/238 #ArtMarket

Traces of looting of Maya monuments: the sawing of Stela 1 at Sacul, photo by Karl Herbert Mayer in 2002; from the Maya Image Archive, which is part of the Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan project at Bonn Maya-Wörterbuch classicmayan.kor.de.dariah.eu/#/entities/312…

„Tanz im Varieté“: Verschollen geglaubtes Kirchner-Gemälde für fast sieben Millionen versteigert rnd.de/kultur/ernst-l… via RND

Open Access Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft ift.tt/TwnIMuH

A new decipherment by the Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan project Maya-Wörterbuch : Research Note on the Classic Maya logogram /A'/ for "thigh", just posted online on the project website as Research Note 29! classicmayan.org/portal/doc/239 #mayaglyph #decipherment

Discovery alert! During research for the Maya Image Archive of Maya-Wörterbuch , we identified a drawing by Teobert Maler (1842-1917) in Bibliothek des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts, revealing new parts of Yaxchilan Lintel 34’s inscription, allowing full reconstruction of the text. classicmayan.org/portal/doc/240

Publication alert: New publication by Maya-Wörterbuch , "Stela 64: A New Epigraphic Discovery at Copan, Honduras", by C. Prager, E. Wagner and S. Nakamura, at classicmayan.org/portal/doc/241

New Open Access resource: A Digital Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, by Maya-Wörterbuch at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, it combines epigraphic research with digital tools, correcting classifications, adding hundreds of signs, and enabling powerful search & filter functions. classicmayan.org/portal/signcat…