An opportunity to work with a truly wonderful supervisor in Dr. Steele, not to mention an exciting project!

At the Hieroglyphs exhibition at the British Museum - this is just mental.

Very cool for being a text on a wooden tablet (and such a long-neglected one!), but also see pt 3 of the thread for the tease ....

Thanks to PASP assistant Amber Kearns, 25 more Ventris letters are online. Two beauts with links: 1) Ventris to Bennett, while working in Crete on the Knossos tablets repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/hand… 2) Chadwick to Ventris on the decipherment repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/hand…

Next year we'll be launching a funded competition for Visiting Fellowships at the VIEWS project. In the meantime, anyone who has funding for a visit (or can apply for funding from an external source) is very welcome to get in touch. More information here: viewsproject.wordpress.com/visiting-fello…

A great blog post by Susan Lupack about how the Linear B exhibit on decipherment and the many documents related to Alice Kober made their way to Maquarie University. Also includes a link to an unboxing video... sites.utexas.edu/scripts/2022/1…

A lovely blogpost by Tom Palaima occasioned by the Susan Lupack + co. exhibition on Kober, Linear B and decipherment sites.utexas.edu/scripts/2022/1…

Just read about this open access book on grapholinguistics: Writing Systems and Their Use by Dimitrios Meletis and Christa Dürscheid degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Thinking about lost ancient writing on perishables, an article on a female from Deir el-Medina, tattooed with words and imagery associated with service to Hathor. Also a lotus on the lower back... and here we thought it was a Y2k thing 😂 journals.openedition.org/bifao/296

From UTs own Andrew Riggsby ! Great cover, great metaphor

1) A truly incredible artefact - This portable bronze writing case was found in an elite male burial in Thessaloniki, dating to around 350 BC. The fold-up case consists of two hinged half-cylinders with lidded compartments and a built-in inkwell.

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022. Extraordinary. news.mit.edu/2023/roman-con…

Look up the entry on the Psi figurine - the emotion I gave it was Protection, Anxiety, and Hope for the Future! Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory

The Development of Old Germanic Alphabets A table showing the evolution of the Old Germanic alphabet from its earliest Semitic antecedent - Phoenician script - through Greek, Etruscan and Rhaetian, to the Old Germanic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse runic scripts. titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/idg/ger…

Very cool thread on early runic writing in Norway ....

Millions and millions of largely handwritten slips illustrating Latin words at the thesaurus Linguae Latinae

In celebration of Yves Duhoux on his 80th birthday: sites.utexas.edu/scripts/2022/1…

🎉Congratulations to UT professors Geraldine Heng, Thomas Palaima, and James Pennebaker — all three were elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts & Sciences earlier this month!🎉 Read more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/news/american-… amacad.org/news/2023-memb…

youtube.com/watch?v=Zpo09w… Tom Palaima's key-note opening lecture for the National Archaeology Week 2023 at Macquarie University, Australia, in connection with their exhibition Mysteries Revisited: From Ancient Codes to Comic Culture.