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• Two Poorly Understood Sites

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 464
  Rujm al-Malfouf To be honest, I wanted to call this topic “two mysterious sites”, but as we all know, ancient historians must avoid clichés like “mystery”, “lost city”, and “treasure” – that would be the equivalent of “gathering war clouds”, “ghosts from the past”, or “child of ...
  6 days ago

• Technology brings new insights to Middle East’s oldest language

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, October 16 (ANI): New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East’s oldest continuously spoken and written languages.Members of the West Semitic Research Project at the University of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Technology Aids in Understanding Ancient Language

  
  Chess, Goddess and Everything — Authority: 141
  I was really struck by the number of female specialists mentioned who are working on this project while reading this article. (Part of the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project)From the University of Chicago website/news:Technology brings new insights to ancient languageOctober 14, 2009New technologies and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Digging through the past

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 135
  This very cool and the tech they created to do this with is very,very cool. Unlike the highly politicized Chicago School of Economics (Friedman et. al. responsible for disasters all over the world including Pinochet’s Chile and the recent economic collapse) The University of Chicago’s Archaeology department ...
  4 weeks ago

• Writers You Should Read: Books that take you places

  
  College Jolt — Authority: 112
  In the ’80s, TV critic Neil Postman claimed that the invention of television had zapped the national print culture –– that our generation had stopped reading, that we couldn’t write for beans, and that to top it off, this made us “lousy citizens.” Harsh. I may be all for TV, but I am also all for books, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Technology brings new insights to ancient language

  
  The Aramaic Blog — Authority: 111
  New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle Easts oldest continuously spoken and written languages. Members of the West Semitic Research Project at the University of Southern California are helping ...
  4 weeks ago

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