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VIEWS Summer seminars 2026 We are delighted to announce an exciting programme of seminars for the coming term, taking place in May and June 2026. The first two seminars are in-person/hybrid, the second two online only &#8211…

Roll up for the VIEWS summer seminars! We have Egyptian graffiti, the Phrygian alphabet, early cuneiform animals and the ultimate question of how writing grows up and develops... Two hybrid sessions, two online only. Join us!

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Traybake with white icing and grey iced inscription (Oscan language written in the Greek alphabet)

British #Epigraphy society conference #cake reveal: a new Oscan inscription from the sanctuary of Rossano di Vaglio, recording restoration work by a magistrate called Nimzis Sadiries, son of Nimzis.

Publication: works.hcommons.org/records/h8cy...

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Jamigraphy in Cambridge In March we were very lucky to have the opportunity to host a Jamigraphy session as part of the Cambridge Festival, thanks to funding from the CRASSH events programme. Jamigraphy is a process inspi…

It was a huge privilege to be involved in this collaborative event with Alice Mazzilli, Helen Magowan and Pule kaJanolintji (+others). A great research experience.

With support from @crasshlive.bsky.social and part of the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

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Composite image with the WAVE 2 logo at the bottom, and at the top Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, with the words "WAVE 2 is over, but there is another... WAVE 3 coming in 2027!"

WAVE 2 is over... But there is another... WAVE 3 coming in 2027!

Writing As Visual Engagement WAVE 2 Faculty of Classics, 26th-29th March 2026 + Online, 11th April 2026 Where our first conference, Writing As Visual Experience, was themed around the visual experiences of writing, our second …

Further information, including abstracts, here: viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-v...

Conference programme

WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement still has one day of online papers left to go: Saturday 11th April, 10.50-16.15 BST.

Zoom registration here: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Some saharan tifinagh inscriptions

This is a brilliant piece of research by Anushah Hossain at the SEI, establishing vital groundwork for the study of emergent scripts and problems surrounding their development and encoding.

The Armenian Who Learned Greek in Ancient Egypt Or: Why my (probably) favourite historical document is a unique Armenian text without a word of Armenian. But first, a break from your scheduled linguistics, with a message from our sponsor (my fle…

No other ancient document holds my interest and affection quite like this one papyrus, written in Egypt in the Armenian alphabet. It's a goldmine of linguistic evidence not for the Egyptian or Armenian language, but for Greek!

Here's my enthusiastic introduction to it:
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@majnouna.com This looks like something you might enjoy? And also just looks fascinating.

Writing As Visual Engagement WAVE 2 Faculty of Classics, 26th-29th March 2026 + Online, 11th April 2026 Where our first conference, Writing As Visual Experience, was themed around the visual experiences of writing, our second …

Our conference WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement is nearly here (26th-29th March and 11th April).

You can watch online! Updated programme, abstracts booklet and zoom registration link all here:

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#New on #OCIANA: Is this the oldest #Arabic inscription yet discovered? The famous #Bāyir inscription is now online. An ancient Arab calls upon the Canaanite gods: Malkom, Kemosh, and Qaws to protect the wells of Bāyir (ancient: ʾabāʾir).

Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...

Aww that is sweet

Afternoon session in collaboration with CRASSH and the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

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Writing as Rhythm: Jamigraphy - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Morning session: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49163/

Last call to ppl in #Cambridge:

Join us for Jamigraphy! Learn about research on movement, embodiment and emotion in writing. Write to the rhythms of our live music.

Saturday 21st March
Alison Richard Building (West Road)

Panel discussion+workshop 10-1

OR

Workshop only 2.30-4.30

Links 👇👇

You can read these emotionally - and some might even say academically - truthful stories for free here:

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The harshest of reviews from some spambot 😂

Join us in Cambridge on Saturday for a very special event exploring writing through and with rhythm - so excited for this!

(in person only, booking via link)

Suspect about half are my frequent updates about project stuff 😂

Classical linguistics people, come and work in Cambridge! A temporary post but it is for 36 months: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54614/

a series of images of a man raising his hands in the air for joy, with Egyptian hieroglyphs and early alphabetic signs for "hey" (!) in alternating rows

Boredom and the invention of the alphabet, a modest proposal: boredom and the desire for novelty are powerful factors in modern media, but they equally animate not only the history of ancient media but the way modern scholars have told its story. For example what the hell is going on here? ↓

A map of Tifinagh alphabets by Jean Loïc Le Quellec :

Green : Archaic alphabets
Blue : Classical alphabets
Red : Transitional alphabets

The transitional alphabets are more recent than the others, and it's these alphabets that gave the Tuareg Tifinagh script .

'Cikai Korran came here and saw': Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

Global antiquity! 🌎 “Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages [= Old Tamil] have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.” The graffiti discussed here is so cool and indicate Indian travellers to Roman Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries CE www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

"A spindle-whorl for a spindle-whorl", as the Old Testament says (vaguely remembered).
Here's one from Orkney for Women's Day, in Sc. Gaelic & ogham script (Buckquoy, S-ORK-005). It probably reads BENDDACTANIML "a blessing, soul of L".
🔗: ogham.celt.dias.ie/S-ORK-005
📷: @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social

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Adam Yeo - Writing as Image: A Comparative Visual Study of Bété and Chinese Scripts YouTube video by Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems

Adam Yeo's seminar is now online if you missed it and would like to catch up.

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That's my thinking too! The choice of letters is fascinating actually.

bearded man holding rooster kneeling unbearded man holding rooster kneeling

May the best cock win! I must say I would not want to hold a rooster with exposed genitals. Seems dangerous. Also check out this bizarre inscription

EX ? ? ? C K T K X E X Q K X E X Q E X Q E X E

any thoughts?

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