Langues en or, extrait de l'Iliade retrouvé dans l'abdomen d'une momie : de rares découvertes effectuées en Égypte Une équipe d'archéologues, fouillant la nécropole d’Oxyrhynque, a retrouvé dans une momie un fragment de papyrus contenant un extrait du texte du poète grec Homère.

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Published today: papyrus excerpt of Iliad's Catalogue of Ships discovered in the abdomen of a mummy.

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A cute figurine of a bear made from amber. It looks like a gummy bear

A figurine of a hippo with a hole in his back and a loop of gold going through the hole. The figurine is made of a transparent glassy material. Rock crystal, perhaps. It looks not unlike a Foxe's glacier mint.

A carved bust of a bearded man in a brown material, against a red background. If you told us it was carved from chocolate, we wouldn't argue.

A figurine of a hippo in a green material (nephrite, apparently, whatever that is). It looks like it could be a wine gum, but one of the green ones that no one really likes.

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

I was thinking about music, but sport is an equally helpful analogy. Need to train, avoid injury, build stamina, warm up and warm down. We don’t do any of this (to my knowledge) which may be one of the reasons mental health is under so much pressure. Academia as performance discipline.

Ça promet!

Everything is very stupid, Thucydides edition, peer-reviewed version.

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I like how you frame it here almost as if teaching/presenting is exercise, from which one must recover. It's good for you, but hydrate!

DAWN OF THE DEAD (Anagram-Haiku)

Woodland: The day breaks.
Another dead body walks
and wreaks bloody death.

Now I've heard there was a dreadful post
That when it's read man it sucks the most
But you don't really care for posting, do ya?
It goes like this, log off you tit
The dreadful dork, the major grift
The baffled posters saying "Please touch grass, mate"
Please touch grass mate
Please touch grass mate

Sing the rage, Nuclear Phone,

huh weird, did republicans make some kind of colossal historic fuckup in the past few weeks?
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Hello. Been away.

Here’s a near perfectly preserved shield (or hoplon) found at Olympia in Greece. If you zoom in, you’ll see little holes in the rim used to tie on a leather cover. It was probably dedicated as a gift to Zeus.

🏛️ Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
🕰️ c 500 BC

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These days, every day feels like Friday the 13th.

Cylindrical glass beads in bright shades of blue and turquoise with white horizontal stripes

Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.

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The Delphic Oracle spoke: “If you launch this war, you will destroy a great empire and enemy of world peace, and your name will be remembered for millennia.”

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They couldn’t have found a better example of the profound lack of understanding these machines and their promoters have of language, literature, and human communication styles if they had been trying to discredit AI!

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LOL...they did their best.

Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...

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I'm so confused. I tagged you because Charlayn and I were discussing a paper by Alex Forte. I met him and his partner Helen (I think?) back in 2012 in Leiden. Sorry for the confusion!

Of Narratives and Nature with Prof. Joel Christensen (ep. 103) YouTube video by Homer Hotline

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Thank you, Curtis!

WORD FACT

Greek “dramein” (“to run”) and the related noun “dromos” (“running, racecourse”) ultimately give us:

Hippodrome → A racecourse for chariots (“Hippo-” = horse)

Dromedary → via Greek “dromas kamelos” (“running camel”) and Late Latin “dromedarius”

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I may be mistaken, but I thought minimus was by the Helen Forte that I met in Leiden. If that's not you, I apologize!

Mysteriously all the Epstein news seems to have quieted down. Ditto ICE domestic terror.

And replaced with gross loss of lives and global destabilization.

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Hell. Hell is where you go.