Reposted by Elisa NuryAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting! 201613390
Reposted by Elisa NuryColleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My new favourite sentence in a scholarly publication: 'we have arrived at a rather complete state of chaos'. (Dobbie, Manuscripts of Caedmon's Hymn, 1937) 1246
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The article by Sophia Connell is available here: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/54... It is quite interesting to read about why a book with a focus on midwifery was intended for a mostly male audience, and what effects it may have had. 000
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Next is Aristotle's Masterpiece, a book first published in 1684 and which became very popular, and pertaining to ancient learning, practical midwifery, and pharmacology. 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He's like the ten-headed demon Ravana... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravana Maybe we should pray Vishnu for an incarnation 😅en.wikipedia.orgRavana - Wikipedia 010
Reposted by Elisa NuryRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Dominique Cabrelli Little girls reacting to a wedding kiss, 2011 113323
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What is going on with the Greek here?? "poluphlois bois"? 010
Reposted by Elisa NuryAshmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Happy #WorldAnimalDay! Do you have a favourite in the Ashmolean? World Animal Day exists to celebrate animals but also to raise their status and improve welfare standards around the globe. The 4th of October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. 49943
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The replica "stands as evidence of the ways that sources have been interpreted, and of the importance of reconstructions - both as process and product". 110
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Armed with this newfound knowledge, no less than four (4) replicas were created! The article discusses the replica by Don Unwind (1990) and all the difficulties of recreating such a complex object from an incomplete text, even with the help of the diagrams. #DHmakes 120
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look at the diagrams, there is even a tiny dragon 😍🐲 (sorry for the photos taken with my phone, the manuscript is not digitized) 120
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026But we had only sparse (awstruck) descriptions of it until around 1960 and the Tractatus horologii astronomici or: ✨Bodl. MS Ashmole 1796✨ A manuscript containing a description of the design and construction of the clock, complete with diagrams! medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manu...medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.ukMaking sure you're not a bot!Anubis could not load its JavaScript. The server may be overloaded. Please reload the page to try again. 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The astronomical clock must have been quite impressive! In addition to showing the time, it likely displayed all sorts of astronomical information such as a black and white ball showing the phases of the moon, lunar eclipses, and possibly tides and planets 🌔🌊🪐 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Diagrams and Replicas of Richard of Wallingford's Clock, Seb Falk. "Richard, 28th abbot [of St Albans], gifted in holy and human sciences, built a clock which, we believe, surpassed all the clocks of this kingdom". 100
Reposted by Elisa NuryOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Onlineopenculture.comThe Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized OnlineThe history of the printed word is full of bibliographic twists and turns, major historical moments, and the significant printing of books now so obscure no one has read them since their publication. 111756
Reposted by Elisa NuryEllen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Abstracts are due this week! October 1. We take a broad view of "publishing" and are very interested in non-traditional forms of publishing and accessibility. Please get in touch if you have questions or want to float an idea before submitting an abstract. 1711
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Could it be Heqanefer (in the tomb of Huy TT40)? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heqaneferen.wikipedia.orgHeqanefer - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by Elisa NuryAlison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Perseus Digital Library has been hard at work on Minimum Viable Perseus (Perseus MVP). Designed as a static site and heavily inspired by the beloved but faltering P4 (and its awesome users), please check out our efforts here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates) and try it out: beta.perseus.tufts.edu 14219
Reposted by Elisa NuryDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Everything from "Fat & Irregular" to "Galloping Among The Stars" 🐴 🐎 #AncientAnimalNames 162
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There was this list of mesopotamian dogs! 🐶 bsky.app/profile/jane... 000
Reposted by Elisa NuryDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🏺 🗃️ Archaeologists/Historians - please shoot me your favourite examples & sources on ancient named animals, the older the better! Prefer farm animals but others also welcome 🐏 🐂 🐖 🫏... 🐕 #histsky (I already have Bramati 2025, & Alivernini & Bramanti 2023) 95225
Reposted by Elisa NuryMark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Now this is intriguing. Ulli Lust's exploration of prehistoric humankind, focused on the role of women throughout history. #ComicsIn2026 #comics 18317
Reposted by Elisa NuryThibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Want to play with corpora of the French 3rd Republic ? Want to join a nice team ? Want to do something else than LLM and have fun with smaller models as well ? Want to work with people in the humanities and the digital humanities ? Well, this might be for you 😄: jobs.inria.fr/public/class...jobs.inria.frNLP Post-doc / Engineer for Information Mining in Historical Data (French 3rd Republic)Offre d'emploi Inria 11710
Reposted by Elisa NuryCarausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday 10476109
Reposted by Elisa NuryDr Edward Scrivens @edwardscrivens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s the final day of Tolkien Week! In honour of the occasion, here’s a thread exploring some Egyptian connections in Tolkien’s legendarium, bridging Middle Earth with the ‘Two Lands’ of the pharaohs! #TolkienWeek #MiddleEarth #Egypt #Egyptology #LOTR #fantasy #history #literature 1267
Reposted by Elisa NuryKristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Very cool news out of Greece! 🧪🏺livescience.comNearly 2,400-year-old school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great discovered in GreeceA school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great has been found in northern Greece. 519662
Reposted by Elisa NuryAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026An ancient Egyptian crocodile that bites! 🐊 More than 3,000 years ago, someone carved this crocodile from wood and gave it a movable jaw. Perhaps a child’s toy, it offers a small glimpse into the playful side of ancient life. From Thebes, c. 1540-1075 BC Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me #Archaeology 19728169
Reposted by Elisa NuryKathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026US folks, I have heard today that UChicagoPress has FINALLY received their inventory from Canada so now you can buy a paper copy too!press.uchicago.eduIlluminating MediaReveals the hidden power of medieval manuscript decoration and its lasting influence today. The overlooked art of late medieval English manuscript illumination—its initials, borders, and non-figurativ... 23316
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026But despite his efforts, the author notes that "the more than one thousand steps of Kepler's argumentation are beyond the comprehension of most readers". Gerd Grasshoff, Deep Reading of Kepler's New Astronomy, An Exercise in Computational History of Science. 2007. #academicSky #scienceSky 110
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Mästlin, Kepler's teacher, critised him a lot for his Cosmographic Mystery "largely unintelligible", so Kepler made extra effort to make the Astronomia Nova more accessible... Maybe that's why he agremented most diagrams with flowers, to soften his text 😅 I mean they are cute 🌺 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Here is Kepler's diagram in the Astronomia Nova, illustrating his solution on the elliptic shape of Mars' orbit. Urania, the goddess of astronomy, is triumphantly holding a laurel crown while sliding on her chariot! 101
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026More from Totelin, Laurence and Perkins, Emma. Tools, Techniques, and Technologies: Essays on Ancient Science and its Reception in Honour of Liba Taub, De Gruyter, 2025. I am really enjoying reading this book on history and reception of ancient sciences doi.org/10.1515/9783...doi.org 110
Reposted by Elisa NuryDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh no, the house dragon is vomiting again! 1231766
Reposted by Elisa NuryMerisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The link to download the Baskerville Punch font family is HERE: baskervillepunches.org/baskerville-...baskervillepunches.org Baskerville Punch: a revival of Baskerville’s type | Baskerville Baskerville Punch: a revival of Baskerville’s type – BaskervilleBaskerville Punch is an open-source font family that aims to bring Baskerville’s types back to life, based on the original punches cut between 1750 and 1775, which are preserved in Cambridge today. Th... 151
Reposted by Elisa NuryMerisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Short post on the development of the RTI model here baskervillepunches.org/how-rti-reve...baskervillepunches.org How RTI Reveals the Secrets of Baskerville’s Punches | Baskerville How RTI Reveals the Secrets of Baskerville’s Punches – BaskervilleHave you ever wondered how we preserve and study the tiny, intricate tools used to print books centuries ago? At the heart of the Baskerville Project lies a fascinating technique called Reflectance Tr... 141
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ptolemy gives us the only known instance of Greek sexagesimals outside the astral science, in Harmonics : "for many [numbers] the fractional place is the Greek zero, which Ptolemy evidently - if perhaps optimistically - expected his reader to recognise" a feeling #academicsky can relate to 😅 000
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Unfortunately, the author does not give a folio number. Here is the manuscript for those interested in Greek zeros digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat... I'm illustrating it with the two diagrams of f. 137r 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ptolemy does not stop there, and is also very likely using zeros in his Geography 🥳 "I think there can be no doubt that Vat. Gr. 191 transmits a more authentic tradition, and that the small circles standing for the longitude ... are Greek zeros" 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In Ptolemy's Almagest, two or more zeros indicate a quantity indistinguishable from zero. And in the Handy Tables, we even have a *single* zero symbol representing a the quantity zero! 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There a few examples of Demotic papyri with a symbol functioning like the Greek zero. I don't have an image but it is described as "a horizontal stroke with a small tick mark above its centre" 100
Reposted by Elisa NuryThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 09/09/2026And then suddenly you find the most important question ever asked in an 17th century book. The depth, the power, the genius... Is cheese rational? Well, is it? IS IT?! web.archive.org/web/20200915... 2740088
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In both Babylonian and Greek sexagesimal systems, they used placeholder zeros (eg in 205 the zero marks the absence of tens). Babylonian used the "glossenkeil" 𒑱 sign, and Greek a dot or circle with a horizontal stroke above. The origin of the Greek sign is not known, maybe Demotic? 101
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ancient Babylonian mathematics are A Challenge! You can have a string of numbers that are multiplied by a power of 60, with no clue what the power actually is... You only know it is decreasing from left to right 🤷🏻♀️ 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My grasp of the sexagesimal numerals, and ancient mathematics and astronomy in general, is so bad that for 75% of the paper I might as well try reading Old Babylonian! Like YBC 7289, the oldest best approximation of the square root of 2. 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Reading "Greek Sexagesimals and Zeros" by Alexander Jones. Key takeaways... I like the Greek zeros 🤩 100
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ancient Babylonian mathematics are A Challenge! You can have a string of numbers that are multiplied by a power of 60, with no clue what the power actually is... You only know it is decreasing from left to right 🤷🏻♀️ 000
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A few takeaways: My grasp of the sexagesimal numerals, or mathematics and astronomy in general, is so bad for 75% of the paper I might as well try reading Old Babylonian. Like YBC 7289, the oldest best approximation of the square root of 2. It has a diagram 😍😍 001
Elisa Nury @elinur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I was thinking more pigeon 🐦⬛ but why not a pterodactyl! 010
