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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 20h

A great little write-up thanks to the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: The use of positive "anymore" in English. #Linguistics #LangSky ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/po...

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Positive anymore | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Using Declassified U-2 Spy Photos for a Remote Archaeological Survey in Egypt," a 10/3 ARCE-Chicago talk by Dr. Oren Siegel. Online attendance possible (registration required). #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #Classics arce.org/event/arce-c...

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ARCE-Chicago: Using Declassified U-2 Spy Photos for a Remote Archaeological Survey in Egypt by Oren Siegel - ARCE

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New book from Brill: Dr. Markéta Preininger's "The Magical Body: Embodiment in Coptic Magical Papyri." It covers "[t]he lived experience of individuals from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt." #Classics #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky brill.com/display/titl...

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The Magical Body

"The Magical Body" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Enjoying "Grammaticalization" in Montpellier: grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org My presentation handout is here: zenodo.org/records/2309...

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This looks fantastic: “Dr Mara Nicosia will explore the education of Syriac Christian intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq, and the role they played in carrying Greek science and philosophy into Arabic” 🗃️

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History of Syriac Intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq | The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Join IIS on 7 October 2026 for an online IHTLS lecture about history of Syriac intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq were educated and rose to prominence.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally had the opportunity to see the Louvre inscription live. Such beautiful stone mason work!

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new interactive archaeological map of Alexandria! 🗺️😍 It launches CartAlex of the Centre d'Études Alexandrines, "a new online cartographic platform dedicated to the archaeological & historical heritage of Alexandria & its region." #Egyptology #Classics #AncientBlueSky maps.cealex.org/maps/alex/

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CEAlex maps - Alexandrie

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This just arrived from Hungary. Pretty happy to finally get my hands on this little known but fairly important resource.

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An #Egyptology - #FashionHistory crossover! How Egyptomania influenced fashion, through the beginning of the 20th c.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the interesting things with Punicus being an exonym is that the traditional Tuareg script - clearly a descendent of the Libyan scripts of Antiquity - is called Tifinagh. By far the most likely etymology is “the Punic ones” 1/2

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Worst epic incipit ever

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Was going to write a blog post on what we know about where Proto-Semitic may have been spoken, but here's one from ten years ago that does a great job (details of linguistic classification aside).

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Spread of the Semitic languages | Daan Nijssen - Ancient History Blog

The Semitic languages have dominated the Near East since the dawn of recorded history. Where did these Semitic languages originate and how did they spread?

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Sampsa Holopainen @sampsaholopainen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This paper (by me, Terhi Honkola and Samuli Helama) on possible connections between the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of the Uralic languages was published last week.

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Extreme events and the spread of Uralic languages

In this paper we present novel aspects concerning the possible connection between the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of Uralic languages f…

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Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NACAL 49 Paris begins today The final program can be found at this link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Pzgi... The abstract booklet is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1S5T8...

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I teach about the Holocaust I ask my students if they know who Roma are. Until about five years ago, most students had no idea but were familiar with the g-word. For the past five years, most students have known. I asked a scholar about what happened: Marvel's Wanda, that's what.

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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ARCE-Chicago: Using Declassified U-2 Spy Photos for a Remote Archaeological Survey in Egypt by Oren Siegel - ARCE

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An #Egyptology - #FashionHistory crossover! How Egyptomania influenced fashion, through the beginning of the 20th c.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026

Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.” [pitchfork.com]

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Stevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks

“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder

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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Out today in open access: /Philology in Europe Before and After 1800: Change and Continuity/, ed. Laura Loporcaro and Paul Michael Kurtz. (To which I was honored to add an afterword!)

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Philology in Europe before and after 1800 | Change and Continuity | La

Philology in Europe before and after 1800 investigates a period often regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the humanities. Since the nineteenth

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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CEAlex maps - Alexandrie

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shout-out to the wonderful library and amazing librarians at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I suggested this book as an acquisition as soon as I found out about it, and within less than 24 hours they had ordered it.

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now at the #OpenAccess Bibliothèque ouverte d'égyptologie: "From ancient Egypt to the catwalks: fashion as an expression of Egyptomania in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century," by José das Candeias Sales, Susana Mota, & Carla Mota. #Egyptology zenodo.org/records/2237...

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From ancient Egypt to the catwalks: fashion as an expression of Egyptomania in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century

From architecture to furniture, from cinema to video games, and from literature to comic books, ancient Egypt has been a constant presence for centuries through the adoption and adaptation of its them...

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Journals should now probably be requiring peer reviewers to sign statements that they will not upload submissions they're reviewing into any external AI platform; wondering if any editorial boards are discussing this currently

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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The Magical Body

"The Magical Body" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

10/14/26 in London - "This in person seminar will explore current research on the lived experience of children in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and opportunities for new displays on this life stage in the British Museum." #Egyptology #Classics #AncientBlueSky ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵New digital resources for Masoretic studies: a megathread. We're living in a golden age of digital tools for the study of the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible. This thread compiles recent resources, several of which have launched just this year.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#TIL where exactly the term "abugida" for an alphabet with modified consonant signs to show the following vowel comes from. Besides the South #Semitic letter order shown on the left here, the #Ge'ez script can also be presented as on the right: ʾä bu gi da he wə zo bä gu di ha we zə yo ...

Ge'ez reading table with the HA HU order on the left, the A BU GI DA order on the right, labiovelars bottom left, numbers bottom right, extra letters and English alphabet (with Ge'ez transcription) along the bottom, a map of Ethiopia in the center top, and the "Apostolic Alphabet" practice text in the center. Picture via uthiopia.com/, my understanding of what's going on here from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica via en.sewasew.com.

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Émilie Oléron Evans @bringyourownsun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'[Students] generally do not want history departments to normalise or require high levels of AI use.'

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My recent presentation exploring the function(s) of "cognate complements" or "verb doubling" in a corpus of Barayin (Chadic) from the Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zhv...

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Cognate complements in Barayin (Chadic) | Workshop on verb doubling in Chadic languages (CALL 2026)

YouTube video by Joey Lovestrand

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A fun peculiarity in the history of Egyptian #Arabic -- Its French-like "(ne)... pas" negation likely came from #Coptic speakers who knew Arabic as a second language. And, you can trace back their Egyptian negation 2,000+ years, to usage in the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant. #Linguistics

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In Jespersen's Cycle, a direct object becomes negation. Take French "pas" (step). From phrases like "I'm not moving a step," the "ne... pas" negation arose. #Coptic had a similar Ⲛ︦... ⲀⲚ structure, but the etymology was unclear until now. Ⲓt's "piece"! #Egyptology #Linguistics pes.ff.cuni.cz/en/

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The extraordinary 3,000 year-old ‘Berlin Gold Hat’! One of four known cone-shaped golden ‘hats’ from ancient Europe. Sheet gold decorated with bands of solar and lunar motifs, which may represent calendars according to latest research. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a very tall, slender, conical gold object known as the Berlin Gold Hat, displayed against a dark museum background. At the top end, the tall slender cone narrows to a pointy tip.
At the bottom it widens into a rounded base with a broad flat brim. It is made of very thin hammered sheet gold, the entire surface of which is embossed with horizontal bands of decoration. Repeated motifs of concentric circles, disks, ovals, and other symbols, are thought to represent the sun and moon. According to latest research this may represent solar and lunar calendars. It is dated to the late Bronze Age, c. 1000-800 BC. It is 74 cm tall and weighs 480 gms. On display at Neues Museum, Berlin. It is one of only four known golden ‘hats’ from ancient Europe. Three from Germany and one from France.

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#OTD 268 years ago, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838) was born 🎉 He was an expert in Arabic, Syriac, and Persian, and the first French linguist to attempt to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphic texts on the Rosetta Stone. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 18/09/2026

this is such a good article. Mateusz was kind enough to send me an early PDF and it's really good!

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Prague Egyptological Studies, #OpenAccess and out now! Note my etymology of the #Coptic negation (Ⲛ︦)... ⲀⲚ, which likely spread into some Arabic & Berber. As suspected since 1904, it arose much like the French (ne)... pas. #Egyptology #Afroasiatic #Linguistics #Classics pes.ff.cuni.cz/en/

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