Yahoo reported a frenzy of web search activity from those interested in a discovery in the Pyramids of Giza complex: http://tinyurl.com/3rtuw7e David Q. Hall ...
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Jim West
drjewest
Jun 2, 2011 12:57 am
yes, it's that time. every 4 to 6 weeks some 'new discovery' springs out of egypt's sands. like clockwork. keeps the tourists coming. ... -- +++++++ Jim...
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stefanjakobwimmer
stefanjakobw...
Jun 3, 2011 1:51 pm
The following announcement might be of interest to list members. The new library includes Oriental (and Ancient Oriental) languages: An international-scale...
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Phoenix
hail_isis
Jun 5, 2011 9:17 am
Hello, Here are a couple of examples of marriage/near-marriage after the death of one of the potential spouses- At the start of the Trojan War, Spartan...
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Doug Weller
dougweller
Jun 5, 2011 8:36 pm
Hi, I know nothing about Sumerian, and we have an article on Wikipedia about 'Hursag'. I'd really appreciate it if someone could tell me if it makes sense -...
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Garold Mills
gmills4248
Jun 5, 2011 10:52 pm
Hi Doug, Just a brief look and it looked interesting and well done. Garold Mills University of Oklahoma To: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com From: dweller@... ...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
Jun 6, 2011 4:06 am
Dear Colleagues,  Shalom, ‘Atiqot 59n is now online and can be found in the "Past Issues" of the Israel Antiquities Authority website. Eliot Braun, Ph...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Jun 6, 2011 2:55 pm
<http://www.s155239215.onlinehome.us/turkic/42TurkicAndSumer/SimoParpola_Altaic-UralicAndSumerEn.htm ... Simo Parpola Sumerian: A Uralic Language (Helsinki,...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jun 6, 2011 3:27 pm
My first problem with Simo's paper is that he talks about "Ural-Altaic." Since there is no such thing, it renders suspect anything he might say about Uralic ...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Jun 6, 2011 6:22 pm
Peter, For those of us who are philologically challenged, could you explain why "Ural-Altaic" is now a non-category (at least in some eyes). Trudy S. Kawami,...
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Sikozu Johnson
sikozujohnson@...
Jun 6, 2011 8:00 pm
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Trudy Kawami <tkawami@...>wrote: "For those of us who are philologically challenged, could you explain why ...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Jun 6, 2011 8:02 pm
... I'm not Peter, but this is my understanding the current view: There is no Ural-Alataic because there is no Altaic language group. It is a ghost-family...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Jun 6, 2011 8:53 pm
So in other words, this language "grouping"; is about as valid as the image of the Sumerians in their creaky 4-wheeled carts pulled probably by onager-donkey...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jun 6, 2011 10:30 pm
My reply will be somewhere between Sikozu's and Bob's. These days, there seem to be more Altaicists favoring the genetic unity of the three (not just two)...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Jun 6, 2011 10:47 pm
... Oh, it's a valid "grouping";, it's just not a demonstrable language family if one takes "language family" in its accepted historical linguistic meaning of a...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Jun 7, 2011 12:14 am
... Perhaps, but since Vovin jumped ship so dramatically in 2005 ("The end of the Altaic controversy" [review of Starostin et al. 2003], *Central Asiatic...
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Ralph K. Pedersen
RKPedersen
Jun 7, 2011 11:49 am
On 23-25 June, Philipps-Universitat Marburg is holding the symposium "On Sea and Ocean: New Research in Phoenician Seafaring." The symposium is without...
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aren
arenmaeir
Jun 7, 2011 12:15 pm
Dear all, A document is being distributed through various channels, describing the plans of a supposed joint American, Israeli and Palestinian excavation...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Jun 7, 2011 2:56 pm
Turn it into a webinar and I'll be happy to join. More should be done in that medium.  george gfsomsel … search for truth, hear truth, learn truth, love...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Jun 9, 2011 2:45 pm
Well, is Sumerian still to be regarded as an orphan, having lost all its relatives, and having died out with no distant family members to attend its funeral?...
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Xianhua
e2waxi
Jun 10, 2011 9:59 pm
I'm not really specialized in emesal but somehow I have the impression that it, perhaps similar to the UD.GAL.NUN writing system, is not far from a...
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Jim West
drjewest
Jun 16, 2011 1:40 pm
list folk may enjoy this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13733615 via jim aitken on fb. -- +++++++ Jim West, ThD Petros, TN...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jun 19, 2011 1:15 pm
Jackie Leyden just presented a very long report on Brooklyn College's Aramaicist Karen Stern discovering a new tomb graffito at Beth Shearim -- pictures at...
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MarcC
marc.cooper
Jun 19, 2011 3:06 pm
I heard it this morning. It was a very good report. Definitely worth a few minutes. Marc Cooper Missouri State University...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jun 20, 2011 2:52 pm
What I found most interesting was that Jacki Lyden (as someone else spelled her) said she accidentally spilled coffee on the papers Ms. Stern was grading and ...
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Antonio Lombatti
antonio_lomb...
Jun 20, 2011 7:13 pm
... found in Cyprus: http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=13365 ... Antonio Lombatti http://www.antoniolombatti.it Parma, Italia [Non-text portions of this...
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Ianir Milevski
ianirm
Jun 20, 2011 9:44 pm
Culture, Chronology and the Calcolithic. Theory and Transition. Levant Supplementary Series 9. Council for British Research of the Levant and Oxbow Books....
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Antonio Lombatti
antonio_lomb...
Jun 21, 2011 6:16 pm
... found in Jerusalem: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-21/diggers-unearth-3-000-year-old-tablet-jerusalem-s-oldest-written-document.html? ... Antonio...
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Jim West
drjewest
Jun 21, 2011 7:23 pm
old news from last year. not sure why they're re-running it now- but it's not new. ... -- +++++++ Jim West, ThD Petros, TN...
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zmbq
Jun 22, 2011 7:38 pm
They're running it again because the site is now open for public. Itay Zandbank, Israel...
