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Deciphering the Fuente Magna Bowl. The Fuente Magna Bowl In 1549, while searching for the capital of the Inca Empire, Spanish conquistadors, led by Pedro Cieza de León crossed into Bolivia and discovered the ruins of Tiahuanaco.

Deciphering the Fuente Magna Bowl

Less than a quarter mile northeast of Puma Punku, scientists believe Tiahuanaco was once the center of a civilization with more than 40,000 inhabitants. Sumerian/Grammar. In the lessons below, you'll be introduced to aspects of Sumerian grammar in (hopefully) bite sized chunks. If any of the lessons are confusing, don't hesitate to edit them for style, or use the discussion boards for suggestions!

That's the spirit of the wiki, after all. Lesson One - The Plural Marker. Основные сведения / euskara exotica. экзотические языки. Шумерский язык. Шумерский-Русский Словарь, Glosbe.

Urartu Language

The Melammu Project. Semiticbibliography. The Digital Library Of Inscriptions and Calligraphies - About the Digital Library Of Inscriptions and Calligraphies. Modern technology in general, digital in particular, have added new dimensions as well as more sophisticated vocational requirements to the field of Library and Information Science, from which researches and knowledge lovers benefit. Amidst this tremendous quantity of forms of the technological revolution, it was natural for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to adopt the concept of digital publication in order to make it available to researchers interested in science and knowledge.

This, in turn, is what propels the Calligraphy Center to provide the study of inscriptions, calligraphy, and writings of the world across the ages from the prehistoric age until now with a new approach and vision. From this premise, the idea of the Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies was generated. The project of the Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies is considered a digital record for writings carved on buildings and archaeological remains across the ages. Ancient Language Resources Online. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period - You are seeing an unstyled version of this site. If this is because you are using an older web browser, we recommend that you upgrade to a modern, standards-compliant browser such as FireFox [ which is available free of charge for Windows, Mac and Linux. Images of Esarhaddon and his tutelary deities carved on a stele discovered at Zinçirli. Vorderasiatisches Museum, VA 2708 (Esarhaddon text no. 98).

Worksheet1a - Cuneiform numbers. InscriptiFact. Home Page | About Us | Instructions | News and Articles | What's New For more information, write to Leta Hunt, lihunt@usc.edu, or Marilyn Lundberg, mlundber@usc.edu. Copyright © 1999-2013 West Semitic Research. All rights reserved. The ancient Persian alphabet. Cad_a1. Semitic Roots Repository. Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers. [Most recently updated 2 January 2016] Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers relating to the ancient world Additional resources of thus type are accessible through the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) Project pages at the University of Minnesota.

Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers

And see also Lexicity And see also Smarthistory, a "multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook" Linguistics:blog:2012-11-21-210557 [Challenge of Cognitive Reverse Engineering (CCRE)] TEI: Text Encoding Initiative. EpiDoc Guidelines. EpiDoc is an international, collaborative effort that provides guidelines and tools for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents.

EpiDoc Guidelines

These are the Guidelines produced by the collaborative. In addition, the EpiDoc Website provides access to all the tools and collaboration environments supported by the collaborative. Learn how to write Cuneiform - Caroline Ludovici.

Cuneiform Collections and Archives

Egypt. Ugaritic Language. Sumerian Language. Akkadian Language.