New on the #ISAWNYU Library blog:

> Patrick Liu, a Latin student at the Dalton School ... reports on his summer internship experience with the ISAW Library on helping to develop a post-OCR correction dataset for Latin

https://isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/interning-in-the-isaw-library-developing-an-error-correction-dataset-for-latin-texts

> Over time I became more familiar with these mistakes, almost like I learned the dialect of OCR errors. Seeing how letters and words were so easily bent or altered made me further appreciate the fragility of digital transference.

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Interning in the ISAW Library: Developing an Error Correction Dataset for Latin Texts

A guest post by Patrick Liu, with an introduction by Associate Research Scholar Patrick J. Burns, reporting on Summer 2025 internships in the ISAW Library working on the Post-OCR Corrections using Latin Annotations (POCULA) project.

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Sanskrit: The Ancient Language Powering Modern AI Innovation

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Early evidence of writing found at La Peña del Castro, Spain

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking find at La Peña del Castro, an Iron Age settlement in La Ercina, León. They’ve unearthed one of the oldest known examples of writing in the region. A team from the University of León identified a Celtiberian alphabet inscription on a spindle whorl, a tool for textile production...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/02/early-evidence-of-writing-found-at-la-pena-del-castro/

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Early evidence of writing found at La Peña del Castro, Spain

At La Peña del Castro, an Iron Age settlement in Spain. archaeologists have unearthed one of the oldest known examples of writing in region.

Archaeology News Online Magazine

Ancient genomics reveal the origins of Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian languages

A new study revealed key insights about Mediterranean language families’ origins, including Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian branches of Indo-European. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists conducted this research...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/origins-of-italo-celtic-and-graeco-armenian-languages/

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Ancient genomics reveal the origins of Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian languages

A new study revealed key insights about Mediterranean language families' origins, including Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian branches of Indo-European

Archaeology News Online Magazine

Rare bilingual inscription discovered in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province

During a recent excavation in the village of Alqan, located in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province, archaeologists uncovered a bilingual inscription featuring two lines of Thamudic script alongside one line in early Arabic...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/06/bilingual-inscription-in-saudi-arabia/

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Rare bilingual inscription discovered in Saudi Arabia's Tabuk province

Archaeologists have uncovered a bilingual inscription featuring two lines of Thamudic script alongside one line in early Arabic in the village of Alqan

Archaeology News Online Magazine

I love #kids. Always doing things their predecessors couldn’t. For the prize of $1 million he’s changed our knowledge of history.

“Farritor, then enrolled as a computer science major, learned Latin as a kid and used to spend hours in history museums, but he never considered the classics an especially lucrative pursuit. That was until he heard about the Vesuvius Challenge.”

#AI
#AncientHistory
#AncientLanguage #Scrolls

https://www.thefp.com/p/luke-farritor-vesuvius-challenge-scrolls-rome

The 22-Year-Old Who Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Rome

A treasure trove of ancient texts has been unreadable for 2,000 years. By using an AI program he designed, Luke Farritor helped unveil its mysteries for the first time.

The Free Press
Speaking with Angels: The Mysterious World of Enochian Language

Enochian represents an enigmatic tongue that occultists John Dee and Edward Kelley chronicled in their 16th-century diaries. They asserted that this 'divine dialect' facilitated conversations with the angelic domain.

Ancient Origins UNLEASHED

The oldest known sentence in the #AncientLanguage of Canaanites has been decoded by at team of Israeli #archaeologists, unearthed at #TelLachish, an ancient city in the #Biblical #KingdomOfJudah.

Experts translated the comb to read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”

The landmark discovery provides evidence for the use of the #alphabet 3,700 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8NHg82wbsk

#Archeology #History #Bible via @BBCWorld

Archaeologists discover oldest known sentence in first alphabet - BBC News

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