Former Middle East #OSINT at @C4ADS | Recovering philologist | @Harvard, @Cambridge_Uni alum | Featured in @NYTimes @TheEconomist @BBC for language skills
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A 2013 video of me just went viral on Iranian Instagram and I'm feeling all the feelings
Hands down THE best Ancient Greek tool I’ve ever seen. The automatic grammatical analyses/glosses make Xenophon, Plato, etc. so much more accessible and engaging
Hats off @kevinpalbrecht for the incredible work you’re doing, and hope you can expand to other languages one day!
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A Greek exam from the days when you *really* had to know your Herodotus (Trinity College, Cambridge, 1826):
Excited to announce the launch of our new open-source platform Horizons at @C4ADS! We've used this tool for years to aggregate, organize and investigate billions of public records, and now we're opening it up to the broader public. More details below
From uncovering illicit networks to tracing financial flows, strong investigations demand more than access — they demand tools that keep up. So we built our own.
Introducing Horizons: a platform by investigators, for investigators. 1/4 🧵
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Worth noting this excavation was just two days(!) from the start of Operation Barbarossa
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The pre-Islamic script from Dhofar is undeciphered and therefore there are no inscriptions of this type in #OCIANA. Now we have the decipherment of the main variant of the Dhofari alphabet: academia.edu/129778573/Al_Ja…. There is much more work to be done now that reading is possible.
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Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk delivered a report regarding today’s operation. An absolutely brilliant result. A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range operation. Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time. I thanked General Maliuk for this success of Ukraine. I instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to inform the public about the details and results of the operation that can be disclosed. Of course, not everything can be revealed at this moment, but these are Ukrainian actions that will undoubtedly be in history books. Ukraine is defending itself, and rightly so – we are doing everything to make Russia feel the need to end this war. Russia started this war, Russia must end it. Glory to Ukraine!
Some more fascinating news on the archeology/genetics front (Hun-Xiongnu continuity)
Elite Hun child from Poland Czulice (czu-002, ~%80 East Asian) yields N1a, he very likely has N-M2019 as well (similar to TGH Hun and Elite Xiongnu) if the sample had enough Y-chro resolution.
N-M2019 shows a continuous eliteness among both Xiongnu and Huns.
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He bewerede Engla lande is þætte he dyde. He wæs beald Engla cyning. And on þissum huse, Harold Godwining is hæle! Ende þæs spelles!
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🚨 The 2024 C4ADS Annual Report is finally here! 🚨We’re proud to share this comprehensive overview of the challenges, successes, and impact we had last year — follow this thread for some highlights! 🧵 1/7
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An astonishing hoard of 39 Roman gold aurei has been unearthed in Suffolk! The coins of the 'Hartismere District Hoard' date from the reigns of Augustus to Nero (c.19 BC-55 AD) and were probably buried by a Roman soldier around the turbulent period of the Boudican revolt.
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It is very epic that there is a mosaic depiction of Constantinople in the neo-Byzantine Westminster Cathedral in London.
Would be super exciting if true. I remember reading an attempt to etymologize the plurals in a dialect in Boyer-Ahmad as an Elamite substrate but have no idea where to find it…bit convoluted, but definitely fun to think about
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Since I’m posting about the evolution of writing systems this week, here’s an awesome infographic from the ever-fantastic @Starkey_Comics showing the orthographic family tree for the scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
#writing #alphabet #spelling #history #linguistics #language
