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Timothy Doner

@Tim_Doner

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 Greek exam from the days when you *really* had to know your Herodotus (Trinity College, Cambridge, 1826):
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I like to imagine there was a Nazca child who would refuse to eat their mashed cassava unless it was served in the mice bowl
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@archaeologyart22 Jul 2025
Bowl with mice decoration, Nazca culture, dating from 100–500 AD. Currently housed in the collection of The Princeton University Art Museum.
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#OTD 11 years ago, Russia shot down a civilian plane #MH17, killing 298 people. We remember the victims and continue to work to bring those responsible to justice.
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OCIANA@OCIANA_OSU5 Jun 2025
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 Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time.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!
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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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Ed West (@edwest) profile pictureEd West@edwest11 Apr 2025
The Rest is History 1066 series has reinforced my belief that we should build a gigantic statue of Harold Godwinson in the centre of London - what do you think? 👇
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C4ADS
@C4ADS2 Apr 2025
🚨 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 More 👇 c4ads.org/news/annual-report…
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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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Was really hoping they’d find that Northwest Passage
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Lizzie 💫 (@lizziethat) profile pictureLizzie 💫@lizziethat17 Mar 2025
what was your biggest ship loss? like, the ship you cared about the most that ended badly?
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兎@fluopoika16 Mar 2025
we're waiting for the end of the sentence
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David (@DavidSHolz) profile pictureDavid
@DavidSHolz16 Mar 2025
can someone make a realtime voice-to-voice language translation ai yet? pls? what are we waiting for?
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It is very epic that there is a mosaic depiction of Constantinople in the neo-Byzantine Westminster Cathedral in London.
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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
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Jack Margolin@Jack_Mrgln18 Jun 2024
NEW from @C4ADS: How Russia procures machine tools from major international suppliers to sustain its war on Ukraine - despite sanctions and export controls. From machine tool expert extraordinaire @zerkzal c4ads.org/reports/war-machin…
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تحریر فارسی مقالۀ من و همکار هندشناسم دربارۀ «کتیبۀ دوزبانۀ زلمکوت» هفتهٔ پیش منتشر شد و در پیوند زیر در دسترس است: mirasmaktoob.com/wp-content/… کتیبۀ زلمکوت (به فارسی و سنسکریت) در شمال‌غرب پاکستان کنونی پیدا شده و کهن‌ترین سنگ‌نبشتۀ تاریخدار شناخته‌شده به خط و زبان فارسی نو است. ۳/۱
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If you pay attention to one tech twitter chart this week, I beg you, make it this one (not the other one)
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Spinoza after receiving the most polemical cherem ever issued from the Jewish community in Amsterdam:
katie kadue (@kukukadoo) profile picturekatie kadue@kukukadoo22 Feb 2024
go ahead. ratio me. i have my own, more powerful “ratio”: reason itself
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Aviation parts worth more than $8 million were imported to Yakovlev, a leading Russian manufacturer of fighter jets, from 2022 - July 2023. "RFE/RL obtained the data with the help of @C4ADS, a nonprofit data-analysis organization based in Washington." rferl.org/a/russia-war-sanct…
How A Russian Fighter-Jet Manufacturer Continued To Import Western Aviation Parts Despite Sanctions

How A Russian Fighter-Jet Manufacturer Continued To Import Western Aviation Parts Despite Sanctions

Though not a huge amount, the value of aviation parts imported to Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine highlights just how hard it has been for Western governments to police sanctions restrict...

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Jack Margolin@Jack_Mrgln24 Jan 2024
In an odd twist, the Russian IL-76 RA-78830, originally reported as the one shot down over Belgorod, was in fact en route to Syria and *possibly* the aircraft carrying Russian fighters for ‘Africa Corps’ to Burkina Faso.
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2/8 First, the Houthis do not only get their drones from Iran. Although based on Iranian designs, the group quickly learnt to manufacture drones locally through a mix of fiberglass casting & smuggling hi-tech commercial components. Why is this important?
This image was retrieved from CAR and their excellent report on the topic is available here, with a link also placed at the end of the threat: https://www.conflictarm.com/dispatches/evolution-of-uavs-employed-by-houthi-forces-in-yemen/

ALT This image was retrieved from CAR and their excellent report on the topic is available here, with a link also placed at the end of the threat: https://www.conflictarm.com/dispatches/evolution-of-uavs-employed-by-houthi-forces-in-yemen/

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"Caspar" is from Old Medean *ganzabarah: "treasurer", which was borrowed into Achamenid Persian, with descendants such as Persian گنجور <ganjur>, Akkadian 𒃶𒍝𒁀𒊒 <gan-za-ba-ru>, Aramaic 𐡂𐡍𐡆𐡁𐡓 <gnzbr>.
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