Silvia Ferrara

May 1, 2023 | fabula.org | Silvia Ferrara

Traduit par Jacques DalarunDes empreintes de mains sur les parois de Pech Merle à celles de Yenikapı en Turquie, des girafes gravées dans le désert du Sahara aux pétroglyphes géants d’Hawaï, des temples de Göbekli Tepe aux signes énigmatiques dans les grottes marines du Salento, Silvia Ferrara nous entraîne dans un extraordinaire voyage sur les traces graphiques de l’humanité.

Jan 30, 2023 | languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu | Tom Metcalfe |Candida Moss |Silvia Ferrara |Todd Portnowitz

[This is a guest post by Chris Button]Below are my reconstructed Old Chinese onsets lined up with the 22 "tiangan dizhi"* calendrical signs ("ganzhi"). To be absolutely clear, the reconstructions are based on evidence unrelated to the ganzhi. It's just a very interesting coincidence that they happen to line up so well. Pulleyblank was clearly onto something! I'm not including the Middle Chinese reflexes here, but I have worked them out in detail and can send that over if there is interest.

Jan 21, 2023 | languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu | Candida Moss |Silvia Ferrara |Todd Portnowitz |Johanna Drucker

BBC (11/27/22) article by Hugh Schofield:"Charles V: French scientists decode 500-year-old letter"A coded letter signed in 1547 by the most powerful ruler in Europe has been cracked by French scientists, revealing that he lived in fear of an assassination attempt by an Italian mercenary.