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The historic architecture of Ethiopia and Eritrea: a complete overview The modern countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea are home to some of the best-known historic architectural monuments in Africa.

The historic architecture of Ethiopia and Eritrea: a complete overview

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Hahaha yeah so I've heard

Do you believe Christians were responsible for creating the literary context in which the (Paleo-)Arabic script and subsequently the Qurʾān emerged from? Something akin to what we see the influence of Christianity had on the Armenian, Cyrillic, and (less convincingly) the Geʿez abugida script?

read it from ehret. will get back to you on the cognates.

Beyond Single Words: mā’ida– shayṭān – jibt and ṭāghūt. Mechanisms of Translating the Bible into Ethiopic (Gǝʿǝz) Bible and of Transmission into the Qur’ānic Text. Ethiopic influence and Ethiopic loan words in the Qur'an

the story of a descending heavenly table also exists in a ge'ez homily attributed to a 6th century bishop but in relation to the nine tsadqan (saints) www.academia.edu/47608498/Bey...

No expertise in linguistics so might be a dumb take but the cognates for river animals between agaw and PEC really lend itself to the idea that there existed some proto-language spoken along a river. Really wish linguists weren't so allergic to archaeology and genetics to see the connections here.

Photograph of a light grey rock fragment inscribed with 22 lines of Nabataean script.

🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿

Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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Mathematicians Casually Discovered Two New Infinities The possibilities might be endless—literally.

contra the singularity of the infinite.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/math...

there's limited genetic implications one can draw from linguistics presupposing linguistic clusters parallel genetic ones and that speakers have genetic continuity with predecessors of the same language family.

so linguistics only provides low resolution genetic info, especially archeogenetic info.

the west eurasian source for the naqada gebelein samples was best modelled as hotu iran, which has the highest percentage of basal eurasian ancestry yet recorded. modern egyptians are best modelled by neolithic levantine farmers than autochthonous north african basal eurasians found in naqadans.

oh you're referring to the unknown third intermediate, late intermediate, and byzantine samples. i agree with you, but it's just bizarre to me that upper and lower egyptians would continue to remain distinct in their basal eurasian ancestry after the middle kingdom period.

what is it about those samples there that suggest this component? that study has ancient egyptian samples from the predyn to the roman period

Oh hello. Let me introduce you to Mitri, an Egyptian scribe who lived 4,300 years ago.

He’s most famous now because of his extraordinary statue with its strikingly realistic, piercing eyes. They’re lined with copper & the iris is rock crystal. A truly remarkable artwork.

🏛️📷Egyptian Museum Cairo

you're right. the west eurasian source for the naqada gebelein samples was best modelled as hotu iran, which has the highest percentage of basal eurasian ancestry yet recorded. and it's very likely that basal eurasians were autochthonous to north africa according to pagani.

there's no peer-reviewed publication yet, but there's an article from someone who had access to a naqada sample from gebelein. it's admittedly low resolution but this component peaks in the kadruka sample from kerma, as well as in modern-day nubians, copts, and bejas.
revoiye.com/pre-dynastic...

as far as im aware, there's no solid evidence of the language spoken in these early nubian cultures during the predyn period. evidence of a nilo-saharan language only really emerge from the meroitic period.

wouldn't it be likely that the middle/terminal a-group nubians from the lower nubia and the eastern desert, who had settlements as far deep into upper egypt as hierankopolis, were these cushitic speakers?

Possible Linguistic Evidence for Egyptian’s Arrival from the West and Subsequent Absorption of Cushitic Speakers: A Tentative Reconstruction within Afroasiatic, Based on a Reanalysis of Ancient Egypti... This blogpost is part of an ongoing research project reanalyzing Ancient Egyptian for auxiliary verbs. It expands on ideas presented at the ...

Did Ancient Egyptian absorb a large number of Cushitic speakers, when Upper & Lower Egypt got unified?

A tentative reconstruction of some Afroasiatic prehistory-into-history, now up on my blog.

Let's discuss!

#egyptology #langsky 🧠💬
egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com/2024/11/poss...

I seem to have picked up a lot of new followers over the last few days (1k! 🤯).

So: Hi! If you're interested, below's a link to the PDF of our recently published intro "'Ethiopia' and the World, 330-1500 CE".

Otherwise, my 2021 book got a nice write-up here www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-...

Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme; the Spidermen are labeled "Ethiosemitic" and "Central Cushitic"

explaining where the /i e a o u ɨ ɐ/ vowel system came from