Mr. Verb

Check this out. Lots of our readers probably know about Proto-Elamite ... written about 5,000 years ago and basic undeciphered. Now the...

I found out yesterday that Emmett Bennett passed away two weeks ago here in Madison. He was an emeritus professor of Classics , where he tau...

Anybody know how much is new in this claim of the decipherment of the Indus (Harappan) script? Asko Parpola (University of Helsinki) has lo...

Check out the Onion's* latest statshot ( here ). 11% are working on that philology badge!!! * America's Finest News Source, of cour...

Recently, I posted something on graffiti at the University of Chicago in a variety of often-obscure languages ( here ), suggesting that our ...

This is cool. A student at Chicago has done a book on local graffiti in the Regenstein Library: There are still plenty of nerds at the Univ...