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How Does One Explain Babylonian Hemerologies?
A date on the calendar can feel harmless until it tells you not to change your clothes, eat a particular meal, or ask a physician for help. That was the strange, serious world of Babylonian hemerologies, ancient texts that sorted days into safer and riskier moments. They were not horoscopes in the modern newspaper sense.…
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How Does One Understand the Linear A Script Mystery?
A clay tablet can hold a grocery list, a tax record, a prayer, or a royal secret. With the Linear A script, we can see the marks clearly, but we still cannot read the words. That is what makes it so frustrating. Minoan scribes wrote Linear A nearly 4,000 years ago, and the writing survived…
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How Does One Understand the Linear A Script Mystery?
A clay tablet can hold a grocery list, a tax record, a prayer, or a royal secret. With the Linear A script, we can see the marks clearly, but we still cannot read the words. That is what makes it so frustrating. Minoan scribes wrote Linear A nearly 4,000 years ago, and the writing survived…





























