Cracking the codes of history

Across the scattered ruins of antiquity lie mysteries not merely of stone and clay, but of silence—languages lost, scripts forgotten, civilizations shrouded by time’s obscuring veil...

The Pyrgi Tablets — Etruscan in a Phoenician mirror

What makes these tablets remarkable is their status as a rare bilingual inscription involving Etruscan, a language still only partially understood. The Phoenician text, written in a Semitic language already well deciphered, closely parallels the Etruscan message...

Origen, the Hexapla, and the mystery of missing scrolls

Though he did not author a new version of the Bible per se, Origen's contributions to biblical textual criticism, especially through his magnum opus, the Hexapla, remain foundational in understanding the transmission of scripture.

Of aliens and interstellar asteroids

Dr. Avi Loeb is a Harvard astrophysicist whose academic career has been marked by bold ideas, groundbreaking research, and controversial claims, particularly in the realm of extraterrestrial life. Dr. Loeb argues that the intersteller asteroid Oumouamoua could be evidence of an alien spacecraft.

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