A Palestinian demonstrator uses a tennis racket to return an empty tear gas canister at Israeli soldiers during a protest against the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah October 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)
Cuneiform Revealed - An excellent online introduction to Akkadian language and cuneiform scripts. It includes links and instructions for installing both Neo-Akkadian and Old Babylonian sign fonts, which are usable through unicode. Much easier than the old way, with undocumented LaTeX.
If you had the fonts installed, you'd be able to read the following:
.....[redacted*]....
And for those without:
That would be transliterated into "tippi bit perin" or "the tablet of the home of the person called Erin", roughly "Aaron's Homepage"
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* apparently MT is not as unicode safe as they say it is, including the actual UTF-8 encodings broke something inside the engine, so they have been removed
Philip Harland is a professor at York University, near Toronto, who teaches religion and ancient history. He's put many of his lectures online in the form of Podcasts, 3 complete series' so far and 2 more nearing completion. The topics vary but center on the first 3 centuries of the common era and religious practices then, frequently the weirdness of early Christianity.
