we come out of the dark

whenever there’s news about a cool new archaeological discovery and all the comments are shit about curses and “put that back” and “not now 2020″ as if ancient humans were malevolent entities filled with nothing but spite for their descendants instead of like, normal people just getting by in ways they knew how

Ok after calming my initial excitement and rereading the article, it seems like what Dr. Salgarella has demonstrated is that the Linear A script is more closely related to the Linear B script than previously understood – which is a completely different thing from the Minoan language represented by the Linear A script being related to the Mycenaean Greek written in Linear B. Still a huge breakthrough and I absolutely don’t mean to slight Dr. Salgarella’s research in any way! But I feel like the headline “Minoan Language Linear A Linked to Linear B” is misleading at best b/c of a (very common) misunderstanding of the orthography vs. linguistics divide; this is really a story about a breakthrough in paleography and not a full decipherment of Linear A or a demonstration of any genetic link between the two languages.

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cicero about to say a verb

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