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#152033 12/13/05 10:14 AM
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via boingboing and the the Long Now, which is becoming memetic in my world...


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Neat. Where do you find this stuff?

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boingboing is a great glass-bottomed boat.


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The target of the link in the first post has been removed. I happened on it again here.

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The Phoenician and the Etruscan have much in common. Yes, cool!

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The Phoenician and the Etruscan have much in common.

Yes, they did. One important Etruscan text is a bilingual one in Phoenician: the Pyrgi tablets (link). Phoenician is very close to Biblical Hebrew and Etruscan is a language isolate.


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Nice articles, leading from one thing to another.

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Originally Posted By: Scriveyn
The target of the link in the first post has been removed. I happened on it again here.


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