... and educative. "We came to tour Chennai. I am very interested and happy seeing the diversity of the subjects in the museum. We have such places in Kolkata but this is even better and it is great,"noted Tapas Lahiri, a tourist from Kolkata. The epigraphy wing at this museum is engaged in copying the instructions on boulders, stone pillars and temple walls etc. Source ANI

... Nathan Bensing, Jeremy Ondo, Philip Trochowski and Anna Wieser gathered antiquities left by ancient inhabitants and settlers on the land's surface for their course work in "Landscape Archaeology and Epigraphy." The Case Western Reserve team also was a member of an interdisciplinary and multinational team of the Isparta Archaeological Survey (IAS) project. The Turkish Ministry of ...

Current Epigraphy reports a new blog started up at Oxford’s Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD). The CSAD blog reports “First Texts from MAMA XI Available”: The first sample texts from the MAMA (Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua) XI project have been posted online. The project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will publish ...

... the archaeological "topography" of Thisve appeared in T. Gregory, "Archaeological Explorations in the Thisbe Basin" in the Boeotia Antiqua II: Papers on Recent Work in Boiotian Archaeology and Epigraphy (Amsterdam 1992), pp. 17-34.  The OBE team plotted these maps using Surface II software against a digitized map of the Thisve plain.  Unfortunately, from what I can ...

... – Update E-Sylum This project has proven to be MUCH larger than I thought it would be – however, I am having a lot of fun with it. I’m getting quite the education in Greek Epigraphy! My main focus has been with the technical portion – the easiest way to collect and store all this data. In continuing to research the data collection/storage issues, I thought it was funny ...

... , sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec 21, 2012. "It's a special anniversary of creation," said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. "The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on ...

... planned to do lots and lots of reading this afternoon and be good and scholarly. I was sat on my bed, with reading to my left and cookies and juice to my right, all set to study the HELL out of epigraphy. I somehow fell asleep within five minutes, only being woken up three hours later when my housemate came and asked if I still wanted chips. I did NOT know I was that tired. I was so tired, I was ...