by David Tollen | Sep 27, 2019 | The Early Modern Age, Linguistics & Philology
On this day in 1822, Jean-Francois Champollion announced that he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone, 23 years after its discovery. The Rosetta Stone records a 196 BC decree from the reign of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes of Egypt, and it’s written in 3 different languages....
by David Tollen | Sep 3, 2011 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Linguistics & Philology
The English word “garden” sounds like the Serbian and Russian suffixes grade, grad, and gorod, all of which mean “town.” You see them in city names like Belgrade, Leningrad, and Novgorod. The word “town,” on the other hand, sounds...
