Ukrainian military regained control over Posad-Pokrovske village in Kherson region. Looks like they're pushing the Russians towards Kherson, where they destroyed an airfield base yesterday as well.2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/ukraine
NEEDS MORE DEFINITINESS! Northwest Semitic > Late Egyptian > Coptic > Arabic > English1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/etymology
After a year of learning Hieroglyphic and now two months of Hieratic, my attempt at copying the Ancient Egyptian Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor, from a papyrus written by a scribe excellent of his fingers Imeny during the 12th dynasty, 18th century BCE2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/Handwriting
Here's the whole quote of JBP from the last interview with Bret Weinstein, since I got called out for taking him out context, but the context does him no favours.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/enoughpetersonspam
A few months ago I discovered the Round Byzantine Minuscule and since then my study of Ancient Greek has become a lot more fun2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/Handwriting
My cat died today and this game reminds me of how lucky he was to live in such a safe and a warm world, without fear of any lizards and vultures behind every corner.1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/rainworld
There's an intermediary Demotic Egyptian pronunciation of Wsr-MꜢꜤt-RꜤ, but I am unsure what it was exactly, probably something like *Ose-ma-ne.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/etymology
Som Slovak zo Srbska a potvrdzujem, ze konflikty medzi Slovakmi a Srbmi tu su nezvycajne, takze taketo nieco ma prekvapilo. Je nas tu okolo 60k, vo vacsinovych slovenskych osadach dokonca aj Srbi, Bosniaci, Ciernohorci, Albanci, atd. sa naucili s nami rozpravat po slovensky.1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/Slovakia
Practicing writing the Heart Sutra, with On'yomi in Katakana to help read it out loud7mo ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/Japaneselanguage
My Egyptian handwriting. I started learning about 8 months ago and cursive hieroglyphic was my immediate choice, since it seemed logical. I mostly copied the style of Ani's BoD.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
Russia is the last colonial empire. Its main doctrine is to expand in order to survive. As long as Russia exists there will no peace or safety for its neighbors. If it survives this war, there will be another, because a democratic government will not change Russia's nature. It must cease to exist.2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/ukraine
Map of Europe's three biggest language groups by official status or majority of speakers if co-official2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/MapPorn
It's some form of Elvish, I can't read it... No, wait. It's just old round minuscule Greek.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientGreek
It's starting to get really green. Russians need to be careful of Ukrainian speaking trees2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/ukraina
I returned to studying Greek with Athenaze a few months ago, but this time I decided to write everything in the Uncial script, and the experience has been absolutely delightful, I'll never write minuscule again1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientGreek
Lexical distance between Slavic languages. The numbers represent percentage difference in vocabulary. So for instance Ukrainian and Polish have 30% different words, meaning 70% is similar or identical. The size of the circles represent number of speakers.2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/Ukrainian
So it's finally done. Took me a month. Augusta Treverorum, 45k, latest Augustus update with highways. Sorry I couldn't post a higher quality picture.1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
Ancient Greek is hard enough without having to deal with those monsters2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/LanguageMemes
Book of the Dead, spell 175, part 2, Osiris asking Atum how long will life exist. Atum says for millions of millions of years, then all will be destroyed and returned to how it all was in the beginning.1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
I was going for the Friend achievement but ended up taming two lizards. What is our team name? :D1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/rainworld
10 billion Yugoslavian Dinar banknote from the early 90's inflation with a picture of Nikola Tesla. Reminds of the quote of Tesla played by David Bowie in the 2006 movie The Prestige: “Nothing is impossible. What you want is simply expensive.”2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Change in ethnic composition of Vojvodina, the northern province of Serbia. I live in one of the brown counties.2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/MapPorn
Latest unstable version of Augustus mod. If you turn on the preview paths for roaming walkers in the user interface options, when you place a building next to a road it'll show you where the walker will exit (red) and enter (green), and also where and how far will they walk!1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
Started playing Caesar Reconquered campaign. Here's my Brundisium. It's more challenging than I expected. I remember playing old Brundisium back in winter of 2000-2001. I barely knew any English then and couldn't even figure out houses were supposed to evolve.5mo ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
I feel like I'm gonna regret posting this, but I did work on it for 4 hours, shame for it to just sit in my folder :D2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
I've been using highways basically as the main roads and ordinary roads as sidewalks. Forced walkers also don't use highways, only destination walkers do.1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
If anyone could help: why is the verb hꜣ written geminated and without an .n like the other verbs? Does it represent the same kind of past tense as the others? There is a possibility it's a scribal error since Coffin Texts spells are full of them.1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
I found a handwritten note online of someone translating the opening lines of the Iliad into Mycenaean and I made a Unicode version of it3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientGreek
I made this comparison of the Lord's Prayer in older Germanic languages a few years ago for a study group, so maybe someone will find it interesting here as well3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientGermanic
To practice Hieratic I started copying the Shipwrecked Sailor. Afterwards I'll continue with Sinuhe and all the texts in Allen's Middle Egyptian Literature. Pen movement is already starting to feel intuitive for the most common characters. This took about an hour and a half though.2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
Paser Crossword Stela, a hymn to Mut that can be read both horizontally and vertically2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
Scribbling random texts in the Egyptian scripts so my hand doesn't forget how to write them2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
Beautiful Hieratic calligraphy, papyrus Louvre N 3291, Greco-Roman period2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
A while back someone asked if knowledge of Ancient Greek will help them learn Egyptian Coptic. So to visualize it for anyone interested in that question as well, I took this example from a Coptic grammar book where each morpheme is provided with a translation, and I highlighted the Greek words.1yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientGreek
During my breaks at work, I like to built cute little towns like this3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
Update on my previous table of Egyptian gods names and their reconstruction. I've been staring at this for hours every day and I'm still not certain about any of it, but I need a break so you enjoy looking at it instead of me :D2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
More handwriting. Sentences from Allen's Middle Egyptian Exercise 11, no solutions, just the Hieroglyphic text.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
Augusta Treverorum, 26k, all neighborhood layouts complete but many are still empty because of unemployment. I could turn some into villas, but then the population will decrease, and my goal is to get to 35k.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
Why is in the first word the word having power sometimes written with a geminate stem? That is shmm instead of just shm? Or is the second <m> not part of the word?2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
Roads under aqueducts connected to gardens and you can shorten the path of forced walkers. 20 years later and only now I figured this out. :D3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
I made this for a group of Egyptology lovers who were interested in Egyptian spelling, so I might as well post it here3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
I love these new mausoleums in Augustus 3.0! Now there's something to build outside of the city as well.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
Beginning of the Lord's Prayer, in Middle Egyptian with transcription and Coptic vocalization, compared to the same line in Coptic (Sahidic).3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
I finally decided to try out building with forced walkers. It actually seems to be more stable than with blocked circular neighborhoods.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
First four lines of the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor from The Writing of a Skillful Scribe by William Clay Poe. Original Hieratic with Hieroglyph transliteration.3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/AncientEgyptian
Natives control all of the farmland. Pacify them, build olives and vineyards, make oil and wine, sell it to the natives. Is this Neo-Colonialism or what?3yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/impressionsgames
So I got a better phone and now Duolingo has the option to also learn Kanji as well8mo ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/Japaneselanguage
What would be the translation of Nintendo's quit screen message into Old Norse?4mo ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/oldnorse
This is the alphabet from Brandeis Modern Hebrew textbook. Is the cursive accurate? Not that I doubt the author, but I've seen some criticism of people's cursive handwriting on this sub where suggestions of how to improve it seem to contradict how some of the letters are written in this table2yr ⋅ tomispev ⋅ r/hebrew