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Byzantine church, tombs, inscriptions unearthed in Turkey's ancient city of Kaunos

Anadolu Agency 21 Oct 2021

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Cortuk said the ancient city became famous for many "first breakthroughs," such as the rotary curtain system in the ancient theatre, the piggy bank for donations to the gods, world-famous rock tombs, as well as the Carian-Greek bilingual inscriptions ... "There are inscriptions on them.

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Alexandria by Edmund Richardson review – the quest for the lost city

The Observer 27 May 2021

For more than a decade, Masson had wandered, alone and on foot, exploring Afghanistan, collecting coins and inscriptions, studying ruins and making sketches. The bilingual Hellenistic coins Masson had sent to Calcutta, minted by men with names such as Pantaleon, King of North India and Demetrius Dharmamita, had been like miniature Rosetta stones ... .

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Did you solve it? Puzzles for language lovers

The Observer 02 Nov 2020

Champollion made his breakthrough thanks to the Rosetta Stone and the Philae obelisk, both of which have bilingual inscriptions in hieroglyphs and ancient Greek ... Can you do the same here? ... .

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The need to contextualise monuments, avoiding indifference and ambiguity

Open Democracy 15 Jun 2020

Alessio Colonnelli. 15 June 2020 ... Wikicommons/ Le Parisien ... ... It celebrates the wisdom of a Latin people over a barbaric culture that needed to be educated – that’s basically what the ghastly inscriptions on the Monument to Victory say (in dodgy Latin, by the way). Today, South Tyrol is an autonomous and bilingual region within the Republic of Italy ... .

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Glossed in translation – Frank McNally on ambivalent statues, Flann O’Brien rebranded, and the plan to move Nelson’s Pillar

The Irish Times 11 Jun 2020

Writing about the statue of William Smith O’Brien earlier in the week, I neglected to mention what may be its most interesting feature, the bilingual inscription. As has been pointed out to me since, not only does this have two languages, it also has two meanings ... “High fidelity”, that means, the opposite of treason ... The “near enough” still applies ... .

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Paper vault for state's inscriptions A book records Karnataka’s Persian, Urdu and Arabic inscriptions drawn ...

Deccan Herald 29 Nov 2019

Historians of Karnataka have long used these, in addition to local Sanskrit (and to an extent, Prakrit) inscriptions, for their research ... Each entry, featuring information on the inscription’s find site, its district and taluk, as well as its translation, is bilingual in English and Kannada, with the translation appearing in Urdu too ... Inscriptions.

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Latvian Security Service Looking Into Riga Retail Store Selling Clothes With Putin’s Image

Sputnik 10 Sep 2019

The Latvian domestic security service has weighed in on a case involving a newly-opened retail store after an indignant user posted pictures featuring bilingual inscriptions on price tags, suggesting that the shop is being used to promote the Kremlin’s interests abroad ... .

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Tamils and Tamizhakam in Chinese eyes

Indian Express 02 Aug 2019

The 13th century bilingual inscription (1281 AD) found in China’s Southeast port city of Quanzhou — usually considered the starting point of Maritime Silk Road in China — contains content in both Tamil and Chinese ... The bilingual inscription indicates the establishment of Tamil trading diaspora and guilds early in Song-Yuan (960—1368) China.

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What Lost Treasure Would You Most Like to Find?

The Atlantic 14 Jun 2019

Christopher Benfey, author, If. The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years Vermeer’s The Concert , taken from its frame in the Gardner Museum in 1990 and never recovered ... Monica L ... The First 6,000 Years A bilingual inscription from Mesopotamia that would let us decipher the 4,000-year-old Harappan script of the Indian subcontinent.

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The death of a script

The Hindu 04 May 2019

Of the two, Devanagari is older, having been used in inscriptions (both stone and copperplate) from the very beginning of the language’s written history ... Examples of Ahmednagar-issued Marathi inscriptions in Devanagari (usually bilingual with Persian) are fairly common, as are later Maratha-era ones.