Matthew Scarborough 𐀥
@mattitiahu.bsky.social
Philologist and historical linguist. (ⲛ̄ⲧⲟϥ/ⲛ̄ⲧⲟⲟⲩ)
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1782-5223
https://hcommons.org/members/mscarborough/
https://consultingphilologist.wordpress.com/
https://brill.com/display/title/57781
https://iecor.clld.org/
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1782-5223
https://hcommons.org/members/mscarborough/
https://consultingphilologist.wordpress.com/
https://brill.com/display/title/57781
https://iecor.clld.org/
New Open Access volume in the Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture series:
Indo-European Afterlives, ed. by Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander & Anders Richardt Jørgensen.
Indo-European Afterlives, ed. by Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander & Anders Richardt Jørgensen.
Indo-European Afterlives | Stockholm University Press
<p>This volume brings together scholars from archaeology, historical linguistics and comparative mythology to explore how early Indo-European communities imagined death and what lies beyond. From poet...
www.stockholmuniversitypress.se
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New Open Access volume in the Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture series:
Indo-European Afterlives, ed. by Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander & Anders Richardt Jørgensen.
Indo-European Afterlives, ed. by Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander & Anders Richardt Jørgensen.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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i know i wittgenstein post too much but i would love to see his reaction to the wholesale capitulation of critical thinking facilities to machines whose entire model of the world begins and ends in language, a medium he regarded as intrinsically impoverished
June 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
i know i wittgenstein post too much but i would love to see his reaction to the wholesale capitulation of critical thinking facilities to machines whose entire model of the world begins and ends in language, a medium he regarded as intrinsically impoverished
Johnny Silverhand is my co-pilot.
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Johnny Silverhand is my co-pilot.
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Every year we get closer to this happening on the news
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Every year we get closer to this happening on the news
I’m finding that packing the shipping crates this time around is involving a lot of pulling things off shelves, putting them into boxes, pulling things off shelves and putting them neatly on other shelves and until I put them into smaller boxes can neatly tetris them into the larger ones.
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’m finding that packing the shipping crates this time around is involving a lot of pulling things off shelves, putting them into boxes, pulling things off shelves and putting them neatly on other shelves and until I put them into smaller boxes can neatly tetris them into the larger ones.
oh no, I retweeted a post about this article a week and a half ago before noticing the map
NEW How did Achaemenid rulers govern their vast empire? Using the 'Achaemenid Royal Road' they were able to travel between major centres, engaging directly with local elites. New research seeks to pinpoint the location of this elusive infrastructure.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
oh no, I retweeted a post about this article a week and a half ago before noticing the map
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
A movie you have seen more than 7 Times with a GIF:
November 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A movie you have seen more than 7 Times with a GIF:
This morning’s task has been trying to decide what of my life I’m going to distil into two suitcases and a backpack and what of the rest will go into boxes for transatlantic shipping and I don’t like it.
November 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This morning’s task has been trying to decide what of my life I’m going to distil into two suitcases and a backpack and what of the rest will go into boxes for transatlantic shipping and I don’t like it.
Spent the morning so far with a recording of the Minneapolis mayoral candidates’ debate on in the background and I could barely pay attention to it because it was hyper-focused on actual boring policy discussion. Completely wild.
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Spent the morning so far with a recording of the Minneapolis mayoral candidates’ debate on in the background and I could barely pay attention to it because it was hyper-focused on actual boring policy discussion. Completely wild.
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The contemporary cult of Hallowe'en is bearing ever stranger fruit.
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The contemporary cult of Hallowe'en is bearing ever stranger fruit.
I think I managed to upload that final report stuff but the EU system for grant management seems to be getting mad at me for reasons I can't change so I guess we'll just have to wait for the people in Brussels to figure out something's wrong on their end before I can press the submit button. Whee.
October 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I think I managed to upload that final report stuff but the EU system for grant management seems to be getting mad at me for reasons I can't change so I guess we'll just have to wait for the people in Brussels to figure out something's wrong on their end before I can press the submit button. Whee.
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Breaking: Americans discover how to turn baseball game into cricket game with this one weird trick.
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Breaking: Americans discover how to turn baseball game into cricket game with this one weird trick.
The only sport I managed to get into was the one we played in grad school where after a long day at the library a bunch of us ran around a field kicking a ball with nobody keeping score and then when we got tired one of us unilaterally declared "the next goal wins!" after which we went to get beer.
Breaking: Americans discover how to turn baseball game into cricket game with this one weird trick.
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The only sport I managed to get into was the one we played in grad school where after a long day at the library a bunch of us ran around a field kicking a ball with nobody keeping score and then when we got tired one of us unilaterally declared "the next goal wins!" after which we went to get beer.
Breaking: Americans discover how to turn baseball game into cricket game with this one weird trick.
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Breaking: Americans discover how to turn baseball game into cricket game with this one weird trick.
I thought I could finish The Big Report today, but it turned out that I could not. Tomorrow is another day.
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I thought I could finish The Big Report today, but it turned out that I could not. Tomorrow is another day.
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this guy (Salimbene di Adam)'s father is trying to get his son to quit the monastery and refers to the other monks there as "pissintunici", tunic-pissers 😭
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
this guy (Salimbene di Adam)'s father is trying to get his son to quit the monastery and refers to the other monks there as "pissintunici", tunic-pissers 😭
surely the anonymous authors of the historia augusta were partisan hacks with an axe to grind, but also...
i basically now assume that all but the most hyperbolic recollections of emperors from the middle and late roman empire are all basically closer to reality than not
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
surely the anonymous authors of the historia augusta were partisan hacks with an axe to grind, but also...
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Is the SD card… uhm… Mario’s dick?
October 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Is the SD card… uhm… Mario’s dick?
Thomas Olander gives his inaugural lecture as full professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen: Historien i sproget.
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Thomas Olander gives his inaugural lecture as full professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen: Historien i sproget.
Sorry, I just realised the syntax of this sentence is a bit wonky. But in case it's not contextually clear I have not been staying in a room of a student house in Leiden while stuck in the summer of 2009 for the last 16 years.
In other news I have apparently been friends with a chicken that lived in the courtyard of a student house in Leiden I was staying at during the summer of 2009 for 16 years now.
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sorry, I just realised the syntax of this sentence is a bit wonky. But in case it's not contextually clear I have not been staying in a room of a student house in Leiden while stuck in the summer of 2009 for the last 16 years.
In other news I have apparently been friends with a chicken that lived in the courtyard of a student house in Leiden I was staying at during the summer of 2009 for 16 years now.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In other news I have apparently been friends with a chicken that lived in the courtyard of a student house in Leiden I was staying at during the summer of 2009 for 16 years now.
It’d be real nice if my feed wasn’t currently filled with people posting Totenköpfe over and over.
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It’d be real nice if my feed wasn’t currently filled with people posting Totenköpfe over and over.
Okay, this is pretty cool.
Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis
Salaris, Davide. 2025. ‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis. Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-8. This article redefines the concept of…
Salaris, Davide. 2025. ‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis. Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-8. This article redefines the concept of…
Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis
Salaris, Davide. 2025. ‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis. Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-8. This article redefines the concept of the Achaemenid ‘Royal’ Road using GIS-based route modelling to reconstruct possible roads between Susa and Persepolis. By integrating logistical and environmental parameters, it shows how royal mobility required a specialised infrastructure—distinct from ancillary roads—tailored to the operational scale of the Achaemenid court.
www.biblioiranica.info
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Okay, this is pretty cool.