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[attex]

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[blueiskewl]

Spy Satellite Photos Reveal Hundreds of Long-Lost Roman Forts

Declassified photos captured by United States spy satellites launched during the Cold War have revealed an archaeological treasure trove: hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era forts, in what is now Iraq and Syria.

Many of those long-lost structures may be gone forever at this point, destroyed or damaged over recent decades due to agricultural expansion, urban development and war. Nevertheless, the discovery of the forts’ existence challenges a popular hypothesis established in the 1930s about the role of such fortifications along the ancient Roman Empire’s eastern border, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Antiquity.

Based on the satellite views, the high number of forts and their widespread distribution hints that the forts may not have been erected to keep enemies out, as the decades-old theory suggested. Rather, the structures were likely built to ensure safe passage for caravans and travelers along routes that saw plenty of nonmilitary traffic. These forts, according to the study authors, were outposts and havens, not hostile barriers.

High-resolution images analyzed in the new study were taken during flyovers by multiple satellites belonging to two US military programs: the Corona Project (1960 to 1972) and Hexagon (1971 to 1986). Corona’s images were declassified in 1995, and Hexagon’s photos were released to the public in 2011.

Images from Hexagon and Corona are invaluable for archaeologists because they preserve snapshots of landscapes that have since undergone significant disruption, said lead study author Jesse Casana, an archaeologist and professor in the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

“Agriculture and urbanization have destroyed a lot of archaeological sites and features to a shocking degree,” Casana said. “This old imagery allows us to see things that are often either obscured or no longer extant today.”

Spy satellite photos vs. the Poidebard survey

Satellite images are especially helpful for searches across the northern part of the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East — from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean to western Iran — because of the area’s archaeological importance and high visibility of the ground in photos, Casana added.

The research team pored over the images for signs of Roman forts, which have a distinctive square shape and walls that usually measure about 164 to 262 feet (50 to 80 meters) long. The scientists began their search using reference maps from an aerial survey of the region conducted in the 1920s and 1930s by French archaeologist and Jesuit missionary Father Antoine Poidebard. That survey was among the first to photograph archaeological sites from the air, and in 1934 Poidebard reported finding 116 Roman forts.

It was an unprecedented achievement. But nearly a century later, mapping Poidebard’s forts to satellite photos was challenging. Because his map wasn’t large-scale, it contained numerous spatial errors, Casana said. Poidebard also did not provide names or numbers for most of the forts he found, identifying them instead by their proximity to geologic features.

Those forts were aligned north to south along what was once the easternmost boundary of the Roman Empire, according to Poidebard. This arrangement, he claimed, was surely intended to guard against invaders from the east.

But Poidebard’s survey provided only a partial view of Rome’s ancient infrastructure, the researchers found. What he overlooked — and what the satellite photos revealed — was that the north-to-south line of 116 forts was actually only a narrow sliver of a cluster spreading from east to west and containing 396 fortified structures.

The forts spanned approximately 116,000 square miles (300,000 square kilometers), “extending from Mosul, on the Tigris River in Iraq, through Ninawa province, across the Khabur and the Balikh valleys, continuing to the semi-arid plains west of the Euphrates River, leading to western Syria and the Mediterranean,” according to the study.

Oases of safety for ancient Rome

When the archaeologists performed a second survey of an image subset, they found 106 more fortlike structures, hinting that further investigations will yield many more Roman forts. Based on excavations of other Roman sites in the region, the scientists estimated that the forts were built between the second and sixth centuries.

While Poidebard’s row of forts along the Roman Empire’s eastern front looked like a military fortification, this new evidence suggested that the forts collectively served a different purpose. Rather than presenting an impassable wall on a violent frontier, they provided oases of safety and order along well-traveled Roman roads.

Borders in this world “were places of dynamic cultural exchange and movement of goods and ideas,” not barriers, Casana said. And perhaps that perspective holds a lesson for the modern era, he added.

“Historically, as an archaeologist, I can say that there have been many attempts by ancient states to build walls across borders and it has been a universal failure,” Casana said. “If there’s any way that archaeology contributes to modern discourse, I would hope it is that building giant walls to keep people out is a bad plan.”

By Mindy Weisberger.

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[kokiafans]

KOKIA in flashback - 2004

We move into an Olympic year: 2004. With the country getting excited for the Olympic Games in Athens, KOKIA gets to perform the official support song for the Japanese delegation: Yume ga chikara ('dreams are strength'). KOKIA composes the song and the arrangement is done by composer Akira Senju, a collaboration outside the J-pop world.

Her other single this year, so much love for you♡, gets a spring live tour, attendance decided by lottery among people who bought the single. Both singles end up on her new album Uta ga chikara ('songs are strength'), marking the third year in a row KOKIA releases a full album.

In the spirit of the Olympic motto of 'faster, higher, stronger', KOKIA adds 'longer' in a long tone challenge on TV, showing off her opera roots.

◆ Lives and events ◆

February 22 Japan-China friendship music festival, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship (Tokyo, NHK hall)

March 14 fm osaka BLOOMING BEAUTY (Osaka, Nanba Hatch)

March 20 Circle K, Tokai TV PRESENTS SUPER LIVE 2004 (Nagoya Civic General Gymnasium Rainbow Hall)

April 29 STELLA concert 2004 ~hoshi no yozora ni oto ga mau ('sounds dancing in the night sky of stars') Tokyo Special~ (Tokyo, Aoyama amphitheater)

【KOKIA SPRING LIVE so much love for you♡】 ※ Raffle event for people who purchased the single so much love for you♡

May 1 - Osaka, AMERIKAMURA FANJ twice May 2 - Aichi, Electric Lady Land May 4 - Fukuoka, ROOMS May 5 - Tokyo, TOKYO FM Hall

May 3 Hiroshima Flower Festival (Hiroshima Flower Festival Olive Stage) ※ Live recording for RCC Radio's 'Hello Flower! Smile Radio'

May 8 K-MIX Fuji, Fujinomiya office, opening celebration KOKIA SPECIAL LIVE (Shizuoka, Fuji Rose Theatre middle hall) ※ Live recording for public decided by lottery by FM K-MIX

May 15 Happy Birthday LaQua KOKIA mini live (Tokyo, LaQua Garden Stage ap SQUARE) ※ Two performances on 1 day

June 6 Olympic torch relay for the 2004 Athens Olympics / Tokyo arrival ceremony (Tokyo Metropolitan Government Square, special stage)   ※ Performed the official support song Yume ga chikara ('dreams are strength') for the Japanese delegation after the ceremony

June 12 Sapporo Medical University festival pre-party vol.5e HEART BEAT MUSIC ESSENTIAL LIVE Special Guest KOKIA (Sapporo Medical University)

June 14 U-CDTV 14th Becky's live ※ Recorded live for the TBS show U-CDTV

June 17  Daimei no nai ongakukai 21 (‘Untitled concert 21’) (Showa Women's University Hitomi Memorial Hall)  ※ Recorded live for the TV Asahi show Daimei no nai ongakukai ('Untitled concert')

June 20 Olympic concert 2004 (Tokyo, NHK Hall)

June 26 Fashion Canta Week α-STATION Special Talk&Live Do Music! in Kyoto Station Building (Kyoto Station Building, Muromachikoji Square) ※ live recording by α-STATION (FM Kyoto)

June 27 15th anniversary of satellite broadcasting BS dream live 2004 (Tokyo, NHK Hall) ※ live recorded performance by BShi, BS2

June 29 Opening reception to exhibition of Olympic posters drawn by masters (Tokyo, Pola Museum Annex)

July 10 JA BANK Presents LIVE in MIE 2004 ACOUSTIC COLLABORATION 3 (Mie prefecture culture hall, big hall)

July 17 JOC Ganbare! Nippon! ('Do your best Japan!') Park in Tokyo Dome City ~KOKIA special concert~ (Tokyo, LaQua Garden Stage ap SQUARE)

【2004 KOKIA LIVE TOUR ~haba taite!~ ('spread your wings')】 July 20 - Tokyo, SHIBUYA-AX July 26 - Aichi, Club Diamond Hall August 3 - Osaka, BIGCAT

July 24 28th Olympic Games (2004, Athens), ceremony and send-off party of the Japanese delegation (Tokyo Prince Hotel, phoenix area)

August 22 24 hour TV charity live 2004 (Aichi, Sakae, Hisaya-odori Park special stage)

August 29 4th Forest of eternity Shirakami festival ~iyashi no mori shirakami yasuragi concert ('peaceful concert at Shirakami in the healing forest') (Akita, Hachimorimachi Goshonodai Fureai Park)

September 1 28th Olympic Games (2004, Athens), ceremony of disbandment of the Japanese delegation (Tokyo, Takanawa Prince Hotel, Prince Room)

September 3 TREASURE 052 with ZIP-FM SWEET RENDEZOUS (Naogya Club Quattro)

September 11 KOKIA SPECIAL LIVE (Tower Records Shibuya store B1 STAGE ONE) ※ event for those who purchased the album Uta ga chikara ('songs are strength') at the store.

September 14 Marunouchi Oazo opening live (Tokyo, Marunouchi OAZO in-building 1F event space)

September 26 Over The Horizon (Shibuya O-East)

October 2 ZIP-FM 2004 AUTUMN CAMPAIGN "MOVE THE TOWN" ZIP SUPER SQUARE (Aichi, Sakae, Hisaya-odori Park, Hisaya square)

October 11 Cosmo Earth Conscious Act FM Nagano Clean Campaign in Iizuna plateau (Nagano, Iizuna plateau, Daisaboshi Pond touring line) ※ FM Nagano, live recorded performance

October 19 56th national hairdressing competition KOKIA mini live (Nagoya Civic General Gymnasium Rainbow Hall)

October 24 Japan Women's University Mejiro Campus 51st Mejiro festival (Tokyo, Japan Women's University Mejiro Campus, second gymnasium)

November 2 53rd Ube festival, festival eve (Yamaguchi, Ube city hall, inside car park, Harmony square)

November 3 Charity event 2004 Hitori demo ooku, jirai no higai kara sukou! ('Let's save as many people as possible from the harm of landmines') (Tokyo, United Nations University, first floor square)

November 4 AKIKO YOSHIDA LIVE Piano to Akisuke ('piano and Aki') (Shibuya 7th Floor) ※ live performance accompanying herself with the piano under her real name of AKIKO YOSHIDA

November 6 Cosmo Earth Conscious Act TOKYO FM Clean Campaign (Tokyo, Mutsugoro Animal Kingdom)

November 13 Sai no Kuni Magokoro ('land of color, sincerity') festival, 4th National Sports Festival for the Disabled (Saitama, Kumagaya Dome) ※ live recorded performance by Nack5

November 14 Kobe University 2004 Rokkosai festival pro concert (Kobe University, Rokkodai grand main stage)

November 21 Tokyo Toyota exclusive KOKIA LIVE (Ikebukuro AMLUX Hall) ※ 2 performances in 1 day

December 7 KOKIA utau hito ~kanjita koto dake uta ga iru~ ('singing people ~there's a song that's just how I felt~') (Shibuya town hall)

December 11 Hakodate Christmas Fantasy KOKIA LIVE presented by NTT DoCoMo (Hakodate, Suehiro town, event stage in front of the Kanemori warehouses)

December 12 Atto! Monthly live (Queen's Square Yokohama 1F Queen's Circle)

December 18 OZmagazine Christmas Live 2004 in VenusFort (Tokyo, VenusFort church square)

December 24 CBC Caravanserai 2004 Gift of music (aichi, Oasis 21 Milky Way Square)

December 25 BOMBER-E presents Power of Voice (Aichi, Electric Lady Land)

◆ Releases ◆

April 21 Release of the single so much love for you♡ (Victor Entertainment) ※ End theme for the Fuji TV show U! Umai n desu. ('Yes! That's tasty'). B-side song ~New season~yume ni mukatte fuku kaze~ ('the wind that blows towards my dream') was used in a commercial for the National Professional School Public Relations Study Group.

June 23 Release of the single Yume ga chikara ('dreams are strength') (Victor Entertainment) ※ Official support song for the Japanese delegation of the Athens Olympics

July 21 Release of original album Uta ga chikara ('songs are strength') (Victor Entertainment)

◆ Other releases ◆

March 3 Release of Hotel Venus Original soundtrack (Victor Entertainment) ※ Performed the song DESPERADO

Autumn TOKYO TOYOTA ORIGINAL CD Smile & Heart Bom bom!! Doraibu de kimeyou ('let's go for a drive') (Victor Entertainment)

#KOKIA #25 years of kokia in flashback

[prfm-multiverse]

Perfume - Perfume in Budokan (BShi 2008.12.19)

MEGA ~ VK

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[palacheharak]

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[arabic-langblr]

Saying “sorry”- Levantine Arabic

Click on the transliteration for the audio

آسف | Āsif | I’m sorry (m; speaker)

آسفة | Āsfeh | I’m sorry (f; speaker)

آسفين  | Āsfīn | We’re sorry

مو قصدي | Mū ʾaṣdī | I didn’t mean it 

حقك علي | Ḥaʾʾak ʿalay | my bad (m; addressed)

حقك علي | Ḥaʾʾek ʿalay | my bad (f; addressed)

سامحني | Sāmiḥnī | Forgive me (m; addressed)

سامحنا  |  Sāmiḥnā | Forgive us  (m; addressed)

بعدك زعلان؟ | baʿdak zaʿlān? | are you still upset? (m; addressed)

زعلتك بشي؟ | zaʿʿaltak bshi? | did I upset you with anything? (m; addressed)

عنجد ما كنت أعرف | ʿan jad ma kunt baʿref | I honestly didn’t know 

ما بدّي اياك تزعل | ma beddi iyyāk tezʿal | I don’t want you to be upset (m; addressed)

ما بدّي اياك تزعلي |ma beddi iyyāki tezʿalī |  I don’t want you to be upset (f; addressed)  

ما رح اعيدها |Mā raḥ ʾaʿīdha |I won’t do this again

رح ادير بالي المرة الجاي |Raḥ ʾadīr bālī elmarra el jāi | I’ll be careful next time 

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[hrenney]

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[k-cred-creations]

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[sumerianlanguage]

Hello, how would one say "I don't understand," in Sumerian? (Or the closest thing?) thank you :)

Hi there! You can definitely say “I don’t understand” in Sumerian, but there are several complicating factors that affect how you’d do so.

There are three different words for “understand” in Sumerian. Zu means “to know, understand, experience”; ngeshtug means “ear” and “to hear”, plus “to understand” in the sense of understanding what you’re hearing; and igi ngal is a verb phrase meaning “to see, behold, understand (what you see)”. They therefore refer to three different kinds of understanding — internal knowledge, audio comprehension, and visual comprehension, respectively — so you’d have to pick the most appropriate from context.

All three verbs in the sense of “understand” are transitive in Sumerian — in English sentences like “I don’t understand”, we can drop the implicit object (“I don’t understand [this/it/what you said/etc]”), but in Sumerian you’d conjugate the verbs in such a way that the object is explicit.

The first two sentences would be conjugated using the negative mood nu-, plus the transitive verb conjugation -b-[root]-(e)n for first person singular subject (“I”) and third non-person singular object (“it”). Because igi ngal is a verb phrase, instead of the third non-person direct object, you’d use an appropriate dimensional prefix instead, in this case the terminative, which can be either bshi- (if the thing not understood is far away) or mshi- (if the thing not understood is nearby).

Therefore, your four sentence options are: Nubzuzun “I don’t know/understand”; Nubngeshtugen “I don’t hear/understand”; Igi numshingalen “I don’t see/understand this”; and Igi nubshingalen “I don’t see/understand that”. (With all of these, you can also use the subject pronoun Ngae “I” at the start of the sentence, but it’s optional.)

I hope that’s clear!

#replies #sumerian grammar #sumerian verbs #sumerian modality

[attex]

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[thevelvetlotus]

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[murakane]

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[3-ha]

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