Even though İstanbul has hundreds and thousands of restaurants and cafes all around the city, the vendors that sell pohça and simit are still abundant, including in Kozyatagı, Kadıköy. As I was walking past the cart full of Simit two days ago, I noticed...
The Etruscan numerals shown on the so-called “Tuscania Dice” have been read as shown in the table below:
The numeral 1 which other readers have read as “thu”, I read as “pir” since the Etruscan name appears more like a PR rather than a ThU....
Below is an Etruscan Mirror: From a book by Giuseppe Foscarini, “La Lingua degli Etruschi”, Item 11, p. 31.
This mirror has two Etruscan inscriptions as names of a man and a woman as shown above. I first trancribe and describe the man’s name by...
Etruscan Mirror: From a book by Giuseppe Foscarini, “La Lingua degli Etruschi”, Item 12, p. 32-33.
This mirror has two Etruscan inscriptions as names of a woman and a boy as shown above. I first transcribe and describe the boy’s name:
a) HERAKELI which identifies first...
In Part-1 of this study, we noted that Sardinia was called Ichnusa (the Latinised form of Greek Hyknousa), Sandalion, Sardinia and Sardo by the ancient Greeks and the Romans. And the term SARDONIC was the adjective of Sardinia. We examined many Sardinia related names...
In my Facebook, a valued friend, Ms Tina Frigerio, shared with me her photos of an Etruscan pyramid that, at its top, seems to have been used as an altar for Etruscan religious gatherings - during its usable days. With a note to me,...
