Timothy Doner

Former Middle East #OSINT at @C4ADS | Recovering philologist | @Harvard, @Cambridge_Uni alum | Featured in @NYTimes @TheEconomist @BBC for language skills

[Timothy Doner @Tim_Doner]

A 2013 video of me just went viral on Iranian Instagram and I'm feeling all the feelings

[Timothy Doner @Tim_Doner]

Hands down THE best Ancient Greek tool I’ve ever seen. The automatic grammatical analyses/glosses make Xenophon, Plato, etc. so much more accessible and engaging

Hats off @kevinpalbrecht for the incredible work you’re doing, and hope you can expand to other languages one day!

[Kevin Albrecht @kevinpalbrecht]

Really happy with how my Ancient Greek learning tool https://t.co/IPucBBLO4E is progressing...

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

A Greek exam from the days when you *really* had to know your Herodotus (Trinity College, Cambridge, 1826):

[Timothy Doner @Tim_Doner]

Excited to announce the launch of our new open-source platform Horizons at @C4ADS! We've used this tool for years to aggregate, organize and investigate billions of public records, and now we're opening it up to the broader public. More details below

[C4ADS @C4ADS]

From uncovering illicit networks to tracing financial flows, strong investigations demand more than access — they demand tools that keep up. So we built our own.

Introducing Horizons: a platform by investigators, for investigators. 1/4 🧵

More 👇
https://t.co/dTYHIeMgEx

[Ellen Pasternack @pastasnack_e]

I like to imagine there was a Nazca child who would refuse to eat their mashed cassava unless it was served in the mice bowl

[Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov @vseviov]

#OTD 11 years ago, Russia shot down a civilian plane #MH17, killing 298 people.

We remember the victims and continue to work to bring those responsible to justice.

[Timothy Doner @Tim_Doner]

Worth noting this excavation was just two days(!) from the start of Operation Barbarossa

[OCIANA @OCIANA_OSU]

The pre-Islamic script from Dhofar is undeciphered and therefore there are no inscriptions of this type in #OCIANA. Now we have the decipherment of the main variant of the Dhofari alphabet: https://t.co/ngtzPB9ZPz. There is much more work to be done now that reading is possible.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk delivered a report regarding today’s operation. An absolutely brilliant result. A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range operation. Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time. I thanked General Maliuk for this success of Ukraine. I instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to inform the public about the details and results of the operation that can be disclosed. Of course, not everything can be revealed at this moment, but these are Ukrainian actions that will undoubtedly be in history books. Ukraine is defending itself, and rightly so – we are doing everything to make Russia feel the need to end this war. Russia started this war, Russia must end it. Glory to Ukraine!

[Timothy Doner @Tim_Doner]

Nightmare fuel

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

A pair of Cambridge exam papers on Homer's Odyssey, from 200 years ago (Trinity College, 1825). Quite the mix of questions for a closed-book test!

[Timothy Doner @Tim_Doner]

Some more fascinating news on the archeology/genetics front (Hun-Xiongnu continuity)

[Skytmen @aboutadna]

Elite Hun child from Poland Czulice (czu-002, ~%80 East Asian) yields N1a, he very likely has N-M2019 as well (similar to TGH Hun and Elite Xiongnu) if the sample had enough Y-chro resolution.
N-M2019 shows a continuous eliteness among both Xiongnu and Huns.

[Timothy Doner @Tim_Doner]

Don’t know if this was already the consensus among historians, but pretty fascinating breakthrough

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

western Med Punics (think Carthaginians) were basically completely genetically separated from Levantine Punics.

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

He bewerede Engla lande is þætte he dyde. He wæs beald Engla cyning. And on þissum huse, Harold Godwining is hæle! Ende þæs spelles!

[C4ADS @C4ADS]

🚨 The 2024 C4ADS Annual Report is finally here! 🚨We’re proud to share this comprehensive overview of the challenges, successes, and impact we had last year — follow this thread for some highlights! 🧵 1/7

More 👇
https://t.co/JgUREnOOTA

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

An astonishing hoard of 39 Roman gold aurei has been unearthed in Suffolk! The coins of the 'Hartismere District Hoard' date from the reigns of Augustus to Nero (c.19 BC-55 AD) and were probably buried by a Roman soldier around the turbulent period of the Boudican revolt.

[Ray Wise Saying F-Slur in Napa Boys @TheDougFiles]

Was really hoping they’d find that Northwest Passage

[兎 @fluopoika]

we're waiting for the end of the sentence

[ShadowsOfConstantinople @RomeInTheEast]

It is very epic that there is a mosaic depiction of Constantinople in the neo-Byzantine Westminster Cathedral in London.

[Timothy Doner @Tim_Doner]

Would be super exciting if true. I remember reading an attempt to etymologize the plurals in a dialect in Boyer-Ahmad as an Elamite substrate but have no idea where to find it…bit convoluted, but definitely fun to think about

[Hōm qizi @dalaygiz]

Did you know there was likely a historic remnant of Elamite spoken in Khuzestan, Iran? It was known as Xūzī, and in several Medieval accounts it was often distinguished from Persid dialects that were spoken in or near the region, including by the Xūz themselves:

[Linguistic Discovery @lingdiscovery]

Since I’m posting about the evolution of writing systems this week, here’s an awesome infographic from the ever-fantastic @Starkey_Comics showing the orthographic family tree for the scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

#writing #alphabet #spelling #history #linguistics #language