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What Latin Sounded Like - and how we know
Video by NativLang

What Latin Sounded Like - and how we know

Classical Latin went extinct, yet we still know how to pronounce it. Proof! Take a trip with me back to Catholic school, then back even further to old Rome. We'll see what Latin pronunciation did - and did NOT - sound like in the mouths...
Cuneiform Hand-Me-Downs - how Sumerian outlived its speakers
Video by NativLang

Cuneiform Hand-Me-Downs - how Sumerian outlived its speakers

My favorite example of how odd Cuneiform became as it was passed from civilization to civilization. Thanks, rampant Sumerianization! Cuneiform languages took Sumerian very seriously, even after it was long dead. That’s how Akkadian and...
Doctors, Diseases and Deities: Epidemic Crises and Medicine in Ancient Rome
Video by BiblicalArchaeology

Doctors, Diseases and Deities: Epidemic Crises and Medicine in Ancient Rome

In this lecture presented at The Explorers Club in New York, BAS Director of Educational Programs Sarah Yeomans examines a recently excavated, as-yet unpublished archaeological site that has substantially contributed to our understanding...
Gladatorial Medicine in the Roman Empire
Video by University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Gladatorial Medicine in the Roman Empire

Courtney Ann Roby, PhD, from the Dept. of Classics at Cornell University presents, "Gladiatorial Medicine in the Roman Empire." In this lecture, Dr. Roby examines the career of Galen of Pergamum, a celebrity physician of Rome whose patients...
Roman Medicine: An Overview
Video by Sarah Hicks

Roman Medicine: An Overview

This video is a brief description and overview of ancient Roman medicine.
Tower of Babel vs Linguistics - The Quest for the First Language
Video by NativLang

Tower of Babel vs Linguistics - The Quest for the First Language

Did one original language shatter into many? The Tower of Babel, the evolution of languages and the quest for Proto-World. The Tower of Babel is one of humankind's early attempts to explain the variety of languages spoken across the earth...
What Montezuma's Aztec Sounded Like - and how we know
Video by NativLang

What Montezuma's Aztec Sounded Like - and how we know

The Aztecs didn't call him Montezuma. Nor Moctezuma. They didn't call chocolate "chocolate". Heck, they didn't even call themselves Aztec! Though they were an oral culture, we have an idea of what their language really sounded like. Here's...
Aztec and Mayan Are Totally Different Languages. Sort of
Video by NativLang

Aztec and Mayan Are Totally Different Languages. Sort of

Ancient Mexico was a hotbed of language mixing. Aztecs and Maya spoke completely unrelated languages, but a Mesoamerican linguistic mindmeld tied them together in surprising ways. Here's the grammar. I'll start with the things that stood...
The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)
Video by NativLang

The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)

Your vowels were invented in Greece, giving birth to the first "true" alphabet. Watch as your new toga-clad friend turns your consonant abjad into a consonant-vowel alphabet. It's such a useful mapping of letters to sounds that neighbor...
Last Spartans: the survival of Laconic Greek
Video by NativLang

Last Spartans: the survival of Laconic Greek

The story of a Greek town that I'm told still preserves the Spartan tongue. I explore why they don't speak like the rest of Greece and dig into their connection to ancient Sparta. Will their Tsakonian language survive? Ancient Greece was...
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