Linguistic evidence supports date for Homeric epics

Linguistic evidence supports date for Homeric epics

The Homeric epics are among the greatest masterpieces of literature, but when they were produced is not known with certainty. Here we apply evolutionary-linguistic phylogenetic statistical methods to differences in Homeric, Modern Greek and ancient Hittite vocabulary items to estimate a date of approximately 710-760 BCE for these great works. Our analysis compared a common set of vocabulary ite...

Textile Evidence Supports Skewed Radiocarbon Date of Shroud of Turin

The most studied artifact in human history is the Shroud of Turin, a 14 by 3.5 foot sheet of linen with lightly-shaded ventral and dorsal images of an apparently crucified man matching the wounds reported to have been incurred by Jesus of Nazareth. In 1988, Carbon-14 (C-14) dating of a corner section of the cloth produced dates ranging from 1260 to 1390 A.D.(1) This paper presents new evidence ...

EPICS FOR PDAs

With the advent of readily available wireless communications and small hand-held computers, commonly known as personal digital assistants (PDAs), it is interesting to consider using these portable devices to access a control system. We have successfully ported the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) to Windows CE 3.0 (WCE) for the Pocket PC (PPC), and this paper describes...

Neuropsychological Double Dissociation between Linguistic Levels: Clinical Linguistic Evidence from Iranian Aphasic Patients

Introduction: In this paper we report on clinical linguistic applications of several versions of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) and the Persian Aphasia Battery (PAB) developed to assess patterns of recovery and language impairments in monolingual and bilingual aphasics with different clinical histories living in Iran. Methods: The participants are adult monolingual native speakers of Persian ...

Homeric Time Travel