Language-Based Reading Groups

 

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a striding, ram-headed sphinx supported by two kneeling figures ca. 9th–8th century B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Furniture plaque carved in relief with a striding,
ram-headed sphinx supported by two kneeling
figures ca. 9th–8th century B.C. Metropolitan
Museum of Art

Brown University hosts a number of informal groups

whose members meet regularly to read and discuss an ancient language.  Some of these groups have met for years, or even decades, while new groups also frequently emerge based on shared interests among faculty and students.

Language-based groups of relevance to scholarship in early cultures include: