Getty Museum refuses to return Lysippos statue to Italy

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The ancient Greek Statue of a Victorious Youth by fabled sculptor Lysippos belongs to Italy, the supreme Cassation Court said Tuesday, saying the Getty Museum in California must hand it back. The disputed 'Statue of a Victorious Youth', 300–100 BC  [Credit: Dave & Margie Hill/WikiCommons]The top court rejected an appeal by the US museum against a Pesaro judge's order to confiscate the fourth-century BC bronze statue. "The...

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The medieval mystery of the booted man in the mud

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A mysterious male skeleton, lying face-down deep in the Thames mud, with a pair of in-situ thigh-high leather boots has been discovered by MOLA archaeologists working on one of the sites being used to build London’s super sewer in Bermondsey. The booted man discovered on the Tideway site at Chambers Wharf in London [Credit: MOLA Headland Archaeology]The skeleton was discovered at Tideway’s Chambers Wharf site in Bermondsey, where work...

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100 Φινλανδικές Καινοτομίες

December 4, 2018, 4:00 pm

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December 05, 2018 19.00 - BOOK LAUNCH Σταύρος Θεοδωράκης, Πρόεδρος, Το Ποτάμι /Ιlkka Taipale, Επιμελητής της έκδοσης /Μαρία Μαρτζούκου, Μεταφράστρια

Κίνα και αρχαία Ελλάδα: Σύγκριση μυθολογίας και φιλοσοφίας

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December 05, 2018 19.00 - LECTURE Καθ. Θεοδόσης Τάσιος, ΕΜΠ

How to Shop for Books in late 5th-Century Athens

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December 05, 2018 19.30 - LECTURE Hallie Marshall (Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre & Film, University of British Columbia)

Šubic in the Land of Classical Greece

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The Roman Army A to Z: vericulum

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vericulum (n. pl. vericula)

Spear with a fifteen-inch (0.37m) iron shank and a three-and-a-half-foot-long (1.05m) shaft. According to Veg., an earlier version of verutum. Veg., DRM 2.15. [Bishop and Coulston 2006]

Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos

December 4, 2018, 11:30 pm

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Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago. 3D illustration of the dark matter explosion and...

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A. Di Rocco, Année 451, la victoire de l'occident

December 4, 2018, 11:44 pm

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Alain Di Rocco, Année 451, la victoire de l'occident, Milhaud, 2018.

Éditeur : Beaurepaire
139 pages
ISBN : 9782357672673
18 €

L'histoire contée dans ce livre retrace les évènements de la bataille des champs Catalauniques de l'an 451, opposant Attila à la tête de ses terrifiantes hordes hunniques aux populations du pays gallo-romain.
Ce conflit se déroula en Gaule, partie intégrante de l'Empire romain alors agonisant. Pour la première fois de son histoire, elle vit combattre côte à côte sur ses terres de nouveaux peuples – francs, burgondes, wisigoths, sarmates – auprès de ses chers fils gaulois.
Cette bataille sauva la Gaule, unissant des peuples de cultures différentes mais tous avec la volonté de défendre leur territoire : la future France.

 

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Hurtado on Christians and codices

December 5, 2018, 1:47 am

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2018.12.02: The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World From the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

December 5, 2018, 1:55 am

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Review of J. G. Manning, The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World From the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome. Princeton: 2018. Pp. 448. $27.95. ISBN 9780691151748.

2018.12.03: Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla

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Review of Matthew B. Roller, Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla. Cambridge: 2018. Pp. xix, 321. £75.00. ISBN 9781107162594.

2018.12.04: Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy

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Review of Daniele Miano, Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy. Oxford; New York: 2018. Pp. xiv, 242. $78.00. ISBN 9780198786566.

An Oxyrhynchus Papyrus of Exodus and Revelation, Part 2

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ReligionProf Podcast with Douglas Estes Part 2: Time, Immortality, and Technology

December 5, 2018, 2:34 am

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Of the theological topics that I tackle in my book Theology and Science Fiction, one that students at McCormick Seminary were particularly interested in when I made a guest appearance there in October, was what I wrote about immortality. And yet it was a topic that we didn’t get to talk about as much as I […]

Traditionalists vs. assimilationists or just politics?

December 5, 2018, 2:35 am

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30 years of experimental evolution results in a new sex chromosome

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On 3 December 2018, the laboratory of Professor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz published new findings of an experimental evolutionary project that ran for 30 years on the genomic mechanisms of sex determination in swordtail fish in the journal Nature Communications. Dr Paolo Franchini, evolutionary biologist and Junior Research Group Leader at the University of Konstanz is the lead author of this collaboration with the laboratory...

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Medullary bone found in Cretaceous birds

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A team of scientists led by Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported the first occurrence of medullary bone in Enantiornithes, the dominant clade of birds during the Cretaceous. Main slab of Pengornithid Enantiornithine, preserved in three-dimensions unlike most compression fossils  from the Jehol Biota. Scale bar is one centimetre [Credit:...

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Archives in Context: A Persian and Babylonia Project

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Archives in Context: A Persian and Babylonia Project

Archives in Context introduces the study of Babylonian private archives to anyone who is interested in ancient Babylonia and the documents left behind by its inhabitants. This includes students of Assyriology and scholars from other disciplines. On the Archives in Context website, advanced students and researchers of the ancient Near East unveil the secrets of the Neo- and Late Babylonian private archives (c. 620-330 BCE). Through a series of short articles, accompanied by images and visualizations, you will learn about these archives, from their production and use to their discovery and decipherment. We provide short explanations of specific terminology and we link to other websites where you can learn more about certain subjects. The study of these archives and their documents is still ongoing and of great importance for understanding the ancient Babylonian society. In Archives in Context we want to make you part of our research by exploring the Babylonian private archives in all its facets.

Archives in Context is an outreach initiative of the ERC Project Persia and Babylonia: Creating a New Context for Understanding the Emergence of the First World Empire led by Caroline Waerzeggers.