Two Ancient Tombs from the Roman Era Discovered in Egypt
Bronze Age cremation pit uncovered in Scotland
'Incredibly rare' find in a submerged prehistoric forest
Open Access Newspaper Archive: al-Hudá = الهدى = Al-Hoda [1903-1904; Jan-Jun 1908]
Title : al-Hudá [1903-1904; Jan-Jun 1908]
Other titles: Hoda = Guidance = Jarīdat al-Hudá = Hudá al-jadīdah = New Al-Hoda.
Published in: New York, N.Y.
Began Feb. 22, 1898
Issues for <Sept. 17, 1971-Feb. 22, 1972> have also romanized title:Al-Hoda.
Issues for <Feb. 22, 1972-> have also Arabic title: Jarīdat al-Hudá (al-jadīdah)
Issues for <Aug. 31, 1984-Sept. 14, 1984> have also Arabic title: Hudá al-jadīdah.
Issues for <Aug. 31, 1984-Sept. 14, 1984> have also title: New Al-Hoda.
[Made available by the Center for Research Libraries]
See also: الهدى = al-Hoda = al-Hudá = Jarīdat al-Hudá [1898-1941] from Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies
La question des genres littéraires dans les Relationes de Symmaque
Lieu: Université Paris IV-Sorbonne / Paris
Catégorie: Séminaires, conférences
Date: 09.02.2019
Heure: 15.30 h - 17.30 h
Description:
Information signalée par Jacques Elfassi
Séance de la Société des Études Latines
Les séances ont lieu en Sorbonne, de 15h30 à 17h30. Chaque séance est précédée d’une réunion libre à 15h.
9 février, amphi Cauchy
Nicolas CAVUOTO-DENIS
La question des genres littéraires dans les Relationes de Symmaque
Source : Société des Études Latines
Decolonising Papyri Collections
John Rylands Library - Deansgate |
For this reason, it is nowadays of great importance to view papyrology from a wider historical perspective of modern colonialism and to practice it with much more attention to what I call the ethics of manuscripts. It is of vital importance not only to study but also to make the public aware of the biographies of manuscripts, the way they were legally and illegally excavated and eventually exchanged on the antiquities market. As its custodian, the University has a great responsibility towards the papyrus collection, which belongs to different communities and should be preserved for the future. The contemporary illegal circulation of papyri and other Egyptian antiquities on the market has roots in a longer history that we are part of and is a theme of contentious debate and crucial importance, especially after the Arab Spring led to an increasing number of objects appearing on offer at auctions and online. There are many challenges, and Manchester is making a key contribution to the establishment of good practices not only in terms of conservation and the deciphering of manuscripts, but also in finding more ethical ways of bringing this important cultural heritage to the widest possible audience, in the city and beyond.
Painted Floor Found in 1,000-Year-Old Tomb in Northeast China
SHENYANG, CHINA—According to a Xinhua report, images of carriages and horses, flowers, dragons, and a phoenix have been found painted on the walls and floor of a tomb in a Liao Dynasty cemetery (A.D. 907-1125) in northeast China’s Liaoning Province. Si Weiwei of the Liaoning Province Archaeological Institute explained that this is the first known example of a tomb with a painted floor from the Liao Dynasty. So far, four tombs in the cemetery have been excavated. They also yielded ceramics, silk fabrics, and wooden, jade, and stone objects. The cemetery is thought to have belonged to Han Derang, who served as a prime minister during the Liao Dynasty, and his descendants, Si added. To read about a tomb dating to around the same period in China, go to “Underground Party.”
Submerged Prehistoric Site Discovered in Scotland
BENBECULA, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that a prehistoric site has been discovered in a submerged, partially fossilized forest on one of Scotland’s Western Isles. Researcher Joanna Hambly of the Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion Trust said researchers had recovered a quern stone, used for grinding food, in addition to a wall and what may have been parts of circular stone structures. A piece of a quartz flake was even found in the bone it had been used to butcher. “To find the remains of a butchery site is incredibly rare,” Hambly said, “the survival of a single action in prehistory preserved in intertidal peats.” Between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago, she added, the forest consisted of birch, hazel, willow, aspen, rowan, oak, Scots pine, alder, ash, and elm trees. All of the trees were gone by about 2,500 years ago, due to human activity and rising sea levels. Radiocarbon dating will help date the artifacts. For more on archaeology in Scotland, go to “Neolithic Europe's Remote Heart.”
Damage to Ancient Carving of Egyptian Couple Was Meant to Hurt Them in the Afterlife
Rare ground-painting found in ancient Chinese tomb
unfoldingWord Hebrew Grammar
Introduction
The unfoldingWord Hebrew Grammar (UHG) is a Biblical Hebrew reference grammar based on the morphology codesthat appear in the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB). It enables the global Church to gain the best possible understanding of the Hebrew grammar of the Old Testament.Rationale
The rationale behind creating the first version of the UHG was to provide an openly licensed and up to date reference grammar for direct use with the OSHB. Such a grammar may be used in software to provide students and translators of Scripture with up to date and accurate descriptions of Hebrew grammar on an as needed basis. Because the articles are directly patterned after the morphological categories of the OSHB, it is easy for software to link directly to them.Methodology
A team of scholars and technicians worked together to create and revise each of the articles in the UHG over the course of a year and a half. The creation process included individuals drafting glossary and article entries for each grammatical topic and then a series of peer reviews of each. Several meetings were held to help standardize the format of the articles and to discuss difficult issues as they arose.
The differentiation between the glossary entries and the articles is similar to the approach of many Wikipedia articles. The glossary entry is a one or two sentence summary of the grammatical topic, while the article goes into much more detail and includes several examples. This has the effect of being useful in a pop up or tooltip in software applications, which may provide immediate access to the glossary in the pop up and then link to the full article.
A unique design goal was to make the language of the grammar as simple as possible so that the resource can more easily be translated into the Gateway Languages of the world. This should also have the effect of rendering the grammar accessible to people of varied educational backgrounds and varied proficiency in the English language.
The work was completed using an online content creation and translation platform, the Door43 Content Service. Because of this, all the work is under revision control, you can go back and see the commit historyif you’d like (it totals over 2500 commits at the time of writing).
- Adjective
- Adjective Cardinal Number
- Adjective Gentilic
- Adjective Ordinal Number
- Adverb
- Conjunction
- Definiteness
- Gender Both
- Gender Common
- Gender Feminine
- Gender Masculine
- Infinitive Absolute
- Infinitive Construct
- Noun
- Noun Common
- Noun Gentilic
- Noun Proper Name
- Number Dual
- Number Plural
- Number Singular
- Participle Active
- Participle Passive
- Particle
- Particle Affirmation
- Particle Definite Article
- Particle Demonstrative
- Particle Direct Object Marker
- Particle Exhortation
- Particle Interjection
- Particle Interrogative
- Particle Negative
- Particle Relative
- Person First
- Person Second
- Person Third
- Preposition
- Preposition Definite Article
- Pronoun
- Pronoun Demonstrative
- Pronoun Indefinite
- Pronoun Interrogative
- Pronoun Personal
- Pronoun Relative
- State Absolute
- State Construct
- Stem Formation
- Stem Hiphil
- Stem Hishtaphel
- Stem Hithpael
- Stem Hithpalpel
- Stem Hithpoel
- Stem Hithpolel
- Stem Hophal
- Stem Hothpaal
- Stem Niphal
- Stem Nithpael
- Stem Palel
- Stem Pealal
- Stem Piel
- Stem Pilel
- Stem Pilpel
- Stem Poal
- Stem Poel
- Stem Polal
- Stem Polel
- Stem Polpal
- Stem Pual
- Stem Pulal
- Stem Qal
- Stem Qal Passive
- Stem Tiphil
- Suffix
- Suffix Directional He
- Suffix Paragogic He
- Suffix Paragogic Nun
- Suffix Pronominal
- Verb
- Verb Cohortative
- Verb Imperative
- Verb Imperfect
- Verb Jussive
- Verb Perfect
- Verb Sequential Imperfect
- Verb Sequential Perfect
- Word Order
- Bibliography
Open Culture's List of Free Courses in Ancient History, Literature & Philosophy
Open Culture's List of Free Courses in Ancient History, Literature & Philosophy
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History & Literature
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Syllabus) - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Ancient Greece: City and Society– Free iTunes Audio– La Trobe University, Australia
- Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War - Free iTunes Audio - Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University – Australia
- Ancient Greek History - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Free Video & Course Materials - Donald Kagan, Yale
- Ancient Israel - Free Online Video & Course Info - Free Online Video– Daniel Fleming, NYU
- Ancient Philosophy - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love (Syllabus) - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video– David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Classical Mythology– Free iTunes Video– Joseph Hughes, Missouri State
- Classical Mythology – Free iTunes Audio– Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University -Australia
- Epics of Rome– Free iTunes Video– Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University-Australia
- Hannibal - Free iTunes Audio - Patrick Hunt, Stanford
- Hero and Quest– Free iTunes Video– Missouri State, Larry George
- Roman Architecture - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Audio - Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
- The Roman World– Free iTunes Video– Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University – Australia
- The Heroic and the Anti-Heroic in Classical Greek Civilization– Multiple Formats– Gregory Nagy, Harvard
- Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic - Free iTunes Audio - Suanna Braund, Stanford University
Philosophy
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - David O'Connor, Notre Dame
- Ancient Philosophy - Free iTunes Audio - David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - David O'Connor, Notre Dame
- Aristotle: Ethics - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Aristotle: Rhetoric - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- From Gods and Back - Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Political Philosophy: Study of Aristotle’s Politics - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato's Apology of Socrates - Free Online Video - Allan Bloom, UChicago
- Plato Apology/Crito - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato: Gorgias - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
- Plato: Laws - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
- Plato: Meno - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato, Protagoras - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato's Republic - Free Online Audio - Laurence Bloom, University of Georgia
- Socrates - Free Online Audio - Allan Bloom, U. Chicago
- The Art of Living - Free Online Video - Team taught, Stanford
- The Examined Life - Free iTunes Audio - Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
- The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Free Course in Multiple Formats - Peter Adamson, King’s College London
- Thucydides - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Xenophon’s Oeconomicus - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
Open Access Newspaper Archive: البيان = al-Bayān = The explanation [1911-1938]
Title : البيان = al-Bayān = The explanation
Published : Niyūyūrk : Sulaymān Baddūr, 1911-
Frequency Three times a week
Note: Each issue includes an index
Digital issues available : Jan 24, 1911-Jan 22 1916; Jan 25, 1917-Jul 31, 1926; Jan 25-Dec 31, 1938
[Made available by the Center for Research Libraries]
Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies
Open Access Newspaper Archive: فتاة بوسطن = Fatat Boston [Dec 28, 1917-May 8, 1919]
Place of publication: Boston
Published by : W.E. Shakir
Dates of publication: 1914-1922
Frequency: Weekly
Language: Arabic
Notes: "Syrian semi-weekly newspaper."
Digital issues available: Dec 28, 1917-May 8, 1919
[Made available by the Center for Research Libraries]
Augustus and the Campus Martius in Rome: the Emperor's Rôle as Pharaoh of Egypt and Julius Caesar's Calendar Reform; the Montecitorio Obelisk, the Meridian Line, the Ara Pacis, and the Mausoleum Augusti in Honour of Eugenio La Rocca on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday.
Open Access Journal: ARIT Newsletter
ARIT Newsletter
Twice a year the Institute publishes the ARIT Newsletter, distributed widely in the academic community and among the Friends of ARIT. It provides information about the ARIT's recent activities and programs, including the news from each center, research reports from recent fellows in Turkey, lists of current fellows and donors.
Volume 61, 2018
- Fundraising successes and needs
- Istanbul Library at Bibliopera; American Board Archives development
- Ankara supports local conference on islands of the Byzantine Mediterranean and a writing workshop for students.
- ARIT fellows reports: Ottoman textiles and cheese-making in northeastern Turkey.
Volume 60, Winter 2017-2018
- New location for ARIT Istanbul
- ARIT Ankara collaborates to present programs to protect cultural heritage.
- Hanfmann and Mellink fellows' symposium.
- Research reports: ARIT fellows report on archaeological and archival research.Volume 59, Spring 2016
- Research in Turkey continues.
- ARIT helps develop programs to protect heritage.
- SALT Galata in Istanbul exhibits materials from the American Board Archive.
- The Sardis Symphony debuts at the Temple of Artemis.
- Research reports: ARIT fellow reports on contemporary synagogue liturgy in Istanbul.
Volume 58, Spring 2015
- Studies related to Turkey grow, along with ARIT institutional membership
- ARIT Istanbul opens new on-line access to American Board archives and library materials
- ARIT Ankara director presents at the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists and facilitates programs on cultural heritage protection
- Research reports: On social complexity and crop production at chalcolithic Çadır Höyük and on Looking over Ottoman readers' shoulders.Volume 57, Fall 2014
- ARIT and the NEH.
- ARIT Istanbul Friends initiate the John Freely Fellowship Fund.
- ARIT welcomes additional new institutional members.
- Research report: Subsistence and Ritual as evidenced by bone remains in southern Cappadocia.Volume 56, Spring 2014
- Reflections on ARIT's 50th.
- ARIT welcomes additional new institutional members.
- Research reports: Statistics and reform in contemporary Turkey; the musical life of two Bektashi communities; Ottoman physical culture.Volume 55, Spring 2013
- 2014 is ARIT's 50th year: reflecting on past accomplishments and future plans.
- ARIT welcomes additional new institutional member
- New publication: writings of Dr. Toni M. Cross
- Research reports: library collections of Ottoman Sufi scholars; Armenian churches in Istanbul.Volume 54, Fall 2012
- ARIT plans adaptations to reduced funding
- ARIT welcomes five new institutional members
- Research report: Classical architects of Asia Minor; Authenticating Eyüp in Istanbul.Volume 53, Spring 2012
- ARIT's funding worries continue
- ARIT Istanbul Library acquires the massive archive of the American Board of Missions
- ARIT Ankara director reports on Turkish fellows traveling to Greece
- Research report: Early Republican political cartoonsVolume 52, Fall 2011
- ARIT loses much of its federal support for overseas operations and programs
- ARIT Istanbul Library posts publications from the Library of the American Board of Missions on-line
- ARIT Ankara director shares new developments concerning permits for U.S. archaeological excavations and surveys
- Research report: Byzantine shipwreck exploredVolume 51, Spring 2011
- ARIT Istanbul facilities and developments
- Library of the American Board of Missions at ARIT Istanbul
- ARIT Ankara names Coulson - Cross Aegean Exchange fellows for 2011
- Research reports: Ottoman Women, Legal Reform, and Social Change; Spanish Moriscos in the Ottoman realmVolume 50, Fall 2010
- Local Archives and Libraries of Overseas Research Centers (LAORC) launches new database on the Digital Library for International Research (DLIR)
- Access to research facilities in Istanbul
- ARIT facilitates cooperation with new permit procedures for archaeological projects
- Research reports: Religion and politics and the Ottoman-Iranian border; Polychromy of Roman marble sculpture from AphrodisiasVolume 49, Spring 2010
- Meet the new ARIT President
- New ARIT Turkish fellows pursue a broad range of research projects
- Archaeologists adapt to new excavation regulations
- Research reports: Late Antique Portrait Sculpture; Perspectives of German-Turkish return migrants.Volume 48, Fall 2009
- ARIT President Sams recounts his presidency that is coming to an end
- ARIT center affiliates have diverse backgrounds and interests
- ARIT Ankara and Cypriot American Archaeological Research Institute exchange scholar/directors
- Research reports: Piracy in the Ottoman Mediterranean; Hittite conception of space.Volume 47, Spring 2009
- ARIT Mellon Fellows contributions.
- New tours and sites in Turkey
- Machteld J. Mellink remembered in Ankara
- Research report: A study of Ottoman deeds in Çorum yields detailed histories.Volume 46, Fall 2008
- ARIT Ankara director changes: farewell to Baha Yildirim, greetings to Elif Denel.
- Turkish Language programs and fellowships program grow
- ARIT continues to seek new facilities for the Istanbul center
- Research reports: Ottoman military levies; Little Ice Age crisis in Ottoman lands.Volume 45, Spring 2008
- ARIT begins building a library endowment with the help of the NEH Endowment Challenge grant.
- Kress Foundation fellows cited; Turkish fellowships program grows
- ARIT seeks new facilities for the Istanbul center
- Research reports: Turkish Alevism; Greek pottery at Gordion.Volume 44, Fall 2007
- ARIT wins NEH Endowment Challenge grant to upgrade libraries.
- Joukowsky Family Foundation supports publication of fellows' research.
- Research reports: Suleyman the Lawgiver; Cultural Debates in Istanbul Recording Studios.Volume 43, Spring 2007
- Ankara Library receives Mellink collection and expands.
- Expanded intensive Department of State Turkish language programs continue.
- Research reports: The Making of the National Identity in Ottoman Macedonia; The Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck.Volume 42, Fall 2006
- The Council of American Overseas Research Centers marks twenty-five years.
- New Department of State funding supports advanced language study in Turkey for U.S. beginning students.
- List of ARIT Fellowships for 2006-2007.
- Research report: The Architectural Patronage of Sultan Alaeddin KeykubadVolume 41, Spring 2006
- Machteld Johanna Mellink remembrance.
- New legal status for ARIT in Turkey in process.
- Annual Fund drive.
- Research reports: Thracian Names and the Greek Epigraphic Evidence in East Thrace and Asia Minor; Secularizations and their Discontents: a Cross-National Study; The Civil Basilica of Aphrodisias.Volume 40, Fall 2005
- George and Ilse Hanfmann Fellowship Program.
- Increased research activities in libraries and hostels in both Ankara and Istanbul.
- List of ARIT Fellowships for 2005-2006.
- Research report: Roman urbanism in southwestern Turkey; history of the Sabbatian communities.Volume 39, Spring 2005
- The Turkish Cultural Foundation offers new support for Turkish fellows in Turkey.
- Increased support means more Turkish fellows supported in the program administered by the Istanbul Dernek.
- Aegean Exchange fellows plan their research projects in Greece.
- Annual fund drive.
- Research Report: Byzantine-Ottoman 'overlap' architecture in Turkey.
Volume 38, Fall 2004
- William D. E. Coulson - Toni M. Cross Aegean Exchange gains permanent funding through the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
- Changes in the laws guiding applications for research permissions occupy directors in both centers.
- List of ARIT Fellowships for 2004-2005.
- Research report: ancient wine-making in Turkey.Volume 37, Spring 2004
- Interest in U.S.-based research in Turkey on the increase; research are programs thriving.
- New Turkish law changes the process for foreigners applying for research permissions.
- Hanfmann Fellows travel abroad to carry out varied research projects; the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Consulate in Ankara continues to support the Aegean Exchange Program.
- Research report: prehistoric dietary habits examined through micro-wear analysis.
ACHILLES REPRISED AND RECONFIGURED IN PAT BARKER’S THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS
Open Access Newspaper Archive: الاهرام = al-Ahram
Published: al-Qāhirah : al-Ahrām
Frequency: Daily
Print began in 1876
Digital issues available: May-Dec 1890; 1892; 1895; July 1896-Jun 1900; Jan 1907-Dec 1908; Jan 1912-Dec 1913; 1943-1945; Oct-Dec 1970; scattered issues wanting.
Access to content published after 1923 is restricted.
[Made available by the Center for Research Libraries]
Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies
A much younger me in lorica squamata, the cut knee was due to clumsiness, I soldiered on during...
A much younger me in lorica squamata, the cut knee was due to clumsiness, I soldiered on during filming….Find me on twitter @ancientblogger or my website www.ancientblogger.com. I even have podcasts out (look up ‘Ancient History Hound’ wherever you download them).
Fake Antiquities Flood Market, so What?
There are a large number of fake antiquities out there, some easy to spot, others less so, and probably a whole lot that without extremely sophisticated technical analysis nobody will ever know. But if a fake vase, coin, cunie, lamp, 'Dead Sea' scroll or whatever has been sold as authentic, and its new owner sees no reason to question it and cherishes it as such, sells it to the next guy that also cannot see anything wrong with it... what rim has been committed? The buyers bought what they saw and liked, paid the price they felt like paying to experience having it. What's the big deal? Is not 'art' about experiences, sensual reception?