Lost Doctor Who Episodes and Exciting Manuscript Finds
Mark Goodacre offered a comparison between the finding of lost Doctor Who episodes and the discovery of important ancient manuscripts. Both happen, but rumors of such things are more frequent than the...
View ArticleThis Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi idus februarias
ante diem vi idus februarias 293 B.C. — dedication of a Temple of Quirinus by Papirius Cursor (the temple having been vowed/begun by his similarly-named dictator father) which had a sundial associated...
View ArticleCalibrating Expectations for Biblical Studies
One of the most foundational elements of an intelligent and thoughtful engagement with biblical texts is calibrating one’s expectations. If one truly desires to try to begin the task of understanding...
View ArticlePleiades News: Hadrian's Wall milecastle and turret data
Milecastles project completed bySean Gillies — last modified Feb 07, 2012 04:23 PM Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0...
View ArticleOn Expertise and Expert Performance
Expert (Chambers Dictionary of Etymology) What do expertise and expert performance have to do with this digital curation of knowledge creation project? Well, if I can understand better what expertise...
View ArticleReflections on the Egyptian Revolution by Dr. Lobban
by Dr. Lobban I was here in Cairo a year ago, first on a family vacation, then to host a tour group which had virtually concluded its program when the revolution of January 25, 2011 broke out and as a...
View ArticleThe Latest in Creationist Educational Materials
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View ArticleCiclo de conferencias: CAESAR AUGUSTA
El Centro Cultural de Ibercaja Actur de Zaragoza organiza el Ciclo de conferencias: CAESAR AUGUSTA. Novedades históricas y arqueológicas para la Historia del Valle Medio del Ebro en época romana. Está...
View ArticleExposición didáctica "Los Bañales. Una ciudad romana en Las Cinco Villas" en...
El Centro Cultural de Ibercaja Actur de Zaragoza organiza Exposición didáctica "Los Bañales. Una ciudad romana en Las Cinco Villas". Os pasamos la información:La muestra presenta materiales...
View ArticleConverting 2-mode networks to 1-mode networks
Say you’re interested in patterns of communication between individuals who are members of multiple organizations (like for instance historical societies), or artefact types across multiple sites. You...
View ArticleHistorians of the Ottoman Empire
Historians of the Ottoman Empire - Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University"Initiated in the Fall of 2003, the project Historians of the Ottoman Empire aims at filling an extensive gap in...
View ArticleCoins Missing from ANA Money Museum
.A premier American numismatic collection seems to be having problems with documentation. In 2007 the American Numismatic Association Money Museum in Colorado Springs began an investigation into the...
View ArticleFrom my diary
I’ve been preparing for my forthcoming trip to Israel by getting dollars and shekels etc. One thing that has amused me rather is that, after arriving in Jerusalem at 5am on an overnight flight, we’re...
View ArticlePublic Archivalia Go Missing in USA
It has been reported (') that: Barry H. Landau, 63, of New York, N.Y., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and theft of historical documents from museums in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and...
View ArticleMaldivian Mob Shatters Statues
.There is a revolt in the Maldives, led by the police who refused to obey an order to break up an anti-government protest, and the former president, Mohamed Nasheed, has been forced out of power and...
View ArticleLinks between Native Americans and southern Altaians
AJHG doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.12.014, Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Variation Provides Evidence for a Recent Common Ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians Matthew C. Dulik et...
View ArticlePrinceton and Almagia
While I have listed what appears to be the list of objects that have been returned to Italy from Princeton, there are still some items linked to Edoardo Almagià that are listed in the Record of the...
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