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Camels In the Roman Empire? There’s Evidence for That!
Hot on the heels of our questioning of a claim over at Gizmodo (Camels in Greece? Really Gizmodo? Source? comes news of a paper on archaeological evidence for camel use in the Roman Empire in — of all...
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Hurricane Reveals an Unknown Roman Site in Bulgaria
A couple of brief items from Standart are — as often — tantalizingly vague. First: The strong hurricane which rages near the city of Bourgas made a favour to the Bulgarian archaeologists. The hurricane...
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W. Brockliss, P. Chaudhuri, A. Haimson Lushkov et K. Wasdin (éd.), Reception...
William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov et Katherine Wasdin (éd.), Reception and the Classics. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition, Cambridge, 2011. Éditeur :...
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Archaeo News Podcast 208
4th February 2012 In collaboration with British Archaeological Jobs Resource Contents: Estonian students find Iron Age life smoky and cold Prehistoric stone row discovered in Wales Ancient jade tool...
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Also Seen: Togas on Metro
The Huffington Post had a burning question this week: via Togas On Metro: Do You Have Any Clue What These Dudes Were Up To?. .. I certainly have no idea, but the original article (with photo) has a...
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Gladiator Latin
From the Wanderer: One of the big decisions for students entering Old Rochester Regional (ORR) Junior High School next fall is which foreign language they will elect to study for a year and a half....
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Champollion and Rosellini Online
Oxford Digital Library, Department of Oriental Studies: Champollion and Rosellini Egyptian Expeditions The works of the Champollion and Rosellini expeditions are invaluable and irreplaceable because...
View ArticleMesopotamian Jokes
Interesting essay on ancient jokes. They are all the subjects of six 3,500-year-old riddles from ancient Babylon that researchers have deciphered but in many cases are still struggling to understand....
View ArticleA Peaceful, But Very Interesting Pursuit – The Rumpus.net
Even after he published Prufrock and The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot continued to work his day job at a bank. The new volume of his letters reveals his financial anxieties and his unexpected attitude...
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G, Ruffini, A Prosopography of Byzantine Aphrodito (ASP 50)
A Prosopography of Byzantine AphroditoAmerican Studies in Papyrology 50)by Giovanni Roberto RuffiniThis volume, which replaces Girgis's outdated prosopography from 1938, is an annotated record of every...
View ArticlePeople of the E-Book? Observant Jews Struggle With Sabbath in a Digital Age
An old essay but still interesting. The migration of print media to the web and digital devices has stirred society to ponder many Big Questions: Is Google making us stupid? Has technology...
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Flipping the Bird ~ Ancient Precedents
In the wake of Super Bowl shenanigans last week which seemed to eclipse the half time show in press coverage later, Law Professor Ira Robbins was on NPR’s All Things Considered and suggesting that the...
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R.S. Bagnall, J.G. Keenan, L.S.B. Macoull, A Sixth-Century Tax Register from...
A Sixth-Century Tax Register from the Hermopolite Nomeedited by Roger S. Bagnall, James G. Keenan, and Leslie S.B. MacCoullThis volume publishes the most complete documentary codex from 6th-century...
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ZPE 180 (2012)
INHALTAntonetti, C. – Cavalli, E., Il fondo epigrafico Petsas presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: iscrizioni di Termo 173 Arbabzadah, M., The Disappearing Man: λακίνει / Λακινει⟨ν⟩ in a Greek...
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CONF: A Theatre of Justice
A Theatre of Justice: Aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric University College London, 19-20 April 2012 (Gordon House, Room 106) The notion of “performance” has recently attracted...
View ArticleFirst Neanderthal paintings on a Spanish cave?
According to new dating tests, a series of seals painted more than 42,000 years ago, located in the Cave of Nerja, in Málaga (Spain) are the first paintings ever made...
View ArticleRare Indus Valley seal discovered in Pakistan
Archaeologists have discovered a rare Indus Valley civilization-era seal in steatite dating back to 2,500-2,000 BCE from the Cholistan area of Punjab (Pakistan). The seal features the carved figure of...
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10 signs of disintegration in Greece; and its archaeology and looting crisis
Last night, impotently watching Greece implode, I tweeted the most immediate signs of disintegration in Greece. Here, I explain and source those signs; then I show the consequent crises of archaeology...
View ArticleIron Age cremated bodies found in Warwickshire
Archaeologists digging in Cawston (Warwickshire, England) have described the discovery of the remains of two cremated bodies dating back some 2,000 years as a major find. Land on Calvestone Road...
View ArticleA meteorite as a ritual offering for ancient Britons
A meteorite spanning about 1.6 feet (0.5m) across and weighing 205 pounds (93 kg) fell from space some 30,000 years ago in what is now Britain. And after much sleuthing,...
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