La mesure et ses usages dans l’Antiquité : la documentation archéologique
La mesure est un moyen essentiel de connaissance du monde et d’action sur le monde. Les mesures et leurs usages varient dans le temps et dans l’espace. La journée d’études organisée par la Société...
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Le Ve Séminaire sur les langues de l'Italie préromaine réunira le jeudi 15 mars 2012, des spécialistes français et étrangers autour du thème du lexique. Les approches herméneutiques, les questions de...
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Albert Einstein y las Ocas del Capitolio
Gracias al blog Letters of Note descubro que Albert Einstein contaba con una extensa cultura clásica... y no pocas dosis de ironía. La cuestión es la siguiente, en 1932, una tal Sra. Randolph...
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Young-Earth Creationists Believe Supernovas are Beautiful Lies told by God
Young-earth creationists, strictly speaking, can’t believe that there are such things as “supernovas” in the sense in which other people use that term. That term refers to stars exploding in faraway...
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Three Abstracts for the 2012-2013 Archaeological Institute of America Lecture...
I was invited next year to contribute to the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual lecture program. To help local chapter of the AIA decide whether my lectures would fit their needs, drawn an...
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VIVAnews’ interview with Stephen Oppenheimer
VIVAnews has an interview with Stephen Oppenheimer about the themes of his book Eden in the East and the alleged pyramid on Mt Sadahurip. Prof. Stephen Oppenheimer, VIVAnews 20120215 On Pyramid,...
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Archaeologists strike Biblical gold with discovery of the Queen of Sheba's...
Archaeologists strike Biblical gold with discovery of the Queen of Sheba's fabled mines | Mail Online
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Bodies of 21 German soldiers buried alive in WW1 trench found perfectly...
Bodies of 21 German soldiers buried alive in WW1 trench found perfectly preserved 94 years later | Mail Online:
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Research and analysis: there is no substitute
The announcement of Glasgow University's new team to study the illegal trade in antiquities is welcome news to those who seek the truth about these issues—fact-based truths. The recent years have seen...
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Discoveries at Kinik Hoyuk "Discovered" by the Press
A joint Italian-American team is excavating Kinik Hoyuk, a pre-classical, intact site from the “forgotten kingdom of Tuwana” in southern Cappadocia, Turkey. This wealthy region once controlled the...
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REVIEW: Rodolfo Funari (ed.), Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini. Parte...
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.02.27Rodolfo Funari (ed.), Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini. Parte B: storici latini. 1. Autori noti. Vol. 1: Titus Livius. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra...
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REVIEW: Ian Storey, Fragments of Old Comedy, Volumes i-iii (Loeb)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.02.26Ian C. Storey (trans.), Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume I: Alcaeus to Diocles. Loeb classical library, 513. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2011....
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CDLI News: Middle Assyrian texts in Berlin
Middle Assyrian texts in BerlinWe invite scholars interested in the Middle Assyrian period to check out the online files of the CDLI at <http://tinyurl.com/7bzpnm2>. Of the 2622 text artifacts...
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Support Greece!
For the past couple of years I devoted most of my time in the promotion of ancient history and classical studies. I have always been proud of my classical heritage and that was one of the reasons I...
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More Attacks, Good-bye PhDiva, Hello Culture Concierge
.Dorothy King has announced (Good-bye PhDiva, Hello Culture Concierge) that she's suspending her PhDiva blogging to concentrate on her new project "Culture Concierge" (temporarily housed here, will be...
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Digital Library: Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunis
[First posted in AWOL 26 April 2011. Updated 15 February 2012]n.b.: The publications in this digital library are encoded (apparently) is such a way that the links do not work outside the context of...
View ArticleThe Next Getty Director: Archaeologist Timothy Potts’ Comments on...
The Getty Bronze: Still an object of contention with ItalyNothwithstanding the credentials of the Getty Museum's director-designate, Timothy Potts, as an archaeologist who participated in excavations...
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A Wellcome Etruscan Uterus?
Last weekend we posted a link to Caroline Lawrence’s post about her visit to the Wellcome Collection. Serendipitously, the Wellcome Collection’s own blog also has an item of interest under the title...
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Antiquitist Anti-Academism
.One of the antiquitist mantras is that they are all against the illicit trade in antiquities, their bit of the trade is "all legitimate" and they cannot abide the black sheep "who get us all a bad...
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