Open Access Journal: Chroniques Yéménites (en français et en arabe) - N° ISSN...
[First posted in AWOL 25 September 2009. Updated 21 December 2011] Chroniques YéménitesISSN 1248-0568Consacrées à la péninsule Arabique et à la Corne de l’Afrique, les Chroniques Yéménites sont une...
View ArticlePopular Media: Atlantic Monthly, "Digital Excavations of Ancient Analog"
OCT 17 2011, 12:07 PM ET 1Physical documents can be incredibly durable, retaining ancient information through earthquakes, fires, and damage by insects and mold
View ArticleHagedorns WörterListen (WL) Update
O.Taxes IIP.Dime IIIP.Mich. XXP.Prag. IIIP.Sorb. IIIP.Vet. AeliiPSI Com. IXTyche 25
View ArticleMore on Aurelian’s temple of the sun
A commenter added some very useful links to my last post on this. The following is another drawing (from here) of the ruins of the temple of Sol Invictus, as they were before 1704, in a drawing by Jan...
View ArticleIOSSIF P.P., CHANKOWSKI A.S., LORBER C.C. (eds.), MORE THAN MEN, LESS THAN...
MORE THAN MEN, LESS THAN GODS: STUDIES ON ROYAL CULT AND IMPERIAL WORSHIP Proceedings of the International Colloquium Organized by the Belgian School at Athens (November 1-2, 2007) IOSSIF P.P.,...
View ArticleHadrian's First Wall
It is now over two years since I published the analyses of the three lines of double postholes found on the berm north of Hadrian’s Wall.[1] I knew then that this was the foundation of a temporary...
View Article«PALABRAS BIEN DICHAS»: ESTUDIOS FILOLÓGICOS DEDICADOS AL P. PIUS RAMON TRAGAN
«PALABRAS BIEN DICHAS»: ESTUDIOS FILOLÓGICOS DEDICADOS AL P. PIUS RAMON TRAGANAmb ocasió del X Aniversari de l’Estudi i Publicació del Fons Papirològic Roca-Puig, l’equip de filòlegs del Consell...
View ArticleC. BENNETT, Alexandria and the Moon
Alexandria and the MoonAn Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic EgyptStudia Hellenistica, 52Year: 2011ISBN: 978-90-429-2505-2Pages: XXXVI-276 p.Price: 68 EUROSummary:This book...
View ArticleDomnuleţ şi Domn din cer
Click here to view the embedded video.This is a Romanian Christmas carol that I love, composed by Gheorghe Cucu. The sheet music is available online. There are a number of different recordings of it...
View ArticleChristmas tradition -- and innovation
"Tradition always incorporates innovation" insisted the daughter (an anthropologist-cum-historian) on Christmas Eve. The reason for her insistence on this great anthropological truth was her desire...
View ArticleMerry Christmas
Ἡ Παρθένος σήμερον, τὸν ὑπερούσιον τίκτει, καὶ ἡ γῆ τὸ Σπήλαιον, τῷ ἀπροσίτῳ προσάγει. Ἄγγελοι μετὰ Ποιμένων δοξολογοῦσι. Μάγοι δὲ μετὰ ἀστέρος ὁδοιποροῦσι. δι' ἡμᾶς γὰρ ἐγεννήθη, Παιδίον νέον, ὁ πρὸ...
View ArticleHave A Joyous, Merry, Happy One
To all who will celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, I wish you a joyous Christmas! To those who like me and most of my family celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday, Merry Christmas! Next...
View ArticleRing Out, Ye Crystal Spheres!
Click here to view the embedded video.This is the epilogue from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Christmas cantata “Hodie,” which adapts the words from Milton’s “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity“:Ring out,...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!*also… Crăciun Fericit! Joyeux Noel! Fröhliche Weihnachten! عيد ميلاد مجيد חג מולד שמח کریسمس مبارک Boldog Karácsonyt! மெர்ரி கிறிஸ்துமஸ் मेरी क्रिसमस Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Feliz...
View ArticleHappy Christmas
Happy Christmas to all readers who celebrate it.Have a really lovely day.xXxEgyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
View ArticleNew novel: "The Temple Mount Code"
TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH/NEW NOVEL:"THE TEMPLE MOUNT CODE," by Charles Brokaw (f): Linguistics expert Thomas Lourds heads to Jerusalem to decode an ancient manuscript that his friend is murdered over, and...
View ArticleMore blither from the Jordan Lead Codices FB page
FAKE METAL CODICES WATCH: It's been quiet on this front for some time, but now Daniel McClellan has a post responding to some of the latest blither from the Jordan Lead Codices Facebook page: In...
View ArticleChristmas Greetings from PACHI
.I would like to take the opportunity to wish PACHI readers a very merry, peaceful and safe Christmas, and the freedom to celebrate it as you would wish. This year's Christmas vignette represents an...
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