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Roman Cemetery in Tunisia
From AllAfrica … hopefully we’ll get some more details: A chance discovery of around 100 Roman graves was made recently near el Kantra – located in the island of Djerba’s southern region. Employees...
View ArticleHalf Way To The March Biblical Studies Carnival
Please send me your nominations for the March 1 Biblical Studies Carnival. I’ll be hosting it here. I’ve already collected a number of abnormally interesting posts. I’ve even collected a few that have...
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Open Access Journal: Journal of Arabic Language and Literature (Journal of...
مجلّۀ زبان و ادبيّات عربي Journal of Arabic Language and Literature (Journal of Letters and Humanities) - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Select the abstract of any article to find the link to...
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EU Backs Major Research Study of Illicit Antiquities Market
The announcement that Simon Mackenzie and Neil Brodie have received a hefty grant to study the workings of the illicit antiquities market is wonderful news for all who care about improving policies to...
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Turkish population structure (Hodoğlugil and Mahley, 2012)
These results appear to be consistent with my own estimate of 1/7 Central Asian ancestry for Anatolian Turks. In a more recent analysis based on haplotype sharing, I have discovered that there is some...
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Open Access Journal: Journal of the International Society for the History of...
Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (JISHIM)Author: International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine.Publisher: [Istanbul, Turkey] : Nobel Matbaacılık,...
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Law 360 on ACCG Test Case
Law 360 published this story on the ACCG Appeal yesterday:Law360, New York (February 14, 2012, 8:19 PM ET) -- The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild on Monday urged the Fourth Circuit to revive its lawsuit...
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Origin of language in Africa questioned
A new paper in Science is criticial of another recent paper in the same journal, which proposed that there was a diminution of phonemic diversity away from Southwest Africa, suggesting that region as...
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NEANDERTHALS WERE USING PAINT 250,000 YEARS AGO -- EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY...
Traces of the paint, made from ocher, were dug up in the Netherlands and dated to a quarter of a million years ago.Scientists are keeping an open mind as to what the sub-species of humans did with it...
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Open Access Journal: The Prehistoric Society: Book Reviews
[First posted in AWOL 30 November 2009. Updated 15 February 2012] The Prehistoric Society: Book Reviews The Prehistoric Society's interests are world wide and extend from the earliest human origins to...
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Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies
This list includes 1102 titlesThe version history of this list is at: Updates on the list of Open Access Journals in Ancient StudiesHave you found a broken link in this list? Let me know via the...
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Kirsty Mason on Thomas Harrison, Writing Ancient Persia. Classical essays
In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.02.29 Kirsty Mason reviews:Thomas Harrison, Writing Ancient Persia. Classical essays. London; New York: Bristol Classical Press, 2011. Pp. 190. ISBN 9780715639177....
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News: Dancers in the OI
Dance Council / Performances The Dance Council is a newly created co-curricular program with Theater and Performance Studies, involving more then 300 students, 7 productions annually, with a sweeping...
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Theft in Montreal
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has had two of it's pieces stolen including this Assyrian relief and a marble head. The Insurance company AXA Art is offering a substantial reward for the return of the...
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News: Persepolis Relief Fragment in Montreal Stolen
News is emerging today (15 February 2012) of the theft in October 2011, from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, of two pieces, one of them a "Persian low relief of the head of a guard, dating from the...
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Another skeleton discovered at Gua Bewah
The Terengganu Museum announces the discovery of a second skeleton at Gua Bewah, in the Lake Kenyir region. The first skeleton found was claimed to be older than the 10,000-year-old Perak Man burial....
View ArticleHalfway to an Abnormally Interesting Biblical Studies Carnival
The next Biblical Studies Carnival will be at Duane Smith’s blog Abnormal Interests, and Duane posted a reminder today about this, asking for submissions. Please tell him about the most abnormal,...
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Lenggong artefacts on show in Paris
The Malaysian Department of Heritage is organising a five-day exhibition that started on Tuesday on the heritage of Malaysia at the Unesco offices in Paris. Among the exhibits featured are artefacts...
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Bibleworks 9 Review 2
Search window: For me, the primary appeal of BW is the power and flexibility of its search engine. Through the search window command line, the user can search for verses containing individual words,...
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