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Time for a Major Rethink in Greece
Greece's financial meltdown has prompted calls for its economy to be liberalized by cutting back on excessive government regulations and ending state subsidies for connected insiders.While the...
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CONF: Ruin or Renewal? Places and the Transformation of Memory in the City of...
Seen on the Classicists list: Ruin or Renewal? Places and the Transformation of Memory in the City of Rome The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter Campus) The City of Rome Project...
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Khufu’s Solar Boat: Then There Were Two
Khufu’s second solar boat will soon be displayed in it’s own museum beside the Great Pyramid with an announcement to be made Monday. Khufu's 1st Solar boat in it's own museum built above it's grave At...
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Bronze Age Hut (+) from Lipari
The incipit of a brief item from UPI: Archeologists found an ancient hut from the Bronze Age during construction work on the southern Italian resort island of Lipari, officials said. The hut was...
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The bodies of 21 mummified WWI German soldiers found in trenches
From dailymail: The bodies of 21 German soldiers entombed in a perfectly preserved World War One shelter have been discovered 94 years after they were killed. The men were part of a larger group of 34...
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JOB: Classics/Biblical Hebrew @ UBC
Seen on various lists: University of British Columbia Faculty of Arts Assistant Professor in Classics/Biblical Hebrew for 2012-13 Applications are invited for a 9-month position in Classics at the...
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A pilgrimage to Israel
Last Saturday (11th Feb) I met with a group of 18 people, mainly from local churches, at 4pm. Destination: Israel! The tour was organised by a clergyman as a pilgrimage, through a firm called McCabe....
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Another review of Footnote
FOOTNOTE is reviewed by Harvey Karten at shockya.com. He gives it an overall mark of B+. Excerpt:With Amit Poznansky’s soundtrack alternating between Hitchcockian music and frothy beats, the two themes...
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Pollen brings ancient royal garden to life
The site of Ramat Rahel located high on a hilltop above modern-day Jerusalem has long fascinated archaeologists. This is the site of the only known palace dating back to the Kingdom of Judah (8-7...
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Cures
Cures, near Fara in Sabina Nothing earth-shaking, but at least I haven’t added Latin nonsense or falsified mileages: the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article “Cures” — being the little town in Sabine...
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Being offline last week for almost a week felt like a bit of a risk. But in fact my email inbox is not too bad, and I have processed most of these. A couple require a more considered response — or a...
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Veal to discuss ancient fuel economies in Ann Arbor
Robyn Veal of the University of Sydney will discuss ancient fuel economies in a talk at the University of Michigan on February 23, 2012. Veal is particularly interested in the role played by wood and...
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JOB: BSA Knossos Curator Position
Seen on the Classicists list: The British School at Athens, an institute for advanced research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, seeks a fixed term (5 year), full-time Curator to manage its...
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Creationists, Mythicists, and the Schroedinger’s Scholar Fallacy
One feature that young-earth creationists, mythicists, and other proponents of pseudoscholarly ideas have in common in the way they treat the writings of actual experts in the field in question.On the...
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Classics Excellence Scholarship at Royal Holloway, University of London
The Department of Classics and Philosophy is pleased to announce their new “Classics Excellence Scholarship”. The Scholarship will be awarded to a student entering in September 2012 to study full time...
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Temple of Quirinus Found?
Assorted outlets in the Italian press are mentioning the excavation of a sculpture, identified as a maenad, from a depth of 27 metres, on the Quirinal. It is thought to date from the third century A.D....
View ArticleFisk’s President, Hazel O’Leary, to Retire: New Hope for the...
As it came to pass in Waltham, MA, so may it also happen in Nashville.A change of president at Brandeis University brought about a new commitment to retaining the endangered Rose Art Museum and its...
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Glossing “Age of Bronze”
Interesting item from Yale Daily News: With the help of one Yale alum, a ’90s historical comic book series is gaining a new, educational edge. Thomas Beasley GRD ’09 said in a Tuesday talk at Sterling...
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Academic Minute: Love in Ancient Rome
Barbara Gold considers what an ancient Valentine card would have been (un)like: Dr. Barbara Gold, Hamilton College – Love in Ancient Rome
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Also Seen: Ancient Dog Food
Adrienne Mayor ponders the question over at Wonders and Marvels: Ancient Puppy Chow: Dog Food in Classical Greece
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