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Tyche 26
Tyche Band 26 (2011)Hrsg. Thomas Corsten | Fritz Mitthof | Bernhard Palme | Hans Taeuber410 Seiten mit 20 Tafeln24 x 17 cmSoftcoverEUR 95,--ISBN: 978-3-902868-07-7Erscheinungsdatum: Februar...
View ArticleDoes the Earth Rotate? Check Out What REAL Biblical Literalism Looks Like
Click here to view the embedded video.This video has everything one would expect from pseudoscientific charlatans like Ken Ham and his ilk. Appeal to the Bible as the ultimate authority on all matters,...
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Missing Alcatraz? What if you could take a pill to forget that you’re missing...
Alcatraz isn’t on tonight, but I’ve been meaning for some time to discuss one of the interesting ideas raised on the show. It’s one that other sci-fi has explored before: the idea that memories make us...
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The Grief of War: Special Homeric Poetics Edition
This blog is primarily devoted to new research and developments connected with the Homer Multitext project. Moved by a recent interview, however, I was inspired to revisit a poetic topic that, while...
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Composition of the Venetus A: numbered similes
The following guest post by Holy Cross student Christine Roughan shows how careful observation of a largely overlooked feature of the Venetus A can help us reconstruct something about both the process...
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British "Smugglers" Return Home - Minus Their Tourist Souvenirs
.Red faces all around it seems: A British couple arrested in Egypt on suspicion of trying to smuggle priceless artifacts out of the country will return home tonight after it emerged that the objects...
View ArticleJust in Time for Easter Cash Flow: The Tomb of Jesus’ Disciples
$imcha Jacobovici has busy. And amazingly, Easter is just around the corner (again). Oh, the irony. The man who brought us the error-plagued Jesus family tomb, then the nails from the cross, now claims...
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Murder on the toilet
An interesting note in Bible History Daily on the toilet's starring role in the murder of Ehud in Judges 3. Here is the euphemistic King James Bible: 20And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a...
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Egypt: Minister of Antiquities - 6,000 Artifacts Restored From Israel
.Egypt's Minister of Antiquities, Mohamed Ibrahim, responding to inquiries from members of the People's Assembly Culture, Media and Tourism Committee on Monday 20/2/2012 said that his Ministry is...
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Focus on Metal Detecting: American Digger
.Artefact hunting American style, New York, NY, February 15, 2012: SPIKE TV HUNTS FOR BURIED HISTORICAL TREASURES IN NEW ORIGINAL SERIES “AMERICAN DIGGER”Unscripted Series Travels Around The Country...
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"American Digger": SAA Letter to National Geographic Channel
.A bit late and rather long for dumb-down TV producers, but for what it is worth here's the letter from Society for American Archaeology President William F. Limp to the Executive Board of the US based...
View ArticleCorinthian Colonies Workshop
From February 23 to 25, 2012 Ancient Corinth was the site of a workshop on Corinth and its Archaic Colonies. Alongside 'local' Corinthian staff and scholars, participants included Stavros Paspalas,...
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New gallery for Neolithic site in Penang
An archaeological gallery will be set up for the Guar Kepah site in Penang, a Neolithic shell midden site. It appears that the shell middens were also used as burial mounds. Guar Kepah excavation, The...
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AIAD and a Copious Crop of Pa Miw Shabtis
.The Association of International Antiquities Dealers (AIAD) is an "association of dealers in antiquities (including fine art, coins, metallic and ceramic objects) whose aim is to promote responsible...
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Turkey's Ministry of Culture has decided that "artifacts which have been brought to museums and have not been claimed by valid owners... can be valued by a specially formed commission and sold." That...
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Theft is theft, Isn't it?
.In Philadelphia, retired pharmaceutical company chemist 65-year-old Robert Franz of Plymouth Meeting pleaded guilty in November to conspiracy to defraud the United States and theft of government...
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Focus on Metal Detecting: "Fourteen years' Liaison, Fourteen Million Quid But...
.I was astounded at the comments of the English Heritage official on metal detecting as reported in Bob Preece's, Yorkshire Post article (see post above)."English Heritage expert Pete Wilson said [...]...
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English Heritage: "Jolly Good Thing this metal detecting"
.Bob Preece, Yorkshire Post's Crime Correspondent, notes that Yorkshire’s heritage is being ruined by "opportunist metal thieves" and shameless graffiti vandals: "They are ruining historic sites for...
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How many Objects are PAS "Finders" Finding and Keeping?
.It is interesting to look through the PAS statistics for the self-recording finders. There is an inherent probability that many of them are collectors with collections (and the knowledge about the...
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