Recent Finds Involving Israel’s Jerusalem Temple Mount
Many readers have no doubt heard about the recent reports of the discovery of a ritual bath underneath the western wall of the Jerusalem temple mount, along with four First Century AD coins. You can...
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upcoming book chat: 'caesar: a novel' by colleen mccullough
Our next read on January 4 & 18, and February 1 isCaesar: A Novel by Colleen McCullough. I've been trying to make a fairly even split: January 4: through Page 206January 18: through Page...
View ArticleAnother Giant Human Skeleton That Isn’t
I’ve blogged before about giant human skeletons that aren’t giant human skeletons. The first two examples I blogged about were hoaxes, created with image editing software (see here and here). The...
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Genetic structure in China
After my experiment on Spain, I decided to carry out a similar experiment in China, for which there is a large number of regional/ethnic sub-populations.15 clusters were inferred with 22 MDS...
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reading calendar for 2012 now complete (corrected update)
Reading List for 2012 January 4 & 18, February 1 Caesar: A Novel by Colleen McCulloughBackground (online): Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars February 15 Render Unto Caesar by...
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ACCG Comments to CPAC
ACCG Comments on Cyprus MOU Renewal RequestACCG comment has been submitted to CPACBy Wayne G. SaylesDecember 26, 2011The ACCG has submitted formal written comment to the Cultural Property Advisory...
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online book chats
This blog is an adjunct to The Roman History Reading Group which meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month except August in our chat room from 9:30 to 11:00 p.m. US EDT (UTC/GMT -04). This...
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More Evidence that Creationists are Charlatans
Cdbren has been a persistent commenter on some threads about creationism here, insisting that creationists are not liars and denying his ignorance about science even when it has been blatant.While the...
View Article"Sense of Betrayal": NY Times’ Staff Rebellion (including culture writers...
Janet Robinson, exiting NY Times Co. CEO and presidentThe rebellious spirit of the times has just hit the Times, in the form of a Dec. 23 Open Letter to Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (the newspaper's...
View ArticleAn amusing critique of Wikipedia and the people who run it
Quite by accident I found myself looking at this page (not safe for work), which calls itself “Encyclopedia Dramatica”. It has some pithy (and very rude) things to say about Wikipedia. The format...
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Early Bronze Age Burial Excavated In Syria
The Syrian Arab News Agency is reporting the discovery of an Early Bronze Age burial in the village of Sousan, 12 kilometers west of Ein al-Arab, Aleppo governorate. Excavators date the burial to c....
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Panels at the APA on papyri
SECTION 20 GRECO-EGYPTIAN RELIGION IN LIGHT OF THE DEMOTIC SOURCES 1:30pm-4:00pmFranziska Naether, University of Leipzig, and Gil H. Renberg, Institute for Advanced Study, Organizers This panel aims...
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Last post for the year
So I’m enjoying my year-end break a little too much… and I’ll resume normal postings with the new year, once I get settled down again. For the last post of the year, here’s a roundup of the stories...
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Gabines on the Ianiculum?
Yes, it can happen - a geographic convergence of sorts, Gabines coming to the hills of Rome. This was the case on the evening of Saturday, July 9, 2011, when the American Academy in Rome and the...
View ArticleTop Posts of 2011
2011 saw the move of this blog to Patheos and the transfer of the archives of older posts from the blog’s old home on Blogger. A retrospective seems to be in order, as the end of my first (partial)...
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2011.12.61: "Graeca non leguntur?": zu den Ursprungen des europäischen Rechts...
Review of Heinz Barta, "Graeca non leguntur?": zu den Ursprungen des europäischen Rechts im antiken Griechenland. Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschafts- und Kulturgeschichte des Rechts Bd. 1. Wiesbaden: 2010....
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2011.12.62: Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Review of Karol B. Wight, Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. Los Angeles: 2011. Pp. 136. $20.00. ISBN 9781606060537.
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Exciting news from the Temple Mount Sifiting Project
TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Exciting news from the Temple Mount Sifting Project. Yesterday Dr. Gabriel Barkay presented a paper on a new discovery at a conference at Bar-Ilan University. The information comes...
View ArticleChrist Illustrated
It is Christmas time, a season that calls for a religious blog post. Fortuitously, I recently discovered the magisterial La Vie de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ ("The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ") by...
View ArticleOrigen project update
The project to translate Origen’s exegetical works on Ezekiel has been dormant for so long than many readers will not remember it. But again the idea is to commission a translation of these things,...
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