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Suivre le fil des acquisitions de la BSA sur Twitter
Encore du nouveau dans l’environnement web de la Bibliothèque des sciences de l’Antiquité ! Un compte Twitter permet désormais de suivre le fil des acquisitions de la Bibliothèque. Indépendant du...
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2012.02.52: The Library of Richard Porson
Review of P. G. Naiditch, The Library of Richard Porson. S.l.: 2011. Pp. cxlvii, 441. $23.99. ISBN 9781456805272.
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2012.02.51: Arusiani Messi Exempla elocutionum. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana....
Review of Anita Di Stefano, Arusiani Messi Exempla elocutionum. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana. Collectanea grammatica latina, 6. Hildesheim: 2011. Pp. xcviii, 203. €49.80 (pb). ISBN 9783615003819.
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Looters using the Copper Scroll?
BUSTED! Antiquities officials catch thieves in ancient cave: Five would-be tomb robbers apprehended at a 2,000-year-old site near the city of Modi’in. I'm glad they were caught, but this is...
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New Survey of ancient tabulae
A NEW ONLINE PUBLICATION noted by G.W. Schwendner at the What's New in Papyrology blog: K.A. Worp, A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae preserved from Classical Antiquity.The...
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Jacobovici and Tabor and a burial cave
AND THE BURIAL CAVE had Jesus in it, of course. This sounds kind of interesting, but I don't have time to think about it right now. Mark Goodacre has a summary post on the current state of play:...
View ArticlePaleolithic settlement discovered in Jordan
Archaeologists working at the site of Kharaneh IV in eastern Jordan have announced the discovery of 20,000-year-old hut structures, the earliest yet found in the Kingdom. The finding suggests that...
View ArticleOldest rock carving of the Americas found in Brazil
A stick figure man with a giant phallus is the oldest rock carving found yet in the Americas, researchers say. Scientists discovered the ancient carving in a cave named Lapa...
View ArticleThe first evidence of abstract art on Stone Age peebles?
The world's oldest known engraved object may be an ochre pebble from Klasies River Cave in South Africa. The 100,000-year-old ochre pebble features what researchers believe are at least 23...
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Citizens and Scholars
In my previous post, I explained why the study of Antiquity matters. However, if you take a look at the list of reviews in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (here), you get an idea what ancient...
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Google Ancient Places digs into the past
An exciting new project exploring how people in the past viewed the geography of the ancient world, has been backed by $50,000 grant from Google, Inc. via its Digital Humanities Awards Program. Google...
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New Open Access Journal: Neronia Electronica
Neronia Electronica La Revue NERONIA ELECTRONICA, à comité de lecture international, a pour objectif de nourrir la recherche et le débat scientifique sur l’époque néronienne (de Claude à Titus), ses...
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Riunione per le Terme di Agnano
I'm posting this on behalf of the Gruppo Archeologico Napoletano: Cari amici, vi ricordo che stasera MARTEDI' 28 FEBBRAIO ALLE ORE 18 presso la sede del GAN (Via San Liborio 1 a Napoli, nei pressi...
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii kalendas martias
ante diem iii kalendas martias Equirria — the first of two days of horse racing (the second was on March 14) dedicated to Mars; the reasons are obscure, but probably have something to do with preparing...
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The Religious Landscape of Post-Antique Pyla-Kousopetria, Cyprus
I’ve spent the last few weeks working on revising the historical conclusion to the survey volume from the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project. This conclusions looks at our results from the survey...
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Doctor Who: Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet
“The Trial of a Time Lord” is an episode (or sequence of episodes, depending how one thinks about it) that I remember vividly from when I was younger. I also remember before I saw it, a friend of mine...
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Major philanthropic gift for Indigenous Rock Art research
Kimberley landscape. Image: yaruman5A gift of $1.5 million to support significant research into Kimberley Rock Art at The University of Western Australia will advance the understanding of the...
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Spain to Peru: It's Not About the Money, Really
Spain has rejected Peru's claims to the treasure retreived from the Black Swan wreck. According to the Washington Post,On Thursday, the Peruvian government made an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme...
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Biblicism in a Single Image
David Hayward has created yet another excellent cartoon:The irony, of course, is that many Biblicists will not get this, because they cannot envisage a distinction between what God or Jesus says on the...
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Donation appeal for the Kerdomnel Khmer Foundation for Cambodian Culture
I featured the Kerdomnel Khmer Foundation magazine website last week, and this message is from their founder Dr Chen Chanratana. Please help if you can! KERDOMNEL KHMER FOUNDATION FOR CAMBODIAN CULTURE...
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