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The Future of Culture' seeks solution to 'identity confusion'
Ahram Online ('Farah Montasser)The head of parliament's cultural committee, MP Mohamed El-Sawy opened a three-hour discussion on the cultural development in Egypt on El Sawy Culturewheel's nine-year...
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Making a boat fit for a king
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref)Giza plateau was crowded on Monday as journalists, TV anchors, photographers and antiquities officials flocked to the northern side of King Khufu's Great Pyramid to...
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Study of plants settles ancient Egypt date debate
The Daily Star, Lebanon Scientists have established for the first time clear dates for the ruling dynasties of ancient Egypt after carbon dating plant remains, according to research published...
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Japanese-Egyptian team starts restoring King Khufu's second solar boat
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)The northern side of King Khufu’s great pyramid was brimming with media on Monday. TV anchors, journalists, photographers and archaeologists crowded to witness the Japanese...
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Those Invidious Lists!
(Larry Hurtado) Clearly, the “top 10″ lists demanded of us by our PhD students have generated some comments (see the posting and comments). It is a devilishly difficult thing to itemize any such...
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Eric Meyers’ review of “The New Jesus Discovery”
Review of “The New Jesus Discovery” (Simon and Schuster 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-5040-2) Eric M.Meyers, Duke University For nearly two millennia Christians have venerated the site believed to be where...
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The Black Swan Wreck and the Untold Story of the Precedent Upon Which the...
I received an email from the author of "The Hidden Galleon," a book about Spanish shipwrecks on Virginia's Assateague island. He directed me to his...
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Pelagios Visualization Service: user requirements for the Pelagios apps and...
This is the first in a series of posts about users’ requirements for the Pelagios visualization service. The visualization service will be implemented as a set of web apps and widgets that will "enable...
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Emperors of Rome: Valens
Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the guy who messed up at Adrianople: Valens: Emperors of Rome
View ArticleCall for papers: The Materiality of Texts, Conference at Durham University
Call for papers: The Materiality of Texts. Conference at Durham University September 24-26, 2012 Organizers: Dr Edmund Thomas, Dr Andrej Petrovic, Dr Ivana Petrovic In recent years, the study of...
View ArticleFavorite Science Fiction Music: Deep Impact
James Horner’s film music is fairly well known, but like most film composers, there is incredible music by him that is less well known than it deserves to be. Here are some samples from the science...
View ArticleKeeping Up with the Jacobovicis
The blogosphere is already heating up with responses from scholars to the new “discoveries” of $imcha Jacobovici and James Tabor. Those interested can keep up with the responses of professional...
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Reflections of an Epigrapher on Talpiyot Tombs A and B: A Detailed Response...
By: Professor Christopher A. Rollston (crollston@ecs.edu) Professor, Emmanuel Christian Seminary I. THE CLAIMS OF TABOR AND JACOBOVICI: THE NEW BOOK[1] Here are the basic claims of James Tabor and...
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Landscapes of Death
Spatial analysis of cemeteries and mortuary sites is valuable for interpreting social structures, symbolism, relationships to ancestors and function. Burial sites are rarely incidental locations. Early...
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Odyssey Marine: Carriage of Coinage Rules
While the archaeological community has pitched Spain's win in the Odyssey Marine Case as win for archaeology over the commercial exploitation of shipwrecks, the decision was in fact narrowly based on...
View ArticleJodi Magness responds to the “New Jesus Discovery”
Professor Jodi Magness Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill As usual, the arrival of the Easter season this year is heralded by a sensational archaeological...
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New edition of Egyptological now out
EgyptologicalEdition 3 of the Journal section and Edition 4 of the Magazine are now available. There's a real mixture of topics in this edition, and as usual we thank our great authors and proof...
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Why European Museums Are Going to be Less Happy to loan the US Anything
.The American "collectors' rights" lobbyists are always moaning about how loathe those foreign nations are to loan them objects (which they say are their "right" under the US-drafted CCPIA). Yet what...
View ArticleThe Ninth Legion Redux
With only a day remaining to organize February's post, a gift from the Gods landed on my lap. The (usually excellent) History of the Ancient World web site decided to enter the "Lost Legion" fray. As...
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Complete genome of the Tyrolean Iceman
I'll update this post once I read the paper. I could not locate a source for the data after a quick scan of the paper, but: After genotyping, we merged both HapMap and 1,000 Genomes genotypes with the...
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