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Where is Asturias, food and promoting living heritage
Cornish Fabada Within ‘the heritage sector’ we compartmentalise its different aspects. Museums, libraries, archives as guardians and interpreters of collections. The historic environment sector as...
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More on Jacobovici, Tabor, and that Talpiot tomb
THE ASOR BLOG has three new posts on Jacobovici's and Tabor's book, The New Jesus Discovery, and their theories about Talpiot Tomb B:Reflections of an Epigrapher on Talpiyot Tombs A and B: A Detailed...
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Online Critical Pseudepigrapha
[First posted in AWOL 16 November 2010. Updated most recently 20 February 2012]Online Critical Pseudepigrapha General Editor Ian W. Scott (2006-)Past EditorsKen M. Penner (2006-2009)David M. Miller...
View ArticleYanghai Tombs of the Turpan Basin
The Yanghai Tombs is the name of an enormous cemetery located near an oasis in the Turpan (or Turfan) Basin of western China, at the far eastern edge of the Steppe region of central Asia. ...Read Full...
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Online Live Stream: 1st - 3rd of March CAMNES Sessions of the 16th SOMA...
1st - 3rd of March Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies Sessions of the 16th SOMA (Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology) SYMPOSIUM ON MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY - 1st/3rd OF...
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LOOT BUSTERS
LOOT BUSTERSITEMS LOOTED FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND EGYPTIAN, GREEK & ROMAN ANTIQUITIES SUSPECTED TO BE LOOTED
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Fritz at 50 Poster at the Scholarly Forum
As the final project for my digital history practicum, I’ve been asking the students in the class to prepare a poster for the University of North Dakota’s Graduate School’s Scholarly Forum. The Forum...
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France cancels ‘unconstitutional’ genocide denial ban; ignores identical...
On 28th February 2012, the Constitutional Council of France cancelled the law against genocide denial; or, as Hürriyet Daily News (@HDNER) put it, the Constitutional Council cancelled the law against...
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Nang Sida – Angkoran ruins beside Wat Phu
Mark from the All Points East Travel blog writes about Nang Sida, a ruined temple just walking distance from the more famous, world-heritage listed Wat Phu in Laos. Nang Sida ruins in Laos Nang Sida...
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Open Access Journal: Praesentia: Revista Venezolana de Estudios Clásicos
[First posted in AWOL 6 November 2009. Updated 29 February 2012]Praesentia: Revista Venezolana de Estudios Clásicos Convencidos del valor de la creación y divulgación del conocimiento como sostén de...
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Cambodian Cultural Property Fracas Again Shows Appeasment Leads to Escalating...
Leaving aside the merits of Cambodia's claim to a valuable statue that was to be auctioned off at Sotheby's, this latest fracas in the cultural property wars again suggests appeasing the archaeological...
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Hatshepsut in 'The Terrace of the Great God'
Death and rebirth in an Egyptian holy place The temples and tombs of Abydos made the town one of the holiest sites in the ancient Egyptian world. At its heart was 'The Terrace of the Great God' and...
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Loot Busters
Dorothy King and Culture-Concierge.com have unveiled a website designed to help identify likely looted material. For more, see http://www.lootbusters.com/The website is built some basic principles:...
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My class on Medieval Art and Architecture congregated at the Phillips Museum yesterday afternoon for a workshop on icon painting by Dorothy Thayne, F&M artist in residence. The drawing, or...
View ArticleProf. Robin Jensen Refutes Any Claim that She Concurs with the Interpretation...
From Prof. Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University In December, 2010, I was asked to participate in a National Geographic film project that—I was led to believe—would investigate the image of Jonah in...
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State Indirectly Funding War on Sotheby's?
During the Vietnam war era, the US Government funded a "secret war" in Cambodia. Now, is the State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and its Cultural Heritage Center indirectly...
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Maritime "Carriage of Coinage Laws"? Wassat, then?
.The endearing characteristic of US Coiney lawyerism is its ability to surprise. Washington lawyer Peter Tompa has a post admonishing that the "archaeologists" are wrong to have "pitched Spain's win in...
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Belmont Abbey College, History: Assistant Professor, Late Antiquity /...
Source: Belmont Abbey College.Belmont Abbey College seeks a tenure-track AssistantProfessor with a specialization in late antiquity and medieval Europe to beginin August 2012. The successful candidate...
View ArticleFavorite Fantasy Film Music: First Knight
Having given several examples of science fiction music that deserves to be better known, let me share one from a different genre, the film about King Arthur and company, First Knight. The soundtrack is...
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LootBusters
.Dorothy King has just launched an interesting web resourceLOOT BUSTERSITEMS LOOTED FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITESAND EGYPTIAN, GREEK & ROMANANTIQUITIES SUSPECTED TO BE LOOTED This is an offshoot of an...
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