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Réception de l’Antiquité : visions, concepts et interprétation, jusqu’à nos...
Séminaire doctoral à Lille 3. Un séminaire doctoral organisé par Marie-Madeleine Castellani, Christine Hoët-Van Cauwenberghe et Jean-Christophe Jolivet, consacré à la « Réception de l’Antiquité » se...
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The “Patio Tomb” … Evidence of Early Christianity? I Hae Me Doots (A Classics...
As long time readers of rogueclassicism — and even my Explorator newsletter — are no doubt aware, it is rather commonplace for Jesus-related claims to be made by folks of various qualifications as...
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Cambodia's Trunkless Legs of Stone
.In Cambodia, in a place known as Koh Ker, 60 miles northeast of the Angkor Wat complex, lies another large important urban site. In one of the temples, dating from the mid-900s (thus about 200 years...
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Serbian Y-chromosomes
Gene. 2012 Jan 31. [Epub ahead of print] High levels of Paleolithic Y-chromosome lineages characterize Serbia. Regueiro M, Rivera L, Damnjanovic T, Lukovic L, Milasin J, Herrera RJ. Abstract Whether...
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"Sold by Spinks, no Paperwork" eh?
.In my post about the statue from Koh Ker, Cambodia, mention was made of the "surfacing" of a statue removed from the site and the country at some time in the 1970s (it seems). An attempt was made by a...
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A Good Day for Shade & Hedgehogs
It was sunny today and my workmen* were making me laugh and laugh and laugh. I was trying to learn the Arabic word for shadow–something that’s incredibly hard to mime/ask. I have to ask for shadow a...
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I’m rather busy with other things, but I’ve done some work on OCR-ing the translation of Theodoret’s commentary on Romans from the Christian Remembrancer of 1839. The 1840 volume of that serial has...
View ArticlePoétique et imaginaire de l'Alexandra de Lycophron
Titre: Poétique et imaginaire de l'Alexandra de LycophronLieu: Université de Florence - Faculté des Lettres / FlorenceCatégorie: Séminaires, conférencesDate: 01.03.2012Heure: Description: Information...
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On this day in ancient history - March 1:This day in early ancient Roman history was the start of the new year. The Rogue Classicist says it was probably on ...Read Full Post
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Fincham on Due Diligence
.Derek Fincham, blogging on 'Cambodia Disputing a Koh Ker statue up for auction at Sotheby's' discussed earlier on this blog (here) has a comment which interested me: The absence of information should...
View ArticleNASA, PaleoBabble, and the 2012 BS
I just wanted to alert readers to this page on the NASA astrobiology website. It’s a Q&A regarding the 2012 hysteria. The page answers the questions that the more conspiratorially-minded think are...
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Potts Shots: Larry Rothfield’s Incisive Analysis of my Q&A with Getty...
Prof. Larry Rothfield, University of ChicagoHaving ignited enough controversy by allowing Timothy Potts, through his own words, to roil the repatriationists, I decided to wait for someone else to...
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New Open Access Journal: LCM Newsletter: Bulletin of the MA Program in...
LCM Newsletter: Bulletin of the MA Program in Archaeomaterials at Tel Aviv UniversityThe Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology and The Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient...
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Archaeology Hangout this Friday Night
You may have noticed that the activity here on Talking Pyramids has died down a bit over the past few months. My ever faithful and trusty assistant Bennu has continued posting lots of news items every...
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Is the New Testament Evidence Compatible with Jesus having been Buried in...
Many news outlets and blogs are talking about the second first-century tomb in Talpiot that James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici have investigated and written about in The Jesus Discovery. Having recently...
View ArticleL’année vague solaire maya selon Diego de Landa (1524-1579)
Le dominicain Diego Durán (1537-1588) a reconstruit une année aztèque dont on a vu qu’elle contenait des erreurs. À la même époque, le franciscain Diego de Landa (1524-1579) se livrait au même travail...
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Open Access Manuscripts Collection: Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative
[Originally posted in AMIR 22 August 2011. Updated 29 February 2012] Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative"The private manuscript libraries of Yemen, estimated at 50,000 codices, constitutes the...
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Open Access Publication: Preserving Yemens' Cultural Heritage
Preserving Yemen's cultural heritage : the Yemen manuscript digitization projectAuthor: Sabine Schmidtke; Jan ThielePublisher: Sanaa : Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Sanaa, 2011.Series: Hefte...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Job | NYRblog
Above all Eliot stressed that the creation of literature would require endless hard work over many years and quite probably a degree in the classics and/or modern European literatures. via The Writer’s...
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