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News from AMAR
Stony Brook University is delighted to announce that the Archive of Mesopotamian Site Reports (AMAR) has now gone live in its almost final form. You can access it at www.stonybrook.edu/amar. It...
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Snob Appeal
The AIA has put American metal detectorists in its sights with its protest of two new TV shows, “Diggers” and “American Digger,” on the National Geographic Channel and Spike TV. See...
View ArticleToday’s Round-Up of Talpiot Tomb Posts
Here are key posts around the blogosphere today related to the Talpiot tombs.James Tabor posted on his own blog about the names in the tombs, and both there and on the ASOR blog about the imagery of a...
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The Titanic Cemetery
This is an article on the ethics of removing artifacts from the Titanic and selling them. The issue is hot as an auction of Titanic artifacts estimated worth $200 million is about to take place on the...
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Japanese ceramics exhibition at the University of San Carlos Museum
A month-long exhibition is underway at the University of San Carlos Museum featuring the trade ceramics from Japan to the Philippines. Japanese ceramics at USC Museum Philippine Inquirer, 29 February...
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Accessing Muslim Lives
Accessing Muslim Lives"Explore the lives of men and women in the Muslim world – from the sixteenth century to now – through their autobiographical writings. Writings are by Muslims and non-Muslims...
View ArticlePossible Birthday of Juvenal
On This Day in Ancient History - March 2:Although we don't know for sure, this may be the date the great Roman satirist Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis) was born in ...Read Full Post
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What’s the News in News about Roles of Maya Women?
I am waiting (impatiently) for yesterday’s UC Riverside press release to get picked up by the mainstream media. The press release tells us that Contrary to popular belief, women played a central role...
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Research Position at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Specialist, Open Rank,...
Source: Inside Higher Ed.The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) at the Universityof California Irvine invites applications for a full-time researchposition. This appointment is for aninitial one-year...
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US State Department Ring-Fences UNESCO Funds
.George Russell ('Four months after de-funding UNESCO, State Department wants to put the money back', Fox News, February 16, 2012) reports that the US State Department, although it pulled funding to...
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Loot Busters
A very quick post to say that part of www.LootBusters.com is now online, and we are slowly adding more photos of missing / stolen / looted archaeological material. Many people had increasingly...
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A historic ”spy” report on Sweden
I currently read Lorenzo Magalottis book Sverige under år 1674 (Sweden during the year 1674 aka Relazione del rigno di Svezia nel 1674) published by Carl Magnus Stenbock 1912. During the later part of...
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Wall Mile 26
Our return to the main road requires us to cross the road and then head up the hill towards the crossroads. The Wall, meanwhile, is inaccessible, still heading across the fields towards Brunton Turret,...
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Professor Tabor replies
ASOR BLOG: A Reply from Prof. Tabor—A Jonah Fish Image or a Tower Tomb Monument?UPDATE: James McGrath: Today’s Round-Up of Talpiot Tomb Posts (for yesterday, 1 March).
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Ancient Greek helmet found in Haifa Bay
LOST AND FOUND, but a little late:Found: Ancient Warrior's Helmet, Owner UnknownOwen Jarus, LiveScience ContributorDate: 28 February 2012 Time: 11:27 AM ETA Greek bronze helmet, covered with gold leaf...
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The use of the Bible in ancient Greek inscriptions
BIBLICAL EXEGESIS AND ANCIENT EPIGRAPHY—a good combination as far as I'm concerned.Biblical Citations in Greek, Jewish, and Christian Inscriptions of the Graeco-Roman World*By Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni...
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A call for Hebrew and Aramaic translators
PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY:*The Hackmey Hebrew Classical Library ****Call for Translators - an update*Harvard University Press and Tel Aviv University Press is about to launch a new series of bilingual...
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March Biblical Studies Carnival
THE MARCH BIBLICAL STUDIES CARNIVAL is hosted by Duane Smith at Abnormal Interests. Lots of good stuff, as usual.
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Second St. Andrews Graduate Conference
FOLLOWING UP last year's highly successful conference, for which a conference volume is now in the making:The 2nd St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian StudiesManuscripts and...
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