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Aegeus — Society of Aegean Prehistory

[First posted in AWOL 26 November 2010. Updated 4 March 2012]Aegeus — Society of Aegean Prehistory  Αιγεύς — Εταιρεία Αιγαιακής ΠροϊστορίαςΚαλώς ήρθατε στον αναβαθμισμένο ιστότοπο του Αιγέα! Ο Αιγεύς...

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Open Access Newsletter: Newsletter on Aegean and Cypriot Prehistory

[First posted in AWOL 1 December 2009. Updated 4 March 2012] Newsletter on Aegean and Cypriot Prehistory The Newsletter on Aegean and Cypriot Prehistory is published in digital form, ten times a year,...

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Bridging the gap

On more than one occasion, I have indicated how the study of Antiquity is its own reward (example, example). What it offers, is essentially a sensation: a surprise, the experience that this text or...

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The Chicago Homer

The Chicago HomerAhuvia Kahane and Martin Mueller, editors Craig Berry and Bill Parod, technical editors The Chicago Homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of...

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Numismatics and the Philosophy of Science: History is Bunk?

.Optical physicist Evad Shewl over in the USA is an aficionado of dugup coins and has recently written an opinion piece ('Archaeologists and their pretensions') trashing historical study. "History is...

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News article: André Villas-Boas contemplates a Chelsea ruin in the shadow of...

Not strictly blog material, but the analogy made me chuckle ... In The Guardian: André Villas-Boas contemplates a Chelsea ruin in the shadow of Pompeii Decision to leave Frank Lampard on the bench left...

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Die römische Armee im Experiment

[Fourth part of a series of articles; 1, 2, 3; this is a review/summary of Christian Koepfer, Florian Himmler and Josef Löffl (eds.), Die römische Armee im Experiment. 2011] In the introduction and two...

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APA Blog : In the News: Baylor Celebrates Ninth Annual Latin Day

From the Baylor Lariat: An ancient Roman comedy and other Latin activities will kick off the weekend for a group of high school students celebrating ancient Roman culture. Baylor’s Classics Department...

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Weekend Edition

Reblogged from Bo's Cafe Life: This seems to be a good way to test wordpress’s reblogging feature …

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Lux in Arcana: The Vatican secret archive revealed

The Lux in Arcana exhibition at the Musei Capitolini from 1st March to September 2012 will reveal for the first time codes, files, scrolls, records and manuscripts of remarkable historical value,...

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places ed. by Stephanos Efthymiades, Open University of Cyprus Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of...

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Wall Mile 25

The ditch amongst the trees, west of Heavenfield As we climb the hill from the site of Milecastle 25, the ditch is a gentle ripple to our left. Upon reaching the field wall near the top, it is worth...

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APA Blog : In the News: Ex Libris Crossword Puzzle from the Chronicle

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a crossword puzzle with a Latin theme ("Ex Libris") this week. Download it (and the application for seeing it on your screen) here.

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When Cloud Services Die

For the past few years I've used Brizzly to look at my tweetstream when on my desktop. It has some great features, but dont bother investigating them, as from the end of the month it will be going. The...

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If One Reads Of Snakes Swarming

. . . more research is required. Now that I’m out of the carnival business for a while, I’ve returned to the prolonged cleanup of my essay on the snake in Genesis 3. Will this ever end? Yes. At least...

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Gabii Project at AISCOM XVIII

The Gabii Project will share research into a series of floors discovered in the context of several Republican period buildings on the site at the upcoming eighteenth meeting of Associazione Italiana...

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Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran in AMAR

Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran in AMAROne of a series of AWOL pages seeking to pull together publication series digitized and served through AMAR: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Site Reports...

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On Academic Juvenelia

The real life tomb of Sennedjem at Deir el Medineh, juxtaposed with my VRML model of the tomb, made back in 1998.You can probably guess which is which?So, to my final set of paper publications, in my...

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Inscription to Pharoah Senakht-en-Re at Karnak

An inscription of an (almost) unknown king of the 17th Dynasty has been found in the Temple of Karnak by a team working in the Temple of Ptah.  His name is  Senakht-en-Re and this is the first mention...

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Egypt: Minister Announces "New Pharaoh of Seventeenth Dynasty"

.Egypt's Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim Ali announced yesterday that archaeologists have discovered the name of a previously unknown pharaoh from the 17th dynasty. The French archaeological...

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