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oldowan: This should keep you busy for a while. Open sources...
oldowan: This should keep you busy for a while. Open sources for age determination of human skeletal remains: Age estimation of children from prehistoric Southeast Asia: are the dental formation...
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An Important Case of Antiquities Smuggling (Thessalonike, Greece)
by Kostas OnisenkoAncient objects similar to those that were confiscated by the Department of Illegal Antiquities Trade of the Greek Police last Thursday will be admired by visitors of the large...
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Is Revelation 17:9-10 the Decisive Evidence against the End-Times view of...
I avoided using the technical term for the viewpoint I am discussing here in the title. Those who’ve studied theology will know that the sort of view of the end times reflected in the Left Behind...
View ArticleShake your (Acheulean) money maker
There was a paper presented by Mimi Lam at the last AAAS meeting in Vancouver and which was covered in LiveScience last week and has bit causing something of a stir (and it spells Acheulean...
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A spot of mansplaining
This is bit of rambling, responding to Bethany Nowviskie's terrific "Don't circle the wagons", itself a response to Miriam Posner's "Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code".I'm a...
View ArticleAllegro by Joseph-Hector Fiocco
Click here to view the embedded video. A young violinist some of you will recognize here performs Allegro by Joseph-Hector Fiocco (from Suzuki Book 6) at the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra recital at...
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Post-Apocalyptic Churches
The science fiction site IO9 posted some photos altered by a Russian artist to depict post-apocalyptic scenes. Several of them are very striking. This one, however, particularly caught my attention: I...
View Article“Αρχείο Ιωάννη Γενναδίου: Το πρόσωπο του Ιωάννη Γενναδίου στην Αλληλογραφία...
March 07, 2012 - 8:37 AM - LECTURE Δρ. Αλέξης Μάλλιαρη
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#58 Gratian: Emperors of Rome
Emperors of Rome continues with Gratian, the eldest son of Valentinian I, who wasted his time on the throne, though thanks to lobbying from Ambrose, bishop of Milan, it is under Gratian that orthodox...
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claim that police found Olympic museum artefacts during 44 dealers’ arrests...
Evidently, Google has not crawled the updates to the main post (on the Greek police’s arrest of at least 44 illicit antiquities dealers). So, I just thought I would reiterate the key information so...
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Séminaire de recherche "pour un dictionnaire topographique d'Antioche sur...
Source : Centre Libanios, Montpellier.Séminaire de quinzaine, le mardi de 9h à 12h, à l’Université deParis-8 (2 rue de la Liberté, Saint-Denis, métro Saint-Denis-Université), ensalle B 136. Ce...
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Greek Antiquities Bust and the No-Questions-Asked Antiquities Trade
.The recent arrest of a number of people allegedly involved in an antiquity smuggling ring in Greece over the weekend allows us to see a little of the way the antiquities market works. It allows us to...
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Herculaneum at the Salone del Restauro
For anyone attending the Salone del Restauro di Ferrara later this month, don't miss the Herculaneum stand or presentation: IL MODELLO DELL'HERCULANEUM CONSERVATION PROJECT (HCP): UN NUOVO MODO DI...
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Review of Pagels, Revelations
A NEW BOOK BY ELAINE PAGELS is reviewed by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker: The Big Reveal: Why does the Bible end that way? Key excerpts:In a new book on those end pages, “Revelations: Visions,...
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Harold Bloom, The Flight to Lucifer
HAROLD BLOOM wrote a novel based on Gnostic theology? Who knew?2. The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy by Harold Bloom (1979)The only novel that the famous literary critic ever wrote — and he has...
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2012.03.06: On Greek Religion. Cornell studies in classical philology, 60
Review of Robert Parker, On Greek Religion. Cornell studies in classical philology, 60. Ithaca, NY; London: 2011. Pp. xv, 309. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780801477355.
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2012.03.05: Die Damnatio memoriae: über die Vernichtung von Erinnerung. Eine...
Review of Florian Krüpe, Die Damnatio memoriae: über die Vernichtung von Erinnerung. Eine Fallstudie zu Publius Septimius Geta (198-211 n. Chr.). Gutenberg: 2011. Pp. 336. €78.00. ISBN 9783940598011.
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2012.03.07: Socrates and Athens. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts
Review of David M. Johnson, Socrates and Athens. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts. Cambridge; New York: 2011. Pp. vi, 158. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521757485.
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Do You Know This man?
.Do you know this man? Mr X is Greek, he comes from the north, Halkidiki region. He is 66 and used to be a customs officer, but now he runs a small export business, trading in antiques and antiquities....
View Article“Lux in Tenebris. Ο τεχνητός φωτισμός από την αρχαιότητα έως σήμερα”
March 10, 2012 - 12:44 PM - Διεπιστημονική ημερίδα
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