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David B. Weisberg, obituary
David B. Weisberg, z”l. It is with profound sadness that we mark the passing of our friend and colleague, Dr. David B. Weisberg, Professor of Bible and Semitic Languages at Hebrew Union College-Jewish...
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TED talk: Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object
The Cyrus Cylinder: The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script[3] in the name of the Achaemenid...
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Electronic Resources at the Library
Want to peruse Google Maps 4th century AD-style? Find out what's been published on a particular subject? Search dozens of classical texts at the touch of a button? The notice board in our computer...
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Weekend Fun
Played Eclipse for the first time with my new Muscovite friends Anton & Maria and frequent guest Swedepat. This Finnish 2011 boardgame has become a runaway international hit and is currently...
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Open Access Archaeological Grey Literature Library
[First posted 1/26/11. Most revised and updated 3.5/12]Unpublished Fieldwork Reports (Grey Literature Library) The aim of this resource is to make available unpublished fieldwork reports in an easily...
View ArticleCopper beads found inside an Indian megalithic site
Recent excavations at a megalithic site near Ramakkalmedu in the Idukki district (India) brought to light a series of earthen burial urns (nannagadis). The excavation team led by T. Rajesh...
View ArticleOetzi's DNA reveals health risks and relations
The world's most famous frozen corpse has had his genome sequenced. An international team has recently published the almost complete DNA sequence of 5,300-year-old Oetzi the Tyrolean Iceman -...
View ArticleHand axes may have been first commodity
Hand axes could have served as the first commodity by ancient humans thanks to their durability and utility. The axes may have been traded between human groups and would have...
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Byzantium, Islam and Turkey
© David Gill The exhibition "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition" opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art later this month. More details can be found here, including a list of lenders. An...
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Panic in the Ranks - They Should Read my Blog....
.Coineys are in general slow thinkers, it takes them ages to churn over some ideas, which is why the dealers can lead them by the nose so easily. The latter have just woken up to the EU public...
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Old Cases Re-examined
By Vicky CharisopoulouTranslated from the Greek: Ta Nea, 05.03.2012Common elements with four cases of illegal commerce of antiquities that concerned objects of great value, have been detected with the...
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Ancient Yo Mama Jokes on the Colbert Report
Last Friday, my Facebook feed was flooded with comments about our cuneiform tablet that made it onto the Colbert Report in a spot about ancient yo mama jokes. Our tablet fragment, featured in the...
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Dealer: "Kyri and his ilk"
.For commenting on the Greek antiquities bust in a tone disapproving of looters, collector of Greek extraction Kyri (who prefers not to use his surname) is well and truly savaged by dugup dealer Dave...
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New Book: From the Ptolemies to the Romans
Cambridge University Press has just published From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and economic change in Egypt, by Andrew Monson, Assistant Professor of Classics at NYU and an affiliated...
View ArticleTechnological Strategies in the Lower Pleistocene at Olduvai Beds I and...
Technological Strategies in the Lower Pleistocene at Olduvai Beds I and II--de la Torre & Mora: oldowan: Open Access: When one takes a survey of the really grand sites of prehistoric research, none...
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Dugup Dealer Disapprovingly of: "Kyri and his ilk"
.For commenting on the recent Greek antiquities bust in a tone disapproving of looters, collector of Greek extraction Kyri (who prefers not to use his surname) is well and truly savaged by dugup dealer...
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A History of the World in 100 Objects: The Icon of The Triumph of Orthodoxy
Neil MacGregor's world history as told through objects is describing how people expressed devotion and connection with the divine in the 14th and 15th centuries. Today he is with an icon from...
View ArticleThe Talpiot Tombs and New Testament Historical Criticism
James F. McGrath, Clarence L. Goodwin Chair of New Testament Language and Literature, Butler University, Indianapolis The discovery of ossuaries in tombs in the Talpiot neighborhood of modern Jerusalem...
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NOMADS AND NETWORKS: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
March 7 - June 3, 2012Nomads and Networks is the first U.S. exhibition to provide a comprehensive overview of the fascinating nomadic culture of the peoples of eastern Kazakhstan’s Altai and Tianshan...
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Softcore Solipsism
“Softcore solipsism” is the namegiven by Charles Tilly to the work of social historians who take alow-intensity postmodernist approach to theory and research, a kind of “postmodernlight.” Although...
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