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NEANDERTHALS POSSIBLY ANCIENT MARINERS
IT LOOKS like Neanderthals may have beaten modern humans to the seas. Growing evidence suggests our extinct cousins criss-crossed the Mediterranean in boats from 100,000 years ago - though not everyone...
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS BACK IN IRAQ -- HAVE FOUND 4500 YEAR OLD TEMPLE IN UR
Iraqi and foreign archaeologists have uncovered a temple at the Sumerian city of Ur, which dates back to about 2500 B.C., the head of the Antiquities Department says. So far the scientists have...
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Suffolk Matters and the BBC
I was a sofa guest on Lesley Dolphin's BBC Radio Suffolk show this afternoon. We were chatting about my move to Suffolk but also touched on why the Icklingham Bronzes should be on display in the...
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Was Jesus a Hermaphrodite?
I learned via Jerry Coyne’s blog that Susannah Cornwall (a theoblogger and biblioblogger) had made an argument for gender equality in ministry by pointing out that we do not know whether Jesus was...
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Science and the Human Sciences: Prehispanic Maya Settlement and History
(This is a guest post by Gary Feinman)Published in the journal Science, Medina-Elizalde and Rohling’s (2012) quantitative analysisof Terminal Classic period Maya (AD 800-1000) climatic shifts is a...
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Archaeology in the News!
In the ongoing debate over the Talpiyot Tombs several more responses have been posted on the blog. Read through them to see a range of scholars opinions on the matter. Archaeologists excavating at...
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ASOR Platt Fellowship: Supporting Student Research at Çatalhöyük
Thanks to ASOR, I am now afraid of dogs. I should clarify: I am afraid of dogs because I was chased down by vicious, barking, salivating, mastiff-sized köpekler in central Turkey. And I was only there...
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Volume 1 number 4 of Almatourism is out and Open...
Volume 1 number 4 of Almatourism is out and Open Access http://almatourism.cib.unibo.it/issue/current Articles and reports Rimini’s Civic Museums: promoting the town’s cultural heritage Building a...
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More on those early NT mss
DANIEL WALLACE is interviewed by Hugh Hewitt and reveals a little more about those early New Testament manuscripts. Excerpt:HH: I’ve got to tell you, Professor, you turned a lot of heads when you...
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“VII Simposio sobre los celtíberos: Nuevos descubrimientos. Nuevas...
Las comunicaciones del día 21 de marzo del VII Simposio sobre los celtíberos tratan de las prácticas rituales en el ámbito espacial de la Celtiberia y de los territorios próximos del alto y medio Ebro...
View ArticleAn Open Education Week Tribute to Open Data
This week (March 5-10) is Open Education Week, raising awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Today, over 200 universities worldwide put open...
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How many condoms did Zoffany paint?
I went, earlier in the week, to get a glimpse of the new Zoffany exhibition at Royal Academy: Johan Zofanny RA: Society Observed. I 've always liked his stuff without knowing very much about him. But...
View ArticleRichard Bauckham on the Talpiot B Inscription
I just read the the lengthy essay by Richard Bauckham entitled, “The Four Line Ossuary Inscription from Talpiyot Tomb B: An Interpretation” posted on the ASOR blog today. It’s fascinating, and exactly...
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Round-Up on the Talpiot Patio Tomb (to fish or not to fish – that is the...
Today’s round-up on the Talpiot tombs and the “Jesus discovery”:James Tabor posted on his blog on the subject of whether the fish might be something else, and whether there is in addition to the fish a...
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Hittite Bibliography
Groddeks Liste der Sekundärliteratur zu Textstellen aus BoğazköyVersion 0.5Einleitung von Detlev Groddek Abkürzungsverzeichnis Übersicht: ABoT (1. ABoT 2. BT FHG FHL HFAC HHT HT IBoT 1. IBoT 2. IBoT 3....
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Emar Bibliography
Emar Online Database Yoram Cohen, Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Dietrich Sürenhagen (January 2008)The Emar Online Database includesreferences to the texts from Emar and its vicinity found in thescholarly...
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NEA issue (from 2006) that discusses Talpiot Tomb available for free for a...
ASOR is pleased to announce that it has made an issue of Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA 69:3/4 [2006]) available for free on JSTOR for the next month. This issue of NEA contains articles by leading...
View ArticlePrada Perfect Mind
Via a review of Elaine Pagels’ latest book, Revelations, in The New Yorker, I learned of a Prada perfume commercial featuring text from one of the Gnostic works found at Nag Hammadi, “Thunder, Perfect...
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David Gill on Suffolk Radio
.You can hear a longish interview conducted by Lesley Dolphin with Prof. David Gill on BBC on Suffolk Radio (for the next seven days) here on the BBC iPlayer.:...
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Seminar: Thailand’s Buddhist Cultural Heritage: The Preservation Challenge
Readers in Bangkok may be interested in a seminar at the Siam Society focusing on the disappearing diversity of Buddhist temples in Thailand. Thailand’s Buddhist Cultural Heritage: The Preservation...
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