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Fortuna Humana: the New York link
Source: MiBAC It appears that one of the two statues returned to Italy by healthcare company Humana was purchased from a New York gallery in 1984. The identity of the company has now been confirmed by...
View ArticleThe Passive Habit reviews The Burial of Jesus
Cameron has reviewed The Burial of Jesus on his blog The Passive Habit. Thanks, Cameron!UPDATE: Link fixed!
View ArticleFun Divination Quotation
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the...
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"Coils over Spoil – Metal detecting and archaeological interpretation at...
The use of metal detectors in Mediterranean archaeology regularly generates a lot of discussion on the internet. The Gabii Project carried out a controlled experiment using metal detectors to check...
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Nighthorsing Caught on Film
.On the night between Wednesday and Thursday without the landowner's permission or scheduled monument permission a group of men met at one of the more iconic of Britain's scheduled ancient monuments....
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Metal Detecting Find at Creigiau, South Wales.
.A metal detectorist calling himself "The Staterchaser" went out for a couple of hours at a local farm in Creigiau, South Wales. He came across a strong signal and dug down deep. Video includes...
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The 1st Punic War Ended
On this day in ancient history - March 10:Rome fought 3 (Punic) wars with Carthage. The third one started when Rome decided that the people of Carthage had violated terms of the peace treaty by...
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Austronesian spread across Indonesia
It is wonderful when different disciplines arrive at the same conclusions independently. Recent work in Austronesian languages by Gray, Drummond, and Greenhill arrived at the conclusion that...
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Million dollar shekel sold
THE MILLION DOLLAR SHEKEL has sold for more that 1.1 million dollars. Art Daily:Ancient Jewish coin brings record $1.1+ million at Heritage Auctions sale in New York NEW YORK, NY.- The first silver...
View ArticleIII Jornadas de innvocación educativa en el aula de Clásicas, Valladolid
Guión para la sesión sobre “Wikis y herramientas de Google” en las III Jornadas de innovación educativa en el aula de Clásicas (Valladolid, 10 de marzo de 2012). 1. Año pasado Wikispaces, éste veremos...
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More on the CIIP
THE CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM IUDAEAE/PALESTINEAE is covered in a long article in Haaretz:The writing on the wall, tablet and floorAn ambitious international project led by two adventurous Israeli...
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Egypt: Reports of Recent Looting in El Hibeh
.el-Hiba in the Bani Suwayf governorate is the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Tayu-djayet (t3yw-ḏ3yt), in Coptic times Teudjo. From the late 20th Dynasty to the 22nd Dynasty, al-Hibah was a...
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Trying TreeMix on HapMap populations
I gave TreeMix a try on samples of 30 individuals from all the HapMap-3 populations. The following was done with ~260k SNPs and default parameters. I specified -m 4, that is, I allowed for 4 migration...
View ArticleAspetti della Fortuna dell'Antico nella Cultura Europea
Titre: Aspetti della Fortuna dell'Antico nella Cultura EuropeaLieu: Abbazia dell'Annunciata / Sestri LevanteCatégorie: Colloques, journées d'étudesDate: 16.03.2012Heure: 19.00 hDescription: Information...
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The True Steel of the Ancestors
Above-ground atomic explosions and reactor leaks during the past century have produced a pretty funny atmosphere full of exotic heavy isotopes. In radiocarbon calibration this error source is called...
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Old Maps Online
Old Maps Online: Discovering the Cartography of the Past The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.It allows the user to search for online...
View ArticleAttribution and Discovery on the Web
Yet we don’t have a standardized system for honoring discovery the way we honor other forms of authorship and other modalities of creative and intellectual investment, from literary citations to...
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CFP: Pagans and Christians in Late antique Rome: Interpreting the Evidence,...
Source: Oxford Patristics.Palazzo Falconieri, Accademia dell’Ungheria, ViaGiulia 1, RomaAn International Conference with the support of the Accademiadell’Ungheria di Roma Department of Medieval...
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UNESCO: The USA May Object, But there is World Class Heritage in Palestine
.The UNESCO World Heritage List, recognizes cultural and natural heritage sites with “outstanding universal value”. Palestine is home to some of the most historic and sensitive sites on the planet in...
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