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Important antiquities returned to Greece from the Getty Museum
Translated trom the Greek: Naftemboriki, 09.03.2012.The two pieces of the funerary sculpture and one inscribed stele are currently in the National Archaological Museum of Athens, having been returned...
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This Life Matters
Religion that focuses entirely on an afterlife is at best Gnosticism and at worst nonsense. Which is fine if you are happy being in one or both of those categories. But if not, then here are some...
View ArticleAPA Blog : Invitation to Form a Digital Classics Association
Dear Colleagues, We write to ask your support in an effort to promote digital classics. We are in the process of forming a Digital Classics Association (DCA) to foster digital approaches to...
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Language translations now available
I just added the Google translate widget to my blog which will provide you with a real time translation into your preferred language. The widget is in the left hand column under my picture. Select your...
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Edward Gibbon and Reasons for The Decline and Fall of Rome
Most people exposed to Roman history have heard EdwardGibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire mentioned. This workhas long been considered essential reading for those interested in the...
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Talpiot B Fish – With Handles?
Those of you who have been following the discussion over the Talpiot B “fish symbol” will find this of interest. Kudos to Mark Goodacre for posting Amos Kloner’s 1980 photograph inside this tomb before...
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oldowan: Here are some open sources to go with the...
oldowan: Here are some open sources to go with the diagramme: Sexual Dimorphism of the Iliac Crest: A Quantitative Approach Reliability of Criteria used for Sexing of Hip Bones Some Sexually Dimorphic...
View ArticleCuriosity, Education, Perception, And Humanity
There’s was abnormally interesting piece posted last week on the Scientific America’s website. Ilana Yurkiewicz asks “What single quality predicts a good doctor?” and then answers a somewhat different...
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Invitation to Form a Digital Classics Association
Invitation to Form a Digital Classics AssociationDear Colleagues, We write to ask your support in an effort to promote digital classics. We are in the process of forming a Digital Classics Association...
View ArticleWhere the Rot Started? | Books and Culture
Overly protecting confessional orthodoxy by insulating theology in separate departments, Protestant universities rendered Christianity unable to integrate new knowledge, setting a pattern that Catholic...
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Jim West wants YOU to submit posts for the next Biblical Studies Carnival!
Jim West has posted a request for submissions for the next Biblical Studies Carnival.
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No Beacon Award for English Heritage: Fragmentary Conservation Consciousness...
.British archaeological conservation policy is a shambles, everybody knows that. Further evidence emerged a while ago and everybody decided not to talk about it. Somebody forgot to tell Heritage Action...
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The End of Elagabalus
On this day in ancient history - March 14:Elagabalus © Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme. On This Day in Ancient History...Read...
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Spring Ahead
If you are reading this in North America at the time I’ve scheduled it to post, then you really ought to go to bed, since you have presumably forgotten that you can’t afford to stay up so late. Tonight...
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CFP: Between Heaven and Earth: Law, Power, and the Social Order in Late...
Source: Philevents.Our conception of Roman justice has changeddramatically over the last few decades. In the English-speaking world, there has been a decisive shift away fromthe constitutionally based...
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sex trafficking and sex slavery at cultural heritage sites in Cyprus:...
The other day, I read Skin Trade Exposed, Harry van Versendaal’s (@denk_ik) interview with Bulgarian photographer, film-maker, lecturer and investigative journalist Mimi Chakarova. It’s a great...
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Tracking the true tale of turkeys
New research analyses the life and times of the nation’s favourite poultry The turkey dinner is a staple part of Christmas Day, but new research at the University of Leicester reveals that the history...
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2012.03.16: Author of Illusions: Thucydides' Rewriting of the History of the...
Review of Robert D. Luginbill, Author of Illusions: Thucydides' Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War. Newcastle upon Tyne: 2011. Pp. x, 277. $59.99. ISBN 9781443826495.
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2012.03.17: The Pronomos Vase and its Context
Review of Oliver Taplin, Rosie Wyles, The Pronomos Vase and its Context. Oxford; New York: 2010. Pp. xiv, 299. $150.00. ISBN 9780199582594.
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Detectorist Stunt 'A Desecration' Say Residents
."We didn’t ask permissionbecause we knewthe answer would be no".Inhabitants of the sleepy town of Ambridge in Borsetshire awoke yesterday morning to find that a huge hill figure of a metal detectorist...
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