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The Response of the Israel Antiquities Authority to the Verdict by the...
"Johoash Inscription" that most scholars have determined is a modern forgery; photo credit: courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority This morning (Wednesday, March 14) the verdict was published in...
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"The S. Omobono Sanctuary in Rome: Assessing eighty years of fieldwork and exploring perspectives for the future" by N. Terrenato, P. Brocato, G. Caruso, A.M. Ramieri, H.W. Becker, I. Cangemi, G....
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CONF: Sport and competition in Greece and Rome
Seen on the Classicists list: Where: British Museum When: 14-15 June 2012 Who: Laura Ambrosini – ISCIMA Filippo Canali De Rossi – Liceo Classico Dante Alighieri, Rome Chris Carey – UCL Hazel Dodge –...
View ArticleAPA Blog : Symposium: Exploring the German University During the Third Reich
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host a symposium entitled Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich on Sunday April 15 and 16, 2012, to take place at Mondale...
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Classics Confidential: Helen King on the Flashing Midwife
Latest installment of the Classics Confidential interviews is with Helen King about the “Flashing Midwife” tale/anecdote/story:
View ArticleMitt Snit: Romney Would Ax National Endowments for the Arts & Humanities
Mitt Romney chats with KSDK's Ann Rubin in Kirkwood, MOIt's so rare that the campaigning candidates mention anything about the arts. Now culture has finally gotten some attention, but for all the wrong...
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Lootbusters
Dorothy King’s latest project is called “Lootbusters” and is an online photographic catalog of sorts of items purloined from museums (Greek, Roman, and Egyptian) and Greek and Roman items suspected to...
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Catalogue du Sudoc et exemplaires de Lille 3
Le catalogue du Système universitaire de documentation (Sudoc) permet dorénavant de générer un lien hypertexte vers le catalogue des bibliothèques de l’université Lille 3, donnant directement accès aux...
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Childbirth and C-Sections in Bioarchaeology
Basically since we started walking upright, childbirth has been difficult for women. Evolution selected for larger and larger brains in our hominin ancestors such that today our newborns have heads...
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New exhibition on inflation opening March 30 at the Federal Reserve Bank of...
The American Numismatic Society will open a new exhibition on Signs of Inflation at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York on March 30, 2012. Organized by Gilles Bransbourg, ANS Assistant Roman Curator...
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Logeion at the University of Chicago
Helma Dik just made an announcement on her website about a online interface for using digitized Greek lexicons from Perseus. She writes: This summer, we launched Logeion, an integrated interface for...
View ArticleGérôme: Portal of the Green Mosque
Philadelphia Museum of ArtRoom 159, NotesJean-Léon GérômePortal of the Green Mosque(Sentinel at the Sultan's Tomb)c. 1870Crossing of unusually long firearm with sword representing the two domains of...
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Late archaic humans from Longlin and Maludong
This is an extremely important find, as it shows the late persistene of archaic humans in East Asia down to the edge of the Holocene. Archaic humans of the same apparent age have recently been...
View ArticleThe End Of Encyclopedia Britannica In Print
CNN Money reported that the Encyclopedia Britannica’s 2010 edition will be their last print version. Only the online subscription version will remain. I suppose this will increase the value of print...
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"James Son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus" Verdict
As it arrived in Toronto the staff at the Royal Ontario Museum opened the crate and to the horror of those present realized that the ossuary had broken on it's journey from Israel. The ossuary...
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"James Son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus" Verdict
As it arrived in Toronto the staff at the Royal Ontario Museum opened the crate and to the horror of those present realized that the ossuary had broken on it's journey from Israel. The ossuary...
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Linking poetry and scholia in medieval Homeric manuscripts
In our rationale for a digital edition of the Homeric epics, we have observed (e.g., in “Digital Criticism”) that the layout of a print edition of the Iliad or Odyssey affects the reader’s perception...
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Talpiyot B / Patio Tomb Roundup ~ The Final Nails in the Ossuary(ies)
Folks might recall our previous post on the contentious claims being made by Dr James Tabor and Professor Simcha Jacobovici in regards to their research at a tomb in Jerusalem which they claim contains...
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Evolutionary and Religious Exclusivism
This Speed Bump cartoon got me thinking. The cartoon depicts what might be called an exclusivistic and egotistical ethos: we’ve succeeded, now let’s keep the advantages of doing so to...
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New Volume of Antiqua Open...
New Volume of Antiqua Open Access http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/antiqua/index
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