Tides reveal ancient footprints in northwest England
Prehistoric human footprints, thought to date back thousands of years, have been discovered on Crosby beach (Merseyside, England) after a series of high tides. Members of the public are now...
View ArticleClosure of A344 road near Stonehenge to go ahead
Plans to close a main road running past Stonehenge are to go ahead. English Heritage wants to stop traffic from travelling close to the stones and 'restore the dignity' of...
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Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in...
Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)ISSN 1461-4316 The ASTENE Bulletin is published four times a year and aims to keep members informed of research...
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The arch of Constantine, the meta sudans, and the arch of Titus in 1575
I suppose all of us have stood next to the colosseum and looked up the slope towards the arch of Titus, at the entrance to the forum. Du Perac, in 1575, did the same. His illustration of the scene...
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Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in...
Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)ISSN 1461-4316 The ASTENE Bulletin is published four times a year and aims to keep members informed of research...
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A new geniza on the Silk Road?
A NEW GENIZA on the Silk Road?Scholarly world abuzz over Jewish scrolls findBy GIL SHEFLER12/31/2011 17:24Ch. 2: If authenticated, historical find in Afghanistan may be on par with Cairo’s GenizaThe...
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Proportional Time for Creationism: A Simple Solution to a Science Education...
Many have called for “equal time” for creationism in science classes, while the vast majority of people oppose such measures. But conflicts over this issue appear time and again, wasting valuable time...
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Open Access Journal: Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde...
[First posted in AWOL 8 January 2010. Updated 31 December 2011]Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde (FeRA)ISSN 1862-8478 Die Frankfurter elektronischeRundschau zur...
View ArticleFilm Archaeology: 1939 Athens
Thanks to Facebook (Jan Sanders via Stavros Oikonomidis), I stumbled on an intoxicating film of Athens. It was shot by Arthur and Kate Tode (Kahop) on April 25, 1939 during their Mediterranean...
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Happy New Year!
Looting Matters would like to thank all its readers for their support and encouragement over the last year. Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year to All Blog Readers
.At this time of the year I normally sit down and try and look through the past events and try to write a summary, mainly to get my own ideas into shape. I've not been able to find time to do that (nor...
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Toying with 'Knowledge Representation and Reasoning' for the Ancient World
This is a very (very!) rough opening entry in a discussion I hope to push forward in 2012. But first some preliminaries.I don't know a lot about "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning" but I do know...
View ArticleMichael Bourdeaux: Religious Ferment in Russia (1968) now online
By permission of the author (who is also the copyright holder), I have created a PDF of Michael Bourdeaux’s book, Religious Ferment in Russia: Protestant opposition to Soviet Policy, Macmillan, 1968....
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Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Online at philpapers
philpapers: Online research in philosophy Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Medieval Arabic and Islamic Philosophy (28 | 28) Al-Kindi* (1) Al-Ghazali* (4) Avicenna* (37) Averroes* (26) Ibn Tufayl* (0)...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Online at philpapers
philpapers: Online research in philosophy Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Edited by Robin Smith (Texas A&M University) Subcategories Classical Greek Philosophy (1,070 | 97) Classical Greek...
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Five thoughts on getting to 57
I am in a couple of hours 57 years old. My rather elderly (aged 40) mother gave birth, old-style, in Much Wenlock Cottage Hospital on 1 January 1955...with a midwife and the local GP, who (as he and...
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This Marks The End Of Abnormal Blogging Until Next Year
Have a happy New Year. My New Year’s resolution is to stop using 2011 by mid-March 2012.
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An 1843 guidebook to Italy, Rome and the Papal states
Quite by accident I have stumbled across an old guide-book on Google books. It was published in 1843 by John Murray, and is full of interesting details on how to travel in these now vanished lands....
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