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USA Today on Israel Forgery Trial
THE ISRAEL FORGERY TRIAL VERDICT is covered by Dan Vergano at USA Today: 'James ossuary' verdict adds to burial box furor.Includes a brief review of the background, a summary of the current issues, and...
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Congratulations to Elaine Pagels
LET ME ADD MY CONGRATULATIONS to those of Robert Cargill: Congrats to Elaine Pagels: NY Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers List. She has made the number 10 spot.Background on her new book,...
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New book: Pentateuchal Traditions in the Late Second Temple Period
NEW BOOK:Pentateuchal Traditions in the Late Second Temple PeriodProceedings of the International Workshop in Tokyo, August 28-31, 2007Ed. Akio Moriya and Gohei Hata (Brill)The main theme of the...
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The Giza Mastabas Series Online
The Giza Mastabas SeriesIn 1902 the Egyptian Antiquities Service (now called the Supreme Council of Antiquities) granted permits for scientific excavations at the royal pyramids and private mastaba...
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Open Access Journal: Axis Mundi
Axis Mundi Axis Mundi is an online journal edited and maintained by Religious Studies students at the University of Alberta. Axis Mundi accepts contributions from students in any year of studies -...
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Some Archaeology Blogs I Like to Follow and That You Should Check Out
I have my list of great archaeology blogs to follow that I am constantly adding to. Here a few others I have recently added and would recommend to follow: Archaeology and Tech blogs- archaeograph-...
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Publications / Dissertations Online at Arachne
DAI Arachne Content Publications Basilica AemiliaClarac, Musée de sculptureMuseo MaffeianoCorpus of SarcophagiCorpus of the Minoan and Mycenaean SealsH. Rose, Roman Terracotta Masks in the Northwestern...
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Googling the past: How I uncovered prehistoric remains from my office
by David Kennedy Professor, Classics & Ancient History at University of Western Australia Looking at the earth from above can reveal incredible secrets. Image: delayed gratification Archaeology is...
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The Realities of Archaeological Data from Small Projects
Over the weekend, I devoted some thought to a call for papers for a joint colloquium at next years Archaeological Institute of America/American Philological Association meeting. The colloquium is...
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Doctor Who: Time and the Rani
Sylvester McCoy is the Doctor that I have seen the least of, as of my writing this. Very few episodes with Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor had made it to America during the peak of my teenage fandom....
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Open Access Journal: Parekbolai
[First posted in AWOL 1 August 2011. Updated 18 March 2012]Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine LiteratureISSN: 2241-0228 PAREKBOLAI is an electronic journal, which is published yearly by an...
View ArticleAPA Blog : In the News: The classical world just refuses to stay dead
From The Telegraph online: After 244 years, the printed version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica has died a death, killed off by Google and Wikipedia. It’s sad to say goodbye to any venerable...
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Open Access Journal: Newsletter Settimanale del Ministero per i Beni e le...
[First posted in AWOL 2 August 2009. Updated (and links fixed) 19 March 2012] Newsletter Settimanale del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali La Newsletter Settimanale viene trasmessa il...
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Pictures From Paris
Jules Verne, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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State Department Indirectly Funding Testimony in Support of Cyprus MOU?
The AIA and archaeo-bloggers are highlighting the fact "[O]ver a dozen experts – former diplomats, scholars, field archaeologists, art historians – testified in the public hearing before the Committee...
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Review BMCR 2012.03.21 Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Letter and Report on the...
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.03.21: Carol C. Mattusch (ed.), Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Pp. ix, 230....
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas apriles
ante diem xv kalendas apriles Festival of Mars (Day 19) Quinquatrus (Day 1) — a festival celebrating Minerva’s birthday (maybe) rites in honour of Minerva (obviously connected to the above) 11 B.C.E. —...
View ArticleSaudi mufti calls for all churches to be destroyed — UK media suppresses story
I wouldn’t bother with this story, except that the UK media seem to have received a 3-line whip, directing silence about it. ArabianBusiness.com reports (four days ago!): Destroy all churches in Gulf,...
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Review: Papyri from Herculaneum
The Classical Review 62.1: Papyri from Herculaneum (A.) Antoni, (G.) Arrighetti, (M.I.) Bertagna, (D.) Delattre (edd.) Miscellanea Papyrologica Herculanensia. Volumen I. (Biblioteca di Studi Antichi...
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The Doctor vs. Scotty
This is a follow-up to my motivational poster Doctor Who/Star Wars mash-up of the Doctor and Leonard “Bones” McCoy. If you join in one of these memes, please do share a link to your creation here!
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