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Blogosphere ~ From Birth to Burial: the Curious Case of Easter Eggs
Powered By Osteons: From Birth to Burial: the Curious Case of Easter Eggs.
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Blogosphere ~ Ovid, The Poet Exiled for a Song and an Error
About.com Ancient / Classical History: Ovid, The Poet Exiled for a Song and an Error.
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Ordinary People Caring for Extraordinary Places
.While many in Britain are pissing on the past and generally using it up in disregard for the needs of others, not everybody is so self-centred. Heritage Action ('Ordinary People Caring for...
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14,000 early Syrian settlements viewed from space
Tell Shech Hamad, Syria. Image: Klaus Wagensonner (Flickr, used under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) The landscapes of the Near East show both the first known settlements and the longest settlement systems known...
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Help needed: Does anyone have a source for this photo?
Does anyone recognise this aerial photo of Pompeii during WW2. I'm struggling to read the text in the bottom left hand corner. Can anyone tell me where this photo was published? Grateful for any info! Jo
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Phew, Salami Is Not Spiced Adipocere
Adipocere / corpse wax:a wax-like organic substance formed by the anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis of fat in tissue, such as body fat in corpses. ... a crumbly, waxy, water-insoluble material consisting...
View ArticleMatthew Morgenstern reviews Charles Häberl’s The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of...
Here’s the conclusion from a review of the book The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr by my co-worker on the Mandaean Book of John translation project, Charles Häberl:In summary, we have before us an...
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From Birth to Burial: the Curious History of Easter Eggs
Ever wonder why the humble egg is the focus of the most important Christian holiday? The egg is ubiquitous and cheap today, often the product of backyard coops managed by hipsters keen on urban...
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More outrage over replica Angkor Wat
Dr Evans’ quote nicely sums up the outrage and dismay felt by Cambodians over the plans to build a replica Angkor Wat. Cambodia outraged at plans for Angkor Wat replica in India Canberra Times, 20...
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An Important Settlement of the 3rd millenium B.C. on Thasos
By Maria ThermouSource: To Vima, 20.03.2012Part of the prehistoric settlement. A flourishing settlement of the Bronze Age, that had a strong metallurgical and thread-making activity and contacts with...
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A Response to Chris Rollston’s Reading of the Ossuary from Talpiot Tomb B
By: H. Gregory Snyder, Professor of Religion, Davidson College Back in October, James Tabor invited me to join in a conversation that was underway between himself, Richard Bauckham, and Jim...
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New Open Access Journal: Societies
SocietiesISSN 2075-4698 Societies (ISSN 2075-4698) is a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary scholarly open access journal that brings together the social sciences and humanities to...
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PHILOLOGY, ‘MARA,’ AND THE ‘JESUS DISCOVERY’ BOOK AND DOCUMENTARY
By Dr. Christopher A. Rollston, Toyozo Nakarai Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Tennessee INTRODUCTION[1] Recently I have posted on the blog of the...
View ArticleRueful about Rudolph: Bloomberg’s James Russell Goes to Goshen
James Russell, Bloomberg's architecture criticJames Russell, Bloomberg's indispensable architecture critic, has done what I've yet to do---taken a roadtrip to Goshen, NY, to eyeball the endangered Paul...
View ArticleUpdate on the Talpiot B Tomb Inscription
For those of you interested in epigraphy, especially that of the Talpiot B “disciples’ tomb,” here are two follow-up posts in response to the recent offering of Richard Bauckham. One of the major...
View ArticlePoster Presentations And Biblical Studies Conferences
Three things motivate these reflections on poster presentations at academic biblical studies conferences: first, my upcoming presentation at the Pacific Coast Regional meeting of the SBL, second, news...
View ArticlePeschke at Bryn Mawr College
COLORS OF GREECE:THE ART & ARCHAEOLOGY OF GEORG VON PESCHKEClick here for virtual exhibit and here for program information. Events:Georg von Peschke: The Archaeology of Greek LifeKostis...
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Dual origins of Sub-Saharan Africans?
A reader quotes from Coon's The Living Races of Man (1965): ''Meanwhile we may note that a detailed analysis of 571 modern Negro crania, made by advanced mathematical techniques, has shown that these...
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Ancient sites spotted from space, say archaeologists
BBC News - Ancient sites spotted from space, say archaeologists
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Rare mtDNA haplogroups of North Asia
From the paper: The results of our study provided an additional support for the existence of limited maternal gene flow between eastern Asia/southern Siberia and eastern Europe revealed by analysis of...
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