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Beer and Bling in Iron Age Europe
Iron Age Feast. Image: Hans Splinter (Flickr, used under a CC BY-ND 3.0) In the Pre-Roman European Iron Age, Celtic people practised what archaeologist Bettina Arnold calls “competitive feasting,” in...
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Travelogue through Mrauk-U
An article on BBC travel about Mrauk-U, the capital and centre of the Arakan kingdom from the 15-18th centuries. photo: Zero-X Ancient Burma’s playful side BBC Travel, 19 March 2012 The atmosphere of...
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Dr Weiss Due in Court Today
.Arnold-Peter C. Weiss of Nomos coins was selling ancient Greek coins at the 40th annual New York International Numismatic Convention when he was arrested on Jan 3rd 2012. Reportedly he has been...
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An Archaeologist in Every Backyard?
From the looks of it, the archaeological establishment wants an archaeologist in every backyard to make sure you are not excavating anything of historical value on your own land: See...
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Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
I find myself in two minds about the episode “Paradise Towers.” It certainly gives impressive expression to the Seventh Doctor’s persona. But the plot of the story seems in many respects to bring...
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Swedish ancient monuments on youtube
Since a few months back I work at the Östergötland County Administrative Board as an archaeologist. A project that has been ongoing for some while, that I haven’t worked on, is a video-project...
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xii kalendas apriles
ante diem xii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 21) Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to...
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Digressus online journal
Digressus is a fully refereed online journal publishing reviews and articles related to Classical Studies, Archaeology and Byzantine Studies. Click here to access Digressus online issues
View ArticleTurkey’s Repatriation Claims: Met’s Schimmel Benefactions Targeted...
Silver rhyton (drinking vessel) of a stag, c. 14th-13th century B.C., Central Anatolia, Hittite, Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989I've always wondered whether the repatriationists would eventually...
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Tweet from @CultureGrrl
@CultureGrrl: Norbert Schimmel, whose Met objects are reportedly sought by Turkey, had shared with me his qualms about collecting. http://bit.ly/GEnC4tThis is a great post about archaeological items...
View ArticleCFP: TEI Annual Meeting
Call for papers and proposals TEI and the C(r|l)o(w|u)d 2012 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture...
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Do Some People Use Smartphones To Make Telephone Calls?
HT Marc Cortez The image, even if facetious, still encourages me to think that I am right to focus increasingly in my teaching on matters of digital and information literacy. If you don’t know how to...
View ArticleNo Cynicism Here
A Romney campaign spokesman on CNN: CNN HOST: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general...
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Digital Web Centre for the History of Science in the Low Countries
Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum (DWC) - Digital Web Centre for the History of Science in the Low Countries KNAW Digital Library Including, among other things: Natural Phenomena. Their Meaning,...
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Greece Pondering Buying the Marbles Back!
The salient bits from a very interesting AFP item: Greece’s Bavarian-born King Otto considered offering Britain cash or antiquities in the 19th century in exchange for marbles removed from the...
View ArticlePenn Museum in Asia
Penn Museum has done archaeological research in Southeast Asia for the past 45 years. I have been lucky to work as an archaeological illustrator for one of the Penn projects, the Ban Chiang Project,...
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Perseus announces plans to decentralize the curation, annotation, and general...
From Perseus announcement: Perseus announces plans to decentralize the curation, annotation, and general editing of the TEI XML texts that it hosts. Ultimately this will include every textual object...
View Article40 days of prayer – an online Lent meditation
I came across a blog run by Community Church Derby — about which I know nothing — here. The blog is a set of daily thoughts on Psalm 23, for Lent. The item for Sunday 18th March struck me...
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The Talpiot Tomb Jumps the Tropical Fish
Here’s the latest round-up on the Talpiot tomb discussion in the blogosphere.The title of this post comes from a post by Bob Cargill which responds to the suggestion that the “fish” on one of the...
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Open Access Journal: Digressus
[First posted in AWOL 2 November 2009. Updated 21 March 2012] Digressus : The Internet Journal for the Classical WorldISSN 1475-9578 Digressus, a fully refereed online journal formed by a consortium of...
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