New Sappho Poems Fake?
The sudden withdrawal of the online version of Dr Obbink's Sappho poems article and the lack of any sensible answers about where the papyrus on which they are written surfaced are being interpreted by...
View ArticleSappho: "A scrap of papyrus used in a burial"
Where did this come from? "A scrap of papyrus used in a burial has brought the Greek writer Sappho to life": The elderly gentleman on the end of the line had material from an ancient Egyptian burial in...
View ArticleA Crack in the Wall?
Archaeology Magazine, the official organ of the Archaeological Institute of America, has publicized the finding of a world-renown papyrologist that scraps from an unprovenanced papyrus contained poems...
View ArticleGrowing Anger at Lack of Response to Sappho Discovery
Adrian Murdoch, 'Growing Anger at Lack of Response to [queries about] Sappho Discovery', Bread and Circuses 4 February 2014
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Why Don’t We Have Both?
Out of the mouths of babes. And a little child shall lead them.If the meme is unfamiliar to you, watch this commercial.HT Catholic Memes on Facebook
View ArticleChristian Pilgrimage Station Found in Ireland
COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND—A survey of the rocky island of Caher has identified an outer arc of altars or “leachts” that marked a station on a medieval maritime pilgrimage circuit. According to archaeologist...
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Indian Ocean's Oldest Shipwreck Set for Excavation
The oldest known shipwreck in the Indian Ocean has been sitting on the seafloor off the southern coast of Sri Lanka for some 2,000 years. In just a couple of weeks, scuba-diving archaeologists will...
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Mexican archaeologists find remains of nahuatl speaking Caxcan group in...
ZACATECAS.- Las Ventanas, south of Zacatecas, an archaeological site where the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has undertaken new release and consolidation works have resulted in...
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Prehistoric Village Uncovered in Downtown Miami
Miami — Archaeologists who for months have been uncovering mounting evidence of an ancient and extensive Native American village in the middle of downtown Miami have concluded it’s likely one of the...
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16th-Century Burials Unearthed at Mexico’s Las Ventanas
ZACATECAS, MEXICO—Seven burials of people who may have been among the last of the sixteenth-century Caxcan residents at the site of Las Ventanas have been uncovered. “Five of the burials belong to...
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Finding Israel's First Camels
TAU archaeologists pinpoint the date when domesticated camels arrived in IsraelCamels are mentioned as pack animals in the biblical stories of Abraham, Joseph, and Jacob. But archaeologists have shown...
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Iron industry revered by Romans discovered during link road dig in East Sussex
Archaeological finds in East Sussex suggest why the Romans would have pushed for control of a sophisticated iron production lineAn epicentre of the prehistoric iron industry, coveted by the conquering...
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Mummy Portrait AD 140-160 Roman Period Egypt There are...
Mummy PortraitAD 140-160Roman Period EgyptThere are difficulties in reconciling this portrait of an individual with luxuriant hair with the convention of representing priests of Egyptian cults with...
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The pericope adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) in a Syriac-Arabic (Garšūnī) lectionary
The famous passage known as the pericope adulterae, about which there is a long bibliography and on which Chris Keith has written perhaps most recently (e.g. this survey paper and this book), is not a...
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A Possible Sign for Metate
by David Stuart, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at AustinThe “Bent-Cauac”Among the still-undeciphered signs in Maya writing is the so-called “bent-cauac” element (Figure...
View ArticleHow The Phantom Menace Should Have Ended
Click here to view the embedded video.I’m not one of the Jar Jar haters, for the record, and even so I found the first part funny – and the rest of it even more so.
View ArticleWAY STATION FOR EARLY MODERN HUMANS LEAVING AFRICA MAY BE A LONG VANISHED...
A giant, long-vanished lake along the White Nile may have been a vital way station for early modern humans leaving Africa. Archaeologists say the 45,000-square-kilometer lake, which would be one of the...
View ArticleErpenius’ al-Makin arrives in Word format
An email brings the text of the Erpenius (1625) edition of al-Makin. The typist has done a good job.She’s also indicated that some words – especially names – seem to be corrupt. These will need to be...
View ArticleGENOMES OF MODERN DOGS & WOLVES PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS ON DOMESTICATION
Dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago, before humans transitioned to agricultural societies, according to an analysis of modern dog and wolf genomes from...
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New Dates for Israel’s Domesticated Camels
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—Radiocarbon dates for the oldest-known domesticated camel remains in Israel indicate that the pack animals did not arrive there until the ninth century B.C., or 300 years later than...
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