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Διαβαίνοντας τον Ελλήσποντο: κοπές αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων της Αβύδου

February 10, 2014 - 1:01 PM - Νομισματικές συναντήσεις (École française d’Athènes σε συνεργασία με το Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών και τη Βελγική Αρχαιολογική Σχολή) Γιάννης ΣΤΟΓΙΑΣ (ΚΙΚΠΕ)

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Décret inédit d’Akraiphia en l’honneur de métèques

February 11, 2014 - 1:05 PM - Rencontres épigraphiques Yannis KALLIONTZIS (EFA)

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MESO 2015. The Ninth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe

The MESO2015 Committee invites speakers to submit abstracts for 10 minute papers and poster presentations on any subject related to Mesolithic archaeology. The post MESO 2015. The Ninth International...

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Augusto, il bimillenario della morte. Le mostre di Roma e Parigi

February 13, 2014 - 2:05 PM - Roman Seminar Dr. Annalisa Lo Monaco (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

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OMG!!! Loeb Classical Library Going Digital

This one is making the rounds of various lists and social media … the good news is that you’ll soon be able to walk around with a searchable, shareable version of the Loeb Classical Library on your...

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Η βασιλεία στην αρχαία Ελλάδα: Από τον Αγαμέμνονα έως την Κλεοπάτρα

February 06, 2014 - 2:20 PM - Συνέδριο (6-8 Φεβρουαρίου)

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Η “Βόρεια Αυλή” στο ναό των λεόντων στην Πέτρα

February 13, 2014 - 2:26 PM - LECTURE Χρ. Κανελλόπουλος , Λέκτορας ΕΚΠΑ

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Practice and Method in Creating 3D Models in Archaeology

Never doubt my commitment to digital field practices in archaeology! Through driving slow and sleet and slow moving snow plows and flight delays and an Australian driving a rental car on a steep...

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Connecting the Dots

In the past couple of days, I came across two sets of images which seem to me to be, shall we say, connected. The first was via George Takei’s page on Facebook:And the second was via Pinterest and...

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US Museums' About-face on Dodgy Acquisitions

Julia Halperin and Javier Pes, 'US museums' about-face on restitution' The Art Newspaper, Issue 254, February 2014 In January 2013, the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD) revised its...

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I Unwittingly Manipulate A Citation Index

The list of misdemeanours that identifies an Open Access science journal as predatory and not bona fide is long. One of them is attempts on the part of the publisher and editors to manipulate the...

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Picture of the Week: Phoenix

(Post by Seth M. Rodriquez)Continuing our series on "obscure sites" in the PLBL, today we come to a site so obscure that no biblical character ever visited this place, although it is mentioned in the...

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The Scientific Study of Religion: Building Bridges in Indianapolis

I was struck to see this call for papers for an academic conference on religion here in Indianapolis:2014 Annual Meeting Call for Papers Society for the Scientific Study of Religion October 31-November...

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Promakhos – a movie about the Parthenon Marbles, Justice & Greece

John Vorhees is an US based lawyer who I have known for a number of years now as a campaigner for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens.Last year, he introduced me to his sons John &...

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The Doctor or The Pope?

From Dinosaur Comics. HT Judy Stack-Nelson on Facebook.

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Workshop Program: Intertextualité et humanités numériques

The workshop program is available here.

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Near East crossroad of the Palaeolithic now questioned

Dating of human remains from a site in the Near East throws into question widely-held ideas about how the first modern people spread across the world during the Palaeolithic era

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Copper Alloy head of either Nero or Claudius 1st Century...

Copper Alloy head of either Nero or Claudius1st Century ADRomano British(Source: The British Museum)

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Ken Ham’s Dog Slide

Oops. This is the disadvantage for charlatans in the technological era. Someone can stop the video and zoom in, and track down the source of the image you used. And in this case, Ken Ham’s slide about...

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Samson and the Archangel Michael in the Ethiopian synaxarion

In the Gǝʕǝz reading in the synaxarion for Yäkkatit 12 is a commemoration of the Archangel Michael, specifically with how he is said to have been involved in the life of Samson, who is here called a...

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