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Glazed brick from Khorsabad in Iraq, the ancient capital city of...
Glazed brick from Khorsabad in Iraq, the ancient capital city of Assyrian King Sargon ii (721-705 B.C.).[Louvre Museum, Paris]
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Open Access Journal: De Rebus Antiquis
[First posted in AWOL 20 December 2011. Updated 6 February 2014]De Rebus AntiquisISSN 2250-4923DE REBUS ANTIQUIS es la publicación electrónica del Proyecto de Estudios Históricos Grecorromanos (PEHG)...
View ArticleStrange Fruit
This past Sunday in church, my pastor showed this powerful video, produced by folks from the SALT Project, which is based here in Indianapolis. Click here to view the embedded video.
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Ancient Egyptian Astronomy
Ancient Egyptian AstronomyThis site is a repository of information about astronomical documents from the pharaonic period of ancient Egypt. In particular, the site aims to provide an up-to-date,...
View ArticleApostelretabel Sint-Dimpnakerk Geel op Topstukkenlijst
Op initiatief van Vlaams minister van Cultuur Joke Schauvliege is het ‘apostelretabel’ van de Sint-Dimpnakerk in Geel definitief opgenomen op de Topstukkenlijst, een lijst met het roerend cultureel...
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Carved bones at the National Museum of Anthropology,...
Carved bones at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.Bone shown in the first photo:This bone shows fine incisions outlined in black, with the image of the god “9 Wind”, the creator of wisdom and...
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Cups 1st-2nd Century AD Meroitic The so-called ‘Meroitic...
Cups1st-2nd Century ADMeroitic The so-called ‘Meroitic period’ was the last major phase of the history of the kingdom of Kush in Nubia. The term is used to cover the approximate period 300 BC-AD 350....
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Telling Stories of Today: Collecting Native American Material Culture in the...
A lot is going on in the American Section of the Penn Museum as we make our final preparations to open our newest exhibition, Native American Voices: The People – Here and Now, on March 1. The...
View ArticleComment on Discussing the New Sappho poems by David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist
That there is “documented legal provenance” and that provenance is not being revealed despite repeated requests for same from various sources casts strong suspicions on it. It genuinely appears that...
View ArticleMajor Grant Awarded to U. of Maryland for Project on Washington and Ancient...
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is pleased to announce today a $500,000 grant from the late Ernest L. Pellegri, one of the Foundation's donors, to the University of Maryland's...
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Archives Photo of the Week: Dancers
North African couple/dancers, traditional jewelry and clothing.Penn Museum Image #152496Working in an archives has its definite perks. One of those perks is working with the collections. Here at the...
View ArticleBeveren Onderste Boven
In hun jaarlijkse tentoonstelling belichten de Vereniging voor Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek West-Vlaanderen (V.O.B.o.W.) en de Werkgroep Archeologie Roeselare (WAR) dit jaar de Roeselaarse deelgemeente...
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More from the University of Massachusetts Digital Archaeology Practice Workshop
These are just some photographs of the lovely University of Massachusetts as we get ready for the first sessions at the Digital Archaeology Practice Workshop.If you want to check out a live stream of...
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NEWS: New evidence for Amenhotep III and Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) coregency...
(Source: MSA Press Release).“The Minister of Antiquities, Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim declared the discovery of architectural remains (of walls and columns) in the tomb of the Vizier Amen-Hotep Huy No. 28 in...
View ArticleComment on Discussing the New Sappho poems by Richard Rawles
I have no insider knowledge whatsoever, but I think it is unlikely that Dr Obbink would have said “documented legal provenance” if he did not believe that he could back it up. From what is said in the...
View ArticleGrace
Click here to view the embedded video.I mentioned previously that, challenged with coming up with a list of the core beliefs of my church, the members basically only agreed on one word: grace. And so I...
View ArticleOpen Access Archaeology Digest #325
Get your Open Access (free to read) archaeology fix:A Note on Dame Dorothy Selby and the Gunpowder Plothttp://bit.ly/19JLaFgPortageshttp://bit.ly/1g7d9OgOxford Masons,...
View ArticleA Reply to "Rosemary85" who Knows More About Papyrology than me
Some blogger (I bet she's a classicist) called "Rosemary85" ["Moderator Archaic Greek Literature"] has a few views about what I wrote, but I saw what she wrote only after she'd "moderated a bit of...
View ArticleI regret studying social anthropology.
I regret studying social anthropology. It was, on reflection, a waste of my time, money, and abilities. I learned some very interesting things, but those came almost entirely from books I would have...
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New Thoughts on Corn Domestication
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the ancestor plant of modern corn has many long branches tipped with tassels, and its seeds mature over a period of a few months. But when cultivated in a greenhouse under the...
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