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#60 Theodosius: Emperors of Rome
Emperors of Rome continues with Theodosius, the last emperor of a unified empire, and the man who pushed Christianity to the front and centre of the Roman empire. Download #60 Theodosius
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2012.03.45: L'enfant et la mort dans l'Antiquité I: nouvelles recherches dans...
Review of Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets, Yvette Morizot, L'enfant et la mort dans l'Antiquité I: nouvelles recherches dans les nécropoles grecques; le signalement des tombes d'enfants. Travaux de la...
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2012.03.46: Homer the Classic. Hellenic Studies 36
Review of Gregory Nagy, Homer the Classic. Hellenic Studies 36. Washington, DC: 2009. Pp. vii, 641. $15.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674033269.
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Article: Gli “scheletri” tornano nei fornici dell’antico porto
From ArcheoRivista:Fino al 1980 si era creduto che a Ercolano gli abitanti fossero riusciti a salvarsi dalla furia dell’eruzione del Vesuvio probabilmente via mare. Questo si pensava perché in città si...
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More commentary on the forgery trial verdicts
NINA BURLEIGH gives her take on the Israel forgery trial acquittal in the LA Times: Faith, forgery, science -- and the James Ossuary: The particulars of science matter little to zealots defending a...
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Fasti Online: Pistrinum V 3, 8
From FastiOnline, results of the 2010 campaign in V 3, 8:L’edificio si affaccia sulla Via di Nola e occupa il settore sud-orientale dell’ insula. La fase più antica del complesso risale alla fine del...
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Interview with Joseph Cedar's father
PROF. HAYIM CEDAR—renowned geneticist and also father of Joseph Cedar, the director of Footnote—is interviewed by Nir Hasson in Haaretz:The apple doesn't fall far from the Cedar treeProf. Haim Cedar...
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Secret Mark book in press
GOOD NEWS FROM TONY BURKE: Secret Mark Symposium Papers At Press.Background on the 2011 York Symposium on Secret Mark is here and here and links.
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Similarity matrices and clustering (Lawson and Falush)
Lawson and Falush have a new review paper on different clustering methods using haplotype data such as their own ChromoPainter/fineSTRUCTURE methodology, as well as the MCLUST/fastIBD methods that I...
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M. Denis Knoepfler, professeur au Collège de France, titulaire de la chaire Épigraphie et histoire des cités grecques.
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Open Access Journal: e-conservation: The Online Magazine
e-conservation: The Online MagazineISSN: 1646-9283 The objective of the magazine is to offer a wide range of relevant subjects to its readers. The magazine will appear once every two months and will...
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Dio, continued
Up on Lacus in the last few days, a few more of the Greek originals of the Discourses of Dio Chrysostom: 53, 56, 57, 60, 80. For a while, some of the wind was taken out of my sails when I discovered...
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I have to go back to work in a week, so whatever holiday I can cram in happens now. And the weather has turned summery here, so I propose to take advantage of it! I notice that Akismet does not seem...
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Metadata Monday
It feels like I haven’t done a metadata Monday for a while, so maybe, a slow early spring Monday is a perfect time to rectify this oversight.Since I last metadata-ed, I’ve made 123 posts for a total of...
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American Ancestors: Mine and Yours
.Who spotted the discrepancy? Over twenty people were convicted in recent years as part of an antiquities bust of digging up collectable and saleable antiquities including in some cases desecrating...
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Wall Street Journal: Byzantine Route to Met
A recent article on the Met exhibition, Byzantium and Islam: As the Arab Spring roiled the Middle East last year, curators at the Metropolitan Museum were watching anxiously. They were preparing an...
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Weekend Fun
I had some bad news about two Boomer dudes that I know and like(d): one died of lung cancer the other day, and the other was diagnosed with leukemia. But apart from that I had a pretty good...
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BMCR Review of The Homer Encyclopedia, Three Volume Set
BMCR Review of The Homer Encyclopedia, Three Volume Set As the general editor Margalit Finkelberg explains in the Introduction, this Homeric Encyclopedia contains 1300 entries divided into three...
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Conference discusses restoration and management of heritage sites
A recent conference (the article doesn’t mention its name) talks about mismanagement in the restoration and running of heritage sites. Tay Phuong Pagoda, Viet Nam News 20120324 Clumsy restorations harm...
View ArticleDoctor Who New Series Season 7 Trailer
Here’s the trailer for the new season of Doctor Who. HT IO9Click here to view the embedded video.At :54 seconds into the clip, there is a person who as it flashes by looks like it could be William...
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