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Something Wrong with that 'Goat Pen Kore' from Fyli?
.I try to keep up with the news in this field, but do not always have time to comment on everything I would like to - the field is wide. So I put off writing about this one for later, and did not look...
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St Louis Art Museum: "we would do the right thing"
i was very struck by the 2010 words of St Louis Art Museum spokeswoman Jennifer Stoffel when talking about the dispute between SLAM and Egypt over the mummy mask that was excavated at Saqqara: we...
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Archaeology in Scotland to become centralised under Historic Scotland
Expect reaction over the next few days following the announcement last night that archaeology in Scotland will become much more centralised under Historic Scotland. The full press release is here: The...
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looting, stealing etc ...
I greatly admire people who can theorise, and who blog / publish their theories - for example about thefts of archaeological material, whether directly from museums or by the looting of archaeological...
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On This Day in Ancient History - The Megalesia
On this day in ancient history, Romans celebrated the Megalesia. CybeleCC Flickr User Marshall AstorAt first, Rome was just one small city-state in the area of Latin-speaking people known as Latium, on...
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Guess Who
CC Flickr User Son of Groucho Hint and Extra Credit Question: Name at least two connections between this and Alexander the Great. Answer.
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If I were Maria Kouroupas
.Personal attack is the very stuff of the tactics of the supporters of no-questions-asked collecting. As in all populist movements, group identity and solidarity is fostered by reference to a hostile...
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Is it "time for President Obama and Hillary Clinton to "Put an end to...
.[Post under construction]Huffington Post readers can check for themselves the texts of 1)the ‘Convention on Cultural property Implementation Act’ (CCPIA): 19 United States Code 2600...
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Is blogging and tweeting about research papers worth it? The Verdict
Guess when I tweeted my papers? Top ten downloaded papers from my department in the last year, 7 of which include me in the author list.In October 2011 I began a project to make all of my 26 articles...
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New book: Zawanowska, Karaite commentary on Genesis
NEW BOOK:The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10–25:18)Edition and Introduction. Karaite Texts and Studies Volume 4Marzena...
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Earliest Christian Graffito?
LARRY HURTADO: The Earliest Christian Graffito?Perhaps because Bagnall doesn’t have a TV production company behind him, we haven’t seen this item in the daily news. But, while we wait to see what...
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Book review: Boyarin, The Jewish Gospels
DANIEL BOYARIN'S NEW BOOK is reviewed by Alan Brill at his blog, The Book of Doctrines and Opinions: Daniel Boyarin- new book The Jewish Gospel. (The book title actually reads "Gospels," plural.)...
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Review of Grafton & Weinberg, "I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue"
BOOK REVIEW:Anthony Grafton, Joanna Weinberg. "I have always loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard...
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Not "Just America": New Antiquity Laws in Israel
. According to the Israeli Antiquities Authority, “until recently antiquities dealers and other entities have exploited loopholes in the law whereby they brought antiquities into the country for the...
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Special ACCG Offer: Ancient Coins only a Dollar Each!
.Wayne Sayles ('End the Unilateral Trade Sanctions on Collectors' 4th April 2012) has extended to the readers of the Huffington Post an extraordinarily generous offer on behalf of the dealers...
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British Museum Online research catalogues: The Ramesseum Papyri
The Ramesseum PapyriBy R. B. Parkinson 'Among the few important finds of papyri which Egyptology has to record none has been subject to greater vicissitudes … than the assemblage known under the name...
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Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond: Second...
OIS 4. Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond Nicole Brisch, ed. 2008. Second printing with minor corrections, 2012.For an up to date list of all Oriental Institute...
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Distribution of Pay for Federal Archaeologists
To go with my post on pay for years of experience of federal archaeologists here is a break down in pay and number of federal archaeology jobs, both temporary and permanent. The data was gathered from...
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Qumran: Some Counts from Falk
(Larry Hurtado) I found Daniel Falk’s (University of Oregon) presention yesterday (in a special CSCO session) very interesting in a number of points. One of these was some of the manuscripts data he...
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Australian hunters wiped out megafauna 40,000 years ago
Warlpiri Country, Tanami Desert, in Australia's Northern Territory. Image: Rusty Stewart (Flickr, used under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) by Justin Norrie (News Editor, The Conversation) The first Australians...
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