APA Blog : CFP: AGON: Competition and Cooperation. from Ancient Greece to the...
19-22 june 2012 The Sixth International Colloquium "ΑΓΩΝ: Competition and Cooperation. From Ancient Greece to the Present", organized by the Centro de Estudios Helénicos of the Facultad de Humanidades...
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Public Lecture: Putting the metal into Metal Age Southeast Asia
Readers in Canberra may be interested in this upcoming lecture by Dr. Oli Pryce. Putting the metal into Metal Age Southeast Asia Venue: Australian National University, Coombs Lecture Theatre Date:...
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Government, Supported By Archaeological Lobby, Moves Against Sotheby's on...
The Government of Cambodia has been criticized for its undemocratic ways and its border disputes with Thailand. Yet, the US State Department, its Cultural Heritage Center, and its allies in the...
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Into and Out of Tombs Round-Up
Blogging about the Talpiot tombs and the historical Jesus blends into other topics that come up in particular during the week before Easter. And so a range of those intersecting subjects appear in...
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Archaeology Weekly Roundup!
Syria’s year-long revolt has exposed to looting and destruction the country’s archaeological treasures, including the ancient city of Palmyra and the Greco-Roman ruins of Apamea, experts warned. Most...
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Meltwater Pulse 1A (MWP-1A)
Nature 483, 559–564 (29 March 2012) doi:10.1038/nature10902 Ice-sheet collapse and sea-level rise at the Bølling warming 14,600 years ago Pierre Deschamps et al. Past sea-level records provide...
View ArticleMAYA 2012: The Ancient Maya and Human Sacrifice
In the movie Apocalypto, Mel Gibson offers a very Hollywood portrayal of the human sacrifice rituals at end of the Maya Classical Period. While human sacrifice played a role in the ritual practices of...
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During the German Occupation of Greece: 37 Towns Pillaged and 17 Illegal...
How Greek archaeological treasures found themselves in German museums, while the question of their return remains open, as D. Reppas stated in the National Assembly.By Aggeliki Kotti, To Ethnos,...
View ArticleTalmud in Arabic
Via Paleojudaica.com: The Jerusalem Post reports that a team of Jordanians has translated the Talmud into Arabic. A think tank on Middle East affairs in Jordan has for the first time published a...
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Contact (today's searches)
.Some interesting searches going on of this blog today - some of the 'regulars' but several things going on behind the scenes it seems. A higher number of searches that pleased me than usual today and...
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Conferences: The Sea Peoples
A gem that I learned about when moving to Houston is the Lanier Theological Library. Mark Lanier is graciously building a great academic resource for Houston by establishing a Tyndale House-style...
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“Copernican” Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree
The Cambridge Reference Sequence is dead, long live the RSRS! Let's hope for a smooth transition. The supplement (the paper itself is open access). Table S5 within the supplement is very interesting,...
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Buyer Beware: Shopping for Artifacts in the Holy Land
Morag M. Kersel DePaul University mkersel@depaul.edu Although the recent outcome of the “Trial of the Century” did nothing to settle debate over the authenticity of the inscription on the James...
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Can you excavate twins?
While most mammals have multiple offspring at a time, in humans the phenomenon is fairly rare. The rate of multiple births varies from 1.3 to 3.5% by country, although these have increased slightly in...
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New Open Access Issue of IpoTESI di...
New Open Access Issue of IpoTESI di Preistoria http://ipotesidipreistoria.cib.unibo.it/issue/view/269/showToc A Gis-Based Archaeological Predictive Model for the Study of Protohistoric...
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Beirut: National Museum
Vatican VIPs The National Museum of Beirut is one of the most interesting museums I have ever visited. The first surprise is the building itself, which is in some kind of Egyptian style. Inside, it is...
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Beirut: Archaeological Museum of the American University
Sarcophagus in the garden What is the best archaeological museum in the world? If size matters, it’s not unreasonable to mention the Louvre and the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul. For art historical...
View ArticleMaundy Wednesday?
It is Easter again, and it has become a blogging tradition (observed here, and here, and here, and here) to select an Easter theme.It has also become a blogging tradition (a) to expose charlatans,...
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St Louis Art Museum Mask: implications for Swiss dealer
I have noted earlier this week that the collecting history ("provenance") for the Egyptian mummy mask acquired by the St Louis Art Museum was seemingly flawed. It cannot have been given to the...
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