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The Beer Archaeologist | Smithsonian Magazine
The Beer Archaeologist | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine
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Finds from Alexandria
Brief item from Al Ahram: Egyptian archaeologists have discovered four Greek and Byzantine-era rock tombs in a section of old Alexandria’s eastern necropolis in an area neighbouring Al-Ibrahimeya...
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Christian Archaeology in Aquileia
Long-time readers of rc will remember Veronica Scarisbrick as the very capable Vatican Radio host who regularly interviewed Father Foster back in the day … while we really miss the latter, it’s nice to...
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Review of Bart Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist? Part Two
This is the second part of my review of Bart Ehrman’s book Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, in which I discuss the second and third parts of the book. The first part of...
View ArticleDAVID I. OWEN ON OBJECTS & INTRINSIC VALUE
David I. Owen is the Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. Dr. Owen contributed several filmed...
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The General Medical Council: Torture is Fine ...
So on 23/03/2012, after speaking to them on the phone, I dropped the following email to the General Medical Council. I explained why here. The letter was quite straightforward: I object to cardiologist...
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New Open Access Issue of Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory...
New Open Access Issue of Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association http://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/BIPPA/issue/current
View ArticleVatican (and Bodleian?) Greek manuscripts to go online?
Mike Aquilina writes to tell me about a new manuscript digitisation initiative. The BBC has an article on the story: Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican’s Biblioteca Apostolica plan to...
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Digitising the manuscripts of Lorsch
After my last post, I started looking for evidence of the work of Heidelberg university in digitising Vatican manuscripts. To my astonishment, I found a website for the now vanished library of the...
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Dear GMC ...
In case Samantha Mills, Thomas Wightman or anyone else you are getting to Google me is interested, I thought I'd lend you a helping hand.If you're going to use a title for me when I didn't provide you...
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Why do we quote?
Ruth Finnegan, Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation, Open Book Publishers 2011 Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and...
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Torture, London
On Friday 23rd March, a number of Syrians were subjected to a European Union travel ban, and their assets frozen, including Asma al-Assad, the wife of President Bashar al-Assad. The direct reason for...
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Stout Standards Adopts new Format
.A while back I shared my comments on the coding of US metal detectorist activist Dick Stout's webpage. It is therefore with some pleasure I note that he has revamped the whole thing and it loads much...
View ArticleIs Your Vocabulary Tragic?
That is, do you know the proper Aristotelian terms to use when discussing ancient Greek tragedy? Anapest is not an annoying party crasher; diaresis doesn't mean you'll be living in ...Read Full Post
View ArticleBad News For A King Or Prince
In case you are a king or a prince, I thought you might like to know the following: “If a king or a prince rides a chariot and the right wheel - the one on [his right] - collapses or the horse on the...
View ArticleRichard Bauckham on the Flimsy Evidence for Talpiot B as the Tomb of Joseph...
I hope you all read the short but clear-headed guest post on Mark Goodacre’s NT Blog by guest blogger Richard Bauckham. Professor Bauckham does a nice job of succinctly demonstrating the tenuous nature...
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“The Resurrection Tomb” Documentary: Live Blogged to Death
Steve Caruso offered a “post mortem” on the “live blogging” about the documentary which aired last night, and the incongruity of a post mortem about live blogging seemed oddly appropriate. He also...
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how the ‘austerity plan decapitates Greek cultural heritage’, and organised...
While I was away, the Inter Press Services’s (IPS) Apostolis Fotiadis summarised how the Austerity Plan Decapitates Greek Cultural Heritage. He noted that the cultural heritage sector had already been...
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Poetry Month - Lucretius
De rerum is an epic, written in 6 books, which explains life and the world in terms of Epicurean principles and Atomism, a philosophy that said everything was created of ...Read Full Post
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