There Must Be A Word For Them
I’m looking for a single word or even a two word phrase that suggests the author(s) (including anyone involved in an oral creation process), compiler(s), editor(s), excerpters, readers, and referencers...
View ArticleOpen Access Bulletin: Institut kurde de Paris: Liaison and Information bulletin
Liaison and Information bulletin Publisher: Institut kurde de ParisISSN: 0761-1285In English, French, German and Italian."The Kurdish Institute has been publishing a monthly Liaison and Information...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal Archive: Kurdistans sol
Kurdistans sol (Solna, Swedish Red Crescent)Nos. 1-2, 4, 7-28, 1994-2009Publisher: Solna : Kurdiska röda halvmånen, 1994-In SwedishAlphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies
View ArticleOpen Access Journal Archive: Etudes kurdes (2000-2006)
Etudes Kurdes: revue semestrielle de recherches (2000-2006)ISSN 1626-7745Publisher: Fondation-Institut kurde de ParisCountry: FranceStart Year: 2000Frequency: Semi-annuallyText in: FrenchAvailable...
View ArticleAlphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies
[First posted 1/3/11, updated 6/8/11, updated 12/5/11]This is a list of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies collected since we began AMIR on December 5, 2010. It is by no means complete. We...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: Kurdish Human Rights Project legal review
Kurdish Human Rights Project legal review, London, Vol. 5, 2004-ISSN:1748-0639Frequency: Semiannual"Kurdish Human Rights Project is an independent, non-political human rights organisation dedicated to...
View ArticleThe Aztecs, 3rd edition
The third edition of my book, The Aztecs, is now out. I just received my advance copies; it should be available for purchase in about a month (although you can go ahead and order it now!)....
View ArticleConferencia sobre la crisis griega
(foto de ptrix en FLICKR)Mañana martes 13 de diciembre a las 19'30h se va a celebrar en el salón de actos de la facultad de Economía de la Universidad de Zaragoza (Gran Vía nº2) una mesa redonda sobre...
View ArticleLatin Speaker Wanted
A reader wants to know if someone who speaks conversational Latin at a children's level is willing to chat with his school age child and two others: "My question for you is whether you might know...
View ArticlePapyrus
I have a long-standing fascination with the written word (duh), so when I recently stumbled across a handful of papers about papyrus, how you make it and how old it is, how could I possibly resist...
View ArticleWhere is Maximinus Daia?
The more observant will realise that there is a distinct lack of Maximinus Daia this week. Emperors of Rome has jumped from Galerius to Severus. Editing the video at the weekend I realised that there...
View Article#47 Severus: Emperors of Rome
Emperors of Rome continues with Severus, a victim to politicking and killed by the Emperor Maxentius. Download #47 Severus
View ArticleUn parco a tema su Pompei
In Saturday's La Reppublica, yet another proposal for a Disneyland-like reconstruction of Pompeii. What gets me is that the people presenting it always seem to think their new is idea and original -...
View ArticleM. Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère et V. Dasen, Des Fata aux fées: regards...
Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère et Véronique Dasen (éd.), Des Fata aux fées : regards croisés de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Lausanne, 2011. Éditeur : Université de LausanneCollection : Revue...
View ArticleExperts stumped by ancient Jerusalem markings
Israeli archaeologists excavating in the oldest part of Jerusalem discovered a complex of rooms with three 'V' shapes and other features carved deeply into the solid stone floor. There were...
View ArticleEarliest human sleeping mats found in South Africa
A team working in South Africa claims to have found the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up to 77,000 years ago - 50,000 years earlier...
View ArticleA dry Dead Sea before biblical times
The Dead Sea nearly disappeared about 120,000 years ago, say researchers who drilled below one of the deepest parts. The new research started as an attempt to understand the history...
View ArticleVersace for H&M and ancient Greek inspiration
Versace’s collection for H&M sold out in minutes last month. I am not certain, though, if the enthusiastic shoppers are aware that Versace’s inspiration came from ancient Greece. In the following...
View ArticleExhibition review: Außergewöhnliche Pompeji-Ausstellung in Halle
See below for a review in Archaologie Online of the new exhibition in Halle 'Pompeji, Nola, Herculaneum - Katastrophen am Vesuv'. This exhibition looks great - I particularly like that it covers the...
View Article2011.12.31: A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Blackwell Companions to the...
Review of Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Ancient History. Chichester; Malden, MA: 2010. Pp. xxvi, 668, 16 p. of plates....
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