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Coins from Sicily seized in New York City
It can be reveleaed that last week there was a raid on the New York International Numismatic Convention. Two coins were seized with a value of some 2.8 million USD. Arnold-Peter Weiss, the apparent...
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Starfleet Victory Tebow
The Starfleet American Football team’s three lead players tebow in secular thanksgiving for their victory over the gods of Olympus’ team.
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Open Access Manuscripts Collection: National Library of Republic of Bulgaria.
Manuscripts at the National Library of Republic of Bulgaria.Arabic Manuscripts "This collection contains nearly 3 200 manuscripts. The digitalization of these documents will be a long-term activity,...
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Iran Chamber Society
Iran Chamber Society"In the absence of a well-documented, comprehensive and permanent source of information on Iran, or formerly and widely known as Persia, that can accommodate many viewers' needs and...
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Museum of Sa Huynh and Champa Culture
On the way to My Son from Da Nang is the town of Tra Kieu, known during Champa times as Simhapura (‘Lion City’). It is thought that Simhapura was a political capital for Champa, while My Son was a...
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The Man Who Stopped the Olympics Was Born
This Day in Ancient History (January 11): On this day in A.D. 347, Theodosius may have been born in Spain. Theodosius became the Roman emperor Theodosius I or Theodosius the Great. ...Read Full Post
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2,000 year-old cave paintings found in Mexico
Mexican archaeologists found some 3,000 cave paintings, some almost 2,000 years old, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. The...
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Astronomers from Armagh Observatory and archaeologists from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) will be hosting the Stargazing Live Universe Awareness (UNAWE) activities at the fascinating...
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Wall Mile 40
Curtain wall at Lodhams Slack Onward and upward: this wall mile will not only take us to the highest point of Hadrian’s Wall, but will also bring us to our half-way point. The climbing continues from...
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More on the photoshopped Temple Mount photo
TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Jihad Sites Pounce on Temple Photoshop Photos (Arutz Sheva). This with reference to the story last week of the publication by the IDF rabbinate of a photo of the Temple Mount with...
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Anne Rice's "Christ the Lord" to become a movie
ANNE RICE'S NOVEL CHRIST THE LORD is set to become a movie: BH Interview: Director Cyrus Nowrasteh, Anne Rice Join Forces to Bring ‘Christ the Lord’ to the Big Screen (Christian Toto, Big Hollywood)....
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WSJ on Aramaic in Iraq
ARAMAIC WATCH: Ancient Language Gets Extended Life In Iraq (Brooke Anderson, WSJ Europe). This is a very good article on the current state of Aramaic in Kurdish Iraq, one of the few places where a...
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Job in ANE and Classics at CT State
JOB: Assistant professor at Connecticut State to teach Ancient Near East and Greco-Roman Classics.
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Treasure-hunting idiots damage archaeological site
TREASURE-HUNTING IDIOTS have damaged an archaeological site near Beit Shemesh: Gold diggers ravage archeological site: Two Bedouins from Dimona destroy 2,000-year-old well in search for tall tale...
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New in the Antiquary’s Shoebox
Just a quick note: Bill has made available several articles in the Antiquaries’ Shoebox, his collection of older articles from scholarly journals. W.H. Schoff, Some Aspects of the Overland Oriental...
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Cafe closing early today
The South Block cafe in Senate House will be closing early today (11 January) at 2.30pm Apologies for the late notice, Finance and Estates
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Clusters Galore (fastIBD edition)
(You can scroll down to the Results section, if you are not interested in the technical stuff) When I proposed Clusters Galore in November 2010, I was pleasantly surprised to see that very fine scale...
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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
“The Five Doctors” is the famous 20th anniversary special from 1983 – which of course serves to remind us that the 50th anniversary is approaching. Many are wondering what sorts of special(s) might be...
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