Blogosphere ~ My First History Teacher by Caroline Lawrence
The History Girls: My First History Teacher by Caroline Lawrence.
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Lessons from Live-Tweeting the AIA
Bone Girl: Lessons from Live-Tweeting the AIA.
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ A Huge Delight
Laudator Temporis Acti: A Huge Delight. [Robert Browning ... "My Father was a scholar and knew Greek...."]
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Links to AIA Live-Tweeted Papers
Powered By Osteons: Links to AIA Live-Tweeted Papers.
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Round-up on Women/Gender/Sexuality in the Ancient World
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Round-up on Women/Gender/Sexuality in the Ancient World.
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival XII
Bone Girl: Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival XII.
View ArticleStaffordshire Pottery of the American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society has put together an online exhibit of Staffordshire Pottery of John Ridgeway called The Beauties of America. These pieces are part of the Emma DeForest Morse...
View ArticleNext Biblioblog Carnival Reminder
Amanda at Cheese-Wearing Theology has posted a reminder that she will be hosting the next Biblical Studies Carnival on her blog. Click through for information on where to submit posts from this month –...
View ArticleA Small Step In The Right Direction
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that JSTOR plans to make 70 journals from their far larger collection available to unaffiliated individuals on a very limited basis. Here’s how it will work,...
View ArticleLate Babylonian – Yuck!
I’m working my way through a Late Babylonian omen tablet and I spent the better part of four hours today trying to figure out how to read a single sign. Or is it two signs? I’m still not sure. Yes,...
View ArticleHow Did Laban Do It?
נִחַשְׁתִּי וַיְבָרֲכֵנִי יְהוָֹה בִּגְלָלֶךָ I have learned by divination that YHWH has blessed me because of you. (Genesis 30:27) After all Laban was an Aramean from Paddan-aram in Mesopotamia so he...
View ArticleObituary for Wilfred Lambert
AN OBITUARY FOR WILFRED LAMBERT in the Telegraph:Professor Wilfred LambertProfessor Wilfred Lambert, the Assyriologist who has died aged 85, was a scholar of ancient Mesopotamia and the world’s leading...
View ArticleNew book: Otero & Torijano Morales, "Textual Criticism and Dead Sea Scrolls...
NEW BOOK:Textual Criticism and Dead Sea Scrolls Studies in Honour of Julio Trebolle BarreraFlorilegium ComplutenseEdited by Andrés Piquer Otero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid & Pablo A....
View ArticleWall Mile 39
The ditch running towards Steel Rigg plantation with Peel Crag beyond There is now a nice, gentle downhill stretch to take us to near Steel Rigg plantation and its neighbouring car park, where we need...
View ArticleA Different Magnitude
.The gossip is flying around on the forums about the NYC coin bust. Most of it is as yet unconfirmed. An informant going under the obvious pseudonym "philmcraighin" reports (on the Forum discussion...
View Article2012.01.17: Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb (reprint of 1867...
Review of William W. Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb (reprint of 1867 third edition). Cambridge Library Collection. Cambridge; New York: 2009. Pp. xv, 264. $23.99 (pb). ISBN...
View Article2012.01.18: G. Plinio Cecilio Segundo, Plinio "el Joven": Panegírico de...
Review of Rosario Moreno Soldevila, G. Plinio Cecilio Segundo, Plinio "el Joven": Panegírico de Trajano. Alma mater. Madrid: 2010. Pp. cxvii, 122. ISBN 9788400090999.
View ArticleEarliest modern human
Palaeo-anthropologists agree that modern humans evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago, yet fossil evidence for the earliest examples is scarce. One problem is the difficulty in recognising true...
View ArticleYorkshire appeal to save Iron Age Torcs
Two gold bracelets found near Tadcaster have been declared the first Iron Age gold jewellery ever found in the north of England. The torcs were found within metres of each...
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