The Carotta Code Cracked
It seems that someone at Francesco Carotta's "Divine Julius" web site took offence at my recent book review. The extensive "rebuttal" is unsigned but carries the tag "Francesco Carotta". So, has the...
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Leverhulme early career fellowships at Durham University
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships at Durham University The Department of Classics and Ancient History is seeking outstanding candidates to apply for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships...
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Captain Gunter's "loot": Antiquities from China's Summer Palace continue to...
The sale of a 8.5 by 5.8 centimeter Qing dynasty (late 18th- early 19th century) gold box for £490,000 ($764,694.00) at London auction house Woolley and Wallis has provoked an international debate. The...
View ArticleApostolic Fathers - Big Update
Earlier today BibleWorks posted an update to their Apostolic Fathers versions. The update consists of corrections made to the Apostolic Fathers databases (APF, APE, APL and APM) and the addition of...
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Leveson and Camillagate
I've just been reviewing a few books about the Queen (it being her diamond jubilee and a diamond quantity of books appearing to celebrate); and, as always, I've done way too much reading -- beyond and...
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Ancient silver plate returned to Cambodia
A Hungarian collector has returned to Cambodia an Angkoran-period silver plate, which is thought to have been recovered in the vicinity of Banteay Chhmar. Silver plate returned to Cambodia. Phnom Penh...
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We exported a bunch of artifacts
Just before Christmas I received two boxes of artifacts, sent FedEx from Mexico. We exported a bunch of potsherds, obsidian tools, and charcoal for various technical analyses. Angela was working in the...
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Ceramic Attributes
Angela Huster I just finished up six months in the lab in Toluca. For the past four and a half of those (every since the end of the summer lab season, which I was also here for), I was collecting data...
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Sculptures of Calixtlahuaca
By Jennifer Burley The small collection of sculptures that we have from Calixtlahuaca reflects the diversity of sculpture production at the site. (SS-00-01) A composite photograph of anthropomorphic...
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Ezekiel 4:12 Cereal
Ask and you shall receive! After I suggested the idea in my last post, Jeff Carter kindly made this addition so as to offer a more comprehensively Biblical range of cereal choices:If you don’t get the...
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Scholiastae Changing
As I posted about almost two years ago, the experiment in using a wiki to collaboratively annotate ancient texts was a flop. So, I'll be taking that down at the end of April of this year. In the...
View ArticleWhen You Have to Go All the Way Back To The Bible For Your Philosophical...
your argument has issues. I make serious fun of Jim West. I’m gathering my thoughts on Kenneth Atkinson’s paper from our Secular Biblical Criticism session at the SBL (now available on the Bible and...
View ArticleDoctor Who: Special Effects Dinosaurs
IO9 shared this video about the famously poor special effects in the Doctor Who episode “Invasion of the Dinosaurs.”Click here to view the embedded video.
View ArticleMartin Luther King and the Quest for a Just Society
This semester, my freshman seminar course “Faith, Doubt and Reason” focuses on utopias, dystopias, and the quest for community and a just society. Since we start tomorrow, the day after Martin Luther...
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Grands mythes, petits formats
À propos des albums de Soledad Bravi et Nathalie Laurent, de la collection Loulou & Cie, parus à L’école de loisirs. Inclassables volumes que ceux publiés par ce duo féminin, depuis 2007. Certes,...
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Interview with Egypt's Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim
.Nevine El-Aref has an interesting and quite lengthy interview with Egypt's Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim ('Heritage at what cost?') in Al-Ahram. This comes some two months after...
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Barcelona excavará la basílica de Sant Just tras hallar restos del siglo I y...
BARCELONA, 16 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) - Unos primeros sondeos arqueológicos bajo la basílica de Sant Just i Pastor de Barcelona han permitido hallar restos de hasta el siglo I DC, que ayudarían a...
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Emperor Theodosius Died
This Day in Ancient History - January 17 - © British Museum and portableantiquities Theodosius I, who is also called Theodosius the Great, died on this day in A.D. 395. He was ...Read Full Post
View ArticleField research on manuscripts and monasteries in Ethiopia
Via the EthiopianLit list, I receive this intriguing announcement of a talk at Princeton University in March, which I would certainly go to, if I could. Nobody has any idea what exists in Ethiopic....
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2012.01.19: Late Roman Towns in Britain : Rethinking Change and Decline
Review of Adam Rogers, Late Roman Towns in Britain : Rethinking Change and Decline. Cambridge; New York: 2011. Pp. xiv, 237. $90.00. ISBN 9781107008441.
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