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Teaching Graduate Historiography: A Final Syllabus Redux
Every Spring for the past 6 years, I’ve taught the graduate historiography seminar at the University of North Dakota. The course is required for all of our history graduate students (M.A., D.A. or...
View ArticleJohn Traill on Agora Inscriptions and Daniel Geagan’s New Agora Volume
John Traill describes his work on Daniel Geagan's Inscriptions: The Dedicatory Monuments (Agora XVIII), and how he came to work on the inscriptions in the Athenian Agora.
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Perak confident of World Heritage listing for Lenggong Valley
The state government of Perak in Malaysia expressed confidence that the Lenggong Valley, home to a number of prehistoric sites, will be listed as a World Heritage site. Lenggong Archaeological Museum...
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New on Electra: TAPAS News
This morning I've added the News feed from the TEI Archiving, Publishing and Access Service (TAPAS) Project website to the Electra Atlantis Feed Aggregator.
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Blog Entry on Luxor by Professor Lobban in Egypt
Thursday, January 19, 2012: Luxor By Thursday we had flown down to the Upper Egyptian town of Luxor to stay at the historic Winter Palace Hotel. As elsewhere in Egypt, I had visited many, many times...
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Free ticket for lecture on Tell el-D'aba in London
I have a ticket to the Flinders Petrie Memorial Lecture on 8th February. I can't go so if anyone would like my ticket please email me and I'll send it to you. If you could take notes so that we could...
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Discovering the Discovery Programme
As we are still funded by JISC, you may not have realised that the second phase of Pelagios is actually part of a different programme (also in its second phase, as it happens): the Resource Discovery...
View ArticleGlimpse Every Doctor Who Episode in Less than 10 Minutes
Here’s a video of clips from every single episode in the show’s history. Enjoy!Click here to view the embedded video.HT IO9 and Galactica: Variants
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Evidence of Massacre in Ancient Turkey
Determining the social relationships between populations in the past can be difficult. Trading can be inferred from the presence of artifacts like pottery with foreign designs, or non-local foods....
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Ancient geoglyphs found under Amazonian rainforest
In an area on the western boundary of the Brazilian Amazon, known as Acre, rare geoglyphs have been uncovered by a farmer clearing his land. The area has long been...
View ArticleEarly evidence of popcorn found in Peru
The first evidence of the domesticated production of corn in the Americas can be found in Mexico and dates back to 7,000 BCE. It was developed from a wild grass...
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Interview with Steven Cross re KV64 and research in the Valley of the Kings
Em Hotep (Keith Payne)Last week as news was breaking about the new tomb—KV64—Em Hotep received word from Stephen Cross, an Egyptologist and Geologist specializing in the Valley of the Kings, that he...
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Berliner Papyrusdatenbank
BerlPap: Berliner Papyrusdatenbank Die Berliner Papyrusdatenbank (BerlPap) ist ein von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gefördertes Projekt zur Digitalisierung großer Bestände der Berliner...
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Archaeology in the News!
Harvard students work to preserve and restore cuneiform tablets, by baking them. Students work at Harvard’s Semitic Museum on the clay tablets, which were recovered from excavations at the ancient city...
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On that there infographic: some critical discussion
The reception to the infographic I put together on Quantifying Digital Humanities has been very positive. In the first 12 hours of it being online, 2600 people had viewed it. At time of writing, 3665...
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Congratulations, Claire Ross!
Image (c) Matt Clayton/UCL Grant Museum. The QRator project in place - the brain-child of Claire Ross. The skulls are not Claire's, you'll be relieved to hear.I'm terribly proud and excited to share...
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I’ve been in Iceland for the last few days. Wonderful! UPDATE: I didn’t say anything in advance because I didn’t think that I ought to announce in advance that I was away. The web of today is not...
View ArticleGrandsons of man born in 1790 are still alive today
An interesting article in the Daily Mail today. John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, was born in 1790. He grew up on a Virginia plantation, became a lawyer, and went on to the White...
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