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Frank Moore Cross, 1921-2012
REPORTS ARE COMING IN from many sources that my beloved doctoral supervisor Frank Moore Cross passed away peacefully yesterday, aged 91. I studied with Professor Cross at Harvard University from 1983...
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Sundial from Chakidiki
From Greek Reporter: One of the rarest sundials dating from the Greco-Roman period was found in Polichrono in Chalkidiki.This sundial is not a usual one as it shows the correct time at any given place....
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October 24, 2012 - 12:36 PM - FITCH-WIENER LABS SEMINAR Dr. Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou (University of Cyprus, Fitch Bursary Holder)
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Seeds from a distant past
November 28, 2012 - 12:39 PM - FITCH-WIENER LABS SEMINAR Dr Georgia Kotzamani (Ephoreia of Palaioanthropology and Speleology, Fitch Bursary Holder)
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Action Philosophers! Thales! Anaximander!
Over at Brain Pickings — one of our fave distractions — Maria Popova alerted us to this massive graphic novelesque effort called Action Philosophers … it includes some excerpts which happen to be...
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CJ Online Review: Mirto, Death in the Greek World
posted with permission: Death in the Greek World: From Homer to the Classical Age. By Maria Serena Mirto. Translated by A. M. Osborne. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. x + 197. Paper,...
View ArticleAssessing a papyrus: is scholarship less valuable than science?
Mark Goodacre (with whom I disagree profoundly on almost everything, I suspect) has an article at his blog today about the papyrus fragment which has been called the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” and is...
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Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 13.11.1-2
lepidissimus liber est M. Varronis ex satiris Menippeis qui inscribitur ‘nescis quid vesper serus vehat’, in quo diserit de apto convivarum numero deque ipsius convivii habitu cultuque. dicit autem...
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New Morbid Terminology: Grave Wax
Grave wax is a wax-like organic substance that appears as crumbly and waxy material consisting mostly of saturated fatty acids that appears in certain graves. The color of the wax depends on the color...
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Neandertals in North Africa
Let me enter the following points which might be very relevant to the finding that in North Africa: "the Neandertal's genetic signal is higher in populations with a local, pre-Neolithic North African...
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Picture of the Week: Appian Way with Ancient Paving Stones
(Post by Seth M. Rodriquez) When people think of "biblical archaeology" they usually think of cities such as Jerusalem, Jericho, or Capernaum. However, sometimes a road can be just as valuable as an...
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ADMIXTURE tracks Amerindian-like admixture in northern Europe
I have recently assembled a new "world" dataset of 4,280 individuals that I am currently incrementally analyzing with ADMIXTURE. But, I noticed an interesting pattern at K=4 that I wanted to share...
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K. Pollmann et M. Gill (éd.), Augustine beyond the Book
Karla Pollmann et Meredith Gill (éd.), Augustine beyond the Book. Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception, Leyde-Boston, 2012. Éditeur : BrillCollection : Brill's Series in Church History,...
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Teaching Thursday: Rules of Writing (that I should follow too)
I have just finished grading a stack of 100 level history papers and a few graduate student book reviews. A looming stack of 200 level history tests await. The papers were generally pretty good, but I...
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Johnny Nonnymus: "Me and My Mates Found the Sandridge Hoad With a Metal...
Leon Watson, 'Novice treasure hunter who bought basic metal detector found 40 Roman coins worth £100,000', Daily Mail 16 October 2012.An unnamed man, let's call him Johnny Nonnymus, bought a Garrett...
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UK Heritage Transparency: Sandridge Hoard Videos Deleted
.Well, quelle surprise, the two highly revealing videos to which I gave a link yesterday seem to have "disappeared" down the tekkie Memory Hole. They are ex-videos, non-videos as far as they are...
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Italian police recover Roman statue stolen from Pompeii
Italian police recover Roman statue stolen from Pompeii: The head of an ancient Roman statue that could be of the mother of Emperor Nero has been recovered after being missing for decades, Italian...
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Bagnall receives Festschrift
ISAW Director Roger Bagnall was presented with Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall at a surprise champagne reception held at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris on October 16,...
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Terracotta head from Pompeii recovered from Piacenza dealer
I personally don't know anything about the original theft, but of course we can all celebrate the return of stolen sculpture to Pompeii...even if to my eyes this looks far too generic to be one of the...
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