Barney Coombs, “Dealing with what life throws at you”
Before I went away, I was reading Barney Coombs, Dealing with what life throws at you, (2004). Coombs is someone unknown to me. But apparently he was one of the “fabulous fourteen” of charismatic...
View ArticleGetting the CIMRM in digital form
I’ve obtained copies of some of the pages from Maarten Vermaseren’s great compilation of Mithraic inscriptions and reliefs, the Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae or CIMRM....
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The significance of the von Bothmer return
Source: MiBAC Chasing Aphrodite has a very useful discussion about the nature of the ex Dietrich von Bothmer fragments that have been returned to Italy. It suggests a possible link with the material...
View ArticleDigital Humanities Specialist
Application Deadline: 24/02/2012 The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project funded by the US National Science Foundation is looking to engage the services of a...
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Open Access Journal: Illinois Classical Studies
[First posted in AWOL 11 July 2009. Updated 26 January 2012]Illinois Classical StudiesISSN: 0363-1923 Illinois Classical Studies was founded in 1976 by Miroslav Marcovich, Head of the Department of...
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Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies
[First posted in AWOL 1 November 2009. Updated 26 January 2012]Bulletin of the Society for Arabian StudiesISSN: 1361-9144The Society publishes an annual Bulletin in the Spring giving information on...
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Part of Borobudur relief found
A relief that was supposedly part of Borobudur was returned to the temple custodians by a local villager. photo credit: micahcraig Temple’s Relief Stone Studied Tempo Interaktif, 26 January 2012 The...
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First Video of Nehmes-Bastet and Tomb KV64
With thanks to the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities for spotting it, here is the first video on the latest find in the Valley of the Kings. It is only short and is in German but shows...
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Fishing Near Moscow 7500 Years Ago
An international team led by the Spanish National Research Council has discovered a series of fish traps including nets, hooks, harpoons and other artifacts relating to a fishing industry occurring in...
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Petition Against Indiana’s Creationism Bill, Senate Bill 89
Most have probably already heard the news that the proposed creationism bill was approved by the education committee (the bill’s author chairs the committee, so not too much surprise there). This need...
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Diffusion et réception de l’architecture gothique dans l’Empire
Conférence de Mathieu Piavaux sur le diocèse de Liège. Dans le cadre des conférences du Learning Center archéologie/égyptologie, Mathieu Piavaux, Professeur en Histoire de l’art médiéval à l’Université...
View ArticleThe History of Pyramid Research: Another Installment from the Em Hotep Blog
Readers should check out this (very) lengthy entry recently posted on the quite useful Em Hotep blog. Readers may recall that Em Hotep has actually produced a series on pyramid construction and...
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The Death of Nerva
On This Day in Ancient History - January 27 - When the much-hated Emperor Domitian was assassinated, the conspirators asked Nerva to replace him. Nerva had come from a senatorial family from Narnia, in...
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Haptics and the Physicality of Archaeology
A gust of wind whipped the context sheet from under my hand, leaving a long, thin, bloody line across the back of my thumb. I sighed, but it only added to the current tally of open wounds on my...
View ArticleQuiz: Would you have survived the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79?
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View ArticleExhibition: Goddess of Love and Beauty Takes Center Stage
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Sabratha portrait head returned to Libya
Source: MiBAC A Roman portrait of Domitilla Minor that was found at Sabratha in Libya will be returning home. The head had surfaced at Christie's in London where it appears to have been provided with...
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2012.01.44: Atlas du monde hellénistique (336-31 av. J.-C.): pouvoirs et...
Review of Laurianne Martinez-Sève, Atlas du monde hellénistique (336-31 av. J.-C.): pouvoirs et territoires après Alexandre le Grand. Atlas. Mémoires. Paris: 2011. Pp. 80. €17.00 (pb). ISBN 9782746714908.
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2012.01.43: Le dèmos avant la démocratie: mots, concepts, réalités historiques
Review of Marie-Joséphine Werlings, Le dèmos avant la démocratie: mots, concepts, réalités historiques. Paris: 2010. Pp. 379. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840160755.
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