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Blogosphere ~ The Madness of the Emperor Caligula

History of the Ancient World: The Madness of the Emperor Caligula.

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El Ayuntamiento de Botorrita quiere recuperar el yacimiento de Contrebia...

Europa Press publica el artículo que es al mismo tiempo una denuncia sobre el yacimiento de Contrebia Belaisca; el título del artículo es "El Ayuntamiento de Botorrita quiere recuperar el yacimiento de...

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New Book on The Shepherd of Hermas

(Larry Hurtado):  After Psalms and the Gospels of Matthew and John, the most frequently represented text in Christian manuscripts dated prior to 300 CE is The Shepherd of Hermas.  Though little known...

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Wiener Lab “Pots” Workshop

November 29, 2011 - 1:28 PM - Eleni Nodarou & Jerolyn Morrison

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The humanities-that-must-not-be-named

I’m not thrilled with the term “digital humanities.” When people refer to the “humanities,” I think I know what they mean: those disciplines that are concerned with human activity and everything it...

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The recursive arithmetic of tenure

The long career path from college student to a tenured academic job is designed to be conservative. A student in the humanities who discovers a passion for an academic subject in his or her first year...

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The Ottoman Landscape and Pyla-Koutsopetria

Over the past month, I’ve been working to draw historical conclusions from the artifact distributions produced through the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project. For antiquity this did not prove...

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Video: A Symposium on Haremhab: General and King of Egypt

The Department of Egyptian Art,  The Metropolitan Museum of Art presentsA Symposium on Haremhab: General and King of EgyptMay 5, 2011The Grace Rainey Rogers AuditoriumHeld in conjunction with the...

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Some Literalists Don’t Give a Fig

HT Stuff Fundies Like

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Open Access Journal: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne

[First posted in AWOL 2 September 2009. Updated 30 January 2012] Dialogues d'histoire ancienneeISSN - 1955-270X En 1974, Pierre Lévêque crée la revue Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne, conçue comme un...

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Historian justifies claim over mythical figures

In an interview with the New Straits Times, Professor Khoo Kay Kim explains the reasons why he thinks figures such as Hang Tuah and Hang Li Po identified in the Malay Annals were probably mythical....

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Pete Enns, The Evolution of Adam: Introduction

Exploring Our Matrix is one of several blogs that is participating in the Pete Enns blog tour, which means this week we will be reviewing Peter Enns, The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and...

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Attack on Becchina

There is a report in the Italian press that the house of Gianfranco Becchina in Castelvetrano has sustained a shotgun attack ("Escalation di attentati intimidatori a Castelvetrano e Campobello",...

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Teaching Skeletal Anatomy to Kids

The other day, I got an email from a colleague.  He'd agreed to coach his kid's elementary school Science Olympiad team in learning human skeletal anatomy.  The PDF he was given to teach from was...

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Young Archaeologists become Roman for a day

Image: Tancread, Flickr, Creative Commons LicenseIf you go down to the York city walls on Wednesday 1st February you might get a surprise!  A team of intrepid staff and volunteers from the Young...

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Twisting the Bible (and my Op-Ed) in the Interest of Young-Earth Creationism:...

There was a letter to the editor written by Tim Huggins, responding to my own op-ed piece in the Indianapolis Star recently. Below I will include the text of that letter, interspersed with comments and...

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One-Volume Bible Introduction Textbook

We, at HBU, use a common textbook across our separate OT and NT survey classes and are thinking about updating our texts.  One common issue with these textbooks is their length, which often distracts...

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Road trip to Abydos and Dendera

Saturday, January 21:  Road trip to Abydos and Dendera After a lovely day visiting the sites of the Queen’s Valley and Medinat Habu in the West Bank of Luxor yesterday, today we took a three-hour road...

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CPAC Meeting on Renewal of MOU with Cyprus

The United States Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) met on January 18, 2012, to discuss the Cypriot MOU. Once again, CPAC Chair Prof. Patty Gerstenblith (PG, DePaul, Public Representative)...

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L'archéologie préventive aujourd'hui

Titre: L'archéologie préventive aujourd'huiLieu: Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III / Bordeaux / PessacCatégorie: Séminaires, conférencesDate: 02.02.2012Heure: 18.00 h - 20.00 hDescription:...

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