Quantcast
Channel: Maia Atlantis: Ancient World Blogs
Browsing all 136795 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Open Access Journal: Bulletin du Cercle lyonnais d’égyptologie Victor Loret

Bulletin du Cercle lyonnais d’égyptologie Victor Loret  Le Bulletin du Cercle Lyonnais d'Égyptologie Victor Loret, est une revue fondée en 1987 par l'association éponyme pour fournir des informations...

View Article


What Do Conservative Christians Conserve?

Via Dănuţ Mănăstireanu I learned of a blog post by Richard Rohr entitled “Christian Conservatives seldom Conserve the Real Tradition” which seems to me to deserve to be widely circulated, read, and...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Open Access Journal: Analecta Malacitana Electrónica (AnMal electrónica):...

Analecta Malacitana Electrónica (AnMal electrónica): Revista de Filología de la Facultad de Filosofía y LetrasISSN: 1697-4239 La Revista Analecta Malacitana veía la luz en 1978, apoyada por las...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Evangelical Evolutionary Religious Naturalism

Michael Dowd has a blog post that reworks some fundamental tenets of Evangelicalism to be more in keeping with his own naturalistic and evolutionary faith. The whole thing is worth reading (and so I...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New Open Access Journal: Thamyris, nova series: Revista de Didáctica de...

Thamyris, nova series: Revista de Didáctica de Cultura Clásica, Griego y Latín ISSN: 1137-5205Delegación de Málaga de la SEEC en colaboración con los Deptos. de Filología Griega y Latina de la...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New Book from the Oriental Institute: Picturing the Past: Imaging and...

Announced today:OIMP 34.Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle EastPurchase Book Download PDF Terms of Use This fully illustrated catalog of essays, descriptions, and commentary...

View Article

From my diary

I’m getting ready to go on a trip to Israel with a local church group, as part of my cunning plan to make more links with the local Christian community.  It seemed to me, rightly or wrongly, that 6...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Love, Infatuation, and Religion

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Team Pachacamac

During the Pachacamac project Fran Baas and myself will move, survey, photograph, and rehouse 2800 textiles and 1000 pots (stay tuned for more about the survey process!). In order to complete this...

View Article


Why is Philippe de Montebello Promoting Century 21 Stores?

Actually, he's not. But, in a case of inadvertent (and unfortunate) product placement, the glass-walled Lincoln Center studio of New York's WNET (Channel Thirteen) overlooks (on the left) that discount...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Archaeologists and pagans alike glory in the Brodgar complex

This article titled “Archaeologists and pagans alike glory in the Brodgar complex” was written by Liz Williams, for guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 31st January 2012 16.32 UTC Archaeologists are notoriously...

View Article

CFP Comics, Religion & Politics

Via Religion CFP and NSRN online I learned of this call for papers:‘Comics, Religion & Politics’4-5th September 2012Lancaster University, UKAlongside the continued popularity of political themes in...

View Article

Religion and Science Fiction AAR CFP

The American Academy of Religion has issued the call for papers for the 2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Religion and Science Fiction has been approved for status as a Group, and so here is the core of...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Playing with PELAGIOS: Nomisma

So, I want to see how hard it is to query the RDF that PELAGIOS partners are putting together. The first experiment is documented below. Step 1: Set up a Triplestore (something to load the RDF into and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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....

View Article


A Biblical Principle, You Say

"It's a Biblical principle. If you double a teacher's pay scale, you'll attract people who aren't called to teach,” so said Alabama State Sen. Shadrack McGill. But as far as I can tell he didn’t...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Playing with PELAGIOS: Arachne was easy after nomisma

Querying Pleiades annotations out of Arachne RDF was as simple as loading the Arachne Objects by Places RDF file into 4store the same way I did nomisma and running the same SPARQL query.  Cost: 5...

View Article


Digital Analysis of Mandaic Manuscripts

My collaborator on the Mandaean Book of John translation project, Charles G. Häberl of Rutgers University, is scheduled to present on “Digital Analysis of Mandaic Manuscripts” at the workshop “Ancient...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Ayutthaya repair to defend against future floods

Current repairs to Ayutthaya from last year’s devastating floods will include measures to prevent against future floods. Inspection of flood damage at Ayutthaya, MCOT News 20120131 Restoration of...

View Article

Is Academia.edu decreasing scholarly communication?

I love Academia.edu - I think it's a fantastic way for papers to reach the broadest possible audience, and it's made me aware of many studies I wouldn't have otherwise heard of. While I'm not...

View Article
Browsing all 136795 articles
Browse latest View live