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Weiss’ Donations to Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
.While the American Numismatic Society is busily trying to expunge from its public records the generous donations made by one of its patrons over the years, not all of the organizations with which Dr...
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"Metal Detecting" US Civil War Sites
.Historical writer Robert Grandchamp reviewed on the Civil War News web resource Robert H.C. Alton's book "Stratagem 1861: Early Civil War Tactics and the Battle for the Potomac" dealing with an...
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Another review of the NYC DSS exhibit
A SUPERCILIOUS REVIEW by Jenna Weissman Joselit in The Forward, which emphasizes the elements of tourist tackiness in the exhibition: Thou Shalt Suspend Disbelief: Dead Sea Scrolls Come to Times Square...
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Phoenician bling
Another in PaleoJudaica's series on ancient bling:A golden exhibit for SpainFebruary 4, 2012 • Lead, Sevilla • 4 Comments (The Olive Press)IT has been kept locked away for years, with the public only...
View ArticlePottery from 1900 BCE discovered in India
Hallmark pottery dating back to 1900 BCE has been discovered during the recent excavations in Rupnagar (Punjab, India). The Archaeological Survey of India, which recently started excavating the site...
View ArticleIron Age bracelet to stay in Yorkshire museum after appeal
A bracelet which was the first Iron Age gold jewellery ever found in the North of England will remain in the public realm after £25,000 has been raised to secure...
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Cicero's words still hit the spot: Hungary 2012
A few years ago, I spent some innocent hours checking out how often Cicero's words, at the beginning of his first speech against Catiline, had been re-used in modern political debate. Cicero, as...
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Focus on Metal Detecting: "Where Would the BM be Without the input of the...
.John Winter considers as artefact hunting's "Finest Hour" the moment when then-UK Minister of Culture David Lammy referred to "metal detectorists" as: The unsung heroes of the UK’s heritage. That was...
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Appel à communication : “Bodies of evidence: re-defining approaches to the...
Bodies of evidence: re-defining approaches to the anatomical votive A conference at the British School at Rome 5th June 2012 Organisers: Dr Jane Draycott (BSR and University of Nottingham), Dr...
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Bird scavenging of mollusc shells
For most of the past year I’ve been working on a landfill site, excavating and recording archaeological features ahead of the construction of a new landfill cell. To the west of the excavation area...
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Piltdown Man: British archaeology’s greatest hoax
Studying the Piltdown skull (1915) by John Cooke. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This article titled “Piltdown Man: British archaeology’s greatest hoax” was written by Robin McKie, for The...
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Treasure from sunken galleon must be returned to Spain, judge says
Treasure. Image: Theodore Scott (Flickr, Creative commons Licence) This article titled “Treasure from sunken galleon must be returned to Spain, judge says” was written by Giles Tremlett in Barcelona,...
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Logos Academic Trip
I took a road trip this weekend to Ft Worth to a taster event offered by Logos this weekend at SWBTS. The best part of the event is always the road trip with friends–I got to share a ride with David...
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styles of political violence: protest, revolt at Syria’s embassies
The Syrian Civil War has continued and worsened. At news of the latest massacre in Homs, protests erupted around the world. I will not try to discuss events in general; others can do that better. I...
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Chinese Cultural Bureucrats Okay Demolition of Cultural Preservationists' Home
The Chinese cultural bureaucracy has approved the demolition of the historic home of a U. Pennsylvania educated couple who were early advocates of cultural preservation within China. See...
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Rebuffed by Peter Tompa
.A few weeks ago Mr Tompa was going on and on about how in order to protect their cultural property from illegal export, instead of asking US collectors to watch what they were buying and importing,...
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Blogosphere ~ Cicero’s words still hit the spot: Hungary 2012
A Don’s Life by Mary Beard – Times Online: Cicero’s words still hit the spot: Hungary 2012.
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Blogosphere ~ Augustus Was Honored With a Title
About.com Ancient / Classical History: Augustus Was Honored With a Title.
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Blogosphere ~ War Minus the Shooting: Ideals behind the Ancient Olympic Games
graecomuse: War Minus the Shooting: Ideals behind the Ancient Olympic Games.
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US Academic Opposes Italian Repatriation
.In the comments section of a Planet Princeton article 'Princeton University Returns Art to Italy', Florida-based US academic Dr Robert Steven Bianchi („Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art and...
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