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The secret life of tour guides at Angkor
The Phnom Penh Post has a revealing article about how tour guides at Angkor view the world and make their living. It’s fairly common knowledge that tour guides get a commission for leading tourists to...
View ArticleThoughts to think about next...
Alas, I have no methodically thought-out post for you all today. It's not as if I don't have thoughts to write about but it takes some time to structure ideas, find relevant links and get out nicely...
View ArticleHave Archaeologists Found Biblical Sodom?
I am referring to the recent archaeological work outlined at this link (and others, of course) that proposes Tell al-Hammam as the site of Sodom. Short answer: No. There are several archaeological and...
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Scholiastae: a little Lucian, a little Alciphron
Two new texts today for Scholiastae. First, I took the wiki version of Dialog of the Dead 13 by Lucian, tidied up some of the comments and amplified a few others. I'm not entirely certain I'm going to...
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Latrines at Carnuntum
Reconstructed Roman latrines at Carnuntum. Copyright: Wolfgang Sauber
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Majapahit statues go missing in East Java
Three fifteenth-century Majapahit statues go missing in Sragen, East Java. The story underlines the lack of resources and the prevalence of theft of such artefacts in Indonesia. Majapahit Artifacts Go...
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Marcian, Successor of Theodosius, Died
on This Day in Ancient History - February 7In A.D. 457 the Roman Emperor Marcian died. Marcian had been born in 392, probably in Illyria, and began a career ...Read Full Post
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February 11, 2012 - 12:05 PM - Exhibition opening - 12 February - 1 April, 2012 ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣ ΠΙΤΤΑΣ / ANTONIS PITTAS
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Entrevista a Angelika Fleckinger, máxima especialista en "el hombre del hielo"
¡Podríamos clonar a Ötzi! Sería factible fecundar un óvulo con ADN de Ötzi... ¡Hay muchas mujeres que se han ofrecido para concebir un hijo de Ötzi! ... aparte de esta chorrada de pregunta/...
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Las relaciones familiares...
Fuente de la imagen: Landesbildungsserver Baden Württemberg, vía el Blog de aula del Departamento de Clásicas del IES Ojos del Guadiana de Daimiel ¿Quieres saber más sobre Historia Clásica y...
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I Workshop Los Bañales Buenas Prácticas en Gestión de Yacimientos Arqueológicos
La Extensión Universitaria de la UNED en Tudela organiza en colaboración con la Fundación Los Bañales el I Workshop Los Bañales. Buenas Prácticas en Gestión de Yacimientos Arqueológicos. Os pasamos la...
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Wall Mile 32
The National Trail crosses the ditch As we depart Milecastle 33, we are still on the approximate line of the curtain wall, but shortly we cross over the ditch and find ourselves firmly in Barbaricum...
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More on the Torah scroll fraudster
DOROTHY LOBEL KING has been on this story too, and she too saw problems when it was coming out some years ago: Rabbi admits Torah tales were a fraud.Background here.
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BNTC 2012 call for papers
THE BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT SOCIETY has issued a call for papers for its 2012 meeting on 6-8 September at Kings College London. As ever, Darrell Hannah and I are chairing the NT & Second Temple...
View ArticleArchaeologists excavate ancient Populonia
A team of archaeologists, students and volunteers will return again during the summer of 2012 to investigate the remains of a major Etruscan port city that straddles the Mediterranean coast...
View ArticlePlan to protect Hill of Tara
A conservation plan has been commissioned for the State-owned lands on the Hill of Tara by the Irish Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan. The minister, in...
View ArticleNomads and Networks: Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
When one thinks of historic Kazakhstan, a vision of rough-riding, nomadic, gypsy-like people on horseback, traversing a vast, flat, steppe-like landscape, comes to mind. The ancient cultural and...
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2012.02.11: Die Personennamen im römischen Britannien. Alpha-Omega, Reihe A,...
Review of Andreas Kakoschke, Die Personennamen im römischen Britannien. Alpha-Omega, Reihe A, Bd 259. Hildesheim; Zürich: 2011. Pp. 671. €248.00 (hb). ISBN 9783487146287.
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2012.02.12: Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens
Review of Julia L. Shear, Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens. Cambridge; New York: 2011. Pp. xv, 368. $99.00. ISBN 9780521760447.
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