April 4, 2009
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Some assorted items caught in the screen: Will Bowden is fighting to have a buried Roman villa site in Notthingham preserved from development: Archaeologist joins call to save unique Roman Villa A bit out of the period of our purview, but likely of interest, is a report of a mosaic from a synagogue at Ma’On…
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An excerpt from Jessica Barnes’ piece at Cinematical: Centurion centers on the famed 9th Legion fighting for their lives behind enemy lines after a devastating guerrilla attack, and joining Kurylenko for the hacking and slashing are Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds), who plays the title character, Dominic West, and Noel Clarke. Marshall spoke with Empire during…
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Assorted items which have caught my eye of late: The headline says it all: Applying the wisdom of Alexander the Great to Business Intelligence Some sort of 3d modelling project for the Acropolis was recently undertaken: LPS Instrumental in 3D Modeling of the Acropolis We linked to several of Suzan Mazur’s posts relating to Robert…
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Mary Beard continues to make the rounds talking about ancient humour, and it appears she was asked about who she believed was the funniest Roman. She decided it was Cicero (!) and you can read the Times coverage to find out why … I’m using this as an excuse to excerpt the chunk which shows…
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In case you were wondering … the trial of all those folks associated with the so-called ‘Jesus Ossuary’ has ‘stalled’ (for want of a better term, I suppose). The Jerusalem Post has a lengthy piece … here’s the interesting bits: According to the Antiquities Authority, Deutsch and Golan conspired to forge an ancient decanter, several…
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