Not the Ides
I really wish our friends to the south would lobby the powers that be to change their tax-due-date from April 15 to something more sensible (say, April 30, like it is up here in the Great Overcast North). Every year, without fail, there will be some journalist who will write something along the lines of: [...]
Cleopatra’s Tomb Again!!
Okay … this is a long-developing story. Last year — almost to the day — Zahi Hawass was all excited about some major underground tomb at Tabusiris Magna; it seemed to be building on something announced a couple of years before that. A month later, we were pretty much getting the same story. Then we [...]
Doorworthy
Tip o’ the pileus to Ivo Volt: The Argyle Sweater
Columnar Crime?
Somewhat strange (to me) item apparently circulating with not enough detail on the AP Wire … from PR Inside: Police in northern Greece say they have seized six sections of ancient marble columns from a junkyard and arrested the owners for antiquity smuggling. The sections of the 2,300-year-old columns are up to 13 feet (4 [...]
New at the Getty
More news on the benefits the Getty is receiving from its agreement with Italy … the incipit of a brief item from Reuters: California’s Getty Museum, one of the world’s richest art institutions, has received the first two artworks from Italy under a deal that settled a 2006 dispute over looted antiquities. Getty officials said [...]
This Day in Ancient History
ante diem xviii kalendas maias ludi Cereri continue (day 3) — games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C. 69 A.D. — first battle at Bedriacum; the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius eventually would defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho 73 A.D. — mass suicide at Masada (?) 195 A.D. [...]
