April 17, 2010
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Not sure how you stumble underwater but … Researchers have stumbled upon a collection of rare Roman pots while scouring ship wrecks off the Italian coast of Capo Palinuro, near Policastro. The British team from the Aberdeen-based Hallin Marine International energy company found hundreds of ancient pots 1,640ft under the sea while trawling modern wrecks…
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Image via Wikipedia Nice little feature, but lacking a photo (the one accompanying this post is not the one mentioned in the article): Today, the Keith and Zara Joseph Collection goes on public display for the first time in the Potter Museum’s classic and archaeology gallery as part of an exhibition called Devotion and Ritual.…
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Belated congrats to Charlotte Higgins: And the winner of the 2010 Classical Association prize is… | Guardian.
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Clash of the Titans and the classics | Guardian.
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The incipit of an item at the BBC: National Trails, which manages the 84-mile walking route that follows the Roman wall, has raised concerns about damage to the World Heritage Site. The organisation said too many people were walking on the wall while some had broken off masonry as souvenirs. However, it stressed that the…
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