April 2010
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This one seems to be making the rounds again: Remains unearthed in Nottinghamshire could be an unknown Roman temple, archaeologists have claimed. Excavations on the Minster C of E School site in Southwell between September 2008 and May 2009 revealed walls, ditches and ornate stones. The team analysing the finds said the shape and quality…
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Islam? Here’s an excerpt from the middle of a very long book review of Holy Warriors: Islam and the Demise of Classical Civilization by John O’Neill at Europe News: Until the first quarter of the seventh century Classical Civilization was alive and well in the Middle East and North Africa — even more so than…
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Image via Wikipedia A very interesting series of items from Jonah Goldberg popped up at the National Review Online this week. First: A slew of readers are outraged, perplexed, confabulated and gobsmacked by the claim made below by another reader that there’s no Latin word for “volcano.” I agree it is bizarre. After all you…
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Image via Wikipedia Here’s the incipit … not sure if I blogged this already: Many historians agree that the world’s most well-known epic poet, Homer, lived in the Aegean city of İzmir, but several mayors are eager to have their towns recognized as his home. The ancient Greek poet Homer, traditionally considered the author of…
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The skinny: it dates from the second half of the first century A.D. (based on it apparently demonstrating a transition from cremation to inhumation) and most of the occupants seem to be low-status males (skeletal remains show evidence of a life of ‘hard labour’) … Resti di una necropoli di epoca romana sono stati scoperti…
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