May 9, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia The Aspendos Gladiator School is planning to train Turkish oil wrestlers to re-enact the gladiator fights of ancient Rome in the southern Province of Antalya. The school is in the Serik district, which is also home to the ancient theater of Aspendos. The school covers 300 square meters near the site of…
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Image by xiquinhosilva via Flickr A brief AP report is making the rounds detailing something of concern about the Colosseum. Here’s the incipit of a representative piece from the Globe: Rome archaeology officials say three chunks of mortar have fallen off from the Colosseum but that no one was hurt and tourist visits will go…
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… in Classical Greek: Immense cave found in Pascua Island / Pakistan launches two missiles / Elections in the UK .
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Mostly about student involvement in the dig: The Lantern – OSU students excavate in ancient Greece.
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Culling some items from an AIA newsletter: From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology By Göran Blix Reviewed by Walter Berry http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/01_Berry.pdf Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology By Rosemary A. Joyce Reviewed by Karina Croucher http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/02_Croucher.pdf New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece Edited by Lynne…
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