June 18, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia Souren Melikian writes in the New York Times on the unbelievable prices reached by a couple of antiquities with interesting stories at Sotheby’s latest (including that Serpents and Satyrs piece we pondered for a while): via When Roman Statues Play Pranks – NYTimes.com.
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A press release from Cyprus’ Press and Information Office: The Ministry of Communications and Works (Department of Antiquities) announces the completion of the twentieth excavation season of the Department of Antiquities’ systematic excavations at the site of ancient Idalion. Excavations at the site began in 1991 and continue until today under the direction of the…
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A few days ago it was Berkeley, now it’s Jersey … still not in North America, though. Brief item from the BBC: Excavations were made at Grouville Church as part of work to extend the building, when archaeologists were called in to monitor the work. The Reverend Mike Lange-Smith, rector of the church, said a…
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AFP seems to be the only one covering this … I can’t find that we’ve mentioned anything about this before either: The remains of an ancient Roman town were on Thursday unveiled to the public in the centre of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Excavation of the site — which currently includes a Roman palace, baths…
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Chuck Jones of Ancient World Online fame alerts us to L’Annee Epigraphique now being available in JSTOR: AWOL – New Ancient World Content in JSTOR. (woohoo!)
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