October 2010
-
One of the things we posted t’other day detailed the bust of a smuggling ring in Bulgaria who/which had in its possession a two-metre sculpture of Aphrodite. Today Novinite suggests there are questions about that identification: The 2-meter antique statue, which was found buried in the back yard of a Bulgarian village house belonging to…
-
This is typical … of the myriad versions of this story — about Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA revealing links to Neanderthals and assorted others, the one I happened to actually read (and post on Facebook) missed out on a Classical connection. Of course the Daily Mail had the part I missed, inter alia: The researchers discovered…
-
… but this time, from Scotland, and without any of the usual attendant sensationalism. Indeed … the decapitation is mentioned only in passing. From the Scotsman: IT IS a major public sector building project which has been delayed, causing headaches for bosses and the public. But it is decapitated skeletons and 2000-year-old forts rather than…
-
From Reuters: French police said on Wednesday they had seized a significant portion of an ancient Roman treasure that was discovered more than two decades ago by Corsican divers who became rich by secretly selling it off. The seizure is the latest chapter in the exploits of a then young Corsican and two friends who…
-
From the ANA: The Nike Monument erected in honour of the ancient military commander Callimachus after the Battle of Marathon, its various surviving shards reassembled for the first time to resemble the form they would have had in antiquity, was unveiled in the new Acropolis Museum on Tuesday by Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos.…
rogue classicism 