October 16, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia Alex Beam in the Boston Globe wonders about something I’ve been wondering about for a few weeks now: Of course you have noticed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s uncontrollable tic — quoting from Virgil’s “Aeneid.’’ He did it twice during a long New Yorker interview and more recently in Wired magazine, where he…
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Abstract of a payfer thing in the Journal of Archaeological Science … seems to confirm somewhat the oft-mentioned claim that damnatio ad metallum was essentially a death sentence: The Byzantine period (4th – 7th centuries A.D.) site of Khirbet Faynan (Phaeno) was a state-run mining camp described in ancient sources as a destination for Christian…
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This one’s a bit more interesting than the one which follows, and has quite a bit more detail. It details recent finds at the Etruscan site at Montereggi/Limite sull’Arno (not sure what the actual town is called), including this: … which is a roof detail dating to the mid-sixth century B.C. or thereabouts, possibly depicting…
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Not a lot of detail in this one … here’s the incipit: Un importantissimo scavo archeologico è stato eseguito in queste settimane a Senigallia. Durante i lavori di ristrutturazione, eseguiti dalla Società Berta Costruzioni s.r.l. all’interno delle cantine di uno stabile sito in via Cavallotti, in un punto “strategico” della topografia urbana di Senigallia, sono…
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