Can’t figure out why Biblical Archaeology Society tweets don’t work like other tweets … in any event, a couple of Ehud Netzer items of interest there (and apologies to those who dealt with previous versions of this post that didn’t work: EHUD NETZER SPECIAL COLLECTION In Search of Herod’s Tomb (article by Netzer in the [...]

Almost 200 comments on Bad Tattoo Latin (in 84 of which I compose hundreds of good Latin tattoos for readers): http://bit.ly/gyN8bK— Dennis (@theCAMPVS) December 29, 2010

FIELDWORK: Click on Apollonia, Libya 1965, 1971. http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/fieldwork/pastfieldwork. #libya #archaeology #museums— Kelsey Museum (@kelseymuseum) December 29, 2010

2 of 18 Schliemann diaries in the ASCSA Archives are available online: A1 (1846-7) http://bit.ly/eWbKde & A15 (1874-6) http://bit.ly/h8HWSZ— ASCSA Publications (@ascsapubs) December 28, 2010

An essay on what we owe “the audacious Athenians” … rather interesting if somewhat rambling: via: The Original Birth of Freedom by André Glucksmann, City Journal Autumn 2010.

“This one isn’t even worth commenting on, other than to point out it is possibly the weakest attempt to link some modern practice to ancient Rome that I’ve seen in ages … The custom of kissing can be traced back to the Ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, which took place near the end of the [...]

Very interesting news item from Hurriyet: Mosaics found during an illegal excavation in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş have led to the unearthing of an ancient city called Germenicia, which remained underground for 1,500 years. The mosaics, found under a house in the Dulkadiroğulları neighborhood, are expected to shed light on the history of the [...]

Sorry … meant to include this list of highlights from the Classical blogosphere yesterday but didn’t quite get rountoit … in no particular order: The royal engage­ment ring and the ‘His­toric Soci­ety’ that doesn’t under­stand Roman numerals | The Campus Bad Latin: Hayden-Harnett’s Venefi­cus Libri Bag | The Campus Happy Birth­day: Roman Style? | The [...]

Selections from my weekly newsletter … some I’ve blogged, some have many additional links, some I hope to get to eventually (and blog about): ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ They’ve buried Allianoi: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=allianoi-completely-burried-in-sand-201\ 0-12-13 More opeddish things about Pompeii (these vary): http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/dec/13/ovid-roman-\ sex-pompeii http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/arts/design/14pompeii.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/4466245/Crumbling-Pompeii-needs-urge\ nt-attention http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1965417/pompeii_collapses_spark_criticism/i\ ndex.html?source=r_science http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hLZVR4IQeaIpn07gPCzjecQ-RjqA?\ docId=CNG.d17e4b4251cf887af9f26758f0b95e46.131 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BC1NT20101213?feedType=RSS&feedName=scien\ ceNews [...]

From EDP24 … an incredibly tenuous link: An archaeological dig in Lowestoft may have revealed tantalising evidence of a Roman farm which could be linked to Emperor Claudius. Archaeologists from Suffolk County Council believe they have found the remains of a Roman farm on land earmarked to become the new Pakefield High School. A team [...]

Interesting … AFP via the West Australian: Nine people are under investigation for two collapses in the famous ancient Roman city of Pompeii that shocked the culture world last month, judicial sources said on Thursday.An ancient training centre for gladiators collapsed into rubble in Pompeii on November 6 and a wall protecting a home known [...]

ante diem xvii kalendas januarias ca. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Albina at Formiae

Image via Wikipedia Interesting how Assange’s Classical background (apparently) is slowly leaking out … today’s excerpt comes from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: She said that, influenced by his mother, Assange came to love the Greek classics, including Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles, and that he read them to his own son, Daniel, who now works in software [...]

Another item on my list of good-things-I-used-to-do-but-stopped-for-some-reason-and-should-resume is a weekly overview of what’s going on in the Classical blogosphere. In this case, I think I stopped because I found a way to efficiently share items from my google reader subscriptions (as you can see over in the sidebar), but after a while, I suspect folks [...]

Can You See Yourself Saving Rome? The American Institute for Roman Culture 2011 Ostia Marina Summer Archaeology Field School Rome, Italy Program Dates: June 20 through July 31, 2011 Contact hours: 220 Program Co-directors: Prof. Massimiliano David (University of Bologna), Dr. Angelo Pellegrino (Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, Ostia Antica office), Dr. [...]

Excerpts from my weekly newsletter … some of which I’ve blogged already, some of which I hope to blog today, and some of which I’ll probably forget to blog: ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John Hall, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, [...]

Tantalizingly vague item from Daily News (Sri Lanka): Remains of harbours used by ancient Chinese and Roman ships have been discovered in excavations carried out in the North and the East by the Archaeological Department National Heritage Minister Jagath Balasuriya said. He was addressing officials of the five Departments under him and media at the [...]

I’ll point directly to ArchNews’ post on this since all of the source material (including some reactions from archaeologists) is in German and they provide a useful summary … I wonder if Nemesis is stretching her wings: Austrian-German media manager plundered UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra | ArchNews.