September 14, 2011
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Interesting item from Science Business: A scanner which combines the convenience of a desktop scanner with the functionality of a powerful laboratory imaging device has been developed at the University of Oxford’s Classics Department, and is now being commercialised by a new company Oxford Multi Spectral Limited which was today spun out by the University’s…
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Folks might be interested in this item written by a first-year Columbia student who was all hyped to read the Iliad, then didn’t really like it. But she does recognize what the problem is/was … from the Spectator: Engage with the Iliad
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From some sort of press release service called Your Story: The Ministry of Communications and Works, Department of Antiquities, announces the completion of the 2011 field season of the Italian Archaeological expedition at Erimi -Laonin tou Porakou, which took place from August 1st to September 3rd 2011, under the direction of Dr Luca Bombardieri (University…
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If you’ve been keeping up with the lead codices thing, you will know that a number of scholars are now of the opinion that a stamp was used to make a number of the designs on different examples. Tom Verenna has just found another use of a stamp, interestingly on a known fake, which matches…
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Remember back when the House of the Gladiators collapsed? Here’s what’s up with that … from the Art Newspaper: Politicians and archaeological experts are at loggerheads over the funding of the restoration and conservation of Pompeii ten months after the House of Gladiators collapsed. The house, which still lies in ruins, is awaiting the arrival…
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