February 20, 2012
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Popular Archaeology: Archaeologists Excavate Magnificent Monumental City of the Decapolis | Popular Archaeology – exploring the past.\ … this is the place where those Roman soldier footprints were found five years ago. I also mentioned in Explorator (but I don’t think I mentioned here) the following pair of videos about the dig (the background music…
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Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the guy who was arguably the last ‘effective’ emperor: Valentinian: Emperors of Rome
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History of the Ancient World: The Two Orients for Greek Writers. [from the Kyoto Journal of Ancient History]
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Tip o’ the pileus to Diana Wright for alerting us to this item from Athens News: Four previously unknown shipwrecks have been discovered some 30 kilometers off the Bay of Irakleio, Crete, in recent underwater exploration conducted by the ephorate of underwater antiquities. The new finds comprise two Roman era shipwrecks, one containing 1st and…
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Dr. Antonis Kotsonas has posted a link on AegeaNet to what is apparently a list of the items stolen from Olympia. It’s here … and you’ll see a couple of Word document icons amongst all the Greek. Click on the second one for a rather large Word document which includes photos.
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