August 3, 2012
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While looking for something else, I chanced upon this column in the Seismological Society of America newsletter (July/August 2012) … here’s the first paragraph as a bit of a tease: Since its discovery in the beginning of the twentieth century by British archaeologist Arthur Evans, the Bronze Age (Minoan) civilization of Crete (Greece, ca. 3000–1200…
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Another one from Focus Fen which seems to have lost something in translation: “A construction inscription in ancient Greek language was discovered during the archaeological excavations in the western part of the Roman Forum in Bulgaria’s second biggest city of Plovdiv. Head of the archaeological team Elena Kisyakova announced the news for Radio FOCUS –…
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TLS has a review of Anne Carson’s translation of the Antigone, but I can’t get past the first two lines: As Magritte might say: “This is not a book”. Rather, perhaps, an objet trouvé, a postmodern or Dada artefact, a happening somewhere to the far north (Manitoba?) of Sophocles’ resplendent, morally complex original. Maybe y’all…
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Interesting story in the Oxford Mail: AN OXFORD archaeologist is facing one of the greatest challenges of his career, tracking down a 2,500-year-old Greek helmet that has been lost for 30 years. In the early 1980s, Mensun Bound took part in the excavation of a 2,500-year-old Etruscan vessel off the island of Giglio, Italy. But…
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Israel Hayom has a very lengthy piece which provides further details of the claims being made by Benny Liss which we mentioned the other day … Here’s a lengthy excerpt from that lengthy piece: […] On Sunday, the main points of Liss’ theory were printed on the news pages of Israel Hayom. Since then, the…
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