September 5, 2012
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Okay … can’t resist this one. I’m zonked from the first day of school so I’m idly doing one of my semi-regular checks of ebay items and I come across this: It is described as a Roman lead relief from the 1th (sic) century A.D. depicting the capture of Vercingetorix. Here’s the original auction ……
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This one (by Tyrannosaurus Grex) is pretty creative:
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The Daily Mail has a nice followup piece to that tattooed-Siberian-princess thing we mentioned a while back (Siberian Princess and her Tattoos) … folks (archaeologists? researchers? journalists?) still seem to be having problems identifying elk: Revealed: Fashion and beauty secrets of 2,500-year-old ‘tattooed Siberian princess’ after body was found in ice-clad burial chamber (Daily Mail)
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From the Sofia Globe: An ancient incense vessel in the shape of a bull’s head, estimated to date from the sixth century BCE, has been found by archaeologists on St Kirik island off the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol. The discovery was made on the last hour of the last day of the 2012…
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