September 29, 2012

  • Sorry … lots of questions tonight (I’m poking around a forum written largely in Arabic and Google translate isn’t being helpful) … has anyone seen this before and/or know where it might be (possibly in Turkey)?

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  • Does anyone know if this inscription has been published (I’m trying to figure out if this is a new find that hasn’t been reported or is something that has long been known):

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  • My Explorator email box is slowly filling up with a much-publicized story about the recovery of a Tibetan statue made of meteoric iron which was discovered by the Nazis and is quite interesting (see, e.g., PhysOrg’s coverage: Buddhist statue, discovered by Nazi expedition, is made of meteorite, new study reveals)  … of course, plenty of…

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  • Absolutely!

    Tip o’ the pileus to Andrew Reinhard on Twitter:

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  • Keep Calm and Carry On

    So last night I was wondering why departments aren’t festooned with posters like this and/or students sporting the latest memeish Ovidian attire: … just in case someone searches for “Keep Calm and Carry On” in Latin; we Classics types were keeping calm and carrying on since the fall of the Republic or thereabouts … the…

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