October 7, 2012
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One that was languishing in my email box … from Today’s Zaman: The excavation of the Kerkenez ruins in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat have revealed the original city walls dating back to the fourth century B.C. The excavation was carried out due to support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the…
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Interesting essay on Girolamo Cardano’s Encomium Neronis, which has been recently translated: A Cold Case of Historical Bias
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Another interesting item at Wonders and Marvels by Adrienne Mayor: Dread Death by Purple Snake Poison
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Despite ANSA‘s headline, this is a dig that has been going on for quite a few years: An accidental meeting in 1982 between a well-known Greek archaeologist, Yannis Sakellarakis, and a shepherd from Crete has led to an archaeological discovery of great importance; Zominthos, a settlement from the Minoan era on the plain by the…
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This is one which I tried to report about a year ago (when it was originally discovered) but the link went kablooey on me … so technically this is an update of something which you might have seen in Explorator last year, but I couldn’t get it into rogueclassicism, so we have a bit of…
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