February 18, 2013
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Just saw this post by author Pat Brown, who is promoting her work via the Huffington Post … here’s the incipit: For 2000 years, historians and Egyptologists have written of Cleopatra VII’s death in 30 BCE, repeating again and again the tale that the last pharaoh of Egypt committed suicide along with her two handmaidens…
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Efforts continue to prevent the so-called ‘Gladiator Tomb‘ from being lost to reburial … today we feature a post by Darius Arya, who has spearheaded the effort to save it for further research. Perhaps rogueclassicism readers who haven’t yet signed the petition can push it ‘over the top’ of the 5000-signature goal: I am writing…
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Even though I’ve been wandering along the internet superhighway for a couple of decades, I still marvel at the communication opportunities it offers which would have boggled the minds of folks even three decades ago. Outside of several instances of me watching assorted international sporting events from my comfy chair in Southern Ontario while chatting…
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This just in from Novinite: A Bulgarian team of archaeologists have discovered well-preserved remains of a Roman bath in the ancient Bulgarian town of Sozopol. The news was revealed by National Museum of History director Bozhidar Dimitrov. “The team, led by Sozopol Archaeology Museum director Dimitar Nedev has made the discovery as part of its…
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I really should know the source of this project on the Instructables site, but I don’t … anyone know? Ancient Greek Programable ‘Robot’
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