January 2009
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Well, now that I’m full of espresso, it seems appropriate to peruse what our friends in Italy have been reading about: Authorities have discovered evidence of tombaroli operating around Ragusa: ARCHEOLOGIA: TOMBAROLI IN AZIONE NEL RAGUSANO, INDAGINI (AGI) They’re going to be sprucing (cypressing? decypressing?) up Augustus’ mausoleum: Archeologia, all’Ara Pacis il progetto ‘Urbs et…
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According to Hollywood Reporter: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Bond girl Olga Kurylenko are girding their loins for Neil Marshall’s Britain-set sword-and-sandals thriller “Centurion,” for “Slumdog Millionaire” producer Christian Colson of Celador Films. The movie, billed as a thriller set during the Roman invasion of Britain in A.D. 117, tells the story of Quintus Dias,…
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Okay … so a couple of weeks ago I get an item in my mailbox about some guy who makes handbags with Classical names. I sat on the item for a while, then decided not to bother with it (it did get mentioned on one of the lists) and now I can’t find it again.…
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Not sure why the only source for this seems to be the rather obscure Owen Sound Sun Times, but it appears there has been a rather major shipwreck discovery off the coast of Albania. Adding to the mystery (for me) is why most of the article seems to quote people who weren’t directly involved. Dixit…
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A while back we mentioned that the Greek goverment was opening up a pile of potential underwater archaeological sites to scuba access … an excerpt from a piece in the Guardian: “Greek waters are some of the richest in antiquities in the world,” said the marine archaeologist Katerina Dellaporta. “Thanks to very stringent controls over…
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