May 2, 2009
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Wow … it seems every time a hotel is built or expanded in Bulgaria, there’s some archaeological find. Here’s the latest coverage from Novinite: The regional unit for combating organized crime in Bulgaria’s Burgas have seized a hidden treasure dating back to 3rd century BC. The treasure was discovered in October 2008 during the construction…
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This one received quite a bit of press attention this past week … conservators at the Museum of London have (painstakingly, no doubt) reassembled a Roman millefiori bowl which was found with a burial thought to come from the cusp of the second/third centuries. Some snippets (the journalists seems unsure how to spell millefiori and…
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While poking around YouTube for assorted items this past week, it came to my attention that I could put a little minifilm festival of Cleopatra movie trailers together here to start our weekend blogging off … so, in chronological order: The 1934 DeMille version starring Claudette Colbert: Possibly the worst ever … the 1945 version…
rogue classicism 