July 2009
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Time to start hyping this one, I think … we should be cashing in on the popularity of this next year, deo volente. Here’s a nice background video: There’s an unimbeddable-in-wordpress trailer for the upcoming video at Rope of Silicon … very nice teaser …
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An interesting item made the rounds of assorted newspapers this weekend … here’s the version from the Sun Times: Not only have Olympic swimmers and sprinters gotten faster over the last 100 years — but they have grown in average size at a much faster rate than the normal population, a new analysis finds. While…
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I’m kind of surprised this hasn’t received a lot more media attention: an ongoing dig at Silchester (ancient Calleva Atrebatum) reveals evidence of a planned city with a possible population of 10,000 or more prior to the arrival of the Romans. Mike Fulford — who has been digging at the site for years — dixit…
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Very interesting find at Vindolanda of a large shrine to Jupiter Dolichenus with a Latin inscription; quotes from Andrew Birley have appeared in a number of newspapers: What should have been part of the rampart mound near to the north gate of the fort has turned out to be an amazing religious shrine …There is…
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Reports are just starting to come out of the discovery of 17 Hellenistic-period tombs from a site near Ohrid, FYROM/Macedonia. Plenty of items were found, of course (including some in amber), but the most interesting seems to be the burial of a young girl of apparently noble status. Pasko Kuzman, head of the Macedonian Department…
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