February 2010
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No photos, alas … The Lebanese Antiquities Department received on Monday a rare sarcophagus and other antique items confiscated from the house of a sheikh in Baalbek. The judicial police found the antiquities last Wednesday at the house of Sheikh Mohammad Jaafar Suleiman al-Mohajer, who was believed to have dug them out illegally and kept…
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On the one hand, a companion documentary with Bettany Hughes … on the other hand, something else with a need (apparently) for a companion documentary … one has doubts about the ‘something else’ … via Disaster! BBC to re-create the sinking of Atlantis a la 300 | SCI FI Wire.
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Another item on the Fitzwilliam’s recently-renovated Greek and Roman galleries: Cambridge returns Greeks and Romans to limelight | Reuters.
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Interesting item: IT IS almost 2,000 years old and was thought to have been lost forever, but now an ancient Roman bust is being preserved for future generations. Conservationists have begun the painstaking process of restoring a marble carving of the Roman god Jupiter which has been rediscovered at Fountains Abbey, near Ripon. The piece…
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Some very nice photos: Pompeii to Offer Live Excavation Experience | Discovery News.
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