April 10, 2010
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Interesting item from Frontline: One way to understand the implications of the archaeological discoveries at Pattanam is to delve into the amazing wealth of data from the excavations at the lost Ptolemic-Roman port city of Berenike, on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. During the Ptolemic-Roman period (third century B.C. to sixth century A.D), Berenike served as…
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The conclusion of an interesting piece in Nature about the flood of archaeological data found by commercial excavators which never seems to get ‘published’ in the academic sense of the word … fyi: Michael Fulford, one of Bradley’s colleagues at the University of Reading, has been piloting a study of the grey literature about Roman…
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I’m a bit late with this one … I first saw this story mentioned at Heritage-Key … here’s the coverage from the Independent: Scholars translating a Roman victory stele, erected in the Temple of Isis at Philae in Egypt in 29 BC, have discovered the Roman Emperor Octavian Augustus’ name inscribed in a cartouche –…
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I don’t think we covered the original discovery of this one (Adrian Murdoch did): ARCHAEOLOGICAL work to determine the full extent of a massive Roman mosaic uncovered in a Cotswold field will resume shortly. Metal detector enthusiasts Paul Ballinger and John Carter uncovered a section of the ancient mosaic in January last year in a…
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I wonder how many other sites are in similar circumstances … An ancient sanctuary of the Roman god Mithras, located in the Rodopi Mountains border region between Greece and Bulgaria, was shown for the first time since its discovery in 1915. The archaeological site is located 6 kilometres into Greece from the Greek-Bulgarian border, near…
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