May 2010
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Interesting press release from the Austrian Mint: For some five centuries the River Danube formed an essential part of ancient Rome’s northern border against the barbarian tribes of Germania. The Austrian Mint’s new silver series called “Rome on the Danube” breathes life back into the ruined remains of the towns and forts that played such…
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The incipit of something in the Bluffton News-Banner: The Romans had this particular inhumane form of execution known as the death of 1,000 cuts. If you cut your finger — say with a paring knife as you’re peeling an apple, or (a personal misery of mine) via a paper cut — it hurts, and you…
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An item from the Sydney Morning Herald caught my eye at some point this week … here’s the incipit: TONY ABBOTT is under pressure to justify telling students it was considerably warmer when Jesus was alive after leading scientists said his claim was wrong. He urged year 5 and 6 pupils at an Adelaide school…
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Interesting question over at Ask MetaFilter: I can’t find much info about it online, the only information I can find is that he supposedly tunneled through Rosh Hanikra after having conquered Tyre, and the tunnel was large enough for him to march his entire army through. But why is it that can no one find…
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Seen on Aegeanet (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) CONFERENCE MINOAN ARCHAEOLOGY. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE 21st CENTURY, 23-27 March 2011, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg SCOPE OF CONFERENCE The archaeology of Minoan Crete can now look back on more than 100 years of…
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