August 2010

  • Nysa Dig Resumes

    From Hurriyet: Archaeologists have begun excavations at the ancient Greek city of Nysa, in western Turkey, where they hope to find new artifacts around the theater, agora and gymnasium. Professor Vedat İdil, head of the excavation team from Ankara University, said the team, comprised of Turkish, Canadian and American architects, archaeologists and historians, plans to…

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  • Latest from Peperikon

    The last bits from a piece at Novinite: The latest Perperikon finds presented Tuesday include a human idol from the 5th century BC, a bronze axe and a Thracian war knife. The archeologist explained that during the first day of the excavations they also found a medical instrument from Roman times, which has been used…

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  • d.m. Colin Austin

    From Cambridge City News: Cambridge professor Colin Austin, one of the world’s leading specialists on ancient Greek texts, has died of cancer at the age of 69. Australian-born Prof Austin was educated in England and France – his mother tongue was French. He studied at Oxford and came to Trinity Hall as a research fellow…

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  • Classical Ink IV

    A fine Medusa festooning the arm of Elizabeth B.: … and she has a blog …

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  • Classical Barbie

    Speaking of Cleopatra (see next post), I was just yakking on Facebook about the existence of a Cleopatra Barbie, news of which my spiders brought me from a blog called comigirl … turns out these things are genuine collectibles. She doesn’t appear to available at Amazon yet (click the comigirl link to see this Cleo),…

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