September 2010
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… from a Vanity Fair interview with Michael Lewis (inter alia, natch): Which is a good segue to my next question. If you could buy the Acropolis, what would you do with it? When I went over there, it was one of my missions to figure out what the Acropolis would cost me. I thought…
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Interesting discussion over at Biblical Archeology Review that I just came across for some reason (not sure how old this one is): The Garum Debate: Was There a Kosher Roman Delicacy at Pompeii? – Biblical Archaeology Review.
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A monumental tomb/sarcophagus find dating from the third century B.C. made during sewer/pipeline construction; it appears to be undisturbed. The find includes a lamp and a belt/bracelet of some sort, but we have no photos, alas. The article mentions the possibility of some connection with the necropolis of the ‘subcolony’ of Croton, which would be…
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Philosophiana is the modern ‘Sofiana’ which has been archaeologically poked and prodded for the past fifty years or so … just down the road from Piazza Armerina … from SiciliInformazioni comes news of plans for another survey there: Da oltre 15 giorni è presente a Mazzarino una spedizione di archeologi che proviene da un progetto…
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From the New Zealand Herald: Millions of books have been thrown from the shelves and an acclaimed collection of Greek and Roman antiquities worth millions of dollars has been badly damaged at the University of Canterbury. Reports are emerging of varying degrees of damage to buildings and contents within some of the region’s schools and…
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