December 2010

  • ClassiCarnival 12-12-10

    Another item on my list of good-things-I-used-to-do-but-stopped-for-some-reason-and-should-resume is a weekly overview of what’s going on in the Classical blogosphere. In this case, I think I stopped because I found a way to efficiently share items from my google reader subscriptions (as you can see over in the sidebar), but after a while, I suspect folks…

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  • Can You See Yourself Saving Rome? The American Institute for Roman Culture 2011 Ostia Marina Summer Archaeology Field School Rome, Italy Program Dates: June 20 through July 31, 2011 Contact hours: 220 Program Co-directors: Prof. Massimiliano David (University of Bologna), Dr. Angelo Pellegrino (Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, Ostia Antica office), Dr.…

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  • From Explorator 13.34

    Excerpts from my weekly newsletter … some of which I’ve blogged already, some of which I hope to blog today, and some of which I’ll probably forget to blog: ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John Hall, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,…

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  • Romans in Sri Lanka?

    Tantalizingly vague item from Daily News (Sri Lanka): Remains of harbours used by ancient Chinese and Roman ships have been discovered in excavations carried out in the North and the East by the Archaeological Department National Heritage Minister Jagath Balasuriya said. He was addressing officials of the five Departments under him and media at the…

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  • I’ll point directly to ArchNews’ post on this since all of the source material (including some reactions from archaeologists) is in German and they provide a useful summary … I wonder if Nemesis is stretching her wings: Austrian-German media manager plundered UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra | ArchNews.

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