Ella Sullivan tells us about her research regarding Livia:

Yesterday around the Classical Blogosphere:

• Telamon: A Republican Crucified Man August 10, 2011 Dorothy King
• Turkey: Catching Smugglers Causing Storage Problems August 10, 2011 Paul Barford
• Guess What August 10, 2011 (N.S. Gill)
• Ancient Riots August 10, 2011 (N.S. Gill)
• Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC) August 10, 2011 Charles Ellwood Jones
• Roman Helmets August 10, 2011 Dorothy King
• Coming soon at the TLS: New bloggers for old August 10, 2011 Peter Stothard
• An African Lady in Roman York? August 10, 2011 Dr Jonathan Eaton
• There’s still enough to go around August 10, 2011 prometheuscomic
• 1st Installment of the Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival August 10, 2011 Kristina Killgrove
• PADIS: Palestine Archaeological Databank and Information System August 10, 2011 Charles Ellwood Jones

ante diem iii idus sextiles

• 480 B.C. — Battle of Thermopylae ; death of Leonidas et al (by one reckoning)
• 480 B.C. — Battle of Artemesium (by one reckoning)
• 117 A.D. — dies imperii of the emperor Hadrian
• 275 A.D. — martyrdom of Alexander the Charcoal Burner at Cremona
• 295 A.D. — martyrdom of Susanna at Rome
• 1928 — birth of Emily Vermeule (Greece in the Bronze Age)

Short little video from our friends at the Royal Ontario Museum with Chris Smith (of BSR fame) narrating an overview of various aspects of Roman history:

The beginning of a piece in Dominican Today:

The feat of Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, which has circled the globe with her project “In search of Cleopatra’s tomb,” continues attracting the attention of the world’s scientific community. And that’s the reason the scientist of Chinese origin Ng Tze-Chuen, known for his successful projects at NASA and the Russian Astronomy Center, will visit Dominican Republic for the first time.

Ng Tze-Chuen will spend two days on Dominican soil, during which he’ll define the needs which Dr. Martinez’s exploration has its final phase of the search of the tomb of Cleopatra, the last queen of the Nile. The scientist has sought to contribute by volunteering his knowledge to the project, noting its extreme importance for universal archaeology, as a result of the publication by National Geographic Magazine on the work carried out by the Dominican archaeologist. After his visit Ng Tze-Chuen will travel to Hong Kong to work in the design of a high tech robotic device that allows easier and more accurate access to the entangled Egyptian ruins.

During his stay in the country he’s scheduled to visit Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales Troncoso and Santo Domingo Catholic University director, reverend Ramon Alonso Beato.

“Ng Tze-Chuen and I are joined by common things, he’s a dentist dedicated to the invention of robots and research devices and I’m a lawyer with a passion for archaeology. Both of us are chasing our dreams,” said Martinez after revealing that it’s the first time that a scientific personality of such importance comes to Dominican Republic.

Among Ng Tze-Chuen’s most important projects figure the robot built to enter the Great Pyramid at Giza, in Egypt and supports the Russian space program for the ongoing exploration of Fobos, Mars’ largest moon. […]

• via Dominican archaeologist continues attracting glances of the world’s scientific community | DominicanToday.

… sounds like some sort of reality-show-in-the-making. Or — more likely — National Geographic is taking a credibility hit (I’m sure I’m not the only person complaining about their July issue’s coverage) with their Cleopatra issue and now is going to send a robot with a camera inside that it will broadcast ‘live’ …