September 2011
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Fun item from Corriere del Mezzogiorno … a tourist is out hiking near Paestum, falls in a hole and discovers what eventually turned out to be three (Etruscan?) tombs: Pare l’inizio di un romanzo: un turista passeggia in un’area archeologica e forse assorto nei suoi pensieri inciampa in una buca. Non una buca qualsiasi. Ma…
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Martin Conde alerts us to an item in today’s Corriere della Sera (which hasn’t made it to the online version yet) in which it is suggested that gases from the eruption of Vesuvius altered the original ‘yellow’ to produce the famous ‘pompeiian red’ we associate with, inter alia, the Villa of the Mysteries. MC has…
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Perhaps my spiders (see next post) were just confused by this one, as I was last night … from Standart: A pot with gold jewelry dating back from the Thracian period was donated to a museum instead of being smuggled by black archeologist’s mafia. A day ago the police found in the house of 41-years…
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Have to give my spiders a #fail on this one … they totally missed it, but it seems it’s all over the twittersphere. From Novinite: The Bulgarian Customs Agency has bestowed upon the Regional History Museum in Burgas a statue of a Roman goddess or a female aristocrat that they captured at the Bulgaria-Turkey border.…
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Seemed to have missed a day again: Directions in Ancient Sport History September 16, 2011 History of the Ancient World Jordan Codices: More About the Altered Metallurgical Report September 15, 2011 Steve Caruso Round-Up: September 15 September 15, 2011 laura-gibbs@ou.edu (Laura Gibbs) Ancient and Modern September 17, 2011 (Peter Jones) IOT: 15 Sep 11: The…
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