January 14, 2012
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TeeGee: Opera Nobilia et al. : The Brygos Painters Troy Cup.
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A Gift For Polydektes: A Greek obol modified in antiquity.
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Meant to mention this one last week … the Daily Mail had a sort of reviewish/excerptish thing about Mark Forsyth’s The Etymologicon (which I might pick up some day) which included the following: How the Romans gave us text messages […] It’s all thanks to Quintilian, the great 1st century Roman orator. In his book…
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No … not the Canadian one around the lake from me (which would be REALLY interesting) … from Peterborough Today/Evening Telegraph: PETERBOROUGH’S history books are set to be rewritten after a stunning Roman villa was found by archaeologists in Itter Cresent. The villa was the home of Peterborough’s rich and famous 2,000 years ago but…
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Plenty of coverage of this one … We’ll begin by looking at that of the Harborough Mail: THIS amazing 2,000-year-old Roman helmet unearthed in Hallaton ten years ago is coming home after an incredible restoration project at the British Museum. When archaeologists unearthed it in 2001, at the spot where hundreds of Roman and Iron…
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