I’m transitioning from Google Reader (which is disappearing in a few months … grrr) to Netvibes for Blogosphere posts … the ‘Blogosphere’ epithet will (as you can see) be turned into a tag an no longer appear in the title. Instead, the source blog will be there somehow (I’m still deciding what it will look like) …
Month: April 2013
Temple-burial mystery revealed | Αρχαιολογία Online
Temple-burial mystery revealed
- via Αρχαιολογία Online.
Pass the Garum: Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum British Museum Exhibition
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
via Pass the Garum
Roman Finds from Manisa
A pair of painfully brief items, but if we post both, the picture isn’t too vaguae. First, from Turkish Press:
A number of historical artifacts believed to date back to the Roman period have been unearthed by a backhoe operator in the Sarigol district of the western province of Manisa.
Salih Sari was digging in a field when he hit something. He stopped the backhoe and searched the area with a shovel and found numerous artifacts that are believed to belong to the Roman period.
The artifacts were taken to the Manisa Museum.
- via: Ancient Roman artifacts unearthed in Manisa (Turkish Press)
… and from Sanliurfa:
3 marble tombs of children along with a vat, a pot, and a bowl of Roman era were discovered in a field near Afsar village of Manisa provinces Sarigol district in western Turkey during a routine work in the field.
A gendarmerie unit was informed about the discovery, and the historical artefacts were delivered to Manisa Museum.
- via: Anasayfaya Dön (Sanliurfa)
The latter includes a really bad photo of what are apparently the finds. FWIW …

Classic Crosswords from Greece & Rome
Nice collection of timekillers from the Cambridge Journals blog: