Alexandria
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Image via Wikipedia The Oxford University Press blog seems to be running a series of podcasts about Cleopatra over the next few days (?). In this first installment, we have an interviewish thing with Duane Roller, who, of course, has recently written a biography of our favourite Alexandrian. via Cleopatra Podcast Series: Day 1 |…
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John O’Neill again, in a different forum: American Thinker: The Fate of the Library of Alexandria. … we’ll direct our readers to our previous comments on a similar feature by Mr. O’Neill …
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Haven’t heard of any reports of this in any greater detail, alas: Eight tombs dating to the Hellenist Period were partially revealed recently in the region of Gonous, Larissa prefecture, after flooding caused by heavy rainfall swept away a rural dirt road. The Archaeological Service subsequently conducted an excavation, which brought to light the tombs…
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Putting together Explorator I note that Al Alhram has a much better photo of the statue we mentioned last week (as part of a montage of photos of recent finds in Egypt): Sorry … that’s an athlete in the midst of his athleting; it’s a stretch to make that into an Alexander, no matter what…
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This one’s starting to bother me, even though I’ve now seen the ‘mask’ being identified with varying degrees of certainty as ‘possibly’ Marcus Antonius. A correspondent sends in a nice video from the site (from a German version of Reuters; the video is in English), which I can’t embed, so here’s the link. What I…
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