Archaeology
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Some items of archaeological interest from the Italian press which don’t appear to have received any coverage in English: From Molise comes word of the discovery of a temple podium dating to the second half of the first century BCE on the site of a previously-unexplored section of the ancient site of Saepinum: Altilia –…
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The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry. By Peter Heslin. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. Pp. xiii + 350. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN 978-1-60606-421-4. Reviewed by Christina Kraus, Yale University This fascinating, beautifully produced book is a terrific read putting forward…
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Way back in March/April there was an announcement of an important discovery at Phaleron which — due to the usual too-much-going-on reasons — I never had a chance to relate here or comment on. Briefly stated, during excavations of a large cemetery there (which has been an ongoing excavation for quite a few years) a…
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One of the things you get used to when you’re blogging things about the ancient world is that whenever there is some significant date for some significant ancient figure coming up, you can pretty much be sure that there will be some major — and usually ill-supported — discovery tied somehow to that event. Most…
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[I’m thinking of making this a regular feature] The Ancient Greece and Rome section of my Explorator newsletter for this week (full issue available here): Horse burials from an 8th century necropolis in Athens: http://www.amna.gr/english/article/12498/Intact-horse-skeleton-discovered-in-ancient-cemetery-in-southern-coastal-Athens http://horsetalk.co.nz/2016/01/16/horse-skeletons-ancient-greek-cemetery/#axzz3xVa3dQu4 Plenty of evidence found during A1 construction suggests the Romans were in Yorkshire a decade earlier than previously thought:…
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