Archaeology
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Interesting item from the National Oceanography Centre (UK)/University of Southampton: Known as the Belgammel Ram, the 20kg artefact was discovered by a group of British divers off the coast of Libya near Tobruk in 1964. The ram is from a small Greek or Roman warship – a “tesseraria”. These ships were equipped with massive bronze…
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Temple-burial mystery revealed via Αρχαιολογία Online.
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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…
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I’m sure this sort of thing could be said about a number of exhibitions … from the Daily Pennsylvanian: The “Lod Mosaic” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has garnered a lot of praise, but has also drawn criticism from Penn faculty. The mosaic is on the last part of its…
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Tip o’ the pileus to @PunicOctopus on twitter who alerted us (and the world) to this rather important study in Spain … from El Pais: Año 208 aC. Los ejércitos romano y cartaginés, a las órdenes de Escipión el Africano y Asdrúbal Barca (hermano de Aníbal), están a punto de entablar batalla. Asdrúbal domina un…
