Archaeology
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From a Getty Press Release: The J. Paul Getty Museum today placed on view a Decree Relief with Antiochos and Herakles, the first Greek loan to arise from a 2011 framework for cultural cooperation between the Getty and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture. On loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the marble…
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Saw this on Reddit … hopefully some of the English-speaking press reads rogueclassicism and checks into this … it is an exciting find: La sede del CCAN, desalojada por el Ayuntamiento hace meses, escondía un auténtico ‘tesoro’ romano. Las excavaciones que se están llevando a cabo en el inmueble, que en el futuro se convertirá…
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Nice feature in USF News on William Murray’s ongoing research: Shipping and Greek culture connect University of South Florida Professor William Murray and Aristotle Onassis, a legendary titan in the shipping industry – a connection born of Murray’s lifelong love of sailing and the Onassis legacy. More than three decades of research about some of…
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Last summer we had some vague reports of Francesco D’Andria’s discovery of the tomb of St Philip in a Hellenistic/Roman necropolis in Hierapolis (Tomb of St Philip?) … today, Zenit has an interview with D’Andria which fleshes out some of the details … we begin our excerpt after some info on Philip’s background: […] ZENIT:…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Adrian Murdoch for alerting us to this health and safety issue (trip hazard, apparently) at a major temple find in Bonn: Archaeology students got a taste of the real thing during a digging lesson, when they stumbled upon what was this week confirmed to be a Roman temple – in…
