Archaeology
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This just in as I’m putting together Explorator … Reuters has entered the ‘Cleopatra’s Tomb’ hype with an article that includes an interesting slide show, among which is: … presumably the alabaster Cleopatra, the coins, and — most importantly — the mask I’ve been curious about for over a year. Here’s another photo with the…
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This one — from FYROM/Macedonia probably has more bona fides lurking in it than claims of Alexander’s tomb … from Balkan Travellers: Detailed archaeological excavations began at the thermal Roman bath in Bansko near the south-eastern Macedonian town of Strumica. The site is being studied and analysed so that a project for its complete reconstruction…
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Okay … this is a long-developing story. Last year — almost to the day — Zahi Hawass was all excited about some major underground tomb at Tabusiris Magna; it seemed to be building on something announced a couple of years before that. A month later, we were pretty much getting the same story. Then we…
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Cleaning out the rest of the inbox … A new roof for Newport Roman Villa: Roofing work starts at Roman villa (County Press) Coverage of Richard Seaford’s thoughts about Greek money at the Classical Association: Ancient Greeks could throw light on financial crisis, says professor Coverage of the “Subversive Classics” session at Princeton: Down on…
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This one’s interesting to me because it touches on something I’ve wondered about for years … the assumption that the Praetorium mentioned in the Gospels as the location of Pilate’s trial of Jesus (and, therefore, the starting point for the via Dolorosa) is to be identified with the Antonia Fortress. In a forthcoming study called…
