recreations
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From a University of Vermont press release: How do you create a three-dimensional design for an ancient Greek musical instrument when all you have to go on are flat two-dimensional images on vases and coins and a few timeworn statues? That’s the assignment Classics professor John Franklin and student Tanner Lake gave themselves in 2009…
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A lengthy item from the BBC is sure to generate a lot of interest; here’s a bit in medias res: The leader of the project, Dr Norbert Zimmerman of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, was behind the idea to use laser scanners to record every part of the Catacombs. His scanner, which looks like a…
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A series called Deadliest Warrior is coming to Spike TV which, apparently, will include some recreations of gladiatorial weaponry and demonstrations of it in action. I’ll try to embed a video here of same (but it was having difficulties yesterday): Deadliest Warrior | | SPIKE.com If it doesn’t show up for you, here’s a link…
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An item in Adnkronos about a theme parkish thing called Italia in Miniatura includes this little item at the end: But there is still more to come and soon Italia in Miniatura will be expanding and the expansion of the theme park means double the surface area and the introduction of extraordinary interactive attractions, first…
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The incipit of a piece in the Los Angeles Times: The gladiators charge each other with a great clashing and crashing of arms and armor. It’s hard to say who looks more fearsome: Atropo or Taurus. Atropo, the towering Germanic barbarian, wears a mask of black war paint, a headband over her blond hair and…
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