Herculaneum
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Last week the Telegraph devoted a major portion of its newspaper to the upcoming Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum … I think I’ve managed to find all the links, all of which have plenty of images and all the Alastair Sooke things have videos. Some familiar names have penned most of these…
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This looks like it’s going to be really really really really good:
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I’ve seen this one in various places (this particular text is via the Classicists list): New courses for university students: Discover the ancient Romans in the shadow of Vesuvius! The Herculaneum Centre www.herculaneumcentre.org is very pleased to announce the launch of a new series of university-level courses related to Vesuvian archaeology that will take place…
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Over at Blogging Pompeii, they have links to a couple of recent interviews — one in English, one in Italian — with Dr Wallace-Hadrill all about the Herculaneum Conservation Project: Radio interviews with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill on Herculaneum
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem ix kalendas septembres rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November eighth) at which time the gates…
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