The following lists, presented in reverse chronological order, provide links to interesting articles and discussions elsewhere on the web.
- Six Mummies in Kharga Cemetery
from Egyptology News on 31 October 2004http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o311024m.htm "The French archaeological mission operating in the Al-Deir area in the Kharga oasis unearthed a Ptolemaic-era tomb containing six complete mummies and two limestone sarcophagi ...
- Greek mathematics
from The Stoa on 31 October 2004Anne Mahoney has an interesting new review up of Reviel Netz, The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: From Problems to Equations (CUP 2004) ...
- Afghans Adjust to Loss of Antiquities Collections
from NPR Topics: World on 31 October 2004Decades of war have destroyed Afgan museums, many of which contained artifacts from the Paleolithic era, the time of Alexander the Great, and from 7th century Buddhist civilizations ...
- Mapping Constantines Rome
from blogographos: blogging for the demos on 31 October 2004Comic book artist Gilles Chaillet has created an 11-by-6.5 foot map of Rome, set in 314 A.D. The project was an obsession of his since his youth ...
- PitCalc
from About Archaeology on 31 October 2004While it's standard archaeological practice to work in square holes, sometimes it's simply not possible ...
- … a new form of cultural tourism
from The Stoa on 31 October 2004When Bernie Frischer gave his (terrific) talk on Rome Reborn at Cincy half a year ago I asked him about being able to walk through the Roman forum and get a VR view of their reconstruction keyed to one's location on the site ...
- Pompeii gets digital make over
from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition on 31 October 2004Visitors to historical sites such as Pompeii could soon watch the past come to life thanks to augmented reality.
- another unique species
from Michael Shanks on 31 October 2004A BBC article on the new species of homo UK | Magazine | Eton or the zoo? raises some excellent questions ...
- Roman remains ‘hidden’ for another five years –
from Archaeology in Europe on 30 October 2004Roman remains ‘hidden’ for another five years – but new book reveals all ROMAN artefacts unearthed in a dig in front of Carlisle Castle are unlikely to go on display in the city before 2009 ...
- English elm brought by Romans All English e
from Archaeology in Europe on 30 October 2004English elm 'brought by Romans' All English elm trees could be descended from a single tree brought here by the Romans, scientists say ...
- Biblical Assyria and Other Anxieties
from About Archaeology on 30 October 2004An article by Steven Holloway in the Journal of Religion and Society takes a look at the Victorian underpinnings of the history of Assyrian archaeology ...
- A Monumental Mandate
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004Archaeology magazine's senior editor Mark Rose's latest online feature is on the island of Malta's awesome (and I don't use that word lightly) megalithic monuments and the heritage movement tto protect them: A Monumental Mandate ...
- Aerial Archaeology in Jordan
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004Article by David Kennedy and Robert Bewley in Islamic Tourism on the history of aerial photography in the middle east, posted on 10/23 on Mathaba ...
- ArchaeoBlog
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004From Seattle-based archaeologist and data/systems analyst Andrew Cagle, a news-based weblog....
- Archaeology and the Potters of San Ildefonso
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004New photos have been added to this recent article on the potters of San Ildefonso, showing some of the works of these marvelous potters....
- Blackwater Draw, New Mexico
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004Thirteen thousand years ago, a small lake near Clovis, New Mexico, was populated with extinct forms of elephant, wolf, bison, and horse, and the people who hunted them ...
- Hidden Cave, Nevada
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004Excavations at Hidden Cave in the Stillwater Range have revealed that Native American people used the miserable, dark and dusty cave as storage between 2000 B ...
- Human Genome Project and Race
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004A news story in the NYT by Nicholas Wade today summarizes a couple of articles in Nature Genetics, debating whether 'race' is a useful concept in assisting with disease identification and study: Articles Highlight Different Views on Genetic Basis of ...
- Moravian Archaeology on the Internet
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004A repository of informaion on the archaeology of the Moravian region of central and eastern Europe....
- New Human Species Found
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004At the site of Liang Bua in Indonesia, researchers found evidence of a dwarf species of human called Flores Man (Homo floresiensis) and dated between 95,000 and 18,000 years ago, according to this story on AP newswire ...
- New Human Species Found
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004In today's New York Times, Nicholas Wade describes the latest findings of archaeologists Michael Morwood and Peter Brown concerning the newly discovered Flores Man (Homo floresiensis), dated between 95,000 to 13,000 years ago, and recovered from Liang Bua rockshelter, on ...
- The Exploring the Inca Heartland
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004An online feature from Mark Rose and Angela Schuster of Archaeology magazine takes an indepth look at the Inca Empire....
- The Little Lady of Flores
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004A different species of human walked this earth as recently as 18,000 years ago, long after Homo habilis, Homo erectus, even 10,000 years after the Neanderthals had died out ...
- Western New South Wales Archaeology Program
from About Archaeology on 29 October 2004A joint project by MacQuarie University and the University of Auckland, on to use "electronic survey equipment, portable and desk-top computers, and GIS software to map, document and analyse the distribution of Aboriginal stone artefacts and their interrelationships with physical ...
- Only a couple of items today as the staff are, um
from ArchaeoBlog on 29 October 2004Only a couple of items today as the staff are, um, off to do some very important archaeological research ...
- A SHIP FROM THE UNITED MONARCHY? Offshore find da
from PaleoJudaica.com on 29 October 2004A SHIP FROM THE UNITED MONARCHY? Offshore find dates to King David's time Archaeologist hopes 3,000-year-old wood is from ancient ship Matthew Kalman, [San Francisco] Chronicle Foreign Service Thursday, October 28, 2004 Hof Dor, Israel -- An archaeologist's dog may have discovered the first ship ever found from the period of King David and his son, Solomon, who ruled the holy land 3, 000 ago ...
- JERUSALEMS MILITARY HISTORY is explored at the Na
from PaleoJudaica.com on 29 October 2004JERUSALEM'S MILITARY HISTORY is explored at the National Geographic News website: Jerusalem Strife Echoes Ancient History Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News October 28, 2004 It may be called the City of Peace, but no other city has been more bitterly fought over than Jerusalem ...
- DR RICHARD FREUND is interviewed in the Connectic
from PaleoJudaica.com on 29 October 2004DR. RICHARD FREUND is interviewed in the Connecticut Jewish Ledger about his excavation in the Cave of the Letters near the Dead Sea ...
- Stairway to heaven
from geography News feed on 29 October 2004The Age (subscription), Australia -... an unusual alliance where our Bedouin guide joined the World Expeditions man from ...
- Hobbit Joins Human Family
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 28 October 2004A new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colo...
- Scientists hope to find more hobbits
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 28 October 2004SYDNEY: Australian scientists who found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 13,000 years ago on an Indonesian island said yesterday they expect to discover more new species of hominids on neighbouring islands ...
- Several links from Nature on the Hobbit skeleton.
from ArchaeoBlog on 28 October 2004Several links from Nature on the Hobbit skeleton. Unknown how many of these are accessible without subscription, though the papers definitely are not ...
- Archaeologist hopes 3,000-year-old wood is from a
from ArchaeoBlog on 28 October 2004Archaeologist hopes 3,000-year-old wood is from ancient ship An archaeologist's dog may have discovered the first ship ever found from the period of King David and his son, Solomon, who ruled the holy land 3, 000 ago ...
- Auszeichnung für das Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 28 October 2004Deutsches Archäologisches Institut wird mit Medaille des Spanischen Königs ausgezeichnet Donnerstag 28 ...
- Footprints that never disappear
from Christian Science Monitor | All Stories on 28 October 2004Ancient dig and modern Phoenix show how mankind has permanently changed the environment.
- English elm brought by Romans
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 28 October 2004English elms could be descended from one tree brought here by Romans 2,000 years ago, scientists say.
- Hobbit joins human family tree
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 28 October 2004The discovery of remains belonging to a tiny species of ancient human has been hailed as one of the most sensational finds of its type in decades.
- The 3ft-tall hobbit that rewrites the history
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004The 3ft-tall 'hobbit' that rewrites the history of mankind Scientists are celebrating the most important breakthrough in anthropology for a century: the discovery of a new species of apeman ...
- Scientists find new species of 3ft humans The
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004Scientists find new species of 3ft humans The remains of a new species of human have been discovered on a remote Indonesian island - a spectacular find that could rewrite the story of human evolution ...
- Scientists Hope to Find More Tiny Indonesia Homi
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004Scientists Hope to Find More Tiny Indonesia Hominids Australian scientists who found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 13,000 years ago on an Indonesian island said on Thursday they expect to discover more new species of hominids on neighboring islands ...
- Real life Hobbit skeleton found Scientists
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004Real-life 'Hobbit' skeleton found Scientists in Indonesia think they've found the remains of a new type of mini-human that could have been a bit like a Hobbit ...
- New mini-human species discovered Researche
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004New 'mini-human' species discovered Researchers and field-archaeologists in Indonesia have announced the discovery of a new species of human which is now known to have existed up to 12,000 years ago ...
- Found: 50,000 treasures unearthed by Britains a
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004Found: 50,000 treasures unearthed by Britain's amateur archaeologists When Peter and Christine Johnson decided on a whim to shut their fitness shop early one day last year to try their luck at treasure-hunting, their metal detectors had hardly been used ...
- Lunar Eclipses
from rogueclassicism on 28 October 2004The Tucson Citizen announces a talk about the eclipse last night (which I couldn't see because of cloud cover ...
- Sea damaging Roman burial site There are conc
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004Sea damaging Roman burial site There are concerns for part of Cumbria's Roman heritage, which is being damaged by erosion ...
- Columella, Elms, and Britain
from rogueclassicism on 28 October 2004This little piece from the Telegraph is interesting: Every English elm may be a clone of a single tree originally introduced into Britain from Spain 2,000 years ago as a part of the Roman wine industry, according to a study published today ...
- Megalithic stone row discovered on Dartmoors re
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004Megalithic stone row discovered on Dartmoor's remotest hill In the past thirty years Dartmoor has been the subject of some of the most detailed archaeological exploration and survey in Britain, surpassed only perhaps by the treatment given to Bodmin Moor in Cornwall ...
- Foil reveals Roman magic The Norfolk gardener
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004Foil reveals Roman magic The Norfolk gardener was quite irritated at finding bits of rubbish mixed with the expensive topsoil he had bought: he picked out what he took to be foil from a champagne bottle and unrolled it - to reveal a lost world of Roman magic ...
- Heritage Malta launches cart ruts project The
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 October 2004Heritage Malta launches cart ruts project The enigma surrounding the origin of the cart ruts, scattered across the island, may be close to a solution as Heritage Malta yesterday launched a project aimed at documenting and understanding the archaeological sites ...
- About Those Elgin Marbles
from rogueclassicism on 28 October 2004A barrister ponders the legality of claims of ownership of the Elgin marbles in the Birmingham Post: The Elgin Marbles are arguably the finest example of surviving ancient Greek sculptures in the world and yet they reside in the British Museum and not The Parthenon ...
- Backcountry Mapping
from The Map Room on 28 October 2004Last year there was a story about the people on the ground who do the surveying for the online mapping services (see previous entry) ...
- New Species Revealed: Tiny Cousins of Humans
from NYT > Science on 27 October 2004Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a heretofore unknown species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
- Aerial Archaeology in Jordan
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 27 October 2004Aerial photography grew at a rapid pace in tandem with the development of the aeroplane, and in the Middle East there were significant contributions from a number of countries ...
- Heritage Malta launches cart ruts project
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 27 October 2004The enigma surrounding the origin of the cart ruts, scattered across the island, may be close to a solution as Heritage Malta yesterday launched a project aimed at documenting and understanding the archaeological sites ...
- Cave dig unearths world of the Hobbit
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 27 October 2004When the skeleton of the "Hobbit" was first found in a cave on the isolated island of Flores by Thomas Sutikna and colleagues from the Indonesian Research Centre for Archaeology, they thought they had found the remains of a child ...
- Footprints that never disappear
from geography News feed on 27 October 2004Christian Science Monitor, MA -... notes Patricia Gober, an Arizona State University geography professor who is the ...
- The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Releases English ICT
from geography News feed on 27 October 2004Market Wire (press release) -... The ICT Literacy Maps for geography and mathematics are currently available to ...
- Ancient Tiny Humans Shed New Light on Evolution
from NPR Topics: Health & Science on 27 October 2004In a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, scientists unearth the bones of a new species of human ...
- the new species of homo
from Michael Shanks on 27 October 2004The discovery of remains of another species of homo that lived alongside modern humans only 18 or even 13 thousand years ago is everywhere today - Guardian Unlimited | Life | "From 18,000 years ago, the one metre-tall human that challenges history of evolution" - a new "hobbit" species found ...
- Breaking news Scientists uncover possible new sp
from ArchaeoBlog on 27 October 2004Breaking news Scientists uncover possible new species of human In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet ...
- Sea damaging Roman burial site There are conc
from Archaeology in Europe on 27 October 2004Sea damaging Roman burial site There are concerns for part of Cumbria's Roman heritage, which is being damaged by erosion ...
- TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Jordan starts major restorati
from PaleoJudaica.com on 27 October 2004TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Jordan starts major restoration of Al-Aqsa Mosque By Agence France Presse (AFP) Wednesday, October 27, 2004 AMMAN: As custodian of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jordan has begun the first major restoration in four centuries of the ancient walls of Al-Aqsa, the third holiest site in Islam ...
- Hobbit Discovered: Tiny Human Ancestor Found in Asia
from National Geographic News on 27 October 2004Scientists have found skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child ...
- Articles Highlight Different Views on Genetic Basis of Race
from NYT > Science on 26 October 2004A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists ...
- Well get right on that 7,000-year-old civilisati
from ArchaeoBlog on 26 October 2004We'll get right on that 7,000-year-old civilisation site needs attention Mehrgarh necropolis is one of the archaeological sites discovered in Balochistan during the last five decades, where a city had been buried for centuries under tons of earth ...
- Letters a time machine to daily business of Egyp
from ArchaeoBlog on 26 October 2004Letters a 'time machine' to daily business of Egypt They look like scraps of paper covered with lines of ornate faded script and mounted between sheets of glass ...
- Rabbits may cause fall of Roman forts LEGIONS
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 October 2004Rabbits may cause fall of Roman forts LEGIONS of rabbits are threatening to destroy dozens of Scotland’s most important Roman remains ...
- Entdeckung eines 4.000 Jahre alten Grabes aus der Jungsteinzeit
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 25 October 2004Archäologen haben in Niederbayern eine mehr als 4000 Jahre alte Leiche aus der Jungsteinzeit gefunden ...
- Mehr als 4000 Jahre alte Gräber bei Olympia entdeckt
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 25 October 2004Griechische Archäologen haben Jahrtausende alte Grabstätten nahe dem antiken Olympia entdeckt. Es handle sich Funde aus der Zeit zwischen 4000 und 2000 vor Christus, teilte das Kulturministerium in Athen mit ...
- Forscher entdecken das Panionion
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 25 October 2004Bochumer Archäologen ist ein außergewöhnlicher Fund gelungen: Die Forscher haben im türkischen Mykale-Gebirge das Panionion ausgegraben ...
- Der Bodensee: Ein historischer Friedhof für Schiffe
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 25 October 2004Archäologen vermuten auf dem Grund des Bodensees einen riesigen historischen Schiffsfriedhof. Allein im Überlinger See haben Archäologen bisher 50 Schiffswracks identifiziert, wie Martin Mainberger vom Landesdenkmalamt bei einer Tagung von Unterwasserarchäologen aus Europa und den USA sagte ...
- The continuing preservation saga Mexico Struggles
from ArchaeoBlog on 25 October 2004The continuing preservation saga Mexico Struggles to Preserve Ancient Ruins The majestic pyramids and temples of the ancient Zapotec kingdom of Monte Alban sit spectacularly atop a hill in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca ...
- Letters of Egyptian Business Life
from Egyptology News on 25 October 2004http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595099068,00.html "Malczycki, a Ph.D. student in history at the University of Utah, has been translating and analyzing the 777 documents and fragments of the Utah Papyri Collection, believed to be the largest collection of Arabic papyri in North America ...
- Judaic community on Elephantine
from Egyptology News on 25 October 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/713/he2.htm "The liturgical protocol detailed on some of the documents discovered on the island by archaeologists during the first decade of the 20th century dates back to a time before the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem ...
- Bahariya "Valley of the Mummy" Excavations to Resume
from Egyptology News on 25 October 2004http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o211024g.htm "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni gave the green light to the Egyptian mission to resume excavation works in an area known as the valley of mummies in the Bahreya Oases in Giza governorate ...
- LOTS DAUGHTERS SLEPT HERE. WITH LOT. At least t
from PaleoJudaica.com on 25 October 2004LOT'S DAUGHTERS SLEPT HERE. WITH LOT. At least that's how the story goes. The Lebanon Daily Star describes the excavation of the Sanctuary of Agios ("Saint") Lot near Ghor al-Safi in Jordan ...
- Keeping an Eye on Mount Vesuvius
from NPR Topics: Health & Science on 24 October 2004American eyes are focused on Mount St. Helens, which may be building toward a new eruption. In Italy, it's only a matter of time before Mount Vesuvius erupts again ...
- Outcry over Planned Wal-Mart Near Aztec Pyramids
from NPR Topics: World on 24 October 2004In Mexico, the planned construction of a Walmart subsidiary near the Aztec Pyramids of the Sun has sparked controversy ...
- JEWS IN BULGARIA: The Sofia Echo has a rundown:
from PaleoJudaica.com on 24 October 2004JEWS IN BULGARIA: The Sofia Echo has a rundown: Notes from History - Ancient roots, modern legacy Part one of a series on the history of Jewish people in Bulgaria Clive Leviev-Sawyer THE best-known episode in the epic of Jewish people in Bulgarian history is the escape from the Nazi genocide machine in World War 2 ...
- Stonehenge: have your say Salisbury district
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 October 2004Stonehenge: have your say Salisbury district council is urging people to comment on the Stonehenge visitor centre planning application before the public consultation comes to an end next October 27th ...
- Irish Bronze Age artefact on display Ballymon
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 October 2004Irish Bronze Age artefact on display Ballymoney (Northern Ireland) fans of the historic are being given a unique opportunity to view an extraordinary artefact on its return to the province ...
- Project to record all rock art sites in Northumb
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 October 2004Project to record all rock art sites in Northumberland Northumberland County Council (England) is leading an exciting new project to make a comprehensive record of all rock art sites in Northumberland and County Durham ...
- Ocean archaeologists hunt Noahs flood under Bla
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 October 2004Ocean archaeologists hunt Noah's flood under Black Sea Four years ago, scientists thought they had found the perfect place to settle the Noah flood debate: A farmer's house on a bluff overlooking the Black Sea built about 7,500 years ago — just before tidal waves inundated the homestead, submerged miles of coastline and turned the freshwater lake into a salty sea ...
- The Lake District unearthed The stage is set
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 October 2004The Lake District unearthed The stage is set for a third sell-out archaeology conference to see how thousands of years of the Lake District's (England) rich history are being unravelled ...
- Pilgrimage of protest at quarry plans near prehi
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 October 2004Pilgrimage of protest at quarry plans near prehistoric Henges For the first time in 5,000 years "pilgrims" trod North Yorkshire's Sacred Dale – as part of a campaign against quarrying near the ancient site ...
- Finnish find sheds new light on prehistoric Ande
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 October 2004Finnish find sheds new light on prehistoric Andean culture Ceramic artifacts found by Finnish archeologists during a dig in Bolivia have shed new light on the prehistoric Tiwanaku people, of whom little is known, Helsinki University officials said ...
- THE JEWS OF ELEPHANTINE are featured in an Al Ahra
from PaleoJudaica.com on 23 October 2004THE JEWS OF ELEPHANTINE are featured in an Al Ahram article (via Archaeologica News): Yeb, cradle of feminism? By Jill Kamil Little is known of the vibrant Judaic community which already existed on the island of Elephantine when Cambyses invaded Egypt in 525 BC ...
- ARAMAIC WATCH: Syria launches program to save Ara
from PaleoJudaica.com on 23 October 2004ARAMAIC WATCH: Syria launches program to save Aramaic language Correspondents Report - Sunday, 24 October , 2004 (Australian Broadcasting Corp ...
- Interesting site wed not seen before The Wastefl
from ArchaeoBlog on 22 October 2004Interesting site we'd not seen before The Wasteflake Project The Wasteflake Project is intended as a place to commit public scientific collaboration, to consider scientific and philosophical concerns from many perspectives, professional and non-professional, insider and outsider ...
- Scandal among the Marbles, and an Athenian Homicide
from blogographos: blogging for the demos on 21 October 2004Four Greece-related books are highlighted in the latest BookPage. Two of them, not surprisingly, have to do with the Olympics, Nigel Spivey's The Ancient Olympics and The Olympic Odyssey: Rekindling the True Spirit of the Great Games, by Phil Cousineau ...
- And the news just keeps trickling in. . . .
from ArchaeoBlog on 21 October 2004And the news just keeps trickling in. . . . "I love gooooooold!" Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth 5,000 Year-old Gold Treasure Archaeologists in Central Bulgaria have retrieved a 5,000 year-old golden treasure consisting of more than 400 fine-crafted jewels, National Museum of History chief Bozhidar Dimitrov said Thursday ...
- Kind of a slow news day so far. Were expecting th
from ArchaeoBlog on 21 October 2004Kind of a slow news day so far. We're expecting the weekly EEF news so there might be more to read later on today ...
- Discoveries in Eastern Desert unearthed
from Egyptology News on 21 October 2004http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o201024h.htm "An excavtation mission under Minnesota University in the US which is conducting excacavations in Wadi Qum Heleeg in Sharqeya desert unearthed 132 engravings dating back to pre-historic ages ...
- Re: jobs and careers
from Tribe.net: Geographie on 20 October 2004Posted by: Waypoints Yes, I would say geography is an excellent basis for urban planning. Be sure to take coursework in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ...
- Maps in Teaching
from The Map Room on 19 October 2004A private school in Texas is using maps in its curriculum as a means of combining art, history and science instruction, the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram reports ...
- Guy Sanders on the excavations at Corinth
from The Stoa on 18 October 2004Here's part of an interesting update on Corinth from the blog of Michael Shanks: What we are actually doing at Corinth is trying to turn a curve by implementing methodologies now standard in non-classical lands ...
- Intellectual property and copyrighting the past
from Michael Shanks on 18 October 2004I am sitting in a colloquium on Open Knowledge and Social Research Networks at Stanford Humanities Center ...
- Newish Blog: The Coding Humanist
from Hypotyposeis on 17 October 2004Eric Sowell has brought my attention to his own blog, The Coding Humanist, which he explains as "a person who not only likes to code and study Greek, but one who likes to code to help in the study of Greek ...
- Muslim Cartographers
from The Map Room on 15 October 2004Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has a profile of Fuat Sezgin, the director of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main ...
- Hawass - More Comments about the Great Pyramid "Secret Chamber
from Egyptology News on 14 October 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/hr2.htm Another Zahi Hawass article about the French claim to have found a secret chamber, this time in the context of a conversation with Omar Sharif ...
- Plans to relocate Temple at Esna
from Egyptology News on 14 October 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/hr1.htm "The Graeco-Roman Temple of Khnum at Esna currently stands below ground level in the centre of the city, where it is subject to daily seepage from wastewater ...
- New site at the Stoa: Pompeian Households
from The Stoa on 13 October 2004Pompeian Households: An On-line Companion hosts materials to accompany Penelope M. Allison, Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 42) ...
- Horse ornament found in Roman military camp excavation near Zagreb
from Roman Archaeology on 8 October 2004Independent Online: "An ornament for horses dating back to the 1st century A.D. has been found during excavations of a Roman Empire-era military camp near the southern Croatian city of Drnis, local media reports said on Friday ...
- Flipping Between Satellite Images and Maps
from The Map Room on 7 October 2004MultiMap uses JavaScript to toggle between maps and satellite images of a given locale. One of a part of London has been making the rounds of the blogosphere this week (see Boing Boing and MetaFilter) ...
- Flickr Users Map Photos
from The Map Room on 6 October 2004I've been having a lot of fun with Flickr lately. Here are all the photos that Flickr users have tagged with the keyword "maps" ...
- Chedworth Villa & Cirencester (Corinium) Museum, Gloucestershire
from Stoa Image Gallery on 5 October 2004 - In the Year of Our Common Era
from Christian Origins Blog on 4 October 2004Mark Goodacre's NT Gateway Weblog asks, "But this makes me wonder something out loud. Is there anyone apart from Biblical scholars / theologians using BCE / CE? It's been out there a long time now ...
- Guides for Students: Literature, Classics, and History
from Christian Origins Blog on 3 October 2004The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has made these texts, which are sold in paperback form, available as PDF files on the web for free ...
