The following lists, presented in reverse chronological order, provide links to interesting articles and discussions elsewhere on the web.
- Give us back our chariot, Umbrian villagers tell the Metropolitan Museum
from Roman Archaeology on 31 January 2005Telegraph : "A tiny Umbrian village is taking on the mighty Metropolitan Museum in New York, claiming that one of its most exalted exhibits, an Etruscan chariot, was illegally exported from Italy 100 years ago ...
- The Scotsman - International - New broom to make togas the Roman way
from Roman Archaeology on 31 January 2005The Scotsman - International - New broom to make togas the Roman way: "RESEARCHERS in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii are attempting to revive 2,000-year-old traditions to reproduce imperial cloth used to make togas and uniforms ...
- novum volumen epigraphiae CILPV
from Inscriptiones-l at Yahoo! Groups on 31 January 2005JOSEP CORELL VICENT (X. GÓMEZ FONT, COL·L.), Inscripcions romanes del Pa
- Ancient Roman Rest Stop Provided Surprisinly Modern Amenities
from Roman Archaeology on 28 January 2005Discovery Channel: "Underneath a German bus terminal, archaeologists have found the remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman roadside rest stop that included a chariot service station, gourmet restaurant and hotel with central heating ...
- Augsburg: Roman, Medieval and Rich
from Roman Archaeology on 28 January 2005Deutsche Welle: " Augsburg, Germany was shaped by the trade in salt and silver in Roman and medieval times ...
- new features for AJA on line
from The Stoa on 27 January 2005The AIA, with open access to the full text of current issues of the AJA, a coveted slot in the DOAJ, and now two more interesting features, is moving far, far ahead of the APA, which is still all about narrow-band publication ...
- Tytus Summer Residency Program at the University of Cincinnati, Depa
from Inscriptiones-l at Yahoo! Groups on 26 January 2005UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Department of Classics SUMMER RESIDENCY PROGRAM The Un
- Roman work tossed in Athens stream
from Roman Archaeology on 26 January 2005ekathimerini.com: "A first-century-AD work that is a Roman copy of a fourth-century-BC classical original and possibly represents Apollo Lykeios has been found in a stream in Athens ...
- worldKit news: TypePad and Blogger are Now Supported! and documented
from Brain Off on 26 January 2005worldKit news: TypePad and Blogger are Now Supported! and documented From the worldKit weblog... TypePad and Blogger are now supported by worldKit ...
- Bathymetrictopographic Maps Available on GEsource
from GEsource News on 24 January 2005A series of interactive, full colour topographic/bathymetric maps of the Earth's surface at 2 minute relief are now available from GEsource
- Japan to donate 112 million yen to rebuild Irans Arg-e Bam
from Payvand Iran News on 24 January 2005Japan is to extend a cultural grant of 112 million Japanese yen (9.4 billion rials) to Iran for the reconstruction of the ancient citadel of Arg-e Bam, southeastern Iran, which was ruined by a killer quake in December 2003, it was reported on Sunday ...
- Persepolis and Bam Citadel to Go Online
from Payvand Iran News on 24 January 2005If you have not yet traveled to Shiraz or Bam to visit their world-famous historical sites of Persepolis and Bam Citadel, you are now offered new, easily-accessible technologies to reach there ...
- Amazing hominid haul in Ethiopia
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 24 January 2005Fossil hunters working in Ethiopia unearth the remains of at least nine primitive hominids.
- Evidence May Back Human Sacrifice Claims (ABC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 24 January 2005Mexican Archaeologists Unearthing Evidence to Support Depiction of Ancient Sacrifice
- American Journal of Philology 125.4 Abstracts
from rogueclassicism on 24 January 2005Hammer, Dean. Ideology, the Symposium, and Archaic Politics In this essay, I explore the work of two scholarsIan Morris and Leslie Kurkeand one of their claims: that the archaic Greek symposium served as the site for an anti-polis ideology ...
- Roman circus proves popular with public HUNDR
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 January 2005Roman circus proves popular with public HUNDREDS of enthusiasts descended on Colchester this weekend for a rare chance to see ancient history unveiled ...
- CAVE MAY REVEAL SECRETS OF PAST Archaeologist
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 January 2005CAVE MAY REVEAL SECRETS OF PAST Archaeologists are hoping investigation of a cave on the Isle of Skye will provide a snapshot of life 2,000 to 3,000 years ago ...
- Classical treasures threatened by Vesuvius An
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 January 2005Classical treasures threatened by Vesuvius An earthquake or volcanic eruption is likely to destroy a library of ancient books at Herculaneum, near Pompeii, before they can be excavated unless urgent action is taken, according to the founder of a new group based in Oxford ...
- East Bulgaria Reveals Minoan Pertainence The
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 January 2005East Bulgaria Reveals Minoan Pertainence The Eastern Rhodopes revealed an old-times funeral site obviously pertaining to an ancient Crete-Micenae cult dating 3,500 years ago ...
- Rome gets a monumental shutdown Rome - The Co
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 January 2005Rome gets a monumental shutdown Rome - The Colosseum and the Roman Forum were among historic sites shut down on Thursday by a strike by archaeological workers against the departure of Rome's archaeology superintendent ...
- Dome hosts Tutankhamun exhibition Fifty Egyp
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 January 2005Dome hosts Tutankhamun exhibition Fifty Egyptian treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun are to go on display at the Millennium Dome ...
- Heritage bid raises tourism hope Cornwalls b
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 January 2005Heritage bid raises tourism hope Cornwall's bid for World Heritage site status will be sent to the headquarters of Unesco on Monday ...
- HERES A TOURISTS GUIDE TO SEPPHORIS, home of som
from PaleoJudaica.com on 24 January 2005HERE'S A TOURIST'S GUIDE TO SEPPHORIS, home of some interesting ancient ruins, in the Jerusalem Post.
- the scarith of scornello - a tale of antique forgery
from Michael Shanks on 24 January 2005More about that archaeological fascination with fakes and forgeries. Ingrid Rowland's new book is reviewed today in The Washington Times [Link - Amazon] What a great title - "The Scarith of Scornello"! It began in 1634 when 19-year-old Curzio Inghirami discovered a strange capsule of pitch and hair on his family's estate in ...
- Roman circus proves popular with public (East Anglian Daily News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 24 January 2005HUNDREDS of enthusiasts descended on Colchester this weekend for a rare chance to see ancient history unveiled.
- Mexican archaeologists unearthing evidence to support depiction of ancient sacrifice (The Californian
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 24 January 2005MEXICO CITY -- It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice ...
- Queens discovery sheds new light on ancient temperatures EurekAlert
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 24 January 2005A new discovery by a team of Queen's University scientists suggests that ancient earth was much colder than previously thought – a discovery that has broad implications for those studying the earth's climate ...
- Review: Lessons in survival from some long dead civilizations
from geography News feed on 23 January 2005The Register-Guard, Oregon -... soil erosion, food shortages and eventually social and political crises), worsened ...
- The mysterious end of Essex man Archaeologis
from Archaeology in Europe on 23 January 2005The mysterious end of Essex man Archaeologists now believe two groups of early humans fought for dominance in ancient Britain - and the axe-wielders won Divisions in British culture may be deeper than we thought ...
- THE LIBRARY FROM HERCULANEUM is the subject of a l
from PaleoJudaica.com on 23 January 2005THE LIBRARY FROM HERCULANEUM is the subject of a long article in the Times today. It was buried by the Vesuvius eruption in 79 C ...
- Aerial Surveys of Persepolis and Iran
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005During the mid-1930s, Erich F. Schmidt of the Oriental Institute conducted some of the earliest planned photographic surveys taken from an airplane ...
- Bilkent University - Archaeology Graduate School
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005The MA program at Bilkent is focused on archaeology and art of Turkey from the Prehistoric to the Medieval periods, within its Near Eastern and Mediterranean context ...
- Damage in Babylon
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005The Guardian has a depressing article on the damage wrought on the archaeological and other cultural resources of Babylon by the ongoing war in Iraq: Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Babylon wrecked by war ...
- Equine Mysteries of Qin Dynasty
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005The Chinese government has decided to send horse skeletons from a Qin dynasty tomb for DNA studies; this will be the first time there are any such studies on horses in China and results might be very interesting ...
- Excavations at Hierakonpolis On Line
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005Renée Friedman continues her excavations at the pre- and proto-dynastic town of Hierakonpolis in Egypt, presented online at Archaeology magazine ...
- Journal of Marine Archaeology and Technology
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005New in 2005, the JMAT is only online, and will include peer-reviewed articles on deep water excavation projects, amapping techniques, and other topics of interest to underater archaeologists ...
- Mono y Conejo
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005Mono y Conejo (translates as Monkey and Rabbit) is a journal from the Mesoamerican Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University Texas can be downloaded as a free electronic version or purchased for your bookshelves ...
- Sampling Strategies
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005From the University of Texas, a terrific description of different sampling techniques used in archaeological survey....
- Sanskrit Documents
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005A comprehensive site on the language and texts, including learning tools such as an online dictionary....
- Site Recorder
from About Archaeology on 23 January 2005A complete surveying, drawing and finds recordation software program, all GIS based, for use on underwater archaeology sites....
- Etruscan Language
from About Ancient/Classical History on 23 January 2005The Etruscan language remains mysterious. We don't know where it came from and we know only a limited number of words and aspects of its grammar.
- Oldest Known Wine
from About Ancient/Classical History on 23 January 2005The December 11, 2004 issue of Science News reports on a "fermented, winelike drink from rice, honey, and fruit" from Jiahu in northern China, which archaeological chemist Patrick E ...
- Pompeii on TV
from About Ancient/Classical History on 23 January 2005The Discovery Channel has a new special on the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that will air on January 30: "Pompeii: the Last Day," which recreates events of that fateful August Day in A ...
- Recent Glossary Entries
from About Ancient/Classical History on 23 January 2005Recent updates and additions to the glossary for this site include Euthymenes | Asia Minor | Balbus | Bacchanalia | Bacchantes | Euthymenes | Asia Minor | Balbus | Bacchanalia | Bacchants | Gaia | Pelusium | Chrysame | St ...
- Wilkipedia on Ancient History
from About Ancient/Classical History on 23 January 2005A lot of people are looking up ancient history online, according to Wired.com, in an article on the increasing popularity of Wilkipedia: Wikipedia Faces Growing Pains Also in the news is a Christian Science Monitor review of a new book ...
- Tour ancient indigenous art (South Bend Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 23 January 2005View ancient petroglyphs Feb. 12, March 12 or April 9 on a guided six-hour walking tour in the Valley of Fire near Las Vegas with the Nevada Rock Art Foundation ...
- Tutankhamun Exhibition to visit UK
from Egyptology News on 23 January 2005http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1452392,00.html The exhibtion currently touring Europe and the US will be visiting the UK in 2007 ...
- 3500 Year Old Mummy Found at Dashur
from Egyptology News on 23 January 2005http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1art_id=qw1106381163205B221 This article says that the mummy of an admininstative official was found still sealed in its coffin, and in perfect condition ...
- THE LECTURE HALLS EXCAVATED IN ALEXANDRIA are the
from PaleoJudaica.com on 23 January 2005THE LECTURE HALLS EXCAVATED IN ALEXANDRIA are the subject of an illuminating article ("Intellectual life in Roman Alexandria") by Jill Kamil in Al Ahram ...
- Statue may literally carry proof of ancient wisdom (Houston Chronicle
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 23 January 2005SAN DIEGO - A Roman statue of Atlas — the mythical titan who carried the heavens on his shoulders — holds clues to the long-lost work of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus, an astronomical historian said last week ...
- Evidence May Back Human Sacrifice Claims AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 22 January 2005AP - It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive? In recent years archaeologists have been uncovering mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number ...
- The return of the Bronze Age dagger A BRONZE
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 January 2005The return of the Bronze Age dagger A BRONZE AGE dagger has been returned to the town that it has called home since about 1400 BC ...
- Shrine to Hercules unearthed Rummaging in th
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 January 2005Shrine to Hercules unearthed Rummaging in the dirt, Costas Kakoseos pulls up pieces of history steeped in legend ...
- Roman Era Britons Lived In Suburbia A spa tre
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 January 2005Roman-Era Britons Lived In Suburbia A spa treatment followed by a trip to the suburbs for a bit of shopping and dining sounds like a day in the life of a wealthy suburbanite, but it also could describe someone's schedule from around the 1st century A ...
- Falcons Fly to the Rescue of Ancient Herculaneum
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 January 2005Falcons Fly to the Rescue of Ancient Herculaneum After being buried in boiling mud when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the ruined ancient city of Herculaneum is now being deluged with acidic pigeon droppings ...
- Intellectual Life in Alexandria
from Egyptology News on 22 January 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/726/heritage.htm "The Polish mission at Kom Al-Dikka in Alexandria has made several exciting finds over the years, but their latest discovery hard on the heels of the establishment of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has set tongues buzzing ...
- THERES AN OBITUARY OF ROGER MOOREY today in the T
from PaleoJudaica.com on 22 January 2005THERE'S AN OBITUARY OF ROGER MOOREY today in the Times: Roger Moorey Expert on the history and industries of Mesopotamia from the fourth millennium BC down to more recent biblical times ROGER MOOREY was deeply respected throughout the global network of archaeologists working in the Near and Middle East ...
- Malls pioneered by rich Romans
from Roman Archaeology on 21 January 2005Telegraph : "The luxury housing estate and out-of-town shopping centre may need to be added to the long list of what the Romans did for Britain ...
- Large Mosaic discovered in Domus Aurea excavation
from Roman Archaeology on 21 January 2005MSNBC"A large mosaic, more than 9 by 6 feet, showing naked men harvesting grapes and making wine, a typical illustration for a Roman palace of the time has been unearthed by continuing excavations of the Emperor Nero's "Golden House" in Rome ...
- Falcons Fly to the Rescue of Ancient Herculaneum
from Roman Archaeology on 21 January 2005Yahoo! News: "After being buried in boiling mud when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the ruined ancient city of Herculaneum is now being deluged with acidic pigeon droppings ...
- Vikings in Iran? Danish Archaeologists in Search
from ArchaeoBlog on 21 January 2005Vikings in Iran? Danish Archaeologists in Search of Vikings in Iran Researchers from the Copenhagen Museum in Denmark have traveled to the coasts of the Caspian Sea, northern Iran, in search of clues of relationships between Iranians and Vikings ...
- Tenacity
from The Stoa on 21 January 2005On the Humanist list, someone asked a couple of days ago what to do about a publisher who insisted on a clearly excessive surrendering of rights ...
- Journals Sage and Free PDFs
from NT Gateway Weblog on 21 January 2005I've made lots of changes to the New Testament Gateway Journals page: Journals I've adjusted information for Brill journals like Biblical Interpretation and Novum Testamentum, I've fixed some URLs and changed some information and, most importantly, I've changed all the links from the old Continuum journals (all dead), to the new links at Sage Journals, which incorporate Currents in Biblical Research, Expository Times, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, Journal for the Study of the New Testament and Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha ...
- Feed Readers
from The Coding Humanist on 21 January 2005This post is a continuation of a series that I started, well, not long after I started blogging. That was a little while ago ...
- 200000 Jahre Stadthistorie im wissenschaftlichen Schnelldurchlauf
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 21 January 2005"200000 Jahre Magdeburg" lautet der Titel eines Vortrags von Dr. habil. Thomas Weber vom Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, zu dem das Institut für Geschichte der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg am Dienstag, 25 ...
- AN IMPRESSIVE NEW EXHIBIT AT THE ORIENTAL INSTITUT
from PaleoJudaica.com on 21 January 2005AN IMPRESSIVE NEW EXHIBIT AT THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE: Oriental Institute to feature ancient, global society in new exhibition: Empires in the Fertile Crescent By William Harms News Office (University of Chicago Chronicle) Visitors will get a rare look at one of the most important geographic regions in the ancient Near East beginning Saturday, Jan ...
- Weekly news from the EEF Press report: Intelle
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 January 2005Weekly news from the EEF Press report: "Intellectual life in Roman Alexandria" http://weekly.ahram.org ...
- Buncha stuff today, possibly more later, too. M
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 January 2005Buncha stuff today, possibly more later, too. More on Robson Bonnichsen Robson Bonnichsen was destined to be an archaeologist ...
- Falcons Fly to the Rescue of Ancient Herculaneum Reuters
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 20 January 2005Reuters - After being buried in boiling mud when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the ruined ancient city of Herculaneum is now being deluged with acidic pigeon droppings ...
- Württembergisches Landesmuseum unter neuer Leitung
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 20 January 2005Dr. Cornelia Ewigleben wird neue Direktorin des Württembergischen Landesmuseums Stuttgart. Dies gaben Kunstminister Prof ...
- Vortrag am Institut für Geschichte in Magdeburg
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 20 January 2005"200 000 Jahre Magdeburg" lautet der Titel des Vortrages von Dr. habil. Thomas Weber vom Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, zu dem am 25 ...
- MORE ON THE FORGERY SCANDAL: The Guardian has an
from PaleoJudaica.com on 20 January 2005MORE ON THE FORGERY SCANDAL: The Guardian has an interesting article today (via Paul James Cowie on the ANE list) ...
- Hungarian Map Blog
from The Map Room on 20 January 2005This is a blog about maps written in Hungarian. Because I can't read Hungarian, that's all I can say about it....
- Foiled Smuggling Attempt
from Egyptology News on 20 January 2005http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050117-055851-2483r.htm Customs officials in Jordan have foiled an attempt to smuggle Pharaonic statuettes out of Egypt ...
- Prehuman Remains Found in Ethiopia AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 19 January 2005AP - Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors that are up to 4.5 million years old.
- Just a couple of items today. Our exciting special
from ArchaeoBlog on 19 January 2005Just a couple of items today. Our exciting special post will be unfortunately delayed. Well, we're having kind of a crappy day so this is probably it for now ...
- DASTARDLY FELINE FORGERY! Ancient Egyptians Sold
from PaleoJudaica.com on 19 January 2005DASTARDLY FELINE FORGERY! Ancient Egyptians Sold Fake Cats.
- New Predynastic Publications
from Egyptology News on 19 January 2005www.archaeopress.co.uk A couple of new publications re the Predynastic have recently been released by BAR: Tristant, Y ...
- A SECOND-TEMPLE-ERA WINERY AND VILLAGE have been u
from PaleoJudaica.com on 19 January 2005A SECOND-TEMPLE-ERA WINERY AND VILLAGE have been uncovered in a salvage excavation in Israel. Excerpt from the Ha'aretz article : Five wine presses surrounded the farmhouse, built in the third century BCE, on land between what today is Moshav Gan Sorek and the Tel Aviv-Ashdod highway ...
- China publishes first comprehensive archaeology books
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 19 January 2005China today published the first two volumes in a series on Chinese archaeology, the first of its kind which will sum up the theories and discoveries in the subject, the state media reported ...
- China publishes first comprehensive archaeology books: (New Kerala
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 18 January 2005[World News]: Beijing, Jan 18 : China today published the first two volumes in a series on Chinese archaeology, the first of its kind which will sum up the theories and discoveries in the subject, the state media reported ...
- We spent most of the day toiling through boxes of
from ArchaeoBlog on 18 January 2005We spent most of the day toiling through boxes of documents in the museum again today, so we only have a few items to report; more news tomorrow plus a special post ...
- GPS Connect for OS X
from The Map Room on 18 January 2005Speaking of GPS receivers. Because of poor-to-nonexistent Mac support by GPS manufacturers, Mac users have to resort to third-party software to connect to their gadgets (see previous entries: Mac Mapping Software, Mac Software Updates) ...
- THE SITE OF BABYLON is to remain closed until dama
from PaleoJudaica.com on 18 January 2005THE SITE OF BABYLON is to remain closed until damage to it has been assessed: Babylon to remain closed until damage known Mon Jan 17, 2005 06:35 PM GMT By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Babylon -- home to one of the seven wonders of the world -- will remain closed until experts determine how much damage foreign forces had done to the site, Iraq's culture minister says ...
- Prehistoric art archive reveals ancient skills o
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 January 2005Prehistoric art archive reveals ancient skills of Britain's cave dwellers One of the world's finest prehistoric "art galleries" has yielded more than 250 new works, underlining the extraordinary creativity of the cave artists ...
- Historical games at Hadrians Wall The Britis
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 January 2005Historical games at Hadrian's Wall The British Museum is sending 20 of the Lewis chessmen to a unique exhibition on the history of board games, which opens next week at the Roman fort of Segedunum, at the Newcastle end of Hadrian's Wall ...
- Online journal alert Came across this site while
from ArchaeoBlog on 17 January 2005Online journal alert Came across this site while researching something or other earlier today: ARKAMANI: Sudan Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology At least one of the links to the papers doesn't work and at first glance it seems not to contain anything particularly recent, but the papers and links should be of some interest ...
- ABZU Updated
from Egyptology News on 17 January 2005http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/AbzuNew12.2004.html 138 items have been catalogued in Abzu during the period 1 December - 31 December 2004, and the full list is posted, with links to each item, at the above linke ...
- Egypt’s Pharaonic temples under threat from rising Nile
from Egyptology News on 17 January 2005http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=62885 I can't imagine why the Indian Express has chosen to roll with this story when no-one else appears to be featuring it, but it focuses on the serious problems that are being faced by the Egyptian temples of Luxor and Karnak in terms of rising Nile waters ...
- English petroglyphs update New prehistoric rock c
from ArchaeoBlog on 17 January 2005English petroglyphs update New prehistoric rock carvings discovered in Northern England More than 250 new examples of England's finest array of prehistoric rock art carvings, sited close to the Scottish border, have been discovered by archaeologists compiling a unique database ...
- The Archaeological Events Diary I am in the p
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 January 2005The Archaeological Events Diary I am in the process of updating the Archaeological Events Diary – a web site which gives details of archaeological events in the U ...
- Times of invaders come vividly to life Slap b
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 January 2005Times of invaders come vividly to life Slap bang amid the buzz of 21st-Century Tyneside is the imprint of a vastly different way of life from almost 2,000 years ago ...
- Replica boat paddles off on historic voyage A
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 January 2005Replica boat paddles off on historic voyage A REPLICA of an ancient boat set out to relive part of a 4,000-year-old journey yesterday in the shadow of the Humber Bridge ...
- Global MapAid
from The Map Room on 17 January 2005Global MapAid is a project that is trying to provide useful maps for humanitarian aid workers. The problem is, when things go blooey, whether due to natural disaster or war or famine, aid workers on the ground need accurate maps ...
- Americas destruction of Babylon The extensiv
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 January 2005America's destruction of Babylon The extensive cultural vandalism of archaeological sites in Iraq by US-led forces (Report, January 15) is deeply depressing, but it comes as no surprise ...
- The New EMAS Home Page EMAS, the University o
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 January 2005The New EMAS Home Page EMAS, the University of London Extra-Mural Archaeological Society, now has a new home page ...
- Map Questions RSS Feed
from The Map Room on 16 January 2005If you'd like to track Map Questions by RSS, a feed is now available. It's a full-text feed in RSS 1 ...
- Italy Art Trafficker Duped U.S. Museums, Police
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 January 2005Italy Art Trafficker Duped U.S. Museums, Police Say An Italian antiquities trafficker running a thriving business out of Switzerland duped some of the world's most famous auction houses and museums with illegally acquired artifacts, authorities said on Friday ...
- Americans caused major damage to historic Babylo
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 January 2005Americans caused major damage to historic Babylon: British archaeologist As the United States prepared to hand back the ancient ruins of Babylon to Iraqi authorities Saturday, a leading British archaeologist alleged that Polish and US troops had caused "substantial damage" to a site that dates back to the dawn of history ...
- History of Urbanization: Temporal GIS in worldKit
from Brain Off on 16 January 2005History of Urbanization: Temporal GIS in worldKit This map of when cities pass the 1 million population barrier, 1775 - 1975 is a demonstration of temporal GIS features currently under development in worldKit ...
- Northumberland Rock Art Web access to the Bec
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 January 2005Northumberland Rock Art Web access to the Beckensall Archive "This website is the celebration of rock carvings made by Neolithic and Early Bronze Age people in Northumberland in the north east of England, between 6000 and 3500 years ago ...
- Question: World Hydrological Map
from The Map Room on 14 January 2005James Geluso writes, "I'm looking for a really good world hydrological map. I'm especially interested in one that shows not just watercourses, but makes it easy to see the basins ...
- DIY Map
from The Map Room on 13 January 2005John Emerson has been working on something cool. He writes, DIY Map is a clickable, zooming map written in Flash and colored by data from an external text file ...
- Shaded Relief
from The Map Room on 13 January 2005I've been meaning to post Tom Patterson's Shaded Relief site for a while: this is a massive site that deals with the technical issues of creating relief maps ...
- Sophokeys
from NT Gateway Weblog on 12 January 2005One of these days I really will get round to finishing my reflections on Unicode, and completing a revamp of my Greek fonts page on the NT Gateway, but while it's current, let me mention that the Stoa draws attention to a useful looking new facility for those of you who are still struggling to come to terms with unicode (Greek in this case) and who have Macs ...
- Christmas leftovers
from NT Gateway Weblog on 12 January 2005Some ill-health through Christmas and the new year and even into the beginning of the new term (nothing awful, just flu and fatigue etc ...
- Goodacres Comments on the Census Series
from Hypotyposeis on 12 January 2005Mark Goodacre @ NT Gateway Weblog has some nice remarks about my Census Series in his "Christmas Leftovers": I have long wanted to comment on Stephen Carlson's reflections on Hypotyposeis concerning Luke 2 ...
- Blogging the 2005 APA Meeting
from Hypotyposeis on 12 January 2005Angelo Mercado @ sauvage noble has been blogging the 2005 meeting of the American Philological Association ...
- SophoKeys Polytonic Greek
from The Stoa on 12 January 2005There's a new freeware Unicode keyboard layout for ancient Greek, via VersionTracker. I've not yet tried it, but it says you type in TLG Beta Code, and you get Unicode out ...
- Map of Todays Front Pages
from Brain Off on 12 January 2005Map of Today's Front Pages Was just looking at Ming's fine list of geolocated webcams (and hoping that he will map them!) and then thinking about how he wants to integrate loads of other data, including newspaper images from Today's Front Pages ...
- Geo Folksonomies
from Brain Off on 12 January 2005Geo Folksonomies In the discussion around Folksonomies and Controlled Vocabularies there's an implicit assumption that all metadata is created equal ...
- Satellite Image of Jerusalem
from Hypotyposeis on 12 January 2005The Earth Observatory has a lot of impressive satellite images of various places on Earth. This one is of Jerusalem: The ancient city of Jerusalem is cloaked in shades of purple in this image based on data acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on April 3, 2000 ...
- Trajan Decius, Herrenia Etruscilla, Herrenius Etruscus, and Hostilian 249-251 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 11 January 2005 - What is a Palimpsest
from The Stoa on 11 January 2005Interesting Flash presentations at the PBS site: What is a Palimpsest? Imaging the Palimpsest
- Gallienus and Salonina, 253-268 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 10 January 2005 - Global Satellite Data available on MapProxy
from Brain Off on 9 January 2005Global Satellite Data available on MapProxy Worldwide Landsat satellite imagery is now available on MapProxy ...
- Computer Vision and the Visual Society
from Brain Off on 9 January 2005Computer Vision and the Visual Society It was an fascinating course, but I'm unlikely to be following Computer Vision in the future ...
- Chariot Race Track discovered in Colchester
from Roman Archaeology on 6 January 2005ThisisLondon: "Historians believe they may have discovered the world's biggest Roman chariot-racing track outside Italy ...
- Commodus and Crispina, 180-192 A.D. - Pertinax & Didius Julianus - 193 A.D. Clodius Albinus, Caesar 193-195 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 5 January 2005 - Classics irrelevant
from The Stoa on 4 January 2005Today's trivia quiz: what is the search term in Google's example of public-access texts in their $150M library scanning project? Answer available here ...
- more on what Google is up to
from The Stoa on 3 January 2005The January issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter contains the best summary I've seen yet concerning Google's gigantic library project, with a useful comparative postscript on the one million book digitization effort by Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive ...
- Announcing a Major new release and site update
from Brain Off on 3 January 2005worldKit: Announcing a Major new release and site update There have been many developments in worldKit over the last year, leaked out in projects or correspondence, but no official releases and documentation ...
