BBC News - Looted Libyan treasure 'in Egypt'
The so-called "Treasure of Benghazi," a bunch of ancient coins and such, was retured to Libya from Italy in 1961. Then it sat in a bank vault in Benghazi, until the Libyans could get around to building a museum for the stuff. In 2011, it was still in the bank vault, with no museum in sight--since Mr. Gaddafy had other priorities--and then the revolution came and, in the chaos, Somebody made off with the artifacts. Some pieces may be showing up in markets in Egypt.
Again, DON'T BUY ANCIENT STUFF ON @#$% EBAY!
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
A Don's Life: In Pompeii-land
A Don's Life: In Pompeii-land
Welcome to the internet: posting a blog post on my blog. Mary Beard again contemplates Pompeii, and this time doesn't like what she sees: a revamped house of C. Julius Polybius with reconstructed furniture that smacks of Ikea and a holographic Roman projected on a curtain (which sounds really creepy). While I might pay extra to see this place just to help out the cause, it would indeed be nice if it could be less cheesy. We'll check it out next summer, perhaps, if the place is still standing.
Welcome to the internet: posting a blog post on my blog. Mary Beard again contemplates Pompeii, and this time doesn't like what she sees: a revamped house of C. Julius Polybius with reconstructed furniture that smacks of Ikea and a holographic Roman projected on a curtain (which sounds really creepy). While I might pay extra to see this place just to help out the cause, it would indeed be nice if it could be less cheesy. We'll check it out next summer, perhaps, if the place is still standing.
Mummy Has Oldest Case of Prostate Cancer in Ancient Egypt - ScienceNOW
Mummy Has Oldest Case of Prostate Cancer in Ancient Egypt - ScienceNOW
CT scan of the spine of a mummy now in Lisbon find that he had lesions on his bones in a place where prostate cancer tends to spread. Some theories say that cancer has only become a common disease in modern times, but some people quoted in this article say that we just haven't had the technology until now to detect the signs of it in ancient people.
CT scan of the spine of a mummy now in Lisbon find that he had lesions on his bones in a place where prostate cancer tends to spread. Some theories say that cancer has only become a common disease in modern times, but some people quoted in this article say that we just haven't had the technology until now to detect the signs of it in ancient people.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Rome, Flooded – Torrential Rainstorm – Roman and the Imperial Forums, Coloseum Valley and the Circus Maximus Underwater. Dott.ssa Astrid D’Eredita` / Fotos: Claudio Valletti / La Repubblica.it (20/10/2011). « Rome – The Imperial Fora (1995-2011).
Rome, Flooded – Torrential Rainstorm – Roman and the Imperial Forums, Coloseum Valley and the Circus Maximus Underwater. Dott.ssa Astrid D’Eredita` / Fotos: Claudio Valletti / La Repubblica.it (20/10/2011). « Rome – The Imperial Fora (1995-2011).
There was a giant rainstorm in Rome last week and the Colosseum, Forum, and Circus were inundated. Here are some pictures, with a few old photos of early 20th century floods, too. One picture of the Forum notes that this is what the Forum might have looked like fairly often before the building of the Cloaca Maxima. No wonder they built the Main Drain.
There was a giant rainstorm in Rome last week and the Colosseum, Forum, and Circus were inundated. Here are some pictures, with a few old photos of early 20th century floods, too. One picture of the Forum notes that this is what the Forum might have looked like fairly often before the building of the Cloaca Maxima. No wonder they built the Main Drain.
A Don's Life: Has another Pompeii wall collapsed?
A Don's Life: Has another Pompeii wall collapsed?
Mary Beard's blog ("A Don's Life") addresses recent news reports that another "wall has collapsed" at Pompeii. She is there and just says there was a rainstorm and some stones slid off a piece of wall. Not really a catastrophic collapse.
Mary Beard's blog ("A Don's Life") addresses recent news reports that another "wall has collapsed" at Pompeii. She is there and just says there was a rainstorm and some stones slid off a piece of wall. Not really a catastrophic collapse.
BBC News - Ardnamurchan Viking boat burial discovery 'a first'
BBC News - Ardnamurchan Viking boat burial discovery 'a first'
An intact Viking boat burial, with all its equipment stilll in it, was found at a site in western Scotland. Nice sword, axe head, etc. Plus, check out the awesome name of the place where it was found! Ardnamurchan.
An intact Viking boat burial, with all its equipment stilll in it, was found at a site in western Scotland. Nice sword, axe head, etc. Plus, check out the awesome name of the place where it was found! Ardnamurchan.
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