May 2013
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bemusedlybespectacled: if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin ḱerberos means “spotted” that’s right hades, lord of the dead,...
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April 2013
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Roman industrial area uncovered in Egypt's Suez... →
Apr 26th
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Dam digs archeological finds dating millions of... →
Excavations in advance of a hydroelectric dam project that will flood the region are turning up sites from the Upper Paleolithic to the Iron Age in Portugal.
Apr 23rd
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Exhibition of stolen and recovered artifacts... →
Important artifacts, some thousands of years old, that have been recovered by police after thefts will be on display at Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo. The exhibition includes treasures stolen and then trafficked around the world before being recovered by police forces, organizers say. Exhibits range from a sixth century BC marble bust, the Kouros Apollino Dilani, to a second century AD...
Apr 23rd
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The mafia left Naples in ruins. Can they do the... →
Significantly, one of the officials placed under investigation for suspected abuse of office was Marcello Fiori, the special commissioner appointed by Rome to oversee the “state of emergency” repair work at Pompeii from August 2008 to July 2010. But the buck does not stop with a few managers accused of lining their own pockets. Something more worrying lurks in the shadows – the Camorra mafia....
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Black market trade of Egyptian artifacts thriving... →
Black market trade of Egyptian artifacts thriving amid post-revolution chaos Antiquity smuggling has witnessed an unprecedented surge in the two years since the 25 January Revolution since it is an easy way to make immediate money, even if it is on the account of Egypt’s heritage and history. The fragile security situation in the country and the financial and economic ordeals the population is...
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American Institute for Roman Culture - SUMMER... →
Summer programs in Rome: Latin language, History and Art History, Media Studies, Roman Culture (high school students). Applications due April 15!
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A British archaeologist, back in Iraq for the... →
A small team of archaeologists working from satellite images hinting at a buried structure have uncovered the corner of a monumental complex with rows of rooms around a large courtyard, believed to be about 4,000 years old. “The size is breathtaking,” says Jane Moon, a University of Manchester archaeologist who heads the expedition. Ms. Moon says the walls of the structure are almost nine feet...
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March 2013
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BBC Documentaries on Pompeii and Herculaneum →
To coincide with the British Museum’s Life and death: Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition, which opens this week, the BBC is showing two documentaries. The first entitled ‘Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time’ airs on BBC1 this evening at 21:00 is presented by Dr Margaret Mountford and offers a fresh look at the Pompeian victims of the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.  In the second...
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15 Interesting Women of Ancient Rome →
In honor of International Women’s Day.
Mar 8th
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Archaeological News: The discarded infants of... →
archaeologicalnews: More than 2,500 years after tiny infant bones were scattered, perhaps offhandedly, amid animal remains on the floor of an Etruscan workshop, recently-discovered fragments of those bones are causing a stir far beyond Italy’s Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project. University of Massachusetts…
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Free eBook: The Treasures of Pompeii & Herculaneum →
by Mary Beard, Alastair Smart, Joanne Berry, Alex Butterworth, Ray Laurence, Bee Wilson, Tim Auld & Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Two ordinary Roman cities on the Bay of Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum would probably have been footnotes in history had it not been for the sudden and savage method of their destruction in AD79, when Vesuvius erupted with cataclysmic force. The ruins lay buried for...
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February 2013
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Temple of 'Jupiter the Stayer' found in Rome →
The temple built by Romulus to celebrate the hand of Jupiter giving Roman troops their unstoppable force has been found at the foot of the Palatine Hill, Italian archaeologists say. The ruins of the shrine to Jupiter Stator (Jupiter the Stayer), believed to date to 750 BC, were found by a Rome University team led by Andrea Carandini. “We believe this is the temple that legend says Romulus...
Feb 28th
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