Exhibit Shows Egypt's Sunken Treasures - Forbes.com- December 16, 2006 Exhibit Shows Egypt's Sunken Treasures - Forbes.com:The great port of Alexandria was a bustling trade hub, a transit point for merchandise from throughout the ancient world - until much of it vanished into the Mediterranean Sea.Treasure hunters have long scoured the Egyptian coast for vestiges of the port, thought to have disappeared about 13 centuries ago. Now an exhibit at Paris' Grand Palais brings together 500 ancient artifacts recovered from the area by underwater archeologists using...http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2006/12/exhibit-shows-egypts-sunken-treasures.html ANCIENT EMPIRES AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: A DARWINIAN PERSPECTIVE- December 10, 2006 By Walter Scheidel (Stanford)Despotism and differential reproductionIn the Roman literary imagination, one-man rule and despotic power are intimately associated with polygyny and the forcible accumulation of sex partners. A few salient examples will suffice to illustrate this point. Caesar had a reputation as a major womanizer (Suet. Caes. 50-2); Augustus even as an elderly man is said to have harboured a passion for deflowering girls, who were collected for him from every quarter, even by his..http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2006/12/ancient-empires-and-sexual.html Studies of 3rd century papyri reveals emperors in crisis changed legitimization- December 10, 2006 Physorg.com:Dutch researcher Janneke de Jong, who was analyzing about two-hundred Greek papyrus texts from a digital database containing 4500 documents including edicts, contracts, petitions, administrative correspondence and censuses, noticed a change, beginning in the third century, in the form of legitimisation the emperors used in their titles denoting their position of power. (In the third century, Greek was the administrative language in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.)The emperors.http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2006/12/studies-of-3rd-century-papyri-reveals.html New exhibit displays artifacts from Jewish Wars- December 9, 2006 I noticed a new exhibit has opened in Nashville that includes items from Masada. The exhibit was organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archeology. It should be interesting although I would be a bit skeptical about its objectivity.The Tennessean.com: A new exhibit that organizers are calling the largest collection of Holy Land antiquities to ever hit U.S. soil is now open at the Convention Center in downtown Nashville.The "From Abraham to Jesus" exhibit features 340...http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2006/12/new-exhibit-displays-artifacts-from.html A Corpus of Writing-Tablets from Roman Britain- December 2, 2006 By Dr. A.K. Bowman FBA, Prof. J.M. Brady FRS FEng., Dr. R.S.O. Tomlin FSA, Prof. J.D. Thomas FBA, Research Assistant - Dr J. Pearce Lead 'curse tablets' comprise thin rectangular sheets which, when complete and unrolled, generally measure 6 - 12cm long and 4 - 8cm wide, although many survive only as fragments. Though often described as 'lead', metallurgical analysis of tablets from Bath, for example, shows that many are better characterised as pewter, given their high tin content....http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2006/12/corpus-of-writing-tablets-from-roman.html |