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This video presents a fly-through of the latest version of Rome Reborn (2.2). The new version incorporates some new content (including the Pantheon) and for the first time includes animations.
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Liking sexist fiction - My knowledge of popular culture is notoriously bad, but hanging around with fanficcers, as I have been doing recently, does mean that I get to read/hear ... 12 hours ago. Ancient / Classical History ... 
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology based its glossy new Maya 2012 exhibition on an idea that it spends much of the show debunking. 
vintage everyday: Amazing Vintage Photos of Egypt from the 1870s http://t.co/nkRteyQE... Via Rebeca BM 
Thanks @johnsonmaryj & followers for the RT Primary Sources Image analysis tool & guiding questions! Via Rebeca BM, Todd Southcombe 
Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the procedure of the time. The embalmers removed his brain (through the nose it appears), poured resin-like fluid into his head and pelvis, took out some of his organs and inserted four linen “packets” into his body. At some point the mummy was transferred to the 2,300 year-old sarcophagus of a woman named Kareset Via Rene Nieuwenhuizen 
Not a real post this time but a documentary about Flinders Petrie well worth watching. Via Rene Nieuwenhuizen, Rebeca BM An analysis by prominent biblical epigraphers of a textual inscription within the controversial "sign of Jonah" engraving discovered in a first century CE Jerusalem tomb appears to strongly support the disputed interpretation of the artwork as... 
Michael Fulford investigates an abandoned Roman town. Location of historic clash still elusive for searchers src/business/templates/hearst/article/news_registry/hidden.tpl San Antonio Express-News src/business/templates/hearst/article/news_registry/beacon.tpl Copyright 2012 San Antonio Express-News. 
More than 50 ancient and rare relics have been uncovered in a tomb excavation in Guxian County, of Anhui Province. The 53-tomb complex is thought to have been constructed over many periods as far back as the Eastern Han Dynasty, nearly 2,000 years ago. The huge tomb complex was discovered accidentally on a construction site. Via Rene Nieuwenhuizen 
Akhenaten, heretical King of Egypt, founder of Monotheism but also a philosopher and a poet. In his adoration of the sun-disk he is thought to have written a hymn to the “one and only real god”, the Aten. This hymn shows clearly that the Aten was looked upon the creator of all things and the Egyptians as its favorite people. The Great hymn of the Aten goes like this: Via Rene Nieuwenhuizen 
05-04-2012 Two ancient Egyptian sarcophagus covers seized in Jerusalem. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has seized two painted sarcophagi covers from a shop in the Old City of Jerusalem. Acc... Via Rene Nieuwenhuizen |
In predynastic eras the dead were buried in oval or rectangular pits dug in the sand. The bodies were placed in fetal position, wrapped in a reed mat and laid on their sides. Then in the dynastic era, kings and nobles started ... 
Indeed, of the 438 text artifacts in the Charles University collection, 408 (found during B. 
Popular Archaeology Online archaeology magazine. Explore the virtual streets of the original Greek colonies of Italy, and experience the creation of the Magna Graecia. Via domingo vallejo, Rebeca BM 
In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and struggle for imperial legitimacy in ancient China’s Han Dynasty. Via Rene Nieuwenhuizen 
Analyzing Primary Sources: Learning from Oral Histories | updated guiding questions http://t.co/SDh0RxT6 #historyteacher... Via Rebeca BM, Todd Southcombe 
New York collector Corice Arman says in a lawsuit against Art+Auction magazine that the destruction of her 2,630-year-old African sculpture occurred after photographer Eric Guillemain and his assistants carelessly moved the terracotta Nigerian... Via Rene Nieuwenhuizen 
When the ocean rose up and saved a Greek town from a marauding Persian army nearly 2,500 years ago, renowned Greek historian Herodotus chalked it up to an act of the gods. 
Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Police on Wednesday succeeded in recovering a 19th-century painting stolen two days earlier from the Mena House Oberoi Hotel near the Giza pyramids. The painting, drawn in 1899, depicts women gathering in a palace adorned with Islamic architectural motifs. Via Rene Nieuwenhuizen An Ancient Collection Restored? The Case of the Pilling Figurines Last year, Bonnie Pitblado received a striking piece of ceramic art in a small box with a. 
Downloadable Curriculum Guides (#PARENTS #TEACHERS Great #Education materials on #archaeology of #MiddleEast / #NearEast to download from Jewish Museum http://t.co/3hvNVRZQ...)... 
Faced with massive public debt, Greece is finding that its fabled antiquity heritage is proving a growing burden — with licensed digs postponed, illegal ones (RT @GreekReporter: Archaeology Becomes Greece's Achilles Heel - http://t.co/IzkW6ya5...)... 
Sparta in Modern Thought: Politics, History and Culture is the first book for more than 40 years to examine the significant modern influence of this ancient Greek city-state. Via Rebeca BM |
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