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This work is partially funded by National Geographic. Very very exciting find if they can do more with what they have. I'm not exactly sure what happens next.
Here's a story from our news department:
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Just like I like my vino: chunky
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That's a hell of a delicate and refined piece to have been carved 35,000 years ago...
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For $30k, I want to see a couple of pictures first.
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How weird...I couldn't even tell if anything NEW was being reported...
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Thought I'd share that National Geographic Magazine's November cover story is on the Anglo Saxon hoard. The treasure itself will be in our museum in a few weeks. The international editions are sometimes different than the US, but I'm guessing this story will at least be in the mag, if not on the cover.
If anyone's going to be in DC to check it out, please let me know.
J
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I'm coming late to this posting, but thanks for the pix. I've only been to Rome once, but there's something about it that has me completely mesmerized. My wife and I went about 3 years ago and I'm trying to convince the family to all go next summer.
We've been looking at family tours, but honestly, I can't find any difference between a 'family' tour and any other kind of tour.
Thanks again for sharing.
J
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Rome Colosseum Repair Funded by Private Individual
The founder of the Tod's luxury shoe brand has said he will cover the cost of restoring the Colosseum.Officials have accepted Diego Della Valle's offer to sponsor the restoration of the ancient Roma arena.
Rome's mayor described news the city finally had the funds to undertake the project as "the end of a nightmare".
Restoration work, which will cost some 25m euros (
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A giant video installation at Rome's Colosseum was used to create the impression that the ancient ampitheatre was on fire.
The installation was designed to shock people into taking better care of their cultural heritage. Organisers said that at least 100,000 people observed the illusion.
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What a bunch of tools.
I hadn't realized that the statue at Piazza Navona is just a reproduction...that's good at least.
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Ahh...I see what they were getting at now. Doesn't seem to perfectly fit that rounded top lintel, but I get the point.
Good grab...thanks.
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"The precise calculations made in the positioning and construction of the Pantheon mean that the size and shape of the beam perfectly matches, down to the last inch, a semicircular stone arch above the doorway."
Has anyone been able to find an image of what's referenced above? I can't find any clear pix of the doorway to the Pantheon...
J
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Interesting story...
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Yeah...I see...I dunno what the hell I was looking at before. It clearly stated that the book wasn't available to consumers in the US.
Um. Nevermind. :-)
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Ben - this looks very interesting actually. Seems it's not available in the US.
...looking around to see if there's a ebook copy floating around and accessible anywhere
J
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Chris,
Great list...thank you for providing this...
J
Don't forget to add Roma Victrix from Russ...supposed to come out 5/3 I believe.
Review coming shortly.
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Adrienne,
What are the top 3 myths from ancient Rome that have been solidly explained by modern analysis (be it specific scientific analysis or strong deductive reasoning).
Thanks,
Jason Golomb
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exclusive hotel has been earmarked for ancient Rome
Italian authorities are planning to set up an exclusive 30-room hotel as part of a museum complex in the heart of ancient Rome with views over the Palatine Hill, newspaper reports said on Wednesday.
The hotel is in the draft project for a Museum of Rome - $132 million project set to be approved by Rome city council in January and completed in six or seven years, officials were quoted as saying.
"The museum will have not only the usual activities of a museum but also the innovative plan of a small quality hotel," Umberto Croppi, the top culture official in Rome city council, was quoted by Corriere della Sera as saying.
The planned museum in Via dei Cerchi next to the Roman Forum and the Colosseum will have 25,000 square metres of floor space, as well as a roof garden with views over ancient Rome.
Parts of the museum, which will include multimedia installations and an auditorium, are expected to be completed in 2014 - on the 2,000-year anniversary of the death of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire.
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Here's a short bit from the article...the whole thing is interesting and very random.
Ground-scanners, Transparent-Earth (PDF) eyeglasses, metal detectors, 4D earth-modeling environments used to visualize abandoned settlements, and giant magnets that pull buried cities from the earth.
Autonomous LIDAR drones over the jungles of South America. Fast, cheap, and out of control portable muon arrays. Driverless ground-penetrating radar trucks roving through the British landscape.
Or we could install upside-down periscopes on the sidewalks of NYC so pedestrians can peer into subterranean infrastructure, exploring subways, cellars, and buried streams. Franchise this to London, Istanbul, and Jerusalem, scanning back and forth through ruined foundations.
Holograph-bombs
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Headless Romans in England Came From "Exotic" Locales?
An ancient English cemetery filled with headless skeletons holds proof that the victims lost their heads a long way from home, archaeologists say.Unearthed between 2004 and 2005 in the northern city of York (map), the 80 skeletons were found in burial grounds used by the Romans throughout the second and third centuries A.D. Almost all the bodies are males, and more than half of them had been decapitated, although many were buried with their detached heads.
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I rather randomly came across this on the website of Myrmidon Publishing. Great news Russ. Can't wait for your sequels.
-Jason
Two new Russell Whitfield titles for Myrmidon
by Kate on October 1, 2010
Ed Handyside editorial director at Myrmidon Books has just bought two titles from Russell Whitfield via Robin Wade of Wade Doherty. ROMA VICTRIX and IMPERATRIX continue the adventures of Spartan gladiatrix Lysandra started in Whitfield
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I think the biggest advantage of 'writing' directly into the ipad (or any computer) is that you're saved the step of having to retype it later.
Even if you review and edit, your entry time will be less, and the time it takes to manipulate it further will be reduced.
J
This seems rather convenient, but does anyone know how fast you can write on an iPad? Can it really match handwriting, especially if you need really quick, not necessarily correctly spelled notes?
My point is that the instant digital data input isn't as good as it sounds if it doesn't save you time on the field itself - you can't really (at least in the Mediterranean) dig for more than 8 hours per day (which more or less all projects do) and the digitalization of the material is done on the trench masters/supervisors "spare time". This means that you would actually loose field time (which is the important part) unless it's faster when it comes to writing (and most project leaders won't care enough about how much of your evening you spend on digitalizing material).
And by the way, how detailed drawings can you do at an iPad?
Anyway, this became much more negative then I initially intended. I'd love to try one, but I very much doubt that it can replace pen and paper at this point.
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Naive, ameteur question, but doesn't iPad have "aGPS" on board? Wouldn't that help?
I have to be honest...this is a rockin' good use of technology.
And you're right...they should be pulling in GPS data as well.
J
Hercules the first superhero
in Hercules the first superhero
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Truly some amazing choices. The difficult decision is a good decision to have.
My vote:
#1 = 28
#2 = 26
#3 = 39