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Nov 2

NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks

Posted on Monday, November 2, 2015 in Links

Kazakhstan

Satellite photographs from 430 miles above Kazakhstan reveal colossal geometric figures that remain puzzling and largely unknown.

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Nov 2

Ice Age engravings found at Jersey archaeological site

Posted on Monday, November 2, 2015 in Links

A dig in Jersey yields a stash of hunter-gatherer artefacts, including engraved stones which may pre-date all known ancient art in the British Isles.

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Oct 27

Skeleton of ancient warrior and hoard of treasure found in 3,500-year-old tomb

Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 in Links

Palace of Nestor

US archeologists found the wooden coffin of the unknown soldier on the Peloponnese peninsula, with jewellery, a bronze sword and ivory combs inside.

Read more here and here.

Oct 23

The 10 best ancient Romans

Posted on Friday, October 23, 2015 in Links

Professor Mary Beard picks out her favourite ancient Romans.

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Even though I’m not a professor, I think I’d like to switch Cicero for the emperor Trajan, because he seems to have been a good guy, for an emperor. On the other hand, the cat hater (pathetic) Cicero did have a great deal of impact on the Roman language, which of course counts for something.

Oct 23

Earthsea – a rival to Tolkien

Posted on Friday, October 23, 2015 in Links

A Wizard of Earthsea

In A Wizard of Earthsea, published in 1968, Usula K Le Guin created one of literature’s most fully formed fantasy worlds.

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Oct 12

Pre-Roman tomb unearthed in Pompeii

Posted on Monday, October 12, 2015 in Links

Pompeii

A rare pre-Roman tomb has been unearthed in Pompeii, shedding new light on life at the site in the fourth century BC.

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Oct 4

The Celts: not quite the barbarians history would have us believe

Posted on Sunday, October 4, 2015 in Links

Celtic Gold Torque

A close examination of Celtic craftsmanship reveals a scientifically sophisticated people with good links to the rest of Europe.

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Oct 4

Where Yeats spoke with ghosts

Posted on Sunday, October 4, 2015 in Links

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, Senator, Nobel Laureate – and a firm believer in ghosts. He claimed that after death we relive our passionate moments over and over, loving the same souls, burning down the same houses and acting out the same murders.

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Oct 2

Why ancient Rome matters to the modern world

Posted on Friday, October 2, 2015 in Links

Forum Romanum

Failure in Iraq, debates about freedom, expenses scandals, sex advice … the Romans seem versions of ourselves. But then there’s the slavery and the babies on rubbish heaps. We need to understand ancient Rome, but should we take lessons from it?

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Oct 2

The quietest corner of London

Posted on Friday, October 2, 2015 in Links

In London’s bustling centre lies a centuries-old brotherhood, hidden from even most locals.
Four hundred years ago, a fabulously wealthy arms dealer and moneylender named Thomas Sutton was approaching death. As part of his legacy, he decided to convert his magnificent London home, itself a former Carthusian monastery founded in 1371, into an almshouse and school. He decreed that 80 impoverished gentlemen should be sheltered and fed there, and left a fortune equivalent to £200 million today to ensure his vision. The home became known as Sutton’s Hospital at Charterhouse.

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