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Norwegian Design: Pia Tjelta byTiMo
What feels like the most beautiful dress in the world arrived in the post yesterday ...I have bought items from By Ti Mo in the past, and am generally rather sceptical when celebrities collaborate with...
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How To Tell a Fake 101
It's a very pretty ring, and when I was in Paris someone Tweeted a photo of this Greek 2nd Century BC ring in the Benaki, and trying to stay positive I RTed it. Almost immediately I thought "no!" ... I...
View ArticleAmphipolis Bones: News Soon
I thought the press conference was scheduled for the 20th, but some on Twitter are saying the results will be released today. This was the previous press release from December is below, and the new one...
View ArticleUPDATED Amphipolis: The Bones ... Murder!
Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού - Μελέτη Σκελετικών Καταλοίπων Ταφικού Μνημείου, Λόφου Καστά, Αμφίπολη:"The bodiesofthose buried have beendistinguished:In awoman(person 1), twomiddle aged...
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CSI: Amphipolis - Murder
One body had old injuries that had healed, the other had so many stab marks on the bones - which went through skin, flesh, muscle and are pretty hard to do with a knife - so there is no doubt in my...
View ArticleAmphipolis ...
... look, I had literally refused to go on TV for well over five years as I don't want the "fame" and I only went on Greek TV as I was tired of people who had never been to the site at Amphipolis...
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Getty: Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville
In case anyone is anywhere near Malibu, I highly recommend visiting this exhibition at the Getty Villa, which is on to August 17, 2015. I'll be blogging about the more interesting pieces, the core of...
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Hellenistic Bronzes at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
The exhibition is officially open today and they very kindly let me see it yesterday. Proper blog post to follow, but this is an amazing exhibition very much worth seeing in Florence, then again later...
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Hellenistic Bronzes: Pride ... and Prejudices
Jens Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have curated the most extraordinarily brilliant exhibition on Hellenistic Bronzes, currently at the Palazzo Strozzi in...
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Dining and Roman Luxury, The Getty
Passover is coming up, and whilst I don't want to get involved in the debate about whether Jesus' Last Supper was a Jewish Passover, there is one point that strikes me every year.Every Passover the...
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Lobel Calls "bull" on Christie's Sappho "provenance"
This is going to be a long one, but this Lobel called "dodgy" on it whilst she was in Paris, and the more she reads, the dodgier she feels the provenance given for the Sappho Papyri is ...This is the...
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Papyrus: Jesus' Wife?
I gave Roberta my files unredacted, and no I have no idea what this means, I only noticed this detail yesterday. At the time had not assumed a link to the Karen King papyrus, but now that Sappho is in...
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Is this More of the "First Century" Gospel of Mark?
Interesting similarity of handwriting ... between these fragments I posted photos of yesterday from the Turkish eBay seller "Zelis eksioglu" ...and the newly discovered Gospel of Mark ;-)These top...
View ArticleRoberta Mazza on The new Sappho fragments acquisition history
Roberta is covering some of the same ground as my posts, but much more elegantly and both this and her earlier posts are highly recommended reading. Neither of us are making direct accusations, just...
View ArticleThe Looting of Papyri & Islamophobia
I do love how my years of work, after all the people in papyrology couldn't have care less as about looting, being dismissed as bombastic. But then again if I were an old man who was just a lecturer at...
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Introducing the Master of the Miami Vice Hermes
This "ancient" head was seized by Turkish police (here) as the smugglers were trying to get it to a buyer who was apparently willing to pay $1 m. Tiny problem ... I have photos of his work in progress...
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The Source of Papyri ...
Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel:Evans told Live Science, "We're not talking about the destruction of any museum-quality piece." Oh yes they are! And here's the proof they themselves...
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Today In 98: Trajan Became Emperor
He's one of the few to successfully invade Iraq, although his heir found it harder to consolidate the conquest and withdrew.Trajan's ashes were put in the base of his Column in Rome. Mondadori have...
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Today In 217: Caracalla Died
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae5.2–3 Caracalla was a king Britain. According to Caracalla himself, he was the new Alexander the Great, hence his plans to invade Parthia....
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Today In 217: Macrinus Became Emperor
If you enjoyed this video by Adrian Murdoch, check out his book on The Emperors of Rome; Kindle UK, Kindle US, etc continue reading ...
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Today In AD 69: Otho Died
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View ArticleToday in 1666: The Great Fire of London Started
This is a reconstruction of what London looked like before the fire.continue reading ...
View ArticleHollande Offers «un droit d'asile» For Art
The video of that section of the speech is here:VIDEO - Hollande instaure un droit d'asile pour l'artAnd the AFP coverage here:Hollande va instaurer "un droit d'asile" pour les oeuvres d'art menacees...
View ArticleRIP Harry Hyams
Harry Hyams was buried this morning at Willesden. He'd been looking forward to his obituaries. Sadly, most are riddled with mistakes - although he would be amused to be sharing a page with Madame...
View ArticleToday In AD 37: Nero Born
Although in popular culture Nero is blamed for killing Christians in the arena, to Jews he was a good friend.The Talmud in tractate Gittin 56a-b records that Nero believed that God wanted the Temple...
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