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inscription of Augustus, Res Gestae, Ankara; photo J. Long 1994

30 January 2012, Exhibit of inscriptions from the sanctuary of Delphi

23 January 2012, Unusual form of 2-3c winged building in Norfolk puzzles archaeologists

17 January 2012, Greece moves toward renting ancient sites for commercial and political purposes, at reduced prices

17 January 2012, Croatian cave sealed in 1st century BC yields oldest known astrologer's board

  • Link to news coverage by LiveScience carried by CBS News
  • Link to news coverage and photos in the Mail Online

12 January 2012, Swiss court orders confiscation of illegally excavated octadrachm

6 January 2012, Record-setting auction of ancient Greek coins

1 January 2012, Mycenean epigrapher Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., dies 15 December, aged 93

  • Link to obituary article in The New York Times
  • Link to obituary article in Adnkronos
  • Link to obituary notice from the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, carried by AEGEANET Archives
  • Link to on-line archive of Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.'s, papers at PASP, the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory at the University of Texas at Austin

16 December 2011, New research shows 21st-century American income inequality is worse than the Roman Empire's

13 December 2011, Iraqi museums recover antiquities, operations

  • Link to news coverage (text and video) by CNN of the Selmani Museum in Sulaimaniya
  • Link to 29 November news coverage, with photo, by the Christian Science Monitor of the Iraqi Museum in Bagdad

12 December 2011, The Roman Empire's byword for pop-cultural megalomania: "You, Nero" engulfs the Arena Stage

1 December 2011, Ralph Fiennes interprets Shakespeare's Coriolanus interprets 5c BC Rome

23 November 2011, Coin finds re-date Jerusalem's Western Wall

17 November 2011, National Book Award for Nonfiction given to Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve, about the reception of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things

11 November 2011, Crowdfunding meets Roman archaeology at a project to investigate the DNA of Rome's 99%

9 November 2011, New correlation of the Roman army, ancient Italian demographics, and late-Republican politics

5 November 2011, New research into the Saharan Garamantes

  • Link to news coverage, with photograph of a rock-wall painting, by The Guardian
  • Link to news coverage and blog discussion, with photograph of settlement remains, by the Toronto Sun
  • Link to news coverage by Eurasia Review
  • Link to news coverage, with images, by MSNBC
  • Link to news coverage by the Mirror
  • Link to news coverage by NPR

1 November 2011, Hellenistic tombs restored at Kelenderis

22 October 2011, Conference considering ancient Greek philosophical perspectives applicable to the present economic crisis

18 October 2011, Excavators at Poggio Colla discover bucchero cup-fragment, earliest known depiction in Wesern art of childbirth

30 September 2011, Greek inscription from Tor Fiscale identified as the earliest Christian inscription

  • Link to news coverage for livescience.com, carried by CBS News

22 September 2011, Classical artifacts go home from American museums

  • Link to news coverage of the J. Paul Getty Museum's return to Greece of a 5th-century grave marker with female forms and a 5th-century inscription, with blog discussion, in the Los Angeles Times
  • Link to news coverage of the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Hellenic Republic and the J. Paul Getty Trust in ArtDaily.org
  • Link to news coverage of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' return to Turkey of the upper half of a 5th-century Weary Hercules, with photos and blog discussion, in Hurriyet Daily News
  • Link to news coverage of the Heracles return by AP, carried by The Daily Star

22 September 2011, Italy's National Institute of Applied Optics demonstrates that "Pompeian Red" was produced by Vesuvius's effects on yellow paint

22 September 2011, Five-storey ship-shed, 2c AD, identified at Portus

  • Link to press release with photos carried by Science Daily
  • Link to news coverage, with several photos, by the Mail Online
  • Link to news coverage with photos by BBC News

11 September 2011, Reenactors renew Battle of Marathon

  • Link to news coverage, with photos, by AFP
  • Link to news coverage, with extensive photo-gallery by The Gazette, montrealgazette.com

5 September 2011, Radar detects large 1-4c AD gladiatorial training complex underground at Carnuntum (24 miles east of Vienna)

25 August 2011, Musical Hymenoptera surveyed

  • Link to musical survey and interview by NPR
  • Link to recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams's incidental music for Aristophanes' Wasps on YouTube

15 August 2011, CBC Radio program explores Thucydides as "the first journalist"

10 August 2011, Vladimir Putin fishes up two Byzantine amphorae on scuba dive in Black Sea

8 August 2011, New smart-phone app connects users to ancient London

  • Link to news coverage, with photo-gallery, by Reuters

29 July 2011, 1cAD mosaic of Apollo uncovered in tunnel below Baths of Trajan

27 July 2011, Archaeologists claim to have found tomb of the apostle Philip in the ancient city of Hierapolis

26 July 2011, Oxford University project seeks volunteers to help transcribe ancient Greek texts

10 July 2011, Destruction of Temple of Zeus at Olympia blamed on tsunami

5 July 2011, New typefaces based on letterforms of early 1c BC inscription at Temple of Vesta, Tivoli

5 July 2011, Bulgarian archaeologists find iron labrys at residence of Odrysian kings in Thrace

28 June 2011, 6c fresco of St. Paul discovered in catacombs of S. Gennaro in Naples

  • Link to news coverage, with video, by Rome Reports - TV News Agency
  • Link to news coverage, with photo, by The Telegraph
  • Link to news notice, with misidentified photo actually of the oldest image of St. Paul yet discovered (4c in the Catacombs of Sta Tecla, Rome), by ANSA.IT; cf. 28 June 2009 news report by Reuters and 30 June 2009 discussion in The Roman Forum, with link to discussion and images of the catacombs of Sta Tecla in Roma Sotterranea

19 June 2011, Research gives life to tomb graffiti from Roman Palestine

17 June 2011, Ancient historian Simon R. F. Price dies 14 June, aged 56

  • Link to 27 July obituary notice in The Telegraph
  • Link to obituary notice, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
  • Link to Dr Price's list of publications and current projects as of 8 July 2010
  • Link to 6 March 2009 Newsletter of the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford: scroll down to "Approaches to the ancient Mediterranean world: religion, memory, history - a day for Simon Price [22 September 2008]," p.12

14 June 2011, "Where there's muck, there's memory": Herculaneum sewer reveals details of Roman diet

14 June 2011, New colossus in Skopje furthers contention over Macedonian heritage

3 June 2011, Lead pipe in second-century Roman ship may have helped enable transport of live fish

2 June 2011, Capitoline Venus visits U.S. National Galler of Art

  • Link to news coverage, with photo and blog discussion, in the Washington Post
  • Link to AP news coverage carried by CBS News
  • Link to news coverage and photo by AFP

31 May 2011, Obituary for Ernst Badian

16 May 2011, Cyrene and other Classical sites in Libya are undamaged but neglected amid revolution

  • Link to news video (with preceding advertisement, deplorably) by AFP
  • Link to news coverage, with two still photos, by AFP

16 May 2011, Venus of Morgantina returns to Aidone

  • Link to news coverage and interview with authors of Chasing Aphrodite, with book extract, blog discussion, and photos of several disputed objects formerly purchased by the Getty Museum, by NPR
  • Link to news coverage by The New York Times
  • Link to news coverage, with photographs, in Il Sole 24 ore
  • Link to photogallery in La Repubblica - Palermo
  • Link to news video (with preceding advertisement) by RAiscienze

5 May 2011, Symposium on Ancient Greek and Byzantine Gastronomy, 7-8 May, Kapandriti

28 April 2011, Remains of large early-imperial ship discovered in Ostia Antica

21 April 2011, Rome celebrates 2764th birthday, coinciding with the ancient festival of Parilia

8 April 2011, Artefacts looted from Roman Ratsiaria go on exhibit in Sofia

  • Link to news coverage by AFP in Auction Central News, with photograph of the Roman odeon of Plovdiv
  • Link to news coverage by AFP in Google News, with photograph of the Wolf and Twins relief
  • Link to news coverage by AFP in French in Google News, with photograph of the sarcophagus

5 April 2011, Older-than-ever-before Linear B tablet discovered near Iklaina

  • Link to news coverage by AFP
  • Link to news coverage in Angola Press
  • Link to detailed commentary and blog discussion in Care2

12 March 2011, New claim to have identified Plato's "Lost City of Atlantis"

4 March 2011, Touring exhibit of Afgan art, from Bronze Age and Hellenistic colonial to Roman periods

19 February 2011, Classic(s) reads: book review and 6 brief recommedations by Josiah Ober

9 February 2011, Six statues, buried in fountain, discovered in excavation of a villa along Via Anagnina, Rome

8 February 2011, Classicist-translator-poet-musician Douglass S. Parker dies, aged 83

3 February 2011, Archaeological Institute of America honors Susan Rotroff

Other links to the more Classical blogosphere

Revised 1 February 2012 by jlong1@luc.edu.

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