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U.S. officials return Ancient Greek coins to their home
Rare ancient coins confiscated during an undercover investigation into black-market coin trading in New York City are being returned to Gree ... |
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It was the best line, I agree. The only joke in a wearyingly bleak episode. | |
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Moses Shapira, according to Wiki, was "a known purveyor of forged Semitic artefacts". He presented the scroll to the BM in 1883 as "a Bible-related artefact" allegedly found in a w ... | |
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(there's still time if anyone's got any more):
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It may be the explorers' linguistic skills didn't extend beyond big cat, little cat, etc. How many weeks/ months/ years did they stick around? | |
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Just noticed the caption beneath the photo of the inscribed tile reads
Archaeological evidence of the legion's fate is scarce https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12752497 'Fate', they say, rat ... |
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It's Rosemary Sutcliff's centenary year and her Eagle of the Ninth (published 1954) was mentioned on Twitter as part of World Book Day. It's not easy to find any evidence that the Ninth Legion actuall ... | |
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Obscure? Humph. | |
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The 'Water Newton Treasure', discovered in Cambridgeshire near the Roman town of Durobrivae is declared to be
the earliest group of Christian liturgical silver yet found in the Roman Empire. Wiki ... |
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The 'Diamond Sutra' is, according to the British Library and therefore the world, "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book."
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I noticed that Doc Holiday was, among other things, a dentist. Is the use of toothpaste connected to the TB and polio viruses? | |
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Foreign travel. Thomas Cook wasn't available to all at first. Restricted to those with money/connections, later came package deals to enable mass travel. | |
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The one I like is the Mold Cape
The Mold cape is a solid sheet-gold object dating from about 1900–1600 BC in the European Bronze Age. It was found at Mold in Flintshire, Wales, in 1833. http ... |
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Not only does medieval armour appear impractical. It's hard to imagine wearing some of the costumes apparently de rigueur in the High Middle Ages.
How can we know the costumes are authentic? It se ... |
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Whether the Count of Nieuwerkerke really was a sculptor is open to question. It is fairly unusual for large-scale sculptures to reportedly vanish but survive as copies
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