Profane Egyptologists is a new book by Paul Harrison published by Routledge detailing the modern practice of Kemetic i.e. ancient Egyptian (“Egypt” is actually the Greek term for what the natives referred to as “Khem”). The publisher’s site says: “It… Continue Reading
The J. Paul Getty Museum has an exhibit running through September called Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World which examines the interaction between the civilizations of Egypt, Greece and the Roman Empire – influences actually feeding back and forth… Continue Reading
Here’s a wonderful story from The Guardian regarding Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz resistance via monumental art to the tyranny and vandalism of Daesh. The story starts: “In February 2015, Isis militants videoed themselves drilling the face off one of the commanding stone statues that had… Continue Reading
Newsweek reports that excavations in the Greek city of Thessaloniki that a part of building a subway system there have uncovered some amazing artifacts. The story begins: “A headless statue of Aphrodite was discovered during subway work in the Greek port city… Continue Reading
CBC.ca (that’s basically the NPR of Canada ya dumb Yanks!) just posted a piece about a Polish paleontologist who discovered what he proposes might be the oldest human-like footprints ever found… in Greece. This of course throws the most widely… Continue Reading
In the mid-20th century, a team of Mormon explorers including Thomas Stuart Ferguson traveled to Central America seeking to find archaeological proofs for passages in the Book of Mormon describing Bountiful, one of the areas initially settled by an ancient… Continue Reading
Today, January 19, is popcorn day! The Popcorn Board, an alliance of popcorn companies in the United States, has no information on the origins of the day, stating, “Some other individual or organization (with obvious good taste) began this tradition.”… Continue Reading
Thomas Hodgkinson recently reviewed Catherine Nixey’s The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World , for the London Spectator. The book is a look at the transition from the Classical world to Christendom and quite a harrowing one! The publisher’s… Continue Reading
Today in 274 CE, the Roman Emperor Aurelius dedicated a temple to Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun. Sol Invictus was a patron of soldiers as well as the official sun god of the later Roman Empire. The Aurelian family (gens Aurelian) was associated… Continue Reading
The several years various archaeologists have been searching the Black Sea. What they found is archaeological gold. Over 50 ships have been found from the Roman to 10th century Ottoman Empire ship to ships from Venice that dates around the… Continue Reading