The idea of auctioning ancient objects, which had been taken (legally or not) from subaltern countries, to foster Classics makes me cringe. This auction goes against the work many (but clearly not all) of us are patiently doing in teaching and research: we try to build a field guided by...
Lanthanoids and yttrium patterns were determined in 26 wine amphorae that had a well‐established geographical origin from the Nuovo Mercato Testaccio in Rome, and these patterns were compared to plausible terrigenous materials from various ancient Roman regions. The point was not to pinpoint...
He named many of his soldiers after the legionnaires of ancient Rome, and displayed maps indicating the extent of the ancient Roman empire. Recalling that the emperors of ancient Rome had adorned that city with statues looted from Egypt, he sought to emulate them by ordering that his hen...
Women in the Ancient World From the faithful wife to the powerful queen, the untouchable priestess to the high-living prostitute, the daily lives and roles of women in the ancient world of Greece and Rome, Egypt and the Near East were fascinating and varied, often... N Jenifer - 《J Pau...
Rome. Seized very early by theidéeixeof a would-be religious unity of the Slavic world, he studied Greek,eastern liturgies and theological controversies in Rome. In addition, hedreamed about a Christian alliance against the Ottomans in order to liber-ate the Slavic world from the Turkish ...
Lanthanoids and yttrium patterns were determined in 26 wine amphorae that had a well〆stablished geographical origin from the Nuovo Mercato Testaccio in Rome, and these patterns were compared to plausible terrigenous materials from various ancient Roman regions. The point was not to pinpoint the ...
This paper focuses on the chromatographic analysis of Roman Iberian honeypots and ceramic beehives, identifying tracer characteristics from ancient honey in sherds from seven honeypots and three beehives. The obtained results present an important contribution to the knowledge of the local Roman I...
Previous studies of the Northern Belize chert-bearing zone, which was widely exploited by the ancient Maya for the production of chipped stone artefacts, have suggested that chert from different parts of this zone might be chemically distinct. This hypothesis is tested with an expanded data base ...
The case studies of the National Roman Museum in Rome, Italy and of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, Egypt will be illustrated. Furthermore, the study has been performed as a function of the alloy chemical composition and of the position of the reference specimens. The results of the ...
The discipline was recently defined (ICCROM " Conservation Science " forum, Rome 2013) as the application of science and technology to the conservation of cultural heritage. A primary goal is developing better understanding of the structure and decay of ancient materials and linking this to the ...