Month: January 2012

Tracing the Origins of the Ancient Egyptian Cattle Cult By Michael Brass A Delta Man in Yebu, ed. Eyma, A.K. and Bennett, C.J. (Universal-Publishers, 2003) Introduction: Studies of ancient Egyptian religion have examined texts… [continue reading]

The Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology By Amy K. Hirschfeld Paper given at Commemorating the Dead: Texts and Artifacts in Context: The Shohet Conference on Roman, Jewish and Christian Burials (University of Chicago, 2005) Abstract: Since… [continue reading]

A world record was set at an auction earlier this week, when an ancient Greek coin was bought for more than $3.25 million (US). The entire collection of 642 ancient coins was sold off for approximately $25 million through New York-based A. H. Baldwin and Sons auction house on Wednesday. Known… [continue reading]

The first known Roman brothel token to have been discovered in London and most likely Britain, is on temporary display at the Museum of London. The token or spintria, depicts a man and a woman having sex on one face, and has the Roman numerals XIIII (14… [continue reading]

Romans and Goths in late antique Gaul: asepcts of political and cultural assimilation in the Fifth Century AD RUCKERT, JULIA, MARGARETA, MARIA Masters thesis, Durham University (2011) Abstract … [continue reading]

In search of Xerxes: images of the Persian king Clough, Emma Elizabeth Doctoral thesis, Durham University (2004) Abstract The figure of Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, is known to us primarily through Greek sources… [continue reading]

The Early Dynastic Through Old Kingdom Stratification at Tell Er-Rub’a, Mendes Adams,  Matthew Doctor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, December (2007) Abstract This project… [continue reading]

The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt Skocilic, Jasmina (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Expanding Horizons: Travel and Exchanging Ideas through the Ages, Journal of the XIIIth annual ISHA conference (Nijmegen, 2002)  Abstract Western man places religion… [continue reading]

The influence of Hannibal of Carthage on the art of war and how his legacy has been interpreted Messer, Rick Jay Master of Arts Thesis, Kansas State University (2009) Abstract This paper… [continue reading]

The deification of imperial women: second-century contexts By Karin S. Tate Master’s Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2011 Abstract: In the early second century AD four extraordinary imperial deifications are recorded… [continue reading]