Ancient History Ramblings

On Vacation

I am on vacation (moving) and will be back on August 17th.

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Roman shipwrecks discovered

A team of archaeologists (Aurora Trust) announced the discovery of 5 Roman shipwrecks near the island of Ventotene. The five wrecks ranged in date from the 1st century BC to the fifth century AD. The wrecks were discovered using a side-scan sonar survey of the region.

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Codex Sinaiticus Online

I am sure that most people have seen it, but the Codex Sinaiticus is now available online. This is the largest ancient manuscript to be made available online. The Codex Sinaiticus Project website is worth visiting. They layout and organization is well-done. It is intuitive and easy to navigate. In addition to being able to examine individual pages (with translations) the site provides important background information on the manuscript . A very well-done and cool site.

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Back in the States

Well, I am finally back in the States - it has been a long summer. Even though the actual fieldwork is over, the summer's work for PKAP is not yet over. We still have several reports that need to be finished in the next few weeks. I have been uploading photos from this season to the PKAP server, but it has been slow going - we take lots of photos. After we get these items completed and take off a few weeks, we will have a discussion to figure out what worked and did not work this year. To me, this has always been one of the strong points of our project, the fact that we understand that we can always improve on the way we do things.

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Halfway Home

So, I am spending the night in London. My British Air flight left at 3:36 PM this afternoon (46 minutes late) and this always requires an overnight stay in London. It breaks the trip up, but makes it a 2 day trip to get home. It has been a long day of standing in lines (to check in, to pass Cypriot passport control, for security, to check in at the gate, to get on the bus, to get on the plane, to pass British passport control, to get on the hotel shuttle bus, and to check in at the hotel). It is almost like being in college again. Anyway, so far, so good.

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