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Category: Artifacts

Google Arts and Culture
ArtifactsPosted onAugust 27, 2020August 31, 2020

[Tools] Virtual Tours of more than 2000 museums and institutions

Museums and cultural institutions have closed their doors as a result of the current pandemic. However, more than 2000 of these institutions have joined forces…

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ArtifactsPosted onAugust 11, 2020August 11, 2020

[Artifacts] Swift-footed Achilles…

Another piece that is part of the Greco-Roman exhibit over at the Art Institute of Chicago, we see a bell krater or a mixing bowl…

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Relief of a Fallen Warrior
ArtifactsPosted onApril 23, 2020April 29, 2020

[Artifacts] The fallen warrior…

Currently part of the Greco-Roman exhibit over at the Art Institute of Chicago, we find a Roman Era marble dating to the 2nd Century CE.…

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Gilgamesh (and Humbaba)
ArtifactsPosted onApril 6, 2020April 29, 2020

[Artifacts] The oldest story ever told…

It is said to be the oldest story ever told. At least, the oldest surviving story ever told. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Stories of Gilgamesh…

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Late Kingdom Egypt Scarab (top)
ArtifactsPosted onMarch 30, 2020April 29, 2020

[Artifacts] From the sands of Egypt…

  The same day I stumbled onto the trilobite, I also found another piece of my small collection, a green soapstone scarab incised with Egyptian…

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A trilobite fossil.
ArtifactsPosted onMarch 26, 2020April 29, 2020

[Artifacts] Going through some old stuff…

I am going through some old stuff in my office and stumbled onto this fossil. Literally. In my hand, I am holding a trilobite that…

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I see myself as a “literary archaeologist.” No field work is required. The purpose of this self appointed and non-existent discipline is to marry two fields which do not cooperate very well with each other: archaeology and literary studies. The texts are historical artifacts and must be treated as such.

 

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