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Romes La Sapienza rated top university in the world for Classics 04 Mar, 2021 La Sapienza University in Rome has been ranked the top university in the world for Classical Studies and Ancient History in the 2021 edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. The result, which reconfirms rankings held in 2018 and 2019, sees Rome knock Oxford off the podium and also makes La Sapienza the only Italian university to boast an absolute first place at an in...

T he wooly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius) is an iconic animal, like the saber tooth tiger or dire wolf, from a time in human history when our position at the top of the global food chain was decidedly not assured (and being somethings prey was not limited to just other humans). Perhaps this is a reason that resurrection of mammoths using Jurassic Park-like technology has some currency and appeal ( but see How to Clone a Mammoth for reasons why this may not be such a good idea). Perhaps para...

Dr Ioannis (John) Syrigos is the co-owner and Managing Director of Ancient Origins. Ioannis is a computer & electrical engineer with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, a lecturer, explorer and researcher. He has a personal passion for Ancient History, Mythology, Anthropology and Astronomy, with a particular interest in the folklore surrounding ancient sites, as relayed by the local indigenous people. Ioannis has undertaken expeditions and research in remote areas of Ecuador, Colombia, and...

Ancient Greek Spells and Charms for the Hapless in Love By Adam Parker, PhD Candidate in Classical Studies, The Open University. Valentine’s Day is not all love hearts and roses for everyone. For the hapless in love, the day can be a yearly reminder of failed romances, unrequited love and the seemingly unending search for the illusive “one”. Such problems of the heart span cultures and history. The inhabitants of the Graeco-Roman world suffered the same heartaches and the same emotional h...

He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? Rachel Poser, New York Times, February 2, 2021 In the world of classics, the exchange between Dan-el Padilla Peralta and Mary Frances Williams has become known simply as “the incident.” Their back-and-forth took place at a Society of Classical Studies conference in January 2019 — the sort of academic gathering at which nothing tends to happen that would seem controversial or even interesting to those outside the discipline. ...

Ir_Stone_istock/getty images plus Not long ago, heading out to an academic conference where I was scheduled to take part in a panel examining “alternative” careers for humanities degree holders and looking for airplane reading, I grabbed from my bookshelf three aging publications: Getting a Job Outside the Academy: A Special Publication of the American Anthropological Association (1982), and Humanities Ph.D.s and Nonacademic Careers: A Guide for Faculty Advisers (1983). After I got home, ...

Last Updated: Turkey: 1,500-year-old House With Puppy Paw Prints And Wall Illusion Discovered Archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered paw prints belonging to a dog and goat’s hoof print embedded in the floor of a house dating some 1,500 years. Archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered paw prints belonging to a dog embedded in the floor of a house dating some 1,500 years. According to a research published in Live Science, the canine likely stepped on a terra cotta tile that was dryi...

New York Times Magazine: Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline. iSteve commenter kaganovitch observes, “This chain migration from Krypton has to stop. At this point they are really not sending their best.” By Rachel Poser Feb. 2, 2021 In the world of classics, the exchange between Dan-el Padilla Peralta and Mary Frances Williams has become known simply as “the incident.” Thei...

‘The ruins are still standing’, the writer Brian Dillon once quipped, ‘but what do they stand for?’ Martin Devecka, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the latest in a long line of scholars to attempt to answer this question in his book Broken Cities.  At its heart, Broken Cities is a collection of essays on the shifting cultural understanding of ruins across history, in the form of four case studies: Classical Greece, ancient Rome, Baghdad ...

They were in the excavation of a 5th-century house in the ancient city of Sardis The dog likely stepped on a wet terra cotta tile before it was fired in a kiln Researchers also found hoof prints and a finger-drawn image of a chicken Swords and other artifacts suggest the family was in the military or government The house was destroyed by earthquake in the early seventh century