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The 3D printer is enabling ever more sophisticated forgeries to be sold as Greek or Roman collectibles An example of a fake Greek gold ring. Photograph: Jack Ogden An example of a fake Greek gold ring. Photograph: Jack Ogden Sun 16 May 2021 05.00 EDT There is a “pandemic” of fake gold jewellery, primarily ancient and medieval, according to a leading British historian, who warns that forgeries extend to more recent pieces that any one might pick up in a market. Dr Jack Ogden, a specialist co...

While not as well-known as that of the Achaemenid dynasty (550–330 BC), the second Persian empire ruled by the Sasanian dynasty (AD 224–642) is a pivotal but often overlooked period of ancient Western Asian art and archaeological history. Standing at the cusp of the ancient and medieval worlds, the Sasanian empire was the last great Iranian empire to rule over Western Asia before the coming of Islam, extending at its height in the seventh century from the Nile to the Oxus. Over the course o...

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:05 UTC "We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes." This is Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. His selfish gene theory, he remarked in 1989, "has become textbook orthodoxy," because it is merely "a logical outgrowth of orthodox Neo-Darwinism, but expressed as a novel image." The image is misleading. Dawkins doesnt literally believe that genes are selfish entities with a will to replicate themselves. If they...

Sadigh Gallery Displays and Sells Beautiful Medical Instruments Covered in Bronze NEW YORK, NY, USA, March 11, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- An alluring collection of ancient medical instruments from the Greco-Roman world are now on display at New York’s Sadigh Gallery, which is also offering the bronze instruments for sale. The collection of medical instruments that are currently on display include spatulas, hooks, forceps, catheters, bone drills, and scalpels. All of these items were recently ...

Who Was Spartacus? Spartacus story begins in Thrace, a region to the north of Greece, the west of Italy, and to the south of the Celtic tribes.  His exact beginnings are up for debate: Plutarch states that he was of a nomadic tribe, while writer Florus claims he was a mercenary.  However, what Plutarch, Florus, and only a half a handful of other relatively reliable classical sources agree on is that Spartacus somehow left Thrace and became part of the Roman army .  Whether he was taken capt...

This article is part of the opinion column –  Beyond Occident – where we explore a native perspective on the Indian diaspora. After he was killed by an assassin’s bullets almost 73 years ago on a cold January day in Delhi, the locals found a decapitated statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Davis, California’s Central Park. The 6’3” tall, 950-pound bronze statue that once stood in the same park was mutilated and disfigured on January 27, 2021. The statute of Gandhiji “appeared to have bee...

We Must Return to Properly Functioning Legislatures The persisting pandemic requires all minds on deck Commentary When an early Blackfoot or Plains Cree tribe faced a problem of food supply or contagion such as smallpox in their territory, councils met to discuss it. Typically a group of senior men—war chiefs, shamans, hunters, and the like—talked, in turn, and considered the various aspects of the problem. The input of many experienced voices was heard. These were so-called primitive socie...

by Paul Chrystal Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. xxix, 250+. Illus., notes, biblio., index. $626.95 paper. ISBN: 1526781468 Women in War in Antiquity Chrystal, author of numerous works in ancient history, women’s history, and military history, gives us an overview of the role of women in war in the Graeco-Roman world. It’s a bit hard to categorize. Chrystal’s primary interest is on historical instances of “woman as agents of mili...

Tue Aug 12 2003 at 7:24:26 The Parni were one of the three Dahae tribes of Scythian origin who battled against Alexander the Great during his conquest of their homeland along the Oxus River. Insurgent under Arsaces, they fought against the GreekSuccessor Kingdoms from 247-130 BC and during this time they expanded their frontiers until they found themselves in possession of territories stretching between Armenia and India, utilising both Pahlavi-Parthian and Greek dialects. This was the Parthian...

German story of sefucious who has discovered virulen. hes a jew, the great story of the rebellion. he goes to live in the emperors in rome and discovers hes treated like a bad smell and wonders why. he discovers an extraordinary story of jews linked to waylaid jewish merchants fatten them up, and then summon jews from the well-known classical world to have a barbecue. so the madness these are somewhat demonic, murderous, inhumane people are before they have a problem with each other. >> and you ...