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For generations, the training of history PhD candidates has remained relatively static. Graduate students are expected to research and publish book-length dissertations with the ultimate goal of obtaining a tenure-track position at a four-year college or university. But in practice, PhDs are increasingly seeking alternative, non-academic careers, while advances in technology and the development of new media have provided rich opportunities for them to share their work and engage with academics and the public. Change isn’t just coming, it’s already here. Which raises an interesting question: What is the future of the history PhD? via Harvard
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Few ancient civilizations have left an architectural footprint quite as indelible as the Nabateans did in Petra, southern Jordan. Majestic temples, burial chambers and homes still stand, carved around 2,300 years ago from the rose-hued landscape. Logic would dictate that the relics strewn throughout the 2.8 million square feet of Petra Archaeological Park would provide historians with a bounty of information about the ancient culture. In fact, surprisingly little is known about ancient Nabatean life and traditions. An estimated 85% of the area has never been excavated, and there is precious little in the way of written records. ...more at CNN
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...are you from the USA? I know member Bryaxis Hecatee is a keen traveller, and he doesnt use the car...
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Cruises get you to top historic attractions around the world, often with the bonus of historians onboard offering their expert insight. For more hands-on learning, book guided shore excursions to see the sights, or plan ahead and explore on your own. There's a lot for history buffs to like on these cruises. ...more at USA Today
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...first part gives a pretty good insight about what happend once the Romans left Britain.
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Provocative two-part documentary in which Dan Snow blows the lid on the traditional Anglo-centric view of history and reveals how the Irish saved Britain from cultural oblivion during the Dark Ages.
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Aronofsky’s Noah movie has aroused many criticisms for the ways it has rewritten the biblical story of the Flood. It is observed that not only has the movie added extra materials to, as well as removed original elements from, the biblical account, but more seriously it has also modified and darkened the character of Noah and even of God. The degree by which the movie has adapted the biblical story and the characterisations of the characters has offended the religious and theological sensibilities of many who have watched the movie that others who haven’t watched it are reluctant or refuse to watch it. more at the Oxford University Blog
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Microsoft's steps into original programming will look to combine television and gaming with a fully interactive show that will be "like playing television" The forthcoming Roman Empire history show from the series 13 Days Of Blood will arrive in 2015 with the producer Stephen David promising "true interaction with real history." more at TechRadar
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no, of course you can leave it here, was just curious
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Hi Thurinius, are you the author of this novel?
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New intriguing finds from the Late Iron Age have been found in Kvarnbo, Saltvik, on the Åland Islands, within the framework of a project led by Dr Kristin Ilves. The geographical position of the Åland Islands (today an autonomous, monolingually Swedish-speaking region of Finland) between Sweden and Finland is highlighted in most of the few historical studies dealing with the region’s Iron Age (500 BC-1050 AD). more at Heritage Daily
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The name of the Vandals is synonymous today with wanton violence and destruction. But it seems to me that, just like the Vikings, the Vandals have suffered from a bad press. The surviving accounts of their sack of Rome in AD 455, of their further piratical raids around the Mediterranean, and of their persecution of the Catholic inhabitants of North Africa are all presented through the eyes of their enemies and opponents: the Roman and Byzantine Empires and the established Church. Clearly, the Vandals were regarded as the ‘bad guys’ of the day and we, too have been led into thinking of them as wild barbarians, intent on the destruction of Rome and its civilisation. But how balanced a picture do we get from the contemporary accounts? ...more at the British Museum
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Alex Johnston, author of the novel Caesar’s Daughter: Julia’s Song is giving from May 16 until May 20 his novel away for free. You can download his novel from Amazon at no cost! He had fun writing it, and he really hope that you will enjoy it! Here is the Amazon link to the book –> http://amzn.to/1hQOehX Don’t miss the time window for the free download, or you will be required to pay 99 cents to get your virtual hands on it! If you have friends who you think would like to read his story, please feel free to forward this offer to them. Feel also free to like him on Facebook –> https://www.facebook.com/AJohnstonAuthor ***************************************************************************************************** One more thing…. If you missed the first two books in his series, Caesar’s Ambassador and Caesar’s Emissary You can pick them up here: http://amazon.com/author/alexjohnston
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Alex Johnston, author of the novel Caesar's Daughter: Julia's Song is giving from May 16 until May 20 his novel away for free. You can download his novel from Amazon at no cost! He had fun writing it, and he really hope that you will enjoy it! Here is the Amazon link to the book --> http://amzn.to/1hQOehX Don't miss the time window for the free download, or you will be required to pay 99 cents to get your virtual hands on it! If you have friends who you think would like to read his story, please feel free to forward this offer to them. Feel also free to like him on Facebook --> https://www.facebook.com/AJohnstonAuthor ****************************************************************************** One more thing.... If you missed the first two books in his series, Caesar's Ambassador and Caesar's Emissary You can pick them up here: http://amazon.com/author/alexjohnston
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The ancient skeleton of a teenage girl found in an underwater cave in Mexico may be the missing link that solves the long-standing mystery behind the identity of the first Americans, researchers say. These findings, the first time researchers have been able to connect an early American skeleton with modern Native American DNA, suggest the earliest Americans are indeed close relatives of modern Native Americans, scientists added.... more at Live Science
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Rare ancient Roman coins found near Kaliningrad, Russia
Viggen replied to Viggen's topic in Numismatica
...awesome reply dougsmit, great to have your numismatic knowledge... to the article; do you happen to know if there have been similar finds of roman coin hoards in the baltic? -
Gavin & Stacey star Larry Lamb is to front a Channel 5 series charting the history of the Roman Empire. The commercial broadcaster, which Northern & Shell agreed to sell to Viacom last week, has commissioned 360 Production and GroupM Entertainment to make four-part Rome: The World’s First Superpower. Lamb will indulge his passion for Roman history by travelling across Europe, Africa and the Middle East to explore the rise of the empire. The actor plans to visit key archaeological sites that are providing new evidence about life in ancient Rome. ...more at Broadcast Now
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Archeologists from the Sambian expedition of the Russian Institute of Archeology have found a unique collection of Roman coins dating back to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD in the Kaliningrad region, Interfax reports. The Kaliningrad Regional Historical and Arts Museum told Interfax that the discovered treasure has already been handed over to the museum. The find consists of over 100 Roman bronze sestertii bearing the portraits of emperors from the Nerva-Antonine dynasty: from Trajan, famous for his vast conquests, to the eccentric Commodus whose accession to the throne in 180 AD marked the end of the era of "the five kind emperors.... ....more at the Voice of Russia p.s. Kaliningrad formerly Königsberg (Prussia) is just a few miles east of the polish border, so it is interesting to see how for north east the roman trade was going, surely it had somethign to do with amber?
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Archaeologists have confirmed the presence of a long-lost Roman military camp deep in eastern Germany. The 18-hectare site, found near the town of Hachelbich in Thuringia, would have sheltered a Roman legion of up to 5000 troops. Its location in a broad valley with few impediments suggests it was a stopover on the way to invade territory further east. “People have been searching for evidence of the Romans in this part of Germany for 200 years,” says team leader Mario Kuessner, an archaeologist working for the state of Thuringia. “It took a long time before we realized what we had, and we wanted to be sure.” ...more at Science Mag
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Did the ancient Egyptians eat like us? If you're a vegetarian, tucking in along the Nile thousands of years ago would have felt just like home. In fact, eating lots of meat is a recent phenomenon. In ancient cultures vegetarianism was much more common, except in nomadic populations. Most sedentary populations ate fruit and vegetables. Although previous sources found the ancient Egyptians to be pretty much vegetarians, until this new research it wasn't possible to find out the relative amounts of the different foods they ate. Was their daily bread really daily? Did they binge on eggplants and garlic? Why didn't someone spear a fish? ...more at Live Science
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More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators think they may have discovered the vessel’s long-lost remains – lying at the bottom of the sea off the north coast of Haiti. It’s likely to be one of the world’s most important underwater archaeological discoveries... ...more at the Independent p.s. the Jury is still out there if it is the real deal, but if it is, it is incredible...
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...although for historical reasons, but nevertheless, Germany is not "capital" centric... there is a financial hub called Frankfurt, there is the supreme court in Karlsruhe, there is the media center in Hamburg and Cologne, (never mind the beer hub in Munich ) ...England lost the US, India, the caribean, african colonies, Ireland and so on, guess what, they still doing fine, so not sure why Scotland leaving would make any difference... p.s. btw kodiakblair, you reached now your two posts, so from now on, no more approval from a mod needed
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...ah, so Auris Arrectibus was right with his first guess, must be Panticapaeum in Crimea
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A wooden notebook, which was found in a sunken ship, the replica of which will sail, is considered the Byzantine’s invention akin to the likes of the modern-day tablet computer. It is made of wood and can be opened like a notebook. It has a few pages and you can take notes using wax. Also, when you draw its sliding part, there are small weights used as an assay balance. Yenikapı is a phenomenon with its 37 sunken ships and organic products. I think these organic products are the most important feature of the Yenikapı excavations.” ...more at Daily News
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Dozens of smashed and broken mummies were discovered in a rock-hewn tomb during recent excavations in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Hailed as exceptional, the finding helps answer a key question: Who had the privilege to be buried in the desert valley on the west bank of the Nile River? Princesses, children, infants and also foreign ladies were among those entombed in the exclusive gateway to the afterlife that once held most of the treasures of Egypt. ...more at Discovery News
