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Perhaps we could take something like this or this as a template, start with something relatively small (Rome?) and see how the admins like it?

Just spotted the Piscina pictures, thanks a lot. I need to go back now

Maybe we could attach a kind of site guide to the pictures, the idea was proposed earlier concerning Roman Britain if I'm not mistaken.

I only made it to the castle (unexpectedly nice museum!) then got weak and hopped on the bus again. Shame nobody seemed to be interested enough to use it, frankly I'm surprised it still operates at all, if only on weekends.

Really interesting idea, but this will take up serious bandwith, especially when using high-res pictures. That said I've got about 30,000 travel pictures lying around, which I'm slowly labeling and geotagging, so count me in ps you might want to check for possible copyright issues, especially pictures taken in museums.

You walked from Pozzuoli to Miseno? Don't they have that Archeobus anymore?

Another two mithraea underneath S. Stefano Rotondo and S. Prisca.

On the other hand engineering will make you uniquely qualified and gives you a safety net in case the PhD-thing doesn't work out (it happens).

Lucky escape!

Again huh? Looks like Domus Aurea-syndrome to me. It probably is in the same state anyway. Thanks anyway, and too bad those Solfatara pictures don't convey the smell. Did you see all those people camping out next to it? Unbelievable

Lead-smelting, drying of grasses/grains, ironworking? As it seems to be a British thing, I'm going with drying I wonder what kind of data this is based on.

I'd love to see some pictures of the Piscina Mirabile and Rione Terra. Those two were closed on all four occasions I was there.

Don't go on Sunday

Do you know what they're doing? Cleaning/restoring or excavating?

If I remember correctly it's this one:

Yes, I've visited the library a number of times. You're bound to have a great time there. About the make or break comment, although these scholarships are important and you'd better produce a result, they're not a one shot opportunity. Your future doesn't depend on those two months, the important thing is collecting data and making connections where necessary, and then do the writing back home where your time is less valuable. And there will be other scholarships if you need more time. With institutions like the national institutes in Rome it tends to get easier to get in once you've been there before and the staff knows you.

That's not a bad place to be for a few months. Nice library, and they throw good parties every now and then

Not sure what to think of it, those options don't sound particularly attractive to me. The free ones would probably be too annoying quality-wise, and I don't do DRM out of principle. If I buy something I want to own it without restrictions. If any of that changed I would definately consider it though.

What is this? Libraries in England charge patrons money to borrow DVDs? Like Blockbuster Video stores? Do all libraries in England now do this, or just yours? I think St. Paul's public library in Michigan was considering doing this, but it's not something one would normally see here in the States. In fact, I think there would be a tax-payer's revolt (and rightfully so), if Long Island public libraries ever tried charging money to borrow library materials. We do charge overdue fines, though, if the DVDs aren't brought back on time. I think your library should refund that kid his 50 pence, at the very least. -- Nephele Pretty standard fare for Europe. If you're unlucky they make you pay for borrowing individual books as well, and that's apart from the annual membership fee of course. edit: and the kid shouldn't get his money back for being an idiot

Better not tell them that

University College London - Institute of Archaeology: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/

Will you be at the Swedish Institute?

I'll be in the Somerset/Wiltshire area in April, but that might be a bit too soon.

The greenish-blue colour is the natural colour of glass, so if you don't need it to look a certain way (e.g. windows) that's probably what you'd use. As for being wealthy, I'm pretty sure the lower classes used it too, as it turns up in such large amounts all over the place, especially considering it can be recycled whereas pottery cannot. Not sure about windows though.

I've excavated plenty of it. No pictures though, you're going to have to take my word for it Here is an interesting link, it mentions colourless glass somewhere.