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Sexuality and the Sacred in Gnostic Literature
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No CommentsJesus said to them 'When you make the two one and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside and the above like the below and when you make the male and the female one and the same so that the male be not male nor the female female… then you will enter the kingdom. -
Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No CommentsThis exercise reveals the extent to which the Roman economy resembled more recent societies and sheds light on the prospects for economic growth in the Roman Empire, for good financial markets and institutions help people who have ideas for production get resources to implement those ideas. -
Ophir: its location unveiled
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No CommentsOphir is the name of a geographic location appearing in several passages in the Bible. -
Smithsonian opens ‘Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt’ exhibit
Posted on November 18, 2011 | No CommentsA combination of rare artifacts and cutting-edge research tools will illuminate how Smithsonian scientists have pieced together the lives of ancient Egyptians through their burial practices and rituals in preparation for their eternal life. -
Visigoths and Romans: Integration and Ethnicity
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsThe year was 414 and Galla Placidia, Roman princess and half-sister of Honorius, emperor of the Western Empire, sat next to Athaulf, barbarian king of the Visigoths -
Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia discovered in Alaska
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsResearchers have discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia. -
Huge Ancient Greek commercial area discovered on Sicily
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsBonn archaeologists have began unearthing one of Greek antiquity’s largest craftsmen’s quarters in the colonial city of Selinunte on the island of Sicily -
“Ghostwriting” the Torah? New algorithm distinguishes contributors to the Old Testament with high accuracy, says Tel Aviv University research
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsResearchers have developed an algorithm that could help to unravel the different sources that contributed to individual books of the Bible. -
Livia Drusilla: Deciphering Between Traditional Views of Rome’s First Lady
Posted on November 14, 2011 | No CommentsThough Livia was Augustus’s third wife, she was without a doubt the woman who held the most influence in his life, and one of the few women whose name endures in ancient history. -
Natural history in Herodotus’ “Histories”
Posted on November 13, 2011 | No CommentsThis thesis argues that Herodotus should be considered in the context of early Greek science, and in the history of the development of Greek speculative thought in general...