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    Olaf and the Axe Iconography in Norway – Undredal, 12th c. Stave Church Depiction?

    3 days ago

    By Patrick Hunt –  Olaf Tryggvason Olaf I Tryggvason (ca. 960-1000 CE) was the Viking king who forcibly began to Christianize the people of Norway at the end of the 10th century, a change suggested at times by his detractors as conversion forced at swordpoint. If depicted as a bloody […]

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    Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi, Turkey

    1 month ago

    By Jess Taylor – In late summer 2007 we decided to drive due south from Istanbul to Antalya. On day three, driving deep into central Turkey from Iznik – the modern name for ancient Nicaea but later famous for its Iznik ware porcelain in the Ottoman period – we detoured […]

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    Vikings Renavigated in RIVER KINGS Book – A Review

    3 months ago

    By Patrick Hunt – Vikings continue to be a magnetic topic, especially in light of new discoveries of ships, burials and sites that enable us to concentrate more on their far-flung commercial savvy and technology than the weary and skewed caricature of merely violent rapacity.  Anyone who has been to […]

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    Madeline Miller’s CIRCE : A Review

    3 months ago

    By P. F. Sommerfeldt – I’ve always found the Homeric sorceress Circe in the Odyssey to be fascinating in her power that transcends the feminism of any era. Having looked at many artists over five hundred years in their attempts to depict Circe, I was generally frustrated with nearly all […]

  • Archaeologia, Controversies

    Christopher Hitchens and the Korean Tea-bowl

    4 months ago

    By Leanne Ogasawara – 1. A glance at Hobson-Jobson, the historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words in use during the British rule in India, will show that the word “loot” comes into English from Hindi, ultimately deriving from Sanskrit. It entered the English language around the time of the Opium Wars, when the […]

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  • Vikings Renavigated in RIVER KINGS Book – A Review

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  • Madeline Miller’s CIRCE : A Review

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  • Christopher Hitchens and the Korean Tea-bowl

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