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  • Ms. Mayor illuminates antiquity's bloodiest one-day massacre of civilians in 88 B.C. and explains why it took Rome's best generals more than a quarter century to defeat him.

    Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011

  • As a form of crop rotation and non-chemical nitrogen replenishment -- plus the limits on growth and density it unintentionally enforces by limiting population to the carrying capacity of the wild land - the sabbatical year is antiquity's most sustainable practice.

    Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: 14 By 14, A Biblical Emissions Mandate: 14 (Percent Reduction) By (20)14 Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2012

  • As a form of crop rotation and non-chemical nitrogen replenishment -- plus the limits on growth and density it unintentionally enforces by limiting population to the carrying capacity of the wild land - the sabbatical year is antiquity's most sustainable practice.

    Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: 14 By 14, A Biblical Emissions Mandate: 14 (Percent Reduction) By (20)14 Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2012

  • As a form of crop rotation and non-chemical nitrogen replenishment -- plus the limits on growth and density it unintentionally enforces by limiting population to the carrying capacity of the wild land - the sabbatical year is antiquity's most sustainable practice.

    Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: 14 By 14, A Biblical Emissions Mandate: 14 (Percent Reduction) By (20)14 Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2012

  • A splashy exhibit making its world premiere Saturday at the Franklin Institute makes a case for the latter, using recently discovered artifacts to illustrate two archaeologists 'search for the truth -- and the tomb -- of one of antiquity's most maligned figures.

    Cleopatra exhibit tells an intriguing tale 2010

  • But at least for the next few months, you don't have to journey too far to see some of antiquity's greatest treasures all in one place.

    The Art of Foreign Influence 2009

  • She has a tendency to throw out things that aren't used, but I'm hoping she hangs onto this, if only for antiquity's sake.

    Not your modern spinning wheel 2006

  • It turned out to be an extraordinary find: a marble figure of Niobe -- one of antiquity's most tragic mythic figures -- headless, more than six feet tall, and weighing more than 3,000 pounds.

    Myth in Marble 2005

  • And so antiquity's betrayal — its faking, its looting, its destruction — is seen as more than a petty crime; it is an act of national violation.

    The Curse of the Sevso Silver 2001

  • And so antiquity's betrayal — its faking, its looting, its destruction — is seen as more than a petty crime; it is an act of national violation.

    The Curse of the Sevso Silver 2001

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