Some More Nails for the Ossuary of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife
The excitement/brouhaha over the purported Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing has died down a bit, but over the past couple of weeks there have been a couple of developments which are probably of great...
View ArticleGospel of Jesus’ Wife ~ Just Sayin’
Tip o’ the pileus to Robert Cargill who alerted us to a post at The Quaternion (A Coptic New Testament Papyrus Fragment (Galatians 2) For Sale on eBay) which really has nothing to do with the Gospel of...
View ArticleAlexander and his wife, Helen of Troy
This is definitely in the FWIW category, but there is some wheat among the chaff … from the Tribune (Pakistan): There is, in rural Mandi Bahauddin district, a few kilometres from Phalia town, a village...
View ArticleOdysseus in America?
Here’s some (ultimately vintage) nuttiness for your Black Friday standing-in-an-endless-line-at-the-checkout reading … from Greek Reporter: The first researcher, who questioned the prevailing theory...
View ArticleFirst Tartan? I Hae Me Doots
Hype for a documentary airing on BBC this Friday: Remnants of a Roman statue in North Africa could be the “first-ever depiction of tartan”, according to a BBC Scotland documentary. A piece of a bronze...
View ArticleFemale Genital Mutilation in Rome?
There’s a piece from Discovery going around right now with a focus on the origins of female genital mutialtion. Inter alia: While the term infibulation has its roots in ancient Rome, where female...
View ArticleSocrates Bashing
I came across these a while ago … figured someone would want to read them. They’re a series about why Socratic philosophy is overrated by someone called ‘Richard in Japan’: Socrates Was a Fraud: The...
View ArticleCatching Up With the Jordan Codices
I’ve almost got my inbox to zero and finally have a chance to give attention to some things that are a few weeks old. Back at the end of November, the BBC was hyping an exposeish show about David...
View ArticleNew Year’s Toasting Redux
We haven’t read claims of the Roman origins of toasting — especially that once-common, and spurious, claim about putting a piece of burnt bread in wine to make it taste better — for a while, but it...
View ArticleGospel of Jesus’ Wife Latest
This one’s just starting to make the rounds and likely won’t get too much attention. CNN’s Belief Blog has an update of sorts on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing, especially as regards the testing,...
View ArticleCleopatra Murdered? Hmmmm ….
Just saw this post by author Pat Brown, who is promoting her work via the Huffington Post … here’s the incipit: For 2000 years, historians and Egyptologists have written of Cleopatra VII’s death in 30...
View ArticleSimcha’s Supposed Smoking Templar Firearms
As many longtime rogueclassicism and Explorator readers know, when Easter comes around we usually get one or two claims of varying degrees of credulity having to do with the crucifixion and/or...
View ArticleAncient Roman Hidden Under Fresco? Maybe … Maybe Not
As can be seen by the numerous posts from the Classical blogosphere, I’m in catchup mode after a hectic week and one item which has been bugging me big time is a report about a talk given at the...
View ArticleOdysseus in America Redux
We’ve had this nuttiness before and once again, it comes from the Greek Reporter: Dr. Enrico Mattievich, a retired Professor of Physics from the UFRJ, Brazil, suggested in 2011 that Odysseus’s journey...
View ArticleDiagnostical Skepticism
Hot on the heels of the Odysseus in America post comes this item from Anesthesiology News: Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, of Peleus’ son, murderous, man-killer, fated to die of massive...
View ArticleOn Egos and “Bulldozers” and Bull of Another Kind
As many folks know, besides filling my time with rogueclassicism, I also put out a weekly archaeology newsletter called Explorator which looks at coverage of archaeology in all parts of the world. I’ve...
View ArticleAlexander the Great Tomb in Amphipolis? Yeah … about that
This is another one of those mind bogglers which I don’t really understand … Back on August 21, a typically vague and brief item appeared in Greek Reporter: A group of archaeologists in Amphipolis, a...
View ArticleMacedonians in China? Yeah, about that …
We’ll preface this by noting it’s written by the same author who spread the misinformation about Amphipolis for the Greek Reporter: In antiquity when the Ancient Greeks and Romans referred to the...
View ArticleDid the Ancient Greeks Discover America?
In a word, no, but that doesn’t stop the Epoch Times for wasting electrons on a nutty theory … here are just enough exerpts to smack your gob: The year 1492 is one of history’s most famous dates, when...
View ArticleBocce Origins Redux
Ten years almost to the day, we get another claim about Roman origins of bocce … from a WWAY3 feature: The Romans first played the game around 300 BC with coconuts they brought back from Africa. Now...
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