Category Archives: Communications

Reminder: LegacyQuest Letters of Intent Due December 13

Posted on December 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

*Here’s the blog we ran a while back announcing LegacyQuest, the International Children’s Film and Video Festival that will be held during AntiquityNOW Month in May 2014. Please contact Shirley K. Gazsi, president of AntiquityNOW, at sgazsi@antiquitynow.org to discuss any ideas or if you have questions about an entry. We look forward to your submissions!

Discovering the secrets of past lives can often defy conventional wisdom and astound our modern sensibilities. With this in mind, AntiquityNOW (AN) and Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) are launching the first LegacyQuest International Children’s Film and Video Festival open to young people between the ages of 12 and 15 (6^th – 8^th grades) in the United States and abroad. It will be held in conjunction with The Archaeology Channel (TAC) International Film and Video Festival, May 9-13, 2014, in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Young people are encouraged to submit videos or films that represent antiquity’s legacy in contemporary life. For example, students may show how today’s green technology has roots in ancient people’s use of thermal energy and wind power to heat their homes and pump their water. Creative and varied perspectives of historical and modern connections can be captured in any form, including documentary, narrative and journalistic, as well as interpretive styles using music or art. Continue reading →

The History in our Language: Idioms from Ancient Times, Part 2

Posted on August 15, 2013 | 2 comments

“Belshazzar’s Feast”, Rembrandt Van Rijn

Some of our common English sayings have a very ancient past. As a follow-up to The History in our Language: Idioms from Ancient Times, Part 1, here is Part 2 of idioms with ancient roots. Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog, Communications, Culture, Public Life

Tagged ancient history, AntiquityNOW, Babylon, Belshazzar, Daniel, idioms, language, Pandora, Zeus

AntiquityNOW on Alltop!

Posted on July 17, 2013 | Leave a comment

We are very excited to announce that our web site has been accepted for inclusion in the archaeology section of Alltop.com! So, what is Alltop? According to their website, “The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, ‘What’s happening?’ in ‘all the topics’ that interest you.” They gather the headlines of the latest and most relevant stories from what they believe to be the best sites and blogs that cover a particular topic. Each topic is given its own web page with the five most recent headlines listed under each source. The Science Channel explains that “rather than forcing the user to sort through a massive collection of keyword-based results like a normal search engine, Alltop recommends a number of links, which are vetted for quality and relevance on any given topic.” Continue reading →

Ancient Graffiti: From Pompeii to Smyrna

Posted on July 16, 2013 | 6 comments

Image courtesy of DHA

We’ve talked a lot about ancient graffiti in our blog posts and it has always been about the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. In “Wall Posts: Putting Pompeii’s Political Graffiti in a Modern Context” we discussed how politicians campaigned using graffiti on the walls of wealthy homeowners and in “Super Bowl XLVII and the Superstars of Ancient Rome” we explained how people could find a favorite gladiator advertising olive oil or his latest fight on the walls of the city. Recently, an archaeological dig unearthed a collection of graffiti that may be even richer than that of Pompeii. Archaeologists working in the agora (ancient marketplace) of Izmir -or Greek Smyrna- found the “richest Greek graffiti collection in the world” dating back to the 2^nd and 4^th centuries A.D. Continue reading →

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Posted in Art, Blog, Communications, Culture, Public Life

Tagged agora, ancient history, AntiquityNOW, graffiti, Greek, Izmir, Pompeii, Smyrna

Wall Posts: Putting Pompeii’s Political Graffiti in a Modern Context

Posted on January 25, 2013 | 5 comments

Do you instantly share your amazing dinner on Instagram? Post about your political opinion on Facebook? Find a liked-minded community through LinkedIn? Perhaps our ancestors had similar feelings about their social networking systems.

While part of online social networking is creating an identity, the main purpose is to create connections with others and add to the conversation. In today’s hypercaffeinated online world, we get excited if a celebrity or important organization re-tweets us. We feel part of something, connected to a person or idea that expands our sense of self. Continue reading →

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Posted in Art, Blog, Communications, Culture, Politics, Public Life

Tagged ancient history, AntiquityNOW, graffiti, history, politics, Pompeii, social media