2014 – The Year We Could Never Have Seen Coming
Two years ago, a few graduate students in our department came up with the ambitious, and almost foolhardy, plan of cataloging and digitizing the over-1000 epigraphic squeezes that were locked away in...
View ArticleAll About That (Data)Base
Our last post was a recap of the past year, highlighting all our progress and successes. It was a great way to end 2014, and encouraged us to look forward to everything we plan to accomplish in 2015...
View ArticleThe Erechtheion Inscriptions
The Erechtheion building accounts were inscribed on marble slabs with text in 2 or 3 columns, most with writing on both sides. We are lucky that they found large fragments of text intact. In this...
View ArticleChance and the Archaeologist’s Trowel
“It is sometimes argued that, whereas classical studies retain in the modern world their value as an educational discipline in schools and universities, they have no real future at the level of...
View ArticleFrom Stone to Screen in Greek 201
Today’s post is by Dr. Melissa Funke, and addresses the issue of introducing second year Greek students to epigraphy. Her perspective on using squeezes to get her students interested in translation is...
View ArticleSpot the Classicist – Bikers, the AIA and Beignets in the Big Easy
We have a game, I’m not sure who started it or how wide-spread it is (or even if it’s not something that I’ve just made up in my head), called ‘Spot the Classicist.’ It’s quite simple. You stand in a...
View ArticleAdding to the From Stone to Screen ‘Family’
Today is Family Day here in British Columbia, so we thought it only fitting to talk about new members of the FSTS family. Okay, it’s a stretch, but we’ll take any excuse we can get! We recently held a...
View ArticleA Hidden Heart – The Other Half of the Dream Team
In October, we had a post about Chelsea Gardner and the work she did to initiate the project in 2013. Our next post in our student profile series is about Lisa Tweten, the other Project Co-Director....
View ArticleFrom Stone to Screen is Hiring: 3 Digitization Assistant Positions Available
We are very happy to announce that there are a few paid positions available for the summer months and into the 2015 academic year, made possible by the generous TLEF funding! There are officially three...
View ArticleBetter, Faster, Stronger: Our Work is Never Over
Spring is an odd time for students. The rhythm of the year is ingrained over the years; spring is crunch time, deadlines, essays, exams, and finishing up. It’s graduation and goodbyes. It stands in...
View ArticleFrom WTF to ATL
This post was written by Emma Hilliard, one of From Stone to Screen’s Digitization Assistants. My first few weeks with From Stone to Screen were a roller coaster. On the one hand, I was thrilled to...
View Article50 Shades of Brown – Phase 2 of Learning what Archaeology Really Is
On a Monday morning, at the ungodly hour of 7:45 am (ok so not so early compared to other archaeological digs but I really hate mornings), I looked out over the enormity that is trench C at Coriglia...
View ArticleThe Mecca of Greek Epigraphy: Researching at the Athens Epigraphical Museum
“Bring cookies when you go. Everyone loves cookies.” Words of wisdom from Dr. Molly Richardson, and advice I made sure to follow while I spent three days this July researching at the Athens...
View ArticleA Not-So-Persian Persian Bowl
By Leah Saddy In the UBC CNERS George Fuller Artifact Collection is a Persian Bowl which seems to defy the forms and artistic traditions of Islamic Art. Shallow and rounded, its colour scheme is a...
View ArticleUsing Plato for Quantum Mechanics – Becca Napolitano
This is the first blog in our series featuring graduate students who are working in Digital Antiquity. We hope this inspires you to follow both their work and maybe take your own in a new digital...
View ArticleThese Are Not The Cigars You Are Looking For
Today’s blog is by one of our PhD volunteers, Maude Côté-Landry who did some research on a 19th century box which held some of our Fuller artifacts. When we first started researching the Fuller...
View ArticleRecollections of Tell-es-Safi/Gath 2015: When I Learned Tureas are the Real MVP
The Tell-es-Safi/Gath project has recently been receiving much attention due to the recent discovery of the monumental city gate. As someone who was there at the time of the discovery, I can attest to...
View ArticleIslamic Glazed Vessel Sherds and Their Possible Mamluk Origins
The Islamic Glazed Vessel Sherds in the George Fuller Collection consist of an unidentified jumble of glazed ceramic pieces, shown by their differences in size, decoration and weight to have originated...
View ArticleIn Memoriam, Ad Infinitum: Dietmar Neufeld
We are extremely sad to announce that on September 9th, 2015, Dietmar Neufeld, the head of the department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies passed away. Besides being a truly wonderful...
View ArticleHow We Spent Our Summer Vacation
Like ducks on a pond, our site may have been quiet over the summer but we were madly churning away, digitizing new collections, creating teaching modules and getting our army of awesome volunteers...
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