Links for August 8, 2013

An interesting debate about the authenticity of a Roman-Jewish friendship tablet.
Remember to fill out (and even better, have your students fill out) the National Latin Survey!
Check out the Golden Spongestick Awards!
Remember where archaeologists found Richard III? Now they have found yet another coffin at the same place! Who could it be?!
Why is Latin awesome? The Economist explains!

More from the CANE blog

Trucks and the Subjunctive in PowerPoint

Since students don’t know how to use the subjunctive in English, explaining the constructions in Latin is complicated.  The presentations linked in this blog post

Links for the week of 4 November

Comparisons of mummy portraits with the mummies’ faces: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224029/First-Century-Photoshop-Study-brings-mummies-life-reveals-talent-ages-painters-eerie-portrait-likenesses.html (via @DrKillgrove) A new online Latin dictionary: http://instantlatin.com (via @etclassics) A reconstruction of a dish from

"Telephone" history

If you have a school like mine, your students can probably find information more quickly using their phones than using the laptops on the laptop