Links for the Week of 6 January

Regular posting will be starting again this week.
Mt. Vesuvius from space” (via @tronchin)
More information about the Antikythera mechanism shipwreck, with a nice reconstruction of it: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/01/03/antikythera-shipwreck-survey/1804353/ (via @markhilverda and @ARCHAEOLOGYfans)
@CryForByzantium will be starting over on 1 February, tweeting Byzantine history from the beginning.
Mary Beard as a Vestal Virgin talking about Roman holidays: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20851654 (via @wmarybeard)
Information on the Mithraeum at the Baths of Caracalla, with pictures and how to get tickets: http://saverome.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/1152/ (via @AIRomanCulture)

More from the CANE blog

Pop Music in Latin!

Need something for your advanced class after the AP or the weeks before graduation or final exams or as something fun to do on Fridays?

Quid sacco meo electronico insit

This is not a written-out version of a model classroom exercise which you can find done by the Quomodo dicitur? trio and others via Tu

Links for 22 August

TED-Ed explains the etymology behind the word “sarcophagus.” What’s Greek about Greek Life Organizations? (via @camwsclassics) Boston students go to National Certamen Championship (via @ClassColl)