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TRUTH SERUM

TRUTH SERUM   Is truth like rubber, Infinitely flexible Without breaking?   Or is truth...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

The Story of Sundrop

Picture me as a young boy on a super hot Wilmington N.C. day standing in...

July 29, 2025

There Will Be Bodies–Another Lindsey Davis Murder Mystery

Lindsey Davis is a very gifted writer, now on the thirteenth iteration of her Flavia...

July 27, 2025

Is There Room for Another Superman?

  My answer is yes, if the acting is good, and the story is interesting...

July 25, 2025

Singing in a Northern Italian Church

July 24, 2025

Oh Well Orvieto!

You may be familiar with stories about Popes in Rome (of course), or Popes in...

July 22, 2025

Orvieto–Italy’s Hidden Gem– Part Five

There is a fair bit of statuary to see in Orvieto cathedral including this beautiful...

July 21, 2025

Orvieto–Italy’s Hidden Gem–Part Four

If you found the detail on the outside of the cathedral mesmerizing, just wait until...

July 20, 2025

Orvieto–Italy’s Hidden Gem– Part 3

You could spend hours just studying what's on the front of Orvieto's cathedral.  Here are...

July 19, 2025

Orvieto– Italy’s Hidden Gem– Part 2

There is a reason why the resurrection chapel to the right of the main altar...

July 18, 2025

Italy’s Hidden Gem–Orvieto Part 1

Certainly one of my very favorite places to visit in Italy is the hilltop town...

July 17, 2025

Miletus Museum Grave Art

Apart from the bird stele above, it is not clear to me that any of...

July 16, 2025

The Keystone in the Arch

There were three sorts of stones referred to in the Bible that were of significance---...

July 15, 2025

More Floor in Store (and Walls) at Ephesos

The discussion of how this archaeological project came about is in itself worth studying.  Here...

July 13, 2025

Have You’ve Been Floored— the Slope Houses’ Floors

The slope houses are the amazing high rise apartment that the Austrian have unearthed at...

July 11, 2025

F-1— The Need for Speed

It's not just the technology that's speeding up, everything seems to be in a world...

July 10, 2025

The Ephesus Museum

Considering how vast the archaeological site at Ephesus is, it is shocking that there is...

July 09, 2025

Pergamon’s Dangerous Theater

Who was it that thought that was a safe angle to put rows of seats...

July 08, 2025

Trajan’s Colossal Temple on top of Pergamon

As history tells us, the reign of Trajan was involved the apex of the expansion...

July 06, 2025

The Temple of Artemis at Sardis

The tourist visiting the site of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus, will be sadly...

July 05, 2025

The Sardis Synagogue– Perhaps the Largest in Antiquity

    The word audacious comes to mind when examining the synagogue at Sardis.  Compared...

July 04, 2025

Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait

Considering the tyranny going on in our country authorized by an elected official, there is...

July 02, 2025

The New Museum in Izmir

I love museums, and many of them in Turkiye are treasure troves.  This museum was...

July 01, 2025

Thyatira– Little Remains

Like many ancient cities, where occupation of the site has been continuous into modernity, the...

June 2025

June 30, 2025

Main Street in Hierapolis

It was not just Laodicea that was a major city that acquired a considerable Christian...

June 29, 2025

Always More to see at Laodicea

Full marks to Professor Shimshek and his team for continuing over many years to unearth...

June 28, 2025

Polycarp Park

Izmir=Smyrna is a seaside town with a huge bay for ships to find harbor.  This...

June 27, 2025

The Cotton Castle Cliff

Hierapolis has an unusual natural feature--- calcium carbonate cliffs.   You can see these cliffs from...

June 26, 2025

How Mobile were the Ancients?

There used to be a time when skeptical scholars asserted that it is unlikely Paul...

June 25, 2025

Recent Developments at Laodicea– Part Three

Laodicea is an ongoing project, and the latest development is fascinating.  It involves Trajan's provision...

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