Country Roads

I'm not sure why anybody bothered to make this video: Doesn't everyone's Mom drive like this on the way to school?Although it also reminds me of the drive from the archaeologists' camp at Fort Ross State Historic Park in CA to the laundromat.

The Lewis Chessmen

As I can't figure out how to embed this one, clik here.

The Lod Mosaic, Lod, Israel

Quite a nice mosaic -and quite large at 27 by 50 feet- was discovered in 1996 in Lod, Israel, and is now starting a tour of US museums.

Made around 300 AD, it is virtually pristine except for a section destroyed centuries later when someone dug a cesspit through it.

Lots of pictures of the conservation process at this site, including pics of the bare and shod footprints of the people who made it some 1700 years ago.