The Magpie Mason

The Magpie Mason is an obscure journalist in the Craft who writes, with occasional flashes of superficial cleverness, about Freemasonry’s current events and history; literature and art; philosophy and pipe smoking. He is a Past Master of both The American Lodge of Research in New York City and of New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education 1786; and also is at labor in Virginia’s Civil War Lodge of Research 1865. He is a past president of the lamented Masonic Society as well.

Showing posts with label archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archaeology. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2024

‘Archaeologists find evidence of ancient crimson’

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     Israel Antiquities Authority The crimson fragments. And now, I have sent a wise man, endowed with understanding, of my father Huram. Th...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

‘Masonic relics discovered!’

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     That’s a little hyperbole. The “relics” are common items, but it is pretty cool that they were recovered yesterday from within a time c...
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Monday, December 6, 2021

‘Familiar looking coin found in Jerusalem’

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     Eliyahu Yanai/City of David There is something going on lately with amateur archeologists unearthing ancient coins. It seems hardly a m...
Monday, February 1, 2021

‘To work in the color purple’

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      Israel Antiquities Authority “And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Hiram my father’s, the son of a woman o...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

‘From the clay grounds between Succoth and Zeredatha?’

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      I’m always happy to turn the discussion to pipe smoking. Part of the unsung work inherent in being the Magpie Mason is assisting arch...
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Monday, May 7, 2012

‘Making old news new again’

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     Hebrew University archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel will hold a press conference Tuesday to “announce all-new findings related to the time...
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