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EXPLORATOR
Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 44 -- March 4, 2001
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Happy Zoroastrian New Year everyone:
OLD WORLD NEWS
Egypt Online has a brief feature on the Sun Boats of Cheops:
The Lebanon Daily Star has a piece on the origins of the Arabic language:
The Times has a touristy piece on various ancient sites in Libya:
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The latest entry in the our-ancestors-were-cannibals sweepstakes is the Britons (no doubt soon to be the subject of an installment of Eat the Ancestors ... sorry ... couldn't resist):
As you've no doubt seen on countless news reports, the Taliban in Afghanistan is deliberately damaging several ancient Buddhist monuments:
If you'd like some background on the Bamiyan site:
A brief item in various sources suggests rail construction of links to the Channel Tunnel are turning up plenty o sites:
Tests on some pipes (the smoking kind) suggest Bill Shakespeare might have had access to drugs:
ITAR-TASS via Northern Light has an item on the discovery of a coin of the Bosporan Kingdom:
Xinhua via Northern Light reports on the discovery of a number of tombs:
... and well preserved mummies in Lop Nur:
... along with the usual weekly news briefs:
NEW WORLD NEWS
Another week when I couldn't find anything!!!!
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
There's a new online issue of Archaeology out, with online features on Timbuktu, the deepwater Greek shipwreck mentioned last week, an interview with Rosalie David, among other things:
Mercator's World has some new stuff online, including a feature on how to identify fake maps and one on Willem Blaeu:
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
A review of a production of Prometheus in Athens:
... and of Mister Hercules:
Athens News has a touristy piece on Rome and the "Coliseum":
Portland Press has an item on homeschooling Latin:
A pile of classicists have weighed in on the Marathon rowing venue thing:
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EXHIBITIONS
The Toledo Museum of Art is hosting "Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum":
Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru is on at the Met:
ERRATA
In the last issue I was not so diligent in my cutting and pasting and so many of you wrote to tell me (thanks!) the BBC story on the looting of various Mayan sites is at (would you believe I almost miscut and mispasted again!):
FOLLOWUPS
Viking Village:
Herculaneum library:
Malaria and Rome:
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Peruvian tombs:
... at least some of the links at the Discovering Archaeology site have started to work:
AT ABOUT.COM
Archaeology guide Kris Hirst has announced the creation of a moderated chatroom at her site; the first chat is with Tom Dillehay from 9-11 a.m. Today!!!:
N.S. Gill tells us about the ancient Roman New Year celebrations and their links to Lent:
Latin Guide Janet Burns has a nice piece on Latin heteronyms (including those words which change meaning according to macron placement):
OBITUARY
Brian Hope-Taylor:
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Robert Coleman (scroll down a bit):
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REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
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