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EXPLORATOR
Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 48 (!) -- April 1, 2000
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Happy daylight savings time to everyone in those parts of the world who observe such things!
Thanks for the heads ups to Sally Winchester, John Carr, Ernest Loewinsohn,
and Bill Kennedy (a.a.h.i.h.n.l.a.o.)
OLD WORLD NEWS
ABC (Australia) reports that a 3100-year-old mummy has had a "sex change" of sorts:
eKatherimini has an item on the excavations at (Minoan) Palaikastro:
The Chicago Tribune had a nice article last weekend on the state of archaeology/sites in Iraq:
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Zahi Hawass is challenging the long-held notion and soon-to-be BM exhibition that Cleopatra wasn't exactly a Helen-of-Troy league beauty:
A number of frescoes stolen from Pompeii have been returned:
A watering trough outside a British pub has turned out to be a Roman sarcophagus:
The Lebanon Daily Star has a piece on Roman glass:
A new documentary on the 'real' Jesus is getting a lot of hype primarily (it seems) for the facial reconstruction:
A scholar has suggested that Robert the Bruce's organs were not interred with his body:
Xinhua reports on the top 100 Chinese archaeological discoveries of the 20th century:
They also report on a project to determine the origin of Chinese civilization:
Discovering Archaeology has put up a new feature on Cambodia "After the Nightmare":
First it was recreating the beer drunk by various ancient cultures, now it's recreating perfumes from Pompeii:
Folks might enjoy reading the historical basis for Britain's tax year:
NEW WORLD NEWS
The Inland Empire Online has a column all about Mesa Verde sites on the web:
There's a new (?) suggestion on what happened to Walter Raleigh's 'lost colonists':
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
There's a new issue of Archaeology Odyssey out, with some nice online content on ancient copies (Greek and Roman), the Hurrian city of Urkesh, the origins of the jury system, and several other items:
Atlantic Monthly has an article on "The Genetic Archaeology of Race":
EXHIBITIONS
Athens News has a review of Waldemar Deonna - Paul Collart: Two Swiss Archaeologists Photograph Greece 1904-1939:
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
A preview/reviewish thing tells all sorts of gossipy stuff about the movie Cleopatra (the one with Liz):
cf.:
Knowledge Management magazine has a feature "Taxonomy of the Ancients", on how Callimachus organized the Library at Alexandria:
REVIEWS
The Independent has a review of A. Everitt, *Cicero: A Turbulent Life*:
WEBSITES
A very nice website (in Spanish) on Roman engineering:
OBITUARIES
Nicholas Hammond
Helge Instad (some in Norwegian):
Margaret Jones
FOLLOWUPS
Bahariya Oasis:
Maya bath houses:
Buddhas in Afghanistan:
Baghdad ancient writing conference:
Europe's oldest boat:
Nauticos deepwater ancient shipwreck
(this one is close to a month old; folks might want to revisit the item in Archaeology magazine on it ... it's the last item in this list; the first item is a bit of video which I could not get to work, but maybe it will for you):
The Hunley:
AT ABOUT.COM
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest in on the labours of Hercules:
Latin Guide Janet Burns has a feature on demonstratives:
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a feature on the Archaeology Channel:
... last week's chat transcript (Judy Bense):
... tonight's chat is with Bill Kelso (talking about Jamestown):
... next week: Justin Kerr and Sandra Noble (FAMSI, on the Maya Vase Rollout Project
and the Precolumbian Portfolio)
DIVERSIONS
Athens News has a review of Sierra's *Master of Olympus -- Zeus* computer simulation/game thingie:
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
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Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
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English translation (probably delayed ... hasn't been updated since August):
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