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Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 52 -- April 29, 2001
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First of all, apologies to all who received an html-formatted newsletter last week and whose systems couldn't process it. I did not intend to send out html mail and am still trying to figure out why it went out that way. That said, thanks to all who responded to my query about an html-formatted Explorator; from private mail it is very clear that this would not be a good thing for the vast majority, so we'll keep things as they are.
Thanks to Curtis B. Edmundson, Jean Laplante, Tim Parkin, Sally Winchester, 'mauros', Michael Ruggieri, 'Sujazz', and Bill Kennedy for several headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
OLD WORLD NEWS
The Daily Star has a feature on the Canaanite site of Yarmuta:
A conference on how best to preserve the monuments of the Middle/Near east has political implications:
MSNBC (and others) has an interesting item on black magic in the ancient Greek world:
Police have confiscated a hoard of interesting illegally-excavated artifacts near Vonitsa:
AthensNews has a lengthy touristy piece on ancient Troezen:
A fourth-century Egyptian coffin is on display in Rochester:
Another bit of fallout from Afghanistan: the left foot of Zeus is on display in Tokyo:
The Aberdeen Herald has a brief item on a recent Iron Age discovery in that city:
The Times (South Africa) has a feature on the excavations at Uxellodunum ('eat your heart out Asterix'):
(cf. )
There was a fair bit of coverage this week devoted to the discovery of a Roman-era armoury/armour in Roman Carlisle:
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A Roman villa at El-Jem will soon be open to the public:
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A third-century Celtic fibula has reached a rather high price at auction:
Also at auction at Christie's ... a pile of Italian vases, many of them looted apparently:
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Le Figaro has an item (in French) on damage done and threatened to the Henri IV-era Chateau de Saumur (watch the wrap):
The Times of India reports on damage done to Mnajdra Temple:
The BBC has an item on damage done to the Zoukoudian Caves:
CNN has a piece on the threat to ancient cities in Laos:
SwissInfo reports on an exhibition of ancient textiles from the Taklamakan Desert:
NEW WORLD NEWS
There was major coverage of the discovery/redating of the Peruvian city of Caral:
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The Telegraph has a feature on the Mayan site of Las Milpas:
The Salt Lake Tribune has an interesting item on a pile of old footwear originally found in Promontory Cave:
The Washington Post has a nice piece on the slave graves at what was once James Madison's home:
The Columbus Dispatch has an item in anticipation of a conference (held last week) called "Old and New World Prehistory at the Crossroads":
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
Archaeology Magazine has a new online issue with abstracts of articles on ancient Abydos, the recently-discovered inn at Pompeii, the spiritual life of slaves in America, and numerous other items:
The Art Newspaper has apparently updated its archaeology page (but not copyright date!), with items on Stonehenge, the statue of Cybele recently found in Greece, threats to sites in Sicily, and a cache of coins from Syria:
Biblical Archaeology Review also has a new online issue, with articles on stone shrines in the Negev, the battle over ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Abraham's Ur, among other things:
Egypt Revealed has a piece in anticipation of a F. Goddio lecture on the layout of the sunken bits of ancient Alexandria (with a fairly good map):
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
This is the sort of thing I've been dying to do with my classes:
The Independent has a precis of Peter Wiseman's presidential address to the Classical Association:
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More from the meeting:
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FOLLOWUPS
Buddha birthplace:
Cleopatra at the BM:
Herculaneum Papyri:
The Hunley:
Karachi mummy:
Pyramid hidden cavities:
Seahenge:
Troy: Myth and Reality:
OBITUARIES
Laurence Flanagan:
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AT ABOUT.COM
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest feature is on Spartacus:
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has put up the transcript of last week's chat with Larry McKee (this week's has, alas, been postponed):
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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