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EXPLORATOR
Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 4, Issue 4 -- May 27, 2001
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Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap
(especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to
rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not found', check to see if
the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active for at least eight hours
from the time of 'publicatio'.
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Thanks to Michael Ruggieri, Allastair Millar, Bill Kennedy, Trevor Watkins, Curtis B. Edmondson, and Matt Glendinning for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
OLD WORLD NEWS
A new report suggests that diet might be a clue to the demise of the Neanderthals:
Archaeologists have found evidence of the oldest site found in Scotland:
An emergency excavation in Israel has turned up a Chalcolithic figurine and a 6000 year-old burial chamber:
A Croatian archaeologist is claiming to have deciphered Europe's oldest calendar:
The New York Times has a feature on the Etruscans:
A Romano-Celtic temple has been discovered at Vindolanda:
It appears they're going to put elevators in the Colosseum:
I'm sure this is old news (since I took flak for not remembering who the Packard involved was), but the Telegraph is reporting on David Woodley Packard's funding of excavations etc. at Herculaneum:
The remains of a girl found in Essex are providing evidence that Columbus did not bring syphilis back from the new world with him:
Another project in Athens to supposedly link all its archaeological sites has been announced:
The Guardian has an interesting item on restoration of art work (specifically, cleaning da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi):
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This one could be old world or new world, I suppose, since it looks at the reasons major ancient civilizations collapsed:
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NEW WORLD NEWS
Another contribution to the 'when did people come to America first' saga:
The Tribune reports on the identification of a new ancient (!) culture in Arizona:
The remains of a Mayan ruler have been found in Copan:
"Explorers" are claiming to have found the "lost city of the Incas":
The Dispatch has a nice feature on an ongoing rescue type dig in
Columbus:
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REVIEW
The Times has a review of Richard P. Taylor *Death and the Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia*:
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
The Jewish Magazine's Archaeology in Israel feature this month is devoted to Jaffa:
The Atlantic Monthly has a feature on Roman Africa:
Egypt Revealed has a feature on women in ancient Egypt (noted in passing ... Zahi Hawass' "Weekly Updates" don't appear to be):
There's a new issue of Bible Review out, with features on "Genesis as Rashomon", the history of the alphabet, et alia:
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
I'm not sure why this took so long to hit the search engines ... it's an update on the Loyola situation:
Folks will probably be interested in the simulated archaeological dig (with Roman remains) going on at Germantown Friends School:
The Guardian has a review of Marina Warner, *The Leto Bundle* which might be of interest:
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eKatherimini has a feature on ancient Mediterranean cuisine:
An item on Brown might be of interest:
The New York Daily News appears to be the first to deal with the story behind Disney's Atlantis:
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AT ABOUT.COM
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Aristophanes:
Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on the Latin roots which give rise to the names of rocks and minerals:
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst is reprising her parody "The Very Model of a Modern Archaeologist":
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OBITUARY
Dorothy Burr Thompson:
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FOLLOWUPS
Caral:
Cleopatra:
Harappan submerged site:
Hunley:
(New) Library at Alexandria:
Lott House:
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Marathon Rowing site:
Nazca Lines threat:
Roman Shipwreck in the Tyne:
Temple Mount (not really a followup, but nothing really new):
Thor Heyerdahl:
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