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Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 4, Issue 8 -- June 24, 2001
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Thanks to Bill Kennedy for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ...
I think I got this one done, finally ... my computer crashed several times during its production (too many programs running at the same time, alas)
OLD WORLD NEWS
A trio of 5600-year-old mummies are challenging conventional theories for the reasons for the process:
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Here's one I missed: back in May, FAZ had a piece on Tel Cheura (in English):
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National Geographic has a nice piece on the search for the Queen of Sheba:
Athens News has a feature on the Helike project:
(check out the project website at: )
A body has been found for Livia's head in the Ashmolean:
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They've re-erected the obelisk which once graced the hippodrome at Caesarea:
It wouldn't be summer without an account of the goings on at Stonehenge at the solstice:
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Mitteldeutsche Zeitung has a feature on a very large 9th century graveyard being excavated near Buro:
Robert Ballard is heading back to the Black Sea to look for evidence of the/a Flood:
UNESCO is worried about Mohenjodaro:
A university in Britain will be offering an MA in Archaeology for Screen Media in an attempt to reduce the number of howlers in programs like Time Team:
A group in California used a huge kite to raise a 30 foot obelisk ... hmmmmmmmm:
NEW WORLD NEWS
The Kennewick Man saga has been renewed:
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The Tennessean has a feature on local archaeologist Elizabeth Kellar:
The New York Times has a very interesting feature on the artistic/stylistic side of native american rock art:
A 16th-century Spanish fortress (maybe) has been discovered near Asheville:
REVIEWS
Archaeologists will certainly want to read the review of Edward Fox, *Palestine Twilight: The Murder of Dr Edward Glock and the Archeology of the Holy Land:
National Review has a review of Page Dubois *Trojan Horses: Saving Classics from the Conservatives*:
EXHIBITIONS
Absolute Arts has a review of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's "Egypt Revealed: Life and Death in Ancient Egypt" (there's nothing at the BMAG site itself on this yet other than an announcement that the exhibition is coming):
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
There's a new online edition of Biblical Archaeology Review out, with articles on the evidence for early Christianity at Yattir and King Hezekiah's seal:
Egypt Revealed has a feature on the pharaohnic village:
I'm not sure whether this is really a 'newsstand' piece, but an online journal called Transoxiana was recently brought to my attention and it has several articles (by graduate students at the University del Salvador) on the ancient near eastern/egyptian world (in Spanish). Worth a look:
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
Latin continues to make a comeback:
... and folks might want to look at a similar sort of article from a German newspaper (in German, of course):
... and one from the beeb:
There's an interesting analogy (sort of) between the Colosseum and the Temple of Janus:
Someone's gone and reconstructed an ancient Greek organ and it will actually be played:
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The idea of an Olympic Truce is still kicking around:
Folks might be interested in a review of *Hercules in Love*:
I think I missed the original of this in Athens News, but John Carr has written a not-so-complimentary piece on the London Hellenic Society:
... and a recent letter to the editor is interesting as well:
AT ABOUT.COM:
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the Battle of Adrianople:
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has some advice for the folks who don't want to do archaeology any more:
Latin Guide Janet Burns brings us a timeline of Roman emperors:
FOLLOWUPS
Bamboula:
Colosseum Restoration:
Elgin Marbles:
Herakleion:
(a discovery.ca "webisode")
(an amazingly unedited piece)
(nothing really new except the date)
Macchu Picchu:
Marathon Rowing row:
Mesa Verde (not Monte Verde):
Nefertiti mummy:
Roman Fleet near Sardinia:
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