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explorator 4.31 december 2, 2001
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Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Mark Eatherington, Matthew
Webb, Jean Laplante, Trevor Watkins, Curtis B. Edmundson and
Edward Hanna for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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One I missed: rock art suggests there was belief in werewolves
as early as 10,000 B.P.:
,6903,605611,00.html
Blombos Cave near Cape Town is causing a major rethink of
when homo sapiens first showed up:
Some guy walked into a Dublin jewelry shop with a Bronze Age
torc (what a ridiculously long url):
The Egyptian State Information Service has an item on the
dismantling of the Temple of Hebes:
... and the discovery of a New Kingdom era military warehouse
type complex:
cf.
... and a project to create a database of archaeological sites,
including underwater ones:
The Christian Science Monitor has a brief item on Egypt's "anonymous
art":
Middle East News has a report on the Symposium on Archaeological
Discoveries in the Gulf States (this is actually kind of old, but
it showed up this a.m. for the first time, I think):
There are claims that mosque construction near Nazareth is destroying
some archaeological treasures:
Thor Heyerdahl is back in the news, this time with a claim that
Odin is based on a real life king who fled north to escape the
Romans:
Another major site buried by Vesuvius (but in the Bronze Age!) has been
discovered near Nola:
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eKathimerini has a report on the emergency excavations of an ancient
cemetery at Kephisia:
AthensNews has a touristy sort of thing on the ancient capital
of Epirus (Ioannina):
A first century A.D. Roman burial site has been found in Wales:
Road construction on the island of Lefkana has revealed what
seems to be a pair of Roman villa sites:
AlphaGalileo has a news release on research into Iron Age burials
in the Netherlands:
A fifth-century mosaic is being excavated in Gaza:
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Some sixth-century A.D. warrior paraphernalia has been found near
Sutton Hoo:
,,2-2001545142,00.html
... and there's a bit about Sutton Hoo too:
,,2-2001545138,00.html
Here's another case where conservationists did rather more damage
than conserving, this time in regards to a Leonardo drawing of
Orpheus:
Not sure how to classify this one, but the Guardian has an
editorial (?) on the 'perfect archaeological find':
,4273,4311443,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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Evidence from Peruvian mummies suggests that tuberculosis was in
the New World before Columbus arrived:
This is actually more of a followup, but the original was so long
ago that folks might have forgotten: a report on Mayan murals
which depict the execution of scribes:
The Museum of Northern Arizona is full and cannot take any more
artifacts:
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ON THE WEB
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The Columbus Dispatch has a nice feature on Julie Aplie's computer
reconstruction of the Roman Bath at Isthmia (I think I mentioned
this in a previous edition of Explorator):
If you just want to check out the reconstruction/tour:
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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There's a couple of new bits of streaming media up, the big
feature being on the Acropolis (see note after):
... and one called *Pompeii Destroyed*:
... and *Ancient Fires at Cliff Palace Pond*:
I've provided the urls for the 56K Windows media stream; if you
have a different connection speed or prefer RealMedia, these
can be accessed via:
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CRIME BEAT
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275 or so artifacts returned to Greece by the FBI in January are
now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth:
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a piece on Butrint:
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REVIEWS
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The New York Times has a review (with first chapters) of Giles
Milton, *The Riddle and the Knight* and Mary Taylor Simeti, *Travels
With a Medieval Queen*, both of which have to do with following
medieval travelogues:
AthensNews has a review of *The Olive in Greece*:
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Brooklyn Museum of Art is hosting *Eternal Egypt*:
cf:
... and *Wit and Wine: A New Look At Ancient Iranian Ceramics*:
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Martha Nussbaum has won a hefty award for her *Cultivating
Humanity*:
The New Yorker has an interesting article on Luigi Miraglia's
efforts to revive Latin in Europe:
An editorial from AthensNews on the 110th anniversary of the
Panhellenic Athletic Association has much of interest, I
suspect:
... as does a feature in the same source on the Classical side of
Oscar Wilde:
And someone will probably be interested in an all-too-brief item
on a *Mythological Atlas of Ancient Greece*:
... and John Carr's latest musings:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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FOLLOWUPS
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Ancient comets (one I missed, I think):
Columbus ships near Panama (a genuine followup):
Taliban and antiquities:
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