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explorator 4.36 january 6, 2002
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Thanks to John Carr, Olivier Cabon, Alastair Millar, Chris Renaud,
Mark Elliott, Maurice O'Sullivan, Carl Lawson, Bill Kennedy,
Hernan Astudillo, Arthur Shippee, and Anthony Bulloch for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
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A special hello to all the folks at the AIA/APA shindig this
weekend!
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The New Yorker has a nice article on what ice cores tell us about
ancient climate etc.:
A shrine erected in honour of Ramses II has been found in an ancient
Egyptian army base:
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Perhaps the same?:
or:
The Egyptian State Information Service also has a feature on Carter's
discovery of Tutankhamen:
... and news that the Kalabsha Temple restoration is almost complete:
Tutankhamen also features in a somewhat strange 'news' story in
the Guardian (this is one of those things which probably made sense
in the print version):
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There is word that a new chamber of some sort has been discovered
by georadar in the Great Pyramid (article in French):
A new development in the Temple Mount saga:
The Middle East Wire has a feature on Biblical archaeology:
There's plenty of coverage of one scholar's claim that a long-known
artifact actually came from the throne of Midas:
A brief item on the discovery of a Greco-Roman period town in the
Sinai:
A major Roman coin hoard has been found in Moray (Scotland), although
the conclusions being drawn from it are somewhat suspect:
... while the discovery of a dog burial in Silchester is causing
more questions to be asked:
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A team of Greek archaeologists is headed to Afghanistan to see,
well, what's left:
See also:
I wasn't sure whether folks would be interested in this, but
since I received so many headses upses about it ... the Indian
government has decided to cover the Taj Mahal in camouflage in
case of an outbreak of war with Pakistan:
And as long as we're on the Indian front, the Humayan tomb has
a new admission/security thingie which sounds rather interesting
in these times:
El Mostrador (Chile) has an article (in Spanish) on the oldest
Buddhist shrines ever discovered in China:
This is probably the same (in English) ... I can't get the El
Mostrador article to reappear:
Chinese researchers suggest a change in a river system led to
the end of a Neolithic culture:
A number of ancient wells have been found in some mysterious city
in Hunan province:
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THE AMERICAS
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The Christian Science Monitor has a piece on the ongoing excavations
of Caral (this should probably be a followup, but ...):
There's an AP wire story circulating in various places about
Ken Karsmizki's search for traces of the Lewis and Clark expedition:
A small petroglyph in a cave in Orange Country is causing one
of those development v. preservation disputes:
The Washington Post has a feature on digs looking for remains of
Old Town Manassas:
The BBC has a feature on archaeology in Alaska:
There's an AP story circulating on the discovery of some remnants of
French Peoria:
A budding archaeologist:
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Mercator's World online, with articles on
a 3d map of Guatemala and maps of the solar system:
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ON THE WEB
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The Bible and Interpretation site has a new article up: William M.
Schniedewind "Society and the Promise to David: Reading 2 Samuel 7":
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Tacitus on Germany (trans. Thomas Gordon):
Ovid, Metamorphoses (various translators including Dryden, Pope,
et alia):
The Sybilline Oracles (trans. Milton Terry):
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CRIME BEAT
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The New York antiquities dealer charged under an Egyptian law will
have his trial proceed:
cf.:
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AT ABOUT.COM
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At N.S. Gill's Ancient History site: A. Schlaf, "Aqueducts of Rome
Under Augustus":
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REVIEWS
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LA Times has a review of Carsten Thiede, *The Dead Sea Scrolls and
the Jewish Origins of Christianity*:
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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There's an AP story which seems to be just surfacing on the political
side of ancient feasts:
More work on turning the area around the Acropolis into a pedestrian
only area:
One I missed: Arabic News had a nice little rundown of the traditions
associated with Jesus' family going to Egypt:
Related (sort of) to the previous:
Classical content in the Euro changeover:
,4273,4327722,00.html
... and an article on vineyards in Greece:
The Director of the 2004 Cultural Olympics has resigned:
Dot Wordsworth in the Spectator:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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OBITUARIES
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Albinia de la Mare:
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FOLLOWUPS
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Atlantis location:
Bamaiyan Buddhas:
Bronze Age Chronology:
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Pompeii Frescoes:
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