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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Steve Rankin, Dave Sowdon, Maurice O'Sullivan,
John Hill, Bill Kennedy, John McMahon, Rick Pettigrew,
W. Richard Frahm, and 'alesmonetos' for headses upses this
week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
If you can read this ... Thank a Veteran!!
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The bacterium which causes peptic ulcers has been infesting humans
for quite a while:
BBC Radio has a nice feature (with plenty of .ram audio links) on
Catal Huyuk:
Archaeologists are worried about what might happen to artifacts in
Iraq in the event of war:
They're finding more stuff in Alexandria's harbour:
A 'har' has been found near Karnak (?):
More from Karnak:
... and a statue of one of Ramses II's wives has been
found:
Charterhouse School's sale of some Egyptian antiquities
has raised the ire of Egyptian types:
Al-Ahram has a touristy thing on the Bahariya Oasis:
There is a suggestion that leprosy might have arrived in Britain
some 1500 years earlier than previously thought (which gets Alexander
the Great and the Romans off the hook, I suppose):
Plans are afoot for a full scale excavation of Chester's
Roman amphitheatre:
A Hellenistic tomb has been found during sewer construction in
Cyprus:
Rain in Greece is threatening (maybe) some ancient monuments:
The latest twist in the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga
(the first two articles are *very* different; the last
comparandum):
cf:
A Saxon burial site and a Roman wall have been found during a dig
near Sevenoaks (UK):
... similar findings (Saxon and Roman) in Suffolk County:
Next up for DNA testing ... the purported remains of Sweden's St.]
Birgitta:
Here's a chatty/touristy sort of thing on the Vikings:
A major Shu site is being excavated in Chengdu:
A metal detectorist in Nottinghamshire has found a 400-year-old
ring:
DNA has been used to identify a hitherto unidentified victim of
the Titanic:
This is one that I messed up a couple weeks ago and then forgot to
put the obligatory correction in ... it's about cannibalism among
the early Celts:
Apparently some folks don't want to be labelled as a 'lost tribe':
Not sure how to classify this one ... it's a short feature on
anthropologist Ken Feder's debunking activities:
... or this one, on historin Simon Schama as host of a very popular
television series on British history:
... or this one, which is about the cosmological pursuits of Edgar
Allen Poe:
... or this item, on Renaissance composer Salamone Rossi:
... or the financial battle between a couple of galleries for
possession of a Raphael:
... or a piece all about Ignatius Donnelly:
Graham Hancock is down the highway from here, plugging his latest
book (larger than that city's phone book!):
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THE AMERICAS
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Peru is going to open a museum devoted to the "Lord of Sipan":
... while other researchers are examining the parasites which
infested the Inca folk:
A piece on work done by archaeologists in various US government
agencies:
A nice feature on state archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni:
A touristy thing on Teotihuacan:
,,71-472747,00.html
Coastal habitation of Oregon's coast has been pushed back by a
couple millennia:
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PETITION
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Last week we mentioned the proposed Rosia gold mine, which threatens
a major Roman archaeological site. The link provided last week
included a way to sign an online petition (it's legit!) which
might not have been immediately obvious, so here's a direct link:
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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"The River Has Many Secrets" (Snake River):
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CRIME BEAT
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A Greek stele bought at auction in London will be returned to
Greece:
,,1-2-469862,00.html
A Czech afflicted with the 'pharaoh's curse' decided to return
some stolen artifacts to Egypt:
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REVIEWS
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Mary Beth Norton, *In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis
of 1692*:
Umberto Eco, *Baudolino* (reviewed by Peter Green):
Susan Griffin, *Book of the Courtesan*:
Gabrielle Glaser, *The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and
Survival*:
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PERFORMANCES
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Lysistrata Project (Guelph):
Medea:
Bacchae (South Africa):
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EXHIBITIONS
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History of Writing (Athens):
Adventures of Hamza (New York):
Kazari Decoration and Display (New York):
Liban: 1860-1861 (Beirut):
Legacy of Genghis Khan (Met):
Maps of London (London):
Art of the Ancient Americas (Walters):
The Pharaohs (Venice):
Art of India and Pakistan (Tokyo ... ClassCon in these!):
PanAthenaic Prize Amphora:
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The latest "Latin is alive and well" piece:
Similiter:
... then again:
... and a piece which might be useful for convincing jocks to
take Latin in high school:
Who says there isn't money in having a Classics degree:
Writing Greek exams in Sydney:
When Latin teachers go on strike:
A lawsuit of note:
Didja know all this about Sophie Schliemann?:
ClassCon in 'Free Will Astrology' (for Sagittarius, anyway):
Surely an omen imperii for Peter Krentz:
Something hypish seems to be happening with regards to the Archimedes
Palmipsest:
Kate Atkinson's *Not the End of the World* looks interesting:
,12084,835717,00.html
Etymologies
(assorted 'daughters of Eve')
(pepon)
(assorted)
(sanctus)
(Diana's epitaph)
(barba)
(ad multos annos)
(US dollar Latin)
(Bucephalus ... why would Alexander's horse have a Latin name????????)
(virtus)
(Lacetti ???)
... I couldn't get through to the Spectator this a.m. ...
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrckblick - auf Latein
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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OBITUARIES
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Alan Walker Read (lexicographer):
,,60-472767,00.html
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FOLLOWUPS
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Elgin Marbles Letter (genuine followup in the first instance):
Jack the Ripper ID:
James Ossuary (plenty of genuine followups this week, including
the identity of the owner, plans to repair, etc.):
{FD54A9EB-434E-4701-AABF-2657FC90A4CA}
Welsh 'Mary Rose' (genuine followup):
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