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explorator 5.41 February 9, 2003
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Richard Heli, Karl Wittwer, John Hill,
Yonatan Nadelman, Maurice O'Sullivan, Gene Barkley, W. Richard
Frahm, Bill Kennedy, A.G. Waltz, George Pesely, Dave Sowdon,
Isidoros, J.S. Bell, and W. Richard Frahm 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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Another piece on the threat war presents to cultural sites in
Iraq:
The Makhoul dam will soon inundate the site of Ashur (is it just
me or are there an increasing number of typos in headlines lately?):
Also threatened by water is Egypt's Hebes Temple, which was being
dismantled:
The new parliament edifice in Nicosia has sparked an emergency
excavation:
There's a 'secret' map which charts over 1000 ancient shipwrecks
somewhere in a building in Athens:
A Roman-era wooden cart has been found in a tomb from Thrace:
An update from a dig at Qumran:
A dig in Oxfordshire has provided proof of 'long distance' trade
in the Iron Age:
A metal detectorist sans metal detector has found a 7th century
Anglo Saxon ring:
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THE AMERICAS
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Ah ... the realities of digging in a city:
A "black-owned saloon" is being excavated in Nevada:
A significant site with human remains dating back 3500 years b.p.
is being excavated in Alabama:
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The Valentine's Day stuff:
A piece on why we shouldn't mourn the loss of cultural relics (?):
Ballard's next probe of the Black Sea will apparently be the
Bulgarian coast:
Speaking of the Black Sea, the Pitman-Ryan theory of the Black
Sea flood is being questioned again:
On dueling with swords in movies:
A Roman copy of Polykleitos'Diadoumenos once owned by Nureyev is
up for sale (scroll almost to the bottom ... story continues on
p. 2):
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out:
... and Bible Review as well:
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ON THE WEB
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Not sure if I mentioned this one before ... Archaeology Magazine's
latest online dig is Heirakonopolis ... worth looking at:
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Mary Shelley, *Prosperpine and Midas: Two Unpublished Mythological
Dramas*:
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CRIME BEAT
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An Egyptian SCA official has been charged in a case related
to smuggling:
Interesting motivation for this fellow's series of art thefts:
More on the activities of Seattle's Thesaurus store:
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AT ABOUT.COM
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In time for Valentine's Day, ancient history guide N.S. Gill has
a feature on five ancient goddesses of love:
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BOOK REVIEWS
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L. Jardine, *On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher
Wren*:
M. Pearl, *The Dante Club* (fiction):
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PERFORMANCES
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Medea and Children of Hercules:
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EXHIBITIONS
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Magna Graecia (Cleveland -- the exhibition website):
Leonardo DaVinci (New York):
Thomas Gainsborough (New York ... surprisingly, there is classical
content in this one):
Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of
the Americas (Virginia):
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies has recently begun a sort
of webzine (?) called Classics@, the focus of the the first issue
of which is the recently-revealed Posidippus fragment:
More on Trojan geography ... of particular importance (I think) is
the map provided at the BBC site:
ClassCon in an extended feature on evolution/cloning:
... and the latest Clarkiana from the British parliament:
,9236,890824,00.html
,3604,889613,00.html
A feature of sorts on Michael Nagler:
In case you missed it, the New York Times had a feature on Elaine
Fantham and her thoughts on the impending conflict:
Istanbul's Greeks are reclaiming their cultural heritage:
Golf has Roman origins?:
Latest on the Alexander flicks (and Troy too!):
Perfess'r Harris:
Dot Wordsworth:
Etymologies:
(poop ... as in deck)
,3604,891554,00.html (bella detesta matribus)
(er ... not sure; scroll down)
(auxilium)
,1299,DRMN_4537_1718750,00.html (nincompoop)
('gladiator's cry' ... hmmm)
Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
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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Hugh Trevor-Roper (historian):
Victor Watts (medieval historian):
,,60-565391,00.html
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FOLLOWUPS
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Ancient Near East Road System:
Cyclops origins:
Early Dairy Farming in England:
James Ossuary/Jehoash inscription:
Jehoash alone:
UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab (with photos):
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