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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Karl Wittwer,
Bill Gebhardt, Howard Webb, W. Richard Frahm, Donna Hurst, Joseph
Lauer, Yonatan Nadelman, Susan Jaslow, Christine Renaud, Laura
Goldberg, Maurice O'Sullivan, Paul Cowie, Hernan Astudillo, John
McChesney-Young, Joseph Nicholas, Judy Underwood, John McMahon
and Leanne Archer for headses upses this week (as always hoping
I have left no one out).
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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I didn't realize there was a controversy about "Neandertal face
length" ... but apparently there is:
What might be the first cave paintings ever found in Britain turned
up in Derbyshire:
,11711,977904,00.html
(photo)
Some 12 000 B.P. (maybe) flint tools have also been found on
the blessed isle:
There's going to be a new museum near the pyramids:
The tomb of Akhenaten's scribe has been found:
A number of Egyptian items recently went to auction:
The numbers are back up in the thousands in regards to items
stolen from the Baghdad Museum (the first three are all the
same article):
;f=18;t=030792
A recent survey of sites in Iraq suggests extensive looting is going
on, especially in the south:
There's still controversy over what *really* happened in Iraq's
museums:
,11710,980042,00.html
,3604,980273,00.html
Perhaps not surprisingly, there is a staff revolt in progress at
the Baghdad museum:
,3604,979012,00.html
In case you missed it, the Israel Antiquities Authority has (finally)
declared the James Ossuary to be a hoax/fake/inauthentic:
(good photos)
(deals with the politics involved)
(interesting final 'graph)
(somewhat useless photo)
cf.
... and the Jehoash Inscription too:
[on both, see Rochelle Altman's article below as well]
The latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:
Last week we had a satellite photo of the Valley of the Kings ... this
week it's Rome (you can almost make out the Seven Hills):
Here's a report on the third season of excavations at Sussita
(I think I missed this one before):
Ever wonder how they flooded the Colosseum for naumachiae? Someone
thinks he's figured it out:
A fourth century Roman villa has been found during a pre-highway-
construction survey near Nottingham:
A shortage of funds is preventing the undoing of years of vandalism
by the Taliban:
,3604,980214,00.html
Now we're getting yet another report from Ayodhya:
... or are we?:
Some 2000 b.p. rice wine has been found in China:
Evidence of China's diverse origins has been found in the Three Gorges
area:
The Japanese government is helping to fund the restoration of some
Easter Island heads:
A while ago we heard of a schoolboy in Norway finding a neolithic
skull; now another one has found a Viking ring:
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THE AMERICAS
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The New Yorker has a complementary online piece to a magazine article
by H.L. Gates jr. on his discovery of a manuscript of a fictionalized
slave narrative sort of thing:
The Library of Congress has acquired the funds to purchase 'America's
birth certificate':
The Liberty Bell is on the move:
Who is buried in the iron coffin?:
(photo, sort of)
The New York Times has a piece on Federal style architecture in
New York:
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Well ... if it's the solstice there must be plenty of goings-on
going on at Stonehenge:
... and now Chaco Canyon is getting publicity too:
,1413,129%257E6572%257E1470622,00.html
A bacterium (probably a lot of it, though) has been used to restore
a fresco near Pisa:
A new kind of ground-penetrating radar device is being fiddled with in
Miami:
An Italian scholar believes the story of 'Excalibur' originated
(of course) in Italy:
... while another scholar believes he knows how the Shroud of
Turin was created:
,13026,975225,00.html
... and another thinks Robin Hood never existed:
... and another believes Oetzi's footwear was better suited for
mountain walking than modern hiking boots:
On the DNA front, it appears the Anglo-Saxons didn't leave much
of a mark on Britain:
Here's a bit of pre-500th birthday-for-the-statue-of-David hype:
Time Team's 'Big Dig' is stirring up controversy:
,3604,978167,00.html
Looks like Lara Croft may have someone who shares her interests:
Some 250-year-old mummies are providing insight into tuberculosis:
Just in case you're wondering what the state of things is in pre-
Olympics Athens:
cf.:
Scottish Life Magazine has a back issue with a nice feature on
Rosslyn Chapel (for all you Knights Templar fans):
The Atlantic Monthly has an article about how we're all descended
from Charlemagne, genealogically/mathematically speaking:
I don't normally include this sort of thing (so please don't deluge
me with similar items!) but it looks interesting ... it's a CD called
"1000 Years of Popular Music":
Meanwhile, James Oestreich discusses assorted 14th century music
pieces:
(realplayer)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 56.4 (July/August 2003):
A recent issue of Time has a nice piece on those Ethiopian skulls:
,9171,1101030623-458776,00.html
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ON THE WEB
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Rochelle Altman, *Updates on the Ossuary of Ya'acob bar Yosef and
the Temple Tablet*
Steven Grosby, *A Gy by Any Other Name -- The Problem of Nationality
in Antiquity":
The American Numismatic Society has a preliminary online accompaniment
to its exhibition "Drachmas, Doubloons, and Dollars: The History
of Money":
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Thomas G. Rosenmeyer,*Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology*:
Nathan Rosenstein, *Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and
Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic*:
Richard Payne Knight, *A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus*:
or
Christine Perkel, *The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in
Virgil's Georgics*:
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CRIME BEAT
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Egypt is cracking down on antiquities theft even more:
A securities official in China has been charged with antiquities
theft:
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ling Ouyang, "The Use of the Tribunate for Reforms":
(nice photo of the Curia)
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst continues her health and safety discussion:
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BOOK REVIEWS
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E. Thomas, * JOHN PAUL JONES: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American
Navy*
E. Vincent, *NELSON : Love & Fame*
(1st chapter)
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PERFORMANCES
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Pericles:
Legend of Suriyothai (movie):
The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci (yes, it is a performance):
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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The wheel of an Egyptian chariot has supposedly been found in
the Red Sea, providing evidence of ... well, you know (interesting
coincidence of names in this one):
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EXHIBITIONS
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Asian Art Museum of San Francisco:
Dead Sea Scrolls (Montreal):
St. Peter and the Vatican:
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Vulcan has returned to Birmingham:
There's ClassCon in this thing dealing with someone named Bulger
(about whom I am ill-informed but assume our friends south of the
49th are not):
Those darned asteroids ... now they're being blamed/credited for
Constantine's conversion:
ClassConn in a piece on a horrible crime:
A UKansas prof just received a research grant to work at
Caesarea Maritima:
Gossip/hype about TNT's forthcoming "Caesar":
Valerie Giscard D'Estaing (I think) quoted Thucydides this week
(I wonder what he said):
,7369,982127,00.html
Vance Watrous has received a nice award:
VDH watch ... a review of Paul Johnson's *Napoleon*:
More on Alexander the not-so-Great:
(scroll down)
Peter Jones:
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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REPEATS
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Chines Coffin Opening:
Nefertiti's Bust and Body:
Nefertiti's Mummy:
Ramses I's Mummy Returning:
Warka Vase Returned:
Warka Vase Damaged:
(photo)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:
Archaeologica:
Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:
Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:
CBA Newsfeed:
CBA Archaeoblog:
Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:
Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand/
Mirabilis.ca (blog):
Paleojudaica (blog):
Stone Pages Archaeo News:
Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:
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