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Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap which
will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active
for at least eight hours from the time of 'publicatio' .
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Sunday surfing:
The big news of the past few days appears to be the discovery of the
world's oldest still-playable musical instrument (a 9000 year-old flute
from China). Here's the coverage from ABCNews and the BBC; the latter
included because it includes a realaudio link of the flute being played:
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Hopefully we'll hear more on this one: Il Messaggero has a very brief piece
on genetic evidence that grain was cultivated for the first time near the
Zagros Mountains some 13,000 years ago:
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Il Messaggero also has a report on some new 'Herculean' discoveries at the
Theatre of Marcellus:
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Another tale of technology helping archaeologists is seen in the discovery
of a 12th century road on the island of Islay. Here are the reports from
the BBC and Discovering Archaeology magazine:
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The Telegraph reports on plans for an expedition to locate the remains of
the lost city of Vineta (watch the wrap):
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The New York Times has a report on how clearer water in Lake Erie is
permitting the exploration/discovery of plenty o' shipwrecks:
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Biblical Archaeology Review has a new online issue up which includes a
feature on Jesus' Tomb and the second part of a feature on Temple Mount:
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Archaeology Odyssey has also been updated, with a nice feature on the
Uluburun shipwreck:
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On the review front, the London Review of books has a review of Terry
Castle's *Victorian Sappho*
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The Sunday Times has a review of John Julius Norwich's *Shakespeare's Kings*:
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ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
The countdown resumes:
93. The "Ice Princess"
94. Zagreb Mummy/Liber Linteus
The home page of this feature is at:
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THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY
This Atrium Feature should resume this week (and the archive updated); too
many 18 hour days in a row for the past week have prevented me from being
as timely with this one as I would have liked ... apologies!
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AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on Jason:
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Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has a feature on the "Best of the Net":
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REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
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Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
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English translation (probably delayed):
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EXPLORATOR is an irregular newletter (posted every two-three days)
representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The
Atrium. Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured on a daily
basis for news of the ancient world (broadly construed: practically
anything relating to archaeology or history prior to about 1700 or so is
fair game) and when a sufficient number of urls are gathered (usually a
minimum of three stories), they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links
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