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Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap which
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A nice, eclectic issue for your Sunday reading pleasure:
The Lebanon Daily Star reports on the discovery of a Bronze-Age site in
Wadi Khaled:
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The Alpha Galileo organization has a press release on the discovery of a
small Roman temporary camp north of the Antonine wall by the Roman Gask
Project:
<url:>
Here's one I misplaced: the Washington Post had a nice story last week on
Teotihuacan and its people:
<url:>
MSNBC has a nice feature on they mysterious disappearance of the Maya:
<url:>
The Canadian version of the Discovery Channel has an item which seems
unique in actually telling us what the Miami Circle probably was:
<url:
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Xinhua reports on the discovery of a myriad of bamboo strips with plenty of
Chinese characters written on them, dating from ca. 2000 years b.p.:
38947448760&page_exclude=1
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uid=938947448760&page_exclude=1>
The National Geographic has put online the full text (but not the pictures)
of its recent article on the Barhariya Oasis:
<url:>
The National Geographic also has a forum discussion on the topic "Tombs can
yield incredible information. But is it right to disturb them?" (the link
is at the bottom of this url)
Military History Quarterly has an interesting feature on the military
prowess of the Cahokian folk:
<url:>
Discovering Archaeology is reprising a nice article on the Scythians:
<url:>
FOLLOW UPS
Additional coverage of stories already seen in Explorator:
US News and World Report has another version of the 'Angel Scroll' story:
<url:>
As might be expected, the idea that Neanderthals might have chowed down on
their compadres has caused great delight amongst the science writers around
the world, so here's some more coverage from US News and World report ...
<url:>
The original press release via EurekAlert:
<url:>
MSNBC's coverage:
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ABCNews' coverage:
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Der Spiegel's coverage (in German, of course, but with some new photos and
an interesting accompanying article):
,1518,44740,00.html
<url:,1518,44740,00.html>
ERRATA
Last week I mentioned a review of a book called *Victorian Sappho*, which I
erroneously identified as having been written by Terry Castle. It is, in
fact, written by Yopie Prins and the review was by Terry Castle. Apologies
all around for being a purveyor of misinformation and thanks to the
numerous Exploratorists and Exploratoristas for the heads up!
ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
The countdown will resume this week:
The home page of this feature is at:
<url:>
THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY
This Atrium Feature should resume this week (and the archive updated);
again, I'm still adjusting to the new work schedule:
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AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on 'Heroic Behavior Then'
kly/aa092899a.htm
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y/weekly/aa092899a.htm>
Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has a feature on the "Archaeology Education Online":
<url:>
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
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Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
EXPLORATOR IS ARCHIVED AT:
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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
eventually find a home at:
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A media archive of links of files that have previously appeared in
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