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]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
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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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Another slow week, with a big rush of items coming at the end!
Among the more interesting things on the web this week is a BBC report on
the discovery of the oldest bread in Britain:
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The BBC also has a report on a supposed face which was carved into
Stonehenge (this one smacks of 'seeing things in clouds' to me):
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Rounding out the scholastic law of three for the BBC is a report on the
discovery of the world's oldest stables, in Egypt:
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Here's one I was sitting on for quite a while: a report from the Times last
Tuesday on the supposed curse accompanying a mummy on its way to the Louvre
from Tyneside:
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ABCNews has an extended (and very interesting) feature on Roughan Hill
(Ireland), which is one of the "oldest and best preserved prehistoric
landscapes in Europe":
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The search for Blackbeard's ship has resumed, according to an item on MSNBC:
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Discovering Archaeology's latest feature is on the La Belle shipwreck:
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Last Sunday the Washington Post had an item on the battle to preserve the
Kurdish town of Hasankeyf, which will eventually be inundated after a
series of dams is built:
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The LA Times has a feature on the latest art collectors vs. archaeologists
clash:
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The National Geographic has an interesting feature on the results of an
'environmental-archaeological' study of Venice, which shows the city to be
older than previously thought, and tells much about ancient sea levels:
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The Star Tribune has a feature on Christian Kopff's *The Devil Knows Latin*:
ct-99&word=kopff
<url:
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FOLLOWUPS (Updates on stories which previously appeared in Explorator)
Kennewick Man turns out to have more affinities with Asian populations than
any modern North American group, according to a handful of small articles:
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The National Geographic has a nice little feature on the Canadian Iceman:
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USA Today has a feature on the ongoing dig to find the bones of Alfred:
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OBITUARY
Gerald Brodribb has died, and apparently is better known for his cricketing
chronicles than his work with Roman tiles and brickstamps (watch the wrap):
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AT THE MUSEUMS:
The Smithsonian's exhibit "Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur" opens
today and is drawing a lot of coverage; the first item is from the
Smithsonian's own site; most of the other articles are variations on an AP
wire story, some with photos (thanks to various folks who passed along urls
on this one):
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De Standaard (Belgium) has a review of an exhibit of Roman-Egyptian
artifacts currently in Amsterdam:
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ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
This feature will resume next week.
The home page of this feature is at:
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AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on the Huns:
kly/aa101299.htm
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Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has a feature on El Nino in past times:
aa101099.htm
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Janet Burns (Latin) has a feature on the relative pronoun
<url:
t.htm>
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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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
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