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Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap
(especially those from the Telegraph) 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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On the web this week:
The big news of the week appears to be the discovery of warehouses and
docks in Rome in the Transtevere district (lots of coverage):
Also on the Roman front, there appears to be much controversy over the
Italian government's pledge to infuse Pompeii with massive amounts of cash
to help preserve it; here are three reports from disparate sources:
Still on the Roman front, research in the Domus Aurea suggests that Nero
used wall paintings in the non-public rooms, and contributed to a decline
in Roman wall painting (qualis artifex indeed!):
Also potentially on the 'big news' side of things, archaeologists think
they might have found the location of Captain Kidd's ship, off the coast of
Madagascar (thanks to Bill Kerr for the heads up):
The Miami Herald has a piece on how widely the Vikings ranged:
The Nando Times has a feature on the technology of 'thermal archaeology':
,1976,500173386-500224406-501065794-0,00.html
Also on the technology side of things come various reports on the dangers
of losing archaeological records because of computer format changes and/or
media deterioration:
LIVE EVENT (sort of)
National Geographic is featuring this week a presentation
(RealAudio/WindowsMedia) by Johan Reinhard, on his discovery of assorted
Incan child sacrifice mummies in 1995 (the presentation was made in
November 1999):
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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