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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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A slow week as far as new discoveries go, but there's plenty of interesting stuff that hit the web this week:
The New York Times reports on a study suggesting that a fanciful passage in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale might actually reveal a genuine astronomical event (watch the wrap ... maybe):
The Arizona Star tells of threats to the Casa Grande site:
FoxNews has an interesting piece on the various technologies being used by archaeologists:
EXHIBITS
The Evansville Courier Press and the Chicago Sun Times both have a reviewish thing on a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit currently making its way across the U.S. (watch the wrap ... maybe):
The International Herald Tribune has a very interesting piece on an exhibition of things owned by the Franciscan order currently on display in Milan (but no photos!):
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
The online content at Discover.com has last month's news (arrgh ... there's a thing on the Pisa Ships in this month's print issue), but there are a few interesting features. The first is on the fate of the Vikings (the seafaring ones, not the NFL team):
... the second is a followup of sorts on the discovery of that inscription in Egypt which might be the earliest example of alphabetic writing:
... and the third is a feature on how to make a mummy (for you Brier and Wade fans):
Discovering Archaeology has a nice article on the burial practices of Neolithic types:
FOLLOWUPS
FoxNews has a nice piece on the 'tomb of Osiris' mentioned in Explorator a few weeks back:
The Telegraph reports that the exhibit of "Roman porn" from Pompeii which caused a bit of a stir among Church officials will be going on permanent display (watch the wrap ... maybe):
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EXPLORATOR is a semi-regular newletter (posted every two-three days when
there's a lot going on) 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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