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EXPLORATOR
Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 2, Issue 85 -- April 2, 2000
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If you're in one of those parts of the world that observes Daylight Savings time ... it went into effect early this a.m.!
IN THE NEWS
The big news of the week appears to be the results of DNA tests on the rib of a Neanderthal child, which suggests that Neanderthals weren't directly related to nor interbred with more 'modern' versions of the species. Here's plenty of coverage (the BBC coverage has some good links to related articles from the past on this issue):
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Assorted archaeology types are up in arms about plans to gird the Pantheon in iron bars to protect it from grafitti artist types, according to the Times:
The Savannah Morning News reports on the discovery of a Native American burial ground:
SAGAS
Discovery.com has the latest in the ongoing Elgin Marbles repatriation saga:
FOLLOWUPS
La Repubblica's Republic of the Arts has a very nice feature on the Pisan shipwrecks (thanks to Hillary Cool for the heads up!!):
There are a couple of good pieces this week (in the Detroit News and at MSNBC), on that erotic art from Pompeii exhibition which raised the ire of Vatican officials:
The Hindu has an extensive article on the Tomb of Midas (found and reported on a few months ago), which also wanders into the territory of Lindow Man:
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
Egypt Revealed has a couple of nice articles ... the first on the Ptolemaic port of Berenike:
... as well as an article on the Oriental Institute/University of Chicago's Demotic Dictionary project:
Discovering Archaeology has a couple of items of interest, including a report on an outpost of the Inca empire:
... and evidence of a Roman medical technique:
REVIEWS
The Times of London has a review of Mary Beard and John Henderson's *Classics: A very short introduction*
Lingua Franca has a couple of 'group reviews' of interest; the first being a review of E. Hornung's *Akhenaten and the Religion of Light* and J. Tyldesley's *Nefertiti, Egypt's Sun Queen*:
... the second is on J.G.A. Pocock's *Barbarism and Religion* volumes, which will be of interest to fans of Gibbon:
Not really dealing with the ancient world, but I keep running into reviews of it and it looks potentially interesting and appropriate for this rag, the Seattle Times has a review of *The Plato Papers*:
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