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EXPLORATOR
Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 2, Issue 87 -- April 16, 2000
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Our usual mixed bag:
OLD WORLD NEWS
The big news of the week (to me, anyway) appears to be the announcement of plans to try and find the remains of Cambyses' lost army, near Siwah (thanks to Bill Kennedy for the heads up):
The Telegraph has a nice report on what a major street in first century London looked like, and plans to recreate it (watch the wrap):
The Oregonian has a nice feature on the Urumchi mummies (watch the wrap):
Probably because of the Passover/Easter season, USNews and World Report is reprising an article from October on the archaeological evidence for various Biblical personalities and events:
NEW WORLD NEWS
Discover.com has a report suggesting the early residents of Jamestown might have been poisoned!:
SAGAS
The next step in the Kennewick Man saga will be deciding which bones will be subjected to DNA testing, according to the Oregonian (which also has a nice archive of stories relating to KM, in case you just can't get enough) (watch the wrap; on my mailer here it's only one letter wrapped, so you might miss it!):
AlphaGalileo reports that a student at Bradford is part of a team that won the "oscar of conservation" for his work on a bronze age shield:
EXHIBITS
A very nice website has gone up devoted to Piero della Francesca's Arezzo frescoes (thanks to Jean P. Lindsey for the heads up):
THE ANTIQUITIES TRADE
The Telegraph has a feature called "Yesterday in Parliament" which includes a rather lengthy account of a committee meeting involving Lord Renfrew and his thoughts on Britain's negligent role in the illicit antiquities trade (watch the wrap):
STUFF I MISSED
Last week I neglected to mention quite a few things related to new world archaeology, so here they be (thanks to Karen C. for all of these):
The Denver Post on vandals defacing some rock art:
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on mounds in Wisconsin:
The Augusta Chronicle on early Spanish remains in South Carolina:
An article on the damage ATV's are doing to mounds in and around Cahokia:
FOLLOWUPS
The New York Times has a decent article on the Cactus Hill site in Virginia:
... as does Science News:
Discovery.com has one of the better features on Mayor's idea that fossils inspired many features of ancient mythology (this is the first one with a picture of the pot that started the thinking, I believe)(thanks to "Hyper10n" for the heads up):
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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