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Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 11 -- July 16, 2000
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Plenty o' links this a.m. ...
The big news of the week appears to be the discovery of the 'oldest mummies' ever found ... relics of the Chinchurro folk:
OLD WORLD NEWS
The Archimedes Palimpsest returns to the news, with a few stories about what is being done with it (this should probably be a followup, but it's been so long!):
The Independent reports on the rather amazing discoveries of the remains of the Garamantes civilization:
The Aftenposten (Norway) reports (in English) on the discovery of a rather large Viking home (thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads up):
The Irish Times reports on the discovery of assorted Iron Age remains in a bog:
The Sunday Times reports on changes to official guidebooks in Scotland in regards to the Declaration of Arbroath, to demythologize it and bring it rather closer to what historians have been claiming for quite a while:
A couple of sources have pieces on plans to use 'space age technology' to locate a lost work of DaVinci (thanks to Chris Camfield for the heads up):
Also on the technological side of things, there is great excitement over plans to use DNA analysis to try to determine how long the Vikings might have lingered in (eventual) U.K.:
NEW WORLD NEWS
The Houston Chronicle reports on excavations at Cerro Juanaquena (thanks to Michael Ruggieri for the heads up):
The Washington Post has a strange little article on the discovery of a native American medallion which supposedly had a curse attached to it:
The Post also has a much more conventional article on the search for Native American artifacts along the Potomac:
And completing the scholastic law of three, the Post also has a piece on the search for artifacts in Jamaica:
A couple of news sources are waxing electronic over the discovery of Williamsburg's 18th century theater:
CLASSICISTS' CORNER
The LA Times has a obituaryesque thing on Sally Fitzgerald, wife of Robert (the translator) which might raise a few eyebrows:
The Orange County Weekly has a reviewesque thing called "Big Old Jews" which eventually talks about Philip Roth's *Human Stain*:
FOLLOWUPS
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a somewhat bland editorial on Zeugma:
The Washington Post has a lengthy article on the Temple Mount activities:
All of a sudden there is an awful lot of coverage about the decapitated skeleton from Stonehenge again (the final two items are 1)a useful little timeline from the Sunday Times on Stonehenge and 2) a link to a site called Hengeworld, which has all the latest news on the pile of stones) (watch the wrap on the Telegraph piece):
More on the fossil finds at the Gray site (thanks again to Donna for the heads up):
REVIEWS
This is London has a review of Michael Pitts' *Hengeworld* (watch the wrap):
Spokane.net has a review of Roger Downey's *Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man*
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
USNews and World Report has a bonus double issue thing which is devoted to ''Mysteries of History', many of which are of interest to folks who read this e-rag; I've culled the ones which I believe will be of interest; the final link is to the main index page which has links to all the articles (just in case my interests and yours don't quite overlap!):
Indus Civilization:
The Sphinx:
Homer:
Anasazi:
King Arthur:
Stonehenge:
Shroud of Turin:
Marco Polo:
Pope Joan:
Columbus:
DNA analysis:
Whodunit? (how assorted folks died, including Tut and Al the more than adequate):
Also of interest would be the article on hoaxes:
Index:
OBITUARY
William Willis (scroll down a bit):
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