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Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 13 -- July 30, 2000
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Wow ... if today's issue doesn't get you out of mowing the lawn, nothing will ...
A news item that makes it to both the Howard Stern show and the Dr. Laura Show on the same day must be big news .... it is, of course, the widespread coverage of the discovery of a 2000-year-old toilet in China which apparent had running water (although no flush ... only the Telegraph report (on which mind the wrap) really gave this story 'in depth' coverage):
Actually the really big news has to be the continuing fires at Mesa Verde ... see the Followups section below.
OLD WORLD NEWS
One I missed: the Sunday Times last week had an item about claims that Arthur Evans' whole Minoan thing was essentially a "racist myth" (see the reviews section below for a review of the book which sparked the article):
The New York Times has a feature on how much of the Old Testament isn't confirmed by archaeological evidence:
There was plenty of attention given to the discovery of an apparent source (as claimed by ancient authors) for the oracle of Delphi's trances:
The Telegraph has a feature on the excavations of Commodus' villa, complete with 'home amphitheatre' of course (watch the wrap):
Also on the gladiatorial front, the Telegraph also reports on how the movie *Gladiator* has renewed interest in gladiatorial training in Italy:
A Kent archaeologist's life-long efforts to find the lost Roman town of Noviomagus appears to have borne fruit (watch the wrap):
Science Daily reports on the discovery of another submerged very early church in the excavations at Aperlae:
Search Cool Links
The BBC has a report on the discovery of an Iron Age fort in Wales:
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interesting item on the history of the swastika and efforts to disassociate it with Nazi Germany:
The Irish Times reports on a new code of practice for the National Road Association which should help deal with controversies over what happens when archaeological sites are found:
NEW WORLD NEWS
Northern Light brings a report on the discovery of a Spanish/Portuguese fortress in Brazil:
A couple of versions of the same report on the discovery of a 'lost' pioneer town in Wisconsin:
CLASSICISTS' CORNER
Among a trio of books reviewed by the Washington Post dealing with assorted folks from the boomer generation is Daniel Mendelsohn's memoirs "The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity":
Classicists might be interested to know that on the full moon in August, the Acropolis will be open to tourists:
The NEH's magazine has an interesting article on the connection between poverty and a classical education (and no, it has nothing to do with being a grad student or a professor 8^)):
The Pope greeted assorted groups in appropriate languages the other day:
FOLLOWUPS
Here's one I missed: a Time Magazine piece on what's going on at Herakleion (a month late):
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On Mesa Verde fires (there's some duplication in the items below; watch the wrap on the accessatlanta piece):
On tragedies at the Colosseum:
On Zeugma:
On Stanford's efforts to reassemble the Forma Urbis:
On a lost Da Vinci below a Vasari:
EXHIBITIONS
CNN has a nice feature on the "Drink and Be Merry" Wine and Beer in Ancient Times" exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem:
The Toledo Blade reports on "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen" which opened this week at the Art Institute of Chicago:
The LA Times has a general sort of thing on what's in the Maritime Museum of Finland:
REVIEWS
Today's Sunday Times has a review of J. Alexander MacGillvary's *Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth":
Scientific American has a review of David Thomas' *Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity*
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