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Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 25 -- October 29, 2000
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An okay week, coverage-wise, but we're still trying to get our 'lab' set up here ... hope y'all remembered the 'spring forward, fall back' thing ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Gratias vobis ago for the heads up to: Bill Kennedy (as always, with hopes that I didn't leave anyone out!).
THE BIG NEWS
The big news this week seems to be the discovery of a major cache/horde/whatever of medieval ships off the Channel Islands, although I could find mention of it only in the Independent:
OLD WORLD NEWS
The Times of India reports on the discovery in Japan of what is apparently the world's oldest
manmade dwelling (this sounds like a repeat ...):
The excavation of a major Sumerian burial ground near Umm Al-Ajarib came in a close second for 'big news' this week (it literally lost a coin toss):
Still on the Near Eastern front, the Chicago Sun-Times reports on a mysterious regal lady of Ur named Puabi:
Arabia.com brings news of the discovery of what might be the oldest example of a pharaonic solar barge:
History Today has a brief article on Hasankeyf, another site threatened by dam construction:
I'm not sure how to categorize this one, but a BBC story tells of a murder in Pakistan which is somehow associated with an Egyptian (?) mummy; there's some followup pieces from Express India and Arabia.com on the mummy itself as well:
,1690,Life|31784,00.html
The Times of London has a report on Sotheby's sale of an Etruscan/Greek cup which was eventually shown to have been stolen from an Italian site:
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The Times of London also has an interesting piece on the matching of a head of Livia with its body:
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Xinhua (via Northern Light) reports on the discovery of more than 1000 tombs in China's Yunnan province:
NEW WORLD NEWS
The Christian Science Monitor has a nice piece on Tikal:
An AP Wire story has sparked some updates on Mesa Verde:
The Oregonian has a report on repatriation issues over artifacts associated with peoples in, well, Oregon (watch the wrap ... I suspect that final e might wander when this is sent out):
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
There's a new issue of Archaeology on the newsstand with a number of really excellent features worth checking out, including abstracts on articles dealing with Jerf el Ahmar, Arthur Evans (by Alexander MacGillvary), etc. and full text treatment of Newsbriefs. Here's the link to the TOC:
CLASSICISTS' CORNER
There's some fleeting classical content in a piece on postmodernism in the Sydney Morning Herald:
The Ottawa Citizen supposedly has a piece on the resurgence of Latin in Ontario at the following url, but I get nothing but a red screen ... perhaps others will have better luck:
The Village Voice (!) has a semi-review of Jonathan Lear's *Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life* which might of of interest to the philosophers among us:
FOLLOWUPS:
Cleopatra's signature:
Kennewick guy:
REVIEWS
The Independent has a review of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto *Civilizations*:
OBITUARY
J.S. Morrison:
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AT ABOUT.COM
Archaeology Guide Kris Hurst's latest is a review of *Ancient Ireland Before the Celts*:
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Thesmophoria in Athens:
Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is an etymological survery of countries' names:
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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