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Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 28 -- November 12, 2000
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Gratias vobis ago for the heads up to: Alastair Millar, Andy Pingram, Bill Kennedy, Nancy Jenner, and Sally Winchester (with the usual hopes I haven't left anyone out!)
THE BIG NEWS
My Roman bias shows again in the selection of this week's big news: excavations at that Pompeii 'hotel' site have turned up some interesting frescoes:
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OLD WORLD NEWS
Hot on the heels of last week's 'out of Africa' reports are numerous reports on how most European men can trace their ancestry back to but ten 'forefathers':
One I've missed for the past couple of weeks: the Kerryman reports on the discovery of a 4,000 year old settlement in Ireland:
Here's one we all suspected: Fox has been criticized for its claims relating to the opening of tombs 'live' a couple couple of summers ago. Turns out Zahi Hawass and crew knew exactly what was in them:
Also on the Egyptian front, with potential big news down the road written all over it, are myriad reports that king Tut's DNA is going to be tested to see if he really was of royal blood:
Still on the Egyptian front, and still with potential 'big news' written all over it, a German team claims to be very close to finding the tomb of Scorpion II:
An Italian jeweller is claiming to have rediscovered the Etruscans' secret for creating 'granulate gold':
The official word in China is that archaeology has pushed its history back some 1500 years, although many scholars seem skeptical:
The Guardian has a nice piece on assorted art exhibits which are gracing Rome in the jubilee year:
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NEW WORLD NEWS
Nearly qualifying as 'big news', at least in terms of coverage, is the announcement of the discovery of a 400-year-old 'fish farm' in South America:
A dig outside of El Paso is apparently providing all sorts of evidence which challenges current theories of cultural evolution:
A 500+ year-old cemetery has been found in Costa Rica:
Mother Jones (!) has an interesting article on how assorted native peoples who repatriated various artifacts can't use them because the chemicals used to preserve them are toxic:
The Maryland Sun has an interesting piece on the search for the earliest pipe kiln in North America:
The New York Times has a reviewish sort of thing on an exhibition of pre-Columbian silver artifacts at the Met:
CLASSICISTS' CORNER
A report on activities at a private school in Indianapolis should be of interest:
Also, a report on a sixth-grade teacher who took her 'Greek roots of democracy' lessons that extra mile:
USNews etc. has a nice piece on the newly-minted, unexpurgated Loeb Aristophanes:
I can just imagine classicists' reaction to reports that Andrew Dice Clay is going to star in a comedy set in ancient Rome:
SAGAS
Elgin Marbles:
FOLLOWUPS
The major followup this week has to do with the fallout in the wake of a Japanese archaeologist's admission of fraud (this is actually somewhat amazing to read through -- the first one is on another case of similar fraud):
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Karachi mummy:
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Cleo's signature:
OBITUARY
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