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EXPLORATOR
Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 31 -- December 3, 2000
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A somewhat quiet week ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Gratias vobis ago for the heads up to: Bill Kennedy, Janice Siegel (a.k.a. Dr. J.), and Arnd Lis(as always, hoping I haven't left anyone out, which lately might have been the case ... I've just discovered I had an unbeknownst email problem throughout November which might be continuing!).
THE BIG NEWS
The only real 'news' of the week which is presented in any detail is about the discovery of human remains at Fort St. Louis in Texas:
OLD WORLD NEWS
Potentially big news, but really just an application of technology to already know remains, is the massive coverage of a 'virtual tour' of various mummies, which have been catscanned and reconstructed. The CNN coverage has the most to play with here (note that in some of the articles is buried info on the mummies from the Carlos Museum in Niagara Falls):
Also on the mummy front, the Washington Post has a preview/review of the 'Unwrapped' program which will be on TLC tonight:
According to National Geographic News, there's some interesting new evidence for the settlement of Micronesia:
The Daily Star has a brief notice on the discovery of an ancient cemetery in Yemen:
National Geographic News also reports on new evidence for the source of the marble used to make the Parthenon and various other things:
The Athenian News Agency reports on the discovery of a "huge marble statue of a woman" at Thera:
Also in an ANA report is a short item on the Mycenean acropolis at Midea, which apparently has much evidence of earthquake damage:
The Macedonian Press Agency has a vague report on some new finds near Philippi:
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a nice feature on various efforts to showcase Athens' archaeological sites during the Olympics:
The weekly Xinhua report on recent discoveries in China:
Also worth looking at is a brief article on ancient coinage:
NEW WORLD NEWS
According to an ABCNews report, a recently-discovered skeleton has scientists "nervous" (watch the wrap ... the ell on the end might go over):
An Alaskan newspaper has a nice wrapup on a four year excavation on an island off the Katmai coast:
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CLASSICISTS CORNER
The Hindustan Times has a review of a local production of Prometheus Bound:
SAGAS
Karachi mummy:
FOLLOWUPS
Welsh temple:
Jamestown twin:
Umm el-Marra:
Mesa Verde:
AT ABOUT.COM
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest feature is on various divinities' genealogies:
Latin Guide Janet Burns has put up a pile of online jigsaw puzzles which are kind of interesting:
Archaeology Guide Kris Hurst's latest is the fourth in the series in what an archaeologists' life is really like (alas, no Laras, Tias, or Harrisons ...):
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
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Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
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