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EXPLORATOR
Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 38 -- January 21, 2001
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Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap
(especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to
rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not found', check to see if
the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active for at least eight hours
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Acknowledgements: Thanks to Bill Kennedy for the heads up this week!
OLD WORLD NEWS
What might be construed as the big news of the week, based on press coverage alone, is the theory that early bone tools reveal that early hominids chowed down on termites:
The Telegraph and MSNBC have a brief item on using DNA analysis to learn about when horses were domesticated:
Just when you thought the 'Noah's flood' thing had died down, a team of researchers from Canada is suggesting the site may have been near the Persian Gulf:
The Frontier Post has a (somewhat strange) article on the Near East and Aegean art:
Nando Times and the Macedonian Press Agency report that the FBI has (finally) returned a large number of antiquities purloined from the museum at Corinth a decade ago:
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The Athenian News Agency has an all too brief report on the discovery of some Geometric period tombs in Cyprus:
The International Herald Tribune has a piece on the Etruscans:
I'm sure we'll hear more about this one next week ... EurekaAlert has an interesting press release on how a Classics grad student (yay!) has found proof that Homer was right about burnt sacrifices in the Bronze Age:
Techie types will be interested to learn that archaeologists have unearthed a prehistoric C compiler (sorry ... I couldn't resist including this one):
Xinhua via Northern Light reports on the discovery of a 3200-year-old noble's tomb in central China:
A number of tombs have also been discovered near Shanghai:
The same source has a wrap up of recent discoveries all over China as well:
NEW WORLD NEWS
I couldn't find any New World stuff this week!!
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
The January issue of Scientific American has an interesting commentary piece on the development of writing:
Discovering Archaeology has put up an article on the city of Aperlae (in Lycia):
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
Ekathimerini has posted an article from December 1969 (I doubt that's right ... there's a ref to 1998 in it) about the 'Cabernet Sauvignon of Antiquity' -- Phliasios wine -- with plenty of ancient refs ... interesting stuff:
The New York Times has an extended piece on Cleopatra, with refs to the exhibition in Italy, movies, etc.:
FOLLOWUPS
Baharaiya Oasis mummies:
Karachi mummy:
Ancient insoles:
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Zeugma:
SAGAS
The Out-of-Africa vs. Not-necessarily-so debate:
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Hanno of Carthage's little trip:
Latin Guide Janet Burns' has a guest-written feature on Augustus:
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 ... hasn't been updated since August):
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