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Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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There have been a number of significant discoveries in
excavations near the Sphinx of late, including a "fully stocked and
functioning bakery":
... and at Saqqarah:
Also recently excavated are a pair of New Kingdom tombs:
The latest installment of "we've revived the recipe for ancient
Egyptian beer":
... and as a sidenote, the ancient Sumerian goddess Ninakasi
has lent her name to a 'female friendly' beer in the UK:
,6903,768670,00.html
Here's an interview with Rene Dreyfus, one of the curators
of the Eternal Egypt exhibition (now in San Francisco, or soon
to be there):
Gulf News has a nice overview of archaeology of the region:
The Guardian has an interesting not-quite-touristy but not-quite-
political-opinion with plenty of NearEastCon focusing on a visit
to assorted monuments in Iraq:
,2763,767576,00.html
A Roman-era woodworking plane has been found on the Yorkshire
Wolds:
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Excavations at Qumran have revealed a skeleton which some are
suggesting might be the 'Teacher of Righteousness' (and/or John the
Baptist):
Construction of the museum to house the Elgin Marbles in
Athens appears to be doing rather a lot of damage:
An interesting item which suggests excavations at Tel Rumeida
have more to do with politics than archaeology:
The remains of a first century 'giant' warrior have been found in
Kazakhstan:
A 'lost' Buddhist city has been found in Afghanistan:
,4057,4793829%255E1376
2,00.html
A 2500 B.P. city is being excavated in China's Anhui province:
There appears to be evidence (maybe) that Christianity had
reached China as early as 86 A.D. (!):
Those bamboo slips recently found in China (see Followups if you
missed the story) suggest there was an "express postal service"
in the third century B.C./B.C.E:
Welsh researchers are investigating how medieval medicine might
help us somewhat more modern types:
There's some rather disparate coverage of the dating of the so-
called 'Vinland Map' (you definitely have to read more than one of
these):
Bangkok is busy trying to save underwater sites from treasure
hunters:
,1870,135556,00.html?
The Tay River expedition is starting to find stuff:
They're talking about a new tourist centre for Stonehenge
(don't they do this once a year?):
Not sure how to classify this one (which I missed last week)
... the contents of Charterhouse School Museum, which includes
antiquities from Europe and the Americas, is being put up for auction:
,3604,763979,00.html
Also not sure, but there's a new theory about the identity of
Jack the Ripper:
,6903,764416,00.html
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Here's a piece on the prehistoric climate in (mostly) South
America:
Low water levels are giving access to a 6000 B.P. fish weir
in New Jersey:
A pre-Columbian mausoleum has been found in Mexico:
A Polish team is certain it has found El Dorado:
Once again, Mesa Verde was threatened by wildfires:
... and the fire revealed more sites:
,1713,BDC_2419_1302186,00.html
Will they ever finish St. John the Divine?:
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ON THE WEB
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An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology:
Classical Mythology Directory:
ASOR Newsletter (Summer 2002):
Transoxian 4 is out, with online articles (mostly in Spanish)
dealing with various subjects pertaining to the ancient Near East:
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Charles Leland,*Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition*:
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A (somewhat grotty) head was stolen from the Greek Archaic
gallery at the British Museum:
Egypt is demanding the return of an item from the Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts:
A number of old Torah scrolls purloined by Nazis are to be
returned
by Lithuania:
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Harry J. Maihafer, "Upset at Issus":
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Cern:
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REVIEWS
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Iphigenia (Epidavros):
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EXHIBITIONS
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Queen of Sheba (British Museum):
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Classics Eireann has set up a page with addresses to write to in regards
to the impending closure of the Classics department at Queen's
University (Belfast). The page includes facts/stats about the
school, which is the only school of Classics in Northern Ireland:
In case you missed it, NPR's Talk of the Nation had a segment on
the revival of Classics (requires RealPlayer):
The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on what's been
done to and in various monuments this summer:
The Atlantic has a nice touristy thing about a visit to Rome:
... and fulfilling the scholastic law of three, here's a nice
touristy thing on Cappadocia:
... and totally violating that law is a nice touristy thing on
Ostia:
Hercules is to be performed in front of the Temple of Zeus:
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina's first book fair has some content
of interest:
A future classicist is among those who managed to escape serious
injury in that blast at Hebrew University:
,,0-1059531,00.html
A nice piece on the Panathenaion stadium:
&m=A09&aa=1&eidos=S
A somewhat bizarre appeal to ancient Greek precedent (?) in an
editorial about bilingual ballots in Denver (this one's a head
scratcher):
,1413,36%257E417%257E764330%257E,00.html
And a somewhat more thoughtful investigation into the concept of
the homo sacer:
A poem in Slate inspired by Catullus (potentially offensive use
of a certain word in the last line):
The Washington Post has a nice article on the state of teaching
about ancient Greeks (and Romans) in Maryland schools:
More on Olympic truce efforts:
Wow ... Greek is going to be taught in a public school:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrckblick - auf Latein
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Birth Rock:
Chinese Bamboo Records:
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Florida Canals:
Monitor:
,1282,-1907868,00.html
Replica Egyptian Tombs:
Teaching Young Egyptians about Ancient Egypt:
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Bill Kennedy, Michael Ruggieri, John McMahon, Hernan Astudillo,
R.M. Howe, W. Richard Frahm,, 'alesmonetos',and Sally Winchester
for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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Mark Lehner and crew have excavated the "oldest administrative
building used by workers who built the pyramids":
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020727/ap_wo_en_po/egypt_archaeology_1
A 3700-year-old "Birth Brick" has been found:
The Sumerian Dictionary project is back in the news:
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html
I think this was in a previous issue, but it's rather more clearly
explained now ... researchers are creating a replica of the "tomb
of Seti":
Ground-penetrating radar is being used to search for hidden caves
which might themselves be hiding more Dead Sea Scrolls:
pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1027506351232
A "sinister" Iron Age site has been found in South Yorkshire:
,3604,763279,00.html
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020725/ap_wo_en_po/britain_ancient_mystery_1
Athens News has a touristy feature on Philopappos Hill:
e=C&f=12971&m=A09&aa=1&eidos=S
Excavations at a Byzantine site in Butrint suggest that chess
may have been played as early as the sixth century:
Al-Ahram has a nice feature on the Monastery of St. Catherine:
Rabbits are (perhaps appropriately) ravaging the site of
Harehaugh (a Roman fortification):
It appears that work continues in Afghanistan, although the
looters are still a threat as well:
The Great Wall of China is another victim of the usual threats:
Chinese archaeologists have found an ancient pottery drum:
Pravda reports on the discovery of an ancient Bulgar military
garrison in Tatarstan:
A vicar is seeking funds to rebury a number of Anglo Saxon
remains:
click_id=29&art_id=qw1027481761786B216&set_id=1
British politicians are scrapping over who represents the ancient
site of Camelot:
tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20020725/od_nm/arthur_dc_1
An interesting ring belonging to Elizabeth I will be going on
display (photo!):
,3604,763294,00.html
A survey of the River Tay is turning up a pile of potential
sites:
Anthrax spores have been found in Scott's (the Antarctic guy)
hut:
Oxford University has acquired a very interesting 800-year-old
atlas:
,,3-360215,00.html
A nice summary of the travails of the British Museum:
We've all heard of 'Doctors Without Borders' (presumably), so
howzabout 'Restorers Without Frontiers':
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020725/ap_wo_en_po/fea_turkey_fading_greeks_1
... and Indiana Jones turned 60 this week:
And as long as we're in the entertainment vein, folks might want
to keep their eye open for an x-files-meets-archaeology sort of
program called Veritas (or not, as the case may be):
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Petroglyphs in Contra Costa county are the subject of the neverending
preservation v. access debate (the BBC piece is in the Entertainment
section!):
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020723/ap_on_en_ot/ancient_art_1
The New York Times has a nice piece on the Ortona people and their
canals:
Excavations in Belize and Guatemala are revealing how drastically
the Maya changed the environment:
A bison kill site in Oklahoma is raising questions:
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A seventeenth century Spanish cross has been found in St. Augustine:
An eighteenth century trading post has been found on the Savannah
River:
b30c4f09d00a0.html
A nice students-on-a-dig report from Oregon:
This is technically a followup, but the ongoing work on the Monitor
has uncovered some human remains:
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020726/ap_on_re_us/monitor_expedition_1
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Smithsonian Magazine has a nice feature on Caral:
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, Elucidated by an Analysis
and Explanation of the Fables (fifth edition; New York: A. S. Barnes
and Burr, 1860), by Ovid, ed. by Nathan Covington Brooks (requires a
plugin which
I haven't had a chance to check out yet):
Ilios, The City and Country of the Trojans: The Results of Researches
and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and through the Troad in the
Years 1871-72-73-73-79 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1881), by
Heinrich Schliemann
(requires the same plugin):
The Babylonian legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel and
the Dragon,
as told by Assyrian tablets from Nineveh (London: British Museum,
1921)
(ditto):
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Erik Hildinger, "Belisarius' Bid for Rome":
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a review of *Before the
Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Cer¨¦n Village in Central America*:
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Page Dubois, *Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from the
Conservatives*:
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Artists of the Pharaoh (Paris):
Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting (National Gallery):
The Desert is Not Silent (Libyan antiquities; Hyde Park):
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Black Sabbath in Latin? Why not ... :
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020727/ap_on_en_mu/classical_black_sabbath_1
Here's some good comparative material for those of you who teach
art history and have students who giggle at the thought of the
propaganda value of having one's statue placed among statues of
divinities (hint: it involves David Beckham):
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020725/ap_wo_en_po/sports_soccer_beckham_2
It's official ... Classics is/are cool ... USA Today sezso so
it must be true of course:
tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020725/en_usatoday/4305937
The idea of an Olympic Truce is back in the news:
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020722/ap_on_sp_ol/olympic_truce_2
The 'King Minos Ring' is back on display at the Iraklio Museum:
e=C&f=12972&m=A10&aa=0&eidos=S
A review of Yang Xianyi's autobiography should be of interest:
... as should a review of a television program about Michael
Ventris (scroll down to the bold "A Very English Genius"):
,6903,764296,00.html
Some good ClassCon in an account of the upcoming Perseid
shower:
... and a Washington Post piece on horse racing venues;
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-07-27&id=2101
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsr¨¹ckblick - auf Latein
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Constantine Leventis (Art Benefactor):
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Aksum Obelisk:
Bronze Age Copper Factory:
Chinese Bamboo Records:
Roman Amphitheatre in London:
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explorator 5.12 July 19, 2002
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O'Sullivan, Mitch Allen, John Hill, Andrew Schoenhofer, Michael Oberndorf,
W. Richard Frahm,'alesmonetos', Michael Ruggieri, Martin Roseveare,
Barbara Barrett, Hernan Astudillo, and Sally Winchester for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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One I missed (maybe): archaeologists in Kazakhstan are
searching for the earliest evidence of horse domestication:
... while DNA types claim to have already found it:
A British team is helping to recreate crumbling Egyptian monuments:
Another story on digs on hold due to troubles in Israel:
... although sewer workers discovered a Byzantine road:
Look like in their zeal to make a museum for the Elgin Marbles,
the Greek government is doing a pile of damage:
,3604,755335,00.html
,4273,4461386,00.html
... reports of which are likely connected to a 'change in opinion'
about the Marbles:
;jsessionid=LLK0WYIVBYBRECRBAE0CFEY?type=topnews&StoryID=1207802
... while farmers are doing a pile of damage to the Verulamium site:
,3604,756450,00.html
,,61-356771,00.html
Road work near Edinburgh has revealed a couple of Iron Age sites:
Archaeologists are racing to save another city (Allianoi) from
rising waters:
A brief item on the discovery of a Kushan 'underground city' in
Afghanistan:
Scientists appear to have solved the mystery of Delhi's incorruptible
Iron Pillar:
A bunch of bamboo slips containing records of the Qin dynasty
have been found:
A pair of major (bronze age?) discoveries were made in China's
Sichuan province:
Fourteen Heritage Sites in China are being officially inspected:
Remains of a 3000 b.p. "giant" have been found on a South Pacific
island:
,5936,4705024%255E912,00.html
,1113,2-13_1213556,00.html
Some fifteenth century 'angel coins' were recently unearthed in
London:
The New York Times has an interesting piece on some astronomer type
who links astronomy to art and literature:
... and here's someone to keep your eye open for next time there's
a gathering at Stonehenge:
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Hopefully we'll hear more about this one: a Spanish-language report
on the discovery and decipherment of a Mayan spiral staircase cum
heiroglphics:
It appears the Maya were chugging down cocoa about a thousand
years earlier than previously thought:
,5936,4731266%255E912,00.html
(requires RealPlayer)
Water flow has been restored to Pipe Spring National Monument:
They're digging up Noah Webster's house:
An interesting piece on archaeology being done at a Cold War
nuclear test site:
(see also: )
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The Babylonian legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel
and the Dragon, as told by Assyrian tablets from Nineveh:
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Police in Spain have made a major bust:
The deteriorating economic and political situation in Israel is
being blamed for causing some Palestinians to turn to plundering
sites:
Princeton is offering to return a Hadrianic sculpture which left
Italy without a permit (I think I mentioned this one before):
Vandals have damaged an Anasazi site (Lomaki Ruins):
Probably related to the subject of this column: the Museums Association
has revised its Code of Ethics (is it my imagination or is it
suddenly de rigeuer to be concerned about the ethics of one's profession?):
Italy is now saying it will return the Axum obelisk:
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Harry J. Maihafer, "Introducing Oblique Order":
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Bob Ballard's work:
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S. Allen, *In the Devil's Garden* (food rituals):
Theban Cycle (Epidavros):
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A Guardian piece on what's in the Ashmolean Museum:
,4273,4462881,00.html
... a NYTimes piece on the Chester Beatty Library:
Ancestors of the Incas (Orlando):
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Folks might be interested in a review of "The Logic of the Birds"
(not the Birds you immediately think of):
... and Britten's "Rape of Lucretia":
I've already mentioned reviews of "Quest for Immortality"; this
week, though, the Baltimore Sun has a feature on Betsy Bryan,
who is one of the two curators and the article takes quite a few
digs at classicists (or rather, Edith Hamilton, as if she
represents the 'state of the question') ... it appears the gulf
between Classics and Near Eastern Studies remains:
Classcon meets Cancon ... This Hour Has 22 Minutes' Mary
Walsh finally read the Odyssey (and liked it, even if she
is chronologically challenged):
{BCDB9041-6CB1-4A35-868D-8CF91A62F7EC}
Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrckblick - auf Latein
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Carlisle (much more info here than last week):
Chadian Fossil (genuine followups):
,6903,755133,00.html
,3604,754491,00.html
Crusader Palace in Cyprus:
2000 year b.p. Chinese Corpse:
,4057,4702003%255E13762,00.html
Edison's Basement:
Monitor:
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internet access will be (if it exists at all). There will probably
be an issue this coming Friday, then possibly a Monday after that.
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Thanks to David Detrich, Bill Kennedy, John McMahon, Michael
Oberndorf, Terrence Lockyer, Bob Howe, Jean Laplante, Adrian Murdoch,
W. Richard Frahm, Gene Barkley, Louis A. Okin, Trevor Watkins,
Barbara Barrett, Maurice O'Sullivan and Susan Jaslow, for
headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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What might be humanity's oldest ancestor has been unearthed in Chad
(and given the name "Tournai"; there's quite a bit of variation
in most of these articles,especially the 'cf.' ones):
,4273,4459173,00.html
,9834,752785,00.html
cf:
... and the oldest skull to be found outside Africa is boosting the
'Out of Africa' theory (is this theory actually being challenged?):
Here's the latest to claim they know the location of Noah's Ark:
A pair of headdresses from Ur's 'Great Death Pit' have been
rediscovered on a museum shelf (this goes beyond the usual 'we
forgot it was there' sort of thing but it was a 'stumbling'
situation):
;$sessionid$CF4EQUAAAFU0JQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/07/10/ntreas10.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/07/10/ixhome.html&_requestid=198896
Zahi Hawass announced a major outreach program to get Egyptian
children more interested in archaeology:
The mummy of Rameses I is being returned to Egypt:
A New Kingdom tomb of 'Amun's Beekeeper's Supervisor' has been unearthed
somewhere in Egypt:
A more extensive article on efforts to save Egyptian sites from rising
water:
There's going to be new excavations at Troy:
Archaeologists revealed this week some of the finds from the excavations
of a Roman garrison at Luguvalium (a.k.a. Carlisle ... these items are
all rather different):
,1280,-1865536,00.html
Folks might be interested in the website accompanying a new documentary
about the 'Barbarians' (and a subsequent review of the series):
,3604,751785,00.html
The New York Times has a nice piece on the evidence for massive trade
revealed in the excavations at Berenike:
Some Roman-era statuary have been found in Thessaloniki:
Scientists have begun to poke and prod a Fayum mummy (2nd century A.D.)
in Pretoria:
Vermilion found in Japanese tombs dating to the Yayoi period might
have come from China:
I hope we'll hear more of this one ... the 2000-year-old corpse of
a woman has been found *intact* in China's Jiangsu province:
A number of seventh century A.D. pagodas have been found in the
Bay of Bengal:
An explosion at an archaeological site in Pakistan injured a number
of tourists:
Some Viking footprints have been found near Oslo:
German scientists have successfully separated a number of Tang dynasty
silk dresses:
A fifteenth-century fresco depicting Muhammed in Hades is causing
a stir in Bologna:
A recently-discovered Rubens has set a record at auction (CanCon for
my fellow Canucks ... the 'unknown buyer' is, rumour hath it, David
Thompson of the Thompson newspaper empire):
... and a "rare" (as if they're all over the place) Michelangelo
has been identified:
,,2-352925,00.html
The Scotsman has an interesting piece on the 'Blue Blanket' banner:
A 17th century ship has come to light in Wales:
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Archaeologists working in that 'shantytown' on the outskirts of
Lima have come across 25 more mummies:
Archaeologists in Arizona are trying to determine the effect of
wildfires on several archaeological sites:
This is probably more of a followup, but since they've been working
on this project (more or less) for years, we'll draw your attention
once again to the efforts to raise the Monitor:
We'll probably hear more about this one ... archaeologists have
begun to poke around in what is believed to be Edison's basement:
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*Central Sanctuary and the Centralization of Worship in Ancient
Israel from the Settlement to the Building of Solomon's Temple:
A Historical and Theological Study of the Biblical Evidence in Its
Archaeological and Ancient Near Eastern Context", a PhD thesis submitted
to the University of Gloucestershire by Dr Pekka Pitknen.
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Items apparently related to the Schultz case are now being returned
to Egypt:
... and there are more implications of the case:
A relief in the Virgina Museum of Fine Arts is the latest artifact
to be claimed to have been stolen:
Al-Ahram has a nice piece on the discovery of a stolen artifact
which was up for auction at Christies:
Another case:
A case in the making?:
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Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a review of Vivian and
Anderson's *Chaco Canyon*:
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REVIEWS
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Anthony Everitt, *Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest
Politician*:
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EXHIBITIONS
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Conexiones: Connections in Spanish Colonial Art (Santa Fe):
(cf. )
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I was sent this one a while ago but it was trapped by one of my
filters and sent into temporary obscurity: it's an interview with
Rekha Thammana, who has achieved a perfect score on the National
Latin Exam for four consecutive years:
Here's the latest installment of 'What kind of career can you get
with a classics degree':
,7792,751526,00.html
AthensNews has a nice piece on the antiquity of figs:
"The Road to Perdition", we are told, is "salted with enough Old Testament revenge and
reheated Greek tragedy to satisfy the most demanding classicist":
Folks might be interested in reading about the Dan David prize:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Byzantine Coin in China:
Crusader Castle on Cyprus:
,4057,4653793%255E13762,00.html
... and a couple of issues ago we reported on an Indian researcher's
claims to have deciphered the Indus Valley Script ... folks might
be interested to read some of the comments made on the report in the
Times of India:
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Paola Raffetta, Hugh Denard, Shiela Winchester, Louis A. Okin,
Hernan Astudillo, Katherine Reece, W. Richard Frahm, 'alesmonetos',
and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
("as always hoping I have left no one out", for those who were
wondering!).
... a bit of a slow week, so belated Happy Canada Day to my fellow
Canucks and Happy Independence Day to my American friends and an
early Happy Bastille Day mes amis!
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The latest 'out of Africa' theory has three distinct groups of
hominids migrating out at different times:
Same story?:
The latest DNA revelation reveals the Welsh as the 'true' Britons:
... and as long as we're talking DNA, tests are going to be made on
descendents of Captain Cook to see if an arrow purported to have killed
him has bits of him on it still:
An Egyptian queen who fought for equal rights some four millennia
ago was apparently rewarded with a pharoanic burial:
A fourth dynasty tomb has been found near the pyramids:
An old kingdom wharf has been found near Aswan:
There's a project underway to help save the Sphinx from groundwater
damage:
The Daily Star has a touristy sort of thing on Enfeh:
An ancient cemetery at Kefissia was bulldozed for unspecified
reasons, 'ruining' a number of graves:
The world's largest Buddha is undergoing repairs:
Chinese archaeologists have discovered a trove of sex toys:
A byzantine gold coin unearthed in China's Qinghai province is
leading to interesting theories about ancient trade routes:
Home renovations in Essex have turned up a 17th century bronze
bowl:
I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this one ... there's an
expedition afoot to find the ships which were carrying Cromwell's
wealth:
,3604,748881,00.html
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This really should be a followup, but ... the most recent issue of
Archaeology has a brief item on the Kota Mama expedition in Bolivia:
... to which the senior archaeologist would like to respond in a
letter he has sent to both the magazine and Explorator (which I
quote in its entirety):
---
Dear Sir/Madam
It has been brought to my attention that an article in the latest issue of
Archaeology concerns the Kota Mama III expedition to Bolivia last year and
discusses the 'activities' of the group. Unfortunately we have suffered
several unfounded stories such as these which would appear to lead back to
individuals involved in an antiquity smuggling ring whom we disturbed last
year. If you would bear with me I shall attempt to address the points made
in the article and hopefully offer a more accurate picture of events:
Firstly the expedition last year is the 3rd in the series of 6 aimed at
principally exploring the archaeology of Bolivia and the possible links
with its neighbouring countries. The first expedition was indeed
accompanied by a former RAF photo interpreter who had a theory on the
location of Atlantis near Lake Poopo, however the team proved that such a
claim was unfounded through proper scientific study. It is better after all
to confront such claims head-on rather than sit back and dismiss them from
one's armchair?
The premise behind the next two expeditions was proving that traditional
reed boats, such as those still seen on Lake Titicaca today, could have
been used to navigate along the rivers in South America. It has long be
realised that rivers are the key to communication in a jungle environment
and these expeditions would help in demonstrating the practical
problems/advantages using them as such. The article by Vranich alludes to
this use of a reed boat on last years expedition, though the claim that we
were sailing from "Lake Titicaca to Africa" is a little overstated as we
were only going from Guanay in Northern Bolivia along the Kaka, Beni,
Madeira and Amazon rivers to Belem on the Brazilian coast, certainly no
further. Yes the boats did have motors attached (as per the legal
requirement for any such craft in Brazil), but unfortunately we did not
have the time to sail the whole way as this would have added months to the
journey. However we did sail the boat successfully on occasion and the main
point proved was that such a vessel, with its delicate reed hull, could
withstand those rivers. Furthermore the comment that the boat was carried
"part of the way on trucks" presumably refers to the transfer of the boats
from where they were built to the town where they were launched.
Moving onto the more serious question over the archaeological discoveries
made by the team last year I can, as the Senior British Archaeologist for
that expedition, perhaps clarify Vranich's observations. I agree with him
completely that the press went wild with stories of Paititi - otherwise
known as El Dorado - being discovered by us. These stories came out while
we were still up the mountain on the site and certainly before we had
completed our survey and would appear to have been based on rumours that
escalated out of control. Since I have returned from the jungle I have
never said we had found the city, nor even anything like it. In fact my
report states that we only found a scattering of Colonial and Inca remains
that may relate to a gold mining operation rather than anything else. The
"retracing of Ertl's footsteps" was the stated aim of the expedition from
the onset, with the full backing of the Bolivian government. Once again we
were following up previous claims with scientific investigation, in this
case Ertl had claimed back in the 1950s to have found Paititi in this area.
Now to the statement "the group used dynamite to clear a six-mile path
through the threatened subtropic forest". I too would be outraged if
someone had committed such vandalism. Unfortunately Dr Vranich would appear
to be grossly misinformed. The trail to the site we surveyed was cleared
under local government direction with dynamite being used only on one
occasion to aid in a river crossing. I believe the total damage inflicted
was the loss of one tree and some displaced bedrock. Not quite the damage
suggested by the article.
Furthermore the Bolivian archaeologists who worked with us witnessed these
events and actually signed a report saying that they were pleased with the
survey work. If need be I am more than happy to show anyone a copy of the
letter we received from the Bolivians praising our work. They were treated
the same as any other team member and the comment by Vranich that they only
"received transport, room and board for their participation" is mystifying,
after all that is all that any of us received while we were out there, such
is the nature of these expeditions.
I shall end my response to this article with one final note, if the
Bolivian National Archaeology Service (UNAR) and the government were at all
upset, worried or angered by our 'activities' then why have they asked us
to return this year, inviting us to work at places such as Samaipata, a
World Heritage Site, with full backing and once again providing 4 of their
own archaeologists to complete the team? And all of this happening under a
different President rather than the previous "unpopular ally...made
godfather of the enterprise...Hugo Banzer"! Perhaps Dr Vranich would do
better consulting the official books and reports rather than unfounded
newspaper speculation.
Bruce Mann
Senior Archaeologist, Kota Mama III & IV
----
It looks as if the expedition to excavate the Mica (deepwater)
shipwreck is a go:
A Clovis site has been found in Harper County (OK):
Maryland's Fort Frederick is causing some head scratching:
The Kansas City Star has a state-of-the-excavation piece on the
Galbraith site (Missouri):
The New York Times has a nice report on a field school's efforts
at a 1800's (or so) site in New York City:
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As mentioned, there's a new issue of Archaeology out, with
abstracts online for articles about Sri Lanka's Buddhist heritage,
ancient Colchester, newsbriefs, et alia:
There's also a new issue of British Archaeology out, with articles
on the Roman baths at Exeter, Britain's wartime defences, railroads,
influences on Tolkein, et alia:
... and a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, with full
text articles on searching for the Essenes (at Ein Gedi, not Qumran),
Egyptian influences on the seals of the kings of Judah, et alia:
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An oldie from the ARCE newsletter is now available on the web ...
K. Lal Gauri, "Geologic Study of the Sphinx" ARCE Newsletter, No. 127(1984) pp. 24-43
The Surgery of Ancient Rome:
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Some decent online historical fiction by Eric Flint:
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CRIME BEAT
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Princeton has offered to return a Roman sculpture after learning it
was purchased without the proper paperwork:
,1282,-1857483,00.html
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HUMOUR
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Archaeology Funnies:
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Mark Wayne Biggs, "Forty Days at Jotapata"
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REVIEWS
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Mary Beard, *The Parthenon*:
Joachim Kohler, *Zarathustra's Secret* (on Nietzche's sexual orientation):
Lysistrata (Epidavros):
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Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt (New York):
... see also:
Glass of Imperial Rome (New York):
Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan (Smithsonian):
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Folks might be interested in a letter to the editor cum response to
Maureen Fant's piece on Pompeii in the Times a few issues back:
I appear to have been sent this a while ago, but it got lost in the
shuffle ... right now, the Magna Roma folks (the restaurant, remember?)
are hosting a 'Concerto e cena di 2000 anni fa' at Hadrian's Villa
and they've got a website:
Folks will be interested in a Spectator piece on whether blue-eyed
Afghans are descended from Alexander the Great's soldiers:
We'll probably hear more of this one ... a group is sailing from
Athens to the Black Sea in some sort of inflatable boat (!) to recreate
the experience of ancient Greek sailors:
I'm always yakking about performances at Epidavros or Athens, but howzabout
Baalbek for a change of pace:
This is a good article to point to if someone asks you what all the
hubbub is about the Parthenon's marbles:
Here's an encouraging/exciting press release about research into
ancient theatres at the University of Warwick:
An abstract of El-Sammak, A. and Tucker, M., "Ooids from Turkey and
Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean and a Love-story of Antony and Cleopatra", *Facies* 46
might be enough to get someone to track down the article (scroll down to
El-Sammak):
Victor Davis Hanson doesn't take bad/inaccurate reviews lying down (scroll down
to Carnage and Culture):
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Meyer Reinhold (Classicistissimus)
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Aksum Obelisk:
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Roseveare, Dale Armstrong, Rick Pettigrew, Michael Oberndorf, Trevor
Watkins, Barbara Barrett, Ardle MacMahon, Michael Ruggieri, Bill Kennedy, Michael
Oberndorf, W. Richard Frahm, and Maurice O'Sullivan for headses upses this
week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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Editor's ramblings: So I see in one of the zillions of elists
I frequent a note that someone from TLC (The Learning Channel)
was asking for archaeologists to get in touch with her for some sort
of television program. So, of course, I contact her and tell her
that plenty of archaeologist types read Explorator and would she
like me to pass on the information to them. So she does, but the
info is somewhat different than I had originally assumed, but
since I did offer, here's the skinny:
"" TLC's "A Dating Story" is looking to feature single
archaeologist, ages 25-35, on our daytime documentary
style show. We are looking to feature interesting,
talkative, t.v. savvy people. If anyone is interested
in more information please contact me, Katie, via
email at datingstory@... or call (215)928-1414
ext. 7166. Enclosed is an attachment which describes
the show in greater detail. I look forward to
speaking with you!
Katie Monson
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Don't forget to mention you saw it in Explorator! 8^)
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A very well-preserved Neanderthal butchery site has been found
in Norfolk (England):
,3604,743954,00.html
A mudbrick tomb has been found at Saqqarah:
A bronze age 'metal factory' has been found in Jordan:
Not sure I follow the logic of the headline, but "Discovery of
Middle Bronze Age burial pit raises hopes of uncovering medieval town"
(Ireland):
A log boat discovered in Scotland a century ago has now been dated
to the bronze age:
The New York Times has a piece on a first-century Roman
funerary urn:
(photo at: )
... actually, folks might be interested in all the things
auctioned off in Sotheby's recent Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asian
Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art thing ... here's the list,
all linked to photos and descriptions:
The Times has a touristy piece on Alexandria:
,,71-336660,00.html
The Romans used more than aqueducts to deal with water problems:
Ballard's back in the news, but just with an overview of some
of his previous discoveries (no doubt this is prepublicity for
something else planned):
China Daily has a piece on the Spillings Horde (9th century
Viking):
Some ancient multiplication tables have been found in China's
Hunan province:
Tests on the relics in St. David's Cathedral (Wales) have
revealed the bones do not belong to him:
Indian archaeologists have found the remains of a British ship
which sank a couple centuries ago:
UNESCO has added nine sites to its World Heritage list:
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the various interpretations
of what comprises 'historical preservation':
More on the British Museum's financial woes (different stories):
,11711,744224,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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"Who created Baja California's ancient cave paintings?":
A prehistoric village site has been found near Tucson:
Excavations at the Boston Saloon site in Virginia City have
brought to light a very old bottle of hot sauce:
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The Economist has a feature on Blombos Cave:
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(I'm not sure who sent me this one, but it's fairly recent (April
2002) and worth listening to); official blurb:
The Trojan War: History or Myth: Turning convention on its head,
Martin West, a renowned scholar of Greek studies and classical
antiquity, presents another way of looking at The Trojan War.
There's a new progress report on the KV5 excavation at the Theban
Mapping Project's site:
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The Satyricon (Firebraugh trans.):
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Roman Africa: Tunisia
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Vandals have forced the closing of a 13th-century Church in
England:
A number of Roman artifacts have disappeared from storage in
Carlisle:
Similarly, a number of aboriginal artifacts have disappeared from Winnipeg's
Anthropology Museum:
{CD944989-4486-40B3-996D-C4EFC8556785}
The U.S. is getting tougher on archaeological crimes:
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Greg Yorcherer, "The Trouble with Elephants" (Hannibal):
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REVIEWS
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Anthony Grafton, *Bring Out Your Dead:The Past as Revelation.*:
Katerina Karakasi, *Ancient Korai*:
The Bacchae (Epidaurus):
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Greeks and the Sea: Hellenic Ships From Ancient Times
Through the 20th Century (New York):
Pieter Saenredam (Getty):
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Queen's University (Belfast) has voted to close its Classics
department, despite pleas from various folks:
Folks will be interested in Stanley Kurtz' National Review piece
on the gutting of UChicago's Western Civ. course:
The Economist compares the recently-late Ann Landers to the Oracle
of Apollo at Delphi:
Good news for the DAI:
The Vatican's recent no smoking policy has caused some speculation
on how the signs will read:
Looks like there's going to be a remake of 'Clash of the Titans':
Not a lot of info in this abstract, but it might make you want
to track down the latest issue of Discover ... "Homer's Bones
Can an archaeological dig in Greece reveal the line between
truth and fiction in the Iliad and the Odyssey?":
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth (nice classically-inspired cartoon
here as well):
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Frank Spinney ("Museum Innovator"):
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FOLLOWUPS
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Ancient Scottish Capital:
Columbus Ship Near Panama:
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W. Richard Frahm, Susan Jaslow, 'alesmonetos', Paul Cowie, Janet Delaine,
Barbara Barrett, Sara Orel, and Sally Winchester for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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Well, if it's Solstice you know folks will be dropping their clothes
and dancing around Stonehenge:
(photos!)
,2763,742039,00.html
... and the news sources will be looking for other stories about
the megaliths:
It's going to be a quiet dig season in the Holy Land, for obvious
reasons:
Despite the foregoing, the big news this week appears to be the discovery
of a Roman 'stadium' (hippodrome?) near Tiberias:
,1249,405012494,00.html
An archaeologist is going to see (or possibly has by now) investigate
whether there is any solstice connection with a temple at Dilmun:
FAZ has a nice article on the Waldgirmes site, and how it was a
civilian settlement from the start (I'm not sure how old/new this article
is ... it did turn up in a couple of search engines):
{7CC1077B-EF3F-4453-9BC2-1CD8018E6958}&width=1139&height=843&agt=explorer&ver=4&svr=4
Construction in Nicosia has turned up archaeological remains (the
first two items are different 'early reports'; those which follow
are Reuters):
An 'iron age citadel' near Stirling appears to be Scotland's long
lost capital:
A scholar is claiming to have deciphered the "much elusive" Indus
script (my skeptical alarm is going off on this one):
A pair of sixth century statues of Siva and Saraswitha have been
found near Tiruchirappalli:
Coming to a 'documentary' near you, no doubt ... a team of Chinese
archaeologists are going to investigate a 'mystery pyramid' which
supposedly has some connection to extraterrestrials, according to
legend:
In an unrelated (hopefully) development, a series of pyramids have
also been found in Uzbekistan:
A Han Dynasty measuring tool has been found in China's Ningxia Hui
Autonomous Region (note to self: brush up on Chinese geography):
Archaeologists have found evidence that Cistercian monks were developing
a major blast furnace operation prior to their eviction by Henry VIII:
While my fellow Canadians battle over which city can lay claim to being the
'home' of hockey, it appears that Holland can (gasp) lay claim to
being the home of (gasp) golf (gasp):
The Italian government apparently has no plans to privatize
things like the Colosseum:
I'm trying to figure out whether the Times' 'Archaeological Notebook'
is a regular feature:
,,1-46-329071,00.html
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Some recent developments in the Kennewick Man saga:
... and sometimes you don't find what you're digging for:
Some of the oldest (10,000 BP) archaeological remains ever found
in North Carolina have come to light:
A number of mounds in Shiloh National Military Park are being
excavated:
,1406,KNS_328_1222400,00.html
Here's a nice feature on Palenque:
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There's a new issue of Archaeology out:
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ON THE WEB
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The BBC's companion site to its series "The Roman Way" has a pile
of stuff of interest, including Real Audio files of the programs,
recipes of Roman cuisine, et alia:
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/romanway/shtml
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Donald Mackenzie, *Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe*:
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A nice AP article is making the rounds, all about the changed attitude
towards ownership of antiquities of questionable provenances:
... and the Wall Street Journal had a nice piece on a similar topic:
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Greg Yocherer, "Classic Battle Joined" (Cannae):
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Penthesilea (production at Epidaurus):
Sophocles' Electra (Athens):
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Plenty of classcon in a CSM piece on etymological roots of plant
names (not my punnus horribilis):
... and we might as well include this bit on the history of the
cucumber:
The protest against the Olympic mascots has taken an interesting
(or not) twist:
The Guardian has a piece on whence came the beasties exhibited in the
Colosseum:
,4273,4436401,00.html
A nice feature on Lynn Krepich's efforts to keep Latin alive in the
classroom:
Only a tenuous classical connection in this bio of a Japanese
scholar, but an interesting read:
A classicist is involved in a cv scandal in Scotland:
If you missed Maureen Fant's 'Stroll through Pompeii' in the Times
last week, it's still available in the International Herald Tribune:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Amesbury Archer:
Columbus Ships:
Kenan Tepe dig:
,1249,405012291,00.html
Oldest Intact Sarcophagus:
Oldest Boat:
Olmec Jade:
Reed Boats a la Heyerdahl:
Schultz Case:
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It might be bacteria which is eating away at the paintings of Altamira:
There's another replica of an ancient boat plying the waves ... this
time a replica of a pre-pharaonic reed boat:
Archaeologists (without stumbling, even!) have found what appears
to be the oldest intact sarcophagus:
,5744,4520152%255E1702,00.html
The Lebanon Daily Star has a nice feature on the excavations at
Urkesh:
Here's a news release on an upcoming dig at Kenan Tepe:
Looks like there's going to be a serious challenge to the Pitman and
Ryan Black Sea Flood hypothesis:
A Hellenistic tower on the island of Ro will be restored:
Greek archaeologists don't want artifacts to leave Greece:
There is evidence that sea trade between Rome and India was more
extensive than similar trade via the Silk Route:
,1249,405011230,00.html
Maureen Fant has written a nice touristy piece for the New York
Times all about her visit to Pompeii:
... and Francine Prose has one on a stay in Rome:
The Amphitheatre in the center of London which folks have been
excavating for the past 15 years or so is now open to the public:
(photos)
A Gupta era statue has been found in India's Patna district:
Ethiopia once again asked Italy to return its obelisk:
More on the impending construction of a new antiquities (!) museum
in Egypt:
A statue of Venus reached a record price at Christie's this week:
(good photo)
;jsessionid=J5EVZQCP02J3UCRBAE0CFEYKEEATGIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=1087809
,,2-326232,00.html
,11711,737281,00.html
More from Christies:
They're letting the public into the convent at the top of Rome's
Spanish Steps:
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Among the many digs about to get under way is one to search for
Fort Bedford (in Bedford, PA, of course):
Detroit News has a feature on the excavation of Fort St. Joseph:
... and Bingham's Fort is slowly coming to light:
The Hunley crew are the subject of a forensics exam:
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Time has a nice article on the ongoing 'dig' in the harbour of
Alexandria:
,13005,901020617-260666,00.html
There's a new issue of Bible Review out, with a full text article on
the 34 Gospels, among other things:
HS and crew have obviously been busy since there's also a new issue
of Archaeology Odyssey out, with a nice article on Troy and the
Trojan War, among (as usual) other things:
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Anita Cohen Williams has started a 'Blog' devoted to Archaeology
devoted primarily to links of archaeological interest:
... she also has one devoted to museums (check out the Museum
of Depressionist Art, a nice parody):
Explorator, by the way, will have a Blog counterpart debuting in
the next few weeks ...
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*Encyclopedia of World History*:
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Last week I forgot to mention the Archaeology Channel's feature on
the Maya Lancandon culture and its struggles to survive:
... and we should also mention the debut of a new audio series
at the same site called "The Human Experience", which should be
of interest to those with an anthropological bent:
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Frederick Schultz was sentenced this week (the articles from
Archaeology Magazine will hopefully clear up confusion about
the pharoah's head ... Reuters seems to have dropped the ball
on this one):
While folks were oohing and aahing at the record price of the
Venus sculpture at Christie's (see above), others were pointing
out that one of the offerings had been stolen from Egypt (something
lost in translation in the Egyptian version):
An Egyptian national was imprisoned briefly because he had been
excavating in his house, which happened to sit upon a temple
archaeologists have been searching for for years:
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Tom Huntington, "Bad King Herod":
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Queen of Sheba (British Museum):
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NPR has a nice feature on 'keeping Latin alive' at Roosevelt High
School:
More on the giant Aphrodite theme park proposed for Cyprus:
The group Avaton make ancient Greek poetry "mainstream":
There will be a production of Rossini's "The Siege of Corinth",
appropriately, near Acrocorinth:
An interesting method of learning one's conjugations:
Since I was poking around a few blogs this a.m., folks might be
interested in the Bloggus Caesari (in English, alas):
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Rodney H. Hilton (medieval historian):
Phyllis Bober (classical/renaissance art historian):
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Hunley watch:
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for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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Stone tools and bones are suggesting a rethink on when Britian first
was inhabited by humans:
A pile of bitumen slabs found in Kuwait are believed to be the remains
of the world's oldest boat:
(requires registration)
A number of 18th/19th dynasty tombs of government officials has
('have' doesn't look right) been found near the Step Pyramid:
... probably the same:
,7034,4452147%255E401,00.html
A 4000-year-old seal of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found during
the excavation of a stable in Scotland (and yes, there is a logical explanation,
but you just *know* something else will come of this):
I think this must have been a sidebar to something else, but here's
a brief overview of the life of Thutmose III:
The already-under-construction Cairo-Aswan highway is now causing
some concern amongst archaeological types:
A brief item on the restoration of some of the artifacts found in
Abu Qir bay:
One I missed: Cyprus Mail has an extensive piece on the PASYDY hill
site (Cyprus, of course), which is important but bogged down in
matters political, it seems:
Archaeologists are tracing the domestication of the horse in
Kazakhstan:
Moscow Times has a feature on the 'Siberian Ice Maiden':
The Villa of the Papyri is turning into a saga ... now they're going
to be doing some "emergency maintenance" on it:
A trio of tombs belonging to court eunuchs of Ming dynasty era date
have been found:
A 'freak' low tide has revealed "Scotland's Atlantis":
If you're planning on visiting the British Museum, you might want
to check to make sure it doesn't coincide with a series of planned strikes:
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A lost Inca settlement has been discovered in the jungles of Peru
(the second Telegraph piece is an interview with Hugh Thomson):
;$sessionid$LBU2D1IAACV4RQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/06/06/winca06.xml
;$sessionid$LJG3GSIAAD5ARQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2002/06/08/winca08.xml
... and some new discoveries have been made at Macchu Picchu:
;jsessionid=NRAIORJDHXZVOCRBAEZSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=sciencenews&StoryID=1064195
Archaeologists in Florida are claiming to have found the longest,
oldest canals in North America (the SunSentinel piece has some nice
photos and a video report as well):
Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi (a.k.a. Canada's Ice Man) is next in line to
undergo DNA testing:
The Salt Lake Tribune has some coverage of a dig on Antelope
Island:
This is a sort of book announcement thing (maybe), but a modern
architectural historian has turned her thoughts to Cahokia:
Remains of Fort Greene Ville have been found, near Greenville, Ohio
of course:
They're still retrieving artifacts from the Hunley:
;jsessionid=OM2JNZ1DQY2X4CRBAEZSFFAKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=1063769
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Popular Mechanics has a nice article on the Sussex and the challenges
of raising it:
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Lee Levin, "Rome vs. Carthage":
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REVIEWS
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Kenneth Lapatin, *Mysteries of the Snake Goddess* (n.b. the following
url is kind of an experiment ... the review in the Globe and Mail
has an url that approaches 300 characters in length; several Explorator
readers have mentioned tinyurl.com as something worth trying, and
in this case it seems worthwhile):
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Quest For Immortality: Ancient Treasures of Egypt (coming soon ...
I'm sure we'll regularly be reading about this one):
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AthensNews has an item on ancient (mostly Roman) gluttony:
A classicist has commented on Catholic sexual abuse cases in
Kentucky:
,1282,-1793487,00.html
An ancient civ teacher's website is getting some attention:
Here's an interesting appeal to Plato as precedent:
... and from the same source, an appeal to ancient Rome (who's
teaching Classics in Pakistan?):
Harvard is giving Peter Brown and honorary degree:
This one's sort of interesting ... a Guardian review of a pile of
books chastises Anne Carson for not including enough classical
references in her latest novel:
,6903,726052,00.html
The Kyrenia II returned to drydock for repairs (the photo might
be of interest):
Umberto Eco gave a convocation address at Hebrew University, which
some might find of interest:
The Herald Sun has a short item on the use of Latin by doctors:
Newsday has a piece on technology being used to read Herculaneum
(and other) papyri:
Peter Jones:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
Weather in Latin (not just U.S. anymore!):
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Olmec Jade:
Tell Hamoukar:
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Gene Barkley, Rick Pettigrew, 'alesmonetos', and Kathy Tang for
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I'm sure we'll hear some more about this one ... it appears that
chimps create archaeological remains much like those of early
humans:
Is the National Geographic buying into Graham Hancock's theories?:
What *might* be the oldest lifelike images of humans have been
discovered/are about to be reassessed in France(they look like
medieval monks to me):
A childbirth seat has been found in Egypt:
A brief item on the discovery of a mosaic in Palmyra:
As with many ancient monuments, Persepolis is showing the effects
of pollution etc.:
... and a rising water table is threatening Egypt's monuments:
Meanwhile, there's a big conference going on focussing on how to save
Afghanistan's cultural heritage:
John Noble Wilford has penned a little piece on Tell Hamoukar:
Further complicating matters in Ethiopia's dispute with Italy over an
obelisk, the latter was struck by lightning this week:
,11711,724055,00.html
A brief item on using LIBS technology on a Minoan knife:
Goddio's still finding things in and around Herakleion:
eKathimerini reports on a report on recently reported finds in Athens:
AthensNews has a touristy piece on Knossos:
... and one on Lesbos too:
FAZ has a nice piece on the Kalkriese Museum and the site of Varus'
debacle:
An ancient Buddhist shrine has been found in Uttar Pradesh:
Chinese archaeologists have found some leather shoes dating to the
Han dynasty:
A pair of submerged towns have been found in China's Zhejiang
province:
The latest in the Fujimura scandal:
The remains of the last Tasmanian aborigine are being returned for
burial:
,11711,725297,00.html
Probably a little late for this newsletter, but a Columbia U. historian
is suggesting the British Empire was hardly a civilizing influence:
,6903,722384,00.html
Also probably a little late, but with some interesting comparative
possibilities as suggested from an appeal to ancient precedent (Egypt):
The new Library of Alexandria, by the way, continues to be in the
'opening this year' stage:
A school in the US has its own mummy:
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Must be handy to be able to do a real dig right on campus:
A number of sites have been found in the Nevada desert:
The digging is about to commence at the Fort Pierre Chouteau site
(South Dakota):
Exxon has come across a 'mystery ship' in the Gulf of Mexico:
... and there might be mystery ships in the Delaware too:
A golf course on Mackinac Island is hosting a dig for War of 1812
artifacts:
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Josep Marti, "The Cultural Frames Approach as an Alternative View
to the Ethnocratic Idea of Culture.":
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There's an audio interview with Jessica Palladini on "Saving the
Black Creek" site:
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A pair of Afghan smugglers were apprehended this week:
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Bruce Heydt, "Bath's Sacred Spring":
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has put together a short piece on the
history of glassmaking:
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Ian Pears, *The Dream of Scipio* (novel):
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Queen's University (Belfast) is facing budget cuts which might
affect Classics:
The next installment of what to do with a degree in Classics:
... and the secret to winning spelling bees:
Classcon in a piece about wedding toasts:
An account of an experience with the online "Daily Life in the Eastern
Roman Empire" course might be of interest:
This could be interesting ... the Colosseum is going to be online
24 hours a day:
More political pressure to return the Elgin Marbles:
Oliver Stone's Alexander the Great flick is scouting venues, it appears:
;jsessionid=OQRHPOGHP1SNACRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=entertainmentnews&StoryID=997869#
I definitely missed this one (three years ago!), but it turned up
while poking around another search engine ... it's (not seriously)
about the discovery of a lost drama by Sophocles:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Herculaneum Library:
Stonehenge King (nice slideshow):
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John Hill, Ethan R. Longhenry, and Maurice O'Sullivan for headses
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Mind-boggled editor's note: After the week I've had, this kind of
makes sense ... Mike Tyson has apparently said that he wants to
be an archaeologist:
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What is possibly the "oldest" African agricultural settlement has
been found in Eritrea (this doesn't quite sound right):
An important underwater UK prehistoric site is being explored:
A 2500 b.p. tomb has been found in the Barharia Oasis:
,1113,2-11-37_1190449,00.html
The Egyptian State Information Service is stirring up interest in the
search for the tomb of Alexander the Great (hmmmmm):
... and singing the praises of Rosalie David:
The Guardian had a report on KV5 this week:
,3604,718687,00.html
Egypt's hundredth pyramid has been found (?):
... as has Thutmose III's granite quarry:
There was plenty of coverage this week of the discovery of a skeleton
of someone who was probably a priest of Cybele (or, more sensationally,
a cross-dressing Roman skeleton ... the New Zealand Herald has the best
headline) ... the discovery was actually made
twenty years ago:
,3604,719756,00.html
Apparently they're NOT resuming the excavation of the library at
Herculaneum, contrary to earlier reports:
,,3-301556,00.html
A site with artifacts ranging from "Indo-Greek" to Hindu Shahi has
been found in India's Dir district:
A number of significant 15th (and later) century fortifications
have turned up in county Sligo:
The tomb of Henry VIII's elder brother has been located in
Worcester Cathedral:
,1280,-1748787,00.html
;$sessionid$4AEKYJAAADIGZQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2002/05/20/nprinc20.xml
Excavations are being conducted in Norway to determine whether
construction work is hastening decomposition of skeletal remains
in a church cemetery:
A number of 2000 b.p. crop seeds have been found in China's Gansu
province:
I think I have mentioned the manuscript discovery at the Deir el Surian
monastery before, but the Art Newspaper presents the find in
rather more detail:
Who is buried in Columbus' tomb? er ... tombs?:
Also on the mysterious burial front, construction workers have
revealed a mass grave at the site where Nicholas II and his family
were murdered:
I think I forgot this one last week -- work on a new exhibit at
a zoo in Sydney has revealed a trio of Scottish cannons which date
back to the 1700's:
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The "mother lode" of jade which was a major source of Olmec wealth
appears to have been discovered:
... and a major underground river has been found in the Yucatan, which
may shed light on the environmental situation the Maya (and others)
had to deal with:
A nice piece on petroglyphs in Arkanasas:
Satellite technology has revealed some ancient footpaths in Costa
Rica:
The hype is beginning again for the search for lost civilizations
off of Cuba:
,1280,-1746406,00.html
Less controversial (perhaps) are other Castro-sponsored explorations
of shipwrecks off Cuba which have revealed the wreck of the Palemon:
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George Ebers, *Cleopatra*:
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Another bust in Greece:
Here's more on that art-connoisseur/thief/waiter from France:
... and a very interesting tale of manuscript theft from a French
monastery:
,3604,721292,00.html
A new antiquities bill is before the Greek parliament and, if passed,
will no doubt provide more content for this section of Explorator:
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Bruce Heydt, "Bronze Age Riddle Uncovered at Flag Fen":
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EXHIBITIONS
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Queen of Sheba (British Museum ... not so much a review as a nice
article on the Queen of Sheba):
,4273,4421501,00.html
The Greek Classical Period (Berlin):
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Another installment of what-you-can-do-with-a-classics (vel simm)-degree:
This "Harvard professor" should drop by the classics department, I
suspect:
Anyone want to confess to being the unnamed UMich TA and/or the prof
alluded to in this one:
Potentially interesting classcon in this one:
Sounds like someone got the Lysistrata right (or something like
that):
... while a production of the Frogs is causing controversy in
Italy:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... kai Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Jake Hoffman:
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Amenhotep III statue returned to Egypt:
Cuneiform Digital Library Intiative:
Kouros (the eKat articles are genuine followups):
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Richard Frahm, Jorn Barger, and Brennus Legranus for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ The big news this week appears to be the discovery of a 'king's' grave near Stonehenge (the first item is from the Wessex Archaeology website): ,,173-297694,00.html ,5936,4333365%255E912,00.html There's an AP Wire story circulating on the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: cf: At least once a year we get a report on a DNA study of migrations of people; this year it's on the various movements of Jewish communities: An interesting piece on the guys who bring you the "Mummy Road Show": ,1870,119416,00.html Al-Ahram has a touristy piece on Heliopolis: Here's a sort of overview piece on recent finds in Egypt's Behira Governate: A brief item on the discovery of some Ptolemaic era tombs in Alexandria: A neolithic site has been found at Attiki Odos (scroll down a bit): A major Roman site (with saltworks) has been discovered in Cheshire: Here's an interesting piece on archaeologists' efforts to restore the pigment on the 4th century B.C./B.C.E."Can Sarcophagus" found near Troy (the first one includes photos): cf: A number of Buddhas discovered in Iran's Fars province were probably smuggled from Afghanistan: The Hermitage has finally put on view a display of 14th century stained glass windows which are devoted to "the life and times of the AntiChrist": We've reported on this before (Explorator 4.43 and 3.13), but it's in the news again ... the Swedish ship Vasa is wasting away in a museum: Folks might be interested in a piece on 'gestural theory': ... and how ancient Indian texts are being used in a modern military context: More closures at the British Museum: ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Here's a nice article on the role of caves in Mayan ritual: Another DNA study ... this time in search of living relatives of Inca mummies: ;$sessionid$ZU0EPMAAAC15HQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/05/13/winca13.xml The remains of Fort Horn may lie in Chesapeake Bay: What happened to New York's "Arbitration Rock"?: The site of the Battle of Milk Creek is causing controversy: An early incident of archaeology in Canada is somewhat farcical at times: An interesting arrangement between a museum and a group of native Americans for display of artifacts: ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ The Netherlands has (have?) returned a purloined statue of Amenhotep III to Egypt: A French waiter had an interesting hobby: ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Tom Huntington, *Bad King Herod*: ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Tracy Lee Simmons, *Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin* Robert Flaceliere, *Daily Life in Greece in the Time of Pericles*: Ian Pears, *The Dream of Scipio* (novel): ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Eternal Egypt (Kansas City): Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur (Cambridge, Mass.): ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ This one just turned up in the scan (what took it so long?); it appears that {classicist?) Jim Holt has been engaging in "an email conversation about news of the day": One I missed: Latin is on the rise in Britain again: Apparently-related (with a translation contest): Antigone in Palestine: AthensNews has a touristy piece on Ikaria: Some potentially specious claims in this one?: Once again John Carr leaves one saying "eh?": Classicists *do* go to movies, apparently: Another installment in the 'what do you do with a classics degree' department: Proof of the sorry state of classical studies in Canada: Dot Wordsworth: Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini U.S. Weather in Latin: ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Diane Buitron-Oliver: Bargil Pixner ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ In Explorator 5.2 we provided links to reports on the discovery of a ca. 30,000 year b.p. skeleton found in Northern Africa. As reported in the various newswires, there were some inaccuracies which one of the excavators mentioned on the EEF list. I have obtained permission of the excavator (Peter Vermeersch) to reproduce his text below: Dear Sir, I had been informed that some discussion is going on related to an
ABC News Online. Here some information that is needed. I was indeed very surprised to read in ABC News Online
following text:
Anthropologists have set his, or her, age to be between 30,000 and
33,000 years ago," Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council
of Antiquities, said.
It was the oldest skeleton ever found in northern Africa, Mr Hawass said.
A team from the University of Leuven found the skeleton buried in a seated
position facing east, with the head turned upward, the director of the
council's excavation department, Attiya Radwan, said.
It was found in a mountain cavern in Dandara, 550 kilometres south of
Cairo, along with shards of pottery from the same period, he said.
The pottery debris could be the oldest in the world after some found in
China, going back 35,000 years, he said. << I informed the SCA in Egypt of following:
There seems to be some misunderstanding about the burial that we
discovered in 1994 and that was reported in our excavation report.
The skeleton was found on the Taramsa hill, somewhat south of Dandara.
The Taramsa hill is on open air flint extraction site where a child had been
buried in one of the extraction pits. The age of the skeleton is not yet
clear but we published in Antiquity (1998, 277: 475-84) a suggestion for an
age of 55,000 years. This is indeed the oldest burial in northern Africa,
but not the oldest skeleton. Older skeltons have been found in Marocco, but
not in burials. The importance of this skeleton is the fact that it is a
clearly modern man, albeit a child of 8 years old. Modern man in Europe
is at least 20,000 years younger.
There is no asociation at all with pottery as suggested in your
communication. The cultural environment is entirely Middle Palaeolithic. I hope that these data will give you a better view on the importance of
the discovery. Yours sincerely, Prof. dr. Pierre Vermeersch,
Director of the Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project of Leuven
cf: Other followups: 'New' Pyramid: Excavating Herculaneum: Peruvian 'Shantytown' Mummies: ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating to archaeology or history prior to about 1700 or so is fair game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of charge! ================================================================ Useful Addresses ================================================================ Past issues of Explorator are available on the web at: To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to: mailto:Explorator-subscribe@... To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to: mailto:Explorator-unsubscribe@... To send a 'heads up' to the editor: mailto:dmeadows@... ================================================================ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2002 David Meadows. Feel free to distribute these listings via email to your pals, students, teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These listings are not to be posted to a website; instead, please provide a link to the past issues and/or the media archive mentioned above. Thanks! ================================================================
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Thanks to Don Mills, Wilfried Zankl, Bill Kennedy, Jean
Laplante, Joanne Conman, Arthur Shippee, 'alesmontose, W. Richard Frahm,
Simon Stoddart, Michael Oberndorf, Ardle MacMahon, Rick
Pettigrew, and Jean Laplante for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
Editor's Note 1: thanks to all who alerted me to the error in my
url for the obituary for Diana Buitron-Oliver; unfortunately I could
not find it again for inclusion in this issue (I'll continue to search
though!).
Editor's Note 2: Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers (redneck and otherwise)
out there; of course it's appropriate to begin by pointing you to the National
Geographic's "Mummie's Day" special feature:
Editor's Note 3: Due to positive feedback and an ever-decreasing
amount of time to put this newsletter together, from this issue
on the full version will be sent to the various lists which
feature it. If that is a problem, I ask the listowners to contact
me at dmeadows@...
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Last week we crowed about entering our fifth year of epublication, so
it seems we should also tip our collective ehats to the journal
Antiquity, which is celebrating its 75th year of publication:
... and congratulate George Bass as the recipient of the 2001 National
Science Medal:
Quite a few folks have sent me this one; it's obviously suspect, but
if I'm getting asked if I've heard about it, some of you probably
are as well:
Folks might also be interested in the celebration of the Shem
festival in Egypt:
,1280,-1714574,00.html
... and a piece on the history of Jenin:
Belgian archaeologists have excavated human remains from Egypt
which might be 30,000 years old:
,5936,4277578%255E401,00.html
What appears to be a "ritual feasting area" has been discovered
near East Chisenbury:
,3604,710634,00.html
The remains of what are believed to be an ancient Roman water
temple in Wiltshire may be turned into a tourist attraction:
A Roman villa near Somerset has been excavated:
Here's a touristy feature on the Via Spluga:
The Jenkins Venus is about to go to auction:
A horde of gold coins has been found in Iran:
Archaeological evidence suggests there was civilization in
China's Guangdong province 3500 B.P.:
The ruins (largely unexcavated) of Yinxu are at risk:
We haven't heard about the Fujimura case for a while, so here's
what appears to be the latest:
Cannonballs recovered from ancient wrecks are apparently exploding
on archaeologists' desks:
The next stage in the Elgin Marbles saga will probably lead to
quite a bit of coverage ... a group is planning to sue the
British Museum for their return to Greece:
,1870,118447,00.html
"They" retried Joan of Arc last week:
There's assorted items of interest in the Times' 'Archaeology Notebook':
,,61-288049,00.html
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A brief item on excavation of a Clovis site in Williamson County:
Petroglyphs on the Potomac feature an atlatl:
The wreck of a Spanish galleon has been found off the coast of Panama:
A graveyard which once stood near one of New York's earliest almshouses
is revealing quite a bit about the folks who used to live there:
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Smithsonian Magazine has a feature on urban archaeologists:
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ON THE WEB
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Paul V. Heinrich, "Artifacts or Geofacts? Alternative
Interpretations of Items from the Gulf of Cambay.":
Joanne Conman, "The Round Zodiac Ceiling of the Temple of
Hathor at Denderah":
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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George Ebers, *An Egyptian Princess*:
George Ebers, *Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt*:
Samuel Sharp, *Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity*:
John Hill (trans.), *The Western Regions according to the Hou Han shu*:
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Balancing the Cosmos (Mayan):
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CRIME BEAT
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Items stolen during the Gulf War have been returned to Iraq:
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill offers an article by Gail Huganir on
the Prehistoric and Romano-British Galleries at the British Museum:
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REVIEWS
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Rachel Hallote, *Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World:
How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead*:
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More rumblings about an Alexander the Great flick:
... and (shudder) Tom Hanks might be playing Julius Caesar:
... even though there's apparently a miniseries recently completed:
If you don't do well in Latin, well, there's always the professional
snooker circuit:
;$sessionid$WPRLUIYAAEQY1QFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/sport/2002/05/07/sosnoo08.xml
Ray Charles is going to play the Colosseum (yep ... the one in Rome):
At Epidauros this summer:
... and there's a new play about that Helen woman:
A pro-Palestinian march used Marathon as its backdrop:
Dunno how to classify this one:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Gordon Willey:
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Ashurbanipal's Library:
,,2-291083,00.html
Dipylo Kouros (I'm not sure whether the photos are of *this* kouros):
(with photo!)
(with photo!)
Lottery funds and Portable Antiquities Program (genuine
followup):
,3604,712945,00.html
Mafia Island (off Tanzania):
Mapping Uruk:
Queen's Pyramid:
,,3-288310,00.html (blunder!)
Saving Afghan Treasures:
Tequesta Bones:
Villa of the Papyri:
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Welcome to our fifth year!! What began as a whim while I
was locked out of my office at McMaster University and was waiting
for security to let me in (and was reading the rather old newsclippings
posted on the Classics Department bulletin board) has turned into
a Sunday morning ritual for me and, apparently, quite a few others!
A year ago we were boasting a subscriber base of 1948 and today we
can claim 2720 (a 40% or so increase!), augmented, of course, by
those who read it via sci.archaeology.moderated or humanities.classics
or any of the several email lists which get various edited versions
-- today you get the full version to see what you've been missing.
We continue to be free and ad free save for those yahoo things) and
will remain that way for the foreseeable future!
Speaking of yahoo, I've decided that Explorator will remain
hosted there until something equivalent comes along but in the
next few weeks I'll be sending out a message indicating how you
can minimize the impact of yahoo's advertising policies at your
end.
Last, but not least, I apologize last week for my geographically-
challenged suggestion that the Island of Jersey was near
Cornwall! (I do have coffee in me for this issue!).
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Thanks to John Hill, Arthur Shippee, W. Richard Frahm, George
Pesely, 'ekbole', Maurice O'Sullivan, Kris Curry, Isidoros, John Lens,
Ardle MacMahon, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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Let's start with one the scan didn't pick up a while ago ... a
nice little article which can't really be classified, but which
is entitled "The Awful Truth About Archaeology":
"Stumbling" archaeologists strike again: this time clumsily discovering
4th dynasty pyramid:
Climate changes threaten Egypt's monuments:
Sadly, it looks like Assur will be the latest casualty of dam
building in Iraq:
Archaeologists mapping the ancient city of Uruk have found it often
matches the description in the "Song" of Gilgamesh:
Iraq is asking Germany to return the Ishtar Gate:
,2763,709809,00.html
An article on a USydney dig in Australia, although rather
unfocussed:
Students are learning heritage preservation at Petra:
Archaeologists working in the Kerameikos have found a "rare" type
of kouros:
A bit of the Via Egnatia along with artifacts from other eras
has been found:
The Taliban didn't get *everything* -- saved was a second century
A.D./C.E. bowl with bacchannalian scenes (this one's *very*
interesting):
,3604,709045,00.html
The Long Man of Wilmington has been, er, 'defaced':
Plans are in the works to help conserve Mohenjodaro:
A 2200-year-old wooden (!) map has been discovered in China's
Gansu province:
A 5000-year-old bird-shaped "totem" has been found in China's
Anhui province:
Arab archaeologists have called for protection of Palestinian
sites:
On the eve of the official opening of the revived Library of
Alexandria, Iraq is announcing that it intends to revive the
Library of Ashurbanipal:
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Road construction near/in Miami has revealed a burial of a member
of the Tequesta people:
Philadelphians continue to wait to see what was excavated from
Independence Mall:
They're searching for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition:
This one's just down the road from me ... Hamilton officials have
stopped a dig at a site slated to be in the way of expressway
construction:
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An Onandaga site has led to a change in plans for bridge construction
in Syracuse:
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There's a new issue of British Archaeology out, with articles on
the Armada, the Vikings, Balbridie, and other things:
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ON THE WEB
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A New York Times article (mentioned below in the Classics section)
caused me to check this one out. It's the UCLA Cultural VR Lab
site where they've been giving various ancient structures the
VR treatment. There's some interesting reconstructions at their
website (esp. in the "Portfolio"):
I've been alerted to the existence of the Anthro-Globe site,
which appears to publish full text articles as .pdf's (requiring
Acrobat Reader, of course). Of interest might be Sergei V. Rjabchikov,
"Some Remarks on the Scythian and Sarmatian Religion":
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Homer, *The Odyssey* (Pope translation):
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At a memorial for the four Canadians killed in that 'friendly fire'
incident in Afghanistan, our Governess-General appears to have
quoted from Pericles' Funeral Oration (although true to form, Canadian
journalists seem unable to 'name the name'):
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More arrests in Greece (Thessaloniki, to be exact):
A guy was caught with a metal detector on Mt. Zion:
A nice article on tombaroli:
,3605,708652,00.html
The 'Tome Raider' has been arrested:
A new 'code of conduct' will hopefully prevent British Museums from
acquiring stolen antiquities:
;$sessionid$R4RKXDIAAAYRDQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2002/05/02/nart02.xml
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Just in time for Mothers Day, Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill features
"The Top Seven Famous Greek Mothers":
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on a couple of online digs:
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REVIEWS
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Alexander Stille, *The Future of the Past*:
Lysistrata(i):
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The Royal Academy is hosting an exhibition of Buddhas and this
week there's some serious coverage:
,3605,691163,00.html
,8542,687439,00.html
1884-1930: From the Christian Collection to the Byzantine Museum (Athens):
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The New York Times has an interesting piece on a VR treatment of
the Colosseum by some folks at UCLA:
Some interesting comparative material here (Roman religion):
AthensNews has a touristy thing on what to do after you've paid
a visit to Mycenae:
James Whitley is the new director of the British School at
Athens:
An interesting twist on the Elgin Marbles saga:
On the origins of the name Hannibal:
Plenty of ClassCon in an appeal to save the Bodleian's graffiti:
British Museum cuts might affect your next visit there:
Has the U.S. become an empire?:
Is there a dig at classics professors in this?:
Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Gordon Willey:
Diana Buitron-Oliver:
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FOLLOWUPS
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Cleaning Acropolis Marbles:
Columbus Ship (genuine followup!):
Peruvian Mummies:
,1280,-1695936,00.html
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the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
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Thanks to Sally Winchester, Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Joanne
Conman, Mata Kimatsayo, "SirMonkeyman", W. Richard Frahm, John
Hill, William Henry, and Rick Pettigrew, for headses upses this
week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
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A Neanderthal who lived and died with hole in his skull is providing
all sorts of scholarly theory fodder:
Italian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of what may be a
hitherto unknown Egyptian king:
Al-Ahram has a nice overview article on the many recent discoveries
in Cairo and Luxor:
A pair of colossi of Amenhotep III and an unknown queen have been
found:
A Canadian team (yay!) led by my old Egyptian archaeology professor
has made a major find in the Sudan:
This is probably the same story from ArabicNews:
The Midas Feast is back in the news:
Laser technology is being used to clean up the Parthenon:
Road building in Lincolnshire has come across an already constructed
Roman road:
Greek fishermen have found a pile of Roman coins:
A Bronze Age arrowhead has been found near Cornwall:
The Daily Star has a piece on why ruins in Lebanon are being ruined:
Angkor Wat sounds like it's going to become a theme park:
The 2,000-year-old remains of a woman from China have been given
the reconstruction treatment (no photos, alas):
China might have the earliest example of environmental laws:
Shakespeare's house near the Globe may have been found:
,4273,4399448,00.html
The survival of the (largely successful) voluntary program of
reporting treasure trove finds in Britain depends on a lottery
decision:
,4273,4398650,00.html
The New York Times has a really interesting item on restoration
efforts surrounding Leonardo's 'Adoration of the Magi':
... and the World Archives of Rock Art Project:
Another theory about Arthur's Round Table:
Tourists are wreaking havoc on Norway's stave churches:
How to classify this one? Billy Connolly will star as a "time
travelling archaeologist" ...
,4273,4402097,00.html
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Salon has an extensive piece on the debate over where the first
inhabitants of the Americas came from:
A Lawrence (Kansas) survey came up empty in anticipation of
road construction:
A good article on another casualty of September 11:
Civil War fans with metal detectors are feeling 'crowded out':
An expedition will be mounted to find the El Salvador:
Saloon archaeology in Nevada will soon be on display:
Atlantic Monthly has an interview with Charles Mann (author of
*1491*):
National Geographic has an ad-cum-feature on some Peruvian
sacrifices/executions:
cf:
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There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out, with online
articles on the editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the "Babylonian
Gap", Lachish, et alia:
The current issue of Mechanical Engineering has an interesting
article on how multispectral imaging is being used to shed light
on ancient documents (there's a horrible pun in there somewhere):
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At the Bible and Interpretation site ... Theodore W. Burgh, "Music
and Musical Instruments in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel/Palestine":
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Bill Thayer has just put up W.R. Paton's translation of Polybius:
Donald Mackenzie, *Egyptian Myth and Legend*:
E.A. Wallis Budge, *Egyptian Magic*:
E.A. Wallis Budge, *Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life*:
Euripides' *Jocasta* (Gascoygne trans.):
R. McInerney, *A History of Western Philosophy*:
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... there's a new interview with Dr. Richard Pettigrew on the
ancient hydraulis:
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Greek artifacts continue to be a favourite among theft rings:
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of John
Montgomery, "How to Read Maya Heiroglyphs":
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REVIEWS
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Stephen E Tabachnick, *Fiercer than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner*:
Roy MacLeod, *The Library of Alexandria* (caveat lector ... serious
need of proofreading in this review):
Marina Warner, *The Leto Bundle*:
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Athens and Grecian Antiquities (London):
,,585-276850,00.html
In Search of Mary Magdalene: Images and Traditions (New York):
The New York Times also had a special section devoted to museums,
which might be worth checking out:
Chinese Buddhas (London):
Fragile Luxury (prehistoric glass)(Athens):
Ancient Greek Technology (Gazi):
One Thousand Years of Christianity in Hungary (Budapest):
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One I missed on the revival of Classical Education in Philly:
... but all is not rosy in the city of brotherly love:
William Safire talks about pedophilia:
A piece on St. John's College should be of interest:
I'm sure a classicist can find a use for this one:
Here's what Dirk Obbink is up to:
Folks will be interested in a Hungarian celebration of Floralia:
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Jeffrey Henderson has been appointed Dean of Arts and Sciences at BU:
More on that Magna Roma restaurant:
Japan Times has a nice little article on how Greek myths live on
in English expressions:
The Enron situation has spawned an interesting article in Atlantic
Monthly which suggests humans are as good at destroying paper
records as we might thing (lots of ancient content):
More Olympics news: the bronze medals at the Athens games will be
made from Cypriot bronze brought thither by a replica Kyrenia
ship:
I can't connect to the Spectator this a.m. for some reason; perhaps
you can:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Shippee, Joanne Conman, W. Richard Frahm, Liz Griesman, Jason
Singe, John Hill, Michael Ruggieri, Glenn Meyer, Terrence Lockyer,
and David Webb, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
... speaking of headses upses, due to problems with my isp, this
week's Explorator was put together with rather more haste (but also
rather more coffee) than usual; if I've missed something obvious,
please tell me!!
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Errata: in Explorator 4.50 I wondered whether the University of
Bonn's project and another one at Chichen Itza were the same; they
are not (thanks to Lawrence Desmond for the corrective); in
addition, I appear to have conflated separate discoveries of possible
submerged cities off the coast of India, only one of which appears
to be associated with Graham Hancock's investigations (thanks to
several Explorator readers for pointing that one out).
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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As seems to be increasingly happening, releases of new movies on
matters vaguely archaeological seem to coincide with related
feature articles, this time in regards to King Scorpion (the
first in the list is by John Noble Wilford):
A pair of headless Ramses II-era sphinges has been found in Cairo:
The Egyptian State Information Service has put together a feature on
the curse of the pharaohs:
A conference on the development of Islam is raising some controversial
points about its early history in Egypt:
Western archaeologists have returned to Iraq:
The Guardian has a nice article on the restoration and reunion of
a collection of Coptic manuscripts:
,4273,4392807,00.html
Finds in Tanazania are suggesting the existence of a "wider
Indian Ocean community" in antiquity:
An archaeologist believes he has found the Mycenean capital of
Salamis:
,5936,4151694%255E703,00.html
A Conservation and Restoration Center has opened in Petra:
(see Archaeology's article on Petra: )
An Iron Age settlement has come to light near Glasgow:
An Anglo Saxon burial has revealed a glass bowl (the
yahoo stories are virtually identical, but two of them claim, as
often, that archaeologists "stumbled upon" the artifact ... I can
just see it now, the late Peter Sellers as a Clousseauesque
Heinrich Schliemann):
,3604,686712,00.html
,4273,4397082,00.html
A 2000 b.p. letter written on silk has been found in China's
Gansu province:
,1870,114601,00.html
Whoever is in Columbus' tomb is going to get the DNA treatment:
A mass grave in Lithuania contains the remains of some 2000 of
Napoleon's soldiers:
One I missed: Discovery.com still has a nice little article on
the use of thermoluminescence to detect forgeries:
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THE AMERICAS
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As you're probably already aware, there was a huge find of Inca
mummies near Lima this week (the first BBC link has a pile of
photos):
,4273,4396250,00.html
While on the subject of Inca mummies, folks might want to check
out a very nice web presentation at National Geographic called
"Mummy Bundles of Puruchuco":
National Geographic also has a piece on mapping Macchu Picchu:
... and tourism pressures there as well:
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Archaeology Magazine on the web, with abstracts
to features on Caligula's "floating palaces", scythian horses,
Egypt's eastern desert, saving Afghan relics, and quite a bit more:
The current online issue of Discover Magazine has a nice feature
on archaeological evidence for early human occupation in Amazonia:
I'm adding this one to the weekly scan, but folks might want to
poke around Athena Review's site ... plenty of archaeological stuff
there from all periods (European):
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CRIME BEAT
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Not really a news article but recently updated and worth reading
is C. Chippindale and David Gill, "On-Line auctions: a new venue for
the antiquities market":
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a reprise of a
piece on Roman Marriage:
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EXHIBITIONS
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There's a new Kalkriese Museum devoted (of course) to the discoveries
for Varus' debacle in the forest:
Peru's Gold Museum has reopened:
... while Athens National Archaeological Museum is closed:
Ancient Greek Technology (Athens):
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The Apicius list caught wind of the Roman restaurant story last
week, and subsequently a couple of interesting urls came up,
including Magna Roma's website:
... and the url for a Greek equivalent in Athens (which wouldn't
work for me ... it came up 403):
A brief item called 'His and Hurs':
,4273,4395008,00.html
This one's interesting ... a British survey of some sort has found that
the top/brightest students don't seem to be attracted to the "most
popular" university courses; what they are attracted to is probably
predictable if I'm bothering to bring it up:
,4273,4395317,00.html
... and we get the usual clothing confusion at a school event (also
witnessed at my own school last week, alas):
Last week we featured a review of Lapatin's "Mysteries of the Snake
Goddess"... this week, the Boston Herald has a feature on one of
his claims:
The Greek government is blaming archaeologists and environmentalists
for delays preparing for the Olympics:
Space.com has a nice little feature on the story behind the
Coma Berenices:
An extensive report on Alexander the Great flicks in the making:
Jasper Griffin has a nice piece in the Spectator on polytheism:
Peter Jones therein:
and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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OBITUARIES
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Thor Heyerdahl:
,4273,4397210,00.html
An interview with TH:
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FOLLOWUPS
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Alphabet(ic) Writing in Egypt (some Scorpion overlap):
Bamiyan Buddha (how determined were the Taliban?):
Elgin Marbles:
"Fate of Persephone" (includes photo):
Olympic Mascots:
,4273,4398291,00.html
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with my alternate delivery method (far too many bounces, too much
time taken, and an obviously bad address list from Yahoo which
I have to work on). Apologies to those who didn't receive last
week's -- I tried to resend some, but it didn't work in most
cases (especially if you reside in Australia, for some reason). The
experiment will continue ...
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IMPORTANT: since many folks might have subscribed to some of the
magazines mentioned below because Explorator once linked to
articles
therefrom, I feel it right to include the following:
* * *
NOTICE: Lynne Cole at lynne.cole@... is currently investigating the
issue of magazine subscriptions for Discovering Archaeology,Archaeology
Today, Egypt Revealed, The Glory of Ancient Egypt (ordered through
CircaMedia.net) and Dinosaur Magazine. She is also investigating the
canceled Egypt Revealed tours "Cruise the Nile with Omar Sharif" and
"Journey to Middle Egypt" the latter which was scheduled for
11/20/01-12/02/01. It appears magazine subscribers have received few or
none of the issues they paid for and trip participants have not
received refunds of their monies paid. Damages are estimated to amount
to well over $150,000.00. If you have been financially damaged or
discredited by Jeff D. Leach or by any of the above mentioned
business ventures I would like to hear from you.
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Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, W. Richard Frahm, and Ardle MacMahon,
for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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Restoration work at Curium has come under criticism:
Archaeologists in Cyprus are threatening to go on strike because
of lack of funding/staffing:
A bronze age site has come to light in Armenia:
AthensNews has a touristy sort of thing on Pergamon:
A sanctuary of Isis is being excavated on Nea Makri:
The Cincinnati Enquirer has a nice feature on the Davises, who regularly
dig in Albania:
Evidence of an ancient Jewish community in Armenia has been
discovered:
Here's something that might have a major impact: the EgyptianCulture
minister has ordered a halt to cooperation with foreign universities
which refuse to return stolen Egyptian antiquities:
Artifacts from various periods were found during bridge reconstruction
in Suffolk:
Gulf News reports that artifacts from various periods were also
found near Al Bithna village:
... and a farmhouse of undetermined date at Ras Al Khaimah:
That 'lost city' off the coast of India is back in the news
again,probably because Graham Hancock is involved:
,4273,4391512,00.html
Perhaps along the same lines of credibility is the claim that Moses'
staff resides in Birmingham Museum:
... and that the pyramids were actually ancient desalination
plants:
As long as we've taken this little meander into the fringe, we
might as well also mention coverage of a theory about where
Atlantis was:
The discovery of a meteorite is lending some veracity to legends
of the demise of China's 'Yellow Emperor':
cf:
The Black Death might not have been bubonic plague after all:
A Medieval cemetery has been found during road construction in Orkney:
,,2-260110,00.html
At least once a year, some journalist writes a piece on the history
of beer, so ...
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Anchorage Daily News has a report on some of the papers
delivered at the meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association:
This should really be a followup, but ... that lost Inca city
recently discovered is causing quite a scholarly row:
,,7-261024,00.html
The University of Bonn is beginning a series of excavations in
the Yucatan:
I'm not sure if this is related to the previous story or not:
The Tennessean has a feature on Michael Strutt's work (plantations):
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ON THE WEB
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Darrell Bock, "Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Methods
and Sources":
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Cato (A Tragedy in Five Acts):
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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New video: Yaxuna:Archaeology of an Ancient Maya City:
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CRIME BEAT
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The Netherlands is returning a statue of Amenhotep III to Egypt,
whence it was purloined fifteen years ago:
Looting in Afghanistan continues:
An article on past looting and how it's being dealt with at a site
in Idaho (I think):
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Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Monte Alban:
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REVIEWS
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Seth Schwartz, *Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.*:
*The Archaeology of Athens* and *The Forum of Trajan in Rome*:
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EXHIBITIONS
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Silent Witnesses (New York):
Eternal Egypt (Kansas City):
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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A vague item about artists attempting to raise the profile of
the ancient Lycians might be of interest:
An interesting, if somewhat inaccurate, use of the Odyssey as an
analogy applied to events in Israel last week:
,3605,679438,00.html
Perhaps a good argument for a classics-based education: a 13-year-old
identified a long-lost painting in his school library; same painting
is now expected to fetch a million or so at auction:
A new restaurant in Rome tries to recreate the ancient Roman dining
experience:
Probably a followup, but of ongoing interest is the Olympics mascots
row (this one has photos ... they look, well, you decide):
Folks will hopefully be interested in a new PBS series
debuting this week called "MythQuest":
A review of a production of the Lysistra:
... and the Antigone:
... and a new spin on the Frogs:
Bees and classics always seem to touch each other somehow:
,4273,4391804,00.html
Apparently unintentional classical refs in this one:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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OBITUARIES
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Wilma Fairbank
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FOLLOWUPS
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British Museum Mummy:
Kentucky Cemetery:
Thor Heyerdahl (this has a sort of ghoulish death watch feel to
it, no?):
,4273,4393722,00.html
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Salve,
This a.m. Explorator was sent out (ad free) without any help
from yahoo. It took a while to get out, but it seems to work.
Right now I am wading through a pile of bad addresses etc. and
would be very interested to know if you did *not* receive issue
4.49. If you didn't, could you please drop me a line and give
me any address details (including, e.g., a former address you
might have subscribed under). Thanks!
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Thanks to all of you for your patience over the past few days as
experimented with other modes of delivery for this newsletter. I
still haven't resolved the issue but think I'm close -- I think
a recurring error I'm getting is the fault of my ISP's anti-spam
setup.
Speaking of spam, by the way, it was a change in yahoo policy in
regards to how they use our email addresses which you may or may
not have heard about which was the 'final straw' for me. You
definitely should check out:
,4125,NAV47_STO69687,00.html
They claim there will be a sixty-day chance to change things, but
I grew skeptical about that after receiving a bit of spam (on the
same day this hit the newspapers_ using an address known only to
yahoo ...
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Thanks to Bill Kennedy, "alesmonetos", Arthur Shippee, Elizabeth
Griesman, and David Gressett for headses upses this
week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Dogs have been man's best friend for a bit longer than previously
thought, it seems, and had a developmental influence on humans as
well:
One I missed: the Christian Science Monitor has nice article on
Blombos cave:
Some handprints in rocks in Tibet are causing a rethink about when
the area was habitable:
Is this the oldest record of a solar eclipse?:
A Russian team is searching for the site of ancient Memphis:
,1113,2-11-37_1161126,00.html
A colossal statue of Nefertari (maybe) has been unearthed in the
Delta region by a German-Egyptian team (the NYTimes (actually, Reuters)
piece wins the award for most feeble attempt to link the
discovery to the season):
Gulf News has a brief item on what has been found in excavations
at Al Taqiba:
Last month's issue of Discover had a nice article on the
chemistry of mummification:
Also on the mummification front, National Geographic has an
interview with the guys behind 'The Mummy Roadshow':
Amongst the seasonal offerings comes a claim that the image on
the Shroud of Turin is actually that of Jacques de Molay:
... and a report on Martin Biddle's work in the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre:
... and a report on the discovery of a shrouded body which "may
have been a witness to Christ's crucifixion":
... and a piece on resurrection motifs in various ancient cultures:
,4273,4384424,00.html
The Scotsman has a nice piece on the ongoing work at Herculaneum's
Villa of the Papyri:
... and the LA Times has a feature on the etruscans:
The Salt Lake Tribune has a piece on the White Horse of
Uffington:
Tree ring evidence suggests there was a widespread period of
warming during Medieval times:
If you can get this url to work, it will bring up an article
on the official report of how the Elgin Marbles were cleaned
back in the 1930's (remember that brouhaha?):
The British Museum has admitted that it has sold some of the
Benin Bronzes which Nigeria wants returned:
,4273,4383374,00.html
... and just in case you want to keep score at home, there's a
pile of countries asking the BM to return stuff:
As might be expected, doing archaeology in the Middle East is
a bit more trying than usual these days:
China has published its first scholarly archaeological journal:
Renovations to a small English village church have revealed some
medieval wall paintings:
Some guy has recreated a Renaissance water organ:
,,61-248694,00.html
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal has an interview with Paul Bahn,
who is currently doing the AIA lecture tour thing:
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THE AMERICAS
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Construction of a government building in Kentucky has revealed
what seems to be an early 19th century cemetery:
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new edition of Bible Review out, although not much online
of archaeological interest:
The Economist has a piece on how ethical considerations are
affecting archaeology:
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REVIEWS
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Michael Counsell, *Every Pilgrim's Guide to the Journeys of the
Apostles* (reviewed by John Carr):
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Someone *must* have done this before, but a statistical analysis
of Homer's works suggests it's the work of several poets:
National Review has, well, a review of "War Music":
As was (hopefully) expected, plans to build that ugly pile on
the Acropolis is causing a bit of a row:
,4273,4382872,00.html
Above we mentioned how things are changing for archaeologists in
the mideast ... the same goes for classicists, in a different
way:
Folks might be interested in this account of the 'Socrates Cafe':
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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FOLLOWUPS
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Cuban Lost City:
Oetzi's Demise:
Temple Mount:
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Explorator 46-47 [resend]
[n.b. this is a resend of last week's issue, since it is clear
that a great many of you have not yet received it nor has it
appeared in the archives; I'm not sure how many links will still
work, but folks might still be interested]
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explorator 4.46-47 March 24, 2002
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Apologies: Apologies for not sending an issue out last weekend
and any 'explorator withdrawal' which might have ensued. Between
finishing report cards, upgrades at Yahoo, and my own desire to
move the list away from Yahoo, I wasn't able to get an issue out.
This is a 'double issue', though, so hopefully it makes up for
it (I'm still testing things; if you receive more than one copy
of this, please drop me a line).
Nota bene: this issue is an experiment of sorts (as might be the
next two or three issues) -- I'm testing
whether it is feasible to do this without Yahoo. Unfortunately,
the address lists from Yahoo itself appear to be somewhat out of
date, so if you have received this in error, please just drop me
a line and I'll take you off the list. Thanks!
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Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Ardle MacMahon, Rick Pettigrew,
Mark Elliott, Michael Ruggieri, Chris Renaud, Karl Wittwer, Doug
Weller, John Hill, Alastair Millar, Glenn Meyer, John Geiger,
and Trevor Watkins, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A skull from Ethiopia is being used as evidence that home erectus
originated there (as opposed to sojourning there):
Humans were sewing things together 30,000 years ago in what would
become eastern Europe:
Next theory on the demise of Oetzi: he died as a result of hand
to hand combat:
,4273,4378530,00.html
The British Museum has given a mummy the 3d VR treatment:
Restoration work at various sites in Egypt is turning up
more artifacts:
cf:
Zahi Hawass has been named chairman of Egypt's Supreme
Council of Antiquities:
Iraqi archaeologists recently visited the British Museum to share
details on the discovery of a number of Assyrian artifacts just prior
to the Gulf War (and apparently little known):
A bronze age "chamber" has been discovered in a Welsh copper mine:
... and a bronze age child burial has been found near Oxford:
... and there's a new (?) theory about mysterious bronze age
gold cones found all over Europe:
I'm not sure if this is a followup or not, but a "bronze Age Venice"
has been found near Pompeii (at Poggiomarino):
A Greek archaeologist is claiming to have found the remains of the
palace of Helen and Menelaus (and it ain't the Menelaion!):
,,3-236259,00.html
The discovery of a 2500-year-old Temple of Aphrodite and/or brothel
is holding up construction of the Olympic equestrian site outside
of Athens:
An Anglo-Saxon execution site is getting some press:
The Guardian (and Independent) has a tribute piece on the discovery of Sutton Hoo:
,4273,4373983,00.html
,4273,4373985,00.html
As often happens around this time of year, we get the news stories related
to execution of Jesus; e.g. the Times of India has a piece on what is purported to be the
final resting place of Jesus (in Kashmir):
... and WorldNet Daily has a piece on the Shroud of Turin:
Late Jomon period human remains bearing the scars of warfare have
been found in Japan:
China Daily has an interesting report on an ongoing excavation in
Xinzheng:
A couple of Roman coin hoards hit the auction block recently:
... as did a number of Asian bronzes:
Not sure how to classify this one, but it sounds like an interesting
way to teach archaeology:
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THE AMERICAS
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A "lost Inca settlement" has been discovered in Peru (including
human remains):
What is possibly the oldest intact Maya wall painting has been
found in Guatemala:
Some 2000-year-old carved rocks have been found in El Salvador:
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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The online version of the Atlantic Monthly has an interview with
Charles C. Mann:
... there's also an article on Roman Africa:
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ON THE WEB
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The Bible and Interpretation site has an article by Jerry Sumney
on Paul's opponents:
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English prose with
an Introductory Essay:
*A Day in Old Athens* by William Stearns Davis:
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The latest is on a handful of sites in Pennsylvania, which shed
light on the mysterious Monongehela people:
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CRIME BEAT
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Native American graves in Virginia are being looted:
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Archaeology guide Kris Hirst's latest is a challenging crossword
with an archaeoastronomy bent:
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EXHIBITIONS
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The New York Times has a nice couple of pieces on an exhibition
of Renaissance tapestries at the Met:
... and a review of "Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt" at the BMA:
The Kelsey Museum is hosting an exhibition on Cavafy:
National Geographic has a piece on assorted Celtic artifacts in
the National Museum of Ireland:
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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An interesting piece in Nature draws on mathematical evidence to
suggest the Greeks had more rhythm than the Romans:
A new theme park on Cyprus is going to feature a 100-foot statue
of Aphrodite:
,,3-243342,00.html
The Oracle at Delphi is back in the news, although there really
isn't anything new being said (but some good stuff to look at):
The president of Iran recently visited the Acropolis and sang the
praises of Greek civilization inter alia:
Hunter Rawlings III is stepping down as president of Cornell because
he misses teaching:
Belgium has added its bilingual voices to the "return the marbles
to Greece" campaign:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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Chinese pre-Columbian arrival in America:
Museum for Elgin Marbles:
Pompeii Frescoes:
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