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Our third year begins with a good variety of stuff:
OLD WORLD NEWS
The big news of the week appears to be the discovery that humans may have migrated up the coast of Africa rather than taking the 'Nile route' (thanks to Bill Kennedy for the heads up)(watch the wrap in some cases):
Also qualifying as rather big news would be the discovery of what is described as a "five star hotel" in Pompeii (watch the wrap in some cases):
The Sunday Times has an article on the 'thumbs down' gesture in the arena (which doesn't even mention Wallace-Hadrill!):
The Sydney Morning Herald has a conventional feature on the Colosseum:
The New York Times has a feature on how the site of Belkis is being threatened by rising waters:
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Also getting a lot of press (again) is the suggestion that Napoleon might have been poisoned:
NEW WORLD NEWS
ABCNews has a nice piece on what recent research into the Inca Mummies has revealed (thanks to Michael Ruggieri for the heads up):
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
Time Magazine has a nice cover article on the Vikings:
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Egypt Revealed has a short piece on how Egyptian religion spread across the Mediterranean:
SAGAS
A researcher has suggested that Lord Elgin's letters might ultimately solve the problem of the Elgin marbles (yeah ... right):
FOLLOWUPS
The LA Times has a feature on the Cactus Hill site in Virginia:
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Volume 2, Issue 88 -- April 30, 2000
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The big news of the week, although it only seems to be getting coverage in a Washington Post article being picked up by other dailies, is the discovery of what is probably the oldest (and predynastic) temple in Egypt. Here's a couple of versions of the same story:
OLD WORLD NEWS
The BBC reports that there is evidence that early humans were weaving clothing rather earlier than usually thought:
Xinhua reports on the discovery of some very old graves (ca 4500 B.C./B.C.E) in Iraq:
Egypt Revealed has a nice little feature on Tell Tebilla:
The Albuquerque Journal has an item on ancient Babylonian abilities to predict eclipses:
ABCNews picks up a Reuters story relating that archaeologists have completed the restoration of some Roman baths near (sort of ) Cairo:
The Telegraph reports on the discovery of a ring in Wales, which suggests that Roman influence in Britain may have lasted rather longer than conventionally believed:
Discovering Archaeology has a feature on the discovery of 15 Byzantine-era coins:
If you can read Swedish, the Arbetet has an article on recent discoveries in Lund (thanks to RM Howe for the heads up):
Thor Heyerdahl is apparently going to explore a purported Sicilian "pyramid" (I guess one man's pile of stones is another man's pyramid) (thanks to Bill Kennedy for the heads up):
The Andalou Press agency has a couple of items of interest on Ephesus and Amazons (you'll have to scroll through the page)(thanks to Arnd Lis for the heads up):
NEW WORLD NEWS
We're somewhat scant for New World News this week, but I did come across a website which is devoted to the preservation of the Monitor -- you can follow the 'dig' throughout the summer at:
FOLLOWUPS
More coverage of the question of who was buried in Philip's tomb:
The Detroit News has a nice feature on the folks who are doing DNA tests etc. on the bones found in the Demosion Sema:
SAGAS
More on the DNA tests for Kennewick Man:
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
The latest issue of Archaeology is online, with features on "The 'Seated People' of the Rainforest" and the Nasca lines, among other things:
Bible Review also has a new issue online, with features on the relatives of Jesus and the location of Mt. Sinai (among other things):
LATIN IN THE NEWS
The Ottawa Citizen reveals that the Ottawa Public Library's used book store wants to change its name from Ex Libris, because people don't know what it means:
EXHIBITIONS
The New York Times has a review of an exhibition devoted to the Vikings:
ABCNews has a feature on the Smithsonian's exhibit on the 1000th anniversary (!) of Vikings in America:
OBITUARIES
De Coursey Fales (scroll down a bit; if you read past Fales' obituary, you will also find the obituary of Terence McKenna, who wrote *The Road to Eleusis*)
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Volume 2, Issue 88 -- April 23, 2000
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Plenty of stuff this week:
The big news of the week appears to be one scholar's suggestion that the bones found in "Philip's Tomb" aren't those of Alexander the Great's father, but of his half (wit) brother Philip Arrhideus. Here's plenty of coverage ... that from the Independent and Discover.com is the most balanced:
OLD WORLD NEWS
The Independent reports on the suggestion that Stone Age Europeans may have chowed down on their fellows:
Discovery.com reports on the discovery of a large Egyptian temple complex for the crocodile god, appropriately in Crocodilopolis:
Cyprus News reports on what's been found recently at Idalion:
ABCNews picks up an AP report on the discovery of a Greco-Roman fortress in Egypt's western desert:
The Times (London) has a brief piece suggesting that pot decoration in ancient Greece had the same effect as magazine covers do today in terms of creating societal standards of beauty:
As might be expected this time of year, we have a feature on scholars disagreeing over the exact route Jesus walked when he was crucified:
Also somewhat timely is the Christian Science Monitor's report on ancient Roman censuses:
The Times (London) also has a report on how St. George was never actually in England:
The Montreal Gazette has a feature on the discovery of the Elizabeth and Mary shipwreck:
The Times (London) has a report on the meeting of the Classical Association, as well as an editorial on why the study of Classics remains important:
The Times also has a piece on a project in Northumberland where they're living la vida neolithica:
Also in the Times (and sounding like a tale from Herodotus), researchers have suggested that the babbling of babies is a clue to the earliest language development (becos anyone?):
NEW WORLD NEWS
According to ABCNews, a mysterious 'skystone' might be evidence that the Puyallup people might have been making astronomical observations:
DNA and ARCHAEOLOGY
ABCNews reports that DNA evidence has proven that Louis XVII died in prison:
Somewhat more interesting is a study of mitochondrial DNA which suggests that all Europeans are descended from seven groups of women:
SAGAS
Another item on upcoming DNA tests on Kennewick Man:
REVIEWS
The Times (London) has a review of Joyce Tyldesley's *Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh:
The Times also has a review of Margaret Reynolds *The Sappho Companion*:
Some Explorator readers will no doubt be interested in the Seattle Times' review of Maguib Mahfouz's *Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth* (a novel):
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
Archaeology Odyssey has a new issue on the web, which includes feature articles on Hermann Hilprecht's work, Vitruvius, and some news items on the Villa of Agrippina, the Elgin Marble saga, among other things:
EXHIBITS
A brief notice in the International Herald Tribune informs that the Capitoline Museum has (finally) reopened (thanks to Judy Underwood for the heads up):
The New York Times has a special section on Museums this week, as well as a feature on Egyptian stuff in the area:
A new source I stumbled across called the Art Newspaper has a couple of items that seem to fit in this category: one a report on Italy's Etruscan collections and another on the return of a head of Nefertari (both on the same page):
The same source also reports on the Pushkin Museum's putting all those famous Trojan artifacts on permanent display (pardon the awkward sentence ... this is a big issue!):
THE POLITICS OF ARCHAEOLOGY
The Telegraph reports on efforts to prevent Britain's oldest amphitheatre from being buried beneath a courthouse (watch the wrap):
The Irish Times reports on efforts to save some 60 or so unexcavated sites from damage during roadbuilding:
OBITUARY
Leighton Reynolds (watch the wrap)
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Volume 2, Issue 87 -- April 16, 2000
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Our usual mixed bag:
OLD WORLD NEWS
The big news of the week (to me, anyway) appears to be the announcement of plans to try and find the remains of Cambyses' lost army, near Siwah (thanks to Bill Kennedy for the heads up):
The Telegraph has a nice report on what a major street in first century London looked like, and plans to recreate it (watch the wrap):
The Oregonian has a nice feature on the Urumchi mummies (watch the wrap):
Probably because of the Passover/Easter season, USNews and World Report is reprising an article from October on the archaeological evidence for various Biblical personalities and events:
NEW WORLD NEWS
Discover.com has a report suggesting the early residents of Jamestown might have been poisoned!:
SAGAS
The next step in the Kennewick Man saga will be deciding which bones will be subjected to DNA testing, according to the Oregonian (which also has a nice archive of stories relating to KM, in case you just can't get enough) (watch the wrap; on my mailer here it's only one letter wrapped, so you might miss it!):
AlphaGalileo reports that a student at Bradford is part of a team that won the "oscar of conservation" for his work on a bronze age shield:
EXHIBITS
A very nice website has gone up devoted to Piero della Francesca's Arezzo frescoes (thanks to Jean P. Lindsey for the heads up):
THE ANTIQUITIES TRADE
The Telegraph has a feature called "Yesterday in Parliament" which includes a rather lengthy account of a committee meeting involving Lord Renfrew and his thoughts on Britain's negligent role in the illicit antiquities trade (watch the wrap):
STUFF I MISSED
Last week I neglected to mention quite a few things related to new world archaeology, so here they be (thanks to Karen C. for all of these):
The Denver Post on vandals defacing some rock art:
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on mounds in Wisconsin:
The Augusta Chronicle on early Spanish remains in South Carolina:
An article on the damage ATV's are doing to mounds in and around Cahokia:
FOLLOWUPS
The New York Times has a decent article on the Cactus Hill site in Virginia:
... as does Science News:
Discovery.com has one of the better features on Mayor's idea that fossils inspired many features of ancient mythology (this is the first one with a picture of the pot that started the thinking, I believe)(thanks to "Hyper10n" for the heads up):
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Volume 2, Issue 85 -- April 2, 2000
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Plenty o' stuff this week:
OLD WORLD NEWS
The Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists is revealing tons of new stuff. One big item was the discovery of a new pyramid in the Bahariya Oasis region -- I actually heard about this three weeks ago on a sports radio station, but things didn't begin appearing in print until this week (the sports station probably broke an embargo) (thanks to Judy Underwood for some of what follows):
Also revealed at the Congress was the discovery of a new chamber in the Meidum Pyramid, according to Egypt Revealed:
Another item from the Congress: how studies of mummies are helping modern understanding about disease:
I'm not sure if this was revealed at the Congress, but perhaps it was: the Rheinische Post is reporting on the discovery of a new sphinx near Luxor (article in German) (thanks to Hanna Orr for the heads up):
Also on the Egyptian front, Egypt Revealed has a nice piece on the various artifacts lurking in museum basements:
Still in Egypt (wow!), Middle East Times has a feature on the ongoing dig/reconstruction of the burial complex of Maya (thanks to Judy Underwood for the heads up):
The Times of London has a nice piece on an iron age warrior's grave, which includes some non-typical items:
The BBC reports on evidence that the Vikings might have created a telescope, quite a bit earlier than the Dutch (thanks to Bob Keeter for the heads up):
The Irish Times has a sort of touristy piece on Hierapolis and other sites in Turkey:
The Irish Times also has a piece on plans to restore the 'Red Earl's' hall:
NEW WORLD NEWS
The big New World news item appears to be the discovery of a campfire in Virginia, which is causing much rethinking about when folks arrived there. Here's plenty of coverage, all variations on the same AP story:
The Boston Globe reports on the discovery of a prehistoric site last summer (thanks to Judy Underwood for the heads up):
A University of Pennsylvania dig is telling much about the origins of the Iroquois, according to a Eurekalert release:
The Denver Post has a touristy feature on Durango:
Foxsports (yes, the sports page) tells of the plans to use satellite imagery to assist a dig in Alaska:
THE ANTIQUITIES TRADE
The Times has a report on one recent theft which was apparently 'done to order':
The Times also reports on the Chinese government's demand for return of an artifact which recently turned up at auction in New York:
Nandotimes reports on how a museum employee in Spain was responsible for the theft of millions of dollars' worth of antiquities:
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FOLLOWUPS
Discover Magazine has finally put their article on the Pisa ships online:
The Sydney Morning Herald has more on the erotic art from Pompeii exhibit:
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If you're in one of those parts of the world that observes Daylight Savings time ... it went into effect early this a.m.!
IN THE NEWS
The big news of the week appears to be the results of DNA tests on the rib of a Neanderthal child, which suggests that Neanderthals weren't directly related to nor interbred with more 'modern' versions of the species. Here's plenty of coverage (the BBC coverage has some good links to related articles from the past on this issue):
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Assorted archaeology types are up in arms about plans to gird the Pantheon in iron bars to protect it from grafitti artist types, according to the Times:
The Savannah Morning News reports on the discovery of a Native American burial ground:
SAGAS
Discovery.com has the latest in the ongoing Elgin Marbles repatriation saga:
FOLLOWUPS
La Repubblica's Republic of the Arts has a very nice feature on the Pisan shipwrecks (thanks to Hillary Cool for the heads up!!):
There are a couple of good pieces this week (in the Detroit News and at MSNBC), on that erotic art from Pompeii exhibition which raised the ire of Vatican officials:
The Hindu has an extensive article on the Tomb of Midas (found and reported on a few months ago), which also wanders into the territory of Lindow Man:
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
Egypt Revealed has a couple of nice articles ... the first on the Ptolemaic port of Berenike:
... as well as an article on the Oriental Institute/University of Chicago's Demotic Dictionary project:
Discovering Archaeology has a couple of items of interest, including a report on an outpost of the Inca empire:
... and evidence of a Roman medical technique:
REVIEWS
The Times of London has a review of Mary Beard and John Henderson's *Classics: A very short introduction*
Lingua Franca has a couple of 'group reviews' of interest; the first being a review of E. Hornung's *Akhenaten and the Religion of Light* and J. Tyldesley's *Nefertiti, Egypt's Sun Queen*:
... the second is on J.G.A. Pocock's *Barbarism and Religion* volumes, which will be of interest to fans of Gibbon:
Not really dealing with the ancient world, but I keep running into reviews of it and it looks potentially interesting and appropriate for this rag, the Seattle Times has a review of *The Plato Papers*:
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A mixed bag this week (I wasn't quite sure what an appropriate order for all this stuff would be!):
IN THE NEWS
In the 'big news' category comes Mike Sandars' claim to have found the remains of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Dead Sea (watch the wrap):
Also on the 'big news' department is the discovery of what may be the oldest Christian cemetery in Ireland:
The Times of London reports that a hitherto bit of sloppy pot decoration is now being used as evidence for fossils in antiquity:
The Guardian reports on an eccentric bishop's bequest to the Vatican: a sculpture of a satyr in a typically satyric pose, which was supposedly made by Praxiteles:
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The Telegraph has a report on the Lindisfarne Gospels, which are being returned to the 'northeast' (watch the wrap):
The Telegraph also has a preview of some Anglo Saxon jewellery which will be auctioned off shortly (watch the wrap):
Also in the Telegraph is a report that an erstwhile medieval dyke has been elevated to the status of a castle:
The BBC has an interesting report on the 'richest people' of the past millennium (various fortunes were converted to modern money) ... it would appear that William the Conqueror paid his followers well:
The U. Florida Independent Alligator has a feature on that institution's involvement in the excavation of the Francisican mission Nombre de Dios:
The Dispatch has a nice feature on Ohio's Serpent Mound:
The Telegraph has a feature on an elderly gentleman's lifetime project of building a model of the Second Temple (watch the wrap):
Classicists will be interested in a feature in the Telegraph, contrasting Martha Lane Fox with her father Robin (watch the wrap):
FOLLOWUPS
The Western Press has an interesting article on a project to demonstrate how the stones from Stonehenge were moved to their current location (I couldn't decide if this was news or a followup to monthly coverage about Stonehenge! Coin toss ...):
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Another slow week, but the scans did turn up some interesting stuff nonetheless:
IN THE NEWS
FoxNews has a nice feature on the Oriental Institute's Demotic Dictionary project:
The Washington Times has a review of an online Ancient Egyptian webquest which is kind of nice:
... since the url in the article isn't active (sloppy webtypesetting), click here:
Science Daily has a report on how the Cahokia people may have been at a major trade crossroads:
EXHIBITS
The Washington Post has a review of the Gold of the Nomads exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore (this page crashed my browser, but I suspect it's my computer's fault):
ON THE NEWSTANDS
I'm not sure how 'new' this is (in web terms), but Scientific American has a piece from its August 1999 issue on how the whole 'out of Africa' theory of human origins is being questioned:
If I didn't mention this one, I should have: Archaeology has a nice online feature on the Demosion Sema in Athens (supposedly entombing the dead of Pericles' funeral oration):
There's a number of other online features as well at Archaeology, including a nice feature on Butrint:
Discovering Archaeology has a number of new or semi-new features of interest; the first is on Steven Miller's excavations of the Temple of Zeus and how it would appear there was a kinder, gentler Zeus:
There's also a piece on evidence on the Janiculum for a Gothic seige of Rome in Byzantine times:
DA also tells us that a DNA test has linked an Incan sacrificial victim to a local:
Also worth looking at is a feature on the importance of camels in the pre-Islamic UAE (tomb excavation):
FOLLOWUPS
Salon Magazine has a review of D.H.Thomas' *Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity*:
This one's a bit old, but I happened upon it when digging up the above review in Salon ... it's a nice piece on the whole Elgin Marbles debate:
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A slow week as far as new discoveries go, but there's plenty of interesting stuff that hit the web this week:
The New York Times reports on a study suggesting that a fanciful passage in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale might actually reveal a genuine astronomical event (watch the wrap ... maybe):
The Arizona Star tells of threats to the Casa Grande site:
FoxNews has an interesting piece on the various technologies being used by archaeologists:
EXHIBITS
The Evansville Courier Press and the Chicago Sun Times both have a reviewish thing on a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit currently making its way across the U.S. (watch the wrap ... maybe):
The International Herald Tribune has a very interesting piece on an exhibition of things owned by the Franciscan order currently on display in Milan (but no photos!):
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
The online content at Discover.com has last month's news (arrgh ... there's a thing on the Pisa Ships in this month's print issue), but there are a few interesting features. The first is on the fate of the Vikings (the seafaring ones, not the NFL team):
... the second is a followup of sorts on the discovery of that inscription in Egypt which might be the earliest example of alphabetic writing:
... and the third is a feature on how to make a mummy (for you Brier and Wade fans):
Discovering Archaeology has a nice article on the burial practices of Neolithic types:
FOLLOWUPS
FoxNews has a nice piece on the 'tomb of Osiris' mentioned in Explorator a few weeks back:
The Telegraph reports that the exhibit of "Roman porn" from Pompeii which caused a bit of a stir among Church officials will be going on permanent display (watch the wrap ... maybe):
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On the web this week:
The big news of the week is the discovery of extremely old hand axes in
Asia, which is forcing a rethink on the pace of human development in the
region. Here's more coverage than you can shake a stick at:
Also on the prehistoric front, the BBC reports on that what appears to be
the oldest built structure has been found in Japan (it predates Terra Amata
by 100,000 years at least!):
And as long as we're looking at Asia, Inside China reports on the discovery
of a hitherto unknown Imperial palace:
Also in the category of major news are a couple of reports on what the
Tabula Cortonensis tells us about the Etruscan language:
The BBC reports on the discovery in Iraq of a pre-Islamic 'castle':
The Jerusalem Post reports on the recovery of a purloined Roman-era bust:
CNN reveals that the AmericaQuest folks are going to be mounting a live
interactive expedition to Anasazi territory (thanks to Judy Underwood for
the heads up):
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
Biblical Archaeology Review has a new online issue, which includes one out
of three in print articles on the historicity of the Bible among other
thing; worth a look is the piece on Tel Rehov:
Bible Review is also online with new content, chief among which are a pair
of articles dealing with the Nazareth v. Bethlehem debate:
EXHIBITS
The Bergen Record has a review of the "Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from
Roman Egypt" currently at the Met:
TOURISTY PIECES
The Montreal Gazette has a nice little feature on Malta:
Something called FeedMag has an essay on Leptis Magna:
The Miami Herald has a piece on the Maya city of Calakmul:
A NEW WEBSITE
The Department of Archaeology and Art History of the University of Siena
has just put together a massive website devoted to Medieval Archaeology in
and around Siena. There are rather nice reports on 11 major excavations,
with plenty of photos, QTVR, etc. The site is in Italian, but worth a look
(only 88 hits so far!):
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are scoured on a daily basis for news of the ancient world (broadly
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about 1700 or so is fair game) and when a sufficient number of urls are
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[apologies for crossposting ... you wouldn't believe how many lists I feel
morally-bound to send this to]
Greetings,
This morning I finally connected long enough to my ISP to update my virus
definitions for Norton antivirus and I was greatly dismayed to discover
that I had been infected with the W32.Plage.Worm. I have no idea when I was
infected with same, but the virus apparently first appeared in January of
2000 (which coincides with a time I was having -- and continue to have --
problems connecting with my ISP, including in regards to such things as
scheduled tasks like Live Update for Norton Antivirus). It isn't really a
harmful thing, as far as viruses/worms go, but it is one of those things
one can pass along without even knowing it -- it supposedly sends a message
to any unanswered message it finds in your email program. If you have
received a message like the following from me (or anyone else, for that
matter):
P2000 Mail auto-reply:
' I'll try to reply as soon as possible.
Take a look to the attachment and send me your opinion! '
> Get your FREE P2000 Mail now! <
... you should do a virus scan. There is an attachment that comes with the
message as a supposed .zip file which can have various names (mine was
news_doc.zip but apparently the name is randomly selected from a list). If
you haven't received such a message, there should be no need to worry.
As for what the virus does, if you're on your computer between midnight and
2 a.m. on a Wednesday, you'll be given a rather disturbing image on your
screen of Hitler with a gun in his mouth and an appeal to stop the "plage"
(sic) affecting the world.
More info on the virus (including info on the various file names of the
attachment containing it) at:
or
I sincerely hope I haven't passed this along to you, but if I have, my
sincerest apologies.
regards,
dm
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On the web this week:
The big news of the week appears to be the discovery of warehouses and
docks in Rome in the Transtevere district (lots of coverage):
Also on the Roman front, there appears to be much controversy over the
Italian government's pledge to infuse Pompeii with massive amounts of cash
to help preserve it; here are three reports from disparate sources:
Still on the Roman front, research in the Domus Aurea suggests that Nero
used wall paintings in the non-public rooms, and contributed to a decline
in Roman wall painting (qualis artifex indeed!):
Also potentially on the 'big news' side of things, archaeologists think
they might have found the location of Captain Kidd's ship, off the coast of
Madagascar (thanks to Bill Kerr for the heads up):
The Miami Herald has a piece on how widely the Vikings ranged:
The Nando Times has a feature on the technology of 'thermal archaeology':
,1976,500173386-500224406-501065794-0,00.html
Also on the technology side of things come various reports on the dangers
of losing archaeological records because of computer format changes and/or
media deterioration:
LIVE EVENT (sort of)
National Geographic is featuring this week a presentation
(RealAudio/WindowsMedia) by Johan Reinhard, on his discovery of assorted
Incan child sacrifice mummies in 1995 (the presentation was made in
November 1999):
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N.B. I'm fiddling with font sizes this week to see if it helps avoid the
'watch the wrap' issue ... if this is a problem for your browser/mail
program, please drop me a line
A somewhat busy week:
I might be biased, but the big news of the week appears to be the supposed
identification of bones found in the Demosion Sema in Athens with the men
eulogized in Pericles' funeral oration -- the source of my bias is that it
was the discovery of this site in 1997 which was the impetus for
Commentarium, which spawned the publication you are reading now. Anyhoo ...
here's plenty of coverage ... the first from Archaeology Magazine, the
remainder various takes on AP and Reuters reports (thanks to William Kerr,
who interestingly was alone in sending me a heads up on this one):
,2107,500169633-500217358-501025219-0,00.html
If I weren't biased, I would have made the following the big news story of
the week: Zahi Hawass and friends have uncovered the "Tomb of Osiris",
first hinted at in that 'live' excavation in and around the pyramids a few
months ago. Here's plenty of coverage, most of which are variations on a
Reuters report (watch the wrap on occasion; the Spiegel coverage is in German):
,1249,150014357,00.html?
,1518,65006,00.html
Also on the Egyptian front, the Philadelphia Inquirer has a feature on
what's happening with the finds from the Barhariya oasis:
USA Today has a report on the purported location of Mt. Sinai:
The BBC reports on the playing of the world's oldest flute (this one is
very small, but should still work)
EurekAlert points us to a news release from Cornell University, which
suggests that Mozart died of natural causes:
According to the Times, Robert Ballard's next search will be in the Black
Sea for Noah's Ark (!):
ON THE NEWSTANDS
Discovering Archaeology's latest online content comes from their July 1999
issue and includes a number of interesting items, including the use of
satellite technology to find sites in Egypt:
... one of the few reports on what actually resulted from the search for
King Alfred's bones:
Home page for current issue of Discovering Archaeology:
In addition to the big story noted above, Archaeology Magazine has some new
online content, including (among other things) a report on the discovery of
a massive horse burial in a Kurgan:
... and an abstract of a feature on Roman life on the Danube:
Table of Contents for current issue of Archaeology:
FOLLOWUPS
Kennewick Man is back in the news, free to be DNA tested etc.:
EurekAlert alerted me to a UMichigan news release on research which
pinpoints rather exactly (if one can say skull analyses are exact) whence
aboriginal North Americans came. I also include another report on the
matter from Discovery Channel Canada (thanks to John Carr for the heads up):
OBITUARIES
The Times obituary for Tim Potter:
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Sorry folks; I neglected to do the ctrl-v with the url for the story of the
American about to circumnavigate the world in a reed boat (thanks to many
for pointing this out!):
regards and apologies,
dm
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[Apologies for lateness ... I slept in!]
In the news this week:
To judge by discussion on various lists, the big news of the week is
report, emanating ultimately from New Scientist, that Romans may have
reached the new world. Here's all sorts of coverage, all variations on the
same theme (thanks to plenty of folks who sent me heads up on this one):
The Telegraph has a nice report on how humans in the Mesolithic were rather
more sophisticated than previously thought (watch the wrap):
The Washington Post reports on Iraq's recovery of some 5,000 artifacts,
some dating from Sumerian times:
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The BBC has a tantalizingly brief report suggesting Abu Dhabi was inhabited
from at least the third century:
The Times of London also has a nice report on the recovery in Miami of a
number of artifacts stolen from Corinth:
The BBC reports on one scholar's claim that King Arthur was actually
Scottish (!):
According to CNN, an American is going to attempt to circumnavigate the
world in a reed boat, which will, no doubt, add more voices to the 'who
populated which continent when' debate (thanks to Karen Cunningham for the
heads up)
EXHIBITS
The Times reports that an impending exhibition of Pompeii erotica has
angered Vatican officials (watch the wrap):
The Art in the Age of the Pyramids exhibition has finally arrived at the
Royal Ontario Museum (just down the road!) and so there is plenty of
coverage in Canadian newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, which
undoubtedly has the most ridiculous url I've ever seen ... 'watch the wrap'
seems to be an understatement:
[if that doesn't work, just do a search for archaeology at
www.theglobeandmail.com ... thanks to William Kerr for the heads up on this
one] Other coverage at:
FOLLOWUPS
Last week we reported on the discovery near Pisa of the ancient remains of
a Roman and his dog; this week the Times of London has given some excellent
coverage to it at (watch the wrap):
OBITUARIES
The world of ancient history is much poorer off after the loss of G. de
Ste. Croix this week (thanks to various folks who passed along urls on this):
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fair game) and when a sufficient number of urls are gathered (usually a
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In the news this week:
The big news of the week (and much, apparently, to the delight of newspaper
editors) is the discovery of a statue of the pharoah Taharqa, not in Egypt,
but in the basement of a museum where staff used it as a "bike rack".
Here's the various coverage (thanks to numerous readers for the heads up on
this one and watch the wrap on most of the following):
Eurekalert has a press release on the sophistication of ice age clothing:
Al-Ahram has a nice feature on the opening to the public of the 'Villa of
the Birds', one of the few Roman villas extant in Alexandria (thanks to
Judy Underwood and Cosma Shalizi for the heads up):
The BBC has a vague sort of report on the results of an archaeological
survey in Wales, which has found (among other things) a secret monastic
cemetery:
According to the Times of London, a french historian is demanding DNA tests
be done on the body which is in Napoleon's grave (watch the wrap):
The Telegraph has an interesting piece on the archaeological search for the
people who first cultivated chocolate (thanks to Mark Williams for the
heads up and watch the wrap):
Here's one I missed: a couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post had a
semi-editorial piece on 'dead digs', which has much to say on digs which
are done and never published:
AT THE NEWSSTANDS
Discovering Archaeology has a brief update on the 'stairway to the
underworld' on Orkney:
Archaeology Odyssey has updated its online content, with a nice feature on
the Garamantine kingdom and the Beirut Museum
FOLLOWUPS
Discovery.com's newsbrief section has a short piece on the dig at Mendes
(Egypt) reported in last week's Explorator (if this url doesn't work, click
on the archives link at Discovery.com ... thanks to Jim Hammitt for the
heads up):
The Elgin Marbles are back in the news; the BBC reports that Turkey is
backing Greece's claim to have them returned while the Telegraph reports
that Greece offered a secret deal to get just a few pedimental sculptures
back (watch the wrap on the latter):
OBITUARIES
Tim Potter (watch the wrap):
Peter Levi (watch the wrap):
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]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ Volume 2, Issue 76 -- January 30, 2000
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(especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to rebuild the
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Pardon the unannounced hiatus last week ... real life intruded into
Explorator's regular publication schedule (it was a really quiet week then
anyway ...)
On the web this week:
The Times of London has an interesting report by Nigel Hammond on how
ancient cave dwellers actually 'processed' the colours they painted cave
walls with (watch the wrap ... the Times urls are also somewhat strange
this week; if you can't find the article, the date of issue is in the url):
<<%U
Eurekalert has notice of research from the Egyptian town of Mendes, which
might shed light on the end of the Old Kingdom, according to Donald Redford:
Discovery.com has just put up a nice feature on animal mummies and the
cults associated with them (thanks to Jane Stevens for the heads up):
ABCNews has a report (with RealMedia content) by science editor Michael
Guillen on the antiquity of the 'great flood' tale:
The Telegraph reports on the discovery of a Roman harbour near Shrewsbury
(watch the wrap):
Also on the Roman front is a Discovery.com newsbrief which points to
evidence that a group of newly-discovered victims of Vesuvius died from
thermal shock (i.e. not from toxic gas):
There's tons o' coverage of a Science magazine report on 'fingerprinting'
emeralds to find their origins (of which some of the more famous aren't as
ancient as claimed). Here's a pile of urls, all variations on the same theme:
The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting piece on research into
Cahokia:
The L.A. Times has a brief piece announcing an expedition to search for the
tomb of Genghis Khan:
REPATRIATION IN THE NEWS AGAIN
A nice example of repatriation is the return of a stolen bust of Neferteri
to Egypt, after investigation by British Museum types (watch the wrap):
<<%U
As the BBC tells us, the latest demand comes from a British MP, who is
demanding that France return assorted artefacts associated with the Welsh
hero Owain Glyndwr:
AT THE NEWSSTANDS
Military History Quarterly has a nice online feature on the Battle of
Cannae, along with a sidebar on the use of elephants in ancient armies:
ALSO WORTH A LOOK
The Canadian version of the Discovery Channel has a feature called "Mystic
Places" which looks at Stonehenge, Nazca, etc. ... I'm not sure when it
went up, but it's nicely done:
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<url:>
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<url:>
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there's a lot going on) representing the fruits of the labours of 'media
research division' of The Atrium. Various on-line news and magazine sources
are scoured on a daily basis 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 when a sufficient number of urls are gathered (usually a
minimum of three stories), they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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Add this to issue 2.75
Another site with good info on the Spitalfields lady (a link at one of the
sites I mentioned apparently doesn't work) is the 'Meet The Ancestors'
homepage at:
Thanks to Sally Winchester for the oblique heads up!
dm
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]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ Volume 2, Issue 75 -- January 16, 2000
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(especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to rebuild the
url at your end; if you get a 'file not
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A somewhat quiet week:
VIKINGS IN THE NEWS
It would appear to be Viking week or something, as the big news de semaine
appears to be the discovery of a number of Viking artifacts in a cave near
Ireland. The Irish Times' coverage is the most complete (and check out the
links on the left hand side, which include a virtual reality sort of view
of the cave, among other things). (thanks to numerous (really numerous!)
readers for the heads up on this one, which I did miss, believe it or not):
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
As long as we're on the subject of Vikings, Mercator's World has a nice
feature this month on the Norse in North America:
<url:>
And fulfilling the scholastic law of three, the Christian Science Monitor
has a feature on Yorvik (Viking York) that's a bit touristy, but still
worth reading:
<url:>
IN OTHER NEWS
Until I was deluged with info on the discoveries in Ireland, the big news
of the week was going to be the reconstruction of the face of the woman
whose lead coffin was discovered in Spitalfields last summer. Here's plenty
of coverage (watch the wrap on the Telegraph piece):
<url:>
<url:>
A fire at the museum near Flag Fen has destroyed many records of the
archaeological excavations of the site ... this is worth reading especially
if you believe that fireproof cabinets will be sufficiently safe to store
the records of your excavation. The BBC report:
<url:>
FOLLOWUPS
CNN's Custom News seems to be the only news service dealing at length with
the determination that Kennewick Man is of Native American ancestry (watch
the wrap):
<url:>
AT THE NEWSSTAND
Since it is such a slow week (relatively speaking), you might want to spend
some time visiting National Geographic's features this week. Of interest to
us is one which takes you on a 'virtual autopsy' of the Ice Maiden:
<url:>
... and a nice piece on the wreck of the Concepcion
<url:>
Both are based on articles, of course, which figured prominently in NG in
the 1990's.
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there's a lot going on) representing the fruits of the labours of 'media
research division' of The Atrium. Various on-line news and magazine sources
are scoured on a daily basis for news of the ancient world (broadly
construed: practically anything relating to archaeology or history prior to
about 1700 or so is
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minimum of three stories), they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ Volume 2, Issue 74 -- January 9, 2000
]|[============================================]|[
Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap
(especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to rebuild the
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Since we've survived another week into 2000, it's worthwhile to give a
general thanks to the many folks who take the time to send me urls of news
items that they've come across. While I sometimes have already found them
in my own surfing, the efforts of the many readers to help make Explorator
'cutting edge' is greatly appreciated by me (and, I assume, by the other
readers of Explorator). Gratias vobis ago!
An eclectic week:
Last week I seem to have missed a piece in the Times on the 'gruesome
burial practices' of Neolithic folks:
<url:>
Il Messaggero reports on an Italian expedition to excavate the site of the
battle of Zama:
<url:>
Der Spiegel has a report on the Stueck papyrus:
,1518,59051,00.html
<url:,1518,59051,00.html>
Iran News has a report on the excavation of the 'Burnt City' (thanks to
Charles Jones for the heads up):
<url:>
The New York Times has an interesting article on the site of Megiddo
(thanks to George Pesely for the heads up):
<url:>
Speaking of the New York Times, they have a 'focus on archaeology' page,
the existence of which I was not previously aware of (it might be new). In
any event, if you go to the following page you will find a number of
articles which we have mentioned before, and some which I believe I missed
(e.g articles on the world of the pharaohs, the star of Bethlehem coin
thing, the hauling out of a cannon which once festooned the Bounty (new!),
the Midas Funeral thing, and other stuff):
<url:>
ABCNews has a nice piece on an exhibition (now apparently in Sweden) on the
dress of the pharoahs (thanks to 'rmhowe' for the heads up):
<url:>
The Telegraph has a review of Keith Hopkins' *World Full of Gods* (watch
the wrap):
<url:>
FOLLOWUPS
YahooNews picks up a Reuters piece on the ongoing protests over
construction on Temple Mount (thanks to Nancy Jenner for the heads up):
<url:>
Yet another party heard from in the 'who got here first' debate, the
Atlantic Monthly has a rather lengthy article on the various bits of
evidence (and 'evidence') for various preColumbian migrations to the 'New
World':
<url:>
AT THE NEWSSTAND
Archaeology Odyssey has updated its online issue, which includes a list of
digs upcoming this summer and a cancelled exhibition of Georgian artifacts:
<url:>
Discovering Archaeology has an item on life on the island of Cyprus, 8500 B.P.:
<url:>
History Today has a nice little article on Britain in A.D. 1 and what we
actually do know:
<url:>
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<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
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<url:>
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]|[============================================]|[
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research division' of The Atrium. Various on-line news and magazine sources
are scoured on a daily basis 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 when a sufficient number of urls are gathered (usually a
minimum of three stories), they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links
eventually find a home at:
Commentarium (news articles)
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