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Another busy week -- and remember that an Explorator subscription would make a
lovely (and stunningly cheap) Christmas/Kwanzaa/Channukah gift for the
archeofan in your life (new idea from readers: send me the addresses of
folks you'd like to send a subscription to, and I'll send them an official
invite mentioning you) (apologies for the
flagrant self-promotion ... I'd like to see Explorator hit the 1000
subscriber mark before the calendar hits the 2000 mark):
The San Jose Mercury reports on the excavation of what appears to be a
major Hittite (etc.) site in Syria:
<url:>
In what might be the big news of the week (if it proves to be true) Il
Messaggero reports on what might be the tomb of Vitruvius (the article's a
bit short on details for my liking)!:
<url:>
The Times reports on the opening and tasting of some 400-year old wine (!):
<url:
999>
Also in the Times is an article on the non-Christian origins of some of the
more popular carols associated with Christmas:
<url:
999>
The Times reports on various little damages done to various objects in the
British Museum (I'm not sure whether I'd be mentioning this sort of thing
if I were trying to claim to be responsible keepers of the Elgin Marbles):
<url:
999>
An AP story is circulatin on mounds in Louisiana ... here's two versions,
the CNN one includes a photo (thanks to John Carr for the heads up):
<url:>
,2107,500138582-500162679-50046456
3-0,00.html
<url:,2107,500138582-500162679-500
464563-0,00.html>
ABCNews has a nice feature on the age of potters in the New World:
<url:>
The New York Times has a review of the Golden Legacy of the Scythian
Warriors exhibit:
<url:>
The Times of London also has a review of Peter Jones' *An Intelligent
Person's Guide to the Classics* and Charles Freeman's *The Greek Achievement*:
<url:
999>
Discovery.com has an interesting piece on the source of the backgrounds of
many of DaVinci's paintings:
<url:>
ON THE NEWSSTAND:
Discovering Archaeology has some new features, including one on the long
term relationship between humans and bedbugs and the search for the 'enema
pot' (thanks to Michael Ruggieri for the heads up, so to speak):
<url:>
<url:>
FOLLOWUPS
Additional coverage of the discovery of the undergound chamber in Orkney,
via the BBC:
<url:>
This one's really old, but just showed up today for some reason ... it's
FoxNews' exclusive coverage of the Barhariya oasis thing and has some
interesting things to say about the business side of mummification:
<url:>
The Telegraph coverage of the Seahenge date (watch the wrap):
999&pg=/et/99/12/9/ecnnorf09.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/12/9/ecnnorf09.html>
ONGOING SAGAS
A report in Nature provides genetic links between a new world population
and one in Japan:
<url:>
The Italian government has given the 'tutt'ok' to the construction of the
ramp which will cut through Agrippina's villa (alas), according to MSNBC:
<url:>
The Elgin Marbles thing has resulted in some interesting letters to the
editor of the Times, including one from John Boardman:
<url:
999>
<url:
999>
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
The satirical rag of record, The Onion, reports on the discovery of a race
of 'skeleton people' (thanks to Judy Underwood for the heads up):
<url:>
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
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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
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]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 71 -- December 5, 1999
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A busy week -- and remember that an Explorator subscription would make a
lovely (and stunningly cheap) Christmas/Kwanzaa/Channukah gift for the
archeofan in your life (details at the end, as always) (apologies for the
flagrant self-promotion ... I'd like to see Explorator hit the 1000
subscriber mark before the calendar hits the 2000 mark):
The big news of the week appears to be the dating of 'Seahenge'; here's all
kinds of coverage (with thanks to the numerous folks who pointed out some
of it to me):
<url:>
<url:>
<url:
999>
<url:>
<url:>
FoxNews appears to be the only service picking up the story of Greek
archaeologists scrambling to excavate remains in Thessaly in the face of
highway construction:
<url:>
The Times has a piece on the discovery of a 2000-year-old family grave site
in Ireland:
<url:
999>
FoxNews reports of an amateur's discovery of a Celtic temple site on Orkney:
<url:>
AlphaGalileo and Il Messaggero both devoted some webspace to recent work at
Ostia:
<url:>
<url:>
Il Messaggero also has a report on plans to excavate ancient Forcona (which
includes at least one interesting temple, among other things:
<url:>
The BBC has a report on the discovery of a Roman settlement at the site of
a proposed rugby stadium in Wales:
<url:>
Also in the Times is a feature on Suzanne Taverne, the managing director of
the British Museum, which is worth reading for numerous reasons, not least
of which is the hint of some upcoming exhibitions:
<url:
999>
The opening of an exhibit on 'time' in Greenwich looks interesting:
<url:
999>
In a potential ongoing saga, Radio Free Europe reports on a dispute of
archaeological remains in the Ukraine:
<url:>
I'm not sure how old this article is (I seem to recall something about this
last summer), but since it recently (re?)appeared, folks might be
interested in the genetic evidence for human migration out of Africa
(thanks to Diana Briscoe for the heads up):
<url:>
AT THE NEWSSTAND:
Biblical Archaeology Review has updated its online edition, with features
on ancient Jerusalem and other things:
<url:>
... the BAR folks have also updated the Archaeology Odyssey issue, which
includes an interesting feature on the ideology of Assyrian kingship (and
other things):
<url:>
ONGOING SAGAS
At the risk of prematurely labelling this one as an ongoing saga, the
Vatican Car park thing has finally hit the English press in a big way, with
all sorts of interesting developments, including the discovery that plenty
of archaeological remains seem to be being hauled off to garbage dumps and
(yippee) the apparent halt of construction of the ramp which is so much at
issue (again, thanks to numerous folks):
On the ramp being halted:
c3.html
<url:
999Dec3.html>
<url:>
On artifacts being hauled to the dump:
<url:>
<url:>
Some general background:
<url:>
The Elgin Marbles continue to be the subject of argument:
<url:
999>
<url:
999>
<url:
999>
<url:>
999&pg=/et/99/12/1/nelg01.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/12/1/nelg01.html>
Israel is claiming that Moslems are damaging sites on Temple Mount (again):
<url:>
ALSO WORTH A LOOK:
The Times of London has some sort of connection with the folks who do the
Tomb Raider series of computer games (featuring the lovely Lara Croft, of
course) and have begun to serialize one of her adventures (a new one)
online. If that doesn't interest you, you will still probably enjoy the
Times' reprise of the coverage of the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb. It's
all available via:
<url:>
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
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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
charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links
eventually find a home at:
Commentarium (news articles)
The Rostra (audio files)
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]|[ ]|[ EXPLORATOR
]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 70 -- November 28, 1999
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Pardon the unannounced hiatus ... report card time and administrative
uncertainty about your editor's participation in a camping trip conspired
to mess things up big time during the past week, which was apparently a
slow one anyway. We now resume our normal broadcasting schedule:
Probably the only item which truly qualifies as news, a report from
RP-Online (in German) tells of the discovery of some sort of bronze-age
trapezoid of unknown purpose (thanks to Hanna Orr for the heads up):
The Washington Post reports that the funding drive to save the Miami Circle
from developers is in trouble of not reaching its goal:
FOLLOWUPS
Most of the followups this week concern Ballard's discovery of a coastline
deep within the Black Sea; most are variations/edited versions of Guy
Gugliotta's Washington Post story (the first item):
Watch the wrap on the Telegraph piece:
999&pg=/et/99/11/19/wnoah19.html
999&pg=/et/99/11/19/wnoah19.html
ABCNews has a nice RealVideo report:
Another followup to the story on the discovery of what is apparently the
earliest alphabetic writing (in the 'Gulch of Terror' ... schoolkids love
that)(thanks to Renee Rosen-Wakefield for the heads up):
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
EXPLORATOR IS ARCHIVED AT:
<url:>
]|[============================================]|[
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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
charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links
eventually find a home at:
Commentarium (news articles)
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]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 68 -- November 7, 1999
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Lots of stuff this week:
The big news of the week is the announcement in the New York Times of the
discovery of inscriptions in Egypt which appear to be the earliest examples
of alphabetic writing:
<url:
in.html>
Also in the big news department is the discovery of a major Roman coin
hoard in Britain by genuine 'beginner's luck' metal detecting. Various
coverage follows (thanks to the numerous folks who alerted me to this one
... the Times coverage seems the best):
<url:>
999&pg=/et/99/11/10/ncoi10.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/11/10/ncoi10.html>
<url:
999>
The Times also reports on the discovery of a Neolithic stairway:
<url:
999>
The New York Times also has a piece on the popularity of 'millennial
looting' of sites in Israel for millenial souvenirs:
um.html
<url:
lennium.html>
A big item in the German press was the discovery of a sixth-century grave
near Dortmund ... here's a pair of articles (thanks to Hanna for the heads
up):
<url:>
,1518,51765,00.html
<url:,1518,51765,00.html>
NandoTimes has a brief item on the discovery of a 3,000 year old tomb in
Peru (thanks to Michael Ruggieri for the heads up):
,2107,500056278-500092612-500347099-0,0
0.html
<url:,2107,500056278-500092612-50034709
9-0,00.html>
Yesterday the Times of London had a 'insert' on what's going on in Italy
for the millennium, much of which focuses on archaeology and art, of
course. The series starts at:
<url:
999>
... and can be followed by continuing the links at the bottom of the page.
Of especial interest (all the articles except a couple have content of
interest), is one on the continuing excavation of the Roman naval remains
at Ravenna:
<url:
999>
AlphaGalileo has a news release on research which suggests there is no
connection between climate and lithic technology:
<url:>
OBITUARY
Somewhat late, the Times of London has an obituary for amicus noster Don
Fowler:
<url:
999>
ONGOING SAGAS
A handful of items relating to the who-reached-North-America-first saga
appeared this week. The first pair come from the New York Times ...
<url:
.html>
<url:
y.html>
An item from the Telegraph has ancient Britons getting here first (watch
the wrap):
999&pg=/et/99/11/10/wbri10.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/11/10/wbri10.html>
Canada's own Farley Mowat (who should stick to writing fiction about
wolves, IMHO), has put out a book on pre-Viking European inhabitants of NA,
according to the Miami Herald:
<url:>
The Elgin Marbles continue to get attention, first for the BM's plans to
allow them to be used as backdrops for corporate dinner parties:
<url:>
... and the Greek government has shifted tactics in its efforts to recover
them, according to the Times:
<url:
999>
HIGH TECH ARCHAEOLOGY
Another item in the high tech archaeology department comes from the
Alberquerque Journal, which has a piece on Tom Sever's use of remote
sensing in archaeology:
<url:>
FOLLOWUPS
The major followup is on the stuff I've found on the Janiculum Hill
'emergency' in Rome. What follows are a number of articles, the first from
the New York Times from back in September which will fill in some of the
details of why this site is important; then comes a series of articles from
Il Messaggero (in Italian) which describe the ongoing political conflict;
finally, there comes an article in Croatian which summarizes (I am told)
the principal charges made by Andreotti in regards to this whole thing
(thanks to George Peseley for the latter):
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
The Archimedes Manuscript is on display, and CNN has a nice report on it
(thanks to Adam Philippidis for the heads up_:
<url:>
You knew it was coming ... once one face was seen in Stonehenge, others
began to 'emerge', according to the BBC:
<url:>
REGULAR FEATURES
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<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
EXPLORATOR IS ARCHIVED AT:
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]|[============================================]|[
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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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]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 68 -- November 7, 1999
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Apologies for the unannounced hiatus ... here's the big 'catch up issue':
In a news release which appears to have been missed by the major news
services, AlphaGalileo tells of Oxford research which suggests humans
arrived in Europe much later than originally thought, which obviously has
an impact on the 'neanderthal extinction' debate:
<url:>
The BBC has an interesting piece on the first farmers being forced to
domesticate grains because of a drought:
<url:>
On the more bizarre side, the San Jose Mercury makes note of a theory that
North America's first inhabitants may have come from Europe (!):
<url:>
The Irish Times reveals that recent discoveries on the Janiculum will be
paved over by a six storey underground car park (I'm going to try to find
more on this one):
<url:>
The Times has an interesting pair of pieces on Hereward the Wake and his
soft spot for the canine set (doggy burials in England!):
<url:
999>
<url:
999>
An important medieval fresco depicting seasonal cycles etc. has been
discovered in a church in Rome:
<url:
999>
The Times also reports on the excavations of Somerset House:
<url:
999>
Not quite archaeology, but probably of interest is a piece at ABCNews
debunking the 'Bible Codes' theories which gained a lot of media attention
a couple of years ago:
<url:>
The Times reports on the sale of a Renaissance sculpture, originally
purchased for peanuts in a market in London, which fetched a huge price:
<url:
999>
In light of the fact that the Christmas season will soon be here and the
lists deluged with questions about the Bethlehem Star, folks might be
interested in Lingua Franca's review of a couple of books on the subject:
<url:>
This month's update of Archaeology Magazine is a bit disappointing, but
there is plenty of info in the Newsbriefs section of interest:
<url:>
USA Today has a touristy piece on Syria:
<url:
There is quite a bit of media interest in the 'AsiaQuest' team, which is
retracing Marco Polo's route and keeping folks up to date on the web etc.
Here's some of the coverage (most have links to the project site)
HIGH TECH ARCHAEOLOGY
An awful lot of stuff of late focuses on the use of technology in
archaeology, so it seems worthy of a section of its own. The first piece
deals with high tech archaeology in Essex (thanks to Dave Abbott for the
heads up):
The Telegraph has a piece on various high tech tools available to
archaeologists (watch the wrap):
999&pg=/et/99/11/4/ecfarch04.html
999&pg=/et/99/11/4/ecfarch04.html
The Times has an interesting piece on high tech methods used to recover
manuscripts of some 'lost' medieval music:
<url:
999>
The Washington Post has an item on a new type of sonar:
<url:
00.htm>
FOLLOWUPS
The 'Angel Scroll' is back in the news, with more of its claims revealed in
the Times:
?2177977
<url:
.html?2177977>
More info on Miami's Circle has come to light, including a date and more
associated archaeological remains:
<url:>
<url:>
THE POLITICS OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Also much in the news are items which focus mostly on the political side of
archaeology. The first is an editorial on the trend towards 'restitution'
of artifacts currently in museums (watch the wrap):
999&pg=/et/99/10/21/baworm21.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/10/21/baworm21.html>
The 'return the Elgin marbles' battle is heating up, with some scholars
claiming the Greeks did more damage to their own marbles than that which
they claim the British did cleaning the Elgin marbles:
<url:
999>
The 'where was Jesus baptized' conflict continues:
<url:>
Last, but not least, Ze'ev Herzog wrote a piece for Ha'aretz on how much of
what is believed on the basis of biblical evidence simply can't be
confirmed by archaeology. The article caused a stir on various scholarly
lists (and was posted to many ... unfortunately it has expired on the
server), and as can be seen from the following news reports, elsewhere:
<url:>
<url:>
(watch the wrap)
999&pg=/et/99/10/29/wmyth29.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/10/29/wmyth29.html>
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<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
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<url:>
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]|[============================================]|[
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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
charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links
eventually find a home at:
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|
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]|[ ]|[ EXPLORATOR
]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 67 -- October 24, 1999
]|[============================================]|[
Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap which
will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
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]|[============================================]|[
A week of plenty of tidbits, although whether some would be included in
'high season' is questionable:
The Irish Times has a piece on the discovery of human remains from the 13th
century which belong to a victim of "medieval frenzied attack syndrome":
<url:>
The BBC reports on the rediscovery of the skeleton of the
barber-surgeon-travelling-tradesman guy, which was believed lost during WWII:
<url:>
LatinoLink has a report on the intended use of DNA tests on Olmec remains
to determine their origin (thanks to Michael Ruggieri for the heads up):
<url:>
The most interesting thing I read this week was easily a piece in the New
York Times on how the Church, prior to Galileo and numerous other
'herectics' was well aware of the problems of the traditional view they
were defending, from observations in their own 'cathedral-observatories':
ls.html
<url:
hedrals.html>
The National Post has a nice feature on the Epic of Gilgamesh:
<url:>
Discovering Archaeology has a number of items of interest; in order of
appearance below, the articles are on Monte Verde (which include a rather
repetitious stress on the fact that Discovering Archaeology is put out by
Scientific American ... significant?) and the Shroud of Turin (nothing new)
<url:>
<url:>
Bible Review has a new feature online which looks at the parallels between
Buddha and Jesus:
<url:>
The World and I has a feature by David Slavitt on the demise of Latin (and
rise of English)(thanks to Dave Abbott for the heads up):
<url:>
Lebanon's Daily Star has a feature on an archaeological artist named Gerti
Bierenbroodspot, who has done some interesting renditions of sites such as
Petra and Baalbek (unfortunately not many of her works seem to be online,
not even at her own site, which has a link on the page as well):
<url:>
THE POLITICS OF ARCHAEOLOGY
It was a big week for politics in archaeology, it seems ... first comes
news from the Washington Post on Israel's argument with Jordan over the
site where Jesus was baptized:
<url:>
... then comes the news from Britain that pagans' noses were out of joint
when the remains of a Bronze Age man were given a burial by a Christian
cleric (two versions, from the Times and the Telegraph):
<url:
999>
hhe&pg=/et/99/10/22/npag22.html
<url:
hhhhhhhe&pg=/et/99/10/22/npag22.html>
... and of course, the official report on Kennewick Man is online (thanks
to Doug Weller for the heads up):
<url:>
... and the Times also reports on how UNESCO has made Sterktontein caves
World Heritage Site status:
<url:
999>
ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
This feature will resume next week (I promise! I should have my act
together again this week).
The home page of this feature is at:
<url:>
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
CORRECTIONS:
Last week I mentioned a Romano-Egyptian exhibit reviewed in De Standaard
which I thought was being put on in Amsterdam; the actual location is
Tongeren, Belgium ... thanks to Francis Deblauwe for the heads up!
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anything relating to archaeology or history prior to about 1700 or so is
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Another slow week, with a big rush of items coming at the end!
Among the more interesting things on the web this week is a BBC report on
the discovery of the oldest bread in Britain:
<url:>
The BBC also has a report on a supposed face which was carved into
Stonehenge (this one smacks of 'seeing things in clouds' to me):
<url:>
Rounding out the scholastic law of three for the BBC is a report on the
discovery of the world's oldest stables, in Egypt:
<url:
.stm>
Here's one I was sitting on for quite a while: a report from the Times last
Tuesday on the supposed curse accompanying a mummy on its way to the Louvre
from Tyneside:
<url:
999>
ABCNews has an extended (and very interesting) feature on Roughan Hill
(Ireland), which is one of the "oldest and best preserved prehistoric
landscapes in Europe":
<url:>
The search for Blackbeard's ship has resumed, according to an item on MSNBC:
<url:>
Discovering Archaeology's latest feature is on the La Belle shipwreck:
<url:>
Last Sunday the Washington Post had an item on the battle to preserve the
Kurdish town of Hasankeyf, which will eventually be inundated after a
series of dams is built:
<url:
00.htm>
The LA Times has a feature on the latest art collectors vs. archaeologists
clash:
<url:>
The National Geographic has an interesting feature on the results of an
'environmental-archaeological' study of Venice, which shows the city to be
older than previously thought, and tells much about ancient sea levels:
<url:>
The Star Tribune has a feature on Christian Kopff's *The Devil Knows Latin*:
ct-99&word=kopff
<url:
=13-Oct-99&word=kopff>
FOLLOWUPS (Updates on stories which previously appeared in Explorator)
Kennewick Man turns out to have more affinities with Asian populations than
any modern North American group, according to a handful of small articles:
<url:>
<url:
t=>
<url:>
The National Geographic has a nice little feature on the Canadian Iceman:
<url:>
USA Today has a feature on the ongoing dig to find the bones of Alfred:
<url:>
OBITUARY
Gerald Brodribb has died, and apparently is better known for his cricketing
chronicles than his work with Roman tiles and brickstamps (watch the wrap):
999&pg=/et/99/10/16/ebbrod16.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/10/16/ebbrod16.html>
AT THE MUSEUMS:
The Smithsonian's exhibit "Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur" opens
today and is drawing a lot of coverage; the first item is from the
Smithsonian's own site; most of the other articles are variations on an AP
wire story, some with photos (thanks to various folks who passed along urls
on this one):
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
De Standaard (Belgium) has a review of an exhibit of Roman-Egyptian
artifacts currently in Amsterdam:
Bericht_id=dst9910130028&txtStandBy=1
<url:
p?txtBericht_id=dst9910130028&txtStandBy=1>
ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
This feature will resume next week.
The home page of this feature is at:
<url:>
AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on the Huns:
kly/aa101299.htm
<url:
y/weekly/aa101299.htm>
Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has a feature on El Nino in past times:
aa101099.htm
<url:
ekly/aa101099.htm>
Janet Burns (Latin) has a feature on the relative pronoun
<url:
t.htm>
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
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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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eventually find a home at:
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]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 65 -- October 10, 1999
]|[============================================]|[
Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap which
will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active
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A slow week, but we did manage to accumulate quite a bit of stuff as it
turns out:
The big news of the week has to be the reopening of Lebanon's National
Museum, which has not received the coverage outside of Lebanon that one
might expect. The first three items come from the Lebanon Daily Star, the
last from Xinhua via CNN (watch the wrap on the latter):
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
39553309789&page_exclude=1
<url:
uid=939553309789&page_exclude=1>
The Guardian reported last Sunday on the discovery of the "Oldest Europeans":
,3879,88489,00.
html
<url:,3879,8848
9,00.html>
AlphaGalileo comes through again with a press release (in French) on
results of various tests of artifacts found in a kurgan a couple of years ago:
<url:>
The LA Times has a nice little feature on the work of John Wilson and his
work at Caesarea Philippi:
<url:>
Il Messaggero reports on the recovery of an Imperial-era sarcophagus and
assorted other items from Ostia which were destined for the black market:
<url:>
The Times last week has a report on the discovery of an early Christian
cemetery near Holyhead:
<url:
999>
Also in the Times is an item on the discovery of a letter of Christopher
Columbus (thanks to George Peseley for the heads up):
<url:
999>
A fair amount of coverage has been given to the discovery of the remains of
victims of the mutiny on the Batavia:
An AP story via Fox:
<url:>
Discovery.com's coverage:
<url:>
(if the above doesn't work, check the archives):
<url:>
The New York Times has a nice feature on how melting Canadian glaciers are
revealing much more than ice guys:
.
html
<url:
nada.html>
The Kennewick saga continues:
<url:>
The Telegraph has an interesting feature on how 'web museums' are
increasing attendance at the old fashioned kind:
999&pg=/et/99/10/7/ecfmus07.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/10/7/ecfmus07.html>
Also on the museum front, CNN has a piece on the "Egyptian Art in the Age
of the Pyramids" exhibition at the Met:
39553526298&page_exclude=1
<url:
uid=939553526298&page_exclude=1>
If we believe that coverage of a find in the newspapers is an indication of
its importance, then the ongoing dig to excavate the set of DeMille's 'Ten
Commandments' is surely the most important dig of the past while (he said,
with tongue planted firmly in cheek). The coverage that follows emanates
from the Times of London, the Washington Post,
<url:
999>
<url:>
The Times also reports on the discovery of a 19th century 'time capsule'
which, of course, included a copy of the Times from 1845:
<url:
999>
THE WORLD OF MUSIC
Big news for music fans this week included the first performance of a lost
piece by Beethoven; here's the coverage from the Telegraph and Times (watch
the wrap on the former).
hhe&pg=/et/99/10/8/nviol08.html
<url:
hhhhhhhe&pg=/et/99/10/8/nviol08.html>
<url:
999>
Also in the misplaced music montage comes a report from Discovery.com on
the discovery of a lost work by Puccini (pardon the repetition there ...):
<url:>
<url:>
ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
91. The Henrietta Marie
92. Boghazkoy/Hattusas
The home page of this feature is at:
<url:>
THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY
This Atrium Feature should resume this week (and the archive updated);
again, I'm still adjusting to the new work schedule:
<url:>
AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on "Who's Who in Greek
Legend"
kly/aa100599.htm
<url:
y/weekly/aa100599.htm>
Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has a feature on another aspect of politics
affecting the work of archaeologists:
aa100399.htm
<url:
ekly/aa100399.htm>
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
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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
charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links
eventually find a home at:
Commentarium (news articles)
The Rostra (audio files)
A media archive of links of files that have previously appeared in
Commentarium or at the Rostra is currently under construction.
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]|[ ]|[ EXPLORATOR
]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 65 -- October 3, 1999
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will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
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A nice, eclectic issue for your Sunday reading pleasure:
The Lebanon Daily Star reports on the discovery of a Bronze-Age site in
Wadi Khaled:
<url:>
The Alpha Galileo organization has a press release on the discovery of a
small Roman temporary camp north of the Antonine wall by the Roman Gask
Project:
<url:>
Here's one I misplaced: the Washington Post had a nice story last week on
Teotihuacan and its people:
<url:>
MSNBC has a nice feature on they mysterious disappearance of the Maya:
<url:>
The Canadian version of the Discovery Channel has an item which seems
unique in actually telling us what the Miami Circle probably was:
<url:
ience>
Xinhua reports on the discovery of a myriad of bamboo strips with plenty of
Chinese characters written on them, dating from ca. 2000 years b.p.:
38947448760&page_exclude=1
<url:
uid=938947448760&page_exclude=1>
The National Geographic has put online the full text (but not the pictures)
of its recent article on the Barhariya Oasis:
<url:>
The National Geographic also has a forum discussion on the topic "Tombs can
yield incredible information. But is it right to disturb them?" (the link
is at the bottom of this url)
Military History Quarterly has an interesting feature on the military
prowess of the Cahokian folk:
<url:>
Discovering Archaeology is reprising a nice article on the Scythians:
<url:>
FOLLOW UPS
Additional coverage of stories already seen in Explorator:
US News and World Report has another version of the 'Angel Scroll' story:
<url:>
As might be expected, the idea that Neanderthals might have chowed down on
their compadres has caused great delight amongst the science writers around
the world, so here's some more coverage from US News and World report ...
<url:>
The original press release via EurekAlert:
<url:>
MSNBC's coverage:
<url:>
ABCNews' coverage:
<url:>
Der Spiegel's coverage (in German, of course, but with some new photos and
an interesting accompanying article):
,1518,44740,00.html
<url:,1518,44740,00.html>
ERRATA
Last week I mentioned a review of a book called *Victorian Sappho*, which I
erroneously identified as having been written by Terry Castle. It is, in
fact, written by Yopie Prins and the review was by Terry Castle. Apologies
all around for being a purveyor of misinformation and thanks to the
numerous Exploratorists and Exploratoristas for the heads up!
ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
The countdown will resume this week:
The home page of this feature is at:
<url:>
THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY
This Atrium Feature should resume this week (and the archive updated);
again, I'm still adjusting to the new work schedule:
<url:>
AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on 'Heroic Behavior Then'
kly/aa092899a.htm
<url:
y/weekly/aa092899a.htm>
Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has a feature on the "Archaeology Education Online":
<url:>
REGULAR FEATURES
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<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
EXPLORATOR IS ARCHIVED AT:
<url:>
]|[============================================]|[
EXPLORATOR is an irregular newletter (posted every two-three days)
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
charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links
eventually find a home at:
Commentarium (news articles)
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]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 63 -- October 1, 1999
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will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
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]|[============================================]|[
A bit of a catch-up issue for Friday ... my ISP has been doing technical
stuff (or so it seems) at the time I usually put this together ... it's
also possible I have mixed up some of the urls below (sorry!):
Numerous folks alerted me to articles on the apparent/supposed discovery of
the so-called 'Angel Scroll', which might be a 'lost' Dead Sea Scroll,
although the jury's still out on this one. What follows is multiple
coverage (from various sources) the first in German (thanks to the numerous
folks who sent along urls):
<url:>
<url:>
<url:>
More big news concerns evidence that Neanderthals might have chowed down on
their own kind. Here's coverage from the Times and BBC:
<url:
177977>
<url:>
The Times also has a report on the Roman fort at Bremenium:
<url:
177977>
The International Herald Tribune has a feature on Dilmun:
<url:>
The Guardian has a brief item on the emergency excavation of an Iron Age
settlement at Gwent (thanks to Torven Zeffertt for the heads up ... I
believe this url will work):
,3604,86676,00.html?cantsetcoo
kie=0
<url:,3604,86676,00.html?cants
etcookie=0>
ABCNews has a nice feature on Anabel Ford's work in regards to
understanding the Maya:
<url:>
Today's Times of London suggests that numerous works in the 'Raphael Rooms'
of the Vatican might not be his handiwork:
<url:
177977>
In case you missed it, the Washington Post has a rather lengthy piece on
Ballard's discoveries in the Black Sea:
<url:>
Last, but not least, the results are in for the date of the Canadian Iceman
(are you listening Kennewick folk?), who is not as old as some folks hoped,
but still pre-Columbian; assorted coverage follows, from MSNBC, Discovering
Archaeology, and CBC Newsworld (thanks to David Abbott for the heads up):
<url:>
<url:>
an990928
<url:
/iceman990928>
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Atrium. Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured on a daily
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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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eventually find a home at:
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]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 62 -- September 27, 1999
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Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap which
will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active
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]|[============================================]|[
Usually I don't send out an issue with less than three items, but today
I'll make an exception since my internet connection went kablooey in the
midst of putting together this issue, and the two things I did find seem
important enough:
According to the Times of London, Robert Ballard has found some
confirmatory evidence of the Black Sea Flood that has been much in the news
(and will be on television next weekend) in the form of an ancient
shoreline, some 450 feet below the surface:
<url:>
The Times also has a brief item on the discovery of a camel cemetery in the
UAE as well as a number of other animal burials, dating apparently to the
"last few centuries b.c.":
<url:>
n.b. These urls don't look quite right to me ... if they do not work, both
items are in today's (i.e. Monday's Times ... the camel thing is on the
Court Page)
]|[============================================]|[
EXPLORATOR is an irregular newletter (posted every two-three days)
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
charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links
eventually find a home at:
Commentarium (news articles)
The Rostra (audio files)
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]|[ ]|[ EXPLORATOR
]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 61 -- September 26, 1999
]|[============================================]|[
Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap which
will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active
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]|[============================================]|[
Sunday surfing:
The big news of the past few days appears to be the discovery of the
world's oldest still-playable musical instrument (a 9000 year-old flute
from China). Here's the coverage from ABCNews and the BBC; the latter
included because it includes a realaudio link of the flute being played:
<url:>
<url:>
Hopefully we'll hear more on this one: Il Messaggero has a very brief piece
on genetic evidence that grain was cultivated for the first time near the
Zagros Mountains some 13,000 years ago:
<url:>
Il Messaggero also has a report on some new 'Herculean' discoveries at the
Theatre of Marcellus:
<url:>
Another tale of technology helping archaeologists is seen in the discovery
of a 12th century road on the island of Islay. Here are the reports from
the BBC and Discovering Archaeology magazine:
<url:>
<url:>
The Telegraph reports on plans for an expedition to locate the remains of
the lost city of Vineta (watch the wrap):
999&pg=/et/99/9/26/watlan26.html
<url:
99999999&pg=/et/99/9/26/watlan26.html>
The New York Times has a report on how clearer water in Lake Erie is
permitting the exploration/discovery of plenty o' shipwrecks:
<url:>
Biblical Archaeology Review has a new online issue up which includes a
feature on Jesus' Tomb and the second part of a feature on Temple Mount:
<url:>
Archaeology Odyssey has also been updated, with a nice feature on the
Uluburun shipwreck:
<url:>
On the review front, the London Review of books has a review of Terry
Castle's *Victorian Sappho*
<url:>
The Sunday Times has a review of John Julius Norwich's *Shakespeare's Kings*:
?2177977
<url:
.html?2177977>
ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
The countdown resumes:
93. The "Ice Princess"
94. Zagreb Mummy/Liber Linteus
The home page of this feature is at:
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THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY
This Atrium Feature should resume this week (and the archive updated); too
many 18 hour days in a row for the past week have prevented me from being
as timely with this one as I would have liked ... apologies!
<url:>
AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on Jason:
<url:
b=home>
Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has a feature on the "Best of the Net":
<url:>
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<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
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Today's trolling results:
The New York Times has a feature on 'Sungbo's Eredo', a massive wall and
moat structure which once defended (apparently) a kingdom of the Yoruba
(thanks to Francis Deblauwe for the heads up):
<url:>
The Aberdeen Press and Journal has the latest installment of 'Bulldozers
and archaeological sites don't mix' (alas):
<url:>
EurkeAlert leads us to an ASU press release on discoveries at Teotihuacan
of late:
<url:>
David Rohl is back in the news, this time claiming to have discovered the
location of the Garden of Eden, according to the Boston Globe (watch the
wrap ... this is apparently a BG exclusive):
t_is_found+.shtml
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A busy few days for archaeology and me!
The Times reports on what is the big news of the week: the discovery of
part of the Villa of Agrippina in Rome (this link worked this a.m., but I
suspect it might change; if it does not work, check through the index of
the September 18 edition of the Times):
<url:>
Over the course of the week (when I couldn't get through, of course) Il
Messaggero reported on a number of items of archaeological interest; the
first is the discovery of a bathing complex near Horace's Villa:
A.htm
<url:
/VILLA.htm>
There was also a report on finds in and around Gravisca:
<url:>
... and a report on efforts to 'replant' Pompeii:
<url:>
Nando Times had a brief report on the discovery of a Celtic burial during
construction at Charles de Gaulle airport:
,2107,500034188-500055065-50000271
3-0,00.html
<url:,2107,500034188-500055065-500
002713-0,00.html>
The Washington Post picks up an AP story on the discovery of human remains
inside one of the pyramids at Teotihuacan:
<url:
x.html>
Discovering Archaeology has yet another new online 'look' and the latest
news on the Canadian Iceman:
<url:>
Archaeology Magazine also has some good coverage of the same:
<url:>
Here's one that I missed: Archaeology Magazine reports on the discovery of
mummified remains in the Gabbari necropolis in Alexandria:
<url:>
CNN picks up a Xinhua report on the discovery of a Yuan Dynasty shipwreck ...
37740845471&page_exclude=1
<url:
uid=937740845471&page_exclude=1>
Inside China reports that China has also put on display the latest
discoveries from Qin's tomb:
<url:>
Salon Magazine has an interesting piece on 'acoustic archaeology':
<url:>
ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
The countdown will continue next week (time constraints this week ... sorry!)
The home page of this feature is at:
<url:>
AT THE MUSEUMS
Art and Archaeology Magazine's Calendar listings include openings (and
continuations) of a number of exhibits, including "The Golden Age of
Chinese Archaeology", "Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids" (at the
Met), "Treasures of the Medicis" (Florence), "Knights of the Holy Land: The
Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem" (Israel). Info at:
<url:>
THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Time constraints also messed up the publication schedule of this feature; I
should be back on track later today (Sunday) and the 'missed' days will be
available via the archives.
<url:>
AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill's feature was about Moses:
<url:
b=home>
Kris Hirst concluded her two-part feature Marshalltown Ball court:
<url:
ome>
ALSO WORTH A LOOK:
Look what some of our readers do:
Jonathan Chan is an artist who makes some rather interesting pieces based
on ancient petroglyphs; the site also has some general info on petroglyphs:
<url:>
Vangelis Tsakirakis is a Greek archaeologist whose site includes an
interesting page of computer applications he has developed for various
archaeological purposes; elsewhere on the site one can find links to VT's
work, papers, etc.:
<url:>
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
<url:>
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
<url:>
English translation (probably delayed):
<url:>
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Today's tidbits:
CNN has a report on this year's list of endangered archaeological sites
(thanks to Jean LaPlante for the heads up!):
<url:
x.html>
The Athenian News Agency reports on the recovery of artifacts stolen from
the museum at Corinth a decade ago (scroll down a bit -- thanks to Arnd Lis
for the heads up):
<url:>
ABCNews picks up a Reuters piece with the latest on the 'Canadian Iceman':
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On the web today:
The big news of the day appears to be the discovery of the remains of a
3,000-year-old oak precursor to London Bridge (this one will expire):
<url:>
Also big news is something that many of us feared: an AP report via MSNBC
that there was extensive damage to many artifacts in the Athenian National
Museum during the earthquake:
<url:>
The BBC reports on the discovery of Viking remains in Wales:
<url:>
Here's one I missed: on the weekend the Telegraph had a rather lengthy
obituary of Margherita Guarducci (thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads
up; watch the wrap):
999&pg=/et/99/9/11/ebguar11.html
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99999999&pg=/et/99/9/11/ebguar11.html>
ABCNews has a nice piece on assorted statisticians' work debunking the
notion that there is a hidden 'code' in the Bible:
<url:>
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Another quiet weekend, archaeologically-speaking:
While we await to hear news of the results of the search for King
Alfred's bones, Spain is apparently going gaga over the search for the
bones of artist Diego Velazquez de Silva, according to the Sydney Morning
Herald:
<<url:>
CNN tells us that Peru is the latest country to 'crack down' on looters
and smugglers of archaeological sites:
<<url:>
Another construction site in LA has turned up human remains, according to
the LA Times:
<<url:>
The London Review of Books has a review by Mary Beard of Paul Zanker's
<underline>Pompeii: Public and Private Life
</underline>
<<url:>
TV ALERT:
Tonight at 8.00 p.m. on CNBC, National Geographic Explorer will be
presenting coverage of the Bahariya Oasis discoveries (thanks to various
folks on various lists for the heads up!)
ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
The countdown continues:
95. Oxyrhynchus Papyri
96. Lascaux Cave
97. Teutoburger Forest
98. Magdalen Fragments of the New Testament
The home page of this feature is at:
<<url:>
THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Ludi Romani continue
There is an archive of this Atrium feature in case you
missed the events of the past week.
<<url:>
AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on Oedipus:
<<url:>
Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has the first part in a feature on the
Marshalltown Ball court:
<<url:>
Janet Burns (Latin) has a feature on the Roman Calendar:
<<url: >
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The 9/9/99 edition ... I hope this newsletter finds your computer in good
spirits:
The big news of the day is the discovery in Ireland of a major "prehistoric
landscape", which includes a megalithic tomb and assorted farm buildings,
walls etc.:
<url:>
Given the apparent media interest in the search for Alfred the Great, it's
somewhat surprising that the Express alone is reporting on the discovery of
a bone which might be the remains of the old king:
<url:>
Also on the Saxon front, the Independent reports on the impending sale of a
gold cross found some 30 years ago (this one will expire):
<url:>
While I'm still awaiting reports (from a news source) on whether there was
any archaeological damage in the Turkish quake, it is apparent the media is
concerned with the archaeological remains of Athens, as seen in this AP story:
,2107,90869-143837-1003605-1,00.html
<url:,2107,90869-143837-1003605-1,0
0.html>
Two new items in the Kennewick Man saga ... the US Newswire has a press
release that C14 tests are to be done on some bone fragments, while
according to Oregon live, a religious group has filed suit to get DNA
testing done as well:
<url:>
<url:>
The Washington Post has a report on a major Maya exhibition currently on in
Mexico City:
<url:>
An antiques column in the Miami Herald suggests that many museums are
selling off their ancient artifacts:
<url:>
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On the web today:
On the anthropology front, the big news appears to be the discovery -- from
a skull which was in a shop in New York -- that Homo Erectus had (or was
developing) the ability to speak. Here are two excellent reports, one by
Christine Soares at ABCNEws and the other by the NYTimes' John Noble Wilford:
<url:>
us.html
<url:
erectus.html>
JNW was obviously busy as he also penned a nice report on what quite a few
Neanderthal bone fragments have to tell us:
erthal.html
<url:
neanderthal.html>
Discovery.com's News Briefs section has a report on China's influence in
the New World ca. 3000 years BP (if this one changes, check the News
Archives at Discovery.com):
<url:>
The Nando Times picks up an AP story on Egypt's desire to have the Rosetta
Stone returned to her:
,2107,89930-142324-982494-1,00.html
<url:,2107,89930-142324-982494-1,00
.html>
There is also a sidebar thingie on the Rosetta Stone itself, including the
suggestion that it might have been originally painted:
,2107,89930-142324-982495-0,00.html
<url:,2107,89930-142324-982495-0,00
.html>
The Bergen Record has a touristy piece on excavations in the Athenian Agora:
<url:>
The Washington Post weighs in with another article on who came to the new
world when and how:
<url:
dx.html>
One I missed: The Irish Times has a report on the ongoing destruction of
archaeological sites in Ireland (thanks to Eoin Bairead for the heads up):
<url:>
There was also at least one thing in the Times of London today (about Roman
antiquities under threat; perhaps more), but their server went down just as
I arrived there and still isn't up as I type this. So here's the url for
their table of contents page:
<url:
177977>
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This was a strange issue to put together since there were no real
'discoveries' over the past few days but a number of archaeological-related
items did turn up (including that September 20 will see the debut of a
television series called Relic Hunter, with Tia Carrere playing an Indiana
Jones-like archaeology professor who hunts down stolen artifacts or
something like that); in any event, I really couldn't decide how best to
put the following in order:
Last week there was a report in the Rheinische Post on the discovery of a
bronze age village high in the Austrian Alps; unfortunately this AP story
(in German) does not seem to have been picked up by any English newspaper
(thanks to Hanna Witte Orr for the heads up):
<url:>
The Miami Herald has a report on one archaeologist's theory that the Miami
Circle was actually created by erosion from a septic tank:
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The Detroit News has a piece on the ongoing threat to Cambodian temples
from pillagers:
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The Telegraph has a piece on Spain's plans to lay claim to all Spanish
shipwrecks (and their contents) worldwide:
hhe&pg=/et/99/9/5/wbaot05.html
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Today's Ha'aretz has an op-ed piece on earthquakes in Israel's past and the
threat of them in the future:
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The Dallas Observer last week had a feature on the supposed Roman contact
with the new world (obvious fringe stuff ... thanks to LadyKuk for the
heads up):
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Discovering Archaeology has a number of new features up, including one on
the need for guns in archaeology's early days and the Scythians:
<url:>
Bible Review has also been updated, with a nice feature on 'errors in the
Bible' (i.e. text criticism)
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ARCHAEOLOGY'S TOP 100
Here it is ... the moment you've been waiting for! We've started the
countdown from your votes on the 100 most significant archaeological
discoveries. We begin with:
99. Pisa Ships
100. Lake Nemi Ships
The home page of this feature is at:
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THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Dedication of the Temple of Jupiter Stator
Ludi Romani begin
The archives of this Atrium feature have also been put up in case you
missed the events of the past week.
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AT ABOUT.COM THIS WEEK
N.S. Gill (Ancient/Classical History) has a feature on Norse mythology:
<url:>
Kris Hirst (Archaeology) has the third part of her series on getting into a
graduate program:
<url:>
REGULAR FEATURES
CTCWeb's Words of the Week
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Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
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English translation (probably delayed):
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