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Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 6 -- June 11, 2000
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Another busy week (n.b. my mail program had the never-popular "unhandled exception" just as I finished and I might have messed up some urls in the meantime ... still, they should all point to something archaeological):
The big news appears to be a 'rediscovery' ... specifically, the rediscovery of a skeleton found at Stonehenge which was thought lost during the Blitz. It was found and, although not dated yet, has turned out to be the skeleton of someone who met a violent end by decapitation (and you can imagine the spins being put on this, to say nothing of horrible puns in headlines). Lots of coverage (watch the wrap on the Telegraph piece):
OLD WORLD NEWS
Coming in a close second as major news would be the discovery of a number of "cave paintings" in the desert south of Cairo which reflect three different periods (apparently) of Egyptian history:
The Independent reports on some metal detector types' discovery of a rather major Roman coin hoard:
The Age has a report on the discovery of a Roman era vessel decorated with tons of gladiator scenes (thanks to Martin Wallace for the heads up):
Frankfurther Allgemeine has an article by Paul Zanker on the Imperial fora (this one's in English, but has a scary wrap)(thanks to Birgitta Hoffmann for the heads up):
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L'Hebdo (a Swiss newspaper) has an article (in French) on the suggestion that a bust of Marcus Aurelius might be Julian (thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads up):
(the article doesn't include a photo of the bust, but there's one at
Ananova (formerly the Press Association) tells of a project to restore Atilla the Hun's palace:
Eurekalert points us to a project which is making a number of Islamic medieval medical manuscripts available on the web:
The Irish Times has an interesting feature on the Crusades:
The Telegraph has an interesting feature in its Connected section: a timeline of inventions (watch the wrap):
NEW WORLD NEWS
The Independent reports on a scholar's suggestion that he knows where the Vikings' Vinland was:
MSNBC has a report on excavations to reveal what happened during the 'lean times' at Jamestown:
Fox has a report on excavations to look into Indianapolis' Black history:
CLASSICISTS' CORNER
An interesting article on what Virgil might inspire someone to do:
A piece in the Dallas Morning News has an interesting comment on Latin:
The Montreal Gazette has a piece on why Latin used to be useful (which is not the conventional view) and what has replaced it:
FOLLOWUPS
More on the discoveries in Abukir Bay:
As for Zeugma, there are a couple of good things to say ... there has been a reprieve of ten days or so given to the inundation of the lower city; in addition, there is going to be a massive excavation effort in the upper city, which won't be under water until October or thereabouts:
More on the discovery of a lost city in Peru:
SAGAS
More Elgin Marbles stuff (some editorial -- watch the wrap on the Telegraph pieces):
BOOK REVIEWS
Also in Frankfurter Allgemeine (and in English) is a review of Accardo et al *Marc Aurel. Der Reiter auf dem Kapitol* (again, watch the wrap) (again, thanks to Birgitta Hoffmann for the heads up):
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The LATimes has a review of Steven McKenzie's *King David: A Biography*
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