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explorator 5.39 January 26, 2003
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, M.E. Wood, Maurice O'Sullivan,
John McMahon, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Elizabeth Griesman, Yonatan
Nadelman, Mark Elliott, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
... another slow week ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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What is claimed to be the oldest image of the constellation Orion
has been found:
A piece on the first complete skeleton of a Neanderthal:
A pit full of monuments to Nubian pharoahs has been found:
An 18th Dynasty tomb has been found in Sakkara:
Zahi Hawass has written something for Al-Ahram:
This should be a followup, but what the heck ... at least one
scholar has pronounced the Jehoash inscription a fake (see below
for reprises of previous articles on the inscription):
(Israel Insider)
How do you find Late Bronze Age tombs on Cyprus? Listen to local gossip
of course:
The Roman Fort at Hunerberg has been reconstructed (there's a
half hour radio program in .ram format here as well that I
couldn't get to connect; not sure if it's in English or not):
Some Pompeiian frescoes which were discovered a couple of years ago
during highway construction have gone on display:
,,1-3-546298,00.html
Recent Roman finds suggest Londinium's boundaries were larger than
is currently believed:
A Viking 'manor house' is being excavated west of Copenhagen:
What might be the most important find of 17th century artifacts
from Belfast has been found:
An Ashoka era Buddhist site has been found:
,000900010007.htm
Remains of a second century B.C. settlement have been found in
Calcutta:
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THE AMERICAS
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A 400-800 B.P. native burial has been found in Oklahoma:
Here's some updates on the Queen Anne's Revenge Project (these are
different):
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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An interesting science article which explains (albeit in passing)
why the 'little ice age' occured:
The latest on Michelangelo, apparently, is that he was cheap:
A nice piece on UCLA's Cultural VR Lab (with a stroll through ancient
Rome as the focus):
Folks might like ar article on the Benaki Museum's photograph
archive:
This turned up in today's scan for some reason ... it's an article
from the 1888 Atlantic Monthly entitled "The History of Children's
Books":
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ON THE WEB
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Norman K. Gottwald,"Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse":
An incipient website some might want to keep an eye on, specifically
those with an interest in ancient Lusitania who can read Portuguese,
is the Campo Arqueolgico de Tavira site, which currently has a
couple of large .pdf documents on the antiquity/ies of the region:
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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The Hymns of Orpheus (tr. Thomas Taylor):
A. Gilman, *The Story of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the End
of the Republic*:
Suetonius, * The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; To Which Are Added,
His Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets* (trans. A
Thomson and T. Forester):
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CRIME BEAT
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A number of Guatemalan artifacts are about to be returned:
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Bruce Heydt, "Bath's Sacred Spring":
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on what to do when
archaeology doesn't 'have it' for you any more:
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EXHIBITIONS
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Leonardo DaVinci: Master Draftsman (New York):
The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (Chicago):
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Folks might be interested in a review of a production of Julius
Caesar in light of recent 'America-as-Roman-Empire' claims:
A prehistoric elephant may have given rise to stories of the Cyclops:
ClassCon in a piece on Belioz:
,11710,881771,00.html
Josiah Ober is mentioned in this article on motivating knowledge
workers:
(Globe and Mail)
Steve Lowenstam has been pondering the place of heroes in
cultures:
Richard Stockton College is the latest to get a big bunch of cash
to establish a centre focussing on Hellenic studies:
... and a big bunch of cash is destined to study the transition from
Roman Empire to Medieval Europe:
Why printers should learn Latin:
Etymologies:
(ad valorem)
(ad signo)
(mensa)
(luxx ?)
(ubi est mea)
(gossypimoba)
(the 'f word')
(histo)
Perfess'r Harris:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrckblick - auf Latein
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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OBITUARIES
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The Braidwoods:
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FOLLOWUPS
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Black Sea Ship:
Jehoash Inscription:
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