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]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
]|[ ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 39 -- August 8, 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
for at least eight hours from the time of 'publicatio' .

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Assorted tidbits:

The Belgian Daily der Standaard has a piece on the discovery of a Mithraeum
at Tienen (thanks to Francis Deblauwe for the heads up)(watch the wrap):

http://www.standaard.be/asp/public/nieuwsberichten/pub_DetailBericht.asp?txt
Bericht_id=dst9908050033&txtStandBy=1
<url:http://www.standaard.be/asp/public/nieuwsberichten/pub_DetailBericht.as
p?txtBericht_id=dst9908050033&txtStandBy=1>


This month's issue of Smithsonian Magazine has a feature on Mount Athos
(the links to external sites are also worth wandering into):

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/aug99/athos.html
<url:http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/aug99/athos.html>


The Echo tells of plans for a dig to find out why so many skeletons from
various periods keep turning up at Seaham Hall:

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/ne/echo/A2vqbi.htm
<url:http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/ne/echo/A2vqbi.htm>


ABCNews picks up a Scripps Howard piece on the discovery of a painted bison
skull:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/bisonskull990806.html
<url:http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/bisonskull990806.html>


The Kansas City Star last week had a report on the discovery of the remains
of a village near Wainwright, Missouri (thanks to Michael Ruggieri for the
heads up and for tracking it down subsequently):

http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/home.pat,local/3773bd21.803,.html
<url:http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/home.pat,local/3773bd21.803,.html>


The Sacramento Bee picks up an AP story on Rock Art in the northwest U.S.:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?N8.HTML
<url:http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?N8.HTML>


Discovering Archaeology has updated its weekly features to include a number
of pieces on Egypt:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/
<url:http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/>


The National Geographic has an interesting feature called 'Three Cities',
which is a basic 'plus ca change, c'est la meme chose' look at life in
Alexandria in 1 A.D., Cordoba in 1000, and New York in 2000:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/3cities/
<url:http://www.nationalgeographic.com/3cities/>


The German weekly Der Spiegel has a piece on the nasty microbes which can
be found in Egyptians tombs:

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/nf/0,1518,34015,00.html
<url:http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/nf/0,1518,34015,00.html>


Last, and certainly least, the satirical rag *The Onion* has a piece on
'Fundamentalist Aesopians' which some readers might like (or not!)(thanks
to Charles Jones for the heads up):

http://www.theonion.com/onion3525/fundamentalist_aesopians.html
<url:http://www.theonion.com/onion3525/fundamentalist_aesopians.html>


REGULAR FEATURES

CTCWeb's Words of the Week

http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html
<url:http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html>

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini

http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html
<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

English translation (probably delayed):

http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
<url:http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html>

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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
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