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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Brief item on some interesting finds at Saqqara (and they have
problems with Zahi's name):

http://tinyurl.com/7s6cr (IOL)

photo: http://it.news.yahoo.com/050430/2/37gm5.html

Archaeologists have found a pile of pharoanic (spelled it right
this week!) seals used by folks sent on 'desert missions':

http://tinyurl.com/dv5t2 (AFP via Yahoo)

Here's a new twist in the Aksum Obelisk saga ... a pile of
tombs have been found near the site where the obelisk is to be
re-erected:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4484813.stm
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=9269
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1354180.htm
http://tinyurl.com/cz3d2 (Art Daily)

... the obelisk did return, by the way:

http://tinyurl.com/coyud (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/cevxn (USA Today)

Some more details/an extended piece on the discovery of those
Egyptian sea-going vessels mentioned in the past couple of
weeks:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050423191506.htm
http://tinyurl.com/dgt4z (Daily Free Press)

Not sure if this is news or not ... it's about tombs found
in Dastova (Iran):

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/apr/1208.html

We'll hopefully get more details on this ... archaeologists have
unearthed 3 kg of gold at a site in southern Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/95sdp (Sunday Times)

A Parthian city has been found:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=176635

What might possibly be the Mycenean port of Athens was found
this week:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=55796

While archaeo-tourism is on the rise, ironically the site of
Apollonia is threatened by regular tourism:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1584021,00.html

A sort-of followup to the Oxyrhynchus papyri story:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=633861

Remains of a Roman bathhouse were found in Colchester:

http://tinyurl.com/9pud3 (EADT)

A British gardener dug up a major Bronze Age hoard of tools and
weapons this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4486077.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7641247/
http://tinyurl.com/7st4c (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/8meqa (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/dww3w (Reuters)

Remember that 'Roman industrial estate' found last year (under
a medieval 'track') ... they're going to be digging some more:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/4480801.stm

A pile of mummies from China:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1087421.cms
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/24/content_2870535.htm

Another tomb in China has revealed 6 000 b.p. human remains of
someone who was 180 cm tall (!):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/25/content_2874161.htm

15th century remains from Limerick:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=145883
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THE AMERICAS
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A Mayan 'salt factory' near Belize:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3149176

Checking out a site where some bones were found near Toledo:

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?s=3277278

Digging New York City:

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/45278.htm

Looks like schools are going to join Walmarts as places where
one can expect to find archaeological remains:

http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?s=3254073
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Did homo sapiens originate in China?:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/27/content_2884681.htm

... while "Austronesian-speaking" people originated in Taiwan:

http://tinyurl.com/9fx8g (Taiwan News)

Interesting demographic study of the Jews from Exodus to today:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=570281

Nice piece on the Madara horseman:

http://tinyurl.com/73gk2 (Echo)

A press release on a documentary about Tut's CT scan:

http://tinyurl.com/9xrue

The Kent's Cavern jawbone is older than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4482679.stm

All about Scotland's forgotten "Clearances":

http://www.sundayherald.com/49258

The Westminster Retable is going on display:

http://tinyurl.com/a4e9b (Telegraph)

Trinity Western University (in Canada!) is now home to one of
the largest collections of ancient Biblical texts:

http://www.twu.ca/news/view-specific.aspx?newsID=396

They might get sponsors to pay for Acropolis restoration:

http://tinyurl.com/dkmru (Kathimerini)

Progress on the new Pierpont Morgan Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/arts/design/26morg.html

Interesting article on the fate of some very old olive trees
in Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/72zj2 (Telegraph)

A touristy thing on Petra:

http://www.salisburypost.com/lifestyle/283142823644494.php

... and Malta:

http://www.vancourier.com/issues05/044105/travel.html

... and Turkey:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1591890,00.html

Plans to restore/recover the 'garden of Eden':

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3626
(Portuguese)

A general piece on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/dep8k (Eagle)

The Haida repatriation-of-objects effort is bearing fruit:

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/04/23/a1.haida.0423.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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British Archaeology (January/February 2005 ... full text):

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba80/feat3.shtml

Digital Medievalist:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Cheryl Gunselman, "A Buried Promise: The Palus Jefferson
Peace Medal":

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/temp/buriedpromise.htm

Numismatic books online:

http://www.inumis.com/books/index.html

Giambattista Nolli's map of Rome (interactive):

http://nolli.uoregon.edu/default.asp

Eternal Egypt:

http://www.eternalegypt.org/

The Antikythera Mechanism:

http://itotd.com/index.alt?ArticleID=533

Glyphdoctors:

http://www.glyphdoctors.com/
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The Viking Ship of Hedeby:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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The BBC has a look back at the looting of the Baghdad Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4461755.stm

cf:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/dbfiles/farchakh/farchmain.htm

... this is a good place to mention that Francis Deblauwe's
Iraq War and Archaeology site has moved to:

http://iwa.univie.ac.at/

Regular readers of Explorator will file this one under
'obvious':

http://tinyurl.com/atduu (ABC)

A thought piece on whether antiquities dealers preserved the
past or steal it:

http://www.reason.com/0504/fe.sv.ancient.shtml

... and one on antiquities being returned:

http://tinyurl.com/88qcq (Globe)

General aeticle on the scale of antiquities smuggling:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=633861

There are rumours that those stolen Munch masterpieces have
been destroyed:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1028548.ece

Spanish police arrested a pile of art traffickers this week:

http://tinyurl.com/c7kbu (Reuters)

The Brussels Museum is returning an Egyptian relief that was
stolen some 30 years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/e3kfs (Daily Star)

Germany still wants looted art returned from Russia:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1568912,00.html

Christie's withdrew one artifact from auction a week or so
ago to allow Iran time to support its claim to it:

http://tinyurl.com/d3r5w (MET)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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What Would Jesus Eat?:

http://tinyurl.com/ahwsp (NYT)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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King Lear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/national/29lear.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Surely a search for Atlantis isn't motivated by money?:

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/4/emw234432.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Another review of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum:

http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/53903.asp

Museum of Biblical Art:

http://www.artandantiques.net/A_A_Update.htm?CD=834&ID=1864

Coptic Museum:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/740/he1.htm

Fifty Years of Danish Archaeology in Bahrain:

http://tinyurl.com/dblpa (Gulf Daily News)

O homem e a pedra: a pré-história na Amazônia

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3629
(Portuguese)

Resonance from the Past (African art):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29cott.html

More on the New York Public Library's auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29voge.html

An auction of botanical prints:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29anti.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Latin is alive and well in Fairfax City:

http://tinyurl.com/96af8 (Washington Post)

... and they had a Latin Fest in Terre Haute:

http://tinyurl.com/carkb (Statesman)

... and it's good for the SAT:

http://press.arrivenet.com/ent/article.php/627217.html

Alan Cameron is being honoured:

http://tinyurl.com/7jf6y (Spectator)

Julius Tomins is at the center of a 'freedom of speech' type
dispute at Oxford (these are all different):

http://www.oxfordstudent.com/tt2005wk1/Editorial/speaking_out
http://tinyurl.com/dbzv7 (Oxford Student)
http://tinyurl.com/ctwgn (Index)
http://www.oxfordstudent.com/tt2005wk1/Comment/classical_criticism

This one keeps popping up and I'm not sure whether I've mentioned
it before .... it's a piece on the "murder" of Cleopatra (a
documentary subject):

http://tinyurl.com/dljut (Star)

What retired Classicists do:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/28/features/bookfri.php
http://tinyurl.com/7eemn

Nice little crib of Greek and Roman divinities:

http://tinyurl.com/exx2x (Redlands)

Another Pope and Latin piece:

http://tinyurl.com/7cnas (World Peace Herald)

Father Foster's role in all this papal Latin stuff:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/050424/137/2kxmi.html

Some NLE results:

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Apr/20050430News005.asp

Changes at Loyola's Rome Center:

http://tinyurl.com/b6euj (Phoenix)

U.S. as late-antiquity Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/8yplp (LA Times)

Politicians ancient and modern:

http://www.counterpunch.org/rae04262005.html

Please visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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REPEATS
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Dating Creswell Crags:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4476303.stm

Genographic Project:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3612
(Portuguese)

Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4467253.stm

Laocoon Fake:

http://tinyurl.com/adude (Guardian)

Oxyrhynchus Papyri:

http://www.nysun.com/article/12797
http://tinyurl.com/abwsv (NG)
http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2005/4/24/224546/127

Tut CT Scan:

http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2005/04/30/news/20tut.txt
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):
http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.com/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://iwa.univie.ac.at/

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:
http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Stone Pages Archaeo News:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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