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Thanks to this week's contributors:

Arthur Shippee, Alistair Carty, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Bill
Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Croman mac Nessa, Dave Sowdon, Donna
Hurst, Francis Deblauwe, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
Jim Davila, Joan Griffith, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young,
Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe,
Rick Riedlinger, Rochelle Altman, Sally Winchester, Tony Jackson,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Reconstructing the diet of early humans in Africa by looking
at their teeth:

http://tinyurl.com/8329c (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/awett (ABC)
http://www.physorg.com/news5620.html

Some prehistoric sites off the coast of the UK (this seems to
be an old article):

http://tinyurl.com/c2xdn (CNN/Netscape)

A very old skull from Russia (although the dating must be wrong):

http://en.rian.ru/world/20050805/41099565.html
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AFRICA
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Evidence of the domesticated cattle in South Africa 2000 years
ago:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050804075101.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of what has been identified as King David's
palace and the obvious controversy to follow:

http://tinyurl.com/aetaj (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/a5acd (IOL)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/04/news/david.php
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3297231
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050805-104707-3462r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/dznaz (Taipei Times)
http://tinyurl.com/cb4ad (AFP)

Some Urartian sites from Iran:

http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg119694.html

A pile of forts from various periods in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/cw3cn (Iran News)

David Stronach and the search for Hecatompylos:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=215016

Remains of an ancient Coptic church in Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/a653q (JPost)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050807/ap_on_sc/egypt_ancient_church
http://tinyurl.com/8brbp (ABC)

A short item on cylinder seals:

http://yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2005_05/lastlook.html

St. Andrews' Old Testament Pseudepigraphica Project:

http://tinyurl.com/ey6sy (Press Release)
http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1696092005
http://tinyurl.com/dhq7j (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1712547,00.html

A CT Scan/Facial reconstruction of a child mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/dbd85 (Press release)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050804/ap_on_sc/mummy_scan
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68416,00.html

Nice article on ancient prostitution:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050801/prostitution_02.html

I think we mentioned this last week ... engineers have recreated
the 'Lyre of Ur':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4732497.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050731231728.htm

A possible seven-year cycle influencing the Nile flood?:

http://www.geotimes.org/current/NN_Nilerecord.html

Touristy thing on Phoenician sites in Morocco (I know
Morocco's in Africa ...):

http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=49&id=8541

Ancient Egypt Magazine (5.6 TOC):

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue30.htm

Transoxiana 10 (Spanish):

http://www.transoxiana.org/

Remember that 'Persian Princess' mummy from a few years back
which turned out to be a hoax? It's going to be given a proper
burial:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4749861.stm

This might be 'don't eat that elmer' material, but an "author"
has compared bacteria to heiroglyphics and found a link:

http://www.record-eagle.com/2005/aug/06author.htm

UNESCO is going to protect Lebanon's Phoenician documents:

http://tinyurl.com/7cu6r (Daily Star)
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Hopefully we'll hear more about these finds from Parion/Parium:

http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=63399

They've identified the king buried in that most-recently-
excavated Thracian tomb:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=50821

... while astronomers are checking out the dig too:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=50949

Item on what is probably the last report of finds from
Pasydy Hill (Nicosia) prior to construction of new parliament
buildings:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

Remains of some fancy schmancy garum from Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/abxef (Yorkshire Post)

Malaria returns as the culprit in Alexander the Great's
death:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article304278.ece

I think we mentioned the dig along the via Egnatia last week:

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/World/GH01Wd07.html

The bomb disposal unit helped to get inside a Roman sarcophagus
from York:

http://tinyurl.com/ahd28 (Yorkshire Post)

Was a bathhouse found in Colchester part of a mansio?:

http://tinyurl.com/b2ksl (EADT)

Brading Roman Villa reopened to the public:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1716216,00.html

Nice article on ancient prostitution:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050801/prostitution_02.html

Using x-rays to read ancient inscriptions:

http://tinyurl.com/dsgeb (Cornell)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8800217/
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=103471
http://www.physorg.com/news5574.html
http://www.livescience.com/technology/050802_stone_xrays.html

They're going to have annual competitions at Olympia:

http://tinyurl.com/ack35 (Kathimerini)

News of the discovery of a new planet spawned a handful of
articles on what to name it:

http://tinyurl.com/abnx6 (Courant)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/farout/story/0,13028,1541623,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/9nyc5 (News24)

Nice coverage of the NJCL convention in Columbia:

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=15264
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12312455.htm
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/12312455.htm

Transcript of an interview about the Library of Alexandria:

http://tinyurl.com/9dxo4 (ABC)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Empire will be available on DVD:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3795

... while the hype is building for HBO's Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/7ry87 (Movie Network)

... and if you're shopping for the Alexander DVD, there are
two versions:

http://tinyurl.com/czsox

Plenty of ClassCon in a 'Just How Smart Are You' quiz:

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050803/1045234.asp
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Ireland's oldest fort may have been found in Derry:

http://tinyurl.com/b25r5 (Belfast Telegraph)
A 3d scan of the Callanish Stones was in the news:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/44048.html

Excavations at a monastery in Scotland are giving new
information about the medical knowledge of medieval monks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3745498.stm

A fair bit of coverage of tests which suggest a door in
Westminster Abbey is the oldest door in Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4743899.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1542913,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/cxk7b (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/8jzpc (This is London)
http://tinyurl.com/bz4d4 (IOL)

Mystery bones from a quarry in Gloucester:

http://tinyurl.com/dk23c (BBC)
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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They've given the Xiangtangshan Caves the virtual reality
reconstruction treatment:

http://tinyurl.com/9g7yh (Mercury)
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NORTH AMERICA
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Humans are again being blamed for killing off species shortly
after their (the humans') arrival in North America:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050803173345.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8826636/

A mystery ship off Key Largo:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8835571/

Digging the first trading post on the Columbia River:

http://tinyurl.com/duqxd (Echo)

An underground "cooler" from Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/cyptf (News Journal)

Interesting story about the opening of a pre-Civil War iron
coffin:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8829310/

What was theorized to be a fortress wall in New York, turns out
to belong to a brewery:

http://tinyurl.com/dafeu (NYT)

Memories of an earthquake and tsunami in Pacific Coast stories?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/02quak.html

Watching the 'lunar standstill', just like the Pueblans did:

http://www.denverpost.com/favicon.ico/ci_2909172

Looking for folks to work on the Chadbourne dig:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8787721/

Nathan Bedford Forrest always seems to be a source of
controversy in Memphis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/national/05memphis.html

Los Adaes:

http://www.crt.state.la.us/crt/ocd/arch/losadaes/index.html

Review of Johan Reinhard, *The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies,
Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes*:

http://tinyurl.com/cxl98 (WP)

A couple of books on emancipation and emancipators:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/books/review/07COVGOOD.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Another story on the Olmec 'mother culture' (or not):

http://www.news.wisc.edu/11377.html
http://tinyurl.com/ck7sf (SF Chronicle)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Of course, just when I think I have the categories set up
logically, we get a story about excitement over what is going
to be found as they did a new subway in Istanbul:

http://tinyurl.com/bjrqv (NYT)

The Codex Sinaiticus is going online (I think this is really
a repeat):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4739369.stm

An interview with Joan deJean, who has written a book suggesting
everything we think of as 'tasteful' and 'glamourous' can be
traced back to Louis XIV:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4784941

On the importance of liberal arts degrees:

http://yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/current/liberal_arts.html

Ichabod Academicus:

http://yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2005_01/old_yale.html

A daVinci Code movie update:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/movies/07waxm.html

Assorted art and book reviews from Yale Alumni Magazine:

http://yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2005_05/arts.html

Review of Nichola Fletcher, *Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A
Piquant History of Feasting*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/books/05book.html

The Cranky Professor hosted a blog carnival for Ancient/Medieval
history:

http://www.crankyprofessor.com/archives/000408.html


There's going to be another Shroud of Turin conference:

http://tinyurl.com/cvkwj (CE)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Apollo (TOC only):

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/index.php

Current Archaeology (complete first issue ... pdf):

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/index.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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Thieves stole some more (fake) Munches this week:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4784947

Some fallout from the Marion True case ... the Getty Trust's
finances are being investigated:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/arts/design/03gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/dkw6b (LA Times)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/03/features/getty.php

Vandals cut off the hand of Neptune in Florence:

http://tinyurl.com/79gxz (Reuters via Yahoo)

Presby Memorial Iris Gardens were vandalized this week (not
really ancient, although some varieties were ... sort of):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4787726

An original copy of the Bill of Rights which had been stolen
from North Carolina by a Union soldier was returned this week:

http://tinyurl.com/9uzk5 (NYT)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Female Buddhas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/arts/design/07lars.html

Winslow Homer at the National Gallery (Washington):

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/articles/050808craw_artworld

Memling at the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/arts/design/05voge.html

Tolerance & Identity: Jews in Early New York, 1654-1825

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/arts/design/03moms.html

Treasures of Ancient Egypt will be going to Grand Rapids:

http://tinyurl.com/dwrbv (mLive)

... while the Petra exhibit has come to an end:

http://tinyurl.com/bjghj (mLive)

... and Mummy will be going to Mobile:

http://tinyurl.com/a8o7y (Register)

Touristy thing on museums in Berlin:

http://tinyurl.com/dwcaf (Newsday)

Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/ckmtv

Achaemenid artifacts arrived safely in London:

http://heritage.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5403
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_8617.shtml

Nice op-ed piece on trying to find a balance between security
and access to exhibits in museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/opinion/02dolnick.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Tempest:

http://tinyurl.com/9ctkc (NYT)

Hamlet:

http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2005/07/23/life/life08.txt

Antigone (at Epidaurus):

http://tinyurl.com/9qmoy (Kathimerini)

Oedipus at Palm Springs:

http://tinyurl.com/7bp7w (NYT)

Hercules in High Suburbia:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94352.html
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ON THE WEB
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Friends of the Segovia Mint:

http://www.segoviamint.org/index_engl.html

David Rittenhouse:

http://tinyurl.com/bj9xb (UPenn)

Nolli Map (mentioned before?):

http://nolli.uoregon.edu/
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Robert Sarmast was much in the news this week, announcing a
new expedition to prove his theory about Atlantis and Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/9k2jx (Cyprus Weekly)
http://www.cna.org.cy/news_ie/newsdisp.asp?a=255671
http://tinyurl.com/cljwu (Reuters)
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=21210&cat_id=1
http://tinyurl.com/c7xzd (ANA)
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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REPEATS
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Head of Constantine:

http://tinyurl.com/8rat8

Jewish Catacombs in Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/9dxo4 (ABC)
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