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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
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Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W. Sargent, Rick Pettigrew, Sally Winchester,
and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Arguing over plans to excavate the Laetoli footprints:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200807220050.html
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AFRICA
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Interesting update on the Axum obelisk (and others):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7505957.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Oldest evidence of human presence in the Nile Delta:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080723101956.htm

If you're looking for the text of 'Gabriel's Revelation':

http://www.hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=162

Feature on recent ideas about Qumran:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331033237&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

... and one one the excavations at Tel Beit Shemesh:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1005648

The Codex Sinaiticus is online (although it doesn't seem to be
able to handle all the attention it's getting!);

http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10522897
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/religion/story/E2360C9A48118D3\
F8625748F000917A7?OpenDocument
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/21/online.bible.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,388182,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_re/britain_ancient_bible_1
http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/663619
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hR5sZZw9OszP2oQshi868c2QXVyQ
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3498858,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/5kueqb (Telegraph)
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/24/online-codex-sinaiticus.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25785089/

More coverage of Egyptian boat reconstruction matters:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080721-boat-video-ap.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,388381,00.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080722/egypt_boat_080722/2\
0080722
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10074831.shtml
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/612788.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-07/21/content_6864195.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10522550
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/22/content_8745366.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/25/egyptian-boat.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/video/0,47-0@2-3244,54-1075735@51-1075740,0.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Interesting 2600 b.p. burial from Italy's Adriatic coast:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-1039.html

2000 b.p. burial from West Sussex:

http://www.littlehamptongazette.co.uk/6427/VIDEO--2000yearold-Roman-body.4298651\
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Remains of a Roman road in Herefordshire:

http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/3546708.Remants_of_roman_road_found/

A Roman spa from Serbia:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=89360
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=64481&sectionid=3510212

Lullingstone Roman Villa has been refurbished:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4386888.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/24/heritage.museums

Some Roman dog skeletons:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/7521517.stm

The Telegraph has a nice feature on weblinks for Roman Britain:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/07/26/dlweb1\
26.xml

Water will be running through the Antonine Nymphaeum at Sagalassos
again:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-1500.html

More restoration work for the Parthenon:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jaa1be_yJBiOG96AxTpnbieQ4cpg

Homer's presence in Australian literature:

http://www.thecud.com.au/html/story_kanarakis_22072008.htm

Preserving Stanford's Ptolemaic papyri:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july23/papyri-072308.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-679.html
http://www.physorg.com/news136045798.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6289110

Semi-touristy thing on the dig at Troy:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=243334

Similiter on Sardis:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=147956&bolum=100

Nice Roman tombstone from Lancashire is going on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7521120.stm

Ancient wine 'industry' in Malta:

http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=53046&newscategory=36

Boris Johnson was orating in Latin:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1g1kY8pP0RU&refer=muse

Plans are afoot for that recently-discovered Temple of Cybele in
Bulgaria:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/balchik/news/20080722/cybele_temple.html

Brief item on a Roman bath find in Spain:

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/15253/roman-bath-discovered-at-villena-dig

More on Caesar's landing date in Britain:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92965327

More on the hippodrome at Olympia:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080724-olympics-hippodrome.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25831320/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10523200
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232008/news/worldnews/ancient_discovery_121123.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/world/europe/23briefs-SHADESOFNERO_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080722/sc_nm/greece_olympia_dc_1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7669965

More on the Pompeii state of emergency:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/arts/design/26ruin.html
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/07/pompeii_dying_u.shtml

More on that 'discus':

http://www.cdnn.info/news/science/sc080721.html
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=7ad7c6b2-18b5-4774-ac6c-9a\
f5f9dfcd80&k=37745
http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2008/07/17/news/news12.txt

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting first millennium A.D. Finnish burial:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/6766/

A lost abbey was found at Scone Palace:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7517392.stm

A medieval still from Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n147006

Finds from various periods at a Norfolk dig:

http://tinyurl.com/6khu3u

Medieval gold ring from Iceland:

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=40764&ew_0_a_id=30\
9398

Review of Hugh Trevor-Roper, *The Invention of Scotland*:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/hugh-trevor-ropers-the-invention-of-scotland/82417/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Neolithic site from China's Yunnan province:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Chinese-unearth--Neolithic-site.4313878.jp
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25802081/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080722/sc_nm/china_excavation_dc_2
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/pek199681-china-excavation/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/22/content_8743141.htm

Nice feature on the Indus civilization:

http://pakistaniat.com/2008/07/20/science-indus-harappa/

Some more Australian petroglyphs are threatened:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/25/rock-art-australia.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080725/sc_afp/australiaartnativeresources_08072503\
3924
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZHDotkgDyPfNT61P9Prkk7iXFig

Finding sites in Afghanistan with Google Earth:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/21/archaeology-google.html

More coverage of those aboriginal petroglyphs at Sydney Harbour:

http://canowindra.yourguide.com.au/news/national/national/general/ancient-spirit\
s-lifted/809923.aspx

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A construction crew has found some pre-Columbian bones in
St. Augustine:

http://www.news4jax.com/news/16959611/detail.html

French pottery near St. Louis:

http://stcharlesjournal.stltoday.com/articles/2008/07/26/news/sj2tn20080726-0727\
stc-dig0.ii1.txt

A slave burial ground beneath a VCU parking lot:

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--slavecemetery0725jul25,0,57\
83556.story
http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=8736579
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-07-25-0308.htm\
l

Latest movie on the Archaeology Channel is about the CSS Water Witch:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Nice feature on DNA and the peopling of the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/5a366c (US News)

Short item on digging at the "Forks" (Winnipeg, Man.):

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080720/wpg_dig_080720/20080720\
?hub=WinnipegHome

An 800 b.p. footprint from Manitoba:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/23/content_8750888.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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July 24 was the anniversary of the discovery (maybe) of Machu
Picchu:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/07/dayintech_0724

Mystery mummy from Peru:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080721/sc_livescience/scientistsunravelmum\
mymystery

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An old one which has resurfaced ... that 'salad dressing
shipwreck and the role of dna in figuring out what was in the
amphorae:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4368695.\
ece
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=88702

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Italy returned some antiquities to Iraq:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4630840a12.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL423608720080724

Another foiled smuggling attempt at the Yemen airport:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news159839.htm

Some purloined idols from Uttar Pradesh were recovered:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=88780

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Queens of Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/906/heritage.htm

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24024006-16947,00.html

Assorted Hadrianomania stuff (this is all quite varied):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7516157.stm
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110317
http://tinyurl.com/6n8l4c (Telegraph)
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9y2sKPNX7ozqJGbO0oygX6QDi6A
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aV1o8UzFYU7I&refer=muse
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1037131/Emperor-holocaust-How-death-male\
-lover-left-Hadrian-tyrant.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/22/bahadrian122.xml
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/An-emperor-for-our-times.4306643.jp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/21/do2103.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4359430.ece
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/07/22/hadrian.museum/
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i7glfGlNJx0ScWtVpc6ib0Xwg6lQ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121691956508781599.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-25_125215569.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/27/boopp127.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/23/art

Interview with the head of the new Acropolis museum:

http://stories.globalatlanta.com/2008stories/016231.html

Italy is helping to restore some Yemeni antiquities:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1175&p=local&a=4

A Gaza museum is opening:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/24/africa/gaza.php

Plenty of attention for an upcoming 'ancient Elvis' auction:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25274
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07252008/news/worldnews/hunka_stone_121432.htm
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=457443&sid=LIF&ssid=68
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=499889
http://www.theage.com.au/national/slick-and-the-dead-the-king-is-ancient-history\
-20080723-3jyv.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1037205/Are-Roman-tonight-Statue-Elvis-c\
hiselled-1800-years-birth-goes-hammer.html
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OBITUARIES
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Richard Wade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/nyregion/25wade.html

Eugene Foster:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/us/25foster.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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