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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Barbara Kraskian,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Christina Fry,
Hernan Astudillo, Ian Tompkins, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Bob Heuman, Towse Harrison,
Adrienne Mayor, Rochelle Altman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).


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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty o' coverage of the find of a 35000 b.p. ivory 'Venus
figurine' from Germany:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14venus.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090513/full/news.2009.473.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/8047319.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051301912.\
html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXbk_JfASsVGU1F48--LEj7X8n6wD9\
85GGD80

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hOlAcj9fi2spQqio20OKBKWh5vWQ

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-venus14-2009may14%2C0%2C18\
1830.story
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=57684&CultureCode=en
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4257481,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/after-35000-years-eroti\
c-art-for-cavemen-discovered-1684569.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084126.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE54D3QS20090514?feedType=RS\
S&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090513/lf_nm_life/us_art_prehistoric_3
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17121-ivory-venus-is-first-depiction-of-a-\
woman.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,624862,00.html

A common ancestor find?:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html

Neanderthals were sophisticated and fearless, as far as hunting
goes:

http://www.physorg.com/news161536699.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084115.htm

... and possibly tasty main courses themselves, as far as modern humans go:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropol\
ogical-sciences-journal

Not sure if we've mentioned this 'stone age superglue' story before:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090511-stone-age-glue.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/stoneageglue/

More coverage of very old human hairs being found in very old
hyena dung:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090511/sc_livescience/oldesthumanhairsfoun\
dinhyenadung
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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132 sites in Egypt which haven't been excavated yet have been
identified:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001147.htm

Some prehistoric fishing tackle (and other items) from Egypt:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzq0GTq7lbMyj69VDimSi9ZR-l2Q
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/M\
ay/international_May855.xml&section=international

Latest from Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/947/heritage.htm

Nice blogpost on Hateshepsut's unfinished obelisk:

http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2009/05/hatshepsuts-unfinished-obelisk.html

Latest claims of having found the site of Sodom:

http://www.koat.com/news/19433106/detail.html

Iran's latest attempts to preserve some of its 'salt mummies':

http://www.payvand.com/news/09/may/1123.html

Evidence of an interesting burial ritual at Sialk Mound:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94340&sectionid=351020105

Some of Jerusalem's ancient walls have been (re)discovered:

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/09/03/topnews/jerus\
alem-dig-uncovers-ancient-city-walls.html&template=/news/feeds/story-template-re\
uters.html

Somewhat vague item on the find of a "king's grave" in Izmir:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11628133.asp?scr=1

Hype for an upcoming dig at Ed-Dur:

http://www.wam.org.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1241072597989&p=113509\
9400124&pagename=WAM%2FWamLocEnews%2FW-T-LEN-FullNews

Interview with some representatives of ARCE from Orange County:

http://ocartsandculture.com/2009/05/oc%E2%80%99s-ancient-egyptian-culture/

Nice feature on Bedrich Hrozny:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/116219

... and Bart Ehrman:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/15/bible.critic/index.html

Latest salvo in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97958

More coverage of the 'fake' Nefertiti bust claims:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=awM8r8vu_fS8&refer=home
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/272498

More coverage of that interestingly-dated papyrus document rescued
from thieves last week:

http://www.hamodia.com/inthepaper.cfm?ArticleID=226

More on Shimon Gibson's theories about the location of various events
in Jesus' last days:

http://wcbstv.com/national/jerusalem.old.city.2.1010228.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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Possible Trajanic "palace" find in Romania:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6658347.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/15/content_11376185.htm

Plans to 'dig' the submerged site of Pavlopetri:

http://www.physorg.com/news161274284.html
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090513_pavlopetri.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093635.htm

... and to reveal (much) more of Viroconium:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/03/11/countys-roman-city-due-to-be-expanded/

Whither the Muses?:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124242927020125473.html

Feature on the 'consul's house' at Ephesus:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=175015&bolum=100
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-37554.html

Claims of evidence of Roman mass production:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/268987,german-scientists-find-clues-to-r\
oman-mass-production.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94968&sectionid=3510212

Another Thracian tomb from Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n179374

This is different ... premilinary digs prior to bus stop construction
found no Roman remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/8051902.stm

How Trajan's Market has survived so many earthquakes etc.:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/13/roman-ruins-ash.html>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30731967/

Digging a Roman bath site in a Northamptonshire village:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Archaeologists-launch-new-dig-on.5260335.\
jp

A Hellenistic statue find from Alexandria (I suspect we'll hear
more about this one ... eventually):

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7597593&service=142
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001144.htm
(small photo)

A trio of Latin 'controversies' this week ... first, on Grace at
Cambridge:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6289267.ece

... and on use of Latin in diplomas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/opinion/15Francese.html

Feature on John Hale:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090517/FEATURES/905170301/Lover+of+the+\
living+past

Review of *Jesuit Education and the Classics*:

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Jesuit-Education-and-The-Classics1-4438-0548-3.htm
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0548-3-sample.pdf

Review of Ronald Hutton, *Blood and Mistletoe*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5323383/Blood-and-Mistletoe\
-The-History-of-the-Druids-in-Britain-By-Ronald-Hutton-review.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/blood-and-mistleto\
e-a-history-of-the-druids-in-britain-by-ronald-hutton-1684903.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2009.htm

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A neolithic burial from FYROM/Macedonia:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=358101

Nice feature on a pile of Bronze Age finds from north of Amsterdam:

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/090513-Enkhuize\
n

Paintings depicting the demise of Thoms Beckett have been revealed
in Spain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8029320.stm

They've finally given the go-ahead to the Stonehenge visitors'
centre:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8047968.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/may/13/stonehenge-visitors-new-centre

... which seems to have occasioned another 'king of Stonehenge' feature:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180243/The-king-Stonehenge-Were-artefac\
ts-ancient-chiefs-burial-site-Britains-Crown-Jewels.html

Civil War silver from a Somerset Garden:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8052505.stm

Remembering the Swiss Guard's bravery in 1527:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,623474,00.html

Recreational types are destroying a Roman road:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=415581

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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Remembering the 1789 smallpox outbreak in Sydney:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2009/2557307.htm

Did China's first emperor ban Buddhism?:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/11/content_11354232.htm

Evidence of an ancient empire in Jharkand:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/312174.php

An ancient earring from Viet Nam's Ha Tinh province:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2009/05/847053/

Some 2000 b.p. Buddhist caves from Raigad:

http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/05/14131311/2000YEAROLD-CAVES-FOUND-IN.html

Huge swords from Mayong may be evidence of human sacrifice:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090514/jsp/northeast/story_10958581.jsp

That Indus script story is still making the rounds:

http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/scientists_claim_to_have_\
found_language_of_ancient_indus_civilisation/?source=rss

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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Studying Navajo smoke signals:

http://www.physorg.com/news161676295.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090516/ap_on_sc/us_smoke_signals_3

Native bones from Indiana:

http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/44776422.html

A pre-Hohokam site at Las Capas (Arizona):

http://www.explorernews.com/articles/2009/05/13/news/doc4a09f6bd89333196876955.t\
xt

Dam construction preliminaries have revealed some 1000 b.p. artifacts
in Kansas:

http://www.kctv5.com/news/19447387/detail.html
http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1194059.html

Civil War relics from Franklin:

http://www.wztv.com/newsroom/top_stories/wztv_vid_5747.shtml

Preserving landmarks in NYC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/arts/design/12vill.html

Monitoring the condition of the Hamilton and the Scourge:

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1563946

More coverage of finds from Macon County Airport:

http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/05/11/news/02news.txt
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Possible find of remains of one of the early kings of Copan:

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_\
375009.html
http://english.cctv.com/20090514/103082.shtml

cf:

http://mayanewsupdates.blogspot.com/

A funerary bundle from Machu Picchu:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=O6ffYqUgltI=

cf:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=6m5TSrqy97g=

... and an Inca stone with 41 angles (?) was found in the area as
well:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news-9075-artculturehistory-inca-stone-with-41-angle\
s-discovered-peru>

Possible evidence of another shaft grave from Jalisco:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150


Nice feature on the Mayan creation myth:

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jun/05-unearthing-the-mayan-creation-myth

This month's 'ancient boat' recreation is a pre-Columbian raft:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513183516.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news161446493.html

The site of Tancama will be opened to the public:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

More coverage of that Tarascan 'ritual complex':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090513-mexico-ritual-island.html
http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=59658\
2858
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-38096.html
http://media-newswire.com/release_1091212.html

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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Interesting suggestion that Blackbeard and crew weren't English:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.blackbeard17may17,0,2327308.story

... and an interesting story behind a first edition copy of
*Origin of the Species*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html

Chinese millet made its way to Europe some 7000 years b.p.:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6657780.html

UK metal detectorists are getting some respect:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30679342/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051002212.\
html?hpid=topnews

An early forensic toxicology case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12file-arsenic.html

The Vatican is featuring the letter of Henry VIII requesting the
annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/vatican-reveals-letter-that-split-e\
ngland-from-roman-church/?hp

Audio/podcasts of the Duke Archaeology Conference:

http://asorblog.org/?p=252

Possible origin of the 'sardonic grin':

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-15_115343756.html

Terry Gilliam is going to take on Don Quixote:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/terry-gilliam-to-take-another-tilt-\
at-don-quixote/

Erotica through the ages:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/may/14/erotic-art-archaeolog\
y

Feature on torture in the ancient world (which is really more about
execution):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,625172,00.html

The history of the corset (with a medical spin):

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/moments-in\
-medicine-podcast--clothing-as-medicine-1685514.html

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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TOURISTY THINGS
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Patmos (etc.):

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/05/17/style/t/index.html

Athens:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/05/11/athens.greece.travel/index.html

Sicily:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/5319068/Sicily-life-\
after-death-on-Italys-ragged-edge.html

Roman France:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romfrance.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romweb.html

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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Grand Pre, Nova Scotia (Acadian):

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

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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Rosetta 5 (Spring, 2009):

http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/issue6/

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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A metal detectorist was nabbed for selling fake coins:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6261804.ece

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Silver coins from a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/19394/20090512/

Latest salvo from the ACCG in regards to importation of coins from
Cyprus:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-13-200\
9/0005025284&EDATE=

Coverage of the Chicago International Coin Fair auction:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6685

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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What Do Archaeologists Do:

http://www.somdnews.com/stories/05152009/reccov152737_32178.shtml

Pompeii and the Roman Villa:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-pompeiicrowds13-2009may13,0\
,4947622.story

Mary Rose Hidden Treasures:

http://www.maryrosehiddentreasures.org/

The Della Robbia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/arts/16iht-robbia.html

Imperium Conflict Myth:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4254590,00.html

The Euphronios Krater is on display in its own glass case:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-13_113375131.html
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-15-200\
9/0005027160&EDATE=

The new Egyptian gallery at the BM:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle5503003.ece

Plans for Lindow Man:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8045257.stm
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/environment-news/2009/05/15/lindow-\
man-to-be-star-attraction-at-great-north-museum-61634-23628635/

Liverpool's World Museum returned some Aboriginal remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8047223.stm

Some fake colonial furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15anti.html

The Kimbell has acquired what might be Michelangelo's first
painting:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/13/art-michelangelo-torment-sain\
t-anthony

Sotheby's plans to merge some of its departments:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15voge.html

Interesting feature on the (tactile) Museo Omero:

<http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-15_115343387.html>

A couple of Manets are back together at the NGA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15voge.html

More hype for the impending opening of the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7607316&maindocimg=7607340&s\
ervice=6
http://www.live-pr.com/en/the-new-akropolis-museum-set-to-open-r1048277551.htm

... and some comments on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://www.theage.com.au/world/british-a-step-closer-to-losing-marbles-20090511-\
b0kc.html>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/5304133/Greek-government\
-unveils-new-home-for-Elgin-Marbles.html

Hype for the sequel to 'Night at the Museum':

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/14/arts/AP-US-Night-at-the-Smithsonian.h\
tml
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Douglas Little:

http://www.odt.co.nz/on-campus/university-otago/55983/classics-professor-dies

Linda Gaskin:

http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-05-17/story/linda_gaskin_1945-2009_0
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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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