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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein,
Dan Diffendale, Scott Peterson, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Andrew Millard,
Terrence Lockyer, 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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Pondering whether the bow and arrow predates modern humans:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227134.800-do-bow-and-arrow-predate-mode\
rn-humans.html

A fragment of a Neanderthal skull from the North Sea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8099377.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6505519.ece
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526726,00.html

The Longgupo jaw belonged to an ape, not an early human (for now):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090617-early-human-ape-mystery.h\
tml
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AFRICA
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They've identified one of the bodies in a mass grave from the battle
of Isandlwanda:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1193666/Remains-British-soldie\
r-died-battle-Zulu-war-identified-130-years--tunic-button.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/55612\
84/Body-of-British-soldier-in-Zulu-war-identified-by-a-button.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some recent finds from Luxor:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601120&sid=aL4sGI2H9xPM
http://www.eturbonews.com/9891/necropolis-luxor-yields-18th-dynasty-tomb-mummies\
-and-figurines
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aL4sGI2H9xPM>

... and a feature on Zahi Hawass:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=resources/programming&id=6872270&rss=rs\
s-kgo-article-6872270

Israel National Radio had a two-part interview with James Tabor
on various things:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/938
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/956

This week's facial reconstruction is of Meresamun:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/meresamun/reconstruction.html

... while this week's CT scan has helped determine the gender of
a mummy:

http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=3530
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/5659114/sydney-scan-solves-mummys-sex\
-riddle/

Bob Brier returns to the Great Pyramid:

http://www.archaeology.org/0907/etc/khufu_pyramid.html

Burnt City women outlived their menfolk:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/98612.htm?sectionid=351020105

Donald Parry is going to edit the "Hebrew Old Testament":

http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/73108
http://mormontimes.com/studies_doctrine/research_discoveries/?id=9274

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371107328&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

More on Egypt's plans to prove the Nefertiti bust was stolen:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hdhUI4kP9k3k4OlCPPxsxKIKID_Q

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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Feature on some famous non-professional-classicists with Classics
degrees:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/power-ambition-glory-leadership-steve-forbes_la\
nd.html

... and Time O'Reilly talks about his Classics roots:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/benefits-classical-education.html

Archaeologists have found an aqueduct in Jerusalem which supplied
the 'Sultan's Pool' (this one crosses several periods):

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371116219&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131901
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Excavation+reveals+ancient+aque\
duct+in+Jerusalem16-Jun-2009.htm

A very impressive mosaic found near Lod in 1996 is to be 'reexposed':

http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31498&b=mosaic
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1574\
&module_id=#as

A possible Roman shipwreck find near Montenegro:

http://technology.iafrica.com/news/science/1738420.htm

A hitherto unknown (?) Roman site on the Black Sea:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1271

Another piece on the Parthenon being painted once upon a time:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/5560715/Parthenon-was-co\
vered-in-colourful-paint.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/16/new-imaging-technique-shows\
-parthenon-was-once-brightly-painted/

A pile of Roman finds from outside Naples:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3433235595
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-06-16_116392075.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-57562.html

Digging a Roman site in Lincolnshire:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Volunteers-digging-feast-Roman-history/\
article-1079634-detail/article.html

What Stephen Dyson is up to:

http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2009_06_17/dyson_antiquities_society

Is it all Greek to you?:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Is-the-ancient-world-all.5382051.jp

More coverage of that mass grave of decapitated bodies at Ridgeway
Hill:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090612/od_nm/us_skeletons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/11/skulls-dorset-road-burial-pit

Review of James Davidson, *The Greeks and Greek Love*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703407.\
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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Mammoths in Britain until 14 000 years b.p.?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/w-nds061509.php>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8106090.stm

A 6000 years b.p. ceremonial site down the road from Stonehenge:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-56648.html

The likely source for Ireland's prehistoric gold:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0617/1224248982068.html

A Neolithic chamber tomb (maybe) from Kirkwall:

http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/heathfield2009.htm

Evidence of humans in the Welsh hills some 10 000 years b.p.:

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=16956
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/8102450.stm

Iron Age artificats from a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8108634.stm

Bulgarian archaeologists have found the remains of a medieval
book in a church yard:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=104810

They're still finding stuff from the Cologne City Archives collapse:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/273570,ancient-animal-textbook-rediscove\
red-in-cologne-ruins.html

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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A Buwaneka Bahu era stone tablet from Sri Lanka:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/06/18/news28.asp

Looking for Tsarist gold in Lake Baikal:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6539166.ece

A nice APOD of the Dunhuang Star Atlas:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090619.html

Trying to save a wall being destroyed by mites (!) in Shaanxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/15/content_11544682.htm

The last days of Kashgar:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6525325.ece

The Epigraphical Society of India wants to digitize a pile of ancient
documents:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Ancient-documents-must-be-digitized-fo\
r-further-study/articleshow/4663934.cms

Rumi's green-winged longing:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/06/hbc-90005234

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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Nice feature on a student search for a Native American site (5000 y.b.p.)
in Vermont:

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/06/19/Vermont-college-students-dig/1\
245448734.html
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/48557462.html

Digging deeper into some Clark County archaeology:

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/curator-digs-through-cla\
ssic-work-of-clark-county-archaeology-163006.html

A major find from Angel Mounds:

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/jun/18/history-in-a-jar/

Vague item on mystery circles at Poverty Point:

http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=10567348

A Native American village is emerging near Dickson Mounds:

http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=10566615

The 'dangers' of buying historic houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/garden/18houses.html

... while a Vermont village schoolhouse has closed after being
used for a couple of centuries:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090617/ap_on_re_us/us_the_final_bell

Who built San Miguel Chapel?:

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3904&Item\
id=72

A possible burial crypt find in Monroe:

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090616/NEWS01/906150330/1002/rss01
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Quite a bit of coverage of a study suggesting the Maya cultivated
manioc in a big way:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uoca-css061609.php>
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090616133940.htm
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-maya21-2009jun21,0,7620705\
.story
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1706363/study_shows_maya_intensively_cultiv\
ated_manioc_1400_years_ago/index.html?source=r_science

cf:

http://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/projects/documents/2009ReportJoyadeCeren.pd\
f

Feature on the cult of Tlaltecuhtil:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31544

The Antisuyu expedition:

http://www.obiwi.fr/voyage-decouvertes/carnets-de-route/82437-incas-in-amazonia-\
the-agenda-of-thierry-jamin-is-full-for-antisuyu-on-2009

A Killke culture burial near Machu Picchu:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=eyyzr413uKc=
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-58035.html

The Guatemalan government is trying to purchase the land containing
the ruins of Zaculeu:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31578

More on that possible Aztec ruler's tomb in Mexico City:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/651306

More on Machu Picchu as pilgrimage site:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090615-machu-picchu.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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A predictable pile of coverage about a so-called 'Nude Mona Lisa'
attributed to Leonardo:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5543362/Naked-Mona-Lisa-g\
oes-on-show.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/nude-mona-lisa-like-paint_n_214964.html

A pragmatic Galileo?:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/06/19/galileo-pragmatist/

Interesting blog post about the Persian language:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/18/744039/-About-the-Persian-language

A nice roundup of recent underwater finds around the world:

http://www.archaeology.org/0907/underwater/

A followup of sorts on that New York Times series on the van Meegeren
forgeries claim:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/more-bamboozling/

Can you trust your etymological dictionary?:

http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/etymological-dictionary/

The Forme of Cury is now available online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8108213.stm
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/imagecollections/university/medie\
val/

A 2500 b.p. bird's nest from Greenland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8103000/8103872.stm

In case you want to see the goings-on at Stonehenge today:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7890997
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8111444.stm (sunrise)

Review of Gillian Gill, *We Two*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/books/review/Marshall-t.html

Review of Richard Bernstein, *The East, The West, and S-X*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/books/review/Bentley-t.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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Syria's 'Dead Cities':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95939710

Pompeii:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/pompeii-the-way-it-used-to-be-wild-ch\
aotic-and-full-of-life/article1189645/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

New this week:

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2009-dig-blog/

Pyla-Koutsopetria (three blogs in one! twitter too!):

http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/wcaraher/PKAPBlogAggregator.html

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/about to commence:

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

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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Italian police have recovered a nice Mithra relief:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD9\
8RS1102
>
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/16/eu-italy-looted-antiquities-0\
61609/?world
http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/kuvat/2009/06/16/italy-looted-antiquity
(photo)

... and I wonder who the Japanese collector was who was going to
buy it:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20090620f3.html

Criticism for the way those arrests in Utah were handled:

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/14/us-archaeological-thefts-0614\
09/?nation

cf:

http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20090617/NEWS/906179963/1058/rss
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/17/us-archaeological-thefts-0617\
09/?nation


... while a second defendant in the case killed himself:

http://www.sltrib.com/contents/ci_12643036

... and oped pieces on same:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-childs15-2009jun15,0,454398\
6.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/us/21blanding.html

More graves found at that Lincoln library branch in Peoria:

http://www.pjstar.com/news_county/x973694239/93-suspected-graves-discovered-at-l\
ibrary

More coverage of the story:

http://www.sjrnews.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home&widget=full_story&conten\
t_instance_id=2740698&open=&
http://www.sjrnews.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home&widget=full_story&conten\
t_instance_id=2741491&open=&

A foiled smuggling attempt at Presovo:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/7198/2/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Polish Numismatic Society:

http://www.ptn.pl/indexe.html

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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Scripture for the Eyes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19mobia.html

Pages of Gold:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19medieval.html

Pen and Parchment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19drawing.html

Napoleon and Eugenie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/nyregion/21artsli.html

James E. Buttersworth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/nyregion/21artct.html


Michelangelo's First Painting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19michelangelo.html

A final bit of hype for the then-impending opening of the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/acropolis-now-a-museum-for-the-el\
gin-marbles-1710787.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8110010.stm
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31585
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7707039&maindocimg=7707558&s\
ervice=144
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/acropolis-museum-partheno\
n-elgin-marbles-greece-.html
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7714398&maindocimg=7714279&s\
ervice=144

... then the opening yesterday:

http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/archive.php?msg=750
http://www.necn.com/Boston/World/2009/06/21/Acropolis-Museum-opens-doors/1245579\
030.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/arts/design/20acropolis.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1194347/Greece-opens-Acropolis\
-Museum-lavish-party--Elgin-Marbles-row-means-Britain-isnt-invited.html
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12652463?source=rss
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jV-NVZV8UFR6OU5x4iVmD9lNZVogD9\
8UJ0NO4

... and a slideshow of the new museum (the NYT piece above has one
that's not too shabby too):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8110091.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun/15/acropolis-museum-athe\
ns-art

... and the naval gazing about the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles (first two are
definitely worth reading):

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle6539418.ece
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105532785
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/opinion/19iht-edhitchens.html
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/19/pm_elgin_marbles/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/5587911/Greece-demands-r\
eturn-of-Elgin-marbles-before-Acropolis-museum-opening.html
http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2009/06/parthenon-marbles-museum
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/653213
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/opinion/19iht-edkostandaras.html?nl=todayshead\
lines&emc=a27
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp&fdate=\
19/06/2009
http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/06/17/writer-hitchens-parthenon-sculptures-must-go\
-back/
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_acropolis_museum_6
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8110010.stm

... and there is a very nice website:

http://www.grreporter.info/statiaen.php?mysid=2187&t=10&SESID=ekovk4c67h7gpopm4j\
tra7vsp7
http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/

One of the APODs this week was a sunrise over the Parthenon (is it just
me or is there something not quite right about this one?):

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090621.html

A "mysterious" Byzantine statuette from Malta is going on display for
the first time:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090616/local/mysterious-byzantine-st\
atuette-to-go-on-display

Paintings for the Reign of Victoria:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19victoria.html

A secret 'Picasso settlement':

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/judge-rebukes-museums-for-secret-pi\
casso-settlement/

A nice prize for the Wedgwood Museum:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle6530916.ece

The Guggenheim joins the list of museums making cuts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/arts/design/17guggenheim.html

A major resignation at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19vogel.html

Not sure if I've mentioned that Thomas Hoving's memoirs are going
up chapter-by-chapter at Artnet ... here's chapter 33:

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/hoving/artful-tom-chapter-thirty-three\
6-16-09.asp

Big bucks for an envelope with an Abraham Lincoln stamp on it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/us/15stamp.html

Not quite as much for an 1840s Daguerreotype:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/1840s-daguerreotype-is-sold-for-625\
00/

Hopes for a big payoff from a first edition of the Federalist:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_re_us/us_soldier_book_auction
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Phedre:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/postcard-from-london-phedre/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/arts/17iht-lon17.html

Pericles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/nyregion/21theaterwe.html


Medieval music:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103670510


Assorted Shakespeare venues in the New York area:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/theater/19shake.html

The german government is figuring out how to cash in on Wagner's
final resting place:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/arts/music/20arts-GERMANYTOREN_BRF.html

The impending 'Out of Egypt' series on Discovery Channel might
be of interest:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004833.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2630
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OBITUARIES
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Philip Curtin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/us/16curtin.html
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PODCASTS
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Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/

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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