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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Ralph Hancock,Jim Lockmiller, Kris Curry, Diana Wright, David Pettegrew,
Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
Michael Caputo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, 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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National Geographic has a feature on Otzi's latest autopsy:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/iceman-autopsy/hall-texte
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025091533.htm

The evolutionary history of the dog:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203554104577001843790269560.html

More on concerns over Altamira:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-controversy-reopening-sistine-chapel-stone.h\
tml
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8943sci1.html

A Berlin restaurant caters to the 'modern' caveman:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,782747,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/caveman-cafe-brings-\
stone-age-diet-to-the-berlin-masses-2376372.html
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AFRICA
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Latest on efforts to repatriate the remains of Intripid crewmen:

http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-25/news/30320472_1_dean-somers-moammar-gadhaf\
i-somers-family

More on that 'paint shop':

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/14/MNUD1LHCV8.DTL
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of Assyrian trepanation from Kultepe (I think ... some characters
are
garbled in this one):

http://www.aina.org/ata/20111028204303.htm

Ancient 'take out windows' from Godin Tepe (Iran):

http://www.livescience.com/16773-ancient-takeout-window-godin-tepe.html

Evidence of a 'belief system' at Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=gobeklitepe-site-unveils-mystery-2011-1\
0-13

A mummy has the oldest known case of prostate cancer in Ancient Egypt:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/10/mummy-has-oldest-case-of-prostat.h\
tml

Interesting feature on conservation work on an Egyptian sarcophagus at the
Ashmolean:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9325406.Modern_work_takes_place_on_ancie\
nt_coffin/

A number of Egyptian items which were headed to Australia are being returned
to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/25378/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyp\
t-receives--stolen-artefacts-from-Australia.aspx

A Byzantine "prayer box" (reliquary?) from an Ir David dig:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149159#.Tqx-u3Ik-uI
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/miniature-byzantine-prayer-box-fou\
nd-near-city-of-david/

An early Islamic site north of Jericho:

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2011/10/26/joint-palestinian-american-dig-near-\
jericho-yields-clues-about-early-islamic-cult

Nice 'backgrounder' on Hanukkah:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/lifestyle/holidays/holiday_traditions/a-little-backgr\
ound-on-hanukkah/article_26d8f2d6-00cc-11e1-a7a2-001a4bcf6878.html

... and a feature on the 'real' "occupiers":

http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/50095

Quite the kerfuffle over the Elad contract in the City of David:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-ngo-elad-group-has-veto-power-\
over-jerusalem-s-city-of-david-1.391619

... but the High Court ruled the contract legal:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/high-court-critical-of-elad-contract-i\
n-city-of-david-park-but-rules-it-legal-1.392184
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=243280

... and the Mughrabi bridge is back into full saga form:

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=243110
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149063
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=243189
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149078
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149083#.Tqx_r3Ik-uI
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/222984

cf: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=243165

... and there's an uproar-in-the-making over treatment of graves at the
Museum of
Tolerance site:

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/grave-concerns-1.391852

... oh ... and there's a McDonalds at Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/all-in-all-a-hamburger-1.391188
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mcdonald-s-at-masada-not-worth-killing\
-yourself-for-1.386158

Dig opportunities in Israel:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Archaeologic\
al_Excavations_Israel_2012.htm?mid=50

The Dead Sea is nominated as one of the seven natural wonders:

http://www.janglo.net/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&page=display&catid=99&tid=\
177874

More concerns because of tourism at sites in Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-261336-tourism-development-versus-historic-prese\
rvation-in-turkey-reaches-fever-pitch.html

Some infrastructure funding for Babylon:

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-14129-iraq-sets-aside-85m-for-baby\
lon-infrastructure/

Feature on Acre:

http://www.macon.com/2011/10/29/1763443/crusader-town-being-rediscovered.html

Concerns for archaeology and sites in Syria:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-upheaval-halts-race-to\
-reveal-secrets-of-ancient-fort-2370224.html

Review of Simon Montefiore, *Jerusalem: The Biography*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/jerusalem-by-simon-sebag-montefio\
re-book-review.html

More on those 'nazca lines' in Saudia Arabia:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2011-10-23/google-e\
arth-satellite-ancient-structures/50857592/1

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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Major find of a Roman military camp on the Lippe:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8853054/Lost-Roman-camp\
-that-protected-against-Germanic-hordes-found.html

On the very edge of our period of purview for this section ... a
proto-Byzantine
martyrion from Cyprus:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/27/cyprus-department-of-antiquities-reveals-\
proto-byzantine-monument-at-akrotiri-peninsula/

The Paphos Theatre dig on Cyprus has a dig blog:

http://www.paphostheatre.com/paphos-theatre-education-blog.html

Reading a lot into an amphora find at Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/lifestyle/entertainment/fort_find_adds_to_potted_h\
istory_of_romans_boozing_1_3904282

Recent finds from the Palace of Zakros:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/10/24/news-from-finds-at-the-minoan-palace-\
of-zakros/

Feature on Septimius Severus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/29iht-edmeyer29.html

... and one on the 100th anniversary of the LCL:

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/In-the-Margin/Adam-Kirsch-on-the-Loeb-Clas\
sical-Library/ba-p/6057

Ancient history is doing well in schools in Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/modern-history-proves-to-be-so-last-century-20111027-1\
mm7b.html

1930s 'society women' dress as assorted Greek myth folk:

http://flavorwire.com/224624/1930s-society-women-dressed-as-mythological-figures

An Oxford Don is penning an Ode for the upcoming Olympics:

http://oxfordstudent.com/2011/10/27/oxford-don-pens-ode-for-boris/

cf: http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/10/27/primus-a-boris/

Playing the blame game now with that Pompeii wall 'collapse':

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/uk-italy-pompeii-idUSLNE79N02D20111024

Review of Paul Woodruff, *The Ajax Dilemma*:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/10/the_ajax_dilemm.html

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles* (and more):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/28/song-achilles-madeline-miller-iliad

Review of Mathew Dennison, *Livia: Empress of Rome*:

http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2011/10/24/books-livia-empress-of-rome/

Review of Alice Oswald, *Memorial*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8853326/Memorial-by-Alice-O\
swald-reviewal.html

Reviews of *The Swerve*:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-sirens-call-20111030,0,3471139.s\
tory
http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/10/stephen_greenblatts_the_swerve.\
html

Review of Schiff's *Cleopatra*:

http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2011/10/24/stacy-schiffs-cleopatra/

More on that Etruscan childbirth scene:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/first-western-childb\
irth-image.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/10/blind-archeolog\
ist-uncovers-ancient-childbirth-inscription-university-texas-william-nutt-etrusc\
an-/1

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Searching for a second passage tomb at Newgrange:

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/news/meatheast/articles/2011/10/26/4007335-search-f\
or-second-passage-tomb-at-newgrange/

It apparently took a while for farming to catch on in Europe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/24/food-ancient-cooking-pots-farming
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-cooking-pots-reveal-gradual.html

A Bronze Age "treasure trove" from a Pembrokeshire field:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-15493977
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/10/29/bronze-age-treasure-trov\
e-found-in-pembrokeshire-field-91466-29681996/

A site dating to 3500 B.C. or so in Belfast:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15477796

A Viking burial site from the Scottish highlands (we may have had this
last week; I'm somewhat confused among Viking finds of late):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111023143850.htm

A metal detectorist has found a Viking silver hoard in a field along
the Cumbria-Lancashire border:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-15495283
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8852780/Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds\
-Viking-hoard.html

Feature on Linn Duchaill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15430864

... and more on Viking finds in Ireland (told you I'm confused!):

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/25/Ancient-Viking-settlement-found-in-Ir\
eland/UPI-97891319578517/

An 18th century iron foundry from Ormskirk:

http://www.osadvertiser.co.uk/news/ormskirk-news/2011/10/13/rare-18th-century-ir\
on-foundry-unearthed-in-archaeological-dig-on-church-street-in-ormskirk-80904-29\
583188/

A Glen Calliche site has been saved from hydro development:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-15496261

Feature on assorted British legends:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15428024

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a shipwreck associated with Kublai
Khan:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15452071
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8848282/13th-century-Mongol\
ian-wreckage-discovered-off-Japanese-seabed.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-mongolian-kamikaze-japan-coast.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1028/1224306622337.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-25/asia/world_asia_japan-archaeology-shipwreck_1\
_fleet-ship-invasion
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/25/world/asia/japan-archaeology-shipwreck/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/archeologists-believe-shipwreck-found-off-japa\
n-belongs-kublai-145206810.html
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/89163/mongol-shipwreck-found
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/26/japanese-researchers-discover-medieval-mongo\
l-shipwreck/

A Buddha statue from Angkor Wat:

http://news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-discover-rare-statues-angkor-wat-140243851.\
html
http://www.allvoices.com//contributed-news/10739124-buddha-is-not-head-discovery\
-800-years-old

Feature on archaeologist Fan Jinshi:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-10/30/content_14002464.htm

Feature on archaeology around that soon-to-be-mining-site in Afghanistan:

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Afghan-Archeologists-Race-Against-Time-\
to-Find-Treasures-132702638.html

Humans settled on the Marshall Islands almost as soon as they emerged,
apparently:

http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/humans-do-it-\
quickly

HMS Sirius has been added to Australia's National Heritage list:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-25/first-fleet-wreck-added-to-heritage-list/3\
598648
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/10/26/3348423.htm

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

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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Plenty of coverage of the raising of a cannon from the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8851906/Blackbeards-p\
irate-ship-cannon-recovered-from-ocean.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct/27/blackbeard-cannon-wreck-pirate\
-ship-video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45056443/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre79q078-us-blackbeard/
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/blackbeards-cannon-salvaged-shipwreck-off\
-nc-14821505
http://www.newsday.com/news/blackbeard-s-cannon-salvaged-from-shipwreck-off-nc-1\
.3275512

Some knapped glass turned up at that William & Mary dig:

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/brafferton-project-unearths-foundations-of-c\
olleges-early-history.php

The Lost Towns project has a dig blog:

http://losttownsproject.blogspot.com/

Feature on the Hopewell earthworks:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/23/pilgrimage-unearths-hop\
ewells.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/10/fort-ancient-earthworks-place-of.ht\
ml

Hypish sort of thing for an impending book about the Donner Party:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uoo-ao102711.php

Feature on the restoration of the Presidio:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/23/BA941LK8G9.DTL

Review of Richard Brookhiser, *James Madison*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/james-madison-by-richard-brookhis\
er-book-review.html

Review of Tony Horwitz, *Midnight Rising*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/midnight-rising-john-brown-and-th\
e-raid-that-sparked-the-civil-war-by-tony-horwitz-book-review.html

More on pre-Clovis evidence of hunting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25mastodon.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of a 'standard measurement unit' at Teotihuacan equivalent to
roughly
83 cm:

http://www.thejapannews.net/story/200516154
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-95735.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/numerical-pattern-found-ancient-mexican-city-053724854.\
html

Another Sican tomb from Lambayeque:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=8zV4pTCsLEo=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJ9yghKxLI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-latin-america-15450252

Growing coverage of shipwrecks associated with Francis Drake and/or
his 'final resting place':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15447632
http://www.keysnet.com/2011/10/29/391585/pat-croce-reports-finding-sir.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8\
857309/Wrecks-that-promise-to-unlock-the-mystery-of-Francis-Drakes-final-resting\
-place.html
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Shipwreck+could+yield+Francis+Drake+coff\
in/5629214/story.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8\
857309/Wrecks-that-promise-to-unlock-the-mystery-of-Francis-Drakes-final-resting\
-place.html

This time, it's a Peruvian mummy that gets the CT treatment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15486720

Columbia has come out on top in an ownership dispute over the
wreck of the Galleon San Jose:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/10/25/court-rules-in-favor-colom\
bia-in-holy-grail-shipwrecks-case/

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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Plenty of coverage of the 'cracking' of the Copiale Cipher :

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/california-researchers-crack-secret-society-\
cipher-142752408.html
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/405424/computer_analysis_online_translat\
or_intelligent_guesses_crack_ancient_german_code/
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-scientist-mysterious-copiale-cipher.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/machine_translation_cracks_occult_code/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025102320.htm

... the paper:

http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-1202.pdf

... page images:

http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale150.pdf

... English translation:

http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale150.pdf

Apparently Oxbridge students invented 'binge drinking':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/8851964/Oxbridge-students-invented-\
binge-drinking-400-years-ago.html

... and Prince Charles is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1027/Vlad-the-Impaler-Prin\
ce-Charles-a-descendant-of-Dracula

A long-lost manuscript associated with Ben Jonson has been found:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025113215.htm

A somewhat tantalizing item on NASA's involvement in looking at ancient
texts:

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/268630/

A recently-identified Velazquez has been unveiled:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15474873

Answering the conspiracy theories in *Anonymous*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/8848884/Only-foolish-snobs-dont-belie\
ve-in-William-Shakespeare.html


The history of the signet ring (not sure about some of this):

http://eva-news.com/dating/dating/the-story-of-style-the-history-of-the-signet-r\
ing/23865885/

An interview with Umberto Eco about his latest book:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kwp40

Portsmouth has healed a 'rift' with Carl Roberts over Dickens:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15421286

Pondering difficulties of translation:

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/19/hard-as-nails-literature-and-translati\
on-today/

Review of David Bellos, *Is That a Fish in Your Ear?*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear-transl\
ation-and-the-meaning-of-everything-by-david-bellos-book-review.html

Interesting feature on the Royal Society's archives:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15445507

... and one on mosaic production in Ravenna:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/28iht-rartravenna28.html

More (slideshow) on Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/18/science/20111018-pole.html

More on the Black Death genome:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111025/full/478444a.html

Review of Mark Peterson, *Galileo's Muse*:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/10/renaissance-learning-that-s\
haped-galileos-genius.html

Review of David Abulafia, *The Great Sea*:

http://nationalinterest.org/bookreview/somewhere-beyond-the-sea-6074

Opeddish thing on Qaddafi and the deaths of tyrants:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/opinion/qaddafi-and-the-lives-of-tyrants.html

Two painters named Church:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/design/2-painters-named-church-faberge-eg\
gs.html


Review of a couple of books about Dickens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/books/charles-dickens-by-claire-tomalin-becomi\
ng-dickens.html
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Jerash:

http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2576859.ece

Egypt:

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/26/ancient-egypt-well-worth-seeing

Cape Sounion:

http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2011/10/28/greece-sea-god-site/

Gothic Italy:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/travel/a-gothic-tour-of-italy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/travel/20111030-gothic-italy.html

Anhui (China):

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/travel/in-anhui-china-centuries-old-charm.h\
tml
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/travel/20111030-anhui.html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Two "stone slabs" dating to Assyrian times and had been stolen were
returned to Iraq:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/5869096/Ancient-Assyrian-stone-slabs-re\
turned-to-Iraq
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/uk-iraq-artefacts-idUKTRE79Q6GU20111027
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/10893564/ancient-assyrian-stone-slabs-returne\
d-to-iraq/

The Tourisim and Antiquities Police in Egypt recovered some stolen items:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/25317/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Stol\
en-ancient-Egyptian-artefacts-recovered.aspx

Some vandalism at a site in Nine Mile Canyon (Utah):

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52781695-78/site-canyon-campfire-damage.html.c\
sp

A Picasso thief pleads guilty:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/accused-picasso-thief-pleads-guilty\
/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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(Really) Big bucks for a Cretan stater:

http://www.coinweek.com/news/auctions-news/ancient-cretan-stater-coin-brings-479\
000-world-record-price-at-morton-eden/

Latest e-sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n44.html

... and the one that will come out later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n45.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Islamic Manuscripts:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/rare-muslim-manuscripts-go-on-display-\
at-israel-s-national-library-1.391637

Royal Manuscripts:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8857250/Middle-Ages-illumi\
nated-as-Royal-manuscripts-shine-in-new-exhibition.html

Rembrandt in America:

http://www.reflector.com/news/groundbreaking-rembrandt-exhibit-opens-743479

Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/howard/events-entertainment/ph-ho-visual-art\
s-walters-20111025,0,6075072.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/26/archimedes-palimpsest-ahead-of-time

Alexander the Great:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-25/great-drunk-alexander-gets-louvre-ex\
hibit-of-treasures-review.html

DSS:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/arts/design/the-dead-sea-scrolls-at-discovery-\
times-square-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/29/arts/design/20111030-scroll-ss.html
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2011/10/dead_sea_scrolls_are_amon\
g_the.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/stone-dead-sea-scrolls-111027.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/scroll_fmj4lTdySYAgxYjDKMiFYN
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/the-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-nyc-20111028
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/28/2011-10-28_dead_sea_scrolls_ancie\
nt_pieces_of_hebrew_bible_discovered_in_caves_head_to_time.html

Last Days of Pompeii:

http://www.jimsullivanink.com/content/view/2049/44/

Aphrodite:

http://www.wbur.org/2011/10/26/aphrodite-mfa

Res Mortis:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/52796242-81/umfa-roman-utah-greek.htm\
l.csp

Davinci and Michelangelo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSf1CcJPtM&feature=uploademail

Olympia:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/27/ancient-olympia-exhibition-hosted-at-berl\
in-and-doha-museums/

Feature on the Met's Islamic galleries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/magazine/at-the-met-a-new-vision-for-islam-in-\
hostile-times.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/design/the-mets-new-islamic-galleries-rev\
iew.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/26/new-york-met-islamic-treasures

... slideshow:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/artsspecial/islamic-treasures-at-the-metr\
opolitan-museum-of-art.html

A restored Michelangelo painting will soon be on display:

http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/Restored-Buffalo-Painting-Set-to-Exhibit-in-Rome-\
132455568.html

The Prado will be open seven days a week:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/prado-to-stay-open-seven-days-a-wee\
k/

The book version of *History of the World in 100 Objects* is being
published in the US this
week:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/arts/20111030_NEIL.html

A sign language tour of the Penn Museum:

http://www.youtube.com/user/pennmuseum#p/c/17/CLCfoWgRtLE

Check out our Twitter hashtag for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Arms and the Man:

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/21303.html

Othello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/toni-morrisons-desdemona-and-peter-\
sellarss-othello.html

Anonymous:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/28/141772025/for-anonymous-scribe-a-shakespearean-spe\
culation
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/anonymous-by-roland-emmerich-review.\
html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/theater-talkback-who-wrote-shakespe\
are-who-cares/

... and a different Anonymous takes on 13th century nun chants:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/anonymous-4-at-corpus-christi-churc\
h-review.html

Songs of Purcell:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/andreas-scholl-and-the-english-conc\
ert-review.html

Bach's Unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/jennifer-koh-at-the-american-academ\
y-of-arts-and-letters-review.html

The Aquila Theatre troupe will be performing at the White House:

http://dc.broadwayworld.com/article/Aquila-Theatres-Ancient-GreeksModern-Lives-t\
o-Perform-at-the-White-House-1116-20111012

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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HUMOUR
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Archaeotoons:

http://structuralarchaeology.blogspot.com/2011/10/archaeo-toons.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

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

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

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