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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Thanks for the heads up to Sally Winchester and Bill Kennedy!

Lotsa stuff today ... a pile of followups too!

OLD WORLD NEWS

A boat discovered some forty years ago near Hull now lays claim to being
Europe's oldest boat:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4156753,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-102840,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1234000/1234529.stm

The Sphinx is (once again, it seems) in danger of falling apart:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2001-03/sphinx180301.shtml
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o210321k.htm

This is sort of a followup: more mummies have been discovered at the
Barhariya Oasis site:

http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0103/22/A31127-2001Mar22.shtml
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o220321h.htm
http://www.oweb.com/newslink/international/EgyptArchaeologyP0617.html

Greek police have recovered a bunch of smuggled Minoan artifacts:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/547808.asp

A trio of Greek shepherds have found bits and pieces of eight or so Greek
statues:

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/International/0,3561,800431,00.h\
tml
http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12902&m=A35&aa=6&e\
idos=S
http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw985010101340B262

Greek archaeologists have been busy excavating the palace of Alexander the
Great:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-101058,00.html

... and the Times has a little article on the cultural context of Al:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,649-102173,00.html

... and a piece on how the Macedonians weren't really barbaroi:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-101056,00.html

New Scientist reports on evidence that the Vikings who came to Scotland in
the ninth century planned on staying:

http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999541

Some guy with a metal detector has found an Iron Age horde in Britain:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-102839,00.html

... and as long as we're on the subject, the Guardian has a report on what
metal detectors have been turning up:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4158370,00.html

The Boston Globe has a nice report on some puzzling bronzes from China's
Sichuan province:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/079/science/In_China_strange_bronze_heads_rewr\
ite_history+.shtml

An eighth-century nativity scene from China has got the media just a-buzzing:

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/china19_20010319.htm

The Daily Yomiuri reveals the discovery of a pile of Buddhas in Angkor:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010325wo61.htm

Iraq is celebrating the 5000th anniversary of the development of writing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=aC5JdBKJ&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/3/21/wirq21.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/iraq010320_writing.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,56-102938,00.html

Discovering Archaeology has finally put up some different content,
including a feature on Ignatius Donnelly, who pretty much created the
Atlantis story as we usually see it:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/011701-atlantis.shtml

Fans of Time Team (I wish they'd show it across the pond here), will be
dismayed to learn that the hoof-and-mouth breakout has pretty much nixed
excavation of most of the sites they'd planned on:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4150290,00.html

Folks thinking of a career in archaeology/museology etc. might be
interested in some pieces in the Guardian this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4155535,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4155116,00.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

The New York Times has a nice feature on Maya sweathouses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/20/science/20SWEA.html

The Washington Post has a nice feature on Donald Shomette's work in Maryland:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/md/A20596-2001Mar17.html

There seems to be quite a bit of coverage of the human remains being found
in the Hunley:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0321_hunleyfind.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/545501.asp

CNN has a mostly-video report on the search for pre-Clovis sites in Texas:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/03/22/texas.dig.t_t/index.html

REVIEWS

The Times has a double review of  N. Reeves, *Akhenaten: Egypt's False
Prophet* and J.H. Taylor, *Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt*:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,217-102151,00.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

There's a new online issue of Bible Review out, with features on the
authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the evidence for the historical King Saul:

http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html

There's also a new issue of British Archaeology, with features on Traprain
Law, power drinking in Iron Age Europe (honest!), and Claudius' harbour:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba57/index.html

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

More on Loyola:

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010323.atc.04.rmm
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/class19.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,270007420,00.html

EXHIBITIONS

Antioch: The Lost Ancient City:

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/03/25/28294.html
http://www.clevelandart.org/AntiochExhib/html/index.html

AT ABOUT.COM:

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the Jewish calendar:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa032001a.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns has a feature on Roman names:

http://latin.about.com/library/blnames.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a feature on the repercussions of foot and
mouth disease:

http://latin.about.com/library/blnames.htm

... last week's chat was with J. Barto Arnold; the transcript is
available at:

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/chat/n_arnold.htm

... tonight's chat is with Judy Bense (UWestFla) on public participation in
archaeology (you can ask a
question even if you can't make the 9-11 EST time slot):

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/chat/blchatarnold.htm

... next week, Bill Kelso will be talking about Jamestown.

FOLLOWUPS

Taliban activities and results:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Asia_China/2001-03/statues220301.shtml
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0323_statuefree.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0320_smuggled.html
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/032101-terrorism.htm

Marathon rowing site:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/546223.asp
http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12901&m=A35&aa=1&e\
idos=S
http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12902&m=A06&aa=1&e\
idos=S
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010320/sp/oly_athens_2004_3.html
http://www.eKathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=76140

Mummy portraits:

http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=117&art_id=qw984654782186B252

Lady X reconstruction:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o180321m.htm


Seahenge:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=aC5JdBKJ&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/3/23/nheng23.html

Cleopatra's signature:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-102814,00.html

Elgin Marbles:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20010324_492.html

OBITUARY

William Reed:

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:METRO38/1:METRO380320101.html

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Happy daylight savings time to everyone in those parts of the world who
observe such things!

Thanks for the heads ups to Sally Winchester, John Carr, Ernest Loewinsohn,
and Bill Kennedy (a.a.h.i.h.n.l.a.o.)

OLD WORLD NEWS

ABC (Australia) reports that a 3100-year-old mummy has had a "sex change"
of sorts:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_267644.htm

eKatherimini has an item on the excavations at (Minoan) Palaikastro:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=76822

The Chicago Tribune had a nice article last weekend on the state of
archaeology/sites in Iraq:

http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,SAV-0103250412,FF\
.html

Zahi Hawass is challenging the long-held notion and soon-to-be BM
exhibition that Cleopatra wasn't exactly a Helen-of-Troy league beauty:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o290321h.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1250000/1250323.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010326/cleo.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/03/25/magazine.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/03/25/stinwenws01027.html

A number of frescoes stolen from Pompeii have been returned:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/03/25/stinwenws02012.html?

A watering trough outside a British pub has turned out to be a Roman
sarcophagus:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_256054.html?menu=news.quirkies

The Lebanon Daily Star has a piece on Roman glass:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/30_03_01_b.htm

A new documentary on the 'real' Jesus is getting a lot of hype primarily
(it seems) for the facial reconstruction:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/550752.asp
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/virtualjesus010327.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/ap/20010326/jesus.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=63407

A scholar has suggested that Robert the Bruce's organs were not interred
with his body:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=lvAS7vbt&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/3/29/nbob29.html

Xinhua reports on the top 100 Chinese archaeological discoveries of the
20th century:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010329/391415.htm

They also report on a project to determine the origin of Chinese civilization:

http://library.northernlight.com/FB20010329590000097.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
http://library.northernlight.com/FB20010329590000105.html?cb=229&dx=1006&sc=0#do\
c

Discovering Archaeology has put up a new feature on Cambodia "After the
Nightmare":

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/033001-cambodia.htm

First it was recreating the beer drunk by various ancient cultures, now
it's recreating perfumes from Pompeii:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=psN3BBMe&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/3/30/wpomp30.html

Folks might enjoy reading the historical basis for Britain's tax year:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=psNQMh3e&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/3/24/cmtax124.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

The Inland Empire Online has a column all about Mesa Verde sites on the web:

http://www.inlandempireonline.com/columns/garrett/

There's a new (?) suggestion on what happened to Walter Raleigh's 'lost
colonists':

http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0331cro.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

There's a new issue of Archaeology Odyssey out, with some nice online
content on ancient copies (Greek and Roman), the Hurrian city of Urkesh,
the origins of the jury system, and several other items:

http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html

Atlantic Monthly has an article on "The Genetic Archaeology of Race":

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/04/olson-p1.htm

EXHIBITIONS

Athens News has a review of  Waldemar Deonna - Paul Collart: Two Swiss
Archaeologists Photograph Greece 1904-1939:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12902&m=A38&aa=1&e\
idos=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=76807

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

A preview/reviewish thing tells all sorts of gossipy stuff about the movie
Cleopatra (the one with Liz):

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?BCCode=E&storyKey=55058

cf.:

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/032901/enc_5766382.html

Knowledge Management magazine has a feature "Taxonomy of the Ancients", on
how Callimachus organized the Library at Alexandria:

http://www.destinationcrm.com/km/dcrm_km_article.asp?id=812

REVIEWS

The Independent has a review of A. Everitt, *Cicero: A Turbulent Life*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=62436

WEBSITES

A very nice website (in Spanish) on Roman engineering:

http://www.traianus.f2s.com/index1.htm

OBITUARIES

Nicholas Hammond

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=63213
http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12903&m=A35&aa=3&e\
idos=S

Helge Instad (some in Norwegian):

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SeattleTimes.woa/wa/gotoArti\
cle?zsection_id=268448413&text_only=0&slug=ingstad01&document_id=134279924
http://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/326077_ingstadobit_31.html
http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/kultur/d201143.htm
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=5377351
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2001/03/29/250020.html


Margaret Jones

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=63980

FOLLOWUPS

Bahariya Oasis:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0329_goldenmummynew.html

Maya bath houses:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stifgname03001.html?

Buddhas in Afghanistan:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=5390
http://www.lanka.net/lakehouse/2001/04/01/new16.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1242000/1242856.stm
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/032101-terrorism.htm

Baghdad ancient writing conference:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0326_writing.html

Europe's oldest boat:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=aCXu69aJ&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/3/29/ecnboat29.html

Nauticos deepwater ancient shipwreck

(this one is close to a month old; folks might want to revisit the item in
Archaeology magazine on it ... it's the last item in this list; the first
item is a bit of video which I could not get to work, but maybe it will for
you):

http://www.nytimes.com/images/2001/03/27/science/27SHIP.ram
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/science/27SHIP.html
http://www.sacbee.com/voices/news/voices03_20010331.html
http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12903&m=A11&aa=3&e\
idos=S
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=63486
http://www.iht.com/articles/15022.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010328/wl/mediterranean_shipwreck_dc_1.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/03/29/fp7s1-csm.shtml
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0329_shipwreck.html
http://www.archaeology.org/0103/etc/wreck.html

The Hunley:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/545501.asp
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010324/sc/life_hunley_dc_3.html
http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/03/24/a1/hunley24.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0321_hunleyfind.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0328_hunleyupdate.html

AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest in on the labours of Hercules:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa032701a.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns has a feature on demonstratives:

http://latin.about.com/library/bldemonstratives.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a feature on the Archaeology Channel:

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm

... last week's chat transcript (Judy Bense):

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/chat/n_bense.htm

... tonight's chat is with Bill Kelso (talking about Jamestown):

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/chat/blchatarchive.htm

... next week: Justin Kerr and Sandra Noble (FAMSI, on the Maya Vase
Rollout Project
and the Precolumbian Portfolio)


DIVERSIONS

Athens News has a review of Sierra's *Master of Olympus -- Zeus* computer
simulation/game thingie:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12903&m=A44&aa=4&e\
idos=S

REGULAR FEATURES

CTCWeb's Words of the Week
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html
<url:http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html>

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html
<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

English translation (probably delayed ... hasn't been updated since August):
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
<url:http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.htm
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Thanks to Ardle McMahon and Bill Kennedy for heads upses this week
(a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.)

OLD WORLD NEWS

The Scotsman reports on the discovery of a prehistoric community in East
Lothian:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=61204&keyword=the

The Telegraph has a piece on a discovery in Kuwait which suggests the
possibility of ocean-going boats 7,000 years b.p.:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=3SAK3HBM&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/4/5/ecnkuw05.html

CNet has a brief item on technology being used to help enhance ancient
Sumerian tablets:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5510067.html?tag=ch_mh

USA Today is reprising a brief article from Egypt Revealed on what might be
a pyramid older than Djoser's:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/archaeology/2001-04-07-oldest-stone.htm

The mummy of a wife of a pharaoh has been found in the Bahariyah Oasis:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/553701.asp
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010403/07/odd-mummy-dc

Also on the mummy front, Egypt is apparently encouraging the adoption of
animal mummies:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1254000/1254835.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=64221

The Egyptian State Information Service has a feature (it seems) on the
anniversary of the foundation of Alexandria:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/calendar/html/cl070497.htm

The Toledo Blade has an item on Egyptian fashion:

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010401&Kategori\
=ART04&Lopenr=104010006&Ref=AR

A BBC investigation suggests plenty of artifacts from Jordan are being
smuggled into Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1263000/1263662.stm

The Telegraph reports that there is a crackdown on Etruscan tomb raiders:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=3SAK3HBM&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/4/8/wtomb08.html

The Times has a piece on the discovery of Britain's "other Boadicea" (so
does the Telegraph ... and Independent ... and Guardian):

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-110997,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=wefowfMb&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/4/7/ncelt07.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=65346
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4166971,00.html

The Telegraph reports on plans to excavate Nero's Golden Palace:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=3SAK3HBM&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/4/7/wrome07.html

ABCNews has a feature on the Vikings' genetic legacy:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/Vikings010403.html

The Independent also has a feature on genetic evidence for population
migration (especially by women):

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=64463

Excavations at Dadapur (India) are pushing dates back for the city's
foundation to 1430 B.C./B.C.E:

http://www.timesofindia.com/040401/04mlkn15.htm

NEW WORLD NEWS

The Waco Tribune-Herald reports on the pre-Clovis Bell County excavation:

http://www.accesswaco.com/auto/feed/news/local/2001/04/07/986672016.18707.0540.0\
439.html

The Arizona Republic has a feature on some recently-discovered Hohokam dog
figurines:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/0402hohokam02.html

Graves from Jamestown are in the news:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/417273.asp
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/A46508-2001Apr5.html
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/natwor/docs/jamestown0407.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0406_jamestown.html

MSNBC has a feature on the new technology being used to salvage shipwrecks:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/552502.asp?cp1=1

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Archaeology Magazine has an online news feature on the recently-excavated
Buddhist temple at Deorkothar:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/deorkothar/index.html

... and obsidian mirrors:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/mirrors.html

Discovering Archaeology has some new content on toolmaking in ancient India:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/040601-toolmakersofindia.shtml

Egypt Revealed has a nice feature on Giovanni Belzoni:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/040101-belzoni.htm

... and something called "Digital Tutankhamun" which promises to be
interesting:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/04o501-cartertut.htm

Discover magazine has a nice feature on Incan textiles:

http://www.discover.com/apr_01/featalpaca.html

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

The Prince of Wales is being asked to intervene in plans to build a new
structure to house the Ara Pacis:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=Lx3tLLtd&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/4/5/wrome05.html

eKathimerini reprised a piece from 1969 this week (as far as I can tell)
which involved a nice interview with Jean-Pierre Vernant and Francois
Frantisi-Ducroix:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=78131

Also in eKat ... Stuart Wheeler has written a letter in defense of keeping
Athens' Saarinen-designed airport terminal:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=77778

Athens' subway apparently won't be completed to the airport in time for the
Olympics because they keep finding artifacts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1256000/1256380.stm

The headline says it all: "Caesar's Atlantic City Offers a Modern-Day
Bacchanal":

http://www.sltrib.com/04082001/travel/86051.htm

FOLLOWUPS

Bamiyan Buddhas:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=004708943623310&rtmo=LxNSb7dd&atmo=rrrrr%0Dr\
rq&pg=/et/01/4/1/wbud01.html
http://www.timesofindia.com/040401/04nbrs9.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=64432
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1256000/1256394.stm

Cleopatra's 'beauty':

http://www.arabia.com/article/0,1690,Life|43472,00.html

Herculaneum Papyri:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010409/scrolls.htm

The Hunley:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0328_hunleyupdate.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47016-2001Apr5.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/05/hunley.ap/index.html

Marathon rowing row:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12904&m=A05&aa=2&e\
idos=S
http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12904&m=A05&aa=1&e\
idos=S

The Real Jesus (possibly offensive):

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=65538

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Thanks to Sally Winchester, Bill Kennedy, and Isidoros for headses upses
this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ...

Season's greetings to the various religious groups observing festivals this
week!


OLD WORLD NEWS

The BBC reports on what might be the earliest example of dentistry:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1272000/1272010.stm
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-113385,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/558022.asp

... while Gulf News offers an early example of trepanation:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=14375

... and the Egyptian State Information Service is making claims about the
earliest clock:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o080421.htm

The season has brought the annual reports speculating on whether the Exodus
really did occur:

http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010413/t000031433.html

... and the pagan roots of Christianity:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E21774,00.html
http://www.Jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/041501/met_5916718.html
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1673261&BRD=1130&PAG=461&dept_id=99675\
&rfi=6

... and the historical aspects of the crucifixion:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/2020/010411_jesus.html

A vague report from the Turkish Cypriot press suggests a bronze age tomb
might have been found at Lapithos (maybe):

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/tcpr/2001/01-04-11.tcpr.html#05

The Teheran Times briefly reports on the discovery of an ancient citadel
near Tous:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/News.asp?Da=4/12/01&Cat=3&Num=0#003

Franck Goddio has updated the world on progress mapping the underwater bits
of Alexandria:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0411_alexandria.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/science/story.jsp?story=66016
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=182466&thesection=news&thesub\
section=world
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010410/13/news-environment-city-dc

The Telegraph has a feature on ten newly-recognized images of Cleopatra:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=lvknQPut&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/4/11/ncleo11.html

cf. Guardian coverage of the BM's Cleopatra exhibition:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,472925,00.html

More mummies from the Barhariya oasis:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o100421c.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1270000/1270258.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/04/09/egypt.mummies.ap/index.html

eKatherimini has a very nice feature on Augustus' monument at Nicopolis:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=78998

The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item on the discovery of
a Byzantine era camp:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o080421L.htm

Athens News reports (briefly) on the apprehension of a small time
antiquities smuggler:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12905&m=A35&aa=3&e\
idos=S

There are new suggestions about what the victims of Vesuvius actually died
from:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-113355,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1272000/1272171.stm
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010411/17/health-heat

The Independent reports on the rediscovery of a film of archaeologists
excavating Sutton Hoo:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=66480

The Telegraph has a nice piece on the joys of going on an archaeological dig:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=QwOx0z9R&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/4/14/toacti14.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

The folks at Jamestown appear to have been hit with some sort of epidemic:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0406_jamestown.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/jamestown010409.html

A slave cemetery has been found outside Monticello:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010410/sc/jefferson_slave_graves_1.html

Also on the founding fathers front, archaeologists have located George
Washington's ice house:

http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/carroll/bal-ca.ice00apr080.story?coll=bal%2Dlo\
cal%2Dcarroll

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Discovering Archaeology has some new online content, including a piece on
the Alpaca Mummies which originally appeared in Discover magazine:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/040901-alpaca.htm

... and a short item on dendrochronology:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/031901-taleofttherings.htm

Egypt Revealed has some new stuff too, including something on ancient
Egyptian furniture:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/041001-formandfunction.htm

... and something by Zahi Hawass called "Solving the Puzzles of Giza"":

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/040901-zahisolvingthepuzzles.htm

WEBSITES

The Bible and Interpretation site has some new items of interest, including
a feature on Tel  Tanninim:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/excavations/Tanninim_032901.htm

... and the location of Herod's Temple:

http://itp.lcc.whecn.edu/bibint2/commentary/crapo_032901.htm


CLASSICIST'S CORNER


An Irish newspaper has a feature on classics at the National University in
Maynooth:

http://www.irelandclick.com/news/details.cfm?id=4276

eKatherimini has reprised a story from 1969 (supposedly ... I'm beginning
to be skeptical about these '1969' dates) on the excavations at Koukounissi
(Lemnos):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=78492

Athens News has a touristy piece on ancient Megara:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12905&m=A24&aa=1&e\
idos=S

... and Plato's Academy:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12905&m=A39&aa=2&e\
idos=S

The Miami Herald has a touristy piece on Ephesus:

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/features/travel/digdocs/108381.htm

EXHIBITIONS

The AP via Northern Light has a review of Troy: Myth and Reality currently
on in Stuttgart:

http://library.northernlight.com/EB20010411790000046.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

REVIEWS

The LA Times has a review of P. Jenkins, *Hidden Gospels: How the Search
for Jesus Lost its Way*:

http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010414/t000031781.html

FOLLOWUPS

Amarna-era tomb:

http://news.24.com/News24/Africa/Features/0,1113,2-11-37_1010967,00.html

Bamiyan buddhas:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/archaeology/2001-03-22-afghan-buddhas.htm

Iron Age Queen burial:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=QwOx0z9R&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/01/4/12/ecncelt12.html

Karachi mummy:

http://www.timesofindia.com/090401/09hlth4.htm

Temple Mount:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/04/10/News/News.24345.html

OBITUARIES

Cyrus Gordon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/09/obituaries/09GORD.html


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First of all, apologies to all who received an html-formatted newsletter
last week and whose systems couldn't process it. I did not intend to send
out html mail and am still trying to figure out why it went out that way.
That said, thanks to all who responded to my query about an html-formatted
Explorator; from private mail it is very clear that this would not be a
good thing for the vast majority, so we'll keep things as they are.

Thanks to Curtis B. Edmundson, Jean Laplante, Tim Parkin, Sally Winchester,
'mauros', Michael Ruggieri, 'Sujazz', and Bill Kennedy for several headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)


OLD WORLD NEWS

The Daily Star has a feature on the Canaanite site of Yarmuta:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/28_04_01/art3.htm

A conference on how best to preserve the monuments of the Middle/Near east
has political implications:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1295000/1295319.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1295000/1295008.stm

MSNBC (and others) has an interesting item on black magic in the ancient
Greek world:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/560131.asp
http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12907&m=A05&aa=1&e\
idos=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=79231

Police have confiscated a hoard of  interesting illegally-excavated
artifacts near Vonitsa:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=80390

AthensNews has a lengthy touristy piece on ancient Troezen:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12907&m=A24&aa=1&e\
idos=S

A fourth-century Egyptian coffin is on display in Rochester:

http://library.northernlight.com/EB20010427170000046.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

Another bit of fallout from Afghanistan: the left foot of Zeus is on
display in Tokyo:

http://www.asahi.com/english/asahi/0426/asahi042604.html

The Aberdeen Herald has a brief item on a recent Iron Age discovery in that
city:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/24-4-19101-0-1-2.html

The Times (South Africa) has a feature on the excavations at Uxellodunum
('eat your heart out Asterix'):

http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=79&art_id=qw988311781884B216

(cf. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_275516.html?menu=)

There was a fair bit of coverage this week devoted to the discovery of a
Roman-era armoury/armour in Roman Carlisle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1297000/1297752.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,478537,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-120182,00.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0427_romanarmor.html

A Roman villa at El-Jem will soon be open to the public:

http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1014411,\
00.html

A third-century Celtic fibula has reached a rather high price at auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=gjSGSbru&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/4/26/ngold26.html

Also at auction at Christie's ... a pile of Italian vases, many of them
looted apparently:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-118293,00.html

Le Figaro has an item (in French) on damage done and threatened to the
Henri IV-era Chateau de Saumur (watch the wrap):

http://www.lefigaro.fr/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FutureTe\
nse/Apps/Xcelerate/View&c=figArticle&cid=FIGI72LWTLC

The Times of India reports on damage done to Mnajdra Temple:

http://web.infinito.it/utenti/m/malta_mega_temples/mnajdest/times15.html

The BBC has an item on damage done to the Zoukoudian Caves:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1298000/1298621.stm

CNN has a piece on the threat to ancient cities in Laos:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/04/26/laos.ancientcities.ap/index.html

SwissInfo reports on an exhibition of ancient textiles from the Taklamakan
Desert:

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=201&sid=661022


NEW WORLD NEWS

There was major coverage of the discovery/redating of the Peruvian city of
Caral:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1298000/1298460.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1299000/1299426.stm
http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500476670-500732206-504186344-0,\
00.html
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/city010426.html
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/science/A8889-2001Apr26.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/04/27/fp1s3-csm.shtml
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/042601-oldestperucity.htm
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/04/04282001/reu_peru_43240.asp
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-120993,00.html
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=67657
http://www.msnbc.com/news/564981.asp
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010426/sc/science_city_dc.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0426_perucity.html

The Telegraph has a feature on the Mayan site of Las Milpas:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=0xbKbsGq&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/4/28/wmay28.html

The Salt Lake Tribune has an interesting item on a pile of old footwear
originally found in Promontory Cave:

http://www.sltrib.com/04272001/utah/92394.htm
http://www1.standard.net/stories/local/04-2001/FTP0284@local@28cave@Ogden.asp

The Washington Post has a nice piece on the slave graves at what was once
James Madison's home:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8417-2001Apr26.html

The Columbus Dispatch has an item in anticipation of a conference (held
last week) called "Old and New World Prehistory at the Crossroads":

http://www.dispatch.com/news/news01/apr01/670378.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Archaeology Magazine has a new online issue with abstracts of articles on
ancient Abydos, the recently-discovered inn at Pompeii, the spiritual life
of slaves in America, and numerous other items:

http://www.archaeology.org/0105/toc/toc.html

The Art Newspaper has apparently updated its archaeology page (but not
copyright date!), with items on Stonehenge, the statue of Cybele recently
found in Greece, threats to sites in Sicily, and a cache of coins from Syria:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/archaeology/archeology.asp

Biblical Archaeology Review also has a new online issue, with articles on
stone shrines in the Negev, the battle over ownership of the Dead Sea
Scrolls, Abraham's Ur, among other things:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html

Egypt Revealed has a piece in anticipation of a F. Goddio lecture on the
layout of the sunken bits of ancient Alexandria (with a fairly good map):

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/042601-goddio-sunkencity.htm

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

This is the sort of thing I've been dying to do with my classes:

http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/04/26/local_news/PDIG26.htm

The Independent has a precis of Peter Wiseman's presidential address to the
Classical Association:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=69022
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-117802,00.html

More from the meeting:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-118372,00.html

FOLLOWUPS

Buddha birthplace:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/563429.asp


Cleopatra at the BM:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12907&m=A02&aa=3&e\
idos=S

Herculaneum Papyri:

http://www.standard.net/stories/local/04-2001/ftp0103@local@20decode@ogden.asp

The Hunley:

http://www.hunley.org/html/Excavation/excavation_update_apr_27.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0427_hunleyapril27.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/565751.asp

Karachi mummy:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=fsDwD0os&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/4/29/wmum29.html

Pyramid hidden cavities:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1285000/1285707.stm
http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12907&m=A16&aa=4&e\
idos=S
http://www.egyptrevealed.com/042301-debunkfrench.htm

Seahenge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1298000/1298533.stm

Troy: Myth and Reality:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/556889.asp

OBITUARIES

Laurence Flanagan:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-120135,00.html

AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest feature is on Spartacus:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa042101a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has put up the transcript of last week's chat
with Larry McKee (this week's has, alas, been postponed):

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/chat/n_mckee.htm

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Our fourth year begins on a somewhat ominous note ... over the past week
(as some of you know) I've been bombarded with the Badtrans virus from
various sources, especially Explorator readers. The virus is delivered to
anyone in your inbox whose mail you have not replied to (and of course,
since you don't generally reply to this newsletter, I get the virus!).
Fortunately I'm paranoid enough to have plenty of levels of security to
prevent *me* from getting and subsequently sending the virus, but I
encourage all readers of this letter to do update virus definitions (this
thing's less than a month old) and do a scan. It will be greatly
appreciated (by me and numerous others, I suspect). More info on the virus
at (McAfee seems a bit behind on this one):

http://www.securityportal.com/research/virus/profiles/W32.Badtrans.13312.html
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.13312@mm.html
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99069&

On a more positive note, our fourth year begins with us almost doubling our
main subscriber base in one year (1943 subscribers as of this writing),
which does not take into account, of course, the several email lists and
the sci.archaeology.moderated usenet group to which Explorator is mailed,
to say nothing of the several other email lists which get the 'lite'
versions. By my (conservative) count, Explorator itself or pieces of it are
seen by in excess of 9500 people every week, and it's still free (and
doesn't accept advertising ... Yahoo adds something, but that is no benefit
to me)!!! I don't know if that makes Explorator the most widely-read
archaeological publication or not, but I'm sure you'll all forgive me if I
crow a bit ...

Thanks to Jennifer Wees, Bill Kennedy, David Detrich, and Mark Elliott for
the headses upses (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)


OLD WORLD NEWS

A hitherto unknown ancient civilization has been discovered in Asia:

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/lost3_20010503.htm

The Toronto Star has a feature on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.thestar.com/apps/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Art\
icle_Type1&c=Article&cid=988774402047&call_page=TS_Entertainment,Life&call_pagei\
d=968867495754&call_pagepath=Entertainment,Life/News

The Egypt State Information Service has a feature on the search for
evidence of the Exodus:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o300421a.htm

Salon has a feature on Bob Brier's work:

http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/05/04/mummy/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110

According to a Reuters report, a museum in Germany is going to return a
number of bits of a pharoahnic coffin to Egypt, whence it disappeared back
in the 1930's:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o050521c.htm

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/D/20010503/wcoff030\
5?tf=RT/fullstory.html&cf=RT/config-neutral&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&slug=wcoff\
0305&date=20010503&archive=RTGAM&site=Front&ad_page_name=breakingnews

Here's a strange twist to the foot-and-mouth crisis in Britain ... a site
used for burial of culled animals has revealed a Roman-era farmstead and
some Bronze Age burial mounds:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1311000/1311128.stm

The Guardian has an interesting report on new evidence that the Romans
allowed/participated in human sacrifice in imperial times:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,480486,00.html

There's an extended feature circulating on how climate change contributes
to societal collapse:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/564306.asp

The BBC has a report on the threat(s) to antiquities in the Crimea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1315000/1315117.stm

The Dawn has a similar piece on threats to sites in Peshawar:

http://www.dawn.com/2001/05/03/local17.htm
http://www.dawn.com/2001/text/nat20.htm

The Times of India has a piece on the excavations at Tamil Nadu:

http://www.timesofindia.com/today/06mpun1.htm

The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting article on DNA tests done on
"Mungo Man":

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0105/05/review/review6.html

The new Biblioteca Alexandrina opened this past week:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=aC9BaCKJ&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/5/3/wbib03.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

An Alberta site has revealed evidence that prehistoric horses were hunted
to extinction:

http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0105/03_horses-cp.html
http://unisci.com/stories/20012/0503014.htm

School renovations in Seattle have revealed an ancient midden and other
signs of human habitation:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134291503_midden03m.html
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/21331_duwamish03.shtml

Archaeologists have discovered a slave dwelling in New York City:

http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/0,1038,500557323-500795445-504253870-0,00\
.html
http://www.bergen.com/region/nybrief02200105029.htm
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/21080_slave01ww.shtml
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/567372.asp
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010501/us/archaeology_slaves_1.html

[cf. the article in the current issue of Archaeology magazine:
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/lott/index2.html ]

One I missed: UniSci has good coverage of Ken Kvamme's SAA presentation on
the use of remote sensing technology in archaeology:

http://unisci.com/stories/20012/0423013.htm

A Reuters newswire piece looks at recent developments in the salvage v.
archaeology of sunken ships debate:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/566547.asp

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

The latest issue of the Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology's
newsletter is online, with several articles on the Center's Propylaea
project, among other things:

http://csanet.org/newsletter/index.html#spring01

Discovering Archaeology has some new online content, including a piece on
the Wilson-Leonard site in Texas:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/043001-rejectingcomplexity.htm

Egypt Revealed has a piece on Lady X:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/050301-LadyX.htm

... and Zahi Hawass' weekly update from Giza:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/news_from_giza.htm

... and the workers who help excavate things in Egypt:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/043001-anonymous_experts.htm

There's a new issue of Mercator's World out, with a focus on early maps of
the Americas:

http://www.mercatormag.com/

EXHIBITIONS

The Seattle Times has a review of  "Treasures from a Lost Civilization:
Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan":

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/134292159_artcover5.html

CNN has a review of the "Troy: Myth and Reality" exhibition in Stuttgart:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/05/01/ancient.troy.ap/index.html

WEBSITES

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has an *excellent* website devoted to their
Giza Archives Project; this link will take you to the 'overview' page, but
you can literally spend hours poking around this one:

http://www.mfa.org/giza/pages/overview.html

The Bible and Interpretation website has a couple of new articles up which
are worth looking at, including Nachman ben-Yehuda on the "Masada Myth":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/masadamyth1.htm

... and Paul Ash on "David, Solomon, and Egypt":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/ash1.htm

National Geographic is featuring a reprise of its excellent "At the Tomb of
Tutankhamen" feature (requires flash, I believe):

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

There are a couple of tributes going on in Athens in honour of Michael
Cacoyannis:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=81162

Virginia Wesleyan has hired its first classics professor:

http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0424cla.html

AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the emperor Elagabalus:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa050101a\
.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is a piece on the emperor Tiberius:

http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/bltiberius.htm

FOLLOWUPS

Ancient Footwear from Utah:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,270015989,00.html?

Asterix:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_275516.html

Caral:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4179777,00.html
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/042601-oldestperucity.htm

Karachi Mummy:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=aCd5u6aJ&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/4/29/wmum29.html

Macchu Picchu:

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/05/04/fp7s1-csm.shtml

Roman Armour:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010430/gladiator.html
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ReadNotice.cfm?releaseid=6255
http://unisci.com/stories/20012/0502011.htm

Seahenge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1298000/1298533.stm

Tutankhamen DNA:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,270016437,00.html?

OBITUARIES

Margaret Jones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4179345,00.html

Paul Thieme:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-124104,00.html


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to about 1700 or so is fair game) and when a sufficient number of urls are
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                       Volume 4, Issue 2 -- May 13, 2001

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Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and others who fill that role out there!

Thanks to Alastair Millar, Bill Kennedy, Simon Price, and Curtis B.
Edmundson for the headses upses (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

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OLD WORLD NEWS

Yet another chapter in the 'out of Africa' debate has been written:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/571632.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1323000/1323485.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4185600,00.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,500559752-500800244-5043193\
36-0,00.html

Genetic evidence has also been brought to bear on the date of the
domestication of the goat:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010507/sc/portable_goats_1.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1313000/1313016.stm

The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item on the discovery of
a pharoahnic village:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o120521n.htm

Another brief item in the same source announces that Hatshepsut's Red
Gallery will open in November:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o080521h.htm


The same source reports (with at least one glaring error) on the discovery
of some apparently-Roman era artifacts near Damietta:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o100521.htm

A big statue of Hercules/Herakles has been found in Izmit:

http://news.24.com/News24/World/Middle_East/0,1113,2-10-35_1023610,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/05/12/turkey.ancient.statue.ap/index.html
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0542_BC_Turkey\
-AncientStatue&&news&newsflash-international

Athens News has a somewhat unfocused piece on Jaynie Anderson's talk about
Cleopatra:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12909&m=A34&aa=1&e\
idos=S

The Surrey Advertiser has a piece on a Romano-Celtic temple at Wanborough:

http://www.surreyad.co.uk/news/11-05-01/news07.html

First it was part of the Aurelian Wall ... now heavy rains have contributed
to the collapse of part of Nero's Domus Aurea:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010507/od/nero_dc_1.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4182282,00.html
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,487338,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-126036,00.html

An article in the Scotsman suggests ancient Scotland was not a cultural
backwater:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=70795&keyword=the

The  New York Times (and others) has an interesting piece on what happened
to the Vikings, and some related items on the Norse in Canada:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/08/science/08VIKI.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/08/science/08VIKB.html
http://www.charlotte.com/topnews/pub/vikings.htm
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-126599,00.html

Some scholars are claiming there is evidence that Columbus actually made it
to the new world seven years prior to 1492:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-126037,00.html

I'm not sure if this qualifies as 'news of the Ancient world' or not, but
it *is* interesting: a history professor is asking the Queen to return the
treasure of the Kingdom of Cilicia, which was deposited with Richard II for
safekeeping:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1327000/1\
327345.stm

In a similar vein comes a piece from the Globe and Mail, claiming Jack the
Ripper was an archaeologist:

http://www.globeandmail.ca/gam/FeaturesSocialStudies/20010507/FASS07.html

Of more general interest will be a report which suggests carbon dating is
not very useful for very old objects:

http://physicsweb.org/article/news/05/5/7

]|[=================================================================]|[

NEW WORLD NEWS

MSNBC has a touristy sort of piece on the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/567994.asp

Excavations in Peru have uncovered remains of the oldest university in the
Americas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1326000/1326303.stm

Science Daily has a piece on the Queen Anne's Revenge project:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010510072706.htm
http://www.jdnews.com/stories/2001/05/10/news01.shtml

]|[=================================================================]|[

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Discovering Archaeology's latest big article online is on the 'enema pot':

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0699toc/6exploits1-ivy.shtml

Egypt Revealed has Zahi Hawass' weekly update of goings-on at Giza:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/news_from_giza.htm

Ancient Egypt Magazine is now included in our scan ... the most recent
issue has a feature on Cleopatra:

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/cleopatra06.htm

... and Amelia Edwards:

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/edwards06.htm

]|[=================================================================]|[

WEBSITES

The Sphakia Survey Project has recently done a major upgrade of its
excellent website ... worth a look:

http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/

]|[=================================================================]|[

EXHIBITIONS

Discovering Archaeology has a review of the "Syria: Land of Civilizations"
exhibition:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/050801-syrianartifacts.htm

]|[=================================================================]|[

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

Folks might be interested to read about efforts to restore the idea of an
Olympic truce:

http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12909&m=A07&aa=2&e\
idos=S
http://news.24.com/News24/Sport/More_Sport/0,1231,2-9-32_1021611,00.html

The Independent has an interesting piece on the apparent upsurge in
popularity of history (including some classical content):

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=71890

Not specifically classics of the sort we think of (but maybe it is), but
they're being used as punishment (rehabilitation) for a couple of young
offender types:

http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,500559752-500800244-5043193\
36-0,00.html

The Black World Today has reprinted a piece from the Classical Bulletin on
Martin Luther King's Classical education:

http://tbwt.yellowbrix.com/pages/tbwt/Story.nsp?story_id=20637083&ID=tbwt&scateg\
ory=African+American+News

]|[=================================================================]|[

At ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest in on Cadmus:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa050801a.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is a guest editorial by William Harris on
Caesar and Bush on bankruptcy:

http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa050601a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Caral:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa050901a.htm


]|[=================================================================]|[

OBITUARY

Marion Stirling Pugh

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12671-2001May10.html

]|[=================================================================]|[

FOLLOWUPS

Asian 'New' Lost City:

http://www.starnews.com/print/articles/lostworldb13.html
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84161847
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=681458&pic=none&TP=getbusiness
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/04/30/magazine/LOSTCITY30.htm

Heyerdahl's Theories on the Vikings:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-200762,00.html

Hunting Horse in the Americas:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0511_ancienthorses.html

New Alexandria Library:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=kC1xJYop&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/5/3/wbib03.html

]|[=================================================================]|[

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CTCWeb's Words of the Week
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html
<url:http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html>

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http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html
<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

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                       Volume 4, Issue 3 -- May 20, 2001

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Thanks to Sally Winchester, Michael Ruggieri, Bill Kennedy, Alastair
Miller, Mark Eliott, Albert Lusnia, 'mauros', Matt Connors,  and Tim
Spalding for the headses upses (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.):

N.B. A bunch of AOL users who subscribe to this newsletter didn't get it
last week; I'd appreciate it if you are an AOL subscriber and you receive
this if you could drop me a line ... thanks in advance.

OLD WORLD NEWS

There's another report out on the genetic origins of Europeans and others:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1334000/1334512.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4185600,00.html

The Times of India reports on the discovery of some submerged Harappan and
pre-Harappan sites:

http://www.timesofindia.com/today/19indu25.htm
http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/national/20010519-0.html
http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010520/nat21.html

The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item on the discovery of
a 26th Dynasty tomb:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o190521f.htm

... and a fairly large feature on Ramses II:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o150521i.htm

Science Daily has a report on using engineering techniques to analyze
Egyptian art:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010515075354.htm

The Guardian has a report on the pyramids as (with apologies to Led
Zeppelin, I presume) stairways to heaven:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4186002,00.html

... there's also a brief item on mastabas:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4186001,00.html

There's been much buzz about this one: archaeologists may have found the
remains of ancient Iolcus ... Jason's stomping grounds:

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2001/01-05-15.mpa.html#07
http://www.cthesis.com/local/0301/l_342_165.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-202515,00.html

We'll be hearing more about this one: "ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe that a girl
whose skeleton was found buried at St Catherine's Point on the Isle of
Wight may have been murdered during the Roman era."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=rQFhmbXX&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/5/13/nbul13.html#go14

Silbury Hill is about to be subjected to a 3D seismic scan:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=rQFhmbXX&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/5/18/nstone18.html

Archaeologists have found stained glass which might be associated with Lady
Godiva:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4186858,00.html

The discovery of a 17th century shipwreck might delay pipeline construction
in Dublin Bay:

http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw990116701574B264

Not really archaeology or ancient, but interesting nonetheless is the claim
that Anne Boleyn might have been pregnant when she was executed:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=73561

The Guardian has a feature on what a career in archaeology might involve:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4188105,00.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

The Canadian company helping the Cuban government salvage/harvest
shipwrecks off Cuba has apparently come across a sunken city (and yes, I've
already heard folks on certain lists claiming things related to Atlantis ...):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/573489.asp

Archaeologists have found traces of a lost civilization which apparently
grew maize much earlier than previously thought (I'm not sure that sentence
makes sense, but you get the idea):

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010517/sc/ancient_farmers_3.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/574983.asp
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_b3401b8503\
2f61fb00c2.html

Another New World site has been found to be substantially older than
previously thought ... this time it's Chac:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0517_chac.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010518/sc/yucatan_maya_1.html
http://nandotimes.com/healthscience/v-text/story/10903p-242879c.html

A Reuters report suggests the collapse of Mayan civilization was linked to
the solar cycle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1337000/1337859.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000121435464267&rtmo=a56WqJTJ&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/5/18/wmaya18.html

http://www.msnbc.com/news/574984.asp
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010514/maya.html

The Washington Post has a piece on projects being done by the Maryland
Archaeological Conservation Laboratory:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/md/archive/A26808-2001May14.html

The same source (and others) has (yet another) report on the threat to
Peru's Nazca lines:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46291-2001May18.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/575914.asp

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

I seem to have missed these if they've been up before, but Discover
Archaeology has a feature on the Scythians:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0599toc/5feature1-scythian.shtml

... and the La Belle shipwreck:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0599toc/5feature2-labelle.shtml

Egypt Revealed has Zahi Hawass' Giza Update (although I'm not sure there is
anything new):

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/news_from_giza.htm

... and a feature on Egypt's oldest monastery:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/051801-oldestmonastery.htm

ON THE WEB

The Bible and Interpretation site has a new feature on the archaeological
remains at Bethsaida:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/bethsaida.htm

Here's a nice little portal-type site which came across my desktop this
week ... it has links to museums in Australia and elsewhere which have
antiquities collections:

http://www.antiquity.com.au/

I meant to include this one last weekend and forgot ... Idle surfing
brought me to a very interesting French site with web broadcasts ... the
program is called Cinema d'histoire and it is the sort of thing that we
often see as 'history of ________ on film". For fans of the ancient world,
there actually is some good stuff, as far as I've been able to preview it.
You need realplayer, and should go to:

http://www.canalweb.net/vers/cinehistv.html

Click on 'cliquez ici' and a program will start on the 18th century
portrayal of something that didn't interest me. If you click on
'emissions', however, you will get a list of shows upcoming (presumably on
tv) which you can watch now. The one I watched was a 30 minute thing
devoted to la destruction de Pompeii and included extracts from various
films (mostly The Last Days of Pompeii); Catherine Salles was the guest who
discussed matters of historicity and history ... good stuff (there's
background stuff, bibliography, filmography etc.).
I note the 'Cycle Antiquite' also has programs devoted to the Iliad,
Alexander the Great, and Spartacus ... worth a look if you can understand
French and have a decent connection.

Another time consumer (well, it is a long weekend up here in Canada) ...
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Hellas has a nice multimedia thing on
ancient Greek theatres. Access it from the MFAH main page and click on the
'read more' on the right hand side:

http://www.cthesis.com/

EXHIBITIONS

The BBC has a preview of an exhibition of Mughul jewellery:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1337000/1337471.stm

AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the house of Thebes:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa051501a.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on that chestnut dolor lorem ipsum:

http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/weekly/aa111599.htm

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

The Guardian has a feature on the versatility of a Classics degree:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4188149,00.html

Also in the Guardian is a review of something called Secrets of the Dead
which, well, has to be read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4186782,00.html

... ditto a review of 'Gladiator Girl':

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=72424

We don't often hear of Greek 'faires':

http://www.appeal-democrat.com/051901/051901Greek.shtml

FOLLOWUPS

Ancient Alexandria:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o170521b.htm

Cleopatra's beauty:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o140521i.htm
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010514/2001051447.html

Columbus finding Americas earlier:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010514/columbus.html

Lost Asian Civilization:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-201723,00.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20010514ancientcivhealth6.asp
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010514/writing.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1330000/1330149.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1330000/1330705.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010513_628.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/world/13LOST.html
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=25&SubSectionID=378&ArticleID=\
32390

Hunley:

http://news.excite.com/news/r/010517/14/news-life-hunley-dc

Karachi Mummy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=72708
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=72708
(cf. Archaeology Magazine's page devoted to this
one:  http://www.archaeology.org/0101/etc/persia.html)

Marathon Olympic site:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4185952,00.html
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12910&m=A11&aa=2&eido\
s=S
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0105/15/world/world4.html

REGULAR FEATURES

CTCWeb's Words of the Week
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html
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Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html
<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

English translation (probably delayed ... hasn't been updated since August):
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
<url:http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.htm
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                   Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
                       Volume 4, Issue 4 -- May 27, 2001

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Thanks to Michael Ruggieri, Allastair Millar, Bill Kennedy, Trevor Watkins,
Curtis B. Edmondson, and Matt Glendinning for headses upses this week
(a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

OLD WORLD NEWS

A new report suggests that diet might be a clue to the demise of the
Neanderthals:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1342000/1342392.stm
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/576466.asp

Archaeologists have found evidence of the oldest site found in Scotland:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=75522
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1352000/1352091.stm

An emergency excavation in Israel has turned up a Chalcolithic figurine and
a 6000 year-old burial chamber:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/05/23/News/News.26779.html

A Croatian archaeologist is claiming to have deciphered Europe's oldest
calendar:

http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw990505982455B263

The New York Times has a feature on the Etruscans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/arts/27RIDI.html

A Romano-Celtic temple has been discovered at Vindolanda:

http://icnewcastle.ic24.com/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=11066936&method\
=full

It appears they're going to put elevators in the Colosseum:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2001/may/25/052506380.html

I'm sure this is old news (since I took flak for not remembering who the
Packard involved was), but the Telegraph is reporting on David Woodley
Packard's funding of excavations etc. at Herculaneum:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=V1jlGx4x&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/5/27/wherc27.html

The remains of a girl found in Essex are providing evidence that Columbus
did not bring syphilis back from the new world with him:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_306428.html?menu=news.latestheadlines.world\
news

Another project in Athens to supposedly link all its archaeological sites
has been announced:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=83896

The Guardian has an interesting item on restoration of art work
(specifically, cleaning da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4191668,00.html

This one could be old world or new world, I suppose, since it looks at the
reasons  major ancient civilizations collapsed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4191725,00.html

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NEW WORLD NEWS

Another contribution to the 'when did people come to America first' saga:

http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/nat_docs/57121.htm
http://cjonline.com/stories/052701/new_humanorigins.shtml

The Tribune reports on the identification of a new ancient (!) culture in
Arizona:

http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/STATE/25NewCulture.html

The remains of a Mayan ruler have been found in Copan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1352000/1352751.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/578597.asp
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010525/sc/honduras_mayas_dc_1.html
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0787_BC_Hondur\
as-Ruins&&news&newsflash-international

"Explorers" are claiming to have found the "lost city of the Incas":

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stifgname02001.html?

The Dispatch has a nice feature on an ongoing rescue type dig in
Columbus:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/news01/may01/703105.html

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REVIEW

The Times has a review of Richard P. Taylor *Death and the Afterlife: A
Cultural Encyclopedia*:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,70-2001170074,00.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS

The Jewish Magazine's Archaeology in Israel feature this month is devoted
to Jaffa:

http://www.jewishmag.com/43mag/jaffa/jaffa.htm

The Atlantic Monthly has a feature on Roman Africa:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/06/kaplan.htm

Egypt Revealed has a feature on women in ancient Egypt (noted in passing
... Zahi Hawass' "Weekly Updates" don't appear to be):

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/052201-womeinegypt.htm

There's a new issue of Bible Review out, with features on "Genesis as
Rashomon", the history of the alphabet, et alia:

http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER

I'm not sure why this took so long to hit the search engines ... it's an
update on the Loyola situation:

http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010521/business-78

Folks will probably be interested in the simulated archaeological dig (with
Roman remains) going on at Germantown Friends School:

http://www.gfsnet.org/history/mock_excavation.html

The Guardian has a review of Marina Warner, *The Leto Bundle* which might
be of interest:

http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,497109,00.html

eKatherimini has a feature on ancient Mediterranean cuisine:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=84373

An item on Brown might be of interest:

http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010524/business-66

The New York Daily News appears to be the first to deal with the story
behind Disney's Atlantis:

http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-27/New_York_Now/Movies/a-112515.asp

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AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Aristophanes:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa052201a\
.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on the Latin roots which give rise to
the names of rocks and minerals:

http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/weekly/aa052800a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst is reprising her parody "The Very Model of a
Modern Archaeologist":

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/weekly/aa081797.htm

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OBITUARY

Dorothy Burr Thompson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/24/obituaries/24BURR.html

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FOLLOWUPS

Caral:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010521/peru.html
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/577559.asp
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010523/12/science-life-peru-city-dc

Cleopatra:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o220521p.htm

Harappan submerged site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1345000/1345150.stm

Hunley:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0521_hunleycaptain.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0524_hunleycoin.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010521/hunley.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/576374.asp

(New) Library at Alexandria:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o220521d.htm
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o240521j.htm

Lott House:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-204738,00.html

Marathon Rowing site:

http://www.realcolumbus.com/rc/life/docs/08807372.htm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/577555.asp

Nazca Lines threat:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/575914.asp

Roman Shipwreck in the Tyne:

http://icnewcastle.ic24.com/0100news/page.cfm?objectid=11066937&method=full

Temple Mount (not really a followup, but nothing really new):

http://www.jewishmag.com/42mag/templemount/templemount.htm

Thor Heyerdahl:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1353000/1353343.stm


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OLD WORLD NEWS

A Rabbi's use of archaeology has caused some consternation amongst the
faithful:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/02/national/02RELI.html

The Jewish Magazine has a nice feature on ancient synagoges at Ba'ram and
Capernaum:

http://www.jewishmag.com/44mag/synagogues/synagogues.htm

The Sunday Times has a brief report on Newgrange:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/05/27/stipripri02021.html

The Guardian has coverage of a talk given by Barry Cunliffe, who railed
against the view that ancient Britain was "backwards":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,497953,00.html

A bronze age necklace has been found on a beach in Norway:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_312416.html

EurkeAlert alerts us to an upcoming 'dig' of the bronze age site of Bamboula:

http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uc-ual060101.html

Archaeologists have more evidence to confirm an Athenian site as being that
of the Kynosarges Gymnasium:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=85367

A number of Dutch reports are covering (in Dutch, of course) the opening of
a Roman-era lead coffin:

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/kunst/989496466759.html
http://www.gelderlander.nl/CDA/regioportal/0,2078,1448__605416_1,00.html
http://www.krantenonline.nl/CDA/regioportal/1,2078,2637__615841_1,00.html

Frankfurter Allgemeine reports (in English) on the recently-excavated
temple of Isis-Cybele found near Mainz:

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={C7B00037-52D1-11D5-A3B5-\
009027BA22E4}&width=1024&height=748&agt=netscape&ver=4&svr=4.5

An Alamanni cemetery has been found near Herrenberg (report in German):

http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/dc1/html/news-stz/20010529krei0012.shtml

A village in Bangalore is being dubbed "an archaeologist's dream":

http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010529/nat19.html
http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw991139582320B264

A wooden board is helping to date the (somewhat mysterious) Katsumaya Mound:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010531wo61.htm
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010601b1.htm

The coffin of a 13th-century Spanish king has turned out to have two skulls
in it (!):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=V1jmF5Gx&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/5/30/wskul30.html

The Scotsman is reporting on the discovery of what might be a 15th century
shipwreck:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=76440&keyword=the

In a similar vein, Croatia plans to protect a number of shipwrecks (ancient
and not so) from divers:

http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1033097,00.ht\
ml

The 'Napoleon was poisoned' theory is back in the news again:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010528/napoleon.html

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NEW WORLD NEWS

The Charleston Post (and others) has a report on the Topper site in South
Carolina:

http://www.charleston.net/pub/archive/news/pre0527.htm
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010529/575984.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/archaeology/2001-05-26-earlyamericans.htm

Anasazi cannibalism remains a hot topic:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0601_wireanasazi.html

The New York Times has a nice feature on the cause of the decline of the Maya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/29/science/29OBSER-2.html

The Houston Chronicle has a brief item on plans to thwart smuggling of
antiquities from Mexico:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/927887

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

There's a new issue of Archaeology Odyssey out, with online features on the
Bamiyan Buddhas and western features on Buddhas in Gandhara:

http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER

Athens News has an interesting preview of an exhibit devoted to John
Pendlebury (as does eKathimerini, it turns out):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12912&m=A11&aa=1&eido\
s=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=85034

The Boston Globe has a nice feature on classics at Boston College:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/154/metro/At_BC_myth_meets_life+.shtml

The Seattle Times has a touristy piece on Ephesus:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/134301261_ephesus030.html

The Washington Post has an interesting piece on a scholar's study which
coverts ancient weights (e.g. the talent) into their metric equivalent:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A78338-2001May25.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_308378.html

Looks like there's going to be some big time Asterix flix coming:

http://news.excite.com/news/r/010601/00/film-asterix

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EXHIBITION

The Royal Ontario Museum is hosting an exhibit called "Gift of the Gods:
The Art of Wine and Revelry":

http://www.rom.on.ca/news/releases/public.php3?mediakey=nwnftsl6yn
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Spectator/_daily|news1247

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AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Seneca's views on health and
sport:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa060501a\
.htm

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OBITUARIES

Dorothy Burr Thompson:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=75536

Graham Webster:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=74616

Ted Wright:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001181023,00.html

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FOLLOWUPS

Copan tomb:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=75054

'Lost' Inca city:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_308457.html

Marathon Rowing Row:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12912&m=A06&aa=2&eido\
s=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=84753
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010528/13/oly-athens-rowing

Mitochondrial DNA:

http://www.cosmiverse.com/science05300103.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20010528/t000044705.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4193433,00.html

Syphilis in Europe:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001182158,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1359000/1359758.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_306428.html

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(a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)


OLD WORLD NEWS

The arrival of humans in Australia and the Americas apparently resulted in
large-scale extinctions of animals:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1375000/1375770.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/584086.asp
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010604/mammoth.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010607/sc/science_extinction_dc_1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Deadly-Humans.html?ex=992943001&ei=1\
&en=6ce8b9639901986c

The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item on who built the
pyramids (this one obviously is for political purposes):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o220521c.htm

The same source has a similarly brief item on the discovery of a
Ptolemaic-era olive/grape press:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o030621d.htm

It appears that we've had the mummy of Nefertiti for close to a century and
didn't know it:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2001191217,00.html


There's plenty of (re)coverage of the discovery of the sunken city of
Herakleion in Abukir Bay [you might also want to check out Franck Goddio's
website: http://www.franckgoddio.org ] ... there's actually a fair bit of
variation in the coverage (especially photos ... if you want to jump to
them quickly, scroll down a bit here):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1375000/1375708.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010604/egypt.html
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o090621k.htm
http://www.egyptrevealed.com/060701-ancientportgoddio.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/alexandria010607.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_318764.html?menu=
http://www.bergen.com/news/egyptbg200106061.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/06/07/internat\
ional1253EDT0614.DTL&type=printable
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=86162
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,503588,00.html
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=79348
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/06/07/egypt.sunken.city.ap/index.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2001/06/08/s\
unken2.jpg&paper=news&file=international1253EDT0614.DTL&directory=/news/archive/\
2001/06/07&type=printable

Some good photos:
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale07d
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale01d
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale05d
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale03d
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale02d

The DAI is going to return some of the Olympia Philippion to Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=86146
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpab/2001/01-06-09.mpab.html#04
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2001/01-06-08.apeen.html#01

Stimme has a piece (in German) on an extremely large Iron Age cemetery near
Neckarsulm:

http://www.stimme.de/news/regional/artikel/index.cfm?id=-1007537654

The Guardian has  a very brief item on the first evidence of a bronze age
settlement near Dunblane:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4197400,00.html

Xinhua reports on China's first-ever underwater archaeological expedition:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010604/415197.htm

The Guardian has an interesting piece on how Britain has become the centre
for trade in illicit manuscripts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4201560,00.html

The Orlando Sentinel has a similarly interesting piece on the evolution of war:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/science/orl-sci-warfare061001.story?c\
oll=orl%2Dnews%2Dheadlines%2Dscience

NEW WORLD NEWS

The San Francisco Chronicle has a nice piece on the competition between
scholars and thieves to recover/loot Maya artifacts:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/07/MN221710.DTL&type=sc\
ience
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010603/415039.htm

National Geographic has a report on the discovery of a "pilgrimage route"
in the Andes:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0604_boliviashrines.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Discover Archaeology has a piece on the Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to
Myth exhibit which will be coming to Chicago:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/060501-cleopatra.htm


... and an, er, interesting piece on Carleton Coon's activities during WWII:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0599toc/5exploits1-dung.shtml

EXHIBITIONS

RNZ has a piece (in German) on an exhibition called  Das Haupt Ioniens (I
think that's the title of the exhibition):

http://www.rnz.de/15_regional/heidelberg/07_heidelberg.htm

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

Jean-Michel Jarre will be performing a "Hymn to the Acropolis" next month:

http://www.iht.com/articles/22061.html

Also on the Acropolis front, a new road has been opened to the public which
should ease traffic around the Parthenon:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12913&m=A09&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Folks will probably be interested to read of 'Greek Week' activities at a
school in Englewood:

http://www.bergen.com/bcoast/olympjg200106065.htm

New book ... "The Emperor's Babe" ... 'nuff said?:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,217-2001192199,00.html

FOLLOWUPS

Marathon Rowing Row (they have found something at the site!):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=85552

Temple Mount:

http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=06/07/01&id=121\
022

OBITUARIES

Edward Wright:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/world/10WRIG.html?searchpv=nytToday

AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is probably going to be updated
today or tomorrow ... check out

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on -io verbs of the 3rd conjugation and
the 4th:

http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/bl3io4-1.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Llangorse Crannog:

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/weekly/aa060601a.htm

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Thanks to Bill Kennedy for the heads up (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.):

OLD WORLD NEWS

The Tucson Citizen has a feature on early humans' diet:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/6_14_01fish.html

A recent paper is disputing the Scot's Irish origins:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/11-6-19101-0-51-36.html

A bronze age site has been revealed near Hostivice:

http://www.pbj.cz/common/article.asp?id=121541&site=1

Six tombs dating to 3000 B.C./B.C.E. have been discovered outside Cairo:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_324538.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0106/16/review/review9.html
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/story_14329.asp
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2001/06/12/FFXIWM1KUNC.html

A British weather man has suggested weather can explain a number of
Biblical events:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=QeSk3e3R&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/6/17/nbibl17.html

A number of Sassanid dynasty coins have been found:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010613/sc/syria_archaeology_1.html
http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/06/13/syria.coins.ap/index.html

The Cyprus PIO has a brief item on the excavation of the theatre at Paphos:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cypio/2001/01-06-13.cypio.html#03

There is now more evidence that the Colosseum was built from spoils from
the sack of Jerusalem:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=wKtet5fb&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/6/15/wcol15.html

Also in regards to the Colosseum, plans are in the works to restore it to
its original colour:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010614/wl/italy_colosseum_2.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2001/jun/14/061400786.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/22999.html (spelling!)

A dozen or so Roman ships found near the Sardinian port of Olbia are
beginning to give up their secrets:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1385000/1385326.stm

MSNBC has a feature on Australian archaeologist Rhys Jones:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/587594.asp

Researchers using archaeological evidence have suggested that taller people
live longer:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=77944

The latest use of DNA research appears to be to determine the origins of
India's caste system:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/hsn/20010519/hl/genes_confirm_origin_of_india_s_cas\
tes_1.html

Weird stuff: museum officials in Britain have to deal with an upsurge in
"mummy worship":

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=77419



NEW WORLD NEWS

Genetic testing is being done to find living relative of Canada's "Ice Man":

http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0106/13_ancient-ap.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/586829.asp
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010613_474.html
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/27407_ice14.shtml

There's concern about 'mom and pop' approaches to er, 'archaeology' in Oregon:

http://www.kptv.com/news/local/story.asp?content_id=466348
http://www.kgw.com/kgwnews/oregonwash_story.html?StoryID=21386

The Arizona Republic has a feature on Phoenix archaeologist Todd Bostwick:

http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0612Dig12.html

It sounds like we're going to be hearing more about Mesa Verde:

http://db.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=701491&pic=none&TP=getlifestyle
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/27337_ruins14.shtml
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_617159,00.htm\
l
cf. http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0699toc/6special-mv1.shtml

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Egypt Revealed has a piece on a "gender confused" mummy:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/061401-mummysexchange.shtml

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

A bunch of runners have retraced the gruelling 110km route of Euchidas:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12913&m=A48&aa=1&eido\
s=S

The Independent has a touristy sort of piece with plenty of classical
references on Italy: the land of myths:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=77459

FAZ has a feature on the temple of Zeus at Olympia:

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FD3-FBFB-11D2-B228-\
00105A9CAF88}&doc={6C641DF5-5FE1-11D5-A3B5-009027BA22E4}&width=800&height=572&ag\
t=netscape&ver=4&svr=4.7

There's a big article on Atlantis kicking around various newspapers:

http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010613/12/ent-wkd-atlantis-myths

FOLLOWUPS

Herakleion:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001200227,00.html
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o090621ka.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=194471&thesection=news&thesub\
section=world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,503588,00.html

Hunley:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/588079.asp

Phillipeion returned antiquities:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12914&m=A39&aa=3&eido\
s=S

OBITUARIES

Graham Webster:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001200161,00.html

Edward Wright:

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/International/0,3561,973614,00.h\
tml

AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Teiresias in Ovid's
Metamorphoses:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa061201a\
.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on the origins of words like host etc.:

http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/weekly/aa080199.htm

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Thanks to Bill Kennedy for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ...

I think I got this one done, finally ... my computer crashed several times
during its production (too many programs running at the same time, alas)

OLD WORLD NEWS

A trio of 5600-year-old mummies are challenging conventional theories for
the reasons for the process:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001201920,00.html

Here's one I missed: back in May, FAZ had a piece on Tel Cheura (in English):

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?sub={F1B72E51-3783-11D4-A3AA-\
009027BA22E4}&doc={C7B015D3-52D1-11D5-A3B5-009027BA22E4}

National Geographic has a nice piece on the search for the Queen of Sheba:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0612_sheba.html

Athens News has a feature on the Helike project:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12915&m=A25&aa=1&eido\
s=S
(check out the project website at:  http://www.geoprobe.org/helike/index.html )

A body has been found for Livia's head in the Ashmolean:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2001210561,00.html

They've re-erected the obelisk which once graced the hippodrome at Caesarea:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010618/wl/israel_obelisk_1.html

It wouldn't be summer without an account of the goings on at Stonehenge at
the solstice:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1398000/1398810.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4208370,00.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0620_Stonecircles.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001211781,00.html

Mitteldeutsche Zeitung has a feature on a very large 9th century graveyard
being excavated near Buro:

http://www.mz-web.de/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=mz_web/pages/regionales/news\
_ArtikelColl&RegionalRubrik=anh&RegionalRubrikName=Anhalt&MZWebArtikelID=9932401\
21027

Robert Ballard is heading back to the Black Sea to look for evidence of
the/a Flood:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/17/stifgneeu01002.html

UNESCO is worried about Mohenjodaro:

http://www.dawn.com/2001/06/19/nat21.htm

A university in Britain will be offering an MA in Archaeology for Screen
Media in an attempt to reduce the number of howlers in programs like Time Team:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=qKqpJte9&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/6/24/ndeg24.html


A group in California used a huge kite to raise a 30 foot obelisk ...
hmmmmmmmm:

http://www.austin360.com/shared/news/technology/ap_story.html/Science/AP.V2774.A\
P-Obelisk-Kite.html
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0604_BC_Obelis\
kKite&&news&newsflash-national


NEW WORLD NEWS

The Kennewick Man saga has been renewed:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44633,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/323998.asp
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/21/p2s2.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,297296-412,00.shtml
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/19/kennewick.man.ap/index.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010619/ts/kennewick_man_1.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/kennewick_hearing010619.html

The Tennessean has a feature on local archaeologist Elizabeth Kellar:

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/06043797.shtml?Element_ID=6043797

The New York Times has a very interesting feature on the artistic/stylistic
side of native american rock art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/19/science/19ROCK.html

A 16th-century Spanish fortress (maybe) has been discovered near Asheville:

http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/catawba/docs/dig0622.htm

REVIEWS

Archaeologists will certainly want to read the review of Edward Fox,
*Palestine Twilight: The Murder of Dr Edward Glock and the Archeology of
the Holy Land:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/24/stibooboo01014.html

National Review has a review of Page Dubois *Trojan Horses: Saving Classics
from the Conservatives*:

http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/books/books-kopf062301.shtml

EXHIBITIONS

Absolute Arts has a review of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's "Egypt
Revealed: Life and Death in Ancient Egypt" (there's nothing at the BMAG
site itself on this yet other than an announcement that the exhibition is
coming):

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/06/23/28746.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

There's a new online edition of Biblical Archaeology Review out, with
articles on the evidence for early Christianity at Yattir and King
Hezekiah's seal:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html

Egypt Revealed has a feature on the pharaohnic village:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/062001-pharaonicvillage.htm

I'm not sure whether this is really a 'newsstand' piece, but an online
journal called Transoxiana was recently brought to my attention and it has
several articles (by graduate students at the University del Salvador) on
the ancient near eastern/egyptian world (in Spanish). Worth a look:

http://www.salvador.edu.ar/transox/index.html


CLASSICIST'S CORNER

Latin continues to make a comeback:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0614_wirelatin.html

... and folks might want to look at a similar sort of article from a German
newspaper (in German, of course):

http://www.ngz-online.de/ngz/news/korschenbroich/2001-0623/latein.html

... and one from the beeb:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1396000/1396858.stm

There's an interesting analogy (sort of) between the Colosseum and the
Temple of Janus:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010619/wl/italy_death_penalty_1.html

Someone's gone and reconstructed an ancient Greek organ and it will
actually be played:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001210658,00.html

The idea of an Olympic Truce is still kicking around:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=86740

Folks might be interested in a review of *Hercules in Love*:

http://jumpfn.123jump.com/story.htm?news_id=6449021&sid=3

I think I missed the original of this in Athens News, but John Carr has
written a not-so-complimentary piece on the London Hellenic Society:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12912&m=A11&aa=2&eido\
s=A

... and a recent letter to the editor is interesting as well:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12914&m=A08&aa=3&eido\
s=S

AT ABOUT.COM:

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the Battle of Adrianople:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa061901a\
.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has some advice for the folks who don't want
to do archaeology any more:

http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/weekly/aa062001a.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns brings us a timeline of Roman emperors:

http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/bltimelineemper.htm

FOLLOWUPS

Bamboula:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010605074203.htm

Colosseum Restoration:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/06/19/italy.colosseum.ap/index.html

Elgin Marbles:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1402000/1402072.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=79471

Herakleion:

http://www.exn.ca/Templates/webisode.asp?story_id=2001062251 (a
discovery.ca "webisode")
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o180621n.htm (an amazingly unedited
piece)
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o160621x.htm (nothing really new
except the date)

Macchu Picchu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1403000/1403740.stm

Marathon Rowing row:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010621/sc/olympics_grave_dc_1.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/newsid_1400000/1400587.stm

Mesa Verde (not Monte Verde):

http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20010618mesaverdehealth3p3.asp

Nefertiti mummy:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010618/nefertiti.html

Roman Fleet near Sardinia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1385000/1385326.stm


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friends on the other side of the longest undefended border in the world!


Thanks for headses upses to Alastair Millar, Lee Bradshaw, Robert T. White,
"Jeff", Mauros, and Michael Ruggieri (a.a. h. i. h.l.n.o.o.)

OLD WORLD NEWS

Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be the tomb of
Nub-Kheper-Ra-Intef:

http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1045173,\
00.html

Al-Ahram has a feature on recent finds in Egypt:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/539/tr1.htm

The Egyptian State Information Service has an extended article on mummies
and their discovery:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o250621a.htm

The Israel Antiquities Authority has uncovered a Hasmonean period synagogue:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/06/28/LatestNews/LatestNews.29286.html

A group of Roman graves have been found in Lebanon:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010629/2001062916.html

A mysterious mass grave has been discovered in Greece:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010628/wl/greece_skeletons_dc_1.html

People's Daily has a piece on recently-discovered evidence of  "brain
surgery" (more likely trepanation) in ancient China:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200106/27/eng20010627_73605.html

What appears to be a wooden leg has been found in a 3rd-7th century
excavation in Japan:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010701b4.htm

HumanOasis has a feature on what vandals have done to monuments in Malta:

http://www.humanoasis.com/Feature%20Stories/062701-vandaladestromalta.html

The Telegraph has a report on efforts to excavate a couple of
Renaissance-era ships in the Venice lagoon:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=wKwiolsb&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/6/30/wlagoo30.html

The British Museum has acquired the Sherborne Missal:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001220843,00.html

The Times has a piece on the tourist threat to the Roman city of Volubilis
in North Africa:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-2001222009,00.html

cf. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010609/2001060917.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

A television program in Canada (that I missed) suggests there is evidence
of a Hopi presence in Canada:

http://www.newswire.ca/releases/June2001/28/c8586.html

HumanOasis has a nice feature on the mesoamerican ball game:

http://www.humanoasis.com/Feature%20Stories/062701-gameofthegods.html

Nature has a report connecting the demise of Peruvian civilizations to el Nino:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/010628/010628-5.html

Tuscaloosa News reports on the latest findings at Moundsville:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/7828newsarchivedstorypage.html

The Charlotte Gazette-Mail has a piece on the excavation of a local salt
baron's mansion:

http://sundaygazettemail.com/news/News/200107012/

The Star-Telegram (et alia) has a feature on what archaeology tells us
about civil-war era military technology:

http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/06/30/state/fw010402-0630-XB\
018-1.htm
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/407015_ship_30tex.ART.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/957191

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

There's a new edition of Archaeology Magazine online, with abstracted
articles on African rock art, Midas' tomb, the Maya, the gaelic origins of
the Scots, Ahmose, funerary stuff from Abydos, among other things:

http://www.archaeology.org/0107/toc/toc.html

Egypt Revealed has a piece on the excavations at Tell Ibrahim Awad:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/062601-tellibrahim.htm

ON  THE WEB

The Bible and Interpretation site has a number of items of interest,
including a report on the political side of biblical archaeology:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/robinson.htm

... the search for the historical Pontius Pilate:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/pontiuspilate.htm

... the recent explosion in interest in the search for the historical Jesus:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/jesusresearch.htm

NOT SURE HOW TO CATEGORIZE

HumanOasis has a feature on the nasty little microorganisms which make
archaeology potentially dangerous:

http://www.humanoasis.com/Feature%20Stories/062901-dangerousdigging.html

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

Folks might be interested in a piece in the Onion on the importance of the
sword and sandal genre:

http://avclub.theonion.com/avclub3722/bonusfeature1_3722.html

Concerts at the Temple of Zeus in Athens appear to be doing more harm than
good:

http://www.timesofindia.com/270601/27wrap2.htm

What's on at Epidavros this week:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12916&m=A39&aa=2&eido\
s=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=86884

Athens news has a touristy feature on Skyros with plenty o classical content:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12916&m=A24&aa=1&eido\
s=S

eKathimerini has a piece on following Hesiod's advice for dealing with the
dog star:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=87096

Archaeological evidence from Olympia is apparently being dragooned to
justify making Formula 1 an Olympic sport:

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FCF-FBFB-11D2-B228-\
00105A9CAF88}&doc={5F4A9C80-6BFD-11D5-A3B5-009027BA22E4}

OBITUARY

Mortimer Adler:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/obituaries/29ADLE.html

EXHIBITS

The Dahesh Museum of Art has a thing called "Telling Tales I: Classical
Images" which looks at the various painterly interpretations of classical myth:

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/05/31/28628.html
(a list of what's on display is available at
http://www.daheshmuseum.org/list.htm )

"Eternal Egypt" is opening in Memphis (Tennessee):

http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010626/tn-egypt-in-memphis

AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Theodosius I:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa062601a\
.htm

Latin guide Janet Burns' latest is on the etymological origins of
grammatical terms:

http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/weekly/aa011701a.htm

FOLLOWUPS

Cleopatra Exhibit:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-52686,FF.htm\
l

Colosseum restoration:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0625_wirecoliseum.html

http://www.baz.ch/heute/index.cfm?ressort=Kultur%20%26%20Feuilleton&categoryID=4\
D2D4C4A-AAC3-4C65-AE4F6ECAB212D71B&ObjectID=6557C4E1-6F34-492C-AB4C7B33251A7217

Herakleion:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20010625/t000052551.html
http://www.mondadori.com/panorama/area_1/8332_1.html

Kennewick guy:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010628/ts/life_kennewick_dc_1.html

Philippeion:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=6631

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of days as my wife won't let me take my laptop camping with us ...


A very busy week ... thanks to Bill Christens-Barry, Sujazz, Jeff, Trevor
Watkins, Bill Kennedy and Andrew Schoenhofer for a pile of headses upses
this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)


OLD WORLD NEWS

There is a ton of coverage of the new cave art find near Cussac, France:

http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1048236,00.ht\
ml
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=81813
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/france.html
http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/s/thestory.pl?slug-07CAVE
http://www.msnbc.com/news/596544.asp
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001230838,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1423000/1423021.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010702/cave.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3244--205403-,00.html (in French)
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010705/09/news-france-cave-dc
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010705/sc/france_cave_dc_1.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010704/wl/france_cave_engravings_1.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010705/wl/france_cave_dc.html

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news_photos?p=cussac&n=20&c=news_photos
(11 photos)

EXN (Discovery Channel Canada) has a (video) report on some petroglyphs
found in Yemen:

http://www.exn.ca/inc/demo1.asp?Video=20010508-ht-yemen.asx

A brief report suggests a "stone age" (surely wrong?) woman has been
discovered during road work in Denmark:

http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1047384,\
00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_343883.html?menu=

A Hyksos era tomb was discovered this week, with the aid of an ancient
"road map" which will probably have many implications:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o030721z.htm

A brief AP story reports on the discovery of the tomb of a New Kingdom priest:

http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/07/04/egypt.tomb.ap/index.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010704/wl/egypt_tomb_1.html
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o040721a.htm (I think this is the same)


The Egyptian State Information Service reports that the pyramid of Chephren
will be opened to the public (cf. Zahi Hawass' update below):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o070721j.htm
http://news.24.com/News24/Africa/Northern_Africa/0,1113,2-11-38_1049065,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_343514.html?menu=

The same source briefly reports on the discovery of an Old Kingdom temple:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o070721k.htm
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010707/2001070720.html

... and the base of a pyramid (I think this is a followup) of Nub-Khabr-Ra:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o020721I.htm
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o300621n.htm

An Assyrian temple has been discovered in Iraq:

http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2001/07/07/FFXIP3T9UOC.html

This is probably really a followup, but AthensNews is reporting the
discovery of a mysterious mass grave near Kalamata:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12917&m=A10&aa=3&eido\
s=S

A Roman-era site has been discovered in Ismailia (Egypt):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o050721.htm

... and some Roman-era antiquities were found in Alexandria too:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o020721e.htm

HumanOasis/Discover Archaeology reports on research which is pushing back
the date of the oldest steel in England:

http://www.humanoasis.com/Feature%20Stories/070401-Originsofsteel.html
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/web%20articles/070301-Origin%20of%20Steel%\
20in%20Englandweb.htm

Peoples Daily has an item on the discovery of a 5000-year-old pyramid in
Mongolia:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200107/06/eng20010706_74356.html

The Ilisu Dam Project is once again in the news:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,516405,00.html

A report in the Telegraph suggests major problems with the assumptions of
C14 dating:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=0Ks20beq&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/7/5/tesdate05.html

The Dallas Morning News has a feature on Lew Binford:

http://www.dallasnews.com/science/413179_binford_08liv..html

Science Daily has an item on looting of sites in Iraq:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/07/010706081613.htm

NEW WORLD NEWS

The Miami Circle is back in the news, with the discovery of associated
human remains:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krmiami/20010704/lo/ancient_cemetery_found_at_brick\
ell_park_1.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001231482,00.html
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/106582.htm
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010704/16/miami-ruins

A German "treasure hunter" is claiming to have found the wreck of Captain
Morgan's pirate ship:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001232149,00.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

There's a new issue of British Archaeology out, with online features on
cannibalism, 8th century York, and other things:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba59/index.shtml

Zahi Hawass has finally found the time to update his Giza Update feature at
Egypt Revealed:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/news_from_giza.htm

Egypt Revealed also has a new article on the threat to Egyptian monuments
from underground water:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/070401-monumentsinperil.htm

... and a feature on the tomb of a pair of 12th Dynasty priests:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/070701-egyptianpriests.htm

ON THE WEB

This one's pretty interesting if you have the patience to get it to load:
the Jerusalem Archaeological Park has a virtual archaeological dig sort of
thing which includes a nifty timeline of the Temple at various periods etc.:

http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp

Folks over on the Amun list have been mentioning Discovery Channel
(Canada)'s 'webisodes' which feature interviews with various folks etc.; I
used to follow them but found they only existed for a week or so and
*never* covered matters archaeological, but now they appear to be more
permanent (or at least less ephemeral). Here's a couple webisodes which
should be of interest to Explorator readers (a bit of catching up):

On Cave Art and petroglyphs:
http://www.exn.ca/Templates/webisode.asp?story_id=2001062954
On ancient Alexandria:
http://www.exn.ca/Templates/webisode.asp?story_id=2001062251


CLASSICIST'S CORNER

Here's one I missed: a couple of weeks ago, the Sunday Times magazine had a
major feature on Archimedes:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/17/stimazmaz03006.html

Fans of Jukka Ammondt's rendering of Elvis tunes in Latin might be
interested in his latest album, in Sumerian:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=14189
http://www.nme.com/NME/External/News/News_Story/0,1004,35308,00.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010702/re/life_elvis_sumerian_dc_1.html
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/0703/wor2.htm

A confused reference appears to have led to a sort of anti-classics rant in
the Guardian (cf. Jasper Griffin's piece below):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4216223,00.html

Folks will likely want to listen to Tom Sienkewicz' comments on the revival
of Latin:

http://www.theconnection.org/archive/2001/07/0706b.shtml

Every three years they perform a Greek tragedy in the original language at
Cambridge ... but you knew that already:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/08/stiednedn01002.html

The Salt Lake Tribune has a touristy piece on visiting Rome post-Jubilee:

http://www.sltrib.com/07082001/travel/travel.htm

If you haven't seen it yet, Jasper Griffin has written a piece on the
'death of literatre England' in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-07-\
07&id=867

Peter Jones' column in the Spectator is also worth a look (I'll be
regularly providing a link to this):

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-07-\
07&id=881

AT ABOUT.COM

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Lascaux:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa070401a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Steven Saylor's *House of
the Vestals*:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa071001a\
.htm

REVIEW

The Guardian has a review of  Heather Pringle, *The Mummy
Congress*  and  Brenda Fowler *Iceman*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4217209,00.html

NOT SURE HOW TO CLASSIFY

While Tomb Raider continues to be the current archaeological flick of
record (I'm still waiting to see it!), I'm sure most folks will be
happy/relieved to learn that there's going to be another Indiana Jones movie:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4216737,00.html
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,2286417%255E2902,00.ht\
ml

... and Hollywood apparently wants to make a movie about Bruce Mann:

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P16S2.shtml

OBITUARY

William D.E. Coulson:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12917&m=A12&aa=2&eido\
s=S

FOLLOWUPS

Alexandria Under Water:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o030721v.htm

Cleopatra:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o030721a.htm

Hopi in Alberta:

http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=199193
http://www.exn.ca/inc/demo1.asp?Video=exn20010629-hopi.asx

Kites and Obelisks:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0628_caltechobelisk.html

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                                      EXPLORATOR
                   Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
                       Volume 4, Issue 11 -- July 15, 2000

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(especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to
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Apologies for lateness loyal readers ... I did warn you! Hopefully the
effects of Explorator withdrawal haven't set in yet ...

Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Sujazz, Jeff, and Don Holeman for headses upses
this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

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OLD WORLD NEWS

There's a new candidate for 'oldest human relative' based on artefacts
found in Ethiopia:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/599052.asp
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010709/hominid.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0712_ethiopianbones.html
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/hominid_ethiopia010711.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,74-2001241848,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/12/science/social/12FOSS.html
http://www.tribnet.com/frame.asp?/news/health_science/0712a64.html
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010723/ (this goes beyond the discovery
in Ethiopia)

There is evidence to push back the beginnings of agriculture:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1434000/1434080.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4219616,00.html

A 3500-year-old Scottish cemetery has been revealed:

http://www.online.ie/news/latest_world/viewer.adp?article=1401418

National Geographic has a feature on animal mummies:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0712_bunnymummies.html

ArabicNews has a feature on John Lee Ellison's work on the Ras Shamra texts:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/980714/1998071405.html

The BBC reports on the piecing together of ancient Persian religous texts
(Gospel of Mani):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1435000/1435490.stm

Groundwater is threatening the Temple of Karnak:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010712/wl/egypt_danger_at_luxor_1.html

Russian archaeologists have found a grave dating to the fifth century B.C.:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010711/wl/russia_archaeology_1.html

Road construction near Birmingham has turned up some Iron Age and Roman
remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1437000/1437374.stm

... which I think is a different report from the National Geographic
feature on the Asian Huns:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0711_russiatombs.html

... and a Times report on finds near the Great Wall of China:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001240285,00.html

The BBC World Service has a feature on Cambodia's ancient remains:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/010712_heritage.shtml

A 17th century (A.D.) mummy is baffling scientist types:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4221001,00.html

The Independent has a feature on the top ten archaeologists working in Britain:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=83479

The Independent also has a guide of sorts on various A-Level exam choices
which includes why people might study such things as archaeology:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=83319

... Classical Greek:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=83330

... Classical Civilization:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=83329

In one of what will probably be many stories this summer of students going
on real and/or constructed 'digs', the CORAL project is recreating an
Egyptian tomb excavation:

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/S-ASP-Bin/Ref/Index.asp?PUID=1397&Indx=976056

... more common is this report from Philly:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/intelligencerrecord/temp/archcamp.htm

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NEW WORLD NEWS

Ancient remains near Willamette, Oregon:

http://www.tribnet.com/frame.asp?/news/health_science/0715b141.html

The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina is also the site of a
1400-year-old village:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/598207.asp

Pre-roadwork excavations in Arizona have turned up some artifacts:

http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.dig13jul13.story?coll=bal%2Dlocal%2Dhea\
dlines

Archaeologists are planning a major survey of shipwrecks of St. Augustine:

http://www.naplesnews.com/01/07/florida/d644519a.htm

]|[=================================================================]|[

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Egypt Revealed has a piece on how the National Geographic society is
honouring Zahi Hawass with the title of Explorer in Residence:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/071201-zahiexplorerinresidence.htm

cf.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/07/11/egyptian.geographic.ap/index.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0710_zahiinterview.html

]|[=================================================================]|[

ON THE WEB

The Bible and Interpretation site has a new article up by Thomas L.
Thompson on the historiography (including the political side of things) of
ancient Israel:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/copenhagen.htm

]|[=================================================================]|[

ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL

I haven't really followed this one as I should have, but beginning with
this issue I'll keep you up-to-date on the latest streaming media available
at the Archaeology Channel. By way of introduction, there are currently
streaming features (in both Windows Media and Real format) on the Popham
Colony, Egypt: Gift of the Nile, Machu Picchu, and several other sites ...
good stuff:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

]|[=================================================================]|[

AT ABOUT.COM

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on Zeugma:

http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa070801a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the sons of Nubel and the
Gildonic War:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa071701a.htm

]|[=================================================================]|[

REVIEWS

The Independent has a review of Heather Pringle, *The Mummy Congress*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=83167

... and there's another review of Charles Thomas, *Palestine Twilight":

http://www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=005535293540205&rtmo=fwlvaMVs&atmo=rrrrr\
rrq&pg=/01/6/7/bopal7.html

]|[=================================================================]|[

CLASSICIST'S CORNER

The Independent has a nice piece (albeit with a common spelling error) on
the Hellenic Festival of tragedies etc. going on in Athens:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=83367

Peter Jones' latest in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-07-\
14&id=904

The Times has an interesting essay on Latin in various countries:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001170001-2001231905,00.html

]|[=================================================================]|[

OBITUARIES

Thomas Wiedemann:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=82633
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4219629,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001242013,00.html

]|[=================================================================]|[

FOLLOWUPS

Aboukir Bay:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010712/2001071243.html
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o120721h.htm

Elgin Marbles:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4218451,00.html

Hunley:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=83029
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37155-2001Jul9.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/25744.html

Kennewick Man:

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/2001/0714/story2.html
http://ananova.co.uk/news/story/sm_352395.html

Mongolian 'pyramid':

http://www.chinadaily.net/cndy/2001-07-10/19256.html

Monitor:

http://www.dailypress.com/news/final/stories/81879sy0.htm

Temple Mount:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/07/12/News/News.30265.html

]|[=================================================================]|[

REGULAR FEATURES

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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Kennedy, and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week
(a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

The BBC reports on the facial reconstruction of El Nino de la
Dolina, purportedly Europe's oldest human being (800,000 b.p.):

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports
/newsid_1448000/1448625.stm>

A couple of wire stories are making the rounds regarding the
discovery of 3000-year-old monuments in Iraq:

<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar
/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=995369260508&call_page=TS_Wor
ld&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World&col=96835006
0724>

<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010717/wl/iraq_archeology_1.h
tml>

<http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/07/16/iraq.excavation.reut/
index.html>

<http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010716/80/bybrk.html>

Deseret News reports on the excavation of a Nubian city:

<http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,295011599,00.html?>

... and I think this is the same basic story from EXN:

<http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2001/07/20/52.asp>

Britain has returned the bust of Merit to Egypt:

<http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o210721t.htm>

The Kalabsha temple complex is the latest to get the 'lit up at
night' treatment for tourists:

<http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o190721b.htm>

The Egyptian State Information Service has a vague report on
plans to revive 'pharaonic sports' events:

<http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o170721x.htm>

ArabicNews has a brief item on the discovery of a byzantine-era
church:

<http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010717/2001071733.htm
l>

An art dealer who apparently trafficked smuggled ancient Near
Eastern artifacts has been arrested:

<http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20010717_6.html>

A brief item in eKathimerini reports on the discovery of an
obviously ancient (but not dated) grave during road construction
near Gerakas (you'll have to scroll down a bit):

<http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=90496>

La Repubblica reports on the discovery of a number of amphora
(wine and oil) in Albegna and the ancient wine trade (in Italian):

<http://www.repubblica.it/quotidiano/repubblica/20010717/cronaca
/28egranf.html>

The Independent has an item on the discovery of a 280 mile (!)
long section of Roman aqueduct in Turkey:

<http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=84711>

Once again, Pompeii seems to be under threat from the mafia:

<http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,525616,00.
html>

eKathimerini reports on the recovery of a smuggled marble bull
in Vavrona:

<http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=91258>

<http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2001/01-07-20.apeen.html#01>

CNN is reporting on an interesting modern attempt to use Viking
technology:

<http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/07/19/viking.preservation.
ap/index.html>
================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Construction of a gas pipeline in Mexico has revealed a number
of artifacts of pre-Hispanic peoples, some apparently unknown:

<http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=4741>

In Palenque, archaeologists have closed tourist access to
Pakal's tomb to deal with problems of mould and humidity:

<http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=4779>

Mexico.com has a news feature on the site of Zaachila:

<http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=4706>

Some Hohokam pit houses have been found in Arizona:

<http://news.excite.com/news/bw/010718/az-tucson-electric-power>

... and some new discoveries have pushed the occupation history
of Tucson back a millennium and a half or so:

<http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/7_20_01archaeology.html>

A pair of temporary Anasazi shelters have been discovered in
New Mexico:

<http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,295011522,00.html>

A couple of kids playing have discovered a 300-year-old (?)
canoe:

<http://www.charlotte.com/topnews/pub/canoe.htm>

There are suggestions that up to 85% of the artifacts in Peru's
Museo de Oro might be fake:

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1446000/
1446264.stm>

<http://news.excite.com/news/r/010719/08/odd-gold-dc>

The Ashland Daily Press has one of those what's-it-like-to-dig
articles:

<http://www.ashlandwi.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=
78590&refer_url=>

... as does the Times Daily:

<http://www.timesdaily.com/news/stories/7075newsstories.html>

There's a nice piece circulating on the role of the scribe in
Maya society:

<http://www.iht.com/articles/26570.html>
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-
bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/21/MN220298.DTL>

================================================================
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================

Humanities has an interesting interview with Lynn H. Nicholas
on the theft of art during WWII:

<http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2001-05/conversation.html>

... and a good article on the APIS project (digitizing papyri
etc.):

<http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2001-05/mummycrocs.html>

There's a new issue of Ancient Egypt Magazine, with online
articles on Egyptian magic and maps of the afterlife, among
other things:

<http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue07.htm>

================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================

A message on BritArch pointed me to an archaeology simulation
program called ArchDig, which looks like it might be very useful
for teachers of various subjects historical, as well as fun for
armchair archaeologists:

<http://arcdig.sourceforge.net/>

================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Aksum:

<http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa071801a.htm>

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Alaric and the
Goths:

<http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa072401a.htm>

================================================================
REVIEWS
================================================================

Here's another review of Edward Fox's *Palestine Twilight*:

<http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=84481>

The Independent has a review of F. Waquet, *Latin, or the
Empire of a Sign*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=84484

================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================

The gas which supposedly inspired the Pythia at Delphi is in
the news:

<http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_353560.html?menu=>

AthensNews has a feature on ancient bathing facilities:

<http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=1291
9&m=A24&aa=1&eidos=S>

Gossip about a movie about Alexander the Great:

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4223659,00.htm
l>

Some classical references in the news:

<http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001242633,00.html>

<http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001243212,00.html>

I *think* this is a new column by Peter Jones ... he's not
officially listed in the Table of Contents:

<http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=curre
nt&issue=2001-07-21&id=904&searchText=>

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini

<http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

U.S. Weather in Latin:

<http://latin.wunderground.com/>

================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================

Aboukir Bay (some new stuff here!):

<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991047>

<http://www.msnbc.com/news/602232.asp>

<http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=90970>

<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar
/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=995493734948&call_page=TS_Wor
ld&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World&col=96835006
0724>

Marathon (new discoveries):

<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/17/science/social/17MARA.html>

<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010719/sp/olympics_greece_dc_
1.html>

<http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=90663>

cf. (scroll down a bit):
<http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=90954>

The Hunley:

<http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/nation/stories/whunley_200
10721.htm>

The Monitor:

<http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/601026.asp>

<http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010716/nc-noaa-uss-engine>

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We're a little early this weekend because of family demands
(i.e. last weekend was the sanity break; this weekend resumes
the insanity). As a result, however, I might have missed a few
late-breaking items.

I believe I have fixed the wrap problem some folks had last
weekend. Apologies for that; technical glitches with a new program
                               ***
Thanks to Alastair Millar, Johanna Sandrock, Jeff, Jean Laplante,
Bob Keeter, Knud Skov, and Bill Kennedy headses upses this week
a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

In case you missed it (although I'm not sure how), the big
archaeological news of the week appears to be that scientists
have figured out why Oetzi died:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1456000/1456718.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50879-2001Jul25.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/604971.asp
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/europe/story.jsp?story=85381
http://www.humanoasis.com/Feature%20Stories/072601-iceman.html

Also on the early man front, archaeologists are all excited
about a dig in Spain which appears to show the earliest use of
fire in Europe:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/605803.asp

And just to make you go hmmmmmm ... researchers claim to have
extracted DNA from a 1.8 million-year-old hominid fossil:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200107260275.html

The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item on
evidence for ancient Egyptian fish cultivation:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o250721e.htm

The BBC has a report on the suggestion that climate change
brought an end to the Old Kingdom:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1458000/1458327.stm

Another tale of a missing Egyptian antiquity turning up
in a museum basement:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4226227,00.html

... and a bust of Nefertari (maybe) is being returned to
Egypt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1461000/1461516.stm

Forbes (!) has an item on a Clazomenian sarcophagus at the Getty
which might be the product of an illegal dig:

http://www.forbes.com/2001/07/18/0718hot.html

The Palace at Iolkos is once again in the news (this should really
be a followup) with all its associations with Jason, Fleeces,
etc.:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=93117
http://www.msnbc.com/news/606028.asp
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-jason28.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/27/jason.argonauts/index.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010727/wl/greece_jason_s_palace_1.html

A number of early Christian (?) graves have been discovered near
the site whence came the Dead Sea Scrolls (these are all
variations on the same story):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/605586.asp
http://ww2.annistonstar.com/news/2001/as-world-0727-0-1g26t3049.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/07/26/deadsea.discovery.ap/index.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010726/sc/dead_sea_discovery_1.html
http://www.southam.com/montrealgazette/newsnow/cpfs/world/010726/w072674.html
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0407_BC_DeadSe\
aDiscovery&&news&newsflash-international

A brief item in Orf (in German) relates the discovery of a
Roman villa in Austria:

http://ooe.orf.at/oesterreich.orf?read=detail&channel=4&id=123748

So some guy in Britain finally agrees to knock down the shed
in his garden and in the process, discovers some Roman remains:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=85049

Roman (and Greek) remains (including a bathing complex) have also been found
at Geziret Mariout (Egypt):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o260721e.htm

A similarly brief item on Ananova tells of the discovery of a
rather large sculpture of a Syrian victory goddess near Palmyra:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_358848.html

The Art Newspaper has a nice summary of the new rules of what
sort of Italian antiquities can't be brought into the U.S.:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/archaeology/archeology.asp

A number of documents from the time of Alfred the Great have
been discovered:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4230272,00.html

People's Daily reports that archaeologists have discovered
what they believe to be the world's oldest paper package ads:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200107/24/eng20010724_75682.html

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================

A couple of non-related items suggest that many early species
in North America were wiped out and/or seriously "scarred" by
aboriginal peoples (the first one is from Alberta Report):

http://207.216.246.197/magazine/p42i010730f.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/605461.asp
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134322849_overfish27.html

Civilization collapse in Peru has been linked (again) to El
Nino:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0723_elninoperu.html

A colonial-era tavern has been discovered in Maine:

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/209/region/Archaeologist_uncovers_walls_o:.shtml

================================================================
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================

There's a new issue of Bible Review out, with online features
dealing with "what makes an Israelite an Israelite" and the
earrings which Jacob is supposed to have buried:

http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html

The same folks have put out the next issue of Archaeology
Odyssey as well, with features on the end of the Bronze Age and
Eros in Egypt:

http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html

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ON THE WEB
================================================================

HumanOasis.com has a feature on a couple of Renaissance era
wrecks in the lagoon of Venice:

http://www.humanoasis.com/Feature%20Stories/072401-veniceships.html

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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================

There's a new video feature on the tools used in ancient Syria for
archaeological purposes:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================

Latin Guide Janet Burns'latest is on the lamps of Frank Egan:

http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/ucfrankegan.htm

================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================

eKathimerini has a brief item on the new theatre museum at
Epidauros:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=91713

================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================

A Guardian Review of Claude Lorrain's landscapes has plenty of
classical mythological content:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4227515,00.html

Paleographers have located some 38,000 Greek texts throughout
Europe etc. which apparently were purloined from Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=92304

An item in eKathermini uses Greek tragedy (predictably the Antigone,
but others as well) to comment on what went on at Genoa:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=91538

A brief strike closed down a pile of sites in Greece this week
(but they're open again):

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010725/wl/greece_strike_1.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=91688

Folks looking for impressive photos of Etna erupting might be
interested in the 70+ photos Yahoo has recently filtered:

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news_photos?p=etna&n=20&c=news_photos

The Times is taking a jab at Fowler's 'bible' of English Grammar!:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-2001252606,00.html

Peter Jones'latest from the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-07-\
28&id=945

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================

Ballard in the Black Sea:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,74-2001251670,00.html

Hunley:

http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/07/25/region/25hunley.htm

Kennewick Man:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_942000/942299.stm

Pompeii and the Mafia:
http://observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,525616,00.html

Temple Mount:
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=56410&contrassID=2&su\
bContrassID=11&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

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NEW AT THE ATRIUM!!!

We're just pleased as punch to announce the (re)(re)debut of our
This Day in Ancient History feature at the Atrium. If you've
ever gnashed your teeth at the mass media's version of 'Today
in History', knowing full well that the ancient Greeks and
Romans were probably doing something that never gets mentioned,
this feature should fill that lacuna (n.b. it's just ancient
Greece and Rome). Visit it on the web at:

http://www.atrium-media.com/thisday.html

Subscription information for the email version can also be found
there.
                               ***
Thanks to Murray Lundberg, Alastair Millar, Michael Oberndorf,
Sally Winchester, Bill Kennedy, Jean Laplante, Mark Elliott, Jeff,
Chris Laning, Sujazz, Karl Wittwer and jleach for headses upses
this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).

================================================================

================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

A claim about the discovery of what might be the oldest human
DNA ever found is causing controversy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1466000/1466744.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991095

Also on the paleo front, computer reconstructions apparently suggest
that Neanderthals and other hominids did not interbreed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1469000/1469607.stm
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/08/02/neanderthal010802
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0802_neandertal.html
http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Technology/Infotech/0,1113,2-13-45_1060787,00.htm\
l
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010730/neanderthal.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010801/tc/science_neanderthals_dc_1.html

This should probably be a followup, but what the heck ... there's
further musings on characters found scratched on an object from
Turkmenistan and whether it is an example of writing:

http://www.iht.com/articles/28034.html

This should probably also be a followup, but the LA Times has a
nice article on what we're learning from the mummies from the
Barhariya Oasis:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000061994jul30.column?coll=\
la%2Dnews%2Da%5Fsection

The Egyptian State Information Service has a *very* brief item
on a discovery in a Ramses II temple:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o310721h.htm

The tomb of a Scythian prince has been found at Arzan:

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/sciences/xp/sci_p1073009.html
(en francais)

They're (finally) going to build a new museum on the Acropolis:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=94415

The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item on plans to
survey a Roman ship discovered eight years ago which "belonged to
Augustus":

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o020821c.htm

The British Museum is trying to raise funds to keep the 2nd century
Roman statue "The Dog of Alcibiades" in Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1471000/1471986.stm

One I missed: a Roman-era cemetery has been found in Syria:

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/sciences/xp/sci_p1069031.html
(en francais)

A company has apparently made a 3D film which recreates the final
moments of Pompeii:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/08/05/stifgneur03002.html

A Byzantine-era church has been found in Egypt:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o020821e.htm

Research suggests the Black Plague may have been caused by an
"ebola-like" virus:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/blackdeath_010730.html

India Today has a feature on a number of thefts of Buddhist
artifacts from Andhra Pradesh:

http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20010730/archaeology.shtml

Peoples Daily has listed China's top ten archaeological finds of
2000:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200107/27/eng20010727_75904.html

The same source reports on the discovery of eight 4,000 bp (or so)
stone coffins in Tibet:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200107/31/eng20010731_76149.html

An 11-year-old on an 'excavation experience' in Japan unearthed
some 5th century stoneware:

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20010802132

================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================

Another suggestion in the 'who populated the Americas' saga:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0731_wireearlyamericans.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/606886.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1467000/1467555.stm

A windstorm in Wisconsin has revealed some native American
artifacts:

http://www.wisinfo.com/dailytribune/local/073101-3.html

After a very long hiatus, the Contra Costa Times returns to Explorator
with a report on some shell mounds near Berkeley:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/community/voice/stories/bv3natx_20010803.htm

The U.S. is returning a number of previously-smuggled pre-Columbian
artifacts to Mexico:

http://news.excite.com/news/r/010801/17/science-mexico-usa-archaeology-dc

================================================================
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================

Egypt Revealed has Zahi Hawass musing on whether there is an
archaeology of the soul:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/073001-archaeologyofthesoul.htm

================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================

The Bible and Interpretation site has a couple of new items of
interest, including Eric Cline on Meggido:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Armageddon.htm

... and Elizabeth Willett on the connection between house
architecture and the life of the Israelite woman:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/HouseReligion.htm

For folks with some time on their hands, this one's kind of neat;
it's an attempt to render today's major events into Anglo Saxon
Chronicle-style old English:

http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/nasc.htm

================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on 101 things or terms
you should know about the Romans:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa080101a.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns'latest is a classroom activity to be done
after completing a unit on the Aeneid:

http://latin.about.com/library/blaeneas01.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst treats us to Emerson's poem about
the Sphinx:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa080101a.htm


Murray Lundberg, About.com's Arctic Culture Guide, has written
a feature about Kwaday Dan Sinchi, (a.k.a. the Canadian Ice Man)
whose 'case'closed last week:

http://arcticculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa082599.htm

================================================================
REVIEWS
================================================================

The New York Times has an interview with William Dever:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/04/books/04QA.html

================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================

Egypt Revealed has a review of the Nubian artifacts on display
at the Aswan museum:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/080101-nubia_museum.htm

================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================

eKathimerini (etc.) has a review of the State Theater of Northern Greece's
production of Euripides' Hecuba and Cyclops (two dramas, obviously):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=93746
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12921&m=A39&aa=1&eido\
s=S

... and a production of the Bacchae in the Herodes Atticus theatre:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=93171
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12921&m=A39&aa=3&eido\
s=S

Folks might similarly be interested in a review of a dance production
of Sappho's poems:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12920&m=A35&aa=1&eido\
s=S

If you didn't know it (I certainly didn't), Greece has declared
2001 to be the 'year of Socrates' and there are all sorts of things
going on to commemorate the philosopher's death:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=93740

Athens News has an interesting feature on the use of the word 'Greek'
as opposed to 'Hellene':

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12920&m=A11&aa=2&eido\
s=S

A report in the Independent on the archaeological remains of Butrint
seems to be more "classical" than archaeological:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=86904

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================

Bronze/Iron Age remains near Birmingham:

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/sciences/xp/sci_p1069807.html
(en francais)

Cemetery near Dead Sea Scrolls site:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001261014,00.html
http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0107280108jul28.story?coll=chi%2D\
newsnationworld%2Dhed

Heraklion:

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/sciences/xp/sci_p1071426.html
(en francais)

Hunley:

http://www.newsday.com/ap/regional/ap320.htm

Iolcos/Jason:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,74-2001260716,00.html
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12921&m=A11&aa=1&eido\
s=S
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20010727_141.html

Marathon Rowing Row:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010730/sp/oly_athens_arechaeologists_1.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=93741

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explorator 4.15                                  august 12, 2001
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Happy Birthday to the PC, without which I'd probably sleep more.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/communication/2001/08/12/0812pcanniv.html

                               ***
Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Maurice O'Sullivan, Sally Winchester,
Bob White, Jo Kirkham, Michael Ruggieri, Alastair Millar and
John Peterson headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

Construction on a Medical Centre in Cairo has turned up an
unfinished statue of Ramses II:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o060821c.htm

A bust of Nefertiti has been returned to Egypt (I think I
reported this one already; I don't think the photo matches the
description, though):

http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-31/cultent/stolen_stone_head.htm

Not to be outdone, the Met has returned a 'tablet' to Egypt:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010805/80/c0h9k.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010805/wl/egypt_tablet_1.html
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010805/11/int-egypt-tablet

This seems to me to be a couple years late or a reprise, but
the Times has a report on King Midas' tomb and the remains of
the feast held there (and reenacted at UPenn):

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2001270014,00.html

Archaeologists in Israel have found remains which might have
belonged to Herod's palace:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/998245
http://www.msnbc.com/news/611342.asp?cp1=1

A pair of undisturbed Roman tombs have been found in Greece:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010810/sc/greece_tombs_dc_1.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_372178.html?menu=

A brief item in the Lebanon Daily Star on the excavation
of a Byzantine tomb near Sidon (with photos!):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/08_08_01/art15.htm
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Lebaabro/lebpix4.htm

Also on the Byzantine front, a monastery has been discovered
in Bulgaria:

http://news.24.com/News24/World/Europe/0,1113,2-10-19_1062901,00.html

... and it would appear that the Celts enjoyed a tipple
of Byzantine wine on the beach:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=87228

The Scotsman reports on the discovery of an Iron Age fortress near
the Wallace Monument:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=95274&keyword=the
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001270473,00.html

An undisturbed Viking grave has been discovered near Egersund:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/d226680.htm

I think I missed this one: there's new theories out about what
the Black Plague might have been:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/highlights/010801_blackdeath.shtml

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THE AMERICAS
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Another one I missed ... a site in Mississippi has yielded a
large aboriginal public ceremony building:

http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200107/31+village073101_news.html+2\
0010731

A bunch of 900-year-old axe heads have been found in Illinois:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_368433.html

The Gainesville Sun has a report on an ongoing survey of wrecks
off the coast of St. Augustine:

http://www.sunone.com/articles/2001-08-12a.shtml

There's a mystery shipwreck in the water near Sheboygan:

http://www.wisinfo.com/sheboyganpress/area/081101-2.html

An AP story covers excavations currently going on at the
airport in Phoenix:

http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010805/12/exp-urban-archaeology

Another Kensington rune stone has been found (hmmmm):

http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=metro_a&slug=run\
e11

A river near Elizabeth City has given up a Confederate gun carriage:

http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0809can.html

Construction of a housing development in Saugus, Mass., has
revealed a number of sites:

http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/newengla/ma__archaeologicalsit_18y53y.shtml

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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the chaos of the
third century:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa080701a.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on how to make a gameboard for
use in Latin class:

http://latin.about.com/library/blgameboards.htm

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REVIEWS
================================================================

The Lebanon Daily Star has a review of a CD all about the
excavation
of the Roman ruins at Baalbek:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/04_08_01_a.htm

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================

I'm not sure this is a review, so I'll include it here ... an
Italian academic/author is suggesting a movie about Alexander the
Great will be the next "Gladiator":

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,62-2001271904,00.html

EDP24 has a nice feature by David Macauley on recent research
into Roman maps:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/Features/RomanMaps/RomanMaps.asp

Ever wonder what writers of Latin textbooks do when they retire?

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/index.ssf?/life/ledger/140810f.html

A review of a performance of the Medea:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=V1ZuxwVx&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/8/8/bted2.html

A review of a performance of Aristophanes'Plutus:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12922&m=A39&aa=1&eido\
s=S

More on "The Year of Socrates":

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12922&m=A35&aa=1&eido\
s=S

There's going to be a Panhellenic Festival of Greek Poetry at Olympia
next week:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12922&m=A35&aa=4&eido\
s=S

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-08-\
11&id=987

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================

Jean Cook

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=86944

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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================

Elgin Marbles:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/uk.cfm?id=95512&keyword=the

Japanese Origins of First Americans:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/606886.asp


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Salter, Richard Pettigrew, Jean Laplante, Sujazz, Arnd Lis and
Trevor Watkins for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

There is more evidence that cannibalism was something that was
not uncommon in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe:

http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010813/643567.html

British scientists believe they have found evidence for what
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1497000/1497476.stm

The Times has a nice piece on the search for Homer's Troy:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-2001284132,00.html

The Jerusalem Post has a feature on the excavations at Tell
es-Safi:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/08/13/Features/Features.32478.html

The New York Times' Science Page's Question and Answers thingie
asks and answers the question "Why did the ancient world use amphorae?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/science/social/14QNA.html

The Athens News Agency has a sort of summary of discoveries made
recently on Cyprus:

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2001/01-08-13.ana.html#08

The Economist has a nice feature on Butrint:

http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=739297

A somewhat confusing report from Ananova relates the discovery
of a "large Roman complex" near Lewes:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_373834.html

Somewhat more clear is the Herald's report of the discovery of
a Roman-era farm near East Lothian (Scotland):

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/14-8-19101-1-17-41.html

The Times reports on the discovery of what might be the curia
of the Silures (ancient Welsh):

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2001284481,00.html

The BBC has a report on recent work going on at Silbury Hill:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1493000/1493535.stm

A major burial site in Mongolia was discovered this week and
researchers hope one of the sixty graves there is that of Genghis
Khan:

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/01/010817.khan.shtml (photos too!)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010817/us/genghis_khan_graveyard.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1495000/1495433.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=89320
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20010816_223.html
http://asia.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/17/genghis.tomb/index.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/614880.asp
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991173
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/17/science/social/17KHAN.html?ex=999064650&ei=1&e\
n=b429b13db204e55e

In a semi-related story (?) the tomb of an 8th century Turkish
ruler has been found in the same general area:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20010814_697.html
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010814/11/int-turkey-mongolia-treasures
http://www.dawn.com/2001/text/int9.htm

People's Daily reports on evidence that the ancient Chinese built
separate toilets for men and women:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200108/18/eng20010818_77602.html

A mass grave of military folk from the 16th century has been
discovered in Sweden:

http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1066124,00.ht\
ml

A recently-discovered Spanish Armada ship was apparently full of
things for use as bribes:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=89520

This one's only semi-archaeological in focus, looking at legends
and other assorted things associated with the Mangup kingdom:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1488000/1\
488798.stm

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================

The Times-Journal has a report on discoveries found during an
excavation near "Dead Man's Curve" near Fort Payne Alabama:

http://www.times-journal.com/news/8-16dig.html

A dig for a 19th century ship (maybe) near Flagler County has
been called off:

http://www.news-journalonline.com/2001/Aug/19/AREA2.htm

The New York Times has a piece on the history of New York City:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/18/arts/18ARCH.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================

Discovering Archaeology appears to have undergone a name change
to Archaeology Today. They have updated their website with
articles on the effect of shipworms on South American mariners:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/081601-Shipworms%20&%20South%20Am\
erican%20Mariners.htm
(see also
http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/science/anthro/2001-08-17-balsa-rafts\
.htm)

If you just want to poke around their new site a bit or set a
bookmark:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/

Egypt Revealed has a piece on remains in Memphis (the Egyptian one
obviously 8^)):

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/081501-ANCIENT%20SITE%20OF%20MEMPHIS.htm

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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================

There's a RealAudio/Windows Media interview with Dr. Ruth Shady,
who talkes about Caral (Peru):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/caralint.html

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AT ABOUT.COM
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Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on Vesuvius:

http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa082300a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has put together some archaeology
crosswords:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa081501a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Asclepius:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa082101a.htm

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REVIEWS
================================================================

The IHT has a review of Nicholas Capp, *Sheba: Through the Desert
in Search of the Legendary Queen*:

http://www.iht.com/articles/29451.html

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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================

Not an exhibition per se, but the Guardian has a semi-rant/touristy
thing on visiting various archaeological sites and museums around
the world:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4240846,00.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The Natchez Democrat has a nice little feature on Linda Rodriguez'
Latin class:

http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/NF/omf/nddaily/news_story.html?[rkey=0010288+ssiu\
name=WebOSTTN+ssipwd=TTN88EA812F

A gladiator school in Rome is enjoying immense popularity, it
seems:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,32464,00.html

We've got (p)reviews of productions of Seven Against Thebes:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12923&m=A39&aa=1&eido\
s=S

... and the Clouds:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=96228

... and Plutus (the first's not a review really, but a good photo I think):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=95917
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=95426

A.C. Grayling in the Guardian is of interest:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4236863,00.html

There's a nice piece circulating on the history of debt:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/615940.asp

The New York Times travel page has a touristy sort of thing on
the appeal of Greece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/travel/GREECE.html?ex=998788582&ei=1&en=0a38c1\
1af9bd81a2

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-08-\
18&id=1011

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================

Edward Hall:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=88932

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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================

Fakes at Peru's Gold Museum:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001285513,00.html

Oetzi:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/081501-Was%20the%20Iceman%20Murde\
red.htm

Japanese origins of first Americans:

http://www.humanoasis.com/Feature%20Stories/081401-crossing%20the%20land.html
http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/081601-Crossing%20the%20Land%20Br\
idge.htm

Marathon Rowing Row:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=96203

Miami Circle:

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/063824.htm

New Rune Stone discovery:

http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/3stone.php

Roman Tombs in Greece:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12923&m=A35&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Delphic Oracle:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0814_delphioracle.html

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Jean Laplante, Maurice O'Sullivan,
Michael Stowe, John Carr, Mark Elliott, Hernan Astudillo,
John McChesney-Young, and Chris Renaud for headses upses
this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

The Egyptian State Information Service reports on the discovery
of a plaque for Thutmose IV:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o230821k.htm

A brief item in the same source gives an idea of who's digging
where ...:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o200821a.htm

... and something on the ancient Egyptians' etiquette:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o210821n.htm

The Star Tribune has a report on a lecture series "The
Archaeology of Ancient Israel" recently hosted by the
LA Museum of Ancient Art:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/643796.html

HumanOasis has a brief item on the excavations at Nemea, where
the ancient hippodrome has been discovered:

http://www.humanoasis.com/Feature%20Stories/082301-Tracks%20of%20Ancient%20Athle\
tes.html

A "spectacular" pre-Greek-influence Scythian mound has been discovered:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7174

The Times has a report on what Mount Caburn (in East Sussex)
might really have been used for:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2001290444,00.html

I don't know what readers will make of this, Space.com has a news
item on the use of satellite technology to find Noah's Ark (there's
a link there as well to similar technology being used to find
Amelia Earhart's plane):

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/noahs_ark_010823-1.html

A study of bones suggests that medieval Britons who lived in
villages were actually better off health-wise than their country
cousins:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4244639,00.html

The mystery of the location of William Wallace's Stirling bridge
might not be a mystery for long:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/08/26/stiscosco02013.html
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P40S4.shtml

This should be a followup, but it's getting renewed attention ...
back in May we drew your attention to the discovery of stained
glass which might be associated with Lady Godiva:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001292274,00.html

The BBC has a feature on Lady Godiva herself:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/newsid_1507000/1507\
606.stm
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/23/ngodi23.xml
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001292274,00.html

Discovery.com (and others) have an interesting report on the
'rescue' of a Venetian island and two 700-year-old ships:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010820/venice.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991182
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010821/wl/italy_submerged_island_1.html

Xinhua (via Northern Light) reports on the discovery of a HUGE
Han Dynasty coin hoard:

http://library.northernlight.com/FA20010823370000028.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================

It's deja vu all over again (8^)) ... the discovery of aboriginal
remains have put a halt to development of some prime Miami real
estate:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010823/ts/miami_ruins_1.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/science/anthro/2001-08-24-ancient-mia\
mi.htm
http://www.bergen.com/morenews/grave24200108247.htm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0108240313aug24.story
http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=0109/newsbriefs/miami

[can't resist this one] The National Post reports on some stone
circles in southern Alberta which didn't quite pan out:

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010825/666889.\
html

OSU Research has a nice article on the fate of Mayan scribes who
toiled for defeated kings:

http://www.osu.edu/researchnews/archive/mayans.htm

The first extensive archaeological survey of the South Puget Sound
area is bearing fruit:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134331862_squaxin21m.html

The Tampa Tribune reports on the discovery of a tool-making site:

http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGAFV14KSQC.html

A 17th century tobacco-manufacturing factory has been discovered
in Providence (Maryland):

http://sunspot.net/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.digs24aug24.story?coll=bal%2Dlo\
cal%2Dheadlines

A dig in Idaho has failed to come up with evidence for the Ward
Massacre of 1854:

http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=347&NewsID=164731&CategoryID=214\
3&show=localnews&om=2

More light is being shed on Annapolis' historical African-American community:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2242736&BRD=2101&PAG=461&dept_id=39216\
9&rfi=6

Nasa has put up some new images of the Nazca lines:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=5103

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================

Archaeology Magazine has a new look and new online content, including
a guide to Nero's Domus Aurea:

http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=pdfs/nero/index

and abstracts of items in the current print issue on mummies, Israel
Finkelstein's work, and other things:

http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=curiss/index

Speaking of Archaeology magazine, if you haven't checked out their
ongoing coverage of the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii's dig
this summer, it's worth a look:

http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=online/features/pompeii/index


Archaeology Today has some new online content, including a piece
on tool use by early hominids:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/081401-Tools,%20Termites%20and%20\
Hominids.htm

... and some items stemming from the analysis of Oetzi's stomach
contents:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/081401-otzi.htm

Egypt Revealed has a feature on mapping Egyptian sites:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/081501-mapping%20egypt.htm

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ON THE WEB
================================================================

The Whitehall Farm Roman Villa project has its latest field
reports online:

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of Karen
Essex's *Kleopatra*:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa082801a.htm

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REVIEWS
================================================================

The Bible and Interpretation site has a review of K. Armstrong,
*Jerusalem*:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Jerusalem_OneCity.htm

Athens News has a reviews of the "Oxford Archaeological Guide to
Greece":

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12924&m=A38&aa=2&eido\
s=S

CAA has a review of Katherine Dunbabin's *Mosaics in the Greek and
Roman World*:

http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/dunbabin.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================

A pair of reviews of Medea at Epidavros:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=96763
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12924&m=A39&aa=1&eido\
s=S

... and Seven Against Thebes, with some commentary on relevance:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=96243

Mike DiMaio's De Imperatoribus Romanis site is getting media
attention:

http://24hour.modbee.com/24hour/technology/story/684117p-745269c.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/newsid_1507000/1507\
606.stm

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================

E.T. Hall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/obituaries/21HALL.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001292239,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4241884,00.html

Julian Pitt-Rivers:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=90490

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FOLLOWUPS
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Elgin Marbles (yes, there is something new):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12924&m=A35&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Genghis Khan:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0823/p14s2-stgn.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0820_wiregenghis.html

Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/blackbeard0825.htm

Temple Mount:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,285-2001292015,00.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2001/aug/20/082009211.html

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ALIA

One I missed: the New York Times had a brief item on why the
Dog Days of summer are so named:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/science/space/12SKYWATCH.html

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Bill Kennedy, and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week
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This week's theme appears to be 'damage to archaeological sites',
unfortunately ...

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

UFO seekers have damaged Silbury Hill:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1511000/1511448.stm

The New York Times (and others) have an item on the alignment
of the pyramids:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/science/social/28PYRA.html

There appears to be controversy over a Turkish excavation of
Salamis (Cyprus):

http://library.northernlight.com/FB20010831720000173.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

The New York Times has a travel feature on Minorca, which has
a good overview of the archaeological history of the Balearics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/travel/MINOR.html

The Aftenposten has a piece (in Norwegian) on the discovery of
a strange arrangement of human skulls:

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article.jhtml?articleID=183210

DNA analysis is shedding more light on when Central Asia was
populated post-out-of-Africa:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1502000/1502189.stm

The Roman villa at Chedworth (Cheltenham) has revealed the skeleton
of an infant:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_386332.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001302658,00.html

MSNBC has an interesting item on recent excavations/research at
the Colosseum:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/622857.asp

Kyodo News has a report on the discovery of an almost complete 7500
year-old skeleton in China:

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20010828073

Here's one I missed: China Daily reports on the discovery of a
large number of ancient mace heads in Northwest China:

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/cn/2001-08-13/26240.html

People's Daily has a report on the discovery of some very ancient
(pre?) writing:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200108/31/eng20010831_78972.html

The Ancient capital of the Dian kingdom might have been found:

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=31&si=504600&issue_id=519\
0
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001302980,00.html

The Buddhas of Angkor Wat are under threat from looting:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0828_angkorbuddhas.html

The British Museum has plans to make its ca. 4 million objects
in storage more available to the public:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,542811,00.html

Iraq is seeking the return of a number of artifacts in European
museums:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1403503408

A little out of the regular time period covered by this newsletter,
but folks might be interested that an expedition has been launched
to find the remains of Amelia Earhart:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010827/amelia.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0828_wireamelia1.html

Not quite sure how to classify this one: the Independent has a piece
called 'Beirut Stories' which focuses on a diving school in Beirut
but which has some interesting info on underwater sites unexplored
and/or lost (I think):

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=91833

The same newspaper reports on the recreation of neolithic dung-
flavoured ale:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=91895

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================

The TimesDaily has a report on an ongoing dig into a mound in
Shiloh (Tennessee) National Military Park:

http://www.timesdaily.com/news/stories/8110newsstories.html

A pre-Columbian temple has possibly been found on a Mexican
mountain top:

http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1072796,\
00.html

A Hohokam site in Phoenix is about to be bulldozed by a gravel
mining company:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/0830ruins30.html

The Concord Monitor reports on the threats to an Abenaki site
hear Holderness:

http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/front0400/abenaki_site_clash.shtml
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=25&SubSectionID=378&ArticleID=\
38991

A two-year rescue dig near Townsend, Tennessee is winding down:

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/08/08189011.shtml?Element_ID=8189011

The Las Vegas Sun has a feature on archaeological theft:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2001/aug/31/512293814.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================

There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out, with
online content on the Masada ramp built by the Romans (or not),
and the dating of Solomon, among other things:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html

A new magazine in production called The Glory of Ancient Egypt (put
out by the same folks who do Archaeology Today and Egypt Revealed)
has a sample online on the Egyptian way of death:

http://www.circamedia.net/lifeafterdeath.htm

Archaeology Today has an interesting article on the Dmanisi skulls,
which is giving yet another angle to the 'when did humans come
out of Africa' debate:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/082901-dmanisi_skulls.htm

There's also a new issue of Mercator's World on the newsstands,
with articles on a US-Canadian border dispute in 1832, and some
'cartifacts':

http://www.mercatormag.com/

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ON THE WEB
================================================================

Time Team live did one of their characteristic quickie digs on
an Anglo Saxon site ... worth a look:

http://www.channel4.com/timeteamlive2001/

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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Picol Passo and the
art of Maiolica:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa082901a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of Florence
Dupont's *Daily Life in Ancient Rome*:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa081997.htm

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REVIEWS
================================================================

CAA has a review of C.R. Dodwell, "Anglo Saxon Gestures and the
Roman Stage":

http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/dodwell.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================

AthensNews has a feature on ancient munchies:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12925&m=A56&aa=1&eido\
s=S

The Guardian has 'pass notes' on the Delphic Oracle:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4248189,00.html

A review of a production of the Oedipus trilogy in Washington:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12925&m=A50&aa=1&eido\
s=S

... and the Trojan Women at the Epidauria:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12925&m=A51&aa=2&eido\
s=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=97463

... and the Medea ditto:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=97240

AthensNews also reports on a 'loose ends' bill present to the
Greek parliament in regards to Olympic preparations ... somehow
I think we'll be hearing more about this:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12925&m=A08&aa=1&eido\
s=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=97713

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-09-\
01&id=1054

A cartoon in the current issue of the New Yorker:

http://www.cartoonbank.com/cartoonissue_closeup.asp?pf%5Fid=46264&dept%5Fid=1001\
&mscssid=XKKK7Q0MNK1T8P4NJJGA4KQ81LAHDJQB&nPage=1

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================

Genghis Khan:

http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/08/30082001114629.asp

Maya scribes:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DyeHard/dyehard.html

Nemean Hippodrome:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/science/anthro/2001-08-31-greek-hippo\
drome.htm

Oetzi:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/081401-otzi.htm

Temple Gold and the Colosseum:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/622429.asp
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010831/us/colosseum_2.html
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/natwor/docs/ghost0901.htm

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B., Mark Elliott,Michael Ruggieri, and Trevor Watkins for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

Researchers have found evidence for near-Arctic habitation by
humans at a much much earlier date than previously thought:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/06/science/social/06TUSK.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/624414.asp
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010905/wl/arctic_hunters_1.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,547297,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4251254,00.html
http://www.sciam.com/news/090601/2.html

I've got a feeling we're going to hear more about this one ...
there is evidence of a huge tsunami hitting the coast of Scotland
ca. 5800 B.C.:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001311817,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/glasgow_2001/newsid_1531\
000/1531049.stm

And we'll certainly hear more about this ... Robert Ballard's heading
back to the Black Sea to find 'Noah's Flood':

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010905/wl/bulgaria_noah_s_ark_1.html

Also on the Scottish front, a Neolithic farmhouse has been found:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001311378,00.html
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/07/nfarm07.xml

Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple will be reopened next year:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o030921g.htm

The Egyptian State Information Service also has a very brief item
on the Liverpool expedition to Marsa Matrouh:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o050921z.htm

What is possibly the oldest fortified settlement in the Aegean
has been discovered on the island of Andros:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=98628

AthensNews has a piece on the history of the excavations at
Troy (I believe this was in the Times of London previously):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12926&m=A24&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Assorted Iron Age boats found near Fiskerton (UK) are being
excavated:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001305231,00.html

A Hellenistic site has been discovered near the
Pakistan/Afghanistan border:

http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/07/nat17.htm


Chinese archaeologists have excavated (maybe) some 2000-year-old
wine:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/020901/dtLFOR43.asp


It would appear that Greek museums and sites still suffer from
the problems they have suffered from for many years:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=98610


A huge reproduction of the Great Orpheus Pavement might be forced
to leave Britain for financial reasons:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1526000/1526684.stm

I'm not sure how, really, to classify this one but it will surely
be of interest. In the wake of a lawsuit launched by the village
of Diostomon (site a a WWII massacre by Nazi soldiers), a Greek
court has allowed a number of German cultural assets in Greece
-- including the DAI -- to be seized and auctioned off:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001310153,00.html

U-Wire has a piece on Cornell's Dendrochronology lab:

http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010907/business-247

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================

A midden along the Withlacoochee river is proving to be a rich
source of animal remains (as opposed to fish and shellfish):

http://www.sptimes.com/News/090601/Citrus/Mound_is_fresh_snapsh.shtml

The Miami Herald has a piece on the search for Pelikalaha:

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/006615.htm

A vague report of the discovery of a 2000-year-old skeleton on
Vancouver Island:

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=090201&ID=s1017641&cat=sectio\
n.regional

A unique burial site has been found in Boteourt County
(Virginia):

http://info.timesdispatch.com/printversion.cgi?url=http%3A//www.timesdispatch.co\
m/vametro/MGB8YOWT9RC.html&oaspagename=printthispage

A gold-rush-era ship has been discovered in San Francisco's
financial district:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/08/MN214923.DTL
http://www.modbee.com/24hour/nation/story/788958p-849702c.html
http://www.nando.com/nation/story/75251p-1058850c.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================

There's a new issue of British Archaeology online, with features
on Nonsuch Palace, reuse of Roman sites by Anglo Saxons, Bronze
Age funerals, and other items:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba60/index.shtml

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ON THE WEB
================================================================

The Bible Interpretation site has an interesting article up
called "Excerpts from Invitation to the Septuagint", taken from a larger
work by Karen Jobes and Moises Silva:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Septuagint.htm

The Nisa (Turkmenistan) Expedition website has added some
material about the 2001 campaign:

http://parthia.com/nisa2001.htm

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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================

Latin Guide Janet Burns'latest is a guest-written piece on why
it is important to study Latin:

http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa090101a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a piece on suggested
term paper topics:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa091801a.htm

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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================

The Oriental Institute has put online "The 1905-1907 Breasted
Expedition to Egypt and the Sudan: A Photographic Study", which
is definitely worth a look:

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/EGYPT/BEES/BEES.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================

Gerard Depardieu as the narrator in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at
Epidavros:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=98620

Rod Steiger is going to play Socrates:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=98328

Interesting classical content in an article in Linux Gazette (Homer
is held up as part of the proofs justifying open source computing):

http://linuxgazette.com/issue70/mcgucken.html

AthensNews has an interesting thought piece on various Greek words
for 'pain' (which would probably be better if you have the appropriate
font installed, which I don't, apparently):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12926&m=A35&aa=7&eido\
s=S

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-09-\
08&id=1074

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================

Dung-flavoured beer:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_388427.html

Oetzi:

http://www.mb.com.ph/OPED/2001-09/OE090310.asp

Temple Mount:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/09/07/News/News.34317.html

Venice lagoon:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010904/sc/italy_galley_dc_1.html (photos!)
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010904/22/science-italy-galley-dc
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=93132
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20010905_32.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1526000/1526647.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/625204.asp

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This issue is going out with sincerest condolences to all who
were affected, directly, indirectly, or any other way by the
terrible events this week. Libertas inaestimabilis res est!
                (Freedom is a thing beyond price)

                         *  *  *  *  *

Thanks to Jo Kirkham, William Peck, Michael Stowe, Bill Kennedy,
Sujazz, Alastair Millar, Maurice O'Sullivan for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

A major hominid find has been made in the Sterkfontein Caves in
South Africa:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1544000/1544717.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/628406.asp

A rather nastily-infected jawbone is suggesting that Neanderthals
were a rather caring bunch:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/toothless010911.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1537000/1537405.stm
http://www.sciencenews.org/20010915/fob2.asp
http://www.sciam.com/news/091101/2.html

An inscription of the pharaoh Khufu's name is leading to suggestions
he may have been honoured with a post-mortem cult:

http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/cultent/great_pyramid_builder.htm
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o130921a.htm

There's a brief item from the Egyptian State Information Service on
the discovery of a 26th Dynasty tomb at Saqqarah:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o100921f.htm

The same source is reviving a previous feature on Tutankhamun:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o100921k.htm

The Omaha World-Herald has a feature on what was found in this
year's dig at Bethsaida and Qumran:

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_div=3&u_hdg=5&u_sid=195493

And as long as we're on the subject of Qumran, the Vatican is apparently
going to rewrite bits of the Bible in light of things mentioned
in the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4254177,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001313912,00.html

The political situation in Israel has caused at least one dig to be
cut short:

http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/3546065.htm

A CT scan on a 2700-year-old mummy apparently will have applications
in forensic science as well:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s363082.htm

Al-Ahram has an interview with UNESCO's special envoy to Jerusalem
in regards to the state of monuments and archaeology in that city:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/545/fr2.htm

A number of Bronze Age tombs have been found in Sidon:

http://dailystar.com.lb/12_09_01/art16.htm

A 2,000 year old manuscript of the Torah (maybe) has been found
in the UAE:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=26492

The theatre at Aspendos -- or rather, the concerts being held
there -- are causing much concern amongst archaeologists:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7409-2001Sep11.html

The tomb of Alexander the Great's grandmother (Eurydice) was
broken into and robbed some time this summer:

http://news.excite.com/news/r/010912/13/odd-antiquities-dc
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=99363
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001314555,00.html
http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010912/od/antiqui\
ties_dc_1.html

A bronze age canoe has been found in Scotland:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001313884,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=V1kmwZlx&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/9/13/ecncano13.html

An ancient cave temple has been found in India:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_394521.html?menu=

Researchers have found the fault line which caused a massive
earthquake in plague-ridden 1356 Europe:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/628398.asp

The Middle English Lexicon Project has been brought to an ende:

http://www.sltrib.com/09162001/nation_w/132626.htm

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THE AMERICAS
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They're searching for a Black Seminole village in Florida:

http://www.naplesnews.com/01/09/florida/d648785a.htm
http://braden.infi.net/content/bradenton/2001/09/09/local/0909seminole_1cw.htm

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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Egypt Revealed has an interview with Gaballah Ali Gaballah:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/091001-Gaballah%20Ali%20GaballahA%20Chat%20with%20t\
he%20Boss.htm

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ON THE WEB
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The Bath Postal Museum has an interesting site on the history of
message delivery (this is the first relevant page; click on the
timeline at the top to proceed through the history):

http://www.bathpostalmuseum.org/Museum/1Egyptian/1egyptian.html

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AT ABOUT.COM
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Latin Guide Janet Burns showcases a feature by Wm. Harris, who
has some poignant thoughts on the recent tragedy:

http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a review of R. Castledon
*Atlantis Destroyed*:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa091201a.htm

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REVIEWS
================================================================

The Times has a review of F. Braudel *The Mediterranean in the
Ancient World*:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/16/stibooboo01007.html

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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================

The New York Times has a nice review of the Met's "Along the Nile"
exhibition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/arts/design/14KIMM.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The Post has a review of "Agamemnon and his Daughters":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2137-2001Sep9.html

There's a delay in the Diostomo reparations case:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=99680

Folks might like the suggestion for the creation of a neuter pronoun
in English:

http://www.charlotte.com/observer/natwor/docs/writers0915.htm

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-09-\
15&id=1096

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================

Arpad Szabo:

http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010914/wl/obit_sz\
abo_1.html

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FOLLOWUPS
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British Tsunami:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=rQ9X3SmX&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/9/13/ecnba3.html

Colosseum finaced by Temple booty:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/689419.html

Early Arctic Habitation:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4251254,00.html
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/arctic010905.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1713-2001Sep9.html

Jason at Dimini:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4257787,00.html

Oetzi:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6989-2001Sep10.html

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Thanks to Alastair Millar, Michael Ruggieri, Karl Wittwer, Arthur
Shippee, Patrick Rourke, Michael Stowe, and Bill Kennedy for
headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

n.b. for potential headses upses: in terms of 'cutoff', Explorator
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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What might be the world's oldest village has been discovered in
a dried out region of the Sea of Galilee:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stifgnmid03001.html

The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item on life
in the Wadi Sura 4000 years ago:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o200921m.htm

... and the discovery of an Old Kingdom temple at Kom al Hesn:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o200921n.htm

... and the start of another survey in a different part of
Alexandria's harbour:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o170921l.htm

MSNBC (and others)has a good report on the archaeological dispute
associated with the Marawani Mosque/Solomon's Stables in Jerusalem:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/626620.asp
http://www.bergen.com/morenews/archeol1720010917.htm

This really should be a followup, since it's been reported in
these 'pages' several times before, but the Sunday Times has a
report on the dig which is excavating the Queen of Sheba's
former realm:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/16/stirevnws03004.html

The New York Times has a nice piece on archaeology in Azerbaijan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/international/asia/19AZER.html

China Daily reports on the more recent efforts in regards to Qin's
tomb:

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/cn/2001-09-17/33624.html

cf. a current online feature on the tomb at National Geographic:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/10/01/html/ft_20011001.3.html

Excavations in Stirling Castle have revealed the graves of
ten people, including a knight who died in a tournament:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_401289.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001323055,00.html

According to the Guardian, the sword of St. Galgano, which might
have given rise to the tale of Excalibur, is as old as it was
claimed it was:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4258097,00.html

Japan Times reports on recent discoveries in Osaka prefecture:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010922b6.htm

The New York Times has a piece on the 'wall of Genghis Khan':

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/international/asia/21WALL.html

Those of us who get asked about all the differences between B.C.
and B.C.E. will appreciate a mistake between B.C. and B.E.:

http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?table=n&cat=50900&id=200109200\
724000262854

In the wake of the tragic events of September 11, there is at
least one article circulating on targeting of famous buildings
in other periods:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010920/ts/attack_landmarks_dc_2.html
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010920/09/news-attack-landmarks-dc

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THE AMERICAS
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The LA Times has a report on a dig off the Ventura County coast
which is finding evidence of the Nicolena people:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-000075756sep21.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dsci\
ence

Some morons have vandalized pictographs near Salt Lake City:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010922/us/rock_art_destroyed_1.html

Archaeologists have found traces of an old French settlement in
Peoria:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-french19.html

NASA data is apparently going to be used to find further evidence
of the Lewis and Clark exhibition:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010920/sc/nasa_lewis_and_clark_1.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-nasa-lewis-and-clark0920sep19.st\
ory?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dscience%2Dheadlines

A brief item in Scientific American posits an 850 B.C. crossing
of the Atlantic by Polynesian peoples:

http://www.sciam.com/news/091801/2.html

The Sunday Times has a feature on the tombs of Sipan:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/16/stifgname02001.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Ancient Egypt magazine out, with online
content continuing the "Nine Measures of Magic" series which
began in the previous issue (among other things):

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue08.htm

The New Yorker has a brief item on the Cleopatra exhibition at
the British Museum, with links to follow up on:

http://www.newyorker.com/ON-LINE_ONLY/ARCHIVES/?010507on_onlineonly02

Jewish Magazine has an article on tombs in Jerusalem:

http://www.jewishmag.com/47mag/jerusalemtombs/jerusalemtombs.htm

Il Sussidiario has an archaeological magazine supplement (it seems)
and the most recent version has a good article (in Italian) summarizing
the various sites that have been proposed for Atlantis and giving
some idea of actual research that has been done:

http://www.sussidiario.it/archeologia/magazine/republik/atlantide.shtml

This seems to be the appropriate location for these more 'newsy'
items: also on the Atlantis front, New Scientist has a report on a sea level
study which might shed light on the origins of the tale:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991320
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1554000/1554594.stm

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ON THE WEB
================================================================

I can't remember whether I mentioned this one before, but I came
across it again this week. It's called the "Virtual Mummy" and is
an online 'unwrapping' of a 2,300 year-old-mummy:

http://www.uke.uni-hamburg.de/institute/imdm/idv/forschung/mumie/index.en.html

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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================

The Archaeology Channel has a new three part video up on the
Aztecs, Maya, and Inca:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the Twelve Tables:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101a.htm

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is a review of Wm. Harris *An
Intelligent Person's Guide to the Latin Language*:

http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa090801b.htm


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REVIEWS
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The Guardian has a review of Sole and Valbelle *The Rosetta Stone:
The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4261895,00.html

The Independent has a review of Hugh Thompson *The White Rock*
(archaeology in Peru):

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=95169

The Times has a review of C. Woodward *In Ruins*:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,70-2001323579,00.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The Duke Chronicle has an item on what's been done at Duke since
an external review of the Classical Studies department last year:

http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010920/university-152

The auction of the DAI has been "blocked":

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=100082

... and reparations are going to be sought by another village:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=100376

Here's how the exiled king of Afghanistan spends his days:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4261706,00.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-09-\
22&id=1122

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================

Early caring hominids:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/09/11/science.social.reut/index.html

Jason at Dimini:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/world/world22.html

Khufu cult:

http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1078239,00.ht\
ml

Medieval Swiss earthquake:

http://www.sciam.com/news/091901/2.html

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Thanks to all who reminded me last week about which ocean was
being crossed (or rather, half-way crossed) by Polynesians ...
blame it on the lack of caffeine!

                                  *  *  *  *  *

Thanks to Curtis B. Edmundson, Michael Ruggieri, Michael Stowe,
Trevor Watkins, Maurice O'Sullivan, Alastair Millar, Mark Elliott,
Lee Bradshaw, and Bill Kennedy for headses upses this week
(a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

There is evidence for a hominid presence in northeast Asia 1.36
million years ago:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/634397.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1564000/1564421.stm
http://www.nature.com/nature/links/010927/010927-3.html

How to mess with an archaeologist's head: excavations of a 17th century
shipwreck have also turned up a possibly paleolithic hand axe:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_411508.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery

The Guardian (et al) has a piece on the mystery of why Britons appear to
have disappeared from the archaeological record for 100,000 years
or so:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,558200,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1565000/1565002.stm
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001332868,00.html

Sewage construction has revealed a bronze age site in Limerick:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0928/hom6.htm

Also in Ireland, housing construction has revealed a number of
tunnels in Cork:

http://www.unison.ie/corkman/stories.php3?ca=34&si=516836&issue_id=5310

Al-Ahram has a feature on what's being done to Menkaure's pyramid:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/552/tr2.htm

There are plans for a new museum of antiquities near Giza:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o260921o.htm

Here's some interesting noggin fodder: Greece recently passed a law
which requires archaeologists to publish within a certain time frame
or lose their right to direct excavations:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=100849

The Roman camp at Carnuntum (Austria) has been located using
ground-penetrating radar:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010923/sc/austria_roman_ruins_1.html

The Times (et al) reports on the discovery of a pair of Roman-era water
lifting machines in London:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001333960,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1564000/1564325.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991343

The AP wire has a feature on a mini-sub called the Thetis which
will prove useful in underwater archaeology situations:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/09/24/archaeology.sub.ap/index.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010923/sc/exp_archaeology_by_sub_1.html

In China, archaeologists report the discovery of a number of carts
and the remains of draught animals dating to the Zhou dynasty:

http://library.northernlight.com/FB20010926450000146.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

This should be a followup, but since it happened so long ago ... the
extent of Shinichi Fujimura's 'salting' of paleolithic sites in Japan
is becoming very clear:

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20010929p2a00m0fp009001c.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_411388.html?menu=news.quirkies
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/firstp.jsp?news=technology&an=#20010929134

I'm not really sure how to classify this one, but it's a piece on
a modern-mummyish sort of thing about a woman whose corpse basically
turned to soap:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/635364.asp
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010928_397.html

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THE AMERICAS
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I can't figure out whether this is a followup or not, but it is
kind of old ... a Columbus Dispatch piece on a bunch of prehistoric
graves found in Pickaway County:

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news01/sep01/857083.h\
tml
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/09/24/loc_mysteries_uncovered.html

Scientific American (and NG) has an interesting news item on the socioeconomic
implications of Anasazi timber use:

http://www.sciam.com/news/092501/3.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/09/0928_TVchaco.html

There's another 'who owns artifacts purchased from aboriginal peoples'
fight brewing:

http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010928/710356.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
Archaeology Today has a nice piece called "Glass of the Sultans":

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/092501_glassofthesultans.htm

... and a feature on archaeological terrorism:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/0982601_archaeological_terrorism_taliban.htm

Egypt Revealed has a review/introduction to the "The Pharoah's
Photographer" exhibition at the Met:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/092501_photos_for_pharaohs.htm

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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Bible and Interpretation site has a feature on the discovery
of Herod's palace:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/schaalje_herodspalace.htm

... and one on Sepphoris:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/sepphoris.htm

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REVIEWS
================================================================

The Guardian has a review of M. Reynolds (ed.) *The Sappho Companion*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266248,00.html

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EXHIBITIONS
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A proposed exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the 2002 Winter
Olympics has been cancelled:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1563000/1563398.stm

The Science Museum of Minnesota is hosting an exhibit on Catal
Huyuk:

http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/146814.htm

cf.: http://www.smm.org/mysteries/top.html

The British Museum is hosting an exhibition focussing on the
effect visits to archaeological sites had on Agatha Christie's
works:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001335510,00.html

cf.: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/agathachristie/index.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================

Folks wondering about possible descendents of Alexander the Great's
forces in Afghanistan will want to read an item in eKathimerini:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=100700

A letter by Stephen Miller (yes, the guy who excavates at Nemea)
puts another spin on recent events:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=101430

And some fallout at Yale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/national/30EDUC.html?ex=1002513600&en=fd6b4702\
a71b7e9e&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER

cf.: http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=16171
and: http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=16126


Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Michael Katzev

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134347995_katzevobit30.html

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FOLLOWUPS
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Abu Qir bay:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/553/tr1.htm

Atlantis off Gibraltar:

http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-38/cultent/atlantis_lies_off.htm

Ballard/Black Sea:

http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?fromspage=CG/articles/life.htm&catego\
ryid=&bfromind=1221&eeid=5340255&eetype=article&render=y&ck=&userid=206553684&us\
erpw=.&uh=206553684,2,&ver=3.0

Hunley:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/635586.asp

Khufu cult:

http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-38/cultent/great_pyramid_builder.htm

Temple Mount:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/archaeology/archeology.asp

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Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks!

                               ***

Thanks to Bill Kennedy,'SqueezeeD', Arthur Shippee, and Sally
Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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Not really archaeology, but folks might be interested in the
discovery of the gene which gives humans the ability to speak:

http://www.dallasnews.com/science/487291_speech_04nat.A.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/health/genetics/04LANG.html

It would appear that the petroglyphs at Chauvet cave are somewhat
older than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1577000/1577421.stm
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011003/sc/science_art_dc_1.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/637423.asp
http://www.sciam.com/news/100401/1.html

Also on the rock art front, National Geographic has a nice online
feature on Africa's disappearing petroglyphs:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1003_africarocks.html

Telemarksavisa has a number of articles (in Norwegian) on the recent
discovery of Hakastein stavechurch (maybe) during excavations in Skein:

http://telemarksavisa.api.no/imaker?id=4733166
http://telemarksavisa.api.no/imaker?id=4763421
http://telemarksavisa.api.no/imaker?id=4697687
http://telemarksavisa.api.no/imaker?id=4757270

A vague report in the Belfast Telegraph reports on plans to excavate
a site dating to 6000 b.p.:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/today/oct04/News/zder11.shtml

We're starting to get a trickle of information on the evidence to
support the 'Black Sea Flood' theory:

http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1003-104.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/science/social/01FLOO.html

A typically brief item from the Egyptian State Information Service
reveals the discovery of "prehistoric tombs":

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o031021o.htm

... and a number of sixth dynasty statues:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o021021d.htm

... and an especially vague report on the discovery of
a village or something:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o250821q.htm

The 4000 year-old tomb of a court physician has been found near
Saqqara:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o011021l.htm
http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1087917,00.ht\
ml
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o041021i.htm
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011004/2001100440.html
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011001/2001100151.html

A hitherto unidentified mummy in the U.S. might be that
of Ramses I:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stifgnusa02001.html

They're going to raise the statue of Canub from harbour of
Alexandria:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011004/2001100442.html

The Guardian has a report on the search for the tomb of
Nefertiti:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4269548,00.html

A monumental tomb dating to the Roman era has been found which
contains some 3000 mummified hawks:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o041021.htm

A Sassanian castle has been discovered near Al-Koush (UAE):

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=28119

A pile of ancient coins (mostly Sassanid and/or early Islamic) has
been found in Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/News.asp?Da=10/7/01&Cat=3&Num=0#001

An awful lot of hype is surrounding the discovery of a previously
unknown city in northern Greece dating to the time of Alexander
the Great:

http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1088470,00.ht\
ml

Ancient Helike is also emerging:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=102410

eKathimerini has a brief item on the discovery of two Roman
era colossi at Messene (scroll down a bit):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=102373

The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History has been given some
Greek and Roman artifacts:

http://www.news-star.com/stories/100401/edu_museum.shtml

Some Korean tomb paintings are missing:

http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200110/200110030281.html

A pair of researchers are suggesting that the Black Death was not
bubonic plague but something more Ebola-like:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/02/health/anatomy/02PLAG.html

We haven't had an Alexandrian Library update for a while, so
here's one:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011002/wl/egypt_alexandria_library_2.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/636646.asp

And on the "I-don't-quite-know-how-to-classify-this-but-someone-
probably-wants-to-read-it" front, a vicar in Britain is blaming
some magical medieval stone for the severity of the foot and mouth
outbreak and wants action taken thereon:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_411037.html

Similarly, there are reports that the people responsible for the
events of 9/11 used 'steganography' as one of their means of
communication:

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/13949.html

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Research into stalgmites and stalactites has helped scientists
determine wet and dry spells which may have influenced cultures
in the American Southwest:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/638129.asp

The Columbus Dispatch has a nice piece on the role of amateurs
in excavations in the U.S.:

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news01/sep01/868383.h\
tml

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Archaeology online, with abstracts of
articles on Egyptian funerary matters, Israel Finkelstein,
the unexcavated bits of Qin's tomb, the Uffington horse, the
Anasazi, et alia:

http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=curiss/index

A new issue of Bible Review is also online, with articles on
the Seductress of Qumran, whether the Last Supper was a Seder,
and other things:

http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html

Egypt Revealed has an article on Fred Wendorf's contribution to
Egyptian archaeology:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/092501_egyptian_artifacts_travel.htm

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ON THE WEB
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Also new to the Archaeology site is their guide to Nero's Domus
Aurea:

http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=pdfs/nero/index

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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The Archaeology Channel has an interview with Bill Rathje, on
archaeological matters associated with the events of 9/11:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/commentary/rathje.html

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AT ABOUT.COM
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Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Brook Run, a paleoindian
site in Virginia:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa093001a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of Walker and
Higgs, *Cleopatra of Egypt*:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa090401a.htm

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REVIEWS
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AthensNews has a review of M.R. Lagerlof, *The Sculptures of the
Parthenon, Aesthetics and Interpretation*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12930&m=A40&aa=2&eido\
s=S

The Times has a review of Barry Cunliffe, *The Extraordinary
Voyage of Pytheas the Greek: the Man Who Discovered Britain*:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,217-2001340799,00.html

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"Matricide, murder, and mayhem" ... gots to be a Greek tragedy:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,261-2001344535,00.html

AthensNews has an interesting tidbit on the influence of the
Greek world on French cuisine:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12929&m=A42&aa=1&eido\
s=S

In case you've missed it, a student is suing her school because
she failed her Latin A-levels:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001340532,00.html

Here's the nachleben of Pheidippides' run:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12930&m=A46&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Last week we had a letter of Stephen Miller in regards to archaeological
fallout from 9/11 ... today we have a response from Tom Palaima (scroll
down a bit):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=101779

On a semisimilar front, Martin Berman writes in the Guardian on how
America currently resembles late imperial Rome:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4271398,00.html

And on yet another semisimilar front, the NYPost (!) has a piece on
Mary Zimmerman's *Metamorphosis* (not really a review, but some
interesting comments):

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/5812.htm

Folks looking for an example of someone making it big with a classics
background will be interested in:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=97469

Perhaps more practical: an excellent article on why Latin and Greek
are important languages:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/07/stiecoedu02001.html

The Delphic Oracle is back in the news, although there's no real news:

http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=5399223&render=y&\
Table=&ck=&userid=1&userpw=.&uh=1,0,&ver=3.0

Peter Jones in the Spectator:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-10-\
06&id=1156

A New Yorker cartoon:
http://www.cartoonbank.com/cartoonissue_closeup.asp?pf%5Fid=46381&dept%5Fid=1001

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Rhys Jones:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001344524,00.html

Michael Katzev:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/obituaries/30KATZ.html

Peter Reynolds:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4270835,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=97776

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FOLLOWUPS
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Fujimura fraud:

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,75045,00.html?
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=99538
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011006/wl/japan_fake_finds_1.html
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010930wo32.htm

Hunley:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011006/us/hunley_1.html

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A slow week gang!

			         8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Thanks to Katherine Reece, Janice Siegel, and Trevor Watkins for
headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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ITAR/TASS reports (via Northern Light) on the discovery of a
number of Sarmatian tombs and a huge Indo-Iranian temple of fire:

http://library.northernlight.com/FB20011012750000069.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

Japanese archaeologist have discovered a number of pharoanic
statues (I think this is a repeat?):

http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1093157,\
00.html

A brief item in the Egyptian State Information Service site
suggests the temple of Hebes is going to be dismantled and
moved:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o101021i.htm

The statue of Canub from the bottom of Alexandria's harbour
will be lifted and put on display:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o041021k.htm

A mud brick temple dating to ca. the fifth century B.C. has
been found in the Kharga Oasis:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o081021e.htm
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011008/od/temple_dc_1.html

Zahi Hawass gave a talk in Waco recently:

http://www.wacotrib.com/auto/feed/news/2001/10/11/1002777381.21267.4203.1291.htm\
l

eKathimerini has an article on Alexander the Great's efforts in
Afghanistan:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=103446

There is increasing evidence that the Qumran community was
actually a monastery of some sort:

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=81259&contrassID=2&subCo\
ntrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=81259

The fortress which began the Roman invasion of 43 A.D. has
apparently been found near Kent:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,573213,00.html

Japanese archaeologists have also discovered a large Egyptian
quarry
which dates to the Roman period:

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20011010103

Also on the romano-egyptian front, archaeologists have
recently discovered four Roman-period tombs at the
Dakhla Oasis:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o131021a.htm


A large sacrificial site dating to the Shang dynasty has been
found in China's Henan province:

http://library.northernlight.com/FA20011012360000038.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

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Pre-Civil War era artifacts have been found during school
construction
in Channahon:

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/city/j13artifax.htm

Researchers may have solved the mystery of where the Anasazi got
their timber:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/10_6_01chaco.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Archaeology Odyssey out, with online
content on when humans arrived, the land of Sheba, and other
things:

http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html

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ON THE WEB
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The Vindolanda site has been updated, including a report on the
2001 excavations:

http://www.vindolanda.com/

The Hall of Ma'at site has added a good article by astronomer
Ed Krupp, who makes some pertinent observations on Bauval and
Roy's
methodology in *The Orion Mystery* and their claims in regards to
the pyramids and the belt of Orion:

http://maat.paradoxdesigns.com/krupp_integrity.html
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the Mayan calendar:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa101700a.htm
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REVIEWS
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The Independent has a review of V. Hanson's *Why the West has
Won*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=99187

The Washington Post has a review of M. Bernal *Black Athena
Writes
Back*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46541-2001Oct11.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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I meant to include this a last week when it finally showed up at
the BookTV site ... it's Victor Davis Hanson talking about his
*Carnage and Culture* and giving various musings on the events
of September 11 (program originally broadcast on Sept. 30 --
requires realplayer):

http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0901/btv092201_4.ram

Statues of the "muses of the four seasons" now grace the new
Alexandrian library:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o131021b.htm

"Greek chic" ... coming soon to a runway near you:

http://www.iht.com/articles/34988.html

Classical references turn up in the strangest contexts sometimes:

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=95&si=577514&issue_id=584\
1

Folks might be interested in a Telegraph piece which undertakes
some revisionism in regards to Victorian prudery:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=rQm2EbtX&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/01/10/13/bams13.html

Olympics update: the mayor of Marathon is balking at the idea
of hosting the marathon:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=103436
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011012/sp/oly_athens_2004_1.ht
ml

eKathimerini has a piece on this season's upcoming lectures at
the American School of Classical Studies:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=103065

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-10-\
13&id=1195

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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FOLLOWUPS
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Fujimura fraud:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/642538.asp?cp1=1 (excellent article)
http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2001100900681.html
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/firstp.jsp?news=technology&an=#20011011246

Hunley:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1011_hunleytintype.html
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/hunley1011.htm
http://www.goupstate.com/hj/news/1011hunley.asp

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