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Thanks to Michael Oberndorf, Chris Renaud, Bill Kennedy, Johanna Sandrock,
Arthur Shippee, Joe Greenwald, Maurice O'Sullivan, Daryl Krupa,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Elliott, John Hill, Herman Astudillo, Michael
Ruggieri, Bob Keeter, Gary Kirkpatrick,Jean Laplante, for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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You knew it was coming: a pair of geologists are challenging the
Pittman-Ryan theory on the flooding of the Black Sea region:

http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0111/25_nfld-cp.html

The Irish Independent has a brief item on high hopes for finding
a 3200-year-old goldsmith's workshop in Mayo:

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=649166&issue_id=6490

A Hungarian expedition has found all sorts of sites relating to
pharoahnic mining activities:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o281121z.htm

A statue of Mut has been discovered near Karnak:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o031221n.htm

Well, at least *something* escaped the Taliban's antiquity-smashing:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=110372

cf sadly:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001560012-2001565718,00.html

Ha'aretz has a very in-depth article on the excavations of Herod's
palace:

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=101418

Deseret News has a feature on the Nag Hammadi library:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,355010719,00.html?

A brief item on the excavation of a Roman winery in Abu Qir:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o061221j.htm

The Museum Lauriacum folks are miffed that plans are in the works
to send 30 years' worth of finds elsewhere for cataloging (in German):

http://ooe.orf.at/oesterreich.orf?read=detail&channel=4&id=164042

Genetic evidence is providing more information as to the extent
of Viking settlement in Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1689000/1689955.stm

Xinhua has an item on the discovery of a West Han Dynasty sacrificial
pit:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2001-12/06/content_150239.htm

... and a Southern Song Dynasty palace:

http://library.northernlight.com/FA20011205810000075.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

... and a Tang Dynasty wooden (!) building:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2001-12/04/content_146179.htm

A very brief item in China Daily reports on the discovery of a
very well-preserved body dating from the Ming dynasty:

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2001-12-06/46878.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001565696,00.html

Not sure how to classify this one, but if you read through it,
you'll find a cancer treatment which was discovered due to
an archaeological discovery:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/667259.asp

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THE AMERICAS
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A bit out-of-date but a good read nonetheless, the Stanford Report
has a piece on John Rick's discoveries this year at Chavin de
Huantar, not least of which were a number of Strombus shells:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/october24/chavin-a.html

An ancient Incan doorway has been discovered in the Andes:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011205/wl/peru_incan_discovery_1.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1363967,00.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap12-05-173956.asp?reg=AMERICAS

This is technically a followup, but since it has been so long since
we heard about it ... a Canadian exploration company is claiming to
have found evidence of a lost civilization off the coast of Cuba:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/668477.asp?cp1=1
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20011203/cuba.html#
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/341/nation/Explorers_pinpoint_lost_city_near_C\
uba+.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=109015

There's a new claim that the Mayans did not routinely engage
in human sacrifice:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991650

Evidence has finally been found to confirm a French presence in
the 1700's near what is now Peoria:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-12/uoia-wsp120301.php
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_465162.html

The number of potential sites in Clark County (Washington) has been
expanded:

http://www.columbian.com/12052001/clark_co/236255.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Archaeology Odyssey out, with articles on
Italy's Antiquities cops and fieldwork opportunities:

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

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ON THE WEB
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The Bible and Interpretation site has a new article by Bruce Chilton
"James, Jesus'Brother":

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

The Hall of Ma'at site has put up an article from KMT magazine by
Mark Lehner, "Notes and Photographs on the West-Schoch Sphinx Hypothesis":

http://maat.paradoxdesigns.com/lehner_sphinx.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A bunch of plundered Greek and Roman antiquities have been
returned to France:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011207/wl/france_smuggled_art_1.html

Not specifically 'crime', but an Austrian shop owner has won
the right to sell a Roman statue of Hekate which he bought some
twenty years ago:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_465285.html

An indicted antiquities dealer in New York is arguing that
an Egyptian law is too ambiguous for him to be charged under it:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=8313

I'm not sure where to put this one, but this section seems right.
A family-owned business in Utah has folks pay $2500 per day to
dig at an Anasazi site and they get to keep what they find:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,355010624,00.html
http://www.examiner.com/headlines/default.jsp?story=n.bone.1207w

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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a piece by Adrian Dorrington
on Augustus:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_dorrington2a.htm

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EXHIBITIONS
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An article in the Guardian about, inter alia, the Agatha Christie
exhibition at the British Museum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4314332,00.html

... ditto from Newsweek:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/669676.asp

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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In case you missed it, there's going to be a Latin edition of
Harry Potter:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$V0DQ52IAAB2EBQFIQMFSFFW\
AVCBQ0IV0?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F03%2Fnpot03.xml

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011203/en/britain_latin_harry_1.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011204/od/latin_dc_1.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-12-\
08&id=1397

and Dot Wordsworth ibidem:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-12-\
08&id=1395

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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FOLLOWUPS
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Bronze Age 'Pompeii':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1360723,00.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3246--251754-,00.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011203/en/art-pompeii_1.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011204/wl/italy_prehistoric_pompeii_1.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/011205/2/1k9b.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/186979p-1810288c.html

Earlier modern humans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/science/social/02BONE.html

Heyerdahl's Odin theory:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-000096208dec03.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dsci\
ence

Irish torcs (a genuine followup!):

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/1204/hom24.htm

Privatization of Italian sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/arts/design/03MUSE.html
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Mark Elliott, Maurice O'Sullivan, and Curtis B. Edmundson for
headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Geologists are wading into the "collapse of civilizations" debate
again, this time suggesting earthquakes are the culprit:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/672549.asp
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011213/sc/quake_civilization_dc_1.html

There are plans to reconstruct the multi-phase temple at Tel Bassta:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011210/2001121043.html

A brief item from the Egyptian State Information Service mentions
the discovery of a pharoanic temple at Qantara Sharq:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o131221e.htm

... and they're *finally* going to build a new museum for some of
Egypt's more famous artifacts:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F16%2Fwgi\
za16.xml

Road construction in Buckinghamshire has revealed the graves of
19 pre-Christian Saxons:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1710000/1710492.stm

Italy is planning to open a high tech type museum which will
feature reconstructions of ancient sites:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011210/re/leisure_italy_museum_dc_1.html

There's an item from the University of Toronto on Chris Bruun's
research into Roman water quality:

http://www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca/bin2/011210c.asp

AthensNews has a touristy feature on the Greek sites of Sicily:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12939&m=A24&aa=1&eido\
s=S

National Geographic has a feature on Indonesia's giant statues:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1212_TVindomegaliths.html

The Yorkshire Post has a nice little report on the excavation of
Sheffield Castle:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=4&aid=425463

Also on the castle front, archaeologists have started the search
for Edward I's fortifications at Linlithgow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1700000/1700413.stm

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/11/nsfort11.\
xml&sSheet=/news/2001/12/11/ixhome.html

A number of 13th-century frescoes have been discovered in Siena:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_474371.html
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/15/wfresc15.\
xml&sSheet=/news/2001/12/15/ixhome.html


AlphaGalileo has a news release on "ancient" (closer to medieval)
Russian footwear:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readRelease&Releaseid=8131

... and if you haven't seen it on your local news, they've
reopened the Leaning Tower of Pisa:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/673220.asp
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THE AMERICAS
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The Birmingham News has a report on the excavation of Belle Mont
(a plantation site):

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl\
?/base/news/100797930287601.xml

The Washington Post has a feature on a pre-Civil war market site
in D.C.:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49642-2001Dec15.html

There is a desire for more aboriginal representation in the Ohio
Historical Society's projects:

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news01/dec01/982111.h\
tml
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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The Atlantic Monthly has a lengthy feature, "The Curse of the
Sevso Treasure":

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/11/landesman.htm

cf: http://img.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/www/vickers/sevso.htm

There's (finally) a new issue of Mercator's World on the web, with
online features on the British Museum's "Lie of the Land" exhibit
and Nicholas Clapp's search for Sheba's palace:

http://www.mercatormag.com/

US News and World Report has a cover story on the political side
of archaeology in the Holy Land:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/011224/ideas/24bible.htm
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/011224/ideas/24bible.b.htm
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ON THE WEB
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The Bible and Interpretation site has a feature on the 2001
excavation season at Kursi:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/excavations/kursi_2001.htm

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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Hehir and Dillon, *A Classical Lexicon for Finnegan's Wake*:

http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=header&issu\
eid=JoyceColl.OHehirClassLex

E.A. Wallis Budge, *The Queen of Sheba and her Only Son Menyelek*
(I had problems getting this one to work):

http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/kebra_budge.pdf

Matthew Arnold, *Culture and Anarchy*:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4212

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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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There's a video about the Adena people:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

... and an audio commentary by Don Hardesty on what archaeology
can teach us about sustainable development:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/commentary/Hardesty.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Cyprus is appealing to have its cultural artifacts returned:

http://www.pio.gov.cy/news/dailynews/news2001_12_11.htm#2

And the next salvo in the Elgin Marbles saga:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001571064,00.html
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Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on the Windover Bog
site:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb120901a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of *Imperial
Exits*:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aafprimperialexits.htm
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REVIEWS
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The Independent has a review of Jeremy Campbell, "The Liar's Tale:
A History of Falsehood":

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=109376

The Telegraph has a review of a couple of books about Agatha
Christie's life as wife of an archaeologist:

http://www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=006827422149927&rtmo=LNyShydd&atmo=rrrrr\
rrq&pg=/01/11/21/bogath.html

... and what really is a review of Tim Eaton, *Plundering the
Past: Roman Stonework in Medieval Britain*:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2001570834,00.html

The Shawnee News-Standard has a review of Paul Maier, *The First
Chirstmas: The True and Unfamiliar Story*:

http://www.news-star.com/stories/121501/rel_52.shtml

The Times has a review of John Ray, *Reflections of Osiris* (and a
first chapter):

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,70-2001572434,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001170001-2001572432,00.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The Observer has a piece on Alford's claim that Plato just made
up the whole Atlantis story as a metaphor:

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,619567,00.html

130,000 young Spaniards a year watch ancient Greek theatre:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=239596
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpab/2001/01-12-15.mpab.html#06

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-12-\
15&id=1422

and Dot Wordsworth ibidem:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-12-\
15&id=1420


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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70 000 year-old bone tools:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/11/1108_bonetool.html

Bamiyan Buddhas:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001560013-2001571125,00.html

Hunley:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20011210/hunley.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011207/sc/life_hunley_dc_1.html

Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/blackbeard1215.htm

Submerged 'city' off Cuba:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/668477.asp

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Thanks to Paola E. Raffetta, "chrisloretto", Mark Elliott, Rick
Pettigrew, and Jorn Barger for headses upses this week
(a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
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After years of reading stories about the debate over when the
first humans reached North America, we finally get indications
that there's a debate over when humans reached Britain:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F22%2Fnre\
l22.xml

Okay ... here's the first indication that this was a weird week:
a pair of mummies has been discovered under a McDonald's in
Britain:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1718000/1718135.stm
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2001/12/19/FFX0PA4KCVC.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_476489.html

Then there's this article from the Times of Malta in regards to
a site which has been supposedly ignored except by folks like
Graham Hancock:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/article.php?id=82979

The cats which hang around Roman monuments have been given heritage
status:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_476705.html?menu=news.latestheadlines.world\
news

They're trying to firmly identify that mummy in Atlanta (via
Niagara Falls) using DNA from the mummy's tooth:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-exp-mummys-tooth1216dec16.story?\
coll=sns-ap-science-headlines
http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1122624,00.ht\
ml

cf: http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=0109/abstracts/newlife

An important press release from Cornell heralds some new precision
in terms of dating the bronze and iron ages (and mentions another
example of the oldest use of the Greek alphabet):

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec01/Carbon-14.bpf.html

http://unisci.com/stories/20014/1221011.htm

There's a move afoot (apparently) to rewrite the early civilization
history of India:

http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=926949192

A pair of tombs are shedding light on Shanhai's origins:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2001-12/21/content_205506.htm

A researcher is claiming to have found evidence of how Caravaggio
died:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1723000/1723833.stm

Well, of course at this time of year there would be something about
St. Nicholas andhis 4th-century church:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4003-2001Dec19.html

And of course, around this time of year one always gets something
about Michael Molnar's Star of Bethlehem theory:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991713
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_477327.html

... folks wanting more on this can check out the following links
that have appeared in past issues of Explorator (or should have):


http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/bethlehem.html (good introductory biblio
on this one)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/226081.asp
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000science/christmasstar991220.html
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1999/12/22/52.asp
http://www.archaeology.org/9811/abstracts/star.html
http://earthsky.com/Features/Articles/star-of-bethlehem.html
http://asia.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/08/30/bethlehem.star/
http://www.naplesnews.com/today/religion/d407269a.htm
http://detnews.com/2000/religion/0001/01/12170013.htm
http://www.earthsky.com/Features/Articles/stars.html

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THE AMERICAS
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Deseret News has a very brief item on the discovery of an Early
Woodland period site in Pennsylvania:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,355013028,00.html?

The Fort St. Louis project in Texas is winding down:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011218/us/french_relics_1.html
http://www.texascrossroads.com/scripts/editorial.dll?bfromind=679&eeid=5760991&e\
etype=article&render=y&ck=&userid=1&userpw=.&uh=1,0,&ver=3.0

A new (maybe) theory on why the Hohokam people disappeared:

http://www.newsday.com/features/ny-dsspd2513638dec18.story?coll=ny%2Dfeatures%2D\
headlines


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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Archaeology online, with abstracts about
smoking pots, ground zero, the maya, celtic sacrifice, and other
items:

http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=curiss/index

There's also a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, including
its annual dig guide, Aroer, and other things:

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

Issue 3 of Transoxiana is on the web, with articles (in Spanish)
on la vida intima of Anememhet III, the law in Sumer and Babylonia,
among others:

http://www.salvador.edu.ar/transox/0103/index.html

Discover Magazine has a section devoted to archaeology in its
"Year in Science" feature:

http://www.discover.com/jan_02/archaeology.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Bible and Interpretation site has an article by M. Smith, "The
Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background
and the Ugaritic Texts":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/MSmith_BiblicalMonotheism.htm
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
The Archaeology channel this week features a nice little 9-minute
video on the Parthenon:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Israeli authorities have shut down a ring of scuba divers who were
stealing antiquities from the sea around Caesarea:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/17/News/News.40074.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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A really bad pun:

http://www.ucomics.com/looseparts/viewtmloo.cfm?uc_full_date=20011220

AthensNews has a short feature on the survival of rather more ancient
Greek words in Albania:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12941&m=A35&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Folks might be interested in a dance performance thing of Sappho:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=111817

More (a lot more) about Delphi's gasses in this one (scroll past the
bit about volcanoes):

http://www.ctnow.com/entertainment/hc-jelledeboer.artdec23.story?coll=hc%2Dheadl\
ines%2Dentertainment

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-12-\
15&id=1422

and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-12-\
15&id=1420

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
================================================================
Aubrey Bailey:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F22%2Fdb2\
201.xml
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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Earthquakes and Ancient Civilizations:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/earthquake-01g.html

Cities offshore Cuba:

http://library.northernlight.com/FC20011218870000064.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

New Acropolis Museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=111921

Pompeii's 'Sex Spa' open to tourists:

http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2001/12/19/FFXMR5KZDVC.html

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Chris Renaud, Mata Kimasitayo, and Charles Jones for headses upses
this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
If your head is still ringing from the noisy toys your relatives
gave your kids/inflicted on you, you will take some solace in
the fact that it appears noisy toys go back to the Bronze Age (or
not):

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F24%2Fnto\
y24.xml

... and you might be interested in some factoids about New
Year's:

http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/211440.htm

Al-Ahram has a piece by Zahi Hawass all about tomb robbers in
Egypt:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/565/tr4.htm

Hawass also took Tony Blair on a tour of monuments this week:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001601782,00.html
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,625686,00.html
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o291221n.htm

An ancient map has led to the discovery of pharoanic gold
mines in Egypt's eastern desert:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,37-2001593723,00.html

There are plans in the works to build a mosaic museum in
Alexandria:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o271221p.htm

A Roman bathing complex has been found in Tel Al Louli:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o231221c.htm

John Noble Wilford has penned a very nice article on the Celtic
presence in Anatolia (specifically Gordion) in the second century
B.C./B.C.E.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/science/social/25GORD.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/43011.html

(cf.: http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=0201/abstracts/celtic)

... as well as a piece on Midas'Tomb and who might be therein:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/science/social/25MIDA.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/43013.html

A geophysical survey has revealed the remains of the ancient
Roman port of Rutupiae in Kent:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/26/ndover26.xml&\
sSheet=/news/2001/12/26/ixhome.html

A geologist is claiming that Atlantis did exist, but it's story
was rather embellished by later cultures:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19443-2001Dec23.html
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/677502.asp

The Lebanon Daily Star has a piece on the challenges involved
in saving the archaeological past of Hasabya):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/27_12_01_a.htm

Here's a nice article on the challenges involved in doing
archaeology in Uzbekistan:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/677866.asp
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/12/25/013.html

What is possibly a sixth-century burial site has been found
in Galway:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/1228/hom5.htm

A number of medieval frescoes have been discovered in a tiny
church in a tiny village in Suffolk:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001601499,00.html

Restoration work on a church in London has required the use of
archaeologists to help relocate a pile of bodies:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1731000/1731076.stm

An article speculating on the existence of an ancient site under
a village in India:

http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=1713773250

There's a dispute over when the tomb of a Chinese empress should
be opened:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2001-12/29/content_217316.htm

... and a Qing dynasty wine cellar has been discovered:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2001-12/27/content_213630.htm

A brief item in Japan Today reveals that archaeologists are now
double checking sites previously excavated by Fujimura:

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=187494

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THE AMERICAS
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The Orlando Sentinel has a piece on classifying Spanish coinage:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-loccoin28122801dec28.story?coll=or\
l%2Dnews%2Dheadlines

The Tampa Tribune reports on the discovery of artifacts during
the laying of a pipeline:

http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGALEHI5SVC.html

Here's a vague report on the discovery of some ancient remains
in Saskatchewan:

http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/12/27/ancient_skull01122\
7

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
Archaeology Today has a new online article on seafarers of East
Africa:

http://www.archaeologytoday.net/web%20articles/122401Finding%20the%20Seafarers%2\
0of%20East%20Africa.htm

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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A somewhat unfocused article on looting of sites and related
arrests in Pakistan:

http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/27/local36.htm
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Solstice festivals in
various cultures:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb122301a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a reprise of a
good article on Spartacus:

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

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REVIEWS
================================================================
The Independent has a review of Martin Bernal, "Black Athena
Writes Back":

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=111952
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
The New York Times has a review of an exhibition of Esther Boise
Van Deman's photographs of Roman ruins at the turn of the
century:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/arts/design/28LOKE.html

The Lebanon Daily Star has a review of the Mar Mitr exhibition
(Roman era artifacts):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/24_12_01_b.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Folks might be interested in some early Greek reaction to the
adoption of the Euro:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=112568

Richard Saller has been named Provost of the University of
Chicago:

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/01/011129.saller.shtml

I suspect a classicist can answer the question in this column
about the seven hills:

http://www.cincypost.com/2001/dec/28/guest122801.html

Who says dead/non-existent languages aren't worth something?:

http://www.nando.com/entertainment/story/206341p-1991375c.html

Even better: the Bangkok Post has an article on what the business
world can learn from ancient Rome:

http://scoop.bangkokpost.co.th/bkkpost/2001/december2001/bp20011224/business/24d\
ec2001_biz53.html

Interesting piece in the Economist on the "triumph" of English:

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=883997

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-12-\
29&id=1443

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-12-\
29&id=1441

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
================================================================
G.P. Goold:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001600137,00.html
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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Bamaiyan Buddhas:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F29%2Fwbu\
dd29.xml

Erotic frescoes from Pompeii (this is a good one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/arts/design/27POMP.html

(readers of sufficient maturity might want to read Slate's
commentary on this article at:
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060198&device=)

Fort St. Louis:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1185590

Qantara Sharq:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o231221e.htm

Mummy Tooth DNA:

http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.tooth30dec30.story?coll=bal%2Dnat\
ionworld%2Dheadlines

Temple Mount:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/30/News/News.40792.html
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Thanks to John Carr, Olivier Cabon, Alastair Millar, Chris Renaud,
Mark Elliott, Maurice O'Sullivan, Carl Lawson, Bill Kennedy,
Hernan Astudillo, Arthur Shippee, and Anthony Bulloch for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).

                                 * * *

A special hello to all the folks at the AIA/APA shindig this
weekend!
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
The New Yorker has a nice article on what ice cores tell us about
ancient climate etc.:

http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020107fa_FACT

A shrine erected in honour of Ramses II has been found in an ancient
Egyptian army base:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2001/1230/breaking44.htm
http://www.arabia.com/egypt/life/article/english/0,5127,19979,00.html
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$D1NW0IYAADAMRQFIQMFSFFO\
AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2001/12/30/uw06.xml&sSheet=/portal/2001/12/30/ixport.html

Perhaps the same?:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o050122e.htm

or:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o311221j.htm

The Egyptian State Information Service also has a feature on Carter's
discovery of Tutankhamen:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o030122.htm

... and news that the Kalabsha Temple restoration is almost complete:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o010122a.htm

Tutankhamen also features in a somewhat strange 'news' story in
the Guardian (this is one of those things which probably made sense
in the print version):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4327484,00.html

There is word that a new chamber of some sort has been discovered
by georadar in the Great Pyramid (article in French):

http://www.egypt.edu/actualite/2002/020101/01janvier01.htm

A new development in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/02/News/News.40993.html

The Middle East Wire has a feature on Biblical archaeology:

http://www.middleeastwire.com/commentary/stories/20011227_1_meno.shtml

There's plenty of coverage of one scholar's claim that a long-known
artifact actually came from the throne of Midas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/science/social/03MIDA.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-01/uop-uak122101.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1742000/1742019.stm
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/681100.asp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/01/020103074806.htm
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020103/od/midas_dc_1.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=113367

A brief item on the discovery of a Greco-Roman period town in the
Sinai:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o030122i.htm

A major Roman coin hoard has been found in Moray (Scotland), although
the conclusions being drawn from it are somewhat suspect:

http://www.news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=3152002

... while the discovery of a dog burial in Silchester is causing
more questions to be asked:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,626325,00.html

A team of Greek archaeologists is headed to Afghanistan to see,
well, what's left:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12943&m=A35&aa=1&eido\
s=S
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_487723.html?menu=
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=113509
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap01-04-154838.asp?reg=ASIA

See also:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F01%2Fwar\
301.xml

I wasn't sure whether folks would be interested in this, but
since I received so many headses upses about it ... the Indian
government has decided to cover the Taj Mahal in camouflage in
case of an outbreak of war with Pakistan:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020101/od/tajmahal_dc_1.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=112099

And as long as we're on the Indian front, the Humayan tomb has
a new admission/security thingie which sounds rather interesting
in these times:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?catkey=-2128839596&art_id=741\
577380&sType=1

El Mostrador (Chile) has an article (in Spanish) on the oldest
Buddhist shrines ever discovered in China:

http://www.elmostrador.cl/modulos/noticias/constructor/detalle_noticia.asp?id_no\
ticia=50847

This is probably the same (in English) ... I can't get the El
Mostrador article to reappear:

http://library.northernlight.com/FD20020102530000033.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

Chinese researchers suggest a change in a river system led to
the end of a Neolithic culture:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-01/05/content_225518.htm

A number of ancient wells have been found in some mysterious city
in Hunan province:

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/cn/2002-01-04/50628.html

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
The Christian Science Monitor has a piece on the ongoing excavations
of Caral (this should probably be a followup, but ...):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0103/p11s1-woam.html

There's an AP wire story circulating in various places about
Ken Karsmizki's search for traces of the Lewis and Clark expedition:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011230/us/exp_seeking_lewis___clark_1.html
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/680158.asp

A small petroglyph in a cave in Orange Country is causing one
of those development v. preservation disputes:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-000000525jan03.story?coll=la%2Dediti\
ons%2Dorange%2Doc%5Fnews

The Washington Post has a feature on digs looking for remains of
Old Town Manassas:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3228-2002Jan5.html

The BBC has a feature on archaeology in Alaska:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/newsid_1735000\
/1735815.stm

There's an AP story circulating on the discovery of some remnants of
French Peoria:

http://www.thetimesonline.com/index.pl/article?id=10182874

A budding archaeologist:

http://www.wisinfo.com/dailytribune/local/123101-3.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Mercator's World online, with articles on
a 3d map of Guatemala and maps of the solar system:

http://www.mercatormag.com/showissue.phtml?i=46
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Bible and Interpretation site has a new article up: William M.
Schniedewind "Society and the Promise to David: Reading 2 Samuel 7":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Schniedewind.htm
================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Tacitus on Germany (trans. Thomas Gordon):

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2995

Ovid, Metamorphoses (various translators including Dryden, Pope,
et alia):

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/meta/index.htm

The Sybilline Oracles (trans. Milton Terry):

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sib/index.htm
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The New York antiquities dealer charged under an Egyptian law will
have his trial proceed:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o010122j.htm

cf.: http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=0111/etc/president
================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
At N.S. Gill's Ancient History site: A. Schlaf, "Aqueducts of Rome
Under Augustus":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_schlaf1.htm
================================================================
REVIEWS
================================================================
LA Times has a review of Carsten Thiede, *The Dead Sea Scrolls and
the Jewish Origins of Christianity*:

http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-000001122jan05.story?coll=la%2Dnews%\
2Dreligion
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
There's an AP story which seems to be just surfacing on the political
side of ancient feasts:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/news/0106feasts.htm

More work on turning the area around the Acropolis into a pedestrian
only area:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=113361

One I missed: Arabic News had a nice little rundown of the traditions
associated with Jesus' family going to Egypt:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011225/2001122537.html

Related (sort of) to the previous:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F06%2Fwpi\
l06.xml

Classical content in the Euro changeover:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12943&m=A07&aa=2&eido\
s=S
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4327722,00.html

... and an article on vineyards in Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=113232

The Director of the 2004 Cultural Olympics has resigned:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12943&m=A39&aa=4&eido\
s=S

Dot Wordsworth in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-01-\
05&id=1461

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
================================================================
Albinia de la Mare:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=112479
================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Atlantis location:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0102_020103wiratlan.html

Bamaiyan Buddhas:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/680146.asp
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1230991578

Bronze Age Chronology:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4328515,00.html

Pompeii Frescoes:

http://www.starnews.com/article.php?pomperotica31.html

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the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
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to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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Trevor Watkins,  for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Let's start things off with a report that Neanderthals were capable
of making a sort of "superglue" which they constructed tools with:

http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_488461.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=113056

... and we've got another chapter in the "what can mitochondrial
DNA tell us" story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/science/08ORIG.html

Also on the prehistoric front is coverage of the discovery of what
appears to be the oldest abstract art:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1753000/1753326.stm
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002017893,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/01/10/ancient.thinkers.ap/index.html
http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1129354,00.ht\
ml
http://allafrica.com/stories/200201110199.html
http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/01112002/graphb.htm

John Noble Wilford has a nice essay on the evidence for the origins
of various Polynesian cultures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/science/08POLY.html

Scythian gold which was discovered last summer appears to predate
contact with the Greeks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/arts/design/09GOLD.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20020109/en/scythian_gold_from_siberia_said_to_\
predate_the_greeks_1.html

A Ptolemaic "city" (a tomb, surely) has been discovered in Menya:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o090122h.htm
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020109/2002010943.html

A new museum (period focus is unclear) will open next year in
Metrouh (Egypt):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o090122a.htm

The Egyptian State Information Service has a feature on life
in ancient Egypt:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o090122.htm

A new suggestion in regards to the Elgin Marbles:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4334387,00.html

Saudi Arabia is being criticized for permitting the demolition
of remains of an Ottoman fortress to make way for a resort:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001570028-2002013789,00.html
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F09%2Fwsa\
ud09.xml

Significant remains of ancient Brahmaputra civilization has been
found near Narsingdi (Bangladesh):

http://www.dailystarnews.com/200201/08/n2010801.htm#body3

Excavation of a tomb in Italy might suggest that Dante was not so
accurate in his description of "Cannibal Count Ugolino" in the
Inferno:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020105/sc/italy_dante_dc_1.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20020107/dante.html

Keeping in a literary frame of mind, archaeologists are claiming
to have found "Ophelia's well" (scroll down a bit):

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F11%2Fnbu\
l11.xml

An old painting is shedding light on how the world's oldest iron
bridge was constructed:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F07%2Fnbr\
idg07.xml

And a medieval bridge from Manchester is also in the news:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1717000/1717912.stm

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THE AMERICAS
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Quite a while ago there were plenty of reports of Blashford-Snell's
apparent discovery of a 'lost Inca city' ... here's a genuine
followup which probably won't surprise many:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F13%2Fwbl\
ash13.xml

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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Fortean Times (!) has put some items of interest up of late, most
recently a piece on Ron Wyatt:

http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/151_ronwyatt.shtml

... and a really interesting piece by Peter James on the simulacrum
of Niobe:

http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/142_niobe.shtml

Nature has a piece on booms and busts in the ancient Near East,
including one when Alexander the Great died:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020101/020101-9.html

Outside Magazine has an extended article (with an annoying popup ad)
on the evidence for when folks came to America:

http://www.outsidemag.com/magazine/200002/200002bones1.html

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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The Archaeology Channel has a new video up which takes you on a
tour of Crump's Cave (Kentucky) and the 'mud glyphs' which are to
be found there:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has put up an Egypt-inspired crossword
puzzle:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb010602a.htm
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REVIEWS
================================================================
I thought the Jerusalem Post had already reviewed this one, but if
not, it currently has a review of Edward Fox, *Palestine Twilight:
The Murder of Dr. Albert Glock and the Archaeology of the Holy Land*:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/07/Books/Books.41260.html

The Guardian has a review of E. Zangger's *The Future of the Past:
Archaeology in the 21st Century*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4329107,00.html

... and one of Jeremy Campbell, *The Liar's Tale: A History of
Falsehood*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4329103,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Fox has a piece on the Rapa Nui exhibition at the Met:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42862,00.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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In the gossip department, now there are rumours of a 10 part
miniseries about Alexander the Great (I'm not sure about this site):

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/020109.htm

... but that site led me to this one, which has an interviewish
thing with Ridley Scott in which he says he's working on an
Alexander the Great film:

http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---10293,00.html

Also on the 'classically-themed-movies-are-hot' front comes news
of one based on the Jason and the Argonauts tale:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020108/en/film-dish_1.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4331298,00.html

Folks might be interested in a brief review of *In the Shape of
a Boar*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12944&m=A38&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Now Classicists can say "Colder than a bronze diskobolos"
rather than make references to simians, I think:

http://www.athensnews.gr/D11012002/1ng2a.jpg

... along with an interesting related editorial:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12944&m=A99&aa=9&eido\
s=S

Here's an interesting 'role reversal' custom from Greece which
might be useful for comparative purposes:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12944&m=A10&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Here's some more coverage of Richard Saller becoming Provost at
UChicago:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020110/saller.shtml

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-01-\
12&id=1486

... and Dot Wordsworth ibidem:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-01-\
12&id=1484

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
================================================================
Charles Segal:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/012/obituaries/Charles_Segal_65+.shtml
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/stories_news/xsegal_20020113.htm

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FOLLOWUPS
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Ancient Feasts:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=113549

Bamiyan Buddhas:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=776022050

Midas Throne:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0110/p14s1-alar.html

New Museum for Tutankhamen:

http://www.arabia.com/life/article/english/0,1690,121486,00.html

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Thanks to Paola Raffetta, Bert Lusnia, Trevor Watkins, John Hill,
Star Meyer, Rick Jones, Hernan Astudillo, Alastair Millar, Ardle
MacMahon, Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Sally Winchester, Maurice
O'Sullivan, and Rick Pettigrewfor headses upses this week
(a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
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There's a new theory out about the cause of death of Oetzi, claiming
he was ritually murdered:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45344-2002Jan14.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_495948.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0115_020115iceman.html
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/604971.asp

... and we have claims of the return of the 'mummy's curse' to
the Egyptian Museum in Turin:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020117/80/cpowt.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_498281.html

The 'lost' base of Akhenaten's sarcophagus is being returned
to Egypt:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o170122k.htm

The Egyptian State Information Service has an item on
a research paper dealing with Pharoanic-era marriage
contracts:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o170122c.htm

MSNBC has an item on the Ark of the Covenant in Axum:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/690569.asp

A ca. 4th century Macedonian tomb which saw reuse as a Christian
hero shrine has been found near Dodona:

http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/15/greece.tomb/index.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=114823
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020115/sc/greece_monument_dc_1.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_496087.html

The Temple of Athena Nike is almost gone:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=&t=01&m=A06&aa=2

AthensNews has a really vague report on what appears to be
numerous archaeological discoveries during numerous construction
projects:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=&t=01&m=A10&aa=7

The next salvo in the Elgin Marbles conflict has been fired:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_496226.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336525,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2002026249,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002025194,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1761000/1761211.stm

but cf: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4334387,00.htm
and:
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=12945&t=01&m=A06&aa=1
and:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1767000/1767656.stm
and:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,3622045%255E1702,0\
0.html

... and you have to wonder whether the British Museum's financial woes
will come into play in the dispute:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336993,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336994,00.html
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F20%2Fnmu\
s20.xml

... and just in case we've forgotten, the Ethiopians still want Italy
to return the Axum Obelisk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/international/africa/17AKSU.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020117/wl/ethiopia_obelisk_2.html

A Roman-era tomb has been found in Bourg Al-Arab (Egypt):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o170122l.htm

The restored "Celio house" (and others) under the basilica of SS Giovanni e
Paolo
is once again open to the public:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F18%2Fwro\
me18.xml
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020116/wl/italy_ancient_house_1.html
http://ilmessaggero.caltanet.it/hermes/20020117/01_NAZIONALE/PRIMA_PAGINA/DOMUS.\
htm

I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this one ... there are claims
that remains of a 7,500 b.p. (or older)"civilization" off the coast of
India:

http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_496560.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,9003-2002032172,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1763000/1763950.stm
http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?catkey=-2128936835&art_id=2140338028

China apparently has plans to list Qin's terracotta army on a
stock exchange somewhere:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,634587,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336911,00.html
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,97086,00.html

A number of inscriptions are going to be removed from the Three Gorges
area to better preserve them:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200201/20/eng20020120_89019.shtml

Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni chapel in Padua are shortly to
be open to public view again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1769000/1769744.stm

Excavations of a 17th century jail/gaol in Stirling has turned
up large quantities of henbane seeds:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F14%2Fnse\
ed14.xml

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THE AMERICAS
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A 1300-year-old pre-Incan citadel has been found in Peru, according
to this Spanish-language article from El Mostrador:

http://www.elmostrador.cl/modulos/noticias/constructor/noticia.asp?id_noticia=52\
339

The discovery of some archaeological remains have put a halt to
the construction of a coffee magnate's house on Possession Sound:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134393153_bones19m.html

Archaeologists have discovered the site where the Mexican-U.S. treaty
in 1847 was signed:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/california/stories_statebrk/adobe_20020113.\
htm

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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii has updated their website,
which includes a couple of research papers, information on their
upcoming field school, et alia:

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/field_proj/anampomp/index.html

Saw this on the ANE list and thought some folks would be interested
to know that the first seven issues of Inscriptions, the newsletter
of the Friends of Egypt Society (Swansea), are available online:

http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/egypt/friends/inscr.htm

On a semi-related note, there's a new mainly-Spanish-language list out
there devoted to Oriental Studies which seems to have gotten off
to a good start. Subscribe/find more information at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/estudios-orientales/join

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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Vergil's Eclogues (English and Latin):

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/virgil/ecl/index.htm

... and Georgics (similiter):

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/virgil/geo/index.htm
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The Archaeology Channel has another installment in its audio
commentaries focusing on sustainability, this time by Dr. Joseph
Tainter:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/commentary/Tainter.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A different sort of "crime" in this one ... three members of
Cornwall's ancient parliament have been taking on English Heritage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4338871,00.html

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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a reprise of an
earlier piece on the symbolism of the laurel:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa080100a.htm

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REVIEWS
================================================================
Time has a review of VDH's *Carnage and Culture*:

http://www.time.com/time/asia/arts/magazine/0,9754,191043,00.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Folks might be interested in a New York Times piece on how the
brain works in regards to processing language, although there
are some bits of this my brain had problems processing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/15/health/anatomy/15LANG.html

The Guardian has a lengthy piece on whether Aristotle was the
first physicist:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4335869,00.htm

This one really isn't classical, but it turned up in the scan this
a.m. for some reason and for some reason I thought classicists
would be interested in reading the Telegraph's obit of Lady
Violet Powell:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F15%2Fdb1\
501.xml

A number of tragedies will be performed at the Herodes Atticus
theatre in June's Cultural Olympiad:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=115005

The Hartford Courant has a column suggesting the Stoics had it
right in regards to dealing with major disasters:

http://www.ctnow.com/features/books/hc-seneca0120.artjan20.story

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-01-\
19&id=1506

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-01-\
19&id=1504

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
================================================================
Charles Segal:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/obituaries/14SEGA.html
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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Neanderthal technology:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020114/neanderthal.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1766000/1766683.stm

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Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Casey O'Connor, Bill
Phelps,Mark Elliott, Hernan Astudillo, "Jim", Maurice O'Sullivan, John
Hill, Eoin Bairead, Jean Laplante, Trevor Watkins, and for
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Adding to the British Museum's other woes, the Welsh are asking
for the return of the 'Gold Cape of Mold':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_1780000/1780327.stm

... and Nigeria wants the Benin Bronzes back too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1779000/1779236.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=116451

Here's some good argument fodder ... it turns out that wheat
found in mummy's tombs doesn't sprout after all:

http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1135268,00.ht\
ml

eKathimerini has a couple of interesting pieces on petroglyphs
in northern Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=12573
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=12574

The subject of this year's University of Maryland Historical
Clinical Pathology Conference was Herod, who, it appears, died a
rather painful death:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/694458.asp
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020121/herod.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/abc/20020125/ts_abc/herod020125
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F26%2Fwhe\
rod26.xml

Ha'aretz has a lengthy piece on the Albert Glock case:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=120951&contrassID=2&s\
ubContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

A painting of a tiger-headed man has been found in Japan:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020123wo61.htm

An ancient Japanese beam weight provides evidence for trade
with ancient Korea:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020124wo61.htm

One I missed ... a dig in Dublin has revealed the foundations
of the medieval Carrickmines Castle:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0116/3161081619HMCARRICKMINES.html

The Times has an interesting piece on burial practices of the
Middle Ages:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2002032772,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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The latest civilization-collapse-caused-by-climate-change
evidence focuses on the Maya:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-01/nofs-ccf012402.php

The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting piece on the
history of the potato:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0124/p18s01-stgn.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of British Archaeology on the web, with
articles on Scotland's early kings, Meol, and a nice news roundup:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba62/index.shtml

There's also a new issue of Ancient Egypt magazine out, with
online articles on Egyptological Education, among other things:

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue10.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Frank Tarbell, *A History of Greek Art*:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4390

Albert Olmstead: *Assyrian Historiography*:

http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/AssyrianHist.html

E.W. Maunder: *The Astronomy of the Bible*:

http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/AstroBible.html

C.S. Given: *A Fleece of Gold*:

http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/FleeceGold.html

E. Luce: *Helps to Latin Translation at Sight*:

http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/Helps.html

T. Moore (trans), *The Odes of Anacreon*:

http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/OdesAnacreon.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A nice article on Italy's efforts to curb tomb raiders:

http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml?type=entertainmentnews&StoryID=53006\
0

A smuggling ring has been busted in Thessaloniki:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12946&m=A10&aa=4&eido\
s=S

The Lynch case in Alaska will have repercussions elsewhere:

http://www.adn.com/front/story/753267p-803341c.html

More from Zahi Hawass on tomb robbers in Egypt:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/569/tr2.htm

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AT ABOUT.COM
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Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a short piece on
problems the NPS is having maintaining archaeological sites and websites:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb012002a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on that submerged
'civilization' recently discovered in the Gulf of Cambay:

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

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REVIEWS
================================================================
The Bible and Interpretation site has a review of the new edition
Paula Fredericksen, *From Jesus to Christ*:

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

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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
The Christian Science Monitor is the latest broadsheet to visit
the Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth exhibit:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0125/p13s02-alar.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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If you have a fast connection (I don't) you might want to check
out the latest issue of Atlantis Rising, which includes an
article on Plato's story about the fabled place in .pdf:

http://www.atlantisrising.com/

Folks might be interested in an impending tribute to Yannos
Ritsos:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12946&m=A35&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Hmmmm ... they're going to build a new theatre next to the
ancient one at Epidaurus:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=12452

Sorry ... I couldn't get through to the Spectator this week ...

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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George P. Goold:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/24/obituaries/24GOOL.html

Pierre-Roland Giot:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=116218
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FOLLOWUPS
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Akhenaten sarcophagus:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o220122d.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_500556.html

Alexander and Inflation:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=116634

Elgin Marbles:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,637686,00.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1224200

Egyptian Marriages:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020121/egypt.html

Hunley:

http://popularmechanics.com/science/research/2002/1/raise_the_hunley/

Oetzi as Sacrifice:

http://www.elmostrador.cl/modulos/noticias/constructor/noticia.asp?id_noticia=53\
173 (spanish)

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O'Sullivan, Joanne Conman, J. Moretz, Elizabeth Mae Marlowe,
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If you remember how to log in:

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A brief item in the Times suggests falconry might date back to
the Ice Age:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002042435,00.html


What might be the oldest tombs ever from Egypt have been found by
an Australian team (I can't believe they took five years to announce
this):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_506991.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/01/item20020128132800_1.htm
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3673238%5E421,00.\
html
http://news.24.com/News24/Africa/Northern_Africa/0,1113,2-11-38_1137931,00.html

Five other tombs have also been found:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o310122q.htm

Ancient Egyptians were possibly the first people to make
gold jewellery:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o230821.htm

And here's an extremely vague report of a tomb discovery at
Borg al Arab:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o310122c.htm

cf: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o300122j.htm

... and a similarly vague report about the discovery of
some 3000-year-old inscriptions in the Suez region:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o290122k.htm

... and a Roman bathing complex has been found in Qotour:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o300122h.htm

Ptolemaic remains have been found in southern Egypt:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/02/02/egypt.archaeology.ap/index.html

There's a piece circulating speculating on whether Israel's
lost tribes can be found in Afghanistan:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/020203/64/1fcb3.html

The Belfast Telegraph (briefly) reports the discovery of an
ancient ringfort:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/today/jan29/News/ancientring.shtml

Iron Age sites are under threat in Britain:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F02%2Fnir\
on02.xml

An inscription which records the names of some of those who fell
in Athens' ill-fated Sicilian Expedition has come to light near
the Kerameikos cemetery:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100018_30/01/2002_12797

The restoration of Hadrian's Arch in Athens is almost underway:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12947&m=A07&aa=2&eido\
s=S
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/29/hadrian.arch.athens/index.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=12923

Discovery Channel has a nice feature on the water supply (and the waterworks)
which supplied Londinium:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020128/roman.html

The Telegraph has a feature on the source of garum:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F01%2Fnga\
rum01.xml
cf. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_510666.html

A 1st century A.D./C.E. painting of Bacchus and other mythological
types has been found (and restored) in London:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002052529,00.html

The tomb of Huidi, the second emperor of the Western Han Dynasty
has been found in Shaanxi Province:

http://library.northernlight.com/FA20020129600000012.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

... and artifacts from the Xia and Shang dynasties have been
found in China's Yunnan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-01/28/content_256857.htm

Archaeologists are hot on the trail of the grave of Richard II:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002043849,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,640961,00.html

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THE AMERICAS
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Not much from the Americas this week, save a report on an impending
search for a sunken Russian ship:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/community/sun/stories/s30ship_20020130.htm
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Bible Review out, with articles on Judith
and Esther, among other things:

http://www.bib-arch.org/BSWB/bswb_BR/indexBR.html

Spectroscopy Magazine has an article by H.G.M. Edwards, "Raman
Raman Microscopy in Art and Archeology: Illumination of Historical
Mysteries in Rock Art and Frescoes" (.pdf). Access via (if you can
... I couldn't get it Adobe to launch from the direct link):

http://www.spectroscopymag.com/spectroscopy/
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ON THE WEB
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The TAY Project (Archaeological Settlements of Turkey) is worth
taking a look at; they've recently added a "Destruction Report"
which outlines plans to better police sites:

http://tayproject.org/enghome.html

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CRIME BEAT
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This is really a followup, but it's the New York Times' extended
coverage of the trial of Frederick Schulz, that antiquities
dealer who was charged under an Egyptian law:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/arts/design/30DEAL.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20020130/en/the_trial_of_a_dealer_divides_the_a\
rt_world_1.html

An Ethiopian artifact looted in the 19th century depicting the
Ark of the Covenant is being returned:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_505508.html

The BBC has a feature on looting of religious art on Cyprus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/newsid_1796000\
/1796184.stm

Britain is about to introduce a new law on import/export of
illicit antiquities:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/29/nloot29.xml

100 ancient artifacts have been discovered in a Greek pensioner's
home:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12947&m=A07&aa=3&eido\
s=S

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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Linnaeus and Botanical
names:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa012702a.htm
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REVIEWS
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Athens News has a review of John Hazel, *Who's Who in the Greek
World*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12947&m=A38&aa=2&eido\
s=S

The Independent has a review of Mark Kurlansky, *Salt: A World History*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=117778

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EXHIBITIONS
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Twelve museums in Greece are sending artifacts to Germany for an
exhibition titled "Greek Classical Civilization":

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=12904

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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There's a couple new Roman-themed movies in the works, including
one on Boudicca:

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_507144.html

Athens News has a touristy thing on Orchomenos, with plenty of
Classical content:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12947&m=A24&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Woohoo! The same source relates that Athens is tearing down tons
of billboards and other signs which obscure views of things like
the Parthenon:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12947&m=A07&aa=1&eido\
s=S

For some reason, this piece on the comeback of Latin turned up
in the scan today ... it's kind of old, but what the heck:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0614_wirelatin.html

A nice photo:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100017_02/02/2002_12938

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
02&id=1550

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
02&id=1548

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
================================================================
[the obit for John D'Arms in the New York Times has expired; if
you come across one, please forward it to me! Thanks]

Frank Schuster:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=117101
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FOLLOWUPS
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Akhenaten Sarcophagus:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/695070.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1784000/1784458.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_505716.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=887148
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o280122b.htm

Mummy Wheat:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o290122a.htm

Elgin Marbles:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=117868

Oetzi as Sacrifice:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0115_020115iceman.html

Scythian Gold (I think I missed this one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/arts/design/09GOLD.html
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Thanks to Janice Siegel, Bill Kennedy, Terrence Lockyer, Arthur Shippee,
Ardle MacMahon, Chris Renaud, Mark Elliott, Albert Lusnia, Maurice
O'Sullivan, Trevor Watkins, Michael Ruggieri, and Jack Sasson for
headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

For some reason, Naperville High School in Chicago has a mummy,
and it's going to be featured on National Geographic's "Mummy
Road Show":

http://www.msnbc.com/local/scdh/a37296363.asp

L'Espresso has a feature on mummy faces (in Italian):

http://www.espressonline.kataweb.it/ESW_articolo/0,2393,30375,00.html

A number of sites dating back to 2000 B.C./B.C.E. have been found
in Oman:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=39959

Arab News wonders who is protecting the heritage of Beirut:

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=12720

Chinese archaeologists have found remains of six ancient cities
superimposed on one another in Henan province:

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,101649,00.html

A hundred Ming Dynasty tombs have been found in Yunnan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-02/10/content_276206.htm

Here's one to be on your guard for: the recent discovery of
apparently submerged cities off the coast of India are something
which Graham Hancock thinks will prove his theories true:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,645451,00.html

Archaeologists are examining a site in Inverness thought to
be the grave of Duncan (Macbeth's victim):

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=140652002

An amateur archaeologist with a metal detector came across a
Tudor-era crucifix in a farmer's field this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1803000/1803915.stm

The Alqueva Dam (Portugal) was officially opened (or rather, closed)
this weekend, and soon plenty of archaeological sites will be
submerged:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,646902,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1808000/1808734.stm
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F09%2Fwpo\
rt09.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4352152,00.html

The outgoing director of the Museum of London made an interesting
point in his farewell speech (a complaint I'm sure many of us have
had for years):

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002064745,00.html

... likely related to the Museum's opening of its archives to the
public:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020204/london.html
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F08%2Fnpo\
ts08.xml
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THE AMERICAS
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Caral is apparently under threat from erosion and the elements:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/701063.asp

... and coincidentally, the BBC's *Horizon* featured Caral recently,
and has a nice intro and transcript available at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/caral.shtml

Archaeologists have found evidence of an Andean "Silk Road":

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_513473.html
cf:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0204_020204_tvperutemples.html
and: http://npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2002/feb/peru/020204.peru.html

A human skull found near Lawton, Oklahoma is likely to lead to a
dig, I suspect:

http://www.channeloklahoma.com/okl/news/stories/news-122407820020206-160216.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Archaeology Odyssey out, with a major online
feature on whether looted antiquities should be returned to "rogue
states"(specifically Iraq); the Field Notes are also worth checking out
(Folks who teach first-year classics/archaeology will like the
cartoon):

http://www.bib-arch.org/BSWB/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Dr. J. has done a major revision of her On-Line Survey of Audio-
Visual Resources in Classics (and moved it to a new url):

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics2/

The Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae project has put a 'test
site' online:

http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/

The 2000-2001 Annual Report of the Oriental Institute has been
put online:

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/00-01/00-01_AR_TOC.html

The Bible and Interpretation site has an article by Harris
Lenowitz, "The Jewish Messiahs":

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

The Winter 2002 edition of the CSA Newsletter (put out by the
Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology) is online:

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter02

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CRIME BEAT
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The British Museum is refusing to return a number of previously
looted Ethiopian tabots:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Britain-Returned-Art.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020208/ap_on_re_eu/britain_r\
eturned_art_2

Similarly complex issues of the status of looted antiquities are
being debated in Korea and Japan:

http://www.time.com/time/asia/arts/magazine/0,9754,197704,00.html

Greek police have busted up a small antiquities theft ring, which
had some really nice stuff, including a stunning Hellenistic gold
wreath:

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap02-08-105838.asp?reg=EUROPE
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020208/ap_on_re_eu/greece_an\
tiquities_theft_2
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13156

Al-Ahram has a feature on recently-returned previously-pilfered
antiquities to Egypt:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/571/tr3.htm

A Tiberias man is suspected of stealing a number of ancient
millstones (didn't anyone notice?!):

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=125811Src=Y
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Archaeology guide Kris Hirst's latest is a feature on the Narmer
Palette:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb020302a.htm
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REVIEWS
================================================================
The Boston Globe has a review of Jean-Pierre Vernant,*The Universe,
the gods, and Men* (I believe that's the title):

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/039/living/Greek_myths_shine_as_adventure_stor\
ies+.shtml

The Egyptian State Information Service has a (p)review of
A. Youseff, *The Seven Secrets of Alexandria Library* (sic):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o050222h.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Newsbytes has a brief item on Smith College's exhibition of ancient
inventions ... there's a link on the page to the exhibition itself
(presumably), but it seems inaccessible at the moment:

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174280.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
A New York Times editorial is calling for the return of the Elgin
Marbles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/02/opinion/_02SAT3.html

... while the Guardian (or at least a politician) has a contrary view:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4349880,00.html

... while AthensNews reports on concerns the new Acropolis Museum
won't be finished by 2004 anyway:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=117868
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12948&m=A03&aa=3&eido\
s=S

The Oracle of Delphi and the gas emitted therefrom is back in the
news:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19017-2002Feb4.html

eKathimerini has a feature on wines from Santorini which might
cause some folks to rethink the 'mixing of wine' thing:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13075

The Times has a piece on James Dyson:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002060535,00.html

The New Republic has a review of a production of Seamus Haney's
"The Cure at Troy":

http://www.tnr.com/online/mccarter020502.html

Folks might be interested in a touristy thing from the Guardian
on the Zagoria, one of the last places in Greece (apparently)
"that isn't overrun by sun-worshippers, yachties or classical scholars":

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/countries/story/0,7451,647193,00.html

Frank Johnson has written a piece for the Spectator suggesting we
drop the "fascist Caesar":

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
09&id=1571

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
09&id=1573

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
09&id=1572

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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John D'Arms:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/obituaries/26DARM.html
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FOLLOWUPS
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Egyptians First to Mine Gold:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020204/egyptian.html

Ethiopian Tabot Returned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1811000/1811267.stm

Hunley:

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20020209/localnews/1614183.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020208/sc/life_submarine_dc_1.html

Oetzi:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1806000/1806495.stm

Ptolemaic Temple etc. in Egypt:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/02/02/egypt.archaeology.ap/index.html
http://news.24.com/News24/Africa/Northern_Africa/0,1113,2-11-38_1137931,00.html

Schultz Trial:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/571/tr1.htm

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Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Alastair Millar, Ardle MacMahon, Bill Thayer,
Arthur Shippee, Maurice O'Sullivan, Jean Laplante, for headses
this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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In the latest installment of the "Out of Africa" theory, evidence
from prehistoric jewellery is being used contra:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991938

... and a somewhat related story:

http://clasdean.la.asu.edu/news/replacement.htm

On semi-related note, we have a brief item on the origins of
jewellery use:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_521973.html

The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item
on the discovery of a 5th dynasty tomb:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o120222c.htm

A 28th dynasty tomb has been discovered at Ain Sham:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o160222h.htm

Hundreds of litres of wine dating to 500 B.C. have been discovered
in France:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_519918.html

Archaeologists are revealing what was discovered during the 2001
excavations at Pella:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_522473.html

This seems related to the above (or at least presented
at the same conference):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_259523_15/02/2002_13381

Ditto:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13334

A Kalymnos goatherd who found a pile of antiquities and
alerted the authorities has been rewarded:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13330

Il Messaggero reports (in Italian) a couple of times on the
discovery of a second century Roman villa at Marina di Palo:

http://ilmessaggero.caltanet.it/hermes/20020131/04_FROSINONE/CRONACA_DI_ROMA/DUE\
aa.htm
http://ilmessaggero.caltanet.it/hermes/20020207/04_FROSINONE/38/BOX.htm

... and a rustic villa at Santa Maria la Carita, which dates
from the eruption of Vesuvius:

http://ilmattino.caltanet.it/hermes/20020210/AVELLINO/44/BIBO.htm

Al-Ahram has a touristy sort of thing on Petra:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/573/tr3.htm

A Swiss team is excavating a temple -- apparently of/for Domitian --
near Aswan:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o140222b.htm

A major coin hoard (pre-Conquest) has been found near Caesarea:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/02/11/News/News.43209.html

In a semi-related story, the company responsible for building
the TransIsrael Highway is being criticized for tendering
archaeology contracts solely to the IAA:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=128269

I think this one was mentioned before, but a number of Ming Dynasty
era tombs have been discovered in China's Yunnan province:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_519316.html

There's lots of archaeological interest in this article from
the Guardian on Carlisle:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4285785,00.html

On the 'not sure how to classify this one' front, scientists claim
to have "re"created the scent used in Midsummer Night's Dream to
cause a woman to fall in love with a donkey (no editorial comments
please!):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/706575.asp

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THE AMERICAS
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The elements are endangering Caral:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1815000/1815017.stm
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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An article sent to me as a 'heads up' turns out to be rather more
interesting for those of us who can't always make it to their
local research library ... The American Journal of Archaeology
has
temporarily suspended its electronic subscriptions, with the
result
that the entire current issue (January 2002) is available online
in .pdf at:

http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/i_toc.html

... and even better: two years' worth of back issues are also
available (full text):

http://www.ajaonline.org/shared/s_archive.html

The latest issue of Discover magazine has a feature on the chemistry
of mummification:

http://www.discover.com/mar_02/featchemistry.html

This has tv show written all over it: a Polish adventurer claims
to have found a sixteenth century Jesuit manuscript in the Vatican
library which is the key to finding el Dorado:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-205780,00.html

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ON THE WEB
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The Bible and Interpretation site has a report on the 2001 excavations
at Hippos:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/excavations/Hippos_2001.htm

... and an update on the excavations at Kursi:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/excavations/kursi_2001.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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Greek authorities have made a huge antiquities bust:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_522082.html

This appears to be a crime story -- a citizen has "ceded" some
17000 artifacts from various periods to Egypt's Supreme Council
of Antiquities:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o160222i.htm

Pakistani officials have foiled the export of a number of stolen
Buddhist statues:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1815000/1815263.stm

Israeli authorities caught a trio of graverobbers in the act this
week:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/02/14/News/News.43422.html

Italian authorities have busted a 'to order' antiquities theft
ring:

http://www.chinadaily.net/news/lf/2002-02-16/56751.html

The Schultz case has come to a verdict:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/antiquities020213.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/02/16/art.theft.conviction/index.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-208753,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-209124,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_520436.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_521002.html
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=8855

A sixteenth-century Bible has been stolen from a church in
Hungary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1813000/1813250.stm

Ineffective laws are being blamed for a spate of Native American
grave robbings in Texas:

http://sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.robbers10feb10.story

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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of E. Cook,
*Achilles* (fiction):

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aaprachilles.htm
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REVIEWS
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eKathimerini has a review of Pedro Olayia, *Mythological Atlas
of Greece*:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13360

Fans of historical fiction might be interested in tracking down
Jose Carlos Samoza,*The Athenian Murders*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=120238

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EXHIBITIONS
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Atlantic Monthly has reprinted a piece from 1897: Basil Gildersleeve,
"My Sixty Days in Greece: The Olympic Games, Old and New":

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/1897feb/greece.htm

National Geographic has a nice little slide show of the original
'field of dreams': Olympia:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0214_020214_olympia.html

Asterix fans will enjoy this reviewish thing from the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4356332,00.html

And there's Classcon in a piece on the origins of science fiction:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/16/text/spectrum9.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
16&id=1596

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
16&id=1594


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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Sheila Gibson:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=119006
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FOLLOWUPS
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Hunley:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/702796.asp

Temple Mount saga:

http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.wall12feb12.story
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Thanks to John Hill, "zuamdario", Mark Elliott, Arthur Shippee,
Ardle MacMahon, Martin Roseveare, Rick Pettigrew, David Webb,
Michael Oberndorf, Maurice O'Sullivan, Nir Lalkin,  Jean Laplante,
and Trevor Watkins,for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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Okay ... climate has been responsible for the destruction of
civilizations (we are told) and now it's also responsible for
the rise of civilization:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F22%2Fwni\
no22.xml

The Times of India has a report on new evidence for earlier
prehistoric habitation of India (the dates in this one are
somewhat confusing):

http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=1504165

PhysicsWeb has an interesting piece on how Egyptian makeup was
made:

http://physicsweb.org/article/news/6/2/17

A 5th Dynasty rock cut tomb has been found in Suhag:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o210222A.htm

... and a number of 1st and 2nd Dynasty tombs have been found
in Helwan:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o200222c.htm

Restoration work on a Middle Kingdom palace has led to the
discovery of some Greco-Roman era storage facilities:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o180222g.htm

This one has obvious political overtones: an Egyptian
researcher is claiming to have evidence that the Jews
didn't come to Egypt until it was under Greek rule (or
something like that):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o170222a.htm

Some scholars are casting doubts as to whether the sarcophagus
returned to Egypt a couple of weeks ago really belong to
Akhenaten (cf the article in Archaeology, below):

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ch/Qegypt-german-antiquities.RGAg_CFJ.html
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2002feb/features/21feb-egypt.html

... on the lighter side, there's a musical about King Tut:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/arts/22FAMI.html

... and Kirin brewery (Japan) is going to attempt to recreate ancient
Egyptian beer:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020221b3.htm

An 8,000 b.p. "household mixer" has been found in Macedonia (Macedoine?):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A10&aa=9&eido\
s=S

A number of "female beautification aids" have been discovered in
central Greece:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A10&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Archaeologists working in Macedonia have discovered a stone seal
dating to the fifth millennium B.C./B.C.E. (among other things):

http://www1.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1272664
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13469

... more news from the the recent conference
in Salonica, where numerous recent discoveries were made known:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A10&aa=8&eido\
s=S

There's quite a bit of coverage of research which reveals how
Silbury Hill might have been constructed:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020220_223.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020220/sc_nm/life_britain_si\
lbury_dc_1
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_525346.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F20%2Fnhill2\
0.xml

Archaeology has provided evidence of an early suspension system
used by ancient Briton types to keep them from being bounced out
of their chariots:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_524409.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-212182,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1831000/1831314.stm

(on the chariot used as a model, see:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0107/newsbriefs/celts)

Erosion is washing away numerous prehistoric monuments on the coast
of Orkney:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_523602.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-211384,00.html

An early Christian cemetery has been discovered in Athboy (Ireland):

http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/stories.php3?ca=34&si=693684&issue_id=6920

Doubts are beginning to be raised in regards to the supposed
sunken civilization in the Gulf of Cambay:

http://www1.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1596309

A number of ancient (8000 b.p.) jade artifacts have been discovered
in China's Mongolia/Autonomous region:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-02/20/content_283583.htm

The remains of a 5,500-year-old structure have been excavated in
China:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_524776.html

A "most significant archaeological find" from the Ming Dynasty
has also been discovered:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-02/21/content_284916.htm

Not sure how to classify this one ... it's a piece from the New
York Times which has rather interesting things to say about how
certain groups might justify destruction of ancient monuments:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/international/middleeast/15SAUD.html

The remains of the HMS Sussex might have been found:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0224shipwreck24.html
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THE AMERICAS
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The only thing I could find this week was a touristy piece on
Peru!:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml;$sessionid$HSMGIJQAAC1IBQFIQMFCFFWA\
VCBQYIV0?xml=/travel/2002/02/16/etperu16.xml
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new online issue of Archaeology out, with abstracts
on who's in tomb 55 (Egyptian), the Moche, ancient Ecuadorian
seafarers, among other things:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index

It has been brought to my attention that Chester City Council puts
out a newsletter sort of thing with "Dig News" (obviously with
finds from around Chester):

http://www.chestercc.gov.uk/heritage/archaeology/dig_news.html

If anyone is aware, by the way, of other such online publications,
please drop me a line!!!!

CO2 Science Magazine has a good article on world climate changes
over the past thousand or so years:

http://www.co2science.org/edit/editor.htm

Nature has an article on how the Swedish ship Vasa is a chemical
time bomb threatening to destroy itself:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020218/020218-15.html

The Utne (rhymes with chutney) Reader has a short piece on damage
done to antiquities in Iraq:

http://www.utne.com/bTechnology.tmpl?command=search&db=dArticle.db&eqheadlinedat\
a=Attack%20on%20Antiquity
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ON THE WEB
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The Bible and Interpretation site has a new feature up about The Tell
es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project:

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

The History News Network has an interesting piece entitled, "Top
Six Differences Between the Ancient and Modern Olympics":

http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=572

The University Museum of Uppsala University has put online a number
of articles from journals which pertain to their Egyptian collection:

http://www.gustavianum.uu.se/vm/egyptarc.html
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The latest online video focusses on Moundville:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another bust in Athens (scroll down a bit):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13707
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst is reprising a blast from the past
on the Palace of Minos:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa042300a.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill presents an article from MH Magazine:
John R. Mixter, "Alexander's First Great Victory":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blalexandersfirstgreatvictory.htm
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REVIEWS
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Seth Benardete, *Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/arts/16SHEL.html

M. Camp, *The Archaeology of Athens*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A38&aa=2&eido\
s=S

S.C. Reif, *A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of
Cambridge University's Genizah Collection*:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=130320
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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On the antiquity of the carrot:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12949&m=A40&aa=1&eido\
s=S

I'm still trying to figure this one out, which seems to be using
classical precedents as an argument against meat consumption (maybe):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13680

Scandal precedents in the ancient Olympics:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0202210011feb21.story?coll=\
chi%2Dleisure%2Dhed

Here's what the new (ugh)Acropolis Museum will look like, apparently:

http://www2.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1037071
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A35&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Folks might be interested in a review of an exhibition of an artist
who paints in black figure and red figure style:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/02/22/23nelson-lp.htm

With every man, woman, and their dog in academe being accused of
plagiarism these days, it was only a matter of time before a
classicist was mentioned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/education/22SUNY.html

There's a miniseries about Julius Caesar in the works:

http://www.deangelisgroup.com/m33home.htm

... and there's more news about upcoming Al the Great
flix:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4361101,00.html

This appears to be an attempt to give a cheese rolling contest in
Cheshire rather more antiquity than it probably has:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_524938.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
23&id=1619

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
23&id=1617

... and plenty of ClassCon in a piece berating the loss
of numerous symbols of Briton's numismatic heritage:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-\
23&id=1606

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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Michel Fleury:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F21%2Fdb2\
102.xml

G.P. Goold:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=134488
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FOLLOWUPS
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Elgin Marbles Saga:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=253067

Jewellery Use by Early Humans:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020218/020218-3.html

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Mark Elliott, Arthur Shippee, Maurice O'Sullivan, Glenn Meyer,
Michael Ruggieri, Eoin Bairead, Jean Laplante, 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
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John Noble Wilford has written a nice piece on the debate over
when humans became identifiably 'human':

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/science/social/26HUMA.html
cf: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020225/eve.html

... and it would appear that the Neanderthals-weren't-so-dim
articles are making the rounds again:

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3836688%255E703,0\
0.html

German archaeologists claim to have found a bronze age star chart:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_533690.html

Horemheb's tomb is the focus of a new archaeological project
of some sort:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o020322y.htm

The Ada Evening News writes about a local doctor is on his
way to perform some mummy autopsies:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3412791&BRD=1600&PAG=461&dept_id=11332\
2&rfi=6

The Guardian has a piece on a papier mache mask of Anubis:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4364378,00.html

An Egyptologist is going through the basement of the Walters Museum
and is making some interesting discoveries:

http://sunspot.net/features/lifestyle/bal-te.to.walters01mar01.story

The heirs of an Egyptian Antiquities dealer have given a pile
of objects to "museum authorities in Luxor":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1837000/1837801.stm

Gulf News has an item on the excavations at Saar (Bahrain):

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=42394

In a much anticipated bout, Korfmann and Kolb finally came to
blows at a conference over their differences about the site of
Troy (the two pieces from the Times are different):

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-218343,00.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-218264,00.html

An early Christian cemetery has been found in Athboy (Ireland):

http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/index.php3?ti=50&ca=34&si=693684&issue_id=6\
920

In case you've ever pondered following in Alexander's footsteps
to make the pilgrimage to Siwa:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020225/lf/egypt_hotel_dc_1.html

With Easter and Passover coming up, we're going to see (probably)
usual brief wave of articles on the historicity of the Exodus; here's
one which is definitely pro-Christian in its outlook, but which
has enough archaeological stuff in it to be included here:

http://vcmagazine.org/vcm/article.asp?volume=4&issue=3&article=exodus

While on the subject of matters religious, here's a piece on the
origins of the Qu'ran:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/arts/02ISLA.html

(cf: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/koran.htm)

... and a controversy which has arisen due to the method of
transport of a sacred relic of the Buddhist faith:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/02/25/story/0000125299
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2002-02-25/57998.html
http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/02/28/story/0000125766

Coming a bit closer to archaeology is a report on the discovery
of the oldest Christian church in China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/arts/design/24CAMH.html

Assorted objects from assorted periods have been found in Mongolia's
Autonomous Region:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-03/03/content_297754.htm

Looks like there's going to be a 'salvage' operation of the remains
of George Monck's fleet at the mouth of the Tay which will be
broadcast via the web (anyone else have an Otis Redding song pop
into their head when they read that description?):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,659212,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_531278.html
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THE AMERICAS
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WorldNews has a piece on Caral:

http://www.worldnews.com/?t=print1.txt&action=display&article=12137199

This might be a followup, but there are claims that Eldorado
really did exist:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020225/eldorado.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out, with
articles on Herod's death, the SBL/AAR meeting in Denver, and the
identity of a biblical eunuch:

http://www.bib-arch.org/BSWB/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
At the Bible and Interpretation site: A. Millard, "Reading and
Writing in the Time of Jesus":

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

The University of Pennsylvania has put up a "Southeast Asian Archaeology
Scholarly Website" which looks like it will be useful:

http://seasia.museum.upenn.edu
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CRIME BEAT
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Vandalism has been committed in the archeological park of Kos and
damaged a mosaic:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13977
http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=254412

Another raid on a Greek home:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12951&m=A10&aa=5&eido\
s=S

Museum staff are accused of aiding in the theft of various
artifacts from the National Taiwan Museum:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/02/27/story/0000125571

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REVIEWS
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(auth?) *Ancient Greek Sites on the Northwest Coast of the Black
Sea*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12951&m=A46&aa=2&eido\
s=S

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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
"The Classical Period of Ancient Greece -- Idea or Reality":

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13905
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Teacher Magazine has a nice little feature on yet another teacher
helping to keep Latin alive and lively:

http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=06colleagues.h13

... as does the Eastside Journal:

http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/84442

Folks who have visited Segesta will be interested/shocked/amused/
insert-the-emotion-of-your-choice in whatis planned there:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F27%2Fwpo\
p127.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,658568,00.html

We can now anxiously await the tome which puts the Iliad in the
Pacific:

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/show_content.asp?article=68822

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
================================================================
J. Desmond Clark:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/obituaries/01CLAR.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=138965
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FOLLOWUPS
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Bamiyan Buddhas (becoming a saga):

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1849000/1849843.s\
tm
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=8971

Egyptian makeup:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020225/makeup.html

HMS Sussex (true followup!):

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=250854
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/715773.asp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4363258,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/international/europe/24SHIP.html
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F26%2Fnsh\
ip26.xml

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having Yahoo host this newsletter (the latest rumour is that
they're going to start charging listowners -- this is over and
above their inclusion of advertisements in my newsletters) as
a result of which over the course of the next week I'm hoping to
return to a system I used years ago which allowed things to be
housed on my own computer here. My big concern is being able to
automate the subscribe/unsubscribe process which obviously would
take up a lot of time otherwise. The upshot of all this is that
over the course of the next week you might get a test message or
two, which you can respond to or ignore as you see fit. Sorry
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Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Sally Winchester, Maurice
O'Sullivan, Charles Jones, Terrence Lockyer, Javier Susaeta,
Rick Pettigrew, and Curtis B. Edmundson and for headses upses
this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Here's a new (?) spin on the 'Out of Africa' theory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/science/07ORIG.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/514732.asp
http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/288981p-2574328c.html
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020304/020304-7.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0306_0306_outofafrica.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0305_0307_neandertal.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=271688
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020308-75767840.htm

Archaeologists believe they might have found the origins of
monotheism in Jordan:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/05_03_02/art3.htm

Russian archaeologists working in Egypt believe they are close to
finding the site of Menf:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o090322u.htm

A statue of a pharoahnic queen has been found at Tel Basta:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o050322o.htm

... and a Horus cemetery (the date on this one is wrong):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o040322n.htm

The next entry in the "Exodus never happened so we'll
bring it up now" saga:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/arts/09BIBL.html

Cyprus Weekly has a brief item on recent discoveries at the
site of ancient Nicosia:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/local.htm#exc

A frieze depicting the wanderings of Odysseus has suffered
some damage while on loan to a German exhibition:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=14122

Items from an Iron Age burial have been returned to the Isles
of Scilly (off Cornwall) whence they came:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1858000/1858788.stm

Excavations have begun on the site of a Pictish fort at Burghead:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=246432002

Another case of "look what we found in a box in the basement of
the museum" might provide a means for dating Stonehenge's outer
circle:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,661974,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_536257.html

A rare book dealer has found a copy of the Nuremburg Chronicle
in a Maine farmhouse:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1853000/1853532.stm

The New York Times magazine last weekend had a nice feature on
"The Golden Age of Ravenna" (with a nice slide show):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/magazine/magazinespecial/03RAVE.html

An amateur historian is getting a pile of media attention with
his theory that the Chinese made it to North America before Columbus:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-03/06/content_304219.htm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/721582.asp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/04/nexp04.xml

Potential good news from Afghanistan: a French archaeologist is
claiming that one giant Buddha statue may have escaped destruction
by the Taliban:

http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=20925

We are apparently in a golden age for underwater archaeology:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0307/p16s01-stss.html

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
GoMemphis has a touristy thing on New Hampshire's 'stonehenge':

http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/travel/article/0,1426,MCA_532_1019296,00.html

A dig in Kenosha is one piece of 'evidence' that Europeans made
it to North America during the last Ice Age:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/mar02/24849.asp

A Revolutionary War-era blockhouse has been found nearly intact
in Pennsylvania:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/news/blockhouse

Pioneer and Native American artifacts have been found during road
construction in Las Vegas:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2002/mar/05/513128456.html

DNA tests on a syringe from a Virginia City opium den (or something
like that) are shedding light on the Old West:

http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.west10mar10.story?coll=bal%2Dnati\
onworld%2Dheadlines

Also on the Old West front is a tale about a "trunk of bunk":

http://www.sltrib.com/03102002/utah/718059.htm

A lead scroll which might shed light on the Mountain Meadows (no
relation) Massacre will be subjected to testing:

http://www.sltrib.com/03092002/utah/717904.htm
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of British Archaeology out, with features
on "Roman Commanders and Dark Age Kings", "People of the Sea" (not
the ones you're probably thinking of), "Belas Knap" as well as
the usual columns etc.:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba63/index.shtml
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
This is a good one: the discovery and reconstruction of an
ancient hydraulis:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Another antiquities arrest in Greece (scroll down a bit):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=14171
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Francthi Cave:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb030302a.htm
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REVIEWS
================================================================
V.D. Hansen, *Carnage and Culture*:

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020311-214257,00.htm\
l

*Greek and Cypriot Antiquities in the Archaeological Museum of
Odessa*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12952&m=A38&aa=2&eido\
s=S

FAZ (English) has a review of a production of "King Gilgamesh":

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={DCFDE4C5-9269-4B2A-823B-\
3E367A801664}
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
The New York Times has a review of "Treasures of a Lost Civilization"
currently at the Met (it's an exhibition of Chinese bronzes):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/arts/design/08SMIT.html

FAZ (English edition) has a review of an exhibiton of Papyrus Ebers:

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={C8C71F4F-9B71-4CC2-AC77-\
7A85D2AC27CB}&width=1024&height=740&agt=explorer&ver=4&svr=4
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
A centurion can't get a break:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-230063,00.html

The University of Chicago Chronicle has a nice feature on
Classics at UChicago:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020307/classics.shtml

Another way to 'sell' classics:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=danews.story&STORY=/www/story/\
03-08-2002/0001683198&EDATE=FRI+Mar+08+2002,+05:20+AM

The Telegraph reports on a computer program called Brutus which
is designed to teach kiddies Latin:

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/04/nlat04.xm\
l

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-03-\
09&id=1660

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-03-\
09&id=1659

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
================================================================
Bronze Age Star Map:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=251642002

Caral:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/2779976.htm

HMS Sussex:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=250854
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Greetings,

As some of you may know, last weekend Explorator *did* go out;
unfortunately, it does not appear to have been sent out to
everyone via yahoo. Over the next couple of days, I'm going to be
testing a) yahoo and b) a new mail server that I'll probably
migrate to. I expect some glitches, of course, but first would
really be interested to know how many folks do receive this. If
you have a chance, please respond to this message so I can get
some idea of where yahoo's problems may lie (if any). I probably
won't be able to thank you individually, so thanks in advance!
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[n.b. this is a resend of last week's issue, since it is clear
that a great many of you have not yet received it nor has it
appeared in the archives; I'm not sure how many links will still
work, but folks might still be interested]

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Apologies: Apologies for not sending an issue out last weekend
and any 'explorator withdrawal' which might have ensued. Between
finishing report cards, upgrades at Yahoo, and my own desire to
move the list away from Yahoo, I wasn't able to get an issue out.
This is a 'double issue', though, so hopefully it makes up for
it (I'm still testing things; if you receive more than one copy
of this, please drop me a line).

Nota bene: this issue is an experiment of sorts (as might be the
next two or three issues) -- I'm testing
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the address lists from Yahoo itself appear to be somewhat out of
date, so if you have received this in error, please just drop me
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Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Ardle MacMahon, Rick Pettigrew,
Mark Elliott, Michael Ruggieri, Chris Renaud, Karl Wittwer, Doug
Weller, John Hill, Alastair Millar, Glenn Meyer, John Geiger,
and Trevor Watkins, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A skull from Ethiopia is being used as evidence that home erectus
originated there (as opposed to sojourning there):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/726993.asp

Humans were sewing things together 30,000 years ago in what would
become eastern Europe:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-03/uoca-eie032102.php

Next theory on the demise of Oetzi: he died as a result of hand
to hand combat:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58974-2002Mar20.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1884000/1884525.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_549666.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4378530,00.html

The British Museum has given a mummy the 3d VR treatment:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_541149.html
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020304/020304-11.html

Restoration work at various sites in Egypt is turning up
more artifacts:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o210322a.htm

cf: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o230322a.htm

Zahi Hawass has been named chairman of Egypt's Supreme
Council of Antiquities:

http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/i/1107/3-19-2002/200203191016573107.html

Iraqi archaeologists recently visited the British Museum to share
details on the discovery of a number of Assyrian artifacts just prior
to the Gulf War (and apparently little known):

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1293016
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_542480.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_541942.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020313/ap_on_re_eu/britain_i\
raq_tomb_treasure_2

A bronze age "chamber" has been discovered in a Welsh copper mine:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_549937.html

... and a bronze age child burial has been found near Oxford:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_551306.html

... and there's a new (?) theory about mysterious bronze age
gold cones found all over Europe:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F03%2F17%2Fwwiz17\
.xml

I'm not sure if this is a followup or not, but a "bronze Age Venice"
has been found near Pompeii (at Poggiomarino):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F03%2F23%2Fwves23\
.xml
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/727496.asp
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsbron222634211mar22023441.story
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020321/ap_on_re_eu/italy_anc\
ient_town_2

A Greek archaeologist is claiming to have found the remains of the
palace of Helen and Menelaus (and it ain't the Menelaion!):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100011_12/03/2002_14301
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-236259,00.html

The discovery of a 2500-year-old Temple of Aphrodite and/or brothel
is holding up construction of the Olympic equestrian site outside
of Athens:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_544717.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=14442
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020314/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_athen\
s_old_brothel_2

An Anglo-Saxon execution site is getting some press:

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/local_london/features/ed04220801.html

The Guardian (and Independent) has a tribute piece on the discovery of Sutton
Hoo:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4373983,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4373985,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=274176

As often happens around this time of year, we get the news stories related
to execution of Jesus; e.g. the Times of India has a piece on what is purported
to be the
final resting place of Jesus (in Kashmir):

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Articleshow.asp?art_id=3442307

... and WorldNet Daily has a piece on the Shroud of Turin:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26785

Late Jomon period human remains bearing the scars of warfare have
been found in Japan:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020321wo61.htm

China Daily has an interesting report on an ongoing excavation in
Xinzheng:

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-03-14/60866.html

A couple of Roman coin hoards hit the auction block recently:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_543315.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_543600.html

... as did a number of Asian bronzes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/15/arts/design/15ANTI.html

Not sure how to classify this one, but it sounds like an interesting
way to teach archaeology:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000020175mar20.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2D\
california

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THE AMERICAS
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A "lost Inca settlement" has been discovered in Peru (including
human remains):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0314_0318_vilcabamba.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/19/science/19INCA.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/725857.asp?cp1=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1880000/1880611.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=276056
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_547818.html

What is possibly the oldest intact Maya wall painting has been
found in Guatemala:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/science/14MAYA.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0312_0314_mayamurals.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020314/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/may\
a_mural_1
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/724102.asp

Some 2000-year-old carved rocks have been found in El Salvador:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020314_1784.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_544504.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020315/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/sal\
vador_ancient_stones_1
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
The online version of the Atlantic Monthly has an interview with
Charles C. Mann:

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2002-03-07.htm

... there's also an article on Roman Africa:

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

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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Bible and Interpretation site has an article by Jerry Sumney
on Paul's opponents:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/PaulOpponents_Sumney.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English prose with
an Introductory Essay:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4775

*A Day in Old Athens* by William Stearns Davis:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4716


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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
The latest is on a handful of sites in Pennsylvania, which shed
light on the mysterious Monongehela people:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Native American graves in Virginia are being looted:

http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20020320-3408108.htm
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Archaeology guide Kris Hirst's latest is a challenging crossword
with an archaeoastronomy bent:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb031702a.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
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The New York Times has a nice couple of pieces on an exhibition
of Renaissance tapestries at the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/arts/design/11TAPE.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/15/arts/design/15COTT.html

... and a review of "Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt" at the BMA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/15/arts/design/15BROO.html

The Kelsey Museum is hosting an exhibition on Cavafy:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=14367

National Geographic has a piece on assorted Celtic artifacts in
the National Museum of Ireland:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0314_0315_celticgold.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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An interesting piece in Nature draws on mathematical evidence to
suggest the Greeks had more rhythm than the Romans:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020318/020318-9.html

A new theme park on Cyprus is going to feature a 100-foot statue
of Aphrodite:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-243342,00.html

The Oracle at Delphi is back in the news, although there really
isn't anything new being said (but some good stuff to look at):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/19/science/19DELP.html

The president of Iran recently visited the Acropolis and sang the
praises of Greek civilization inter alia:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_15/03/2002_14443

Hunter Rawlings III is stepping down as president of Cornell because
he misses teaching:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/16/education/16COLL.html

Belgium has added its bilingual voices to the "return the marbles
to Greece" campaign:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=256897

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-03-\
23&id=1705

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-03-\
23&id=1703

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
================================================================
Bamiyan Buddhas:

http://www.detnews.com/2002/nation/0203/21/a08-445913.htm

Chinese pre-Columbian arrival in America:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/science/social/17SHIP.html
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/721582.asp

Museum for Elgin Marbles:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/travel/leisure/2002/2002-03-22-acropolis.htm

Pompeii Frescoes:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/2114376.html

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Thanks to all of you for your patience over the past few days as
experimented with other modes of delivery for this newsletter. I
still haven't resolved the issue but think I'm close -- I think
a recurring error I'm getting is the fault of my ISP's anti-spam
setup.

Speaking of spam, by the way, it was a change in yahoo policy in
regards to how they use our email addresses which you may or may
not have heard about which was the 'final straw' for me. You
definitely should check out:

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO69687,00.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175538.html
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-871803.html

They claim there will be a sixty-day chance to change things, but
I grew skeptical about that after receiving a bit of spam (on the
same day this hit the newspapers_ using an address known only to
yahoo ...
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Thanks to Bill Kennedy, "alesmonetos", Arthur Shippee, Elizabeth
Griesman, and David Gressett for headses upses this
week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Dogs have been man's best friend for a bit longer than previously
thought, it seems, and had a developmental influence on humans as
well:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/729823.asp

One I missed: the Christian Science Monitor has nice article on
Blombos cave:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0321/p13s01-stss.html


Some handprints in rocks in Tibet are causing a rethink about when
the area was habitable:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_554525.html

Is this the oldest record of a solar eclipse?:

http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/000/806newea.asp

A Russian team is searching for the site of ancient Memphis:

http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Africa/Features/0,1113,2-11-37_1161126,00.html

A colossal statue of Nefertari (maybe) has been unearthed in the
Delta region by a German-Egyptian team (the NYTimes (actually, Reuters)
piece wins the award for most feeble attempt to link the
discovery to the season):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/29/international/middleeast/29BRIE1.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020328_156.html

Gulf News has a brief item on what has been found in excavations
at Al Taqiba:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=45459

Last month's issue of Discover had a nice article on the
chemistry of mummification:

http://discover.com/mar_02/featchemistry.html

Also on the mummification front, National Geographic has an
interview with the guys behind 'The Mummy Roadshow':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0326_0327_mummyroadshow.html

Amongst the seasonal offerings comes a claim that the image on
the Shroud of Turin is actually that of Jacques de Molay:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=338412002

... and a report on Martin Biddle's work in the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/726054.asp

... and a report on the discovery of a shrouded body which "may
have been a witness to Christ's crucifixion":

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_556208.html
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F03%2F29%2Fwcr\
uc29.xml
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020330-91611276.htm

... and a piece on resurrection motifs in various ancient cultures:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4384424,00.html

The Scotsman has a nice piece on the ongoing work at Herculaneum's
Villa of the Papyri:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=332482002

... and the LA Times has a feature on the etruscans:

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-000021251mar24.story?coll=la-travel-headlines

The Salt Lake Tribune has a piece on the White Horse of
Uffington:

http://www.sltrib.com/03312002/travel/723428.htm

Tree ring evidence suggests there was a widespread period of
warming during Medieval times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/26/science/earth/26TREE.html

If you can get this url to work, it will bring up an article
on the official report of how the Elgin Marbles were cleaned
back in the 1930's (remember that brouhaha?):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9151

The British Museum has admitted that it has sold some of the
Benin Bronzes which Nigeria wants returned:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4383374,00.html

... and just in case you want to keep score at home, there's a
pile of countries asking the BM to return stuff:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/news/returns

As might be expected, doing archaeology in the Middle East is
a bit more trying than usual these days:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/727752.asp
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-exp-mideast-archaeology0324mar24\
.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10394-2002Mar24.html

China has published its first scholarly archaeological journal:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-03/27/content_333921.htm

Renovations to a small English village church have revealed some
medieval wall paintings:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/homeStory.asp?Brand=EADONLINE&Category=NEWS&ItemId=IPED25+\
Mar+2002+17%3A58%3A44%3A007

Some guy has recreated a Renaissance water organ:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-248694,00.html

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal has an interview with Paul Bahn,
who is currently doing the AIA lecture tour thing:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/mar02/31285.asp
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THE AMERICAS
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Construction of a government building in Kentucky has revealed
what seems to be an early 19th century cemetery:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020329/ap_on_re_us/bones_dis\
covered_1
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/02/03/15458449.shtml?Element_ID=1545844\
9
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/30/bones.discovered.ap/index.html

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new edition of Bible Review out, although not much online
of archaeological interest:

http://www.bib-arch.org/BSWB/bswb_BR/indexBR.html

The Economist has a piece on how ethical considerations are
affecting archaeology:

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1056932
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REVIEWS
================================================================
Michael Counsell, *Every Pilgrim's Guide to the Journeys of the
Apostles* (reviewed by John Carr):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12955&m=A24&aa=2&eido\
s=S
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Someone *must* have done this before, but a statistical analysis
of Homer's works suggests it's the work of several poets:

http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/03252002/grapha.htm

National Review has, well, a review of "War Music":

http://www.nationalreview.com/stuttaford/stuttaford.asp

As was (hopefully) expected, plans to build that ugly pile on
the Acropolis is causing a bit of a row:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4382872,00.html

Above we mentioned how things are changing for archaeologists in
the mideast ... the same goes for classicists, in a different
way:

http://www.detnews.com/2002/nation/0203/31/a05-453439.htm

Folks might be interested in this account of the 'Socrates Cafe':

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0326/p13s01-lecs.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-03-\
30&id=1727

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-03-\
30&id=1725

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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Cuban Lost City:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020329/sc_nm/cuba_discovery_\
dc_1
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0203/27_city-cp.html

Oetzi's Demise:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1806000/1806495.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0326_0326_iceman.html

Temple Mount:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/26/News/News.45876.html

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   This a.m. Explorator was sent out (ad free) without any help
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   Right now I am wading through a pile of bad addresses etc. and
   would be very interested to know if you did *not* receive issue
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explorator 4.50                                   April 14, 2002
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you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should
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We're back coming from Yahoo today because I'm still not happy
with my alternate delivery method (far too many bounces, too much
time taken, and an obviously bad address list from Yahoo which
I have to work on). Apologies to those who didn't receive last
week's -- I tried to resend some, but it didn't work in most
cases (especially if you reside in Australia, for some reason). The
experiment will continue ...
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IMPORTANT: since many folks might have subscribed to some of the
magazines mentioned below because Explorator once linked to
articles
therefrom, I feel it right to include the following:
                       * * *
NOTICE:  Lynne Cole at lynne.cole@... is currently investigating the
issue of magazine subscriptions for Discovering Archaeology,Archaeology
Today, Egypt Revealed, The Glory of Ancient Egypt (ordered through
CircaMedia.net) and Dinosaur Magazine.  She is also investigating the
canceled Egypt Revealed tours "Cruise the Nile with Omar Sharif" and
"Journey to Middle Egypt" the latter which was scheduled for
11/20/01-12/02/01.  It appears magazine subscribers have received few or
none of the issues they paid for and trip participants have not
received refunds of their monies paid.  Damages are estimated to amount
to well over $150,000.00.  If you have been financially damaged or
discredited by Jeff D. Leach or by any of the above mentioned
business ventures I would like to hear from you.
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Thanks to Sally Winchester, Maurice O'Sullivan, 'alesmonetos',
Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, W. Richard Frahm, and Ardle MacMahon,
for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Restoration work at Curium has come under criticism:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmnews/2002/02-04-11.cmnews.html#03

Archaeologists in Cyprus are threatening to go on strike because
of lack of funding/staffing:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmnews/2002/02-04-13.cmnews.html#02

A bronze age site has come to light in Armenia:

http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg47014.html

AthensNews has a touristy sort of thing on Pergamon:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12957&m=A24&aa=1&eido\
s=S

A sanctuary of Isis is being excavated on Nea Makri:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12957&m=A35&aa=2&eido\
s=S

The Cincinnati Enquirer has a nice feature on the Davises, who regularly
dig in Albania:

http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/04/14/tem_duo_digs_for.html

Evidence of an ancient Jewish community in Armenia has been
discovered:

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/04/09/Features/Features.46570.html

Here's something that might have a major impact: the EgyptianCulture
minister has ordered a halt to cooperation with foreign universities
which refuse to return stolen Egyptian antiquities:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o100422p.htm

Artifacts from various periods were found during bridge reconstruction
in Suffolk:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_562365.html

Gulf News reports that artifacts from various periods were also
found near Al Bithna village:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=47305

... and a farmhouse of undetermined date at Ras Al Khaimah:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=47080

That 'lost city' off the coast of India is back in the news
again,probably because Graham Hancock is involved:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_563330.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1923000/1923794.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4391512,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=283664
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F04%2F11%2Fwte\
mp11.xml

Perhaps along the same lines of credibility is the claim that Moses'
staff resides in Birmingham Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1924000/1924067.stm

... and that the pyramids were actually ancient desalination
plants:

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/11/27547.html

As long as we've taken this little meander into the fringe, we
might as well also mention coverage of a theory about where
Atlantis was:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1554000/1554594.stm

The discovery of a meteorite is lending some veracity to legends
of the demise of China's 'Yellow Emperor':

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1918000/1918418\
.stm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020409/wl_asia_nm/asia_99261\
_1

cf: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-04/05/content_346787.htm

The Black Death might not have been bubonic plague after all:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1925000/1925513.stm

A Medieval cemetery has been found during road construction in Orkney:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-260110,00.html

At least once a year, some journalist writes a piece on the history
of beer, so ...

http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-216333.html
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Anchorage Daily News has a report on  some of the papers
delivered at the meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association:

http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/897828p-988537c.html

This should really be a followup, but ... that lost Inca city
recently discovered is causing quite a scholarly row:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-261024,00.html
http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20020413670.4_315\
9000550f106d1

The University of Bonn is beginning a series of excavations in
the Yucatan:

http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0409023.htm

I'm not sure if this is related to the previous story or not:

http://www2.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=1104558

The Tennessean has a feature on Michael Strutt's work (plantations):

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/02/04/16216315.shtml?Element_ID=1621631\
5
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Darrell Bock, "Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Methods
and Sources":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Bocks_HistoricalJesus.htm
================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Cato (A Tragedy in Five Acts):

http://www.constitution.org/addison/cato_play.htm
================================================================
ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
New video: Yaxuna:Archaeology of an Ancient Maya City:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The Netherlands is returning a statue of Amenhotep III to Egypt,
whence it was purloined fifteen years ago:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020408/ap_wo_en_ge/egypt_ant\
iquities_1

Looting in Afghanistan continues:

http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca/rca_200204_114_4_eng.txt

An article on past looting and how it's being dealt with at a site
in Idaho (I think):

http://www.magicvalley.com/tn/topstory/index.asp?StoryID=228
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Monte Alban:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb033102a.htm
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REVIEWS
================================================================
Seth Schwartz, *Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.*:

http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.04.12/arts2.html

*The Archaeology of Athens*  and *The Forum of Trajan in Rome*:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/03/05/bovict04.xml

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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Silent Witnesses (New York):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=15393

Eternal Egypt (Kansas City):

http://www.ljworld.com/section/livinglead/story/89640
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
A vague item about artists attempting to raise the profile of
the ancient Lycians might be of interest:

http://www.hri.org/news/turkey/trkpr/2002/02-04-03.trkpr.html#11

An interesting, if somewhat inaccurate, use of the Odyssey as an
analogy applied to events in Israel last week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,679438,00.html

Perhaps a good argument for a classics-based education: a 13-year-old
identified a long-lost painting in his school library; same painting
is now expected to fetch a million or so at auction:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020412/media_nm/arts_discove\
ry_dc_1

A new restaurant in Rome tries to recreate the ancient Roman dining
experience:

http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020409/585258.html

Probably a followup, but of ongoing interest is the Olympics mascots
row (this one has photos ... they look, well, you decide):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12957&m=A03&aa=1&eido\
s=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=15206

Folks will hopefully be interested in a new PBS series
debuting this week called "MythQuest":

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=OWEN-TV-04-10-02&cat=LY

A review of a production of the Lysistra:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12957&m=A39&aa=2&eido\
s=S

... and the Antigone:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/134434440_antigone11.htm\
l

... and a new spin on the Frogs:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12956&m=A02&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Bees and classics always seem to touch each other somehow:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4391804,00.html

Apparently unintentional classical refs in this one:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_564675.html?menu=

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-04-\
13&id=1771

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-04-\
13&id=1769

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
================================================================
Wilma Fairbank

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/obituaries/13FAIR.html
================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
British Museum Mummy:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020408/mummy.html

Kentucky Cemetery:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/04/09/mystery.graves.ap/index.html

Thor Heyerdahl (this has a sort of ghoulish death watch feel to
it, no?):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4393722,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020410/ap_on_re_eu/thor_heye\
rdahl_1

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Shippee, Joanne Conman, W. Richard Frahm, Liz Griesman, Jason
Singe, John Hill, Michael Ruggieri, Glenn Meyer, Terrence Lockyer,
and David Webb, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

... speaking of headses upses, due to problems with my isp, this
week's Explorator was put together with rather more haste (but also
rather more coffee) than usual; if I've missed something obvious,
please tell me!!
================================================================
Errata: in Explorator 4.50 I wondered whether the University of
Bonn's project and another one at Chichen Itza were the same; they
are not (thanks to Lawrence Desmond for the corrective); in
addition, I appear to have conflated separate discoveries of possible
submerged cities off the coast of India, only one of which appears
to be associated with Graham Hancock's investigations (thanks to
several Explorator readers for pointing that one out).
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

As seems to be increasingly happening, releases of new movies on
matters vaguely archaeological seem to coincide with related
feature articles, this time in regards to King Scorpion (the
first in the list is by John Noble Wilford):

http://www.ocregister.com/news/nyoldestwritingcci.shtml
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0205/reviews/scorpion

A pair of headless Ramses II-era sphinges has been found in Cairo:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o200422j.htm

The Egyptian State Information Service has put together a feature on
the curse of the pharaohs:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o140422o.htm

A conference on the development of Islam is raising some controversial
points about its early history in Egypt:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020421/wl_india_nm/india_698\
14_1

Western archaeologists have returned to Iraq:

http://www.middleeastwire.com:8080/storypage.jsp?id=4779

The Guardian has a nice article on the restoration and reunion of
a collection of Coptic manuscripts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4392807,00.html

Finds in Tanazania are suggesting the existence of a "wider
Indian Ocean community" in antiquity:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1924000/1924318.stm

An archaeologist believes he has found the Mycenean capital of
Salamis:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=15601
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12958&m=A10&aa=1&eido\
s=S
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=qw1018974781641B262&set_id=1&click_id=31
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,4151694%255E703,0\
0.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020416/ap_wo_en_ge/greece_an\
cient_salamis_1

A Conservation and Restoration Center has opened in Petra:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/17_04_02_b.htm

(see Archaeology's article on Petra:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/features/jordan/index)

An Iron Age settlement has come to light near Glasgow:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_569688.html

An Anglo Saxon burial has revealed a glass bowl (the
yahoo stories are virtually identical, but two of them claim, as
often, that archaeologists "stumbled upon" the artifact ... I can
just see it now, the late Peter Sellers as a Clousseauesque
Heinrich Schliemann):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,686712,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_570032.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4397082,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020418/ap_wo_en_ge/britain_a\
nglo_saxon_bowl_2
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020418/ap_on_re_eu/britain_a\
nglo_saxon_find_2
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020418/ap_wo_en_ge/britain_a\
nglo_saxon_bowl_1

A 2000 b.p. letter written on silk has been found in China's
Gansu province:

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,114601,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_568832.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-04/16/content_360026.htm

Whoever is in Columbus' tomb is going to get the DNA treatment:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=285431

A mass grave in Lithuania contains the remains of some 2000 of
Napoleon's soldiers:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_571395.html

One I missed: Discovery.com still has a nice little article on
the use of thermoluminescence to detect forgeries:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020401/antique.html
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================

As you're probably already aware, there was a huge find of Inca
mummies near Lima this week (the first BBC link has a pile of
photos):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1937000/1937001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1936000/1936023.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4396250,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_568607.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=286196
http://crater.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0410_020417_incamummies.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/739954.asp
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/mummies020417.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1817-2002Apr17.html
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/world/3082672.htm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=585&e=2&u=/nm/20020417/\
sc_nm/science_incas_dc_4
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020417/sc_nm/science_incas_d\
c_4&printer=1

While on the subject of Inca mummies, folks might want to check
out a very nice web presentation at National Geographic called
"Mummy Bundles of Puruchuco":

http://crater.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inca/

National Geographic also has a piece on mapping Macchu Picchu:

http://crater.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0409_020417_machumap.html

... and tourism pressures there as well:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0415_020415_machu.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Archaeology Magazine on the web, with abstracts
to features on Caligula's "floating palaces", scythian horses,
Egypt's eastern desert, saving Afghan relics, and quite a bit more:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index

The current online issue of Discover Magazine has a nice feature
on archaeological evidence for early human occupation in Amazonia:

http://www.discover.com/may_02/featamazon.html

I'm adding this one to the weekly scan, but folks might want to
poke around Athena Review's site ... plenty of archaeological stuff
there from all periods (European):

http://www.athenapub.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Not really a news article but recently updated and worth reading
is C. Chippindale and David Gill, "On-Line auctions: a new venue for
the antiquities market":

http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/staff/dg/looting/eantiq.htm
================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a reprise of a
piece on Roman Marriage:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa081997.htm
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
There's a new Kalkriese Museum devoted (of course) to the discoveries
for Varus' debacle in the forest:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020418/180/1f1x2.html

Peru's Gold Museum has reopened:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/news/perumuseum

... while Athens National Archaeological Museum is closed:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=15547

Ancient Greek Technology (Athens):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12958&m=A38&aa=1&eido\
s=S
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The Apicius list caught wind of the Roman restaurant story last
week, and subsequently a couple of interesting urls came up,
including Magna Roma's website:

http://www.magnaroma.com/it/index.htm

... and the url for a Greek equivalent in Athens (which wouldn't
work for me ... it came up 403):

http://www.arxaion.gr/

A brief item called 'His and Hurs':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4395008,00.html

This one's interesting ... a British survey of some sort has found that
the top/brightest students don't seem to be attracted to the "most
popular" university courses; what they are attracted to is probably
predictable if I'm bothering to bring it up:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4395317,00.html

... and we get the usual clothing confusion at a school event (also
witnessed at my own school last week, alas):

http://www.nola.com/archives/t-p/index.ssf?/newsstory/b_greek20.html

Last week we featured a review of Lapatin's "Mysteries of the Snake
Goddess"... this week, the Boston Herald has a feature on one of
his claims:

http://www2.bostonherald.com/lifestyle/lifestyle_trends/life04212002.htm

The Greek government is blaming archaeologists and environmentalists
for delays preparing for the Olympics:

http://news.findlaw.com/sports/s/20020419/olympicsgreecedc.html

Space.com has a nice little feature on the story behind the
Coma Berenices:

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/coma_berenices_020419.html

An extensive report on Alexander the Great flicks in the making:

http://www.filmjerk.com/archives/0204/020409alex.html

Jasper Griffin has a nice piece in the Spectator on polytheism:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-04-\
13&id=1759

Peter Jones therein:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-04-\
20&id=1792

and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-04-\
20&id=1790

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
================================================================
Thor Heyerdahl:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/obituaries/19HEYE.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1938000/1938294.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4397210,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=286640
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0419_020419_wirethor.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020418/sc_nm/people_norway_h\
eyerdahl_dc_14
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020419/ap_wo_en_ge/heyerdahl\
_scientists_2
http://www.msnbc.com/news/740603.asp

An interview with TH:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020419/ap_wo_en_ge/heyerdahl\
_interview_1
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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Alphabet(ic) Writing in Egypt (some Scorpion overlap):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/16/MN2298\
01.DTL
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/16/science/social/16SCOR.html

Bamiyan Buddha (how determined were the Taliban?):

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020417/172060_1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/arts/design/15RANS.html

Elgin Marbles:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=285458

"Fate of Persephone" (includes photo):

http://www.christies.com/specialviews/brt/specialview.asp?DID=12

Olympic Mascots:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4398291,00.html

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Thanks to Sally Winchester, Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Joanne
Conman, Mata Kimatsayo, "SirMonkeyman", W. Richard Frahm, John
Hill, William Henry, and Rick Pettigrew, for headses upses this
week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A Neanderthal who lived and died with hole in his skull is providing
all sorts of scholarly theory fodder:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/742196.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1943000/1943960.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_572625.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31521-2002Apr22.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0423_020423_TVneandertal.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020422/ap_on_sc/neanderthal_\
weapons_2

Italian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of what may be a
hitherto unknown Egyptian king:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020422/newking.html

Al-Ahram has a nice overview article on the many recent discoveries
in Cairo and Luxor:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/583/tr1.htm

A pair of colossi of Amenhotep III and an unknown queen have been
found:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o250422c.htm

A Canadian team (yay!) led by my old Egyptian archaeology professor
has made a major find in the Sudan:

http://www.nationalpost.com/tech/story.html?f=/stories/20020422/713804.html

This is probably the same story from ArabicNews:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020425/2002042511.html

The Midas Feast is back in the news:

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=FBFA2A40-4CCF-4722-9DC6AEF56F4B637F&\
Title=Chemistry%20Used%20to%20Unlock%20Secrets%20in%20Archeological%20Remains

Laser technology is being used to clean up the Parthenon:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=15863
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpab/2002/02-04-26.mpab.html#04

Road building in Lincolnshire has come across an already constructed
Roman road:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1943000/1943388.stm

Greek fishermen have found a pile of Roman coins:

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpab/2002/02-04-26.mpab.html#03

A Bronze Age arrowhead has been found near Cornwall:

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=86411&command=displayCont\
ent&sourceNode=86410&contentPK=1530299

The Daily Star has a piece on why ruins in Lebanon are being ruined:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/25_04_02/art3.asp

Angkor Wat sounds like it's going to become a theme park:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9370

The 2,000-year-old remains of a woman from China have been given
the reconstruction treatment (no photos, alas):

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2002-04-23/66906.html

China might have the earliest example of environmental laws:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-04/24/content_370980.htm

Shakespeare's house near the Globe may have been found:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4399448,00.html

The survival of the (largely successful) voluntary program of
reporting treasure trove finds in Britain depends on a lottery
decision:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4398650,00.html

The New York Times has a really interesting item on restoration
efforts surrounding Leonardo's 'Adoration of the Magi':

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/magazine/21LEO.html

... and the World Archives of Rock Art Project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/arts/design/21GIBS.html

Another theory about Arthur's Round Table:

http://reportboston.com/article.php?sid=43&mode=thread&order=0

Tourists are wreaking havoc on Norway's stave churches:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=320143

How to classify this one? Billy Connolly will star as a "time
travelling archaeologist" ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4402097,00.html

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Salon has an extensive piece on the debate over where the first
inhabitants of the Americas came from:

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/04/22/bones/index.html

A Lawrence (Kansas) survey came up empty in anticipation of
road construction:

http://www.ljworld.com/section/frontpage/story/90738

A good article on another casualty of September 11:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/2257262.html

Civil War fans with metal detectors are feeling 'crowded out':

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134444075_civilwar27.html

An expedition will be mounted to find the El Salvador:

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1333729p-1371468c.html

Saloon archaeology in Nevada will soon be on display:

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020415&Category=NEWS&Ar\
tNo=204150103&Ref=AR

Atlantic Monthly has an interview with Charles Mann (author of
*1491*):

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2002-03-07.htm

National Geographic has an ad-cum-feature on some Peruvian
sacrifices/executions:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0425_020426_mochekillings.html
cf:
http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/endprnewswire/2002/04/24/dXbXe/2933-1020-DC-Inca-\
Mummies-video...html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out, with online
articles on the editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the "Babylonian
Gap", Lachish, et alia:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html

The current issue of Mechanical Engineering has an interesting
article on how multispectral imaging is being used to shed light
on ancient documents (there's a horrible pun in there somewhere):

http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/departments/input_output/input_out.ht\
ml
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
At the Bible and Interpretation site ... Theodore W. Burgh, "Music
and Musical Instruments in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel/Palestine":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Music.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Bill Thayer has just put up W.R. Paton's translation of Polybius:

http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/ho\
me.html

Donald Mackenzie, *Egyptian Myth and Legend*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/eml/index.htm

E.A. Wallis Budge, *Egyptian Magic*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ema/index.htm

E.A. Wallis Budge, *Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/efl/index.htm

Euripides' *Jocasta* (Gascoygne trans.):

http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/jocasta.html

R. McInerney, *A History of Western Philosophy*:

http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp.htm
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
... there's a new interview with Dr. Richard Pettigrew on the
ancient hydraulis:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/hydraulisint.html
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Greek artifacts continue to be a favourite among theft rings:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=15853
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of John
Montgomery, "How to Read Maya Heiroglyphs":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aaprmayascript.htm
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REVIEWS
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Stephen E Tabachnick, *Fiercer than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=12959&t=04&m=A35&aa=1

Roy MacLeod, *The Library of Alexandria* (caveat lector ... serious
need of proofreading in this review):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o270422x.htm

Marina Warner, *The Leto Bundle*:

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/printedition/ny-bkfeature2684881apr28.story\
?coll=ny%2Dentertainment%2Dprint
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Athens and Grecian Antiquities (London):

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,585-276850,00.html

In Search of Mary Magdalene: Images and Traditions (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/arts/design/26GLUE.html

The New York Times also had a special section devoted to museums,
which might be worth checking out:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2002/04/24/arts/artsspecial/index.html

Chinese Buddhas (London):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_573921.html
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F04%2F24%2Fnbu\
dd24.xml

Fragile Luxury (prehistoric glass)(Athens):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=12959&t=04&m=A38&aa=1

Ancient Greek Technology (Gazi):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12958&m=A38&aa=1&eido\
s=S
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=15702

One Thousand Years of Christianity in Hungary (Budapest):

http://www.budapestsun.com/full_story.asp?ArticleId={4C436F81B1284B89A7FFB1FB711\
8E9B1}&From=Style

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
One I missed on the revival of Classical Education in Philly:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/2988477.htm

... but all is not rosy in the city of brotherly love:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/3120495.htm

William Safire talks about pedophilia:

http://www.iht.com/articles/55411.html

A piece on St. John's College should be of interest:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57159-2002Apr26.html

I'm sure a classicist can find a use for this one:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featureitems/s540880.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0425_020425_universe.html

Here's what Dirk Obbink is up to:

http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=6628&past=

Folks will be interested in a Hungarian celebration of Floralia:

http://www.budapestsun.com/full_story.asp?ArticleId={BCB3381D7E6B47B28E8D7E5D9E2\
5E1BE}&From=

Jeffrey Henderson has been appointed Dean of Arts and Sciences at BU:

http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?fname=2002-04/20020423.111934&time=12:\
25+Pacific+Time&year=2002&public=1

More on that Magna Roma restaurant:

http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife/life/story.html?f=/stories/20020422/714229.\
html

Japan Times has a nice little article on how Greek myths live on
in English expressions:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ek20020426a1.htm

The Enron situation has spawned an interesting article in Atlantic
Monthly which suggests humans are as good at destroying paper
records as we might thing (lots of ancient content):

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/murphy.htm

More Olympics news: the bronze medals at the Athens games will be
made from Cypriot bronze brought thither by a replica Kyrenia
ship:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/April/20/news7.htm

I can't connect to the Spectator this a.m. for some reason; perhaps
you can:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/

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
================================================================
John McDiarmid:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134440864_mcdiarmidobit22m.html
================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Egypt's Islamic History:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020422/lf_nm/egypt_history_d\
c_1

Marathon Rowing Row:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F04%2F27%2Fwol\
y27.xml

Olympic Mascots:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=15925

Peruvian Mummies:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/739954.asp
http://crater.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0410_020417_incamummies.html

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Welcome to our fifth year!! What began as a whim while I
was locked out of my office at McMaster University and was waiting
for security to let me in (and was reading the rather old newsclippings
posted on the Classics Department bulletin board) has turned into
a Sunday morning ritual for me and, apparently, quite a few others!
A year ago we were boasting a subscriber base of 1948 and today we
can claim 2720 (a 40% or so increase!), augmented, of course, by
those who read it via sci.archaeology.moderated or humanities.classics
or any of the several email lists which get various edited versions
-- today you get the full version to see what you've been missing.
We continue to be free and ad free save for those yahoo things) and
will remain that way for the foreseeable future!

Speaking of yahoo, I've decided that Explorator will remain
hosted there until something equivalent comes along but in the
next few weeks I'll be sending out a message indicating how you
can minimize the impact of yahoo's advertising policies at your
end.

Last, but not least, I apologize last week for my geographically-
challenged suggestion that the Island of Jersey was near
Cornwall! (I do have coffee in me for this issue!).
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Thanks to John Hill, Arthur Shippee, W. Richard Frahm, George
Pesely, 'ekbole', Maurice O'Sullivan, Kris Curry, Isidoros, John Lens,
Ardle MacMahon, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Let's start with one the scan didn't pick up a while ago ... a
nice little article which can't really be classified, but which
is entitled "The Awful Truth About Archaeology":

http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/opinions02/041602_opinions_arch.shtml

"Stumbling" archaeologists strike again: this time clumsily discovering
4th dynasty pyramid:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_581684.html
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1969000/1969247.\
stm

Climate changes threaten Egypt's monuments:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/newsid_1\
966000/1966886.stm

Sadly, it looks like Assur will be the latest casualty of dam
building in Iraq:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9394

Archaeologists mapping the ancient city of Uruk have found it often
matches the description in the "Song" of Gilgamesh:

http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2002/05/03052002101632.asp

Iraq is asking Germany to return the Ishtar Gate:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,709809,00.html

An article on a USydney dig in Australia, although rather
unfocussed:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/03/1019441435699.html

Students are learning heritage preservation at Petra:

http://www.jordantimes.com/Mon/homenews/homenews9.htm

Archaeologists working in the Kerameikos have found a "rare" type
of kouros:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100014_30/04/2002_16000

A bit of the Via Egnatia along with artifacts from other eras
has been found:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16006

The Taliban didn't get *everything* -- saved was a second century
A.D./C.E. bowl with bacchannalian scenes (this one's *very*
interesting):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,709045,00.html

The Long Man of Wilmington has been, er, 'defaced':

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_579301.html
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1961000/1961913.stm

Plans are in the works to help conserve Mohenjodaro:

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/may2002-daily/01-05-2002/metro/i6.htm

A 2200-year-old wooden (!) map has been discovered in China's
Gansu province:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200204/30/eng20020430_95013.shtml

A 5000-year-old bird-shaped "totem" has been found in China's
Anhui province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-04/28/content_376472.htm

Arab archaeologists have called for protection of Palestinian
sites:

http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid\
=1020146452187

On the eve of the official opening of the revived Library of
Alexandria, Iraq is announcing that it intends to revive the
Library of Ashurbanipal:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9399

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Road construction near/in Miami has revealed a burial of a member
of the Tequesta people:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krmiami/20020503/lo/bones_found_under_a1a_are_thoug\
ht_to_be_indian_1.html

Philadelphians continue to wait to see what was excavated from
Independence Mall:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3165724.htm

They're searching for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0430_020430_franklin.html

This one's just down the road from me ... Hamilton officials have
stopped a dig at a site slated to be in the way of expressway
construction:

http://www.canada.com/hamilton/news/story.asp?id={C7F4EEEF-8ADC-4861-B481-C8B3C5\
B2A6A8}

An Onandaga site has led to a change in plans for bridge construction
in Syracuse:

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--onondagaremains0501may01.story?\
coll=ny%2Dap%2Dregional%2Dwire

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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of British Archaeology out, with articles on
the Armada, the Vikings, Balbridie, and other things:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba64/index.shtml

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ON THE WEB
================================================================
A New York Times article (mentioned below in the Classics section)
caused me to check this one out. It's the UCLA Cultural VR Lab
site where they've been giving various ancient structures the
VR treatment. There's some interesting reconstructions at their
website (esp. in the "Portfolio"):

http://www.cvrlab.org/

I've been alerted to the existence of the Anthro-Globe site,
which appears to publish full text articles as .pdf's (requiring
Acrobat Reader, of course). Of interest might be Sergei V. Rjabchikov,
"Some Remarks on the Scythian and Sarmatian Religion":

http://anthro-globe.com/docs/articles/32.pdf
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Homer, *The Odyssey* (Pope translation):

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3160
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
At a memorial for the four Canadians killed in that 'friendly fire'
incident in Afghanistan, our Governess-General appears to have
quoted from Pericles' Funeral Oration (although true to form, Canadian
journalists seem unable to 'name the name'):

http://canada.com/news/story.asp?id={7157C231-B4AF-441E-993F-6D902B45ED6B}

More arrests in Greece (Thessaloniki, to be exact):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020429/ap_wo_en_ge/greece_an\
tiquities_arrest_1

A guy was caught with a metal detector on Mt. Zion:

http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid\
=1020146449300

A nice article on tombaroli:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,708652,00.html

The 'Tome Raider' has been arrested:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1964000/1964189.stm
http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/story?story_id=20020502APAP-Britain-Book-Thief
http://www.sltrib.com/05032002/nation_w/733671.htm

A new 'code of conduct' will hopefully prevent British Museums from
acquiring stolen antiquities:

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$R4RKXDIAAAYRDQFIQMGCF\
F4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2002/05/02/nart02.xml
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Just in time for Mothers Day, Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill features
"The Top Seven Famous Greek Mothers":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanwomen/tp/gkmothers.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on a couple of online digs:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb042802a.htm
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REVIEWS
================================================================
Alexander Stille, *The Future of the Past*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/books/review/28LANGEWT.html

Lysistrata(i):

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=290081
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=214599
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
The Royal Academy is hosting an exhibition of Buddhas and this
week there's some serious coverage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,691163,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,687439,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1964000/1964083.stm

1884-1930: From the Christian Collection to the Byzantine Museum (Athens):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12960&m=A38&aa=1&eido\
s=S
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The New York Times has an interesting piece on a VR treatment of
the Colosseum by some folks at UCLA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02ARCH.html

Some interesting comparative material here (Roman religion):

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1959000/1959916\
.stm

AthensNews has a touristy thing on what to do after you've paid
a visit to Mycenae:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12960&m=A24&aa=1&eido\
s=S

James Whitley is the new director of the British School at
Athens:

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Education&F=1&id=5561

An interesting twist on the Elgin Marbles saga:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020430/ap_wo_en_ge/us_greek_\
sailor_1

On the origins of the name Hannibal:

http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.05.03/arts6.html

Plenty of ClassCon in an appeal to save the Bodleian's graffiti:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-\
04&id=1826

British Museum cuts might affect your next visit there:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020429/ap_wo_en_ge/britain_s\
truggling_museum_1

Has the U.S. become an empire?:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=123&ncid=742&e=10&u=/020502/79/1\
hbz3.html

Is there a dig at classics professors in this?:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/121/living/Beloved_BC_English_prof_takes_a_fin\
al_bow+.shtml

Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-\
04&id=1834

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
================================================================
Gordon Willey:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/01/obituaries/01WILL.html

Diana Buitron-Oliver:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-04/28/content_376472.htm

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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Cleaning Acropolis Marbles:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12960&m=A06&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Columbus Ship (genuine followup!):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_580314.html

Peruvian Mummies:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1695936,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020428/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/per\
u_mummy_mess_1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020429/ap_wo_en_ge/peru_mumm\
y_mess_2
================================================================
EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of
the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
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Thanks to Don Mills, Wilfried Zankl, Bill Kennedy, Jean
Laplante, Joanne Conman, Arthur Shippee, 'alesmontose, W. Richard Frahm,
Simon Stoddart, Michael Oberndorf, Ardle MacMahon, Rick
Pettigrew, and Jean Laplante for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

Editor's Note 1: thanks to all who alerted me to the error in my
url for the obituary for Diana Buitron-Oliver; unfortunately I could
not find it again for inclusion in this issue (I'll continue to search
though!).

Editor's Note 2: Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers (redneck and otherwise)
out there; of course it's appropriate to begin by pointing you to the National
Geographic's "Mummie's Day" special feature:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0510_020510_mummiesday.html

Editor's Note 3: Due to positive feedback and an ever-decreasing
amount of time to put this newsletter together, from this issue
on the full version will be sent to the various lists which
feature it. If that is a problem, I ask the listowners to contact
me at dmeadows@...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Last week we crowed about entering our fifth year of epublication, so
it seems we should also tip our collective ehats to the journal
Antiquity, which is celebrating its 75th year of publication:

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2002042601.xml

... and congratulate George Bass as the recipient of the 2001 National
Science Medal:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1405291

Quite a few folks have sent me this one; it's obviously suspect, but
if I'm getting asked if I've heard about it, some of you probably
are as well:

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/30/28149.html

Folks might also be interested in the celebration of the Shem
festival in Egypt:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1714574,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39670-2002May6.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020506/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_\
pharaohs__holiday_1

... and a piece on the history of Jenin:

http://www.middleeastwire.com:8080/storypage.jsp?id=6664

Belgian archaeologists have excavated human remains from Egypt
which might be 30,000 years old:

http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,4277578%255E401,00.ht\
ml
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_550172.htm

What appears to be a "ritual feasting area" has been discovered
near East Chisenbury:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,710634,00.html

The remains of what are believed to be an ancient Roman water
temple in Wiltshire may be turned into a tourist attraction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1975000/1975136.stm

A Roman villa near Somerset has been excavated:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1980000/1980324.stm

Here's a touristy feature on the Via Spluga:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/132/travel/Ancient_route_through_the_Alps_is_r\
ediscovered+.shtml

The Jenkins Venus is about to go to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1972000/1972966.stm

A horde of gold coins has been found in Iran:

http://www.irna.com/en/head/020509040527.ehe.shtml
http://www.middleeastwire.com:8080/storypage.jsp?id=7420

Archaeological evidence suggests there was civilization in
China's Guangdong province 3500 B.P.:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200205/04/eng20020504_95124.shtml

The ruins (largely unexcavated) of Yinxu are at risk:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/monday/news_c36dc232d51cc1a900e\
9.html

We haven't heard about the Fujimura case for a while, so here's
what appears to be the latest:

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20020511p2a00m0fp022002c.html

Cannonballs recovered from ancient wrecks are apparently exploding
on archaeologists' desks:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020508/sc_nm/britain_cannons\
_dc_1

The next stage in the Elgin Marbles saga will probably lead to
quite a bit of coverage ... a group is planning to sue the
British Museum for their return to Greece:

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,1870,118447,00.html

"They" retried Joan of Arc last week:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020506/joan.html

There's assorted items of interest in the Times' 'Archaeology Notebook':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-288049,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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A brief item on excavation of a Clovis site in Williamson County:

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=33592

Petroglyphs on the Potomac feature an atlatl:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49256-2002May7.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/749214.asp

The wreck of a Spanish galleon has been found off the coast of Panama:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20020506/wreck.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw102083742255B215&set_id=1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=5&u=/nm/20020507/\
sc_nm/panama_shipwreck_dc_1

A graveyard which once stood near one of New York's earliest almshouses
is revealing quite a bit about the folks who used to live there:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/3242943.htm
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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Smithsonian Magazine has a feature on urban archaeologists:

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/may02/poi.html
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ON THE WEB
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Paul V. Heinrich, "Artifacts or Geofacts? Alternative
Interpretations of Items from the Gulf of Cambay.":

http://www.intersurf.com/~chalcedony/geofact.shtml

Joanne Conman, "The Round Zodiac Ceiling of the Temple of
Hathor at Denderah":

http://home.maine.rr.com/imyunnut/Index.Den.round.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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George Ebers, *An Egyptian Princess*:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5460

George Ebers, *Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt*:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5449

Samuel Sharp, *Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/emec/index.htm

John Hill (trans.), *The Western Regions according to the Hou Han shu*:

http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han_shu.html
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Balancing the Cosmos (Mayan):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Items stolen during the Gulf War have been returned to Iraq:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F05%2F06%2Fwir\
q106.xml
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill offers an article by Gail Huganir on
the Prehistoric and Romano-British Galleries at the British Museum:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blkeystopast.htm

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REVIEWS
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Rachel Hallote, *Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World:
How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead*:

http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.05.10/arts1.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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More rumblings about an Alexander the Great flick:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=266931

... and (shudder) Tom Hanks might be playing Julius Caesar:

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_582847.html

... even though there's apparently a miniseries recently completed:

http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/endnews2/2002/05/09/enter/4891-0014-pat_nytimes.h\
tml

If you don't do well in Latin, well, there's always the professional
snooker circuit:

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml;$sessionid$WPRLUIYAAEQY1QFIQMGC\
FFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/sport/2002/05/07/sosnoo08.xml

Ray Charles is going to play the Colosseum (yep ... the one in Rome):

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/music/newsid_1969000/196956\
9.stm

At Epidauros this summer:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16196

... and there's a new play about that Helen woman:

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=03052002-034157-2384r

A pro-Palestinian march used Marathon as its backdrop:

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm?id=636844691&Section=Countries&page=Palestinian%2\
0Territories&channel=All%20Palestine%20News&objectid=224037E4-8F1A-11D4-867000D0\
B74A0D7C

Dunno how to classify this one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42377-2002May6.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-\
11&id=1857

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-\
11&id=1855

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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Gordon Willey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,712972,00.html

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FOLLOWUPS
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Ashurbanipal's Library:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1978000/1978571.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-291083,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=29319

Dipylo Kouros (I'm not sure whether the photos are of *this* kouros):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100004_11/05/2002_16308
(with photo!)
http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/11/greece.statue.ap/index.html (with
photo!)
http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1021038480178B262&se\
t_id=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4187-2002May11.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20020510/\
sc_nm/greece_statue_dc_1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020510/ap_wo_en_ge/greece_an\
tiquities_1

Lottery funds and Portable Antiquities Program (genuine
followup):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,712945,00.html

Mafia Island (off Tanzania):

http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/Supplements/horizon/current/story4.h\
tm

Mapping Uruk:

http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2002/05/03052002101632.asp

Queen's Pyramid:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-288310,00.html (blunder!)
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/747990.asp
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3203711.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/science/anthro/2002-05-05-pyramid.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/ap20020505_525.html

Saving Afghan Treasures:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/125/nation/Odyssey_to_rescue_Afghan_treasures+\
.shtml

Tequesta Bones:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/3204124.htm

Villa of the Papyri:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9416
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Thanks to David Detrich, John McMahon, Sally Winchester, Bill Kennedy,
Arthur Shippee, Michael Oberndorf, Gene Barkley, Mark Morgan,
John Hill, W. Richard Frahm, Jorn Barger, and Brennus Legranus for
headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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The big news this week appears to be the discovery of a 'king's'
grave near Stonehenge (the first item is from the Wessex Archaeology
website):

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/amesbury/archer.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-297694,00.html
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1990000/1990859.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992288
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_588546.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=295560
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=624&e=3&u=/ap/20020516/\
ap_on_sc/britain_bronze_age_archer_1
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=11873739&method=full&siteid=\
89488
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,4333365%255E912,00\
.html

There's an AP Wire story circulating on the Cuneiform Digital
Library Initiative:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/753796.asp
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020518-72712351.htm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=624&e=1&u=/ap/20020517/\
ap_on_sc/cuneiform_library_2

cf: http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/

At least once a year we get a report on a DNA study of migrations of people;
this year it's on the various movements of Jewish communities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/14/science/social/14GENE.html

An interesting piece on the guys who bring you the "Mummy Road
Show":

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cybernews/story/0,1870,119416,00.html

Al-Ahram has a touristy piece on Heliopolis:

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/585/tr1.htm

Here's a sort of overview piece on recent finds in Egypt's Behira
Governate:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o160522e.htm

A brief item on the discovery of some Ptolemaic era tombs in
Alexandria:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o160522t.htm
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020517/2002051751.html

A neolithic site has been found at Attiki Odos (scroll down a bit):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16524

A major Roman site (with saltworks) has been discovered in Cheshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1993000/1993496.stm

Here's an interesting piece on archaeologists' efforts
to restore the pigment on the 4th century B.C./B.C.E."Can Sarcophagus"
found near Troy (the first one includes photos):

http://www.uc.edu/news/sarco.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/05/020513074736.htm
cf: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/troia/st/eleven/ab/english/ab5eng.html

A number of Buddhas discovered in Iran's Fars province were probably
smuggled from Afghanistan:

http://www.asahi.com/english/international/K2002051700326.html

The Hermitage has finally put on view a display of 14th century
stained glass windows which are devoted to "the life and times
of the AntiChrist":

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/arts/design/19WALL.html

We've reported on this before (Explorator 4.43 and 3.13), but it's in the news
again ... the Swedish ship Vasa is wasting away in a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/14/science/14VASA.html

Folks might be interested in a piece on 'gestural theory':

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/18/arts/18GEST.html

... and how ancient Indian texts are being used in a modern
military context:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1986000/1986595.stm

More closures at the British Museum:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1630000/1630004\
.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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Here's a nice article on the role of caves in Mayan ritual:

http://www.sciencenews.org/20020518/bob9.asp

Another DNA study ... this time in search of living relatives of Inca
mummies:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_586478.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$ZU0EPMAAAC15HQFIQMFSFFOAVC\
BQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/05/13/winca13.xml
The remains of Fort Horn may lie in Chesapeake Bay:

http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.horn17may17.story?coll=bal%\
2Dlocal%2Darundel

What happened to New York's "Arbitration Rock"?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/nyregion/16ROCK.html

The site of the Battle of Milk Creek is causing controversy:

http://www.denverpost.com/framework/0%2C1413%2C36%257E53%257E606158%2C00.html

An early incident of archaeology in Canada is somewhat farcical at
times:

http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/story.asp?id=%7B8508ABDB-20DC-4A83-A0\
10-FFEEB02FFAB5%7D

An interesting arrangement between a museum and a group of native
Americans for display of artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/national/19MUSE.html
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CRIME BEAT
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The Netherlands has (have?) returned a purloined statue of Amenhotep III
to Egypt:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020518/ap_wo_en_ge/egypt_ant\
iquities_1

A French waiter had an interesting hobby:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/05/17/MN166733.DTL
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Tom Huntington, *Bad King Herod*:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blkingherod1.htm

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REVIEWS
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Tracy Lee Simmons, *Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin*

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63056-2002May9?language=printer

Robert Flaceliere, *Daily Life in Greece in the Time of Pericles*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12962&m=A38&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Ian Pears, *The Dream of Scipio* (novel):

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=295094
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EXHIBITIONS
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Eternal Egypt (Kansas City):

http://www.pitch.com/issues/2002-05-02/art.html/1/index.html

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur (Cambridge, Mass.):

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/05/17/29929.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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This one just turned up in the scan (what took it so long?); it appears that
{classicist?) Jim Holt has been engaging in "an email conversation about news
of the day":

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2065324&entry=0&device=

One I missed: Latin is on the rise in Britain again:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=292549
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=292568

Apparently-related (with a translation contest):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2002/05/11/telat1\
1.xml&sSheet=/education/2002/05/11/iefeduleft.html

Antigone in Palestine:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o130522b.htm

AthensNews has a touristy piece on Ikaria:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12962&m=A24&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Some potentially specious claims in this one?:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12962&m=A15&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Once again John Carr leaves one saying "eh?":

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12962&m=A99&aa=3&eido\
s=S

Classicists *do* go to movies, apparently:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0510/p13s01-almo.html

Another installment in the 'what do you do with a classics degree'
department:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1866000/1866403.stm

Proof of the sorry state of classical studies in Canada:

http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020518/269589.html

Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-\
18&id=1879

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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Diane Buitron-Oliver:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18466-2002May1.html

Bargil Pixner

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=295924

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FOLLOWUPS
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In Explorator 5.2 we provided links to reports on the discovery
of a ca. 30,000 year b.p. skeleton found in Northern Africa. As
reported in the various newswires, there were some inaccuracies
which one of the excavators mentioned on the EEF list. I have obtained
permission of the excavator (Peter Vermeersch) to reproduce his text below:

>> Dear Sir,
>
>> I had been informed that some discussion is going on related to an
>> ABC News Online. Here some information that is needed.
>
>> I was indeed very surprised to read in ABC News Online
>> http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_550172.htm
>> following text:
>>>>Anthropologists have set his, or her, age to be between 30,000 and
>> 33,000 years ago," Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council
>> of Antiquities, said.
>> It was the oldest skeleton ever found in northern Africa, Mr Hawass said.
>> A team from the University of Leuven found the skeleton buried in a seated
>> position facing east, with the head turned upward, the director of the
>> council's excavation department, Attiya Radwan, said.
>> It was found in a mountain cavern in Dandara, 550 kilometres south of
>> Cairo, along with shards of pottery from the same period, he said.
>> The pottery debris could be the oldest in the world after some found in
>> China, going back 35,000 years, he said. <<
>
>> I informed the SCA in Egypt of following:
>> There seems to be some misunderstanding about the burial that we
>> discovered in 1994 and that was reported in our excavation report.
>> The skeleton was found on the Taramsa hill, somewhat south of Dandara.
>> The Taramsa hill is on open air flint extraction site where a child had been
>> buried in one of the extraction pits. The age of the skeleton is not yet
>> clear but we published in Antiquity (1998, 277: 475-84) a suggestion for an
>> age of  55,000 years. This is indeed the oldest burial in northern Africa,
>> but not the oldest skeleton. Older skeltons have been found in Marocco, but
>> not in burials. The importance of this skeleton is the fact that it is a
>> clearly modern man, albeit a child of 8 years old. Modern man in Europe
>> is at least 20,000 years younger.
>> There is no asociation at all with pottery as suggested in your
>> communication. The cultural environment is entirely Middle Palaeolithic.
>
>> I hope that these data will give you a better view on the importance of
>> the discovery.
>
>> Yours sincerely,
>
>> Prof. dr. Pierre Vermeersch,
>> Director of the Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project of Leuven

cf: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o180522a.htm

Other followups:

'New' Pyramid:

http://www.guardians.net/hawass/new_pyramid_discovered_at_abu_ro.htm

Excavating Herculaneum:

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/2002/05/15/0514conn.html

Peruvian 'Shantytown' Mummies:

http://www.suntimes.co.za/2002/05/12/lifestyle/travel/travel01.asp

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Thanks to W. Richard Frahm, Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Alex Rentzis,
John Hill, Ethan R. Longhenry, and Maurice O'Sullivan for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

Mind-boggled editor's note: After the week I've had, this kind of
makes sense ... Mike Tyson has apparently said that he wants to
be an archaeologist:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,483-304413,00.html

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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What is possibly the "oldest" African agricultural settlement has
been found in Eritrea (this doesn't quite sound right):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_2000000/2000297.stm
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200313.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_592296.html

An important underwater UK prehistoric site is being explored:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2001000/2001942.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_592993.html

A 2500 b.p. tomb has been found in the Barharia Oasis:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o210522p.htm
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Features/0,1113,2-11-37_1190449,00.html

The Egyptian State Information Service is stirring up interest in the
search for the tomb of Alexander the Great (hmmmmm):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o250522.htm

... and singing the praises of Rosalie David:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o200522n.htm

The Guardian had a report on KV5 this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,718687,00.html

Egypt's hundredth pyramid has been found (?):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o230522f.htm

... as has Thutmose III's granite quarry:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o210522q.htm

There was plenty of coverage this week of the discovery of a skeleton
of someone who was probably a priest of Cybele (or, more sensationally,
a cross-dressing Roman skeleton ... the New Zealand Herald has the best
headline) ... the discovery was actually made
twenty years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1999000/1999734.stm
http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw102198438146B241&set\
_id=1
http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/409012p-3260401c.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020521/ap_on_re_eu/britain_r\
oman_eunuch_2
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_592309.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,719756,00.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw102198438146B241&set_id=1
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=989180
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2042615&thesection=news&thesu\
bsection=world

Apparently they're NOT resuming the excavation of the library at
Herculaneum, contrary to earlier reports:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-301556,00.html

A site with artifacts ranging from "Indo-Greek" to Hindu Shahi has
been found in India's Dir district:

http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/21/local30.htm

A number of significant 15th (and later) century fortifications
have turned up in county Sligo:

http://www.unison.ie/sligo_champion/stories.php3?ca=38&si=759545&issue_id=7460

The tomb of Henry VIII's elder brother has been located in
Worcester Cathedral:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1748787,00.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1419191
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$4AEKYJAAADIGZQFIQMFCF\
FOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2002/05/20/nprinc20.xml
Excavations are being conducted in Norway to determine whether
construction work is hastening decomposition of skeletal remains
in a church cemetery:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=336080

A number of 2000 b.p. crop seeds have been found in China's Gansu
province:

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2002-05-21/70559.html

I think I have mentioned the manuscript discovery at the Deir el Surian
monastery before, but the Art Newspaper presents the find in
rather more detail:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9539

Who is buried in Columbus' tomb? er ... tombs?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/international/europe/23SPAI.html

Also on the mysterious burial front, construction workers have
revealed a mass grave at the site where Nicholas II and his family
were murdered:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_200\
7000/2007956.stm

I think I forgot this one last week -- work on a new exhibit at
a zoo in Sydney has revealed a trio of Scottish cannons which date
back to the 1700's:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020519/ap_wo_en_ge/australia\
_scottish_cannons_2
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THE AMERICAS
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The "mother lode" of jade which was a major source of Olmec wealth
appears to have been discovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/international/americas/22JADE.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/05/22/MN195858.DTL
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2003000/2003775.stm

... and a major underground river has been found in the Yucatan, which
may shed light on the environmental situation the Maya (and others)
had to deal with:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/science/21MAYA.html

A nice piece on petroglyphs in Arkanasas:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0521/p16s02-lehl.html

Satellite technology has revealed some ancient footpaths in Costa
Rica:

http://www.colorado.edu/NewsServices/NewsReleases/2002/1818.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/05/020521071618.htm

The hype is beginning again for the search for lost civilizations
off of Cuba:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1746406,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020519/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/exp\
_lost_city_1
http://www.msnbc.com/news/753882.asp

Less controversial (perhaps) are other Castro-sponsored explorations
of shipwrecks off Cuba which have revealed the wreck of the Palemon:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/753883.asp
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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George Ebers, *Cleopatra*:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5482
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CRIME BEAT
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Another bust in Greece:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020520/ap_wo_en_ge/greece_an\
tiquities_theft_1

Here's more on that art-connoisseur/thief/waiter from France:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/arts/design/22ARTS.html

... and a very interesting tale of manuscript theft from a French
monastery:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,721292,00.html

A new antiquities bill is before the Greek parliament and, if passed,
will no doubt provide more content for this section of Explorator:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16749
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Bruce Heydt, "Bronze Age Riddle Uncovered at Flag Fen":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blflagfen.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
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Queen of Sheba (British Museum ... not so much a review as a nice
article on the Queen of Sheba):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4421501,00.html

The Greek Classical Period (Berlin):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16866
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Another installment of what-you-can-do-with-a-classics (vel simm)-degree:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36091-2002May17.html

This "Harvard professor" should drop by the classics department, I
suspect:

http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/05/05212002/reu_47270.asp

Anyone want to confess to being the unnamed UMich TA and/or the prof
alluded to in this one:

http://www.nationalreview.com/nordlinger/nordlinger052302.asp

Potentially interesting classcon in this one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53486-2002May21.html

Sounds like someone got the Lysistrata right (or something like
that):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/arts/theater/20LYSI.html

... while a production of the Frogs is causing controversy in
Italy:

http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/20/italy.play/index.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=297179

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-\
25&id=1906

... kai Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-\
25&id=1904

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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Jake Hoffman:

http://www.denverpost.com/framework/0%2C1918%2C36%257E11777%257E632174%2C00.html

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FOLLOWUPS
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Amenhotep III statue returned to Egypt:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1996000/1996241.\
stm

Cuneiform Digital Library Intiative:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=711&ncid=738&e=5&u=/usatoday/200\
20521/tc_usatoday/4126897

Kouros (the eKat articles are genuine followups):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16663
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16664
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16662
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/11/greece.statue.ap/index.html

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Thanks to W. Richard Frahm, Bert Lusnia, James Thiele, Martin Roseveare,
Gene Barkley, Rick Pettigrew, 'alesmonetos', and Kathy Tang for
headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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I'm sure we'll hear some more about this one ... it appears that
chimps create archaeological remains much like those of early
humans:

http://www.mpg.de/news02/news0211.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20020520/chimp.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0523_020523_0523TVchimps.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/05/020524073245.htm

Is the National Geographic buying into Graham Hancock's theories?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0528_020528_sunkencities.html

What *might* be the oldest lifelike images of humans have been
discovered/are about to be reassessed in France(they look like
medieval monks to me):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2012000/2012385.stm

A childbirth seat has been found in Egypt:

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1022429340979B221&se\
t_id=1

A brief item on the discovery of a mosaic in Palmyra:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020529/ap_wo_en_ge/syria_mos\
aic_1

As with many ancient monuments, Persepolis is showing the effects
of pollution etc.:

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAMKZFFR1D.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020528/ap_wo_en_po/iran_pers\
epolis_in_peril_2

... and a rising water table is threatening Egypt's monuments:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0531_020531_TVwatertable.html

Meanwhile, there's a big conference going on focussing on how to save
Afghanistan's cultural heritage:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_2010000/2010104.s\
tm

John Noble Wilford has penned a little piece on Tell Hamoukar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/science/social/28DIGS.html

Further complicating matters in Ethiopia's dispute with Italy over an
obelisk, the latter was struck by lightning this week:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_2018000/2018814.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,724055,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020531/od_nm/obelisk_dc_1

A brief item on using LIBS technology on a Minoan knife:

http://optics.org/article/news/08/5/32?year=2002&month=6&show=heads

Goddio's still finding things in and around Herakleion:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020528/ap_wo_en_ge/egypt_ant\
iquities_1

eKathimerini reports on a report on recently reported finds in Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17107

AthensNews has a touristy piece on Knossos:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12964&m=A24&aa=1&eido\
s=S

... and one on Lesbos too:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12963&m=A22&aa=1&eido\
s=S

FAZ has a nice piece on the Kalkriese Museum and the site of Varus'
debacle:

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub=%7BB1311FFE-FBFB-11D2-B22\
8-00105A9CAF88%7D&doc=%7BA86F2509-AA2E-4B05-A1C6-A7E16E6CBBE5%7D

An ancient Buddhist shrine has been found in Uttar Pradesh:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/300502/dlnat19.asp

Chinese archaeologists have found some leather shoes dating to the
Han dynasty:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200205/29/eng20020529_96715.shtml

A pair of submerged towns have been found in China's Zhejiang
province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-05/31/content_418092.htm

The latest in the Fujimura scandal:

http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2002052800500.html

The remains of the last Tasmanian aborigine are being returned for
burial:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,725297,00.html

Probably a little late for this newsletter, but a Columbia U. historian
is suggesting the British Empire was hardly a civilizing influence:

http://observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,722384,00.html

Also probably a little late, but with some interesting comparative
possibilities as suggested from an appeal to ancient precedent (Egypt):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/02/BA84610.DTL

The new Library of Alexandria, by the way, continues to be in the
'opening this year' stage:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30652-2002May29.html

A school in the US has its own mummy:

http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=38take.h21

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THE AMERICAS
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Must be handy to be able to do a real dig right on campus:

http://tampatrib.com/News/MGAD0FRPW1D.html
http://tampatrib.com/News/MGAYJHPPW1D.html

A number of sites have been found in the Nevada desert:

http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/May-26-Sun-2002/news/18829204.html

The digging is about to commence at the Fort Pierre Chouteau site
(South Dakota):

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4266461&BRD=1130&PAG=461&dept_id=99675\
&rfi=6

Exxon has come across a 'mystery ship' in the Gulf of Mexico:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/science/28SHIP.html

... and there might be mystery ships in the Delaware too:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3350016.htm

A golf course on Mackinac Island is hosting a dig for War of 1812
artifacts:

http://www.mlive.com/news/statewide/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/\
base/news/1022271001167810.xml
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Josep Marti, "The Cultural Frames Approach as an Alternative View
to the Ethnocratic Idea of Culture.":

http://anthro-globe.com/bin/artdetail.cgi?download=34
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
There's an audio interview with Jessica Palladini on "Saving the
Black Creek" site:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/blackckint.html

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CRIME BEAT
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A pair of Afghan smugglers were apprehended this week:

http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/30/nat21.htm
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Bruce Heydt, "Bath's Sacred Spring":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blsacredspring1.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has put together a short piece on the
history of glassmaking:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb052602a.htm
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REVIEWS
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Ian Pears, *The Dream of Scipio* (novel):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0530/p15s01-bogn.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Queen's University (Belfast) is facing budget cuts which might
affect Classics:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_2017000/201720\
5.stm

The next installment of what to do with a degree in Classics:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14695-2002May26.html

... and the secret to winning spelling bees:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/05/31/MN90880.DTL

Classcon in a piece about wedding toasts:

http://www.nandotimes.com/entertainment/story/419249p-3341430c.html

An account of an experience with the online "Daily Life in the Eastern
Roman Empire" course might be of interest:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/758868.asp

This could be interesting ... the Colosseum is going to be online
24 hours a day:

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1022689261708B242&se\
t_id=1

More political pressure to return the Elgin Marbles:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2014000/2014626.stm
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/153/nation/Greece_homes_in_on_ancient_marbles+\
.shtml

Oliver Stone's Alexander the Great flick is scouting venues, it appears:

http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=OQRHPOGHP1SNACRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIW\
D?type=entertainmentnews&StoryID=997869#

I definitely missed this one (three years ago!), but it turned up
while poking around another search engine ... it's (not seriously)
about the discovery of a lost drama by Sophocles:

http://www.cnsnews.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getdoc&DocId=5294&Index=C%3a%5c\
Inetpub%5cCns%5cmainsearch%5cEntireSite&HitCount=4&hits=2+d+5b+5a6+&SearchForm=%\
25%25SearchForm%25%25

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
01&id=1924

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
01&id=1913

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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Herculaneum Library:

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/2002/05/15/0514conn.html

Stonehenge King (nice slideshow):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020520/stonehenge.html
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explorator 5.6                                      June 9, 2002
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Thanks to John McMahon, Bill Kennedy, W. Richard Frahm, Hernan Astudillo,
Joanne Conman, Kristina Killgrove, Arthur Shippee, George Pesely,
Brennus Legranus, David Detrich, Rick Pettigrew, and Michael Ruggieri
for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Stone tools and bones are suggesting a rethink on when Britian first
was inhabited by humans:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2025000/2025530.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_600992.html
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4773086

A pile of bitumen slabs found in Kuwait are believed to be the remains
of the world's oldest boat:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/296/5574/1791 (requires registration)

A number of 18th/19th dynasty tombs of government officials has
('have' doesn't look right) been found near the Step Pyramid:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/763407.asp
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020606/ap_wo_en_po/egypt_tom\
bs_discovered_1
http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=20020606103700029\
6610_aolns.src
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_602588.html

... probably the same:

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,4452147%255E401,00.h\
tml
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o060622a.htm

A 4000-year-old seal of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found during
the excavation of a stable in Scotland (and yes, there is a logical explanation,
but you just *know* something else will come of this):

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=302203

I think this must have been a sidebar to something else, but here's
a brief overview of the life of Thutmose III:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55095-2002Jun3.html

The already-under-construction Cairo-Aswan highway is now causing
some concern amongst archaeological types:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020531/2002053141.html

A brief item on the restoration of some of the artifacts found in
Abu Qir bay:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o060622n.htm

One I missed: Cyprus Mail has an extensive piece on the PASYDY hill
site (Cyprus, of course), which is important but bogged down in
matters political, it seems:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/May/26/Feature4.htm

Archaeologists are tracing the domestication of the horse in
Kazakhstan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2027000/2027346.stm

Moscow Times has a feature on the 'Siberian Ice Maiden':

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/06/04/003.html

The Villa of the Papyri is turning into a saga ... now they're going
to be doing some "emergency maintenance" on it:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9598

A trio of tombs belonging to court eunuchs of Ming dynasty era date
have been found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-06/05/content_425302.htm

A 'freak' low tide has revealed "Scotland's Atlantis":

http://news.scotsman.com/aberdeen.cfm?id=602572002

If you're planning on visiting the British Museum, you might want
to check to make sure it doesn't coincide with a series of planned strikes:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2031000/2031735\
.stm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020608/en_nm/arts_britain_mu\
seum_dc_1
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A lost Inca settlement has been discovered in the jungles of Peru
(the second Telegraph piece is an interview with Hugh Thomson):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2029000/2029466.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/763508.asp
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=9&u=/nm/20020606/\
sc_nm/britain_incas_dc_1
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/06/06/britain.incas.reut/index.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$LBU2D1IAACV4RQFIQMFSF\
FWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/06/06/winca06.xml
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$LJG3GSIAAD5ARQFIQMGCF\
GGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2002/06/08/winca08.xml

... and some new discoveries have been made at Macchu Picchu:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020607/sc_nm/peru_machupicch\
u_dc_1
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=NRAIORJDHXZVOCRBAEZSFEYKEEATIIW\
D?type=sciencenews&StoryID=1064195

Archaeologists in Florida are claiming to have found the longest,
oldest canals in North America (the SunSentinel piece has some nice
photos and a video report as well):

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-66indiancanal.story?coll\
=sfla%2Dnews%2Dfront
http://www.msnbc.com/news/762953.asp
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3414166.htm

Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi (a.k.a. Canada's Ice Man) is next in line to
undergo DNA testing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2443-2002Jun5.html

The Salt Lake Tribune has some coverage of a dig on Antelope
Island:

http://www.sltrib.com/06082002/utah/743773.htm

This is a sort of book announcement thing (maybe), but a modern
architectural historian has turned her thoughts to Cahokia:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020605/ap_en_ot/wkd_cahokia_\
book_1

Remains of Fort Greene Ville have been found, near Greenville, Ohio
of course:

http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/06/08/loc_excavation_finds.html

They're still retrieving artifacts from the Hunley:

http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=OM2JNZ1DQY2X4CRBAEZSFFAKE\
EATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=1063769
http://www.msnbc.com/news/763523.asp
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
Popular Mechanics has a nice article on the Sussex and the challenges
of raising it:

http://popularmechanics.com/science/transportation/2002/6/deep_bounty/

================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Lee Levin, "Rome vs. Carthage":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/bldaytheworldtrembleda.htm
================================================================
REVIEWS
================================================================
Kenneth Lapatin, *Mysteries of the Snake Goddess* (n.b. the following
url is kind of an experiment ... the review in the Globe and Mail
has an url that approaches 300 characters in length; several Explorator
readers have mentioned tinyurl.com as something worth trying, and
in this case it seems worthwhile):

http://tinyurl.com/cas
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Quest For Immortality: Ancient Treasures of Egypt (coming soon ...
I'm sure we'll regularly be reading about this one):

http://www.iht.com/articles/60637.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/arts/design/04GALL.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/761667.asp
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020604/ap_en_ot/egyptian_exh\
ibit_2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54868-2002Jun3.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
AthensNews has an item on ancient (mostly Roman) gluttony:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12965&m=A40&aa=1&eido\
s=S

A classicist has commented on Catholic sexual abuse cases in
Kentucky:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1793487,00.html

An ancient civ teacher's website is getting some attention:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/tribnorth/s_75569.html

Here's an interesting appeal to Plato as precedent:

http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=1&date1=6/9/2002

... and from the same source, an appeal to ancient Rome (who's
teaching Classics in Pakistan?):

http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=7&date1=6/8/2002

Harvard is giving Peter Brown and honorary degree:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=215002

This one's sort of interesting ... a Guardian review of a pile of
books chastises Anne Carson for not including enough classical
references in her latest novel:

http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,726052,00.html

The Kyrenia II returned to drydock for repairs (the photo might
be of interest):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12965&m=A10&aa=8&eido\
s=S

Umberto Eco gave a convocation address at Hebrew University, which
some might find of interest:

http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterF\
ull&cid=1022691071214

The Herald Sun has a short item on the use of Latin by doctors:

http://www.herald-sun.com/features/54-233304.html

Newsday has a piece on technology being used to read Herculaneum
(and other) papyri:

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-dsspdn2730853jun04.story?coll=ny%2Dhealth%\
2Dheadlines

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
08&id=1950

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
08&id=1948


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

Weather in Latin (not just U.S. anymore!):
http://latin.wunderground.com/

================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Olmec Jade:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/762402.asp
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020606/ap_wo_en_ge/mexico_ja\
de_mystery_1

Tell Hamoukar:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/2002/6/HAMOUKAR.CHI.html

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EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of
the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
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explorator 5.7                                     June 16, 2002
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Thanks to W. Richard Frahm, Sandra Bingham,Arthur Shippee, Dale Armstrong,
Ardle MacMahon, 'Ivygab', Maurice O'Sullivan, Rick Pettigrew, John
McChesney-Young,
and Sally Winchester, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers and father figures out there
================================================================
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

It might be bacteria which is eating away at the paintings of Altamira:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020614/ap_on_sc/spain_cave_p\
aintings_5

There's another replica of an ancient boat plying the waves ... this
time a replica of a pre-pharaonic reed boat:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmnews/2002/02-06-13.cmnews.html#02

Archaeologists (without stumbling, even!) have found what appears
to be the oldest intact sarcophagus:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4520152%255E1702,0\
0.html
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA7C397I2D.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_608585.html

The Lebanon Daily Star has a nice feature on the excavations at
Urkesh:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/13_06_02/art3.asp

Here's a news release on an upcoming dig at Kenan Tepe:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/2002/6/TURKEY.UUT.html

Looks like there's going to be a serious challenge to the Pitman and
Ryan Black Sea Flood hypothesis:

http://www.rpi.edu/web/News/press_releases/2002/noahsark.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/2002/6/NOAH.RPI.html

A Hellenistic tower on the island of Ro will be restored:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12966&m=A10&aa=2&eido\
s=S

Greek archaeologists don't want artifacts to leave Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17612

There is evidence that sea trade between Rome and India was more
extensive than similar trade via the Silk Route:

http://www.ascribe.org:2201/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20020611.161623&time=16
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405011230,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=624&e=1&cid=624&u=/ap/20020612/\
ap_on_sc/ancient_trade_1
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA4L6WVC2D.html

Maureen Fant has written a nice touristy piece for the New York
Times all about her visit to Pompeii:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/travel/POMPEII.html

... and Francine Prose has one on a stay in Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/travel/ROME.html

The Amphitheatre in the center of London which folks have been
excavating for the past 15 years or so is now open to the public:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2037000/2037732.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2038000/2038109.stm (photos)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=304378
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F12%2Fnamph1\
2.xml
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_605474.html
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=640072002
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020611/ap_wo_en_po/britain_r\
oman_amphitheater_1

A Gupta era statue has been found in India's Patna district:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=12872702

Ethiopia once again asked Italy to return its obelisk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/international/africa/11ETHI.html

More on the impending construction of a new antiquities (!) museum
in Egypt:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020613/ap_wo_en_po/egypt_ant\
iquities_1

A statue of Venus reached a record price at Christie's this week:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020613/ap_wo_en_ge/britain_v\
enus_1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F14%2Fnvenus\
14.xml (good photo)
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2043000/2043017\
.stm
http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=J5EVZQCP02J3UCRBAE0CFEYKE\
EATGIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=1087809
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-326232,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,737281,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=305089

More from Christies:

http://www.christies.com/presscenter/pressread.asp?pressId=367

They're letting the public into the convent at the top of Rome's
Spanish Steps:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2041000/2041326\
.stm

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Among the many digs about to get under way is one to search for
Fort Bedford (in Bedford, PA, of course):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020609/ap_on_re_us/brf_fort_\
bedford_1

Detroit News has a feature on the excavation of Fort St. Joseph:

http://www.detnews.com/2002/metro/0206/16/metro-515609.htm

... and Bingham's Fort is slowly coming to light:

http://www.standard.net/standard/news/news_story.html?sid=00020612231501588319+c\
at=news+template=news1.html

The Hunley crew are the subject of a forensics exam:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0614_hunley_recov.html
================================================================
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
Time has a nice article on the ongoing 'dig' in the harbour of
Alexandria:

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020617-260666,00.htm\
l

There's a new issue of Bible Review out, with a full text article on
the 34 Gospels, among other things:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html

HS and crew have obviously been busy since there's also a new issue
of Archaeology Odyssey out, with a nice article on Troy and the
Trojan War, among (as usual) other things:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Anita Cohen Williams has started a 'Blog' devoted to Archaeology
devoted primarily to links of archaeological interest:

http://archaeology.blogspot.com/

... she also has one devoted to museums (check out the Museum
of Depressionist Art, a nice parody):

http://www.museumguru.blogspot.com/


Explorator, by the way, will have a Blog counterpart debuting in
the next few weeks ...

================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
*Encyclopedia of World History*:

http://www.bartleby.com/67/
================================================================
ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
Last week I forgot to mention the Archaeology Channel's feature on
the Maya Lancandon culture and its struggles to survive:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org

... and we should also mention the debut of a new audio series
at the same site called "The Human Experience", which should be
of interest to those with an anthropological bent:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/AudioNews/humexp.html
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Frederick Schultz was sentenced this week (the articles from
Archaeology Magazine will hopefully clear up confusion about
the pharoah's head ... Reuters seems to have dropped the ball
on this one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/arts/design/12SENT.html
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/features/schultz/details
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/news/schultz2
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/12/stolen.art.ap/index.html
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2040000/2040769\
.stm

While folks were oohing and aahing at the record price of the
Venus sculpture at Christie's (see above), others were pointing
out that one of the offerings had been stolen from Egypt (something
lost in translation in the Egyptian version):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020613/ap_wo_en_po/egypt_sto\
len_antiquity_3
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o150622e.htm

An Egyptian national was imprisoned briefly because he had been
excavating in his house, which happened to sit upon a temple
archaeologists have been searching for for years:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o090622l.htm
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Tom Huntington, "Bad King Herod":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blkingherod1.htm
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Queen of Sheba (British Museum):

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_2037000/2037712.stm
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
NPR has a nice feature on 'keeping Latin alive' at Roosevelt High
School:

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/roosevelt/index.html

More on the giant Aphrodite theme park proposed for Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/15/index.htm

The group Avaton make ancient Greek poetry "mainstream":

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12965&m=A39&aa=3&eido\
s=S

There will be a production of Rossini's "The Siege of Corinth",
appropriately, near Acrocorinth:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12966&m=A39&aa=3&eido\
s=S

An interesting method of learning one's conjugations:

http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/perspective/bal-pe.column16jun16.story?coll=\
bal%2Dperspective%2Dheadlines

Since I was poking around a few blogs this a.m., folks might be
interested in the Bloggus Caesari (in English, alas):

http://www.sankey.ca/caesar/

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
15&id=1960

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
15&id=1964

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
================================================================
Rodney H. Hilton (medieval historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/14/obituaries/14HILT.html

Phyllis Bober (classical/renaissance art historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/obituaries/15BOBE.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020615/ap_on_re_us/deaths_17
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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Hunley watch:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20020610/hunley.html?ct=2319.61397760646

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Thanks to David Detrich, Bill Kennedy, John McMahon, Michael Oberndorf,
W. Richard Frahm, Susan Jaslow, 'alesmonetos', Paul Cowie, Janet Delaine,
Barbara Barrett, Sara Orel, and Sally Winchester for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

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================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

Well, if it's Solstice you know folks will be dropping their clothes
and dancing around Stonehenge:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020621/en_nm/britain_stonehe\
nge_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.com/news/770497.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2057000/2057303.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2057000/2057440.stm (photos!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,742039,00.html

... and the news sources will be looking for other stories about
the megaliths:

http://www.ananova.com/News/story/sm_609325.html

It's going to be a quiet dig season in the Holy Land, for obvious
reasons:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0620_020620_wireisrael.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020620/en_usatoday/420\
8810

Despite the foregoing, the big news this week appears to be the discovery
of a Roman 'stadium' (hippodrome?) near Tiberias:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/768575.asp
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_609614.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/ap20020617_1176.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405012494,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid\
=1023716498987
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020617/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel\
_roman_stadium_2
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/06/19/israel.romanstadium.ap/index.html

An archaeologist is going to see (or possibly has by now) investigate
whether there is any solstice connection with a temple at Dilmun:

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=25915&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=25\
093

FAZ has a nice article on the Waldgirmes site, and how it was a
civilian settlement from the start (I'm not sure how old/new this article
is ... it did turn up in a couple of search engines):

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={7CC1077B-EF3F-4453-9BC2-\
1CD8018E6958}&width=1139&height=843&agt=explorer&ver=4&svr=4

Construction in Nicosia has turned up archaeological remains (the
first two items are different 'early reports'; those which follow
are Reuters):

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/19/news5.htm
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/22/news6.htm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020621/sc_nm/life_cyprus_pal\
ace_dc_1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20020621/\
sc_nm/life_cyprus_palace_dc_2

An 'iron age citadel' near Stirling appears to be Scotland's long
lost capital:

http://www.sundayherald.com/25644

A scholar is claiming to have deciphered the "much elusive" Indus
script (my skeptical alarm is going off on this one):

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=13404142

A pair of sixth century statues of Siva and Saraswitha have been
found near Tiruchirappalli:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/020621/54/1qh10.html

Coming to a 'documentary' near you, no doubt ... a team of Chinese
archaeologists are going to investigate a 'mystery pyramid' which
supposedly has some connection to extraterrestrials, according to
legend:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_611023.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=585&e=5&u=/nm/20020619/\
sc_nm/china_aliens_dc_1

In an unrelated (hopefully) development, a series of pyramids have
also been found in Uzbekistan:

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/06/19/30639.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_609296.html

A Han Dynasty measuring tool has been found in China's Ningxia Hui
Autonomous Region (note to self: brush up on Chinese geography):

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2002-06-17/74077.html

Archaeologists have found evidence that Cistercian monks were developing
a major blast furnace operation prior to their eviction by Henry VIII:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F21%2Fnhe\
nry21.xml
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020622-67190988.htm

While my fellow Canadians battle over which city can lay claim to being the
'home' of hockey, it appears that Holland can (gasp) lay claim to
being the home of (gasp) golf (gasp):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_608659.html

The Italian government apparently has no plans to privatize
things like the Colosseum:

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAAQ6T7K2D.html

I'm trying to figure out whether the Times' 'Archaeological Notebook'
is a regular feature:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-46-329071,00.html

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THE AMERICAS
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Some recent developments in the Kennewick Man saga:

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/2002/0617/story1.html

... and sometimes you don't find what you're digging for:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/3484819.htm

Some of the oldest (10,000 BP) archaeological remains ever found
in North Carolina have come to light:

http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-239749.html

A number of mounds in Shiloh National Military Park are being
excavated:

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/sci_and_tech/article/0,1406,KNS_328_1222400,00.html

Here's a nice feature on Palenque:

http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=28589
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Archaeology out:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
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ON THE WEB
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The BBC's companion site to its series "The Roman Way" has a pile
of stuff of interest, including Real Audio files of the programs,
recipes of Roman cuisine, et alia:

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/romanway/shtml
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Donald Mackenzie, *Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/moc/index.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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A nice AP article is making the rounds, all about the changed attitude
towards ownership of antiquities of questionable provenances:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020621/ap_wo_en_po/arts_egyp\
t_protecting_culture_1

... and the Wall Street Journal had a nice piece on a similar topic:

http://opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110001867
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Greg Yocherer, "Classic Battle Joined" (Cannae):

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blclassicbattlejoineda.htm
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REVIEWS
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Penthesilea (production at Epidaurus):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17801

Sophocles' Electra (Athens):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17752
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Plenty of classcon in a CSM piece on etymological roots of plant
names (not my punnus horribilis):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0619/p18s04-hfgn.html

... and we might as well include this bit on the history of the
cucumber:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12966&m=A40&aa=1&eido\
s=S

The protest against the Olympic mascots has taken an interesting
(or not) twist:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020618/ap_wo_en_po/sports_ol\
ympics_mascot_suit_1

The Guardian has a piece on whence came the beasties exhibited in the
Colosseum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4436401,00.html

A nice feature on Lynn Krepich's efforts to keep Latin alive in the
classroom:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20604-2002Jun20.html

Only a tenuous classical connection in this bio of a Japanese
scholar, but an interesting read:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020621wob1.htm

A classicist is involved in a cv scandal in Scotland:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=677842002

If you missed Maureen Fant's 'Stroll through Pompeii' in the Times
last week, it's still available in the International Herald Tribune:

http://www.iht.com/articles/62029.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
22&id=1983

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
22&id=1982

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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Amesbury Archer:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/news/amesbury

Columbus Ships:

http://www.sltrib.com/06222002/nation_w/747448.htm

Kenan Tepe dig:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405012291,00.html
http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0618026.htm

Oldest Intact Sarcophagus:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/768307.asp
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020616/ap_on_sc/egypt_archae\
ology_3

Oldest Boat:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020617/boat.html

Olmec Jade:

http://www.uniontrib.com/news/mexico/20020605-1105-jademystery.html

Reed Boats a la Heyerdahl:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17813
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020620/lf_nm/life_cyprus_boa\
t_dc_2

Schultz Case:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/features/schultz/index
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/arts/design/12SENT.html

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Reid Wilson, Martin Roseveare, Anne
Roseveare, Dale Armstrong, Rick Pettigrew, Michael Oberndorf, Trevor
Watkins, Barbara Barrett, Ardle MacMahon, Michael Ruggieri, Bill Kennedy,
Michael
Oberndorf, W. Richard Frahm, and Maurice O'Sullivan for headses upses this
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Editor's ramblings: So I see in one of the zillions of elists
I frequent a note that someone from TLC (The Learning Channel)
was asking for archaeologists to get in touch with her for some sort
of television program. So, of course, I contact her and tell her
that plenty of archaeologist types read Explorator and would she
like me to pass on the information to them. So she does, but the
info is somewhat different than I had originally assumed, but
since I did offer, here's the skinny:

"" TLC's "A Dating Story" is looking to feature single
archaeologist, ages 25-35, on our daytime documentary
style show.  We are looking to feature interesting,
talkative, t.v. savvy people.  If anyone is interested
in more information please contact me, Katie, via
email at datingstory@... or call (215)928-1414
ext. 7166. Enclosed is an attachment which describes
the show in greater detail.  I look forward to
speaking with you!

Katie Monson
datingstory@...
(215) 928-1414 ext. 7166"

Don't forget to mention you saw it in Explorator! 8^)

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A very well-preserved Neanderthal butchery site has been found
in Norfolk (England):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2064000/2064934.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=309107
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,743954,00.html
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp?WCI=NewsItem&WCE=189
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992454
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020625/sc_nm/britain_archaeo\
logy_mammoths_dc_1
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F26%2Fnma\
m26.xml

A mudbrick tomb has been found at Saqqarah:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o270622.htm

A bronze age 'metal factory' has been found in Jordan:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/06/020626070920.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0620_020625_metalfactory.html
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/dlevymetalfactory.htm

Not sure I follow the logic of the headline, but "Discovery of
Middle Bronze Age burial pit raises hopes of uncovering medieval town"
(Ireland):

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/index.php3?ti=41&ca=9&si=781565&issue_id=\
7659
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_618418.html

A log boat discovered in Scotland a century ago has now been dated
to the bronze age:

http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=84092&command=displa\
yContent&sourceNode=83929&contentPK=1997204

The New York Times has a piece on a first-century Roman
funerary urn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/arts/design/28INSI.html
(photo at:
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?sale_number=N07812&live_l\
ot_id=128)

... actually, folks might be interested in all the things
auctioned off in Sotheby's recent Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asian
Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art thing ... here's the list,
all linked to photos and descriptions:

http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotResultsDetailList.jsp

The Times has a touristy piece on Alexandria:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-336660,00.html

The Romans used more than aqueducts to deal with water problems:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readRelease&Releaseid=10015
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-06/nofs-trp062402.php

Ballard's back in the news, but just with an overview of some
of his previous discoveries (no doubt this is prepublicity for
something else planned):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020627/en_usatoday/422\
8570

China Daily has a piece on the Spillings Horde (9th century
Viking):

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-06-24/74984.html


Some ancient multiplication tables have been found in China's
Hunan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-06/26/content_458723.htm

Tests on the relics in St. David's Cathedral (Wales) have
revealed the bones do not belong to him:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_2070000/2070072.stm

Indian archaeologists have found the remains of a British ship
which sank a couple centuries ago:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_613671.html

UNESCO has added nine sites to its World Heritage list:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020627/ap_wo_en_po/hungary_u\
nesco_list_1

The New York Times has an interesting piece on the various interpretations
of what comprises 'historical preservation':

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/23LEWI.html

More on the British Museum's financial woes (different stories):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9692
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,744224,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2069000/2069781.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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"Who created Baja California's ancient cave paintings?":

http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=29006

A prehistoric village site has been found near Tucson:

http://sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.urban23jun23.story?coll=bal%2Dnationw\
orld%2Dheadlines

Excavations at the Boston Saloon site in Virginia City have
brought to light a very old bottle of hot sauce:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/29/spicy.artifact.ap/index.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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The Economist has a feature on Blombos Cave:

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1200626

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ON THE WEB
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(I'm not sure who sent me this one, but it's fairly recent (April
2002) and worth listening to); official blurb:

The Trojan War: History or Myth: Turning convention on its head,
Martin West, a renowned scholar of Greek studies and classical
antiquity, presents another way of looking at The Trojan War.

http://media.snow.utoronto.ca:8080/ramgen/wiegand/wiegand2002.rm?start="00:03:05\
.0"

There's a new progress report on the KV5 excavation at the Theban
Mapping Project's site:

http://www.kv5.com/html/index_new.html
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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The Satyricon (Firebraugh trans.):

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5225
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Roman Africa: Tunisia

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Vandals have forced the closing of a 13th-century Church in
England:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2062000/2062278.stm

A number of Roman artifacts have disappeared from storage in
Carlisle:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_614067.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2062000/2062511.stm

Similarly, a number of aboriginal artifacts have disappeared from Winnipeg's
Anthropology Museum:

http://www.canada.com/winnipeg/story.asp?id={CD944989-4486-40B3-996D-C4EFC855678\
5}

The U.S. is getting tougher on archaeological crimes:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0620/p02s02-usju.html
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Greg Yorcherer, "The Trouble with Elephants" (Hannibal):

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blbattlejoinedside.htm
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REVIEWS
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Anthony Grafton, *Bring Out Your Dead:The Past as Revelation.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/books/review/23BRUCKNT.html

Katerina Karakasi, *Ancient Korai*:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=18071

The Bacchae (Epidaurus):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=18026
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Greeks and the Sea: Hellenic Ships From Ancient Times
Through the 20th Century (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/arts/19FOOT.html
http://www.foundationhellenicculture.com/PressRelease.html

Pieter Saenredam (Getty):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/arts/design/26GETT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Queen's University (Belfast) has voted to close its Classics
department, despite pleas from various folks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_2065000/2065797.stm

Folks will be interested in Stanley Kurtz' National Review piece
on the gutting of UChicago's Western Civ. course:

http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz062702.asp

The Economist compares the recently-late Ann Landers to the Oracle
of Apollo at Delphi:

http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1200492

Good news for the DAI:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=278723

The Vatican's recent no smoking policy has caused some speculation
on how the signs will read:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_2070000/2070380.stm

Looks like there's going to be a remake of 'Clash of the Titans':

http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/6_5.html

Not a lot of info in this abstract, but it might make you want
to track down the latest issue of Discover ... "Homer's Bones
Can an archaeological dig in Greece reveal the line between
truth and fiction in the Iliad and the Odyssey?":

http://discover.com/july_02/feathomer.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
29&id=2014

... and Dot Wordsworth (nice classically-inspired cartoon
here as well):

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-\
29&id=2012

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
================================================================
Frank Spinney ("Museum Innovator"):

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/obituaries/23SPIN.html
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FOLLOWUPS
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Ancient Scottish Capital:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F24%2Fnda\
rk24.xml

Columbus Ship Near Panama:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-
bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134480115&zsection_id=268448413&slu
g=columbus23&date=20020622
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game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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