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Nadelman, Mark Elliott, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

... another slow week ...

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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What is claimed to be the oldest image of the constellation Orion
has been found:

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2679675.stm

A piece on the first complete skeleton of a Neanderthal:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20030120\
/sc_nm/science_neanderthal_dc
http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=143&art_id=qw1043121781489B252&s\
et_id=1

A pit full of monuments to Nubian pharoahs has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2677919.stm

An 18th Dynasty tomb has been found in Sakkara:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o190123f.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/622/he2.htm

Zahi Hawass has written something for Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/621/he2.htm

This should be a followup, but what the heck ... at least one
scholar has pronounced the Jehoash inscription a fake (see below
for reprises of previous articles on the inscription):

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1\
042977196708
http://tinyurl.com/4kdo (Israel Insider)

How do you find Late Bronze Age tombs on Cyprus? Listen to local gossip
of course:

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=129

The Roman Fort at Hunerberg has been reconstructed (there's a
half hour radio program in .ram format here as well that I
couldn't get to connect; not sure if it's in English or not):

http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/030120roman.html

Some Pompeiian frescoes which were discovered a couple of years ago
during highway construction have gone on display:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-546298,00.html

Recent Roman finds suggest Londinium's boundaries were larger than
is currently believed:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F01%2F23%2Fnroma\
n23.xml

A Viking 'manor house' is being excavated west of Copenhagen:

http://cphpost.periskop.dk/default.asp?id=27289

What might be the most important find of 17th century artifacts
from Belfast has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2688413.stm

An Ashoka era Buddhist site has been found:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/2003/Jan/24/181_146102,000900010007.htm

Remains of a second century B.C. settlement have been found in
Calcutta:

http://abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_765865.htm

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THE AMERICAS
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A 400-800 B.P. native burial has been found in Oklahoma:

http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=977631&pic=none&TP=getarticle

Here's some updates on the Queen Anne's Revenge Project (these are
different):

http://www.newbernsunjournal.com/Details.cfm?StoryID=6726
http://www.jdnews.com/Details.cfm?StoryID=9854
http://www.jdnews.com/Details.cfm?StoryID=9855
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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An interesting science article which explains (albeit in passing)
why the 'little ice age' occured:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/17jan_solcon.htm?list93257

The latest on Michelangelo, apparently, is that he was cheap:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/international/europe/21FLOR.html

A nice piece on UCLA's Cultural VR Lab (with a stroll through ancient
Rome as the focus):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/864421.asp

Folks might like ar article on the Benaki Museum's photograph
archive:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12997&m=A40&aa=1&eido\
s=S

This turned up in today's scan for some reason ... it's an article
from the 1888 Atlantic Monthly entitled "The History of Children's
Books":

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/1888jan/hewins.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Norman K. Gottwald,"Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse":

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

An incipient website some might want to keep an eye on, specifically
those with an interest in ancient Lusitania who can read Portuguese,
is the Campo Arqueológico de Tavira site, which currently has a
couple of large .pdf documents on the antiquity/ies of the region:

http://www.arqueotavira.com/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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The Hymns of Orpheus (tr. Thomas Taylor):

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

A. Gilman, *The Story of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the End
of the Republic*:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6427

Suetonius, * The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; To Which Are Added,
His Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets* (trans. A
Thomson and T. Forester):

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6400
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CRIME BEAT
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A number of Guatemalan artifacts are about to be returned:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2003/01/23/news/local/5009593.htm
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Bruce Heydt, "Bath's Sacred Spring":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blsacredspring1.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on what to do when
archaeology doesn't 'have it' for you any more:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa062001a.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
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Leonardo DaVinci: Master Draftsman (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/20/arts/design/20LEON.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/arts/design/24COTT.html

The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (Chicago):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/25/arts/design/25MEDI.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Folks might be interested in a review of a production of Julius
Caesar in light of recent 'America-as-Roman-Empire' claims:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/22/arts/theater/22JULI.html

A prehistoric elephant may have given rise to stories of the Cyclops:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/861014.asp

ClassCon in a piece on Belioz:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,881771,00.html

Josiah Ober is mentioned in this article on motivating knowledge
workers:

http://tinyurl.com/4wu5 (Globe and Mail)

Steve Lowenstam has been pondering the place of heroes in
cultures:

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/67/hrubin.html

Richard Stockton College is the latest to get a big bunch of cash
to establish a centre focussing on Hellenic studies:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/012503GREEKGRANT_J25.html

... and a big bunch of cash is destined to study the transition from
Roman Empire to Medieval Europe:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/01.23/11-mccormick.html

Why printers should learn Latin:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_743416.html

Etymologies:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=6823186&BRD=175&PAG=461&dept_id=414652\
&rfi=6 (ad valorem)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134622162_phony260.html
(ad signo)
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/ArticleDetail.asp?Cat=HOMEPAGE&ID=19425 (mensa)
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2003/01/20/story7.html
(luxx ?)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/25/SP1261\
25.DTL (ubi est mea)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/health/21TOOL.html (gossypimoba)
http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3171728 (the 'f word')
http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=%7B7AEB4CD4-6884-4159-858B-2E52\
7AE628B1%7D (histo)

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-01-\
25&id=2716

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-01-\
25&id=2715

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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The Braidwoods:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030123/braidwood.shtml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-549691,00.html
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Black Sea Ship:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/16/science/16SHIP.html?ex=1044021532&ei=1&en=2e05\
66a68570759e
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12997&m=A04&aa=2&eido\
s=S
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030113_blacksea.html
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=18446

Jehoash Inscription:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/858803.asp?0cl=cR

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explorator 5.40                                 February 2, 2003
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Donna Hurst, Bill Kennedy, John
McMahon, Michael Ruggeri, 'Phipps', George Pesely, Yonatan Nadelman,
Steve Rankin, W. Richard Frahm, Andrew Schoenhofer,Mark Elliott,
and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.).

Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and people of
Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, David Brown,
Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon ...

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The earliest evidence for dairy farming in Britain has been
found:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=624&e=2&cid=624&u=/ap/20030127/\
ap_on_sc/ancient_milking
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_744324.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2699547.stm
http://www.sciencenews.org/20030201/fob1.asp

Spy photos have revealed that Bronze Age villages in the Near
East were not as 'isolated' as was once thought:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=2&cid=585&u=/nm/20030127/\
sc_nm/life_mideast_roads_dc
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030128-111144-2162r
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/science/social/28ROAD.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/85038.html

The Denver Post has a lengthy piece on the history, ancient and
otherwise, of Iraq:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E73%257E1132351,00.html

A statue of Queen Ti was recently found:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o300123b.htm

A nice chunk of a Roman road has been excavated in Koln:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw1043760780607B265&set_id=1

A number of bronze relics from the Western Zhou Dynasty have been
found in China's Shanxi province:

http://fpeng.peopledaily.com.cn/200301/30/eng20030130_110963.shtml
http://test.china.org.cn/english/2003/Jan/54799.htm
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Excavation of a mound in North Carolina is shedding light on the
Conestee people:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/864104.asp
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=624&u=/ap/20030127/ap_on_sc/exp\
_biltmore_archaeology

A mystery wreck off the coast of Louisiana is getting some
coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/science/28WREC.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Again, construction of things for the Olympics in Athens seems to
be damaging archaeological sites:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=25752

The Washington Post has a somewhat strange (especially in light
of other coverage) piece on the similarities between the James
Ossuary and Jehoash Inscription discoveries:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8808-2003Jan31.html
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Feb/02012003/saturday/25300.asp

A nice feature on mummies found in cold climes on various
continents:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-mummies3jan03,0,2879088.story

The Oxbow Books site has an interview with Anna Marguerite
McCann,who talks about her various underwater researches at Cosa and
Skerki Bank:

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/feature.cfm?FeatureID=74&MID=1487

Ditto a piece on the Society for History Archaeology Congress
(has anyone ever written a piece on an academic conference with a
positive spin?):

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/feature.cfm?FeatureID=73&MID=1487

Christianity Today has an interview with Dan Bahat on Temple
Mount and related matters:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/104/22.0.html

The Egyptian Museum's guides face some high tech competition:

http://www.egypttoday.com/issues/0302/6850/03026850.asp

Research suggests the Maori traditions about the settlement of
New Zealand have some veracity:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3097878&msg=emaillink
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ON THE WEB
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William Dever, "Contra Davies" (on Minimalism and Anti-Semitism
in Biblical Studies):

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Contra_Davies.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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Vandals have damaged the Maiden Bower Fort (Iron Age):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2697253.stm

Similiter, at Ancients National Monument in Colorado:

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1711680,00.html
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of *Troy*,
a young adult fiction novel:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/gr/troyadelegeras.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has links to poetry about archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa012903a.htm

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BOOK REVIEWS
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John Noble Wilford reviews Gavin Menzies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/books/review/02WILFORT.html

... another of the same book:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0129/p03s01-ussc.html
cf. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/01/27/1421.china.react.ap/index.html

Lisa Jardine, *On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir
Christopher Wren*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/books/review/02RYBEZYT.html

Larissa MacFarquhar, *Bark* (history of dogs):

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/030203crbo_books
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CUM GRANO SALIS)
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Pravda is accusing the CIA of "concealing" Noah's Ark:

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/01/30/42735.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids):

http://www.detnews.com/2003/religion/0301/31/d01-59942.htm

Magna Graecia (Tampa):

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=SH&Date=20030202&Categor\
y=NEWS&ArtNo=302020772&Ref=AR&Profile=1060
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Valentine's Day is a few weeks away, but Classicists are already
being asked their opinions:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030130/nyfnsr06_1.html

Nice to know some priests (not mine, alas) still know Latin:

http://morningsun.net/stories/020103/lif_20030201011.shtml

Another installment in the 'what to do with a Latin degree' (he
must have one, no?):

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E64%257E1148427,00.html

In case you missed it, Britain's Education Secretary is getting
flak for questioning the value of studying classics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2712833.stm

Some geologists have written a paper on how well Homer knew his
geography:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030127/030127-4.html

A Classicist will become Dean of Arts and Letters at UPenn:

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/01/27/3e351c716f7c1

... and another Classicist has apparently speculated on Jesus'
drug use:

http://www.naplesnews.com/03/02/neapolitan/d9112.htm

ClassCon in a piece on a Sweetest Lips contest:

http://www.detnews.com/2003/macomb/0302/02/c05-70772.htm

On being female and getting tenure at Yale:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=21522

Some suggestions that Roman numerals go beyond just designating
which Superbowl it is:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/levesque/105977_leve27.shtml

Etymologies:

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20030201/northwest/19764.shtml (precatory)
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0201dea.html (a latin motto)
http://www.oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/living/10438465345254\
0.xml (vigil)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/106157_prunes29.shtml (plum)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-02-\
01&id=2754

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-02-\
01&id=2753

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Mary Chubb (archaeologist):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-558558,00.html

Hugh Trevor-Roper (historian):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=\
%2Fnews%2F2003%2F01%2F27%2Fdb2701.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-45-556173,00.html
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FOLLOWUPS
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Black Sea Ship (excellent article):

http://www.sofiaecho.com/art.php?id=6402&catid=29

Cyclops in Crete (good photo):

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/29/elephant.ancestors.ap/index.html

Elgin/Parthenon Marbles Virtual Re-creation:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2697307.stm

Jehoash Inscription:

http://www.baptiststandard.com/2003/2_3/pages/tablet.html

UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/864421.asp
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explorator 5.41                                 February 9, 2003
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Richard Heli, Karl Wittwer, John Hill,
Yonatan Nadelman, Maurice O'Sullivan, Gene Barkley, W. Richard
Frahm,  Bill Kennedy, A.G. Waltz, George Pesely, Dave Sowdon,
Isidoros, J.S. Bell, and W. Richard Frahm for headses
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Another piece on the threat war presents to cultural sites in
Iraq:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030210/misc/10iraq.htm

The Makhoul dam will soon inundate the site of Ashur (is it just
me or are there an increasing number of typos in headlines lately?):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18122-2003Feb3.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/866450.asp

Also threatened by water is Egypt's Hebes Temple, which was being
dismantled:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o060223o.htm

The new parliament edifice in Nicosia has sparked an emergency
excavation:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/February/7/news9.htm

There's a 'secret' map which charts over 1000 ancient shipwrecks
somewhere in a building in Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=26065

A Roman-era wooden cart has been found in a tomb from Thrace:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_1227085_08/02/2003_26218

An update from a dig at Qumran:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=258814&contrassID=2&s\
ubContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

A dig in Oxfordshire has provided proof of 'long distance' trade
in the Iron Age:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/archive/2003/02/03/WALLYNEWS2ZM.h\
tml

A metal detectorist sans metal detector has found a 7th century
Anglo Saxon ring:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/archive/2003/02/01/ABINEWS0ZM.htm\
l

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THE AMERICAS
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Ah ... the realities of digging in a city:

http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780932/20443221.html

A "black-owned saloon" is being excavated in Nevada:

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=54366

A significant site with human remains dating back 3500 years b.p.
is being excavated in Alabama:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/thursday/news_e324c191068d81800\
0f5.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The Valentine's Day stuff:

http://66.220.130.210/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=97021?news

A piece on why we shouldn't mourn the loss of cultural relics (?):

http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/miles_kington/story.jsp?sto\
ry=376219

Ballard's next probe of the Black Sea will apparently be the
Bulgarian coast:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=18994

Speaking of the Black Sea, the Pitman-Ryan theory of the Black
Sea flood is being questioned again:

http://www.detnews.com/2003/religion/0302/06/a09-78822.htm

On dueling with swords in movies:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0207/p13s02-almo.html

A Roman copy of Polykleitos'Diadoumenos once owned by Nureyev is
up for sale (scroll almost to the bottom ... story continues on
p. 2):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/design/07ANTI.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html

... and Bible Review as well:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html
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ON THE WEB
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Not sure if I mentioned this one before ... Archaeology Magazine's
latest online dig is Heirakonopolis ... worth looking at:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/hierakonpolis/index.html
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Mary Shelley, *Prosperpine and Midas: Two Unpublished Mythological
Dramas*:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6447
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CRIME BEAT
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An Egyptian SCA official has been charged in a case related
to  smuggling:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_743828.html

Interesting motivation for this fellow's series of art thefts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/05/international/europe/05SWIS.html

More on the activities of Seattle's Thesaurus store:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134631031_fakes09.html
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AT ABOUT.COM
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In time for Valentine's Day, ancient history guide N.S. Gill has
a feature on five ancient goddesses of love:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa021403a.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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L. Jardine, *On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher
Wren*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/02/RV90169.DTL

M. Pearl, *The Dante Club* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/books/07BOOK.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Medea and Children of Hercules:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16057
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EXHIBITIONS
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Magna Graecia (Cleveland -- the exhibition website):

http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/mgtampa/khtml/

Leonardo DaVinci (New York):

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/n_8275/index.html

Thomas Gainsborough (New York ... surprisingly, there is classical
content in this one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/design/07COTT.html

Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of
the Americas (Virginia):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/design/07EXHI.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies has recently begun a sort
of webzine (?) called Classics@, the focus of the the first issue
of which is the recently-revealed Posidippus fragment:

http://www.chs.harvard.edu/classicsat/index.htm

More on Trojan geography ... of particular importance (I think) is
the map provided at the BBC site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2736059.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030203/iliad.html

ClassCon in an extended feature on evolution/cloning:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39931-2003Feb7.html

... and the latest Clarkiana from the British parliament:

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/comment/0,9236,890824,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,889613,00.html

A feature of sorts on Michael Nagler:

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/07pauthor_p3.html

In case you missed it, the New York Times had a feature on Elaine
Fantham and her thoughts on the impending conflict:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/arts/08FANT.html?ex=1045733438&ei=1&en=8531795\
415fac48c

Istanbul's Greeks are reclaiming their cultural heritage:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/039/nation/Istanbul_s_Greeks_stake_new_claim_t\
o_past+.shtml

Golf has Roman origins?:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030209a1.htm

Latest on the Alexander flicks (and Troy too!):

http://www.joblo.com/movienews/1227.htm

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-02-\
08&id=2773

Etymologies:

http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_8550134.shtml (poop ...
as in deck)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,891554,00.html (bella detesta
matribus)
http://www.theadvocate.com/stories/020703/smi_smiley001.shtml (er ... not sure;
scroll down)
http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2003/02/03/story7.html
(auxilium)
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/lifestyles_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_\
4537_1718750,00.html (nincompoop)
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/features/fe109022003.html ('gladiator's
cry' ... hmmm)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Hugh Trevor-Roper (historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/27/obituaries/27ROPE.html

Victor Watts (medieval historian):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-565391,00.html
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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Ancient Near East Road System:

http://www.metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-5/cultent/archaeologists_find_ancient.htm

Cyclops origins:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0205_030205_cyclops.html

Early Dairy Farming in England:

http://www.sciencenews.org/20030201/fob1.asp

James Ossuary/Jehoash inscription:

http://augustachronicle.com/stories/020803/rel_223-2099.000.shtml

Jehoash alone:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=258799&contrassID=2&s\
ubContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab (with photos):

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=EA5D52DB-886E-4447-815B5DE25C7B0CA2
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The latest theory about Stonehenge (from a gynecology professor,
naturally) is that the big pile is designed to represent the
"female sexual organs":

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/s2.cfm?id=163042003

Also on the Stonehenge front, the latest research suggests the
Amesbury Archer hailed from the environs of modern-day Switzerland:

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/amesbury/press/archer_feb_03_v1.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2746505.stm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030210/sc_nm/britain_stoneh\
enge_dc
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=2202329
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,893060,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=377350
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030210_1422.html
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F02%2F11%2Fnheng\
e11.xml
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/02/11/britain.stonehenge.reut/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Stonehenge.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/870917.asp

And similarly vying for attention, but not getting nearly as much,
'Seahenge' (or parts of it) are about to go on tour:

http://tinyurl.com/5tsy

Just when you thought archaeologists had recovered their balance, they
stumble on "the Egyptian Lourdes" (a phrasing which probably had more
to do with the calendar date than what was actually found):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_749921.html
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=171882003
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F02%2F13%2Fwegy1\
3.xml

Al-Ahram has a piece on an exhibition of recently-discovered-by-foreign-
missions-stuff:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/625/he1.htm

A couple of Persian helmets which were caught in some fisherman's nets
are thought to be remains of the Persian fleet wrecked near Mt. Athos in
the early fifth century:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100012_11/02/2003_26306
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,6119,2-13-1443_1319347,00.html

The mystery of the Dionysius Temple in Rhodope has been solved:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=19299

Archaeological remains at Ephesus are taken as evidence that the movies
have this whole gladiator business wrong (but we Classicists have
been right! 8^)):

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,891901,00.html

The Times has a piece on Pompeii (why this doesn't require a subscription
now but did an hour ago is beyond me):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-576770,00.html

The annual pollution-is-threatening-Italy's-monuments piece:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/047/nation/Pollution_lays_siege_to_Italy_s_tre\
asures+.shtml

Excavations of a Medieval garden in Shropshire is getting some
press:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0210_030210_medievalgarden.html

An axe has been found during excavations of a Han Dynasty tomb:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2003/02/item20030211121130_1.htm

A piece on the search for the Saraswati:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5195859.htm

The Times archaeology column has items of interest:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-578000,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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There's evidence that agriculture in the New World may have begun
in coastal Ecuador ca. 10 000 b.p.:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-02/si-aoo021103.php

When is a midden not a midden? When it is used for ceremonial
purposes:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/5190862.htm

Archaeologists have found the burial of the first British settler
in North America (the headline's "US" in the Ananova piece is
somewhat anachronistic ... actually it's a terrible headline all
around; the Times headline is potentially ambiguous as well):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_749599.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Jamestown-Remains.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59832-2003Feb11.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/872146.asp
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1779329

A nice account of an HBO special on slavery in the U.S. which goes
beyond the usual TV review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/arts/television/09GATE.html

Plans are afoot to excavate the house of freed slave James Dexter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/national/09SLAV.html

The 'Drake Hoax' appears to have been solved:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/15/MN163879.DTL
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/14drake_b1.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
If Robert Ballard undertakes his latest project successfully,
Explorator will hopefully benefit:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/868842.asp

A rather banal touristy thing on Libya has some *excellent* photos:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=79278&pid=160

Apparently some sixteen million men can claim descent from Genghis
Khan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/science/11KHAN.html

Restoration work has caused some debate in regards to Andrea del
Verrocchio's statue of David and the smitten Goliath:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/arts/design/11DAVI.html

The bell from Columbus' Santa Maria is going to auction:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/02/08/columbus.bell.ap/index.html

Gaelic is on the decline:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,894354,00.html

Gerard Depardieu is drumming up support for St. Augustine:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/10/wdep10.xml
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=377061
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Another virtual reality project, the "Virtual World Project" takes
you on a vr tour of various sites in the eastern Mediterranean:

http://moses.creighton.edu/vr/

Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies has recently started an online
discussion series called "Athenian Law in its Democratic Context".
Some parts require registration but a number of lectures are/will be
available:

http://www.chs.harvard.edu/online_disc/athenian_law/lect.htm
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
This year's 'Happy Valentine's' story is about the return of a
relic of the saint, 20+ years after it had been stolen:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/02/14/offbeat.valentine.relic.reut/index.ht\
ml

A number of tombs along the Silk Road have been robbed:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-02/12/content_726241.htm

They're getting tough on dealers who sell purloined artifacts in
the UK:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=378767
================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a brief item on Pompeii:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa021203a.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Colleen McCullough,*The October Horse* (fiction):

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_bkrev_hahn10.htm
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PERFORMANCES
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Les Troyens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/arts/music/09GURE.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/12/arts/music/12TROY.html

Julius Caesar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/13/nyregion/13PROF.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Machu Picchu (Peabody):

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/02/13/machu.picchu.exhibit.ap/index.\
html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Why study classics:

http://www.greece.gr/EDUCATION/SchoolsAndUniversities/Makingamodern.stm

Latin appears to be alive and well in Exeter, N.H.:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/exeter/01212003/news/8801.htm

Ah ... the prestige value of Latin:

http://www.broadsideonline.com/news/stories/2002-2003/021303/grads.shtml

It would be nice if someone called and told this guy what "certamin" is:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/046/sports/BC_High_ranks_at_top_of_class+.shtm\
l

... and this guy that 'octopi' isn't Latin:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134634195_octupus14m.html

In case you missed it, the New York Times had a piece on Elaine
Fantham and her thoughts on Iraq:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/arts/08FANT.html

Donald Kagan on why the US will go to war:

http://hnn.us/articles/865.html#kagan2-14-03

An overview of Roman food:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20030216wo63.htm

Keith DeVries walked by a protest this week:

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/14/3e4cd1ad186fe

An editorial from the Times on the "welcome revivial" of Latin
and Greek:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-572365,00.html

Protests this weekend chose ancient monuments as backdrops (maybe
someone wants to use the photos?):

http://asia.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/15/sprj.irq.protests.europe.greece.reut/

Etymologies:

http://www.sundayherald.com/31392 (diamond)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2265559a1865,00.html (fonterra)
http://www.franklincountytimes.com/franklincountytimes/myarticles.asp?P=570628&S\
=314&PubID=9119&EC=0 (civitas)
http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3181366 (plagiarism)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030212/law065_1.html (sano)
http://www.sunspot.net/features/bal-to.vivatside12feb12,0,3506834.story?coll=bal\
-features-headlines (vivat)

[I couldn't connect to the Spectator this a.m.]

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ernst Kitzinger (Byzantine Art Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/obituaries/09KITZ.html
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FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Homeric Geography (full citation and abstract):

http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0091-7613&volume\
=031&issue=02&page=0163

Roman wagons (they're actually chariots):

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/14/1044927793848.html (photos)
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-greece-ancient-chariots0214f\
eb13,0,4877367.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines
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Recent finds at Olduvai are shaking things up a bit:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/875140.asp

Australia's "Mungo Man" has been redated, much to the relief of
traditional theorists, apparently:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2776697.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993403
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/19/science/19HUMA.html
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/874635.asp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/02/030220082107.htm
http://www.nature.com/nature/links/030220/030220-1.html

Al-Ahram has a wrap-up of recent discoveries in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/625/he3.htm

... and an account of the opening of a 'mystery sarcophagus':

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/626/he1.htm

(is this the same:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1045452421514B221&set_id=1 )

... and a column by Zahi Hawass:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/625/he2.htm

A wooden sarcophagus has been found in a tomb at Qorna:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o200223b.htm

The remains of a fourth century B.C./B.C.E. pharaonic temple have
been discovered in Egypt's western desert:

http://www.metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-8/cultent/pharaonic_temple_found.htm

NPR is the latest media outlet to devote substantial space to the
cultural heritage of Iraq that is threatened by impending events
(includes text, RealAudio, links etc.):

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=978050

Metal detectorists have found evidence that early Northumbrians
were melting Roman coins to sell them back to the Roman army:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2774923.stm

An archaeologist from the UK is claiming "the Romans did not
civilise us" (obviously no fan of Monty Python):

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=5775011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,899830,00.html
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/1100education/page.cfm?objectid=12661637\
&method=full&siteid=50082
http://www.theherald.co.uk/films/archive/21-2-19103-22-35-52.html

The Antonine Wall might be given World Heritage Site status:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2789239.stm

Pompeii's Villa of the Papyri will open to the public next month:

http://tinyurl.com/69rx

This one seems to be a trial balloon floated to prepare us for
something drastic with Harvard's classics department:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=272791

Here's one I missed somehow (I thought I had it): evidence of
an asteroid hitting the earth near Rome in the late fourth/early
fifth century A.D. has been found:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,889308,00.html

Another Han Dynasty terra cotta army has been revealed (I think this
is actually a followup, but there's a nice photo):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/18/science/18WARR.html?tntemail1

Xinhua has a feature on the Loulan kingdom/city/Silk Road stop:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-02/21/content_739710.htm

A medieval altarpiece has been restored and returned to the
church whence it came:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_752685.html

... while the Abbey ruins at Bury St. Edmunds crumbled further
this week:

http://tinyurl.com/69ps

An archaeologist will investigate whether New Zealand's Department
of Conservation destroyed a Maori pa site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2272214a8153,00.html

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THE AMERICAS
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There's a new (?) theory about why the Anasazi suddenly left
Chaco Canyon:

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=LOSTCITIES-02-18-03&cat=AN
http://www.ascribe.org//cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20030217.065820&time=1332PS\
T&year=2003&public=1

The latest in the Kennewick saga:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/21/national/21BRFS2.html

SMU is digging El Peru in Guatemala:

http://www.smudailycampus.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/18/3e51cf2d1a184
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
Some Russian scholars have reconstructed some mummy faces ... but
the article is in Pravda, so I'm not sure how much stock to put
in it:

http://english.pravda.ru/culture/2003/02/18/43443.html

The EUREKA project is working with new ways to preserve sites in
situ:

http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=\
EN_RCN_ID:19725

They're slowing reclaiming their cultural heritage in Afghanistan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2776117.stm

Here's a followup of sorts on the fate of much art that was threatened
in last August's floods in Europe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/17/arts/17DRES.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Yuval Goren, "An Alternative Interpretation of the Stone Tablet
with Ancient Hebrew Inscription Attributed to Jehoash King of Judah":

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

Rochelle Altman, "Report on the Temple Tablet"

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

There's a new issue of Electronic Antiquity online:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V7N1/

University of Chicago Magazine has a nice feature on archaeology
in Turkey's Amuq Valley (it gets better after the opening three
paragraphs):

http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0302/features/index.html

Time Magazine has a feature on Machu Picchu:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030224-423533,00.html
================================================================
ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
Prehistoric Mounds of Uruguay:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the aftermath of
the Peloponnesian War:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa022703a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a review of Jane Peterson,
"Sexual Revolutions: Gender and labor at the dawn of agriculture"

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/genderstudies/gr/peterson.htm
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Bernard Bailyn, *To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and
Ambiguities of the Founding Fathers* (link to first chapter on right side):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/books/review/16BROOKHT.html

Stanley Stewart, *In the Empire of Genghis Khan*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/books/review/16GOODHET.html

Maureen Waller, *Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses
Who Stole Their Father's Crown.":

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/books/review/23BREENT.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Les Troyens (this is getting a lot of attention by the NYT):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/22/arts/22CONN.html

Antigone:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/134638913_antigone22.htm\
l
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CUM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
The TLC site has put up a short feature on the "Baghdad battery":

http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/ark/articles/battery.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The Chronicle has a piece on emotions in antiquity:

http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i24/24a01401.htm

Barbara Gold has written a column on ancient Roman "valentines":

http://www.poppolitics.com/articles/2003-02-14-valentinesfromancientrome.shtml

eKathimerini has the first part of the text of Paul Cartledge's talk
on 'What the Spartans have done for us':

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell__6483325KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp\
?fdate=19/02/2003

Plenty of ClassCon in a piece on the origin of the phrase "Out
of Africa":

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0219_030219_outofafrica.html

More fallout from UK Education guy Clarke's anti-Latin maledictions:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n04/jone01_.html

Here's the latest on the Elgin/Parthenon marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/69qu

Tom Palaima has a column in the Austin-American Statesman:

http://www.austin360.com/auto_docs/epaper/editions/thursday/editorial_7.html

I can't remember if mention was made of Senator Byrd's quotation
of Livy back in October:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1004-02.htm

Etymologies:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/10_02_03_a.htm (quiasma?)
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0221wor.html (niger)
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/02/21/007.html (denique)
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030219-093959-8244r (interesting motto)

Again ... I can't connect to the Spectator site ... is it
just me?

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
James Thomas Flexner (biographer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/nyregion/16FLEX.html

John Prestwich (Medieval historian):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-581632,00.html
================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Columbus Bell (genuine followup):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_751616.html

Drake's Plate Hoax:

http://www.ucnewswire.org/news_viewer.cfm?story_PK=2509&

Early Ecuadorian Farming:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00022787
-12D7-1E4C-967D809EC588EEDF

Roman Chariot Burial near Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=19408
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W. Richard Frahm, Maurice O'Sullivan, Rick Pettigrew, Louis A. Okin,
Yonatan Nadelman, Paola E. Raffetta, Joanne Conman, Glenn Meyer,
'alesmonetos', J.S. Bell, Trevor Watkins, and Sally Winchester for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

N.B. For those of you who were victims of the Discovering Archaeology/
Egypt Revealed disappearance, I have updated info on the pending
lawsuit. Drop me a line offline and I'll forward it to you.

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A 350,000 BP axe from Spain may provide the earliest evidence of
hominid spirtuality:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134639736_ax23.html

The world's oldest wheel has been excavated in Slovenia (is this
really the oldest?):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_754415.html

I think this is a repeat, but it's a nice piece on statues of
Nubian kings being found in the Sudan:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0227_030227_sudankings.html

The latest on the mummy of Ramses I (perhaps ... see also the
feature in Archaeology Magazine mentioned below):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-592490,00.html

Buried in the sports pages is an item on how the Egyptians invented
baseball:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/27/SP7369\
8.DTL

The Baghdad Battery is in the news again (good article, actually):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2804257.stm
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=19806

Continuing with the 'oldest' theme which seems to pervade this
week's news, what may be the oldest house in Britain has been
found in Northumberland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2801695.stm

Archaeological evidence suggests the Roman frontier in Scotland
was actually created 15-20 years earlier than previously thought
(interesting implications for the sine ira et studio guy):

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=239142003

A nice feature on a local Dorset historian who was to "keep an eye" on
a to-be gravel pit site which turned out to have plenty of
artifacts dating from Bronze Age to Roman times:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,905218,00.html

There's a touristy sort of AP wire story circulating about
Hadrian's Wall:

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=25475&

In a semi-related story, a Roman inscription has been 'rediscovered'
in a Greenhead house:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/helper_fullstory.asp?sid=19104

The Guardian has a brief item on the Villa of the Papyri (there
must be something afoot with this):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,905382,00.html

The Thrasyllus monument in Athens will undergo some restoration
work:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell__287632KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp?\
fdate=22/02/2003

What's planned for Athens' National Archaeological Museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell__2350514KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp\
?fdate=01/03/2003

Those clumsy archaeologists have stumbled upon the oldest medieval
shop in England:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F02%2F27%2Fnbul2\
7.xml#5
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
The Clovis people are apparently off the hook for causing the
extinction of a number of species:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-02/uow-eac022403.php

Our first hint (in passing) that we might be hearing more from
Isla Espirtu Santo island:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/877436.asp?cp1=1

A dig at a former slave's house in Philadelphia is raising questions:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/5294112.htm

An interesting feature on slave plantations in the North:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0303/02plantations.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The New York Times have a pair of articles on the impact a war in
Iraq would have on current and future digs in the Middle East:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/arts/design/25DIG.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/arts/design/25SITE.html

In a similar vein:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/28/sprj.irq.antiquities/index.html

What does every ancient Buddhist monument need? A shopping mall
of course:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/asia/27INDO.html

The new Library of Alexandria has ambitious plans to have every book
in the world available ... at least online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/01ALEX.html
================================================================
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Archaeology out:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
================================================================
ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
An audio interview with Dr. Samuel Paley on the threat to cultural
artifacts in Iraq:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/audio/paley.html
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A nice pair of articles from the New York Times on efforts to
restore works plundered by Nazis to their former owners:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/arts/design/27LAUD.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/arts/design/27LOOT.html

The home renovation boom in Britain is leading to piles of thefts
of fixtures from historic houses:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,905366,00.html

Apparently some folks aren't aware that taking artifacts is a
crime:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7193860&BRD=1130&PAG=461&dept_id=99675\
&rfi=6
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
To mark Women's History Month, Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has
compiled a list of 31 ancient 'women of the day':

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

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a review of a recent
book about the Sphinx:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/read/blzivie-coche.htm

================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Richard Cohen, *By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers,
Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions. *:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002BOYNTT.html

Spencer Wells, *The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002ZIMMET.html

Matthew Pearl *The Dante Club* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002KINCAT.html
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Thesmo Phair (an adapation of Aristophanes):

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_120294.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
There will probably be more to come on this in next week's issue,
but March 3 is the date for all those Lysistrata Project readings:

http://www.pecosdesign.com/lys/

cf (all different):

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0301-02.htm
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1046602595247480.\
xml
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03022003/arts/34071.asp
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7230771&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7563&\
rfi=6
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/02/Artsandentertainment/A_play_for_peace.shtml
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_8957272.shtml
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/3/2/16584582.cfm
http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=329635
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=8046
[etc.]

And in the interests of (semi)equal time, the latest installment of
what-does-one-do-with-a-classics-degree?:

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/6290874p-7241431c.html

So ... what do Classicists do with their spare time?:

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/education/article/0,1406,KNS_307_1781773,00.html

Donald Kagan recently received the National Humanities Medal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14131-2003Feb27.html
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030227-053853-7360r

They're keeping the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles issue in the news:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ__2348597KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp\
?fdate=01/03/2003
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_24/02/2003_26801
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2791877.stm
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/23/nelgin23.xm\
l&sSheet=/news/2003/02/23/ixhome.html
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2271476

A piece on the Roman calendar:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19096-2003Feb28.html

ClassCon in a piece entitled "Who is a Candidate?":

http://www.dailytimesofnigeria.com/DailyTimes/2003/February/24/Whos.asp

Latest on the Alexander movie (surely Nicole Kidman as Olympias is
miscasting?):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,581-592174,00.html

Interesting ClassCon allusion in this piece on the mood
in Israel;

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/middleeast/27ISRA.html

So what's that other Gladiator star been up to?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2808301.stm

The latest on Mel Gibson's Jesus flick:

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/news/stories/20030301/localnews/1085819.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
01&id=2835

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
01&id=2833

Etymologies:

http://www.tennessean.com/local/columnists/piarrot/archives/03/03/29591550.shtml\
?Element_ID=29591550 (serigraph)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030302a3.htm (resona?)
http://morganhilltimes.com/life/lifeview.asp?c=15648 (carnival)
http://www.alamogordonews.com/Stories/0,1413,160%257E9596%257E1211754,00.html
(defensor fortis)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Christopher Hill (historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/obituaries/27HILL.html
================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Antonine Wall Heritage Status:

http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=219462003
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12665470&method=full&siteid=\
89488

Mungo Man Redated:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_mungoman.html

Roman Chariots:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13002&m=A10&aa=1&eido\
s=S

What Have the Romans Done For Us?:

http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12684453\
&method=full&siteid=50142

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W. Richard Frahm, Maurice O'Sullivan, Rick Pettigrew, Louis A. Okin,
Yonatan Nadelman, Paola E. Raffetta, Joanne Conman, Glenn Meyer,
'alesmonetos', J.S. Bell, Trevor Watkins, and Sally Winchester for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

N.B. For those of you who were victims of the Discovering Archaeology/
Egypt Revealed disappearance, I have updated info on the pending
lawsuit. Drop me a line offline and I'll forward it to you.

================================================================
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A 350,000 BP axe from Spain may provide the earliest evidence of
hominid spirtuality:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134639736_ax23.html

The world's oldest wheel has been excavated in Slovenia (is this
really the oldest?):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_754415.html

I think this is a repeat, but it's a nice piece on statues of
Nubian kings being found in the Sudan:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0227_030227_sudankings.html

The latest on the mummy of Ramses I (perhaps ... see also the
feature in Archaeology Magazine mentioned below):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-592490,00.html

Buried in the sports pages is an item on how the Egyptians invented
baseball:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/27/SP7369\
8.DTL

The Baghdad Battery is in the news again (good article, actually):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2804257.stm
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=19806

Continuing with the 'oldest' theme which seems to pervade this
week's news, what may be the oldest house in Britain has been
found in Northumberland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2801695.stm

Archaeological evidence suggests the Roman frontier in Scotland
was actually created 15-20 years earlier than previously thought
(interesting implications for the sine ira et studio guy):

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=239142003

A nice feature on a local Dorset historian who was to "keep an eye" on
a to-be gravel pit site which turned out to have plenty of
artifacts dating from Bronze Age to Roman times:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,905218,00.html

There's a touristy sort of AP wire story circulating about
Hadrian's Wall:

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=25475&

In a semi-related story, a Roman inscription has been 'rediscovered'
in a Greenhead house:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/helper_fullstory.asp?sid=19104

The Guardian has a brief item on the Villa of the Papyri (there
must be something afoot with this):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,905382,00.html

The Thrasyllus monument in Athens will undergo some restoration
work:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell__287632KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp?\
fdate=22/02/2003

What's planned for Athens' National Archaeological Museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell__2350514KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp\
?fdate=01/03/2003

Those clumsy archaeologists have stumbled upon the oldest medieval
shop in England:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F02%2F27%2Fnbul2\
7.xml#5
================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
The Clovis people are apparently off the hook for causing the
extinction of a number of species:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-02/uow-eac022403.php

Our first hint (in passing) that we might be hearing more from
Isla Espirtu Santo island:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/877436.asp?cp1=1

A dig at a former slave's house in Philadelphia is raising questions:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/5294112.htm

An interesting feature on slave plantations in the North:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0303/02plantations.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The New York Times have a pair of articles on the impact a war in
Iraq would have on current and future digs in the Middle East:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/arts/design/25DIG.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/arts/design/25SITE.html

In a similar vein:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/28/sprj.irq.antiquities/index.html

What does every ancient Buddhist monument need? A shopping mall
of course:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/asia/27INDO.html

The new Library of Alexandria has ambitious plans to have every book
in the world available ... at least online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/01ALEX.html
================================================================
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Archaeology out:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
================================================================
ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
An audio interview with Dr. Samuel Paley on the threat to cultural
artifacts in Iraq:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/audio/paley.html
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A nice pair of articles from the New York Times on efforts to
restore works plundered by Nazis to their former owners:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/arts/design/27LAUD.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/arts/design/27LOOT.html

The home renovation boom in Britain is leading to piles of thefts
of fixtures from historic houses:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,905366,00.html

Apparently some folks aren't aware that taking artifacts is a
crime:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7193860&BRD=1130&PAG=461&dept_id=99675\
&rfi=6
================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
To mark Women's History Month, Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has
compiled a list of 31 ancient 'women of the day':

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

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a review of a recent
book about the Sphinx:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/read/blzivie-coche.htm

================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Richard Cohen, *By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers,
Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions. *:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002BOYNTT.html

Spencer Wells, *The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002ZIMMET.html

Matthew Pearl *The Dante Club* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002KINCAT.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Thesmo Phair (an adapation of Aristophanes):

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_120294.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
There will probably be more to come on this in next week's issue,
but March 3 is the date for all those Lysistrata Project readings:

http://www.pecosdesign.com/lys/

cf (all different):

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0301-02.htm
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1046602595247480.\
xml
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03022003/arts/34071.asp
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7230771&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7563&\
rfi=6
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/02/Artsandentertainment/A_play_for_peace.shtml
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_8957272.shtml
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/3/2/16584582.cfm
http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=329635
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=8046
[etc.]

And in the interests of (semi)equal time, the latest installment of
what-does-one-do-with-a-classics-degree?:

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/6290874p-7241431c.html

So ... what do Classicists do with their spare time?:

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/education/article/0,1406,KNS_307_1781773,00.html

Donald Kagan recently received the National Humanities Medal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14131-2003Feb27.html
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030227-053853-7360r

They're keeping the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles issue in the news:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ__2348597KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp\
?fdate=01/03/2003
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_24/02/2003_26801
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2791877.stm
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/23/nelgin23.xm\
l&sSheet=/news/2003/02/23/ixhome.html
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2271476

A piece on the Roman calendar:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19096-2003Feb28.html

ClassCon in a piece entitled "Who is a Candidate?":

http://www.dailytimesofnigeria.com/DailyTimes/2003/February/24/Whos.asp

Latest on the Alexander movie (surely Nicole Kidman as Olympias is
miscasting?):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,581-592174,00.html

Interesting ClassCon allusion in this piece on the mood
in Israel;

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/middleeast/27ISRA.html

So what's that other Gladiator star been up to?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2808301.stm

The latest on Mel Gibson's Jesus flick:

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/news/stories/20030301/localnews/1085819.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
01&id=2835

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
01&id=2833

Etymologies:

http://www.tennessean.com/local/columnists/piarrot/archives/03/03/29591550.shtml\
?Element_ID=29591550 (serigraph)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030302a3.htm (resona?)
http://morganhilltimes.com/life/lifeview.asp?c=15648 (carnival)
http://www.alamogordonews.com/Stories/0,1413,160%257E9596%257E1211754,00.html
(defensor fortis)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Christopher Hill (historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/obituaries/27HILL.html
================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Antonine Wall Heritage Status:

http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=219462003
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12665470&method=full&siteid=\
89488

Mungo Man Redated:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_mungoman.html

Roman Chariots:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13002&m=A10&aa=1&eido\
s=S

What Have the Romans Done For Us?:

http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12684453\
&method=full&siteid=50142

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, John McMahon, Dave Sowdon,
Karl Wittwer, Richard Heli, Tom Elliott, John Hall, Hernan Astudillo,
W. Richard Frahm, Maurice O'Sullivan, Rick Pettigrew, Louis A. Okin,
Yonatan Nadelman, Paola E. Raffetta, Joanne Conman, Glenn Meyer,
'alesmonetos', J.S. Bell, Trevor Watkins, and Sally Winchester for headses
upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

N.B. For those of you who were victims of the Discovering Archaeology/
Egypt Revealed disappearance, I have updated info on the pending
lawsuit. Drop me a line offline and I'll forward it to you.

================================================================
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A 350,000 BP axe from Spain may provide the earliest evidence of
hominid spirtuality:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134639736_ax23.html

The world's oldest wheel has been excavated in Slovenia (is this
really the oldest?):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_754415.html

I think this is a repeat, but it's a nice piece on statues of
Nubian kings being found in the Sudan:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0227_030227_sudankings.html

The latest on the mummy of Ramses I (perhaps ... see also the
feature in Archaeology Magazine mentioned below):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-592490,00.html

Buried in the sports pages is an item on how the Egyptians invented
baseball:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/27/SP7369\
8.DTL

The Baghdad Battery is in the news again (good article, actually):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2804257.stm
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=19806

Continuing with the 'oldest' theme which seems to pervade this
week's news, what may be the oldest house in Britain has been
found in Northumberland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2801695.stm

Archaeological evidence suggests the Roman frontier in Scotland
was actually created 15-20 years earlier than previously thought
(interesting implications for the sine ira et studio guy):

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=239142003

A nice feature on a local Dorset historian who was to "keep an eye" on
a to-be gravel pit site which turned out to have plenty of
artifacts dating from Bronze Age to Roman times:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,905218,00.html

There's a touristy sort of AP wire story circulating about
Hadrian's Wall:

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=25475&

In a semi-related story, a Roman inscription has been 'rediscovered'
in a Greenhead house:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/helper_fullstory.asp?sid=19104

The Guardian has a brief item on the Villa of the Papyri (there
must be something afoot with this):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,905382,00.html

The Thrasyllus monument in Athens will undergo some restoration
work:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell__287632KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp?\
fdate=22/02/2003

What's planned for Athens' National Archaeological Museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell__2350514KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp\
?fdate=01/03/2003

Those clumsy archaeologists have stumbled upon the oldest medieval
shop in England:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F02%2F27%2Fnbul2\
7.xml#5
================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
The Clovis people are apparently off the hook for causing the
extinction of a number of species:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-02/uow-eac022403.php

Our first hint (in passing) that we might be hearing more from
Isla Espirtu Santo island:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/877436.asp?cp1=1

A dig at a former slave's house in Philadelphia is raising questions:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/5294112.htm

An interesting feature on slave plantations in the North:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0303/02plantations.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The New York Times have a pair of articles on the impact a war in
Iraq would have on current and future digs in the Middle East:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/arts/design/25DIG.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/arts/design/25SITE.html

In a similar vein:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/28/sprj.irq.antiquities/index.html

What does every ancient Buddhist monument need? A shopping mall
of course:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/asia/27INDO.html

The new Library of Alexandria has ambitious plans to have every book
in the world available ... at least online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/01ALEX.html
================================================================
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Archaeology out:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
================================================================
ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
An audio interview with Dr. Samuel Paley on the threat to cultural
artifacts in Iraq:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/audio/paley.html
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A nice pair of articles from the New York Times on efforts to
restore works plundered by Nazis to their former owners:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/arts/design/27LAUD.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/arts/design/27LOOT.html

The home renovation boom in Britain is leading to piles of thefts
of fixtures from historic houses:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,905366,00.html

Apparently some folks aren't aware that taking artifacts is a
crime:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7193860&BRD=1130&PAG=461&dept_id=99675\
&rfi=6
================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
To mark Women's History Month, Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has
compiled a list of 31 ancient 'women of the day':

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

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a review of a recent
book about the Sphinx:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/read/blzivie-coche.htm

================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Richard Cohen, *By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers,
Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions. *:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002BOYNTT.html

Spencer Wells, *The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002ZIMMET.html

Matthew Pearl *The Dante Club* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/books/review/002KINCAT.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Thesmo Phair (an adapation of Aristophanes):

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_120294.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
There will probably be more to come on this in next week's issue,
but March 3 is the date for all those Lysistrata Project readings:

http://www.pecosdesign.com/lys/

cf (all different):

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0301-02.htm
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1046602595247480.\
xml
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03022003/arts/34071.asp
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7230771&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7563&\
rfi=6
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/02/Artsandentertainment/A_play_for_peace.shtml
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_8957272.shtml
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/3/2/16584582.cfm
http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=329635
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=8046
[etc.]

And in the interests of (semi)equal time, the latest installment of
what-does-one-do-with-a-classics-degree?:

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/6290874p-7241431c.html

So ... what do Classicists do with their spare time?:

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/education/article/0,1406,KNS_307_1781773,00.html

Donald Kagan recently received the National Humanities Medal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14131-2003Feb27.html
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030227-053853-7360r

They're keeping the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles issue in the news:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ__2348597KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp\
?fdate=01/03/2003
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_24/02/2003_26801
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2791877.stm
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/23/nelgin23.xm\
l&sSheet=/news/2003/02/23/ixhome.html
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2271476

A piece on the Roman calendar:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19096-2003Feb28.html

ClassCon in a piece entitled "Who is a Candidate?":

http://www.dailytimesofnigeria.com/DailyTimes/2003/February/24/Whos.asp

Latest on the Alexander movie (surely Nicole Kidman as Olympias is
miscasting?):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,581-592174,00.html

Interesting ClassCon allusion in this piece on the mood
in Israel;

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/middleeast/27ISRA.html

So what's that other Gladiator star been up to?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2808301.stm

The latest on Mel Gibson's Jesus flick:

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/news/stories/20030301/localnews/1085819.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
01&id=2835

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
01&id=2833

Etymologies:

http://www.tennessean.com/local/columnists/piarrot/archives/03/03/29591550.shtml\
?Element_ID=29591550 (serigraph)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030302a3.htm (resona?)
http://morganhilltimes.com/life/lifeview.asp?c=15648 (carnival)
http://www.alamogordonews.com/Stories/0,1413,160%257E9596%257E1211754,00.html
(defensor fortis)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Christopher Hill (historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/obituaries/27HILL.html
================================================================
FOLLOWUPS
================================================================
Antonine Wall Heritage Status:

http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=219462003
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12665470&method=full&siteid=\
89488

Mungo Man Redated:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_mungoman.html

Roman Chariots:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13002&m=A10&aa=1&eido\
s=S

What Have the Romans Done For Us?:

http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12684453\
&method=full&siteid=50142

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Time for the annual 'what-happened-to-the-Neanderthals' piece, this
time suggesting they did not interbreed with 'modern' humans:

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA3NET7ZCD.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/881791.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/03/07/neanderthal.puzzle.ap/index.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=624&ncid=624&e=3&u=/ap/20030306\
/ap_on_sc/neanderthal_uncertainty_2

... or perhaps they just weren't smart enough:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0306_030306_neanderthal.html

More on the effect war would have on Iraq's archaeological heritage
(is it my imagination, or is there an unprecedented amount of coverage of
this aspect of the impending conflict? This must be the legacy of the
Bamiyan Buddhas ...):

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/arch-m08.shtml
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf0126/ (really thorough)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2822095.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30035-2003Mar2.html
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/03/09/build/w\
orld/q-archeology.inc

The Daily Star has a nice piece on Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/05_03_03_a.htm

A recent CAT scan (no pun intended, surely) has revealed that what
was one believed to be a mummified kitty is actually a dog:

http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=%7b1FC877FB-ECA7-47DE-9468-0E04AC7B146B%\
7d

A short piece on a recently-discovered statue of Ti:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o060323.htm

Another book out questions the veracity of the traditional Masada
story:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030310/misc/10masada.htm

This really should be a followup, but since there was so much coverage
in the past week (plus some items passed along that I missed), it's
probably a good thing to bring it up here ... the Villa of the Papyri
is now open to the public:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/880128.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/03/03/italy.villa.reut/index.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/20/wpomp20.xml
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030301_39.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030303/papyri.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,905382,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=9&cid=585&u=/nm/20030301/\
sc_nm/italy_villa_dc

A 6000 b.p. axe head has been found by a five-year-old boy in
Worcestershire (and he didn't even stumble):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2818537.stm

The Vindolanda Trust's Roman Army Museum now boasts a theatre:

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=12686280\
&method=full&siteid=50081

"Massive" excavation(s) is/are about to begin on Bulgaria's Rhodope
mountain:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=19924

A Byzantine 'treasure trove' has been found by a Hungarian team
working in Alexandria:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o020323g.htm
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030307/2003030724.html

Archaeologists have been ordered to start excavations at Ayodhya to
determine whether a Hindu temple once existed there:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/international/asia/06INDI.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,908247,00.html
http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20030306003015&Title=Top+Stories&\
rLink=0

An Anglo Saxon thrysma is up for sale:

http://www.thisisryedale.co.uk/ryedale/news/RYEDALE_NEWS_LOCAL5.html

A detailed study of the timbers of Salisbury Cathedral suggests a supplier
dispute lies at the basis of the choice of building materials:

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/05/nsalis05.xm\
l
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,907517,00.html

The wreck of the Princes Royal has been found:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_758651.html

Construction ostensibly designed to make the Tower of London more
tourist friendly has resulted in quite a bit of damage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,906151,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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Roadwork has revealed a Revolution-era cannon:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/030803CANNON_M8.html

Peru is asking Yale to return some Machu Pichu artifacts:

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA04F23YCD.html

More on slave plantations in the North:

http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/05/3e6622bd001c5

This week scientists opened a watch found on the Hunley:

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/local/5345388.htm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=3&cid=585&u=/nm/20030307/\
sc_nm/life_hunley_dc
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
A recent study suggests using DNA to establish the origins of
skeletal material might be misleading:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s786146.htm

The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on St. Mary's Abbey
(York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/travel/sophisticated/ST-STUD.html

The spear which killed Captain Cook is up for sale (scroll down a
bit):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/international/europe/04BRIE4.html

A commission set up to look into Nazi plunder missed looking at a
number of critical records, according to some:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/design/03PANE.html

It seems the Gothic Revival architectural style has revived again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/arts/design/07ANTI.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html

... and Archaeology Odyssey as well:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Jerusalem Archaeological Park website is worth visiting if
you haven't before; they've recently addded a section on the early
Islamic Period:

http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp

Mark Chancey, "The Myth of a Gentile Galilee":

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

Rochelle Altman, "Report on the Temple Tablet":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/report_temple_tablet.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Isidore of Seville, *Chronicon*:

http://www.history.pomona.edu/kbw/h100y/chronicon.htm

Vegetius, *de re militari*:

http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~madsb/home/war/vegetius/dere00.php3
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Sun Watch Indian Village/Archaeological Park:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Switzerland is the centre for illicit antiquities trade:

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1668784

Some village churches in England are asking for the return of
various brasses which were stolen in the 19th century:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,906843,00.html

A Dali has been stolen from Rikers Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/nyregion/08DALI.html
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a feature on St. Patrick:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020101a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a piece on 'social science fiction':

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa080998.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Barbara Freese, *Coal: A Human History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/books/review/009TOMAST.html

Not really a review, but an author's account of how he brought
the ancient world 'to life' in his fictional tome "The Spartan":

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,909458,00.ht\
ml

Also not a review, but a first chapter of *The Jester*, which seems
like it might appeal to archaeology/conspiracy theory/knights templar
fans:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E27%257E1228206,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Hendrick Golzius (Toledo Museum of Art):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/03ARTS.html

Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting (the Met):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/arts/design/07KIMM.html

Aztecs (London):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,909898,00.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Coverage of a grade six toga party:

http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-2/104711788826730.xm\
l

The Lysistrata Project coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/nyregion/04PROT.html
http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/529p22b.htm (Cuba!)
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/03/29688898.shtml?Element_ID=2968889\
8

Here's the latest on the Iliad movie in the making:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_2829000/2829997.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_757695.html
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12263327,00.html

The botanical history of the Colosseum:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030303/030303-2.html

The Cleveland Museum of Art has just purchased five massive
mythological paintings by Charles Meynier:

base/entertainment/1046773951296960.xml

A nice piece on the ancient Olympics:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826530163.html

ClassCon in a piece on French gluttony:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/arts/06GLUT.html

... and a piece on the ethics of war:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/arts/08ETHI.html

... and a piece on blonds (or blondes):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/arts/08BLON.html

A nice piece on various Roman things associated with the
month of March:

http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/Stories/0,1413,209~22484~1220373,00.html

Prior to 911, Donald Rumsfeld was investigating what might
be learned from ancient empires:

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03092003/commenta/36326.asp

A review of a new game ... Praetorians:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826526082.html

I *think* I follow this one ... it's an appeal to Greek precedent
for the building of a baseball stadium:

http://ydr.com/story/op-ed/7042/

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
08&id=2866

... and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
08&id=2864

Etymologies:

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-nypreg093164559mar09,0,7227276.story?coll=\
ny-health-headlines (pica)
http://keysnews.com/293135168625057.bsp.htm (nunc pro tunc)
http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n10/ExactlyWhatFree-en.shtml
(annexation)
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/living/5319191.htm (bracellae)
http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/05/3e65900ec9dff (vocare)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Luis Marden (adventurer):

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-people-marden-obit.html
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Leanne Archer, Helena Jaeschke, James Thiele, Cronman mac Nessa,
Louis A. Okin, Donna Hurst, Michael Oberndorf, Hernan Astudillo,
John Hall, C.J. Feehan, Dave Sowdon, Bill Thayer, Christine Renaud,
'alesmonetos', Paul Cowie,
  and Sally Winchester for headses
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Plenty of coverage this week of the discovery of 350 000 B.P. human
footprints on the slopes of an extinct Italian volcano:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2844287.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_759683.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=386514
http://www.msnbc.com/news/884221.asp?0cv=CB20
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030310/030310-9.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/03/13/MN36786.DTL
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/13/wfoot13.xml&sSh\
eet=/news/2003/03/13/ixworld.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/international/europe/13BRIE4.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993497
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1047507719798_112///?hub=Sci\
Tech
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0312_030312_firsttracks.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030310/footprint.html

Prehistoric Britons practiced mummification, it seems:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=387535

School construction threatens a Roman villa site in the UK:

http://www.mansfieldtoday.co.uk/fullstory.asp?storyid=10

A brief item on the discovery of a Roman burial on Cyprus:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/tcpr/2003/03-03-11.tcpr.html#11

Excavations for a parking lot near the Vatican have turned up a
necropolis of Neronian date (er ... back when Explorator was just
starting, this "Vatican Car Park" was a big issue ... in any
event, the coverage is somewhat varied in these):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,911556,00.html
http://campaigns.f2.com.au/html.ng/cat=news&ctype=story&subcat=world&site=age&ad\
space=468x60
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/11/1047144978559.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_759593.html
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=298952003

cf. (from 1999/2000):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/546208.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/626321.stm

Al-Ahram has a feature on the excavation of a Roman settlement near
the Temple of Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/626/he2.htm

.. and one on Memphis:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/629/hr1.htm

A very nice Iron Age burial was found in Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/11-3-19103-0-36-7.html

The San Francisco Chronicle has a feature on the debateable dates
for a 'serpent king' (India) sculpture in its collection:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/10/DD196756.DTL

The Ayodhya dig is starting to turn up artifacts (and controversy ...
there is a bit of variation in the following coverage):

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/02161402.htm
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23771
http://www.mid-day.com/news/nation/2003/march/47510.htm
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_213322,0008.htm
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20030315/1503013.htm
http://news.sify.com/cgi-bin/sifynews/news/content/news_fullstory_v2.jsp?article\
_oid=12817400&page_no=1

Recent excavations are suggesting that Australian Aborigine society
was rather more sophisticated than previously thought:

http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2003/03/12/1047431096364.htm

Signs of a Saxon settlement have turned up in Norwich:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2850431.stm

The latest on the Welsh 'Mary Rose':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2850385.stm

A Napoleonic cannon was found beneath a Jaffa flea market:

http://tinyurl.com/7ki0

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Plenty of coverage this week on the connection between climate
change and the collapse of the Maya (I'm not positive, but this seems
to be somewhat different from previous coverage):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=624&u=/ap/20030313/ap_on_sc/dem\
ise_of_the_maya_2&printer=1
http://www.msnbc.com/news/884939.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/03/14/demise.maya.ap/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2848977.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993502

cf. (from January): 
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-01/nofs-ccf012402.php

Not sure what to make of this one ... some guy (is he a professional
archaeologist?) is making connections between the Hopi and the Mogollon
peoples in New Mexico:

http://www.alamogordonews.com/Stories/0,1413,160%257E9602%257E1232544,00.html

The Salt Lake Tribune has a feature on Arizona's Salado people:

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03102003/utah/36807.asp

DNA and other evidence suggests the 'Carolina Dog' may be the Americas
most primitive dog:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0311_030311_firstdog.html

Archaeologists are excavating the house where General Rosecrans
prepared troops for the assault on Chatanooga:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030311&Category=APN&A\
rtNo=303110551&Ref=AR
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The Guardian has a very interesting piece on Gertrude Bell (there's
*got* to be a movie here somewhere):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,912266,00.html

On the DNA front, they're using the genetic history of the bacterium
that causes stomach ulcers to track human migrations:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/09/1047144868643.html

The New York Times has an extended piece on the claimed Egyptian
invention of baseball:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/arts/15TANK.html
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=115765&category=FRONTPG&newsd\
ate=3/15/2003

A scholar is challenging the view that Michelangelo tried to
destroy the Pietà:

http://hnn.us/comments/9364.html

An interesting piece on a Rembrandt self portrait and why he painted
so many of them (scroll down a bit):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/arts/design/14INSI.html

Some lessons from the Crusades were in the news this week:

http://hnn.us/articles/865.html#reston3-14-03

A UK collection of petroglyphs will soon be available via the Internet:

http://www.arts.scotsman.com/headlines_specific.cfm?id=6882
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-03/uonu-pag031103.php


The BBC has put together a "Walking With Cavemen" series to air
very soon (cf. "Walking with Dinosaurs" etc.):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2840599.stm
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================

================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
The New York Times has a nice feature on a couple of websites put
up by Russian officials about 'trophy art' taken from the Nazis
during WWII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/12/arts/design/12REST.html

.. the links on that page aren't very useful, but if you poke around
you can get to pages with descriptions (in English character sets) of
what's in particular museums.

A while back we mentioned the "Threat to world heritage in Iraq"
site ... it's been substantially updated with more threatened sites
and links:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf0126/

.. and this seems like a good place for the latest news pieces on the subject
as well:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/World/iraq_antiquities030310.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885467.asp?0cv=KB10
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/03/09/build/w\
orld/q-archeology.inc

.. and preparations to protect things in Baghdad:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/4034275

Fans of the history of medicine will enjoy the BIUM site (in French)
which features a pile of manuscripts of medical works, among other
things:

http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/histmed/


James Ossuary (nice summary):

http://user.tninet.se/~npt994z/james_ossuary_inscription.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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A number of patristic works which aren't part of that big 39 volume
thing (e.g. Zosimus, Sidonius Apollinaris, Basil etc.) have been
put up at the excellent Tertullian site ... worth a look:

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/

S.P. Scott (trans.) *THE CIVIL LAW Including
The Twelve Tables, The Institutes of Gaius, The Rules of
Ulpian, The Opinions of Paulus, The Enactments
of Justinian, and The Constitutions of Leo* [n.b. this includes
the Digest and Codex of Justinian; the translation is often
shakey, but useful]:

http://www.constitution.org/sps/sps.htm

Thomas de Quincey, *The Caesars*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6672
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Etnias (people of the Amazon Rain Forest):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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While folks were distracted by the Vatican Car Park thing, someone
cut the hand off a statue of St. Peter and purloined it:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&ncid=518&e=7&u=/ap/20030313\
/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_stolen_hand_2

A number of Roman artifacts (including the Apollo head possibly of
Phidian make mentioned above) were recently recovered in Rome:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/13/wapolo13.xml&sS\
heet=/news/2003/03/13/ixworld.html

Tombs in China are being looted:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/13/internat\
ional1329EST0665.DTL
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of *The Shadow
Women* (historical fiction set in the time of Exodus)

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/bookreviewssz/gr/shadowwomen.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst confesses to her love of movies with
an archaeological angle:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa112298.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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PERFORMANCES
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The Odyssey (a rock music adaptation ...):

http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/on_stage/article/0,1299,DRMN_53_1807443,00.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CUM GRANO SALIS)
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EXHIBITIONS
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A Stage for Dionysos (Dublin):

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=331777

In the Time of the Etruscans (Philadelphia):

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/5378600.htm

Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind and Spirit (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/arts/design/14VIET.html

Picturing Natural History (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/arts/design/14RUSS.html

A pile of exhibitions which make up the Cultural Olympiad:

http://www.greece.gr/CULTURE/Music/ycultural-1.stm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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What to do with a Classics degree:

http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/108/04_1.html

The Times has a feature on Phidias:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-609237,00.html

.. and a head of Apollo attributed to him:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-609238,00.html

Teachers at all levels might get some ideas from 'Project Teach':

http://www.middletownpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7389816&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dep\
t_id=10856&rfi=6

Interesting how the Roman world has become the media's 'standard'
for examination of someone's military ambitions (this one is *not*
U.S. v. Iraq!):

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_body.asp?section=Opinion&oid=18001

Here's someone who's a fan of Marcus Aurelius:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826533257.html

Proof, I suspect, of the existence of higher powers: that proposed
Aphrodite theme park on Cyprus has been scrapped:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/March/13/index.html

In case you missed it, tube-stops in Newcastle and environs are
now boasting signs in Latin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2847385.stm
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,177128,00.html
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=12734584\
&method=full&siteid=50081

USNews has a feature on Victor Davis Hanson:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030317/misc/17hanson.htm

Coverage of the JCL convention in California:

http://www.calmanac.com/thisweek/2003_03_12.classics.html
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5364357.htm

The New York Times has a feature on Jonathan Shay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/health/psychology/11SHAY.html
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~1246591,00.html

There's a push on for restaurants near Hadrian's Wall to add
Roman items to their menus:

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=12698732\
&method=full&siteid=50081

And there's ClassCon in a piece on 'food pioneers':

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20030316/localnews/1185355.html

Pankration is returning to the Olympics (er, didn't we used to
call this "Ultimate Fighting" and have to see it on pay-per-view?):

http://www.stgeorgesutherlandleader.com.au/read.asp?article=003n3033685.txt&s=ne\
ws

So why did all those Greek gods live on Olympus?:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13004&m=A22&aa=1&eido\
s=S

More on Lysistrata readings:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/lysi-m15.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june03/protest_03-12.html

A somewhat muddled account of a recent Parthenon/Elgin Marbles
Conference in Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ__3412962KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp\
?fdate=15/03/2003

Plenty of ClassCon in a piece by Gwynn Dyer on the American Empire:

http://www.ctnow.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-dyer0307.artmar07,0,6155989.story?col\
l=hc%2Dheadlines%2Doped

ClassCon in a history-of-science-as-revealed-in-art piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/arts/design/15LIGH.html

You're probably closer to Medusa right now than you think (I know
I am!):

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134649672_btsoho10.html

Latin phrase of the day (scroll down):

http://www.theadvocate.com/stories/031403/smi_smiley001.shtml

Ancient Movie Gossip:

http://www.megastar.co.uk/ents/news/2003/03/06/sMEG01MTA0Njk1ODQ4Nzg.html

Etymologies:

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03162003/nation_w/38852.asp (xeriscape)
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7388657&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7563&\
rfi=6 (lacrymosa)
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1047797737100516.xml (in
situ)
http://catholicnewworld.com/cnw/issue/coat_031603.html (a new bishop's motto)
http://www.cincypost.com/2003/03/15/chabots03-15-2003.html (chabot)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
15&id=2892

.. and Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-\
15&id=2890

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Howard Fast (author of *Spartacus*):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2476312,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/obituaries/13FAST.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23286-2003Mar13.html

Geoffrey Kirk (Classicist):

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F03%2F13%2Fdb1\
302.xml
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REPEATS
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[editor's note: I've decided to rename this section ... it has
pretty much evolved itself into a 'repeats' section (as opposed to
a true 'followup' section) -- genuine followups will be reported
above as they have been for the past while]

Court-ordered Indian Temple Dig (nothing new):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/883707.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/international/asia/13BRIE3.html (scroll down)

Kagan Gets National Humanities Medal:

http://www.yale.edu/opa/v31.n21/story2.html

Neanderthals and Humans Didn't Mix:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/science/social/11ESSA.html
http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-03-07-2

Northern Plantations (both audio pieces from NPR):

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1192333
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1192335

Oldest Wheel:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030310/wheel.html

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The Al Ain excavation continues in Dubai:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=81479

The first is nice piece (that I missed) on the threat to archaeological sites
in Iraq; the second a similar piece from the Art Newspaper:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/World/iraq_antiquities030310.html
http://81.112.115.148/allemandi/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=10931

More:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-3-2003_pg9_14
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YYKY1D4SAV3FECRBAELCFFA?typ\
e=scienceNews&storyID=2417919
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdig213183837mar21,0,726498.story?coll=ny\
-health-headlines
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0319_030319_iraqiantiquities.htm\
l
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,919120,00.html

.. and in a semi-similar vein, we've heard of human shields, but howzabout
the use of 'cultural shields':

http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=40\
537791

The Jehoash inscription suffered some damage this week at the hands
of Israeli police:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/886672.asp
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0317ancient-tablet17-ONhtml
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/17/international15\
34EST0690.DTL

A late Iron Age bit of "folk art" has been found during hospital
construction in Cambridge:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/news.asp?sec=1&id=561153

A tablet preserving the records of the sale of a Roman slavegirl
was recently found in London:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/22/nreci22.xml&sSh\
eet=/news/2003/03/22/ixhome.html

The Roman mosaics at Brading Roman Villa may have to be reburied if
funds can't be found to preserve them:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2856187.stm

A Dark Age Christian cemetery has been found in an English schoolyard:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2860547.stm

The Ayodhya excavation is sparking some violent reactions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/international/asia/14INDI.html

The New York Times has a touristy piece on the Labrang monastery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/travel/16labrang.html

.. and a art historical/aimed-at-collectors piece on Tang horses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/21/arts/design/21ANTI.html
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THE AMERICAS
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More coverage of the 'collapse' of the Maya:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23311-2003Mar13

John Noble Wilford has written a nice piece on Machu Picchu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/social/18INCA.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/90398.html

Low lake levels in Arizona are revealing settlements of the Salado
people:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0316submergedhistory16.h\
tml

A touristy sort of thing on petroglyphs etc. in Saguaro National Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/21/travel/21PETR.html

A while ago we heard of the excavation of a 'black-owned' saloon
in Nevada which turned up things like a tabasco bottle ... now we
are getting rather more full coverage:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/884823.asp

The 'traditional' view of the Anasazi is changing:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5444587.htm
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The latest on the DNA front is searching for the first domesticated
cattle:

http://www.naturalhistory.com/naturalhistory/0203/0203_feature.html

This week, it's the Lebananon Daily Star with a piece on Gertrude Bell
(still looking for a movie!!):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/22_03_03_d.htm

.. and another!:

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=12769642\
&method=full&siteid=50081

This week's sport-invented-by-an-ancient-culture piece looks at polo,
invented by the Chinese:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200303/18/eng20030318_113530.shtml

A piece on traditional irrigation in the Andes might also be of interest:

http://www.naturalhistory.com/naturalhistory/1102/1002_feature.html

.. as might a piece on the antiquity of 'click languages':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/social/18CLIC.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/90397.html

Coventry is the first place in England to have an "Historic Environment
Record Officer":

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12766\
820&method=full&siteid=50003

Is there a secret city beneath Tokyo?:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm

Charlotte Bronte is out with a new book (!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/arts/17ARTS.html

Humanities magazine has a piece on the search for some lost frescoes
commissioned to accompany the publication of Petrarch's *Lives of
Famous Men*:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2003-01/frescoes.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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A new issue of British Archaeology:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba69/index.shtml

.. and Biblical Archaeology Review:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html
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ON THE WEB
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Two new sites were brought to my attention this week ...

The Vindolanda Tablets (vols. I and II) are now available online
(wow ... this is what publication of inscriptions should always
be like):

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk:8080/

. The *Bibliography of Dendrochronology* site also looks like it will be
extremely useful:

http://www01.wsl.ch/dendrobiblio/

Zahi Hawass has recently put up an article on 'Secret Doors Inside
the Great Pyramid' at his own website:

http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/secret_doors_inside_the_great_pyramid.h\
tm
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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A copy of the U.S. Bill of of Rights which has been missing for
138 years has been recovered:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/19/bill.of.rights/index.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/887647.asp

Italian police have recovered a stolen ivory face/mask of the god Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/7zp3
http://ads.guardian.co.uk/html.ng/Params.richmedia=yes&site=Guardian§ion=105\
600&rand=3656082&location=top
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6155746%255E1702,00.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6155746%255E1702,\
00.html
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030319&Category=API&Ar\
tNo=303190934&Ref=AR

The latest on looting in Afghanistan:

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=32866&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&Sele\
ctCountry=AFGHANISTAN
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a piece on the threat to archaeological
sites in Iraq:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa031903a.htm

Similarly, Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst points out the irony (from
an archaeological perspective) of the current conflict:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa031903a.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Henry Camen, *Spain's Road to Empire*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,915697,00.html

Dan Brown, *The DaVinci Code* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/books/17MASL.html

Michel Chauveau, *Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth*
Maria Wyke, *The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representation":

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,916814,00.html

Ira Berlin, *Generations of Captivity:A History of African-American Slaves*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/books/review/023DEWLT.html

Jose Carlos Somoza, *The Athenian Murders* (fiction):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13005&m=A40&aa=3&eido\
s=S

Alexia Brue, *Cathedrals of the Flesh: My Search for the Perfect Bath*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918459,00.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Nabucco (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/19/arts/music/19NABU.html

The Emperor's Club (now in Australia):

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/19/1047749822207.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CUM GRANO SALIS)
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EXHIBITIONS
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In the Time of the Etruscans (UPenn):

http://ae.philly.com/entertainment/ui/philly/miscEvent.html?id=10126&reviewId=62\
84&category=1
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/19/3e783bbf4b796

Not really an exhibition, but coverage of the European Fine Art
Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/arts/design/18MAAS.html

Sutton Hoo:

http://tinyurl.com/7zpn

Leonardo DaVinci: Master Draftsman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/arts/design/22CONN.html

Triumph of Religion (Boston):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/arts/design/23UNGE.html

Archeologies (Thessaloniki):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_8748144_21/03/2003_27755

Byzantine Women and their World (Harvard):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/21/arts/design/21COTT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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In case you missed it, the New York Times had a piece comparing
the Iliad to the current conflict:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/opinion/18KRIS.html

ClassCon in a piece on the ethics of war:

http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i28/28b00701.htm

Ted Turner was talking about his Classics degree this week (scroll
right down to the end) ... I'm not sure whether this is a good
thing or a bad thing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60157-2003Mar20.html

Classicist involvement in protests this week:

http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=10651&repository=0001_article

This looks interesting ... treating the murder of Caesar as a modern
sort of crime scene:

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12751\
673&method=full&siteid=50003

Saw this on the Latin list ... Gabriele Albaroas has taken the time
to translate the script of Gladiator into Latin:

http://www.krescendo.com/gladiatorlatin/index.html

Classical Tradition fans will be interested in a piece on Greek Revival
architecture:

http://www.oldhousejournal.com/magazine/2003/february/greek_revival.shtm

The Spectator defies again this a.m. ...

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
================================================================
300,000 B.P. Footprints:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/030312/g031206A.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030310/footprint.html

British Mummies:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F03%2F18%2Fnmu\
mmy18.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=300111
http://www.msnbc.com/news/886454.asp
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http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=6294621
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Bob Heuman, Jeffrey Becker,
Gary Nunn, Hernan Astudillo, Mike Ruggeri, Louis A. Okin, Steve
Rankin, Yonatan Nadelman, Anthony Williams, John McMahon, Leanne
Archer, W. Richard Frahm, John Pearce, Dave Sowdon, and Karl
Wittwer for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
The Al Ain excavation continues in Dubai:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=81479

The first is nice piece (that I missed) on the threat to archaeological sites
in Iraq; the second a similar piece from the Art Newspaper:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/World/iraq_antiquities030310.html
http://81.112.115.148/allemandi/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=10931

More:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-3-2003_pg9_14
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YYKY1D4SAV3FECRBAELCFFA?typ\
e=scienceNews&storyID=2417919
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdig213183837mar21,0,726498.story?coll=ny\
-health-headlines
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0319_030319_iraqiantiquities.htm\
l
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,919120,00.html

.. and in a semi-similar vein, we've heard of human shields, but howzabout
the use of 'cultural shields':

http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=40\
537791

The Jehoash inscription suffered some damage this week at the hands
of Israeli police:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/886672.asp
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0317ancient-tablet17-ONhtml
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/17/international15\
34EST0690.DTL

A late Iron Age bit of "folk art" has been found during hospital
construction in Cambridge:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/news.asp?sec=1&id=561153

A tablet preserving the records of the sale of a Roman slavegirl
was recently found in London:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/22/nreci22.xml&sSh\
eet=/news/2003/03/22/ixhome.html

The Roman mosaics at Brading Roman Villa may have to be reburied if
funds can't be found to preserve them:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2856187.stm

A Dark Age Christian cemetery has been found in an English schoolyard:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2860547.stm

The Ayodhya excavation is sparking some violent reactions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/international/asia/14INDI.html

The New York Times has a touristy piece on the Labrang monastery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/travel/16labrang.html

.. and a art historical/aimed-at-collectors piece on Tang horses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/21/arts/design/21ANTI.html
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THE AMERICAS
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More coverage of the 'collapse' of the Maya:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23311-2003Mar13

John Noble Wilford has written a nice piece on Machu Picchu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/social/18INCA.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/90398.html

Low lake levels in Arizona are revealing settlements of the Salado
people:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0316submergedhistory16.h\
tml

A touristy sort of thing on petroglyphs etc. in Saguaro National Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/21/travel/21PETR.html

A while ago we heard of the excavation of a 'black-owned' saloon
in Nevada which turned up things like a tabasco bottle ... now we
are getting rather more full coverage:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/884823.asp

The 'traditional' view of the Anasazi is changing:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5444587.htm
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The latest on the DNA front is searching for the first domesticated
cattle:

http://www.naturalhistory.com/naturalhistory/0203/0203_feature.html

This week, it's the Lebananon Daily Star with a piece on Gertrude Bell
(still looking for a movie!!):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/22_03_03_d.htm

.. and another!:

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=12769642\
&method=full&siteid=50081

This week's sport-invented-by-an-ancient-culture piece looks at polo,
invented by the Chinese:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200303/18/eng20030318_113530.shtml

A piece on traditional irrigation in the Andes might also be of interest:

http://www.naturalhistory.com/naturalhistory/1102/1002_feature.html

.. as might a piece on the antiquity of 'click languages':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/social/18CLIC.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/90397.html

Coventry is the first place in England to have an "Historic Environment
Record Officer":

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12766\
820&method=full&siteid=50003

Is there a secret city beneath Tokyo?:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm

Charlotte Bronte is out with a new book (!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/arts/17ARTS.html

Humanities magazine has a piece on the search for some lost frescoes
commissioned to accompany the publication of Petrarch's *Lives of
Famous Men*:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2003-01/frescoes.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
================================================================
A new issue of British Archaeology:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba69/index.shtml

.. and Biblical Archaeology Review:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Two new sites were brought to my attention this week ...

The Vindolanda Tablets (vols. I and II) are now available online
(wow ... this is what publication of inscriptions should always
be like):

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk:8080/

. The *Bibliography of Dendrochronology* site also looks like it will be
extremely useful:

http://www01.wsl.ch/dendrobiblio/

Zahi Hawass has recently put up an article on 'Secret Doors Inside
the Great Pyramid' at his own website:

http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/secret_doors_inside_the_great_pyramid.h\
tm
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A copy of the U.S. Bill of of Rights which has been missing for
138 years has been recovered:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/19/bill.of.rights/index.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/887647.asp

Italian police have recovered a stolen ivory face/mask of the god Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/7zp3
http://ads.guardian.co.uk/html.ng/Params.richmedia=yes&site=Guardian§ion=105\
600&rand=3656082&location=top
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6155746%255E1702,00.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6155746%255E1702,\
00.html
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030319&Category=API&Ar\
tNo=303190934&Ref=AR

The latest on looting in Afghanistan:

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=32866&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&Sele\
ctCountry=AFGHANISTAN
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a piece on the threat to archaeological
sites in Iraq:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa031903a.htm

Similarly, Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst points out the irony (from
an archaeological perspective) of the current conflict:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa031903a.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Henry Camen, *Spain's Road to Empire*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,915697,00.html

Dan Brown, *The DaVinci Code* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/books/17MASL.html

Michel Chauveau, *Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth*
Maria Wyke, *The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representation":

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,916814,00.html

Ira Berlin, *Generations of Captivity:A History of African-American Slaves*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/books/review/023DEWLT.html

Jose Carlos Somoza, *The Athenian Murders* (fiction):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13005&m=A40&aa=3&eido\
s=S

Alexia Brue, *Cathedrals of the Flesh: My Search for the Perfect Bath*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918459,00.html
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Nabucco (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/19/arts/music/19NABU.html

The Emperor's Club (now in Australia):

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/19/1047749822207.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CUM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
In the Time of the Etruscans (UPenn):

http://ae.philly.com/entertainment/ui/philly/miscEvent.html?id=10126&reviewId=62\
84&category=1
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/19/3e783bbf4b796

Not really an exhibition, but coverage of the European Fine Art
Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/arts/design/18MAAS.html

Sutton Hoo:

http://tinyurl.com/7zpn

Leonardo DaVinci: Master Draftsman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/arts/design/22CONN.html

Triumph of Religion (Boston):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/arts/design/23UNGE.html

Archeologies (Thessaloniki):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_8748144_21/03/2003_27755

Byzantine Women and their World (Harvard):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/21/arts/design/21COTT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
In case you missed it, the New York Times had a piece comparing
the Iliad to the current conflict:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/opinion/18KRIS.html

ClassCon in a piece on the ethics of war:

http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i28/28b00701.htm

Ted Turner was talking about his Classics degree this week (scroll
right down to the end) ... I'm not sure whether this is a good
thing or a bad thing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60157-2003Mar20.html

Classicist involvement in protests this week:

http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=10651&repository=0001_article

This looks interesting ... treating the murder of Caesar as a modern
sort of crime scene:

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12751\
673&method=full&siteid=50003

Saw this on the Latin list ... Gabriele Albaroas has taken the time
to translate the script of Gladiator into Latin:

http://www.krescendo.com/gladiatorlatin/index.html

Classical Tradition fans will be interested in a piece on Greek Revival
architecture:

http://www.oldhousejournal.com/magazine/2003/february/greek_revival.shtm

The Spectator defies again this a.m. ...

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
================================================================
300,000 B.P. Footprints:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/030312/g031206A.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030310/footprint.html

British Mummies:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F03%2F18%2Fnmu\
mmy18.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=300111
http://www.msnbc.com/news/886454.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2856399.stm
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=6294621
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Leanne Archer, John McChesney-
Young, Donna Hurst, Mark Elliott, Maurice O'Sullivan, Cronman
mac Nessa, Hernan Astudillo, Mike Ruggeri, Kate Gilbert, John McMahon,
W. Richard Frahm, Dave Sowdon, Karl Wittwer, and Shiela Winchester
for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

Editor's mea culpa: in Explorator 5.47 I mentioned that someone
had translated the script of 'Gladiator' into Latin; unfortunately,
I managed to mangle their name. The name should have been
Gabriele Albarosa, to whom I apologize most profusely!

** there appears to be a major hub down or something this a.m. and
I can't connect to roughly half of the sources I usually connect to;
there's still enough here to keep you occupied for a while though 8^)
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================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
First it was 350,000 b.p. footprints in Italy, now it is a
350,000 b.p. burial in Spain which suggests (perhaps) capacity for
symbolic thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2885663.stm

.. and Neanderthals, apparently, weren't as ham-fisted as previously
thought either:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2884801.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993555
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030324/030324-6.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/890948.asp

The fungus which threatened the paintings at Lascaux has been
brought under control:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2893135.stm

Nine swords dating back to ca. 3300 B.C./B.C.E. were recently found
in Turkey:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030324/sword.html

A brief item on the discovery of a 5000 B.P. mummy:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o250323b.htm

Egypt is now laying claim to be the source for Mother's Day:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o270323l.htm

The Shrine of the Book will shortly undergo renovations (scroll down):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/arts/28INSI.html

Archaeologists in Iraq are trying to protect various archaeological
sites and objects:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=391140

More on the threat (is it my imagination or is this sort of thing getting
a *lot* more attention than it might have, say, in the world prior to
the Bamiyan Buddhas):

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~museum/iraq.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/28/1048653856958.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,920931,00.html
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/5466406.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993532
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/03/28032003180912.asp
http://www.registerbee.com/MGBF8F1HMDD.html
http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=59009
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_30-3-2003_pg3_8

.. and we're thankfully reading of efforts to avoid damage:

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030327-262307.htm

.. but we're starting (alas) to hear of the damage:

http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/thenews/newsdesk/L23126774.htm

We're also starting to get pieces like this in regards to archaeological
sites in Iraq:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003253

.. and the AIA has issued an "Open Declaration":

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10210

[meanwhile, Britain's cultural heritage seems to be at even greater
risk ... cf. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,924470,00.html ]

Work has begun to fix that bulge in the Temple Mount wall:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=276833

Followup: the Museum of London has a nice feature on that Roman slave girl
receipt find:

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/menu.htm

A 'basic' look at Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.inside-scotland.co.uk/ayrshire/herald/NEWS/rotary%20%20djksh2803.html\
.html

Here's the latest in the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/18/1047749772862.html
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=6550&Cr=culture&Cr1 (the UN is
offering to help!)

The oldest written fragment of the Nibelungen tale has been found
in an Austrian monastery:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=5&cid=585&u=/nm/20030328/\
sc_nm/arts_nibelungen_dc
http://derstandard.at/?id=1254874 (in German; small pic included)

The latest on the Ayodhya dig:

http://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2003/03/27/1048728358.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2881073.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2848393.stm

The Maori Rock Art project is nearing completion:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2367321a8153,00.html

A nice piece on the perils (sort of) of restoring temples at Angkor
Wat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/arts/design/30TURN.html
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
La Tercera has a piece (in Spanish) on some 5000 b.p. musical
instruments found at Caral (La Tercera now requires registration):

http://www.tercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_25908378,00.html

A couple of hungry pooches in Chile dug up a 2500 B.P. mummy:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_764118.html

The Field Museum of Natural History is going to return a large
quantity of bones to the Haida people:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/891070.asp

The Clovis people are apparently off the hook for hunting big game
to extinction:

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/03/29/build/l\
ocal/50-clovis.inc

A skeleton found at Jamestown and touted as the first murder of an
Englishman in the Americas may actually have been the victim of
'friendly fire':

http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-news3_032603mar26,0,2755621.story?coll=va-news

An 'Artifacts Roadshow' is going around Indiana:

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2003/03/30/news/porter_county/0c77ed4d28d\
fc9e786256cf9000087e1.txt
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
We haven't had a facial reconstruction in a while, so here's the
latest: a Roman soldier who fell down a well (a.k.a. Trimontium
Man):

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=371732003

A pile of "doodles" done by Michelangelo while he was hiding from the
wrath of the Medicis are being restored:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,925016,00.html

Here's what the spear which killed Captain Cook reached at auction:

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=365412003

A feature on what's in Cornell University's Rare and Manuscript
Collections in the Kroch Library:

http://cornelldailysun.com/articles/8187/

A piece on Chinese furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/arts/design/28ANTI.html

The World Dracula Congress will meet in Romania, despite fears
arising from the current conflict:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20030328\
/od_nm/odd_romania_dracula_dc

.. also on the Dracula front:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=389541

Assorted structures in Britain are seeking funding for restoration:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=388844

.. while the Hugin Viking Ship's request has been approved:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2859565.stm
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Mark Elliott, "Biblical Archaeology and Its Interpretation: The
Sayce-Driver Controversy":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/The_Sayce_Driver_Controversy.htm
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ONLINE JOURNALS
================================================================
[I'm playing with some web monitoring software which might make
a regular section like this a possibility]

American Journal of Archaeology 107.1 (January 2003)

http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/i_toc.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Michael Sedge, *The Lost Ships of Pisa*:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/3/prweb61080.php

François Bizot, *The Gate* (archaeology etc. under Pol Pot):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/books/27BIZO.html

Christopher Logue, *All Day Permanent Red: War Music Continued*
(Iliadish):

http://arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/03/16/bolog16.xml
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Asia Week (various New York sites):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/arts/design/28COTT.html

Folks might be interested in the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens list of museum closures (seen on Aegeanet):

http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/news/museum.htm

Dancing Satyr (Rome):

http://www.agenziaitalia.it/english/news.pl?doc=200303261900-0262-RT1-POL-0-NF82\
&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Classics students look at the Iliad in light of the current conflict:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/29/1048653902265.html

.. and actually, it appears there is much interest in the Iliad
of late, and it's providing plenty of ClassCon in various contexts:

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/entertainment/5517715.htm
http://www.daily-journal.com/content/?id=24173
http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7513128&BRD=1170&PAG=461&dept_id=\
32272&rfi=6
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=14&ID=90828&r=1

ClassCon in a piece on the rules of war:

http://www.post-gazette.com/World/20030330allsfair0330p3.asp

Looks like we've got to do a bunch more outreach:

http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgLvGYpEELcpEsgDQQ5wn3uA\
Ig.asp

.. while NeoClassical seems to be still 'in':

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=31158§ion=HOME_GARDEN&su\
bsection=HOME_GARDEN&year=2003&month=3&day=23

Folks interested in Antigone-inspired drama might look into
The Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/arts/theater/30JENK.html

Classics professors who wonder about their rate of pay might want
to read the following:

http://www.press-citizen.com/news/032903salaries.htm

More on the geographic accuracy of the Iliad (speaking of
the Iliad, check out the obituaries):

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2003/03/24udprofessormaps.html
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/32403_illiad.html

There's a new Latin Rite community in Wisconsin:

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2003/03/24/news/z1tonsured.txt

A few issues back we mentioned that some forensic pathologists were
'reopening the case file' on Julius Caesar's murder ... the
documentary aired and here's a good account:

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/24/wcaes24.xml\
&sSheet=/news/2003/03/24/ixworld.html

cf. this review:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,925052,00.html

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Martha Hadzi (Art Historian):

http://www.gazettenet.com/03182003/obituari/4337.htm

G.S. Kirk (Classicist):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-621735,00.html
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http://www.naplesnews.com/03/03/neapolitan/ajhfjg.htm
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W. Richard Frahm, Karl Wittwer, Christine Renaud, Dave Sowdon,
and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)

.. a good chunk of the world went on daylight savings time early
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The Telegraph seems a bit behind on Lascaux news:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/31/wcave31.xml

Rock art from the Sahara might give clues as to the origins of
the pyramid-building Egyptians:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,930114,00.html

The oldest evidence of mummification in Egypt has been found:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/893363.asp
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030331/mummy.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2903983.stm
http://www.estado.estadao.com.br/editorias/2003/03/31/ger008.html (Portuguese)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030330/sc_nm/life_egypt_mumm\
y_dc_1

A pile of stuff from the Petrie collection, including the world's
oldest dress, now has the funding to be displayed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,927867,00.html

An interesting item on paleopathologist's Philippe Charlier's
work with bones from various Classical (or nearly so) sites:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13007&m=A12&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Remains of a Hellenistic city have been discovered at Ashkelon:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=279541

Plenty of coverage of the recent 'unveiling' of the dancing satyr
recently found off the coast of Italy:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_02/04/2003_28128
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=599&ncid=1189&e=11&u=/nm/200304\
01/media_nm/arts_italy_satyr_dc
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-630405,00.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/01/1048962753541.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=393091
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,926800,00.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/882060/posts

Following evidence from 1811, a Roman Villa has been discovered in
Wales (!):

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/page.cfm?objectid=12799274&method\
=full&siteid=50082

Pravda has a short item on the Vatican car park necropolis:

http://english.pravda.ru/culture/2003/04/02/45456.html

Dingwall (Scotland) has an important Viking site:

http://www.hi-lands.com/rsjournal/search/search_detail.asp?storyvar=2835&dbvar=s\
tory

The latest in the Ayodhya dig (they have found something):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,928077,00.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/5533269.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/asia/03INDI.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1512&ncid=1512&e=15&u=/afp/2003\
0402/wl_afp/india_temple_mosque_030402120609

.. and now Buddhists have added their faith to the list of claimants:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=21471

A Sung dynasty shipwreck has been found:

http://www.estado.estadao.com.br/editorias/2003/03/31/ger009.html (Portuguese)
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THE AMERICAS
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A prehistoric map of South America (?):

http://www.maphist.nl/illustr.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
DNA evidence seems to be the last 'nail in the coffin' of the Kon-
Tiki theory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/science/life/01THOR.html

DNA also suggests that 'Eve' came from Tanzania:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2909803.stm
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_27043086,00.html (Spanish)

A possibly new method of dating recently-fired ceramics:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030331/030331-5.html

There's a project afoot to recreate a Minoan sailing vessel:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100004_03/04/2003_28173

A good chunk of the US National Archives are available online:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/895649.asp

David Klinghoffer's comments on the real cultural heritage of Iraq
will probably cause some discussion:

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-klinghoffer040303.asp

.. cf. other 'cradle searching':

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929533,00.html

Otherwise, folks might like to read what the US army is doing to
minimize damage to archaeological sites:

http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/latest&\
f=03040504.llt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml

An item on the controversy over the dating of the 'Wace Cross':

http://81.112.115.148/allemandi/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=10954

The Parthenon/Elgin Marbles isn't the only cultural repatriation
saga ongoing ... Russia still is hanging onto things it 'acquired'
during WWII:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Russia-Trophy-Art.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Bible Review:

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

British Archaeology:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba69/index.shtml

Minerva:

http://www.minervamagazine.com/

Electronic Antiquity 7.1:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V7N1/
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Saw this on the Britarch list ... there is a Dutch excavation of
a Roman ship going on, complete with webcams etc. ... very interesting
presentation (in Dutch, of course):

http://archeologie.kennisnet.nl/schip/

This turned up in today's scan for some reason ... The Stone Pages
website has photos of a pile of stone circles, dolmens, megaliths,
etc. from all over Europe:

http://www.stonepages.com/
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a feature on Hygiene in Ancient
Rome:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa031303a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst is running a series on the history
of archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/educationalresour/a/history1.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
R.L. Wilken, *The Spirit of Early Christian Thought* (reviewed by
G. Bowersock):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/books/review/06BOWERST.html

Barry Unser, *The Songs of Kings* (fiction set pre-Trojan war):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/books/chapters/0330-1st-unsworth.html (first
chapter)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/books/review/30GORDONT.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/19/books/19EDER.html
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/089/living/In_ancient_Aulis_the_dogs_of_war_sl\
ip_the_leash+.shtml
http://www.iht.com/articles/91147.html
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PERFORMANCES
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The Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/asia/03INDI.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CUM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Pravda ... on experiencing the "Pythagoras Secrets":

http://english.pravda.ru/society/2003/04/05/45647.html

.. and, what the heck, might as well include this thing I found
by following 'related links'... the James Ossuary is the product
of alien technology:

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/11/14/39518.html
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art From Korea
and Japan (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/arts/design/06COTT.html

Goddess: The Classical Mode (New York):

http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20030404670.4_1b6\
a001c3ac748ce

Telling Tales 1: Classical Images from the Dahesh Museum of Art:

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/auto/feed/news/2003/03/31/1049089740.00353.291\
2.5837.html

Worlds Intertwined (Etruscans at UPenn):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55471-2003Mar30.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Wow ... what an original idea (sarcasm):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_766634.html?menu=news.quirkies

Some guy is building an Acropolis replica in Malaysia:

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,181534,00.html

A new endowment for Classics as UCSC:

http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=323

.. and CSUS is working on its Hellenic Center:

http://www.statehornet.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/02/3e89e3c3bd657

.. and Florida Atlantic University will get an Aristotle Center:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/auto/epaper/editions/monday/south_county_e378dcee86\
5f31c8007f.html

The CLIOH project is another which seeks to digitally recreate ancient
monuments:

http://u.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,218~24212~1066547,00.html

Nice coverage of a grade six classical celebration:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7569965&BRD=1636&PAG=461&dept_id=8977&\
rfi=6

The current conflict has inspired a piece on Gaugamela:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/news/137-03302003-65424.html

Roger Kimball on "Lessons from Juvenal":

http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/apr03/juvenal.htm

Kaplan's *Warrior Politics* is getting some renewed attention
for its "pagan ethos" theory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/national/05BELI.html

A classicist has become a president of a college:

http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1048586657157860.x\
ml

In case you haven't figured it out ... certain Classicists appear to
have some influence with the current US administration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/arts/05WARB.html?pagewanted=all&position=top

cf. the reading lists of assorted Democratic presidential hopefuls:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0304.kendall.html

Hollywood's obsession with matters classical appears to have been
extended with announcements of a movie called "Odysseus' Return":

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story=4448&ss=the&cp=25

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-04-\
05&id=2975

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Bernard Rabin (Art Restorer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/obituaries/30RABI.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================

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W. Richard Frahm, Jennifer Wees, Dave Sowdon, and Karl Wittwer
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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The major news of the week, of course, is that the Baghdad Museum
was looted this week ... here's various coverage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2942449.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=396743
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&e=8&u=/ap/20030412/ap_on_re\
_mi_ea/war_plundered_treasures_7
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=4&u=/nm/20030412\
/sc_nm/iraq_baghdad_museum_dc
http://www.tercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5702_28456846,00.html (spanish)
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=34591§ion=NEWS&subsectio\
n=NEWS&year=2003&month=4&day=13
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899588.asp

.. and the museum in Mosul:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,935267,00.html

.. and Basra (mentioned only in passing):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52059-2003Apr7.html

.. somewhat disturbing is the last paragraphs of this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10BABY.html

.. and similarly disturbing are the implications of the information
in this one:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/08/wur08.xml

Perhaps even more disturbing is the following tidbit, which appeared
*before* the museums were a target:

http://www.sundayherald.com/32895

.. and this one (guess who isn't a signatory to the Hague Convention?):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13008&m=A11&aa=2&eido\
s=S

.. as mentioned before, a good place to monitor this sort of thing
is Francis Deblauwe's site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Al-Ahram has a couple of good items -- somewhat late -- on the threat
(the last one is by Zahi Hawass):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/633/hr1.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/633/hr2.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/633/hr3.htm

Back to regular Exploratorish things ... it seems our ancestors
were rather more cannibalistic than previously thought:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/898430.asp
http://autofeed.msn.co.in/pandoraV15/output/A0A01EB7-972F-4586-9324-2D9AD5DF2039\
.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2937187.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993615
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030411071024.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0410_030410_cannibal.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=6&u=/nm/20030410\
/sc_nm/health_madcow_dc

A 5000 b.p. dagger has been fished out of a German lake:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1049821560130B265&set_id=1
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1344852,00.html

Tombs in County Meath betray a prehistoric knowledge of solstices and
equinoxes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2928043.stm

They're trying to straighten some of the Avebury stones:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_768525.html
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/08/nave08.xml

Theories about the site of Moses' Mt. Sinai are in the press again:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/898379.asp
http://www.naplesnews.com/03/04/neapolitan/d931763a.htm

Some digs apparently are still going on in the Middle East:

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=84042

Archaeological evidence of a sacrifice supports ancient claims that
Siena was (re)founded by the Romans:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-642214,00.html

Analysis of samples from Tel Rehov apparently provides evidence for
a united monarchy in the tenth century B.C./B.C.E.:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid\
=1049942359997

The Time Team folks are excavating a Roman Villa:

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/Content/news/story.asp?datetime=11+Apr+2003+11%3A24\
&tbrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=News&category=News&brand=ESTOnline&itemid=IPED11+Apr\
+2003+07%3A24%3A46%3A450

A portrait bust of Plato languishing in a basement at UCBerkeley is
now considered authentic:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/04/09_plato.shtml
http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1486~1316148,00.html
http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~1319146,00html

The British Museum made public the discovery of a huge hoard (got it
right that time!) of Iron Age coins along with a gilded silver Roman
helmet:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,931888,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=395096
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/08/ncoin08.xml
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=42629&command=displ\
ayContent&sourceNode=42628&contentPK=5049931

Assorted items found by metal detectorists and others in Norfolk:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=11+Apr+2003+06%3A16&tbran\
d=EDPOnline&tCategory=NEWS&category=News&brand=EDPOnline&itemid=NOED10+Apr+2003+\
18%3A18%3A30%3A943
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Archaeologists are trying to shed light on what really happened
to Jane McCrea:

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--janemccreamystery0409apr09,0,15\
31751.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

.. and who is buried in Mead's tomb?:

http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413,105~4746~1310272,00.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Toolmaking appears not to be the sole preserve of the male of our
species:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030407080401.htm

Is it the mummy of Ramses I or not?:

http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/ads_1.pl?iframe

Outdoor life has a piece on how Oetzi and the Amesbury Archer
hunted:

http://www.outdoorlife.com/outdoor/newsandfacts/snapshots/article/0,13285,441818\
,00.html

The New York Times has a touristy thing on Seville:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/travel/06wdseville.html

Apparently the Middle Ages were rather warmer than today:

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/06/nclim06.x\
ml

The latest stop in the 'return the Partheonon/Elgin marbles to
Greece' tour:

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/04/10/wkd.acropolis.appeal.ap/
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--acropolisappeal0406apr06,0,5975\
507.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=DFFF43B3-4584-4C87-98A4F9A06D1E2D45

.. and Canada has joined the list of countries urging their return:

http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=42D4FC00-2326-41F2-B9A2-D564C43\
8A67A

The Harford Farm horde needs funding:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/norfolk/2930287.stm

.. as do the mosaics at Brading Roman Villa:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-637360,00.html

If only other metal detectorists had this woman's attitude:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/devon/2929951.stm

A committee is wrestling with the problem of what should be done
with human remains in museums:

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=15

The manuscript for Beethoven's Ninth is up for auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/arts/music/07MANU.html

Going through old papers has cast some doubt on British claims to
have discovered Neptune:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2936663.stm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Social History of Medicine 16.1 (abstracts available):

http://www3.oup.co.uk/sochis/hdb/Volume_16/Issue_01/

A new issue of The Digger is available:

http://www.archaeo.freeserve.co.uk/THE%20DIGGER/The%20Digger28/index.html

Nature has a feature on the aqueduct at Aspendos:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030407/030407-3.html
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ON THE WEB
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The New York Public Library's online picture collection is worth
a look (check out the folders ... nice pix of native Americans
in various periods):

http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/browse.cfm

Saw this on the ANE list ... the Center for International Studies
at the University of Chicago is sponsoring a lecture series on
the Middle East and putting the talks up on the web in .ram format.
Among the talks are a pair by McGuire Gibson and Fred Donner on
"Iraq Before Saddam Hussein":

http://internationalstudies.uchicago.edu/events.html

A pile of old maps of Japan have been put online ... definitely worth
a look:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/technology/circuits/10mapp.html
http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Daniel Wilson, *The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies*:

http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=41556

*Aristotle on the Art of Poetry* (Bywater trans.):

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6763
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CRIME BEAT
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Police have recovered some frescoes stolen from Pompeii, but they
are very damaged:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/896872.asp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2541920,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/europe/09BRIE2.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/europe/08POMP.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Italy-Stolen-Frescoes.html
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F09%2Fwfres\
c09.xml (nice pic)
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a piece on the age of emperors
at accession:

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

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst continues her series on the history
of archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/18th19thcentury/a/history2.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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T. Scanlon, *Eros and Greek Athletics*:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.asp?story_id=25875
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PERFORMANCES
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Antony and Cleopatra (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/arts/music/10ANTO.html

Women of Lockerbie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/arts/theater/10WOME.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CUM GRANO SALIS)
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Since the Pravda links from last week were so popular (8^)) ... here's one
I left out ... it includes ancient Egyptian accounts of UFO's:

http://english.pravda.ru/society/2003/04/05/45663.html

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EXHIBITIONS
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The Bull in the Mediterranean World: Myth and Legends (Athens):

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13008&t=04&m=A39&aa=1

Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity (Brooklyn):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/898920.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/arts/design/11GLUE.html

The Mysterious Bog People (Quebec):

http://www.dallasnews.com/travel/mexcc/stories/041303dntrabog.9b25.html

The Horse and Rider (Moscow):

http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/metropolis/stories/2003/04/11/102.html

The Way of the Samurai:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/arts/07ARTS.html (nice pic upper right; scroll
down for article)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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This year's Runciman Lecture was on "What Have the Spartans Done
For Us?":

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13007&t=04&m=A40&aa=1

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Not sure what to read into this one ... the petition protesting
the closure of Classics at Queen's (Belfast) apparently ranks behind
a tuck shop robbery but ahead of a dog poop problem:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=396474

ClassCon (and ClassMisspelling) in a panel discussion on war
reparations:

http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/08/3e92b6e626fe0

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-04-\
12&id=3000

Dot Wordsworth:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-04-\
12&id=2998

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Leon Levy (Philanthropist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/obituaries/08LEVY.html
http://www.forbes.com/2003/04/07/cz_rl_0407levy.html

George Cornell (Benefactor):

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-loccornell09040903apr09,0,26\
34172.story?coll=orl-news-headlines
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REPEATS
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Dancing Satyr:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/arts/02ARTS.html (scroll down)
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13008&t=04&m=A40&aa=1
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Since I'm getting some flak about implications of the way I presented some
articles in this a.m.'s Explorator, I think it is salutary (perhaps) to present
some material about the American Council for Cultural Policy. Folks who are
interested in the group may consult (n.b. I present these in no particular order
and with no purpose other than information; some of the articles do seem
contradictory):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=10176
http://www.artforum.com/news/week=200315
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=10250
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0210/misc/10iraq.htm

I do note that the ACCP is signatory to ASOR's statement on Iraq:

http://www.asor.org/policy2.htm

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As most folks know, the news from Iraq has been coming fast and
furious all week; it has also made it to a zillion newsgroups
and mailing lists already, so I'm sure most of you have seen much
of it. As such, to save you from wading through it all again -- it
is rather overwhelming -- I've put it all at the end of this week's
issue (not to be construed as a comment on its importance!).

The dating of the paintings in Chauvet Cave is being questioned:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993631

More on that dagger found in a lake in Germany:

http://portale.web.de/Wissenschaft/Archaeologie/?msg_id=2865561 (photo; German
text)

A Bronze Age burial has been found in northern Portugal:

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1349296,00.html

John Noble Wilford has penned a lengthy piece on the Etruscan thing
at UPenn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/science/15ETRU.html

"Tests" suggest that, if nothing else, the James Ossuary is from
the right period:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_771726.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0418_030418_jesusrelic.html
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F18%2Fwbox1\
8.xml
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12866174&method=full&siteid=\
89488&headline=DID%20BOX%20CONTAIN%20CHRIST'S%20BROTHER%3F

National Geographic has a piece on recent controversial finds from
Israel (guess!):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0418_030418_bibleartifact.html

Archaeologists working near the Dead Sea have found some coins
dating to the Bar Kochba revolt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2959289.stm
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/2003/apr/18/041807795.html

The House of the Perfume Maker has reopened in Pompeii:

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2570718
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200304121717-0168-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id\
=agionline-eng.oggitalia

One of the Avebury stones is *realllllllllly* huge, it turns out:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,939115,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=6001054

Wall paintings from the 13th century (?) have been painstakingly restored
in a church in London:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F17%2Fnmura\
l17.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,938247,00.html

Construction of a car dealership in Lincolnshire has revealed an
850 b.p. dragon head:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=57711&command=display\
Content&sourceNode=57238&contentPK=5199872

The Newport Ship (now almost completely excavated) is causing
controversy:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F19%2Fnexca\
19.xml

Signs scratched on 8600 b.p. tortoise shells from China may be the
oldest writing ever found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2956925.stm
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_29233964,00.html (Spanish)

They've (re)excavated some Shang Dynasty oracle bones in China:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200304/09/eng20030409_114849.shtml

China's 'top ten discoveries for 2002' list:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-04/13/content_829510.htm

The latest on the Ayodhya dig:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_232924,000900010004.htm

Excavations at Sanjan (India) are providing some insight into one of
the first Parsi settlements:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=43207293

A 300 b.p. lavatory in North York is at the center of a dispute:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,938281,00.html

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THE AMERICAS
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A Peruvian gourd is (for now) the oldest religious icon ever found in
the Americas:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993625
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899081.asp
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0417/p02s02-woam.html
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_29233929,00.html (Spanish)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=3&u=/nm/20030414\
/sc_nm/science_deity_dc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2947039.stm
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030414-024215-4448r
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030414/030414-4.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-4-2003_pg9_3

A recent survey in Chile has identified more than 50 potential sites:

http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5666_29241941,00.html (Spanish)

The Telegraph has a piece on the Franklin Expedition:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F19%2Fnarc1\
9.xml

A Hohokam site has been found in downtown (sort of) Phoenix:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7746122&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=22207\
7&rfi=6
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, a certain type of cancer has been traced to
Viking genes:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,937480,00.html

There's a new dating technique for metal artifacts:

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030415-120247-7512r

There must be several levels of irony in the fact that Britain's
Arts Ministrix has placed an export ban on the diaries of Claudius
Rich:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2955547.stm

Another side of the political side of archaeology in Israel (perhaps):

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=84192

All about the stuff they've done to make Hadrian's Wall into a
major tourist attraction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,936299,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/2948843.stm

Patras (Greece) is getting a new museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ__3829488KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp\
?fdate=16/04/2003

A nice piece on how the Venus de Milo was protected during WWI:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938806,00.html

A new cancer centre in Cambridge will incorporate a cast of an Iron
Age pottery kiln in its construction:

http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=12920

The Met has acquired a pile of medieval ivories for the Cloisters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/arts/design/18INSI.html

As might be expected in a postmodern world, Spinoza seems to be
gaining ground on Descartes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/arts/19EMOT.html

The New York Times has a touristy thing on St. Petersburg to mark
its tricentennial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/travel/20stpete.html

Mersey is about to erect a giant statue of Neptune as a reflection
of its maritime heritage (very difficult to resist an editorial
comment on this one):

http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/dailypost/page.cfm?objectid=128\
53663&method=full&siteid=50020&headline=Neptune%20rising

In a semi-related story, they've recreated the famous "Amber Room"
(another item still missing from WWII):

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F19%2Fwambe\
r19.xml

Robert Ballard has received a huge grant to fund broadcasting of
sites from the Black Sea this summer:

http://www.newsday.com/technology/ats-ap_technology11apr19,0,5766259.story?coll=\
sns-technology-headlines
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030419_617.html
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/5672373.htm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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There's a new issue of Archaeology out:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index

[check out esp. http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/etc/web which
is a nice piece on the Hall of Maat webboard, run by some friends
of Explorator]

.. and Archaeology Odyssey:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html

A new issue of Internet Archaeology:

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue13/index.html

American Journal of Philology 124.1 (abstracts; full text for Muse)

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_philology/toc/ajp124.1.htm\
l

Classical Journal 98.3 (TOCS only):

http://www4.infotrieve.com/journals/toc_email.asp?sid=677808&custID=95692&year=2\
003&volume=98&issue=3&date

Classical Quarterly 52.2 (TOCS only; full text for subscribers):

http://www3.oup.co.uk/clquaj/current/

Greece and Rome 50.1 (ditto):

http://www3.oup.co.uk/gromej/hdb/Volume_50/Issue_01/

Wired has a piece on Steve Booras and his efforts to make manuscripts
from Herculaneum more readable:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/vesuvius.html
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ON THE WEB
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The Survey and Excavation Projects in Egypt site has recently
gone up:

http://www.deltasinai.com/sepe-00.htm

Discovery.com has some nice biographies on some currently-digging
archaeologist types:

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/projects/empereur.html (Jean-Yves
Empereur)
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/projects/fletcher.html (Joann
Fletcher)
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/projects/dobrev.html (Vassil Dobrev)
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/projects/anderson.html (Julie
Anderson)
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Nikola Moushmov, *Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula*:

http://www.ancientcoinart.com/moushmov.html

Mark Munn, *The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the
Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0q2n99ng/

Leslie MacCoull, *Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World*

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0m3nb0cs/

Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/Woodhouse/
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CRIME BEAT
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An illegally-excavated hoard of Greek coins has been recovered:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=28772

Russian authorities are trying to curb the activities of the 'black
diggers', who are plundering Adriatica:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,936954,00.html
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill provides the background to that
whole Helen of Troy thing:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa011800a.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Niall Ferguson, *Empire*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/books/18BOOK.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/books/review/20MACMILLT.html

David Liss, *The Coffee Trader* (Fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/books/review/13MALLONT.html

Glyn Williams, *Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest
Passage*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/books/review/13DORELT.html

Jon Kukla, *A Wilderness So Immense*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/books/review/13DUNNLT.html

Barry Unsworth, *The Songs of the Kings* (Fiction):

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/04/15/unsworth/index_np.html

Jai Sen, *The Golden Vine* ("alternate history" of Alexander the Great):

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2003/April/13/style/stories/05style.htm
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PERFORMANCES
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Heliogabalus:

http://tinyurl.com/9wjd

Iphigeneia at Aulis:

http://keystoneonline.com/story.asp?Art_id=595

Les Boreades:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/arts/music/15RAME.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art From
Korea and Japan (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/arts/design/18SMIT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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I'm not quite sure how to categorize this review of "Olympias,
Mother of Alexander the Great" (which may be a book or a drama
or both):

http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/20030419/impressions/books.shtml

As you're no doubt aware, a miniseries on Helen of Troy begins on
the USA Network tonight ... here's some reviews (personally I'm
not sure that face could launch a thousand ships ... a few, maybe,
but she appears a rather unHel(l)enic Helen to me!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/arts/television/19MART.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-04-17-helen_x.htm
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~78~1321630,00.html

.. good quote from the actress herself in this one:

http://www.nynewsday.com/entertainment/nyc-helen17,0,3955184.story?coll=nyc-ent-\
short-navigation

Meanwhile, an actress has been chosen to play Helen in the upcoming
movie based on the Iliad (so ... was Helen blond?):

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=filmNews&storyID=2549041
http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---16449,00.html
http://www.estoeshollywood.com/images/Noticias%20de%20portada/Diane%20Kruger.htm
(with photo)

An interview with Christopher Logue (author of *All Day Permanent Red*):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/magazine/13QUESTIONS.html

A classics student is a murder suspect:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1333312,00.html

An attempt to see parallels between Iraq and Alexander (this one's
difficult to read):

http://www.nynews.com/newsroom/042003/e01w20greeks.html

On 'trying to be relevant':

http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=2082

A summary of the upcoming sword and sandal flicks:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~78~1321618,00.html

ClassCon in a piece on pulling down statues:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003359

Nice coverage of a school's culminating activity for their Greek
unit (with a nice (old) pun in the headline):

http://www.townonline.com/amesbury/news/local_regional/an_feaanfeingold04172003.\
htm

An item on Ovid, with a (passing) tie-in to Iraq:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/17/1050172713688.html

A virtual reconstruction of the Odeon of Pericles suggests it had
really bad sight lines:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2950661.stm
http://www.newsandevents.warwick.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=pressrelease&id=1003
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030414/030414-6.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,938396,00.html

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-04-\
19&id=3020

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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REPEATS
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Israel in David and Solomon's Time:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/11/MN24970.DTL

Oldest Mummification:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/030407/g040710A.html

Plato Languishing in the Basement:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/13/BA248482.DTL
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PLUNDERING IN IRAQ
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It begins with 'general' stuff -- plundering of museum and burning of
the Islamic library:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=396743
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,937094,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13ARTI.html (John
Noble Wilford)
http://wcbs880.com/siteSearch/terror_story_105213143.html
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1232029 (audio)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47963-2003Apr17.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2942449.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-War-Plundered-Treasures-Glance.\
html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-War-Plundered-Treasures.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-iraq-baghdad-museum.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/15/otsc.irq.clancy/
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/worldspecial/16BAGH.html
http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/local_regional/ap_museumlooting04132003.htm

.. then we hear that the "House of Wisdom", which housed much
of Ottoman interest (among other things) was also a
victim:

http://hnn.us/articles/1397.html

.. and the possible loss of the 'Sippar Library' (cuneiform texts):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48178-2003Apr17.html

The Museum at Mosul received comparatively scant coverage:

http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.north18apr18,0,3172404.story?coll\
=bal-news-nation

The Art Newspaper has put up a database of sorts with images of some
300 items which were lost:

http://81.112.115.148/allemandi/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=10986

There's plenty of "scholars told you so" type coverage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/lastword/story/0,13228,937963,00.html (by McGuire
Gibson)
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/04/17/build/w\
ar/32-robbed.inc
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/899932.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/worldspecial/16MUSE.html
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/634/sc11.htm
http://www.fox23news.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=DDD45E02-E91C-4C24-\
BE43-904F50141BCD
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/5650160.htm
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2568306

.. and more doubts/suspicions being raised about the AACP:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-04-\
19&id=3011

There are suggestions that some looters 'knew what they were looking
for' and/or 'were hired' and/or were part of an 'inside job':

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1236055 (audio)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902234.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47721-2003Apr17.html
http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_MUSEUMS?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION\
=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V7380.\
AP-Iraq-Museums.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1050623363348_5/?hub=Special\
Event3
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1050579323193090.xml

A number of cultural policy advisors have resigned to protest
the lack of immediate reponse to the looting of the museum:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42416-2003Apr16.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2958533.stm
http://wcbs880.com/siteSearch/terror_story_107220146.html

.. and, of course, there were a spate of opinion pieces:

http://wcbs880.com/siteSearch/osgood_story_108100249.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19MUSE.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/16DOWD.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081647/ (good photos)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936216,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17FOST.html (written by an
Assyriologist)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17LOWE.html
http://www.haveeru.com.mv/english/news_show.phtml?id=1291&search=&find=
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110003368

The U.S. has promised to help recover stolen objects:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2947251.stm

Universities and other organizations are offering help in identifying
what was taken:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Museums-Penn.html (UPenn)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/900550.asp (BM)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-647085,00.html (BM)
http://www.chicagomaroon.com/news/421200.html?mkey=242404 (OI)
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/03/030415.gibson-ct.html (OI)
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o190423m.htm (SCA)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/arts/16ARTS.html (UNESCO)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=17567 (various)

There are also hints that some items were actually hidden away
prior to the fall of Baghdad (and so not stolen?):

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105053292455773900.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17MUSE.html

There were further calls late in the week for more protection of
cultural monuments in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/9wj0
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=17621

And pleas for museums not to purchase any:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/worldspecial/16ANTI.html

Some items are being recovered already:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Paintings.html
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N2724.carpoint/B1146712.23;sz=300x250;ord=22057?

.. while others appear to have already appeared up for sale (am I
reading that correctly?):

http://irak.figaro.net/enjeux/20030418.FIG0822.html (French)
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1765645

Photos (from a message I sent to the ANE list):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030414/241/3t0a6.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030414/241/3t0a5.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030414/241/3t0a7.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030413/241/3sl7q.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030413/170/3sh2s.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030412/168/3s32g.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030412/168/3s2ss.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030412/168/3s2tm.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030410/168/3reai.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030409/241/3qxd0.html (tikrit)


The Washington Post has a nice flash slideshow, but it's kind of difficult to
get to ... go to:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/

then, in the 'War in Iraq' section, click on "in depth" ... a new window
will open; click on the 'Enter' after "Museum and Offices Plundered" ...
the first five or six are appropriate and rather nice pieces of photojournalism
...

Other items:

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1231007 (NPR interview with
McGuire Gibson)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=10985 (Q and A)

Francis Deblauwe's Iraq War and Archaeology site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Again, the news from Iraq has been making the email rounds and is
likely a repeat for many Explorator readers, and so it's at the
end of the issue (and again, that isn't a comment on its importance).

Some remains from the Sterkfontein caves may be a million years older than
previously thought:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/904853.asp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030425071144.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2973083.stm
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/030424.Granger.hominid.html

A number of tombs from the Old Kingdom have been found necropolis-
style in Egypt:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/902890.asp
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o240423b.htm (I think this is the same)

They'll be soon searching for more underwater remains from Egypt:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o240423p.htm

We'll soon be hearing about another mummy 'reconstruction':

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030422.wmumm422/GTStory

Laser technology is being used to clean the frieze of the Parthenon,
among other things:

http://optics.org/articles/news/9/4/16/1

There was much coverage of the 'first tasting' of some recreated
wine from Pompeii:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/904246.asp
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F24%2Fwpomp\
24.xml
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2630713
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=4449309\
2
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1051112881860B234&set_id=1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$JTIFMF54HVV1VQFIQMGSFFOAVC\
BQWIV0?xml=/news/2003/04/24/wpomp24.xml

... and the claim that a woman named Rhome actually founded Rome:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/wrome22.xml&sSh\
eet=/news/2003/04/22/ixworld.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/22/1050777253133.html

(original article at:
http://ilmessaggero.caltanet.it/hermes/20030419/01_NAZIONALE/29/O.htm  )

A previously-unknown Roman fort has been found in (gasp) Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/south_west/2970729.stm
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/page.cfm?objectid=12883465&met\
hod=full&siteid=50082&headline=Fort%20discovery%20solves%20a%20riddle%20of%20Rom\
an%20Wales

... and "proof" has been found of a Roman fort in Cumbria:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/cumbria/2965811.stm

The Scotsman has a feature on the Antonine Wall and associated sites:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=456702003

An artifact which would have come in handy when driving a  Roman
chariot one-handed is on display (no photo, alas):

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=12878929\
&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=Chariot%20tool%20goes%20on%20show

The James Ossuary is getting more coverage:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~28~1348844,00.html
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=7771
http://tinyurl.com/af1j

SpaceDaily has a nice feature on the astronomical connections to
Loughcrew's Passage Tomb Cemetery:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/archaeoastronomy-03a.html

The latest from the Ayodhya excavation:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=44396035

Early evidence for the settlement of Samoa:

http://www.goasiapacific.com/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_840256.htm

The battle to save the 'Welsh Mary Rose' alas, has been lost, it seems:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,940332,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,940496,00.html

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THE AMERICAS
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A Late Woodland period village has been found in Illinois:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/902889.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/national/22BRFS2.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=624&e=3&cid=624&u=/ap/20030421/\
ap_on_sc/archaeological_find
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/04/20/archaeological.find.ap/index.html?flo\
c=MM7-news

A legbone found in south Florida likely predates Columbus:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-bc27boneapr27,0,6254959.sto\
ry?coll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dpalm

Did Late Woodland and Middle Mississippian cultures mingle in
Wisconsin?:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/apr03/136633.asp
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The war in Iraq is affecting digs in other countries:

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=1\
2875908&method=full&siteid=50061&headline=War%20calls%20halt%20to%20work%20on%20\
ancient%20Persian%20citadel

Scientists have determined that an ancient poem by a Japanese
empress is actually in honour of a virus:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/904238.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/04/24/ancient.virus.reut/index.html

Folks might be interested in a reinterpretation of 'render unto
Caesar':

http://hnn.us/articles/480.html#jesus4-22-03

... and an explanation of what a 'cakewalk' is/was:

http://hnn.us/articles/480.html#cakewalk4-21-03

The New York Times has a piece on aboriginal art, ancient and
modern (despite the headline):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/arts/design/24ABOR.html

An Australian is researching whether ancient languages spread with
the plough:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_839901.htm

Virtual Reality technology is 'preserving' Scottish petroglyphs:

http://www.newsandevents.warwick.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=pressrelease&id=1002

The Morgan Library is closing for renovations (leading to nice exhibitions on
loan):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/arts/design/25INSI.html

The Archaeological Museum in Dubai (I think) is also undergoing
renovations:

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=85356

There's a new museum in Greece devoted to the olive:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ__7269340KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp\
?fdate=23/04/2003

The BBC is working on a televised version of the Canterbury Tales:

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/26/nchauc26.xm\
l&sSheet=/news/2003/04/26/ixhome.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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American Journal of Archaeology 107.2 (full text):

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

American Journal of Philology 124.1 (Spring 2003 -- abstracts/MUSE)

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_philology/toc/ajp124.1.htm\
l

Athena Review 3.2 (featured articles online):

http://www.athenapub.com/index.htm

Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2003):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77.1 (Spring 2003 -- abstracts/MUSE):

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm77.\
1.html

Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12.2 (October 2002 -- abstracts):

http://journals.cambridge.org/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=1051437022&REQSESS=2875228\
&117000REQEVENT=&REQINT1=134830&REQAUTH=0

Council for British Archaeology Briefing (May 2003 -- full text):

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/briefing/briefing.html

Internet Archaeology 13 (Winter 2002 -- full text ejournal):

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue13/index.html

Minerva 14.2 (March/April 2003 -- selected articles):

http://www.minervamagazine.com/
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ON THE WEB
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Steve Mason, "Flavius Josephus and the Pharisees":

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

Bruce Chilton, "Another Look at the James Ossuary":

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

Larry Hurtado, "Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity":

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

The École français d'Athènes has made its library catalogue
available online:

http://www.efa.gr/

The proceedings of the Old Bailey are making their debut on the
web:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/technology/circuits/24diar.html
cf. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

A nice collection of historical and commemorative medals (mostly
European, pre-19th century):

http://www.historicalartmedals.com/TOC.htm

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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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*Orations of Lysias*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6969

*Agamemnon* (trans. Browning):

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0224

*Olynthiacs and Philippics of Demosthenes* (trans. C.R. Kennedy):

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6878

*Poemata: Greek, Latin, and Italian poems by John Milton*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6929

*The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus* (trans. G. Long):

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6920
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Poverty Point Earthworks:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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The University of Alabama is seeking help recovering artifacts which
were stolen two decades ago:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/22/tech/main550440.shtml

A number of 4th century B.C./B.C.E. coins which were illegally taken
from Cyprus have been returned:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cypio/2003/03-04-22.cypio.html#02

The New York Times has a nice feature on Italy's "Art Cops":

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/arts/artsspecial/23HORO.html

A teenage 'collector' of pottery fragments in Arizona was caught this
week:

http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=64733

Illegal digs are on the rise in Florida:

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=LL&Date=20030423&Category=NE\
WS&ArtNo=304230367&Ref=AR&Profile=1004
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on early Mesopotamian
religion:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/nemythology/a/mesopotamiarel.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has the latest on the James Ossuary:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/neareastern/a/bonebox2.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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PERFORMANCES
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Women of Troy (UNC):

http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-345737.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Unfortunately, this is probably true ... "dozens" of women, apparently,
want to have Oetzi's baby (the mind boggles):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773753.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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The New York Times has a special section devoted to museums this
week ... rather than present each link individually, here's the
'master page':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/arts/artsspecial/23WALD.html

The Bull in the Ancient World (Athens):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ__6102283KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp\
?fdate=21/04/2003

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous: The Cult of Lord Byron:

http://www.studentnewspaper.org/view_article.php?article_id=20030422180227
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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In case you don't read the Iraq news below, here's the next installment
of "what to do with a classics degree":

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/international/worldspecial/24MUSE.html


... and I'm not sure whether he has a degree, but he's studied
Classics:

http://www.sundayherald.com/33431

Coalition forces are "walking in the footsteps of Alexander the Great"
(foreshadowing?):

http://www.nynews.com/newsroom/042003/e01w20greeks.html
http://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/042003/e01w20greeks.html

Classicists have a history of protecting patrimony from the aftereffects
of invasion, it seems:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/5705535.htm

An editorial/feature on Victor D. Hanson:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/110/editorials/RATIONALIZING_WAR+.shtml

Roman kitty:

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1247963&nav=0Ra7FQj7

They get all dressed up in Rome for Parilia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/europe/22BRIE3.html (scroll down
a bit)

... speaking of which, fans (and foes) of 'reality television' will want
to keep their eye open for PBS's 'Warrior Challenge', which will feature
folks recreating life as a Roman soldier:

http://u.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,216~24287~1353390,00.html

eKathimerini has a piece on the ancient Olympics:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_732720_25/04/2003_29032

UTA conducted their annual Homerathon in the rain:

http://www.theshorthorn.com/archive/2003/spring/03-apr-25/n042403-04.html

... and the Odyssey cracked the 'top fifty adventure books of all time'
list:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/903818.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15045-2003Apr22.html

... while across the pond authors began to gather to create something
in imitation of the Odyssey:

http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=135528
http://www.modbee.com/24hour/sports/story/863469p-6035472c.html

More coverage of the location of Homer's Troy (not quite a 'repeat'):

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030424-080757-9152r

Will Duckworth go the way of the dodo?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,943059,00.html

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Lucy Taxis Show Merritt (classicist):

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/events/lucy_shoe_meritt.html

Franz Rosenthal (Near Eastern Scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/obituaries/20ROSE.html
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REPEATS
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Ballard's Grants:

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtball0421/GTStory

Oldest Writing:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030421/writing.html
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IRAQ
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I think it appropriate to begin with a piece on attempts to recover
lost items from Afghanistan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/arts/artsspecial/23WALD.html

... and that "ordinary Iraqis" are also trying to help recover
their country's looted heritage:

http://www.iht.com/articles/94264.html

... and that some items are being returned/recovered:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=400763
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030422_201.html
http://www.wsbtv.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-215222920030423-050449.html

More accounts of what has been lost and who did it:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5727228.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18527-2003Apr22.html
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/111/living/Reconstruction_time_again+.shtml
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/22_04_03_e.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20MANG.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/international/worldspecial/24MUSE.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/21/wloot21.xml\
&sSheet=/news/2003/04/21/ixnewstop.html
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13010&m=A40&aa=1&eido\
s=S

... and clear evidence that 'pros' were involved:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-659352,00.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsold243255536apr27,0,7341052.story?coll=n\
y-health-headlines

Now we're also getting the reflective pieces on the looting and what is required
to get all that has gone missing, back, among other things:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/arts/27RICH.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0424/p11s02-woiq.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20GOOD.html
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003399
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/635/sc6.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/635/cu3.htm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030428-444984,00.html
http://ads.specificpop.com/code?pid=303&gid=17&rid=787138685&dom=27&dow=0&hod=8
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,942471,00.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/World/20030427lootingworld3p3.asp


... and suggestions that the 'Lord Elgin approach' (more or less)
might be a good thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20TIER.html

... and opinion pieces on the impact of the looting on scholarship:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/118423_firstperson21.html

... and impending exhibitions:

http://81.112.115.148/allemandi/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=10998

An Italian site notes the existence since 1997 of a Bureau for the
Investigating and Recovering of Iraqi Looted Antiquities (BRILA?):

http://www.beniculturali.it/news/comunicati/dettagliocomunicati.asp?Id=1367

The AIA has set up a 'Task Force' on Iraq's cultural heritage:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10214

The Oriental Institute's efforts continue:

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html

Vassar's slideshow and catalogue of stolen objects:

http://artlibrary.vassar.edu/Baghdad/

A brief bibliography and links to museums with collections of artifacts
from Iraq:

http://icom.museum/iraq.html

Information on the 'Baghdad Museum Project':

http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/

Francis Deblauwe's site is the last word, as usual:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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This might actually be a repeat, but French archaeologists have
uncovered a bunch of 4000 b.p. rock-cut tombs:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030421/necropolis.html

Of similar antiquity is the largest man-made prehistoric cavern, which was
recently found in Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/north_west/2973877.stm

A New Kingdom-era canopic jar was opened this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2989681.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_775726.html?

The tomb of Amenhotep III is going to undergo some restoration work:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o010523f.htm

The mummy of Ramesses I is to be returned to Egypt:

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0503/03backtoegypt.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0430_030430_royalmummy.html

Amidst the news from Iraq come claims that the site of Uruk -- and
the 'tomb of Gilgamesh' -- have been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2982891.stm
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_30436510,00.html

Coins dating to the Bar Kochba Revolt have been found in a cave
near the Dead Sea:

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/package.jsp?name=news/deadseacoins/deadseac\
oins

An interesting reviewish sort of thing on the discovery and implications
thereof of the 'Western Wall tunnel' back in the 1980's:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=286935

Volunteers at Verulamium have discovered an ancient Roman tower
(we know they can't be professional archaeologists because, of course, they
didn't 'stumble'):

http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/news/stalbans/display.var.724011.index.volu\
nteers_roman_find.html

A short item on Roman roads:

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/Content/news/story.asp?datetime=03+May+2003+15%3A10\
&tbrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=News&category=News&brand=ESTOnline&itemid=IPED02+May\
+2003+13%3A11%3A38%3A553

There's a Roman Villa outside Stowmarket:

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/Content/news/story.asp?datetime=02+May+2003+20%3A04\
&tbrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=News&category=News&brand=ESTOnline&itemid=IPED01+May\
+2003+13%3A49%3A50%3A467

Part of Glyndwr Castle may have been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/mid/2982605.stm

Archaeologists are searching for documents from the Warsaw Ghetto:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1\
051410419888
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THE AMERICAS
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The New York Times has a piece on the Louisiana Purchase:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/opinion/28LINK.html

(with the expected response letter to the editor at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/opinion/L30LOUI.html)

More:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/arts/design/30PURC.html

The Times also has a touristy sort of thing on the Maya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/travel/27maya.html

A number of burial mounds in New Mexico are threatened by development (is there
a pun in the headline?):

http://www.tennessean.com/growth/archives/03/05/32368883.shtml?Element_ID=323688\
83

What's going on at the Fort Loudoun dig:

http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/030502/Area_dig.asp
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Assorted items in the NYT's 'Arts Briefing':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/arts/01ARTS.html

Hopewell (and other cultures') structures have been given the
'virtual reconstruction' treatment in a major project that seems
rather impressive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/technology/circuits/01next.html

An interesting item on the 'Elias theory' and the rise and fall
of crime/civilizing influences:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/arts/03MURD.html

A look at dragons in various contexts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/science/29DRAG.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/science/29DBOX.html

A Devon farmer has built his own Bronze Age style burial chamber:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/devon/2985083.stm

The latest chapter in the 'diagnosing the ailments of famous dead
guys' has Einstein and Isaac Newton as possible Asperger's victims:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993676
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2988647.stm

The battle at Rorke's Drift may have been rather less heroic in
its aftermath than currently believed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,945310,00.html

Who owns a nation's history?:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/DCAAF58F9ECDF97D86256D1B0\
05E1C55?OpenDocument&Headline=Collectors,+archaeologists+debate+who+should+own+n\
ation's+history
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Arethusa 36.1 (2003) (tocs and abstracts; full text MUSE):

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/toc/are36.1.html

Arion 10.3 (2003) (tocs; some articles):

http://www.bu.edu/arion/
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ON THE WEB
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The 'Walking With Cavemen' companion site might be of interest ... read the
review first (for navigation suggestions):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0502/p25s01-stin.html (review)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/

The Science Museum of Minnesota has put up a very nice site all
about their cuneiform collection:

http://www.smm.org/research/Anthropology/cuneiform/cuneiform.php

Jared Diamond, "Why do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?"

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_print.html
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Ancient Mound Builders:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Five miniature portraits have been stolen from Hever Castle:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,946194,00.html
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Women Warriors:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa032703a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is an interview with Cornelius
Holtorf:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/publicarchaeology/a/holtorf.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A. Cutler, *The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and
the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/books/review/27PADIANT.html

Giles Milton, *Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/books/review/27CHIRAT.html

Rachel Elior, *Mikdash Umerkava, Kohanim Umalachim, Heikhal Veheikhalot
Bamishkan Hayehudit Hakduma" ("The Temple and Chariot, Priests and Angels,
Sanctuary and Heavenly Sanctuaries in Early Jewish Mysticism"):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=289424

Erica Jong, *Sappho's Leap* (fiction):

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/books/article/0,1299,DRMN_63_1927837,00.ht\
ml
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PERFORMANCES
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Salome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/arts/theater/01SALO.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Not even from Pravda, but sure to appear there soon, come claims
of the discovery of three pyramids in the environs of Montevecchia,
Italy (if you can read Italian, there's a link to an Italian site
within the story with photos etc.):

http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/a03ipyr.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
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Elizabeth (Greenwich):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/906614.asp

In Pursuit of Heavenly Harmony: Paintings and Calligraphy by Bada Shanren:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/arts/design/02COTT.html

Jean-Antoine Houdon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/arts/design/02KIMM.html

Quest for Immortality:

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/5728805.htm

Etruscans at UPenn:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2003/05/01/entertainment/5751778.htm

Assorted exhibitions in London:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/arts/design/29LOND.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Wow ... who said having a Classics degree wasn't useful?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/weekinreview/04ATLA.html

A show which demonstrates the influence of Classics on fashion is
getting a pile of coverage (mostly in the New York Times ... these
are all different):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/fashion/29DRES.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/nyregion/29PART.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/arts/design/02MUSC.html (opening 'graph will
make you gag)

They get the German right but mess up the Latin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/arts/music/27HIGH.html

Start in engineering ... then transfer to classical studies:

http://www.purdueexponent.org/interface/bebop/showstory.php?date=2003/04/29§\
ion=campus&storyid=Bootheprofile

More Bogdanos in Iraq:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/world/5750905.htm

Coverage of the SkidmOlympics:

http://www.saratogian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7877268&BRD=1169&PAG=461&dept_id=\
17708&rfi=6

The NeoClassical revival:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/gardening/article/0,1299,DRMN_60_1931851,0\
0.html

Duckworth has been saved:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2997177.stm
http://ads.guardian.co.uk/html.ng/Params.richmedia=yes&location=top&site=Guardia\
n§ion=103690&country=can&rand=1052056387160921
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/03/nduck03.xml\
&sSheet=/news/2003/05/03/ixhome.html

Modern Humorist has a piece on 'The Dialogues of Pheron',
recently purloined from Iraq (consider the source! potentially
offensive!):

http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0304/pheron/

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-\
03&id=3054

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Ray Hicks (storyteller/primary source):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/obituaries/27HICK.html
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REPEATS
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Ancient Languages Spreading with the Plough:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?id=4137

Egyptian Invention of Baseball:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2003/04/30/sc/

Pompeiian Wine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/international/europe/02BRIE1.html (scroll
down)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2625926,00.html
http://boston.com/dailynews/121/economy/Pompeii_s_ancient_wine_sees_th:.shtml
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/231609.htm

Sterkfontein Hominid Age:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030421/fossil.html
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IRAQ
================================================================
More accounts of the looting and lists of what's missing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,946259,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3186-2003May1.html

I'm not sure why, but I'm rather skeptical of the claims put forward
this week that the "losses may be less severe than previously thought":

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/international/worldspecial/01MUSE.html

Some items are being returned:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/906321.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2983785.stm
http://www.frankfurter-rundschau.de/ressorts/kultur_und_medien/boulevard/?sid=07\
64318ccf3342094fe49bcc6e651c3a&cnt=202870

... and some are purposely *not* being returned (interesting):

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/28/wfra428.xml
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/28/1051381898677.html

cf: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/28/132157.shtml (opinion
piece)

The British Museum held a summit on the topic:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2984171.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2986443.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,946226,00.html
http://81.112.115.148/allemandi/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=11018

... and the rebuilding plans are being announced:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/international/worldspecial/30MUSE.html

Two interviews with the acting director of the Baghdad Museum, Donny George:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,947720,00.html
http://81.112.115.148/allemandi/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=11016

More opinion pieces:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/arts/27RICH.html
http://www.liberalslant.com/mnd050403.htm

Perhaps also of interest is an account of Saddam Hussein's in-
imitation-of-various-people-who-ruled-Babylon building program:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/international/worldspecial/02BABY.html

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html


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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Fungus is threatening the petroglyphs at Lascaux (is this really
news?):

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003457

The Sorbonne will continue its dig in the Sinai:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o080523n.htm

A Thracian gold wreath is on display in Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22244

... and excitement is building about a pending dig in the
Halka Bunar area:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22202

Athens new subway turned up piles of artifacts:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13011&m=A06&aa=1&eido\
s=S

A rather ornate Roman bridge once spanned the Tyne, it appears:

http://tinyurl.com/bhho

The vikings were apparently responsible for introducing ironing to Scotland
(evil!):

http://tinyurl.com/b2j4

The latest on the Ayodhya dig:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?msid=45593923

================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Archaeologists believe they have found the site of Werewocomoco,
which, of course, is getting much press attention as the village
whence came Pocahontas and/or her father:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/national/07INDI.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3009217.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/cowa-so1050603.php
http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=6&aid=D7QSBQP80_story
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/08/MN224987.DTL
http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.powhatan07may07,0,6063582.story?coll=bal-home-head\
lines

Drought in Arizona has helped to reveal a Salado site:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/907855.asp
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/may/05/050509544.html

The Peoria Journal Star has a feature on the Tampica Mounds:

http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/g172585a.html

The reburial of a child who was a slave has some interesting reading:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2003/05_09-07/TOP

A rural slave jail from Kentucky will be part of the National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/national/06SLAV.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
An item of interest (perhaps) to those who research the Etruscans:

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200305061148-0087-RT1-SST-0-NF11&page=0&id\
=agionline-eng.oggitalia

It's National Archaeology Week down under (or up over, depending
on your point of view -- nice poster for art teachers who want
an example of rhythm):

http://www.archaeologyweek.com/

John Kluge has just given the humanities a huge shot in the arm
(and/or pocketbook):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/national/08KLUG.html

Some news on the efforts to repair the bulge in Temple Mount:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid\
=1052362483494
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1\
052362486494

Ha'aretz has an interview with Israel Finkelstein:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=291264&contrassID=2&subCon\
trassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

... and the Washington Post has an interview with underwater
archaeologist Susan Langley:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27364-2003May7.html

The Lindisfarne Gospels are returning to Holy Island, sort of:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/tyne/3017903.stm

A pair of Romanian astronomers claim to have pinpointed the exact
time of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_778195.html

Oetzi is now claimed to be a "Stone Age Rambo":

http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,949144,00.html

Another 'let's look for Viking DNA in the UK' research project
is underway:

http://tinyurl.com/bhfo

Mystery stone faces in Massachusetts:

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/130/region/Ancient_artwork_or_modern_hoax:.shtml

A large number of Aborigine remains were repatriated this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2637861,00.html

First UK Education Secretary Charles Clarke was denigrating Classics;
now he's turned to medievalists (nice list of the degrees held by
cabinet members in this one):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3014423.stm
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,11032,953166,00.html
cf: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,953113,00.html

The UK's Channel 4 caused a bit of controversy this week when it
used the Uffington Horse as a sort of publicity stunt to
advertise 'Big Brother':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3000243.stm
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,949147,00.html (interesting
neologism in this one)
================================================================
MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Ancient Egypt Magazine:

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue17.htm

Antiquity 77 (March 2003):

http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html (TOC only)

Arethusa 36.1 (Winter 2003):

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/toc/are36.1.html (abstracts/MUSE)

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77.1 (Spring 2003)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm77.1.htm\
l (abstracts/MUSE)

Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12.2 (October 2002):

http://tinyurl.com/bhez (abstracts)

Classical Quarterly 52.2 (December 2002):

http://www3.oup.co.uk/clquaj/current/ (TOCS and claimed abstracts)

Greece and Rome 50.1 (April 2003):

http://www3.oup.co.uk/gromej/current/ (TOCS and claimed abstracts)

Kadmos 41 (2002):

http://www.degruyter.de/journals/kadmos/kadmos41.pdf (TOC)

Minerva (May/June 2003):

http://www.minervamagazine.com/  (scroll down for the new content)

Mnemosyne 56.2 (March 2003):

http://gessler.ingentaselect.com/vl=11601038/cl=40/nw=1/rpsv/cw/brill/00267074/v\
56n2/contp1-1.htm (TOC/abstracts)

Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 13 (2002):

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/pia/cvol.html (TOC/abstracts)

TAPA 131.1-2 (Autumn, 2002):

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_american_philological_associati\
on/toc/apa132.1.html (abstracts/MUSE)
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Richard Benkin, "The Modern Destruction of Temple Mount":

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

Charles Isbell, "More Comments on the Davies-Dever Exchange":

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

The James Ossuary is the subject of a Skeptical Inquirer article:

http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-03/bonebox.html
================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
The Characters of Theophrastus (trans. Jebb.):

http://www.eudaemonist.com/biblion/characters/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
One of the steles at the centre of the Shultz case was returned
to Egypt this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/international/middleeast/08ARTI.html

... along with other items:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o100523o.htm

Egyptian police seized close to two hundred 'Islamic dynasty'
coins this week:

http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_31065213,00.html
(article in Spanish)
================================================================
AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a feature on the Circus Maximus:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa030903a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a review of Robert F. Boszhardt's *Deep Cave
Art in the Upper Mississippi Valley*:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/rockart/a/deepcaveart.htm
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Adam Nicolson, *God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James
Bible*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/books/08MASL.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium From the
Mediterranean to the Indus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/09/arts/09KIMM.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Another Bogdanos-has-a-classics-degree piece:

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=38687§ion=NEWS&subsectio\
n=AMERICA_AT_WAR&year=2003&month=5&day=11

An interesting double major:

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/05/11ky/met-5-uk05110-7494.html

Political comments from an LSU classics prof:

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/105263430749480.xml

I'm not sure whether this opinion piece is endorsing Classics or not:

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/5817958.htm

Cambridge appears to know how to do fundraising for Classics:

http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge/story.asp?StoryID=18962

Anyone else find this choice of commencement speaker strange? (not
Panetta ... scroll down to the person talking to the ancient
history types):

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1726~1380260,00.html

Hmmm ... didn't we see this as the future of Classics a decade ago?:

http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/19-nagy.html

There's a shortage of Latin teachers in Texas:

http://web.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?wcd=5705

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-\
10&id=3087

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Edward A. Dowey (Theologian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/obituaries/08DOWE.html

Geoffrey S. Kirk (Classicist):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,949461,00.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Earliest Writing:

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg6_18

Language Follows the Plough:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/science/06LANG.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/95527.html

Mummy of Ramses I Returned:

http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_30716564,00.html (Spanish)

================================================================
IRAQ
================================================================
The interesting story this week (and not purely of archaeological
interest) was what was found during the search for a seventh century copy of the
Talmud:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/international/worldspecial/07FIND.html

More reports that artifacts were actually safely stored away
prior to the conflict:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/international/worldspecial/06MUSE.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=528232003

... but also more reports that we might not ever know how much
was actually stolen:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-iraq-usa-exhibit.html

... and also more reports about organized gangs doing the
looting:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Looted-Art.html

More reports on things being recovered (although we aren't getting news of
'specifics', other than 'only 38 articles are
missing'):

http://wcbs880.com/siteSearch/terror_story_118164331.html
(somewhat out of date)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2700378
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/international/worldspecial/08CUST.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/07/sprj.nilaw.iraqi.artifacts/

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch seems skeptical of lots of things (I think
they mean 'eludes' in the headline, though):

http://tinyurl.com/bhhe

... and more reports that Marines and the officials of the
Baghdad museum just can't seem to get along:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,950071,00.html

The New York Times had a nice piece on the illicit antiquities
trade in the region:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/05/international/worldspecial/05LOOT.html

The opinion pieces continue:

http://www.edinburghnews.com/opinion.cfm?id=526652003
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/637/op11.htm

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeolblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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> ================================================================
> explorator 6.2                                   May 11, 2003
> ================================================================
> Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may
> wrap (especially those from the Telegraph) which will require
> 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
> be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication.

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> Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Michael Oberndorf, Keith Armstrong,
> Joseph Lauer, Trevor Watkins, Luke Kirkwood, Louis A. Okin, Susan Jaslow,
Shiela Winchester, Helena Jaeschke,Hernan Astudillo, Mike Ruggeri, Yonatan
Nadelman, John McMahon,Mark Elliott, Leanne
> Archer, W. Richard Frahm, Dave Sowdon, and Paul Cowie for headses
> upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out)

> n.b. 1: This week I had to use a number of email programs as I
> was trying to figure out an email problem I was having (turned out
> to be my anti-spam program); as a result, I may unintentionally
> have left out a 'heads up' acknowledgement.

> n.b. 2: Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers out there, redneck
> and otherwise!

> ================================================================
> ================================================================
> AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
> ================================================================
> Fungus is threatening the petroglyphs at Lascaux (is this really
> news?):

> http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003457

> The Sorbonne will continue its dig in the Sinai:

> http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o080523n.htm

> A Thracian gold wreath is on display in Sofia:

> http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22244

> ... and excitement is building about a pending dig in the
> Halka Bunar area:

> http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22202

> Athens new subway turned up piles of artifacts:

>
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13011&m=A06&aa=1&eido\
s=S

> A rather ornate Roman bridge once spanned the Tyne, it appears:

> http://tinyurl.com/bhho

> The vikings were apparently responsible for introducing ironing to Scotland
(evil!):

> http://tinyurl.com/b2j4

> The latest on the Ayodhya dig:

> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?msid=45593923

> ================================================================
> THE AMERICAS
> ================================================================
> Archaeologists believe they have found the site of Werewocomoco,
> which, of course, is getting much press attention as the village
> whence came Pocahontas and/or her father:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/national/07INDI.html
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3009217.stm
> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/cowa-so1050603.php
> http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=6&aid=D7QSBQP80_story
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/08/MN224987.DTL
>
http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.powhatan07may07,0,6063582.story?coll=bal-home-head\
lines

> Drought in Arizona has helped to reveal a Salado site:

> http://www.msnbc.com/news/907855.asp
> http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/may/05/050509544.html

> The Peoria Journal Star has a feature on the Tampica Mounds:

> http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/g172585a.html

> The reburial of a child who was a slave has some interesting reading:

> http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2003/05_09-07/TOP

> A rural slave jail from Kentucky will be part of the National
> Underground Railroad Freedom Center:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/national/06SLAV.html
> ================================================================
> ALSO OF INTEREST
> ================================================================
> An item of interest (perhaps) to those who research the Etruscans:

>
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200305061148-0087-RT1-SST-0-NF11&page=0&id\
=agionline-eng.oggitalia

> It's National Archaeology Week down under (or up over, depending
> on your point of view -- nice poster for art teachers who want
> an example of rhythm):

> http://www.archaeologyweek.com/

> John Kluge has just given the humanities a huge shot in the arm
> (and/or pocketbook):

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/national/08KLUG.html

> Some news on the efforts to repair the bulge in Temple Mount:

>
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid\
=1052362483494
>
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1\
052362486494

> Ha'aretz has an interview with Israel Finkelstein:

>
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=291264&contrassID=2&subCon\
trassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

> ... and the Washington Post has an interview with underwater
> archaeologist Susan Langley:

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27364-2003May7.html

> The Lindisfarne Gospels are returning to Holy Island, sort of:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/tyne/3017903.stm

> A pair of Romanian astronomers claim to have pinpointed the exact
> time of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection:

> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_778195.html

> Oetzi is now claimed to be a "Stone Age Rambo":

> http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,949144,00.html

> Another 'let's look for Viking DNA in the UK' research project
> is underway:

> http://tinyurl.com/bhfo

> Mystery stone faces in Massachusetts:

>
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/130/region/Ancient_artwork_or_modern_hoax:.shtml

> A large number of Aborigine remains were repatriated this week:

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2637861,00.html

> First UK Education Secretary Charles Clarke was denigrating Classics;
> now he's turned to medievalists (nice list of the degrees held by
> cabinet members in this one):

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3014423.stm
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,11032,953166,00.html
> cf: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,953113,00.html

> The UK's Channel 4 caused a bit of controversy this week when it
> used the Uffington Horse as a sort of publicity stunt to
> advertise 'Big Brother':

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3000243.stm
> http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,949147,00.html (interesting
neologism in this one)
> ================================================================
> MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
> ================================================================
> Ancient Egypt Magazine:

> http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue17.htm

> Antiquity 77 (March 2003):

> http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html (TOC only)

> Arethusa 36.1 (Winter 2003):

> http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/toc/are36.1.html (abstracts/MUSE)

> Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77.1 (Spring 2003)

>
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm77.1.htm\
l (abstracts/MUSE)

> Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12.2 (October 2002):

> http://tinyurl.com/bhez (abstracts)

> Classical Quarterly 52.2 (December 2002):

> http://www3.oup.co.uk/clquaj/current/ (TOCS and claimed abstracts)

> Greece and Rome 50.1 (April 2003):

> http://www3.oup.co.uk/gromej/current/ (TOCS and claimed abstracts)

> Kadmos 41 (2002):

> http://www.degruyter.de/journals/kadmos/kadmos41.pdf (TOC)

> Minerva (May/June 2003):

> http://www.minervamagazine.com/  (scroll down for the new content)

> Mnemosyne 56.2 (March 2003):

>
http://gessler.ingentaselect.com/vl=11601038/cl=40/nw=1/rpsv/cw/brill/00267074/v\
56n2/contp1-1.htm (TOC/abstracts)

> Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 13 (2002):

> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/pia/cvol.html (TOC/abstracts)

> TAPA 131.1-2 (Autumn, 2002):

>
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_american_philological_associati\
on/toc/apa132.1.html (abstracts/MUSE)
> ================================================================
> ON THE WEB
> ================================================================
> Richard Benkin, "The Modern Destruction of Temple Mount":

> http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Modern_Destruction.htm

> Charles Isbell, "More Comments on the Davies-Dever Exchange":

> http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/More_comments.htm

> The James Ossuary is the subject of a Skeptical Inquirer article:

> http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-03/bonebox.html
> ================================================================
> NEW ONLINE BOOKS
> ================================================================
> The Characters of Theophrastus (trans. Jebb.):

> http://www.eudaemonist.com/biblion/characters/
> ================================================================
> CRIME BEAT
> ================================================================
> One of the steles at the centre of the Shultz case was returned
> to Egypt this week:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/international/middleeast/08ARTI.html

> ... along with other items:

> http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o100523o.htm

> Egyptian police seized close to two hundred 'Islamic dynasty'
> coins this week:

> http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_31065213,00.html
> (article in Spanish)
> ================================================================
> AT ABOUT.COM
> ================================================================
> Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a feature on the Circus Maximus:

> http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa030903a.htm

> Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a review of Robert F. Boszhardt's *Deep Cave
Art in the Upper Mississippi Valley*:

> http://archaeology.about.com/cs/rockart/a/deepcaveart.htm
> ================================================================
> BOOK REVIEWS
> ================================================================
> Adam Nicolson, *God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James
> Bible*:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/books/08MASL.html
> ================================================================
> EXHIBITIONS
> ================================================================
> Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium From the
> Mediterranean to the Indus:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/09/arts/09KIMM.html
> ================================================================
> CLASSICIST'S CORNER
> ================================================================
> Another Bogdanos-has-a-classics-degree piece:

>
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=38687§ion=NEWS&subsectio\
n=AMERICA_AT_WAR&year=2003&month=5&day=11

> An interesting double major:

> http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/05/11ky/met-5-uk05110-7494.html

> Political comments from an LSU classics prof:

> http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/105263430749480.xml

> I'm not sure whether this opinion piece is endorsing Classics or not:

> http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/5817958.htm

> Cambridge appears to know how to do fundraising for Classics:

> http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge/story.asp?StoryID=18962

> Anyone else find this choice of commencement speaker strange? (not
> Panetta ... scroll down to the person talking to the ancient
> history types):

> http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1726~1380260,00.html

> Hmmm ... didn't we see this as the future of Classics a decade ago?:

> http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/19-nagy.html

> There's a shortage of Latin teachers in Texas:

> http://web.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?wcd=5705

> Peter Jones:

>
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-\
10&id=3087

> Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
> http://www.akwn.net/

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

> Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

> U.S. Weather in Latin:
> http://latin.wunderground.com/

> ================================================================
> OBITUARIES
> ================================================================
> Edward A. Dowey (Theologian):

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/obituaries/08DOWE.html

> Geoffrey S. Kirk (Classicist):

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,949461,00.html
> ================================================================
> REPEATS
> ================================================================
> Earliest Writing:

> http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg6_18

> Language Follows the Plough:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/science/06LANG.html
> http://www.iht.com/articles/95527.html

> Mummy of Ramses I Returned:

> http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_30716564,00.html
(Spanish)

> ================================================================
> IRAQ
> ================================================================
> The interesting story this week (and not purely of archaeological
> interest) was what was found during the search for a seventh century copy of
the Talmud:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/international/worldspecial/07FIND.html

> More reports that artifacts were actually safely stored away
> prior to the conflict:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/international/worldspecial/06MUSE.html
> http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=528232003

> ... but also more reports that we might not ever know how much
> was actually stolen:

> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-iraq-usa-exhibit.html

> ... and also more reports about organized gangs doing the
> looting:

> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Looted-Art.html

> More reports on things being recovered (although we aren't getting news of
'specifics', other than 'only 38 articles are
> missing'):

> http://wcbs880.com/siteSearch/terror_story_118164331.html
> (somewhat out of date)
> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2700378
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/international/worldspecial/08CUST.html
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/07/sprj.nilaw.iraqi.artifacts/

> The St. Louis Post-Dispatch seems skeptical of lots of things (I think
> they mean 'eludes' in the headline, though):

> http://tinyurl.com/bhhe

> ... and more reports that Marines and the officials of the
> Baghdad museum just can't seem to get along:

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,950071,00.html

> The New York Times had a nice piece on the illicit antiquities
> trade in the region:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/05/international/worldspecial/05LOOT.html

> The opinion pieces continue:

> http://www.edinburghnews.com/opinion.cfm?id=526652003
> http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/637/op11.htm

> Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

> http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

> ================================================================
> OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
> ================================================================
> Archaeologica:

> http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

> Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

> http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

> Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

> http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

> CBA Newsfeed:

> http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

> CBA Archaeolblog:

> http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

> Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

>
http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

> Mirabilis.ca (blog):

> http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html

> Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

> http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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> upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out)

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> ================================================================
> ================================================================
> AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
> ================================================================
> Fungus is threatening the petroglyphs at Lascaux (is this really
> news?):

> http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003457

> The Sorbonne will continue its dig in the Sinai:

> http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o080523n.htm

> A Thracian gold wreath is on display in Sofia:

> http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22244

> ... and excitement is building about a pending dig in the
> Halka Bunar area:

> http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22202

> Athens new subway turned up piles of artifacts:

>
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13011&m=A06&aa=1&eido\
s=S

> A rather ornate Roman bridge once spanned the Tyne, it appears:

> http://tinyurl.com/bhho

> The vikings were apparently responsible for introducing ironing to Scotland
(evil!):

> http://tinyurl.com/b2j4

> The latest on the Ayodhya dig:

> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?msid=45593923

> ================================================================
> THE AMERICAS
> ================================================================
> Archaeologists believe they have found the site of Werewocomoco,
> which, of course, is getting much press attention as the village
> whence came Pocahontas and/or her father:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/national/07INDI.html
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3009217.stm
> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/cowa-so1050603.php
> http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=6&aid=D7QSBQP80_story
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/08/MN224987.DTL
>
http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.powhatan07may07,0,6063582.story?coll=bal-home-head\
lines

> Drought in Arizona has helped to reveal a Salado site:

> http://www.msnbc.com/news/907855.asp
> http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/may/05/050509544.html

> The Peoria Journal Star has a feature on the Tampica Mounds:

> http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/g172585a.html

> The reburial of a child who was a slave has some interesting reading:

> http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2003/05_09-07/TOP

> A rural slave jail from Kentucky will be part of the National
> Underground Railroad Freedom Center:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/national/06SLAV.html
> ================================================================
> ALSO OF INTEREST
> ================================================================
> An item of interest (perhaps) to those who research the Etruscans:

>
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200305061148-0087-RT1-SST-0-NF11&page=0&id\
=agionline-eng.oggitalia

> It's National Archaeology Week down under (or up over, depending
> on your point of view -- nice poster for art teachers who want
> an example of rhythm):

> http://www.archaeologyweek.com/

> John Kluge has just given the humanities a huge shot in the arm
> (and/or pocketbook):

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/national/08KLUG.html

> Some news on the efforts to repair the bulge in Temple Mount:

>
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid\
=1052362483494
>
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1\
052362486494

> Ha'aretz has an interview with Israel Finkelstein:

>
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=291264&contrassID=2&subCon\
trassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

> ... and the Washington Post has an interview with underwater
> archaeologist Susan Langley:

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27364-2003May7.html

> The Lindisfarne Gospels are returning to Holy Island, sort of:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/tyne/3017903.stm

> A pair of Romanian astronomers claim to have pinpointed the exact
> time of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection:

> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_778195.html

> Oetzi is now claimed to be a "Stone Age Rambo":

> http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,949144,00.html

> Another 'let's look for Viking DNA in the UK' research project
> is underway:

> http://tinyurl.com/bhfo

> Mystery stone faces in Massachusetts:

>
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/130/region/Ancient_artwork_or_modern_hoax:.shtml

> A large number of Aborigine remains were repatriated this week:

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2637861,00.html

> First UK Education Secretary Charles Clarke was denigrating Classics;
> now he's turned to medievalists (nice list of the degrees held by
> cabinet members in this one):

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3014423.stm
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,11032,953166,00.html
> cf: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,953113,00.html

> The UK's Channel 4 caused a bit of controversy this week when it
> used the Uffington Horse as a sort of publicity stunt to
> advertise 'Big Brother':

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3000243.stm
> http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,949147,00.html (interesting
neologism in this one)
> ================================================================
> MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
> ================================================================
> Ancient Egypt Magazine:

> http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue17.htm

> Antiquity 77 (March 2003):

> http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html (TOC only)

> Arethusa 36.1 (Winter 2003):

> http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/toc/are36.1.html (abstracts/MUSE)

> Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77.1 (Spring 2003)

>
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm77.1.htm\
l (abstracts/MUSE)

> Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12.2 (October 2002):

> http://tinyurl.com/bhez (abstracts)

> Classical Quarterly 52.2 (December 2002):

> http://www3.oup.co.uk/clquaj/current/ (TOCS and claimed abstracts)

> Greece and Rome 50.1 (April 2003):

> http://www3.oup.co.uk/gromej/current/ (TOCS and claimed abstracts)

> Kadmos 41 (2002):

> http://www.degruyter.de/journals/kadmos/kadmos41.pdf (TOC)

> Minerva (May/June 2003):

> http://www.minervamagazine.com/  (scroll down for the new content)

> Mnemosyne 56.2 (March 2003):

>
http://gessler.ingentaselect.com/vl=11601038/cl=40/nw=1/rpsv/cw/brill/00267074/v\
56n2/contp1-1.htm (TOC/abstracts)

> Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 13 (2002):

> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/pia/cvol.html (TOC/abstracts)

> TAPA 131.1-2 (Autumn, 2002):

>
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_american_philological_associati\
on/toc/apa132.1.html (abstracts/MUSE)
> ================================================================
> ON THE WEB
> ================================================================
> Richard Benkin, "The Modern Destruction of Temple Mount":

> http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Modern_Destruction.htm

> Charles Isbell, "More Comments on the Davies-Dever Exchange":

> http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/More_comments.htm

> The James Ossuary is the subject of a Skeptical Inquirer article:

> http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-03/bonebox.html
> ================================================================
> NEW ONLINE BOOKS
> ================================================================
> The Characters of Theophrastus (trans. Jebb.):

> http://www.eudaemonist.com/biblion/characters/
> ================================================================
> CRIME BEAT
> ================================================================
> One of the steles at the centre of the Shultz case was returned
> to Egypt this week:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/international/middleeast/08ARTI.html

> ... along with other items:

> http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o100523o.htm

> Egyptian police seized close to two hundred 'Islamic dynasty'
> coins this week:

> http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_31065213,00.html
> (article in Spanish)
> ================================================================
> AT ABOUT.COM
> ================================================================
> Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a feature on the Circus Maximus:

> http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa030903a.htm

> Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a review of Robert F. Boszhardt's *Deep Cave
Art in the Upper Mississippi Valley*:

> http://archaeology.about.com/cs/rockart/a/deepcaveart.htm
> ================================================================
> BOOK REVIEWS
> ================================================================
> Adam Nicolson, *God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James
> Bible*:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/books/08MASL.html
> ================================================================
> EXHIBITIONS
> ================================================================
> Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium From the
> Mediterranean to the Indus:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/09/arts/09KIMM.html
> ================================================================
> CLASSICIST'S CORNER
> ================================================================
> Another Bogdanos-has-a-classics-degree piece:

>
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=38687§ion=NEWS&subsectio\
n=AMERICA_AT_WAR&year=2003&month=5&day=11

> An interesting double major:

> http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/05/11ky/met-5-uk05110-7494.html

> Political comments from an LSU classics prof:

> http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/105263430749480.xml

> I'm not sure whether this opinion piece is endorsing Classics or not:

> http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/5817958.htm

> Cambridge appears to know how to do fundraising for Classics:

> http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge/story.asp?StoryID=18962

> Anyone else find this choice of commencement speaker strange? (not
> Panetta ... scroll down to the person talking to the ancient
> history types):

> http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1726~1380260,00.html

> Hmmm ... didn't we see this as the future of Classics a decade ago?:

> http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/19-nagy.html

> There's a shortage of Latin teachers in Texas:

> http://web.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?wcd=5705

> Peter Jones:

>
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-\
10&id=3087

> Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
> http://www.akwn.net/

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

> Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

> U.S. Weather in Latin:
> http://latin.wunderground.com/

> ================================================================
> OBITUARIES
> ================================================================
> Edward A. Dowey (Theologian):

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/obituaries/08DOWE.html

> Geoffrey S. Kirk (Classicist):

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,949461,00.html
> ================================================================
> REPEATS
> ================================================================
> Earliest Writing:

> http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg6_18

> Language Follows the Plough:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/science/06LANG.html
> http://www.iht.com/articles/95527.html

> Mummy of Ramses I Returned:

> http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_30716564,00.html
(Spanish)

> ================================================================
> IRAQ
> ================================================================
> The interesting story this week (and not purely of archaeological
> interest) was what was found during the search for a seventh century copy of
the Talmud:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/international/worldspecial/07FIND.html

> More reports that artifacts were actually safely stored away
> prior to the conflict:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/international/worldspecial/06MUSE.html
> http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=528232003

> ... but also more reports that we might not ever know how much
> was actually stolen:

> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-iraq-usa-exhibit.html

> ... and also more reports about organized gangs doing the
> looting:

> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Looted-Art.html

> More reports on things being recovered (although we aren't getting news of
'specifics', other than 'only 38 articles are
> missing'):

> http://wcbs880.com/siteSearch/terror_story_118164331.html
> (somewhat out of date)
> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2700378
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/international/worldspecial/08CUST.html
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/07/sprj.nilaw.iraqi.artifacts/

> The St. Louis Post-Dispatch seems skeptical of lots of things (I think
> they mean 'eludes' in the headline, though):

> http://tinyurl.com/bhhe

> ... and more reports that Marines and the officials of the
> Baghdad museum just can't seem to get along:

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,950071,00.html

> The New York Times had a nice piece on the illicit antiquities
> trade in the region:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/05/international/worldspecial/05LOOT.html

> The opinion pieces continue:

> http://www.edinburghnews.com/opinion.cfm?id=526652003
> http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/637/op11.htm

> Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

> http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

> ================================================================
> OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
> ================================================================
> Archaeologica:

> http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

> Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

> http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

> Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

> http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

> CBA Newsfeed:

> http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

> CBA Archaeolblog:

> http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

> Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

>
http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

> Mirabilis.ca (blog):

> http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html

> Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

> http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Joseph Lauer, Mark Elliott,
John Hall, Peter Archdale, Richard Kukan, Hernan Astudillo, Mike Ruggeri,
Maurice O'Sullivan, Donna Hurst, Richard Gibson, Isidoros,
Yonatan Nadelman,John McMahon, Leanne Archer, W. Richard Frahm,
and Dave Sowdon for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
out).

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
'Humans' and Neanderthals weren't so buddy buddy after all (or so
the theory goes *this* week):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_779587.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3023685.stm
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000BA9A0-456C-1EC1-BDC08\
09EC588EEDF
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0514_030514_neandertalDNA.html

Meanwhile, financial arrangements have been made to enable further
research into the site where the oldest hominid remains in Britain
were found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3027323.stm

The Sorbonne's dig near the Suez has been given the green light:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o150523c.htm

There are some new regulations for digging in Egypt:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o150523d.htm

A bog body found in County Offaly may date to 2000 b.p.:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgRwUhinAvWSIsgHuT\
Lc4nqWo2.asp
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?pt=n&id=32256

Ancient Thebes (the one in Greece) was the subject of a recent
paper:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_15/05/2003_29632

An almost-intact Roman transport vessel has been discovered/is
being excavated in the Netherlands:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/914205.asp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2680393,00.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/05/15/netherlands.roman.barg.ap/
http://tinyurl.com/c1db
http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~26127~1394370,00.html

A Roman 'High Street' is being excavated in Northamptonshire:

http://tinyurl.com/c1e0

It sounds like there's more to be found at Zeugma:

http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/215361.asp?cp1=1

A major Jewish catacomb is being excavated near Venosa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/15/arts/design/15VENO.html

A number of Buddhist caves and grottoes have been found in China's
Henan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-05/12/content_865727.htm

Excavations in Singapore are revealing a 14th century Chinese outpost:

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,189072-1053035940,00.ht\
ml?

There's new evidence for the date of the Lindisfarne Gospels:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3027095.stm

We'll probably hear more from this one ... a major excavation is
being launched in Aukra (Norway):

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=545187

... and hopefully more from this one as well ... a British scientist
has made a 'homemade robot' to scour the seabed in search of a sunken galleon:

http://www.thisisworcester.co.uk/worcestershire/worcester/news/WEN_NEWS_LATEST14\
.html

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A pre-Columbian, pre-Maya city has been found in a remote area of
Honduras:

http://tinyurl.com/c1gx

The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on Philadelphia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/travel/11philly.html

A 'rare' (obviously) codex will help shed light on Mexico's early
history:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=348110

They're looking for the "Lion of Baltimore" near Annapolis:

http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20030517-094440-5114r.htm

Latest on the Hunley:

http://www.charleston.net/stories/051703/hun_17hunley.shtml
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
More fallout from the 'fake archaeology' accusations in Japan:

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/Weekly2003/05.13.2003/Japan6.htm

Ha'aretz has a nice piece on the history of printing:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=293798

... and a feature on Israel Finkelstein (is this new?):

http://tinyurl.com/bamz

The repatriation-of-human-remains debate is heating up again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3032657.stm

... while a 21st dynasty mummy and case reached a record price
at Christie's:

http://tinyurl.com/c1ea

A number of languages are threatened with extinction:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=406324

A plan to save Venice from the sea:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/913715.asp

The Bristol Museum is renovating its Egyptian exhibit:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/bristol/3033111.stm

... while in Egypt, someone is getting impatient at the slow pace of
efforts to preserve Luxor:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o120523r.htm

The latest developments on Hadrian's Wall:

http://tinyurl.com/c1d1

The latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/12/1052591711326.html

The New York Times has a nice piece on antique Russian furniture
and Pompeiian influences thereupon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/arts/design/16ANTI.html

... and a preview of an upcoming major Rembrandt exhibition in
Boston:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/arts/design/16INSI.html

... and something on recent developments on the digitizing of
libraries front:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/technology/12TURN.html

... and the OCRíng of ancient scripts front:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/15/technology/circuits/15jott.html

... and notice of an upcoming production of a play by Mark
Twain (!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/arts/theater/12TWAI.html

... and what's happened to the Irish Hunger Monument in Manhattan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/nyregion/14PROF.html

... and the history of Central Park (interesting!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/15/nyregion/15CENT.html

Something different on the DNA front this week ... the body of
a Kansas farmer is to be exhumed to see if he was actually
Jesse James:

http://tinyurl.com/c1fs

An interesting piece on the use of postage stamps as small change
during the US Civil War:

http://www.psestamp.com/articles/article1099.chtml
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Assemblage 7 (full text):

http://www.shef.ac.uk/assem/issue7/

Hermes 131 (2003) (TOC)

http://www.steiner-verlag.de/Hermes/Hermes3.html

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 15.2 (2002) (abstracts):

http://www.continuumjournals.com/journals/issarticles.asp?jref=13&issref=1203
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Bruce Chilton, "The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/The_Missing_Jesus.htm
================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
E.A. Wallis Budge, *Legends of the Gods*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/leg/index.htm
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Vienna's Art History Museum is the latest victim of a somewhat
stunning 'smasha and grab':

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_779228.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/international/europe/13VIEN.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Austria-Art-Heist.html

A pile of pre-Columbian objects were stolen from a museum in Panama City:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/international/americas/14BRIE1.html

A pair of teens turned themselves in after defacing petroglyphs
in Utah's Juke Box Cave:

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/May/05142003/utah/56675.asp
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a preview of an upcoming
miniseries on Julius Caesar:

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

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst continues her history of archaeology
series:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/educationalresour/a/history4.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Donald Kagan, *The Peloponnesian War*:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/133/living/2_minds_make_Peloponnesian_War_vivi\
d+.shtml
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Assorted items of interest at the first Ruhr Triennale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/15/arts/music/15RUHR.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
The Kensington Runestone is making news again:

http://www.echopress.com/article.cfm?articleID=8975C3F1-27E5-4C1F-8D84072F8071EB\
E5

... as are the Tasaday:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0508/p20s01-bogn.html
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Stories from an Eruption: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis (Naples):

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030519-450959,00.htm\
l
http://www.iht.com/articles/95797.html

Assorted items from Brown's Attic:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2038
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
In case you missed it, the US Senate made public much testimony
from the McCarthy hearings this week, including the testimony of
Naphtali Lewis (do a 'find' to get to Lewis' section):

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06amay20030700/www.gpo.gov/congress/sena\
te/mccarthy/83870.html

... other testimony at:

http://www.gpo.gov/congress/senate/senate12cp107.html

The Vatican reissued/reprinted/rereleased its neo-Latin dictionary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/international/europe/14LATI.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Vatican-Latin-Lovers.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=24&art_id=iol1053093805621L354&set_id=1

High praise for an undergraduate from VDH:

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/6777157p-7715828c.html

McCartney played the Colosseum (sort of ... he also helped raise
funds for matters archaeological et alia):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/arts/13ARTS.html

ClassCon (sort of) in David Levering Lewis' comments to grads:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/05182003/south_of/29440.htm

... and in a piece on representations of food in art:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/16/1052885397290.html

Perhaps a theatrical review, perhaps coverage of a course:

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2003/May/05/LNlist4.htm

Some responses to the Strauss piece in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/opinion/L11STRA.html

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-\
17&id=3118

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Origins of Rome:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030512/rome.html

================================================================
IRAQ
================================================================
We're still getting the 'we don't know how much is missing' stories:

http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/latest&\
f=03051602.plt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml

More suggestions that the looting wasn't as extensive as previously
thought:

http://tinyurl.com/c1dm
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/weekinreview/11WEEK.html (scroll down)
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1362260,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3035377.stm

... and we're getting a different spin on the looting of the museums; museum
staff are refusing to reveal where they've hidden items
either to US officials or people with ties to the former regime:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-05-16-iraq-antiquities_x.htm

Items from libraries were also hidden:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/133/nation/Library_s_volumes_safely_hidden+.sh\
tml

Other things have taken a different turn as well ... it appears
US troops are vandalizing ancient sites (although the spelling
mistake makes one wonder ...):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,958469,00.html

Italy is offering its services (and funding) to help retrieve
purloined antiquities from Iraq:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10376510.htm

... while an Australian archaeologist will help restore the records
of the museum:

http://www.jordantimes.com/Wed/homenews/homenews7.htm

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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Bill Kennedy, Susan Jaslow, Jennifer K. Wees, Gene Barkley, Leanne
Archer, Yonatan Nadelman, Robert White, Isidoros, and Sally Winchester
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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What might be the earliest human attempt at sculpture was found
in Morocco:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3047383.stm

A number of items were returned to Egypt this week:

http://metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-20/eg/ancient_pharaonic_relics.htm
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o220523.htm

There's been a security upgrade at Giza:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o160523l.htm

The Temple of Edfu has been made more 'tourist friendly':

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o220523a.htm

The tomb of Amenhotep III will undergo emergency restoration:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o220523b.htm

Slovak archaeologists are investigating what their ancient forebears
dined upon (scroll down):

http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?cl=12817

The University of Warwick has given Roman theatres a somewhat different
VR treatment:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030521092430.htm

Wow ... maybe the legal system does work ... Greece's highest court
has ruled against government plans to build that ugly thing passing
for a museum on the Acropolis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/arts/21ARTS.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041595.stm

... or maybe it doesn't (scroll down a bit):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/arts/22ARTS.html
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11093

There was a conference devoted to Nicopolis this week:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=21060

A bit of a teaser on the excavations at Halkan Bunar (Bulgaria):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22633

... which is probably related to the discovery (maybe) of a
Thracian temple of Dionysius:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_24/05/2003_29992
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/features/238966.htm

An Etruscan gold book (?!?) has been donated to Bulgaria's
national museum (this sounds awfully suspicious on several
levels):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22691

This is interesting ... archaeologists are using fingerprint evidence
to trace the work of a Roman potter:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/3045753.stm

There's big plans afoot to excavate Roman Chester:

http://tinyurl.com/cli8
http://tinyurl.com/clib

An article (in the Times!) looks at ancient Rome's problems with flooding
and mentions in passing the possible location of the Temple of the Deified
Augustus(!):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-685904,00.html

The BBC has a feature on Hadrian's Wall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2931730.stm

Big news this week (in the sense that it actually was mentioned
on our local radio station) was the discovery of six more burials
near Stonehenge:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/international/europe/22STON.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/97243.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/916976.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/wiltshire/3047469.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_783642.html
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/press/eba_burials_21-05-03.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-05-21-stonehenge_x.htm
http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/894308p-6230695c.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/5912149.htm
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=iol1053695678141W253&set_id=1

... and the Telegraph has a piece on the Boxgrove site:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2003/05/22/ecfaxe\
21.xml

Latest on the Ayodhya dig:

http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/may/22ayo.htm

Japan's Yayoi period may have started some 500 years earlier than
previously thought:

http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2003052100218.html

Most of the sites excavated by disgraced Japanese archaeologist
Shinichi Fujimura have been discredited:

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=260991

The ancient mosque of Herat is being restored:

http://metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-21/cultent/herat_hones_ancient.htm

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THE AMERICAS
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A previously-unknown civilization may have been found in Nicaragua
(I'm not sure whether this is related to last week's Honduras
story):

http://www.brightsurf.com/news/may_03/EDU_news_051603_e.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3035113.stm
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_32610587,00.html (Spanish)

Ancient Inca agricultural techniques are making a comeback:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3047421.stm

Here's coverage of the excavation of a Fort Pitt blockhouse:

http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030524blockhouse0524p5.asp

A Lake Woodland site is being excavated in Illinois:

http://www.muscatinejournal.com/display/inn_news/news2.txt

The New York Times has a piece on the Mountain Meadows Massacre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/opinion/24DENT.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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This is really marginal, but folks might be interested in the next
appearance of 'The Turk' -- an eighteenth century chess playing
automaton:

http://rfeditor.tripod.com/turk0303.html

Marivaux's "Triumph of Love" has been given the TV treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/arts/television/18EDEL.html

Was Sargent's "Madame X" actually a Monsieur (correcting the semi-
mixed metaphor in the original headline):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/arts/design/18DILI.html

... and a semi-related piece to cf.:

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/n_8685/

Books damaged by flooding in Prague -- including incunabula --
have been saved:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/24/wxczek24.xml
http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2003-03/prague.html

A manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony annotated by the
composer fetched a nice price at auction this week:

http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/0503/22beethoven.html

Last week we were digging up Jesse James for DNA tests ... this
week, it's Billy the Kid:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/917607.asp
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology 56.3 (May/June 2003):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index

Archaeology Odyssey

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html

Arethusa 36.2 (Spring 2003):

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/toc/are36.2.html (MUSE)

Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2003):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html

Mneomosyne 56.2 (March 2003):

http://ernesto.ingentaselect.com/vl=1201938/cl=65/nw=1/rpsv/cw/brill/00267074/v5\
6n2/contp1-1.htm (TOCs + Abstracts)

Omnibus 45 (January 2003):

http://www.jact.org/currentissue.htm (TOCS)
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ON THE WEB
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In case you missed it (like I did) Archaeology Magazine's latest
'Interactive Dig' is the distillery at Mt. Vernon:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/mtvernon/

The AMICO library of museum images might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/technology/circuits/22muse.html

... as might the Medici Archives Project:

http://www.medici.org/

Bruce Chilton, "The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New
Testament":

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

Jeff Blakely, "Davidic and Solomonic Bazaars, Barracks, Stables,
Warehouses, Toll Stations, Tripartite Pillared Buildings, or
Entrepôts ...Whatever: Beyond the Structures Themselves":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Davidic_and_Solomonic.htm
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a piece on various myths associated
with Hades:

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

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on the Japanese city of
Nara:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/asia/a/nara.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Erica Jong, *Sappho's Leap*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/books/review/18CONNOLT.html

Christopher Logue, *All Day Permanent Red*:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2082824/
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Cultural Olympiad things:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/arts/dance/22ARTE.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Claims of the discovery of anchors from the Apostle Paul's shipwreck
have resulted in a lawsuit:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/119/42.0.html

These mysterious 'stone faces' keep popping up in various smaller
online newspapers ... I suspect this is the appropriate rubric
to file them under:

http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/local_regional/ap_stonefaces05252003.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
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Art of the First Cities:

http://washingtontimes.com/arts/20030523-083435-7845r.htm

"Art of the First Cities* has prompted a NYT editorial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/opinion/24SAT4.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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ClassCon (sort of) in musings about postwar Iraq:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2082871/

... and in a piece on Izaak Walton's *Compleat Angler*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/opinion/24SAT4.html

More Bogdanosiana:

http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/latest&\
f=03052335.plt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml

Another Classicist involved in spelling bees:

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_1978477,00.html
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/145/learning/Ex_spelling_champion_earns_loquac\
ious_role+.shtml

A nice piece on the student who will deliver Harvard's
"Latin Oration" this year:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/5941294.htm

Victor Davis Hanson's latest opinion piece:

http://www.chronwatch.com/featured/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2793

Kathryn Gutzwiller has a nice detail to add to her c.v.:

http://newsrecord.tuc.uc.edu/read.asp?ID=13362

What some of the younger set are doing:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1464&dept_id=369559&newsid=8034534&PAG=46\
1&rfi=9

An 1842 photo of the Temple of Olympian Zeus reached a record
price at Christie's last week:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11092

A piece on travel in the ancient Roman world:

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030520/5171576s.htm

So that's what the 'Allegory of the Cave' was all about:

http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la-sci-branes17may1700\
2430§ion=/printstory

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-\
24&id=3131

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
William H. Forsyth (Met Curator):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/obituaries/21FORS.html

John Hurst (Medieval Archaeologist):

http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/23/db2302.x\
ml
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REPEATS
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Biblical Committees:

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/030526crbo_books

No Homo sapiens/Neanderthal Interbreeding:

http://www.sciencenews.org/20030517/fob1.asp

Vatican Latin Dictionary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3030169.stm
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20030516.htm

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IRAQ
================================================================
UNESCO (finally) sent a team over to ascertain what is and
isn't missing in Iraq:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-05/17/content_873647.htm

... and found roughly 1000 items are missing:

http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=180710

... or is it 2000 - 3000 pieces?:

http://www.iht.com/articles/97393.html

Much was apparently taken to Baghdad's central bank, which is now
under guard:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11095

Iraq's universities have also been looted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/international/worldspecial/19BASR.html

We are now hearing of archaeological sites being looted as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/23/international/worldspecial/23LOOT.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/97285.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/97373.html

More gloom (all different):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/639/re7.htm
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/20_05_03_b.asp
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2003/s861573.htm
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V5596.AP-Iraq-Plun\
dering4.html
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_876400_1_A,00.html
http://hnn.us/comments/12429.html

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:

http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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Steve Rankin, Yonatan Nadelman, John McMahon, Leanne Archer, and
W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always hoping
I have left no one out)


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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A Norwegian schoolkid on a field trip has come across what might
be a Neolithic skull:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=553537

A British fellow has discovered a brick from Ur ... in a cupboard:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/leicestershire/2948162.stm

Some first dynasty finds from Egypt:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o290523p.htm

An Italian archaeologist is convinced Anatolia is the 'cradle of
civilization' (you might have to scroll down on this one and click
a link ... strange url things going on here):

http://www.zaman.com/default.php?kn=2492

This should be a repeat, but since the original report was rather
short (and didn't have a photo, as this one does), here's a bit more
on that Etruscan Gold Book:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2939362.stm

A dig at Tiberias has uncovered a 12th century Crusader fortress:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=297623

They've finally decided to 'excavate' the Sussex:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/25/international/europe/25SUSS.html

A mass grave in South Africa is raising archaeological questions:

http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/general/0,1009,59531,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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The donation of Nat Turner's skull to a proposed National Civil
Rights Hall of Fame is causing some controversy:

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsindex/26-ds5.htm

The New York Times has a piece on Concord, Mass. and its history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/national/30HIST.html

Some 18th century 'brick clamps' were recently found in Maryland:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60432-2003May30.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, the latest Y-Chromosome studies suggest the
indigenous Celtic population of Britain survived rather more
generally than previously thought (not sure if that make sense
as I've written it, but I'm still waiting for coffee!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/science/27BRIT.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/97790.html

... while humans may have migrated out of Africa only 70,000
years ago (according to DNA):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/su-sud052703.php

The Parthenon/Elgin Marbles are in the news again ... first, with
a scholar's suggestion that the British Museum has an arm in the
wrong place:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,963391,00.html

... and with Canada's prime minister apparently not aware of
the Canadian Parliament's position on the matter:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030529.upm0529/BNStory/Nati\
onal/
http://www.museum-security.org/03/090.html#8

A nice followup to the 'endangered languages' story mentioned in
Explorator 6.3:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/science/27ESSA.html

In case you're thinking of starting up a historical renovation
type project, you might want to read about the experience in
Gold Hill, N.C.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/national/27GOLD.html

The aphrodisiac/fertility aspects of mead is in the news for
some reason (rather different spins in the following):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2949742.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/05/30/britain.mead/index.html

The New York Times has a feature on the history of nationalism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/arts/31NATI.html

The French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan has reopened
its library after two decades (scroll waaaaaaaaaaay down):

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/may2003-daily/26-05-2003/main/update.shtml#33

An opinion piece trying to figure out what definition of empire
best suits the US these days:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=1195\
0
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Anistoriton 7 (2003):

http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/anistor/cover_en.htm (full text)

Antiquity 77 (June 2003):

http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html (TOCs)

Arion 10.3 (Winter 2003):

http://www.bu.edu/arion/  (TOCs ... some articles)

Bible Review (June 2003):

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

Leeds International Classical Studies:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/lics/ (forthcoming articles available)
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ON THE WEB
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21st Century Magazine has an interesting piece suggesting the
Antikythera mechanism might have been used to determine longitude:

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Spring03/Antikythera.html

The University of Notre Dame Libraries' Colonial Coin Collection:

http://www.coins.nd.edu/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
E.A. Wallis Budge, *The Egyptian Heaven and Hell*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ehh.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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An investigation is being launched into some purloined Buddhas
recently sold by Christies:

http://www.museum-security.org/03/090.html#2

Some stolen Civil War artifacts were recently recovered:

http://www.museum-security.org/03/090.html#4

Theft of artifacts from Afghanistan continues unabated apparently:

http://www.museum-security.org/03/087.html#5
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a genealogy of Achilles:

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

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Jeanne Moe's Project
Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/publicarchaeology/a/pec2003.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Matthew Battles, *Library: An Unquiet History* ("... the history
of libraries is the history of destruction of books"):

http://tinyurl.com/d68w

David Nye, *America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives
of New Beginnings* (early American technology)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/arts/31SHEL.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Met is closing its Islamic galleries for renovations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/arts/design/27ISLA.html
cf.: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/arts/design/27SIDE.html

Legends of Our Times (N. American Indian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/arts/design/30GLUE.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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First ... an announcement from a colleague:

Tela Latina is a new, joint project of the American Philological
Association (APA) and the American Classical League (ACL). We are
focused on bringing peer-review and the spirit of collaboration to
Latin pedagogy web resources and invite YOU to share your views
and concerns about the state of Latin Language teaching materials
on the Internet by filling out a short online survey. The project
team is keen to hear your thoughts. Those interested in volunteering
their expertise are encouraged to check the appropriate box(es)
on the online survey form, accessible from Monday afternoon
June 2, 2003 at:

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics.

More on the influence of Strauss:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/717acusr.asp

Plenty of ClassCon at the Stratford Festival this year (sqweeee!):

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030529.wstra0529/BNStory/Enter\
tainment/

The Boston Globe has a feature on Victor Davis Hanson:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/145/focus/The_farmer+.shtml

Interesting how different news agencies all used the same
Classical reference (sort of) in regards to the end of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/story/0,12900,963826,00.html
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/sfl-libuffy-newsdaymay2\
0,0,5616959.story?coll=sfla-entertainment-headlines

I wasn't sure how to classify this one, but it seems to be appropriate
here ... the NYTimes has a review of a CD set called "Images of Music:
A Cultural Heritage" which has a pile of thematically-related images
which somehow relate to music (e.g. Apollo and Orpheus):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/arts/music/01HIGH.html

Dr. Ink has 'ancient wisdom for hip writers':

http://www.poynter.org/templates/column_a/default.asp?id=1&aid=32711

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-\
31&id=3160

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Antonio Ferrua (Jesuit Archaeologist):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/29/db2902.xml
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/76852.htm
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-obit-ferrua,0,3599198.\
story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
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REPEATS
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Pompeiian Frescoes via U. Warwick:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030526/roman3d.html

Stone Faces from Massachusetts:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_784886.html (with photo!)

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IRAQ
================================================================
An opinion piece suggesting that it wasn't a good idea for so
many antiquities to be kept in Iraq anyway:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003399

The conflicting reports over how much is missing continue:

http://metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-20/cultent/un_expert_to.htm

... as do claims much was hidden prior to the war:

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=88993

The loss of so many items has given an extra boost, however, to
projects like the Cuneiform Digital Library:

http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-roug27may27,0,3938141.st\
ory?coll=cl%2Dcalendar

While they still argue over what is missing from museums, it is
is becoming increasingly clear that there is massive looting of
archaeological sites going on:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/international/worldspecial/27LOOT.html

... and it is obvious there is a market for such items:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/international/worldspecial/28BARG.html

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:

http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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Leanne Archer, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, Paul Cowie, Dave Sowdon,
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Perhaps this should be in a different section, but maybe not ...
the latest argument for preservation of cuneiform documents suggests
we need them because they document global warming:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_787743.html

The head of Nefertiti was given a body this week (!):

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030607/2003060735.html
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o070623h.htm
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6564484%255E1702,0\
0.html

In a semi-related story, archaeologists believe they have identified
the mummy of Nefertiti:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-706884,00.html

The Egyptian SCA has set up a Pyramid Studies Department:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o080623a.htm

Conflict in the Middle East is destroying (not surprisingly) many
sites of historical interest:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,968529,00.html

Perhaps not coincidentally, archaeologists have asked for more
supervision as repairs are conducted at Temple Mount:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1\
054545692423

Those colossal statues on Mount Nemrut (Turkey) will (finally) get
some restoration work:

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw1054723865303B236&s\
et_id=1

Protestors showed up at a dig in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=300074

DW has a nice feature on Colonia Ulpia Traiana:

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_579491_1_A,00.html

Some seals found in India are shedding light on the Ahar-Banas
culture:

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/possehl/ahar-banas.shtml

A collector/purveyor of Chinese porcelain is stirring up controversy
(I suspect we'll hear more about this one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/national/06TREA.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/98785.html

They're still looking for the actual resting place of Emperor Qin's
remains:

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030605-094206-9277r.htm

In case you missed it, NASA's picture of the day this week included
some spectacular aerial shots of the Valley of the Kings:

http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/y2003/02jun_votk1.htm?list526886
http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/y2003/03jun_votk2.htm (after dark)

An Anglo Saxon brooch was excavated this week, bearing with it what
is believed to be the oldest example of English writing:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F06%2F07%2Fnbroo\
07.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/07/nbroo07.xml&sShe\
et=/news/2003/06/07/ixhome.html

A Cathedral builty in the tenth century by Otto the Great may
have been found:

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6542629%255E401,0\
0.html

Some 13th century frescoes from the Cathedral in Siena went on
public view for the first time in centuries this week:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/08/wfresc08.xml&sS\
heet=/news/2003/06/08/ixworld.html

Medieval toilets are the subject of an exhibition:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2960146.stm

... and in case you missed this one too, a piece of Viking excrement
is to undergo some restoration work:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/north_yorkshire/2969730.stm

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Construction of a hockey arena near Midland, Ontario revealed a
Huron burial ground (nice bit of irony in this one):

http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id=FC92CE4B-6E53-43A0-A8BA-E07357299\
D35
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/news/story.asp?id=5365AB53-5EFA-4986-B23C-BE3DDED42\
9FD
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
A piece on the origins and history of soap:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0603/p18s03-hfks.html

This week's installment of 'who is buried in whose tomb' looks at the
remains thought to belong to Columbus:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/921170.asp
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=2864934
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=9&u=/nm/20030602/\
sc_nm/spain_columbus_dc
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_33563934,00.html (Spanish)

cf.: http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_33756529,00.html
(Spanish
article on the recent spate of DNA tests on historical figures)

There is some pre-discovery hype for the location of Darwin's
Beagle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/essex/2950694.stm

New technology opens up some interesting possibilities for virtual
displays in museums:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2960494.stm

The Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) Database
has received more funding to put more documents online:

http://www.michigandaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/06/02/3edaf5a73a2dd

The travails of preserving antiquities in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/8/features5.htm

The online catalog of the American Antiquarian Society might be
useful to some folks:

http://catalog.mwa.org/

The latest 'launch of a replica ship' (this time, 18th century Swedish):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/923126.asp

The latest on Mel Gibson's Latin/Aramaic movie about Jesus:

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6560482%255E2902,00.ht\
ml

A piece on the history of the Ten Commandments might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/07/national/07BELI.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Antiquity 77 (June 2003)

http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/latestsearch.html (first mentioned
last week, but they've just added a pile of full text articles from this
issue to their Project Gallery)

Archaeology 56.3 (May/June 2003):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Smithsonian Magazine has a feature on Neanderthals:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues03/jun03/neanderthal.html
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Colnel Fanin, *The Royal Museum at Naples,BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF
THE EROTIC PAINTINGS, BRONZES, AND STATUES CONTAINED IN THAT FAMOUS
"CABINET SECRET"*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/rmn/index.htm
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A reward has been offered for info leading to the arrest of vandals
who defaced pictographs in the Badlands of Oregon:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2003/06/07/oregon/news03.txt
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill reviews Benita Jaro's *The Lock*
(a novel about Cicero):

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

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst waxes on NAGPRA:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/ethicsandlaw/a/russell.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
James Morone, *Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History*:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2044

Folks looking for some summer reading might want to browse the
New York Times' 'summer reading' supplement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/books/review/summer-reading-list-fiction.html
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Sea Routes — From Sidon to Huelva (Athens)

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_20036237_04/06/2003_30406
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13015&m=A37&aa=1&eido\
s=S
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The New York Times has another piece on the new Vatican dictionary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/weekinreview/01HORO.html

The latest bits about Leo Strauss and his influence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/07/opinion/07CLAY.html (by Jenny
Straus Clay)

A somewhat different career for this classicist:

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-0/105479603324170.xml

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-06-\
07&id=3182

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Antonio Ferrua (Jesuit Archaeologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/obituaries/29FERR.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Ancient Nicaraguan City:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3035113.stm

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IRAQ
================================================================
editor's note -- I think it is safe now to return news from Iraq
to the Africa,Europe, and Asia section as it does not seem to be
coming in the overwhelming quantities it used to; the 'return' will
occur next week.

The Baghdad Museum is reopening (!):

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters06-08-051802.asp?reg=MIDEAST

A large number of missing artifacts were found in a vault this
week (although they still seem to be unsure of numbers):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=9&u=/nm/20030607/\
ts_nm/iraq_treasure_dc
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA0XB0UNGD.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2971882.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0602_030602_iraqgold.html
(photos)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/6041743.htm

A somewhat different view of troops' activities in Iraq:

http://www.wtvo.com/Global/story.asp?S=1306710

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:

http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html

Stone Pages Archaeo News:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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Susan Jaslow, Judy Underwood, W. Richard Frahm, Stephen Balbach,
Greg Kindall, Louis A. Okin, Yonatan Nadelman, John McMahon, Tony
Jackson, Edward C. D. Hopkins, Doug Herbert, Joseph Nicholas,
Donna Hurst, Tony Wons, Leanne Archer, John Hill, Maurice O'Sullivan,
and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (as always hoping
I have left no one out)

Happy Fathers Day to all you fathers out there!!
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What are believed to be the oldest homo sapiens skulls ever found
have been, er, found:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/924977.asp
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993814
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2978800.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0612/p03s02-stgn.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/science/12FOSS.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-06/uoc--1fs061003.php
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_789516.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030611_410.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=624&e=3&u=/ap/20030611/\
ap_on_sc/oldest_humans

Since the Times link last week was rather more ephemeral than it
initally appeared to be, here's more coverage of the claim that
the mummy of Nefertiti has been identified:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030616-457370-1,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2978710.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/924365.asp
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/243893.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,975411,00.html

Egyptian authorities are balking at the identification, by the
way:

http://eturbonews.com/editions/13JUN2003.htm#article8 (scroll down)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20030612/\
od_nm/egypt_nefertiti_dc

Still with Nefertiti, the claim that German museum officials
mounted her famous bust on a 'body' is causing a major row:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2979394.stm

Egypt Today has a nice piece on Gurna and the people who live and/or
used to live there:

http://www.egypttoday.com/issues/0306/A963/0306A963.asp

Plenty of coverage of the return of the Warka vase this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/international/worldspecial/13LOOT.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2986868.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/12/sprj.nilaw.museum/
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=650952003

... and the treasures of Nimrud (news of which arrived just as
Explorator went 'to press' last weekend):

http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=7&aid=D7RH8I3G0_story
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/07/iraqi.treasures.ap/index.html
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_34205522,00.html (Spanish)

More coverage of in the 'most of the artifacts were safe and
sound vein' (with varying numbers, of course):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32129-2003Jun8.html?referrer=emai\
larticle

The count is somewhat confusing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29518-2003Jun7.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2763-713846,00.html (duration of link
unknown)

... and now the editorials begin on who's to blame for 'fudging
the numbers' of missing items from Iraq:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57406-2003Jun13.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52824-2003Jun12.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974193,00.html
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003614

cf. the BBC's lengthy report at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/iraq/iraq_after_the_war_01.shtml

Journalists' focus is now turning to looting of archaeological sites:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6064613.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/international/worldspecial/12LOOT.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993825
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=585&e=7&u=/nm/20030611/\
sc_nm/iraq_archeology_dc
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/20_05_03_b.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47252-2003Jun11.html?nav=hptop_ts

Hopefully this will be of use to someone (the article is in Farsi
and I'm trusting my source for the content) ... a number of
Parthian period artifacts, including an anchor and some
pottery, has been found on the shore of the Persian Gulf near
Gonaveh:

http://www.chn.ir/shownews.asp?no=1262

The Jehoash inscription has (apparently) been declared to be
a fake:

http://tinyurl.com/ecqb
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=44699

Athens News has a touristy sort of thing (written by Jonathan Carr)
on Eupalinus' water tunnel on Samos:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13016&m=A20&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Die Welt has a feature (in German) on the Scythians:

http://www.welt.de/data/2003/06/02/105740.html

Here's more recent coverage of the excavation of that Roman barge
found in the Netherlands:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2969638.stm

A possible human sacrifice site has been found in Yorkshire:

http://tinyurl.com/ecte

Somewhat vague coverage of the latest from Ayodhya:

http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en28468&F_catID=&f_type=source
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2003-daily/11-06-2003/main/main17.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_877648.htm

cf:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2981106.stm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=585&e=2&u=/nm/20030611/\
sc_nm/religion_india_temple_dc

Chinese archaeologists 'did a Hawass doing a Geraldo' and opened
a 1000 b.p. coffin on live television:

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0612ChinaCoffin12-ON.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_789775.html

The Great Wall of China isn't in as great condition as it might
appear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/international/asia/12WALL.html

More coverage of the claims of oldest writing from China:

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2003-06-12/118859.html

More Fujimura fallout:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=644342003
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A pair of firepits has been found during construction in the Pacific
Northwest:

http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/134186

A feature on the Vore Buffalo Jump site:

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2003/06/10/news/wyoming/240dd7ac129a45\
ebfe206398d42db0fc.txt

A large number of aboriginal artifacts from Ontario are on their
way to a dump in Michigan because workers doing renovations at the
U of T thought they were trash:

http://tinyurl.com/dw61

The New York Historical Society discovered recently that it had
a couple of 1792 quarters in its possession:

http://uspatterns.com/uspatterns/2j117quarfou.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, it appears humans might have been almost extinct
some 70,000 years B.P.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2975862.stm

A wireless sonar system which can measure things accurately within
a "cubic centimetre" should be useful to underwater archaeologists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/technology/circuits/12next.html

A sort of overview of the budgetary situation of the Antiquities
Department on the Turkish half of Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/8/features5.htm

The Archaeology Service in Greece is doing some major hiring:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100017_12/06/2003_30700

The British Museum is celebrating its 250th anniversary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2969256.stm
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_34842378,00.html

An interesting account of the results of the search for a living
relative of Marco Polo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/09/nyregion/09POLO.html

Coinciding with an exhibition devoted to the stuff, the New York
Times has a nice piece on the history of chocolate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/10/science/10CHOC.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/arts/design/13CHOC.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/99249.html
cf.: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s878479.htm

The Met has acquired a Barocci:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/arts/design/13INSI.html

Music of the French Baroque is suddenly popular again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/09/arts/music/09CHRI.html

An item on Britain's Museum of Immigration and Diversity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/arts/design/11IMMI.html

The New York Times has a touristy thing on Sicily (mostly
Ragusa):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/travel/15sicily.html

... and Naples:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/travel/15naples.html

Might as well include some stuff on Friday the Thirteenth:

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/061303/new_061303new004001.shtml
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Anistoriton 7 (2003):

http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/anistor/cover_en.htm (full text)

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 14.1 (May 2003):

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0905-7196&vid=14&iid=1&oc=&s=
(TOCS and abstracts)

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77.2 (Summer 2003):

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm77.\
2.html (MUSE)

Journal of Early Christian Studies 11.2 (Summer 2003):

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_early_christian_studies/toc/earl11.\
2.html (MUSE)

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16.1 (June 2003):

http://www.continuumjournals.com/journals/index.asp?jref=13 (abstracts)

Quaderni della Casa Romena 2 (2002):

http://www.geocities.com/serban_marin/quaderni2002.html (all articles online)
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ON THE WEB
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I just came across this one -- Hubert Chanson has a website devoted
to his various professional interests, among which are Roman
aqueducts. There's a nice presentation of the technical aspects of
same at the following link and if you make your way to the bottom
there is a link to reprints of his research papers, many of
which deal with matters aqueductal. Worth a look:

http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/rom_aq.html

The Newton Project:

http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/   (site)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/technology/circuits/12newt.html (coverage)

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has put all its content from 1841 to 1902
online in a rather useable (but slow, if you're on dialup) way:

http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/

The New Yorker has a little feature on sites dealing with Captain
Cook and the Endeavour:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?020722on_onlineonly02

... and some stuff on Cleopatra (although these aren't necessarily
the best links out there):

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?010507on_onlineonly02
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906):

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
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CRIME BEAT
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A number of items were stolen from the Rothschild collection:

http://www.arts.scotsman.com/headlines_specific.cfm?id=7344

The looting continues in Afghanistan, apparently:

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=28319

A report on looting of sites in China:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_body.asp?section=Opinion&oid=25428
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Ling Ouyang, "Tacitus and Tiberius":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_ouyang1a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on health and safety in
the field:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/fieldlabgear/a/safety.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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The New York Times has a feature on Elaine Pagels (*The Gnostic
Gospels*):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/books/14PAGE.html

and:

Elaine Pagels, *Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/review/15KERMODT.html

Easter Islandiana:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/review/15UPCHURT.html

James Gleick, *Isaac Newton*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/review/15GINGERT.html
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PERFORMANCES
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The Persians:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/arts/theater/11PERS.html

Les Boreades (opera):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/arts/music/11BORE.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the
Classical Past:

http://news.amn.org/press.jsp?id=1579

Turner: The Late Seascapes (good slide show!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/arts/design/13COTT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Latest installment of what to do with a classics degree:

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2003/06/15/news/wyoming/39e5c73b4cbf74\
f39581af28a1386062.txt

Some results from a Greek Translation contest:

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0306/13/m15.html

ClassCon in an editorial that is somewhat hard to follow:

http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8207

Interesting tidbits in coverage of 'Private Lives of Pompeii':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/arts/television/13TVWK.html

More coverage of Leo Strauss' 'influence':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/opinion/L13STRA.html
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105513011183328200,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1\
054693171392

The movies about Alexander must be coming soon ... we're beginning
to get coverage like this, which claims Alexander wasn't the big
spreader of Hellenism that he is claimed to be:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/06/12_great.shtml

Peter Jones has a lengthy feature on jargon in university settings:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-06-\
14&id=3194

Peter Jones' regular column:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-06-\
14&id=3213

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Bernard Williams (philosopher):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/obituaries/14WILL.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,976477,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/14/db1401.xml
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REPEATS
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Mount Nemrut Restoration:

http://www.metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-23/cultent/archaeologists_to_restore.htm

Otto the Great's Cathedral:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s877416.htm
http://www.welt.de/data/2003/06/04/110842.html (German)

Search for the Beagle:

http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_34204056,00.html
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:

http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:

http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Stone Pages Archaeo News:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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I didn't realize there was a controversy about "Neandertal face
length" ... but apparently there is:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030617081047.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-06/wuis-nfl061303.php

What might be the first cave paintings ever found in Britain turned
up in Derbyshire:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,977904,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2994130.stm  (photo)

Some 12 000 B.P. (maybe) flint tools have also been found on
the blessed isle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/norfolk/2994828.stm

There's going to be a new museum near the pyramids:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/642/he1.htm

The tomb of Akhenaten's scribe has been found:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11172

A number of Egyptian items recently went to auction:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/643/eg10.htm

The numbers are back up in the thousands in regards to items
stolen from the Baghdad Museum (the first three are all the
same article):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17897-2003Jun20.html
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/6143848.htm
http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/ultbb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=18;t=030792
http://electroniciraq.net/news/895.shtml

A recent survey of sites in Iraq suggests extensive looting is going
on, especially in the south:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11154
http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/030611/g061114A.html
http://www.metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-24/cultent/looting_of_iraqs.htm

There's still controversy over what *really* happened in Iraq's
museums:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,980042,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,980273,00.html

Perhaps not surprisingly, there is a staff revolt in progress at
the Baghdad museum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,979012,00.html

In case you missed it, the Israel Antiquities Authority has (finally)
declared the James Ossuary to be a hoax/fake/inauthentic:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=305643
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=673032003
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030617.wossu0617/BNStory/Enter\
tainment/
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/06/18/jesus.box/ (good photos)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/international/middleeast/18CND-ISRA.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/international/middleeast/19ISRA.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Jesus-Inscription.html
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=2949428
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0618_030618_jesusbox.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0619/p07s01-wome.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/GoodMorningAmerica/jamesossuary030619.htm\
l (deals with the politics involved)
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/124/51.0.html (interesting final
'graph)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/928121.asp (somewhat useless photo)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=4&u=/nm/20030618/\
sc_nm/religion_israel_jesus_dc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3000040.stm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterFull&ci\
d=1055816813268

cf.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterFull&ci\
d=1055729931122

... and the Jehoash Inscription too:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/features/ossuary/index

[on both, see Rochelle Altman's article below as well]

The latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:

http://www.greece.gr/CULTURE/CulturalHeritage/marbles_conference.stm

Last week we had a satellite photo of the Valley of the Kings ... this
week it's Rome (you can almost make out the Seven Hills):

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15316

Here's a report on the third season of excavations at Sussita
(I think I missed this one before):

http://www.bibleinterp.com/excavations/Hippos_2002.htm

Ever wonder how they flooded the Colosseum for naumachiae? Someone
thinks he's figured it out:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/18-6-19103-0-9-34.html

A fourth century Roman villa has been found during a pre-highway-
construction survey near Nottingham:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=66056&command=displayCo\
ntent&sourceNode=65583&contentPK=6092192

A shortage of funds is preventing the undoing of years of vandalism
by the Taliban:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,980214,00.html

Now we're getting yet another report from Ayodhya:

http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20030621131834&Title=Top+Stories&\
rLink=154

... or are we?:

http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en29449&F_catID=&f_type=source


Some 2000 b.p. rice wine has been found in China:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3010170.stm
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBWPG998HD.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw1056181504126B255&set_id=1

Evidence of China's diverse origins has been found in the Three Gorges
area:

http://english.eastday.com/epublish/gb/paper1/938/class000100004/hwz142857.htm

The Japanese government is helping to fund the restoration of some
Easter Island heads:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20030619wo61.htm

A while ago we heard of a schoolboy in Norway finding a neolithic
skull; now another one has found a Viking ring:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=562079
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THE AMERICAS
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The New Yorker has a complementary online piece to a magazine article
by H.L. Gates jr. on his discovery of a manuscript of a fictionalized
slave narrative sort of thing:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?020218on_onlineonly03
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?020218on_onlineonly05

The Library of Congress has acquired the funds to purchase 'America's
birth certificate':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/national/19MAP.html

The Liberty Bell is on the move:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/technology/circuits/19bell.html

Who is buried in the iron coffin?:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11096-2003Jun18.html (photo, sort
of)

The New York Times has a piece on Federal style architecture in
New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/arts/design/20DUNL.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Well ... if it's the solstice there must be plenty of goings-on
going on at Stonehenge:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/929517.asp
http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=3092

... and now Chaco Canyon is getting publicity too:

http://www.daily-times.com/Stories/0,1413,129%257E6572%257E1470622,00.html

A bacterium (probably a lot of it, though) has been used to restore
a fresco near Pisa:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030616/bacteriaart.html

A new kind of ground-penetrating radar device is being fiddled with in
Miami:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6142893.htm

An Italian scholar believes the story of 'Excalibur' originated
(of course) in Italy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2999894.stm

... while another scholar believes he knows how the Shroud of
Turin was created:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,975225,00.html

... and another thinks Robin Hood never existed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3001010.stm

... and another believes Oetzi's footwear was better suited for
mountain walking than modern hiking boots:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_792377.html

On the DNA front, it appears the Anglo-Saxons didn't leave much
of a mark on Britain:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-15.html

Here's a bit of pre-500th birthday-for-the-statue-of-David hype:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/06/20/bamike18.xml

Time Team's 'Big Dig' is stirring up controversy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,978167,00.html
http://www.artdaily.com/links.asp?idl=28&id=20

Looks like Lara Croft may have someone who shares her interests:

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030620.gtwillrockjune20/BNS\
tory/AtPlay/

Some 250-year-old mummies are providing insight into tuberculosis:

http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=4B7CAC20-3781-48DB-8FF6-01630C6F7BA6

Just in case you're wondering what the state of things is in pre-
Olympics Athens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/17/sports/othersports/17olympics.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/sports/othersports/18vecsey.html

cf.: 
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13017&m=A38&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Scottish Life Magazine has a back issue with a nice feature on
Rosslyn Chapel (for all you Knights Templar fans):

http://www.scottishlifemagazine.com/1998_2/features/rosslyn_chapel.shtml

The Atlantic Monthly has an article about how we're all descended
from Charlemagne, genealogically/mathematically speaking:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/olson.htm

I don't normally include this sort of thing (so please don't deluge
me with similar items!) but it looks interesting ... it's a CD called
"1000 Years of Popular Music":

http://www.richardthompson-music.com/catch_of_the_day.asp?id=117

Meanwhile, James Oestreich discusses assorted 14th century music
pieces:

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/albumshowcase.html  (realplayer)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 56.4 (July/August 2003):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index

A recent issue of Time has a nice piece on those Ethiopian skulls:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030623-458776,00.html
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ON THE WEB
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Rochelle Altman, *Updates on the Ossuary of Ya'acob bar Yosef and
the Temple Tablet*

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

Steven Grosby, *A Gôy by Any Other Name -- The Problem of Nationality
in Antiquity":

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

The American Numismatic Society has a preliminary online accompaniment
to its exhibition "Drachmas, Doubloons, and Dollars: The History
of Money":

http://www.amnumsoc.org/frbny.html
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Thomas G. Rosenmeyer,*Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7489p15r/

Nathan Rosenstein, *Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and
Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft967nb61p/

Richard Payne Knight, *A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/dwp/index.htm
or http://www.sacredspiral.com/Database/phallus/priapus.html

Christine Perkel, *The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in
Virgil's Georgics*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft88700889/
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CRIME BEAT
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Egypt is cracking down on antiquities theft even more:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o160623h.htm

A securities official in China has been charged with antiquities
theft:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=7&u=/ap/20030619/\
ap_on_re_as/china_relics_theft
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ling Ouyang, "The Use of the Tribunate for Reforms":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_ouyang2a.htm (nice photo of the
Curia)

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst continues her health and safety discussion:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/fieldlabgear/a/safety.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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E. Thomas, * JOHN PAUL JONES: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American
Navy*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/books/review/22PHILBRT.html

E. Vincent, *NELSON :  Love & Fame*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/books/review/22SPURLIT.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/books/chapters/0622-1st-vincent.html (1st
chapter)

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PERFORMANCES
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Pericles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/arts/theater/18PERI.html

Legend of Suriyothai (movie):

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/movies/20LEGE.html

The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci (yes, it is a performance):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/arts/theater/22SMIT.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/arts/theater/22EXCE.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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The wheel of an Egyptian chariot has supposedly been found in
the Red Sea, providing evidence of ... well, you know (interesting
coincidence of names in this one):

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33168

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EXHIBITIONS
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Asian Art Museum of San Francisco:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/arts/design/15COTT.html

Dead Sea Scrolls (Montreal):

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030614/RVSCRO/

St. Peter and the Vatican:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/arts/design/22GOLD.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Vulcan has returned to Birmingham:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/national/19VULC.html

There's ClassCon in this thing dealing with someone named Bulger
(about whom I am ill-informed but assume our friends south of the
49th are not):

http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/173/metro/Bulger_spins_a_tall_tale+.shtml

Those darned asteroids ... now they're being blamed/credited for
Constantine's conversion:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_791768.html

ClassConn in a piece on a horrible crime:

http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/062003/06222003/1013769

A UKansas prof just received a research grant to work at
Caesarea Maritima:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=8464337&BRD=1425&PAG=461&dept_id=15473\
3&rfi=6

Gossip/hype about TNT's forthcoming "Caesar":

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/91578p-83240c.html

Valerie Giscard D'Estaing (I think) quoted Thucydides this week
(I wonder what he said):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,982127,00.html

Vance Watrous has received a nice award:

http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol34/vol34n30/articles/ChancellorAwards.html

VDH watch ... a review of Paul Johnson's *Napoleon*:

http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/summer2003/hanson.html

More on Alexander the not-so-Great:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030619-044013-4199r.htm (scroll down)

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-06-\
21&id=3240

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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REPEATS
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Chines Coffin Opening:

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw1055499662424W253&s\
et_id=1

Nefertiti's Bust and Body:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5377-2003Jun17.html
http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=3&aid=618050909_5305_lead_story
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/arts/design/21BUST.html
http://entertainment.townnews.com/ap.inn?file=apnews52152-05

Nefertiti's Mummy:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o190623.htm

Ramses I's Mummy Returning:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o190623l.htm

Warka Vase Returned:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11155

Warka Vase Damaged:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=676&e=2&u=/usatoday/200\
30618/ts_usatoday/5252448
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-06-17-vase-usat_x.htm (photo)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:

http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:

http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Stone Pages Archaeo News:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Yonatan Nadelman,
W. Richard Frahm, Tony Jackson, Mike Ruggeri, Rick Pettigrew,
'rickyt', Louis A. Okin, Leanne Archer, Karl Wittwer, Joseph Nicholas,
John McMahon, Yonatan Nadelman, John Hall, John Bell, and Donna Hurst
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... kind of a slow week ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Some reaction to the Ethiopian skull discovery of late:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/opinion/L22SKUL.html

A feature on the 'out of Africa' theory/controversy:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/175/science/Did_humans_come_out_of_Africa_+.sh\
tml

cf.: http://www.nature.com/nature/links/030626/030626-8.html (a somewhat vague
summary?)

... and a brief item on the Stonehenge-as-mother theory:

http://www.discover.com/July_03/breakstone.html

Some mesolithic/neolithic flint tools have been found under a
stadium in Norwich:

http://www.soccerway.com/news/?page=details&area=1056657344

Wanna buy a 4000 b.p. Cornish burial mound?:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=8&u=/nm/20030627/\
od_nm/odd_mound_dc

A bronze age cup (the Ringlemere Cup) has been acquired for display
by the British Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3019034.stm  (photos)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=10&u=/nm/20030625\
/sc_nm/britain_bronzeage_dc

Some details on the new museum being built at Giza:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/23/arts/23ARTS.html

An exhibition in Baghdad might allay some fears about lost
antiquities (it will be interesting to see the spin the press
puts on this when the exhibition actually opens):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43219-2003Jun27.html?nav=hptoc_c

A sort of general overview of the antiquities situation in Iraq from
an antiques magazine:

http://www.artantiquesmag.com/Spotlight.htm?CD=634&ID=1089

A brief item on the discovery of a Geometric Period tomb on
Cyprus:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/tcpr/2003/03-06-25.tcpr.html#07

The 'little theatre' at Epidaurus will undergo some restoration:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=31243

A number of artifacts attesting to the existence of ancient cultures
in Tibet have been found:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030623/tibet.html

Reconstruction of a church in Japan has been halted as ancient
earthenware has turned up at the site:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20030625wo33.htm

We have another location on earth where agriculture appears to have
independently developed (New Guinea):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/science/24FARM.html

They're doing a major survey of the Trent River (the one in the UK):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/3023506.stm

There are some concerns about plans to salvage the Sussex:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,983061,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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Images from NASA are lending credence to the theory that the
collapse of the Maya was connected to environmental damage:

http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=printnews&doc_id=NR200306261180.3_1efc\
00116a36a3a6
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/science/0603/26archmaya.html

A scholar suggests that Incan 'knot codes' could convey some 1500
different pieces of information:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=418049

A team from UNC Chapel Hill has found two important Catawba folk
settlements:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-06/uonc-asa062603.php

More on the apparent discovery of Pocahontas' daddy's village:

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1337400&nav=23iiGani

Here's a report on the excavation of a Mississippian and/or
Fort Ancient culture garbage dump recently found in Louisville:

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=1334181&nav=0RZFGYD3

Another archaeological site is threatened by road construction:

http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/features/f2003_0623_02.html

They remembered Little Big Horn this week:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/931171.asp

More evidence of a fleet shipwrecked off the Florida coast in 1715
has been found:

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/local/6194295.htm
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-loctreasure29062903jun29,0,1\
556897.story?coll=orl-news-headlines

Some colonial-era slaves will be reburied:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/931792.asp

Atlantic Monthly has a piece on the Colfax Riot:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/07/rubin.htm
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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This is probably the big news of the week ... the Vatican has put
its museum collections on the web:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/24/tech/main560158.shtml (article)
http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html (link to site)

The Mildenhall Treasure (and other items) is/are returning to Suffolk:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/news/NewsStory.asp?Brand=EADOnline&Category=News&I\
temId=IPED26+Jun+2003+16%3A42%3A56%3A677

More Roman touristy stuff at Cramond:

http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=688252003

The Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library (of ancient manuscripts)
seems like an interesting place:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28888-2003Jun24.html

New Scientist has an interview with Colin Renfrew:

http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp;jsessionid=FOKOAOFPGCJF?id=n\
s24011

The hype is beginning for Ballard's latest expedition:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-28135514.apds.m0169.bc-ct--e\
xpljun28,0,7625115.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire

The church wherein Shakespeare was baptized needs funds for repairs:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=4&u=/nm/20030625/\
wr_nm/britain_shakespeare_dc

Also on the Shakespearean front, the New York Times has a piece on
the 'Salic Law' thing in Henry V:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/arts/theater/29ROSE.html

There's a big brouhaha in Winchester City over the decision to drop
King Alfred from the city's logo (these are all different and
in chronological order ... remember the hype associated with the
search and/or discovery of Alfred's tomb?):

http://www.thisishampshire.net/hampshire/archive/2003/06/12/ECHOWINCHESTER_NEWS_\
NEWS11ZM.html
http://www.thisishampshire.net/hampshire/archive/2003/06/13/ECHOWINCHESTER_NEWS_\
NEWS13ZM.html
http://www.thisishampshire.net/hampshire/archive/2003/06/17/ECHOWINCHESTER_NEWS_\
NEWS05ZM.html

Someone's making money off the Three Gorges Dam inundation:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/927966.asp

An interesting piece on why Einstein pondered what he did:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/science/24TIME.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Sergei V. Rjabchikov, "On Some Scythian and Sarmatian Symbols":

http://anthro-globe.com/bin/artdetail.cgi?ID=47

Yuval Goren, "Shanks' Assertions are Simply Incorrect and Misleading":

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

Last week scholars were denying the existence of various personages
from the past ... this week, it's the Pied Piper:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/23/1056220524997.html

Don't know if we can call this the latest in the Parthenon/Elgin
marbles saga, but they've digitized all the fragments so you can
see the whole thing together online. The first link is to an article
announcing the project, the second to the project itself (which
I could not connect to this a.m.):

http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=\
EN_RCN_ID:20469
http://zeus.ekt.gr/parthenonfrieze/index.jsp?lang=en&w=1152
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Stephen Tracy, *Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters
of 340 to 290 B.C.*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5290060z/

Goldwin Smith, *Specimens of Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus and Sophocles*

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7073
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
The Archaeology Channel has organized a major film festival for
July and has put a number of clips from representative films online at:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml

[the topics are rather wide ranging ... old world, new world, etc.)
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AT ABOUT.COM
================================================================
Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of Anthony
Everitt's *Cicero*:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/ciceroprofile/gr/cicerobyeveritt.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst writes about an amazing field school:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/educationalresour/a/fieldschool.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Assorted biographies of Ben Franklin:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
The Birds:

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030627.wxrvbird27/BNStory/Ente\
rtainment/

The Persians:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0326/feingold.php
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Of course we know that *someone* will believe all this (and probably
get money for a documentary too!):

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1471840,00.html

... and in case your supply of pieces of the True Cross are running
low:

http://tinyurl.com/fjy2
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Dead Sea Scrolls (Montreal):

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.asp?id=C2F75580-7503-4B6D-885F-B299B7B\
8AB60

Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch Master (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings
(Met)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/arts/design/27COTT.html

Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey (New York)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/arts/design/27GLUE.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Watch for Caesar on TNT (yes, my Ancient World on Television listings
will resume shortly):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/arts/television/27TVWK.html
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/entertainment_columnists/article/0,1299,DR\
MN_84_2070843,00.html (good pic of Richard Harris/Sulla)
There was a Callimachus conference in Alexandria:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o290623.htm

Last week we mentioned the latest theory on Constantine's conversion,
so this should be a repeat (actually, there is a repeat below), but
in this one they actually bothered to ask T.D. Barnes what he thought:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030623/constantine.html

ClassCon in a new play called "Flatfoot":

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/29/1056825276846.html

Rick Salutin's column possibly reflects the state of Classics education
in Canada:

http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=22389

A third party candidate has an interesting idea (it's in the last paragraph):

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=8233350&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=42569\
5&rfi=6

Several items of interest in this overview of the Delphi Festival:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13019&m=A38&aa=1&eido\
s=S

More festivalia:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13019&m=A37&aa=1&eido\
s=S

Chariots in Chester:

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/content_objectid=13\
107776_method=full_siteid=50061_headline=-Chariots-highlight-of-Roman-extravagan\
za-name_page.html


Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Victor Perera (author):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/23/obituaries/23PERE.html

I. Bernard Cohen (historian of science)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/28/national/28COHE.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Anatolia as Cradle of Civilization:

http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=5041

Bacteria and Frescoes:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=7&u=/nm/20030625/\
sc_nm/arts_italy_bacteria_dc

British Museum's 250th Anniversary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/arts/design/24BRIT.html

Chinese Wine:

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_885337.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s885133.htm

Constantine's Vision:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3013146.stm

James Ossuary (these items are all different):

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/local/6181916.htm
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/06/24/build/w\
yoming/40-ossuary.inc

Nefertiti's Mummy:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/644/he1.htm (photo)

Roman Barge from the Netherlands:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-727786,00.html (it worked this a.m.)
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:

http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:

http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Stone Pages Archaeo News:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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The discovery of petroglyphs in Britain might speed up some museum
development (see 'repeats' if you missed the original story):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_796530.html?menu=

... while aboriginal petroglyphs in Australia are causing similar
excitement:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993901
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/01/1056825394030.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/934029.asp
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/02/wbul02.xml&sShe\
et=/news/2003/07/02/ixworld.html#3 (scroll down)

Some 7000 b.p. stone tools were found in Dorset:

http://www.thisisdorset.net/dorset/weymouth/news/WEYMOUTH_NEWS_NEWS4.html

A pair of 4000 b.p. tombs were found in Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/arts/01ARTS.html (scroll down)

The Hur Moheb tomb was opened to visitors this week:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o050723z.htm

A Byzantine cistern was found this week in Nazareth:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/04/israel.nazareth.ap/

As expected, there was quite a bit of coverage of the reopening
of the Baghdad Museum this week (and the numbers of items missing
is still somewhat fuzzy):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43219-2003Jun27.html?nav=hptoc_c

A special 'tease' was the display of Nimrud gold for a few hours:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/international/worldspecial/04MUSE.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/934608.asp
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11194 (photos)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=421504

A Ptolemaic period building has been found near Minya:

http://www.tercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_35852746,00.html (Spanish)

Okay ... last week I was clearly confused; there has been *another*
Roman ship discovered in the Netherlands (near the other one I was
mistaking it for). This first link is a good photo gallery of the
excavation of both ships (commentary in Dutch):

http://archeologie.kennisnet.nl/schip/gallery/index.html

... the 'new' ship gallery is at:

http://archeologie.kennisnet.nl/schip/gallery/10.html

The main site has a short English summary (if you have the patience
to wait for it all to load ... it *is* worth it):

http://archeologie.kennisnet.nl/schip/

... more news:

http://domino.sbsnet.nl/planet/show/id=74127/contentid=386627/sc=a2e7df (article
in Dutch)

They're fixing up the Roman Theatre at Augusta Raurica:

http://www.baz.ch/englishcorner/articles.cfm?ObjectID=DD26FDE9-E618-48D7-BCC3A90\
0F79A8E60 (photo)

Lincoln is going to make a big deal out of its Roman past:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/3028896.stm  (photos)

Leicester is hoping a major construction project will reveal some
missing bits of the town's past:

http://tinyurl.com/g43o

The lost village of Wittinaghame has been found:

http://www.news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=733702003

Syria has decided to 'reactivate' some parts of the ancient water
system originally built by the Romans:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/30_06_03_c.asp

I think the Ayodhya dig has officially crossed the line to become a saga:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3040930.stm
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_4-7-2003_pg7_53

Some followups to the Three Gorges Dam flooding:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030707fa_fact
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?030707on_onlineonly01

Those Norwegian kiddies are at it again ... this week, they found
a skull in their sandbox:

http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=1706&item=275180

Harbour development may threaten the Mary Rose site:

http://www.thenews.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=455&ArticleID=551428
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PIMA technology has helped unravel some of the mysteries of Cahokia
artifacts:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/uoia-nth070203.php

... while another dating method is casting doubt on the antiquity
of the Pedra Furada petroglyphs:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/1976085

I *think* this is a bit of an update to the search for Powhatan:

http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20030705-111506-5132r.htm


They're going to rebury the Miami Circle:

http://tinyurl.com/g45g
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030704/APN/307040680

California's missions are suffering from the usual ravages:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/179/nation/Time_takes_its_toll_on_California_m\
issions+.shtml

Research suggests that Mummy Lake was an Anasazi reservoir:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_2089515,00.ht\
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This is sort of a followup to the 'farmers spread language' story
that's been in the news ... now there's more evidence that farmers
helped to spread Celtic (your editor is resisting any further urge
to comment on farmers spreading things):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/science/01CELT.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=10&u=/nm/20030630\
/sc_nm/science_language_dc

Multispectral imaging might allow the manuscripts burned in Chartres
Cathedral during WWII to be viewed again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3038368.stm

A number of 'sites in the news' made it to the UN's list of Heritage
Sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/3043538.stm (photos)

An interesting piece on the Magna Carta:

http://bostonreview.net/BR28.3/linebaugh.nclk

Councillors in Yorkshire are pondering setting up a fund to acquire
artifacts which turn up from time to time:

http://tinyurl.com/g43n

It seems like just yesterday, but it's the 300th anniversary of
Robert Hooke's death:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3035366.stm

The veracity (or lack thereof) of Robert Drury's Journal continues
to make the news:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,987610,00.html

A not-really-lost-but-purloined Ark has returned to Ethiopia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3034860.stm

AthensNews has a touristy thing on ancient Olympia:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13020&m=A22&aa=1&eido\
s=S

The NYTimes has a touristy thing on Santiago de Compostela:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/travel/29camino.html

So ... what happens at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/weekinreview/29OVER.html

The New York Times has an interesting piece on George Stubbs'
equine portrayals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/arts/design/04ANTI.html

... and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/arts/design/06WEIS.html

... and the day New York declared its independence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/opinion/04KETC.html

... and the Green-Wood Cemetery (particularly the stories
told by its Civil War era headstones):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/nyregion/04CIVI.html

I think this will work ... it's a graphic from the NYTimes dealing
with the changes in the US demographic make up:

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/06/29/weekinreview/030629_nwr_ROBERTSch\
.gif

David Greenberg debunked a number of American myths this week for
the Times as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/weekinreview/29GREE.html

Time Magazine's cookie-laden site has a nice feature on Ben
Franklin and what really happened with the kite:

http://www.time.com/time/2003/franklin/bfkite.html

... and it seems appropriate to put a review of a biography of
Franklin here as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/03/books/03MASL.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/review/06ELLIST.html

Here's the actual Star Spangled Banner (interesting number of
stars and stripes):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/03/arts/design/03FLAG.html

[p.s. your editor is Canadian and has included all this Independence
Day-related stuff because of its historical interest, not because
of any political motivation]
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American Journal of Philology 124.2

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_philology/toc/ajp124.2.htm\
l (TOCS/Muse)

Anistoriton 7 (June 2003):

http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/anistor/cover_en.htm (full text)

Archaeology 56.4 (July/August 2003):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index (some full text)

Archaeology Odyssey (July/August 2003):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html (good stuff!)

Biblical Archaeology Review (July/August 2003):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html

Classical Quarterly 53.1:

http://www3.oup.co.uk/clquaj/current/  (tocs/abstracts)

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D. Fossataro, "GIS of Rural Sanctuaries in Abruzzo":

http://www.intoarch.com/Articles/article/12/1/

The History Detectives website is worth a look:

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/

Smithsonian Magazine has a feature on the Anasazi:

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues03/jul03/anasazi.html
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J.E. Seaver, *The Persecution of the Jews under the Roman Empire*:

http://www.ku.edu/carrie/texts/carrie_books/seaver/

Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (a machine readable edition
(ed. Thomas J. Figueira and Gregory Nagy)):

http://zeno.stoa.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Stoa%3Atext%3A2001.06.0009;query=toc;layo\
ut=;loc=1.2
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on M. Claudius Marcellus:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/people/a/marcellus.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Tom Koppel, *Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory -- How New Science
is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners*

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0626/p15s02-bogn.html

George Marsden, *Jonathan Edwards: Soul on Fire* (review by Gary Wills):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/review/06WILLST.html
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Aida (Tyre):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/05_07_03/art3.asp

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p16s02-almp.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/arts/theater/30LEON.html
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Recent finds from excavations at Athens International Airport:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_8182504_30/06/2003_31337

Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome (BM):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,987860,00.html

Nike: The Game and the Victory (Rome):

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3034568 (photos)
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=5\
17365 (photos)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20030703\
/od_uk_nm/oukoe_arts_colosseum_games (photo)
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Australian P.M. Bob Hawke had an interesting commendatio given
him as he received an honourary doctorate:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6698955^1702,00.html
http://silentrunning.tv/archives/002563.html

Some ClassCon in a piece on various pieces presented on the London
stage of late:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/arts/theater/01LOND.html

We've had a couple of reviews of Sappho's leap recently ... here's a
response from EJ's (classical) consultant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/review/0706br-letters.html

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-07-\
05&id=3275

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

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

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
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British Cave Art:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/934515.asp
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4LDLSQVXXWCA0CRBAELCFEY?typ\
e=scienceNews&storyID=3033769

Catawba sites:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030626235259.htm

Drought Reveals Sites in Arizona:

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=062882FB-9ADE-47F8-B38106B919624A4C

Ringlemere Cup:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11191

Stonehenge as Birth Symbol:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,992215,00.html
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:

http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:

http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:

http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmeric\
aand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):

http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Stone Pages Archaeo News:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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