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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Donna Hurst, Glenn Meyer,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young,
Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Paul James Cowie, Richard C. Griffiths,
Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan
Nadelman 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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Ancient Egyptians were jokesters:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040531/egypthumor.html

Al-Ahram has a feature on Gurna:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/fe1.htm

A Roman bathhouse/villa has been found in Maidstone (UK):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3774197.stm

A nice piece on the excavation of a Roman burial ground near
Beirut:

http://tinyurl.com/3ap4y (Daily Star)

... and they're looking for Byblos' ancient port as well:

http://tinyurl.com/3x92t (Daily Star)

BBC Radio had a nice feature on Babylon (click on 'listen again'):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

Turkey is hoping to cash in on 'Troy':

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2610162

... speaking of which, the New Zealand Herald has a touristy
thing on Truva:

http://tinyurl.com/2n837

Recent finds from the harbour of Alexandria include bits of
the famous lighthouse:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/040603/2004060321.html

A sizeable chunk of an Etruscan highway has been unearthed:

http://tinyurl.com/3g7ls (CulturalWeb ... in Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/2rqz2 (La Repubblica ... ditto)

The Australian version of Sixty Minutes has a nice feature
(with audio and video) about the ongoing threats to Pompeii from
tourists and the like:

http://tinyurl.com/2qtf3

Nice Roman bowl found in a thrift shop:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040604-033458-8042r.htm
http://www.ba.no/nyheter/article1136450.ece (Norwegian ... with photo)

Geotimes has an article in a similar vein about Petra:

http://www.geotimes.org/june04/feature_petra.html

A Third Century sculpture has been found near Kota (India):

http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_803778,000600030012.htm

A sort of 'roundup' piece on recent discoveries in China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/04/content_1508961.htm

A neolithic site was found in China's Heilongjiang Province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/02/content_1504299.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3gf63 (Eastday)

A Viking site near Waterford may be the "find of the century" (of
course, the century is only four years old or so):

http://tinyurl.com/3hc92 (Ireland Online)

They've just started an excavation at Tutbury Castle:

http://tinyurl.com/2vtve (Evening Telegraph)
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THE AMERICAS
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An excavation of a Native burial ground near Los Angeles is
causing controversy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/national/02burial.html

... while some Civil War remains were dutifully reburied after
being disinterred by Hurricane Isabel:

http://tinyurl.com/272xx (AP via NY Times)

... and historic African-American cemeteries in Tennessee are
threatened by development and neglect:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5140685/

Digging for bottles in outhouses:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/newsdemocrat/8850660.htm

Searching for the Hopewell people:

http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/060104/sta_0601040015.shtml

A day in the life of a San Antonio archaeologist:

http://tinyurl.com/2g4xl (San Antonio Current)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, tests have demonstrated that a preserved heart
did, in fact, once reside in the chest of the Dauphin Louis XVII:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5130086/
http://tinyurl.com/3e42k (CNN)

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/693/he2.htm

... and how archaeology and politics are mixing in Israel:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/693/he1.htm

Arctic ice cores are going to be studied (I'm sure we'll hear
more about this):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3774051.stm

It appears that at least one person is questioning the paternity
of the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/nyregion/02towns.html

A discussion of the Creed might be of interest in the wake of
the DaVinci Code:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/national/05beliefs.html

John Noble Wilford ponders the activities of Alejandro Malaspina:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/science/01expl.html
http://www.ifao.egnet.net/

On the constancy of the North Star:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/science/space/01star.html

London's Royal Geographic Society is making a pile of artifacts
available to the public:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5123168/

That 'lost' Afghan gold will be going on a world tour:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5112571/
http://tinyurl.com/ys6rd (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2fy9g (Kathimerini)

The 'Jesuit Caves' near Maastricht seem rather interesting:

http://www.rnw.nl/special/en/html/040526dh.html

The voyage of the Minoa (a replica Minoan ship) is getting
mentions here and there:

http://tinyurl.com/2w87q (NY Times ... scroll down)

Latest on the Titanic:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1920387
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5139413/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5131208/

Interesting idea ... using cell phones for self-guided tours
of American Revolution sites:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5058646/

Not sure how to classify this piece on the Shroud of Turin:

http://tinyurl.com/2ybuv
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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D Day:

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/d-day/
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Europe07.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/dday/

Battle of Stoney Creek:

http://www.imuc.org/oldsite/stoney/stoney.html
http://www.hamilton-scourge.city.hamilton.on.ca/stoney.htm

Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire (site is in
French ... they have some very useful fonts available under the
Outils section which Hellenists and Latinists should also
check out):

http://www.ifao.egnet.net/

Rob S. Rice, "The Antikythera Mechanism: Physical and Intellectual
Salvage from the 1st Century B.C. ":

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rrice/usna_pap.html

Greg Doudna, "Redating the Dead Sea Scroll Deposits at Qumran:
the Legacy of an error in Archaeological Interpretation":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Doudna_Scroll_Deposits_1.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Frances Ellen Lord, *The Roman Pronunciation of Latin: Why We Use
It, and How To Use It*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7528

Tacitus, *The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus: The Oxford
Translation, Revised With Notes *:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7524

Charles Thomas Cruttwell, *A History of Roman Literature From the
Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7525

St. George William Joseph Stock, *A Guide to Stoicism*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7514

Cicero, *De Amicitia; Scipio's Dream*, (ed. by Andrew P. Peabody):

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7491

*The Biblical Antiquities of Philo*, trans. by M. R. James:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/bap/index.htm

*The Pyramid Texts* (translation volume only), ed. by
Samuel A. B. Mercer:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/pyt/index.htm

Alfred John Church, *Stories From the Greek Tragedians*:

http://tinyurl.com/2jaby

H. A. Guerber,*The Story of the Greeks*:

http://tinyurl.com/ysjwr

Herodotus and Alfred John Church, *The Story of the Persian
War From Herodotus*:

http://tinyurl.com/2qkyq

Alfred John Church and Ruth Putnam, The Count of the Saxon
Shore, or, The Villa in Vectis: A Tale of the Departure of
the Romans From Britain*:

http://tinyurl.com/386ga
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CRIME BEAT
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There's a few more details in this piece on that 'private
museum' which was raided in Spain back in March:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/arts/design/02SPAN.html

That trial of a couple of guys who stole some petroglyphs in
Nevada is sparking some discussion of how to best protect such
artifacts:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5112564/
http://tinyurl.com/3d8sn (AP via Yahoo)

... and the guys were ultimately found guilty only of theft of
government property:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5123113/
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8820636.htm

There are still some 15,000 artifacts missing from the Baghdad
Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/2vme6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2s8jz (New Kerala)

A salvage operation off the coast of Mozambique is causing
controversy (not sure if this is technically a 'crime' yet):

http://allafrica.com/stories/200405280907.html

A thief in India gets his comeuppance:

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=86567

Proposed US legislation would prevent importation of artifacts
from Afghanistan:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04154/325685.stm

Hebron police recoved six hundred purloined artifacts this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/2kgra (Jerusalem Post)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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'Gumshoes in togas' (assorted Roman-set fiction):

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040606wof2.htm

A couple of works on the ancient Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/27uqz (Weekly Standard)
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PERFORMANCES
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Le Malade Imaginaire:

http://tinyurl.com/2b95g (New York Times)

Oedipus:

http://www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/6518.aspx

Antigone:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0422/finkle.php
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Unfinished Print:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/04/arts/design/04SMIT.html

Masterworks of Six Centuries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/04/arts/design/04MAST.html

Etruscan Treasures:

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/06/02/32091.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Cambridge Online Latin project in the news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3766261.stm
http://tinyurl.com/37b9d (IC Wales)

More on Homer in MessengerSpeak:

http://tinyurl.com/2sg3q (Telegraph)

Applying Leo Strauss' teachings to the Middle East:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FF02Ak03.html

Homer, Troy, and Iraq:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/arts/05CONN.html

Daniel Mendelsohn on Troy:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17220

The National Review review of Troy:

http://www.nationalreview.com/stuttaford/stuttaford200406020832.asp

Homer v. Hollywood:

http://www.opednews.com/pagano_060204_troy.htm

Homer through Arab eyes:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/693/cu5.htm

On Attila's romp through the remains of the Roman Empire:

http://national.snitch.com/2004/06/02/dunn

The Elissa race  might be of interest:

http://tinyurl.com/2gddv (Daily Star)

Father Foster:

http://www.vaticanradio.org/inglese/105/en_latin.html

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
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'University' of Alexandria found:

http://tinyurl.com/264uy (AP via Yahoo)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Murdoch,  Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Kris Curry, Louis A. Okin
Mark Morgan, Aayko Eyma, Maurice O'Sullivan, Michael Oberndorf,
Richard C. Griffiths, Tony Jackson,  W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping
I have left no one out).


Have you visited our blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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An overview of the 'history of fire':

http://tinyurl.com/3f4uv (Independent)

Archaeologists who thought they were excavating a Dark Ages site
in northern Scotland are surprised to discover a Neolithic
ritual site (at least there was no stumbling involved):

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=610172004

Nubian Kingdom finds are reshaping ideas of the history of the
Nile Valley:

http://www.countrywatch.com/cw_wire.asp?vCOUNTRY=162&UID=1087388
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=248239

Boston Magazine has a nice article (sans photo, alas) of an
Egyptian statue called 'the Nobleman':

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=375

A fragment of a Romano-Syrian lead coffin has been identified
and 'returned' to the Syrian National Museum:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART22122.html

For some reason there's a big resurgence of coverage of the
apparent discovery of the site of the Library of Alexandria, so
even though it's technically a repeat:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o270524d.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/international/middleeast/27egypt.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/review/23BARR01.html
http://tinyurl.com/255v8 (Toronto Star)
http://tinyurl.com/3yqsp (SF Chronicle)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2004/05/26/474111-ap.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5069375/
http://tinyurl.com/34z4m (Chicago Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/2mvn5 (Kathimerini)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4797891.html

Radio Nederland has a nice piece on the 'de Bloemert' excavation
which is a Roman site outside the empire:

http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/040524rf.html

Some Roman burials were excavated this week at Scunthorpe Airport:

http://tinyurl.com/yt9zq

... while a metal detectorist found a Roman ring:

http://tinyurl.com/3yjbh (This is Scunthorpe)


Here's a project we'll hopefully hear more about ... it's
documenting Roman sites (late Roman at this point) in Eritrea:

http://tinyurl.com/28ra4 (Innovations Report)

A few 2800 b.p. burials with early examples of Tamil Brahmi script
have been found in India:

http://www.hindu.com/2004/05/26/stories/2004052602871200.htm

Some 2000 b.p. storehouses have been unearthed in China's Shaanxi
province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/30/content_1498127.htm
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THE AMERICAS
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Microbes in Mayan ruins may be contributing to their
deterioration from the inside out:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040528001845.htm
http://tinyurl.com/33xcy (Innovations Report)

Clark Erickson is challenging traditionally-held views of the
populations of the pre-Columbian Amazon:

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/newsltr/spring04/amazon.html

Utah's Nine Mile Canyon and its petroglyphs have been classified
as "threatened":

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05252004/utah/169503.asp
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595065637,00.html

... the National Trust's 'most threatened' list:

http://www.nationaltrust.org/11Most/2004/index.html

A petroglyph site in Nevada is similarly threatened, but public
response is somewhat different:

http://tinyurl.com/2nsq4 (Las Vegas Sun)

How an archaeologist views Montana:

http://www.fwp.state.mt.us/news/article_2960.aspx

A 2000 - 4000 b.p. burial site has been found in Indiana:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/149895-7212-093.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front ... plans are afoot to submit the remains
found in the shaft graves at Mycenae to DNA tests to determine
family relationships, origins, etc.:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1225001,00.html

More on ancient dogs:

http://tinyurl.com/29s57 (Tri Valley Herald)

It's Archeology Week in Perthshire:

http://www.perthshire.co.uk/index.asp?tm=49

A fire which destroyed much of the representative pieces of the
'Britart' movement has spawned a column in the Guardian about
assorted disasters which have destroyed cultural heritage:

http://tinyurl.com/yw8bv

(on the fire, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/arts/27FIRE.html)

Also in the Guardian is an interesting piece on William Blake's
biographer(s):

http://tinyurl.com/32nvo

Plenty of coverage of the restoration of David:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-David-Restored.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/arts/design/25DAVI.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040524/michelangelo.html

The Aksum obelisk still hasn't been returned from Italy:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200405280584.html

An eighteenth-century volcanic eruption in Iceland may have
contributed to a rise in the death rate in England at the time:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3745749.stm

An upcoming auction leads to a nice article on Meissen Porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/arts/design/28ANTI.html

Plans to build the American Embassy on a 'sacrosanct', or at
least archaeologically-significant site in Skopje are causing
controversy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/international/europe/28EMBA.html

An interesting 'history of medicine' project focussing on the
'grammar of death' in Victorian times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/health/25deat.html

Jan Assman received an honourary degree from Yale this week:

http://www.yale.edu/opa/campus/2004_commencement/citations.html

In typically Canadian fashion, the ROM has adhered to the BM's
'no sketching' demands in regards to the Eternal Egypt exhibition,
causing much confusion:

http://tinyurl.com/2jaaa (Toronto Star)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Coins of the UK:

http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/pics/index.html

The Cincinnati Post has a piece on assorted websites devoted to
various aspects of ancient Egypt designed to coincide/complement
assorted television programs:

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/05/26/sites052604.html
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CRIME BEAT
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An 'artifact amnesty' program in assorted western U.S. States
hopes to recover plenty of stuff:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595064780,00.html
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05212004/utah/168415.asp

Remember those artifacts found in a flooded basement of Iraq's
secret police building? Their fate remains uncertain:

http://tinyurl.com/2kmfo (LA Times)

The authenticity of some purloined petroglyphs from Nevada is
being questioned:

http://tinyurl.com/2gj2c (Las Vegas Sun)

A fragment of a Roman statue stolen from the Amphiaraeion sanctuary
in Greece was returned this week:

http://tinyurl.com/2lr2v (Kathimerini)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Marilyn Yalom, *Birth of the Chess Queen*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/review/23SCHILLI.html

Robert Whitaker, *The Mapmaker's Wife*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/review/23BARR01.html

Christopher Philips, *Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day
Journey of Discovery Through World Philosophy*:

http://tinyurl.com/2cxkh (Charlotte Observer)

Ben Macintyre, *The Man Who Would be King: First American in
Afghanistan*:

http://tinyurl.com/2opt3 (Miami Herald)

Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, *The Rule of Four* (fiction
set at Princeton incorporating the Hypnerotomachia):

http://tinyurl.com/2c84p (Star-Ledger)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/books/26BOOK.html
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Antigone:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/theater/reviews/27ANTI.html

Antigone (different production):

http://tinyurl.com/yqz9t (FT)

Oedipus at Colonus (interesting troupe):

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2004-05-26/feature.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Painters of Reality:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/arts/design/28KIMM.html

Unveiling Ancient Mystery: Etruscan Treasures

http://www.news-star.com/stories/053004/New_82.shtml
http://www.news-star.com/stories/053004/New_83.shtml

A couple Mayan exhibitions:

http://www.economist.co.uk/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2685685
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
A new Classics blog hit the ewaves in the past couple of weeks;
this one's called Blogographos and is aimed at promoting discussion
of assorted matters Classical:

http://www.blogographos.com/

Just a few items related to Troy this week ... the first is a
call for more familiarity with Classics on the part of Hollywood
types:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/weekinreview/23webe.html

Classicist Jack Mitchell (Stanford) wrote a letter to the editor
of the Globe and Mail about their review of Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/2z5o2

... while the same newspaper had a Troy-and-Iraq editorial:

http://tinyurl.com/3bkb6

... but there was a different spin on the movie's 'message'
from Beliefnet:

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/146/story_14658_1.html

The Toronto Star had someone go to the CAC and ask their
opinion:

http://tinyurl.com/32ydx

In anticipation of the forthcoming Alexander flick, a
Macedonian site takes issue with Robin Lane Fox:

http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=3280

... while the hype begins to build for the Alexander flick too:

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=15878

... and that AP piece on the upcoming Rome series keeps popping
up (I swear I've seen this at least a hundred times now over the
past month):

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/2591593

... and who does all the costumes for these ancient flicks:

http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2004/may/25rang.htm

The New York Times has a nice profile of Father Foster:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/international/europe/29fpro.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/522431.html

On the Classical origins of Yale's cheer:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/98_05/old_yale.html

An account of Yale's first student might be of interest as well:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/current/old_yale.html

In case you missed it, as a publicity stunt sort of thing, MSN
has translated the first five books of the Iliad into
'Messengerspeak':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/arts/25ARTS.html (scroll down)
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040525/asp/foreign/story_3289252.asp
http://tinyurl.com/23482 (Reuters)

... you can see what it looks like at:

http://entertainment.msn.co.uk/films/troy/trimtroy/Default.asp

"Dactylic Hexameter and the Literary Rights Question":

http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=40595

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Martin Plamondon (Lewis and Clark Cartographer)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/national/29PLAM.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
'New' Raphael found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/24/arts/24ARTS.html

Temple Wall in danger of collapse:

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/05/26/sites052604.html

Forma Urbis Romae project:

http://tinyurl.com/2t7zr (Philly Inquirer)
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Sally Winchester, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman,
Tony Jackson, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A number of homines heidelbergenses found in the Atapuerca
Caves of Spain may have died simultaneously in some ancient
'catastrophe':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3725241.stm

A Neanderthal tooth has been found in Montenegro:

http://tinyurl.com/3bsn2 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2xss9 (IOL)

I thought we'd covered this one in Explorator already, but I can't
seem to find it ... beryllium-10 analysis suggests that some folks
in Israel were mining flint (as opposed to picking it up from the
surface) some 300 000 years b.p.:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040517/040517-4.html
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040518-102750-8611r.htm

Archaeologists working at Kirkuk airbase (Iraq) have found at
least one major site predating the Assyrians:

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007778

Al-Ahram has a piece on Egypt in Nubia (and vice versa):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/691/heritage.htm

An ancient Moabite fort provides some info on ancient
weaving:

http://tinyurl.com/2d2a8 (Daily Star)

A lengthy piece on Bethsaida and how it is largely ignored in
Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/429586.html

Temple Mount's east wall is in danger of collapse:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/429666.html
http://www.truthnews.net/world/2004050110.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2oza7 (Jerusalem Post)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=62836

Interesting audio bit on the James Ossuary:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/wed1102.ram

The temples at Paestum are getting the light-them-up-at-night
treatment:

http://tinyurl.com/3227l (la Citta di Salerno ... in Italian)

A hitherto unknown temple of Aphrodite is apparently among the
things found in Athens over the past while:

http://tinyurl.com/25ktb (Time)

Very brief item on the discovery of some possibly-Roman remains
at Humberside Airport (UK):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/3735945.stm

A schoolboy with a metal detector has found a medieval ring:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/3735643.stm

An updatish sort of thing on the search for artifacts along the
Cetina River:

http://tinyurl.com/38ttu (AFP via Yahoo)

Chinese archaeologists "accidentally" discovered a cemetery
which may contain the oldest Western Zhou tomb ever found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/19/content_1478022.htm

An update on those skeletons from Maastricht (they're 100-200
years old):

http://tinyurl.com/2fqj5 (Expatica)

================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A number of well-preserved mummies have been found in Peru:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5018275/
http://tinyurl.com/2u98z (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/22qqb (Reuters via CNN)

A land-swap proposal might save a burial site in St. Augustine:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5021620/

A couple of collectors of Native American artifacts have made
a donation of some of them to an Anne Arundel project:

http://tinyurl.com/2uopc (Baltimore Sun)

A pre-Cahokia site has been found near Glen Carbon:

http://tinyurl.com/24kw9 (St. Louis Today)

A nice piece on the Dolores project (Puebloan):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4986789/

A bison-processing site has been found in Southern Alberta:

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/19/sci-tech/bison040519

A salvage operation is raising the ire of Jamaicans:

http://tinyurl.com/2cyf5 (AP via Yahoo)

A sort of overviewish/historical piece on major sites in
Peru (hard to describe this one succinctly):

http://tinyurl.com/37lhj (Sun Sentinel)

The Miami Circle may reopen to the public:

http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/040520/story7.shtml
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, most dog breeds have clearly been created by
humans:

http://tinyurl.com/ysdaf (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040517/doggenes.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/science/21dog.html

Anthropologists are now suggesting their discipline is threatened
if all those bones are reburied (what took them so long?):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3725579.stm

Interesting piece on the Turkina (Kenya) petroglyphs:

http://tinyurl.com/3xxhf (AFP via Yahoo)

Archaeologists are shuddering as Burma's military government
rebuilds Bagan to boost tourism:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0519/p07s01-wosc.html

On the history of acoustics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/22/arts/design/22ACOU.html

... and the history of flooring:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0518/p18s02-hfks.html

Another theory on what happened to the 'Amber Room':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3738593.stm

Interesting blast from the past from the 1904 Atlantic Monthly
all about the Louisiana Purchase:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/04may/turner.htm

Coverage of the sale of the Greenberg Collection (mostly French
furniture) at Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/arts/design/21ANTI.html

Meanwhile, a couple of urns sold at Christie's have resulted in
a lawsuit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/arts/design/20AUCT.htm

... and items from the Titanic are up for auction:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5033487/

... and there's a nice piece on Sheikh Saud's auction habits:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=567352004

A hitherto unknown drawing by Raphael has been found:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=523343
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3733929.stm

An interesting piece on the problems associated with recovering
Nazi-looted art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/arts/design/18RIDI.html

Yale has acquired an important collection of ancient coins:

http://news.amn.org/press.jsp?id=2199

... also on the coin front, a forger is publishing a book to
reveal his secrets:

http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=93299

An update on the Hermitage's 'branch museum' in Amsterdam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/international/europe/16amst.html

A touristy thing on Iran:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/21/content_1482290.htm

A timelineish thing on the history of London:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FE22Aa02.html
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The Yurok people welcomed the return of some 'repatriated'
artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Artifacts-Return.html
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Niall Ferguson, *The Price of America's Empire*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/books/21BOOK.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Antigone: As Played and Danced by Three Fates on the Way to
Becoming the Three Graces:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/theater/reviews/20ANTI.html

Oedipus:

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/artsNews/view.bg?articleid=28703

Children of Herakles:

http://tinyurl.com/2ofec (FT)

Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/2s3q8 (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Assorted African Art exhibitions in Boston (some interesting
photos):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/arts/design/21COTT.html

Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Moon artifacts:

http://www.sunnetwork.org/news/science/science.asp?id=5225
================================================================
TROY STUFF
================================================================
I think there's enough this week to warrant a separate section
again ...

A few reviews:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0520/p05s01-woeu.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2916444a1870,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrcfc (Belfast Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/3g2sz (News-Journal)
http://tinyurl.com/3bhdn (Decatur Daily)
http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/Film/content?oid=oid:66497
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3941

... and one by a Classicist:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1901156 (audio)

An interview with 'Briseis':

http://tinyurl.com/3ghuy (Spin)

On the music:

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/18/troy.score/

Precursor flicks:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/19/1084917648168.html
http://tinyurl.com/2xaym

Men in skirts:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/20/Floridian/Dressed_to_kill.shtml

Editorials on the 'lessons' of Troy:

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_9108.shtml
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/8688947.htm

On the 'truth' about Troy (i.e. Schliemann etc.):

http://tinyurl.com/yss4w (National Geographic)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3732787.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2o45x (USA Today)
http://www.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html
http://tinyurl.com/2wtpb (Telegraph)

Then there's this guy who thinks he's found the 'real' Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/3fsba (Lynn News)

Pieces encouraging folks to 'read the book':

http://tinyurl.com/2wavo (Globe and Mail ... good)
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~150~2161662,00.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/20/1084917666884.html

On the spinoff effects of the movie:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/23/1085250859337.html
http://tinyurl.com/24dfy (Utusan Online)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The Toronto Star has given some coverage (out of date?) to the
Elgin/Parthenon Marbles issue:

http://tinyurl.com/3glm5
cf: http://tinyurl.com/yvq72 (Spectator)

cf: http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=456768

Trying to apply Plato's Allegory of the Cave to Iraq:

http://www.counterpunch.org/corseri05192004.html

A piece on Olympia and the shot put competition to be held there:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~118~2166108,00.html

In praise of opinionated teaching:

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i37/37b00701.htm

Another piece on those folks who still worship the Olympian gods
and who feel persecuted in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/2aeqf (Reuters)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-5-2004_pg2_15

For fans of Colleen McCullough:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120115801.html

Another Night of the Living Dead Languages:

http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/?id=4420

First piece (in a while) talking about the ancient Olympics:

http://inhome.rediff.com/sports/2004/may/20oly.htm

Interesting classes for tourists in Rome:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5021848/

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/328qs

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

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Samuel Iwry (Dead Sea Scrolls scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/22/national/22IWRY.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Forma Urbis Romae:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/8708014.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ythum (Monterey Herald)

Maze of Mummies Near Saqqara:

http://tinyurl.com/2cs2n (National Geographic)

Viking Artifacts for Sale on Internet:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040514/g051406A.html
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Winchester, Tony Jackson, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Some 4 000 B.P. wooden pipes from Ireland may be the world's
oldest wooden musical instruments:

http://tinyurl.com/27r54 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1105308.htm

Al-Ahram has a nice piece on the discovery of a boat chapel in
the Temple of Hathor at Denderah last March:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/he1.htm

A touristy sort of thing on Egypt and Nubia:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2904417a2181,00.html

A couple of mummies have been found in Saqqara:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o140524i.htm

There's going to be all sorts of things to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of Cheops' Solar boat:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o130524a.htm

How to rescue the Osirion at Abydos:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o130524.htm

An 1800 b.p. piece of Roman pottery has an ancient fingerprint
on it:

http://tinyurl.com/2paau (Lincolnshire Echo)

A 4th-Century A.D./C.E. 'nail' from Holland may be the earliest
example of high carbon steel found in Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3705205.stm

A restored Roman villa on Malta will reopen to the public soon:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=153884
http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=136808&pid=23

A metal detectorist in the UK has found a nice medieval brooch:

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1252&ArticleID=790285
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THE AMERICAS
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There were human settlements in the Amazon Basin 4000 b.p.:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/idrp-hsa051204.php

Some overviewish sort of things on recent Mayan finds in
Guatemala:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/science/11MAYA.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/519611.html (not the same as above)
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2151082,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-05-10-maya-city_x.htm

Some more details on those recently-discovered murals from
Guatemala:

http://tinyurl.com/2hs2c (Boston Globe)

... and the royal tomb from the Tak'alik Ab'aj site:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/11/guatemala.archaelogy.ap/

I think we've mentioned this one before ... they're building a
huge particle detector to probe the Pyramid of the Sun at
Teotihuacan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3710735.stm

A touristy sort of thing on ruins in Peru and/or the search for
El Dorado:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/international/americas/13cuzco.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/science/0504/13peru.html

A site near Mariemount (Ohio) is turning up piles of Native
American artifacts:

http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=1870034

A lengthy piece on recent research into the Anasazi and their
agricultural skills:

http://tinyurl.com/2rp9u (Rocky Mountain News)

Bill Kelso and Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/3dztu (Daily Press)

A document suggests baseball may date to before 1791:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3710967.stm

To mark the anniversary of the 'setting out' of the Lewis and
Clark expedition, the National Archives has a display about
their provisions list:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4971046/

Construction confusion has destroyed a site in Guam (I'm not sure
how to classify Guam):

http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20040513/localnews/405421.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
It's National Archaeology Week in Australia, and they've put up
a nice website for the event, which includes an online Dig Diary
for an excavation of the Old Naval Stores at Kangaroo Point (among
other things, of course):

http://www.archaeologyweek.com/

They've come up with some guidelines regarding the reburial of
Christian remains in the UK:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994984

The New York Times has a touristy thing on the Taj Mahal:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/travel/16taj.html

Zahi Hawass is doing the book tour thing, it seems:

http://tinyurl.com/2nplm (Providence Journal)

... and still writes a column in Al Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/he2.htm

Nice piece on the importance of volunteers at dig sites:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2570679

The Guardian has a thing on Henry Fielding:

http://tinyurl.com/yrxwy (Guardian)

National Geographic has a nice feature on Icelandic sagas:

http://tinyurl.com/33e54

Tom Harpur doubts the historical existence of Jesus:

http://tinyurl.com/yu79e (Toronto Star)
cf: http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=57&u_sid=1092659

The history of kissing:

http://www.lavozdeanza.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/05/10/40a02c8ccd487

Turns out you CAN see the Great Wall of China from space:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040512042526.htm

... and here's one for all you Holy Blood, Holy Grail fans:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Cryptic-Carving.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 57.3 (May/June 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/index.html

American Journal of Archaeology 108.2:

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

Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2004):

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

Minerva (May/June 2004):

http://minervamagazine.com/index.php (TOC only)

New Zealand Archaeology e-News:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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At the SBL site:

Ronald F. Hock, "Writing in the Greco-Roman World":

http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=264

others (with a Biblical focus): http://www.sbl-site.org/

Medieval Arts and Sciences database:

http://www.midlaurel.com/wsnlinks/

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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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James Curle, *A Roman Frontier Post*

http://www.curlesnewstead.org.uk/
cf: http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=554002004
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CRIME BEAT
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Using the Iraq strategy to recover purloined pre-Columbian
antiquities:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/art/2570506

I'm genuinely not sure if this is the right category for this
one (yet) ... an online auction of Viking artifacts has raised
the ire of the Swedish researcher:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2004/05/14/458614-ap.html
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/8661668.htm

350 items have been recovered in Umbria:

http://tinyurl.com/29spt (Adnkronos ... in Italian)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Eve LaPlante, *American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne
Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/books/review/16CALDWEL.html

Simon Goodhill, *Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the Ancient World
Shapes our Lives*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1217729,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Ancient Roman Civilization (?):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/15/content_1471244.htm
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TROY STUFF
================================================================
I doubt this will be a regular segment (it probably won't live
past this week), but it seemed useful to put all the Trojan stuff
in one section ...

Comments on the 'historicity' of the movie and/or the Iliad and/or
the historical Troy:

http://www.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040524/misc/24troy.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yss4w (National Geographic)
http://tinyurl.com/2rt2y (Mirror (!))
http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/085768.htm

On Homer:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1217918,00.html
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/051404/e0114iliad.html

On characters in the Iliad/Troy ('cheatsheets'):

http://entertainment.iafrica.com/features/322303.htm

Trojan artifacts on display in Turkey:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4979507/

Editorialish things arising from the movie:

http://tinyurl.com/2zld7 (Arizona Republic)
http://tinyurl.com/2vdlq (Globe and Mail(!))
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0514-02.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3fd2s (Up and Coming)

Complaints about the lack of a "black presence":

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/8664012.htm

Reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/movies/moviesspecial/09MCGR.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/movies/14TROY.html
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/troy/index.html
http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/troy.html
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/reviews/story.jsp?story=521311
http://www.iht.com/articles/520006.html
http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/story/0,4567,116667,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2qs6v (Orlando City Beat)
http://www.sfexaminer.com/article/index.cfm/i/051404a_troy
http://tinyurl.com/24wym (Kalamazoo Gazette)
http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=3310
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/14/troy.pitt.ap/
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05142004/friday/friday.asp
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/entertainment/8658208.htm
http://www.freep.com/entertainment/movies/troy14_20040514.htm
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/movies/8654148.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2s3j9 (Ottawa Citizen)
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieReviews/view.bg?articleid=342
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25869-2004May13.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/16091.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100463/
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=8216
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0514/p13s03-almo.html
http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/hiatus?art=2004_05_13_01
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/12/1084289735257.html

If you just want 'overviews' of several reviews:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1216951,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3714139.stm

On the revival of sword and sandal flicks (with nods to previous
ones):

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/thereview.cfm?id=555332004
http://tinyurl.com/234so (The Australian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3690889.stm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/13/1084289809008.html

Interviews with actors, directors etc.:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2908732a1860,00.html
http://u.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,218~24207~2145979,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2kqsh (Times Picayune)
http://tinyurl.com/2apss (Globe and Mail)
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=546872004
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1216310,00.html
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Spotlight/2004/05/12/455829.html
http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa051004.htm

Is your man a Troy Boy?

http://tinyurl.com/ytdvj (quiz in the Mirror)

Which Homeric Hero Are You?

http://film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5952,1214346,00.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The movie Dogville looks like it might provide some comparanda:

http://tinyurl.com/23v6j (Arizona Republic)

On getting jobs in Classics:

http://chronicle.com/jobs/2004/05/2004051101c.htm

The Kirinean ship arrived in Piraeus this week, bearing a load
of copper from Cyprus:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=455538

Archimedes' Stomachion is back in the news:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040515/bob9.asp

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2ft69

Interesting little brouhaha at a debate over whether the Elgin/
Parthenon Marbles should be returned:

http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2004-05-13/news/8

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

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OBITUARIES
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Samuel Iwry (Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar)

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8674444.htm?1c
http://tinyurl.com/3dbcm (LA Times)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22661-2004May12.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/8644362.htm
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REPEATS
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British Boomerangs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3700483.stm

Earliest Controlled of Fire in Israel:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12768-2004May9.html

Oriental Institute Returns Tablets to Iran:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040513/oi.shtml

Petrarch's Skull Isn't:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040510/petrarch.html

Site of Library of Alexandria Found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3707641.stm
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05092004/nation_w/164862.asp
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/85120/1/.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/09/1084041273125.html

Stanford's Forma Urbis Digitization Project:

http://tinyurl.com/yqmmm
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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and Yonatan Nadelman for headses  upses this week (as always hoping
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A Paleolithic site near the sea of Galilee has revealed the
earliest example of bedding:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040503/bedding.html

The oldest boomerang has been found ... in Britain:

http://snipurl.com/697h (The Australian)

A Bronze Age hoard has been found by a metal detectorist in
Mickleham:

http://snipurl.com/697s (IC Surrey)

A trio of metal detectorists from Liverpool have had similar
success:

http://snipurl.com/697u (IC Liverpool)

A Murgab mausoleum dating to 3 000 B.C./B.C.E. has been found in
Turkmenistan:

http://tercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_75933136,00.html
(Spanish)

A housing 'compound' for labourers who mined gold in Egypt near
the Red Sea has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/yr5jy (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o050524p.htm

A Polish-Egyptian team has found the site of the "University" of
Alexandria:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05092004/nation_w/164862.asp
http://snipurl.com/6971 (LA Times)
http://snipurl.com/6972 (Seattle Times)

One I missed last week ... Smithsonian Magazine has a piece on
the Jiroft civilization:

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/may04/iran.html

The Roman bridge at Corbridge is to be excavated:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/viewarticle.asp?id=94567

For reasons I can't quite comprehend, the discovery of seven
skeletons near Maastricht is being connected to the Three
Musketeers:

http://snipurl.com/696v (CNN)
cf: http://snipurl.com/697l (Expatica ... scroll down)

A survey of Pakistan's Swabi district has revealed a number of
sites from various periods:

http://snipurl.com/696r
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Plenty of coverage this week of the discovery/excavation of the
Mayan city of Cival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/science/05maya.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4901704/
http://tinyurl.com/22a7o (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3693671.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040503/maya.html
http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2004/05/08/53816.html
http://tlc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040503/maya.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/518523.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/05/04/mayan.metropolis/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2151-2004May4.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994956

Also plenty of coverage of the discovery of the tomb of a
Mayan queen in Guatemala:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040506073833.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4916517/
http://tinyurl.com/3gs24 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.iht.com/articles/518607.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/2554605
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/smu-aad050504.php

More (?) on the discoveries at Cancuen:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040505070714.htm

Recent finds from Teotihuacan will be going on display:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0509teotihuacan09.html

The Book Cliffs site in Utah is shedding light on the Fremont
people:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view2/1,4382,595060153,00.html

A touristy sort of thing on Aztec Ruins National Monument:

http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/travel/169932travel05-02-04.htm

Construction has damaged a number of Hohokam sites near Tucson:

http://snipurl.com/697r (Tucson Citizen)

A new bit of legislation to deal with submerged artifacts in
Alabama is causing controversy:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4892828/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, biologists are going to use DNA evidence to
track down the origins of the domestication of agriculture:

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/print.php?sid=2146411607

The British Museum has put the oldest printed book -- the so-called
Diamond Sutra -- on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3696333.stm

Nice piece on the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative project:

http://snipurl.com/697n (Boston Globe)

A brief item on the Persian 'mail' service:

http://snipurl.com/6982 (Chicago Tribune)

Some sort of radiation technique has confirmed that a nosepiece
on a Corinthian helmet in the Manchester Museum is a modern
addition:

http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/4/16

The Carta Marina from 1539 may be the first to map a "giant
ocean front":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3683087.stm

The Dunhuang star map is going on display:

http://snipurl.com/697z (Independent)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_941028.html (photo)

More on the Medici exhumation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/04/international/europe/04flor.html

They're going to x-ray the Mona Lisa to figure out what is
causing it to deteriorate:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4837369/
http://snipurl.com/698a

A touristy sort of thing on Albania:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/travel/02albania.html

... and one on Rhodes:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,6903,1212416,00.html

... and pre-Olympics Athens:

http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/content/0504/09athens.html

An overview of Judaism during Jesus' times:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/144720-7691-021.html

The statue of St. James 'the Moorslayer' is being moved
from a church in Santiago de Compostela because it is
offensive to Muslims:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3680331.stm

The plague may have originated in Egypt:

http://www.geotimes.org/may04/NN_plague.html

Zahi Hawass has written a book about the pyramid of Cheops:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o060524u.htm

Interesting item on the Elizabethan diet:

http://tinyurl.com/yv6rc (New York Times)

Not quite sure how to classify this one ... some company is
offering tours based on the Da Vinci Code:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/travel/09qna.html

The history of the Princeton Elm might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/nyregion/07ELM.html

... as might an account of what's up for sale at the International
Art Fair in NYC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/arts/design/07SMIT.html

A group in New Zealand is building their own Stonehenge:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63227,00.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2004):

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

Minerva (May/June 2004):

http://snipurl.com/698r
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ON THE WEB
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An interesting website devoted to the Celtic divinity Epona:

http://epona.net/

The latest salvo in the James Ossuary debate:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Meyers_Response.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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A Stradivarius Cello was stolen from a member of the LA
Philharmonic this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08CELL.html

Dutch tourists are returning some 'trinkets' they purchased in
Indonesia which turned out to be rather older than they thought:

http://tinyurl.com/34soz (Reuters via Yahoo)

Latest news from the Baghdad Museum:

http://snipurl.com/696j (USA Today)

A major bust in Cairo:

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1523839,00.html

A pile of purloined artifacts were recovered in Sicily this week:

http://snipurl.com/696p (AGI)

I think we've already mentioned this 'basement museum' case:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11647

A man has been convicted of looting Apache artifacts:

http://snipurl.com/6970 (Independent)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, *The Rule of Four* (Fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/books/06MASL.html

A pair of books on ancient Jewish marriage practices:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/424708.html

Stephen Hodge, *The Dead Sea Scrolls Rediscovered*:

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004b/050704/050704l.php

*Byzantium: Faith and Power* (exhibition catalog):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17115
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PERFORMANCES
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Antigone:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/living/8612307.htm

Trojan Women:

http://snipurl.com/697w (Nashville City Paper)

Rape of Lucretia:

http://snipurl.com/6985 (Relish)

Julius Caesar:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05092004/arts/arts.asp
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Rasputin seems to be the inspiration for much of the spam that
I get (this one is potentially offensive):

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/28/rasputin.shtml
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EXHIBITIONS
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Caliphs and Kings:

http://tinyurl.com/2be4e (AP)

Buried Treasure

http://tinyurl.com/2ujxq (National Geographic)

The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on the Italian Renaissance:

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/05/05/32022.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Pre-release reviews of Troy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/movies/moviesspecial/09MCGR.html
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20506.htm
http://snipurl.com/697e (New Zealand Herald)
http://snipurl.com/697q (reuters)
http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=17443&r=true
http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=126023

Related items:

http://snipurl.com/697x (Time Magazine)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/8619227.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7434-1099174,00.html
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20172.htm

... and some items which will probably be cribbed for undergrad
papers:

http://snipurl.com/6978 (Palm Beach Post)
http://snipurl.com/697f (The Australian)
http://snipurl.com/697j (Arizona Republic)

... and advice for folks about to see the movie:

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/5/emw123226.htm

And what do kiddies thing about the story of Odysseus?

http://www.cadillacnews.com/articles/2004/05/01/news/news04.txt

Robin Lane Fox wrote a column for the Times about his experiences
as historical advisor for the Alexander the Great flick:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7434-1101601,00.html

cf.: http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2004/05/06/colinfarrell/

Some updates on forthcoming series set in Rome:

http://snipurl.com/697y (Reuters ... must read)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4925874/
http://snipurl.com/697a (Seattle PI)
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0504/145192.html

And in case you missed the 'Braveheart in a bra' coverage:

http://snipurl.com/6989 (IC North Wales)
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=498322004

Greeks and Romans are blamed for irregular plurals in English:

http://snipurl.com/6983 (Star)

Victor Davis Hanson on how the Greeks weren't just like us:

http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/22/may04/hanson.htm

Lessons from the decline and fall:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/davidson1.html

The 'Greek Society of the Friends of the Ancient and Followers
of the Religion of the 12 Gods' are in the news again:

http://snipurl.com/697c (Telegraph)

Archaeologists have okayed the shot put event at Olympia (!):

http://snipurl.com/696u (AP via Miami Herald)

A brief item on unrolling and reading the Herculaneum papyri:

http://wcbs880.com/osgood/osgood_story_121195943.html
(scroll down)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

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OBITUARIES
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John Rowe (Peruvian Archaeologist):

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/05/07_rowe.shtml
================================================================
REPEATS
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Earliest Fire:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/04/science/04OBOX.html

Neanderthal Maturity:

http://snipurl.com/696t (Telegraph)
http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040428/g042804A.html

Noah's Ark Expedition:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1208224,00.html

Atlantis Expedition:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=34123
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A site in Israel suggests humans had the controlled use of fire
there some 790,000 years b.p.:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4863378/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3670017.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2wwzy (SciAm)
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040426/040426-16.html
(I'm sure the pun in the headline was unintentional)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994944
http://tinyurl.com/386bp (Globe and Mail)
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,297704,00.html

Neanderthals apparently matured more quickly than modern
humans:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4855079/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3663865.stm
http://www.nature.com/nature/links/040429/040429-9.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994937
http://tinyurl.com/3coqk (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/36kow (National Geographic)

Plenty of coverage this week of a major cache of mummies (many
from Ptolemaic times) just outside Cairo:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4837894/
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994926
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/printpage/0,5481,9402688,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/27/1082831573716.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/27/1082831567305.html
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9800

As part of the ongoing return of Western scholars to Iran, the
University of Chicago has returned a pile of cuneiform tablets
to the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization:

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040428.tablets.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1206736,00.html
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/042804_ns_tablets.html (video!)
http://tinyurl.com/2f6q4 (Chicago Tribune)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/science/29tabl.html
http://tinyurl.com/2cxfo (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/uoc-uoc042704.php

Recent research suggests that Majan was what is now referred to
as Oman:

http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=55374&pn=local

A Roman 'mouse' Helmet was up for auction this week:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2848837 (pre)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2851676 (post)

A Roman tileworks site has been found in Surrey:

http://tinyurl.com/yq33k (icSurrey)

A brief item from Adnkronos about the discovery of a major
Gallo-Roman burial ground:

http://tinyurl.com/2gqer (in Italian)
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THE AMERICAS
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If you can read Portuguese, this is an account from a Brazilian
news agency documenting the discovery of site which shows
evidence of some sort of ritual fight at Atacama:

http://tinyurl.com/2eool

The rebuilding/restoration of the T.R.R. Cobb house in Athens,
Georgia is causing controversy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/28/national/28ATHE.html

By contrast, they're struggling to save what remains of a Civil
War battlefield in Franklin, Tennessee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/realestate/30CIVI.html

Interesting suggestion about why the Hunley sank:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41900-2004Apr25.html

They're excavating an Underground Railroad site in Oswego:

http://news10now.com/content/all_news/?ArID=17515&SecID=83

A chatty piece about a survey of a site on the Kenai Peninsula
(Alaska):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4837670/

That 250 year old canoe that was discovered in South Carolina a
couple of years ago is going to be excavated:

http://www.thecarolinachannel.com/news/3251039/detail.html

Recently-found bones in Arizona may be from a prehistoric ancestor
of the Hopi people:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0427bones27.html

The legal wrangling over Kennewick Man might continue:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/8532656.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2cuzn (LA Times)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, an arrow purportedly made from one of Captain
Cook's bones wasn't:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4863202/
http://tinyurl.com/22tjy (Reuters via Yahoo)

A follow-up letter to the editor about that Tibuktu manuscript
story we mentioned last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/opinion/L29TIMB.html

The NEH has given a pile of grants to preserve humanities
collections around the US:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/arts/29ARTS.html (scroll down)

Interesting item about identity badges in the 1600's:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/uow-hri043004.php

Glasgow's Mitchell Library plans to make more out of its
possession of one of the few remaining complete copies of
Audobon's Birds:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=460672004

The Financial Times has a touristy sort of thing on Alexandria:

http://tinyurl.com/39zg7

Another piece on the Siwa oasis (with a bit of a more modern
slant):

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BLA631730.htm

On the power/effect of myth on auction prices:

http://www.iht.com/articles/517214.html

They're worried about the preservation of the Mona Lisa:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3660143.stm
http://tinyurl.com/26lny (National Geographic)

The DaVinci Code is still ruffling feathers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/books/27CODE.html

To judge by the press coverage, the biggest news of the week
was the suggestion that Mel Gibson is considering telling the
tale of Boudicca:

http://tinyurl.com/2pfay (The Australian)
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1205574,00.html
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/28/160522.shtml
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=15798

... he might have competition, though:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=a616947c4d522d44
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
New Zealand Archaeology e-News:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Celtic Coin Index:

http://www.writer2001.com/cciwriter2001/index.htm

History of Chinese Imperial Food:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/25995.htm

Hacinebi Archaeological Excavations:

http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/anthropology/stein/index.html

Handbook of Biblical Numismatics:

http://www.amuseum.org/book/page0.html
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
Louisiana's Historic Places (an interesting video put together
by some grade schoolers):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Vandals have damaged Peru's "12-cornered Inca stone":

http://tinyurl.com/2opoa (Reuters via Yahoo)

The Art Newspaper has a very interesting interview with John
Russell about the current state of things in Iraq:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11640

An Egyptian antiquities thief has received a sentence of
35 years (!):

http://tinyurl.com/3g5l8 (al Jazeerah)
http://tinyurl.com/2moy4 (Herald-Sun)

The internet is apparently driving looting of Native American
sites:

http://tinyurl.com/2xrss (Tucson Citizen)

A number of Roman 'tombstones' were stolen in Wales this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3661061.stm

A pile of purloined pre-Columbian artifacts were recovered this
week:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58202-2004Apr30.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Mary Reed and Eric Mayer, *Five for Silver* (Byzantine fiction):

http://print.google.com/print/doc?articleid=yk6VOeQfaFJ
(scroll down a bit)

Mordechi Gichon, *Napoleon in the Holy Land*:

http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/apr/27jew.htm
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PERFORMANCES
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Spartacus Returns:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3500864.stm
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Haven't had one of these in a while ... a groups is going in
search of Noah's Ark:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4838007/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3664093.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yvmjs (National Geographic (!))

... and, alas, it appears we will be hearing much more about
Robert Sarmast's claims about Atlantis being near Cyprus:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/30/1083224588854.html
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=14071&cat_id=1
http://tinyurl.com/yrdxc (Guardian)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1098162.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
The Marvels of Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics From the
Corcoran Gallery of Art Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/arts/design/30ANTI.html

Dangerous Liaisons (18th century fashion and furniture):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/arts/design/30MUSC.html

An Enduring Vision: 17th- to 20th-Century Japanese Painting
From the Gitter-Yelen Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/arts/design/30GLUE.html

In Stabiano:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4837660/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48019-2004Apr27.html
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/247-04262004-289530.html

Discover Troy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3667029.stm

Mummy: The Inside Story:

http://tinyurl.com/328pf (Art Daily)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Twenty things we owe the Greeks:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=475892004

Latin is alive and well in Buffalo:

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20040426/1034672.asp

Heinrich Schliemann's love of swimming apparently contributed to
his demise:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2863490

A quickie Latin course is offered in Rome to allow tourists to
read inscriptions:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040429-090103-7472r.htm

A piece in the Korea Herald opens, "Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was
perhaps the greatest philosopher of the last century, and yet
he is unknown in Korea":

http://tinyurl.com/357zk

Some coverage of Stanford's Forma Urbis digitization project:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3659501.stm

The CincyPost had a nice interview with Brian Rose all about
Troy:

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/04/30/troy043004.html
cf: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/uoc-brr042704.php

Speaking of Troy ... there's a new documentary about it
coming out this week:

http://tinyurl.com/yru9z (National Geographic press release)

ClassCon in 'Operation Homecoming':

http://tinyurl.com/2oz72 (VOA)

One I missed last week ... Stanley Burstein is among the
recipients of a Wang Family Award at Cal State:

http://www.calstate.edu/pa/news/2004/wang04.shtml
(scroll down a bit)

Socrates Cafes continue to get news coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/2eh7d (LA Monitor)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
================================================================
Mayan Stone from Cancuen:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0429/p16s02-woam.html

Old Corgis:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040421/g042102A.html
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Those beads from Blombos Cave get the John Noble Wilford
treatment this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/science/20NECK.html

cf: http://tinyurl.com/2dcjn (Mercury)

A pile of artifacts from the Royal Tombs of Ur have been
rediscovered in a storage room in the British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/3y8ru (Independent)

On NPR's 'Talk of the Nation' this week there was an interview
with Bruce Feiler who did a sort of guided tour of various
sites in Iraq:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1846102

A British Museum loan of a cylinder seal to Iran is causing a
big time controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/342uu (San Diego Union Tribune)

More coverage of the planned expedition to find wrecked triremes
off Mt. Athos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/science/20SHIP.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/516023.html

Lots of excitement over the discovery of a Ptolemaic stele from
the time of Ptolemy III Euergetes which is trilingual (like the
Rosetta stone):

http://tinyurl.com/2aawf (IOL)
http://www.asahi.com/english/vox/TKY200404240124.html
http://www.lesoir.be/rubriques/sens/page_5328_210909.shtml
(not sure if the photo here is of the stele that was found)

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a piece of a torq which
seems to be connected (tenuously) to Boudicca:

http://tinyurl.com/2kbw4 (Telegraph)
http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/140649-3151-065.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/23/world/main613497.shtml
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-neck22.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=513627
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2805676
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/3642233.stm

Some Roman mosaics have been discovered in Besancon ... all
coverage appears to be in French:

http://regions.france3.fr/semiStatic/390-NIL-NIL-316802.html
http://cultureetloisirs.france2.fr/archeologie/1125037-fr.php

This might be a repeat ... archaeologists have discovered what
may be the Etruscan city of Chamars:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040419/chamars.html

A Roman coin die from the time of Tiberius has been found at
Windisch (Vindonissa):

http://tinyurl.com/3xejy (article in Italian)

A marble head of Marcus Aurelius has been found in Petra:

http://tinyurl.com/23nre (AFP via Yahoo ... photo)
http://tinyurl.com/3arq3 (Daily Star)
http://tinyurl.com/2pjwn (Expatica)
http://tinyurl.com/3e3uj (Sunday Times)

Roman artifacts have been found in India:

http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=042104091359

Interesting piece on Kampyr-Tepe (Uzbekistan) and its
archaeological remains:

http://tinyurl.com/3yyam (BBC)

Petroglyphs from South Korea are shedding light on the origins
of whaling:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3638853.stm

Bones found in Wales might be from the first Corgi to be kept as
a pet by some royal type:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4798993/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3646319.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yq7q9 (AP via Yahoo)

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THE AMERICAS
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Mayan monuments have been found at the ceremonial ball court at
Cancuen:

http://tinyurl.com/2vwkg (AP via Yahoo ... slideshow!)
http://tinyurl.com/29ldo (AP via New York Times)
http://tinyurl.com/2e6sj (National Geographic)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/23/mayan.remains.ap/

The Alvarez del Toro mound is causing excitement/rethinking:

http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/apr04/223112.asp

An ancient dugout canoe has been found in Idaho:

http://tinyurl.com/2lyhs (AP via Yahoo)

A Federal Appeals Court has declined the suggestion to reconsider
its decision on Kennewick Man:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4787844/
http://tinyurl.com/35c89 (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/2tnd2 (AP via Yahoo)

Alternatives to currency in colonial Delaware:

http://www.delmarvanow.com/deweybeach/stories/20040414/230703.html

A "renegade" census taker apparently recorded a number of
slave names:

http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/national/30-473605.html

Updates on what's going on at that Port Angeles graving yard
site:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4770506/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4770507/

Another Nazca-lines-are-threatened piece:

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040419-093630-7670r.htm

A high school class learning about archaeology actually came
across an arrowhead/spearpoint:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4765246/

I'm always confused as to where I should put news from Hawaii ...
in any event, there's a big survey going on at the Coco Palms
Resort, in anticipation of the hotel being torn down:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4806471/
cf: http://www.coco-palms.com/articles/0003torndown.htm

Plans to create San Jacinto Battleground State Historical Park
have stalled:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4795338/

On Robert Bringhurst's studies of Haida oral literature:

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/042204/thi_homeric.shtml
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Very interesting piece on Timbuktu and the medieval manuscripts
we seem to be everywhere there:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/24/arts/24TIMB.html

There's such a thing as 'Byzantine Chant' (about which I was
unaware):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/arts/music/20INST.html

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/687/her2.htm

Did Leonardo invent the car?:

http://tinyurl.com/2dor3 (Reuters via Yahoo)

On hair throughout history:

http://tinyurl.com/2d9pk (Toronto Star)

On one scholar's theory about a pre-Mesopotamian Bronze
Age literate society:

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/may04/iran.html

This might be a repeat ... Al Ahram has a piece on the Siwa
Oasis throughout history:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/687/her1.htm

Interesting but brief item on the media coverage of the Passion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/arts/19ARTS.html

The Smithsonian/National Museum of American History is closing
its Numismatic Hall:

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/world/8451706.htm

Interesting high tech developments (for tourists) at Verulamium:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART21158.html

Iraqi curators got to see a head which comes from a piece in their
museum:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11635

An update on the gold mining operation threatening the Alburna
Maior site (Romania):

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8485941.htm?1c

A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that Scotland was moving to
remove 'historical status' from a number of monuments; if you'd
like to sign a petition about same:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/662257278

The Dick and Jane Hamlet:

http://www.elite.net/~lkfaunt/DJHamlet.html

A bit out of our designated time period, but of interest to many,
no doubt, will be the report of the discovery of Antoine de. St.
Exupery's plane:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3606903.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/07/world/main610771.shtml
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 57.2 (May/June 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
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ON THE WEB
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Mark Goodacre, "The Passion, Pornography and Polemic: In Defense
of The Passion of the Christ":

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

Q. David Bowers and David M. Sundman, "Early Paper Money:
History and the Marketplace"

http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/apr04/papermoney0404.htm

"How the West Was Faked" (on phoney gold assay bars):

http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/tvb1/

Archaeology at Venable Lane (Virginia):

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~ensp482/venable_lane/home.html

Vitrum: Glass Between Art and Science in the Roman World:

http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/vitrum/

The British Library's "Turning the Pages" digitisation project:

http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation3.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Here's an interesting tactic ... issue a list of Latin American
artifacts which are at risk of being stolen (scroll past the
piece on the Passion coverage):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/arts/19ARTS.html

A brief item from NPR's 'All Things Considered' on the recovering
looted artifacts from Iraq:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1842826

A somewhat bizarre violation of sepulchre case:

http://tinyurl.com/2opnr (Reuters)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Jonathan Kirsch, *God Against the Gods: The History of the War
Between Monotheism and Polytheism*:

http://www.jrep.com/Books/Article-0.html
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12131

Lisa Jardine, *The Curious Life of Robert Hooke*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/review/25HIRST.html

Robert Chernow, *Alexander Hamilton*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/review/25BROOKST.html
(first chapter available)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/books/22MASL.html

A pair of books on textiles in historical contexts:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1201813,00.html

Seamus Heaney, *Burial at Thebes*:

http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2004-04-22/ox2/3
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PERFORMANCES
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Antigone Falun Gong:

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?issue=04-23-04&storyID=18725

Medea:

http://tinyurl.com/2ryv8
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Or at least in the same spirit ... common sense has prevailed
in regards to a textbook which claimed that Arabs preceded
Columus to North America:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040416-120208-4455r.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Grandeur of Rome: Prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(1720-1778):

http://tinyurl.com/3c6uz (Art Daily)

Cleopatra nello specchio dell’arte occidentale:

http://www.swissinfo.org/sit/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=4837685
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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More Socrates Cafe coverage:

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=36635
http://tinyurl.com/2whg2 (scroll down a bit)

In case you missed it, Elaine Fantham was on NPR defending the
study of Latin:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1841234

Classics is alive and well in Florida universities:

http://tinyurl.com/2myeu (Palm Beach Post)

A piece on William Aylward:

http://www.news.wisc.edu/9647.html

Interesting ... the DAI shares a birthday with Rome:

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_1176466_1_A,00.html

The latest salvo in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles dispute:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2802664

A lecture on ancient Greek music:

http://tinyurl.com/2nsks (Towerlight)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2sljv

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
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Analyzing the Medici:

http://web.latercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_74522405,00.html
(in Spanish)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Rick A. Riedlinger, Robert W.M. Greaves, Bob Heuman, Sally
Winchester, Steve Rankin, Tony Jackson, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard
Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).


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Okay ... I'm officially confused; two weeks ago we reported on
the find from Tanzania of beads which seem to be from the African
Middle Neolithic and which were being billed as the oldest
evidence of 'symbolic thought'; here's a representative example:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994839

... this week, my mailbox has been filled with reports of a
discovery in Blombos Cave (South Africa ... interestingly, a site
also mentioned in the piece mentioned above) of the oldest known
jewellery, dated to 75,000 b.p.:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/nsf-sbf041304.php
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4750741/
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994892
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040412/040412-9.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3629559.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2e3x6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_923093.html
http://tinyurl.com/yup6r (Scientific American)
http://tinyurl.com/2x2c9 (News.com)
http://tinyurl.com/yw83d (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/23jyx (National Geographic)
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,295471,00.html
(in German, but with good photos)

Those 13 000 b.p. cave paintings discovered in Nottinghamshire
last year are now believed to be part of the (continental)
Magdalenian culture:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1192072,00.html

National Geographic has an item on ancient Egyptian poetry:

http://tinyurl.com/32cdr

A 2500 b.p. Greek (?) lion head piece has been reunited with its
other half:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3620019.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3ex26 (Telegraph)

A warrior burial site might lead to the discovery of a druid
holy site:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=428762004

As often, road construction in Israel has revealed an
archaeological site, this time a Byzantine-era Christian
community:

http://tinyurl.com/2ff4l (New York Times)
http://www.iht.com/articles/514283.html

More tests on Temple Mount:

http://tinyurl.com/2r4tr (Jerusalem Post)

Archaeologists have discovered a 6 000 b.p. village in China's
Henan province:

http://www.keralanext.com/news/?id=33173

Chinese archaeologists have come up with a top ten list of
discoveries in the past year:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-04/14/content_1418548.htm

A nice piece on the Batu Hitam shipwreck:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=511213
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THE AMERICAS
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A major dig (it appears) is about to begin in Port Angeles (WA):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4714764/

A schooner which sank in 1786 in Lake Huron will soon be
excavated:

http://tinyurl.com/2tury (National Post)

A man renovating his home in Portland, Oregon came across the
skull of a aboriginal American dating to ca. 1600:

http://tinyurl.com/yuzkk (AP via Yahoo)

The oldest mound/intentionally-built platform in Mesoamerica may
have been found in Mexico (wow ... I haven't seen the word
'mesoamerica' in ages):

http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/9644.html

Dennis Jenkins gave a talk on early Oregon this week:

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2004/04/12/news/news01.txt

Was Sacagawea's illness a miscarriage?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4705219/

They've reconstructed the faces of some of the crew of the
Hunley:

http://tinyurl.com/2jr6j (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/3f4md (National Geographic ... photos galore)


... and there are related stories on the crew's reburial:

http://tinyurl.com/2qxwt (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/3gs37 (Times Dispatch)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8457425.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2b39x (Washington Post)
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/17/hunley.reut/
http://tinyurl.com/3by9y (National Geographic)

There was another burial of Civil War remains as well:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3966361,00.html

Trying to preserve Civil War battle sites:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2653-2004Apr10.html

... and another legacy of the Civil War:

http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,570316,00.html

Native American archaeologists are involved in the recovery of
ancestral remains which were revealed during construction of
a water treatment plant near Seattle:

http://tinyurl.com/2uxl4 (Seattle Times)

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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
'Lucy' will be visiting the U.S. in 2006:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4732563/
http://tinyurl.com/39xgt (IOL)

On the DNA front, the split between the Scots and the English
appears to date rather earlier (i.e. 10 000 b.p.) than previously
thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3618613.stm

Meanwhile, the ethical (and legal) implications of performing
DNA tests on long dead historical figures was the subject of a
news item last week:

http://tinyurl.com/28xno (Times Dispatch)

A metal detectorist in the UK is mounting an exhibition of all
his finds:

http://tinyurl.com/255mn (Manchester Online)

... while an exhibition of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and
other Biblical-related stuff has led to a pile of lawsuits etc.
in Akron:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/community/8454190.htm?1c

It apparently took humans 1000 years to get that domestication-
of-plants-thing down right:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1084276.htm

A mini-interview with Ashraf Okasha (the SCA's representative
accompanying the 'Quest for Immortality' exhibit):

http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/apr04/222021.asp

A few weeks ago we had a brief item on the demands of locals that
that Siberian 'Ice Maiden' be reburied because they blamed her
for all sorts of misfortunes ... here's some better coverage of
both the maiden and the controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/2cxbw (Telegraph)

A somewhat confusing article on a study of bones in Italy which
concludes (I think) that Columbus did bring syphilis back with
him and that lead poisoning did not contribute to the decline of
the Roman Empire:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040412/syphilis.html

Interesting piece(s) on the quartz hydration dating technique:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/human-04i.html
http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1123
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040412-110010-2963r.htm

The latest look at the Shroud of Turin casts some doubts on its
inauthenticity (does that make sense?):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4750663/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040405/turin.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3621931.stm
cf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3624753.stm

Some guy has built a copy of an ancient Indonesian vessel and
is retracing an ancient trade route to Africa with it:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20040408.S01

The New Yorker has a lengthy article on the history of jokes:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040419crbo_books

A very interesting item on a scholar's efforts to identify/
authenticate a seven-inch tall figure of a 'barbarian':

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/8410499.htm

On the newly-refurbished Brooklyn Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/arts/design/12BROO.html

A piece on the trend towards having professors emeriti stick
around on campus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/business/retirement/13TEDE.html

Interesting piece on the history of inter-racial marriage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/17/arts/17TANK.html

Pre-Olympic touristy things on Athens (must have been a junket
this week):

http://tinyurl.com/2dcge (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/35ew3 (Newsday)

An upcoming auction has spawned a nice piece on portrait
miniatures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/16/arts/design/16ANTI.html

They're going to build what appears to be a major archaeological
park in Hungary:

http://www.bbj.hu/user/article.asp?ArticleID=191960

A Canadian researcher is compiling the works of Florence
Nightingale:

http://www3.cjad.com/content/cjad_news/article.asp?id=w041119A

Ballard's heading back to the Titanic:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4750301/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/uori-ebt041504.php
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Return-to-Titanic.html

A number of historic monuments in Scotland are going to be
stripped of their protected status (this might be 'crime beat'
material):

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=411962004

More evidence against the authenticity of the Kensington Rune
Stone:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/168635_prank12.html

Another piece on the James Ossuary:

http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2004/apr/prof2_040412.html

Another take on the James Ossuary:

http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2004/04/11/opinion/opinion07.txt
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology Odyssey (May/June 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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ON THE WEB
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Since Pontius Pilate is so much 'in the news', a site dealing
with coins produced during his tenure as procurator might be
of interest:

http://www.numismalink.com/fontanille1.html
(this essay seems to exist on multiple websites)

Napoleonic Medals:

http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/

Medicina Antiqua:

http://www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk/

The Crowds project at Stanford:

http://shl.stanford.edu/Crowds/index.htm

The San Diego Historical Society's website is rather well done:

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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W. Scott-Elliot, *The Lost Lemuria*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/tll/index.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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The plundering of sites in Iraq continues:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2871896a12,00.html

... and items are still missing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1191006,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3621617.stm

... but there's good news as well:

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/8451775.htm?1c

Museums are doing their bit to clamp down on illicit trade of
antiquities from Latin America:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16313-2004Apr15.html

... and they're clamping down in Vietnam as well:

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23285

A Scottish priest has launched a 'crusade' to have piles of looted
African artifacts returned:

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=411712004

... while police in Paris recovered more than 5000 prehistoric
artifacts looted from the desert of Niger:

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34000

Grave Robbers have destroyed an ancient Peruvian mural at the
Huaca Bandera site:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3970926,00.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Conn Iggulden, *Emperor: The Death of Kings* (historical fiction
set in Rome):

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/books/040418/caesar.shtml

Stephen Smith, *Underground London: Travels Beneath the City
Streets*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1193440,00.html

The New York Times has a reviewish sort of thing on Open Court
Publishing's "Popular Culture and Philosophy" series:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/books/13PHIL.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Antigone Falun Gong:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/8454592.htm

Trojan Women:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0415/kornhaber.php

Oedipus at Colonus:

http://tinyurl.com/259er
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EXHIBITIONS
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Living Legacies: The Arts of the Americas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/16/arts/design/16GLUE.html
(includes slide show)

Petra: Lost City of Stone:

http://tinyurl.com/2oqzj

Ritual Objects and Early Buddhist Art:

http://tinyurl.com/25peb (Press release ... images available)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The New York Times had a lengthy piece on Robert Fagles this
week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/nyregion/13profile.html

... then he showed up in the Record-Journal:

http://www.record-journal.com/articles/2004/04/14/news/news05.txt

Nice defense of Classics in the Spectator (note the announcement
of a Latin prose contest at the end):

http://tinyurl.com/2onog

Latin is making a comeback in Georgia:

http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=36003

Portland Vase redux:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040412/cleopatra.html

Dido apparently knew about the isoperimetric problem:

http://tinyurl.com/39ptn (The Hook ... scroll down)

Rome and the U.S. ... a list of comparison points:

http://tinyurl.com/3h2kf (Up and Coming)

Phrases from ancient myths which have made it into modern
parlance:

http://tinyurl.com/3yqk7 (Dallas News)

Peter Struck received one of UPenn's Lindback Awards:

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v50/n29/lindback.html

And UArizona's David Soren also received an award:

http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/97/132/01_5.html

Interesting that they will be performing the Prometheus Bound in
Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.com/wfNewsDetails_en.aspx?NewsID=70002&t=Cultural

A movie about Boudicca is in the works:

http://tinyurl.com/2r9c7 (MediaDrome)

Reviews of Spartacus on the USA Network (generally bad):

http://u.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,216~24311~2090966,00.html
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=537
http://tinyurl.com/2yhar (SD Union Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/29o4z (Boston Globe)
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Apr/04162004/friday/157644.asp
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/184038p-159642c.html
http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/079567.htm

"Gladiator style" fight clubs in the Czech Republic are raising
the ire, apparently, of the EU:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=427732004

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

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
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Ancient kitties:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040408/g040824A.html

Santa Maria Antiqua Open:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2510766

Rock Art in Colorado:

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/campuspress/messages/1765.html
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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I suspect most Explorator readers must be cat people since
everyone and their ... er ... cat seems to have sent this one
in ... new evidence from Cyprus suggests that humans and kitties
were hanging out together as early as 9500 b.p. ... some 5000
years earlier than previously thought:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/science/09cat.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4694015/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3611453.stm
http://tinyurl.com/28nw8 (SciAm)
http://tinyurl.com/2qobz (VOA)
http://tinyurl.com/2uk4h (AP via Newsday)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/168373_firstcat09.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2494462
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994867

The Spanish mission working in Egypt might lose its dig rights:

http://www.tercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_72732150,00.html
(in Spanish)

The latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://tinyurl.com/252kc (Jerusalem Post)

Al-Ahram has an excellent feature on the Siwah Oasis:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/685/heritage.htm

"Sensational" discoveries are being made at a Roman armoury site
near Gottingen:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=406222004
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,294310,00.html
(in German ... more photos)

The dig at Chester's Roman amphitheatre has begun:

http://tinyurl.com/ypjkg

The church of Santa Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum with its
amazing frescoes is again open to the public:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4695071/ (photo)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-forum09.html
http://tinyurl.com/yvpqm (USA Today)

A survey of the north coast of Northern Ireland has found
600 or so potential sites:

http://www.4ni.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=27934

Archaeological evidence suggests the hills of Northumberland
were alive with farmers some 3500 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/2jjlk (IC Newcastle)

A christening spoon has been found in the grave of a Saxon
king:

http://tinyurl.com/2nkp3 (Telegraph)

Archaeological sites in Pakistan are in disarray due to lack
of funding:

http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/04/06/d40406011313.htm

The 'Successive Emperors' Temple in Beijing has undergone
some restoration work:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-04/09/content_1410694.htm

A major study has been launched to determine the impact of
pollution on rock art in Western Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/2weaf (AP via Yahoo)
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THE AMERICAS
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They're trying to figure out some way to preserve or at least
mark a major aboriginal site in downtown Edmonton:

http://tinyurl.com/2msc9 (Edmonton Journal)

On efforts to save various Maya sites in Guatemala:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8388515.htm

... and research into the Maya at Xibun:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/bu-rvc040204.php
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
I *think* this might be a repeat, but ... the Britism Museum
will be putting up a 'virtual tour' of Nesperunnub's mummy this
summer (interesting technology):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1186675,00.html
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/10107643?version=1

A nice 'state of the question' piece on the James Ossuary:

http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2004/apr/prof2_040412.html

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a nice feature on the debate
over ownership of assorted cultural artifacts:

http://tinyurl.com/2sspm

The African American National Biography Project looks like it
might be useful:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/arts/10BIO.html

A rather good touristy thing on Masada:

http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/content/0204/0411masada.html

The New York Times has a piece on the attempt by many museums
to promote Islamic art in an attempt to promote more understanding
between East and West:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/arts/design/06RIDI.html

Tipu's sword has returned to India:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3609205.stm

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/684/he2.htm

A new wing has opened in the Luxor Museum devoted to the role
of the Egyptian army:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/684/he1.htm

Camille Paglia has an interesting essay on the changing nature
of the 'image' in modern culture:

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12923

Reviews of The Alamo:

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/movies/articles/04/04/alamo.htm
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/movies/09ALAM.html

Turkey hopes that the upcoming Troy flick will boost tourism
(this article also has a brief history of the excavations of
Troy):

http://tinyurl.com/2eocl (Al Jazeerah)

As might be expected on Easter weekend, we've got a pile of
reviews of various documentaries in search of the 'real' Jesus:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/arts/television/05STAN.html

... and an update on the Shroud of Turin:

http://tinyurl.com/3acd3 (National Geographic)

... and the archaeological evidence for crucifixion (but this
might be due to that Mel Gibson thing too):

http://tinyurl.com/2bhtm (Reuters)

Our first lengthy piece on the history of the Olympic Games ...
we'll definitely be seeing more of this sort of thing:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8383322.htm

The skull in Petrarch's tomb isn't Petrarch's:

http://tinyurl.com/3g598 (Telegraph)

How NASA helps to find archaeological sites (on Earth):

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/radar-04f.html

... and a different sort of technology is making historical
documents available on the web:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/business/yourmoney/04prof.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
A very nice coin collecting site ... the counterfeit section is
definitely worth a look:

http://rg.ancients.info/

Two new articles on The Passion at the Bible and Interpretation
site:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Byassee_Passion_Review.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Chancey_Unacknowledged%20_Passion.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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Sites in Iraq continue to be looted:

http://tinyurl.com/2eewj (New York Times)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4694243/

Semi-related to the above, the Oriental Institute has (and
continues to) play an important role in the recovery of looted
artifacts from Iraq (n.b. the url below was acting very
strangely this a.m.; if there are problems try accessing via
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/):

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040408.looting.shtml

... see also a magazine article on John Russell:

http://tinyurl.com/2sdo6

Meanwhile, some rescued antiquities from Iraq are suffering
after-effects of their being stolen:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11630

On Egypt's efforts to recover stolen antiquities:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=1679_0_1_0_M

Some stolen Neanderthal teeth were returned this week:

http://tinyurl.com/2bpjg (AFP via Yahoo)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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William Rehnquist, *Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of
1876*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/books/review/11DONALDT.html

John Guy, *Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/books/review/11KILROYT.html

Rafi U. Sumad, *Greeks in Ancient Pakistan*:

http://www.indolink.com/Book/book103.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Trojan Women:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/theater/reviews/07TROJ.html
http://tinyurl.com/24ncw

Women of Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/ypd5t (niner online)

Antigone:

http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1549~2073215,00.html

I La Galigo (Indonesian Myth):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/arts/dance/07GALI.html

Treasures of Tutankhamun (in Switzerland):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/arts/06ARTS.html
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9575
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at
Chatsworth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/arts/design/09BARD.html

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/arts/design/09COTT.html

Ocean Flowers: Drawing from Nature:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/arts/design/09SMIT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Ancient Greek techniques apparently are the inspiration for some
new nano technology (a somewhat spurious connection):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/040406085508.htm

More on the revived Nemean Games:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2004/04/08_nemea.shtml

The Greek Supreme Court has rejected arguments that the Acropolis
Museum project should be scrapped:

http://tinyurl.com/2ww6y (Kathimerini)

A different theory on what the origin of crossing the Rubicon
was:

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=4836120

An update on the HBO/BBC Rome thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/arts/television/05ROME.html

Nice sculpture of the Death of Cleopatra by Edmonia Lewis:

http://tinyurl.com/39z47 (Art Daily)

Another pair of Socrates Cafe stories:

http://www.dogstreetjournal.com/story.php?aid=1614
http://tinyurl.com/2rgl7 (review journal)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2swhq

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
================================================================
Comanche Rock Art from Colorado:

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=ANCIENTART-04-09-04&cat=AN

Gladiator Diet:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040405/gladiator.html
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1081439.htm
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/314454.htm
http://tinyurl.com/298rr
http://tinyurl.com/yudm7 (The Australian)

Taulas:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994849
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
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editor's note: a good chunk of the world went on daylight savings
time last night ... don't forget to set your clocks ahead and
change the batteries in your smoke alarms!
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Items from Tanzania suggest humans were "decorating themselves"
rather earlier than previously thought:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4640531/
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/03/31/sci-tech/beads040331
http://tinyurl.com/2bv7u (National Geographic)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994839

A one-million b.p. hominid from Eritrea was reported on in a
conference in Florence:

http://tinyurl.com/2eb7f (AGI)

A study of numerous Bronze Age monuments and tombs (esp. Menorcan
taulas) notes the vast majority of them are oriented toward the
rising sun (the tinyurl link to a German article on the subject
has a nice photo of a taula):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3592631.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3dwr6
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/01builder/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1184066,00.html

A pile of 7000 b.p. flints have been found in Glen Dee (Scotland):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3581355.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=366562004

The 6000 b.p. remains of a child have been found in Norway:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article764163.ece

Some 5000 b.p. human remains have been found in Leicestershire:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART20695.html

What might be the first full frontal portrait of a pharaoh has
been pieced together by Egyptologists:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4648930/
http://tinyurl.com/ysp4n (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62902,00.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994847 (photo)

A report on some recent finds in Egypt (one is a repeat for
Explorator readers):

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=1598_0_1_0_M

More items have been found during the excavation of Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/410156.html

Excavation of a Roman site outside Carlisle Castle has found
a comb and remains of a head louse:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3582603.stm

The eastern wall of Temple Mount is in danger of collapse in
the wake of that earthquake in February:

http://tinyurl.com/25uee (Jerusalem Post)
http://www.truthnews.net/world/2004040003.htm

A big row has erupted over relics from the battle of Bannockburn:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=357422004
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
An excavation in Delaware has found "memorabilia" relating to
both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln:

http://tinyurl.com/2nohf (Delaware News Journal)

The Yellow Jacket site (Grand Pueblo in Colorado) has been
added to the National Register of Historic Sites:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4648562/

A dig in anticipation of renovations to Charleston City Hall is
turning up all sorts of stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/32t3c (Herald Tribune)

The discovery of a 'family cemetery' (rather large) has temporarily
halted subdivision construction in Wake Forest:

http://www.nbc17.com/news/2961848/detail.html

A press release on recent research into the Maya by Boston
University folks:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/bu-rvc040204.php

Some Comanche (maybe) petroglyphs have been found in Colorado:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/uoca-rad033004.php
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
This one just came in and hopefully we'll get more details later ...
according to Corriere della Sera, the skull in Petrarch's tomb
is not Petrarch's:

http://tinyurl.com/2v349 (in Italian)

Ha'aretz has an interviewish thing with New Testament scholar
Joshua Efron, who comments on the Passion, among other things:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/410912.html

... semi-related, in that it's sort of a review of the Passion,
is Gary Wills' piece in the New York Review of Books:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17026

Utah State has produced a cd called "Archaeology - Why It Rocks"
to get kids interested in the subject:

http://utahstatetoday.usu.edu/newsreleases/ (scroll down)

The Vatican Library is going high tech:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51642

Edinburgh University is refusing to return some manuscripts
looted from Ethiopia in the 1860's:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/12938.shtml
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=507872

A while back we reported on the discovery of some mummies in
Siberia; now those mummies are being blamed for a number of earth
tremors in the region (not dated April 1):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3593481.stm

On hair length and military success (again, not dated April 1):

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_48775.asp

Descendents of slaves are suing Lloyds of London for their role
in underwriting slave traders (again, not April 1):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3578863.stm

A lost score by Johann Sebastian Bach has been found in Japan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3596027.stm

In case you missed it, they've found some other stuff beneath
the Sphinx (note: this was originally broadcast on April 1 ...
links on the lower right of the page are in German, but the
report is in English):

http://www.bremen2010.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=67
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
City Maps of Ancient Rome:

http://www.euratlas.net/Roma/

Interesting children's site on Hercules (requires Flash):

http://www.accessart.org.uk/hercules/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
A number of books at the 'Baldwin Project' with stories aimed
at children:

Old Greek Stories:

http://tinyurl.com/23hk7

The Aeneid for Boys and Girls:

http://tinyurl.com/37x7x

The Burning of Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/2z4yo

To The Lions:

http://tinyurl.com/2yne9

The Odyssey for Boys and Girls:

http://tinyurl.com/yv22d

The Crown of Pine (Isthmian Games):

http://tinyurl.com/25bq5
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The Kosovo conflict appears to be still bubbling up, with
a number of medieval churches and their contents as victims:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/03/arts/03CHUR.html

Jordan is going to return a huge number of antiquities which
were smuggled out of Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/2aw8t (New York Times)

... but the looting continues, despite efforts to curb it:

http://tinyurl.com/2eewj (New York Times)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4703631.html

A pair of illegally-excavated Egyptian limestone steles which
ended up in a New York gallery will be returned to Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02MONU.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/513200.html

A French archaeologist being held in Egypt on suspicion of
smuggling antiquities has been released on bail:

http://tinyurl.com/2lkv7 (Expatica)

Someone is still tracking down coins stolen from the DuPont
collection back in the 1960's:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/8239050.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Carl Zimmer, *The Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain --
and How It Changed the World.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/books/review/04ZEMANT.html

Russell Short, *The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic
Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped
America* :

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/books/review/04BAKERT.html
(first chapter available)

Tom Holland, *Rubicon*:

http://tinyurl.com/2afbb (Contra Costa Times)

A couple of works on the historicity of the Exodus:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/134656-2251-047.html

Erich Segal, *The Death of Comedy*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/411568.html
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya:

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/mayainfo.htm

Cities in the Americas: A Celebration of the Phelps Stokes
Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02CITI.html

Ancient Art to Post-Impressionism

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1184792,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=507868

Vixerunt Omnes: Romani ex Imaginibus

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fa20040331a1.htm

Adriano: Le Memorie al femminile:

http://tinyurl.com/2yx59 (in Italian, but with a nice photo)

British Museum Enlightenment Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31RIDI.html

Eternal Egypt:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0331/p25s01-stin.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
A nice letter re: Classics in Scotland:

http://www.sundayherald.com/40977

A lament on the decline of knowledge of Latin and Greek:

http://tinyurl.com/348v3 (Spectator)

Only one in 600 people could name all seven Wonders of the
Ancient World in a recent poll:

http://tinyurl.com/398o5 (Telegraph)

New trailer and poster for 'Troy':

http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4138

Professional sports as Greek tragedy (I think this is actually
a repeat):

http://tinyurl.com/2udzz (Baptist Standard)

Nemean Games revival:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/30_nemea.shtml

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/yu4we

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
David Oates (Near Eastern Archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/2hwjb (Independent)
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
King Tut's Wine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/science/30OBSE.html

Libyan Tourism:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=358622004
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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, Cronman mac Nessa, Dave
Sowdon, Glenn Meyer, John Eric Voltin, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Louis A. Okin, Maurice O'Sullivan, Michael Oberndorf, Richard C.
Griffiths, Rick Reidlinger, Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow, Tim Parkin,
Tom Elliott, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
out).


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Editor's note: thanks to all who pointed out to me the fact that
carparks in Somerset are not in Scotland, despite my geographically-
challenged attempt to put such there 8^).

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================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
What might be the first evidence of use of fire has been revealed
by electron spin resonance:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3557077.stm

Good coverage of Egypt's restoration of the sarcophagus of
Rameses VI (and assorted other objects):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4579973/
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/247-03222004-268676.html
http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=1725947
http://tinyurl.com/25d73 (CNN)

... which is related to Egypt's desire for the British Museum
to return the face:

http://tinyurl.com/2ns93 (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/3fqwl (Reuters)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=334492004

Here's another potential saga-in-the-works ... the ivory pomegranate
which is the only relic of Jerusalem's First Temple, might be
a forgery:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/408911.html
cf. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/409140.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=60121

A followup on the Beit Shean fire:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/408751.html

The excavations in Tiberias are already producing newsworthy items;
the first we read about is the discovery of a basilica that seems
to be associated with the Sanhedrin and some mosaics in a bath
building:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/407113.html

A kouros has been found on Chios:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=41122

Those clumsy archaeologists are at it again, this time stumbling
on the Indian port of Muziris, a centre of Indo-Roman trade:

http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/23/stories/2004032303340500.htm

Another site in India which has demonstrated evidence of Roman
contact (Pondicherry) will soon be excavated:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/584155.cms

A 7400 b.p. bamboo mat has been found in China's Hunan province:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1071479.htm
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Excavating the Winterville Mounds (in Mississippi):

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0403/27/m08.html
http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2004/03/27/news/21village.txt

Sounds like there's a lack of foresight/planning in Lansing,
Michigan when it comes to identifying/preserving archaeological
sites:

http://www.detnews.com/2004/oakland/0403/25/d04-102675.htm

... while plenty of artifacts from Penn's Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology are stored improperly and are being damaged:

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/405ea2329388b

The dig at Fort St. Joseph (Michigan) will resume this summer:

http://tinyurl.com/2vch3 (South Bend Tribune)

They'll also be digging into the site of the Fetterman Battle
(Wyoming):

http://tinyurl.com/27ath

Nice coverage of the Lima Lake (Illinois) Middle Woodland site:

http://www.whig.com/350173089679017.php

A touristy sort of thing on Pecos National Historical Park:

http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/travel/157798traffic03-28-04.htm

Seems we're told about the threat to Peru's Nazca lines every
couple of months or so, but no one's doing anything about it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3554495.stm
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front (I think this is a repeat), hopes are high that
DNA can be extracted from early hominid bones to help figure out
all that evolution stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/237g5 (National Geographic)

Iraq's National Museum should reopen "within a year":

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9403

Erosion of fortifications in Charleston is being studied to help
determine the age of all kinds of structures:

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1739682&nav=0RaPLoya

An interesting theory about a jaw-dropping genetic mutation which
led to the development of human speech:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4593822/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040322/slimjaw.html

A touristy sort of thing on the Sterkfontein Caves/'Cradle of
Humankind' UNESCO Heritage Site in South Africa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/travel/28cradle.html

... and a touristy thing(s) on the Roman ruins at Leptis Magna:

http://tinyurl.com/ywqlh (Arizona Republic)
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2004-03-25-libya_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3568509.stm


Lottery funds will be used to restore Northern Ireland's 'lost'
Bagenal Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3564113.stm

Interesting piece on New York's Prospect Cemetery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/nyregion/22tour.html

Tiepolo's Banquet of Cleopatra has been getting plenty of coverage
in Australian newspapers over the last year ... here's a good
example:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/24/1079939712818.html

The ANS comments on the first (likely)U.S. Silver Dollar ever
struck:

http://www.money.org/press/20040315-1794dollar.html

The first numismatic museum in India has opened:

http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=33732

Interesting item about advertising and Archaeology magazine:

http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsID=243055

Coverage of the historical side of The Passion seem to be on
the wane (although the film did debut in the UK this week) but
we're still getting some items of interest:

http://www.thehoya.com/news/032304/news12.cfm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Neusner_Judaic_Reading.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Chilton_Passion.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Flesher_Mel's_Jesus.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Ludemann_Passion.htm

USC has a project to virtually restore (and produce copies of) the
Parthenon marbles (not just the Elgin ones):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3486476.stm

William Tell ... more than just an overture:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/0324/p12s01-trgn.html

India wants to arrest an American scholar who has written a
book about the 17th century warrior Shivaji:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561499.stm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
The Digger 32 (March, 2004):

http://tinyurl.com/3au8e

Biblical Archaeology Review (March/April 2004):

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

Didaskalia 6.1 (Spring 2004):

http://didaskalia.open.ac.uk/issues/vol6no1/contents.html

Labyrinth 83 (March 2004):

http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/CLASS/labyrinth/issue83/issue83.html

Labyrinth 82 (October 2003):

http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/CLASS/labyrinth/issue82/issue82.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Documenting the American South:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/

Exploring Burned Rock Middens at Camp Bowie (part of the Texas
Beyond History website from UT at Austin):

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/bowie/index.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Walter MacDougall, *Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American
History 1585-1828*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/books/review/28WOODLT.html

William Rehnquist, *Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election
of 1876*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/opinion/21SUN4.html

Mark Prendergrast, *Mirror, Mirror: A History of the Human Love
Affair with Reflection*:

http://tinyurl.com/2xnog (Guardian)

J. Weatherford, *Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern
World*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0323/p17s01-bogn.html

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PERFORMANCES
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Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/368yf (NOLA)
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EXHIBITIONS
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Heaven on Earth: A Late Antique Masterpiece and the Rise of
Christian Culture, 300-600 A.D:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/arts/design/26ANTI.html

Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/arts/design/26KIMM.html
(nice slide show)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/arts/design/22BYZA.html

Assorted Asian Art Shows/Sales:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/arts/design/26COTT.html

The British Museum (and the Victoria and Albert) has acquired
some nice Buddhas:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_grd=419&int_modo=1
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2695387

The Glory of Baroque Dresden

http://tinyurl.com/3aber (NOLA)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Okay ... I've read this three or four times now and I just can't
quite see the connection between Suetonius and George Bush that
the author is trying to make:

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair03272004.html

Athens' National Museum will only be 'semi open' for the Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/3cb8v (Kathimerini)

An exhibition in Athens includes a painting of same from the 17th
century (i.e. pre-Parthenon-explosion):

http://tinyurl.com/2o4md (Athens News ... includes photo)

Albert Steiner was 'professor of the week' at Butler:

http://dawgnet.butler.edu/archive/040321/2261.html

Brock University recently honoured David Rupp:

http://tinyurl.com/33etg (BrockU Press)

Another Latin revival piece:

http://tinyurl.com/2dm5k (USA Today)

Trevor Hodge is still commenting on Roman lead in the water:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16400-2004Mar22.html
(scroll down)

More coverage of Socrates Cafes (Classicists have to exploit this
boom somehow):

http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/books/0304/24socrates.html
http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGA9H5W04SD.html

The Classics crisis in Scotland continues:

http://news.scotsman.com/education.cfm?id=331192004
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=333212004
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=334692004

American Idol's Classical roots:

http://tinyurl.com/2596b (SF Chronicle)

The New York Times has a nice feature on Anne Carson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/arts/27POET.html

ClassCon in a poetry review piece:

http://tinyurl.com/29rl6 (Telegraph)

Interesting stuff in a review of a documentary about Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/287sh (Telegraph)

Reviews of 'Ladykillers':

http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24409~2043258,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2qna4 (Mercury)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
================================================================
King Tut's Wine:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13792-2004Mar21.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040322/redwine.html
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Parallel lines made on a 1.4 million b.p. piece of bone found
in Bulgaria may be the earliest example of human 'symbolic
behaviour':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3512470.stm

Ancient Indians made 'rock music':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3520384.stm

Some bored spelunkers discovered some prehistoric caves in
Scotland (beneath a parking lot ... is it just me or do roughly
half the archaeological discoveries in Scotland come from 'beneath
a carpark'):

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2671102

I would have sworn I mentioned this before, but maybe not ... a pile
of Bronze Age gold has been found by some metal detectorists in
Wrexham:

http://tinyurl.com/2auq6 (IC North Wales)

Archaeological evidence suggests Jiroft culture might have greatly
influenced Sumerian:

http://tinyurl.com/3yvz9 (Iranmania)

Scientists have determined that King Tut took red wine with him
to the afterlife:

http://tinyurl.com/2z8hh (Telegraph)
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Daily/News/0,1145,2386,00.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040316073517.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/acs-tl031504.php

Interesting piece on Egyptian tomb decoration:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/682/heritage.htm

Evidence for human sacrifice in ancient Egypt has recently been
revealed at Abydos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/science/16EGYP.html

Last week we mentioned the British Museum's acquisition of 'The
Queen of Night' relief; here's the Museum's official page on the
item:

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ12540

The Palestinian National Authority is accusing Israel of purloining
Palestinian antiquties and sites:

http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_03/090.html

Colchester's Roman walls are in a horrible state of disrepair:

http://tinyurl.com/2t6zn (EADT)

Archaeologists in Cyprus aren't impressed with the Antiquities
Department's handling of a site at Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=13440&cat_id=1

Here's one I hope we'll read more about ... a brief item (in
Italian) about the discovery of the remains of a crocodile during
at the Naples site where those Roman ships came from:

http://news2000.libero.it/index_cultura_news.jhtml?id=5915183

They're going to do a bit of archaeology at Skopje Fortress
prior to building a new U.S. Embassy:

http://www.idividi.com.mk/English/Culture/270068/index.html

A dig in the United Arab Emirates at the birthplace of the
explorer Bin Majid is about to get under way:

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=113960

Remains of a 500 b.p. Maori cloak and other remains have been
found at a site in New Zealand (obviously):

http://tinyurl.com/33ees (New Zealand Herald)
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Remnants of 'space dust' might help to reveal hidden chambers
in Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4540266/

They're going to restore/recover a major Inca 'highway':

http://tinyurl.com/33lw3 (La Tercera -- Spanish)

Some members of Florida's Calusa tribe might not have been
wiped out:

http://tinyurl.com/2ghgn (AP via Yahoo)

Thermal imaging has helped to locate a couple of eighteenth
century German villages in Louisiana:

http://tinyurl.com/33po7 (NOLA)

A National Guard property in New York may lie over some native
remains:

http://tinyurl.com/yuqcp (Times Union)

Construction of a huge 'graving yard' (new term for me) to park
battleships in Washington State has revealed some human remains
and will probably reveal more:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4546190/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, we have another study suggesting that humans
and Neanderthals didn't interbreed (much):

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040315/040315-4.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040315/neanderthal.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/plos-rna031004.php

'Chemical analysis' of teeth suggests that Anglo-Saxons did not
replace the native population of England:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3514756.stm
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040317-105853-5427r.htm

Those waxy lumps found in bogs all over the place turn out to be
the remains of ancient meat and milk (a.k.a. 'bog butter'):

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040315/040315-5.html

The New York Times has a long and somewhat confusing piece
arising from a Nature article on 'glottochronology':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/science/16LANG.html

Australia's Radio National did a nice program called 'What
Language Did Jesus Speak' this week (realaudio):

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/audio/lfranca_20032004_2856.ram

The Bamiyan Buddhas ... three years later:

http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID3126026,00.html
(in German)

So what's Matthew Bogdanos been up to?:

http://tinyurl.com/2n74q (Newsday)

Interesting piece on the development of libraries:

http://tinyurl.com/2hmmf (The Nation)

Archaeologists don't like the Stonehenge tunnel idea:

http://tinyurl.com/3eg9k

Last week we mentioned a Telegraph piece on the shutting down of
the construction of the Acropolis Museum and charges being laid
against assorted folks; the Telegraph piece didn't quite get it
right, so here's more on this:

http://tinyurl.com/2swyf (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/yucor (Athens News)

A short history of the swastika:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/570871.cms

Behind the scenes at the Akron Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/8212995.htm

A follow-up to that big Roman coin discovery last week which
includes a bit on how such coins are conserved:

http://tinyurl.com/2nyf5 (BBC)

The BBC wonders whether Noah really built an ark:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3524676.stm

The Celtic Festival in Brisbane needs Roman soldiers:

http://tinyurl.com/294jc (Glen Innes Examiner)

From the AIA: "Two Archaeologists Comment on The Passion
of the Christ":

http://tinyurl.com/2bh4s

... and Gary Wills does too (in the context of a book
review):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17026

Mel Gibson's next film (maybe ... this is strange):

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0304/18gibson.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040317/325/eou0b.html

Semi-related to the above (really semi-) is a piece on who has
the better historical claim to Jerusalem (I think; this one's
hard to follow):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=3468

The origins of Mothering Sunday:

http://tinyurl.com/8e93 (BBC)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Antiquity 78 (299) (March, 2004) ... TOCs, some items online:

http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html

"The Roman Warm Period in Northwest China" (summary):

http://www.co2science.org/journal/v7/v7n11c2.htm
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Antiquity of Man site has been updated:

http://www.antiquityofman.com/index.html

The Michigan Relics:

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/michrelics/
================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Not 'new' per se, but worth checking out is the Million Book
Project by the same folks who brought you the Internet Wayback
Machine:

http://www.archive.org/texts/collection.php?collection=millionbooks
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A mummified hand was stolen from a pub in Salisbury:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/3515304.stm

Japan is stepping in to help protect Sumer:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040318b4.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Judith Fitzgerald, *Adagios: Iphigenia's Song*:

http://tinyurl.com/2mjdm (Globe and Mail)

Lev Grossman, *Codex* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/review/21SHULMT.html

Roy Porter, *Flesh in the Age of Reason*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/review/21MILLERT.html

Daniel C. Matt (trans.), *The Zohar*:

http://tinyurl.com/23k6v (Jerusalem Post)
cf.: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/8192856.htm

Philip Freeman, *St. Patrick of Ireland*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0316/p15s02-bogn.html

William Dietrich, *Hadrian's Wall* (fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/2kr58 (Seattle Times)
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Midsummer Night's Dream:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/books/18JOHN.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Treasures of the Royal Tombs of Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/2blby (Delco Times)

Egyptian Antiquities from the Air:

http://tinyurl.com/29r53 (Naples News ... nice photos)

Exquisite Ceramics, Paintings and Works of Art (Chinese):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/20/content_1375741.htm

'New' Roman Sculptures at the Minneapolis Institute of Art:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1375/4667382.html

The Glory of Baroque Dresden:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/arts/design/21WEID.html

Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19COTT.html

Chinese Painting for the Metropolitan Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19DILL.html

Cyprus: One Thousand Pieces of Memory:

http://tinyurl.com/2ju29 (Kathimerini)

Assorted exhibitions/gallery shows in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19INSI.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19ANTI.html

I think I'll pass on this proposed exhibition:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/14/1079199093855.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The Imbros Cup is up for auction again:

http://tinyurl.com/2p52s

A touristy thing on Perge:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=128911&pid=null

Danielle Allen has become Dean of Humanities at UChicago:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040318/allen.shtml

ClassCon in a piece meditating events in Madrid:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/18_03_04_b.asp

The ARCHES project looks interesting:

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/arches/

Ides of March stuff:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/560383.cms
http://tinyurl.com/2jbxa (National Geographic)

Night of the Living Dead Languages IV:

http://www.cornellsun.com/articles/11293/

Interesting piece by Laura Miller on relevance, Classics, and
other things:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/review/21LMILLET.html

A nice middle school culminating project:

http://tinyurl.com/2aq5j (Plainview Daily Herald)

A proposal to cut teaching of classics teachers at Strathclyde
University has given rise to a pile of editorials on whether
Latin is a good thing or not ... here's a sampling of the
various opinions (they are different):

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=296822004
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=327282004
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=316132004
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=316202004
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/letters.cfm?id=315802004
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=312162004
http://news.scotsman.com/education.cfm?id=308472004
http://www.sundayherald.com/40623

The guy behind Socrates Cafes:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/?articleID=3982

The Socratic Shrink:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/magazine/21SHRINK.html

More Socrateana:

http://tinyurl.com/2a3js (Chicago Tribune)

The Houghton Library at Harvard has recently acquired a pile of
stuff relating to Samuel Johnson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/books/18JOHN.html

Some Athens Olympics humour:

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tm/2004/tm040321.gif

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2ynme

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Keith Hopkins (Classicist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/books/15HOPK.html
http://tinyurl.com/32wdc (Telegraph)
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/8196109.htm?1c
http://www.iht.com/articles/510424.htm
http://tinyurl.com/29t2k (Guardian)

================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Chinese Remains in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/2282g (Oregonian)

Queen of the Night acquire by BM:

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=323302004

Virginia Jasper Mine:

http://www.madison-news.com/2004/March/11/mine.shtml

================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A brief item on the discovery of some Neolithic cave paintings (?)
in Sicily:

http://web.latercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_52861958,00.html
(in Spanish)

The British Museum has acquired a very nice 4000 b.p. Mesopotamian
terracotta relief dubbed 'the Queen of Night':

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2622685
http://tinyurl.com/2v8yw (Telegraph ... includes photo)
http://tinyurl.com/yugo3 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1165034,00.html
(photo)

New research suggests bubonic plague may have originated in ancient
Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/2ml2r (National Geographic)

A few Explorators ago we mentioned the Beit She'an warehouses in
which were stored piles of antiquities ... a suspicious fire has
destroyed one of them:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/403906.html

Plenty of folks sent this one in ... a horde of some 20,000
4th-century Roman coins has been found during fishpond construction
in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3501426.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=500343

Time Team is excavating a Roman villa:

http://tinyurl.com/285de (East Anglian Daily Times)

This is really a repeat, but a piece in the Tufts Daily has much
more detail than our previous coverage on the discovery of 'Roman
Paris'/Lutetia:

http://www.tuftsdaily.com/articleDisplay.jsp?a_id=3524

This is also a bit of a repeat, but is a sort of update on those
Cetina Valley finds from Croatia:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1164711,00.html

A Byzantine-era villa has been found near Netanya (Israel):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/403404.html

A bit of Viking graffiti has been found (looks awfully clear to
me):

http://test.thecourier.co.uk/output/2004/03/09/newsstory5696643t0.asp

A nice feature on the "Pompeii of the Silk Road":

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/12/content_314240.htm

An urn burial dating from 3000 - 2000 b.p. has been found in
India:

http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/14/stories/2004031400151100.htm

A touristy photoish thing on some temples in Pakistan:

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=57726

Here's better coverage (and links to photos) of that Brunel Bridge
discovery mentioned last week:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_txo_en/ART20161.html
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THE AMERICAS
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A 4000 b.p. burial has been found in Argentina:

http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=3368
http://tercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_55738823,00.html
(in Spanish)

A nice piece on the excavation of a Hohokam mound in Marana
(Arizona):

http://tinyurl.com/2p2ve (Tucson Citizen)

An 11,000 b.p. jasper mine has been found in Virginia:

http://www.madison-news.com/2004/March/11/mine.shtml

Artifacts from Oregon's early Chinese community have been found
in Jacksonville:

http://tinyurl.com/38toa (Oregonian)
http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2004/0312/local/stories/01local.htm

A survey is searching for the home of Hiram/Harmon Good, a
"notorious Indian hunter":

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4469860/

What may be the first "planned" community for African-Americans
in Connecticut is being excavated:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4421968/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The big news under this rubric has to be that the Greek government
has halted the construction of the Acropolis Museum and charge
those who approved it:

http://tinyurl.com/2vl7d (Telegraph)

A Discovery Channel (Canada) piece on how hard-headed homo
erectuses (homines erecti?) were (includes video):

http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2004/03/10/53.asp

An interesting interviewish sort of thing with Gabriel Barkay
('Biblical' archaeologist):

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Mar/03132004/saturday/147291.asp

Here's an interesting piece on the numbers of Europeans who
were enslaved by African slave traders during the 16th-18th
centuries:

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040310-115506-8528r.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1166720,00.html

John Noble Wilford has written a good piece on the ancient
Olympics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/science/09OLYM.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/509517.html

This one's kind of strange (to me, at least) ... they're going
to return five stones which comprise a Bronze Age burial chamber
to their original site somewhere in Devon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3546433.stm

The Jehoash Inscription saga continues:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/402579.html

An interesting piece on Egyptian medicine:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/681/hr1.htm

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/681/hr2.htm

An interesting piece on the miniature illuminations in a manuscript
known as the Padshahnama, which chronicles life of a 17th century
Mugul emperor:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0311/p18s03-hfes.html

Road construction threatens a Maori site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2842585a11,00.html

As the Passion furor begins to wane, we now get nice pieces on
what we know about Pontius Pilate:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/8171443.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Ludemann_Passion.htm

Folks might also be interested in the "scholarly smackdown"
on the Passion and related issues between John Crossan and
Ben Witherington III:

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/141/story_14197_1.html

... or a Tibetan viewpoint:

http://www.timesoftibet.com/artman/publish/article_1108.shtml

... or a piece on Aramaic:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/110/52.0.html

So who wears the pants in your family:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200403100265.html

A restaurant cooks the way the ancient Egyptians did:

http://tinyurl.com/2wm2g (Newsday)

Temple Mount Saga:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=59262
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=59214

Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga:

http://tinyurl.com/yss6b (IC Liverpool)

St. Patrick's Day stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/2hvss (Toronto Star)

Ides of March stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/2jbxa (National Geographic)
http://national.snitch.com/2004/03/12/caesar
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Biblical Archaeology Society March/April 2004:

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

Minerva Magazine's website has a pile of news items of interest:

http://www.minervamagazine.com/news.html
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ON THE WEB
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George Saliba, "Greek Astronomy and the Medieval Arabic Tradition":

http://tinyurl.com/3yg8e (American Scientist)

The Medieval Science Page:

http://members.aol.com/mcnelis/medsci_index.html
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A guy who found a stone axe head in Scotland faces prosecution
for refusing to turn it over to authorities:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3503804.stm

A rare coin, stolen back in 1967, has been recovered:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21187-2004Mar1.html

Cyprus is taking legal action to recover a pile of antiquities
stolen during the Turkish invasion and now in Germany:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=13348&archive=1

A couple of guys have been charged with looting some Pueblo
burials in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/2jkdk (WMI Central)

Minerva Magazine has an article suggesting the media is blowing
the whole antiquities trade thing out of proportion:

http://www.minervamagazine.com/news.html#article1

Another batch of smuggled/looted antiquities were returned to
Egypt this week:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/681/eg4.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Philip Freeman, *St Patrick of Ireland*

http://tinyurl.com/352o8 (New York Times -- scroll down)

Robert D. Kaplan, *Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History
and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece*

http://tinyurl.com/3948z (Globe and Mail)

Duncan Sprott, *House of the Eagle* (fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/2qko2 (Guardian)
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PERFORMANCES
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King Lear:

http://tinyurl.com/3ccfx (New York Metro)

Metamorphoses:

http://tinyurl.com/2g4mu (Zwire)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Trust Pravda to take a perfectly good story about research into
the remains found recently in the North Sea and turn it into
a story about Atlantis:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12245_Atlantis.html
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The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at
Chatsworth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/arts/12ANTI.html

Bible in English: Before and After the Hampton Court Conference:

http://tinyurl.com/28eqo (ABC)
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Japan Times has a feature on naming practices which has a nice
section on Roman names:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20040314x3.htm

Is Venus in your garden?:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/8171443.htm

And what's Gregory Aldrete up to?:

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_15107411.shtml

What they've done at Olympia in anticipation of the Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/2p4rg (athensNews)

The Rosicrucian Museum is reopening its planetarium with a show
focussing on Mithraism:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/8178084.htm

Nice feature on UBuffalo's informal Grex Latine (includes a
reading of the last section of the Aeneid):

http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol35/vol35n26/articles/latin.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2e9zv

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

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OBITUARIES
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Russell Weigley (Military Historian)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/national/12WEIG.html
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REPEATS
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Gladiator Diet:

http://tinyurl.com/36tu6 (Telegraph)

HMS Beagle:

http://tinyurl.com/35jlq (Telegraph)

Recent Ethiopian Finds:

http://tinyurl.com/2cpob (Telegraph)

Rebuilding the Colosseum:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4520307

Romanian Hominids:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040306_494.html
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Wees, Maurice O'Sullivan, Sally Winchester, Richard C. Griffiths,
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A spate of recent finds in Ethiopia have archaeologist hopeful
they'll find something Lucy-like (or better) soon:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4439772/
http://tinyurl.com/28yhm (Reuters)
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040303_336.html

Related to the above:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4449448/
http://tinyurl.com/yt9vs (Scientific American)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1059476.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/science/05HUMA.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040301/teeth.html

More info on the threat to Thornborough Henge:

http://tinyurl.com/2ccf9 (Megalithic Portal)

Meanwhile, those 35,000 b.p. finds from Romania are back in
the news for some reason:

http://tinyurl.com/2gnct (AP via Yahoo)

Metal detectorists have made some major discoveries in regards
to a Bronze Age site in Wrexham (Wales) of late:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/3532395.stm

Recent finds in an Ayrshire village might give it the tag of
'oldest continuously-inhabited village in Scotland':

http://tinyurl.com/yrr7k (Scotland Today)

The possibility that Iraq might soon reopen to excavations is
causing a pile of speculation as to what might be found:

http://tinyurl.com/2txjw (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.jordantimes.com/Fri/news/news12.htm

I think this was covered before, but it is a good report on the
recent discovery of evidence for an India-Egypt trade route at
the time of the Roman Empire:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=1387_0_1_0_M

The Jerusalem Post has a nice feature on the site of Beit Shemesh,
which opened to the public this week:

http://tinyurl.com/2vdjh

Excavation of Tiberias began this week:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/400008.html

... while Libya's recent actions are getting tour operators
hoping they can sell Leptis Magna as a tourist destination:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/travel/07leptis.html

And as long as we're talking touristy things, the Seattle Times
has a piece on 'underground Naples':

http://tinyurl.com/ytdta

A Third Century Roman grave found during an excavation in Kent
is getting some publicity:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3527639.stm

Archaeologists in Norway have found a major Viking harbour
complex:

http://tinyurl.com/ysxqr (AP via Newsday)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3828295,00.html

A 500 b.p. mummy of a Tibetan monk has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/2cjwh (The Australian)

A family dug up a tree on a Swedish island and found a horde of
11th century German coins:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040301_1498.html

More finds from New Zealand:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2835607a8153,00.html

An iron bridge designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel has been
'rediscovered' in time to save it (?) from demolition:

http://tinyurl.com/ywgej (Telegraph)
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THE AMERICAS
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Dozens of Inca mummies dating to the 1500's have been found
during road construction in Peru:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4460502/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3538243.stm

On searching for America's 'lost colony':

http://tinyurl.com/2rynt (National Geographic)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, the remains of the Romanovs are up for testing
again:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/su-ssq030204.php

The frescoes of Thera (Minoan) are being used as evidence for
the early use of saffron for medicinal purposes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/science/02MEDI.html

Interesting project to document World Heritage sites with
3D photography/scanning/surveying technology:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8128125.htm

On possible sources for 'Lord of the Rings':

http://tinyurl.com/2de8d (National Geographic)

The New York Times 'reran' the obituary of Howard Carter,
marking the anniversary of his death:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0509.html

The Duke of Urbino has been implicated in the 'hit' on Lorenzo
di Medici and his brother in 1478:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/06/arts/06MEDI.html

Digitizing the manuscripts of St. Catherine's monastery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/technology/circuits/04monk.html

They're going to be looking into the authenticity of the
Tuscan 'Excalibur':

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040301/sword.html

An Ohio seminary is going to be home for a fragment of the
Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/8102396.htm

A bit more commentary on Mel Gibson's "Passion":

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/5/91707.shtml
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2836624a1861,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/opinion/28KRIS.html

See also the admissions of the Jesuit scholar who did all the
translating:

http://tinyurl.com/23bcm (Metromix)

Related to the above are a pile of handy Aramaic phrases to
take to the movies with you:

http://tinyurl.com/3h464 (Guardian)

... and sequel possibilities/suggestions:

http://tinyurl.com/3fkhr (Orlando Sentinel)

More serious is an okay piece on the various cultures living
in Judea in Jesus' time:

http://washingtontimes.com/arts/20040305-081340-9796r.htm

A major fire has done damage to some of the frescoes to Mt. Athos'
Hilandariou Monastery:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3537329.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1162573,00.html

Latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:

http://tinyurl.com/3xy68 (AthensNews)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Council For British Archaeology (Wales) Newsletter (Spring 2004):

http://tinyurl.com/3bcea

Nice article on Sacagawea:

http://www.historynet.com/we/blsacagaweaofthelcexpedition/
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ON THE WEB
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Colonial Currency:

http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/

The Centrale Archaeologische Inventaris website is a sort of
portal to archaeology in Belgium and evirons. Although the site
is in Flemish, it does have a nice timeline-approach to its
presentation and is worth visiting even just for inspiration:

http://cai.erfgoed.net/cai_publiek/index2.html
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CRIME BEAT
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On antiquities theft in Asia:

http://www.business-standard.com/today/story.asp?Menu=26&story=35787

National Geographic has a companion piece designed to advertise
an upcoming program on the return of Ramses' mummy to Egypt in
the context of stolen antiquities (I think that makes sense):

http://tinyurl.com/3ga3z

In the wake of some spectactular thefts from Pompeii, authorities
have catalogued some of the more vulnerable pieces:

http://tinyurl.com/2u576 (AGI)

The US Senate closed a loophole in laws which allowed stolen Iraqi
artifacts to be brought to the US:

http://tinyurl.com/36o5c (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Brook Manville and Josiah Ober, *A Company of Citizens*:

http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=1482&lang=US
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PERFORMANCES
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Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/2x286 (Michigan Live)

Alcestis:

http://www.pressconnects.com/entertainment/stories/030404s72505.shtml

Il Ritorno d'Ulisse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/arts/music/04RITO.html

King Lear:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/theater/reviews/05LEAR.html
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Parmigianino from the Frick Collection:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/?040308craw_artworld

Eternal Egypt:

http://www.tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=3718
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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A Classicist has become Provost of McDaniel College:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040302/phtu029_1.html

A piece focusing on the diet of gladiators:

http://tinyurl.com/2yezv (Telegraph)

... which actually arises from a story from a couple of years
ago; a version is still online at:

http://www.murphsplace.com/gladiator/gladtimes.html

Dunno how many folks are aware of Anne Carson's translation of
Hekuba:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/84761.html

Maecenas continues to inspire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3522347.stm

So ... what did Cleisthenes look like?:

http://tinyurl.com/yrjnc (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Yet another Alexander the Great flick:

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=239772004

More details about Athens Olympic ceremonial stuff:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=40193

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/3btbs

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Lucetta Mowry (Biblical Scholar):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32082-2004Mar4.html

Daniel Boorstin (Librarian of Congress):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/national/01BOOR.html

Charles Fraser (Jesuit/Classicist):

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/22/1077384635785.html

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REPEATS
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Domitianus coin:

http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2004-03-04/news/6
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4361643/

Migration to New World via Boat:

http://tinyurl.com/3afbb (Calgary Herald)

Those other Peruvian Mummies:

http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2004/03/03/news/21peru.txt

Vinland Map:

http://tinyurl.com/22bfk (Scientific American)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Jennifer Hellum, Jennifer Wees, John McMahon, "Judy", Joseph
Lauer, Karl Witwer, Louis A. Okin, Maurice O'Sullivan,
Michael Oberndorf, Paul James Cowie, Paul-Louis van Berg,
Randolph Bragg, Richard C. Griffiths, Sally Winchester, Stephen
Goranson, Tony Jackson, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, 'yy1122i'
and Yonatan Nadelman 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 couple of Explorators ago, I mentioned:

"A preliminary online report of the 2003 dig season at Hemma
Plateau (Syria) has been put on line"

... but messed up the url when I subsequently cut and pasted
another piece in the midst of it for some reason. So here's
the url again, just in case you missed it ... apologies to all
concerned for the confusion:

http://www.espasoc.org/2003/he3_1acc.html (in French)

Lots of 'nice pieces' this week ... including this one on the
Ketef Hinnom inscriptions of the Old Testament:

http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=17741

... and how far the Phoenicians went:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/23_02_04_e.asp

... and the Serapeum:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/679/hr2.htm

The Apis tombs at Saqqara are under threat from assorted
environmental factors:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/679/hr1.htm

Roman Paris was apparently a bit down the road, in Nanterre:

http://tinyurl.com/35sl9 (Expatica)

A nice piece on Bulgaria's Rogozen Treasure (Thracian):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=31595

Plenty of excitement over the discovery of a coin bearing the
likeness of third-century usurper Domitianus:

http://tinyurl.com/37pt2 (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/2oc8k (Telegraph)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4361643/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1155529,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/3518621.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_871209.html
http://tinyurl.com/3gbme (New Zealand Herald)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2571293
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040223/romancoin.html

Archaeologists have found evidence that China went through a
"Jade Age" some 5000 years b.p.:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-02/25/content_1331683.htm

Chinese archaeologists have also found some evidence of origins
of claims that the Chinese people were 'descended from the dragon':

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-02/24/content_1328987.htm

A brief item on the discovery of a Viking grave (possibly previously
mentioned):

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/95/380/12126_Viking.html

I think this is the first time I've seen a report on archaeological
finds from New Zealand:

http://tinyurl.com/2bay4 (New Zealand Herald)

A metal detectorist has found a 14th century cross pendant thingy:

http://tinyurl.com/3ehgg (Nottingham Evening Post)

Archaeologists excavating the site of Killiecrankie have found
what is believed to be a piece of a 17th century hand grenade:

http://tinyurl.com/39k2x (Telegraph)

This is actually a followup sort of thing ... we're starting to
get our first major reports relating to that exhumation of the
Medicis:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55974-2004Feb19.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040223/medici.html

This one is also semi-questionable as 'news' but there are a pile
of pieces about Darwin's Beagle again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3490564.stm
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
The latest evidence for the they-came-by-boat theory for the
migration of folks to the Americas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3517229.stm
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040226-111419-4081r.htm

A good piece on Kennewick Man:

http://www.techcentralstation.com/022404E.html

A nice report on the excavations going on at Kaminaljuya Park
Guatemala):

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02242004/tuesday/tuesday.asp

On the trail of a mysterious people whose remains are found
all over Pasco County (Florida):

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/22/Pasco/On_the_trail_of_the_a.shtml

I don't think we've covered this one ... a pair of 700 b.p. or
so mummies in an excellent state of preservation have been found
in Peru:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4356322/
http://tinyurl.com/2xed5 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_870338.html (best photo)

Interesting piece on the Deerfield Massacre (1704):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/arts/design/27ANTI.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
That Anglo-Saxon belt buckle which was found a year or so ago
on the Isle of Wight might not be staying on the island because
of lack of funds:

http://tinyurl.com/ypu55 (Telegraph)

The Antonine Wall is on its way to becoming a UNESCO World
Heritage site:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=216792004

Quite a bit of coverage of forthcoming expansion of the Met,
including a new Roman Court:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/nyregion/24MUSE.html
http://tinyurl.com/2nqfx (AP)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3485794.stm
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/167611p-146537c.html

The Nimrud Gold will be going on tour:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11597

A touristy pair of things on Athens in anticipation of the Olympics:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0225/p11s01-trgn.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0225/p12s01-trgn.html

cf: http://tinyurl.com/297xg (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

... and one on Santorini:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0225/p11s02-trgn.html

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/679/hr3.htm

An Arab group is seeking the return of all 'stolen' antiquities,
such as the Rosetta Stone (I suspect we'll be hearing more from
this one):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3516477.stm

cf. Another spin on the repatriation issue:

http://www.techcentralstation.com/090503F.html

The Temple Mount controversy continues:

http://tinyurl.com/3flde (Jerusalem Post)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/394454.html
http://tinyurl.com/yteou (Boston Globe)

A sampling of reactions to Mel Gibson's *Passion*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/nyregion/24NYC.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/opinion/25WOOD.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/arts/28CONN.html
http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=12537
http://www.abclocal.go.com/wls/news/022504_ns_romannails.html
http://tinyurl.com/2lwwb (Jewsweek)
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/movies/04mv276.htm
http://tinyurl.com/32hy5 (Reuters)

Related to the above (obviously) is a smattering of pieces on
Aramaic:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/nyregion/24NYC.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3488046.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ypgku (Jerusalem Post)
http://tinyurl.com/2u6q2 (Voice of America)

... and on crucifixion:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/02282004/it/2529.htm

Lambeth Palace Library is facing cuts:

http://tinyurl.com/2brh9 (Telegraph)

A publisher who claimed an archaeologist faked his discoveries
has lost the subsequent libel suit:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040224a5.htm

Some interesting revisionism seems to be going on in regards to
the modern Olympic Games' history:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_585608,00070007.htm
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
A reviewish sort of thing on the Egyptian Ministry of Culture's
new "Eternal Egypt" site:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4364009/
http://tinyurl.com/2oxu4 (Globe and Mail)

... and the site itself (which has plenty of Flash stuff; you
will definitely want a fast connection to fully appreciate this
one):

http://www.eternalegypt.org/

Sergei Rjabchikov, "Remarks on the Scythian, Sarmatian and
Meotian Beliefs":

http://anthro-globe.com/bin/artdetail.cgi?ID=50

Rochelle Altman, "The History Merchants" (a reviewish sort of
thing):

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

GeoTimes has a nice feature on geoarchaeology:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/feature_Geoarch.html
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Not really a 'book' per se, but Moliere's *Psyche* might be of
interest:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7444
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The New York Times has a HUGE piece on antiquities theft in
Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/international/23ANTI.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/130690.html

A new list has started for the discussion of the implications
of the Unitdroit Convention (and others) on the trade and sale
of antiquities, especially in regards to coins:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unidroit-L/

The James Ossuary saga has led to an investigation of antiquities
dealers in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/23tag (USA Today)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/395868.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
T.H. Breen, *The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics
Shaped American Independence*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/arts/28REV.html

Gregory Curtis, *Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo*

http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/books/148839books02-22-04.htm

Lucasta Miller, *The Bronte Myth*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/books/review/29MERKINT.html

Frank Kermode, *The Age of Shakespeare*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/books/review/29CONNOLT.html

Those three books about Sappho:

http://tinyurl.com/ys2kf (the Australian)
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Pericles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/arts/theater/24PERI.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/arts/design/27GLUE.html

Eternal Egypt (Now in Toronto!! Now to find some curriculum
connection so I can take my grade sevens there ...):

http://tinyurl.com/yq8eh (Toronto Star)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
John Noble Wilford ponders Serafina Cuomo's work with catapults:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/science/24CATA.html

The University of Calgary (yay!) News has a piece on Dr. Hanne
Sigismund Nielsen's research into Roman familial relationships
as revealed in inscriptions:

http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/feb04/roman-epitaphs.html

A piece on the Met's portrait of Caracalla:

http://tinyurl.com/2xzsz (ArtNews)

Another person who seems to wish he had learned Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/253k4 (Guardian)

Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=234412004
http://tinyurl.com/23ofm
http://tinyurl.com/3fdt6 (Kathimerini)

... and the Acropolis Museum won't be ready in time for the
Olympics:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8030774.htm

The third installment of the revived Nemean Games will be put
on this summer:

http://tinyurl.com/3apcg (AthensNews)


Victor Davis Hanson makes some Classical allusions in his latest
National Review column:

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200402270800.asp

... while he himself is the subject of a piece in the LA Times:

http://tinyurl.com/yszc7

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/3esps

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Norio Fujisawa (Plato Scholar):

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=290041
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Dead Sea Makeup Kit:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040220/g022020A.html
http://tinyurl.com/2efy2 (SFran Chronicle)
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, William Gebhardt, and Yonatan Nadelman for
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The human brain apparently began evolving earlier than previously
thought (... resisting the urge to mention its recent devolving):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3496549.stm

A few pieces of grains, apparently, are all that is needed to
convince some folks that the PrePottery Neolithic A period was
roughly 1000 years longer than conventionally believed:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/19/1077072756313.html

A dog apparently did not stumble but "had a nose for history"
when he came across a Bronze Age ax head on the Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/345jt (Isle of Wight County Press)

The sun rays hit Rameses II's image today, as they have annually
for thousands of years:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/calendar/html/cl220297.htm

A cave in Israel has revealed some 2500 b.p. 'fashion
accessories':

http://tinyurl.com/ytnbs (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/396747.html
http://tinyurl.com/36zje (Jerusalem Post)

Plans are afoot to (finally) excavate Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/395353.html

... and to raise Cleopatra's palace from the depths (!):

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/17/1076779958388.html

The collapse of an embankment near Temple Mount is adding to the
anxiety associated with that ongoing saga:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/394433.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/396747.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/394454.html
http://tinyurl.com/32mxh (Jerusalem Post)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3494035.stm

The discovery of a statue in France (which I believe we mentioned
before in these pages) is providing evidence that Etruscan
'influence' was much wider than previously thought:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040219/statue.shtml

Archaeologists have found additional defensive structures
associated with the Antonine Wall:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/10223.html

A section of Roman road has been uncovered in Hereford:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3495827.stm

A major Republican Roman coin hoard has been found in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=31113

Plans to 'restore' the Roman Forum sound nutty:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3506867.stm

A possible Viking boat burial in Yorkshire is causing excitement:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1149750,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4295369/
http://tinyurl.com/36wnc (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_866983.html

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Archaeologists are poking around the Mayan city of Naachtun:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4282998/
http://tinyurl.com/2t2z9 (Reuters)

There is still an active appeal to help save the Quebrada de
Santo Domingo site in Peru:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/rockart/a/massat.htm

A project to look at the history of slavery in California:

http://tinyurl.com/3g89o

The ESA's Proba satellite has been observing the Nazca lines
from space:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaSA/SEMO0R1PGQD_earth_0.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, a professor from McMaster thinks DNA can be
recovered from hominid fossils (Holy 'Paleolithic Park' Batman!):

http://tinyurl.com/yv2ga (Independent
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3494543.stm

Back when Explorator began, there were rumblings about this, now
the rumblings are somewhat louder ... plans to build a tunnel
beneath (sort of) Stonehenge are causing controversy (of course):

http://tinyurl.com/yre4e
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=492143

A study of an Iron Age burial site in the UK suggests folks were
feeding their kiddies an ancient form of formula:

http://tinyurl.com/2stu3

That recently-reopened exhibit of two Egyptian tombs at the Met
has been closed early because too many folks were visiting:

http://tinyurl.com/2eg3p

Schoolkids ask questions of an Egyptian archaeologist:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0222egypt22.html

The first items (and hype) for the Eternal Egypt exhibition
at the Royal Ontario Museum have hit the newspapers:

http://tinyurl.com/3e6jz (Toronto Star)

Yale University Art Gallery has acquired some Roman mosaics:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=25056

Vikings are losing their 'barbarian' image:

http://tinyurl.com/3yz33 (National Geographic)

Vietnam is slowly restoring the ancient capital of Hue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/16/international/asia/16HUE.html

The popularity of *The DaVinci Code* is apparently brining
*Holy Blood, Holy Grail* back onto the bestseller lists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/books/review/22MILLERT.html

The Vinland Map is back in the news:

http://tinyurl.com/yu5db (Washington Post)
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0222vinland22.html

There are piles of wrecks in the Baltic Sea:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0216shipwrecks16.html

New evidence suggests that Henry VIII played football (i.e.
what North Americans call 'soccer'):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3496589.stm

The 'Passion' controversy has also resurrected the 'what did
Jesus really look like?' thing (I'd expect more of this in the
coming weeks):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/21/arts/21JESU.html

... ditto pieces on how crucifixion was 'really' done:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4316694/
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/8001383.htm

More Passion-related stuff (assorted):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/arts/television/20TVWK.html

In another controversy/saga, the owner of the James Ossuary
is being accused of having run a "fraud ring":

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/395868.html
cf: http://tinyurl.com/23tag (Jerusalem Post)

Another controversy ... this time over whence came
Robin Hood:

http://www.iht.com/articles/129878.html

Oh... the stuff in the earl's attic (scroll down past the
Arbuses piece):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/arts/design/20INSI.html

Buddhism's holiest shrine was formally given World Heritage
status this week (actually, it was a couple of years ago ...
they had a formal ceremony):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3503483.stm

An Australian Mufti is claiming Afghan Muslims discovered
Australia before Captain Cook (scroll down a bit ... versions
of this keep disappearing this week for some reason; it might
be 'Don't Eat That Elmer' material):

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12226

Manchester University has put every (!) book published in
English between 1453 and 1800 online (I hae me doots ... maybe
they mean published in England):

http://tinyurl.com/2bl2o (Manchester Online)

Another archaeologist movie is in the works, this time with
Nicholas Cage as one of a pile of folks looking for a
Revolutionary War treasure:

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808408024
================================================================
MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology 57.2 (March/April 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Another interesting blog has hit the Blogosphere ... Archaeology
In Europe is definitely worth a look:

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

There has been a substantial update to the Oriental Institute's
'Lost Treasures from Iraq' site/database:

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/Iraqdatabasehome.htm

The Verbix site has a conjugator for a pile of world languages,
including Latin and 'Vulgar Latin':

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Discover Magazine has a brief item on one approach to getting
citizens involved in preventing antiquities theft:

http://www.discover.com/web-exclusives/stopping-plunder0219/

The looting of sites in Iraq continues:

http://tinyurl.com/yvwj9 (Sunday Times)

Looting of sites in Colombia:

http://tinyurl.com/2ecbl (Boston Globe)

Another feature on Col. Matthew Bogdanos and his efforts to
recover antiquities stolen from Iraq:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0220/p11s01-woiq.html

Some Palestinian grave robbers were caught red handed this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/2b6y8 (Jerusalem Post)

An opinion piece of sorts on antiquities theft:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110004707

A number of stolen Filipino mummies were returned this week:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_867992.html
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Richard Barber, *The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/books/20BOOK.html

Chris Holmes, *Spores, Plagues, and History: The Story of
Anthrax*:

http://tinyurl.com/2g6hj

Tom Holland, *Rubicon*:

http://tinyurl.com/2h3kz (Newsday)

Christopher Woodward, *In Ruins*:

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=UuikMTTtSb0bxCqh2rXi0m==
================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
King Lear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/arts/theater/22GREE.html

Odyssey: The Homecoming:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/21/arts/theater/21ODYS.html

The Women of Owu:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=201852004
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
If you can get past the obvious anachronism evident in this one,
you'll no doubt be amazed to learn there is a curse on the
treasure of Jason and the Argonauts, which has, of course, been
found in Kazakhistan (?):

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12111_Argonauts.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Somehow it seems right that Classicists know about/get involved
with Socrates Cafes:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/161468_socrates21.html

David Beckham (and a pile of other soccer stars) is the latest
big nameto don gladiatorial gear to make a commercial for Pepsi:

http://tinyurl.com/3ccdk

HBO's Rome:

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2004/0219/hindsc.html
http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k4/feb/feb195.htm

Plans to search for Mardonios' fleet keep popping up in the
scan:

http://tinyurl.com/ypv7s

Harry Potter in Classical Greek:

http://tinyurl.com/2l7xu

Another Valentine's Day thing:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/678/op40.htm

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2obf8

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Aksum Obelisk Return Delayed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3479821.stm

HMS Beagle:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4282998/

Kennewick Man:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994666

Mapping North Sea Land Bridge:

http://tinyurl.com/2gpb6 (BBC)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_866343.html
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Winchester, Tom Elliott, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
have left no one out).


Have you visited our blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

If you're using an (ahem) old or clunky browser, try accessing
it via Bloglines:

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... bit of a quiet week
================================================================
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Research has pushed the date for domestication of doggies back
a bit and located it in Asia:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4264918/
http://tinyurl.com/34ubs (AP via Yahoo)

cf.: http://tinyurl.com/2kjle (National Geographic)
semi-related: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3487925.stm

Those handprints 'painted' on the walls of caves suggest that
left-handed was "common" in the Ice Age:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3485967.stm

Neolithic Remains in Ireland:

http://tinyurl.com/2pt2z (IC Northern Ireland)

Discovery of a Bronze Age dagger near Oldham may hold up development
of a wind farm:

http://tinyurl.com/2yv73

A new theory on the purpose of Egyptian pyramids also received
plenty of coverage this week:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4242024/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4239529/ (interview)
http://tinyurl.com/2zpfg (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/11/egypt.pyramids.reut/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1043124.htm

Tourists will be searching for Cambyses' lost army:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040209/cambyses.html


An unplundered tholos tomb was discovered during road construction
in central Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=39427

A 2000 b.p. urn has been found village near Mayiladuthurai (India):

http://tinyurl.com/377wr

A preliminary online report of the 2003 dig season at Hemma
Plateau (Syria) has been put on line:

http://www.espasoc.org/2003/he3_1acc.html (in French)

The discovery of remains of a Viking settlement in Cork is
causing excitement:

http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=42530&pt=n

The remains of a medieval child have been found near Wales'
national shrine:

http://tinyurl.com/25teq (IC Wales)

The search for Stirling Bridge may end due to funding problems:

http://tinyurl.com/yqf2w (IC Stirlingshire)
================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A good background piece on the 'ice free corridor':

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/feature_Revisited.html

... it's background for this piece:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/feature_Quest.html

Archaeologists were surprised at how much they found during
a survey/excavation of Sloan Canyon (Nevada):

http://tinyurl.com/2f43k (Review Journal)

Clovis Man was discovered 75 years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/38zno (Gazette Times)

An Anasazi site in Utah will be preserved:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02102004/utah/137491.asp

A sort of background piece on Machu Picchu:

http://www.denverpost.com/framework/0,1413,36~53~1950728,00.html

Use of coal in pre-Columbian Peru:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/resources.html

More on the Isthmian script controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/2rfo8 (Baltimore Sun)
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The New York Times has a piece on philosopher Leszek Kolakowski:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/arts/14KOLA.html

A piece on climate change in Mesopotamia ca. 10 000 b.p. or so:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/NN_Mesopotamian.html

A sort of preview of a series on PBS which looked at the
Medicis as a sort of mafiosi family might be of interest:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/arts/television/11STAN.html

A piece on a new exhibition at the British Museum is provoking
some questions on how museums acquired artifacts in the past:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4212804/

3d virtual tours continue to become more complex:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3472589.stm

... while there are plans to map and image that recently-discovered
land bridge which once connected the UK to Europe:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_866343.html
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=94793914&p=947946zx

Another delay holds up the return of the Aksum obelisk to
Ethiopia:

http://tinyurl.com/3actm (Observer)

Archaeologists may have located the HMS Beagle:

http://tinyurl.com/2mu9d
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1045298.htm

A sampling of origins-of-Valentine's-Day pieces:

http://tinyurl.com/2e8e6
http://magic-city-news.com/article_983.shtml (Best headline)

Zahi Hawass in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/677/he2.htm
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Silk Road Foundation:

http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

Joe Zias, "Qumran Archaeology: More Grave Errors":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Zias_Qumran_Archaeology.htm
================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
J.A. MacCulloch, *The Religion of the Ancient Celts*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/rac/index.htm
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
This is a bit different ... a guy who came across some ancient
coins in Northern Greece confessed to the local priest:

http://tinyurl.com/23abz (Kathimerini)

A review of a documentary on the looting of Iraq might be of
interest:

http://www.sbs.com.au/whatson/index.php3?id=546
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
A trio of tomes about Harriet Tubman (first chapters available
for a couple of them):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15FAUSTT.html

A trio of tomes about the history of homosexuality:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0406/halter.php

Richard Fox, *Jesus in America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15CRAINT.html

David Fischer, *Washington's Crossing*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15ELLIST.html

David Sacks, *Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the
Alphabet From A to Z.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15SHAVERT.html

Charles Freeman, *The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of
Faith and the Fall of Reason*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15GOTTLIT.html

Victor Davis Hanson, *Ripples of Battle*:

http://www.nationalreview.com/books/hart200402111126.asp
================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Agamemnon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/13/arts/theater/13AGAM.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Tanagras (Montreal!):

http://tinyurl.com/2p6gr (Montreal Gazette)

Treasures of Tuscany:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=156292004
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Harry Potter in Greek:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/arts/10ARTS.html (scroll down)

Alexander seems to be credited in this one with bringing the
kiss west:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=163902004

Plenty of ClassCon in this beer review:

http://tinyurl.com/27sqd (Anchorage Press)

Mel Gibson's Passion continues to get coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/2tovm (Jerusalem Post)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040208/nysu009a_1.html

A review of the WingedSandals website (definitely worth visiting):

http://tinyurl.com/2mx6e (The Australian)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2c2vt

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
African Petroglyphs older than previously thought:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1142872,00.html

Kennewick Man:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040204/g020414A.html
http://tinyurl.com/22bsy (Seattle Times)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994666

Nazca Lines threatened:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/02/12/apn.nazca.lines.ap/

Roman Plumbing at Vindolanda:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/wear/3464861.stm

Saxon Tomb:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040206/g020608A.html

6th-century Comet:

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/07darkages/

================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,
John Hill, Angie T., Michael Oberndorf, Richard Griffiths, Sally
Winchester, Tom Elliott, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
have left no one out).


Have you visited our blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

If you're using an (ahem) old or clunky browser, try accessing
it via Bloglines:

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... bit of a quiet week
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Research has pushed the date for domestication of doggies back
a bit and located it in Asia:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4264918/
http://tinyurl.com/34ubs (AP via Yahoo)

cf.: http://tinyurl.com/2kjle (National Geographic)
semi-related: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3487925.stm

Those handprints 'painted' on the walls of caves suggest that
left-handed was "common" in the Ice Age:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3485967.stm

Neolithic Remains in Ireland:

http://tinyurl.com/2pt2z (IC Northern Ireland)

Discovery of a Bronze Age dagger near Oldham may hold up development
of a wind farm:

http://tinyurl.com/2yv73

A new theory on the purpose of Egyptian pyramids also received
plenty of coverage this week:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4242024/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4239529/ (interview)
http://tinyurl.com/2zpfg (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/11/egypt.pyramids.reut/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1043124.htm

Tourists will be searching for Cambyses' lost army:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040209/cambyses.html

A preliminary online report of the 2003 dig season at Hemma
Plateau (Syria) has been put on line

An unplundered tholos tomb was discovered during road construction
in central Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=39427

A 2000 b.p. urn has been found village near Mayiladuthurai (India):

http://tinyurl.com/377wr

http://www.espasoc.org/2003/he3_1acc.html (in French)

The discovery of remains of a Viking settlement in Cork is
causing excitement:

http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=42530&pt=n

The remains of a medieval child have been found near Wales'
national shrine:

http://tinyurl.com/25teq (IC Wales)

The search for Stirling Bridge may end due to funding problems:

http://tinyurl.com/yqf2w (IC Stirlingshire)
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THE AMERICAS
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A good background piece on the 'ice free corridor':

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/feature_Revisited.html

... it's background for this piece:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/feature_Quest.html

Archaeologists were surprised at how much they found during
a survey/excavation of Sloan Canyon (Nevada):

http://tinyurl.com/2f43k (Review Journal)

Clovis Man was discovered 75 years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/38zno (Gazette Times)

An Anasazi site in Utah will be preserved:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02102004/utah/137491.asp

A sort of background piece on Machu Picchu:

http://www.denverpost.com/framework/0,1413,36~53~1950728,00.html

Use of coal in pre-Columbian Peru:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/resources.html

More on the Isthmian script controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/2rfo8 (Baltimore Sun)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The New York Times has a piece on philosopher Leszek Kolakowski:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/arts/14KOLA.html

A piece on climate change in Mesopotamia ca. 10 000 b.p. or so:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/NN_Mesopotamian.html

A sort of preview of a series on PBS which looked at the
Medicis as a sort of mafiosi family might be of interest:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/arts/television/11STAN.html

A piece on a new exhibition at the British Museum is provoking
some questions on how museums acquired artifacts in the past:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4212804/

3d virtual tours continue to become more complex:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3472589.stm

... while there are plans to map and image that recently-discovered
land bridge which once connected the UK to Europe:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_866343.html
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=94793914&p=947946zx

Another delay holds up the return of the Aksum obelisk to
Ethiopia:

http://tinyurl.com/3actm (Observer)

Archaeologists may have located the HMS Beagle:

http://tinyurl.com/2mu9d
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1045298.htm

A sampling of origins-of-Valentine's-Day pieces:

http://tinyurl.com/2e8e6
http://magic-city-news.com/article_983.shtml (Best headline)

Zahi Hawass in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/677/he2.htm
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ON THE WEB
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The Silk Road Foundation:

http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

Joe Zias, "Qumran Archaeology: More Grave Errors":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Zias_Qumran_Archaeology.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
J.A. MacCulloch, *The Religion of the Ancient Celts*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/rac/index.htm
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
This is a bit different ... a guy who came across some ancient
coins in Northern Greece confessed to the local priest:

http://tinyurl.com/23abz (Kathimerini)

A review of a documentary on the looting of Iraq might be of
interest:

http://www.sbs.com.au/whatson/index.php3?id=546
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A trio of tomes about Harriet Tubman (first chapters available
for a couple of them):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15FAUSTT.html

A trio of tomes about the history of homosexuality:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0406/halter.php

Richard Fox, *Jesus in America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15CRAINT.html

David Fischer, *Washington's Crossing*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15ELLIST.html

David Sacks, *Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the
Alphabet From A to Z.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15SHAVERT.html

Charles Freeman, *The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of
Faith and the Fall of Reason*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15GOTTLIT.html

Victor Davis Hanson, *Ripples of Battle*:

http://www.nationalreview.com/books/hart200402111126.asp
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PERFORMANCES
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Agamemnon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/13/arts/theater/13AGAM.html
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Tanagras (Montreal!):

http://tinyurl.com/2p6gr (Montreal Gazette)

Treasures of Tuscany:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=156292004
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Harry Potter in Greek:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/arts/10ARTS.html (scroll down)

Alexander seems to be credited in this one with bringing the
kiss west:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=163902004

Plenty of ClassCon in this beer review:

http://tinyurl.com/27sqd (Anchorage Press)

Mel Gibson's Passion continues to get coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/2tovm (Jerusalem Post)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040208/nysu009a_1.html

A review of the WingedSandals website (definitely worth visiting):

http://tinyurl.com/2mx6e (The Australian)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2c2vt

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
================================================================
African Petroglyphs older than previously thought:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1142872,00.html

Kennewick Man:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040204/g020414A.html
http://tinyurl.com/22bsy (Seattle Times)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994666

Nazca Lines threatened:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/02/12/apn.nazca.lines.ap/

Roman Plumbing at Vindolanda:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/wear/3464861.stm

Saxon Tomb:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040206/g020608A.html

6th-century Comet:

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/07darkages/

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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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, Donna Hurst, Adrian
Murdoch, Angie T., Dave Sowdon, Francis Deblauwe, John Hill,
John McMahon, Joel Coates, John McChesney-Young, Kate Brown,
Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Maurice O'Sullivan, Paul James
Cowie, Richard Griffiths, Sean, Tony Jackson, Sally Winchester,
Steve Rankin, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, Trevor Watkins,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).


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http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Petroglyphs from South Africa have been dated to 3000 b.p.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3467195.stm
http://tinyurl.com/26k2m (Guardian)

This is really a repeat, but we haven't heard of it in quite a
while so ... the Amesbury Archer has be shown to have originally
hailed from more Alpine climes:

http://popular-science.net/history/stonehenge.html

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of an Anglo Saxon tomb which
may have belonged to a nephew of Ethelbert:

http://tinyurl.com/3alg2 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/22kee (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/history/saxonking/saxonking1.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3460971.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3461885.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2pcpk (Independent)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1142003,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_862828.html

This might be a repeat as well ... archaeologists have found
evidence for a maritime spice route between Indian and Egypt:

http://popular-science.net/history/india_egypt_trade_route.html

A feature on the ongoing restoration of the tomb of Amenhotep III:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/676/he1.htm

The University of Chicago Chronicle has a nice feature on the
excavation of Tell Atchana (Turkey):

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040205/amuq.shtml

A stretch of Roman plumbing near Vindolanda was recently found
to be still functioning:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/wear/3464861.stm

Aftenposten has an item (in Norwegian) on the discovery of a Viking
woman's grave in Russia:

http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/article.jhtml?articleID=719915

Clumsy archaeologists in India have stumbled upon a residential
complex near a Buddhist site:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=40284

The New York Times has a piece on the challenges involved in
preserving/saving Cambodia's archaeological heritage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/arts/03ANGK.html
cf.: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11572

Ruins of a sunken medieval city have been found off the coast
of Japan (n.b. this is an important one to file away for the
semi-annual claims of Atlantis being found off the coast of
Japan):

http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200402040175.html
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
The big news this week appears to be that a judge has ruled that
scientists can (finally) study Kennewick Man:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4164885/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3460773.stm

This may be a repeat -- it's a sort of summary of finds
from the Yukon this past season:

http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/4704217p-4655089c.html

Some petroglyphs in the Panamanian jungle have been dated to
3000 B.C./B.C.E.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3451095.stm

Evidence of Chagas disease has been found in a major study of
assorted Andean-origin mummies:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4137949/
http://tinyurl.com/3dcow (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2kd6b (AP via Globe and Mail)
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040202_1553.html

Detection of "muons" may lead to discovery of tombs in
Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun:

http://physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-2/p31.html

A number of 18th-century murals painted by Native Americans
have been discovered in San Francisco's Mission Dolores:

http://tinyurl.com/27kup (SF Chronicle)

An apparently-disturbed site is being excavated in
Alamogordo:

http://tinyurl.com/35w93 (Alamogordo News)

A preview of a documentary on Nat Turner has quite a bit of
info:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/arts/television/07TURN.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
Israeli archaeologists are once again raising concerns about
excavations being conducted on Temple Mount:

http://tinyurl.com/2dzh2 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/390291.html
http://tinyurl.com/2frog (Jerusalem Post)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/390407.html
http://tinyurl.com/22hyu (Israel Insider)
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36912

We haven't had one of these for a while ... another researcher
is connecting a comet to assorted medical/environmental crises
in the 6th century A.D./C.E.:

http://tinyurl.com/37f5m (Irish Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/36tc2 (Independent)
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/03-04/040204.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040204000254.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-02/cu-aua020304.php

China has mounted a campaign to recover all sorts of antiquities
taken from her in the 19th century:

http://tinyurl.com/yqvj7 (Globe and Mail)

The Sunday Observer has a feature on ancient Sri Lankan seals:

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/02/08/fea20.html

The Christian Science Monitor has a nice little feature on the
lengths people have gone to add a little heat to their food:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0203/p18s02-hfks.html

Al-Ahram waxes on myths ancient and modern:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/676/he2.htm

For those of you following the Passion saga:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/04/movies/04PASS.html
http://tinyurl.com/3hg5b (CNN ... different from above)
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=2498

... and the James Ossuary saga:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbbreakinggroundless.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter (Winter, 2004):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/index.html#winter04

Archaeology Odyssey (March/April 2004)

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
W. Flinders Petrie, *Egyptian Tales* I:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7386

W. Flinders Petrie, *Egyptian Tales* II:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7413
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Someone tried to sell an ancient Hawaiian skull on eBay:

http://mauinews.com/news/story/025202004_new01ebay0205.asp
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Yaacov Shavit and Mordechai Eran, *The War of the Tablets: The
Defense of the Bible in the 19th Century and the Babel-Bible
Controversy*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/391386.html

William Dever, *Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They
Come From?*:

http://www.forward.com/issues/2004/04.02.06/arts3.html

James Redfield, *The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek
Italy*:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040205/locrian.shtml

Eugene Nida, *Fascinated by Languages*:

http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-495.html#1

George Steiner, *Lessons of the Masters: The Charles Eliot
Norton Lectures 2001-2002*:

http://tinyurl.com/2q7xh (Guardian)

Mary Beard, *The Parthenon*:

http://tinyurl.com/24as8 (Guardian)

Assorted works on Sappho:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,1137390,00.html

Paul Shipton, *The Pig Scrolls* (young adult fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/2powy (Japan Times)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Robert Sarmast -- the guy who believes Atlantis is near Cyprus --
is arranging an expedition to prove same:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=12811&cat_id=1

[this wouldn't come up for me this a.m. -- service unavailable;
if that's the case for you, check our blog entry, which
reproduces the text of the brief article:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/2004/02/03.html
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Playing With Fire: European Terra-Cotta Models, 1740-1840

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/06/arts/design/06GLUE.html
(includes slide show)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Interesting opinion piece desiring the Olympics to return to
its roots:

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=150282004

On olives and Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=39251

Iliad Super Bowl:

http://gilroydispatch.com/letsgo/letsgoview.asp?c=93147

Catapult makers were supposedly the "rock stars" of
antiquity (maybe that's supposed to be a pun):

http://tinyurl.com/2x7et (National Geographic)

Classics is alive and well in Flordia universities:

http://tinyurl.com/395jg (Sun-Sentinel)

Peter Jones in the Spectator

http://tinyurl.com/2fej2

[n.b. there seems to be a new registration thing for the
Spectator ... it's still free, but somewhat annoying to
register]

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Inuit Effects on Ancient Lakes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/science/03OBSE.html (scroll
down a bit)

Newport Ship:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3450003.stm

Queen of Sheba Tourism:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=109821
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
This week, we are told that Neanderthals aren't human (or maybe
just not our ancestors; I'm not sure those terms are
synonymous as they're being used in some of these):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/science/27NEAN.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4063766/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3431609.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040127082625.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_859898.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2457633
http://tinyurl.com/2ygmr (AP via Yahoo)

An apparently-large Neolithic site has been found in the Sahara
desert:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/science/27ARCH.html

Pollen is being used to trace the origins of ancient shipwrecks:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040119/040119-16.html

Assorted Ptolemaic sites/artifacts/bowling alleys have been
found in the Fayyoum:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o290124w.htm

Yemen is trying to associate sites with the Queen of Sheba
for tourism purposes:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21403652.htm

... meanwhile, tourists are apparently contributing to the
destruction of the Great Wall of China:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1132044,00.html

The Newport ship, which was found a couple of years ago, may
have belonged to the Earl of Warwick:

http://tinyurl.com/yrj6f (Telegraph)

A semi-recent 'witch bottle' was recently discovered in the
foundations of Lincolnshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/3437241.stm
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
An "ancient Teotihuacan settlement" has been found in Mexico
City:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4098809/
http://tinyurl.com/3gol4 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/22sr9

The Teo Mask is causing controversy over whether "Isthmian
writing" has been deciphered:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590038688,00.html

Humanities Magazine has a nice feature on Cancuen:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/rainforest.html

Meanwhile, for reasons unknown, the 'someone's figured out Incan
knots are a counting system' story is being revived:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040126/yupanacount.html

Tourists etc. continue to be a threat to the Nazca lines:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02012004/nation_w/134603.asp

Inuit hunting practices apparently affected freshwater
ecosystems before the arrival of Europeans to North America:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040127082625.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3exc7 (Boston Globe)

An archaeologist's view of what it was like to excavate that
"Negro Burial Ground" in Portsmouth:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/01302004/news/73229.htm
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
Disgraced Japanese archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura blames his
actions on mental illness:

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040126-031435-1744r.htm

Al-Ahram has a nice little feature on Fayoum mummy portraits:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/675/he2.htm

The Daily Star has an excellent interview with Zahi Hawass:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/30_01_04_c.asp

... and Al-Ahram has his latest column:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/675/he3.htm

Folks are protesting plans to erect a wind farm near the site
of the Battle of Agincourt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3439083.stm

Possibly 'don't eat that elmer' material, Gavin Menzies has
had to postpone plans to search for a Chinese ship which
apparently is buried in a walnut orchard:

http://tinyurl.com/3bbud (Sacramento Bee)

So ... suppose future archaeologists had to reconstruct our
culture from spam messages:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/27/spam.art.ap/index.html

For those of you following the Gibson 'Passion' kerfuffle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/movies/30FAIT.html

... and the James Ossuary kerfuffle (somehow, I don't think this
latest development will be noticed):

http://tinyurl.com/ywq9x (Casper Star Tribune)

cf: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Flesher_review.htm

So ... who invented tartan?:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_859860.html

Someone has figured out the Voynich Manuscript is gibberish:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1130832,00.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology 57.1 (January/February 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index

Biblical Archaeology Review (January/February 2004):

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

Bible Review (February 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Follow the Johns Hopkins University dig in Luxor at their
online dig diary:

http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html

Daniel Lazare, "False testament: archaeology refutes the Bible's
claim to history." (Harper's Magazine, March 2002):

http://tinyurl.com/2fdzk

Israeli destruction of archaeological sites? A response:

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

Yuval Goren, "The Jerusalem Syndrome in Archaeology: Jehoash
to James":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Goren_Jerusalem_Syndrome.htm
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Reason Magazine has a good piece on the competing viewpoints
of archaeologists v. collectors:

http://www.reason.com/0401/cr.jl.found.shtml

An antiquities dealer has been arrested for trying to smuggle
an Iranian griffin:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11540

I keep forgetting to put this one in ... the latest online version
of the AIAC News includes links to several articles on the
subject of illegal archaeology in light of the 'Berlin Resolution':

http://www.aiac.org/Aiac_News/index.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Raleigh Trevelyan, *Sir Walter Raleigh":

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/books/review/01SEAVERT.html

Nicholas Shrady, *A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa* (scroll
down a bit):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/books/review/0201br-briefs.html

Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber, *The Travels and Adverntures
of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the
Sociology of Science*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/arts/31SHEL.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
A Beautiful and Gracious Manner: The Art of Parmigianino
(includes a nice slideshow):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/arts/design/30KIMM.html

Old Kingdom Tombs of Perneb and Raemkai:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/arts/design/30COTT.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/28/nyregion/28tomb.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
"Classic Philosophy for Today's Regular Guy":

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/wdhlocal/299405271572638.shtml

An okay piece on the 'rediscovery' of those unpublished Michigan
Papyri:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/01/26/loc_loc2aroman.html

AthensNews has a feature on Miletus:

http://tinyurl.com/2b6d4

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2j9eo

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Timothy Gantz (Classicist):

http://www.lordandstephens.com/obits/Ga20040123144929.html
http://tinyurl.com/2z4rh
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Cetina River finds:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1032539.htm

Cold Neanderthals:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040126/neanderthal.html
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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An Ice-Age mammoth skull has been found in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/2adq5 (NYT)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3413773.stm

Apparently Neanderthals died off because they couldn't adapt to
the cold:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994586
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_544096,00040010.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1029572.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_858049.html

A 4th/5th Dynasty 'administrative city' has been found in
Egypt (very vague report):

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o240124k.htm

The Lebanon Daily Star has a feature on a few digs going on in
Iran (mostly the Neolithich site of Toll-el-Boshi):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/21_01_04_c.asp

Greece is wrestling with the problem of protecting off shore
antiquities and promoting underwater tourism:

http://www.greece.gr/TRAVEL/Adventure/wetappetite.stm

There's a pile of antiquities in the newly-opened Beit Shemesh
warehouse near Jerusalem:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4000113/
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/384312.html

I think this might really be a repeat but ... they're putting on
display the reconstructed remains of a 3rd century A.D./C.E.
murder victim from Carlisle (he was shot????):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/3426039.stm

A major archaeological investigation of Chester's Roman
amphitheatre began this week:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART19318.html
http://tinyurl.com/2wspy

All week long I've waited for more details to come in regards
to this rather vague AP report on new discoveries in Abu Qir bay:

http://tinyurl.com/33ol5 (Star)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/01/18/egypt.antiquities.ap/
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o190124o.htm

cf. Franck Goddio's site:

http://www.franckgoddio.org/english/homepage/news/pr_20040121.asp

Evidence of South Africa's first (1500 b.p.) permanent agricultural
community may have been found:

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/2004/01/25/news/news04.asp

A set of copper Sanskrit inscriptions dating back to 444 A.D./C.E.
has been found:

http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/24/stories/2004012407180300.htm

Farmers in China's Shaanxi province have discovered some
5000 b.p. earthenware vessels:

http://tinyurl.com/3gvv7 (China Daily)

================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Discovery of a possible 7500 b.p. settlement in Massachusetts
has brought construction of a water treatment plant to a halt:

http://tinyurl.com/2s2pv (Herald Tribune)

A nice feature on the excavation of the USS Comanche:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/7759647.htm

A recently rediscovered artifact from Lewis and Clark is causing
a bit of excitement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/opinion/22THU4.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/21/nyregion/21claws.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, the impending DNA tests of what are believed
to be Columbus' remains are back in the news:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040119/columbus.html
http://tinyurl.com/23ud8 (LA Times)

Also on the DNA front, tracking genetic mutations is the focus
of some computer simulation of human migration:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040122082842.htm

A quarry is threatening a number of Neolithic sites in
Scotland:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=84342004

The debate on the authenticity of the James Ossuary continues:

http://tinyurl.com/27b7t (Toledo Blade)

More on the touristification of Hadrian's Wall:

http://www2.hexham-courant.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=65973

An interesting piece on what the West owes to the Arab world:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/s2.cfm?id=83012004

Medieval alabaster sculptures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/23/arts/design/23ANTI.html

The Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga continued with renewed
efforts by various folks:

http://tinyurl.com/2mrpc (Reuters)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/502829/
http://tinyurl.com/22ntw (AthensNews)

The Gibson 'Passion' hype/saga/criticism reached new heights
this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/20/movies/20POPE.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ufpg (NYT)

A group of Russians have mathematically determined the
probability of conditions required for Moses et al to have
crossed the Red Sea (note in passing: 30 m/s is close to
70 m.p.h ... could you walk in such a wind?):

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/01/21/003.html

What better way to spend your vacation than by reliving life in
the Iron Age, mining iron ore of course:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2435411

================================================================
MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Bulletin d'information archeologique 28
[a French newsletter/journal which covers quite a bit of
territory in terms of thefts of antiquities, restoration of
monuments, etc. ... the newsletter is pdf, but you can access
specific pdf sections via the link below]:

http://www.egyptologues.net/archeologie/bia28/bia28.htm
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Harry W. Bass Foundation:

http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/home.asp

Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (1654):

http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/blaeu/index.html
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
An antiquities dealer has been charged with attempting to
smuggle an Iranian-origin griffin:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11537

Park Rangers in the U.S. face difficulties trying to protect
archaeological sites from looters:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038183/

The head of the Smithsonian is in trouble:

http://tinyurl.com/252xf (Yahoo)
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Aubrey Burl,*Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar*

http://tinyurl.com/26lm5 (Guardian)

Lesley Adkins, *Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the
Lost Languages of Babylon*:

http://tinyurl.com/2awjp (Financial Times)

================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Oresteia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/arts/theater/22ORES.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
An interesting parody ... advice about relationships written in
the style of Aristotle:

http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040126sh_shouts

The Columbia Spectator has some coverage of Roger Bagnall's
recent Mellon Award:

http://tinyurl.com/35b9s

The Telegraph has a piece on assorted approaches to Sappho:

http://tinyurl.com/2tqhe

On Roman numerals and Superbowls:

http://tinyurl.com/32kxv

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2fzyk

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Paul Abell (chemist/footprint discoverer)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/20/national/20ABEL.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Cetina River (Croatia) finds:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/502829/

Lion Mummy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/20/science/20LION.html

Lost Persian Fleet:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3401449.stm

Pre-Olympic discoveries in Athens:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4000097/
http://tinyurl.com/3g9cg (CNN/SI)

Siberian Mummies:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/01/16/201.html
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
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explorator 6.38                                 january 18, 2004
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Davis, Maurice O'Sullivan, Michael Oberndorf, Richard Griffiths,
Robert Greaves, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan
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it via Bloglines:

http://www.bloglines.com/preview?siteid=21809

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================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

Plenty of excitement over the discovery of the mummy of a lion
in the tomb of Tut's wet nurse:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3957990/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3395487.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3ad4a (AP via Yahoo)
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=51720
http://tinyurl.com/2co3f (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/25ecn (National Geographic)

The CBC had a recent Disclosure documentary on the controversy
surrounding Dr. Fletcher's identification of Nefertiti's mummy;
you can watch the whole thing online:

http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/040113_nef/main.html

A riverbed in Croatia is yielding artifacts from the Bronze Age
down through Roman times:

http://tinyurl.com/ytzx8 (IC Birmingham)

The excavation of what was once one of Commodus' residences is
revealing info about Roman building techniques:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040112/ancientlime.html

A peat bog has enabled scientists to figure out the
environmental history of a Celtic mining town in France:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040112/040112-1.html

An Iron Age site has been found in Biggleswade (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/39r2f

A medieval salt ship is going to be extricated from Cheshire
mud:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3401473.stm

The earliest example of written Welsh may be returning to Wales,
sort of:

http://tinyurl.com/2a7bq (IC Wales)

Moulded bricks from the Eastern Han period have been found
in China's Chongping municipality:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-01/12/content_1272153.htm

A medieval cemetery in Siberia is revealing the existence of
a Siberian trade route:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/01/16/201.html

Excavation of a medieval fort from Indian has also turned up the
remains of an elephant:

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan112004/n5.asp

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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Remains of a mammoth have been found near the Texas Gulf Coast:

http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/2/2004/01/13/story006.html

A 9300 b.p. shaft of a hunting dart (among other things) was
among the many items excavated from melting 'ice patches' in
the Yukon this past summer:

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011604/sta_yukon.shtml

A midden in Skagit Valley (Washington State) is causing
controversy:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3941702/

Some sort of 'moundish' Woodland Period site in Alabama is
(finally?) going to be investigated:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3984496/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
A piece in the Telegraph ponders the future of assorted
archaeological treasures from Iraq and Afghanistan:

http://tinyurl.com/2yqxr

Jerusalem's Old City will not fare well if there is an
earthquake:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3980139/

A nice piece on the Nimrud Treasure and the Bactrian Hoard:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/13/1073877824063.html

Conservation/archaeological work at the Monastery of St. Paul
near the Red Sea (Egypt) is nearly complete:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/672/he1.htm

An interesting little item on 'diagnostic dolls' from China:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2273

A piece on the Federal furniture craze of the late 18th century
might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16ANTI.html

A history of salt:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0113/p18s02-hfks.html

The New York Times' extended coverage of the Winter Antiques
show has a number of pieces which might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16FIFT.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16SMIT.html
  http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16BFAIR.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/garden/15ANTI.html

We haven't mentioned Mel Gibson's *Passion* lately, so here's
a bit of the latest news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/arts/18RICH.html

A group of rabbis is seeking permission to search Vatican
storerooms for items looted by Titus during his sack of
Jerusalem:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36631
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Atlantic Monthly is celebrating the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo
Emerson's birth with an online collection of pieces written for
the magazine by him:

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/emerson.htm
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Rochelle Altman, "“First, …recognize that it's a penny”: Report
on the "Newark" Ritual Artifacts":

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


A piece on Isaac Newton's tenure as Warden of the Mint:

http://www.royalmint.com/about/newton.asp
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A colossal head of Trajan which was auctioned at Christie's a
while ago has been seized by police:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/17/arts/design/17TRAJ.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2785430a12,00.html

The UK's latest efforts to deal with the sale of looted
artifacts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3392057.stm
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
D.H. Donald, *We Are Lincoln Men*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/books/review/18MILLERT.html
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Persians:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/17/arts/theater/17ROUN.html

Henry IV (I and II):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/theater/16REVE.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens From New York Collections:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16COTT.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Another campaign to get the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles returned in
time for the Olympics started this week, with attendant mass
coverage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3394951.stm
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/8021.html
http://tinyurl.com/3g8ja (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/3yrpw (Guardian ... different)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/arts/design/18BERN.html
[includes slideshow/flythrough of new museum]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/arts/15ARTS.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2409990 (best)

... and if you've ever wondered about Elgin himself:

http://tinyurl.com/2fmtk (Independent)

Humanities Magazine's bio of Frank Snowden:

http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2004-01/medals.html#snowden

Biowarfare in antiquity:

http://tinyurl.com/3erzq (Newsday)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:
http://tinyurl.com/278zl

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Dead Sea Anchor (now a.k.a. 'Herod's Anchor'):

http://tinyurl.com/2s7kv (Herald-Sun)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_855276.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2403336

Paleolithic Figurines from Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/23ura (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/ytphg (Seattle Times)

Roman Port in Naples:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040112/naples.html

All the Stuff They've Found in Athens:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2004/01/15/314066-ap.html

Early Siberian Habitation:

http://tinyurl.com/2d64v

Iron Age Diet on the Blessed Isle:

http://tinyurl.com/2mayl (Independent)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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 labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Donna Hurst, Adrian
Murdoch, Bill Thayer, Dave Sowdon, Francis Deblauwe, Hernan
Astudillo, John McMahon, Mark Morgan, Paul James Cowie, Richard
C. Griffiths, Rick A. Riedlinger, Robert Greaves, Susan Jaslow,
Tony Jackson, Jennifer Wees, MikeRuggeri, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).


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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A 7000 b.p. settlement has been found on an island off the coast
of the UAE:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=19162004
http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/01/06/story128326.html
http://tinyurl.com/26cyj (Khaleej Times)

Some buried megaliths belonging to the Avebury Circle have been
located:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_843553.html

The latest about restoration possibilities in Bam:

http://www.iht.com/articles/123741.htm

More finds from Saqqarah:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/672/he2.htm

They're finally reporting on what's been found in Athens during
all the Olympic construction:

http://tinyurl.com/33q9v (AP via Taipei Times)

A Roman anchor has been found in the Dead Sea:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=55923

Another Roman boat has been found intact ... this time in
Naples:

http://www3.cjad.com/content/cjad_news/article.asp?id=w010833A
http://tinyurl.com/yu4cp (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/2cku8 (London Free Press)
http://tinyurl.com/2ezsa (La Repubblica ... photo)
more photos at http://tinyurl.com/ytbyu


Of course there's plenty of coverage of the excavation of what
what *thought* to be a Viking site in Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/7626.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_853406.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3379503.stm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437412216.html

Chinese archaeologists have found a couple of 3000 b.p.
oracle bones:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1019888.htm

A Western Han dynasty 'basement' has been found in China's
Shaanxi province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-01/10/content_1269117.htm

A rather well-developed 4500 b.p. city is being excavated in
norther China:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/00311171509.htm

Home renovations in Suffolk turned up an interesting/macabre
find:

http://tinyurl.com/2l69a (East Anglian Daily Times)
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Again, this really is a 'Siberian' story, but it is connected to
the peopling of the Americas ... this week it gets the John
Noble Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/science/06SIBE.html

cf.: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/science/06MUMM.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/124077.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/124078.htm

Technically a repeat (I think), but this is a good feature on
what those knotted Inca strings signified:

http://tinyurl.com/3y2yy (Science Daily)

A pre-Mayan inscription from Mexico is shedding light (maybe)
on earlier writing systems:

http://www.newswise.com/p/articles/view/502721/

Some interesting items have been found in a well at Jamestown:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3882224/
http://tinyurl.com/2ffv9 (AP via Yahoo)

The remains of a teenaged slave who died during the American
Revolution may have been found at Yorktown:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/7682195.htm

cf: http://tinyurl.com/3e9b3 (Daily Press)

They're trying to figure out how to manage archaeological
resources in Canyon of Ancients National Monument:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3906404/

Here's some coverage of a dig at at Ute site in ... Utah:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3879269/
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The New York Times has a nice feature on Nasry Iskander, the
erstwhile head of research and conservation in Egyptian Museum's
Department of Antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/2xlwh

Wanna buy a cave full of Magdalenian petroglyphs?

http://tinyurl.com/2s86s (Irish Independent)

A piece on the political side of archaeology, this time in
relation to Macedonia/FYROM:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3372117.stm

One of the spinoff effects of the looting of the Baghdad Museum
seems to be a boost in popularity of exhibitions featuring
Mesopotamian art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/arts/design/06ORIE.html

An interesting piece on the Savile collection of Roman coins
being cataloged etc.:

http://tinyurl.com/2h6c3 (Evening Post)

The opening of a museum devoted to the history of opium might
be of interest:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=23222004

Interesting piece on assorted aspects of conservation of
artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/05/arts/design/05HOLO.html

A replica of an eighth-century Indonesian vessel is retracing
the path of an ancient trade route:

http://iafrica.com/news/sa/294504.htm

The Museum of London is being urged to rebury its thousands of
skeletal remains:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1116961,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3371371.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yrs5b (Reuters)

The "Women in Hell" fresco from Coventry has been restored and
will soon be on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3370279.stm

On the DNA front, apparently Explorator will continue for quite
a while:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/design/09COTT.html

A pile of Faberge eggs are hitting the auction block:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/design/09EGGS.html

An interesting feature on a collector of Imperial Chinese
clothing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/arts/design/07ROBE.html

Harvard is the latest recipient of a request to return
antiquities (of a sort):

http://tinyurl.com/387wm (NYT)
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
G.C. Rothery, *The Amazons*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/ama/index.htm

F.M. Bennett, *Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/rca/index.htm

Lysistrata (trans. J. Lindsay ... it rhymes):

http://tinyurl.com/2xz7d (UPenn)
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Items from the looting of Jiroft are hitting various markets:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11491

Looting the Afghan 'Pompeii':

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040105-120034-9103r.htm

Some interesting ideas in this Reason piece on how to deal with
the problem of looting of sites:

http://reason.com/0401/cr.jl.found.shtml
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Assorted recent tomes on Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/books/review/11KERMODT.html

A pair of books on the Beecher sisters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/books/review/11CHERNOT.html

Nicholas Thomas, *The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James
Cook*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/books/review/11DORE2T.html

Thomas Cahill, *Sailing the Wine Dark Sea*:

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/7631178.htm

D. Kagan, *The Peloponnesian War* [extensive review]:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?040112crat_atlarge

Michael Wood, *Road to Delphi*

http://tinyurl.com/2ef36 (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/ytmb9 (Telegraph)
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/design/09COTT.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The latest in the Elgin Marbles saga:

http://tinyurl.com/2sn8b (Telegraph)
cf: http://tinyurl.com/3g3hy (Evening Standard)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

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

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

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Graham Rowley (archaeologist/explorer)

http://tinyurl.com/257ec (Telegraph)

================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Citadel in Hanoi

http://tinyurl.com/37zdv

Leper Remains from Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/322t4
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3849407/

Paleolithic Figurines from Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/2jxzy (FAZ)

Saqqarah Tombs:

http://tinyurl.com/3gmal

Snails and Pottery:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040105/pottery.html

That Biblical Archaeology Thing Originally from the WP:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/living/7674116.htm
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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 labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
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explorator 6.36                                  january 4, 2004
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Donna Hurst, Adrian
Murdoch, Dave Sowdon, Diane Moceri, Francis Deblauwe, Hernan
Astudillo, John McMahon, Kate Brown, Maurice O'Sullivan,
Michael Oberndorf, Paul James Cowie, Richard Griffiths, Sally
Winchester, Tony Jackson, Bill Thayer and Yonatan Nadelman for
headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
out).


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Erratum: last week I mentioned miracles at Attila the Hun's
grave ... of course, it should have been St. Attila's grave.
Apologies for any confusion!

... very slow week, probably as expected
================================================================
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================

A necropolis including the 4000 b.p. tomb of a high official
has been found near Saqqarah:

http://tinyurl.com/28ugo (Jerusalem Post)
http://tinyurl.com/38sgp (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.lefigaro.fr/magazine/20031229.MAG0015.html
http://tinyurl.com/3ddvk (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://tinyurl.com/32fsw (AP via Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/2ms8k (AP via Globe and Mail ...??)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=477244
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o010124h.htm

Hopefully we'll hear more of this one ... approval has been given
to a company to recover antiquities off the shore of Mauritius:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o301223f.htm

I think this is Zahi Hawass reminiscing, but I'm not sure:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/671/hr2.htm

A number of Bronze Age artifacts have been found in Oman:

http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=47950&pn=local

Evidence of leprosy in ancient Jerusalem has been found:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3849407/
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2361438
http://tinyurl.com/yq2mt (SF Chronicle)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/377808.html

Archaeological evidence suggests the Romans "drastically reduced
the number of indigenous people" when they were moving into
Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/7171.html

That Iron Age chariot found a few weeks ago has been dated
to 400 B.C.:

http://www.news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=8102004

A villager perusing a rubbish pile discovered a number of
ancient Buddhist statues in China's Shaanxi province:

http://tinyurl.com/2j28h (China Daily)

An 1100 b.p. inscription has been found in Padappai (India):

http://www.hindu.com/2003/12/31/stories/2003123107210400.htm

A letter from Ivan the Terrible to Elizabeth I has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/2peta (Telegraph)

Ongoing coverage of the results of the earthquake in Bam:

http://www.iranian.com/Features/2003/December/Quake/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/3574t (Montreal Gazette)
http://tinyurl.com/28xdp (Newsday)
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
This really should be an Asian story, but the press is
covering it as if it is more important to North America ...
remains of a hunting site in Siberia north of the Arctic Circle
is being (tenuously?) connected to the peopling of North America:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994526
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3855039/
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4297157.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3361925.stm

A sort of 'overview' piece on Azatlan (Wisconsin):

http://www.madison.com/wisconsinstatejournal/local/64568.php

Potential archaeological sites are being used to hold up
construction of an expressway just down the road from me (this
is an ongoing saga, not just archaeological):

http://tinyurl.com/2vcfk (Toronto Star)

The Winfield Courier (Kansas) has coverage of a dig which has
found remains dating back to ca. 4000 b.p.:

http://www.winfieldcourier.com/w040103/Fri1.html

The Times-Picayune tells of the search for a pair of 'lost'
villages originally populated by German settlers in the 1700's:

http://tinyurl.com/27zc9
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The AIA meeting in San Francisco is getting some press coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/22nh4 (SF Chronicle)

Scotland's "Stirling heads" are being scientifically examined
for the first time (apparently):

http://www.sundayherald.com/39079

We haven't had a 'facial reconstruction' story in ages ...
here's one about the reconstruction of the Sulman mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/3xlh7 (London Free Press)

The New York Times has a feature on the historical Confucius:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/arts/design/01CONF.html

One of Ethiopia's rock churches collapsed this week (with
human casualties):

http://tinyurl.com/yvlwr (NY Daily News)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2774226a12,00.html

They're trying to make history more "vocational" in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/ys4d2 (Telegraph)

This guy reconstructs/recreates ancient instruments:

http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1414912003

To mark the 700th anniversay of the death of William Wallace,
they're going to dig him up, do some reenacting, then reinter
him in a church (I'm sure we'll read they'll want to do some
dna work on him too):

http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/scotland.cfm?id=9122004

An interesting piece on petroglyphs in Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/02/1072908902710.html

Washington University is getting a new numismatic museum:

http://tinyurl.com/2xcku

Of the myriad 'history of New Year's' pieces out there this
past week, the following seem to be most worth reading:

http://tinyurl.com/2lmpa (Oregonian)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Athena Review 3.4 (2003) [full text]:

http://www.athenapub.com/index12.htm

The January issue of Egypt Today has a number of touristy items
of interest plus a piece on Cambyses' lost army (look in the
sidebar on the contents page):

http://www.egypttoday.com/

The current issue of Scientific American has a piece entitled
"Women and Men at Catalhoyuk":

http://tinyurl.com/2667r
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A rather strange (and lengthy) grave desecration type case from
Oregon comes to an end:

http://tinyurl.com/2594s (Oregonian)

Turkish authorities have recovered a pile of antiquities dating
from various periods:

http://tinyurl.com/29rjn (News 24)

Indian authorities recovered a pile of ancient coins:

http://tinyurl.com/2p3jv (the Statesman)
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Home Sown: Three Centuries of Stitching History:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/arts/02GALL.html

Below Stairs: 400 Years of Servants' Portraits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/30/arts/design/30STAI.html

Desire of Mankind (Buddhist art):

http://tinyurl.com/3bjpm (Korea Herald)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Fair bit of ClassCon in an Economist piece on the territorial
goals of the EU:

http://tinyurl.com/26pye

The latest Latin-is-alive-and-well piece:

http://tinyurl.com/2maew

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism]

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
================================================================
Bishop Guregh Kapikian (Armenian Bishop/Scholar):

http://tinyurl.com/2ptuq (Ha'aretz)
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Jim Phelps, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Susan Jaslow, Adrian
Murdoch, Richard C. Griffiths, Hernan Astudillo, and Yonatan
Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have
left no one out).

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week, so it's highly possible/probable that I have left someone
out ... there might also be omissions/duplications in today's
edition. Apologies if this is the sort of thing that rankles
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The debate over whether Neanderthals and 'less brutish' humans
interbred continues:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3346455.stm

Remains of some 8 000 b.p. 'wine' have been found in the former
Soviet republic of Georgia:

http://tinyurl.com/ytvx3 (Indepdendent)

French archaeologists working in Egypt have found a number of
Late Dynastic - Ptolemaic mummies and artificats:

http://tinyurl.com/32wn4 (IOL ... get a spellchecker!)

The New York Times has a nice piece on archaeology in the
Wadi Arabah:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/science/23ARCH.html

A summary of what was found in Abu-Kir Bay this year:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o251223p.htm

Second Temple/Hasmonean period artifacts were uncovered
this week just outside the walls of Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/3y6sq (Jerusalem Post)

The earthquake in Bam (Iran) this week, in addition to the
human toll, also damaged a number of archaeological sites:

http://www.sundayherald.com/38966
http://tinyurl.com/2bhek (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/yw9j3 (NY Times)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3351505.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1112944,00.html

Al-Jazeera has a piece on the neglected archaeological sites
of Palestine:

http://tinyurl.com/2xpfm

A Roman wall was found during Cathedral renovations in Malta:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=142893

The Kaiseraugst Roman silver hoard has been brought together
and put on display for the first time:

http://tinyurl.com/ypq66 (Swissinfo)

Here's one to build a crackpot theory on ... a Roman coin was
found during construction in New Zealand:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/26/1072308676546.html
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=38338&cat=1005&c=w

China's earliest pottery is apparently connected to a desire
to cook freshwater snails:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-12/23/content_1244885.htm

A huge Han and Tang (so far) burial site has been found in
southern Beijing:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-12/22/content_1242680.htm
================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A major Mississipian site is being excavated near Cahokia
Mounds State Park:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/newsdemocrat/7540872.htm

It's time for the annual too-many-tourists-threaten-Machu-Picchu
piece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3335315.stm

A touristy sort of thing on the White Shaman site in Texas
might be of interest:

http://tinyurl.com/2hl4k

Dendrochronology has established a date for a Hohokam site near
downtown Tucson:

http://tinyurl.com/yubly

They're still finding out things about Monticello:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/12/22/monticello.wall.ap/
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
Last week we mentioned that a geologist was making suggestions
about the authenticity of the James Ossuary ... Biblical
Archaeology Review has a rather extensive article all about the
claim (scroll down to the last paragraph if descriptions of
oxygen isotope analysis cause your eyes to glaze over):

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

Al-Ahram has a sort of 'the past year in heritage stuff' piece
that highlights matters archaeological etc.:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/670/heritage.htm

cf: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3753790/

Macquarie University has purchased some Oxyrhynchus Papyri:

http://tinyurl.com/ywksf (Daily Telegraph)

The couple who found Oetzi are trying to collect a reward:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3339359.stm

BBC Radio had an interesting program about the history and
development of the alphabet (RealPlayer):

http://tinyurl.com/3y5h6

The University of Akron has been given a pile of Near
Eastern artifacts:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/living/7568830.htm

An interesting piece on 'skinny Denis' and his calendrical
fiddling:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jaybryant/jb20031225.shtml

I think I mentioned this one before when it appeared in the
Washington post, but if not, it's a reasonable overview of
'Biblical archaeology':

http://www.detnews.com/2003/religion/0312/23/a12-16785.htm

The 'Doom Fresco' at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry will be
on display for the first time in 400 years:

http://tinyurl.com/ypzlv (BBC)

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina has opened a center for studying
ancient writing:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o251223r.htm

Vietnamese scientists have restored the lacquered mummy of a
17th century Buddhist monk:

http://tinyurl.com/2eer7 (Channel News)

Potentially 'don't eat that elmer' material, but I'm in a good
mood ... here's a piece on assorted miracles associated with
Attila the Hun's purported grave:

http://tinyurl.com/2vphl (IOL)

The future of assorted stones in Scotland may have been
decided this week:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/6718.html

A revisionist view of Mary, Queen of Scots:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=1400722003

Of borderline interest, I suspect ... the New Zealand storm
petrel is apparently not extinct after all:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3344917.stm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology 57.1 (Jan./Feb. 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index

Biblical Archaeology Review (Jan./Feb. 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The SEPE site has a summary of work done during the 2003 season
at Tell Tebilla:

http://www.deltasinai.com/sepe-10.htm

The Roman Numismatic Gallery is worth a look:

http://www.romancoins.info/Content.html

Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions:

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm
================================================================
ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
People of the Whale (Part 1) ... all about the Ozette site on
the Washington Coast which revealed the "perfectly preserved
remains of a pre-contact Makah village beneath a series of
mudslides":

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A sizeable chunk of an ancient fresco was stolen from the
Roman headquarters at Masada this week:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/374340.html
http://tinyurl.com/2raru (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1015015.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Stephen Prothero, *American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a
National Icon*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/books/review/28MASSINT.html

Alan Massie, *Caligula*:

http://tinyurl.com/2tga7 (Telegraph)

Michael Wood, *The Road to Delphi*:

http://tinyurl.com/3x4m3 (Telegraph)

Gary Wills, *Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/25/books/25LEPO.html
cf: http://tinyurl.com/2w3rx (Wills' response to review)
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Taming of the Shrew:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/arts/theater/23SHRE.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
In case you missed it, they spotted a "ghost" on the security
cameras at Hampton Court:

http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3760119&p1=0
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Charles Bargue: The Art of Drawing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/arts/design/26DAHE.html

Finding Faith: Folk Art of Peru From the Collection of Antonio
Lulli:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/arts/design/26COTT.html

Birds of Central Park: Audobon's Watercolors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/arts/design/26ANTI.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Nice piece on Latin in the Economist:

http://tinyurl.com/289nm

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via our blog on Sundays]

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
================================================================

================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
30 000 B.P. Figurines from Germany:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/7518667.htm

Exhuming the Medicis:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3802926/
http://tinyurl.com/3dn8h (NY Times)
http://tinyurl.com/2y7h5 (AP via Yahoo)

Tomb of Zacharias:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1218/p14s01-wome.html
================================================================
OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
================================================================
About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Ling Ouyang, Mark Morgan, Maurice
O'Sullivan, Paola Raffetta, Michael Oberndorf, Richard Griffiths,
Rick Reidlinger, Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, Tony Jackson,
Trevor Watkins, William Gebhardt, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of three ivory carvings
dating to 30 000 b.p. in a German cave (most appear to be
accompanied by a photo of one of the pieces ... most likely the
duck/loon/cormorant):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/18/science/18IVOR.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3740004/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3328229.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2ve7a (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/2r39n (AP via Yahoo ... no photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2574e (National Geographic ... diff. photo)
http://www.nature.com/nsu/031215/031215-8.html (both photos)
http://tinyurl.com/3f9t8 (Guardian ... no photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2ax3h (AP)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_848047.html (no photo)
http://tinyurl.com/32wm5 (Scientific American ... the 3rd one)

Meanwhile, some 10 000 b.p. cave paintings from India are
in danger of destruction:

http://www.centralchronicle.com/20031216/1612018.htm

An Archaic tomb was discovered on Cyprus recently by workers
who were digging a ditch:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=12289&archive=1

The authenticity of the James Ossuary is in the news again, with
an Israeli geologist weighing in with an alternate explanation
for the problems with the inscription:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/374068.html
http://tinyurl.com/29pj9 (Jerusalem Post)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3753790/
http://tinyurl.com/3g373 (Guardian)

Ha'aretz has coverage of the 'state of the dig' of Be'er Sheva:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/372366.html

This is a repeat, but has a nice photo ... that Bronze Age
'sun disk' found in Wales has been declared treasure:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/3328443.stm

A major Iron Age coin hoard has been found in Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/2pglx (EDP24)

I believe this coin hoard discovery mentioned in the Yorkshire
Post is different:

http://tinyurl.com/yw2xt

Some 2000 b.p. 'cliff paintings' have been found in Inner
Mongolia:

http://tinyurl.com/322j6 (China Daily)

A number of Han Dynasty pottery kilns have been found in
Guizhou:

http://tinyurl.com/2vpgm (China Daily)

Good coverage of a 'journalists' tour' of a major excavation in
downtown Hanoi:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3739947/

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THE AMERICAS
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A dig in Florida may reveal how houses were built 1500 years b.p.

http://www.news-press.com/news/local_state/031219dig.html

A dig in Wisconsin will see a third season:

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/wdhlocal/288199906575075.shtml

The latest on that looted site in Wyoming:

http://tinyurl.com/2fflb (Newsday)

Since it was the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers'
thing this week, folks might be interested in this piece on
'airplane archaeology':

http://tinyurl.com/2qdnw (News-Observer)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're going to exhume some 50 members of the
Medici family to see what their remains can tell us:

http://tinyurl.com/35ycb (Telegraph)

The World Monuments Fund seems to be getting increasingly more
attention:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/16/arts/design/16FUND.html

An anonymous donor has given Lunt Roman fort money to restore
parts of the site which were closed to the public:

http://tinyurl.com/394pn (IC Coventry)

An exhibition of items found by metal detectorists suggest that
there is some merit to the UK's approach to antiquities finds:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3332401.stm
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2314944
http://tinyurl.com/24hzn (Guardian)

Contrast that with the apparent lack of success in the UK in
preventing the illicit trade of antiquities from other nations:

http://tinyurl.com/2ezzc (Independent)

The BBC has a piece on the various archaeological sites revealed
by road construction over the past while:

http://tinyurl.com/2bjp7

A good piece on the online Sumerian Dictionary project:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/11_12_03_d.asp

The Providence Athenaeum is at the centre of a controversy
because it wants to sell it's copy of Audobon prints in order
to help balance the books, as it were:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/books/15PROV.html
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11440

There's an AP Wire story circulating about the Chinese Sexual
Culture Museum in Shanghai:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3717283/

A 1000 b.p. church in Essex has been saved from demolition:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/3336871.stm

... and a medieval Irish Church has been bought by the state:

http://tinyurl.com/yqjg2 (Limerick Post)

The authenticity of the Voynich manuscript is again in the news
(I'm surprised this one doesn't come up more frequently):

http://www.nature.com/nsu/031215/031215-5.html

Some sort of television series about Egypt with an episode
on the battle of Megiddo (the headline is from a different
piece, I think):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/669/he1.htm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Transoxiana 7 (December 2003)

http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/ (full text)
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ON THE WEB
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The Eyewitness to History site presents 'eyewitness' accounts
of various historical events, from ancient times to the
20th century:

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum:

http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/olympics/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Lester Ness, *Astrology and Judaism in Late Antiquity*:

http://www.smoe.org/arcana/diss.html
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CRIME BEAT
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The EU has passed some legislation to help folks recover art
that was looted by the Nazis:

http://tinyurl.com/2yd4c (NYTimes ... scroll down a bit)

Nice sentence for this admitted looter:

http://tinyurl.com/2rpse
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A handful of tomes on the Faith vs. Reason debate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/20/arts/20FAIT.html

A handful of tomes on the role of the five senses in history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/20/arts/20SENS.html

Robert Harris, *Pompeii*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/books/review/21MENDELT.html
(first chapter available)

Don Quixote (E. Grossman trans.):

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?031222crbo_books

Adiel Schremer, *Male and Female He Created Them*

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/368677.html

Yairah Amit, *Hidden Polemics in Biblical Narative*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/371221.html

Pamela Tamarkin, *Reading the Lines: A Fresh Look at the
Hebrew Bible":

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/371220.html

Edward Champlin, *Nero*

http://tinyurl.com/22uux (Telegraph)
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PERFORMANCES
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As You Like It:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/arts/theater/15LIKE.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Alexander the Great died in Japan ... oh, and the Ark of the
Covenant is there too:

http://www.in-sourced.com/article/articleview/1057/1/13/
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EXHIBITIONS
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Bringing Home the Grand Tour: European Watercolor Drawings of
Architecture, Gardens, and Interiors 1750-1900:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/arts/design/19ANTI.html

Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/arts/design/21COTT.html

From Ishtar to Aphrodite:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/arts/design/19GLUE.html

Some sort of Egyptian-Italian exchange:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/669/he3.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Classicist Tom Palaima has a piece at HNN about whether
professors should air their opinions on controversial issues
in the classroom:

http://hnn.us/articles/1862.html

Roger Bagnall received a major Mellon award this week:

http://tinyurl.com/32p4u

The latest Latin-is-alive-and-well piece:

http://tinyurl.com/25elm (The Economist)

A 'true' wannabe Classicist:

http://www.news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1394162003

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
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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Bactrian Hoard

http://tinyurl.com/348yg (Economist)

Colosseum Staging Technology:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/15/1071336895957.html

Javanese Coins in the Thames:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=3977049

Stradivarius' Sound:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3323259.stm

Tomb of Zacharias:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1218/p14s01-wome.html
http://tinyurl.com/3d862 (Jerusalem Post)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

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/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

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

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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