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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The oldest clay 'kilns' (dating 34000-24000 b.p.) hitherto found
have been uncovered in Greece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3757198.stm

A Mesolithic site from Aberdeenshire:

http://tinyurl.com/4w3wb (Press)

Neolithic burials have been found near the site of Olympia:

http://tinyurl.com/4sjvx (Seattle PI)

A somewhat vague item from the Egyptian State Information
service on the discovery of what seem to be petroglyphs from
various periods in the Eastern desert:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o201024h.htm

Digging has resumed at the Bahariya Oasis:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o211024g.htm

More from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=40588
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3945023.stm

The site of the Archaic Panionion have been found:

http://www.zeit.de/2004/44/Panionien (in German)

An unlooted Sarmatian burial from Russia:

http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=14483

Vague item on a fisherman's discovery of a 2400 b.p.
Greek statue:

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2449344
http://tinyurl.com/4bvqa (Kathimerini ... photo)

New theory/evidence that the Romans weren't prevent from
advancing into Scotland by an 'impenetrable forest':

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1213412004

A sort of 'what-did-all-the-foreign-schools-in-Greece find
this year' piece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=48426

An update on the excavation of a  Fifth Century (or so)
synagogue in Albania:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-10/huoj-hu101904.php
http://tinyurl.com/5p7mn (JPost)

3 000 b.p. tombs from China:

http://tinyurl.com/4y87u (Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6wjbe (People's Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/5r9zn (AFP via Yahoo)

Will the 'Viking Pompeii' be fully excavated?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/viking.html

A 14th century cemetery has been found in Croatia:

http://tinyurl.com/53j7g (IOL)

Lots of attention being given to the discovery of a lavatory
possibly used by Martin Luther:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3944549.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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5,000 b.p. artifacts from the Rio Grande:

http://tinyurl.com/5luqx (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/4zmnf
http://tinyurl.com/4n4d6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20041018/D85PVNE80.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2853418

A slave cemetery has been found on a Virginia Tech farm:

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2440696

A possible Pequot burial ground in New Hampshire:

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=2462762

Receding Lake Mead is revealing assorted sites of interest:

http://tinyurl.com/6j898 (Orlando Sentinel)

Potentially interesting twist in the Teotihuacan v. Walmart
potential saga:

http://tinyurl.com/4jh28 (CNN)

cf: Mexico's track record in regards to preservation:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6310327/

Archaeologists have recovered the bones of B.C.'s 'iceman':

http://tinyurl.com/4jgya (Vancouver Sun)

They're still trying to figure out what to do with the Native
American burial sites uncovered by hurricanes on Hutchinson
Island:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6290072/

... while we hear more about things uncovered by those same
hurricanes:

http://tinyurl.com/59gqq (ctnow)

Strange property dispute involving historic homes in Charleston:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/realestate/22DRIV.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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So ... was Scotland as historically significant as England?:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/26193.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1209792004

I don't think this made it into last week's issue ... there is
evidence/a theory about a comet hitting the earth in Southern
Germany ca. 205 or so B.C.:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3636946

Lake Constance in Germany is apparently the 'home' to a pile of
shipwrecks from various periods (hmmmm ... I wonder if this is
somehow connected to the recent hype about Ballard's stuff):

http://tinyurl.com/5k3k2 (IOL)

A 'new' El Greco has been discovered in Spain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3762514.stm

Zahi Hawass gives 'his side' of the hidden-chamber-in-Cheops
story (interesting):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/hr2.htm

Al-Ahram also has a piece on the 'connections' between ancient
Egypt and the "religion of the biblical Hebrews":

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/713/he1.htm

Ethiopian tabots in the British Museum:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=573603

I think we mentioned this one a few months ago, but it's still
interesting ... the Vatican is apparently using high tech means
in its library to keep track of things:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/14/spark.rfid.vatican/index.html

Nice feature on the late Leo Mildenberg and his collection of
antiquities which is up for auction next week:

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1181152004

... check out the highlights of the auction at:

http://www.christies.com/promos/oct04/7017/overview.asp

... and the catalog:

http://tinyurl.com/5gx6n (Christie's)

Nice feature on the Utah Papyri Collection:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595099068,00.html

... and one on the technology behind the dating of the 'Priestly
Benediction' thing mentioned a few weeks ago:

http://www.dailytrojan.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=770958

Touristy feature on Trier:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1367087,00.html

The directrix of the Getty Museum quit this week (and it made
the news?!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/national/20getty.html

Interesting item on Yale's first Chinese student:

http://www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n4/story2.html

That dispute over the return of several Aboriginal artifacts
in Australia is jeopardizing future loans of items from the
British Museum (and causing the use of very strange words
in headlines):

http://tinyurl.com/5kmdm (the Australian)

  From the ironic death department comes news that the guy who
discovered Otzi's body has himself died while hiking in the Alps:

http://tinyurl.com/4zmnf (IOL)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3753580.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6g5nw (AFP via Yahoo)

Real Pro Wrestling is claiming ancient roots:

http://tinyurl.com/4p63c (Miami Herald)

NPR had an interesting feature on Mt. Vesuvius' 'current state':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4123769

Is the Taj Mahal tilting?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3759938.stm

Beowulf movie site:

http://www.beowulfandgrendel.com/
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 57.6 (November/December 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/0411/index.html
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ON THE WEB
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Yaron Ben-Ami, "The Enigma of Qumran":

http://tinyurl.com/64pjs (Bible and Interpretation)
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Tacitus' Annals (Gordon translation):

http://tinyurl.com/52rpn
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CRIME BEAT
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A recovered Titian was apparently in Cyprus for a while:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=16485&archive=1

Iran recovered a Jiroft artifact this week, just before it was
to go on sale:

http://tinyurl.com/5y2fr (Reuters)

A cave looter from Oregon has made things even worse for himself:

http://tinyurl.com/59ypa (AP via Yahoo)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Steven Saylor, *Judgement of Caesar*:

http://tinyurl.com/675jd (about.com)

Gertrude Himmelfarb, *The Roads to Modernity: The British,
French, and American Enlightenments*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/books/review/24MCLEMEE.html

Paul Cartledge, *Alexander the Great*:

http://tinyurl.com/62vdu (Seattle Times)

Joel M. Hoffman, *In the Beginning: A Short History of the
Hebrew Language*:

http://tinyurl.com/6fnmg (JPost)

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PERFORMANCES
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Temptation of St. Anthony:

http://tinyurl.com/6l2f6 (NYT)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/arts/music/20reag.html

Gospel at Colonus:

http://tinyurl.com/62rlq (NYT)

Bacchae (not Euripides):

http://tinyurl.com/5f6ss

Medea:

http://tinyurl.com/4htck (Sun-Sentinel)
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EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM NEWS
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Rubin Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/arts/design/20rubi.html

Agnelli Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/arts/design/22anti.html

Bob the Roman: Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of
Robert Adam:

http://tinyurl.com/4vmg9 (NYT ... scroll down)

Bode Museum ancient coins on disply:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/arts/23arts.html (scroll down)

Gilbert Stuart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/arts/design/22glue.html

Cranach's 'Judgement of Paris' is going to the Kimball:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/arts/design/22voge.html

Pharaoh:

http://tinyurl.com/4yycx (Daily Star)

Men and Gods in the Rome of the Caesars:

http://tinyurl.com/6fy3p
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Greek is potentially threatened in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3764856.stm

An update on HBO's 'Rome' miniseries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/arts/television/21rome.html

Colin Farrell on playing Alexander (gag!):

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041018/nym197_1.html

Arma virumque gets attention in a South African legal case:

http://tinyurl.com/45bl9 (IOL)

On the popularity of Greek tragedies today:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0442/mcnulty.php

On Harry Potter in Greek:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110005786

Alden Smith is a master teacher:

http://business.baylor.edu/news/details.aspx?articleID=433

Coverage of the Ludi Octobres:

http://tinyurl.com/6y47w (Contra Costa Times)

Piles of people are paying to hear the Iliad in Rome:

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3208,36-383663,0.html
(in French)

New Ancient Studies Initiative at Brown:

http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=2440255&nav=F2DOS508

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/4vzo5

Dot Wordsworth is also worth reading:

http://tinyurl.com/5kete

Tom Palaima in the Sacramento Bee:

http://tinyurl.com/3w6ho

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OBITUARIES
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Anthony Hecht:

http://tinyurl.com/3pbsf (Washington Post)
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REPEATS
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Ballard:

http://tinyurl.com/6w822 (Washington Times)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2862065
http://tinyurl.com/4o3sn (Daily Times)

Genghis Khan's Tomb/Palace:

http://tinyurl.com/6ej29

Roman Finds at Carlisle:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=145603
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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*Plenty* of coverage of the discovery of a new (hobbitish)
species of human (interesting how there are multiple articles
from the same source on this one):

http://tinyurl.com/3untl (AP via CNN)
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/flores/index.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/4311029a.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/041025-4.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/041025-3.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/041025-2.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/science/28tiny.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6339784/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6359734/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6346939/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6345671/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996588
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=202642
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2141-2004Oct27.html
http://tinyurl.com/6desd (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6sy9u (Telgraph again)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1246342004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/28/1098667866272.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041030/fob1.asp
http://tinyurl.com/6dsxr (NPR)
http://tinyurl.com/52cwn (NG)
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=2780
(portuguese)

An unrecorded megalithic stone row from Dartmoor:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past47.html#Dartmoor

Wood possibly from a 3,000 b.p. ship has been found at Hof Dor:

http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i041028/i041028.html

Athenian subway finds:

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

The Louvre bought a Greek horse head:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11635

Among the various articles about the UK's Portable Antiquities
Scheme this week are a handful detailing the discovery of a
gold foil lamella:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1336551,00.html

The English Elm was apparently brought over by the Romans:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3959561.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1337592,00.html

First it was badgers (badger, badger, badger) in England, now it
is rabbits threatening assorted sites in Scotland:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1238882004
http://tinyurl.com/423s5 (Telegraph)

Erosion is threatening a Roman burial site in Cumbria:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3954079.stm

Press release on the use of assorted technologies in an excavation
of a Roman fort in Jordan:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/507880/

A cart-rut project in Malta:

http://www.independent.com.mt/daily/newsview.asp?id=28324

Who were the first settlers of Fiji?:

http://tinyurl.com/5z469 (ABC)

A Fourteenth-Century button industry in Coventry?:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART24601.html

A brief (but interesting) piece on archaeological discoveries
from various periods in Prague:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/59681

South Africa is turning the Mapungubwe Kingdom into a tourist
attraction:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14524055.htm
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THE AMERICAS
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Coverage of the excavation of a Cody Complex people camp in
Yellowstone National Park:

http://tinyurl.com/3tbyu (Star-Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/63su7 (Gazette)

Potential native burials in Duluth:

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/10025552.htm

Pueblo remains in Santa Fe?:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=96713

A feature on Pueblo la Plata:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1028/p13s01-stgn.html

Peru is trying to make the site of Kuelap more accessible to
tourists:

http://tinyurl.com/54vp9 (IOL)

More hurricane-related discoveries:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1004/hurricae_coins.asp
http://tinyurl.com/4ru94 (Billings Gazette)

Is the Walam Olum a hoax?:

http://tinyurl.com/3tlab (Herald News)

The USS Constitution returned to Annapolis this week:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6339784/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The 'mystery of Mozart's skull' is back in the news, with a
number of the decomposed composer's relatives being exhumed for
comparison purposes:

http://tinyurl.com/4umyh (Guardian)

Plenty of coverage of the success of the UK's Portable Antiquities
Scheme and what's been found recently:

http://tinyurl.com/55jev (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/3o5ph (Art Daily)

A follow-up to that St. Bernard story a few issues back:

http://tinyurl.com/55dqp (NYT)

Interesting feature on the Jordanian site of Deir Ain Abata:

http://tinyurl.com/6rokt (Daily Star)

Assorted Mesopotamian sites are going to be 'digitized':

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=2785
(article in Portuguese)

Apparently folks weren't overly interested in commenting on the
proposed Stonehenge visitors' centre:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3954623.stm

Interesting piece on assorted secret societies at Yale:

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

An abstract from Archaeology of an article about the Alchemist's
Lab:

http://www.archaeology.org/0411/abstracts/alchemy.html

A barrister expresses an opinion on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles
dispute:

http://tinyurl.com/3z867 (Birmingham Post)

The Field Museum is trying to 'reunite' a pile of artifacts from
Kish:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-10/fm-fm102204.php

Interesting correspondences between moral precepts in the Bible
and various ancient philosophers:

http://tinyurl.com/5uluk (Leader)

Some Hallowe'en tv viewing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/television/29tvwk.html

Roman ghosts in York:

http://tinyurl.com/4r6ar (Mail and Guardian)

A Scottish town is celebrating Hallowe'en by pardoning 80 or
so folk who had been executed as witches:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/10052564.htm
http://tinyurl.com/69h37 (CBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3965965.stm

There's going to be another Indiana Jones movie:

http://tinyurl.com/5d3mv (AFP via Yahoo)

What colour was Jesus?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3958241.stm

The Soleto Map ... a sort of preview of something which will
surely be in the news in the next little while:

http://www.unc.edu/awmc/soletomap.html

Sunspots and dendrochronology:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996591
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/28/sun_spots/

More potential damage to sites in Iraq:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11637
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ON THE WEB
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A very useful way to search a pile of libraries for texts:

http://redlightgreen.com

Beads from Anglo Saxon Graves:

http://tinyurl.com/4v26v

Machu Picchu on the Web:

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/machu/

The Ovid Project:

http://tinyurl.com/69okf
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Egypt displayed a number of repatriated antiquities this week:

http://tinyurl.com/684vp (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5t9q5 (Reuters)

A French antiquities smuggler didn't show up for his trial in a
Cairo court:

http://tinyurl.com/6t4y2 (Expatica)

... but he claims he isn't 'on the run':

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

The British Museum has a problem with EBay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/arts/30trea.html
http://tinyurl.com/65dms (Reuters)
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2276824
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Susan Nagel, *Mistress of the Elgin Marbles*:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/critique.cfm?id=1253172004

Joseph J. Ellis, *His Excellency George Washington*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/books/26kaku.html

Rober Alter, *The Five Books of Moses*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?041101crbo_books

Richard Rhodes, *John James Audobon:The Making of an American.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/books/review/31ROSENL.html

An interview with Eric Cline about his *Jerusalem Beseiged: From
Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel*:

http://tinyurl.com/4ou3d (NG)

Steven Pressfield, *The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander
the Great*:

http://tinyurl.com/3zn7n

Barry Strauss, *The Battle of Salamis*:

http://tinyurl.com/6lraa

Stephen Mitchell, *Gilgamesh: A New English Version.*:

http://tinyurl.com/3j596 (Sun-Sentinel)

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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Antigone Project:

http://tinyurl.com/69w4n (NYT)

Gods, Goddesses and Ancestors: Ritual Theyyams of Kerala:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/arts/dance/27kera.html

Gospel at Colonus:

http://tinyurl.com/4fkzh (NYT)
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EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
A couple of exhibitions (Aztec, China) in New York:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/10104/

The Aztec one alone:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/?041101craw_artworld
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/arts/design/31shat.html

Mirrors to the Past (Greek influence on assorted art forms):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/design/29roth.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/arts/music/31midg.html

Princely Splendor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/design/29kimm.html

Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the
Northwest and Southwest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/design/29smit.html

Queen of Sheba:

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/10056370.htm

Yale University Art Gallery:

http://artgallery.yale.edu/

National Museum of African Art:

http://www.nmafa.si.edu/
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The Kalos Kylix was up for sale at Bonham's this week:

http://tinyurl.com/3phtw (Art Daily)

An Odyssey flick is in the works:

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=6936

... while Baz Luhrman's AtG movie might be dead in the water:

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=6953

Reclining while dining is making a comeback of sorts:

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/10/26/leisure.bed.reut/

Latin is alive and well in Littleton:

http://tinyurl.com/4apnc (Independent)

A 'Toga Day' luncheon:

http://tinyurl.com/64o44 (Sentinel)

Haven't had a Joe Paterno piece in a while, so ecce:

http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1093644,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/4npg6 (USA Today)

A marathon Odyssey reading:

http://tinyurl.com/4jtk2 (Metrowest Daily News)

Pompeii may be augmented by computer-generated residents:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3954659.stm

James Anderson talks about inscriptions:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/article.php/16774

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Michael Grant

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/obituaries/25grant.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ya9g (Nashua Telegraph)
================================================================
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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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, Adrian Murdoch, Francis
Deblauwe, Donna Hurst, Geoffrey Fishburn, Glenn Meyer, Aayko Eyma,
Hernan Astudillo, Hilary Cool, Joan Griffith, Joos Postma,
Joseph Lauer, Jim Lockmiller, Mark Morgan, Paul James Cowie,
Rick Heli, Bob Heuman, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, Kate
Gilbert, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
have left no one out).


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there was a big wave of spoofage of my address last week.

n.b. 2: I think I know what day it is today!

n.b. 3: in last week's issue I mistakenly identified the
USS Constellation as the USS Constitution; apologies for
confusion
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================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning applied to a supernova and
human evolution:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041101/supernova.html

Looks like the discovery of the 'hobbit' folk in Indonesia is
going to turn into a big academic argument (both of these are
quite different):

http://tinyurl.com/4dgz7 (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/5cowh (Berkeley Daily Planet)

... in case you missed the hoopla last week:

http://tinyurl.com/5uwpu (SF Chronicle)

A burial of a 9000 b.p. farmer has been found in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=40971

Reinterpreting Neolithic burials from the Near East:

http://tinyurl.com/4mvo9 (Daily Star)

Nice feature on the Moravian Venus:

http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok-17719.html

The dig at Ulugdepe (Turkmenistan) will continue:

http://tinyurl.com/3v7hw (NCA)

Archaeologists are having problems translating an inscription
recently found at Persepolis:

http://tinyurl.com/4gx9t (Tehran Times)

Nice feature on the Theban Mapping Project:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,,1342400,00.html

Six Ptolemaic-era mummies were found last week in the Kharga
Oasis:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o311024m.htm

Underwater archaeology in Iran:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4325.shtml

Searching for the tomb of Lars Porsena:

http://tinyurl.com/65492 (Economist)

A sort of roundup piece on things recently found in Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/4l3dy (Reuters)

Massive (over)coverage of the Roman face cream story (it was,
of course, actually discovered a year ago this past summer;
current coverage seems to stem from publication of the find
in Nature magazine):

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041101/full/041101-8.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6397290/
http://tinyurl.com/63bzk (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/6889r (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4oweg (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6xvj2 (ABC)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1342781,00.html
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view.php?ArtID=1240
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3978775.stm
http://tinyurl.com/4pnx6 (IOL)

Fair bit of coverage of an announcement/exhibition of some
timbers from a Roman brewery:

http://tinyurl.com/4p46j

Saving Ardoch fort from the bunnies:

http://tinyurl.com/4tzta

A 12th Century bronze-working factory from Carlisle:

http://www.cumbria-online.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=151624

More coverage of assorted stuff found under the UK's Portable
Antiquities Scheme:

http://tinyurl.com/62efl

cf.: coverage of attempts to ask eBay to curb sales of assorted
antiquities:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=534f017cefc425d2

A number of (fairly recent) Hindu items have been found in
the Thames:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5983_1088512,00430005.htm

Apparently the Taj Mahal is not tilting after all:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996629

The best-preserved mummy ... from China:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=100340
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A pile of important finds from Bolivia:

http://www.helsinki.fi/research/news/2004/week44.htm

Nice feature on the excavations at Nachtun:

http://tinyurl.com/42enf (Toronto Star)

Possible Anasazi remains in Utah:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6391338/

More coverage of things being found as Lake Powell recedes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/science/earth/02cany.html

Hopes are afoot that the techniques used to raise the Hunley
can be used on another Civil War-era submarine:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10064989.htm

Excavation of a Monongahela site raises the problem of what to
do with 'unaffiliated' remains:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04312/408186.stm

What did George Washington actually look like?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/science/02geor.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
Interesting spin on that exhibition of Sudanese artifacts at
the British Museum (by the director):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1343918,00.html

Attempts are being made to reduce tourist traffic in the Valley
of the Kings:

http://tinyurl.com/6flpn (Guardian)

A touristy thing on cave paintings in France:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1103/p11s02-trgn.html?s=hns

Coverage of the 14th Annual Print Fair in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/arts/design/05rube.html

Persian Journal has a feature on the Royal Road:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4310.shtml

... and the burning of Persepolis:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4348.shtml

(both appear 'culled' from other sites on the web without
attribution, by the way)

... another is about Smerdis:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4378.shtml

The debate over who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls continues:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/041104/scrolls.shtml

They've figured out the formula for 'Pompeiian Red':

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1232875.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041101/pompeiired.html

A nice science fair sort of project which brings together
Roman numismatics and science:

http://tinyurl.com/44yc5 (South Bend Tribune)

More 'witches' are being posthumously pardoned:

http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=11983
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Money Museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank:

http://www.geldmuseum.de/index.en.php

Biblical Archaeology's 'James Ossuary' page:

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

Barry Strauss, "Go Tell the Spartans":

http://www.historynet.com/mhq/bldspartans/

Smithsonian Magazine has a feature on Alexander the Great:

http://tinyurl.com/6jvp9
================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
Tacitus's works (trans. Gordon):

http://tinyurl.com/52rpn
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Lots of attention given to a theft of multiple objects from the
British Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/arts/02arts.html (scroll)
http://tinyurl.com/4om53 (This is London)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3700660
http://tinyurl.com/3oru6 (Reuters)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1341119,00.html

... and the theft might be part of a 'bigger thing':

http://tinyurl.com/3htfq (Washington Times)

NPR had a good piece on the 'state of affairs' in Afghanistan
(coinciding with the reopening of the Kabul Museum):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4135555

While there seems to be some U.S. Army graffiti showing up on
ancient monuments in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/3majk (Al Jazeerah)

Assorted objects ancient and not-so-ancient were recovered in
Israel this week:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/496693.html

... while the site of Acre was vandalized:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/498171.html
http://tinyurl.com/43jam (JP)
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Michael W. Kauffman, *American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the
Lincoln Conspiracies":

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/books/02masl.html

Joseph Ellis, *His Excellency George Washington*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/books/review/07MCDONAL.html

Meryle Secrest, *Duveen: A Life in Art*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?041108crbo_books1
================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Pericles:

http://tinyurl.com/4bmc9 (Baltimore Sun)

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/4vvss (Register)

Antigone Project:

http://tinyurl.com/4xdx9
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/arts/design/05rube.html

Expansion at the Kelsey Museum and the Museum of Art will bring
a pile of interesting items out of storage (nice photo with
this one):

http://www.detnews.com/2004/schools/0411/05/d08-326240.htm

China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 A.D.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/arts/design/02loan.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Ancient history is winning out over modern in Australian schools:

http://tinyurl.com/5w4d4 (SMH)

Linda Stasi doesn't seem to like the Alexander the Great
presentation on the History Channel:

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/33336.htm

Nice bit of Alexander hype, with comments from Cartledge and
Fox:

http://tinyurl.com/47moy (Orlando Sentinel)
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Patrick Wormald (Anglo Saxon Historian):

http://tinyurl.com/6dgad (Guardian)
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Pompeii Digital Makeover:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3954659.stm

3000 b.p. wood?:

http://tinyurl.com/3oyjb (SF 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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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explorator 7.29                               November 14, 2004
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Francis Deblauwe, Donna Hurst, Glenn Meyer, John Hill, Hernan
Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, mata
kimasitayo, Rick Riedlinger, Rick Pettigrew, Sally Winchester,
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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The latest on homo floresiensis:

http://tinyurl.com/4wt4y (New Zealand Herald)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/science/09tiny.html
http://tinyurl.com/5gsz3 (TechNews)

A Russian Stonehenge:

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?msg_id=5081228

A 13th dynasty wooden (!) pharaonic sarcophagus:

http://tinyurl.com/6y4hu (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/3jk79 (Arabic News)

Plans are afoot for another robot to make the jouney up one of
the shafts of the pyramid of Cheops:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o071124g.htm

Also on the 'repeat' front (sort of), Egypt plans to Xray the
mummy of Tut to try and figure out why he died:

http://tinyurl.com/5auvq (SwissInfo)
http://tinyurl.com/6gktv (Al Jazeera)
http://tinyurl.com/55fdw (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/5u2s5 (IOL)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4010303.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1315102004

Tar used during the mummification process is being used to
elucidate ancient trade routes:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2891222

High-res satellite images may help locate tombs in the Valley of
the Kings:

http://tinyurl.com/3v7n6 (USA Today)

Interesting item on the Temple artifacts found by Yadin back
in 1960 (a tie in to a television documentary):

http://tinyurl.com/4fowr (Jerusalem Post)
see also: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/scrolls/

Some major finds from Thebes (the Greek one)(a fair bit of
variation in the coverage of this news):

http://tinyurl.com/488ms (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/6nowh (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/589gw (Kathimerini)

It turns out that controversial burial site at Acre is
Roman:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/499090.html

Bulgaria hopes to 'cash in' on recent finds:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3091438a2180,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3999145.stm

Remains of a major centre of Manicheanism have been found
in Azerbaijan:

http://tinyurl.com/6dgfk (Tehran Times)

Trying to save an Elamite site before it is flooded because
of dam construction:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4425.shtml

A Celtic 'ritual sacrifice' site has been found in Austria
(article in Italian):

http://tinyurl.com/6o7yx (Kataweb)

A survey (or rather, "full assessment") of Traprain Law
(in Scotland) has revealed a number of interesting Neolithic
items:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4005157.stm

Interesting piece on the frozen remains of nomads who died
ca 850 A.D. and how they died:

http://tinyurl.com/5mlcu (Telegraph)

Some sculptures from the Pala period have been found in India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/919031.cms

4000 b.p. skeletal remains from Ha Long:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-11/09/Stories/23.htm

Mac Dynasty remains in Hai Phong:

http://tinyurl.com/4vkon (VNA)

A 13th/14th century settlement has been found on the dry bed of
the Aral Sea:

http://www.inform.kz/txt/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=99800

A 14th century Ming dynasty palace was recently found in Nanjing,
but construction workers have destroyed much of it:

http://tinyurl.com/3k9kz (Washington Times)
http://tinyurl.com/4b6jz (AFP via Yahoo)

A Napoleonic shipwreck off Wales?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/3999895.stm

A pile of 18th century medical manuscripts are now available to
the public:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4007407.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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More on those finds from Bolivia:

http://tinyurl.com/4yt22 (Europa)

Some plates to print paper money in Charleston dating from the
War of 1812 have been found (in a safe, not a dig):

http://www.charleston.net/stories/110204/loc_02oldmoney.shtml

A nice feature on mounds in Louisiana:

http://tinyurl.com/6pefa (Times Picayune)

The guys reenacting the journey of Lewis and Clark are taking a
break:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6452975/

The remains of the USS Chickasaw have been found in a bend of
the mighty Mississippi:

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2561017

What Ivan revealed in Alabama:

http://tinyurl.com/3lafl (Register)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
Kind of surprising I didn't see more coverage of this one ... a
lost poem of Coleridge has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/5ccub (AFP via Yahoo)

Italy's proposed approach to how to deal with antiquities
discovered by 'amateurs' has many folks worried:

http://tinyurl.com/4lvyd (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/4q56t (SMH)

Interesting piece on the Baluch tombs:

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=70513

Earliest village life can be best identified by garbage:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996646

The Met has paid big bucks for a Duccio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/arts/design/10pain.html

A cartoon about Mohammed's life (!)deals with an obvious problem
in an interesting way:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/movies/13prop.html

Suffolk County is seeking a "Garbology Officer":

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6469556/

Afghanistan is seeking the return of the "Dead Sea Scrolls of
Buddhism" from the British Library:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=582016

African rock art is threatened by the usual things:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3993819.stm

Translating Sumerian while on vacation:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10141317.htm?1c

They're going to move the giant statue of Rameses II in Cairo
to a less urban environment:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o071124h.htm

"The Classics in the Slums":

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_4_urbanities-classics.html

They're still looking for Amelia Earhart:

http://tinyurl.com/5vewk (Guam PDN)

Apparently humans aren't entirely to blame for wiping out the
moas:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996650
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ON THE WEB
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Coinarchives.com:

http://www.coinarchives.com/
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
They Were Here: Ice Age Humans in South Carolina

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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90% of sites in Pakistan have been plundered:

http://tinyurl.com/6alej (Daily Times)

Similar item from the Times of London (which won't work for
everyone):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1349052,00.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Treasures of York:

http://tinyurl.com/6cbsd (Yorkshire Post)

Peter Green, *From Ikaria to the Stars*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1351398,00.html
(I'll post this to rogueclassicism later today for folks who
cannot access the Times)

Philip Matyszak, *The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila
the Hun*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1351397,00.html
(ditto)
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PERFORMANCES
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Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/3wyyy (Advertiser)

Antigone Project:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv%5C13692.html

Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/6b786 (Citizen-Times)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Okay ... Robert Sarmast's expedition to find evidence of
Atlantis somewhere off Cyprus just got a pile of press coverage
due to a supposed discovery:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=16924&cat_id=1
http://tinyurl.com/6e6yb (Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5z7mz (Reuters)

... if you visit Sarmast's site, you'll see some photos of
what is apparently the 'evidence' ... we're in 'faces on Mars'
land here, I think (click on New Atlantis Location Pictures
when you're there)

http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com/press_sarmast_bio.htm
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EXHIBITIONS & MUSEUM STUFF
================================================================
On museums and corporate donors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/arts/design/13muse.html

Wisconsin Historical Society is closing its museum in the wake
of budget cuts:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6468219/

Interesting item/review of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George
Washington:

http://tinyurl.com/66e93 (New York Metro)

Asian Games: The Art of the Contest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/arts/design/12glue.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/arts/design/14eski.html

Raphael: From Urbino to Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/arts/design/12kimm.html

The Price of Freedom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/arts/design/11free.html

Queen of Sheba:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p12s03-alar.html

Tutankhamun: The Golden Hereafter:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/716/he1.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Brown has established an Institute for Archaeology and the
Ancient World:

http://tinyurl.com/62pu7

Problems with Roman numerals:

http://tinyurl.com/5ycxk (zwire)

Classics possibly threatened at UAlabama?:

http://tinyurl.com/64rkd (Crimson White)

Robin Lane Fox on the upcoming Alexander flick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/movies/14baker.html

The costumes and the sets:

http://romanticmovies.about.com/od/alexander/a/alexancs110104.htm

A somewhat foreboding clip:

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/565/565095p1.html?fromint=1

Down at USF they're hoping they'll see an enrollment boost in
the wake of the Alexander flick:

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGF03981E.html

Some Latin tats:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1108/p09s02-coop.html?s=hns

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting piece on
the downside of technology in education:

http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i12/12a03101.htm

Empire Rising:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/198413_empire07.html

What's David J. White up to?:

http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=21294

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5256&issue=2004-11-13
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
David Shulman (lexicographer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/nyregion/07shulman.html

Stanley Vandersall (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/47udg (Daily Nebraskan)
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REPEATS
================================================================
Roman Cosmetics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/science/09obse.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041103234140.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041101/full/041101-8.html

Cave site (Roman) at Ashkelon threatened:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/499089.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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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 fossil in Spain is possibly the last common ancestor of the
great apes and humans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/science/19ape.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6522090/

Apparently we were 'born to run':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/science/18run.html
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2464273
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595106221,00.html

A "stone age Julia Roberts":

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1180643.html

3000 b.p. burials from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41588

Neolithic farming on the blessed isle:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1350957,00.html

Some coverage (doesn't seem to be 'news'?) of the Jiroft
civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/5of7j (New Kerala)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/041116/43/2hw4s.html

... see also the nice article in Saudi Aramco World on Jiroft;

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200405/what.was.jiroft..htm

A second century B.C./B.C.E. site was found at Lumbini:

http://tinyurl.com/4twpc (Nepal News)

Another piece on recent finds from Bulgaria (with increased
evidence of Dr. Kitov's 'media darling' status):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41605

A 1000 b.p. mosque has been found near Baft:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/nov/1131.html

Remains of a medieval ship have been found in the Thames:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4021077.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6t4al (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/6ath8 (Guardian)
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of radiocarbon evidence suggesting humans
were in South Carolina 50,000 b.p.:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/science/18charcoal.html
http://tinyurl.com/6xudl (Washington Post)
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/topper.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6521390/
http://tinyurl.com/3v2ke (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1118/p01s02-usgn.html

Using technology from NASA to figure out the rise and fall of
the Mayans:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/15nov_maya.htm
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=103423
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
A sort of history/overview-of-conservation thing about the
Hagar Qim temples on Malta:

http://www.independent.com.mt/daily/newsview.asp?id=28700

A pile of letters from Admiral Nelson have been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4017767.stm

The latest in the Aksum obelisk saga:

http://tinyurl.com/42ord (Reuters via Yahoo)

... and the HMS Sussex saga-in-the-making:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1332402004

Interesting item on archaeologist Paul Zimansky:

http://tinyurl.com/56znz (Shorthorn)

What they think about Cervantes in Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/5x62p (NYT)

A touristy thing on Matera:

http://tinyurl.com/3wcsr (IHT)

TLS has a feature on the history of Easter Island:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2109107

Colin Renfrew has been given the Balzan Prize:

http://tinyurl.com/6xfc5 (BBC)

Robert Ballard is concerned about the Titanic:

http://tinyurl.com/6vfe4 (USA Today)

Interesting item on the history of tattoos:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0412/online_extra.html

An update on the aftermath of that fire at the Amalia Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/books/20pres.html

A dirty job, but someone will probably do it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1349125,00.html

Homer Simpson and philosophy class:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1116/p11s01-legn.html

A 'classical' graffitti artist has struck again:

http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=64972

First it was the secret of Pompeiian Red ... now it's Han
Purple:

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20041119203657854
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Stoa Image Gallery:

http://icon.stoa.org/gallery/albums.php
================================================================
NEW ONLINE BOOKS
================================================================
A couple of chapters of Jona Lendering's tome on Alexander:

http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_z7.html
http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_z6.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A pile of Afghan artifacts feared lost during the Taliban years
have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/5jpxl (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/5eph9 (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6522609/
http://tinyurl.com/4l5bt (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/world/10207705.htm

Concerns are again being raised that coalition forces aren't
doing enough to protect antiquities in Iraq:

http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=2573228

... perhaps related to the foregoing is an effort to create a
database of Iraqi sites:

http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2004-11/lostempires.html

Security at many of London's museums is apparently not up to
par:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4006957.stm

Looting of sites continues in Cambodia:

http://tinyurl.com/3qx8y (Telegraph)

Looting of Greece during WWII:

http://tinyurl.com/4oxax (Kathimerini)
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
A couple of books about U.S. Grant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/books/review/14BAKERL.html

Four books about Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/4lo2j (Globe and Mail)

... and a couple more:

http://tinyurl.com/5e8jo (Star)

Walter Olson, *Wedgewood: The First Tycoon*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/books/review/14OLSENEH.html

An interview with Steven Pressfield:

http://tinyurl.com/3z2rk (ESR)

Lance Kurke, *The Wisdom of Alexander the Great*:

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

*Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness*:

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=76432

Stephen Mitchell (trans.) *Gilgamesh*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1364384,00.html

*Decade - A Decade of Archaeology and History in
The Lebanon 1995-2005*:

http://tinyurl.com/6mj7g (Daily Star)
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PERFORMANCES
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Hamlet's Appeal:

http://tinyurl.com/6phrr (NYT)

Trio Mediaeval:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/arts/music/18trio.html

Andromeda Liberata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/music/21whit.html
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ALEXANDER MOVIE ITEMS
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Alexander flick is reigniting an ancient feud about who are the
real Macedonians:

http://tinyurl.com/4fvc8 (Guardian)

... and there's quite a brouhaha brewing about the depiction of
his (bi)sexuality:

http://tinyurl.com/3rtay (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6530956/
http://tinyurl.com/4nrlr (Reuters)
http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/11/111904Alexander.htm

Stone v. Luhrmann:

http://tinyurl.com/6l6u7 (The Age)
http://u.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,216~24281~2548240,00.html

What made Alexander so Great?:

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/1117alexander17.html

Interview with Oliver Stone:

http://tinyurl.com/5fxyh (Rolling Stone)

Where the papyrus came from:

http://tinyurl.com/46ytu

Training the army:

http://tinyurl.com/5ypof

Robin Lane Fox:

http://tinyurl.com/3t6ze (Edmonton Sun)

A touristy thing on sites associated with Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/554ny (Province)

General reviews:

http://tinyurl.com/4ta6l (Baltimore Sun)
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34381.htm

A review by someone with some Classical background
(Tim Spalding):

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/alexander/review-alexander.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Medieval arabic scholars' perception of Cleopatra:

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355

This week we have increasing skepticism over Robert Sarmast's
claims to have found Atlantis:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41602
http://tinyurl.com/49vus (Herald Sun)
http://tinyurl.com/636l2 (FAZ)
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=17015&cat_id=1

... and Sarmast's response to some of the skepticism:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=17001&cat_id=1

... in case you missed it, here's some of the claims:

http://www.mywisecounty.com/news/111604-1.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6489620/
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1316022004
http://tinyurl.com/7x9k2 (News.com)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3759015
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=16924&cat_id=1
http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=493252
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1360864,00.html

... see also:

http://tinyurl.com/3zabs (the Day)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1315862004

... and a nice roundup piece on various places which have been
claimed as Atlantis:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2109823/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176661

The Trojan Horse strategy still works, apparently:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004530613,00.html

Questioning a quotation ostensibly from Thucydides (scroll down
... more on this at rogueclassicism later today):

http://www.crikey.com.au/columnists/2004/11/17-0005.html

Turkey is getting a tourism bump from 'Troy':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,12700,1355573,00.html

The "Colors of White" exhibition appears at the Vatican Museums
seems to be similar to the Classicolor thing:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0406403.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=584371

Remember the *Parthenon Code*?:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/lath084_1.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5274&issue=2004-11-20
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REPEATS
================================================================
Garbage and Village Life:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996646

5000 b.p. finds from Texas:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6478901/

Tutankhamen's CAT Scan:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/eg4.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=584365
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6489609/
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041114/w111446.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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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A comparatively quiet week ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A major Bronze Age burial site has been found in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1349772004
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6575635/
http://tinyurl.com/5dwnd (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5j7z5 (Independent)

An unplundered Mycenean burial site has been found in the
Peloponnese:

http://tinyurl.com/4awua (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/4te9u (News.com)

An update (kind of late?) on the row over a housing development
at a Bronze Age necropolis in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=17073

A 4200 b.p. fortress has been found near the Red Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/3qfyp (AP via CTV)

A followup of sorts on claims of a secret chamber inside the
pyramid of Khufu:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=585377
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=3612886

Kent Weeks thinks he might have evidence about the 10th plague:

http://tinyurl.com/6zuzu (Boston Globe)
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/10268180.htm
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1126sci-egypt26.html

Some inscribed bricks dating to 3000 b.p. have been found in
southern Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/52bt7 (netIran)

A roundup piece of sorts on things found (and lost) during the
construction of the Athens subway:

http://tinyurl.com/67u47 (Telegraph)

I can't get this one to come up, but maybe it will work for you;
it's about the discovery of the first Roman 'service station' in
Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/4uqec (Telegraph)

A pile of Gallic military artifacts have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/6arwb (AFP via Yahoo)

An archaeologist thinks there may be more to be found in the
Cave of Letters (this is actually an item designed to promote
a documentary):

http://tinyurl.com/6tq9g (Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/arts/television/23heff.html
http://tinyurl.com/3zbly (Sun Sentinel)

Assorted Buddhist artifacts have been found in Taxila:

http://tinyurl.com/5a8bk (Daily Times)
http://tinyurl.com/4ftlh (New Kerala)

A Ming Dynasty coffin has been found in Shanghai:

http://tinyurl.com/4fm49 (China Economic Net)

A while back we mentioned the discovery of a shipwreck near
Indonesia laden with porcelain etc. ... here's a followup on
the salvage/excavation operation:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1247600.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5fj69 (AFP via Yahoo)

I can't remember if we've already mentioned this discovery of
'lost' medieval village:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/28461.html
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Nice feature on that 16th century Spanish fortress in North
Carolina:

http://tinyurl.com/6cm59 (National Geographic)

An update on that graving yard in Port Angeles wherein a major
Native American site has been found:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6565164/

A 19th century shipwreck has been found near St. Augustine:

http://www.wesh.com/news/3946526/detail.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, humans might not be to blame for wiping out
bison, mammoths, etc. in North America:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6568061/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4042693.stm

Interesting item on the history of 'natural history
illustrators':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/science/23natu.html

The ecological impact of the arrival of Europeans in the
Americas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/opinion/25mann.html

They're (finally) going to repeal a rather racist law affecting
Native Americans who wanted to visit Boston:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/national/25indian.html

Using grape harvest records to track climate change through
history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/science/23obox.html
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=2885 (Spanish)

That mystery inscription associated with the Holy Blood, Holy
Grail crowd has possibly been deciphered (?):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4044765.stm
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14973063

Using math to establish the authenticity of paintings:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6561065/
http://tinyurl.com/4ms2u (National Geographic)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996695

This probably is a book review, but they never give the title
of the book (!) ... as such, it is the latest salvo in the
Elgin/Parthenon Marbles debate:

http://tinyurl.com/5nflm (Kathimerini)

Temple Mount is now apparently stable:

http://tinyurl.com/6edh4 (JPost)

Learning about sepsis from the Battle of Waterloo:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4035849.stm

Intensive fishing in the U.K. in the 9th century?:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996711

The earliest piece of printed pornography is going up to auction:

http://tinyurl.com/6acus (IOL)

Nice feature on the Golden Hoard:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-11/goldenhoard.html

... and one on the discovery of that Viking house in Iceland
a few months ago and its implications for Norse sagas etc.:

http://tinyurl.com/6vcx5 (Smithsonian)
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
There's a webcam at Maeshowe:

http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/

Ancient Coin Collectors Guild:

http://accg.us/

Inscriptions From the Land of Israel:

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some German tourists who were lost in the Sahara were found,
attempting to purloin some Neolithic artifacts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4028431.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/international/23briefs.html
(scroll down)

A pile of purloined antiquities were returned to the Nasiriyah
Museum this week:

http://tinyurl.com/4wa8w (Xinhua)

Stolen Algerian artifacts are showing up on websites:

http://tinyurl.com/43jee (Washington Times)
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
David Crystal, *The Stories of English*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/books/24grim.html

Robert Alter (trans.), *The Five Books of Moses*:

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041122-124127-1746r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5phbs (Reuters)

Tore Janson, *A Natural History of Latin*

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1374676,00.html
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Hecuba:

http://tinyurl.com/4o3f8 (Union Tribune)

Oedipus at Colonus:

http://tinyurl.com/3kg5a (Playbill via Yahoo)
================================================================
ALEXANDER MOVIE RELATED
================================================================
Reviews (just the interesting ones):

http://newyorkmetro.com/movies/listings/rv_41959.htm
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/movies/24alex.html
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/10248535.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6559669/
http://tinyurl.com/5b5ej (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/5y4eu (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/4xd4y (Washington Times)
http://www.nypost.com/movies/32176.htm
http://tinyurl.com/695gz (St. Petersburg Times)
http://tinyurl.com/53dmb (Telegraph)

... the review from the Journal-Star is noteworthy as being one
of the few postive ones:

http://tinyurl.com/3q3d9

Features on the 'real' Alexander:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/10244905.htm?1c
http://tinyurl.com/6elyc (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/3top5 (Statesman Journal)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4184528
(Mendelsohn)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4189023
(Fantham)

The film is adding fuel to the controversy over the U.S.
recognition of Macedonia:

http://tinyurl.com/4fvc8

And there's controversy over the depiction of Alexander's
'orientation':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4032245.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=585756
http://tinyurl.com/6xvmr (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/6yspq (Kathimerini ... seems to be)
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/10260112.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5e4dz (Herald Sun)

Interview with Oliver Stone:

http://tinyurl.com/4zkue (Miami Herald)

Interview with Robin Lane Fox:

http://tinyurl.com/52yht (Telegraph)

Related Book Reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/books/26alex.html (assorted)
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM NEWS
================================================================
China: Dawn of a Golden Age:

http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?041129ta_talk_hessler

The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/26morr.html

Aztec Empire:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1126/p12s01-alar.html

Pontormo, Bronzino and the Medici: The Transformation of
the Renaissance Portrait in Florence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/26cott.html

The Colors of White:

http://tinyurl.com/6kmcq (Guardian)

Murtogh D. Guinness Collection (assorted mechanical instruments
and automatons):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/27/arts/27mech.html

Assorted auctions and acquisitions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/26voge.html

Napoleonic items up for auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/26anti.html

The roof of the Iraklion Museum collapsed this past week,
damaging some Minoan artifacts:

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041123/w112358.html
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Another reaction to Sarmast's claims about Atlantis:

http://tinyurl.com/4pfjn (Newsday)

Pondering Cleopatra's asp:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1362193,00.html

What Edith Hall is up to:

http://mustudent.muohio.edu/article.php?d=112304&s=campus&n=5

Hebe is not welcome in Roseburg:

http://tinyurl.com/5p54f (Democrat-Herald)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/5ouk7
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REPEATS
================================================================
Early Arrival of Man In the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/3qpwx (Southern Standard)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.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 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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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 Pettigrew, Mike Ruggeri, Sally Winchester, Vitor Oliveira
Jorge, Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
An 'Iron Age' coin hoard has been found on the Isle of Wight
(designating something as 'Iron Age' confuses me ... this one
has Celtic and Roman coins):

http://tinyurl.com/6hmv2 (IoW Today)

DNA tests on bones from a warrior burial from Iran dating to
2000 b.p. suggest the warrior was a woman (and nary a mention
of Amazons):

http://tinyurl.com/5mwa9 (Reuters)

Other DNA tests planned in Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/nov/1255.html

... and some heights of burials in ancient Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/6zl8p (Iranmania)

What's happening at Beit She'an:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/509223.html

Nice feature on the 'cursed' tombs at Meda'in Saleh:

http://tinyurl.com/5p8hn (Reuters via Yahoo)

... and one on the excavations at Arslantepe:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/03/features/conway.html

Since there were problems with the 'ancient Roman rest stop'
story last week, here's another version:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041129/romanreststop.html
http://tinyurl.com/549fd (SMH)

A Roman necropolis is being excavated in Modena:

http://tinyurl.com/6wcgc (IOL)

More on that Gallic discovery at Tintignac:

http://tinyurl.com/54ekb (in French but with piles of photos)

A major (?) Roman site has been found on Malta:

http://www.independent.com.mt/daily/newsview.asp?id=28957
http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=171166 (photos)

... and one has also been found in Isleworth (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/6dx2p (This is London)

Nice roundup of finds from Malta in the past year:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=171325

A Viking cache of jewellery has been found in Cheshire:

http://tinyurl.com/4ym4f (Chester Chronicle)

A Saxon burial from Marlborough:

http://tinyurl.com/hb46 (Gazette and Herald)

A tomb with some interesting murals dating to the time of the
Western Han dynasty has been found in China's Shaanxi province:

http://tinyurl.com/53g4z (China Daily)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/29/content_2272337.htm
(great colour photos)
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
The early inhabitants of the Americas are now not being blamed
for the extinction of bison and other large mammals:

http://tinyurl.com/5z2j2 (Herald-Leader)

Uruguayan 'Incas':

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=2948
(article in Portuguese)

The Pyramid of the Moon has yielded some decapitated skeletons
(interesting how recent events overseas appear to have
coloured the portrayal of this sort of thing):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6641153/
http://tinyurl.com/5zwmy (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/454gh (Reuters via CNN ... photo)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996756

Scurvy did some major damage to one of the first French
settlements in North America:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-11/rson-its112204.php
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6608926/
http://tinyurl.com/3n3a7 (Reuters via Yahoo)

... here's the research which spawned the above:

http://tinyurl.com/6vdhb
http://tinyurl.com/627la (both from RSNA)

A skull from Jamestown shows evidence of attempted skull surgery
(trepanning, maybe) and autopsy (!)(how do they know it wasn't
all done to just a skull someone found?):

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-surg02.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6630546/
http://tinyurl.com/6zum2 (AP via Yahoo)

Mesoamericans were apparently engaging in some genetic selection
to create what is known as maize:

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041129/full/041129-8.html

They're checking into the authenticity of the Vinland Map:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20041129/vikingmap.html
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
A new theory on how those big stones at Stonehenge were moved:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4064817.stm

Interesting item on using radiology to recreate ancient art
items (as opposed to just xraying a mummy):

http://tinyurl.com/4woxz (Eurekalert)

The latest boat recreation project involves a bronze age craft
which will be sailed from Britain to France (where's the mast?):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4056021.stm

Zahi Hawass ponders Champollion:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/719/he2.htm

Speaking of Zahi Hawass, NPR was speaking with Zahi Hawass
this week:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4195158

Following Sinuhe's story:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/719/he1.htm

Nice little feature on Geoffrey Emberling (who is now director
of the OI's museum):

http://tinyurl.com/45rbv (Ann Arbor News)

Interesting item on a company which preserves paper artifacts
by a unique process:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04326/413932.stm

... and one on preserving wood artifacts from being eaten by
little beasties:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6645260/

The Homo floresiensis discovery is possibly turning into a
saga as there is controversy after the project was "hijacked by
foreigners":

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6639617/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6635193/
http://tinyurl.com/6mw6c (Independent)

cf: http://tinyurl.com/4e6qs (Jakarta Post)

Another touristy thing on Libya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/travel/05libya.html

... and one on Turin:

http://tinyurl.com/4nk3s

... and one on Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/3v2jn (Canada.com)

... and one on various English Palaces:

http://tinyurl.com/42dha (Newsday)

Very interesting (p)review of the *Scarith of Scornello*, a
book about some forged Etruscan texts:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/01/features/Cwhat.html

Putting a positive spin on Machiavelli:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1392322004

Nice piece on Scott Cook's early work with Chinese philosophical
texts:

http://tinyurl.com/6zxj3 (WCF Courier)

We've all heard of 'bookmobiles', but this one's about a sort of
'Archaeomobile':

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=2939
(article in Portuguese)

A bunch of wine from the cellars of Nicholas II is coming up to
auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4064607.stm

The Queen's art collection on display ... not enough?:

http://tinyurl.com/6v8qf (Guardian)

If Shakespeare had Powerpoint (link courtesy of Mirabilis):

http://www.homeport.org/~adam/hamlet.htm

The Knights Templar are seeking a papal apology:

http://tinyurl.com/7xugy (Independent)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Biblical Archaeology Review (November/December 2004):

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

History Today (December 2004):

http://tinyurl.com/6unvk
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ON THE WEB
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The ARCO project creates 3d virtual exhibitions for the web:

http://tinyurl.com/5uvjp (main page after an annoying flash
splash page ... if you want that, go to http://tinyurl.com/658ah)

CBA Research Reports online:

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/cba/rrs.cfm

Megalithic sites in Portugal (with dig opportunities):

http://architectures.home.sapo.pt/Entrada.htm
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
Guardians of a Legacy (Pompeii):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A major antiquities theft ring in Iran has been 'smashed':

http://tinyurl.com/4o25b (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/3lyky (Reuters)

A tablet stolen from Yemen a decade ago was returned this week:

http://tinyurl.com/6k299 (Newsday)

Police seized a number of "antique idols" in Varanasi (India)
this week:

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=45052

Those 'lost' German tourists found in the Algerian desert were
given (rather short) prison terms for antiquities theft:

http://tinyurl.com/6o5ml (Washington Times)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4054823.stm

A pile of Greek artifacts from the 4th Century down to Byzantine
times were found in an apartment in Halkida this week:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/01/news/briefs.html
(go to page 3)

In light of the numerous articles we've featured about art
taken by the Nazis, the following might seem ironic (or
possibly not):

http://tinyurl.com/4ym2h (CNN)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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John Gordon, *An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American
Economic Power*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/books/03book.html

Charles Nicholl, *Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05GELERTN.html

Assorted Art and Archaeology books:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05ARTR01.html

Assorted religion in early America books:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05FREEDMA.html

Patrick Collinson, *The Reformation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05KEANEL.html

John J. Miller and Mark Molesky, *Our Oldest Enemy: A History of
America's Disastrous Relationship With France.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05LEVYL.html

Patricia Brown, *Private Lives in Renaissance Venice*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05BOUCHER.html

Stephen Mitchell, *Gilgamesh: A New English Version*:

http://tinyurl.com/49n82 (Globe and Mail)
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~27~2574950,00.html

Tore Janson, *A Natural History of Latin*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1374676,00.html
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
By the Bog of Cats (Medea adaptation):

http://tinyurl.com/4huyq
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EXHIBITIONS (AND MUSEUM STUFF)
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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs:

http://tinyurl.com/3obmz (NG)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6631690/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6645691/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6631713/
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/arts/design/01tut.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/02/arts/design/02tut.html
http://tinyurl.com/4l3c6 (Reuters via Yahoo)

cf: Steve Martin's comments:

http://nytimes.com/2004/12/05/opinion/05martin.html

Rubens retrospective in the works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/arts/design/03voge.html

At the auctions, a bust of a Ptolemy and a cameo of Claudius:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/arts/design/03anti.html

The University of Chicago is going to put together an online
database of finds from Iraq:

http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2626672

Nice feature on Giotto:

http://tinyurl.com/3s3qz (Guardian)
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ALEXANDER MOVIE RELATED
================================================================
What Made Alexander Great? (possibly a repeat):

http://slate.msn.com/id/2110188/

Military Genius or Megalomaniac?:

http://tinyurl.com/6paol (Newsday)

Alexander actually Albanian:

http://tinyurl.com/6zn4r (Sun Sentinel)

Review of Steven Pressfield's *Virtues of War* (fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/4cmy7 (USA Today)

Reviews of the movie itself:

http://tinyurl.com/5xl3h (Daily Trojan)
http://www.the-tidings.com/2004/1203/moviecaps.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/509218.html

The Greek reaction:

http://tinyurl.com/3odzk (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4rt5d (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=161943&pid=null
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College will be delivered by
Peter White:

http://tinyurl.com/4xqsk (Press release)

Jennifer Moss' Cleopatra course at WSU:

http://tinyurl.com/5hynw (South End)

Hype for a documentary about Pompeii which will be coming out in
January (!):

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041202/dcth020_1.html

Coverage of the Classical Association's Recitation Contest:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/viewarticle.asp?id=159225

Latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041129/elginmarbles.html

A jazz interpretation of Ovid:

http://tinyurl.com/3mbse (SF Chronicle)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5351&issue=2004-12-04
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REPEATS
================================================================
Prehistoric 'Julia Roberts' from Bulgaria:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1253943.htm

Roman Face Cream:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1202/p14s01-stss.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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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Much coverage of the discovery of a 35,000 b.p. flute in
Germany:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6694344/
http://tinyurl.com/4k35u (Reuters)

Plenty of coverage of an apparent discovery that they were
drinking fermented beverages in China 9000 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/6as99 (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4078947.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041206205817.htm
http://nytimes.com/2004/12/07/science/07chin.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6661424/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6662850/
http://tinyurl.com/44ndz (SciAm)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/uop-9ho120204.php
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996759

A 5000 b.p. backgammon set from Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/5hjkh (AFP via Yahoo)

Very vague item on Egyptians living in Toshka 8000 years b.p.:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/041207/2004120731.html

Another pile of gold-clad mummies were found in Egypt's Bahariya
Oasis:

http://tinyurl.com/3veht (Australian)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6671893/
http://tinyurl.com/4defx (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6k2v3 (another AP via Yahoo)

Al Ahram has a nice feature on Lake Mareotis:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/720/heritage.htm

Not sure why, but this week there was a wave of news articles
devoted to Shimon Gibson's 'John the Baptist's Cave' theory/
discovery:

http://tinyurl.com/6uu8k (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4fdvv (Daily Star)

Rather bizarre find from near the Dead Sea:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/513071.html

A sanctuary of Apollo on Despotiko:

http://tinyurl.com/57ezz (AFP via Yahoo)

More golden finds from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=42263

A tropaeum associated with Sulla's campaigns against Mithridates
was found in Central Greece:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1260156.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5wf55 (Ledger)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6682293/
http://tinyurl.com/4hbom (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6fwho (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/4jwdq (Tribune)

Archaeological research in the Plain of Jars is rather risky:

http://tinyurl.com/5dx57 (Telegraph)

Has the foot of the 'Sleeping Buddha' been found?:

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20041203-102141-1648r.htm

A 2000+ b.p. bell mold has been found in Japan's Aichi
prefecture:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/041207/kyodo/d86qj2b80.html

A late 6th/early 7th century hexagonal tomb from Japan:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20041207wo61.htm

A number of Saxon items from Suffolk found by a metal
detectorist have been declared treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/4cqf5 (Evening Star)

The site of the Battle of Brunanburh may have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/6jsds (Independent)

Nice feature on Dan Bahat's research into the Maccabees:

http://www.nmjewishlink.com/decmbees.html
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A 4800 b.p. farming community has been unearthed in Uruguay:

http://tinyurl.com/4v8pq (Seattle PI)

More details seem to be trickling out about that discovery at
the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041203084345.htm
http://tinyurl.com/46r9w (Guardian)

What remote sensing is telling us about Kincaid Mounds:

http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/42062.asp

Nice feature on mounds in Louisiana:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/lamounds/index.html

Possible artifacts from Delaware's first European settlement
have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/4uxdf (News Journal)

A Chinook site on the Columbia:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2004/12/11/area_news/news03.txt

They're retrying Chief Leschi, a century and a half after he
was executed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/national/05chief.html

Auction of gas leases near Hovenweep National Monument have
been deferred:

http://tinyurl.com/4f8kv

Nice feature on archaeologist Jay Johnson:

http://tinyurl.com/3w43k (Daily Journal)

... and one on 'Indiana Jones' Gene Savoy:

http://tinyurl.com/6tlt9 (Baltimore Sun)
http://tinyurl.com/5ojkq
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
A followup on the 'heist' of the remains of homo floresiensis:

http://tinyurl.com/45975 (Australian)
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1257717.htm

... plus some more info:

http://tinyurl.com/3ps7v (ABC)

A sort of touristy thing on Montalcino (Italy):

http://tinyurl.com/5jfcb (NYT)

"Mummy Autopsy" looks like it might be interesting:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6667398/

Interesting feature in the Daily Star about what clay lamps
reveal to us:

http://tinyurl.com/4dnz4

Latest twist in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1258736.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041129/elginmarbles.html
(repeat?)

A touristy thing about Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/65ggj (Sun Times)

On Europe and adultery:

http://tinyurl.com/3u65z (Boston Globe)

Interesting item on marginalia:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1068-1398459,00.html

The Australian has a feature on pre-Islamic Persian art:

http://tinyurl.com/6hj6e

Still looking for Amelia Earhart:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1395162004
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A pile of Roman artifacts were stolen from ANU this week:

http://tinyurl.com/4zvzn (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/5g59r (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/3v38h (Washington Times)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=24354

A stolen Sican mask is being returned to Peru:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6694468/

The Science Museum in London is the latest 'museum-victim':

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART25176.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1398477,00.html

A metal detectorist was convicted of anticipated looting of
a Leicestershire site:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART25070.html

A number of idols chopped up by the Taliban have been restored
and returned to the Kabul Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/55css (Reuters)

A somewhat vague piece about a 'smuggler' being released from
a Turkish prison for Christmas:

http://tinyurl.com/4ash3 (Telegraph)

A major article on antiquities theft and smuggling around the
world:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/books/sho-sunday-atwood12.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
A pair of books about the Crusades:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?041213crbo_books

David Dary, *The Oregon Trail: An American Saga*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/08/books/08grim.html

Assorted Alexander books:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1392972,00.html
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
A Talking Picture:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/12/10/movies/10talk.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
On the Atlantis front, Robert Sarmast doesn't think he'll be
heading back to prove his claims until next summer:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=17359

... while some other guy is claiming it's in Tampa:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041208/law056_1.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM STUFF
================================================================
African Art, African Voices:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/10/arts/design/10cott.html

Alexander the Great: Treasures from an Epic Era of Hellenism:

http://tinyurl.com/4r94z (Citizen)
http://tinyurl.com/69jtv (Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/5n7gb (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/4eod7 (SF Chronicle)

Eleutherna: Polis-Acropolis-Necropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/4d8gl (Kathimerini)

Assorted items of interest from various periods mentioned in
the NYT's 'catchall' arts columns:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/10/arts/design/10voge.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/arts/09arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/arts/07arts.html (Leipzig)

Caravaggio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/arts/design/12chri.html

The Sargent Museum is short of cash to buy back items from its
namesake's collection:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6683096/

A follow-up on the sale of El Greco's 'Baptism of Christ':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4079755.stm

A 9th/10th century inscription depicting St. Peter which was
used as a cat's headstone has brought a rather large price:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4085045.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5ymke (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5hfz7
http://tinyurl.com/692wd

Interesting editorial about the impending Tut exhibition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/opinion/07tue2.html

cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/opinion/l07tut.html

... while there was an interesting 'correction' as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/pageoneplus/corrections.html

Elam will soon be getting its own museum:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1072.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Another feature on Alexander the Great:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/29155.html

... and some points about the historical accuracy of the film:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1055.html

... and finding a political message in the movie:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1370710,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/4dc8p (Times Argus)

... and a new theory on Alexander's death (even though acute
pancreatitis was suggested at least five years ago elsewhere):

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1144620,0050.htm

... and another feature on Robin Lane Fox:

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1416122004

... while he evidently tends to his garden:

http://tinyurl.com/3njxh (Financial Times)

Are your students this enthusiastic?:

http://tinyurl.com/3lwbr (Free Lance-Star)

Nice feature on the soon-to-be-emeritus Stephen Miller:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2004/12/08_miller.shtml

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5351&issue=2004-12-11
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REPEATS
================================================================
Roman Face Cream:

http://tinyurl.com/5nu22 (USA Today)

Woman Warrior from Iran:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6661426/
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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 French Egyptologist claims he has solved the 'riddle of the
Sphinx':

http://tinyurl.com/497dt (Telegraph)

More coverage of the mummy find in the Bahariya Oasis (and their
'live' excavation on TV):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/721/eg10.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3ujph (Independent)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/721/eg10.htm
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2487031
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6706019/
http://tinyurl.com/4fpms (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/6g3od (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/648zq (ABC)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2004/12/12/779773-ap.html

Piles of archaeological sites in Iran are threatened by dam
construction:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11685

... while remains of eight ancient dams have been found near
Pasardadae:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=139022

Some Roman remains have been found in Suffolk:

http://tinyurl.com/635rl (EADT)

Hellenic News has a feature on polyandria burials on Paros:

http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=2800&lang=US

A brief item on the discovery of a coin hoard in Islamabad:

http://www.greaterkashmir.com/Full_Story.asp?ItemID=1388&Cat=1

A medieval site from Winchester:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4105623.stm

A 17th Century 'curtain wall' has been found at Carrickmines
Castle:

http://tinyurl.com/45sfa (eircom)
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THE AMERICAS
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A 2300 b.p. mummy has been found in Mexico City:

http://tinyurl.com/6rgsh (IOL)

Solving the mystery of the 'chirping pyramid':

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041213/full/041213-5.html

A sort of 'end of dig' piece relating to an excavation of a
native site on the Millstone River (New Jersey):

http://tinyurl.com/55kr5 (Trentonian)

An update on the Port Angeles graving yard situation:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/204315_bridge18.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6716370/
http://tinyurl.com/6zkg2 (Washington Post)

More on those finds from the oldest settlement (maybe) in
Delaware:

http://tinyurl.com/5l2fj (News Journal)
http://tinyurl.com/5lpya (Cape Gazette)

Trying to find a home for Chumash artifacts:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6731385/

Last week we mentioned they were going to 'retry' Chief Leschi;
the 'reverdict' is now in:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/national/12chief.html

Aztalan State Park is facing cuts:

http://www.gazetteextra.com/aztalan121604.asp

Apparently some discoveries *are* due to "stumbling":

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/4855/

Restoring a replica of one of the Boston Tea Party ships:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1214/p18s02-hfks.html

Forks of the Road (Miss.) has been recognized as a historic
site:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/garden/16FORK.html

Was Lincoln gay?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/books/16linc.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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I think we've mentioned something like this in the past couple
of weeks ... computer reconstructions of mummies and their
accoutrements is all the rage:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04348/425914.stm

... and I think we've also mentioned the use of remote sensing
technology at the Kincaid Mounds:

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/121304/REG_B50DJ80F.025.shtml

A replica of a Bronze Age boat found near Hull a while back
will be plying the Humber in the spring:

http://tinyurl.com/4z3qb (Yorkshire Post)

Plenty of coverage of Google's plans to put some major
libraries' holdings online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/weekinreview/19mang.html

... and connections of the above to the Library of
Alexandria:

http://tinyurl.com/3sv7p (Plain Dealer)

The homo floresiensis thing is turning into a saga:

... background, in case you missed it:

http://tinyurl.com/4kdxp (SMH)

On the DNA front, scientists have discovered the gene which
may have led to the transformation of a type of grass
to maize:

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mcmaize.asp

I would have thought this was 'obvious', but the shift from
being a nomad to a more settled life leads to religious
complexity and quick development of a social heirarchy:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6784

The governor of Vermont wants to remove a statue depicting a
Greek slave girl from his desk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/national/12vermont.html

All about beer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/science/14beer.html

Nice piece on a McMaster University (yay!) project looking at
how Neolithic potters did their work:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041123161910.htm

The music of the spheres is not a figment of assorted dwem's
imagination:

http://tinyurl.com/6uun5 (space.com)

The 'Whispering Column' is going to be restored:

http://tinyurl.com/5yuj7 (Queens Chronicle)

This seems to be part of the Temple Mount saga:

http://tinyurl.com/6ekrr (JPost)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=73529

More on that 'curse parchment' from the Dead Sea:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/513071.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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The Digger (34):

http://www.bajr.org/DiggerMagazine/Latest/index.html

Antiquity (December 2004):

http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html
(check out the project gallery at the bottom of the TOCs too!)
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ON THE WEB
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Archaeology Magazine's 'Interactive Dig' at Heirakanopolis has
been updated:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/hierakonpolis/fort.html

Vote for what *you* think should be the Seven Wonders of the
World:

http://www.new7wonders.com/

background: http://tinyurl.com/4zgvp (Toronto Star)
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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A pile of 'new' books are up at the Baldwin Project:

http://www.mainlesson.com/newbooks.php
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CRIME BEAT
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Nice overview piece on looting of sites in Israel:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6718151/
http://tinyurl.com/69yht

Ten people in Egypt, including three noted archaeologists,
have been arrested in a major smuggling bust:

http://tinyurl.com/4onvc (Guardian)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/10407645.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6vrq4 (Newsday)

A 4th Century antiquity was returned to Yemen this week:

http://tinyurl.com/54ls4

An update on that theft of Roman artifacts from ANU:

http://tinyurl.com/6bpqq (Australian)

Italian police have recovered 100 or so stolen artifacts
destined for the black market:

http://tinyurl.com/3zx54 (Ireland On Line)

A former night supervisor of the Kenyon Library has admitted
theft of a number of books and artifacts therefrom:

http://tinyurl.com/5qphl (News Journal)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Stephen Mitchell, *Gilgamesh*:

http://tinyurl.com/4n2dk (SF Chronicle)

Pascale Casanova, *The World Republic of Letters*:

http://tinyurl.com/7y4xz (Nation via Yahoo)
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PERFORMANCES
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Caligula:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=6&ObjectID=9003388
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Royal Armouries has (have?) acquired a rather interesting
Roman sword:

http://tinyurl.com/45j2x (Leeds Today)

Lincoln Museum preview:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/opinion/12sun3.html

Interesting story behind a pile of Confederate notes coming up
for auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/nyregion/12towns.html

Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/5326e (FAZ) (interesting article)

Petra: Lost City of Stone:

http://tinyurl.com/6w2ac (Cinci Enquirer)

Mummies From the British Museum:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041214/latu061_1.html

An update on plans to move the Barnes collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/arts/design/14barnes.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/arts/design/15note.html

cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/opinion/15wed4.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/pageoneplus/corrections.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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An interview with Valerio Manfredi about Alexander the Great and
other matters:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/critique.cfm?id=1442742004

Potentially strange claims about Cleopatra as a scientist:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html

Some scholarly reaction to the Alexander flick (inter alia):

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/12-27-2004/correction.htm

Optimism? Stoicism? You decide:

http://tinyurl.com/5wul6 (Sun Herald)

Was Alexander Great?:

http://tinyurl.com/6gb8l (Modesto Bee)

Nice feature on John Prevas' work on Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/4mkc4 (SP Times)

Parthenon living:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/10436758.htm

A pseudonymous Classicist ponder politics in academe:

http://chronicle.com/jobs/2004/12/2004121501c.htm

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/4ypyv
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REPEATS
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Ice Age Flute:

http://tinyurl.com/3kb8k (Guardian)

Female Warrior Burial:

http://tinyurl.com/3w4z5 (Daily Times)
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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Altman, Bob Heuman, Steve Farmer, Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson,
Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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500,000 b.p. axe found in a quarry in Warwickshire:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART25245.html
http://www.aggregateresearch.com/article.asp?id=5451

Remains of a 7500-year-old man (wow! ... that's what the
headline says) have been found in the UAE:

http://tinyurl.com/5drlv (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/NationNF.asp?ArticleID=144601

... and they've recovered DNA from him too:

http://tinyurl.com/5rf4e (Khaleej Times)

A fire at Fylingdales has revealed a number of archaeological
sites (including a very interesting carved rock) from a
number of periods:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4108897.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART25261.html
http://tinyurl.com/4jvxb (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1410884,00.html

A Jiroft update of sorts:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=141407

... and a Bam Citadel update:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=142554

Analysis of pots from Gordium has led to some theories about
ancient diets:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1261083.htm

Archaeologists believe they have found a piece of the throne
of Darius:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=140801

More on sites threatened by dams in Iran:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6743484/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6741205/
http://tinyurl.com/482ro (Guardian)

Apparently trying to capitalize on the 'season', some
archaeologists made big claims about having discovered the
site of Cana this week (actually, it's spun to be 'the
site of Jesus' first miracle'):

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/21/jesus.miracle.ap/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6743472/
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/10469182.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4p6xu (Fox)
http://tinyurl.com/3nhk2 (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/6zesv (Star)
http://tinyurl.com/4vzln (Herald Sun)

... and the Siloam pool (this was actually first mentioned
a month or two ago, actually; now it's being spun as the
site where Jesus cured the blind):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1271620.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6750670/
http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/204446-8044-010.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ebfj (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/53j5y (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/6lgly (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/5he4p (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/4l88o (Reuters photo)

cf: http://tinyurl.com/372rk (JPost, last June)

... and it wouldn't be Christmas at Explorator without some
articles pondering the three kings and the Bethlehem star:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/threekings/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077385/

A couple of female burials associated with military equipment
found a while ago in Cumbria (but just recently tested) are
causing much excitement (and some unfortunate headlines):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1411715,00.html

Another possible site for the battle of Brunanburh:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1409683,00.html

A bunch of 'gullgubbers' ('little gold men') dating to about
1400 b.p. have been found in Norway:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article934339.ece

A proposed road threatens sites (apparently) associated with
Tara:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4114395.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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Coverage of a "little known" society which flourished in the
Andes ca 3000-1800 B.C./B.C.E.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4115421.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5mvzl (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/67oaz (Washington Post)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-firstciv23.html
http://tinyurl.com/6c285 (Telegraph)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6829

background: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/panc/

7000 years of religious ritual in Mexico (we mentioned this
last week, but this one seems to express things a bit more
clearly):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/science/21reli.html

A sort of roundup piece on some recent finds in Illinois:

http://tinyurl.com/6cwb4 (KC Star)

Solstice on the prairies:

http://tinyurl.com/6gb9n (News-Leader)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Neolithic humans are now claimed to have learned about farming
from insects:

http://i-newswire.com/pr964.html

Not sure I follow this one but ... rock art apparently suggests
that ancient Aboriginal folks tried to save the Tasmanian Tiger
from extinction:

http://tinyurl.com/4u6h8 (ABC)

That Nebra Sky Disk might portray the earliest depiction of a
rainbow:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041220/rainbow.html

A couple of Temple Mount updates:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517045.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=73822

A history of Christmas celebrations in the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/23/opinion/23waits.html

The 'politics' of the gospel birth narrative:

http://tinyurl.com/725yz (Boston Globe)

Geza Vermes on same in the Telegraph:

http://tinyurl.com/64afu

More 'history of Christmas' items:

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/31634.asp
http://tinyurl.com/6fnky (Haddon Herald)

Interesting item on Henry Rawlinson:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110006056

Series/debate on the origins of Yiddish:

http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=200412011145
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=200412081148
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=20041215951
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=20041222906

Coverage of the International Crusader Conference:

http://tinyurl.com/6deck (Jpost)

A history of roses:

http://tinyurl.com/4scba (SF Chronicle)

Modern Zoroastrians:

http://tinyurl.com/5a4ex (SF Chronicle)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 58.1 (January/February 2005):

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

Assemblage 8 (December 2004):

http://www.shef.ac.uk/assem/issue8/index.html

Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology newsletter:

http://www.spma.org.uk/newsletter/spma60.pdf

Smithsonian Magazine (December 2004):

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/toccurrent.shtml

New Zealand Archaeology:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

Amphora 3.2:

http://www.apaclassics.org/outreach/amphora/2004/Amphora3.2.pdf
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
S. Farmer et al, "The Collapse of the Indus Script Thesis: The
Myth of a Literate Harrappan Civilization":

http://catarina.ai.uiuc.edu/fsw.pdf

The University of Sydney Central Asian Programme's website now
includes a 'new discoveries' section all about work at
Kazakl`i-yatkan:

http://tinyurl.com/59sxn

Historical and Commemorative Medals (16th-19th centuries):

http://www.historicalartmedals.com/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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G.W. Bowersock, *Fiction as History: Nero to Julian*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0489n6b4/

Bezalel Bar-Kochva, *Pseudo Hecataeus, "On the Jews"
Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3290051c/

Bulloch, Anthony W., Erich S. Gruen, A.A. Long, and Andrew
Stewart, (eds) *Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the
Hellenistic World.*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4r29p0kg/
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CRIME BEAT
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Plenty of items from the sagas/fake department this week ...
first we find out that Oded Golan is to be charged with forgery
in regards to the James Ossuary:

http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=2730020
http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/204445-3103-010.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1414559,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3923071

background: http://tinyurl.com/3lftt (CBS)

... while that Ivory Pomegranate which supposedly came from
Solomon's Temple has been declared a forgery:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6753063/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6751037/
http://tinyurl.com/3j6mf (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4xzjo (AP)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518448.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ll6b (Newsday)

An interview with Jane Walsh on detecting fakes:

http://www.archaeology.org/0501/etc/conversations.html

Interesting followup to that piece on the return of a 4th
century artifact to Yemen:

http://tinyurl.com/5hxwb (New York Jewish Times)

That 'tome raider' who purloined books from Wales' National
Library received four years for his efforts:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1413147,00.html

An attempt to smuggle a 9th century buddha out of India was
foiled this week:

http://tinyurl.com/58jlc (NewKerala)

A 'pagan whodunit':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1409682,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/62lv5 (Telegraph)

The Bactrian Treasure is apparently at risk again:

http://tinyurl.com/4n2em (Independent)

Two Greek men were arrested for trying to sell some amphorae:

http://tinyurl.com/5ghyq (AP via Yahoo)
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Gilgamesh translations:

http://tinyurl.com/6x72z (Plain Dealer)

Horace Freeland Judson, *The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science*:

http://tinyurl.com/5onsh (American Scientist)

Roger Atwood, *Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and
the Looting of the Ancient World*:

http://tinyurl.com/5zb7o (Post Dispatch)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
An update/correction to that Atlantis is in Florida story (a
link in the article now works and takes you to the 48 page
report; just reading the intro should suffice):

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb190966.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Duccio at the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/arts/design/20mado.html

Spain in the Age of Exploration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/24/arts/design/24xantiques.html

Rembrandt at the National Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/24/arts/design/24voge.html

Facing the Other: Charles Cordier, Ethnographic Sculptor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/24/arts/design/24john.html

Closely Focused, Intensely Felt: Selections from the Norma Jean
Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/24/arts/design/24isla.html

'Blue Periods' in various cultures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/24/arts/design/24cott.html

"Nonhegemonic Curating":

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12NON.html

cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/arts/design/21muse.html

Krieg und Frieden im Alten Ägypten

http://www.damals.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=161672

Moroccan exhibition in Amsterdam:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12191

Jan de Bray:

http://tinyurl.com/3zh3o (Concord Monitor)

The Colors of White:

http://tinyurl.com/723xl (Washington Post)

Pitt Rivers Museum is expanding:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4109677.stm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Eugene Borza reviews the Alexander movie (leads to a
pdf link):

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10266

... and Daniel Mendelsohn does the same:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17685

... and Guy Maclean Rogers is getting some press attention for
his work with Alexander as well:

http://tinyurl.com/3vodq (Townsman)
http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=14432

Another interview with Oliver Stone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/movies/26ston.html

Peter Jones in the Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-1410963,00.html

Monty Python's 'what have the Romans ever done for us' scene
has been voted the funniest:

http://tinyurl.com/439sl (Mirror)

Virginia JCL coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/69aw8

Plutarch's 'Sayings of Spartan Mothers' and Israel:

http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=4506
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Carsten Thiede:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1410653,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3kb9m (Telegraph)
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REPEATS
================================================================
Port Angeles graving yard:

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/181507
http://tinyurl.com/6j2zk (Seattle PI)

Google's Digitizing Project:

http://www.forbes.com/2004/12/14/cz_qh_1214google.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/opinion/21tue2.html

Computer-assisted authentication of paintings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/23/arts/23scan.html

Roman Face Cream:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219170614.htm

Alexander the Great in Venice:

http://tinyurl.com/68sup

Ancient Chinese Booze:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219134133.htm
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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, Hernan Astudillo, James
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Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

Happy New Year All!

Editor's note: I'm working on a 'top ten discoveries of 2004'
list; suggestions welcome (but whether I'll use them isn't
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A Bronze Age flint arrowhead has been found in Scotland:

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1467992004

A number of Predynastic grain storage facilities have been
found south of Cairo:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6767536/
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o291224f.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oeen (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/4hubj (Reuters via Yahoo)

The Pyramid of Chephren is reopening to the public:

http://tinyurl.com/67aag (Al Jazeera)

A nice 'year in review' piece about Egyptian archaeology:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/723/heritage.htm

It appears that marketing 'fakes' (see the Crime Beat section for
all the Oded Golan-associated stuff) is a rather old practice:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=113707

Remains of a 4th century B.C./B.C.E. village have been found
near Tel Aviv:

http://tinyurl.com/4l7e3 (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/519298.html

A Parthian era subterranean village has been found near
Maragheh (I assume that means it was buried, not a village
built underground):

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4464

The Romans pioneered 'out of town shopping malls':

http://tinyurl.com/3tcfm (Telegraph)

An interesting Latin inscription has been found at Quiliano:

http://tinyurl.com/6umcb (ANSA ... in Italian)

An update of sorts on the excavation of Genghis Khan's 'tomb':

http://tinyurl.com/6t2nl (China Daily)

China's oldest (maybe) wharf has been discovered:

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=52318

There's excitement about what might lie beneath North Berwick:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1470082004

Weavers in 18th/19th century Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/30577.html
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Nice little overview piece on petroglyphs in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/4jd85 (Tucson Citizen)

... and a similar (somewhat touristy) piece on petroglyphs at
Hueco Tanks (Texas):

http://tinyurl.com/3vado (El Paso Times)

A fish camp site on the Skagit River:

http://tinyurl.com/6jo9n (Herald)

9000 b.p. artifacts are found on Dolington farmland:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-12312004-425001.html

A contractor renovating a building in Boonsboro came across
a George III halfpenny:

http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=99885

Caral (and environs) gets the John Noble Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/science/28peru.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/29/opinion/snperu.html

cf: http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5164338.html

Spanish conquest on an indigenous painting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219154319.htm

Commemorating the French and Indian Wars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/nyregion/01french.html

Nice feature (in Spanish) about el hombre del Cobre (a 6th
century mummy from Chile):

http://tinyurl.com/4bp8y
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, they're looking into the origins of
Icelanders:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/science/28icel.html

Also on the DNA front, medieval villagers may have passed TB
on to their cattle (not the other way around):

http://tinyurl.com/4gefx (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/483t5 (La Tercera ... Spanish)

The human brain evolved 'extraordinarily fast' (quickly?):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1380407,00.html

Italian police (!) have created an image of what Jesus might
have looked like as a twelve-year-old:

http://tinyurl.com/4n8zc (NYT)

... cf from a couple years ago:

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/

Another piece of 'local coverage' in regards to the Mummy
Autopsy series:

http://tinyurl.com/62dj9 (Nashville City Paper)

Human sacrifice in ancient Iran?:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1220.html

The UN is contributing a pile of cash to help restore Bam
and other sites in Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1213.html

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/722/hr2.htm

MLA convention coverage (it's tailed off these past few years):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/27/books/27paper.html

Queen Victoria's obituary from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0524.html

When faculty hiring goes wrong:

http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i17/17b00601.htm

The tale of Peter Rabbit has been translated into heiroglyphics:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1420421,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4137735.stm

On the 'political' use of poison in history:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/521658.html

Interesting item on Lucifer:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=518489

A mural from Tuscany might be the earliest depiction of
witchcraft from Europe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1380237,00.html

An Ethiopian city is keeping the memory of Arthur Rimbaud alive:

http://tinyurl.com/5ez93 (AFP via Yahoo)
================================================================
MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Bible Review (December 2004):

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

New Zealand Archaeology (New Year Nonsense issue):

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

Smithsonian (January 2005):

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/toccurrent.shtml
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
AIA Abstracts:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10248

APA Abstracts:

http://tinyurl.com/5xtsj

APA/AIA session scheduling tool:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10175&saia=1

Attributing Greek Coins:

http://rg.ancients.info/guide/attribution.html
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Lots of coverage of the indictment of Oded Golan et al (there's
or five of them, depending on which article you read):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6765427/
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/520771.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520856.html
http://tinyurl.com/4lb67 (Boston Globe)
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041229/w122950.html
http://tinyurl.com/52uko (Guardian)
http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/205753-1749-010.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=368780
http://tinyurl.com/6xumn (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/3vntb (Independent)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1475062004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1381272,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4133065.stm
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2459
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Culture/4685.htm
http://tinyurl.com/54h9e (News.com)

... and the role of the Yehoash Inscription in all this:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520855.html

... and the 'chatty forger':

http://tinyurl.com/4eggv (Washington Times)

... and how the gang did it:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2111607/

... as a result of which, museums have been advised to check
their collections:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6770329/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6751037/
http://tinyurl.com/5l5e4 (CNN)

... in case you don't see the photos accompanying the articles:

http://tinyurl.com/47aza
http://tinyurl.com/4z8kv
http://tinyurl.com/5txvg (All AP via Yahoo)

... a preliminary list of artifacts known to have been
forged:

http://tinyurl.com/6c39j (Times Daily)

Al-Ahram has a nice piece on 'the state of looting' in Iraq:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/723/sc111.htm

The Victoria and Albert Museum was robbed ... again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4136131.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1381125,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=596993

The Daggett Museum was looted over the holidays:

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/12/30/looted.museum.ap/

A couple of items were returned to Egypt this week:

http://tinyurl.com/46h7f (Washington Times)
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Jared Diamond, *Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed*:

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/050103crbo_books
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1228/p15s01-bogn.html?s=hns

Robert Alter, *Five Books of Moses*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/books/29roth.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1419595,00.html

David Riggs, *The World of Christopher Marlowe*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/books/review/02SIMON.html
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PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Europa Reconosciuta (Salieri):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/arts/music/28sali.html

Merchant of Venice (+ Phantom):

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/movies/29veni.html
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/050103crci_cinema

Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/arts/31fami.html

Oedipus Rex:

http://tinyurl.com/4ad3j
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Ancient Race of Skeleton People found:

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4052&n=1
(I know ... I know)
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Alexander the Great:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/arts/design/31anti.html

Ivory at the Met (with slide show):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/arts/design/31smit.html

Pre-Islamic statuary went on display in Kabul's National
Museum this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/arts/design/28idol.html

Conservation techniques:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/arts/design/01lisa.html

Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/arts/design/02bier.html

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1231/p20s01-alar.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

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

How popular are Latin and Greek as foreign languages being
learned?:

http://tinyurl.com/6ctke (KC Star)

Hollywood 'emasculates the past':

http://tinyurl.com/44j9d (Belfast Telegraph)

(P)reactions to Alexander in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/5cvkd (Khaleej Times)

Oliver Stone's hindsight:

http://tinyurl.com/4o2f4 (Telegraph)

On the Roman 'suburbs':

http://tinyurl.com/3u9zl (Telegraph)

David Larsen reviews Troy, Passion, and Alexander:

http://www.sfbg.com/39/13/cover_ae04_toga.html

An interview with Seamus Heaney with some excerpts from
performances of his Antigone translation:

http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/12/20041229_a_main.asp

On the importance of 'hic':

http://tinyurl.com/52xhp (Financial Times)

Hubris and tsunamis:

http://www.thetelegram.com/news.aspx?storyID=26972
cf.: http://tinyurl.com/3hqnc (CBS)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5486&issue=2005-01-01
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Rob Bonnichsen (archaeologist):

http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/123104bonnichsen.php
http://tinyurl.com/64f9f (Gazette Times)

Henry Hart (numismatist):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1410663,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1419926,00.html

Alexander Marshack:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/obituaries/28marshack.html

Wai-Kam Ho:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/arts/design/01ho.html

Janet Backhouse (medieval manuscripts):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1418095,00.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Ivory Pomegranate declared fake:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4123595.stm
http://tinyurl.com/4u3qz (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/5zwvr (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/5atu7 (ABC)

Port Angeles Graving Yard:

http://tinyurl.com/4y5ep (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/3prsu (SMH)

"Amazons" in UK:

http://www.cumbria-online.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=166015
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041227/amazon.html
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=166015

Siloam Pool:

http://tinyurl.com/6zr6o (Jamaican Observer)
================================================================
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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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Morgan, John McMahon, John Huizinga, Paul James Cowie, Joseph
Lauer, Rochelle Altman, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
out).

Hope folks are enjoying/enjoyed the AIA/APA shindig ...
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Mousa Broch (an Iron Age tower) is being thoroughly studied:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/30794.html

Nice coverage of the excavations at Beit She'arim:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/523071.html

Lots of excitement over the discovery of an apparent Roman
chariot racing track in Colchester:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1426248,00.html
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART25464.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/4148315.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6erec (EADT)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4496
http://tinyurl.com/4epfn (Daily Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/4atux (La Tercera ... Spanish)

... and Colchester is again asking for World Heritage Site
status as a result:

http://tinyurl.com/5rnzw (EADT)

... and one scholar had predicted the discovery a few
years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/489d7 (EADT)

The year in archaeology in Bulgaria:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/art.php?id=10575&catid=5

A followup to the sites-in-Iran-threatened-by-dam-
construction story:

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=144700

A high status Viking artifact was found in Furness:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4154729.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5bbrj (Gazette)
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=167809
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4511

Last week we reported on the 'tomb' of Genghis Khan ... the
article was a bit muddled (it seems), so here's a bit of
clarificatory (is that a word?) background:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2004/Nov/113251.htm
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THE AMERICAS
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NPR's All Things Considered had an interesting interview all
about the Battle of New Orleans:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4273857

A sort of overviewish piece on archaeological finds from the
Crystal River area, past and present:

http://tinyurl.com/59xo3 (St. Petersburg Times)

Nice piece on the excavations at Chavin:

http://tinyurl.com/7ynph (StanMag)

Followup to the Port Angeles graving yard thing:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0105/p12s01-ussc.html

Was the Amazon rain forest home to complex societies?:

http://tinyurl.com/5fw5g (Boston Globe)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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A paper (?) on the implications of ancient Mesopotamian
accounting systems:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=116691

Archaeologists in Jordan were apparently the target of a foiled
terrorist attack of some sort:

http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews5.htm
http://195.224.230.11/english/?id=12348
http://tinyurl.com/6rljx (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/65pdo (Canoe)

A pair of American archaeologists are the latest academics to
be accused of plagiarism:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1277690.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4xsub (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6s5yy

A fair bit of coverage of a CT scan of Tut's mummy to see
whether he was murdered

http://tinyurl.com/3wtva (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4t2rb (CNN)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10573359.htm
http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/207310-4168-010.html
http://tinyurl.com/4tnhx (the Age)
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=17492005
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050103/tut.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6791183/

... and ever-the-showman Zahi Hawass uses the occasion to
perpetuate the 'curse of Tut' thing:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6799098/
http://tinyurl.com/4n743 (Reuters via Arab News)

They're (finally) going to protect Cheops' 'sun boats' from
deterioration:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o111224l.htm

A followup of sorts to that story from a few months ago wherein
the Knights Templar were seeking an apology from the Vatican:

http://tinyurl.com/6yrlz (Guardian)

The Kalevala is the national epic of Finland ... interesting
account of how it was put together:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/arts/music/07scan.html

The stained glass from York Minster's east window is undergoing
restoration:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4156547.stm

Latest theory on Oetzi's demise:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050103/oetzi.html

2005 is the Year of Language:

http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=8224

Pondering whether our enthusiasm for historical epics is
waning:

http://tinyurl.com/4tabj (Guardian)

Nice feature on Matthew Bogdanos:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/267598p-229219c.html

Some news coverage of the AIA meeting:

http://tinyurl.com/56ogm (Daily News)

Interesting item in the Independent about renewed interest in
public lectures:

http://tinyurl.com/4nat7

A touristy thing on the Amalfi coast, with some interesting
comments from John Steinbeck:

http://tinyurl.com/6bj7u (Telegraph)

... and one on Alexandria:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/travel/10580905.htm

Coverage of the American Historical Association Meeting:

http://hnn.us/articles/9466.html

A recently-discovered portrait of Mozart sheds some light on
the physical effects of his lifestyle:

http://tinyurl.com/6omps (Telegraph)

The decline and fall of the femme fatale:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5514&issue=2005-01-08

Coral dating:

http://tinyurl.com/46bf5 (Advertiser)
http://tinyurl.com/65wuw (SciAm)

... oh yeah ... they're still saying they're going to return
the Aksum obelisk soon:

http://tinyurl.com/4gjw2 (Guardian)

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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New Zealand Archaeology News:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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New items at Abzu:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/AbzuNew12.2004.html

Step pyramid in China:

http://myhome.shinbiro.com/~kbyon/pyramid/zangkun.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Mommsen, *History of Rome*:

http://tinyurl.com/5sprk
http://tinyurl.com/6ovnl
http://tinyurl.com/5lg3s
http://tinyurl.com/632zc
http://tinyurl.com/6w8ed

Samuel Noah Kramer, *Sumerian Mythology*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/sum/index.htm
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The New Echota Traditional Cultural Properties Study:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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A couple of years ago we covered the story of the arrest of a
'waiter' who was responsible for a pile of major art thefts; his
trial is about to begin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/arts/07arts.html (scroll down)

Some followups to the James Ossuary charges (all different in
focus):

http://tinyurl.com/7y8oy (Telegraph)
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050103/w010356.html
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/religion/10588752.htm
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=19843
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4249983

An opinion piece written in the wake of the Oded Golan et al.
indictment:

http://tinyurl.com/7x27p (News Observer)

... and it might be interesting to think about the Piltdown
Man thing at this time too:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=115705
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=115710 (book review)

And as long as we're talking about fakes/hoaxes, that crystal
skull in the British Museum has been declared to be a 'fake':

http://tinyurl.com/6tbwr (Independent)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=9005853
http://tinyurl.com/49lhm (Evening Standard)
http://tinyurl.com/66ewf
http://tinyurl.com/6o7oc (Guardian)

... and I can't help thinking whether this is the U.S.
equivalent of the James Ossuary:

http://tinyurl.com/4r3x7 (Reuters via Yahoo)

The looting of Iraq continues (these are different):

http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-01-06-voa5.cfm
http://tinyurl.com/5w58n (Boston Globe)

Some Iranian artifacts confiscated in London are to be returned:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jan/1059.html

A couple of idiots apparently tagged some ruins at Cuzco:

http://tinyurl.com/5svva (La Tercera ... Spanish)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Ingrid Rowland, *The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance
Forger*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/05grim.html

C.A. Tripp, *The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/books/review/09BROOKHE.html

Four biographies of Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/6q5me (Guardian)

Umberto Eco, *On Literature*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1426734,00.html

Avraham Grossman and Jonathan Chipman, *Pious and Rebellious:
Jewish Women in Medieval Europe*:

http://tinyurl.com/6etae (JPost)

Elisheva Baumgarten, *Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life
in Medieval Europe*:

http://tinyurl.com/3mnaf (JPost)
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PERFORMANCES
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Canterbury Tales:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4274913
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/arts/television/07heff.html
   (scroll down)

Lysistrata:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/724/cu4.htm
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Arnaud Bourdier de Beauregard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/arts/design/07anti.html

James Gillray:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/arts/design/07john.htm

Surfaces (African Art):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/08/arts/design/08cott.html

Castellanis:

http://tinyurl.com/722yt

Upcoming auctions of Old Masters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/arts/design/07voge.html

Interesting Op-Ed piece on the role of museums:

http://tinyurl.com/4o472 (Providence Journal)

Trying to keep David from getting dirty again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4144261.stm

A pair of Alaskan museums have purchased a rare spruce root
hat:

http://tinyurl.com/5k2zs (Seattle PI)

Assorted technological approaches to preserving art in Italy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4154219.stm

... cf. a UPenn Museum project to document Tiwanaku:

http://www.physorg.com/news2596.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Oliver Stone admits he messed up Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/4v563 (Telegraph)

... but he still blames the critics too:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3965330
http://tinyurl.com/5y8vs (Reuters)

Allan Massie searches for the 'real' Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/4ccqj (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/5b9vh (Belfast Telegraph)

Other reviews from the UK:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1068-1430093,00.html

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

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

Tom Sienkewicz is in the news again:

http://tinyurl.com/4cyh7 (Review Atlas)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5509&issue=2005-01-08

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OBITUARIES
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Martin Robinson:

http://tinyurl.com/4kdw4 (Telegraph)

Guy Davenport:


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/books/07davenport.html
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REPEATS
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Roman 'Service Station' in Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/4uqec (Telegraph)
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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Some prehistoric petroglyphs have been found in Northern
England:

http://tinyurl.com/5gz5t (oxymoronic headline)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4173985.stm

The Johns Hopkins dig in Egypt (and accompanying 'dig diary')
is about to resume:

http://www.jhu.edu/~neareast/egypttoday.html

... while on the subject, we can also mention Archaeology
Magazine's 'Interactive Dig' at Hierakonopolis:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/hierakonpolis/index.html

A Parthian era (and beyond)'circular city' has been found in
Iran:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4529

A seal has been found which lends some corroboration to the
Behistun monument:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=148096

The 'winged man' relief at Pasargadae is threatened by various
natural phenomena:

http://tinyurl.com/5qszs (Teheran Times)

A second century Roman mausoleum has been found in Sarno:

http://tinyurl.com/5owgs (adnkronos ... Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/6a7a8 (culturalweb ... Italian)

A mosaic depicting a grape harvest has been found on the site
of Trajan's baths/on the Oppian hill:

http://tinyurl.com/6dsm4 (adnkronos ... Italian)
http://www.basilicatanet.it/news/article.asp?id=295371 (Italian)

A major Neolithic stone tool-making site has been found in
China's Guangxi Zhuang region:

http://news.newkerala.com/world-news/?action=fullnews&id=58544

"Highest grade" tombs from the Western Zhou dynasty have been
found:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/117733.htm

Has Leonardo's 'secret workshop' been found?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/15/arts/design/15leon.html
http://tinyurl.com/43vmd (Telegraph)
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=600036
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THE AMERICAS
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The mystery of what kind of 'plague ants' contributed to the
demise of some early Spanish colonies may have been solved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/science/earth/11ANTS.html

Road construction in Corpus Christi has been delayed due to
the discovery of a native American burial ground:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2992361

What to do about Tepotzotlan:

http://tinyurl.com/6pk2k (La Tercera ... Spanish)

Last week we mentioned an article in the Boston Globe which
suggested complex societies might have lived in the rainforest
of Amazonia ... there's actually quite a bit more to the story:

http://tinyurl.com/5fw5g (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/4ddsf (nice page on the Terra Preta project)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, one in five Scots has a blood tie to Iraq:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050115/17/fac6n.html

A scholar has identified Hipparchus' star map as being part of
the 'Farnese Atlas':

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/farnese/ (good photos and more)
http://tinyurl.com/3tlvl (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/6353o (Eurekalert)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-11-atlas_x.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6sh9d (Reuters)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/1195.html
http://tinyurl.com/5nkcd (Kathimerini)
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15907
http://tinyurl.com/6ohag (Reuters via Yahoo)

The popularity of the DaVinci Code has brought (too many)
tourists to Rosslyn Chapel:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/31122.html

Zahi Hawass apparently was criticized for moving Tut's body a
couple of weeks ago (among other things):

http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3383

... at his website, ZH comments on Omar Sharif and Gilgamesh:

http://www.zahihawass.com/wc_omar_sharif.htm

On various aspects of the 'classical revival' in the 19th
century:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/magazine.cfm?id=32922005

Questions the librarians at the New York Historical society
deal with:

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?talk/050117ta_talk_mead

On Ruskin and Turner and Victorian 'censorship':

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/arts/design/13rusk.html

Creswell Crags is getting a pile of lottery funding:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lottery/story/0,7369,1386729,00.html

Recent events have made traditional stories about a tsunami
hitting Poompuhar (India) rather more real:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6826956/
http://tinyurl.com/6grf9 (CNN)

A dispute over some Maori heads appears to be reaching a
conclusion:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4162581.stm

Commentary on the above:

http://tinyurl.com/6aodk (Guardian)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1439927,00.html

... and some aboriginal skulls are returning home:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4171535.stm

... but all isn't rosy in the repatriation world:

http://tinyurl.com/5bsvu (Herald Sun)

Hawaiian society apparently developed rather quickly:

http://tinyurl.com/6udyn (Yahoo)

Did Shakespeare have syphilis? (piece in the time-honoured
tradition of 'constructing' biography from disconnected
excerpts of non-personal writing):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050111091800.htm

We've had this story before, but it's resurfaced for some
reason ... it's very dangerous to be an archaeologist digging
in Laos' Plain of Jars:

http://tinyurl.com/6rq86 (AFP via Yahoo)

Natural disasters and their effects on political history:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0111/p01s04-wogi.html

A lost portrait of Mary Seacole has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4163431.stm

Interesting item on the Warwick Vase and its 'spawn':

http://tinyurl.com/52p27 (The Age)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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British School of Archaeology in Iraq Newsletter (Nov. 2004):

http://www.britac.ac.uk/institutes/iraq/newnews14.htm

Archaeology Odyssey (Jan./Feb. 2005):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html

Biblical Archaeology Review (Jan./Feb. 2005):

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

This article (originally from Skeptical Inquirer) on the
James Ossuary was 'everywhere' this week:

http://www.livescience.com/history/reason_ossuary_050112.html
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ON THE WEB
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Zahi Hawass (I'm skipping the non-information intro):

http://www.zahihawass.com/home.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Robert Morstein-Marx, *Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the
Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C.*:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1x0nb0dk/

Jane Harrison, *Ancient Art and Ritual*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/aar/index.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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A flood of coverage on the revelation that U.S. troops encamped
in Babylon have damaged it (duh):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6828568/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1391042,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1391000,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1391085,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1391093,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/5f6on (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/3shbe (Boston Globe)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1282582.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4swgp (Chronicle)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=414947
http://tinyurl.com/5hjxw (Islam Online)
http://tinyurl.com/46qne (NYT)
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/527479.html
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050115-112523-7957r.htm

... here's the British Museum's report on same:

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/iraqcrisis/index.html
(link to a Word document)

They're still looking for a pile of items looted from Kuwait:

http://tinyurl.com/5yyld (Telegraph)

Looting continues in Afghanistan:

http://tinyurl.com/3mr9c (Al-Jazeera)

... but there's some hope:

http://tinyurl.com/44zno (AFP via Yahoo)

... and, of course, there are still problems in Iraq:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4277978

Is there a connection between the price of Egyptian antiquities
and smuggling?:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/725/hr1.htm

Christie's is apparently going to be selling a stolen painting:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6826281/

A major theft from the Westfries Museum (Hoorn):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4162753.stm
http://tinyurl.com/4etpy (Expatica)

Giacomo Medici "duped" a pile of museums:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=412209
http://tinyurl.com/6ytod (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/5mjha (Reuters via Yahoo)

A pile of artifacts from various periods and various
continents were recovered in a major bust in Italy this week:

http://tinyurl.com/64wwv (AFP via Yahoo)

The FBI has just put together a task force to deal with art
theft:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/10652637.htm
http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_013230655.html


Trying to sell a 200 b.p. Hawaiian skull on eBay brings a fine:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/14/skull_vendor_deal/
http://tinyurl.com/46fe2 (Mercury)

Here's something to keep an eye on ... Iran is establishing
an antiquities market:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=148765
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Jared Diamond, *Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/books/11kaku.html

Marjorie Garber, *Shakespeare After All*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/books/11garb.html

Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/31036.html

Ingrid Rowland, *Scarith of Scornello*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/books/review/16WILLSL.html

A couple of books about Leonardo:

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/050117crbo_books

Paul Cartledge, *Alexander the Great*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20050115-095705-3978r.htm

David Durham, *Pride of Carthage*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0111/p15s02-bogn.html

Adam Hochschild, *Bury the Chain: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels
in the First Human Rights Crusade*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0111/p15s01-bogn.html

Jonathan Kirsch, *God Against the Gods: The History of the War
Between Monotheism and Polytheism*:

http://tinyurl.com/47val (JPost)

C.A. Tripp, *The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln*:

http://tinyurl.com/6ym75 (Vanity Fair)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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On why 'pet projects' like Alexander are almost guaranteed to
flop:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/movies/11love.html

On getting the costumes right in historical epics like
Alexander and The Passion:

http://www.variety.com/ac2005_article/VR1117916046?nav=look

Some reviews of Alexander:

http://www.felixonline.co.uk/2002-04/article.php?aid=2124

Lynn Redgrave won't be in Hecuba for a while:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4170467.stm
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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I was wondering how long it would take for this to hit the
web ... some folks are connecting the recent tsunami to
Atlantis:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb196092.htm

... oh, wait ... Atlantis was between Spain and Morocco:

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=45057&src=0

Oh oh ... the Kensington Runestone is in the news again:

http://www.geotimes.org/current/NN_MNrunestone.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Alexander the Great: Treasures from an Epic Era of Hellenism:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/alex_exh.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/arts/design/14alex.html

Ancient Manuscripts of Timbuktu:

http://tinyurl.com/6xp46

Buddha in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek:

http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/english/buddha_e.htm

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/48olg (Christian News)

Leonardo Da Vinci: A Curious Genius:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6813534/

Marco Magrini:

http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2964

Reubens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/arts/design/14kimm.html
(slide show)
http://tinyurl.com/3j5ug (New York Daily News)

A German Dream: Masterpieces of Romanticism:

http://tinyurl.com/5tt82 (Guardian)

Relics of the Passion:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6825375/

The British Museum is going to lend the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran
for two years:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jan/1118.html

The Fueardent Cameo has resurfaced:

http://tinyurl.com/6zt5f (Business Wire)

Museums are branching out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/arts/design/10muse.html

Athens' National Museum is about to reopen:

http://tinyurl.com/4kv3f (CBC)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Carmela Vircillo Franklin is the new director of the AAR:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/01/AAR_director.html

The U.S. as Croesus?:

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10646.shtml

A Latin teacher on Jeopardy:

http://tinyurl.com/5zv5e (Eagle Gazette)

Robin Lane Fox weighs in on the Brad and Jennifer thing:

http://tinyurl.com/6tr83

Ward Jones lectures:

http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=4198

Reviving 'dead languages' in Lancaster, PA:

http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/4/11163

Pondering Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/4hdgn (Something Jewish)

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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Frank Vandiver (Civil War historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/15/obituaries/15vandiver.html

Arthur Rosenblatt (Museum designer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/nyregion/12rosenblatt.html
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REPEATS
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Examining Tut Again:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/725/fr2.htm
http://tinyurl.com/52dps

Fake Crystal Skulls:

http://tinyurl.com/4wlqu (icWales)

James Ossuary, Ivory Pomegranate 'fakes' etc.:

http://www.cathnews.com/news/501/61.php
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=5306
http://tinyurl.com/3mnh8 (Macleans)

Mozart's Skull:

http://reason.com/0501/artifact.shtml

Oetzi Murdered:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050103/oetzi.html

Roman Circus in Colchester:

http://www.camulos.com/circus.htm
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of remains of 4.5 million
b.p. hominids in Ethiopia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/science/20bones.html
http://tinyurl.com/5kzht (Eurekalert)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6843721/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4187991.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-01/iu-af4011705.php

Another tale of a 6000 b.p. axe just lying around a pensioner's
house:

http://tinyurl.com/726oz (P&J)

Perhaps related to the above (not really) is a piece on the
'arms race' in paleolithic Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/6l7wn (Guardian)

Iranian archaeologists have found a hugecollection of 6000 b.p.
"cells" (for living purposes) in the Jiroft region:

http://tinyurl.com/4vmck (Tehran Times)

A Japanese team has found a 3500 b.p. mummy at Dahshur:

http://tinyurl.com/5f97l (AFP via Yahoo)

Some interesting results from mummy xrays at the Field Museum:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050117/catmummy.html

... while there's some strange 'fallout' from the CT scan of
King Tut (see 'repeats' for background):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/726/eg7.htm

Plans are afoot to prevent the Nile from damaging temples in
Luxor and Karnak:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=62885
http://tinyurl.com/5tzmf (SMH)

Excavations at Kabnak (Iran) are set to begin:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=150246

In search of Vikings in Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jan/1191.html

A Minoan (?) site in Bulgaria:

http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=43688

Some 3rd century B.C.E. wine presses from Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=528961

A shrine to Hercules has been found near the ancient site of
Thebes:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=52025

Concerns over the contents of the Villa of the Papyri received
quite a bit of coverage this week:

http://tinyurl.com/3r9ms (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1452244,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/4ru8k (Guardian)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1452244,00.html

Quite a bit of coverage about the use of hawks to protect
Herculaneum from pigeons (dare we say Fowlers dominated
the Herculaneum news this week? 8^)):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6848752/
http://tinyurl.com/44eel (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4qnpb (Reuters)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4189337.stm

This is a semi-repeat (I think) ... coverage of the discovery
of a Roman 'suburb' of Bath:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050117/romansuburb.html

Iron Age remains (including a wooden bowl) have been found in
Lincoln (UK):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4187591.stm

There's great anticipation over what can be learned from the
2000-3000 b.p. remains found in High Pasture Cave on the Isle
of Skye:

http://tinyurl.com/7xczk (P&J)

The site of the battle of Chester (615 A.D./C.E.) may have
been found:

http://tinyurl.com/4j6hb (Chester Now)

A 2000 b.p. 'burial boat' has been found in an excavation in
Vietnam:

http://tinyurl.com/57q9a (VNS)

Archaeologists are apparently "excited" about the contents of
some toilets in New Zealand (that's what the headline says!):

http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/405014.htm

Larry Herr at CUC has won the G. Ernest Wright Award:

http://www.lacombeglobe.com/story.php?id=137883
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THE AMERICAS
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A brief item on the implications of archaeology on warfare in
the Andes:

http://tinyurl.com/6dtct (Eurekalert)

What happened to the Fremont people?:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2659180,00.html

Not only are birds threatening Herculaneum, but it appears they
are doing damage to the Casa Grande site in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/4v8jr (AP via Yahoo)

On human sacrifice among the Aztecs and Maya:

http://tinyurl.com/4nhev (KC Star)
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050123/D87PFKVO0.html
http://tinyurl.com/6o9tl (Globe and Mail)

First Americans from Africa?:

http://tinyurl.com/4cjca (article in Portuguese)

An update on the excavation of the Lewes site:

http://tinyurl.com/5b57t (Cape Gazette)

A possible War of 1812 shipwreck near Mobile:

http://tinyurl.com/42739 (Tuscaloosa News)

A touristy/overviewish thing on the Yellow Jacket (Colorado)
site:

http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2005/01/18/news/news05.txt
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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This is a repeat/followup ... remains in the Dominican Republic
are going to be dug up and given a DNA test to see if they
belong to Columbus:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/31645.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6836078/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4184201.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030602/columbus.html
http://tinyurl.com/6rvts (CNN)

Also on the DNA front is the discovery of a section of the
genome which appears to have an effect on fertility and
longevity in European populations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/science/17gene.html

The search for the 'real' Bosworth Field:

http://tinyurl.com/4mm8y (Independent)

Interesting article on a 1793 coin which recently sold for a
huge price:

http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/feb05/coin0205.htm

An Op-Ed piece on the British abandonment of slavery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/opinion/17hochschild.html

Yesterday was 'Lord' Timothy Dexter's birthday:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4462621

More coverage of claims of plagiarism in the archaeological
world:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6855406/
http://tinyurl.com/52gcm (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5wbre (NYT)

Interesting piece (!) on the Lewis Chessmen:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1391791,00.html

Folks might be interested in signing a petition aimed at
preserving the site of Montefortino from quarry development (it's
a nice website, if you can read Italian; sign the petition by
clicking on the 'firma la petizione' link):

http://www.trigallia.com/montefortino/

They're marking the anniversary of Trafalgar with stamps made
from wood from HMS Victory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4199355.stm

Prince Harry's lack of fashion (and common) sense has led to
some articles on the history of the swastika:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/995503.cms
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4183467.stm

... while continued attention given to the Hipparchus Star Map
thing (see 'repeats' below) seems to be the impetus for an
article on attempts to map the heavens throughout history:

http://tinyurl.com/69pwh (Union-Tribune)

Preserving ancient Japanese dance ... with a robot:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4580

What really saved Japan from Mongolian invasion:

http://tinyurl.com/644qh (AFP via Yahoo)

It's the 400th anniversary of Don Quixote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4179869.stm

Interesting interview with Reverend Canon William Broughton on
matters biblical archaeological:

http://tinyurl.com/6gzpo (JPost)

Take care of your books!:

http://www.greaterkashmir.com/Full_Story.asp?ItemID=2750&Cat=10
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New Zealand Archaeology News:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Items added to Abzu in December, 2004:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/AbzuNew12.2004.html

Lucus Augusti:

http://www.arqweb.com/lucusaugusti/ingles.html
(welcome page in English; site in Spanish)

Nice online report of the 2004 excavations at Khisham:

http://www.espasoc.org/2004/he4_1acc.html (French)
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CRIME BEAT
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A nice sort of 'how did we get here' piece in regards to the
Oded Golan thing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1394141,00.html

... and they're pondering the motives too:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1394205,00.html

The German government has been asked to return some paintings
which are considered Nazi loot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/arts/17arts.html (scroll down)

Some items looted from the Baghdad Museum were returned this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/4rf74 (Art Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/3wqgc (Newsday)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050119-103540-8468r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/64nk4 (Reuters)

In the wake of last week's revelations about military damage to
the ancient site of Babylon, Polish sources are denying they
did anything 'major':

http://tinyurl.com/6uaxb (AP)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050116/325/faduc.html

... and the articles continue:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6888 (photo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1392272,00.html
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4588
http://tinyurl.com/6r3mv (Toronto Star)

A smuggling attempt foiled at the Bulgarian-Serbian border:

http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=43620

Some purloined items recovered in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/5xm6o (Kathimerini)
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Martin Brookes, *Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright
Ideas of Francis Galton*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?050124crbo_books

Dan Brown, *Angels and Demons* (not really a review, but a
piece on the 'influence' of the novel):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4459002

Harold Evans et al, They Made America: From the Steam Engine to
the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/books/review/23GENZING.html

Ingrid Rowland, *The Scarith of Scornell*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20050122-103357-3544r.htm

A couple of books on Chinese archaeology:

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=61708
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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As You Like It:

http://tinyurl.com/4jjmp (NYT)

Belize:

http://tinyurl.com/6mthf (NYT)

Medea:

http://tinyurl.com/6u687 (NYT)

Medea:

http://tinyurl.com/6x7yb (JPost)

Oedipus:

http://tinyurl.com/5lqu7 (Pioneer Press)

Three Greek Women:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/10658498.htm

The French Revolution (TV):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/arts/television/17gate.html

Monsieur N (Movie):

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/movies/21mons.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Africans in Sumer (I can't believe this stuff gets even minor
press attention):

http://www.sfbayview.com/011905/theafricanpresence011905.shtml
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Alexander the Great:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/arts/design/21alex.html

  From George to George:

http://www.smu.edu/smunews/george/

A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/arts/design/21grol.html

Queen of Sheba:

http://horus.vcsa.uci.edu/article.php?id=3141

Turks: A Journey of 1000 Years:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4184715.stm

Winter Antiques Show in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/arts/design/21smit.html

Americana Week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/arts/design/21glue.html

Making the Baghdad museum safe from looters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/arts/design/23bern.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Steve Tuck's research into gladiators received a bit of press
coverage this week:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=70132005
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-01/ns-gff011905.php
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18524834.400
http://tinyurl.com/3n85z (New Kerala)

Intellectual life in Roman Alexandria:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/726/heritage.htm

Someone finally asked Paul Cartledge what he thought about
the Alexander flick:

http://tinyurl.com/5d52x (Bloomberg)

... another why-was-Alexander-Great piece:

http://tinyurl.com/6h8bf (Herald Sun)

... and some (misdirected) criticism of Robin Lane Fox about
costumes:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4602

... and Oliver Stone continues to babble strangely:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20050120wof1.htm

... and others see parallels with the U.S. in Iraq:

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/9600.html

The Socialist Worker still likes Spartacus:

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5568

The 'Parthenon Code' is apparently getting a pile of attention:

http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2005_01_0117-004.shtml
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050117/lam038_1.html
http://tinyurl.com/5tdy9 (Art Daily)

'Applying' Alexander the Great:

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/01/18/alexander.guru/

Victor Davis Hanson sees a paradigm in Epaminondas:

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200501210758.asp

Summer courses in Classics:

http://www.summer-classics.com/

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5575&issue=2005-01-22

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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Robson Bonnichsen (archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/67vqj

Roger Moorey (Near Eastern specialist):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1450822,00.html
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REPEATS
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DaVinci Workshop:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6852367/

Hipparchus Star Map:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/science/space/18star.html
http://www.physorg.com/news2711.html
http://tinyurl.com/5uuqu (SMH)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050117/loststars.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3003647
http://tinyurl.com/6opjf (LSU News)

Roman Mosaic:

http://tinyurl.com/6sp7n (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/59er2 (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/6c9o6 (Telegraph)
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/cronaca/mosaico/1.html
(photo)

Tut CT Scan:

http://tinyurl.com/6btzp (ABC)
http://www.physorg.com/news2750.html

UK Petroglyphs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/wear/4173985.stm
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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, Adrian Murdoch, Maurice
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Huizinga, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Judy Underwood, Kat Reece,
Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Sally
Winchester, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
have left no one out).

... the www seems awfully slow this a.m. ... there must be a
major hub down somewhere (translation: I might have missed some
stuff today because I was tired of waiting) ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
Has the tomb of Gilgamesh been found?:

http://www.aina.org/news/20050125100240.htm

A Canadian researcher has found some evidence (a fortress)
confirming (?) the Biblical dates for the kingdom of Edom:

http://tinyurl.com/4gfs6 (Globe and Mail)

This one's from back in December, but I appear to have missed it
... a new theory has Qumran not as an Essene community, but as
a pottery factory:

http://tinyurl.com/5jbmc (JPost)

A sanctuary of Hermes (among other things) has been found in
Trikke:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1289900.htm
http://tinyurl.com/645ca (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2005/05-01-28.apeen.html#01
http://tinyurl.com/4yren (IOL)

A Roman-era statue was found in an Athenian streambed this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/3rumj (Kathimerini)
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=36377

Latest on the circus at Colchester:

http://tinyurl.com/4jpto (EADT)

The search is on for the mausoleum of Bulgaria's khans:

http://tinyurl.com/42mnz (SNA)

Remains of a 7,000 b.p. village have been found in China's
Zhejiang province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200501/26/eng20050126_172017.html

Some 3000 b.p. "lithophones" (never heard of that before) have
been found in Vietnam:

http://tinyurl.com/3q7hg (VNA)
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A brief item on the discovery of some burials dating to 1300
B.C./B.C.E. in Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/59mu3 (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/43nzl (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6868724/
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10733299.htm

Nice coverage of a dig working on a 5000 b.p. site in Parker
(Colorado):

http://www.denverpost.com/framework/0,1413,36~53~2676030,00.html

The Lewes site might actually be two sites:

http://tinyurl.com/4mddh (News Journal)

Goodman Point Pueblo is about to become a major project:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2670298,00.html

A Chinook site (maybe) in Washington State:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/01/27/area_news/news01.txt

A village dating to 1000 A.D. or thereabouts in Arizona:

http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2005/01/28/news/news01.txt

Looking for Angola:

http://tinyurl.com/3uwzz (SP Times)

A Penn Museum project to map an underground pre-Inca city at
Tiwanaku:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050123213011.htm

Archaeology of Warfare in the Andes:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050123210551.htm

Nice feature on the Mabee Farm Historic Site (Schenectady):

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=328181
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, human inbreeding is apparently the reason for
a number of diseases:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4204789.stm
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=7477

Maybe Columbus' purported remains in the Dominican won't be
the subject of DNA testing after all:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6861167/

Our early 'taste for meat' made us into early weaners:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6921
(great headline, no?)

Did early humans 'turn off' Australia's monsoons?:

http://tinyurl.com/5jxdx (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/67aom (CNN)

Turns out that George Washington's teeth weren't wooden after
all:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6875436/

A project is under way to recreate textiles found at Pompeii:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=109202005

The latest 'repatriation' case involves an Etruscan chariot in
New York:

http://tinyurl.com/6gqsp (Telegraph)

Plenty of attention given to claims that the Shroud of Turin
is older than previously claimed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/science/27shroud.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1289491.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4210369.stm
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=102832005
http://tinyurl.com/5zar9 (LAM)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/32390.html

Ambiguous coverage of a manuscript containing letters purporting
to be of Procopius of Gaza:

http://tinyurl.com/6jkvp (Daily Star)
http://www.unifr.ch/main/news/detail.php?nid=316 (French)
http://tinyurl.com/4rgnv (AFP via Yahoo)
cf: http://tinyurl.com/7y8ba (Paleojudaica)

A DaVinci Code movie is in the works, but might not be filmed
in Scotland:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=114602005

Not sure which section is most appropriate for this one, so it
ends up here by default ... there's a Stone Age Institute in
Bloomington:

http://tinyurl.com/3pfbf (AP via Yahoo)

... ditto this one ... seeking a Sumerian precedent in election
reform:

http://tinyurl.com/4btru (Conservative Voice)

Must have been a pile of touristy junkets this week since we
have a touristy thing on Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/4g4hs (Post Dispatch)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1461689,00.html

... and Tunisia:

http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20050128-083215-9270r.htm

... and Caracol:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05030/448994.stm

Another portrayal of a female archaeologist in the movies:

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/01/28/100ae_alone001.cfm
http://tinyurl.com/5p5gz (Miami Herald)
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Maritime Foundation of Andean Civilization: An Evolving
Hypothesis:

http://tinyurl.com/3pkps (Hall of Ma'at)

The American Journal of Archaeology now has an online forum for
the discussion of controversial matters in the field:

http://www.ajaonline.org/forum/

Stoa Image Gallery:

http://icon.stoa.org/gallery/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some smugglers from Greece were arrested this week (this might
be a repeat):

http://tinyurl.com/5c6lp (AthensNews)

A major haul of smuggled African artifacts was made in Paris:

http://tinyurl.com/5h3cw (Reuters)

Italian police arrested a trio of tombaroli near Piazza Amerina:

http://www.tg10.it/dettaglio.asp?id=3097 (Italian)

A Palestinian was sentenced this week for his role in a theft
from a burial cave near Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/3oh3m (JPost)

A broad-daylight theft attempt from the British Museum was
foiled:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4054213
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4212045.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5fjzc

A massive haul of purloined artifacts in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/5tvfl (Oregonian)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A couple of books on the history of brain research:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/books/26grim.html

Jared Diamond, *Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30EASTERB.html

Robert Polhemus, *Lot's Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women's
Quest for Authority.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30HARRISO.html

David V. Herlihy, *Bicycle: The History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30KORENL.html

Derek Hayes, *America Discovered*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0125/p16s01-bogn.html

An audio version of the Aeneid:

http://tinyurl.com/7ytwx (Guardian)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Trojan Women:

http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/4600.html

Iphigenia:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/121/5201613.html

Lysistrata:

http://flathat.wm.edu/story.php?issue=2004-11-05&type=4&aid=2

Choral works by Thomas Tallis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/arts/music/24vox.html

Beethoven:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/arts/music/30shat.html

Myths ballet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/29/arts/dance/29nycb.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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12 Black Classicists (plus one):

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/012705/hap_012761.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/57col (Holland Sentinel)

Images of Don Quixote: The Art of Illustration and Printmaking:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/arts/design/28hisp.html

  From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and
the Making of a Renaissance Master:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/arts/design/28cott.html

Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/arts/design/28kimm.html
(slide show)

The Macclesfield Psalter will remain in Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/456f7 (Seattle PI)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1397698,00.html

... as will the John Murray archive:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4049234
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=97962005

Stuff from the Oriental Institute's 'basement':

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fertile28.html

The Burns Cottage Museum is threatened by 'rising damp':

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=114042005

Trying to get a Sargent Museum collection together:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6859864/
http://tinyurl.com/3z4ft (Boston Globe)

UK museums are being told not to 'hoard' their stuff:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4211053.stm
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/16185341
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Hollywood's portrayal of the ancient world:

http://tinyurl.com/4s2hz (FT)

Classics magazine for kids:

http://tinyurl.com/6gat8

Eagles' fight song in Latin:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/football/10753351.htm

Judith de Luce has been honoured:

http://mustudent.muohio.edu/article.php?d=012505&s=campus&n=5

Lots of Razzies for Alexander:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/arts/27arts.html

... and more reactions from across the pond:

http://tinyurl.com/4sp39 (RFE)

Plenty of (p)reviews of Pompeii: The Last Day:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/29/arts/television/29pomp.html
http://tinyurl.com/6t34r
http://tinyurl.com/5v32s
http://tinyurl.com/6ad9v
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/39034.htm

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5610&issue=2005-01-29

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
David Bain (Classical Scholar):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1456019,00.html

Peter Ackroyd (New Testament Studies):

http://tinyurl.com/4bteb (Telegraph)
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REPEATS
================================================================
Aztec and Mayan Human Sacrifice:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6853177/
http://tinyurl.com/4lmtp (Arizona Republic)
http://tinyurl.com/5wbf6 (Washington Post)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050124/aztec.html

Colle Oppio Finds:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3014411

DaVinci Workshop:

http://tinyurl.com/5bz2y (Reuters via Yahoo)

Fake Mummies in Ancient Egypt:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050117/catmummy.html

First Americans from Africa:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3167 (Spanish)

Hipparchus Star Catalog:

http://tinyurl.com/4f7et (Space.com)

Roman Gladiators:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050124/gladiator.html

Villa of the Papyri Concerns:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4633
http://tinyurl.com/67myy (Globe and Mail)

Artifacts Stolen from Iraq Returned:

http://www.portaliraq.com/shownews.php?id=755
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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, Adrian Murdoch, Charles
Jones, Francis Deblauwe, Gary Devore, J.M. Sugars, Joan Griffith,
John Hill, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Louis A. Okin, Jim Lockmiller, Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Riedlinger, Sally Winchester,
W. Richard Frahm, Steve Glines, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
have left no one out).

... bit of a slow week
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
The discovery of some paleolithic knives suggest humans may
have "competed":

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050131/knifefight.html

Last week we had a story about the 'tomb of Gilgamesh' being
supposedly found  ... folks might want to check out Jim Davila's
brief blog entry on this one:

http://tinyurl.com/3obxf (Paleojudaica)

cf. also:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2982891.stm

Results of a survey of the Saluth area (Oman):

http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=10291&pn=local

Some Phoenician remains from Dor Beach (strange headline):

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=76299

A brief item on the Spanish mission's discovery of eleven tombs
in Egypt dating to about 4100 b.p.:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4694

A Bronze Age ring from the Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/6n6yh (County Press)

An Etruscan necropolis has been found in Bologna:

http://tinyurl.com/43662 (il Resto di Carlino ... Italian)

Roman remains in Coventry?:

http://tinyurl.com/3jtao (icCoventry)

The site of the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Athens is
threatened by development:

http://tinyurl.com/5c4am (Guardian)

Has the house of St. Baldred of the Bass been found?:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=119072005

That Viking burial ground in Cumbria might actually have been
a 10th century market:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4225677.stm

A 1000 b.p. church from Norway:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4237901.stm
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article962826.ece

A 'lost city' from the jungles of Malaysia?:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=26140
http://tinyurl.com/3ujt4 (Australian)

Abbey ruins from Strata Florida (Wales) suggest the city was
much larger and more 'splendid' than previously suspected:

http://tinyurl.com/4wxpo (icWales)

Archaeologists 'fessed up to finding a 500 year old Tudor
garden in Beddington:

http://tinyurl.com/5ulhc (icSurrey)

Concerns about Tara:

http://tinyurl.com/4luux (NYT)
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A sort of info page on the Tekesta Taino people of Bimini,
Florida:

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/Tekesta/index.html

... associated with the above (same domain) is the Hartford
Black History project:

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/HBHP/exhibit/index.html

Nice coverage of a dig at a slave site in Georgia:

http://tinyurl.com/5uuum (Democrat)

Donald Grayson has received the DRI's Nevada Medal:

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=2894583
http://tinyurl.com/6n7uj (Seattle PI)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=467296

I think this coverage of the Yellow Jacket site in Colorado
is a repeat, but just in case:

http://tinyurl.com/3nfqz (Cortez Journal)

UM's president has apologized for some projects which violated
the state's antiquities act:

http://tinyurl.com/3wt3z (Gazette)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, a skeleton purportedly of New England's
"Columbus" is to be tested:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6896304/
http://tinyurl.com/43l7z (EADT)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4220503.stm

Mummy Tar in Ancient Egypt:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb05/NN_mummytar.html

Man the hunted?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/wuis-th020305.php

Interesting item on the 'ongoing interest' in matters (for
want of a better term) biblical-archaeological:

http://www.ardmoreite.com/stories/020605/rel_0206050021.shtml
http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_2554418

An article on some famous George Smiths:

http://tinyurl.com/6t99x (News-Miner)

A transcript of a VOA piece on the various finds in the
Bahariya Oasis:

http://tinyurl.com/4auva (VOA)

Interesting touristy thing focussing on petroglyphs in South
Africa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/travel/06explore.html

Woodcarving traditions from Vietnam:

http://tinyurl.com/52m4k (VOV)

Interesting interview about present-day Assyrians and
their struggle to keep Aramaic alive:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/105/53.0.html

An isolated Bedouin village where a new language (a signed
language) is in development is being closely studied:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/science/01lang.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050201101836.htm

Shakespeare as management guru:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/theater/31shak.html

Since it is such a slow week, folks might be interested in what
James Cameron is up to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/science/earth/01conv.html

Interesting comments on the upcoming Tut exhibition in
New Zealand:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=466&ObjectID=10009134

In case you're still wondering about Tara Reid as the latest
movie version of an archaeologist:

http://tinyurl.com/6xau7 (VH1)
http://tinyurl.com/5r2yz (Sun Herald)

Searching for (a context for) the historical Jesus:

http://tinyurl.com/6m3ac (Gazette)

They've almost completed the restoration of Beijing's
Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/03/features/garden.html

... and since it is a slow news week, there's an interesting
(potentially silly, given the quality of the ad) kerfuffle
in Milan over a fashion house's use of da Vinci's Last Supper
as inspiration for an ad campaign:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4236499.stm

A gathering of pastoralists:

http://tinyurl.com/4wswl (NYT)
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ON THE WEB
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Abzu's January updates:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/AbzuNew01.2005.html

Time Team's Big Roman Dig:

http://tinyurl.com/3zmrf

Orden Pour le Merite (German military honour):

http://www.pourlemerite.org/

Digital Historia Numorum:

http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/
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CRIME BEAT
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There's a major scandal in the Greek Orthodox Church underway
involving, inter alia, smuggling of antiquties:

http://tinyurl.com/6g9g6 (NYT)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1469503,00.html
http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=508691
http://tinyurl.com/6ts2k

A major investigation in Oregon has led to the recovery of
thousands of artifacts:

http://tinyurl.com/5tvfl (Oregonian)

This one hasn't hit the English press yet (why not?) ... a group
of guys from Brescia have been arrested for forging Etruscan
pottery and treating it at a local hospital in such a way that
it fooled the thermoluminescence dating technique:

http://www.antenna3.it/articolo.php?sezione=1&id_art=4139
http://ilgiorno.quotidiano.net/art/2005/02/03/5368696

A sort of roundup-of-thefts-from-libraries piece:

http://tinyurl.com/6p5sl (Library Journal)

Potential political fallout from the James Ossuary scandal:

http://tinyurl.com/6zevg (Winston-Salem Journal)

An overview piece on smuggling in Africa:

http://tinyurl.com/3je98 (Mail and Guardian)
cf: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=453139

Looting in Iraq continues ... one prof has an idea (not sure
how feasible it really is):

http://tinyurl.com/4u6jq (SP Times)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Manda Scott, *Boudica: Dreaming the Hound* (fiction)

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/32316.html

David Durham, *Pride of Carthage* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/books/review/06EHREN.html

Stephen Pressfield, *Virtues of War*:

http://www.worldmag.com/displayArticle.cfm?ID=10323

Simon Singh, *Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/books/02grim.html

Christopher Kelly, *Ruling the Later Roman Empire*:

http://tinyurl.com/64pjv (Telegraph)

John Clarke, *Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality
in Roman Art, 100 B.C. - A.D. 250*:

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/02/01/080818.php
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Women of Troy:

http://www.skywaynews.net/articles/2005/01/31/news/news07.txt

Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/5g3vu

Prometheus Bound:

http://tinyurl.com/5xcu6 (Budgeteer News)

Wasps:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91039.html

Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/4rfat (Relish)

The Civil War: The South Carolina Black Regiment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/arts/04fami.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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A UFO on a 17th-century French coin?

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw202359.htm

Searching for the Pedro Mountain Mummy (and other items):

http://tinyurl.com/6s6hs (AP via Yahoo)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/arts/design/01roya.html

Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings:

http://newyorker.com/critics/art/?050207craw_artworld

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/arts/design/02migr.html

Antique Russian furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/arts/design/04anti.html

New Museum of Pre-Columbian Art:

http://tinyurl.com/5st7g (Current)

Dead Sea Scrolls (Mobile):

http://tinyurl.com/5toed (NOLA)

European museums are all facing budget cuts:

http://tinyurl.com/5m7c7 (Bloomberg)

The Ara Pacis Museum will open soon:

http://www.tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=4893

Expansion of Weleyan's University Museum appears to have hit
a roadblock:

http://www.wesleyanargus.com/article.php?article_id=720
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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In case you missed the BBC's 'Truth About Latin' quiz:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4232665.stm

The Valentine's Day stuff has begun:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/509260/

Walk Through the Ancient World:

http://www.vvdailypress.com/2005/110744022021596.html

Kathy Gaca delivered the latest Winslow Classics Lecture at
Hamilton College (shades of an MLA talk):

http://tinyurl.com/5rok9 (Hamilton College)

The first Roman-Numerals-and-the-Superbowl thing:

http://tinyurl.com/4x3kq (Fresno Bee)

Protecting Hermes/Dionysus from earthquakes:

http://www.physorg.com/news2907.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/509641/

Latin is alive and well in Grand Forks:

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/10829483.htm

Scarborough and 12 Black Classicists:

http://tinyurl.com/6k78c (Toledo Blade)

If you're wondering how Ted Brunner is spending his
retirement:

http://tinyurl.com/5mo3v (OCR)

Septimius Severus was one of the Oxford DNB's 'life of the
week's this week (url may change after Sundday):

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html

try http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/  if it changes

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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Roger Moorey:

http://tinyurl.com/4yjhc (Guardian)

Barbara Craig:

http://tinyurl.com/6psec (Telegraph)

Martin Robinson:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1463465,00.html
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REPEATS
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Aksum Obelisk Returns in April (sure ...):

http://tinyurl.com/4ahpt (Reuters)

Colle Oppio Mosaics:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4688
http://tinyurl.com/6xcq9

Falcons at Herculaneum:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050131/falcon.html

Herculaneum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1452244,00.html

Humans Messed Up Monsoons in Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/67aom (CNN)

Human Sacrifice:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=124324
http://tinyurl.com/4g9ox (Sun Sentinel)

Parker, Colorado dig:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6913439/

Shroud of Turin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4210369.stm
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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 'state of the question' piece on Neanderthals:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4251299.stm

Some 10 000 b.p. "engravings" in a Somerset cave:

http://tinyurl.com/69hgt (Eurekalert)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6929845/
http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2005/622
http://tinyurl.com/5d7so (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Britain-Cave.html

... while petroglyphs in Libya are threatened by oil exploration:

http://tinyurl.com/3ncsb (Guardian)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4788

An 8000 b.p. tool-making site from northern Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=156287

Oldest site (7000 b.p.) ever excavated in the UAE:

http://tinyurl.com/5smh5 (Khaleej Times)

Brief item on the discovery of 4th millennium B.C./B.C.E.
settlements in Azerbaijan:

http://tinyurl.com/5jlu2

Some 3000 b.p. bits of pottery have been found in northern
Iran, spurring hopes of finding bigger things:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=155584

I keep forgetting to mention this discovery of a 'salt man'
from Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=149500

A roundup of recent discoveries in Egypt (many are repeats):

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=4186_0_1_0_M

A sort of roundup piece on the eighth season of excavation at
the Burnt City (Iran):

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=156290

David Packard wants to save Herculaneum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1482342,00.html

An intact Roman wooden coffin was found in London:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1473382,00.html

Analysis of those bones of a 'leper' found by Shimon Gibson
a while ago are the basis of an argument that TB wiped out
leprosy:

http://tinyurl.com/59n8w (Eurekalert)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4244467.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6986

A fair bit of coverage of some sites exposed by the tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/4r4cu (FIP)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4257181.stm
http://www.terradaily.com/2005/050211054755.hgzn6k0t.html

Several grains of cultivated rice dating to 12000 b.p. (!)
have been found in China:

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-2-12/26388.html

The Chinese were using diamonds to polish stone axes some
2500 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/4rwa4 (Eurekalert)

They're still looking for the Sleeping Buddha:

http://tinyurl.com/4ml9l (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/6kjbl (Pioneer Press)

... and that 'lost city' in Malaysia:

http://tinyurl.com/4buo8 (Star)
http://tinyurl.com/4426t (Star)

A Bronze Age site from Vietnam:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050210/ap/d885g4eg2.html

Medical detectorists have found a pair of medieval love rings:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART26227.html

I can't remember if we've mentioned this before ... forensic
guys with a pile of time on their hands have recreated what
Jesus looked like as a child:

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_039122334.html

Interesting item about a mummified cat from the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/4knbj (Independent)

An "ancient" (ca. 1352) swimming pool was "stumbled" upon by
labourers in Cairo this week:

http://tinyurl.com/43eyn (AFP via Yahoo)
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THE AMERICAS
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A Chinook site near Vancouver (WA) is delaying highway
construction:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6928819/
http://tinyurl.com/587cd (Missoulian)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/02/07/area_news/news03.txt

Archaeologists are trying to figure out a Hampton site:

http://tinyurl.com/6njzb (Daily Press)

They're still looking for Angola:

http://tinyurl.com/5wt74 (St. Pete Times)

Touristy thing on Mayan ruins near Cancun:

http://tinyurl.com/3z68a (CNN)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Some revisionism for David I of Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/32931.html

... and Macbeth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/arts/08arts.html

... and St. Patrick:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1482222,00.html

Michael Wood on Arthur:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=142092005

Al-Ahram has a touristy thing on the Siwa Oasis:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/728/tr1.htm

They're still trying to figure out why an Achaemenid city
of Dahaneh-gholaman was abandoned:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4732

They're still fighting over the remains of homo floresiensis:

http://tinyurl.com/56qbt (Age)

Interesting item on animal mummies from Egypt:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6989

A brief history of Colchester (and its chariot track, and
other things):

http://tinyurl.com/4aerm (Reuters)

Gold jewellery found in a Mycenean tomb last year will be
analyzed to see if there is any connection to the Argonaut
myth:

http://tinyurl.com/58evj (Kathimerini)

An interview with Jean Perrot, all about Jiroft:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/feb/1078.html

They've traced the origins of the Hope Diamond:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6946421/
http://tinyurl.com/5qdwy (AP via Yahoo)

The New Yorker has an interesting article about Margaret
Yourcenar:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?050214crbo_books

Lincoln's birthday last week occasioned some interesting items:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/12/national/12beliefs.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4495619

If you've ever wondered what drives television documentaries,
this should give you an idea:

http://tinyurl.com/44dg8 (Daily Star)

A 'state of the saga' piece on Temple Mount:

http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=20094

Eritrea is the latest nation to demand repatriation of items
taken from her in ages past:

http://www.misna.org/news.asp?lng=1&id=128534

... while Sweden has returned a piece of the Erechtheion to
Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/4c9xk (Kathimerini)

La Sapienza is celebrating its 700th anniversary:

http://tinyurl.com/6bfev (AGI)

An artist has figured out how the lost kin gin mokumegane metal
working process worked:

http://tinyurl.com/4bjet (Japan Times)

Rhodes' mayor is (again) yakking about restoring the Colossus:

http://tinyurl.com/5o5vc (AFP via Yahoo)

That tin of Roman face cream is in the news again for some
reason:

http://www.discover.com/web-exclusives/maximus-factor0207/

Indiana U has reinstated its summer archaeology program in
Israel:

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2923527&nav=0Ra7WAU2

All about the Shao-lin monastery:

http://tinyurl.com/4zuj6 (NYT)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting article on some Bronze
Age monoliths in Mongolia (hard to explain this one succinctly):

http://tinyurl.com/6mmfc
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ON THE WEB
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The Bible and Interpretation site is back up and running:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Frontinus (trans. R.H. Rodgers), *On the Water Management of
Rome*:

http://www.uvm.edu/~rrodgers/Frontinus.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Some gaming pieces were among the items illegally excavated
from Jiroft recently:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=155236
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_5630.shtml

This one was mentioned on the ANE list ... it's a webcast of
a lecture at Berekeley detailing the state of looting and
smuggling of Mesopotamian sites (not sure how long this will
be available):

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.html?event_id=182

Tomb robbers beat archaeologists to a 2000 b.p. tomb in China:

http://tinyurl.com/5jo8l (Australian)

A law which would have given amnesty to Italians in possession
of illegal antiquities was defeated this week:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=02b93a4195a94c70

Some guy in Israel is fighting extradition to Russia for his
role in theft of assorted historical artifacts:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/539007.html

Much out of our period of purview, but an interesting bit of
comparanda for folks following the various forgery disputes:

http://tinyurl.com/4rpot (AP via Yahoo)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Guy Maclean Rogers, *Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness*:

http://jam.canoe.ca/Books/2005/02/12/929404.html

John Mack Faragher, *A Great and Noble Scheme:The Tragic Story
of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American
Homeland*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/books/09grim.html

Sylvie Weil, *My Guardian Angel* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/books/review/13CHILDRE.html

Louise Welsh, *Tamburlaine Must Die* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/books/review/13TAYLORL.html

Marilyn Monroe and the Bronte sisters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/books/09bios.html

An English Talmud:

http://nytimes.com/2005/02/10/books/10talm.html

Five books on Abelard and Heloise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/books/review/13NEHRING.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Arianna in Creta:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/12/arts/music/12cret.html

Shylock:

http://tinyurl.com/4ry3a (Shylock)

Electra:

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2005-02-09/stage2.html

Prometheus Bound:

http://tinyurl.com/4max9 (Tribune)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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The annual errorfest that tries to connect Valentines Day to
the Romans naturally reached full force this week:

http://www.dailypilot.com/opinion/story/3077p-4440c.html
http://tinyurl.com/5w57s
http://tinyurl.com/6sb3t
http://tinyurl.com/4ugrx
http://tinyurl.com/6hs2o
http://tinyurl.com/5bl7y
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=28294
http://tinyurl.com/5dfcw

More Atlantis stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/5syrg (Orlando Sentinel)
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=47469&src=0

... with charges of plagiarism?:

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=47471&src=0

Jesus was Caesar ... or was it vice versa?:

http://tinyurl.com/6jouu (Press Release)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Rubens and Twombly:

http://tinyurl.com/5atp8 (NY Metro)

In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/63nmn (Democrat Gazette)

Kazakhstan will show off another 'gold man':

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=68054

Assorted antiques news, including recognition of increased
interest in German antiques:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/arts/design/11anti.html

Nefertiti is getting new digs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/arts/11arts.html?pagewanted=2
(scroll down)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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There's a Classical revival going on ... in architecture:

http://nytimes.com/2005/02/10/garden/10clas.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/10/features/classic.html

An Indian journalist finds inspiration in Virgil:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=64170

An update on HBO's 'Rome' series:

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/39521.htm

Michael Cosmopoulos lectures on the historicity of the Trojan
War:

http://www.thecurrentonline.com/news/855187.html

Interesting comparison of Attic and Indian drama:

http://tinyurl.com/5zuuq (Telegraph)

More coverage of Scarborough:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/10887564.htm

An Odyssey performance of sorts:

http://tinyurl.com/54bg9

Ides stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/4nm4o (Town Online)

Hanniabal's Epic March Across the Alps:

http://www.historynet.com/mh/blhannibalrome/

Roman numeral stuff:

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/020805/b0108baird.html

That Hebe statue in Roseburg is in the news again:

http://tinyurl.com/5nntt (Statesman Journal)

Shadow of Rome (game review):

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,66539,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Barbara Craig

http://tinyurl.com/6psec (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1474694,00.html
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REPEATS
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Science and Biblical Relics:

http://www.dailybreeze.com/today/articles/1255582.html
http://tinyurl.com/5h7gw (Argus)
http://tinyurl.com/53teq (Tribune)
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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Some skulls found in 1967 have been redated, making them the
oldest homo sapiens skulls ever found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/science/17human.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1487266,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4269299.stm
http://tinyurl.com/47m9p (Seattle PI)
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050214/full/050214-10.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6976946/
http://tinyurl.com/69rh8 (Eurekalert)
http://tinyurl.com/3whc3 (National Geographic)

The Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens relationship gets the John Noble
Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/science/15nean.html

Some Akkadian cuneiform tablets have been found in Iran:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4822

Some commentary on the recent dating of Edom:

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/EDOM.asp
http://tinyurl.com/4bt3k (Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/3nucv (City Herald)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4818

Assorted Egyptian updates:

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/

A very brief item on the discovery of a 'Bronze Age complex'
on Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/6zgcf (Kathimerini)

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of remains of a large
building (dubbed a palace) in Rome's forum dating to the 8th
century B.C.:

http://tinyurl.com/5lsev (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Romes-Origins.html
http://tinyurl.com/49ejl (Seattle Times)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-rome15.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6969426/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6993255/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6969268/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1414799,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ua4h (Reuters)
http://www.tgcom.it/cronaca/articoli/articolo243183.shtml
(Italian)
http://www.studenti.com/site/news_detail.aspx?Sez=UN&IdNews=1611
(Italian)

... extended articles (in Italian) at:

http://www.fastionline.org/docs/2004-20.pdf
http://www.fastionline.org/docs/2004-27.pdf

Remains of a Roman brothel were found during construction of
an Ikea store:

http://tinyurl.com/5fvmk (Daily Record)

Another suggestion for the site of the battle of Mons Graupius:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=169512005

A couple of Roman coffins were found in the UK this week ...
one had a mummified (in gypsum) body in it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4265899.stm
http://tinyurl.com/65o3t (Leeds Today)
http://tinyurl.com/4zcs5 (Yorkshire Post)

... and a wooden one (which may have been found a while ago,
actually):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1473382,00.html

A tomb containing a lituus was found (all Italian coverage):

http://www.basilicatanet.it/news/article.asp?id=306042

I thought there'd be more coverage in English of this one ...
maybe next week ... they've discovered what was touted (in the
4th century) as the tomb of St. Paul:

http://www.cathnews.com/news/502/107.php
http://tinyurl.com/48hgm (AdnKronos ... Italian)

A metal detectorist found a rather large torc this week:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4145935
http://tinyurl.com/3ula3 (Guardian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4275065.stm
(photo)

... while another in Norfolk found a hoard of Roman coins:

http://tinyurl.com/5gzza (EDP24)

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of an ancient city
uncovered by the recent tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/6u4xr (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6993215/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10010991
http://tinyurl.com/4e7zo (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/4gs2h

The capital of the founder of the Xia Dynasty may have been
found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/15/content_2579598.htm

12,000 b.p. cultivated rice?:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/16/content_2583267.htm

Interesting item from Al-Ahram on the discovery of some Coptic
manuscripts in Al-Gurna:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/730/he1.htm

A big dig is getting under way in Cologne:

http://tinyurl.com/4w9nv (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/4wmtc (Expatica)

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THE AMERICAS
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Recent discoveries are pushing back the date of human occupation
in Kansas:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/509818/
http://tinyurl.com/5coz8 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/3jfn7 (Rocky Mountain News)

A Pueblo site in downtown Santa Fe:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6986684/

Early hunters in Baja:

http://tinyurl.com/6tk39 (Union-Tribune)

A Mi'kmaq site in Nova Scotia:

http://tinyurl.com/4zlea (CBC)

Pottery is presented as proof that the Olmecs were a 'mother
culture':

http://tinyurl.com/48jco (Washington Post)

Recent droughts are minor compared to those in the past:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6970736/

A dig is just getting under way in Chattanooga:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6965474/

A general overviewish thing on the Hunley:

http://tinyurl.com/4dzxx (Myrtle Beach Online)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?:

http://tinyurl.com/6mgxn (Toronto Star)

The Chaworth Roll is coming up for auction:

http://tinyurl.com/3usrb (Telegraph)

Nice preview of the OI's forthcoming 'Margins of Writing,
Origins of Cultures' conference:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050217/language.shtml

A German archaeologist/anthropologist is the latest to be the
center of a 'falsifying evidence' controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/5jbn9 (Guardian)

Is that DaVinci's fingerprint?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6974551/

Interesting piece on Diego Velazquez' "Kitchen Scene with
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary":

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/33679.html

Restoring the lustre to Iraqi monochrome artifacts:

http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/620.htm
(French)

Xanadu:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1487129,00.html

Turns out English national hero Hereward the Wake wasn't
English:

http://tinyurl.com/4wh86 (Independent)

The ancient Egyptians apparently hoarded bitumen and other
petroleum products:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050214/egyptoil.html

We'll be finding out about the Tut catscan in March:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6985849/
http://tinyurl.com/52e59 (Reuters)

Did the invention of cooking cause bad teeth?:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7035

An update on various dam projects in Iran:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11719

They're putting the 'DaVinci Code' on trial (sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/5g5ct (NYT)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6997686/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4149934

Some fallout from the Kennewick Man thing:

http://tinyurl.com/44ykw (Seattle PI)

St. Patrick was an "astute operator":

http://tinyurl.com/635g5 (Reuters)

Coloring ancient sculptures (again):

http://tinyurl.com/3rd3l (Discovery.com)

This one's a bit old but interesting ... an interview about the
homo floresiensis discovery:

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2004/s1250924.htm

... and here's the latest about the little guy:

http://tinyurl.com/5n9ff (SMH)

Did Oetzi have perfect shoes?:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4506204

... while there was also a good feature on Oetzi:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6983084/
http://tinyurl.com/6gm6h (Reuters via Yahoo)

Nice article all about the search for the 'real' Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/52t6p (Saudi Aramco World)

What have the ancients done for us?:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=171532005

Looking for Thule:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/14/news/edkavenna.html

Haven't heard about the Benin Bronzes for a while:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11720

... while Ethiopia is seeking the return of a pile of
artifacts from Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/5b6pk (METimes)

In case you're wondering about Vesuvius:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18524875.800

A Valentine's Day piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/14/opinion/14coontz.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
The Digger (February 2004):

http://www.bajr.org/DiggerMagazine/Latest/index.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Nice History of Medicine site (in French):

http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/histmed/medica.htm
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
A Chinook site on the Columbia:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Quite a bit of coverage of a Marine who brought back some
'trinkets' he bought from a vendor, which turned out to be
5000 b.p. cylinder seals:

http://tinyurl.com/6fa22 (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/475c7 (Seattle PI)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/14/news/artifacts.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6981933/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6975403/
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/16/fbi.looted.artifacts.reut/

... and the looting of Iraq continues:

http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-14-voa54.cfm

A major antiquities haul in Greece this week:

http://tinyurl.com/4rzoq (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/6tef3 (Kathimerini)

A smuggling gang in Yemen was arrested:

http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Jordan/180266

A different sort of antiquities theft ... from the trunk of a
car:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4140840
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4270351.stm

A man is facing extradition to Russia for alleged theft of
antiquities:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/539007.html

Not sure where to put this one ... a video game just released
in Ireland is based on the theft of an antiquity:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/2/prwebxml208213.php
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Stephen Pressfield, *Virtues of War* (fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/6pgmu (Flint Journal Review)

Elisheva Baumgarten, *Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life
in Medieval Europe*:

http://tinyurl.com/4dph8 (JPost)

================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Singing for Henry VIII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/arts/music/15orla.html

Coriolanus:

http://tinyurl.com/4uujg (NYT)

Last Days of Judas Iscariot:

http://tinyurl.com/3mths (NYT)

Ismene:

http://tinyurl.com/4xamv (Tribune)

Oedipus Rex:

http://tinyurl.com/6hhde (Rocky Mountain News)

Nero Project:

http://tinyurl.com/6grrn (Cornell Daily Sun)

Rage of Achilles:

http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=2260

Trojan Women:

http://www.examiner.net/stories/021805/new_021805004.shtml

An update on the forthcoming Beowulf flick:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1412240,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
The Armored Horse in Europe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/arts/design/20gran.html

Ancient Peru Unearthed:

http://tinyurl.com/3oy52 (Globe and Mail)

New Kifissia museum:

http://tinyurl.com/5umvb (Kathimerini)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The Pro Roscio and its modern implications:

http://tinyurl.com/6oa6l (Telegraph)

Students play Mythology Jeopardy (with what I hope is a typo):

http://tinyurl.com/6uh68 (Daily News)

Classics grad students at Princeton want support in their
sixth year:

http://tinyurl.com/4to37 (Daily Princetonian)

They're talking about merging Classics with Modern Languages
at UA:

http://tinyurl.com/5q88k (Crimson White)

Roman Festival coverage:

http://www.timesbeacon.com/story/0,21731,1204746,00.html


Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

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

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Barbara Craig (Classical Archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/5vpmg (Guardian)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=178972005

Frederick Douglass (historial, obviously):

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0207.html

Geronimo (ditto):

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0616.html

Peter Ackroyd (Old Testament Scholar):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1484627,00.html
http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=369
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REPEATS
================================================================
Early Diamond Use in China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/17/content_2586965.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050213135123.htm

Searching for Johor:

http://tinyurl.com/5uwbl (TorStar)

Statue of Hermes Earthquake-proofed:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050205105724.htm

Swedes Return Piece of Erechtheion:

http://tinyurl.com/4ldhc (Swedish)

TB v. Leprosy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050212184622.htm
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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King, Ginny Lindzey, Glenn Meyer, John McMahon, Keith Armstrong,
John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Trevor
Watkins, Mark Morgan, Rochelle Altman, Robert Heuman, Richard C.
Griffiths, Sally Winchester, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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More on Edom:

http://tinyurl.com/3kanb (JPost)

An ancient (4000 b.p.) perfumery has been found on Pyrgos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=18533&archive=1
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=212432005
http://tinyurl.com/3l5tp (Reuters)

A bunch of stuff from Tang-e Bolaghi:

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=160048

Plenty of attention (and lots of discussion in various online
sources) given to the discovery of a pile of decapitated bodies
in a Roman cemetery in York:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1498756,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4175395
http://tinyurl.com/5cwq8 (This is York)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4295653.stm

cf: http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/driffield.htm

Some 2000 b.p. catacombs on Malta which were thought 'lost'
have been rediscovered:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=178624

Roman coin hoard from Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/4rwfl (EDP24)

A pile of sites have been found near Taxila:

http://news.newkerala.com/world-news/?action=fullnews&id=77110
http://tinyurl.com/5h36k (Hi Pakistan)

Follow-up exploration in the wake of the stuff revealed by
the tsunami in India:

http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2005/february/104045.htm

The skeleton of a giant panda has been found in a 4000 b.p.
Chinese tomb:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7742299
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=531179
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7017821/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6978212/

The 'battle' over the Sigiriya site (Japan):

http://tinyurl.com/3vj3r (Asian NewsNet)

A new dig at Acre will start this summer:

http://tinyurl.com/4kpke (JPost)

Storms have revealed a medieval cemetery in the Orkneys:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=208372005

A dig at an Augustinian priory in Taunton:

http://tinyurl.com/47aq4 (This is Devon)

Digging into Medieval Grimsby (presumably not the Grimbsy
down the road from me):

http://tinyurl.com/5lofz (This is Grimsby)

A 1000 b.p. coin hoard from Morocoo:

http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=11&id=4158
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THE AMERICAS
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A farmer in Ohio has found a pile of artifacts on his property
over the past 50 or so years:

http://tinyurl.com/55n2g (Gazette)

More on the excavation of that slave site on Ossabaw Island:

http://tinyurl.com/5mq8m (Seattle PI)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Slave-Relics.html

An as-yet-unspecified-tribe site near Seattle:

http://www.komotv.com/news/story_m.asp?ID=35450
http://tinyurl.com/3zb7c (Seattle PI)

Smithsonian Magazine has a nice feature on Utah's Barrier
Canyon petroglyphs:

http://tinyurl.com/4fst7
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, tests have been approved for the skeleton
believed to belong to Jamestown's founder:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7026925/


... while indications are that groups may have 'reverted' to
hunting and gathering:

http://tinyurl.com/6j9gy (PLoS)

A portable xray machine might be the next big thing at
archaeological sites (especially in Egypt):

http://www.detnews.com/2005/wayne/0502/23/B03-98436.htm

I think this is a repeat ... plans are afoot to use 'muon
detectors' to see if there are hidden chambers in the Pyramid
of the Sun at Teotihuacan:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7017833/
http://tinyurl.com/4ae9e (Telegraph)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4156114

A sort of 'what's up with the James Ossuary' piece:

http://tinyurl.com/4t44a (Washington Post)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4829

Eritrea is going to demand the return of artifacts from
Italy and Ethiopia:

http://tinyurl.com/5b6pk (MET)

... while Bodrum is going to try to get back bits of
the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus from the British Museum:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=6927

... and Russia is wavering (maybe) on returning the treasures
of Troy to Germany:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=535130

Ramses II at Abu Simbel 'saw the light' this week:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/731/eg6.htm

A sort of roundup of things we've learned about Otzi:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7742297
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=531177
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7013975/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6983084/
http://tinyurl.com/6c5a2 (Reuters via Yahoo)

... and interest continues in his shoes:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1492973,00.html

A touristy thing about Alexandria:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/magazine.cfm?id=149032005

... and one on the walls of Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/4mwxp (JPost)

... and Petra:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1418907,00.html

Another plan to save Venice from the sea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/22/science/22veni.html

The restoration of Iraq's marshes (a.k.a. the Garden of Eden)
is under way:

http://tinyurl.com/3hwjc (CNN)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7044
http://tinyurl.com/3rxlw (Telegraph)

Germany's oldest throne has been identified:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1495915,00.html

The religion of the U.S. founding fathers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/weekinreview/27kirk.html

Some letters by P.B. Shelley turned up in a trunk this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/arts/25arts.html (2nd item)

A 'pronunciation researcher'?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/books/21rese.html

400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4286345.stm

The 'hobbit saga' continues:

http://tinyurl.com/5q2d5 (SMH)

Advice for budding archaeologists:

http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=18448

On the need for foreign archaeologists in Iran:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4833

A different approach to medieval manuscripts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4294943.stm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 58.2 (March/April 2005):

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

Archaeology Odyssey (March/April 2005):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html

Biblical Archaeology Review (March/April 2005):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html
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ON THE WEB
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Eric Meyers, 'Should Scholars Authenticate and Publish
Unprovenanced Finds?':

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Meyers_scholars_publish.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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A pile of antiquities stolen decades ago were found in an
Egyptian apartment:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/731/eg7.htm

Antiquities thefts rose sharply in Israel last year:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/543586.html

Five smugglers were arrested in Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=819&p=local&a=2

A sort of roundup of thefts from the British Museum/British
Library:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1502486,00.html

Thai police recovered a pile of stuff this week:

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050227-120151-4994r.htm

I think we'll start tracking these articles about sales of
stolen antiquities on eBay:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=614896
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Simon Singh, *Big Bang*

http://tinyurl.com/3rjfj (NYT)

Ted Widment, *Martin Van Buren*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/books/review/27KAZINL.html

David Riggs, *The World of Christopher Marlowe*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20050226-101209-2979r.htm

Ancient Stadia: Stadia and Games from Olympia to Antioch:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=53093
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Yokastas Redux:

http://tinyurl.com/6cfoq (NYT)

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/666t4 (Chronicle)

A new Globe Theatre?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/arts/design/26glob.html

... and maybe a Rose:

http://tinyurl.com/5bqur (Independent)

A couple of versions of Henry V:

http://bostonreview.net/BR30.1/stone.html

Dido and Aeneas:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=22502&pid=1262

Medea:

http://tinyurl.com/4dd2j (Press Telegram)

Women of Troy:

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/02/24/63414

A Very Naughty Greek Play:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91387.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Providing for the Afterlife:Brilliant Artifacts from Shandong:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/arts/design/25anti.html

Roman Allegories:

http://tinyurl.com/6bzlr (NYT -- fourth item)

Creating St. Peter's:

http://tinyurl.com/4hgfv (Washington Post)

Impending opening of de Young Museum in San Francisco:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/arts/design/26ocea.html

Arundel Castle is putting a pile of medieval documents from its
archives on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4280203.stm

How a pile of Chinese imperial artifacts ended up in Taiwan:

http://tinyurl.com/4dl4p (Reuters via Yahoo)

Plans for a new exit at the Uffizi have been halted because
of discovery of some medieval stuff:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1423872,00.html

The museum for the Pisa ships will be ready (maybe) by 2009:

http://tinyurl.com/4ep7y (AGI)
http://tinyurl.com/5fvjd (adnKronos ... Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/5uzxu (ANSA ... Italian)

Relics of computer history on sale:

http://tinyurl.com/5v2tg (Reuters)
http://www.christies.com/promos/feb05/1484/overview.asp
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Review of Shadow of Rome video game:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/critique.cfm?id=161012005

Alas ... this leads to stereotypical comments:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/spectrum.cfm?id=215202005

More on the Colossus of Rhodes rebuilding plan:

http://tinyurl.com/4lv5m (Telegraph)

An interview with Michele Valerie Ronnick:

http://tinyurl.com/6kzqd (Chronicle)

Baz Luhrmann's Alexander flick is still on:

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8463
http://www.timeout.com/film/news/298.html
http://www.filmfodder.com/mt-weblog/archives/001402.shtml

24 as Greek Tragedy:

http://www.nationalreview.com/hibbs/hibbs200502211213.asp

Another "Roman Day":

http://tinyurl.com/4vksw (IC Surrey)

... and another:

http://tinyurl.com/593u4

Classics v. the 'new humanities' in Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/68v5y (Australian)

A Classics Bee:

http://tinyurl.com/6uraa (Review Atlas)

Classicists should be interested in this reprised interview
(from 1947) from the New Yorker with Albert Einstein:

http://tinyurl.com/6r5ve

Tom Palaima's latest:

http://hnn.us/articles/10112.html

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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Hugh Nibley (religious scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/obituaries/25nibley.html
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2584205

Peter Moorey (archaeologist):

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=195082005
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REPEATS
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Ancient Egyptians Hoarded Oil:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050214/egyptoil_print.html

Coptic Manuscripts:

http://tinyurl.com/55zcb (MET)

Etruscan Chariot fracas:

http://tinyurl.com/3twf4 (AGI)

How Meat Changed Human Anatomy:

http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,72921495,3484,f/

Omo Skulls:

http://www.sltrib.com/healthscience/ci_2581199
http://tinyurl.com/3rzhz (Advertiser)

Roman Palace:

http://tinyurl.com/4cfwk (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/45h27 (Al jazeera)

Tomb of St. Paul:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050221/stpaul.html

What the Tsunami Revealed in India:

http://tinyurl.com/6ygo4 (Sun-Sentinel)
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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A hominid find older than Lucy (maybe):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4322687.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5znaj (Reuters)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223122209.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=555140
http://tinyurl.com/5kd8t (Observer)

An Australian team has found one of the best-preserved mummies
ever found in Egypt (2500 b.p.):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/732/he1.htm (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/69ov5 (Independent)
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news5.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4aeon (Philly Inquirer)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1315567.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7052262/?GT1=6305
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1556/5269130.html (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/3twud (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/459je (AP via Yahoo ... slideshow)
http://tinyurl.com/5rl3j (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3203007a12,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3k7sh (Guardian)

Why the Mesopotamians built Mari:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12860
http://tinyurl.com/4ep9v (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5x5lc (Daily Star)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1316547.htm

Interesting things are happening at Izmir's agora:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=7133

A pile of Macedonian warrior graves were found in Pella:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=53313

Updates on Bulgaria's 'Valley of the Kings':

http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=45212
http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=45246

A Roman oven was found on the site of a future shopping mall
in Wigan:

http://tinyurl.com/3jodg (Manchester Online)

Nice piece on the discovery of Mamertion a couple of decades
ago:

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20050302/AE/103020019

An update on the excavations at Bam:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1022.html

A complete Iron Age kiln and other items have been found at
Ryton-on-Dunsmore:

http://tinyurl.com/7yfp3 (IC Coventry)
http://tinyurl.com/664wr (BBC)

Remains of a 1000 b.p. palace have been found in Nepal:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/04/content_2648590.htm

'Rice pudding' or 'sticky rice' apparently was used in
conjunction with mortar in many ancient Chinese structures:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/27/content_2626135.htm
http://tinyurl.com/52h7c (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/456zz (CNN)

A preview of an upcoming dig near Bamiyan:

http://tinyurl.com/6u6kd (Japan Times)

Clumsy 'historians' stumbled upon a civilization in India
recently:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1263454,0006.htm

The foundation of Norwich's medieval Market Cross has been
located:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4312711.stm

A major medieval coin hoard from Finland:

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/tuoreet/artikkeli/1101978676562
(in Finnish)
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THE AMERICAS
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Giant figures which apparently predate the Nazca lines have been
found in the mountains of Peru:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7048008/
http://tinyurl.com/3r69u (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5ajqf (Sun Sentinel)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=537201

A piece in anticipation of a documentary in the UK ponders the
fate of the Moche:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4311153.stm
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Was Ice Age art religious?:

http://tinyurl.com/65wr5 (Telegraph)

What did Neanderthals sound like?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1462226,00.html

Another mummy autopsy (of a sort) is about to get under way:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050224101315.htm

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram this week addresses the Tut
autopsy issue:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/732/he2.htm

An archaeologist in Austria was buried alive this week while
working at a Roman farm site:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050304/325/fdpga.html
http://tinyurl.com/5qxyb (Reuters)

A varied selection of recent items on homo floresiensis:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4522345
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/science/04skull.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050304175249.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7078973/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4308751.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5n8pe (Independent)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=20686
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/wuso-fl022805.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/fsu-fal030205.php
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2005/s1315628.htm
(transcript of a radio program)

Some odd/old medical advice (these are about different things):

http://tinyurl.com/4wyvf (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=547841

Apparently David is a bit walleyed:

http://tinyurl.com/4htl4 (ABC)

The campaign is on to declare the Antonine Wall a World
Heritage site:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/34317.html

Nice little history of Istanbul:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=6755

It was bound to happen ... the Nebra Star disc is now being
said to be a modern forgery:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1427546,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/4cxap (Taipei Times)

Nice coverage of a lecture by William Dever on the historicity
of ancient Israel:

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20259
http://tinyurl.com/6bvrx (Biblical Recorder)

A project to put the Codex Sinaiticus on the web:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/01.22/17-codex.html
http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/30/0,3672,2267870,00.html
(German)

Nice piece on Aron Dotan's work with the history of Hebrew:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=544803

A brief history of boxing:

http://tinyurl.com/45qv9

The Tomes of Timbuktu:

http://tinyurl.com/6zjzm (Washington Post)

Are we tired of hearing about the Aksum Obelisk yet?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7052889/
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-ob02.html

Look what's missing from the British Library:

http://tinyurl.com/5v9ff (Telegraph)

I think we've mentioned this "What the Ancients Knew" series:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050228/dcm028_1.html

Looking for the Magdalene in France:

http://tinyurl.com/4fglj (Chronogram)

High tech of prehistory:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0303/p16s01-stss.html?s=hns

Ancient humans apparently prevented another Ice Age:

http://tinyurl.com/3tl5h (Observer)

Human action and landscape change:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050224123922.htm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Journal of GIS in Archaeology:

http://www.esri.com/library/journals/archaeology/index.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Christopher A. Rollston and Heather Dana Davis Parker,"Responses
to the Epigraphic Forgery Crisis":

http://tinyurl.com/6m3zq (Bible and Interpretation)

The New York Public Library's digital gallery is definitely
impressive (and a site you can spend hours perusing):

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

NYT review: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/books/03libr.html

A pair of nice sites devoted to Greek archaeology and history:

http://www.fhw.gr/
http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/

Some good Black History Months links to file away for future
use:

http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/bhm/bhisthist.html
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
A Journey Through Time: Archaeology at St. Johns

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Egypt recovered some antiquities-about-to-go-to-auction at
Bonham's this week:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o250225f.htm

A couple of pre-Columbian art dealers have been indicted for
fraud:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/nyregion/03indict.html

A good feature on the upcoming trial of Oded Golan:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/225818-2946-047.html
http://tinyurl.com/4yc8z (Jewish News Weekly)

I think we've mentioned the piles of artifacts recovered from
a Cairo apartment already:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4848
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BOOK REVIEWS
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John Kelly, *The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the
Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/books/04BOOK.html

The Atlantic Monthly has a nice feature entitled 'What to Read
this Month':

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200504/schwarz

Okasha El Daly, * Egyptology: The Missing Millennium. Ancient
Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings*:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/feature/newsitem.shtml?cleopatra
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Controversy of Valladolid:

http://tinyurl.com/5glkd (NYT)

Rape of Lucretia:

http://www.statepress.com/issues/2005/03/04/news/692295

Beowulf:

http://tinyurl.com/6xtw8 (BDP)

Women of Troy:

http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1265/article13022.asp

A Very Naughty Greek Play:

http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=2427
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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This week, we're back to looking for Atlantis near Cuba:

http://tinyurl.com/59ojz (Free Internet Press)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/arts/design/04SALO.html

People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/214059_riverart02.html

Wu Family Shrines:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-03032005-458143.html

Peru: Indigenous and Viceregal:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/032005/03032005/1687524

Olhando o Céu da Pré-história - Registros arqueoastronômicos
no Brasil:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3214

Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600:

http://tinyurl.com/4n2pl (Daily Star)

Nefertiti has a new (temporary) home:

http://tinyurl.com/3ktxn (AP via Yahoo)

Trying to preserve Qin's terra cotta army:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/03/content_2646235.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Learning from the Classics:

http://www.swans.com/library/art11/cmarow10.html

Biggs Lecture:

http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/4822.html

Classical Cottage School:

http://tinyurl.com/679ky (Winchester Star)

Classics Bee coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/5564n (Review Atlas)

Ilaria Marchesi has won an NEH fellowship:

http://tinyurl.com/7x95m (Chronicle)

Robin Lane Fox on Pompeiian gardens:

http://tinyurl.com/549yo (FT)

The lessons of the Iliad and the Odyssey:

http://www.mb.com.ph/I2005030429962.html

Nice piece on Sulpicia:

http://tinyurl.com/6lex2 (Redlands Daily Facts)

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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Sumner Gerrard (marine archaeologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/national/01GERARD.html
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REPEATS
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Ancient Perfumery on Cyprus:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/050301/21/tagi.html

Dating Edom:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050222113412.htm

Manuscripts as Fossils:

http://tinyurl.com/4z7ug (National Geographic)
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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, Rochelle Altman, Sabine Beckmann, Susan
Jaslow, Sally Winchester, 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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Farmers lived in Iran's central plateau as early as 10,000 b.p.
(is this news?):

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1070.html

The skeleton of a woman wearing silver earrings has been found
during excavations of the Burnt City:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1071.html

They're trying to figure out how to save the Osireion:

http://tinyurl.com/4fsdf (SwissInfo)

Plans are afoot to move a statue of Ramses II in Cairo:

http://tinyurl.com/6rkhl (Reuters via Yahoo)

A Bronze Age shipwreck has been found off the Devon coast:

http://tinyurl.com/4qy3p (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/4m8wp (GNN)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1521345,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4226337
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/4330031.stm

Much excitement over an Iron Age chariot burial find in
Scotland:

http://tinyurl.com/4qkoh (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/6hhkf (Yorkshire Post)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4333705.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5ouam (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6e8he (Evening Post)

A 3000 b.p. skeleton of a metal worker buried with his tools
has been found in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/4ktsa (Iran News)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4905

Also in Iran, archaeologists are preparing to dig at the
Qom Iron Age site:

http://tinyurl.com/724pl (Iran News)

Archaeologists have finally found the entrance to the
fortifications at Gola Dhora (Harappan):

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=120786

The Hellenistic city of Bergama is threatened by dam
construction:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=7650

Development has also claimed a Mycenean tomb in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/67zza (Kathimerini)

A hoard of Roman coins found in Norfolk were declared treasure
this week:

http://tinyurl.com/3vswt (EDP24)

Interesting knife with astronomical implications found in
China:

http://news.newkerala.com/world-news/?action=fullnews&id=84306

A farmer in Scotland has discovered a network of 700 b.p.
tunnels beneath his land:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=253792005
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/34822.html

The Art Newspaper has a nice piece on calls to excavate
the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11738
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THE AMERICAS
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A major Mayan find in Honduras:

http://tinyurl.com/6hfps (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6enzu (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/07/content_2661351.htm

On the elite at Peru's Pachamanac site:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0503/resources_cre.html

2000 b.p. artifacts have been found on the UNC Chapel Hill
Campus:

http://tinyurl.com/5sncn (NG)

I think this is a repeat ... Mikm'aq artifacts from Nova
Scotia:

http://tinyurl.com/3mssa (CBC)

An update on that Port Angeles site (which is very close to
being a saga now):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7106415/
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/200606
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, it appears that pigs were domesticated at
least seven times throughout history, in different places:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4337435.stm

Also on the DNA front, a technique for extracting DNA from
fossils seems promising:

http://tinyurl.com/4gu72 (Yorkshire Post)
http://tinyurl.com/4oz76 (Bio.com)
http://tinyurl.com/3ogfy (EurekAlert)

... while descent from some guy who lived in Mesopotamia some
3000 years b.p. apparently made some 10% of Europeans immune to
HIV:

http://tinyurl.com/5h9az (Telegraph)

In addition to saving us from another Ice Age, prehistoric
farmers apparently cut down huge forests in Europe (obvious
connection?):

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18524905.000

I can't believe this hasn't been done before ... scientists
have put together (from bits and pieces of various skeletons)
a full-skeleton Neanderthal:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7153332/
http://tinyurl.com/3vlfl (livescience.com)
http://tinyurl.com/53rg8 (NG)

Tons (and I mean tons) of coverage of the results of Tut's
ct scan ... turns out he wasn't murdered (probably) but had
a broken leg:

http://tinyurl.com/6w27c (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/4nd5u (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4vruv (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4328903.stm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4273700
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7125989/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7128729/
http://tinyurl.com/5tcve (Guardian)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=562426
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=257652005
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050308-094128-1222r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4x84b (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/53no4 (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/6d9fx (NG)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/arts/design/07fair.html

... while another CT scan has allowed scientists to put a
face on a mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/6qb79 (Rocky Mountain News)

More results from investigations into the tomb of the Medicis:

http://tinyurl.com/5qt6p (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/3tc87 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/3k8bh (Newsday)

The homo floresiensis saga continues ... again, with tales of
damage to the skeleton:

http://tinyurl.com/5r6z3 (Sunday Times)

... and, interestingly, with suggestions they lived until about
200 years ago:

http://www.sundayherald.com/48168

... and might be a new branch on the human family tree:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/human-05g.html

A bit late, but an interesting thing from NPR on the evolution
of British English over the past 50 years:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4524458

NPR also had an item on the 'female collaboration' er ...
exploited by the Brothers Grimm:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4524494

Interesting essay on the 100th anniversary of Weber's
*Protestant Ethic ...*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013FUKUYA.html

A touristy thing on Alexandria:

http://tinyurl.com/7yx5e (IOL)

Interesting piece on Thomas de Quincey:

http://tinyurl.com/3wbyc (Student)

Nice piece about dendrochronology:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0308/p18s02-hfks.html

They've removed half of Nelson's eyebrow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4322877.stm

Some background on the Nebra Sky Disc:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2004/stardisctrans.shtml

A link between climate change and the Viking sagas?:

http://tinyurl.com/6nv7o (EurekAlert)

Treasure hunters and magnetometers:

http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1041_3-5610829.html

How Venetian artists made their colours:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050312/bob8.asp
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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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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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CRIME BEAT
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Interesting item on the smuggling of a huge quantity of
anquities from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the 1990's:

http://tinyurl.com/6flju (New Kerala)
http://tinyurl.com/5wboj (ANN)

Confessions in those thefts of Robert Munch works last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/arts/10arts.html

A pile of artifacts smuggled from Jiroft have been returned:

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

A number of idols were stolen from an Indian temple:

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=83421

Folks might want to keep their eye open for a documentary called
'Stolen':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4531700

cf.: http://www.find-the-art.com/

Eight construction workers in Israel were charged with looting
a nearby archaeological site:

http://tinyurl.com/4oszh (JPost)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Kenneth Ackerman, *Boss Tweed*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/books/11book.html

James Hamilton, *A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of
the Scientific Revolution*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013FERRIS.html

Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard, *The Colosseum*:

http://tinyurl.com/4jkhv (Guardian)

Letters from the Desert: The Correspondence of Flinders and
Hilda Petrie:

http://tinyurl.com/5seue (Apollo ... requires registration)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lysistrata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/arts/music/07hous.html
http://tinyurl.com/3ovgh (Chronicle)

A Very Naughty Greek Play:

http://tinyurl.com/6cf9h (NYT)

Dido, Queen of Carthage:

http://tinyurl.com/4p32p (Boston Globe)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Empires in the Fertile Crescent: Ancient Assyria, Anatolia and
Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/4zs54 (Jewish News Weekly)

Drawn By the Brush (Rubens):

http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=17932

Sutton Hoo's treasure is returning 'home':

http://tinyurl.com/6cpks (Evening Star)

European Fine Art Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/arts/design/07fair.html

Interesting story behind an upcoming auction at Christies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/arts/design/11anti.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Bulgaria is quite miffed at Greece for its claim to being the
"land of the mythical Orpheus":

http://tinyurl.com/3p9pt (Telegraph)
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=45421

Building wooden horses:

http://www.md-times.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=7781

Owen Ewald is keeping Classics alive at SPU:

http://www.thefalcononline.com/story/4526

Some NLTRW coverage:

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2005/March/10/LNlist2.htm

Latin Day at UA:

http://tinyurl.com/4tp9o (Crimson White)

A middle school Greek Day:

http://tinyurl.com/4pplg (Pawling News Chronicle)

Some JCL coverage:

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/031205/new_teen2001.shtml

Digging barbarians:

http://tinyurl.com/3lkfw (Daily Illini)

The new labours of Hercules:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1521578,00.html

Nice howler in this pedantic review of Idomeneo:

http://advocate.com/html/stories/934/934_after_dark.asp

Oliver Stone will be speaking at UC Berkeley about that movie
he made:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_2603577

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Howard Carter

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0509.html

James Biddle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/national/11biddle.html
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REPEATS
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Cyprus Perfumery:

http://tinyurl.com/52nr2 (Reuters)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050307/perfumery.html

Hominid Older than Lucy:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/11062026.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=557488
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050307214554.htm

Wu Family Shrines:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7117568/
http://tinyurl.com/57xql (AP via Yahoo)
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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explorator 7.47                                 March 20, 2005
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Donna
Hurst, Glenn Meyer, Jim Phelps, Joan Griffith, Joanne Conman,
John McMahon,Joseph Lauer, M. Cuccia, Jim Lockmiller,  Mata
Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Susan Jaslow,
Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

A slowish week ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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3,000 b.p. fossilized poop and what it tells us about ancient
diets received not as much attention as one would expect:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/35408.html

Bronze Age skeletons in the closet (literally):

http://tinyurl.com/5s84e (Western Mail)

This one 'got lost' in all the Tut CT coverage ... it suggests
that the broken leg was not the cause of death (contrary to
many of the news reports):

http://tinyurl.com/4k3gs (Eurekalert)

A 4000 b.p. site in Turkmenistan may be the 'cradle' of
Zoroastrianism:

http://tinyurl.com/6cc36 (AFP via Yahoo)

Plans are afoot to "renovate" Egypt's Sarabit el-Khadim temple:

http://tinyurl.com/58wm4 (IOL)

Not sure whether this ancient Egyptian ships discovery made it
to Explorator before:

http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2005/03-18/archaeologist.html

A 2100 b.p. Gallic skeleton has been found in a Geneva
cathedral:

http://tinyurl.com/63qdn (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4m49x (Australian)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1322448.htm

A Roman coin hoard from Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/4vcss (Kings Lynn Today)

Italian coverage of recent finds at Lucca:

http://www.nove.firenze.it/vediarticolo.asp?id=a5.03.17.12.32
http://tinyurl.com/5fnj9 (AdnKronos)

A little green chess piece was recently dug up which seems to
have a link of some sort to the Lewis chess pieces (11th or 12th
century):

http://tinyurl.com/5976c (Guardian)

... while the SNP is demanding the 'repatriation' of the
Chessmen:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1533544,00.html

An update on that ancient village revealed by the tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/63x2s (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7221921/
http://tinyurl.com/4cnkc (AP via Yahoo)

Chinese archaeologists recently found a 2700 b.p. village in
Shaanxi province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/17/content_2709155.htm

A Bronze Age shroud from Vietnam:

http://tinyurl.com/3t5ld (Merimbula)

Multiple eras of occupation at another Vietnam site:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2005/03/395214/

154 miniature Buddhas from Cambodia:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/15/content_2701179.htm

A Maori site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3219512a8153,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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The status of the Olmec as 'mother' or 'sister' civilization
gets the John Noble Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/science/15olme.html
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=341973

Nice piece on Independent Archaeological Consulting:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7172972/

A followup of sorts to that story from a few months ago about
a Walmart being built near Teotihuacan:

http://www.alternet.org/story/21398/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Neanderthals apparently had high-pitched voices:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1323798.htm

National Geographic Channel is presenting various views of the
branches of the human family tree:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/arts/television/19heff.html

Maybe 'race' isn't a social construct after all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/opinion/14leroi.html

A number of statues from Powis Castle have (finally) been
confirmed as dating to Roman times:

http://tinyurl.com/59pww (IC NorthWales)
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART26982.html

Touristy thing about Rome and environs (with a nice little
slide show):

http://tinyurl.com/5alfh (New York Times)

Touristy thing (literally) on descending the pyramid at Chichen
Itza:

http://www.freep.com/features/travel/itza13e_20050313.htm

Touristy thing (in Italian) on the Greek fortifications at
Eurialo:

http://tinyurl.com/6btfa (QDS)

The story of Cheshire Cheese:

http://tinyurl.com/4p7pa

Bulgaria is rubbing its hands in anticipation of increased
tourism ... and is still mad at Greece for claiming Orpheus:

http://tinyurl.com/6luew (Sofia Echo)

... while others worry about the gold:

http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=45544

Young lexicographers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/arts/19dict.html

Folks may (or may not) like the Onion's timeline of Irish
history:

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4111&n=12

A nice factsheet about the Shroud of Turin:

http://tinyurl.com/6mcgf (Live Science)

cf assorted piece on the Shroud which are currently
circulating:

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050318-040533-4494r.htm
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story29.htm

A Muslim charity has claimed ownership of the Taj Mahal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4348663.stm

... while India doesn't seem aware of what it *does* own:

http://www.newindpress.com/news.asp?id=IEK20050319125233

Interesting review of CD compilations of music made with
prehistoric instruments:

http://tinyurl.com/6697b (Japan Times)

The 'lost' letter of Abelard and Heloise?:

http://tinyurl.com/5bxe9 (Age)

On 'endangered' languages:

http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/54836
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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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CRIME BEAT
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Newsweek has an interview with Donny George:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7169977/site/newsweek/

cf. a review of a BBC documentary on the National Museum of
Baghdad:

http://tinyurl.com/6e9es (Seattle PI)

... and this 'Outside the Beltway' editorial:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/9610

Very brief item on the theft of some shabtis from a museum
in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/4nhbg (Dewsbury Today)

Some previously-purloined artifacts were returned to Egypt from
the UK this week:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o170325p.htm

This month's SBL Forum is all about forgery of antiquities:

http://sbl-site.org/

A petition was sent to me in an effort to promote a law to
restrict importation (to the U.S.) of Chinese antiquities:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/i-safe-alert.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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John Kelly, "The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the
Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time":

http://newyorker.com/critics/books/index.ssf?050321crbo_books

Benjamin Isaac, "The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity"

http://tinyurl.com/64joz (Jerusalem Post)

John Man,  "Attila: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome":

http://tinyurl.com/4s6zf (Guardian)

Ingrid D. Rowland, "The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of
Renaissance Forgery":

http://tinyurl.com/4g3sk (Sun Sentinel)

Amos Elon, translated by Danny Auerbach, "The Pity of It All:
A Portrait of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933":

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=550828
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Agrippina:

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

Invention of Love:

http://tinyurl.com/4t3le (Telegraph)

Odyssey:

http://tinyurl.com/6l7t8 (Chronicle)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
This guy keeps releasing Atlantis-related press releases ...
here's the latest:

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=52339&src=0

... and the suggestion that Atlantis is near Cuba keeps
popping up too:

http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/cover031505.htm

Anatoly Fomenko is getting press attention again (sort of):

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11256441
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Dead Sea Scrolls To The Bible In America:

http://www.thepilot.com/features/r031605Scrolls.html

Romanesque France:

http://tinyurl.com/6jl7z (Expatica)

Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes From the Fitzwilliam Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/arts/design/18fric.html

The Spinario is going on tour:

http://tinyurl.com/4fol7 (Guardian)

Audobon's Aviary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/arts/design/17audo.html

The Cairo Museum has put a bunch of Roman-era gold on display:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7195255/
http://tinyurl.com/4xyhh (AP)
http://tinyurl.com/5podo (News 24)

Again we're hearing that the Torlonia Marbles may be put on
public view:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=02fb149cdff5e645
http://tinyurl.com/6n9je (New Kerala)

The Met has acquired the Gilman Paper Company Collection of
photos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/arts/design/17gilm.html

Coverage of a sale of drawings in Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/arts/design/18ANTI.html

A lock of Charles Dickens' hair recently came up to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4352043.stm

Questions about how Austria's Kunsthistorisches Museum handles
acquisitions:

http://tinyurl.com/3pgbg (AP via Yahoo)

... and questions about a possible Thai headdress in an
unnamed U.S. museum:

http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=36802
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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This one was making the rounds a few weeks ago, but seems to
have just made it to the Times ... Cleopatra was, according to
arabic sources, one smart cookie:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1524850,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/49gnj (Australian)

Syllabus changes for Latin and Greek exams in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/5x39m (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/4eh6u (IC Wales)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050316/344/fecgb.html
http://tinyurl.com/5reyo

... with a nice response:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1059-1530304,00.html

On the anatomical 'correctness' of male Greek statuary:

http://tinyurl.com/5zq46 (Guardian)

On the "Ancient Traditions of Euro-American Violence":

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/13672/

Bruce Thornton defends the Greeks:

http://victorhanson.com/articles/thornton031005.html
http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=3202&lang=US

Julius Caesar was one of the ODNB "Lives of the Week"

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/6.html
(url might change depending on when you access it)

Cajus Julius Caesar and the ides:

http://tinyurl.com/4nl3k (Reuters)

Benefits of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/5t87m (Arizona Republic)

Pat Burr is retiring:

http://tinyurl.com/63hve (QC Times)

Eta Sigma Phi at St. Olaf:

http://tinyurl.com/6ueky

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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REPEATS
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Ancient Edom:

http://tinyurl.com/6quva (Sun Sentinel)

Bronze Age Perfumery on Cyprus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4364469.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1327321.htm

Chinese Astronomical Knife:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/12/content_2686446.htm

Neanderthal DNA:

http://tinyurl.com/3ogfy (Eurekalert)

Wall-eyed David:

http://tinyurl.com/5hd22 (ABC)
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
Sowdon, Francis Deblauwe, Donna Hurst, Hernan Astudillo,
Cressida Ryan, Janica Hindle, John McMahon,John McChesney-Young,
Joseph Lauer, Keith Armstrong,Jim Lockmiller, Michael Oberndorf,
Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Sally Winchester, Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, Richard C. Griffiths, and  Yonatan Nadelman
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no
one out).

A very slow week (again) ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Remains of some ancient Egyptian *sea-going* vessels have been
discovered in a cave(?) near the Red Sea:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7190

Not sure of the date of this article ... a pile of mummies
dating from the seventh century B.C./B.C.E. to the Ptolemaic
period have been found in Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/4st4m (CNN via Netscape)

Hellenistic sarcophagi have turned up during construction of
a customs building in Turkey:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=9063

Apparent remains of the Loulan Kingdom (China) have been
found (some math problems in the first article):

http://tinyurl.com/4ucy8 (China Daily)
http://english.people.com.cn/200503/21/eng20050321_177585.html

Digging medieval Coventry:

http://tinyurl.com/4a69q (icCoventry)

Remains of a large Chinese camp has been found in New Zealand:

http://tinyurl.com/4rd83 (TVNZ)
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THE AMERICAS
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The Basques were here (Canada) before Cartier:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0325/p18s03-hfgn.html?s=hns

An Anasazi calendar:

http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=157234

Remains of an 18th century bridge are emerging from Lake
Champlain:

http://tinyurl.com/4pubh (AP via Yahoo)

Coverage of a talk about the excavations at Cival:

http://tinyurl.com/53w69 (IME)

There is a house in New Orleans ...:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=6&ObjectID=10116468

Semi-touristy thing on Hohokam sites in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/683dp (Republic)

Radiation illuminates some aspects of Inca culture:

http://tinyurl.com/4c39r (Gazette Times)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The 'mystery' behind Faberge eggs:

http://tinyurl.com/69oxg (SFGate)

Interesting book excerpt on the discovery of Tut:

http://tinyurl.com/47hrw (MeTimes)

On the origins of Irish 'gypsies':

http://tinyurl.com/5u5b4 (Independent)

I don't usually include stuff about dinosaurs (or fossils not
connected to 'hominids' in Explorator), but this one's too
interesting to let pass ... scientists have recovered some soft
tissue from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil (and, of course,
everyone's now thinking Jurassic Park):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/

The battle over the site of Mons Graupius is heating up:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=302582005

Lithuania's 'Troy' is getting Heritage status:

http://www.baltictimes.com/art.php?art_id=12358

Some more mummy ct scans are coming up:

http://tinyurl.com/6un2q (Art Daily)

... and another mummy has been 'identified':

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/35750.html

Interesting item on the Jenkins Venus and a new copy made
thereof:

http://tinyurl.com/4xava (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/546nh (Yorkshire Post)

A portrait of Michelangelo?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050314/michelangelo.html

More revelations from the tomb of the Medicis:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050321/medicichild.html
http://tinyurl.com/58wmk (ABC)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1442285,00.html

An 11th century manuscript has returned to Canterbury:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4381161.stm

Folks might be interested in reading how Dan Brown is coping
with all the attention his novel is getting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/books/21code.html

Touristy thing on Japan's Naskendo highway (with slideshow):

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/travel/20japanhike.html

... and one on Nimes:

http://tinyurl.com/5le9m (Telegraph)

A 'lost' novel by Dumas is to be published:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/arts/23arts.html (2nd item)

The New Clairvaux chapter house has an interesting history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/arts/design/27hall.html

This item on a teacher's theory about the Shroud of Turin has
been getting increasing press coverage over the past couple of
weeks (these are all variations on the same AP wire story):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7287936/
http://tinyurl.com/65s4c (Times-News)
http://tinyurl.com/4gx3w (News 24)

Nice preview of tonight's forthcoming program (on the National
Geographic Channel) about crucifixion:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7291066/

... and another one on the Church of the Holy Sepuchre:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6785872/

Last week we had a group claiming ownership of the Taj Mahal ...
this week it's a family claiming ownership of Machu Picchu:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3225518a12,00.html

The latest in the Nebra Sky Disk soon-to-be-saga:

http://tinyurl.com/7xtd6 (FAZ)

Another Voynich manuscript piece:

http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20050223-000004.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Nice article on Roman remains in Libya in Smithsonian mag:

http://tinyurl.com/4pajt
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ON THE WEB
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Egyptian Royal Genealogy:

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Ephemera: Archaeology on Television:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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This might have some ramifications ... a British court has
ruled that the BM must return a manuscript to Italy which was
demonstrated to have been looted during WWII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/arts/26arts.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1539101,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4300658
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1444759,00.html

Not sure where this one should be categorized, but this seems
appropriate ... the UN's IAEA is part of the effort to curb
the sale of counterfeit artworks/antiquities:

http://news.newkerala.com/world-news/?action=fullnews&id=84329

This was (apparently) the big news of the week: a Canadian teen
was charged this week with stealing a rock from the Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/4wl8m (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/6jhfu (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/4xo3o (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/4oeev (Globe and Mail)
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-4221771,00.html
http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=63174
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=2&nid=26126

Did British collectors in the 1800s 'ruin and defile' a number
of Ethiopian manuscripts?:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200503250381.html

A possibly-looted Thai crown on display in San Francisco?:

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GC26Jp02.html

An interview with P. Kyle McCarter about the James Ossuary:

http://ydr.com/story/religion/62876/

... and an excellent 'state of the case' piece from Macleans
magazine:

http://tinyurl.com/58dtx

Cambodia's artifacts continue to be at risk:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/21/news/cambo.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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James Grant, *John Adams: Party of One*:

http://nytimes.com/2005/03/23/books/23grim.html

Jeremy Cohen, *Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and
Jewish Memories of the First Crusade*:

http://tinyurl.com/4o35j (JPost)

John Mann, *Attila: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome*

http://tinyurl.com/4s6zf (Guardian)

K.D. Ackerman, *Boss Tweed*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/books/review/027HAMILL.html

J. Pelikan, *Whose Bible Is It?*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/books/review/027KUGELL.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lysistrata (+)

http://newyorker.com/critics/music/index.ssf?050328crmu_music

Iphigenia:

http://tinyurl.com/6ldhu (NYT)

Dido, Queen of Carthage:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=506639

Fools in Love:

http://tinyurl.com/64wuf (NYT)

Seven Last Words of Christ:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/national/26beliefs.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Ark of the Covenant found (8^))

http://www.ransomnotes.info/index_files/Page3471.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Another article on exhibitions arising from stuff they find
in Cairo's Egyptian Museum basement (really nice photo with
the Telegraph piece):

http://tinyurl.com/5wwe4 (Telegraph)

After the Pharaohs:

http://tinyurl.com/5gvw3 (Budapest Sun)

Salvator Rosa:

http://tinyurl.com/5rq9k (Guardian)

Literary Treasures of the National Library of Finland:

http://tinyurl.com/4jhno

Spinario:

http://tinyurl.com/4ysnv (Art Daily)

That recently-found Domitianus coin is on display:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4293504

The Brooklyn Museum is getting a major grant to catalog its
vast costume collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/arts/design/23clot.html

The Seattle Art Museum is expanding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/arts/25arts.html (scroll)

Chinese Works of Art sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/arts/design/25ANTI.html

Coming soon the Christies:

http://tinyurl.com/3tytp (JPost)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Tips on reading the Iliad:

http://tinyurl.com/6l44k (Excalibur)

So what's Michael Halleran up to?:

http://tinyurl.com/6sdsc (Business Wire)

A new Classics minor for Ithaca College:

http://tinyurl.com/4wdoe (Ithacan)

Ajax as charismatic narcissist:

http://tinyurl.com/5udqd (Age)

Fallujah and Dionysus:

http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=4833

Vegetius and Iraq (sort of):

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43479

They spent twenty minutes reading Pliny's Natural History
(in Latin) on the BBC last night:

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=623439

... listen again at (there's a bunch of ads at the start):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/betweentheears/

Roman cookery:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1068-1542319,00.html

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Stanley Sadie (musicologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/arts/music/23sadie.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Cradle of Zoroastrianism:

http://tinyurl.com/5zmcu (IOL)

Homo floresiensis 'damaged':

http://tinyurl.com/4fy6d (USA Today)
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=137555&source=r_science
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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 think this one is referring to the beaded mummy found a few
weeks ago:

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/science/11272870.htm

King Tut liked red wine:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050326001121.htm

... and there's new speculation on the cause of his death:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234035.htm

Maybe there isn't a lost city in Malaysia?:

http://tinyurl.com/6s3gq (Star)

Assorted archaeological news from Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/news_4741.php

An Iron Age site from India:

http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/03/stories/2005040301931400.htm

A digging-without-a-permit controversy from Bangladesh:

http://tinyurl.com/49j2d (NFB)

A number of artifacts found by metal detectorists in the UK
were declared treasure trove this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4394637.stm
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Nuclear analysis of Inca pottery has raised some interesting
suggestions (repeat?):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050328184717.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4c39r

Archaeology Magazine has just put up a piece on the origins of
the Olmec:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/olmec/index.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, plans are afoot to analyze genetic material
from skeletons found at the Burnt City:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1207.html

... while DNA has been successfully extracted from some
Neanderthal remains:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329133310.htm

There'll be much of this over the next while, of course ... some
of the rituals associated with the death and election of popes:

http://tinyurl.com/68o36 (NYT)

Did a tsunami hit Britain in 1607?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4397679.stm

Assorted historical museums and associations are changing their
names to 'get with the times':

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/nyregion/29society.html

Ridley Scott's latest flick (Kingdom of Heaven ... about the
Crusades) is at the center of a copyright dispute already:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/movies/29king.html

Zahi Hawass' column in Al Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/736/he2.htm

The state of Kashmir's library of the department of Archives
and Archaeology:

http://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?ItemID=2392&cat=10

Interesting feature on the harp:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/arts/music/03whit.html

Coverage of Hans Christian Andersen's bicentennial:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4571854

... and the 250th anniversary of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary:

http://tinyurl.com/5ayfg (Guardian)

The ancient game of road bowling:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4572651

The latest in the search for Amelia Earhart:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7323693/

Essay on the ethics of exhuming folks to take tissue samples
etc.:

http://tinyurl.com/6x9p7 (Ohmynews)

Folks might be interested in the emerging coverage on the
Gospel of Judas; good summary of the 'story so far' at
Hypotyposeis:

http://tinyurl.com/4wrc4

Cataloging Glasgow's 'hidden treasures' will hopefully turn
up a few items of interest:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=349002005

Touristy thing on Antigua:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/travel/27surf.html

Is the Bodleian Library collection threatened?:

http://tinyurl.com/3hrt3 (Guardian)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter:

http://www.csanet.org/newsletter/#winter05
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Dutch Archaeological News:

http://www.sna.nl/english/

19th century communion tokens:

http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/tokenofthemonth/token017/

James Madison papers online:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names:

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
Ephemera: Archaeology on Television:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Reactions to China's request for an anti-import ban of
antiquities therefrom:

http://nytimes.com/2005/04/01/arts/design/01lega.html

cf: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/01/news/art.html

Insurgents in Iraq have damaged Samarra's spiral minaret:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4401577.stm

Patrolling the Iran-Iraq border:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5325848.html

Interesting article on fakes in museum collections:

http://tinyurl.com/3jyrt (Washington Post)

Vandals inscribed "Allah" into one of the walls at Temple Mount
this week:

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=79292
http://tinyurl.com/3rutu (JPost)
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/558870.html

Last week CBS repeated their program (from December) on the
James Ossuary thing ... a transcript and video links are
available in case you missed it:

http://tinyurl.com/5elat

Some stolen Buddhas are being recovered:

http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=37250
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
David King, *Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness,
and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World*:

http://tinyurl.com/7yg4j (Book Standard)

Stacy Schiff, *The Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and
the Birth of America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/03ISAACSO.html

John Coski, *The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most
Embattled Emblem*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/03MCWHORT.html

John Kelly, *The Great Mortality. An Intimate History of the
Black Death*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/03LEWISL.html

Jay Feldman, *When the Mississippi Ran Backwards. Empire,
Intrigue, Murder and the New Madrid Earthquakes*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/03GENZING.html

Three books about the Crusades:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/03KENNEDY.html

A couple of books on applying Thucydides to more recent events:

http://tinyurl.com/49p63 (Boston Globe)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Birds:

http://tinyurl.com/4qm8j (Chicago Tribune)

Jocasta:

http://www.ljworld.com/section/arts/story/200436

Choephoroi:

http://tinyurl.com/5gtbq (Korea Herald)

Julius Caesar:

http://tinyurl.com/5v82y (NYT)

Major Dundee (rerelease (!)):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/movies/03hobe.html

A feature on Shakespeare (hard to describe this one; mostly
about Julius Caesar):

http://tinyurl.com/3sm6k (Guardian)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Petra: Lost City of Stone:

http://www.detnews.com/2005/events/0503/29/E01-131786.htm

The Beit She'an Venus went on display this week:

http://tinyurl.com/4ntj4 (CBC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7339883/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4397009.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6wlvl (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/558457.html

In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/5h52z (USA Today)

Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/19/art-harvey.php

William Wallace's sword is going to the U.S.:

http://tinyurl.com/3wykn (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/448gn (Seattle PI)

Quack, Quack, Quack (medical quackery):

http://tinyurl.com/6ccho (AP via Yahoo)

The new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library was the focus
of some NPR attention this week:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4571035

cf: http://www.alincoln-library.com/home.html

In antcipation of Tut's return to the U.S., Archaeology
magazine has a feature on the boy king:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/tutwatch/index.html

The New York Times has a 'special feature' on assorted
museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2005/03/30/arts/artsspecial/

Lots of exhibitions associated with "Asia Week" in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/arts/design/01cott.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/arts/01bcott.html
http://nytimes.com/2005/04/01/arts/design/01smit.html
http://nytimes.com/2005/04/01/arts/design/01anti.html

The world's biggest art collector has been arrested for
misusing public funds:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11748
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Peter O'Toole didn't like Troy:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=335402005

Latin in the UK is threatened in state schools:

http://tinyurl.com/62f7h (Telegraph)

Susan Hueck Allen was talking about Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/4wzeb (Daily Illini)

Robert Garland was talking about 'tabloid queens' in
antiquity:

http://tinyurl.com/6tfl8 (Hamilton College)

An essay about Asclepius:

http://tinyurl.com/57p82 (TCPalm)

The Times has a piece on the durability of Classics:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1549664,00.html

Greek and Roman Holiday:

http://tinyurl.com/4a77j (Garden City)

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
John Paul II:

http://tinyurl.com/4yzcc (NYT)

Oliver Lyne (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/5mmvv (Telegraph)

Alan Dundes (Folklorist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/obituaries/02dundes.html
================================================================
REPEATS
================================================================
Ancient Egyptian Seagoing Ships:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7351803/
http://tinyurl.com/6dsua (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/7xcuu (Australian)

Canadian Theft of Acropolis Marble:

http://tinyurl.com/5s9zb (Reuters via Yahoo)

Domitianus:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART27195.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4293504

Farnese Atlas/Hipparchus Star Map:

http://tinyurl.com/6pr9c (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/66lk2 (LA Times via Yahoo)

Lake Champlain Bridge:

http://tinyurl.com/68pgo (AP via Yahoo)

TRex tissue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/opinion/28mon4.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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Bob Heuman, Tim Spalding, 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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
A neolithic statue from Germany which will, no doubt, be
referred to as a 'fertility object' is causing much excitement:

http://tinyurl.com/4x93v (Guardian)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1343839.html
http://tinyurl.com/6gpyf (IOL)

Not sure whether the discovery of this Roman mosaic in Libya
(last year) made it to the press at that time:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/5/234397-5285-047.html

... and another has been found at Tiberias:

http://tinyurl.com/6q2ys (Ha'aretz)

A medieval metal works site from Pembrokeshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4413745.stm

A font unearthed in Galliagh might help pinpoint an ancient
abbey:

http://www.derryjournal.com/story/6169
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
The Maya apparently had some salt trading entrepreneurs:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7385222/
http://tinyurl.com/5ycsh (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6vqhf (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/6hm4e (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/6b9gl (ABC ... the American one)

Looks like we'll likely be hearing plenty from Utah this
summer:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7372895/

Some fallout from the Kennewick Man thing:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7432967/

Maybe it isn't Blackbeard's ship after all:

http://rdu.news14.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=66821

An update on what they've been finding out about the Monitor:

http://tinyurl.com/6lo48 (NG)
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
They're arguing that 'Toumai' belongs on a branch of the human
family tree again:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7405835/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4416757.stm

Interesting implications of a toothless homo erectus skull
from Georgia (I seem to recall reading something similar years
ago, though):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/science/07teeth.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4418363.stm

Some spinoff effects/implications of toolmaking:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7248

On the DNA front, it appears the Vikings brought their wives
with them:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=366772005

Looks like 'virtual autopsies' of mummies are becoming the next
all-the-rage thing (taking over from facial reconstructions):

http://www.sacunion.com/pages/california/articles/3851/

... here's another:

http://tinyurl.com/4o83o (AP via Yahoo)

Coverage of the Fifth Fayoum Conference:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z10.htm

Identifying plant species ancient textiles were made from:

http://tinyurl.com/4j8ss (Eurekalert)
http://www.physorg.com/news3563.html

Some items of interest arising from John Paul II's funeral
include a piece on the history of St. Peter's:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4358760

... an item on the history of papal vestments:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4582284

... and what John Paul II did for the Vatican Museums:

http://tinyurl.com/439ye (Manila Times)

... and the etymology of 'pope':

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=374322005

... and the official 'rules' of succession:

http://tinyurl.com/3ldzm (Universi Dominici Gregis)

... and the pope as superhero:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3239335a4560,00.html

Nice article on Vindolanda:

http://tinyurl.com/47no5 (icNewcastle)

Studying the impact of climate change on ancient cultures:

http://tinyurl.com/62nxx (CNN)

Interesting item from the New Yorker on the restoration of the
'Hunt of the Unicorn' tapestries at the Cloisters/Met:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050411fa_fact

Dante knew about Galilean motion before Galileo?:

http://tinyurl.com/5jm2f (Guardian)

An historic elm in Princeton had to come down this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/nyregion/07elm.html

The latest on the HMS Sussex:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1446701,00.html

Married couples in academe:

http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=4297

What Thomas Cahill is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/4dhzb (Toledo Blade)

Why the 'classics' are retranslated:

http://www.laraza.com/news.php?nid=21337

Building the hype for the return of the Aksum obelisk:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=378822005

A touristy thing on Ithaca (the island):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1561610,00.html

... and Ephesus:

http://tinyurl.com/5hbeg

... and Jordan:

http://www.salisburypost.com/area/283027930448120.php

Nice piece on conservation:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050326101411.htm

A bit late, but an interesting bit on some 'lost' Victorian
films:

http://tinyurl.com/5p36o (Telegraph)

Celebrating the founder of homeopathy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4423303.stm

English Heritage is getting less and less money:

http://tinyurl.com/458dy (Observer)

They're still trying to figure out who poisoned Charles VII's
mistress:

http://tinyurl.com/4cz3q (Reuters via Yahoo)

How to become an archaeologist:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=141025&source=r_science
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter:

http://www.csanet.org/newsletter/#winter05

New Zealand Archaeology enews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

Internet Archaeology (in case you haven't visited):

http://intarch.ac.uk/
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ON THE WEB
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Hellenic Numismatic Society:

http://www.coins.gr/hellenum/

Digital Medievalist:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

Helen Bond, "Joseph Caiaphas: In Searchof a Shadow":

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

New list for Indo-Eurasian research:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/

The Ancient Library:

http://www.ancientlibrary.com/

Wiki Classical Dictionary:

http://www.ancientlibrary.com/wcd/Main_Page
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CRIME BEAT
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They're still looking for the Scream:

http://tinyurl.com/4dqvl (AFP via Yahoo)

Some more smugglers were caught in Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=831&p=local&a=10

... as were a trio in Thessaloniki:

http://tinyurl.com/4yesg (ANA)

I think this one is different from the previous one:

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3183975&nav=5D7lBwNp

A look at the effects of antiquities theft:

http://tinyurl.com/4grks (Redlands)

On forging ancient artifacts (including some comments on the
Marzeah Papyrus):

http://tinyurl.com/6rlnz (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Malcolm Gladwell,*Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking*

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17954

Desmond Zwar, *The Queen, Rupert, and Me*:

http://tinyurl.com/4w5yl (wph)

Steve Forbes reviews a couple of tomes by Paul Doherty (third
item down):

http://www.forbes.com/columnists/free_forbes/2005/0418/031.html

Conn Iggulden, *Emperor: The Field of Swords* (fiction):

http://jam.canoe.ca/Books/Reviews/2005/04/10/990607.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Julius Caesar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/theater/reviews/04caes.html
http://tinyurl.com/4bp8f (New Yorker)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4574853

Caligula:

http://tinyurl.com/3wmzk (NYT)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0408/p18s05-hfes.html

New digs for the Mona Lisa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/arts/design/06lisa.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4413303.stm

Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/arts/design/08vict.html

Cherished Possessions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/arts/design/08bard.html

British furniture at Christies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/arts/design/08anti.html

Bulgarian Gold in Spain:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=46368

How much would you pay for a swatch of fabric from the suit
Abraham Lincoln was wearing when he was assassinated?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7440866/

An Iron Age torc is returning to Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/58f2y
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Latin threatened in the UK due to technical problems:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4404137.stm

Maurice Bowra was one of the Oxford DNB lives of the week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html

God of War (video game) is getting rave reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/arts/08game.html

Recreating Roman concrete (underwater):

http://tinyurl.com/4hkvn (Eurekalert)
http://www.physorg.com/news3631.html

Will Cuppy on Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/4o4bk (Daily Times)

Latest Lindsey Davis news:

http://www.lindseydavis.co.uk/lindseyspage.htm

What Ralph Hexter is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/5owek (UC Berkeley)

What Antonios Augoustakis is up to:

http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=17040

What's up at the Parthenon (the Nashville one):

http://tinyurl.com/5pppf (Tennessean)

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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OBITUARIES
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John Paul II:

http://tinyurl.com/63k2w (Telegraph)

Oliver Lyne (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/6xfll (Guardian)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1555092,00.html
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REPEATS
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Assorted Tut Repeats:

http://u.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,211~34121~,00.html

Call to Excavate Herculaneum:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=d84311beb283d830

Domitianus Coin:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART27195.html

Museum Fakes:

http://tinyurl.com/65e8u (Tribune-Review)
http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/234965-2507-047.html

Red Wine and the Pharaohs:

http://www.afrol.com/articles/16080

Samarra Minaret damage:

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10897&l=i&size=1&hd=0
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, 'manbear', Bob Heuman,
Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Pettigrew, Sally
Winchester, Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
Rochelle Altman, 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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Better coverage (with photos) of that 'Adonis' statue mentioned
everywhere last week:

http://tinyurl.com/5rbem (Spiegel ... in English)

Toumai gets the John Noble Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/science/12foss.html
cf.: http://tinyurl.com/ap39h (ABC)


Nice coverage of research into the only Egyptian royal burial
found outside Egypt:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=399002005

Some guy looking for a lost ring found a pile of Cypriot
artfacts in his attic:

http://tinyurl.com/48jma
http://tinyurl.com/bqh64

They're finding plenty of stuff in the Temple Mount trash heap:

http://tinyurl.com/cacs2 (Washington Times)
http://tinyurl.com/8eymj (JPost)
http://arutzsheva.com/news.php3?id=80176
http://tinyurl.com/b9tye (audio for Israel National News)

A sort of state-of-the-technology piece on the search for
ancient shipwrecks in Greek waters:

http://tinyurl.com/c3z5q (Kathimerini)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5098

A very nice mosaic was found near Caesarea:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/565634.html

Excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii revealed a statue of
a woman this week:

http://www.basilicatanet.it/news/article.asp?id=322483 (Italian)

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of Roman-era rabbit remains
in Norfolk:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1345412.htm
http://tinyurl.com/9raoq (Independent)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/4439339.stm
http://tinyurl.com/9o4ed (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5kbgb (AFP via Yahoo)

We first heard about this project to 'reveal' previously-hidden
text on Roman-era papyri a couple of years ago, but the
Independent has three complementary pieces on it:

http://tinyurl.com/9ynwv
http://tinyurl.com/b3hv2
http://tinyurl.com/7sqt6 (payfer)

Longshan agriculture was apparently rice-based:

http://tinyurl.com/8pts6 (Eurekalert)

More ancient musical instruments from China:

http://english.people.com.cn/200504/11/eng20050411_180482.html

Lost city in Malaysia update:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050413/ap/d89ee4j00.html

A 7th century gold pendant found in Shropshire has been
declared treasure:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=31803

Archaeologists have found the remains of thirty British
casulties of the Battle of the Nile:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=391482005
http://tinyurl.com/cbowh (SMH)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4444643.stm
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THE AMERICAS
================================================================
A flexible piece of armour was found at Jamestown:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7480145/
http://tinyurl.com/4ssfk (Daily Press)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=664249
http://tinyurl.com/4a2zt (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/bmsr8

A Native American site from Minnesota:

http://www.dl-online.com/fullstory.php?id=13777

Interesting implications from a study of Inca pottery:

http://tinyurl.com/942f2 (Barometer)

More efforts to preserve Macchu Pichu:

http://tinyurl.com/acbxv (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/byvwl (AFP via Yahoo)

Excavating a Garnet ghost town:

http://tinyurl.com/auba3 (Chronicle)

Civil War graffiti:

http://tinyurl.com/7tl8v (AP via Yahoo)

There's an update of that Lewes site excavation, but it keeps
timing out on me this a.m. ... maybe it will work for you:

http://tinyurl.com/7rwka (Cape Gazette)
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
A major DNA project:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7260
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/national/13gene.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7489681/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4435009.stm
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=109532®ion=5

Maybe humans killed off the mammoths?:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18624955.600

More mummy xrays:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7492688/

... and CT scans:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10120768

Reconstructing George Washington's face:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7487486/

Trying to preserve Culloden's sense of place:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=403522005

... and Carbisdale's too:

http://tinyurl.com/dn33m (P&J)

... and Tara's:

http://tinyurl.com/bpk35

Interesting transborder conservation project in Africa:

http://tinyurl.com/8mgxz (NG)

Al Ahram has a nice piece in Tel Basta:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/738/he1.htm

Zahi Hawass' column in same:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/738/he2.htm

Brewing ancient beer at the Oriental Institute:

http://tinyurl.com/al7dd (Sun Times)

Interesting profile of Jacob Neusner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/books/13neus.html

... and one of William Kelso:

http://tinyurl.com/bj7fc (Daily Press)

Coverage of a Dead Sea Scrolls lecture series in Mobile:

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20576

A touristy supplement on Morroco:

http://tinyurl.com/9j7n6 (NYT)

... and Shuni Park:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3072878,00.html

Yale is ending its historical connection with the UCC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/nyregion/12yale.html

That plan to rebuild the Colossus of Rhodes is in the news
again:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=19439&cat_id=9

All about the 'five foot shelf':

http://www.opednews.com/holhut_041305_five_foot_shelf.htm

On the moral role of historians:

http://tinyurl.com/exue6 (UofC Maroon)

A nice general piece on the Axum obelisk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4376627.stm

... and, of course, its return has been again delayed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4434251.stm

The first map with "America" on it is coming up to
auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4439389.stm

Interesting 'spinoff' of dog domestication?:

http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i32/32a01201.htm

Climate change and civilizations:

http://tinyurl.com/62nxx (CNN)

Comparing papal death rituals to pharoahnic (that spelling
doesn't look right to me) ones:

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/4/prweb226914.htm

Herod's copper mines are to be sold:

http://tinyurl.com/d4ywe (Reuters via Yahoo)
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ON THE WEB
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Papal Coins:

http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/popes-medals.html

Greek Medicine:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/index.html

Canadian Association of Token Collectors:

http://www.canadian-token.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals:

http://www.doaj.org/

Latin-English Dictionary:

http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm

Guggenheim Fellows for 2005:

http://www.gf.org/newfellow.html

Codex (a Biblical studies blog):

http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/index.html
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
================================================================
Rock Art: Messages from the Human Past:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The 'capo' of a major antiquities smuggling ring was arrested
in Italy this week:

http://tinyurl.com/c69en (in Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/c2l2r (ditto)

Antiquities smuggling is on the rise in Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=832&p=local&a=4

The British Library will probably have to return the Codex
Sinaiticus:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1565403,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/9jzwz (Australian)
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
David Block, *Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the
Roots of the Game*:

http://tinyurl.com/ankcv (NYT)

Kathryn Shevelow, *Charlotte: Being a True Account of an
Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's
Wild and Wicked Theatrical World.*

http://tinyurl.com/cn8sp (NYT)

John Kelly, *The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the
Black Death*:

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

Richard B. Todd (ed.), *Dictionary of British Classicists*:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2110530

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Julius Caesar:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/11703/

Elektra:

http://tinyurl.com/7uhax (NYT)

False Servant:

http://tinyurl.com/dhkzs (NYT)

Oedipus:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/050418crmu_music
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
This week, Atlantis returns to the Bermuda Triangle:

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/4/emw228560.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/c4ua8 (Art Daily)

Treasures from the World's Cultures: The British Museum
Since 1753:

http://tinyurl.com/dlk73 (Korea Herald)

Thracian exhibit in Spain:

http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=46659
http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=46738

Masterpieces from the Louvre Museum: 19th Century French
Paintings:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20050414woa2.htm

A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0408/p18s05-hfes.html?s=hns

The Fitzwilliam Museum has acquired a number of ancient items:

http://tinyurl.com/9qhdv (Guardian)

The NYPL is selling some of its art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/arts/design/11libr.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
Last day to catch all of the readings of the Georgics from RTE
Radio 1:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebookonone/

Aeschylus, Thucydides, and the Patriot Act:

http://www.counterpunch.org/gibson04122005.html

The importance of a Classical education:

http://tinyurl.com/9dld8 (Barometer)

... and the appeal/importance of Greek:

http://tinyurl.com/e2ok4 (Telegraph)

What to do with a Classics degree:

http://tinyurl.com/9po6w (Telegraph)

What Tennessee Williams was doing during his Greek
exam:

http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/5005.html

Using ancient coins in the classroom:

http://tinyurl.com/djawm (Tribune Review)

cf: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/4/prweb229994.htm

An interview with Ralph Hexter:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/04/15/hexter

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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REPEATS
================================================================
China Demands Return of Cultural Relics:

http://english.people.com.cn/200504/12/eng20050412_180650.html

Roman Mosaics from Libya:

http://tinyurl.com/8oa6g News Journal)

Threat to Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1564250,00.html
http://www.cumbria-online.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=199342
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
Sowdon, Anastasia Tsaliki, Croman mac Nessa, Donna Hurst,
Eleftheria Mantzouka, Francis Deblauwe, Franco, Glenn Meyer,
Hernan Astudillo, Joan Griffith, Joanne Conman, John Hill,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Malcolm Manford,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Susan Jaslow, 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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Creswell Crags' petroglyphs have been dated to 12,800 b.p.:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uob-cra042105.php
http://tinyurl.com/doxn4 (Telegraph)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4437970

A predynastic funerary complex found near Edfu (?) is causing
much excitement:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4467253.stm
http://tinyurl.com/d2k2r (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/b5ttm (Al-jazeera)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7575547/
http://tinyurl.com/8yghm (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/aqc5b (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/9fjrq (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/8jdvp (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/97oae (SF Chronicle)
http://tinyurl.com/7g243 (USA Today)

I believe these Egyptian vessels from  Mersa Gawasis were first
mentioned a couple weeks ago, but we're getting more details
now:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/bu-esv042105.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050423191506.htm

Nice feature on the excavations at Gatalhvyk (sic):

http://tinyurl.com/8aa22 (Chronicle)

Finds from various periods near Pasargadae:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=172229

A Parthian-era castle in northern Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=174316

Achaemenid paint containers:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=174783

UCincinnati folks have unearthed a previously-unknown
Greek temple in Albania:

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=2601

Prehistoric Pompeii:

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1291&date=20050417

Remains of a Greek city have been found near Messina (all
articles in Italian):

http://tinyurl.com/clf6a (la Sicilia)
http://www.centonove.it/comments.php?id=2391&category=325

A woman has found a pile of Abbasid-era coins:

http://tinyurl.com/7u6h4 (Daily Times)

China's top ten finds last year:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/18/content_2844035.htm

Searching for Bisham Abbey:

http://tinyurl.com/ah88l (This is London)

Mysterious burial from Limerick:

http://tinyurl.com/96jn7 (Limerick Post)

They're "scheduling" a pile of monuments in Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/37715.html
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THE AMERICAS
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The Church of England has okayed DNA tests on the bones believed
to belong to Jamestown's founder:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7578183/

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/7meot (Times Dispatch) and:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1578121,00.html

Another Walmart ... more possible native American remains (in
Kentucky):

http://tinyurl.com/ck24q (Courier-Journal)
http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3236544

... while school construction in Mississippi has yielded another
possible native American site:

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/11467046.htm

... and three kids playing in their grandfather's yard in Utah
have also found some native American remains:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600127519,00.html

A possible slave burial ground in Portsmouth:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/04192005/news/37636.htm

Nice feature on the CSS Chickamauga:

http://tinyurl.com/c9npr (Bladen Journal)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, China's Tarim Basin mummies have been
demonstrated to be Caucasian:

http://tinyurl.com/b2f8s  (Khaleej Times)
http://tinyurl.com/c4uqo (AFP via Yahoo)

Prehistoric people wiped out elephants:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7548514/

Maybe Genghis Khan wasn't such a bad guy:

http://tinyurl.com/9krsc (Telegraph)

... maybe even the "father of European integration?":

http://tinyurl.com/bzm58 (Telegraph)

... but you have to read this one:

http://www.sundayherald.com/49288

How St. Andrew became associated with Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/37556-print.shtml

Jerusalem Post has a feature on Aramaic:

http://tinyurl.com/dckvk

Searching for the Witham Bowl:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1464460,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4468691.stm

cf a semi-similar story about a 15th century painting in the
U.S.:

http://tinyurl.com/9emor (Gazette)

Every few years, it seems, they wonder about the accuracy of
this or that portrait of Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/arts/23arts.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4471515.stm

The Axsum obelisk saga appears to be nearing its conclusion:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7556856/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4458105.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4472259.stm
http://tinyurl.com/79ew2 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1576818,00.html

Gunpowder  Plot as 9/11:

http://tinyurl.com/92rj7 (Telegraph)

A touristy thing on the Canary Islands with quite a bit of
historical stuff too:

http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20050421-090747-8069r.htm

A feature on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20576

A movie about Nefertiti is in the works:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/739/fe4.htm

Contrary to reports a while back, you CAN see the Great Wall
from outer space:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4459311.stm

The father of floss:

http://tinyurl.com/by7mn (NYT)

What soils from Hawaii tell us:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050418202915.htm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (May/June 2005):

http://www.archaeology.org/0505/index.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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The Hellinomnimon Project: A Digital Library of Greek
Philosophical and Scientific Books and Manuscripts (1600-1821):

http://www.space.noa.gr/hellinomnimon/

Virtual Egyptian Museum:

http://www.virtualegyptianmuseum.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Ethiopia wants the UK to return a pile of artifacts (not sure
this is the right category for this one):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1576813,00.html

although cf:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11768

... while an Israeli cleric is seeking return of some Torahs
from Egypt:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=80611

A number of Aramaic incantation bowls visiting the Petrie
museum are at the centre of a potential smuggling dispute:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1579996,00.html

A number of 15th century manuscripts from India which had been
sent to the US to be digitized have gone missing:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1085967.cms
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Megan Marsgall, *The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited
American Romanticism.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/books/20grim.html

David S. Reynolds, *John Brown, Abolitionist*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/050425crbo_books

Flora Fraser, *Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III":

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/books/review/24SCHIFFL.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Ariel:

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2005-04-20/culture/theater.html

Burial at Thebes:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/critique.cfm?id=431422005

Orlando:

http://tinyurl.com/dty6f (New York Metro)

Kingdom of Heaven:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/movies/24ridi.html

How 'Julius Caesar' came to be written:

http://tinyurl.com/8flrp (Age)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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The curse of ... Otzi:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1463671,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/arts/design/19roth.html

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/arts/design/22catlin.html

Printing the Talmud:

http://tinyurl.com/99qd7 (Art Daily)

Assorted museum news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/arts/design/22voge.html

Some 17th and 18th century instruments came to auction this
week (4th item):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/arts/22arts.html

Stubbs and the Horse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/arts/design/22anti.html

Coverage of the recent antiquities sale at Bonhams:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11772

The Lakenheath Warrior is returning to Suffolk:

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/63326.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Only a couple more days to listen to the BBC's "In Our Time"
program on the Aeneid:

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

or download it (12 megs):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/mp3/inourtime18.mp3

Papal decline:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2117061

What killed Philippides:

http://tinyurl.com/byzw2 (Monitor)

Roman day:

http://tinyurl.com/a9co9 (Indy Star)

Latin qualifications test in Illinois is too hard?:

http://www.sj-r.com/Sections/News/Stories/53698.asp
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/042205/REG_B673D9N7.035.shtml

Nice feature on Father Foster:

http://tinyurl.com/9w47c (USA Today via Yahoo)

Classics Day at the COTHC:

http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/press_releases/05_04_20

Jim O'Donnell talks about Augustine on the BBC's Nightwaves:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio3_aod.shtml?radio3/nightwaves_tue

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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OBITUARIES
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Richard Popkin (historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/obituaries/19popkin.html
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REPEATS
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Battle of the Nile Remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4455033.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4415462
http://tinyurl.com/a9yeu (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/cn9c8

Genographic Project:

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67250,00.html

Laocoon Forgery?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/18/arts/design/18laoc.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1582490,00.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/art/3147097

Mystery of the Olmecs:

http://tinyurl.com/ahurc (Herald-Leader)

Oxyrhynchus Papyri:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=410562005
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2005/04/19/classics/print.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2116902/
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=78254&cat=World
http://weblog.physorg.com/news1612.html
http://tinyurl.com/95u4g (Kathimerini)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4608326
http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100BF9KMSL
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050420-4827.html

Saving Machu Picchu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4459117.stm
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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Brief item on some interesting finds at Saqqara (and they have
problems with Zahi's name):

http://tinyurl.com/7s6cr (IOL)

photo: http://it.news.yahoo.com/050430/2/37gm5.html

Archaeologists have found a pile of pharoanic (spelled it right
this week!) seals used by folks sent on 'desert missions':

http://tinyurl.com/dv5t2 (AFP via Yahoo)

Here's a new twist in the Aksum Obelisk saga ... a pile of
tombs have been found near the site where the obelisk is to be
re-erected:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4484813.stm
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=9269
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1354180.htm
http://tinyurl.com/cz3d2 (Art Daily)

... the obelisk did return, by the way:

http://tinyurl.com/coyud (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/cevxn (USA Today)

Some more details/an extended piece on the discovery of those
Egyptian sea-going vessels mentioned in the past couple of
weeks:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050423191506.htm
http://tinyurl.com/dgt4z (Daily Free Press)

Not sure if this is news or not ... it's about tombs found
in Dastova (Iran):

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/apr/1208.html

We'll hopefully get more details on this ... archaeologists have
unearthed 3 kg of gold at a site in southern Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/95sdp (Sunday Times)

A Parthian city has been found:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=176635

What might possibly be the Mycenean port of Athens was found
this week:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=55796

While archaeo-tourism is on the rise, ironically the site of
Apollonia is threatened by regular tourism:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1584021,00.html

A sort-of followup to the Oxyrhynchus papyri story:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=633861

Remains of a Roman bathhouse were found in Colchester:

http://tinyurl.com/9pud3 (EADT)

A British gardener dug up a major Bronze Age hoard of tools and
weapons this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4486077.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7641247/
http://tinyurl.com/7st4c (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/8meqa (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/dww3w (Reuters)

Remember that 'Roman industrial estate' found last year (under
a medieval 'track') ... they're going to be digging some more:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/4480801.stm

A pile of mummies from China:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1087421.cms
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/24/content_2870535.htm

Another tomb in China has revealed 6 000 b.p. human remains of
someone who was 180 cm tall (!):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/25/content_2874161.htm

15th century remains from Limerick:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=145883
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THE AMERICAS
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A Mayan 'salt factory' near Belize:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3149176

Checking out a site where some bones were found near Toledo:

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?s=3277278

Digging New York City:

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/45278.htm

Looks like schools are going to join Walmarts as places where
one can expect to find archaeological remains:

http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?s=3254073
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Did homo sapiens originate in China?:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/27/content_2884681.htm

... while "Austronesian-speaking" people originated in Taiwan:

http://tinyurl.com/9fx8g (Taiwan News)

Interesting demographic study of the Jews from Exodus to today:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=570281

Nice piece on the Madara horseman:

http://tinyurl.com/73gk2 (Echo)

A press release on a documentary about Tut's CT scan:

http://tinyurl.com/9xrue

The Kent's Cavern jawbone is older than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4482679.stm

All about Scotland's forgotten "Clearances":

http://www.sundayherald.com/49258

The Westminster Retable is going on display:

http://tinyurl.com/a4e9b (Telegraph)

Trinity Western University (in Canada!) is now home to one of
the largest collections of ancient Biblical texts:

http://www.twu.ca/news/view-specific.aspx?newsID=396

They might get sponsors to pay for Acropolis restoration:

http://tinyurl.com/dkmru (Kathimerini)

Progress on the new Pierpont Morgan Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/arts/design/26morg.html

Interesting article on the fate of some very old olive trees
in Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/72zj2 (Telegraph)

A touristy thing on Petra:

http://www.salisburypost.com/lifestyle/283142823644494.php

... and Malta:

http://www.vancourier.com/issues05/044105/travel.html

... and Turkey:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1591890,00.html

Plans to restore/recover the 'garden of Eden':

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3626
(Portuguese)

A general piece on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/dep8k (Eagle)

The Haida repatriation-of-objects effort is bearing fruit:

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/04/23/a1.haida.0423.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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British Archaeology (January/February 2005 ... full text):

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba80/feat3.shtml

Digital Medievalist:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Cheryl Gunselman, "A Buried Promise: The Palus Jefferson
Peace Medal":

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/temp/buriedpromise.htm

Numismatic books online:

http://www.inumis.com/books/index.html

Giambattista Nolli's map of Rome (interactive):

http://nolli.uoregon.edu/default.asp

Eternal Egypt:

http://www.eternalegypt.org/

The Antikythera Mechanism:

http://itotd.com/index.alt?ArticleID=533

Glyphdoctors:

http://www.glyphdoctors.com/
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The Viking Ship of Hedeby:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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The BBC has a look back at the looting of the Baghdad Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4461755.stm

cf:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/dbfiles/farchakh/farchmain.htm

... this is a good place to mention that Francis Deblauwe's
Iraq War and Archaeology site has moved to:

http://iwa.univie.ac.at/

Regular readers of Explorator will file this one under
'obvious':

http://tinyurl.com/atduu (ABC)

A thought piece on whether antiquities dealers preserved the
past or steal it:

http://www.reason.com/0504/fe.sv.ancient.shtml

... and one on antiquities being returned:

http://tinyurl.com/88qcq (Globe)

General aeticle on the scale of antiquities smuggling:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=633861

There are rumours that those stolen Munch masterpieces have
been destroyed:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1028548.ece

Spanish police arrested a pile of art traffickers this week:

http://tinyurl.com/c7kbu (Reuters)

The Brussels Museum is returning an Egyptian relief that was
stolen some 30 years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/e3kfs (Daily Star)

Germany still wants looted art returned from Russia:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1568912,00.html

Christie's withdrew one artifact from auction a week or so
ago to allow Iran time to support its claim to it:

http://tinyurl.com/d3r5w (MET)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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What Would Jesus Eat?:

http://tinyurl.com/ahwsp (NYT)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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King Lear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/national/29lear.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Surely a search for Atlantis isn't motivated by money?:

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/4/emw234432.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Another review of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum:

http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/53903.asp

Museum of Biblical Art:

http://www.artandantiques.net/A_A_Update.htm?CD=834&ID=1864

Coptic Museum:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/740/he1.htm

Fifty Years of Danish Archaeology in Bahrain:

http://tinyurl.com/dblpa (Gulf Daily News)

O homem e a pedra: a pré-história na Amazônia

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3629
(Portuguese)

Resonance from the Past (African art):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29cott.html

More on the New York Public Library's auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29voge.html

An auction of botanical prints:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29anti.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Latin is alive and well in Fairfax City:

http://tinyurl.com/96af8 (Washington Post)

... and they had a Latin Fest in Terre Haute:

http://tinyurl.com/carkb (Statesman)

... and it's good for the SAT:

http://press.arrivenet.com/ent/article.php/627217.html

Alan Cameron is being honoured:

http://tinyurl.com/7jf6y (Spectator)

Julius Tomins is at the center of a 'freedom of speech' type
dispute at Oxford (these are all different):

http://www.oxfordstudent.com/tt2005wk1/Editorial/speaking_out
http://tinyurl.com/dbzv7 (Oxford Student)
http://tinyurl.com/ctwgn (Index)
http://www.oxfordstudent.com/tt2005wk1/Comment/classical_criticism

This one keeps popping up and I'm not sure whether I've mentioned
it before  .... it's a piece on the "murder" of Cleopatra (a
documentary subject):

http://tinyurl.com/dljut (Star)

What retired Classicists do:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/28/features/bookfri.php
http://tinyurl.com/7eemn

Nice little crib of Greek and Roman divinities:

http://tinyurl.com/exx2x (Redlands)

Another Pope and Latin piece:

http://tinyurl.com/7cnas (World Peace Herald)

Father Foster's role in all this papal Latin stuff:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/050424/137/2kxmi.html

Some NLE results:

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Apr/20050430News005.asp

Changes at Loyola's Rome Center:

http://tinyurl.com/b6euj (Phoenix)

U.S. as late-antiquity Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/8yplp (LA Times)

Politicians ancient and modern:

http://www.counterpunch.org/rae04262005.html

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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REPEATS
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Dating Creswell Crags:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4476303.stm

Genographic Project:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3612
(Portuguese)

Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4467253.stm

Laocoon Fake:

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

Oxyrhynchus Papyri:

http://www.nysun.com/article/12797
http://tinyurl.com/abwsv (NG)
http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2005/4/24/224546/127

Tut CT Scan:

http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2005/04/30/news/20tut.txt
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.com/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://iwa.univie.ac.at/

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

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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something last week too!), Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson,
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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I don't think we had this one before (although it's a bit old)
... the earliest evidence for domestic herding in the Negev
Desert has been found:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uocp-eeo040605.php

Lots of coverage of what Zahi Hawass is referring to as the
'most beautiful mummy' ever found in Egypt (2300 b.p.):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4510433.stm (photos!)
http://tinyurl.com/88bz3 (Washington Post)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7719701/
http://tinyurl.com/c99sm (AP via Yahoo ... with photos)
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/73480.php
http://tinyurl.com/bev5j (ABC)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-mummy04.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3165881
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/03/content_2913093.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/03/tech/main692727.shtml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1596798,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=475712005
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050503/D89RM6A82.html

A discovery of a shrine dedicated to Eshmun is lending weight
to the theory that he was the precursor to Aesculapius:

http://tinyurl.com/cw33u (Romagna Oggi ... Italian)

A major Parthian site is being excavated in Turkmenistan:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0505070932184403.htm

An update on the 'identity' of one of those 'salt men' found
in Iran recently:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/may/1022.html

The latest from the archaeological side of Temple Mount:

http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200505/FOR20050506d.shtml

A nice 'state of the research' type thing on the site of Meron:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=572477

Andrea Carandini talks about his recent finds in the Roman
Forum:

http://tinyurl.com/a8vr4 (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/06/news/rome.php
http://tinyurl.com/atx36 (Indy Star)

Roman remains from Carlisle:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=206884

Norfolk is apparently the best place to play with your
metal detector:

http://tinyurl.com/9ffzn (EDP24)

A 3000 b.p. bronze sword from China's Henan province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200505/04/eng20050504_183715.html

A 1700 b.p. fort from China's Anhui province:

http://tinyurl.com/885o3 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/04/content_2915094.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1360080.htm

A pre-European Maori dog burial:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10123727

... while loss of a site on New Zealand's coast is causing some
controversy:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/0,2106,3270585a6510,00.html

... and apartment/retail construction has revealed yet another
site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/0,2106,3271829a6510,00.html

Sewer construction on Guam is also in conflict with a site:

http://www.kuam.com/news/13611.aspx

A 200 b.p. mummy from Hanoi:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050507/ap/d89u67704.html

A pile of medieval (and possibly earlier) skeletons from Scotland:

http://tinyurl.com/8h9we (Scotland Today)
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=476052005
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/38511.html
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THE AMERICAS
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Possible prehistoric skull from Durango:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7734034/

A Woodland burial site in Minnesota:

http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?s=3290901

Early native Americans were drawn to a cranberry bog in
Pennsylvania:

http://tinyurl.com/7zrsw (Tribune-Review)

Sketchy news on sites found prior to airport construction in
Atlantic, IA:

http://tinyurl.com/au5pa (News Telegraph)

Early cookbooks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/dining/04libr.html

Nice piece on the CSS Chickamauga:

http://tinyurl.com/ccvj6 (Bladen Journal)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, a study suggests a 'migration back' from Asia
to populate Madagascar occured a couple of millennia ago:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7724855/

... and Neanderthals were 'mobile' earlier than previously
thought (the DNA side of this is marginal):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/wuis-nfs042805.php

cf. the spin the National Geographic put on the same story:

http://tinyurl.com/e3xp6

On the homo floresiensis front, scientists have "discovered"
a village of "pygmy people" near the place where the skeleton
was found:

http://tinyurl.com/czsqs (Advertiser)

cf:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/28/60minutes/main691775.shtml
http://www.geotimes.org/may05/NN_hobbit.html

Another CT Scan of a mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/amsmu (SF Chronicle)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/050605_nw_mummy.html

Interesting op-ed piece on the evolution of the U.S. judiciary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/opinion/06chernow.html

Here's an interesting twist to the whole DaVinci Code hype:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/07/arts/07code.html

NPR has a bunch of interviews etc. related to the abolitionist
John Brown:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4633323

Apparently they can tell from Napoleon's pants that he wasn't
poisoned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4512289.stm

... while Christopher Columbus appears to have died because
of 'reactive arthritis':

http://tinyurl.com/96krz (Washington Post)

Slide show of the reburial of the remains of soldiers who
fell at Trafalgar:

http://tinyurl.com/cepdg (Reuters via Yahoo)

Two halves of a Gaugin (which the artist sliced in half) have
been reunited:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1594247,00.html

An Harappan amusement park?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1594247,00.html

Touristy thing on Kalymnos:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7752233/

... and Turkey:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1601801,00.html

An upcoming historical Jesus debate:

http://tinyurl.com/7ryb2 (Gazette-Times)

The campaign to have the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles returned to
Greece continues:

http://tinyurl.com/crwnz (SMH)

... and a different example of 'repatriation' (sort of):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050502/ap_on_sc/sweden_skull_burial

The beginning of what appears to be a series on the history of
archaeology in Iran:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5205

There's going to be a 'protected wreck' study in Cornwall:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4501794
cf: http://www.lizardiver.co.uk/HistoricWrecks/Rag/rag.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

CSA Newsletter (Spring, 2005):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring05
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Archaeology Data Service (recently updated):

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/greylit/

Jews in America:

http://www.jewsinamerica.org/

Jodi Magness, "Ossuaries and the Burials of James and Jesus."
JBL 124/1 (2005) 121–154:

http://www.sbl-site.org/Publications/JBL/Current/6magness.pdf

netserf (medieval portal):

http://www.netserf.org/

Stone Circles of Scotland:

http://tinyurl.com/bas3s

Cuneiform Tablets:

http://international.loc.gov/intldl/cuneihtml/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
"How British Imperialism Looted Ethiopia in 1868" (a piece
which accompanies a story on the return of the Axum obelisk ...
see the repeats section)

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6394

A general piece (which might be a repeat) on tomb robbers in
Italy:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5192

A pile of thefts in India have parliamentarians wondering about
security:

http://tinyurl.com/ajmch (Telegraph)

Looting of sites in Missouri:

http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail4514.cfm?ID=22,39416

A followup to China's call for a halt to sales of antiquities:

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28552

I'm somewhat surprised that this isn't a rather more common
way to prevent/trace antiquities theft:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/4517133.stm
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BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Malcolm Allen, *Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in
Renaissance Art*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1597094,00.html

Sarah Vowell, *Assassination Vacation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/books/review/08HANDYL.html

Hadassa Ben-Itto, *The Lie That Wouldn't Die*:

http://tinyurl.com/dsoye (JPost)

Mark Mazower, *Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims
and Jews, 1430-1950*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/books/review/08KAPLANL.html

Judith Flanders, *A Circle of Sisters*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/books/review/08FOREMAN.html

Victoria Newhouse, *Art and the Power of Placement*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/books/review/08ELKINSL.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Perseus:

http://tinyurl.com/9ltrq (NYT)

Margaret Garner:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4633538

Nefertiti: the Musical:

http://nefertitithemusical.com/
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Robert Sarmast is building the hype for his upcoming expedition
to find Atlantis off Cyprus this summer:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=19707&cat_id=1

cf:
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=5338
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture
of the 'Wu Family Shrines' (nice slide show):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/arts/design/04cott.htm

Persian Glory:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0505011148194855.htm

Israel Museum:

http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=tarnopolsky20050504845

French and Indian War:

http://tinyurl.com/7m8bw

Some 18th century cabinet makers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/arts/design/06anti.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
A new Classics major at UDallas?:

http://tinyurl.com/a6f2f

What to do with a Classics degree:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4506769.stm

How dysfunctional is your department?:

http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/05/2005050401c.htm

A somewhat shaky application of Epicureanism to modern times:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-5-5/28447.html

Opinion piece suggesting the return of the office of Censor:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4472

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central for job listings, etc. in the
field of Classics:

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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REPEATS
================================================================
Axum Obelisk:

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6393
http://tinyurl.com/8jj6s (ME Times)

Creswell Petroglyphs Dated:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uob-cra042105.php

Egyptian Sea-Going Vessels:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/bu-esv042105.php
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050507/fob7.asp

More on POxy (and 616 v 666):

http://tinyurl.com/7anfp (National Post)

Tut Not Murdered:

http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2005/04/30/news/20tut.txt
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.com/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://iwa.univie.ac.at/

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

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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Conman, John Hill, John McMahon, Julie Parmenter, Louis A. Okin,
Malcolm G. Manford, Mata Kimasitayo, Michael Oberndorf, Mark
Morgan, Rochelle Altman, Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Riedlinger,
Bob Heuman, Sally Winchester, 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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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A sort of roundup piece on recent discoveries in Egypt:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=5206_0_1_0_M


Plenty of excitement over the discovery of a 2000 b.p. shoe in
southern England:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4530905.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7802581/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7802409/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7799820/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Ancient-Shoe.html

... while discovery of an Iron Age settlement has brought
road construction to a halt in Aberdeenshire:

http://tinyurl.com/8ds5z (Daily Record)

Nice article on the early development of wine-making on Cyprus,
albeit with a somewhat misleading headline attached:

http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=42028
http://tinyurl.com/75wp3 (Cyprus Weekly)

A neolithic site in Iran's Gilan province:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/may/1057.html
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5213

Further study of Gharbal Biz of Yazd indicates it is older than
previously thought:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5223

A tantalizingly-brief item on some recent Parthian-era
discoveries in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/7phqt (IOL)

Another Roman coin hoard found by some UK metal detectorists:

http://tinyurl.com/btkok (Evening Star)

A medieval Muslim burial ground from Portugal:

http://tinyurl.com/bur7t (adnKronos)

A Chinese Pompeii:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1368885.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200505/15/eng20050515_185101.html

A number of Han and Tang dynasty tombs were found in China's
Hebei province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200505/09/eng20050509_184205.html

Interesting Song Dynasty relics from the Three Gorges area:

http://english.people.com.cn/200505/15/eng20050515_185102.html

Earliest states in China 5000 b.p.?:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/11/content_2944558.htm

A 200 b.p. mummy from Vietnam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2005/05/424160/

Hopes of finding bronze Age and/or Anglo Saxon remains during
pipeline construction in Kent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4537967.stm

An 18th century shipwreck near the Solomon Islands has been
identified:

http://tinyurl.com/exgcu (CBC)
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Albuquerque has an interesting ordinance in place to protect
archaeological sites:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7787576/

Wooden Maya artifacts from Belize:

http://www.earthwatch.org/pubaffairs/news/mckillop.html

Possible 2000 b.p. burial from Nebraska:

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?s=3330852

What's he waiting for?:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-05092005-486725.html

Excavating the Mobile County Courthouse site:

http://tinyurl.com/92oar (Register)

Native American burial ground on a proposed NASCAR site:

http://tinyurl.com/b9mhd (SI Advance)
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This week's mummy scan (besides Tut ... see below):

http://tinyurl.com/78ekn (Stanford Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/9hehf (LA Daily News)

New (maybe) theory on how early humans left Africa:

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050509/full/050509-10.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7835657/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4543767.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/13/science/13migrate.html
http://tinyurl.com/95l7u (AP via Yahoo)
http://nytimes.com/2005/05/13/science/13migrate.html
http://tinyurl.com/bx7bb (NGU)
http://tinyurl.com/avs6t (Globe and Mail)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7371

Last week we mentioned a mitochondrial DNA study which led
to some conclusions about the populating of Madagascar; the
original paper is online as a .pdf (I can't get it to open
for me, though ... maybe it will work for you):

http://tinyurl.com/aug2e

Huge interest in the media over the facial reconstruction of
Tut (with plenty of different 'spins'):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4535027.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050510/ap_on_sc/king_tut (photos)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-King-Tut.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7806495/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=744934
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/742/fr2.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ar27q (News24)
http://tinyurl.com/8k4y7 (Australian)
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/10492
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1366688.htm
http://tinyurl.com/cfa9q (NGU)
http://tinyurl.com/77sdh (Telegraph)

... the headline of this one was originally "Tut Was Not Such
a Handsome Golden Youth, After All" (John Noble Wilford):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/science/11tut.htm
http://tinyurl.com/9utbp (SMH)

... if you want a big version of 'the photo':

http://tinyurl.com/blqb3 (NG)

In other Tut news, National Geographic is looking at the
'curse':

http://tinyurl.com/7mqhw

Another big story spun assorted ways was on the origins of
leprosy:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12273007.htm
http://tinyurl.com/8h582 (NGU)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/13/content_2953496.htm
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13740661
http://tinyurl.com/agqnt (Rocky Mountain News)
http://tinyurl.com/bzf4o (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/bposg (SciDev)
http://tinyurl.com/axd3e (LA times)
http://tinyurl.com/8h582 (NGU)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=24339
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4540461.stm

On the inflation rate in ancient Parthia:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5222

How various ancient cultures dealt with pain:

http://tinyurl.com/culfq (ABC)

Every couple of years we get a suggestion that the Black
Death wasn't bubonic plague ... here's the latest:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1925513.stm


A 700 b.p. document purloined by Edward I was returned this
week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4540671.stm

Interesting interview with theoretical anthropologist Robert
Boyd:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/10conv.html

... and one with Heritage Malta Chairthingy Mario Tabone:

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2005/05/08/interview.html

Another piece gives a nice overview of Virgina Popper's
work in paleoethnobotany:

http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=1145

The Hasankeyf dam project (with its concomitant threat to
plenty of sites) is apparently on again:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11790

Folks with a bit of a mathematical bent will be interested in
this account of the All Five [sc. platonic solids] puzzle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/10puzz.html

Another piece on Genghis Khan's management style:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4481195.stm

Interesting item on the Vlachs:

http://tinyurl.com/dpx5t (SET)

... and Macedonia's Megalithic-era Kokino Observatory:

http://tinyurl.com/aat4j (SET)

Touristy thing on Tunis:

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,19969-1609153,00.html

Whither the books?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/14/education/14library.html

The roots of modern images:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4532785.stm

Preserving Gutenberg Bibles:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050512100409.htm

Latest on Ireland's plans for Tara:

http://tinyurl.com/7z4bx (NYT)

Reality TV ... from a monastery:

http://tinyurl.com/7efw4 (Guardian)
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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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British Museum Catalog of Greek Coins (Phrygia has just been
added):

http://www.snible.org/coins/bmc/

New discussion board: Field Archaeology:

http://p097.ezboard.com/bfieldarchaeology
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A pile of purloined antiquities were seized in Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/news_6449.php

Another perspective on the Baghdad Museum, etc.:

http://www.techcentralstation.com/051005B.html
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A trio of books about Egypt aimed at children:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/review/15WOLITZE.html

The Library of America edition of a trio of Louisa May Alcott's
works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/review/15SALTERL.html

Anthony Majanlahti, *The Families Who Made Rome*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1607416,00.html

Milbry Polk and Angela M H Schuster (eds.), *The Looting of the
Iraq Museum, Baghdad*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1597272,00.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Kingdom of Heaven:

http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/1150
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Clash of Empires: The British, French, and Indian War:

http://tinyurl.com/7962g

Ink and Blood:

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/11645400.htm

On the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/742/hr1.htm

Museum of Biblical Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/arts/design/11bibl.html
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This is probably what all the POxy hype was really about ...
drawing attention to what's in the Villa of the Papyri:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=638222

... further 'proof' in an interview with Richard Janko:

http://tinyurl.com/alr77 (Mlive)

Legio IX Hispana is on the march:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=8602

Latin is alive and well in Durham:

http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-605551.html

Carmina Popularia:

http://www.ravendays.org/latin/carmina.html

Latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga (sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/csaca (Kathimerini)

... but this one IS interesting:

http://tinyurl.com/bsg4d (Telegraph)

What to do with a Classics (er, Ancient History) degree:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=516792005

Ancient Roman field day:

http://tinyurl.com/7glee

Roman portents led to the study of the sun:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050512100409.htm

St. Augustine (and Jim O'Donnell) in the news:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/050523/23augustine.htm

Cleopatra as scholar:

http://tinyurl.com/83fth (50 connect)

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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OBITUARIES
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Horton M. Davies (Church historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/14/obituaries/14DAVIES.html

Jack Clark (New Testament Studies):

http://www.startribune.com/stories/466/5400930

Brian Hartley (Samian Ware specialist):

http://tinyurl.com/byxm6 (Independent)
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REPEATS
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1700 b.p. Fort From China:

http://tinyurl.com/885o3 (AFP via Yahoo)

Forged Laocoon:

http://tinyurl.com/akf2p (Indy Star)

POxy and the Number of the Beast:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44169
http://tinyurl.com/e4h32 (Grand Rapids Press)

Tut's Cause of Death:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13457
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=4857
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.com/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://iwa.univie.ac.at/

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

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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