The link:

  > Greek Philistine remains at Tell es-Safi:
  > http://tinyurl.com/7ju6s (Jewish Exponent)

Should be this link:
http://www.jewishexponent.com/ViewArticle.asp?ArtID=843

dm

[apologies ... my email program appears to be firing blanks this a.m.]

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EARLY HUMANS
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Another piece on how early humans affected the climate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4219818.stm

The invention of the spear led to peace, supposedly:

http://tinyurl.com/852z5 (National Geographic)

They're still looking for 'Peking Man':

http://tinyurl.com/a635e (IOL)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A cuneiform tablet was found at Sidon:

http://tinyurl.com/al6hg (Daily Star)

A small statue of Anahita was found in an excavation near
Prague (!):

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/70476

A mummy has been found in a sarcophagus in Palmyra (!):

http://en.rian.ru/world/20050907/41327150.html

At the Bam excavations, they've found evidence of food storage:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5554§ion=2

The Mesopotamians apparently made the first cocktail:

http://tinyurl.com/9nc3n (AGI)

The latest on the 'David's Palace' debate:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=622357

A press release calling for the world community to step in and
save the remains of Pasargadae from rising dam waters:

http://tinyurl.com/ab99v

but cf:

http://tinyurl.com/73jpg (Paleojudaica)

Lots of previews/hype about the opening of that Persian
exhibition at the British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/79oty (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/cd7x6 (IranMania)
http://tinyurl.com/8e8au (nice video report from Channel 4)
http://tinyurl.com/b453f (Reuters)
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_9483.shtml
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1566998,00.html

... official site:

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/persia/index.html

... slideshow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4223246.stm

We're getting some details on what's in that 'lost' collection
of Egyptian artifacts recently rediscovered in China:

http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/16113_cleopatra.html

An 'interesting' dig at Qumran:

http://tinyurl.com/b3sn5 (Plainview Daily Herald)

A feature on the Theban Mapping Project:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/0907/p25s01-stct.html

... and the website itself:

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

Some interesting stuff about the Temple of Karnak:

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=119407

UPenn archaeologists are returning to Iran after 26 years:

http://tinyurl.com/bdm5j (Daily Pennsylvanian)

UNESCO is trying to get Israelis and Palestinians to cooperate
in regards to ancient monuments:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11868

Stephen Vicchio, "The Image of Ayyub (Job) in the Qu’ran
and Later Islam":

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

Exhibition ... Early Writing in Egypt and Mesopotamia:

http://tinyurl.com/8evvz (Age)

Exhibition ... The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/nyregion/10papyrus.html
(nice slide show)
http://tinyurl.com/7gvpn (Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/exms6 (Forbes ... same)

Review of *The Persian Gulf in Ancient Maps*:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5559§ion=2

Review of Tom Holland, *Persian Fire*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article310460.ece
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article309582.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1760451,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1566336,00.html

Review of Bruce Feiler, *Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land
to the Roots of Religion.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/books/review/11swift.html

Cyrus as a model for the US?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1564038,00.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Toscana Oggi reports (in Italian) on the discovery of an
Etruscan necropolis at Cortona

http://www.toscanaoggi.it/news.asp?IDNews=5092&IDCategoria=1

A Christian "pulpit" has been found at Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=52239

Another piece on the brickworks of the Domitii:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1911432005

Haven't had a facial reconstruction in a while ... the latest
is on Leasowe Man:

http://tinyurl.com/dhfur (icLiverpool)

A Roman farm in Sedgeford:

http://tinyurl.com/djwmg (Lynn News)

Bill Wyman's a metal detectorist too:

http://tinyurl.com/9kkrq (EADT)

Brief item on the discovery of a Roman temple in Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/dto8s (Sana)

Very vague item about an "ancient medallion" being unearthed
in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=52139

Stephen Miller is still on the lecture circuit:

http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2005/09/0908conleylecture.htm

Chatty piece on UND's survey (?) of a site near Larnaca:

http://tinyurl.com/bgx92 (Blairsville Dispatch)

Repeat of that story on the hoard of Roman statuary from
Cyrene:

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

Robocop and Rome:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/343334p-292761c.html

A press release which seems to be a touristy thing on the
Necromanteion:

http://tinyurl.com/e4lm9
cf: http://www.vancourier.com/issues05/091105/travel.html

Exhibition ... Mirror of Memory: Imagining Roman Antiquity in
19th Century Photography:

http://tinyurl.com/eyfbt (Art Daily)

ClassCon in a piece about CSU:

http://tinyurl.com/cmemx (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Jane Ellen Harrison was one of the ODNB lives of the week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html (you may have
to go back to the lotw main page to find it)

Interesting interview with Ridley Scott about the new Gladiator
release:

http://www.dvdactu.be/newsdetails.php?id=2626

Reviews keep trickling in about HBO's Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/dflot

Review of Tom Holland, *Persian Fire*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article310460.ece
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article309582.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1760451,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1566336,00.html

Review of Dan Simmons, *Olympos* (fiction):

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

Review of Richard Hingley, *Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity,
Diversity, and Empire*:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/06-13hin.htm

Review of a couple of books on the fall of the Roman Empire:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GI07Ak05.html

Recent reviews from Aestimatio:

http://www.ircps.org/publications/aestimatio/rreviews.htm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Cyrus as a model for the US?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1564038,00.html

An attack on Victor Davis Hanson by someone writing under a
pseudonym:

http://www.counterpunch.org/werther09072005.html

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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More on that Viking hoard find made by a couple of kids in
Norway:

http://tinyurl.com/99auw (Guardian)

Searching for a lost settlement in Nottingham:

http://tinyurl.com/b6cer (BBC)

Assorted Medieval finds at Rushen Abbey:

http://www.manx.net/default.asp?id=18&articleid=4990

A statue of the Persian goddess Anahita was excavated near
Prague:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/70476

A three-fingered glove was recently found in Flanders:

http://www.aalst.be/hopmarkt/default.asp?rubriek=153 (Dutch)

Whittington has a somewhat tenuous 'grail connection' it might
want to exploit:

http://tinyurl.com/82vvu (Ham and High)

Wessex Archaeology's events Blog:

http://events.wessexarch.co.uk/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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An 8000 b.p. fishing boat from China:

http://tinyurl.com/7qgrq (Chosun)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Another piece on Polynesians making it to California:

http://tinyurl.com/clp39 (LAT)

Assorted prehistoric artifacts were discovered during work
prior to construction of the Clifton Park library:

http://tinyurl.com/92b5b (Times Union)

Interesting item on preservation of assorted papers associated
with Benedict Arnold:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/nyregion/08archive.html

A survey's afoot in anticipation of park construction in NC:

http://tinyurl.com/bhpzv (Daily Advance)

Searching for clues about the beginnings of the Seminole
people:

http://tinyurl.com/c5w5g (SP Times)

A Gold Rush era ship is being excavated in San Francisco:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9239070/
http://tinyurl.com/9nswa (Chronicle)

Some mystery burials in Peterborough (Ontario):

http://www.mykawartha.com/ka/news/home/story/3012644p-3492824c.html

The Boston Globe has an interesting feature on 'native ingenuity':

http://tinyurl.com/bw7rd

The latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about prehistoric
life in Arizona:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The affect Katrina had on various sites/artifacts in Mississippi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/garden/08history.html

Exhibition ... Landon Americana collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/arts/design/09anti.html

Exhibition ... Slavery in New York:

http://slaveryinnewyork.org

Review of Mark Caldwell, *New York Night: The Mystique and Its
History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/books/05grim.html

Review of Gary Wills, *Henry Adams and the Making of America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/books/review/11lingeman.html

Review of E. L. Doctorow, *The March* (fiction ... review by
John Updike):

http://tinyurl.com/behcg (New Yorker)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Grand Saposoa is falling victim to tomb raiders:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9233051/
http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Sep/20050907News018.asp
http://tinyurl.com/9mvv9 (AP)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1099584

Touristy thing on the Yucatan peninsula:

http://tinyurl.com/acdu5 (Seattle Times)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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That Bronze Age style reed boat which was to retrace the ancient
trade route to India sank this week:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9269279/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9229774/
http://tinyurl.com/ag29y (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/covdm (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/dr9d8

The Guardian has a piece on 'the academic novel':

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1566401,00.html

Interesting ad campaign in Italy to get Italians to appreciate
their artistic heritage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/arts/design/10heri.html

In the wake of Katrina, the New York Times had a piece on
assorted other cities/monuments that had 'vanished':

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/science/06lost.html

A possible previously-unknown Munch has been identified in
Germany:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/arts/07arts.html (2nd item)

What's Britain's greatest painting?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4214824.stm

Touristy thing on Salonika:

http://tinyurl.com/cc8eo (Jewish Week)

... and one on Capri:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1513/5604378.html

... and Granada

The British Library has put some Renaissance Festival books
online:

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/homepage.html

Salon has an interesting item on 'fringe' archaeology and how
it sometimes gets in the way of 'real' archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/97343

Exhibition ... Fra Angelico:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/arts/design/11kimm.html

Review of Wendy Moore,  *The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life
and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/books/review/11roach.html

The UK government has launched consultations into determining
what monuments must be saved 'at all costs' in the event of a
war or whatever:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1564187,00.html

A mostly-accurate overview of the history of the Caesarean
section:

http://tinyurl.com/bmrvb (Kuensel Online)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Apollo (toc only):

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/index.php

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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High tech looting of Greek shipwrecks:

http://tinyurl.com/a5xe9 (Boston Globe)

There's quite a dispute brewing between archaeologists and
government types over legislation which would ban the import of
antiquities from Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/politics/09antiquities.html

Grand Saposoa is falling victim to tomb raiders:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9233051/
http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Sep/20050907News018.asp

UNESCO claims that trafficking in 'cultural property' is second
only to the narcotics trade:

http://tinyurl.com/ahz5k (Navhind Times)

Latest developments in the Marion True case:

http://tinyurl.com/crqen (SMH)

Financial Times has an interesting feature on Maguire Gibson
and the current 'state of affairs' in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/7omju
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NUMISMATICA
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Somewhat strange (it seems) dispute over ownership of an
Indian coin collection:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4204228.stm

There's a Sassanid coin exhibition accompanying that British
Museum Persian exhibition:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5582§ion=2

A professor visiting Pergamon found a 500 b.p. Ottoman Empire
coin:

http://tinyurl.com/aeqtn (AScribe)

Interesting history of Scottish bank notes, which are now
threatened, apparently:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/ingenuity.cfm?id=1876402005

An 1854 gold eagle is coming up for auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/national/06coin.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The El Paso Archaeological Society and the El Paso Museum are
scrapping:

http://tinyurl.com/bu8e7 (El Paso Times)

The National Museum of Scotland is opening its 'unseen collection'
to the public:

http://news.scotsman.com/arts.cfm?id=1920422005

Changes are going on at the Field Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/7zhgc (Chicago Tribune)

Financial Times has a nice feature on the Art Institute of
Chicago:

http://tinyurl.com/dcmvo

For info on the status of Katrina-affected museums:

http://www.aam-us.org/aamlatest/news/HurricaneFirstReports.cfm

London and Beijing are going to exchange some archaeological
treasures:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1563323,00.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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A Kiss from Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/8f5dt

Julius Caesar:

http://tinyurl.com/8plfy

Iphigenia at Aulis:

http://www.sltrib.com/arts/ci_3018286
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OBITUARIES
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R.W. Funk (creator of the Jesus Seminar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/national/10funk.html
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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Lora Holland, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe, Rochelle Altman,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Rick Pettigrew, 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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EARLY HUMANS
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Did 'modern' humans and Neanderthals live side-by-side?:

http://tinyurl.com/8n6tk (WPost)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Brief item (in Spanish) on the discovery of some prehistoric
petroglyphs in the Egyptian Dajla oasis:

http://tinyurl.com/anzle (El Mercurio)

The 'Scottish Indiana Jones' has apparently found part of the
Serapeum Way:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1929852005

A Bronze Age 'castle' from Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/sep/1146.html

A 6th-Century mosaic is being left behind in Gaza:

http://tinyurl.com/dwcq3 (JPost)

... and folks might be interested in a Chronology of Gaza:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12593750.htm

Turns out that statue of Anahita found in Prague last week was
a fake/hoax:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/sep/1141.html
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/70626
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=148047

Persian Journal has a feature on early Iranian legends and
heroes:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_9558.shtml

A massive dig in Jerusalem is causing concern for the safety
of other sites:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=625621

A feature on Tepe Mil:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5616§ion=2

An Iranian perspective on the Achaemenid exhibition at the
British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/8t566 (Iran News)

cf: http://tinyurl.com/8aucq (Telegraph)
http://www.newstatesman.com/Arts/200509190029

A Polish team has found some 13th century frescoes in Lebanon:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA050918.HTM (Arabic ... photos)

A Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition which was to take place in
South Carolina has been cancelled:

http://tinyurl.com/8uort (News-Record)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The military on Cyprus bulldozed a Neolithic site in order to
install a flag pole:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=21847&archive=1

Major Bronze Age site on Andros:

http://tinyurl.com/c4o3b
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/2746.aspx

Brief item on Celtic (3000 b.p.) and Roman remains being
found in Switzerland:

http://tinyurl.com/cf7rp (IOL)

A 6th-Century mosaic is being left behind in Gaza:

http://tinyurl.com/dwcq3 (JPost)

Not sure if we've ever had an item on the excavation of a
Roman amphitheatre in Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=52389

Feature on assorted places to see artifacts in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/ald64 (Times)

Interesting item on a computer programmer using Google Earth
to identify a Roman Villa site:

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050912/full/050912-6.html

A lengthy, and yet vague, piece about searching for Greek
shipwrecks:

http://tinyurl.com/dskm3 (Kathimerini)

Plans for Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.n-e-life.com/forvisitors/article2.php?id=74839

How to make a Skytale:

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art35509.asp

What have the Romans ever done for us ('us' being Wales):

http://tinyurl.com/azz53 (Western Mail)

On writing a theatrical adaptation of the Odyssey:

http://tinyurl.com/7lblq (Australian)

Plenty of ClassCon in Vox Day's column at WorldNet Daily:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46274

Yet another story on the revival of chariot racing etc.
in Jordan:

http://tinyurl.com/deky6 (Telegraph ... nice pic)

A DVD reissue of Ben Hur is causing some excitement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/movies/13dvd.html

Hype for an upcoming documentary on Helen of Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/87vjl (Press release)

The Romans' 'noble exit strategy':

http://tinyurl.com/derze (Accent)

Hype for the Imagine Ancient Rome exhibition (that may
or may not be the title; it seems to depend on the
translation):

http://tinyurl.com/9lx4k (AGI)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1951942005

An Iranian perspective on the Achaemenid exhibition at the
British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/8t566 (Iran News)

cf: http://tinyurl.com/8aucq (Telegraph)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The Durrington Walls site is apparently shedding light on the
'mystery' of Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/9udhy (Salisbury Journal)

Brief item on Celtic (3000 b.p.) and Roman remains being
found in Switzerland:

http://tinyurl.com/cf7rp (IOL)

... and a touristy thing on Augusta Raurica's 50th anniversary:

http://tinyurl.com/bretl (SwissInfo)

Turns out that statue of Anahita found in Prague last week was
a fake/hoax:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/sep/1141.html
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/70626

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html

*** An Explorator reader asks whether anyone knows if
Gino Fornaciari is lecturing anywhere else in the U.S. about
the Medici (drop me a line and I'll forward the response):

http://tinyurl.com/8758q (Billings Gazette)
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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I think this is a repeat ... an item on salt production in
ancient China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/science/13obse.html

A huge (52 feet) Chinese painting will be exhibited in its
entirety for the first time in ages:

http://newsfromrussia.com/culture/2005/09/13/62779.html
http://tinyurl.com/bzcdx (Deccan Herald)
http://tinyurl.com/b7eac (Globe and Mail)

Some Buddhist structures have been found among the debris at
Bamiyan:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5604§ion=2

Report on the excavation of a Buddhist site in West Bengal and
the museum which will be built to house what they found:

http://tinyurl.com/9odw8 (New Kerala)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An 11,000 b.p. spear point from near the Idaho-Montana border:

http://www.ktvq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3840288
http://tinyurl.com/axw75 (Statesman ... photo)
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/12628648.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050913/ap_on_sc/spear_point

Life in Illinois, 9000 b.p.:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/12619178.htm

Trying to crack the mystery of how Sityatki Polychrome ware was
made:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050906080855.htm

The American Federation of Teachers has a series on some U.S.
landmarks; there's an intro:

http://tinyurl.com/ajtj9

... a piece on Independence Hall:

http://tinyurl.com/ccuu2

... and the Old Courthouse:

http://tinyurl.com/7hf2d

The fate of historical records in New Orleans in the wake of
Katrina is apparently still uncertain:

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/091105/fea_ancestors001.shtml
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Possible new evidence of the Mojos culture in the Amazon:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050914/kyodo/d8cjs5kg2.html

Transcript of a radio program on Teotihuacan:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1450287.htm

NASA had a nice pic of the Nazca lines this week:

http://tinyurl.com/9gaul

Hype for an exhibition about the Bingham expedition to Machu
Picchu:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=29768
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting feature on the 'timekeeper' of Versailles:

http://tinyurl.com/9mj3y (NYT)

Feature on the World Monuments Fund:

http://tinyurl.com/bvjn2 (Financial Times)

That failed 'Bronze-Age-boat-crew' is vowing to try again:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9229774/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9270960/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4234982.stm

The B.C./B.C.E. thing is causing a row in Glasgow:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/46813.html

This might be a repeat ... an item on various other places
which have disappeared due to natural disasters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/science/06lost.html

Touristy thing on Oxford:

http://travel2.nytimes.com//2005/09/18/travel/18kids.html

... and St Petersburg:

http://travel2.nytimes.com//2005/09/18/travel/18pushkin.html

... and Naples:

http://travel2.nytimes.com//2005/09/18/travel/18going.html

... and Cyprus:

http://travel2.nytimes.com//2005/09/18/travel/18cyprus.html

... and 'Genesis Land':

http://tinyurl.com/9vjut (JPost)

... and Grenada (Spain):

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/travel/11granada.html

An article (largely culled from Wikipedia) on the history of
chickens:

http://tinyurl.com/bq458 (News-Letter)

Anne Rice is working on a novel about the childhood of Jesus:

http://tinyurl.com/9gm7x (Talon Marks)

Review of Sharman Russell, *Hunger: An Unnatural History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/books/review/18angier.html

Review of Katherine Rogers, *First Friend: A History of Dogs
and Humans*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20050917-104940-4215r.htm
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some historically-significant maps have been stolen from the
British Library:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1777918,00.html

A stolen Rembrandt has been recovered:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4252568.stm

A sort of sidebar piece on investing in antiquities which seems
to be trying to make a connection between rising prices and
illicit antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/8q47p (Business Week)

What's the connection between picking up arrowheads and
meth labs?:

http://tinyurl.com/akwnh (Denton RC)
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NUMISMATICA
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American Vecturist Association:

http://www.americanvecturist.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/dowa7 (Newsday)

Russia!:

http://travel2.nytimes.com//2005/09/16/arts/design/16smit.html

cf the popularity of Russian art among collectors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/arts/design/16anti.html

A recently-found lost Titian will be auctioned off:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050916/od_nm/arts_titian_dc

Walt Whitman at the NYPL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/arts/12arts.html (4th item)

A shipwreck museum/attraction is one of the 'victims' of Katrina:

http://tinyurl.com/9ltha (SP Times)

The curator of the Greek and Roman collection at the Tampa
Museum of Art has quit:

http://tinyurl.com/bevzc (TB Business Journal)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-heph13.html

The Romans in Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/ddtp6 (Telegraph)

Passion Play:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/theater/reviews/12pass.html

The New York Times has a feature on George Bernard Shaw:

http://tinyurl.com/7sd5y
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ON THE WEB
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Moritix Londinensium inscription:

http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/BES/moritix/moritix.htm

Google now has blog searching capabilities:

http://blogsearch.google.com/
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OBITUARIES
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[Naphtali Lewis died last weekend ... I still haven't seen an
obituary for him]
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PODCASTS
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Wessex Archaeology:

http://events.wessexarch.co.uk/?cat=3

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Hanan Charaf, Hernan Astudillo, Jean Laplante, Joan Griffith,
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and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
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The debate on the life span of Neanderthals continues:

http://tinyurl.com/bxk8f (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/8yusj (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/cykwl (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://tinyurl.com/crkz9 (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/ae9nu (Science Daily)

This seems to be the category for news about homo floresiensis
... the debate on whether it is a new species or a 'diseased
human' continues (very different spins in these):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4268122.stm
http://tinyurl.com/bhs4a (Telegraph)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Vague item on third and fourth millennium remains in Azerbaijan:

http://tinyurl.com/dxz4j

Farming threatens various sites in Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/995jc (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/bv9y2 (Egypt Election)

The latest plans to revive Persepolis:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1575676,00.html

Byzantine mansion site from Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/74v57 (JPost)

The Mail and Guardian has a feature on worship of Asherah in
ancient Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/dq4hq

A sort of state-of-the-controversy piece on that ivory
pomegranate (by Hershel Shanks):

http://tinyurl.com/9ufvy (JPost)

... some reactions:

http://tinyurl.com/coe7t (JPost ... second item)

A computer generated image of Tut is causing all sorts of
ire (a skin colour thing, as one might suspect):

http://tinyurl.com/cnbgo (Sun Sentinel)

Nice piece on ancient Egyptian wine:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/living/12668952.htm

Achaemenid influence on India and Afghanistan:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5647§ion=2

Roman remains in Tyre:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA050922.HTM (Arabic ... photos)

Possible Roman temple in Beirut

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA050923.HTM (Arabic ... photos)

Interesting item on Judeo-Persian writing:

http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/5060.stm

Trying to balance all sorts of things and archaeology in
Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/cgvsv (Ha'aretz)

... and reaction:

http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1000

Alexander Joffe, "The Ages of BAR":

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

Review of Robert Pinsky, *Life of David*:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=14663

Review of Tom Holland, *Persian Fire*:

http://tinyurl.com/cjn4s (Guardian)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Quite a bit of coverage of the collapse of one of the sheds at
Akrotiri:

http://news.ert.gr/en/newsDetails.asp?ID=11226
http://news.ert.gr/en/newsDetails.asp?id=11253
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9450440/
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/eraen/2005/05-09-23_1.eraen.html#02
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23530633.htm
http://tinyurl.com/co8jn (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/8btw6 (ANA)

The latest from Bulgaria is a Thracian city and royal residence:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=52661

... while another one is to be 'restored':

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=52789

Mo' better coverage of the Cleopatra-dressed-as-a-man story:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050919/cleodrag.html
http://tinyurl.com/cabnu (ABC)

Digging up the site of the Lycian League's meetings:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/19/news/turkey.php
http://tinyurl.com/b5nvg (NYT)
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=78500

Nice feature on the excavation of Pistiros:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/70835

  From Ravenna comes our first image (really?) of an Imperial
Roman naval officer:

http://tinyurl.com/96pjr (ANSA)
http://www.romagnaoggi.it/showarticle.php?articleID=63340

Roman remains in Tyre:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA050922.HTM (Arabic ... photos)

Possible Roman temple in Beirut

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA050923.HTM (Arabic ... photos)

I think we mentioned this Roman mosaic under a UK brewery before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/4259848.stm

Digging Roman Driffield:

http://tinyurl.com/ar3sz (Driffield Today)

More coverage of that discovery-of-Roman-villa-via-Google story:

http://tinyurl.com/c7kfx (News24)
http://tinyurl.com/b5y8t (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/9h8kw (webpronews)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4267238.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news6659.html

More on Apollo Delphinos:

http://tinyurl.com/cwf74 (Innovations)

Extremely brief item on the wrapping up of the dig season at
Idalion:

http://www.cna.org.cy/news_ie/newsdisp.asp?a=261379

Byzantine mansion site from Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/74v57 (JPost)

Friends of Herculaneum Society newsletter:

http://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/newsletters.html

There's a project afoot to recreate the horologium of Augustus:

http://www.physorg.com/news6692.html

Brief audio piece on the decline of Greek and Latin in Ireland
and plans to reverse the decline:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9450440/

Overview of boxing in ancient Greece:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=4686&more=1

Potentially interesting application of computer technology to
the dig at Silchester:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-09/eaps-err091505.php
http://www.physorg.com/news6676.html

Not sure why, but Global Politician had a feature of sorts on Nero:

http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1226&cid=3&sid=9

Why major in Classics?:

http://tinyurl.com/cxz8g (Daily Campus)

Another Latin-is-alive-and-well story:

http://tinyurl.com/c46kc (KC Star)

... and another:

http://tinyurl.com/dmtbb (Indy Star)

Tom Palaima on the Iliad:

http://tinyurl.com/dxkxl (Statesman)

Searching for a missing statue of Mars:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4269208.stm

A new Asterix book will soon hit the bookstores:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4275642.stm

Review of Tom Holland, *Persian Fire*:

http://tinyurl.com/cjn4s (Guardian)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Mesolithic site from Surrey:

http://tinyurl.com/dpw88 (BBC)

An 8000 b.p. canoe from Lake Bracciano:

http://tinyurl.com/bedc4 (AGI)

A dig in Cookham is finding artifacts from various periods:

http://tinyurl.com/atq8d (This is London)

Plans are afoot to raise a big timber from the Mary Rose:

http://tinyurl.com/9mruu (The News)

Oil companies putting pipelines in the ocean are apparently
discovering shipwrecks ... here's one off Norway:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9417863/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9408950/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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An ancient Hindu temple has been found which shows evidence of
it possibly being destroyed bya  tsunami:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9427134/
http://tinyurl.com/8vzq3 (NZ Herald)
http://wfmynews2.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=48704

Many questions about ancient trade routes seem to be arising
from the discovery of a ship and its cargo on 'Bowl Reef #1':

http://china.org.cn/english/2005/Sep/143292.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Including Native Americans in Colonial history reenactments:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/nyregion/24oneida.html

A housing development in South Carolina might not be doing its
due diligence in respect to archaeological remains:

http://www.heraldonline.com/local/story/5192082p-4719581c.html

A 'community dig' in Minnesota:

http://www.skywaynews.net/articles/2005/09/19/news/news07.txt

The latest film at the Archaeology Channel is about the abandoned
farming community of Piedmont (NC):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of E.L. Doctorow, *The March*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/books/review/25kirn.html

Review of M. Caldwell, *New York Night*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/books/review/25berger.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Another piece on Incan strings:

http://tinyurl.com/86tfs (Daily Planet)

Should Inca mummies be displayed?:

http://tinyurl.com/cubr6 (Washington Post)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Extracting better quality DNA:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4260334.stm

... and more on the Genographic Project:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/globaldna/

Using technology to help preserve the statuary in St. Paul's:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/47227.html

Figuring out what is going on in Rembrandt's 'Portrait of an
Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet':

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/arts/design/22remb.html

OpEd piece on the U.S. Constitution (for 'Constitution Week' ...
it may expire in the next few hours (the article, not the
Constitution)(no email please)):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18CIamar.htm

On the evolution of languages:

http://tinyurl.com/cfc78 (SciAm)

The camp of the guy whose 'stranding' inspired the novel Robinson
Crusoe has been found:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1975692005
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050920075542.htm
http://tinyurl.com/74awy (La Tercera ... Spanish)

This appears to be the only coverage of that Shroud of Turin
conference a few weeks back:

http://www.the-tidings.com/2005/0923/shroud.htm

Interesting piece on Mexican folk healing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/health/20heal.html

A rather lengthy (and difficult to read) piece on the history
of the use of expletives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/science/20curs.html

Nice feature on Samuel Gridley Howe:

http://brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2816

... and William Topaz McGonagall (!):

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/0921/p25s01-stct.html

Review of Ron Powers, *Mark Twain: A Life*

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/books/21grim.html

Review of A. Delbanco, *Melville: His World and Work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/books/review/25gorra.html

Review of F. Fleming, *Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and
Exploration*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/books/review/25wheeler.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Istanbul:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/travel/25istanbul.html

Rome:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/travel/25kids.html

Libya:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1968242005

Provence:

http://www.etravelblackboard.com/index.asp?id=42500&nav=21
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The latest on the Getty/Marion True case:

http://tinyurl.com/c6ut9 (LAT)
http://tinyurl.com/8b99h (KTLA)

Tomb raiders are 'decimating' sites in Cambodia:

http://tinyurl.com/bux67 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://abcasiapacific.com/news/stories_to/1467671.htm
http://tinyurl.com/7ahvl (MET)
http://tinyurl.com/d26mb (News24)

A pile of Peruvian artifacts being smuggled in the U.S. were
seized in Florida:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4278354.stm
http://tinyurl.com/crdyy (Sun Sentinel)

Another Italian fountain has a chunk hacked off it:

http://tinyurl.com/7gn26 (ANSA)

Repeat of that story about the plundering of Gran Saposoa:

http://tinyurl.com/ag3ts (Seattle Times)
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NUMISMATICA
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Cobs/macuquinas (hammered coins):

http://www.macuquina.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Prague: The Crown of Bohemia:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/arts/design/23cott.html
http://tinyurl.com/da5vr (Newsday)

Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/arts/design/23sugi.html

Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/arts/design/23glue.html

Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050920/cgtu059.html?.v=23

Pharaoh Art in the Egyptian Culture (sic):

http://tinyurl.com/d46gf

That 'virtual Rome' thing in the Colosseum:

http://tinyurl.com/btmcc (Age)

Stories of Krishna: Adventures of a Hindu God:

http://tinyurl.com/k69y (SAM ... online exhibition)

The New Orleans Museum of Art is close to reopening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/19/arts/design/19muse.html

Feature on Alexandria National Museum:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/761/he1.htm

Some items connected with Lord Nelson are coming up for
auction:

http://tinyurl.com/7fems (NYT ... second item)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Alcestis:

http://tinyurl.com/bq8ho (Oregonian)

Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/8lwru (Carolinian)

Medea:

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=120494

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/crtvj (Shreveport Times)
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ON THE WEB
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Codices Electronici Sangallenses:

http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/manuscripts.htm
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on the 'diseased interpretation' homo floresiensis:

http://tinyurl.com/77be7 (La Tercera ... Spanish)
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AFRICA
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Possibly a repeat ... extended coverage of the discovery of
some third-century monastic cells in the Egyptian desert:

http://tinyurl.com/dbrp2 (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A number of cow statues have been found at Gohar Tepe:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5708§ion=2

A possible Sargon inscription has been newly 'deciphered':

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5709§ion=2

Latest item to emerge from the debris of Temple Mount is a First
Temple period seal/bulla:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=90628
http://tinyurl.com/bgb35 (JPost)
http://www.israpundit.com/archives/2005/09/firsttemple_per.php

... a photo of the object in Ha'aretz' Hebrew edition:

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=629964

A 'new' archaeological site near the Western Wall which includes
a mikveh was opened to the public this week:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=629851
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/629961.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050927/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_shrine

The search for the 'holy of holies':

http://tinyurl.com/a4urf (JPost)

A followup piece to that story on Byzantine mosaics from
Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/9d5xj (JPost)

Vague item about a piece of 'ancient script' from Kazakhstan:

http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=136466

... and a somewhat better one on preserving some ancient
writing on sticks from Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/news_8269.php

The recent computer-generated image of Tut is still causing
controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/9c84l (Orlando Sentinel)

... and they're still talking about that Cleopatra-as-male
thing:

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=25725
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1501334,0047.htm

Another step has been taken to getting the Behistun monument
on the World Heritage list:

http://tinyurl.com/cwzvh (Iran News)

A pair of sites in Jordan have received funds for preservation
purposes:

http://www.jordanembassyus.org/09302005001.htm

The Annotated Parthia Bibliography has been updated:

http://parthia.com/parthia_biblio.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of a researcher's claim of having established
where Odysseus' Ithaka was:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4293786.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1804409,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/bsrdv (Age)
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=10024
http://tinyurl.com/7kdzk (Gazette)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9543382/
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=61351
http://www.livescience.com/history/ap_050930_homer.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2015172005
http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2005/09/29/64096.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/48017-print.shtml
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050929/nyth086.html?.v=21
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1170055
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article316110.ece
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1581642,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/a7vp5 (Reuters)

Similarly plenty of coverage of the discovery of a pair of
statues of Athena and Hera during excavations at Gortyn:

http://tinyurl.com/8gjel (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/95fju (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/9lt7c (CTV)
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051001/4041521.asp
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9544779/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9544821/
http://tinyurl.com/dzmeb (Kathimerini ... photo)
http://tinyurl.com/92poz
http://tinyurl.com/95fju (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/dtal5 (Red Nova)

A followup piece to that story on Byzantine mosaics from
Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/9d5xj (JPost)

Roman fort in Stratford:

http://www.stratford-herald.co.uk/mainstory.php?ID=417

Possibly a repeat ... extended coverage of the discovery of
some third-century monastic cells in the Egyptian desert:

http://tinyurl.com/dbrp2 (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php

More coverage of that discovery of an image of a member of
the Roman Imperial fleet:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050926/romansoldier.html

NPR had a piece with Elaine Fantham talking about storms and
floods in the ancient Mediterranean:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4932120

Erosion fears at Epidaurus:

http://tinyurl.com/92lwe

Latin at UND:

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/living/12735720.htm

Spartathlon coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/8cher (Kathimerini)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4298146.stm
http://tinyurl.com/9gqcf (Indy Star)

More on ancient boxing:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=4805&more=1

Some comments about Herodotus:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5723§ion=2

An Op-ed piece in the wake of the disaster at Akrotiri:

http://tinyurl.com/a3n64 (Kathimerini)

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/9fphc (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/bkegh (News 24)

Thucydides:

http://newstodaynet.com/27sep/ss1.htm

Tom Palaima's latest:

http://www.hnn.us/articles/15904.html

Repeat of that brickworks of the Domitii story:

http://tinyurl.com/9dmdl (Telegraph)

A pair of reviews on one tome about Helen of Troy and one about
Hercules:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1801354,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A fair amount of coverage of the discovery of a 27 000 b.p.
burial of a pair of infants in Austria:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9492037/
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8063
http://tinyurl.com/8y4an (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1998182005
http://tinyurl.com/cxpzn (CNN)

Brief item on the discovery of the burial of an Iron Age woman
in Denmark:

http://tinyurl.com/9bavh (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/international/europe/29woman.html

Another call for the Mold Golden Cape to be returned to Wales:

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=7998

Op-ed piece on plans for Tara:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/0926/p07s01-woeu.html

The mystery of Caledonian cattle:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=2008352005

... and Rosslyn Chapel:

http://www.livescience.com/history/050928_rosslyn_chapel.html

It appears that Russia also has debates over the conflict between
construction and archaeology:

http://www.sptimes.ru/story/15673

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Can't remember if we mentioned this roof collapse at a site in
India last week:

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=150083

A sort of overview of recent finds from Viet Nam:

http://tinyurl.com/c7yec (VNA)

Police in New Zealand moved some ancient skeletal remains to
the mortuary:

http://tinyurl.com/9nxrj (Herald)

Authenticating Chinese porcelain:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725185.600

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Construction crews in Chinook were surprised to come upon some
Native American bones after an archaeological investigation (of
sorts) had been done:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/10/01/area_news/news02.txt

Butchered remains of a bison in Illinois:

http://www.wmbd.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=5693

Native and non- remains near Lancaster, SC:

http://tinyurl.com/c9tfd (Lancaster News)

A toolmaking site from David's Island:

http://tinyurl.com/7ur86 (Journal News)

Another development v. archaeologists v. Native people situation
in New Mexico:

http://www.hotel-online.com/News/2005_Sep_25/k.SFC.1127838473.html
http://tinyurl.com/dyodr (KOBTV)

... and a similar dispute near Dighton:

http://tinyurl.com/atkd6 (Gazette)

Possible site of Fort Vause:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/33684

An archaeology fair:

http://tinyurl.com/dcmgf (Texarkana Gazette)

An op-ed piece responding to plans to build a casino at
Gettysburg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/opinion/27lighthizer.html

Another pondering-the-Anasazi piece:

http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=5036

Nice forthcoming talk-by-an-archaeologist piece:

http://tinyurl.com/eyzlo (Princeton Packet)

Reviews of E.L. Doctorow, *The March*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/books/27doct.html
http://tinyurl.com/bbpla (Miami Herald)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Fair bit of coverage of the discovery of a lost Mayan city in
Guatemala:

http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-09-27-01.all.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050928082021.htm
http://tinyurl.com/9kaw7 (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ba5wk (Web India)
http://tinyurl.com/72pcw (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/dop6a (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/7esm7 (Eurekalert)

... and a lost Spanish city in Argentina:

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-9-26/32659.html

Lots of "treasure" being found on 'Crusoe Island':

http://tinyurl.com/9lbol (Guardian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4291334.stm
http://tinyurl.com/dt33u (La Tercera ... Spanish)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More women are getting involved in archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/bt73s (Mercury)

A new method of linking languages:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/science/27lang.html
http://tinyurl.com/94onq (SciAm)

... and some fun vocabulary from around the world:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article315207.ece

A Medieval festival in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/arts/30Fami.html

Hype for a television program on the history of counting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4272538.stm

Review of Lucy Hughes-Hallet, *Heroes: Saviors, Traitors and
Supermen*:

http://tinyurl.com/ctzor (SF Chronicle)

Review of Andrew Delbanco, *Melville: His Life and Work*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/books/01grim.html

Review of Ron Powers, *Mark Twain: A Life*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02wolff.html

Review of Francine Prose, *Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02benfy.html

Review of Charles Morris, *The Tycoons*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02bucholtz.html

Review of some cookbooks with a historical bent:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0927/p16s01-bogn.html

Review of Jill Lepore, *New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery,
and Conspiracy  in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan*

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02clines.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Chaco Canyon:

http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=14815

Pakistan:

http://tinyurl.com/8ebkp (Korea Herald)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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KMT (Fall 2005 TOC):

http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/fall2005/index.html

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Latest twist in the True/Getty case:

http://tinyurl.com/cg3uh (Union Tribune)

cf:
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3895590&nav=9qrx
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1158883
http://tinyurl.com/aj845 (Monterey Herald)
http://tinyurl.com/7a6f8 (KC Star)
http://tinyurl.com/ao8kg (Telegraph)

Op-ed piece on same:

http://tinyurl.com/8r3tb (LA Times)

I think we mentioned this before ... US authorities have
recovered some 300 smuggled Peruvian antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/akk8k

A comic book is the latest 'weapon' in the war against looters
in Cambodia:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1806415,00.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Nice piece on a donation to a Loudoun County display of coins
designed to replace some which had previously been stolen:

http://www.leesburg2day.com/current.cfm?catid=17&newsid=11117
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Russia!:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/14551/

Festival of China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/arts/01fest.html

Imagine Ancient Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/7mo6j (Age)

Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship:

http://www.u-entertainment.com/ci_3058475

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/arts/design/30kimm.html

Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/arts/design/30cott.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/arts/design/02bier.html
(slideshow)

Rome to Jerusalem: Four Jewish Masterpieces from the
Vatican Library:

http://tinyurl.com/93ubp (JPost)
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/630463.html

Slavery in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/arts/design/27slav.html
(slide show)

The Walt Disney Company has donated a pile of African Art to
the Smithsonian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/arts/design/30smit.html

Medieval African manuscripts:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9543385/

More on museums in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina:

http://2theadvocate.com/stories/092205/new_museum001.shtml

cf:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0928/p12s01-lihc.html?s=hns

More on Horatio Nelson items coming up for auction:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050926/od_nm/life_nelson_dc

The Greco-Roman museum in Alexandria will be closed for two
years as it undergoes renovations:

http://tinyurl.com/ckva5 (Canada.com)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Medea:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/theatre/?051003crth_theatre
http://tinyurl.com/coppo (NYT)

Lady Hamilton's Attitudes:

http://www.cockaigne.demon.co.uk/emma.html
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OBITUARIES
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Tobias Schneebaum (Cannibal researcher)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/obituaries/24schneebaum.html
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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright,
'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Francis Deblauwe, Hanan Charaf,
Hernan Astudillo, Hilary Cool, John Hall, John McMahon, Mata
Kimasitayo, Maureen Fant, Mark Morgan, Paul James Cowie,
Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Bragg, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew,
Tim Parkin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

n.b. 1: apologies for last week locating a story in New Zealand
which was really from South Africa (major caffeine malfunction)

n.b. 2: Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks!

... a relatively quiet week.
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EARLY HUMANS
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Some Magdalenian artifacts from Basque country:

http://www.berria.info/english/ikusi.php?id=1832
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AFRICA
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Still looking for the source of the Nile:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/48472.html

Petroglyphs in Africa at risk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/08/arts/design/08rock.htm

I didn't see anything in English on this one ... Italian
archaeologists have found a 'stonehenge' in Tunisia:

http://www.agendalodi.it/adnview.php?ArtID=20051008141232 (Ital.)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting item on the find of a female 'gambler' burial in
Gohar Tepe:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/oct/1036.html

... other finds from Gohar Tepe too:

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=20383

A feature on Hatra:

http://tinyurl.com/a6uwg (SP Times)

Nice overview piece (in German) of Mainz Gutenberg-Uni's work
in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/7k7hb (Franfurter Rundschau)

Byzantine ruins from Jiyeh (Lebanon) ... article in Arabic
with photos:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA051009.HTM

Ancient bookkeeping in Mesopotamia (article abstract):

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=762004

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Egypt:How a Lost Civilization was
Rediscovered*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1814247,00.html

Coverage of the ICOM conference in Alexandria (mostly about
Egyptology, so this seems the appropriate category):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/763/he1.htm

Reassessing (sort of) the Dorak Treasure:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00059.htm

... and some more questioning of Mellaart:

http://www.marlamallett.com/chupdate.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Overviewish thing of a Neolithic site near Aghia Triada:

http://tinyurl.com/bzru8 (Kathimerini)

Now Akrotiri is threatened by the elements:

http://tinyurl.com/duqk5 (Kathimerini)

Perhaps you'll recognize friends/students/profs in this piece
about Classics in the New York Times:

http://tinyurl.com/8hhz2 (NYT)

Coverage of Paul Cartledge's talk at Hamilton College:

http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?ID=9872

Interesting ClassCon class at UGA:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/1005/06metreacting.html

The benefits of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/dg2vx (Journal News)

A copy of the Alexander mosaic returned to Pompeii this week:

http://tinyurl.com/7my7p (ANSA)

More/repeated coverage of that find of goddess statuary at
Gortyn:

http://tinyurl.com/7qr6s (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/ddufn (Cape Argus)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-greek02.html

More/repeated coverage of that Ithaca as Kephallonia story:

http://tinyurl.com/e2428 (KC Star)
http://tinyurl.com/dhbab (IT Week)

cf: Mary Beard's review of the book causing all the hubbub:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2112143

An Australian media guy appears to want to follow in Heinrich
Schleimann's footsteps:

http://tinyurl.com/8n7k4 (SMH)

SPQR and the Philippines:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=18017

Nice overview of the 'perils' of construction in Nicosia:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=22224&cat_id=1

Penelopiad hype (may be a repeat):

http://tinyurl.com/dt6vf (GR Press)

Review of Bettany Hughes, *Helen of Troy*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article317976.ece
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article318223.ece

Review of Malcolm Bull, *Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology
in Renaissance Art*:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2112144

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Somewhat vague item on the discovery of 2500 b.p. ceramics in
Prague:

http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?id=20051004E04598

Reassessing the prehistoric cannibalism at Yorkshire Dales:

http://tinyurl.com/c7ygq (Post)

A 5000 b.p. log path in Yorkshire:

http://tinyurl.com/bbz6g (Post)

Modern agriculture is destroying piles of sites in the UK:

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

A figurehead from the Mary Rose:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1584266,00.html

Nice overview of the 'perils' of construction in Nicosia:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=22224&cat_id=1

Changes are afoot for Kenilworth Castle:

http://tinyurl.com/8zu5y

Paving a road with ancient gravestones from Coventry??:

http://tinyurl.com/7nlbw (icCoventry)

Some restoration work has been done on the Vatopedi Monastery:

http://www.spacewar.com/2005/051007032054.ysj7j60c.html

Some evidence for Napoleon not being poisoned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4318288.stm

Review of Malcolm Bull, *Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology
in Renaissance Art*:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2112144

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Chinese archaeologists have found some Eastern Han dynasty
(or earlier) remains in Loulan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200510/09/eng20051009_213411.html

Last week it was new claims for the site of Odysseus' Ithaca;
this week it's Krishna's Dwarka:

http://tinyurl.com/d7aq6 (Indian Telegraph)

Sort of touristy coverage of the Hawaiian Archaeology Conference:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9619979/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Assorted sites are being found during highway construction in
Missouri:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12802477.htm

An Underground Railroad site in Michigan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/national/06railroad.html
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw122126_20051003.htm

Latest news in the search for Fort Louis de la Louisiane:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9598880/

... and the search for Ramptown:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9598973/

Digging in Jasper National Park:

http://www.jasperbooster.com/story.php?id=187860

Nice interview with archaeologist Martha Pinello (good one to
show kids who want to be an archaeologist):

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/10072005/it/66794.htm

Another story of frustration over an archaeological survey
holding up construction:

http://tinyurl.com/bf6zc (Taunton Gazette)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More/repeated coverage of that Site Q discovery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/science/04maya.html (JNW)
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051008/fob1.asp

Potatoes came from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/crbxc (ABC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4306906.stm

Review of Charles Mann, *1491: New Revelations of the Americas
Before Columbus*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09baker.html

Latest movie on the Archaeology Channels is *Three Stories
  From Guatemala*:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Yet another candidate for 'who really wrote Shakespeare's plays':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4312110.stm

Looks like Yahoo is going to try to compete with Google in the
scanning books department:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/business/03yahoo.html

What they call @ in various languages:

http://tinyurl.com/b598d (Washington Post)

Interesting retrospective of Gombrich's *Little History of the
World*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/arts/03conn.html

Review of Maya Jasanoff, *Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and
Conquest in the East, 1750-1850.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09mazower.html

Review of Thomas M. Robinson and Laura Westra, eds., *Thinking
about the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval
Past.*:

http://tinyurl.com/agoeu (H-Net)

Reviewish thing of Tom Standage, *A History of the World in
Six Glasses*:

http://tinyurl.com/8ebn6 (NG)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A major bust of a plundering ring based in Austria:

http://tinyurl.com/784bw (ANSA)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=66364
http://tinyurl.com/7pxxu (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/a2jjc (ANSA)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4321182.stm
http://tinyurl.com/c8smo (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/98sb6 (Repubblica ... Italian)

Perhaps understandably, Marion True retired as Getty curator
this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/arts/design/04gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/cvfh3 (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/9dfts (Washington Post)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/art/3385753

... meanwhile, the Getty is apparently going to return three
pieces involved in the dispute:

http://tinyurl.com/avhv5 (Mercury News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4306162.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1809732,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1179071
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1584261,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/dmqs5 (Australian)

... cf an editorial on all this:

http://www2.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_3086922

Recovering stolen books conference:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/j-safe-events-lost.htm

This one might have some interesting ramifications ... the
British government has passed legislation allowing the British
Museum (and others) to return indigenous remains to various
countries:

http://tinyurl.com/bmzfc (Age)
http://tinyurl.com/82g22 (Tuscaloosa News)
http://tinyurl.com/7djtq
http://tinyurl.com/86unb (SMH)

An update on the Smiley map theft case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/arts/04arts.html (3rd item)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/arts/design/03maps.html
http://yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/current/l_v.html

Al Ahram has a very interesting followup/investigation piece
on that major antiquities ring bust from a few months ago:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/763/chrncls.htm

Vague item on the investigation of the looting of a site in
Nevada:

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3934462&nav=8faO

Seeking the return of Ethiopian plunder:

http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2002/09/20-09-02/Plea.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia:

http://tinyurl.com/7p7z5 (Daily Star)
http://tinyurl.com/adp68 (British Embassy, Oslo (!))

Mummies: Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt:

http://horus.vcsa.uci.edu/article.php?id=4063

Slavery in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/nyregion/06ink.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/07/arts/design/07slav.html

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/articles/051010craw_artworld

Manuscripts from Timbuktu have gone on display:

http://tinyurl.com/bxjlb (Al Jazeera)

Nice overview piece on museums in Cambodia (especially the
National Museum):

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/03/travel/trcambo.php

Egypt and Sudan are going to build a museum for Nubian antiquities:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/08/content_3591496.htm

Greeks are accused of neglecting Ottoman relics:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&hn=25008

Alcoa donated a pile of stuff and money to UNC:

http://www.salisburypost.com/area/284389934687078.php

Auctioning off stuff from the House of Hanover:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/07/arts/design/07anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Orestes:

http://tinyurl.com/ct4nq (Oxford Student)
http://tinyurl.com/asj5x (ditto ... a preview)

Performance of some pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/arts/music/03coll.html

Orpheus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/07/arts/dance/07orph.html

Music Before 1800:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/arts/music/04lion.html

Lorenzo Da Ponte:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/arts/music/05lore.html
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ON THE WEB
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Aigyptos database:

http://www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de/indexe.htm

Digital Facsimiles of Copenhagen Manuscripts:

http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/index2-en.htm
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OBITUARIES
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Harry Saggs:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1585588,00.html

Stanislaw Segert:

http://tinyurl.com/aov8l (RSR)

... n.b.: I've been seeking an obituary for Naphtali Lewis who
died a few weeks ago; has anyone seen one?
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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More homo floresiensis remains have been found in Indonesia:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9661094/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4331252.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4339740.stm
http://tinyurl.com/8ulw3 (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/a7625 (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/bljoj (UPI)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1013/p02s01-stss.html
http://archaeology.about.com/od/earlymansites/a/flores2.htm

... and John Noble Wilford brings the whole debate together:

http://tinyurl.com/9dpno (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/12/news/little.php

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/85ft5 (National Business Review)

and:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1480331.htm

Peking Man is still missing:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/10/features/melvin.php

Nice overview of Skara Brae (Neolithic site in Scotland):

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=2073772005
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AFRICA
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An English version of that 'African stonehenge' story from
last week:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/#1537
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists have found the earliest images of winged goddesses
at Rabbat Tepe:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5810§ion=2
http://tinyurl.com/bkf4c (Iran News)

... and then they found some more:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=241573

A child burial featuring a cow necklace from Gohar Tappeh:

http://tinyurl.com/9satz (Iran News)

Another save-the-site-before-the-dam-floods-it from Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/oct/1052.html

Implications of female burials from Kharand:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5778§ion=2

Iraqi archaeologists are against the proposed constitution:

http://tinyurl.com/ask5v (Azzaman)

Hittite and Asuran 'tablets' from Sivas:

http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=74387

Cuneiform tablets from Haft-Tappeh:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/10/2005&Cat=10&Num=2

A history of sorts of the harbour of Tyre:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1818472,00.html

A sort of what-we've-found-so-far-in-the-Temple-Mount-debris
piece:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=634550

cf: http://www.har-habayt.org/

A feature on that 'palace' found by Eilat Mazar:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3152891,00.html

A feature on those 'newly discovered' Dead Sea Scroll fragments
from a while back:

http://tinyurl.com/736om (Israel Today)

They finally appear ready to send another robot into a shaft
of the Great Pyramid:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9653090/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9653322/
http://tinyurl.com/d8d4o (NZ Herald)
http://tinyurl.com/877ua (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/9bu93 (Age)
http://tinyurl.com/d3ugw (IOL)

Controversy over possible damage to a statue during restoration
work at the Egyptian Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/76fu4 (ME Times)

The Mummy Road Show folks in the classroom:

http://tinyurl.com/b6feg (Chronicle)

Review of Tom Holland, *Persian Fire*:

http://tinyurl.com/db85p (Star)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Neolithic 'corduroy road' in Hatfield Moors:

http://tinyurl.com/c7w56 (Free Press)

What Rome did for Scotland:

http://www.sundayherald.com/52234

What I dug up during my summer vacation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/business/yourmoney/09dig.html

Recent finds from Brading Roman Villa will lead to some
rewriting of history:

http://tinyurl.com/9uwbc (Isle of Wight Today)

Comparing (I think) the culture of the Maya to Athens:

http://www.culturecult.com/art_notes.htm

Another Latin revival piece:

http://tinyurl.com/abpfy (Courant)

Feature on Stanley Lombardo:

http://tinyurl.com/72ms3 (Journal-World)

Hype for 'Rome' coming to screens in the UK:

http://www.sundayherald.com/52233
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/thereview.cfm?id=2094312005

... see also this one in the National Catholic Reporter:

http://tinyurl.com/ahtkz

Hype/reviews of Helen of Troy (on PBS):

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/10/12/arts/television/12gate.html
http://tinyurl.com/7tbwf (Variety)
http://tinyurl.com/c8e6m (Sun-Sentinel)

... and Bettany Hughes' book on same:

http://tinyurl.com/cfskj (NZ Herald)

Feature on Schliemann:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=199543&pid=1

Nice feature on that Domitianus coins found a while back:

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

A history of sorts of the harbour of Tyre:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1818472,00.html

Caligula on the Potomac:

http://cjonline.com/stories/101505/opi_kaul.shtml

More/repeat of Ithaca story:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051009/spectrum/main2.htm

... and a review of the book:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2112143

Online Greek number converter:

http://tinyurl.com/cwnbg

Review of Victor Davis Hanson, *A War Like No Other: How Athenians
and Spartans fought the Peloponnesian War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/books/11grim.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/13/opinion/bookfri.php

Review of Robin Lane Fox, *The Classical World: an epic history
from Homer to Hadrian*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article319431.ece

Review of Bryan Ward-Perkins, *The Fall of Rome and the
End of Civilization*:

http://tinyurl.com/deb7h (Register)

cf. this appraisal of Cornell and Matthews *Atlas of the
Roman World*'s treatment of same:

http://tinyurl.com/abgwp (Citizen-Times)

Review of Tom Holland, *Persian Fire*:

http://tinyurl.com/db85p (Star)

Review of Luke Slattery, *Dating Aphrodite: Modern Adventures in
the Ancient World*:

http://tinyurl.com/bwwsn (SMH)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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What Rome did for Scotland:

http://www.sundayherald.com/52234

A Saxon aestel:

http://tinyurl.com/a6yev (Dinnington Today)

A medieval farm settlement in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=2087662005

More from the Mary Rose:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1590128,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/cycv6 (Telegraph ... photos)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9663780/ (photos)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4329408.stm

Finds from various periods are delaying construction of a
technology park in Bedford:

http://tinyurl.com/7u92e (Bedford Today)

Review of Julia Markus, *J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered
Great Victorian*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/books/review/16olson.html

Review of Alison Weir, *Queen Isabella*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/books/review/16becker.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Much coverage of the discovery of a 4000 b.p. bowl of noodles
in China (with the usual 'debate' mentioned, of course):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1590716,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1823324,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/996v7 (Telegraph ... photos)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4957805
http://tinyurl.com/c9xva (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9671263/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4335160.stm
http://tinyurl.com/9wqha (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/cbqnm (NG)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9671263/
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=31548
http://tinyurl.com/cvq8h (CTV)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1208317

More from Loulan City:

http://tinyurl.com/dtu2k (the Star)

Carbon dating suggests that some New Guinea art is much
older than previously thought:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051013085505.htm

The earthquake in Pakistan appears to have spared numerous
archaeological sites:

http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=53056

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Possible 'Red Paint People' tool from Camden:

http://knox.villagesoup.com/community/story.cfm?storyID=62109

Tatavium People relics from Santa Clarita:

http://www2.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_3114142

How Vero Man was found and lost:

http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=233

Implications of finds at Poverty Point:

http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/5919.html

Plans are afoot to "scour" Roanoke Sound to find evidence for
the Lost Colony:

http://tinyurl.com/cq6vj (Pilot)
http://tinyurl.com/bo3g8 (NG)

Digging up a Beaufort neighbourhood:

http://tinyurl.com/dpj5x (Gazette)

Reconstructing George Washington's visage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/national/09george.html
(may expire by the time this goes out)

They'll be looking for Lewis and Clark's original Fort Clastop:

http://tinyurl.com/aux8e (ABC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051015/ap_on_sc/fort_clatsop_1

Interview with Douglas Scott, mostly about battlefield
archaeology:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/scott.html

Review of Joshua Shenk, *Lincoln's Melancholy*:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/14700/

Review of Fintain O'Toole, *White Savage: William Johnson and
the Invention of America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/books/review/16crain.html

Review of Charles Mann, *1491*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09baker.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A circular temple from Peru (!):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/15/content_3619043.htm

Egyptian pyramids aren't the only ones to be probed by robots:

http://tinyurl.com/covj8 (La Tercera ... Spanish)

A sort of roundup of recent-discoveries-because-of-technology
about the Incas piece:

http://tinyurl.com/c4uhv (USA Today)

Comparing (I think) the culture of the Maya to Athens:

http://www.culturecult.com/art_notes.htm

More on the prehistoric Amazon:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4440 (Port.)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Making iron the 'old-fashioned way':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051011073801.htm

Interesting item on restoring icons in Russia:

http://tinyurl.com/a8j4l (NYT)

On the practice of biography:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09atlas.html
(may expire by the time Explorator goes out)

... and naming new species:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/science/11name.html

A recently-discovered manuscript in Beethoven's own hand might
be auctioned off:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/13/arts/music/13beet.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4957646
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4337858.stm
http://tinyurl.com/8j8wr (Seattle PI)

More on the Dorak affair:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00120.htm

The Scotsman has an interviewish/profile thing on Graham
Hancock:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/s2.cfm?id=2068802005

Review of Helen Vendler, *Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in
Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/books/review/16hammer.html

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Lake Chudskoye:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/29/travel/trlede30.php

Istanbul:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/26/news/tristan.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The latest update on the Getty/True case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/15/arts/design/15muse.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051015/ap_en_ot/troubled_getty_2
http://tinyurl.com/dxp4k (Journal)
http://tinyurl.com/cuf23 (AP via Yahoo)

... plus a good article in Time:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1115654,00.html

Egypt is trying to retrieve a pile of antiquities coming up for
auction:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/11/content_3605822.htm

... while Egyptian police recovered some purloined statuettes:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/764/eg4.htm
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NUMISMATICA
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Nice feature on that Domitianus coins found a while back:

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

Fatimid-era coins from Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/b6j6k (Kuwait News Agency)
http://tinyurl.com/ahnyb (Khaleej Times)

Jefferson's face will look forward on the US Nickel:

http://tinyurl.com/dyzff (press release)
http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=Photo#2006Nickel
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Hatshepshut: From Queen to Pharaoh:

http://tinyurl.com/bddst (Chronicle)

Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5797§ion=2
http://tinyurl.com/87a23 (Guardian)

Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the École Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts:

http://tinyurl.com/bcutc (New York Daily News)
http://tinyurl.com/bbb7m (Art Daily)
cf: http://tinyurl.com/b2r2k (Dahesh Museum)

Memling's Portraits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/arts/design/14cott.html

Mutter Medical Museum:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/arts/design/11mutt.html
(includes a slide show)

Andritsa Cave:

http://www.cultureguide.gr/events/details.jsp?Event_id=74055&catA=9

Pompeii: Stories From an Eruption:

http://tinyurl.com/cn5bb (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/ault4 (Press release)

Jewish Masterpieces from the Vatican Library:

http://tinyurl.com/bunl9 (JPost)

Imagine Ancient Rome:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9686904/

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/5100529/detail.html

Art of Ethiopia:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1012/p18s02-hfes.html

The Smithsonian just got a major (private) grant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/12/politics/12museum.html

A prehistory gallery is in the works in Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/8wvbc

A pair of previously-unsween DaVincis are going to be
on show in Italy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4344512.stm

A Michelangelo drawing is heading to the auction block:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/arts/design/14voge.html

Nice overview piece on the auction of piles of 'grand tour'
antiquities from Capesthorne Hall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/arts/design/14anti.html

The Indian Museum of Lake County is looking for a new home:

http://tinyurl.com/c4eze (News Herald)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lysistrata:

http://thetartan.org/pillbox/2005/10/10/lysistrata

Medea:

http://tinyurl.com/awg22 (Ann Arbor News)

Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/7gd4m (News-Sentinel)

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum:

http://tinyurl.com/as62g (Post-Dispatch)
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ON THE WEB
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Venice:

http://homepage.newschool.edu/~wrightd/VenicePiriReis.htm
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OBITUARIES
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Still looking for an obituary for Napthali Lewis ...
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Petroglyphs are being used as evidence that centaurs existed:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/16284_centaur.html
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/48426.asp
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Interesting DNA study with implications for assorted migrations
of populations:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051017/migration.html

Chad is opening its first paleontology department (and it's
surprising how few of these there are in Africa, isn't it?):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4357986.stm

Transcript of a radio program about homo floresiensis:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1481727.htm

... and another piece on same:

http://tinyurl.com/dw4zu (Rednova)
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AFRICA
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A neolithic site from the Sahara:

http://tinyurl.com/9b9oc (NG)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plans are afoot to excavate a couple of mounds in Iran's
Isfahan province:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=242939

... and Tall-e Takht near Pasargadae:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=244302

Some coverage of finds from Haft Tepe:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5840§ion=2

3000 b.p. flagstones from Rabat Tepe:

http://tinyurl.com/8y37e (Iranmania)

... and a long lost temple (maybe) from the same place:

http://tinyurl.com/86b8x (Iranmania)

A Kufi inscription:

http://tinyurl.com/b9kg9 (Iranmania)

A mummified dwarf 'mummy' is puzzling Iranian archaeologists:

http://tinyurl.com/c9h2p (Iranmania)

They're still sifting through the Temple Mount 'refuse':

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=91464

Digging Gaza:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4365440.stm

The Oriental Institute's CAMEL project:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/051020/camel.shtml

Good summary of the Origenes 2 conference:

.http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/Toulouse.htm

Some 5000 b.p. cuneiform tablets were rediscovered in a
Valdosta University storage room:

http://www.valdosta.edu/news/releases/babylonian.tablets.101905/

Someone managed to sneak a video camera up to Temple Mount:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3157331,00.html

A videogame to explore ancient Egypt:

http://www.ferrago.com/story/6736

Nice feature on various pools in Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/84kr6 (JPost)

The Egyptian roots of Ramadan:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/764/heritage.htm

Egyptian motifs in North American culture:

http://tinyurl.com/cr9rm (Sun Sentinel)

A history of the etrog:

http://tinyurl.com/8mqv7 (JPost)

Hype for a major 'Biblical archaeology' colloquium this
weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/bay47 (Jewish News)

Handy little timeline of Cyprus:

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=20812

Review of Robert Pinsky, *Life of David*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/23deresiewicz.html

Review of the translation into Hebrew of the El Amarna letters
by Dr. Zipora Cochavi-Rainey (in Hebrew):

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=635353

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Underwater archaeologists recovered an image of a g-string clad
gladiator this week:

http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/teesdale-news/story,975.html

Excavating  Claterna:

http://tinyurl.com/9xysr (ANSA)

Excavations at Cremona confirm Tacitus' claims of its
destruction:

http://tinyurl.com/c34vf (ANSA)

Plenty of coverage of the arrival of a bunch of Tebt papyri
at Berkeley:

http://tinyurl.com/7npbv (Press Release)
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/12936572.htm
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/19/PAPYRI.TMP
http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_3130317

Similarly-plenty of coverage of a reconstruction of the
Antikythera mechanism:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/051020/21/wg8s.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1487244.htm
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1337165

Why so much Roman gold in Britain?:

http://tinyurl.com/8mgpq (icWales)

Latest coverage of the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=2106452005

... with an op-ed piece by Anthony Snodgrass:

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=2118002005

Already the 'Tomb of Orpheus' is threatened by the elements:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=53955

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel looks at the House of
Hermogenes (Turkey):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Nice feature on the Romans in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2124122005

... and Morocco:

http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=49&id=10469

Not sure why, but that 'head of Constantine in the sewer' story
from last summer appears to have just reached Korea:

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=2201

Interesting lecture by Steve Reece:

http://tinyurl.com/cc44y (St. Olaf News)

Virtually recreating the Agora of Athens:

http://www.ameinfo.com/70069.html

Some info on 'sneak previews' of the Ara Pacis museum,
which apparently is officially, but intermittently open:

http://snipurl.com/ivfr (ANSA)

The MIT take on Archimedes' death ray:

http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/lectures/10_ArchimedesResult.html
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/99167.php
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1240328
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051022/ap_on_sc/archimedes_death_ray_2
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/science/18find.html

... which apparently didn't work as planned:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051022/ap_on_sc/archimedes_death_ray_3
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69312,00.html

Repeat of that 'image of a Roman sailor from Ravenna' story, but
with a great photo:

http://snipurl.com/ivgv

There's a new Classics professorship at Stanford:

http://tinyurl.com/9oyhe (Stanford Daily)

... and a Western Civilization Center at Colorado U (set
up by Christian Kopff):

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_3133113?rss

A feature on Martha Nussbaum:

http://tinyurl.com/9q37k (SMH)

Handy little timeline of Cyprus:

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=20812

They're going to restore the Miletus Gate:

http://tinyurl.com/e2v3f (Mercury News)

Interesting op-ed piece by Victor Davis Hanson on how there's
nothing new in wars:

http://tinyurl.com/77zje (LA Times)

More on Bettany Hughes' view of Helen of Troy:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051017/helen.html
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article320995.ece

... and some behind-the-scenes hype for the documentary therefrom:

http://tinyurl.com/e33ol (icBirmingham)

Nice companion site for an upcoming documentary about Hannibal
on the National Geographic Channel:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/hannibal/

The controversy-hype for 'Rome' continues in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4361038.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4350600.stm
http://tinyurl.com/e3862 (Daily Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/df4mb (Telegraph)
http://snipurl.com/ivew (Guardian)

... and in Italy too:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1830563,00.html

Semi-related op-ed piece on what we can learn from Rome:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1595527,00.html

Attempted connections between bankruptcy of Delphi and the
Delphic oracle:

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3241delphi_oracle.html

Agamemnon and hurricane Rita:

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2031.htm

Hypish/reviewish things of Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad:

http://tinyurl.com/9oujf (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/98hwv (CBC)
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7114
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1832136,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/classics/0,6121,1598412,00.html

... and it might go on stage:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1834985,00.html

Review of Adele Geras, *Ithaka*:

http://tinyurl.com/cdy7x (Guardian)

Review of Tom Holland, *Persian Fire*:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/38d15ebe-4120-11da-a208-00000e2511c8.html

Review of Victor Davis Hanson, *A War Like No Other*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/23johnson.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Archaeologists have uncovered an 'Iona of the East':

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/48987.html

All sorts of threats to ancient monuments in Durham:

http://tinyurl.com/8xgva (24dash)

Op-ed piece on how to celebrate Trafalgar without offending
anybody:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/opinion/21wheatcroft.html

cf: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/19/opinion/edbeam.php

More coverage of the Nolli map of Rome:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/1019/p25s01-stct.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Magnetic scans of Qin's mausoleum suggests it has a pile of
money in it:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/20/content_3651561.htm
http://tinyurl.com/dul6r (Science Daily)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4359774.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article321132.ece

A roundup of some recent finds from China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/18/content_3637190.htm

1700 b.p. tombs near Ningbo:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3408293
http://tinyurl.com/8lv23 (AP via Yahoo)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9737781/

Plans are afoot to probe a possible historic shipwreck off
Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1483832.htm

Some earthquake damage to sites in India:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1515273,000900010002.htm

Repeat of the 'oldest noodles' story:

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=2526
http://tinyurl.com/a7xzu

Read this item from Fortune about Tom Pritzker (it's the free
bit) ... not sure if this made the media before:

http://snipurl.com/ivh0

Interesting finds in a Hawaiian lava tube:

http://starbulletin.com/2005/10/19/news/story01.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Pottery with implications from Santa Fe:

http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=4011006

The Trail of Tears appears to be longer:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2818315p-9265607c.html

Nice feature on Native American mounds in Michigan:

http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=167&category=life

Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a raid which
resulted in the liberation of 700 slaves:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/12915338.htm

Salvors and state are cooperating to look at a 17th-century
wreck in Lake Michigan (yes, 17th century):

http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0510/22/metro-357078.htm

The Lost Colony is still missing:

http://tinyurl.com/7cwug (News and Observer)
http://tinyurl.com/ds4f5 (Myrtle Beach Online)

Hurricane Ophelia apparently revealed some artifacts from the
Queen Anne's Revenge (is that identification secure yet?):

http://tinyurl.com/axcvc (Daily Advance)

... while Katrina has created some implications for the
architectural history of New Orleans:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/arts/design/18futu.html

Highway construction in South Carolina threatens assorted
Civil War sites:

http://tinyurl.com/93lo8 (Myrtle Beach Online)

Nice coverage of the work of Hamden's local archivist:

http://tinyurl.com/ca4pe

Interesting piece on (what is now) New York's Canal Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/nyregion/21canal.html

Review of Sean Wilentz, *Rise of American Democracy*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/051024crbo_books
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/22/books/22grim.html

Review of Samuel Bawlf, *The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake*:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/drake/

Joshua Shenk, *Lincoln's Melancholy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/23cohen.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Seems that every year around this time we are told of threats
to the Nazca lines (and nothing is being done about it?):

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10412289.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9752305/

Pre-Inca (headless) mummy from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/dh6ch (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/8wlkg (News.com)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9757648/

1400 b.p. textiles from Ecuador:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/21/content_3660081.htm

Digging around Teotihuacan (tv show stuff):

http://tinyurl.com/bav76 (NG)

An opthalmologist is going to study the eyes of assorted Chilean
mummies:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/515411/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Nice article on 'missing masterpieces' (of literature):

http://tinyurl.com/ddel4 (Australian)

In anticipation of Hallowe'en, we get some revisionism about
witches and witch hunts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/22/national/22beliefs.html

... and equal time for Vampires:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/515382/?sc=rsln

... and specifically Dracula/Vlad the Impaler:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051017-043100-1784r

Some revisionism in the history of the kilt:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1839177,00.html

The BBC has put together a biopic type thing on Byron:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/arts/television/21tvwk.html

Would you survive in the Iron Age?:

http://tinyurl.com/c3fob (BBC)

This one's a bit out of our purview, but interesting ... this
past week archaeologists excavated the frozen remains of a
WWII airman from a glacier in Sequoia National Park:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=state&id=3552290
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ephesus:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411424/620932

Tikal:

http://www.metronews.ca/travel/detail.asp?id=11592
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (November/December 2005):

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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More coverage of the Getty case (doesn't appear to add anything
we don't already know):

http://www.usatoday.com/life/2005-10-17-getty-scandal_x.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051016/ap_en_bu/troubled_getty_14
http://tinyurl.com/acfl7 (ABC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9689840/
http://tinyurl.com/dyfqa

cf. an interview with Getty Trust CEO Barry Munitz:

http://www2.dailynews.com/news/ci_3142264

Three smugglers from Egypt were given their comeuppance this
week:

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=10102

Interesting feature on forger-of-various-items Mark Hofmann:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635153542,00.html

Nice interview with Roger Atwood on the antiquities trade:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/atwood.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Not sure if Time Elevator Roma counts as an exhibition, but
here it is:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3446607a2181,00.html

Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption:

http://tinyurl.com/b3xb8 (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/77qpw (Sun Times)

... nice photo of a gold bracelet from the exhibition:

http://tinyurl.com/9vq9m (donga)

... and body casts:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20051020/450POMPEIIEXHIBIT.jpg

Tut:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ccm6d (Baltimore Sun)

Egyptian Art from the Amarna Period:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=15247

The Hours of Louis XII:

http://tinyurl.com/clwfh (Metimes)

Diet of the Byzantines:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=545945 (Greek)

Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings:

http://tinyurl.com/98rd8

Ethiopian Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/arts/design/19pace.html

The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance
Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/arts/design/21smit.html

A Michelangelo drawing is coming up for sale at Christie's
in January:

http://tinyurl.com/9t3tr (Art Daily)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/arts/design/14voge.html

The Guardian has a nice feature on the BM's Neil McGregor:

http://snipurl.com/iver

Fallout from Katrina at the New Orleans Museum of Art:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/arts/design/18layo.html

A Vietnamese-Swiss collector has made a major donation to
Vietnamese museums:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01ANT221005

Arguing about Lord Wenlock's tankard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/arts/design/21voge.html

Major antiques show in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/arts/music/21glue.html

... with Sotheby's and Christie's trying to get spinoff
sales:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/arts/design/21anti.html

A bunch of old atlases are coming to auction and expected to
reach a big price:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4352382.stm

Can't remember if this piece on restoring Russian icons was
in last week's issue or not:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/international/europe/16icon.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Choephori:

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=1659

Achilles and Patroclus:

http://tinyurl.com/c46nk (East Bay Express)

Julius Caesar:

http://tinyurl.com/97ua9 (Star-Ledger)

Tempest:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/10/22/theater/reviews/22temp.html

Apology of Socrates:

http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=18338

All the Great Books (Abridged):

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/12968522.htm

St. Oedipus:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/theater/reviews/17sain.html

Get ready for Beowulf mania:

http://tinyurl.com/9meso (CP via Yahoo)

cf:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/theater/reviews/20beow.html

Review of a couple of books about Shakespeare:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/23simon.html
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ON THE WEB
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The British Library has put all kinds of rare books online:

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
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OBITUARIES
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Alvin M. Josephy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/books/18josephy.html
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Transcript of a radio program suggesting there's a secret
mathematical code in tales of King Arthur:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1479676.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I'm not sure why, but that story from a year ago (?) about
King Tut having red wine in his tomb is making the rounds in a
big way again:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9828398/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4379286.stm
http://tinyurl.com/d3fpp (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/89vdk (Bloomberg)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4379286.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1252627
http://tinyurl.com/ch587 (USA Today)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1844568,00.html

A mystery mummy in Rutgers Geology Hall:

http://tinyurl.com/dajof (Daily Targum)

Plenty of 3000 b.p. (?) burials in Kharand cemetery:

http://tinyurl.com/bfg7x (Iranmania)

More about that mysterious dwarf mummy from Kerman:

http://tinyurl.com/crkmx (Iranmania)

They're going to excavate (if they aren't already) the Temple
of Astarte Ericina at Cagliari:

http://www.sardegnaoggi.it/notizie.php?notizia=6589 (in Italian)

Christianity Today has a feature on Siloam Pool:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/010/35.26.html

Tiberias' black basalt buildings are in danger of collapse:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/638524.html

Persian cuneiform predates Darius?:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?section=2&id=5341

Can oil and the Tchoga Tanbil site mix?:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/oct/1232.html

Why the Temple Mount controversy will go on and on and on
and on and on:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46961

A seal from Akhenaten's tomb was up on eBay a while ago (hmmm):

http://tinyurl.com/c2zdk

Abassid-era music lives:

http://tinyurl.com/aa55j (NYT)

Pyramids webcam:

http://www.pyramidcam.com/
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=99180
(press release on same)

Nice page on the tomb of Amenemhat:

http://tinyurl.com/aewsd

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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They're going to excavate (if they aren't already) the Temple
of Astarte Ericina at Cagliari:

http://www.sardegnaoggi.it/notizie.php?notizia=6589 (in Italian)

The head of a satyr has been found at Fiesole:

http://www.agenews.it/notizia.php?c=11&in=26177 (Italian)
http://www.toscanatv.com/leggi_news?idnews=NL055558 (ditto)
http://lanazione.quotidiano.net/chan/firenze:5389969:/2005/10/28:
(ditto ... with photo)

The Church wants to save Latin as a universal language (maybe):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1840165,00.html

Latest on the Acropolis Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/7aoau (Kathimerini)

Interesting feature on the building which inspired the
architecture of the US Supreme Court:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1130332861066

Another Latin is alive and well piece:

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1123408.html

Christian Kopff is certainly getting a lot of press of
late:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3154735

John Donahue is lecturing on ancient medicine:

http://tinyurl.com/dx7ja (press release)

More coverage of MIT's version of Archimedes' death ray:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9787596/
http://tinyurl.com/88zon (Huffington Post (!))
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1599101,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1599205,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/7vnd7 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/9vbty (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/cdpm9 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/cd72v (Chronicle)

More reviews/interviews/coverage of the Penelopiad:

http://tinyurl.com/87r9u (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/cdgtb (Telegraph ... with another review too)
http://tinyurl.com/a2f9d (Book Standard)

They're still yakking about Bettany Hughes' Helen of Troy thing:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1849106,00.html

More coverage of the return of Tebt papyri to the Bancroft Library:

http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=20106

More reviews of Rome from the UK:

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CADFA.htm
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2160932005

Review of a couple of tomes about myth:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article322672.ece
http://tinyurl.com/8m9wa (FT ... + Penelopiad)
http://www.newstatesman.com/200510310045 (ditto)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/classics/0,6121,1602840,00.html
(ditto)

Review of VDH's *War Like No Other*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20051029-102314-3732r.htm

Review of Luke Slattery, *Dating Aphrodite*:

http://tinyurl.com/c323t (Age)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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2000 b.p. burial in Shetland:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2136632005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4370998.stm

Lion remains at the Tower of London:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4371908.stm

A 17th-century button has been declared treasure trove:

http://tinyurl.com/8qqz3 (Dunstable News ... photo)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Brief item (with interesting photos) of an Eastern Zhou grave
pit excavation:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/26/content_3685792.htm

A very interesting followup piece about discoveries made after the
tsunami last year:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4312024.stm

Some Asia-specific dna front material ... the spawn of Giocangga:

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051024/full/051024-1.html

Development in Australia has uncovered remains of some of the
country's oldest iron factories:

http://tinyurl.com/bedfs

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Native American burial at Indian Island County Park:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9837763/

Recent landslides in La Conchita, California may be part of a
a much larger prehistoric slide:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051023123104.htm

Not sure what to make of this one ... some guy has a theory that
Clovis culture was 'impacted' somehow by a massive comet:

http://tinyurl.com/bdyvp (Daily Democrat)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1261061

cf: other coverage of the 'Clovis Conference':

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13014657.htm

The medical side of Ben Franklin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4293380.stm

Repeat of that story about the examination of Chilean mummy
eyes:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051024085459.htm

Review of Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler, *Women's Letters:
America From the Revolutionary War to the Present*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/books/review/30bentley.html

Review of Doris Kearns Goodwin,  *Team of Rivals: The Political
Genius of Abraham Lincoln*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/books/25kaku.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Coverage of Joyce Marcus' lecture on war and society in ancient
Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/b79d9 (SMU Daily)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Dresden's Frauenkirche has been restored/rebuilt:

http://tinyurl.com/9ym2f (NYT)

This is semi-dna front material ... some Hispanics in the U.S.
are apparently descendents of Sepphardic Jews who fled Spain
400 years ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/29/national/29religion.html

Pondering the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon quake:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051026/sc_nm/quake_lisbon_dc

Review of assorted works on Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/29/books/29shak.html
cf: http://tinyurl.com/8zjgk (SF Chronicle)

A movie of Paradise Lost?:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1600726,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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This seems to be the appropriate category for this one ... check
out what the Munch Museum in Oslo is marketing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/arts/25arts.html (fifth item)

... but then came the followup:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/arts/27arts.html (second)

I think we might have mentioned this aspect of the Getty
investigation before, but perhaps not ('new' claims by Greece):

http://tinyurl.com/czr7y (LA Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/arts/26Arts.html (third item)
http://tinyurl.com/btxho (Union Tribune)
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1246125
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4374132.stm

... and Italy is claiming a vase at the Met was looted too:

http://tinyurl.com/8xt39 (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/8ruhv (LA Times ... more coverage)
http://tinyurl.com/8r8u8 (Mercury)
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1029italy-vase29.html
http://tinyurl.com/clwgx (Science Daily)

Al-Ahram ponders Egypt's new antiquities law:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/766/he1.htm

It's not really clearly stated here, but I think this article
is suggesting an MEP is connected somehow to smuggling
antiquities from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=22495&cat_id=1
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Nice piece on the Charlotte Mint Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/8bdpo (News 14)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Fra Angelico:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/arts/design/28smit.html

Jacob van Ruisdael (nice stuff ... never heard of him before):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/arts/design/28ruis.html

In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/932fk (Art Daily)

Legacy of Homer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/arts/design/28glue.html

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/9hvuq

Immortal Pharaoh: The Tomb of Thutmose III:

http://www.cac.org.uk/venues/whatson.htm

Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/cce56 (ANSA)
http://www.ccchronicle.com/paper/citybeat.php?id=1818

A medal from Trafalgar hit the auction block last week:

http://tinyurl.com/bz8cg (CEN News)

Sotheby's was auctioning off a bunch of stuff from the Safra's
collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/arts/design/28anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Achilles and Patroclus:

http://tinyurl.com/82qqj (Eastbay Express)

Antigone:

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/13021573.htm

Caligula (Ballet):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/arts/dance/27cali.html

Purgatorio (Classicists take note):

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/theater/246190_theater28.html

Trojan Women:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/arts/viewarticle.asp?id=295970
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ON THE WEB
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Rockart Research Investigation Group:

http://www.gipri.org/
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OBITUARIES
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Robert Johnston (Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/nyregion/26johnston.html
http://tinyurl.com/7bfpn (Democrat and Chronicle)
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/638503.html
http://tinyurl.com/chxpr (Science Daily)

Marshall Clagett (Ancient Science Scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/college/coll26CLAGETT.html
http://tinyurl.com/8vchd (Newsday)

Kathryn O. Scott (Textile Conservation Pioneer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/nyregion/28scott.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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I think claims of a pyramid in Bosnia have to be taken with
a large grain of salt until we get more details:

http://www.fena.ba/uk/vijest.html?fena_id=FSA314092&rubrika=ES
http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/5181909/detail.html (Photo?)
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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen
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EARLY HUMANS
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On the spread of modern humans:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/uocp-to110405.php
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AFRICA
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Not sure what to make of this one ... petroglyphs have been
deciphered (apparently) in Nigeria and are being used to claim
all sorts of things:

http://tinyurl.com/9j2pz (Vanguard)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Nice feature on all those mummies languishing in the basement
of the Egyptian Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/7l8x5 (NYT)

Farming is threatening assorted Egypian monuments:

http://tinyurl.com/7dtss (Globe and Mail)

A pile of cuneiform inscriptions have been found at Haft Tepe:

http://tinyurl.com/aj2dt (Iran News)

A 3000 b.p. warrior burial for Gohar Tappeh:

http://tinyurl.com/bxlsd (Iran News)

A major fire temple from Kermanshah

An 'official' touristy thing on Khajeh Mountain:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0511020174170927.htm

Remains of an ancient church have been found inside the walls
of a prison in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/88t8k (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051105/wl_nm/mideast_church_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/ayn25 (ABC ... photo)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-05-early-church_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4411286.stm (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/8gue5 (JPost ... different photo)

Another feature on Matthew Bogdanos:

http://www.ottawasun.com/Lifestyle/2005/11/05/1293414-sun.html

A sort of op-ed piece (I think) on Iranians as founders of a
world empire:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/oct/1260.html

Feature on the Library of Alexandria:

http://www.hindu.com/yw/2005/11/04/stories/2005110400010100.htm

Review of Denis Guedj, *Zero*

http://tinyurl.com/7tmql (Le courrier ... en francais)

A mummy in the Tennessee State Museum is causing controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/avnwh (Tennesseean)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
On the popularity of ancient history in Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/8yx8o (SMH)

Coverage of a lecture about the Celts:

http://tinyurl.com/axloz (Herald)

'Giant' crabs are getting in the way of excavations in Rome
(no really!):

http://tinyurl.com/9keux (Telegraph)

Possible Roman bones from Malmesbury:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4398564.stm

An item on the pankration:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,6903,1635344,00.html

Student Rhetoric Competition:

http://tinyurl.com/bvtmc (Boston Globe)

Nice interviewish thing with Robert Fagles:

http://tinyurl.com/8bvbc (NJ Times)

Nice piece on James Russell's work:

http://tinyurl.com/apkqo (Telegraph)

Schoolkids built a Trojan Horse replica:

http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1131095236/5

A Latin teacher is having great success on Jeopardy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/nyregion/06jeopardy.html

A Latin poem penned by a US founding father has been
found in the archives of a school in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/882up (Universe)

The Archaeology Channel is featuring a short history of
Greece (aimed at/by schoolkids) based on pots:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Feature on the Library of Alexandria:

http://www.hindu.com/yw/2005/11/04/stories/2005110400010100.htm

... and one on the Colossus of Rhodes:

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art37085.asp

Reciting the Heroic Hexameter:

http://www.aoidoi.org//articles/epic/recite.pdf

An ABC approach to ancient Rome:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2180142005

Walking Roman Scotland:

http://www.walk-wise.co.uk/cat.asp?pid=838&cid=6039

Thucydides, Plato, Iraq and the U.S.:

http://newsbyus.com/more.php?id=480_0_1_0_M

Something to cringe at:

http://tinyurl.com/7olrq (Daily Breeze)

More reviews of Rome:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4398006.stm
http://tinyurl.com/9cqtt (Telegraph)

... while it appears viewers in the UK aren't getting the same
version we're seeing in North America:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1859513,00.html

Review of Gwyn Morgan, *69 A.D.*:

http://tinyurl.com/b5kjz (M&C)

Review of Robin Lane Fox, *The Classical World*:

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

Review of Bettany Hughes, *Helen of Troy* (the book):

http://tinyurl.com/cbfr8 (Age)

More reviews of all those recent myth books:

http://tinyurl.com/8v37o (Telegraph)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A very large Neolithic site has been found in a Northumberland
quarry:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4399194.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1607402,00.html

New excavations at the 'stonehenge of the north':

http://tinyurl.com/az6vg (Northallerton News)

A 2000 b.p. burial in Norway:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1149309.ece

Metal detectorists have found a major Iron Age coin hoard on the
Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/9u4ka (IWCP)

A not-so-ancient mummified cat was found beneath a house in
Highbury:

http://tinyurl.com/cnqyb (Islington Gazette)

Coverage of a lecture about the Celts:

http://tinyurl.com/axloz (Herald)

Hot on the heels of 'Rome' will be a series (?) about the
Borgias:

http://www.timeout.com/film/news/726.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html

Archaeology North Devon Blog:

http://ndology.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 5000 b.p. site in China is being connected to the 'Greenhouse
effect':

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/31/content_3708877.htm

A 5000 b.p. (or so) necklace from a site in Henan:

http://china.org.cn/english/features/Archaeology/147468.htm

A Neolithic burial near/in Beijing:

http://english.people.com.cn/200511/03/eng20051103_218807.html

A 4100 b.p. observatory from China:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396012.stm

A 3700 b.p. dragon totem (no photo, alas):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/31/content_3708822.htm

Concerns about a 2000 b.p. Chinese mummy's deterioration:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/30/content_3702885.htm

Some interesting Polynesian burials:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1494750.htm

An extremely small temple from the Tamlimakan Desert:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/01/content_3715616.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200511/01/eng20051101_218271.html

More on the spawn of Giocangga:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396246.stm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Ancient Polynesians in the Santa Barbara channel ... the theory
returns:

http://tinyurl.com/cnosz (Herald)

More on comets and Clovis:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051029/ap_on_sc/early_americans

A 2800 b.p. site near Tucson:

http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=4044564

Torrential rains have led to the discovery of a Native American
burial ground on Long Island:

http://www.wnbc.com/news/5223651/detail.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9892276/
http://tinyurl.com/cah6s (Daily Democrat)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_sc/indian_artifacts

Native American burials in Shelby County (Alabama):

http://tinyurl.com/da4yd (Birmingham News)

Excavating a Washoe people site in Nevada:

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/2005111050085

Archaeologists are working on a Revolution-era field kitchen site:

http://tinyurl.com/8qgcb (Daily Press)

A 'ghost town' in the Garnet Mountains:

http://tinyurl.com/atq7y (Missoulian)

The latest on Fort Clatsop:

http://tinyurl.com/7u4ck (Astorian)
http://tinyurl.com/dm4s6 (Oregonian)

Plans are afoot to preserve the last Shaker village:

http://enn.com/aff.html?id=975

Review of Doris Kearns Goodwin, *Team of Rivals: The Political
Genius of Abraham Lincoln.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/06mcpherson.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989622

Review of Akhil Reed Amar, *America's Constition: A Biography*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/06ryerson.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A piece on Maya life might be of interest:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/23/news/mexphoto.php

More on those finds relating to an early Amazonian civilization:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4551 (Portuguese)

More hype for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/10/30/1130607149237.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3463028a1870,00.html (bad photo)
http://tinyurl.com/brkkr (Age)
http://tinyurl.com/eyzrd (CNN)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The grave of Copernicus appears to have been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4405958.stm (photo!)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9913250/ (ditto)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9913092/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/international/europe/06coper.html

The Grafton portrait of a young Shakespeare apparently isn't:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/arts/31arts.html

Identifying where carpets come from:

http://tinyurl.com/a48mt (Spectroscopy Now)

Reflecting on terrorism on Guy Fawkes day:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/05/national/05beliefs.html

Interesting item on the restoration of a Medici tapestry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/01/arts/design/01tape.html

NPR had an interesting item on Gombrich's *Little History ...*:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4980126

I doubt op-ed pieces like this (which pit appreciation for
Maya culture against that of the Greeks) are very helpful:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/commentary/cst-nws-mayans06.html

Article on 'deviant burials' in various societies:

http://tinyurl.com/djn2o

Review of Lucy Hughes-Hallet, *Heroes*:

http://tinyurl.com/d338e (Globe and Mail)

Review of Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/06schiff.html

Review of Claire Harman, *Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life
of Robert Louis Stevenson.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/06benfey.html

I guess everyone has a copy of the DaVinci Code by now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/arts/04arts.html (third item)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4990874

Literary Darwinism (?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/magazine/06darwin.html

Hype for the History Channel's documentary about the Crusades:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/11/05/arts/television/05gate.html
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/tv/14922/index.html

Marking the Bolshevik uprising:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4406526.stm
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Biblical Archaeology Review (November/December 2005):

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

Archaeology Odyssey (November/December 2005):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html

History Today (November 2005):

http://tinyurl.com/cw5vp

British Archaeology (November/December 2005):

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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We're going to have to rename the Getty-erstwhile-True Case to
something else ... seems that even more museums are getting
swept up in the investigation:

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=aThsZ_9K56sQ
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/national/31getty.html
http://tinyurl.com/7vvzz (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/bfown (ditto ... a different one)
http://tinyurl.com/8eu4h (Mercury)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/30/getty.ap/index.html

... and some well-known auction houses seem to have been
indirectly involved too:

http://tinyurl.com/b9rdd (Bloomberg)

... and more names are being dropped at the Getty:

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3187909

... and changes are afoot at the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/9q4gz (LA Times)

Meanwhile, another antiquities case (that one from Seattle
which we mentioned a couple of years ago (!)) has finally come
to an end:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/wa_antiques.html

Syria recovered some previously-purloined antiquities this week:

http://tinyurl.com/aovbt (KUNA)

... as did Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/8nbvx (El Paso Times)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9882878/

A brief item on Donny George and the continuing looting of
Iraq's antiquities:

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_309133945.html

Remember that Leviticus scroll a while back? Seems the
archaeologist who purchased them has been charged:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/640475.html
http://tinyurl.com/cb8ph (JPost)

see also:

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/640436.html (Hebrew)

NPR had an interesting feature on the FBI's Art Crimes unit:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4990883

Not sure where to classify this one, but I strongly suspect
that Greece's new 'diving law' will lead to damage/looting
to/of underwater sites:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=62596

... meanwhile, there's a new antiquities law in Egypt as well:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/766/he1.htm
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NUMISMATICA
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The 'King of Siam' set reached a high price at auction this
past week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/national/31COIN.html

South Carolina Tokens:

http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/historyoftokens/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Humayma:

http://tinyurl.com/dc7kl (Oak Bay)

Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's 'Cottage Door':

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/arts/design/04glue.html

Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire:

http://tinyurl.com/cd2vf (Art Daily)

The Hours of Louis XII:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article324999.ece

Quijote:

http://tinyurl.com/ayqr9 (La Tercera ... Spanish)

Hesse: A Princely German Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/arts/design/02hess.html

Feature on the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/03/travel/trlede4.php

Plans for an American Revolution Center are on hold:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/05/arts/05arts.html (last item)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Phaedra's Love:

http://tinyurl.com/96ayf (Telegraph)

Phaedra:

http://www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_3171478
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2005-11-02/culture/stage.html

Medea (I think these might be different productions):

http://tinyurl.com/9lqzv (Mercury)
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/theater/reviews/02mede.html

Burial at Thebes/Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/9uufl (Guardian)

Winter's Tale:

http://tinyurl.com/7cr4n (NYT)

cf:
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/theater/14919/index.html

Celebrating the horn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/05/arts/music/05rebe.html

A number of 'historical' films in the New York Times holiday
movies special:

http://tinyurl.com/afg5r
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ON THE WEB
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The Enemies of Books:

http://tinyurl.com/9adub
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OBITUARIES
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Robert Johnston

http://tinyurl.com/bfhff (Globe and Mail)

Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Medicine woman)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/nyregion/02tantaquidgeon.html

Also seen: the New York Times reprised its obituary for
Margaret Mead:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1216.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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The 'curse of Oetzi' claims another victim:

http://tinyurl.com/dzrpm (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/897hw (Australian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4409512.stm

More on the Bosnian 'pyramid' claims (although nothing to
take it seriously):

http://tinyurl.com/7sam6 (AFP via Yahoo ... 'slabs' photo)
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=21353
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/622605
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4377290.stm (scroll down)
http://tinyurl.com/agztw (NBC 4)
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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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On the DNA front, a recent study suggests modern Europeans are
descended from hunter-gatherers who lived in Central Europe some
40 000 b.p.:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051112125213.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9991118/
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article326302.ece (may expire)
http://tinyurl.com/9e6sw (Miami Herald)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2005/11/12/1304262-ap.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051107/full/051107-10.html
http://tinyurl.com/9q8yd (NG)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists have found evidence of a mysterious massacre at
Mendes some 4000 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/crtcp (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/a9q84 (Mail and Guardian)

Some high-tech archaeology appears to be afoot in the Kharga
Oasis:

http://tinyurl.com/dwqmc (SIS)

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of an inscription with a
very early form of the Hebrew alphabet:

http://tinyurl.com/dzlmv (NYT - photo; JNW)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9980598/
http://tinyurl.com/bdsbq (Baltimore Sun)
http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2005/11/13/67527.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05314/603769.stm
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/13121561.htm
http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=4093810

... and a shard of pottery was found with the name 'Goliath'
written on it:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9997587/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/10/content_3761109.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news8084.html
http://tinyurl.com/cyzxq (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=27455
http://wmh.walla.co.il/archive/182923-5.jpg (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/8668d (JPost ... better photo, sort of)

... and CNN gets the prize for putting up a headline with the
expected (il)logical conclusion:

http://tinyurl.com/7mv6n

... and another (?) inscription of Jehoash was found:

http://tinyurl.com/9cydm (Ha'aretz)

A roundup piece about recent finds in Israel:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=92812

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=92684
http://www.jnewswire.com/library/article.php?articleid=852
http://tinyurl.com/bs5ol (JPost)

Feature on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (in German):

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,383477,00.html

Diana Edelman, "Redating the Building of the 'Second' Temple":

http://tinyurl.com/93rjv (B and I)

A strange jar-burial from Gohan Tepe:

http://tinyurl.com/99fpv (Iranmania)

... and more from Gohar Tepe:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_10793.shtml

A pile of Sassanid-era seals from Takht-e Soleiman:

http://tinyurl.com/8fka4 (Iranmania)

Dam construction has revealed some 'Sassanid style' burials:

http://tinyurl.com/7j9g6 (Tehran Times)

A Parthian-era mud brick wall:

http://tinyurl.com/8js5t (Tehran Times)
http://tinyurl.com/bwrjw (Iranmania)

Results from the season's underwater 'dig' at Dor/Tantura:

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=27396

Not sure this is 'news' (I'm sure I've read it before), but
archaeologists have found the 'base' of the Pharos of Alexandria:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20051107/42010229.html
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=54882

Piles more coverage of that early Christian church find at Megiddo:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9950210/ (includes video)
http://tinyurl.com/75ppr (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/d3m7s (Washington Post)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051106/sc_nm/mideast_church_dc
http://tinyurl.com/7mjzn (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/darep (Guardian)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06706013.htm
http://tinyurl.com/duolh (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/7ek97 (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/8jq9r (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/9lv93 (ABC)
http://www.chieftain.com/life/1131785415/6
http://tinyurl.com/886x3 (ME Times)

... and now they're wondering what to do with the prison:

http://tinyurl.com/akjog (JPost)

See also the very interesting post on the inscription at
Novum Testatmentum:

http://tinyurl.com/8gcqr

A well-attended lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/dxfhc (Tribune)

Still talking about Egyptian red wine:

http://tinyurl.com/d7bo2 (Observer)

A somewhat bizarre update to the story of that expedition to
find the source of the Nile:

http://tinyurl.com/azq9a (Telegraph)

Israel is giving control of the Coenaculum to the Vatican:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/642171.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Some Linear A and Linear B texts were found on Crete this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/865rb (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/dmqo4 (News24)

An unpillaged Hellenistic tomb from Macedonia:

http://tinyurl.com/7b2mf (Kathimerini)

Roman Christian burials found during road construction in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/bwgak (Hunts Post)

A wall collapsed in the Forum this week:

http://tinyurl.com/dt285 (CBC)

An interview with Victor Davis Hanson:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20101

... the the New Republic has excerpted chapter 10 of his
*War Like No Other* (in installments ... in order; I believe
there are only five):

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200511071115.asp
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200511080828.asp
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200511090807.asp
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200511100814.asp
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200511110827.asp

Greek pots and the modern world:

http://www.metropulse.com/articles/2005/15_45/artbeat.shtml

Coverage of a Clayton Fant talk:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=49141

Interesting feature on Euripides:

http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/religion/ci_3203161

Electronic Antiquity (May 2005):

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V8N2/

Latest Asterix:

http://tinyurl.com/bvj7l (CEN)

Review of a (Greek) novel about Xenophon:

http://tinyurl.com/8x6bw (Kathimerini)

Page duBois reviews Bettany Hughes:

http://tinyurl.com/8mwvs (Union Tribune)

Reviews of Rome from the UK continue to focus on editing:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/50477.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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'Aryan' burial mounds from Armenia:

http://tinyurl.com/b2ap9 (AP via Yahoo)

Somewhat brief (and vague) item on the find of some possible
Viking artifacts in Norway:

http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=16585

... while an academic in the UK has a nice collection of Viking
footwear:

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-11-8/34336.html

... and a very brief item on a 600 b.p. boat burial:

http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=16486

Iron Age burial on Shetland:

http://www.physorg.com/news7929.html

Anglo-Saxon remains at a US airbase in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/d9jwx (CEN)

Excavating the site of the second battle of Sherrifmuir:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/50528.html

Somewhat incoherent piece on the Vlachs:

http://tinyurl.com/doq6k (Knight News)

The UK has released its annual report of items found under the
Portable Antiquities Scheme:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART31728.html
http://tinyurl.com/anchr (MI)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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The arrival of modern humans in south Asia may have led to the
demise of indigenous populations:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051107080321.htm

Settlement of Micronesia may have begun 5000 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/9folk (AFP via Yahoo)

3500 b.p. pottery kiln from Chifeng:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/10/content_3761109.htm

Archaeologists have found a number of 'Buddhist stone caves' in
Afghanistan:

http://www.kashar.net/complete.asp?id=2548

Results are trickling in from a major dig in Hawaii:

http://tinyurl.com/8cm78 (Advertiser)

China's really drawing attention to the navigational adventures
of Zheng He:

http://tinyurl.com/9oqm8 (IOL)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Remember a while back they were DNA testing some bones to see
if they belonged to the founder of Jamestown? After a rather
long delay (it seems to me), the tests have come back negative:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9994537/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10004367/
http://tinyurl.com/cxub4 (Gazette)
http://tinyurl.com/7s7on (RedOrbit)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1302001 (photo?)

... while Bill Kelso gave more news about Jamestown:

http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=1493&CHID=1

Vague item about pottery sherds being found on a Florida beach:

http://tinyurl.com/8smm9 (First Coast News)

Also on the DNA front, we're (again?) seeing if it will solve
the 'mystery' of the fate of Billy the Kid:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9974111/

An 'endangered' prehistoric site in New Hampshire:

http://tinyurl.com/bhb2g (Foster's)

A Phillis Wheatley signed letter is coming up for auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/arts/design/11anti.html

An Oneota site in Minnesota:

http://tinyurl.com/8h9tq (Free Press)

Op-Ed piece on the Clovis Conference:

http://tinyurl.com/ahfuy (Seattle Times)

On the trail of a Revolution-era tale of arson in Annapolis:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/11_06-17/LIF

Review of James Horn, *A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the
Birth of America.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/books/review/13shorto.html

Review of Sean Wilentz, *The Rise of American Democracy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/books/review/13wood.html

Review of a couple of books aimed at younger readers about the
Revolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/books/review/13foner.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Burials within the temple of Quetzlcoatl at Teotihuacan:

http://tinyurl.com/bt2rk (La Tercera ... Spanish)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Historical pandemics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4381924.stm

Brown's history of mathematics department may soon be history
itself:

http://tinyurl.com/age3e (Daily Herald)

One for fans of the Canterbury Tales:

http://tinyurl.com/7gnsf (NYT)

Hype/review of the screen version of Pride and Prejudice:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/movies/11prid.html

... and of "The Virgin Queen":

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/12/arts/television/12bell.html

All about those silent letters in English:

http://tinyurl.com/87njw (Courant)

Keeping the Shroud of Turin in the news:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635158723,00.html

... and an interesting piece on a group with a skeptical
approach to miracles:

http://tinyurl.com/d2ajt (Chronicle)
http://tinyurl.com/akqu3 (Seattle Times)

Michael Wood's latest effort looks interesting (Queen of
Sheba; Jason and the Argonauts; etc.):

http://tinyurl.com/8l5e9 (Kitsapun)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1110/p16s01-altv.html
http://tinyurl.com/7hfa8 (Washington Post)

Repeat of the Copernicus grave story:

http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/06/stories/2005110603921200.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051107/full/051107-3.html

Review of Jonathan Harr, *The Lost Painting*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/books/review/13handy.html

Review of Henry Hitchings, *Defining the Word*:The Extraordinary
Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/12/books/12grim.html

Review of *The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/books/review/13leavitt.html

Review of Dava Sobel, *The Planets*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/books/review/13bartusiak.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/7h9m2 (Lufkin Daily News)

Florence (!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/arts/design/08flor.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Ancient Egypt Magazine (October/November):

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue32.htm

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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[I'm noticing that this section seems to be increasing in
size each week ...]

The Museum Case is picking up steam with the trial of Marion
True about to begin ... among this week's events, the Getty
returned some items to Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/aygcz (Art Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/9fh4c (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/awm2n (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/cgjgq (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/8h9z5 (ANSA)

... while there was more finger-pointing there too (it seems):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/arts/design/06getty.html
(this one might expire)

... and the director of the Met headed to Italy for talks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/12/arts/design/12anti.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051112/1053975.asp

... which is possibly related to this:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085

... and Princeton's museum came under scrutiny:

http://tinyurl.com/7opyx (Times)
http://tinyurl.com/7br48 (Newsday)

... while Toledo's MoA is cooperating:

http://tinyurl.com/c9ha9 (Blade)

cf: http://tinyurl.com/a4d9l (Dispatch)

... and the list of implicated museums in general continued
to grow (in the U.S. ... I wonder what's happening in
Europe):

http://tinyurl.com/9jq5u (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/aqogd (LA Times ... possibly the same)

... and we're beginning to get the 'that's not the only
disputed ownership' stories:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1107/p13s02-alar.html

Meanwhile, folks are losing hope whether a number of looted
Iraqi objects will ever be found:

http://tinyurl.com/abslj (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/dce3f (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/9odgr (China Daily)

cf.:
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2239/2005-11-12/65@281579.htm
http://tinyurl.com/7vc6y (Globe and Mail)

Egypt foiled an attempt to sell a number of items at an
auction in Canada:

http://tinyurl.com/d59zs (SIS)

The US is going to investigate China's looting of Tibet:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=57

Major sentence for a guy who damaged a sundial at Macchu Pichu:

http://tinyurl.com/ccg3e (AP via Yahoo)
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NUMISMATICA
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Exonumia links:

http://www.exonumia.com/links.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Canaletto:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article326333.ece
(may expire)

Darwin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/nyregion/07darwin.html

Erotic Art in Florence:

http://tinyurl.com/a5v29 (NYT)

Splendor of the Word:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/arts/design/06shat.html

Treasures of Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/9p6rm (Current)

Ed Ruscha:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/arts/design/11voge.html

A finger of the Buddha is going on tour:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051111/lf_afp/chinaskoreareligion

The Dutch Ministry of Culture will return a mummified Maori
head to New Zealand:

http://tinyurl.com/8bbvs (NYT)

They're (finally) fixing up the Ashmolean:

http://tinyurl.com/7z2wu (Telegraph)

Repeat of that story about what's in the Egyptian Museum's
basement:

http://tinyurl.com/d4q3b (SMH)

Some Revolution-era flags are coming up for auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/nyregion/11flags.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Bartleby the Scrivener:

http://tinyurl.com/cy8kg (NYT)

Chant Wars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/arts/music/08chan.html

Software and Shakespeare:

http://tinyurl.com/9b7gu (NYT)

Trojan Women:

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/11/trojan.html
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OBITUARIES
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Gordon A Craig (German Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/national/09CRAIG.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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That so-called 'Bimini Road' was the subject of a press release:

http://www.mysterious-america.net/biminihoax.html

... and then there was this:

http://i-newswire.com/pr49748.html
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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Another version of that early humans drove out other hominids
in southeast Asia story:

http://tinyurl.com/9r3tl (NG)
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AFRICA
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Discover Magazine has a piece on Nubia's black pharaohs:

http://tinyurl.com/eym7p
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Examination of a 2nd century B.C./B.C.E. mummy from Egypt is
causing a rethink of ideas of a 'pork ban' in ancient Egypt
(although there seems to be a jumping-to-conclusion thing
going on here):

http://tinyurl.com/7psub (ANSA)

A sixth-century seal bearing an image of Jesus from Tiberias:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/647224.html
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=646929
(Hebrew ... with photo)

A mystery burial from Siraf:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/nov/1167.html
http://tinyurl.com/957tj (IranMania)

Plans are afoot to investigate a number of Mazandaran caves:

http://tinyurl.com/aydpk (IranMania)

German archaeologists want to continue digging at Troy:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=culture&alt=&trh=20051114&hn=26381

Iranian archaeologists are asking for a reduction in dependence
on 'foreign' archaeologists:

http://tinyurl.com/aur5t (IRNA)

A section of wall in Jerusalem's Old City is on the verge of
collapse:

http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=11868
http://tinyurl.com/dfhbd (AFP via Yahoo)

This piece on Biblical archaeology might be of interest:

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=1817

Repeat of the 'Goliath' story:

http://tinyurl.com/7asrt (ME Times)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051113/sc_nm/israel_goliath_dc_1

Repeat of the 'Alphabet Stone' story:

http://tinyurl.com/c6bmz (ME Times)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3456126.html

... with an interesting followup at Language Log:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002645.html

Mystery solved: that 'dwarf burial' from Kerman turned out
to be a naturally mummified premature baby:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/nov/1155.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Some coverage of the discovery of an ancient map of the 'heel' of
Italy's boot:

http://tinyurl.com/dgs2a (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/8n6dj (Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/9ulp4 (Telegraph ... photo)

Remains of a Roman village have been uncovered in Sardinia:

http://www.sardegnaogginews.it/notizie.php?notizia=6679 (Italian)

An ivory statue of Septimius Severus or Marcus Aurelius was
found in the Forum this week:

http://tinyurl.com/c3bfs (ANSA)

Roman glass in a Chinese tomb:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/20/content_3806614.htm

... while plans are afoot to seek connections between Rome and
India:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=81950

... and to excavate the Roman theatre at Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=645353
(Hebrew)

The campaign to save Allianoi continues:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=28419

A sort of followup to that Roman wall collapse story from a
couple of weeks ago:

http://tinyurl.com/c8872 (Telegraph)

The latest tidbit in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:

http://tinyurl.com/drb3f (Kathimerini)

Greek and Latin alive and well in Thurmont:

http://tinyurl.com/cnzks (Baltimore Sun)

Coverage of the Maine Junior Classical League convention:

http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/2161234.shtml

An Iliathon at Colgate:

http://tinyurl.com/7rwy2 (CUN)

German archaeologists want to continue digging at Troy:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=culture&alt=&trh=20051114&hn=26381

OpEd sort of thing on Trajan's campaigns in Mesopotamia:

http://tinyurl.com/blqet (American Muslim)

Somewhat touristy thing on the Pantheon:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/travel/20pantheon.html

A piece on the accuracy of 'Rome':

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=113001

Jonathan Shay continues to lecture on wars and their effects
on soldiers, ancient and modern:

http://tinyurl.com/97zhz (DI)

Eva Braan is one of the recipients of a National Humanities
Medal:

http://www.collegenews.org/x5062.xml

An Marilyn Bisch has received Post-Secondary Teacher of the Year
honours:

http://tinyurl.com/c8se7 (Statesman)

A budding Classicist:

http://tinyurl.com/areoq (NWI Times)

Repeat of that Linear A and B find on Crete story:

http://tinyurl.com/dmqo4 (News 24)

Harold Edgeworth Butler, *Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to
Juvenal*:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7pagp10.txt

Another review of Bettany Hughes' *Helen of Troy ...*:

http://tinyurl.com/cmyao (Independent)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A large Bronze Age settlement in Armenia:

http://tinyurl.com/9olno (Deinekes)

The Bulgarian town of Nessbar may be taken off the UNESCO list:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=55263

Review of Malcolm Gaskill, *Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century
English Tragedy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/books/review/20norton.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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An Harappan burial may answer (or raise) some questions:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=82212

Roman glass in a Chinese tomb:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/20/content_3806614.htm


... while plans are afoot to seek connections between Rome and
India:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=81950

The house of Soga no Iruka may have been located:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20051115TDY02005.htm

We haven't had a Walmart and archaeology story in a while, so
here's one from Hawaii:

http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/19/news/story06.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Petroglyphs from upstate New York?:

http://www.cbc.ca/montreal/story/qc-indart20051118.html?ref=rss

Interesting piece on the Gettysburg 'Cyclorama':

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/arts/design/16cycl.html

... and one on a major earthquake which struck the northeastern
U.S. back in 1755:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/opinion/18liell.html

How did John Smith explore so much of the Nanticoke River in
so short a time?

http://tinyurl.com/atydg (Daily Times)

Semi-touristy thing on stone walls in New England:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/travel/escapes/18stone.html

Review of H.W. Brands, *Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/books/review/20oneill.html

Review of a cookbookish thing on the history of Thanksgiving
dinners:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1116/p13s02-lifo.html?s=hns
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Elite women made beer in ancient Peru:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/nation/13167414.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10043096/
http://tinyurl.com/dzeox (SciAm)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051114221603.htm
http://tinyurl.com/bowp9 (CBC)
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051114/full/051114-2.html

... same story, different spin:

http://tinyurl.com/dpzb2 (ABC)

... and yet a different spin:

http://tinyurl.com/cvqvl (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/959a4 (AP via Yahoo)

... and the press release:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/fm-bdt110905.php

AGI reports (in Italian) on the discovery of a sanctuary of
Giaguaro in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/dpvwx

A puzzling (ritual?) massacre at Cancuen, ca 800 A.D.:

http://tinyurl.com/8gkm3 (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/9mcga (NYT - JNW)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/17/news/maya.php
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10084959/
http://tinyurl.com/92zy7 (Seattle Times)
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051117-092425-8097r
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article327752.ece
(may expire)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Latest video at the Archaeology Channel ... the Shovel Bum's Lot:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Hostages from Darwin's expedition:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4429006.stm

On the history of drinking in various cultures:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article328019.ece
(may expire)

Interesting piece on Learning Sites' reconstructions of ancient
sites:

http://www.thetranscript.com/headlines/ci_3233347

The latest dead celebrity they're trying to identify is
Beethoven:

http://tinyurl.com/bh6jg (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_on_sc/beethoven_s_bones

The pope's Swiss guard is celebrating an anniversary:

http://tinyurl.com/dnf7b (NYT)

Review of B. Craveri, *The Age of Conversation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/books/review/20riding.html

Review of Dan Chiasson, *Natural History: Poems*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/books/review/20ryan.html

Han Banqing, *The Sing Song Girls of Shanghai* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/books/review/20downer.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ostia:

http://tinyurl.com/camk5 (Seattle PI)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Apollo Magazine (November 2005)

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/index.php (TOC)

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The 'Museum Case' had a lot of 'story so far' type pieces this
week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/arts/design/16gett.html
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/11/17/arts/design/17anti.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10048297/
http://tinyurl.com/abtqp (Bloomberg)
http://tinyurl.com/e3uyl (Contra Costa Times)
http://tinyurl.com/dp39j (SMH)

... and an interesting piece on the position of museums in
regard to antiquities up to this point:

http://tinyurl.com/8uy2s (Statesman)

... and one on Bob Hecht:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00226.htm

... because, of course, the trial of Marion True opened (and
doesn't seem to have gotten very far):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/17/arts/design/17gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/bm72r (Star-Ledger)
http://tinyurl.com/76yf8 (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/7kktp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4443686.stm

... although an interesting 'twist' was mentioned in
passing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/18arts.html

Meanwhile, the Golan trial is on in Israel and doesn't seem
to be getting much coverage outside of Israel:

http://www.makorrishon.net/show.asp?id=8079 (Hebrew)
http://www.makorrishon.co.il/show.asp?id=8103 (ditto)

cf:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblical-studies/message/9137

An interviewish thing on antiquities theft in Macedonia:

http://tinyurl.com/84yh7 (Balkananalysis)

Iranian farmers are being accused of plundering
Jondishapour:

http://tinyurl.com/8pn58 (Guardian)

... and the looting of sites continues in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/89h2y (M&C)

Egypt is recovering another pile of antiquities from various
places:

http://tinyurl.com/b9y6a (EE)

I wonder if we'll hear more about this one ... a box full of
Mayan artifacts were taken from a New York home this week:

http://tinyurl.com/7t9ow (CBS)
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NUMISMATICA
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A Sikh coin controversy is brewing:

http://www.sikhsangat.org/publish/article_564.shtml

Spain and its Coins:

http://tinyurl.com/d24sm

A new website to check and rate numismatic books:

http://www.numibooks.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Darwin:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/design/18darw.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/18bdarw.html

cf: http://tinyurl.com/bw9xh (Telegraph)

I Am With You': Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' (1855-2005):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/books/18whit.html

Sacred Arts and City Life: The Glory of Medieval Novgorod:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/design/18cott.html

Clouet to Seurat: French Drawings From the British Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/design/18glue.html

The Arts of France: From François Ier to Napoléon Ier

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/design/18gall.html

The Temple Scroll is going to be on exhibit in the U.S.:

http://tinyurl.com/9zu84 (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/98umx (AP via Yahoo)

Fra Angelico:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/articles/051121craw_artworld

Codex Gigas:

http://tinyurl.com/cza2f (News 24)

Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt:

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2005/11/the_art_of_medi_1.html

Maltese coins:

http://217.145.4.56/ind/news.asp?newsitemid=24160

A sculpture of young John the Baptist ... who made it?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/arts/design/20voge.html

In light of recent events, I guess we should expect some sort
of piece on the history of the Getty:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/arts/design/20ouro.html

Coverage of the Connoiseur's Antique Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/arts/design/18anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/8rq8w (Saratogian)

Hamlet:

http://tinyurl.com/76rq3 (NYT)

Taming of the Shrew:

http://tinyurl.com/83xm4 (NYT)

Bach at Leipzig:

http://tinyurl.com/9dpwm (NYT)

Newberry Consort (Medieval music):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/arts/music/15fric.html
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ON THE WEB
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BAJR's guide to Battlefield Archaeology:

http://www.bajr.org/Documents/BAJRBattleGuide.pdf

The Shakespeare Collection:

http://www.galeuk.com/shakespeare/
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OBITUARIES
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David Pingree (historian of mathematics):

http://tinyurl.com/ar5rx (Brown Daily Herald)
http://tinyurl.com/93hbh
http://www.ou.edu/islamsci/Current%20Newsletter-list7.htm#pingree

cf.:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/15/histmath

Paul Ward (historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/nyregion/18WARD.html

Rutherford Aris (Engineer/Classicist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/national/20aris.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Prehistoric civilization on Antarctica:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/378/16465_.html

... while a parody piece in the Onion somehow doesn't seem
to be too 'parodic' sometimes:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42384

... and a transcript from ABC examining various claims and
why they are taken seriously:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1501397.htm

... and you've got to wonder what purpose the buyer of this
item on eBay will put it to:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7366006721
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
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Fishburn, Hernan Astudillo, James Stewart, Janice Fauble,
Joan Griffith, John Huizinga, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young,
Jona Lendering, Joseph Lauer, Mark Morgan, Mike Ruggeri, Bob
Heuman, Rochelle Altman, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no
one out).

... bit of a slow week. [and apologies for lateness ... my
usually very reliable internet connection went down for a while]
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EARLY HUMANS
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Nice piece on Piltdown Man (and other questionable claims):

http://tinyurl.com/ddg6l (JoongAng Daily)

What did Homo Erectus eat?:

http://tinyurl.com/9xs5r (ABC)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Rushing to excavate sites in Iran before the Sivand Dam covers
them:

http://tinyurl.com/dy6uj (NYT)

Achaemenid sites from Baluchistan:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5969§ion=2

A multiple-horse burial in Jaffa (!):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=648765

A sort of overview piece on all sorts of finds from Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/news_8695.php

Al-Ahram has a nice piece on the Rosetta Stone:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/he2.htm

More coverage of that early Christian church find:

http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=1521

... and a really good followup:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=646974

Handy list of digs in Israel which take volunteers:

http://tinyurl.com/crmjl (IMFA)

Did Talmudic sages know game theory?:

http://www.algemeiner.com/generic.asp?ID=774

The latest CT scan of a mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/8efp7 (Seattle Times)

The DAI has accepted an offer to restore the ruins of Babylon:

http://www.dainst.org/index_4352_nl.html (German)
(try via http://www.dainst.org/ if that doesn't work)

Zahi Hawass appears to be writing a column for Al-Ahram again:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/he3.htm

Searching for the historical Jesus (BBC Radio program ... follow
links to listen again):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4456874.stm

More on the Tel Zayit abecedary:

http://jewishexponent.com/ViewArticle.asp?ArtID=1667
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002659.html

CNN was broadcasting from Petra this week (I didn't catch any
of it):

http://www.ameinfo.com/72566.html

Review of a book about the Al Aqsa mosque:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=650192

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Evidence of 12,000 b.p. seafaring on Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=22960&archive=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/science/22sail.html
http://tinyurl.com/d48hr (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1884776,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10166433/
http://tinyurl.com/djaxr (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/co8px (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/8n4ke

A Roman villa buried by Vesuvius is being excavated in Positano:

http://tinyurl.com/bn8p2 (Telegraph)

Haven't seen anything in English on this one yet ... it's about
the discovery of a villa belonging to various members of the
gens Valeria in Rome:

http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=45033

More coverage of that Roman-glass-in-a-Chinese-tomb find:

http://china.org.cn/english/2005/Nov/149317.htm

Roman road in Chichester:

http://tinyurl.com/89uac

... and another from Portugal:

http://regiao-sul.pt/en/news/news.php?id=457

There were concerns that the Parthenon was threatened by rain:

http://tinyurl.com/cn8rv (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/9el9g (M&C)

... but apparently it isn't:

http://tinyurl.com/br2vu (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/7kg9h (Observer)
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2005/05-11-25_2.apeen.html#01
http://tinyurl.com/74dxd (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/a7h3x (AP)

Some Roman remedies:

http://tinyurl.com/dpqdo (Telegraph)

Australia is going to play a leading role in the campaign to
return the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/8nvta (SMH)

More Parthenon/Elgin Marbles news:

http://tinyurl.com/csneo (ANA)

How'd that Latin teacher on Jeopardy do?:

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/31667.htm

Honours for Latin teacher Steve Tackett

Coverage of the Iliathon at Colgate:

http://tinyurl.com/854b9
http://tinyurl.com/a2kbq

A new Classical Studies major at Ohio Wesleyan:

http://europa.iwu.edu/news/archives/000074.html
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/112605/REG_B881AJKH.033.shtml

Tom Palaima's latest:

http://tinyurl.com/8nxsa (American-Statesman)

Review/recitation of Josephine Balmer's translation of Catullus'
shorter poems:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/audio/poetica_26112005_2856.ram

Review of Victor Davis Hanson, *War Like No Other*:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2304462005

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Iron Age warrior burial from Scotland:

http://tinyurl.com/caura (ELC)

Transcript of a radio program about tracing Viking and Norman
dna in UK populations:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1499065.htm

A tree ... a well ... a controversy:

http://www.southshropshirejournal.com/news/publish/article_10028.php

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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4500 b.p. 'fortune telling instruments' from a Chinese tomb:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/23/content_3824385.htm

Archaeologists have found a rather large 800 b.p. 'mountain city'
in China:

http://china.org.cn/english/2005/Nov/149942.htm

Searching for a millenium of 'lost' Chinese history:

http://tinyurl.com/bftex (Shanghai Daily)

The murals in the Takamatsuzuka tomb are going to be removed
to help preserve them:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20051124f3.htm

Interesting Aborigine execution site find (1500 b.p):

http://tinyurl.com/9t5m4 (SMH)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Results from that auction of flags from the War of Independence:

http://tinyurl.com/azv55 (Telegraph)

... and that auction of a Phillis Wheatley letter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/books/24lett.html

Brief/vague item on a dig in Preston:

http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4150219&nav=1VGm

A Chumash site in California:

http://www.ksby.com/news/headlines/2017407.html

Dating the Calico site (hmmmmm):

http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_3247286
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3249840

An early farming site from New York:

http://tinyurl.com/8euqn (Journal-News)

More from the Fort Clatsop dig:

http://tinyurl.com/dktmh (AP via Yahoo)

19th century mansion in Maryland:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051122/ap_on_sc/mansion_unearthed

Assorted history of Thanksgiving pieces:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/opinion/24mcwilliams.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051121/israelis_his.html

Review of *Mirror to America: the Autobiography of John Hope
Franklin*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/books/review/27oshinsky.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Did the Chinchorro mummies die from (natural) arsenic poisoning?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10194230/
http://tinyurl.com/8656c (CNN)

More coverage of that mass Mayan grave discovery:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4450528.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news8461.html
http://tinyurl.com/83a5b (AFP via Yahoo)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Item on the librarian overseeing Google's scanning project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/21harvard.html

... and the Library of Congress' support of the project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/technology/22google.html

Henry James and New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/books/25jame.html

Searching for 'Father Christmas' (a dna story):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4460832.stm

Plans are afoot for a study of how the Victorians 'reinvented'
history:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1650865,00.html

Binge drinking in various cultures:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4455912.stm

More coverage of that Beethoven's bones story:

http://tinyurl.com/baa42 (Free Press)

Interesting plan to raise Venice (hasn't this been proposed
before?):

http://tinyurl.com/bujkl (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4458910.stm

In case you were wondering, that date seed from Masada that
sprouted is thriving:

http://tinyurl.com/cquo9 (NG)

Collecting chess pieces:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/arts/design/25anti.html

The hazards of staring at Michelangelo's David (this is very close
to Elmer material):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051114/davideffect_hum.html

Thatched roofs in Ireland are disappearing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/international/europe/25irish.html

Review of H. Bloom, *Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/books/review/27rosen.html

Review of S. Kelly, *The Book of Lost Books*:

http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=10898
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Fears of site looting in Macedonia:

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=bcr&s=f&o=256932&apc_state=henpbcr

Why the Museum Case (and others) seems to be focussing on the
US:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/arts/design/25muse.html

The Met faces coming to terms with Italy (as part of the Museum
Case, of course):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/arts/design/21muse.html
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/arts/design/24met.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/arts/design/23met.html
http://tinyurl.com/ddy55 (Newsday)
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1337114

... while Greece is making claims on the Getty too:

http://tinyurl.com/dq8f7
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/22/content_3816723.htm
http://tinyurl.com/cfy36 (LA Times)

More on the Museum Case:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/25/features/museums.php
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=atPEV0rl90VI

... and a related editorial:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/13263210.htm

Brief item on a call to protect Arab antiquities:

http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4715

A stolen Yemeni stele has been returned:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=896&p=culture&a=3

Another piece on Michael Bogdanos' work (these appear to be
the same):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1647021,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1647141,00.html
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NUMISMATICA
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11th century coins from Norway found in Iceland:

http://tinyurl.com/e2r7j (Iceland Review)

Numis:

http://rg.ancients.info/

Numiswiki:

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Medieval London (online slide show):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4457602.stm

Medieval Novgorod:

http://tinyurl.com/bkb3o (Sun)

Imagine Worlds:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/26/arts/design/26imag.html

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus:

http://tinyurl.com/bdzde (ICWales)

Slavery in New York:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/11/26/arts/design/26slav.html

Temple Scroll:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=93393

Treasures of Ancient Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/adema

Plans are afoot for a major redesign of the UPenn Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/997jp (Center Daily)

... while the Clark Collection is moving:

http://tinyurl.com/bmgjy (RCD)

A piece on the Getty (which was in the NYT a week or so ago):

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/20/news/getvilla.php

I was wondering when this sort of thing would be brought up in
relation to the Tut exhibition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/dining/23nati.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Medead (not a typo):

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/thereview.cfm?id=2308312005

The Libertine:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/movies/25libe.html
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ON THE WEB
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The Ancient Library:

http://www.ancientlibrary.com/bookshelf.php

Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation (H. Carter Diaries):

http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4sea1not.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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This might be legit, but the way it's presented causes me to
wonder:

http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/5836005cp.shtml
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a good possibility that Explorator will be late tomorrow ... I've got an
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch,
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Edward Rockstein, Francis Deblauwe, Hernan Astudillo, Joan
Griffith, John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Kris Curry,
Mata Kimasitayo, Michael Oberndorf, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C.
Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Tim Parkin, Ross
Sargent, 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
================================================================
Zanzibar's Stone Town is facing conservation issues big time:

http://tinyurl.com/ca6m3 (AP via Yahoo)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Flint stones (not the Flintstones) from Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/nov/1258.html

Neolithic wine making?:

http://www.unlvrebelyell.com/article.php?ID=879

Okay overview of the debate raging over Eilat Mazar's recent
finds:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10287349/ (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/8ptad (Sun-Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/ak28d (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ad5n2 (Washington Post)

... while recent finds are causing questions about the site of
Ecbatana:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=260757

Results of the fifth dig season at Dahaneh-Gholaman:

http://tinyurl.com/bgnt6 (Iranmania)

... and implications arising from the dig at Shahar Yeri:

http://tinyurl.com/c5kyf (Iranmania)

A pile of ovens have been found behind Iran's Shian Dam:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1532249/posts

Remains of what are believed to be prison cells have been found
during excavations of the basilica at Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=650578

A race to save a 2000 b.p. burial in Bahrain:

http://tinyurl.com/d7ngq (Gulf Daily News)

Coverage of Bill Dever's talk (and reactions thereto) at the
recent SBL meeting:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/13272729.htm

The director of the Jordanian Antiquities Department has been
awarded the German Order of Merit:

http://www.petra.gov.jo/nepras/2005/Nov/27/29093100.htm

This is just strange ... some Australian theologian has taken
archaeologists and historians 'to court' in regards to claims
about the Ancient Near East:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/12/prweb318005.htm

Hype for an Agatha Christie film festivalish sort of thing:

http://www.leguide.be/Guide/cinema/page_5371_390665.shtml
(French)

Repeat of the account of the rush to excavate sites in Iran
prior to dam construction:

http://tinyurl.com/angqa (Chronicle)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A couple Neolithic sites near Ptolemaida:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10250526/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Greece-Archaeology.html

Ancient shipwrecks near Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

... meanwhile there are concerns that too much digging is going
on on Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=23075&archive=1

Overviewish thing on 'the Golden Age of Thrace':

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/dd397b5a-622f-11da-8dad-0000779e2340.html

Barry Cunliffe on Pytheas the Greek (audio ... not sure how long
it will last ... look on the right side of the page under
'Wednesday'):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/index.shtml?logo

James Wright was talking at UTenn about the Myceneans:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=49338

Interesting item on Antiochus Epiphanes:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/case/case11.html

A 2600 b.p. tomb from Matelica:

http://tinyurl.com/de82g (Adnkronos ... Italian)

A villa from Rome belonging to the gens Valeria:

http://tinyurl.com/8bfh2 (Adnkronos ... Italian)

Roman anchors from the Dead Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/9wnsp (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/df55f (Hindustan Times)
http://tinyurl.com/8lvz7 (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/bg2g8 (Newsday)

A tomb at Corvaro which belonged to some member of the Aequi:

http://www.telefree.it/news.php?op=view&id=20235 (Italian)

Coverage of Castra Romana 2005 (check out the goggles!):

http://tinyurl.com/9lpq4 (Charleston City Paper)

Christian Wildberg has become master of Forbes College:

http://tinyurl.com/bo5hs (Daily Princetonian)

Honours for Kurt Raaflab:

http://tinyurl.com/9utmr (Brown Daily Herald)

Claudian letters:

http://caelestis.info/sauvagenoble/2005/11/litterae-claudianae.html

Socrates for kids:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/516382/

New url for Didaskalia:

http://www.didaskalia.net/

Profile of Albert Ammerman, who was part of the team who found that
'beach site' on Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/7czc4 (Colgate University News)

cf: http://tinyurl.com/74j2l (ME Times)

More coverage of the Soleto Map:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051128/firstmap_his.html

More coverage of the latest developments in the push for the
return of the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=556635
http://tinyurl.com/c23kg (Ellada)

Review of Atwood's *Penelopiad*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1202/p13s01-bogn.html

Review of Bettany Hughes Helen of Troy tome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04alexander.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Neolithic site in North Yorkshire:

http://tinyurl.com/96yod (Yorkshire Post)

Skeletons on Iceland have been dated to before 1000 A.D.:

http://tinyurl.com/afvsy (Iceland Review)

The Lakenheath Warrior may stay in Suffolk:

http://tinyurl.com/bzj7u (EADT)

Interesting overview of the history of Canongate (as revealed
by archaeology, of course):

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2321522005

Possible discovery of the tomb of Edward the Confessor:

http://tinyurl.com/7jvsx (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4489842.stm
http://tinyurl.com/celbr (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/btdze (AP via Yahoo)

Here's more (and more responsible, it seems) coverage of that
'Bosnian pyramid' story:

http://tinyurl.com/c3a3p (ABC)
http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2005/12/03/news/26pyramid.txt

Plans are afoot to stabilize Silbury Hill:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4477192.stm

Review of Edvard Radzinksy, *Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04lourie.html

Review of Carolly Erickson, *The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04warner.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 4th-millenium B.C. mound from Azerbaijan:

http://tinyurl.com/8ev7p (Azertac)

A Baekje dynasty tomb from Japan:

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2005120368128

A bit old, but worth reading again ... aerial photography
confirms descriptions of Kublai Khan's palace:

http://english.people.com.cn/200510/09/eng20051009_213386.html

Chinese archaeologists have located the gate of Daming Palace:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1523254.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting item on the Newark earthworks/mounds:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/national/28mounds.html

Is Kokopelli actually Kokopelli, or some Hopi divinity?

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3258089

Hurricane Charley's legacy: the excavation of Chadwick Mounds:

http://tinyurl.com/7vn8g (News-Press)

Another preservation v. development situation ... at Putnam's
Hill-Agor Homestead:

http://tinyurl.com/8euqn (Journal News)

At the auctions, a couple of portraits of George Washington
didn't quite make the expected hammer price:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/arts/design/01auct.html

The latest video from the Archaeology Channel is about digging
in Arizona (but it nicely shows the whole 'archaeological process'):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of Tom Lewis, *The Hudson: A History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04sullivan.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Scientists are skeptical of claims that footprints from Mexico
are 40 000 years old:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10266684/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4488490.stm
http://tinyurl.com/bcac8 (Eurekalert)
http://tinyurl.com/cucdz (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051130232517.htm
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4700 (Portuguese)
http://tinyurl.com/8vczg (Discovery.com)
http://www.physorg.com/news8657.html

... while some very old canals from Peru are adding some weight
to theories about early civilizations there:

http://www.terradaily.com/news/farm-05r.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/516405/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A sampling of the coverage of the kidnapping of German
archaeologist Susanne Osthoff in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/7w59w (adnkronos)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29699839.htm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1796621,00.html

... and the latest:

http://tinyurl.com/dn6bx (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/bnhs6 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/culqs (AFP via Yahoo)

While a petition has been set up appealing to the kidnappers to
release her and her fellow hostages:

http://www.petitiononline.com/bajr2000/petition.html

Smithsonian mag has a piece on the use of aerial photography
in archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/exujm

Another technology-and-ancient-texts piece:

http://www.physorg.com/news8636.html
http://tinyurl.com/9plyt (1st Results)

The emerging discipline of Geomythology:

http://tinyurl.com/9x6y5 (Observer)

At the auctions, a score handwritten by Beethoven (I think we
mentioned this a while back) fetched a nice price:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/arts/02arts.html

First Trafalgar, now Austerlitz is causing paroxysms of
some sort:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4491668.stm

cf:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4495616.stm (slide show)

Acrostics, ancient and modern:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1898644,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/cntxl (Australian)

Feature on Thor Heyerdahl:

http://tinyurl.com/8elrf (Norway Post)

Hype for a television program about DaVinci:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/12/03/arts/television/03bell.html

Review of Walter Gratzer, *Terrors of the Table: A Curious History
of Nutrition*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04stern.html

Review of Evelyn Welch, *Shopping in the Renaissance*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04schillinger.html

Review of Henry Hitchings' tome on Dr. Johnson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04mcgrath.html

Review of Paul Levy (ed.), *The Letters of Lytton Strachey*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04ellmann.html

Review of Jonathan Harr, *The Lost Painting*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/books/02book.html

Review of Juliet Barker, *Wordsworth: A Life*:

http://tinyurl.com/9cg88 (New Yorker)

Review of Jeremy Seal, *Nicholas: The Epic Journey from Saint
to Santa Claus*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/books/30grim.html

Alas, Art Daily has closed;

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Thebes:

http://tinyurl.com/btufw (Tribune-Review)

Iran:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3497795a34,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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KMT (Fall 2005):

http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/fall2005/index.html (toc)

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Police recovered a number of items from a private residence
in Porto Torres (Italy) ... must be an unknown site(s) nearby:

http://tinyurl.com/cscje (AGI ... English!)
http://tinyurl.com/8sq7g (AGI ... Italian)

... while near Florence, a pile of purloined (and important)
Etruscan works were recovered:

http://tinyurl.com/bvua3 (La Nazione ... Italian)

Op-Ed piece on the Museum Case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/opinion/28bell.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/28/opinion/edbell.php
http://tinyurl.com/7g6ox (Bee)

... and another excellent bit of investigative journalism by
Suzan Mazur on the role of Sotheby's in some of this:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00017.htm

... while the Met denies Italy has any proof in regards to
claims on some of their items:

http://tinyurl.com/b7pfr (Bloomberg)

... while Newsweek finally gets on the bandwagon:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10315883/site/newsweek/

Meanwhile, it does seem the case is having spinoff effects
elsewhere ... Peru is suing Yale for return of artifacts from
Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/d9xyu (Reuters via Yahoo)

Looters hit a pit house near Flagstaff:

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4195686&nav=HMO6

Indian authorities recovered a number of stolen Jain statues
this week:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051203/haryana.htm#13

... while some treasure hunters in Bulgaria were arrested:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=55988

Some divers who attempted to pillage a sunken Spanish Galleon
are going to be charged:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article330665.ece
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EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Pearls of the Parrot of India:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/arts/design/02mini.html

Berlin's Bode Museum renovations are complete:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/arts/01arts.html (fifth item)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Libertine:

http://tinyurl.com/7osm4 (New Yorker)
http://tinyurl.com/7re6v (NYT)

The Gentleman Dancing-Master:

http://tinyurl.com/bn2qn (NYT)
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ON THE WEB
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Massachusetts Historical Society:

http://masshist.org/library_collections/artifacts.cfm

The Real Story of Thanksgiving:

http://www.manataka.org/page269.html
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OBITUARIES
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Peter Brunt:

http://tinyurl.com/d545q (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1884200,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/c743r (Guardian)
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Barkley, John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Michael Oberndorf, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe, Bob Heuman,
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EARLY HUMANS
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The latest on homo floresiensis:

http://tinyurl.com/7qk6z (Australian)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17495510-421,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/caj4w (Courier-Mail)
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AFRICA
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Did a drought in Africa some 70,000 b.p. initiate a migration?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4505516.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Nice feature on the tomb of Petamenophis:

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/petamenophis.htm

4000 b.p. objects near Manjil Dam:

http://tinyurl.com/b44py (Tehran Times)

Biblical Archaeology Review has put up the full text version of
an article on Eilat Mazar's recent finds:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/Mazar.pdf

Five Hellenistic sarcophagi were found in Turkey this week:

http://www.basilicatanet.it/news/article.asp?id=381923 (Italian)

Pondering Biblical plagues:

http://tinyurl.com/8yfnu (Star Tribune)

Celebrating Tut's "birthday":

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/772/he1.htm

Zahi Hawass in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/772/he2.htm

Humanities Magazine has a piece on Hatshepsut:

http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2005-11/womanking.html

An archaeology conference in Israel is delayed for a somewhat
strange reason:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=654560

related:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=655140

The Church of the Nativity is in need of repair:

http://tinyurl.com/dzaqa (Telegraph)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Five Hellenistic sarcophagi were found in Turkey this week:

http://www.basilicatanet.it/news/article.asp?id=381923 (Italian)

Report on the season's excavations of the lower city of
Amathous (Cyprus):

http://tinyurl.com/do6gz (Press release)
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=23200&cat_id=1

A number of Roman sarcophagi were found in a hypogeum in Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/9d54e (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/7zw6e (Herald)
http://qn.quotidiano.net/art/2005/12/06/5393852 (Italian)
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=1225
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3515649.html

Another Roman brick factory has been excavated, this time near
Emilia Romagna:

http://tinyurl.com/e4las (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/c2jsg (LA Times)

Hints about Plotinopolis:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=63985

Greece honoured various 'schools' digging in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/b4c99 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/dw5qy (Peninsula)

Bulgaria has opened up one of those Thracian tombs to the public:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=56111

An awfully long piece on Socrates used to make a two-sentence
point:

http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/religion/ci_3291944

One of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography biographies this
week was of Claudius (not sure how much longer it will be up):

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

The importance of Classics:

http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2005/12/6/115439/943

Review of Joy Connolly's Catullus translation:

http://www.bookforum.com/connolly.html

Review of Robin Lane Fox, *The Classical World*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1910955,00.html

Review of Fik Meijer, *The Gladiators: History's Most Dangerous
Sport*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/books/09book.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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That Bosnian 'pyramid' continues to get coverage ... and yet
we still don't have photos of the "paved entrance plateau" and
various other claims ... hmmmmmm:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10335950/
http://tinyurl.com/c46h6 (CTV)

Santa Maria Maggiore's nativity scene is going to be more
'public' after its restoration:

http://tinyurl.com/8zmm7 (Telegraph)

Ireland's chief archaeologist has no excavation experience:

http://tinyurl.com/bzykr (Examiner)
http://tinyurl.com/7a8f5

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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More coverage of the discovery of the gate of Daming Palace:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/Archaeology/151046.htm

Searching for the origin of Chinese civilization:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/149971.htm

Pondering the fate of the Easter Island people:

http://tinyurl.com/76k39 (USA Today)

Remains of ponga huts in Wellington:

http://tinyurl.com/cd2tl (Herald)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Remains of an ancient forest have been found under water in
Nantucket Sound:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10323836/
http://tinyurl.com/8hn6v (Boston Globe)

A pre-Civil War family cemetery in Virginia:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20051207-040833-1127r.htm

Why do Walmarts always seem to be associated with archaeological
remains?:

http://tinyurl.com/9y9vr (WZZM)

Trying to preserve the site of an ancient village in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/bfgx3 (Herald Tribune)

Excavating Fort Drum:

http://tinyurl.com/bs88m (Newsday)

Has the Fantome been found?:

http://tinyurl.com/7j4rk (Business Wire)

Nice piece on Little Petroglyph Canyon:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3282367

An auction of a number of Native American objects is causing
consternation:

http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?s=4225474

Brief item/reviewish thing about Matin's Hundred:

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

A wall in the way of subway construction in Battery Park is
causing some excitement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/nyregion/08wall.html

A big Americana auction is coming up at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/arts/design/09anti.html

Review of Louis Warren, *Buffalo Bill's America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/books/review/11ward.html

They'll be celebrating Mesa Verde's Centennial:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10308787/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A team from the University of Calgary (yay!) have found a very
interesting monument to a Mayan woman at Naachtun:

http://tinyurl.com/87lzv (CBC)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051206084430.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10339225/
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/051206_mayafrm.htm
http://tinyurl.com/76tgj (Wired)
http://tinyurl.com/c6uq3 (Age)
http://www.physorg.com/news8760.html
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1205-maya.html
http://tinyurl.com/cb6rl (La Tercera ... Spanish)

Repeat of the story about Peru's possible suit against Yale to
get Machu Picchu artifacts returned:

http://tinyurl.com/7qvfu (Guardian)

On migration to Brazil in the early 19th century (I think):

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4729 (Portuguese)

More coverage of that study of mummy eyes:

http://tinyurl.com/bhp7h (La Tercera ... Spanish)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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NPR has a feature on assorted ancient footprints:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5037480

More on binge drinking, this time in Victorian times:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4493442.stm

Beethoven appears to have suffered from lead poisoning:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10365197/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5041495
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1525353.htm
http://tinyurl.com/73src (La Tercera ... Spanish)

Rembrandt appears to have been on to something in his depictions
of male/female emotions:

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/051013_rembrandtfrm.htm

They're still learning stuff about the Titanic:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10339261/

An essay on democracy and literature in the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/books/review/11wilentz.html

The New York Times has an interview with Peter Watson (author
of *Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention from Fire to
Freud*):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11wwln_q4.html

Review of Pat Thane, *The Long History of Old Age*:

http://tinyurl.com/839ts (Guardian)

Review of N. Ostler, *Empires of the Word: A Language History
of the World*:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5763177.html

Review of the *Norton Anthology of Children's Literature*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/books/05nort.html

Review of three books looking at myths in various cultures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/books/review/11alexander.html

Review of Dan Hofstadter, *Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/books/review/11hazzard.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ostia Antica:

http://tinyurl.com/cmykm (Taiwan News)

Luxor:

http://tinyurl.com/btufw (Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/bv7yr (Herald)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Police in Rome recovered a pile of purloined antiquities this
week:

http://www.interforze.it/redazione/dicembre,2005/07/rm2.php
(Italian)

Coverage of the Museum Case continues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/arts/design/06gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/85mtd (Forbes)
http://tinyurl.com/cg97y (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/acwcb (Standard)
http://tinyurl.com/c7kbr (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/13334427.htm

As the Museum Case continues, Michael Kimmelman has written an
excellent Op-Ed piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/arts/design/08kimm.html

... and we get more details about the questions about certain
items in the Met's collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/arts/design/10coll.html

... and an op-ed piece on the 'changing climate' for museums:

http://tinyurl.com/9rd9j (SMH)

... and Susan Mazur continues to investigate Bob Hecht's role:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00068.htm


NPR has a feature/interview with Michael Bogdanos:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5024219

... while Bogdanos himself has penned an Op Ed piece for the New
York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/opinion/10bogdanos.html

Nice piece on the FBI's efforts to recover stolen art:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/gossip/13374222.htm

Punishment for an Iraqi smuggler:

http://www.yobserver.com/news_8852.php

More coverage of the implications of the new Greek diving
legislation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/arts/07arts.html
http://tinyurl.com/8pfuv (Guardian)
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EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Tut's coming to Fort Lauderdale:

http://www.nbc6.net/news/5477523/detail.html

... and the 'ethnicity' issue that seems to be dogging the
exhibition:

http://tinyurl.com/867gg (Palm Beach Post)
http://tinyurl.com/con8a

Gentile Bellini and the East:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/arts/design/11unge.html

  From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Hellenic Art in Adversity:

http://www.onassisusa.org/onassis.art.shtml

Legacy of Homer:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/13310988.htm

Melancholy:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/arts/design/07mela.html
(includes slide show)

A survey of thousands of libraries and museums across the U.S.
suggests that "millions" of artifacts are threatened because
of improper storage:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10340881/
http://tinyurl.com/9vrwa (AP via Yahoo)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051206/D8EAI6L08.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Bacchae:

http://www.signandsight.com/features/502.html

Live Acts on Stage (Orpheus ... sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/dgqxm (SMH)

Measure for Measure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/theater/reviews/07meas.html
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ON THE WEB
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Pyrgos-Mavroraki excavations:

http://www.pyrgos-mavroraki.net/pyrgos_mavroraki_00000a.htm
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OBITUARIES
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D.R. Shackleton Bailey:

http://tinyurl.com/9kes6 (Michigan Daily)

Frank Stubbings:

http://tinyurl.com/9hnj9 (Telegraph)
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EARLY HUMANS
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Humans in Suffolk/Northern Europe 700,000 b.p.?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1930694,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/bycy4 (Telegraph)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10466325/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4526264.stm
http://tinyurl.com/85psb (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/85fan (SciAm)
http://tinyurl.com/9u895 (CBC)
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4771 (Portuguese)
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AFRICA
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What to do with Aksum?:

http://tinyurl.com/c9ck8 (WPost)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of a major battle (and other things) at Tel Hamoukar:

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/051216.hamoukar.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/8uokb (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10499209/
http://tinyurl.com/e4jss (UPI)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051216092426.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051217/ap_on_sc/ancient_civilization
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-warfare16.html

Assorted finds from Marib (Yemen):

http://www.yobserver.com/news_8902.php

The latest video up at the Archaeology Channel is entitled
Herod: The Builder King:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

... and, coincidentally, there's a reviewish sort of thing
about a book about Herod too:

http://tinyurl.com/8f8q4 (Register-Herald)

An ancient temple and brazier from Darvish Tepe in Qom:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=6035§ion=2

The archaeological potential of the Kurdish autonomous region:

http://tinyurl.com/7ndrn (RFE)

Sassanid-era staircase from Gour:

http://tinyurl.com/8xsfa (Iranmania)

... and Sassanid pillars too:

http://tinyurl.com/8gh5f (Iranmania)

Nice followup piece to that discovery of a church in a
prison at Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/658484.html

... and one on those anchors found in the Dead Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/952yc (JPost)

Not sure there's anything new in this article by Zahi Hawass
on sending a robot into the Great Pyramid again:

http://tinyurl.com/bjl8z

Egyptian antiquities fetched record prices at Christie's
recent auction:

http://tinyurl.com/bcgx6 (Daily Star)
http://tinyurl.com/9os2u (ME Times)
http://news-antique.com/?id=700&keys=antiquity-egyptian-christies

Feature on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (ancient and modern):

http://tinyurl.com/dsxum (Hindu)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Seems to be a water problem in the Forum area of Rome ... they're
now going to close down the Domus Aurea, possibly for two
years:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4522008.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ad5ej (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/arts/13arts.html (fifth item)
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=46335 (Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/d28t9 (ANSA)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1529690.htm

A 1st century Roman mosaic from Lucca:

http://tinyurl.com/ah52r (adnkronos ... Italian)
http://lanazione.quotidiano.net/chan/lucca:5394360:/2005/12/12:
(la Nazione ... Italian)

Evidence of Roman women's presence in Roman forts:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1529248.htm
http://abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1529248.htm

I think this is a repeat, but some guys have found a chunk of
pottery in the River Tees (no pun intended ... surely) which
apparently depicts a g-string-clad Gladiator (looks more like
a Speedo to me):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051212/gladiator_arc.html

Something strange/fishy about this find of a Roman amphora at
Arezzo:

http://tinyurl.com/84obe (Aresso Notizie ... Italian)

Nice article on finds from Pyrgos over the last few dig seasons:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

New home for that famous equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius:

http://tinyurl.com/8dek6 (ANSA)

Nice followup piece to that discovery of a church in a
prison at Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/658484.html

The latest video up at the Archaeology Channel is entitled
Herod: The Builder King:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

... and, coincidentally, there's a reviewish sort of thing
about a book about Herod too:

http://tinyurl.com/8f8q4 (Register-Herald)

... and one on those anchors found in the Dead Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/952yc (JPost)

Feature on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (ancient and modern):

http://tinyurl.com/dsxum (Hindu)

Interesting curriculum at Highland Latin School:

http://tinyurl.com/ccsav (Courier Journal)

Review of Peter Heather, *The Fall of the Roman Empire*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1668466,00.html

Review of Robin Lane Fox, *The Classical World*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1668465,00.html

Review of Victor Davis Hanson's latest:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5776581.html

A review (in the Globe and Mail no less!) of Adam Beresford's
translation of the Protagoras and Meno:

http://tinyurl.com/7wa75

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist has found a missing chunk of an Iron Age
torc in the British Museum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1922526,00.html

The Dutch government has recovered a pile of Dutch East India
Company bullion from a shipwreck:

http://tinyurl.com/75xyw (Age)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Possible evidence of 20 000 b.p. necklaces from China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/14/content_3921748.htm

Real estate developers in New Zealand destroyed some Iwi dwelling
remains recently:

http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/40069/index.php

They've located the time capsule of Kamehameha V ... but left it
in place:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/11/hawaii.king.ap/index.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An 11 000 b.p. site at Fort Drum:

http://tinyurl.com/arl3w (News 10)

Searching for evidence of the Calusa people on Captiva Island:

http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2005/12/051212captiva.shtml
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13384264.htm
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/12/State/Scientists_excavate_C.shtml

Nice profile of UNLV archaeologist Alan Simmons:

http://tinyurl.com/dj26l (Sun)

Nice outcome to a skull-on-EBay story:

http://tinyurl.com/au858 (Daily Press)

Funding to preserve a site in Illinois:

http://www.prairie-advocate-news.com/12-14-05/funds12_14.html

A refresher on some theories (good and bad) on the peopling of
the Americas:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbus.shtml
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of excitement over the discovery of a Mayan 'Sistine
Chapel':

http://tinyurl.com/75kgt (NG)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/arts/design/14maya.html (photo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4526872.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10452176/
http://www.startribune.com/stories/722/5780138.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5053413
http://www.physorg.com/news9065.html
http://tinyurl.com/893mj (Age)

... and the archaeologists who are involved:

http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1207
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/12.15/03-maya.html

... and since we haven't seen this term for a while, I guess
we should draw attention to the clumsy nature of the discovery:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1667500,00.html

A brief item by John Noble Wilford on those Mexican footprints:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/13find.html

Skulls from Brazil have affinities with Australian-Melanesian
peoples:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10441210/
http://tinyurl.com/9f4mr (NG)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178715,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/13obox.htm (2nd item)
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4756 (Portuguese)

How bottle gourds from Africa made their way to South and
Central America:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/hu-ahb121305.php
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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There's some historical stuff in this piece about narwhals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/13narw.html

Celebrating the birthday of the Armenian alphabet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/nyregion/13ink.htm

The latest examination of the Mona Lisa's smile suggests she's
83% happy:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10484224/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4530650.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news9101.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051216/ap_on_sc/mona_lisa_s_smile

Narni is hoping to cash in on the Chronicles of Narnia:

http://tinyurl.com/76vqn (Standard)

Comparanda, ancient and modern, for posting of prayers in public:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1934042,00.html

A Guido Reni fresco which had been painted over has been
restored:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/4531430.stm

Preserving historic buildings:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051207105247.htm

On the origins of assorted expressions:

http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3164109,00.html

One for the linguists out there ... trying to come up with a
standard symbol for a labial-dental flap:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5059863

... and some historical stuff in an NPR piece on bloodless
bullfights:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5059869

On Hannukah and Christmas:

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/121705/faith_20051217027.php

Evidence of typhus and trench fever in remains of Napoleonic
soldiers:

http://www.physorg.com/news9118.html

Review of Leo Damrosch's book on Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/1213/p14s01-bogn.html

Harper Collins is going to set up its own web-searchable
digital library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/books/13harp.html

An almost-touristy thing (but mostly a followup to the Amalia
Library fire) about Weimar:

http://tinyurl.com/ca42y (NYT)

Studying ... over and over ... the Ariaal people:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/international/africa/18tribe.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ostia:

http://tinyurl.com/cc2x3 (Times Leader)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (Jan./Feb. 2006):

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

The Digger (November 2005 ... full text):

http://www.bajr.org/DiggerMagazine/Latest/index.html

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The Museum Case continues ... first comes a really good (if
somewhat late) background piece:

http://tinyurl.com/bnup4 (Telegraph)

... while most of the coverage this week focussed on some
letters written by Marion True:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/arts/design/17gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/857qf (Mercury)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3530928.html

... but there was also a very nice piece on the scale of tomb
raiding in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/cvkhd (Reuters)

A somewhat different role for antiquities in a criminal matter:

http://tinyurl.com/d2pba (Science Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/ddndv (UPI)

On a related matter, last week we had an article about collector
Shelby White, which spawned this letter by Dorothy King to the
NYT (but which doesn't seem to have made it into the paper):

http://phdiva.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-york-times-and-collecting.html
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NUMISMATICA
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E Tomlinson Fort Memorial Library catalogue:

http://coinbooks.org/fortlibrary/

A pile of "ancient" coins from Orissa (somewhat confusing, this
one):

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=66978
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EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Body snatchers legacy to medicine:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4509648.stm

Legendary Coins and Currency:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13367137.htm

Tut opens in Florida:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/nation/13413824.htm
http://tinyurl.com/8vxw6 (Journal)

... with the usual controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/7zrur (Sun Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/85mrv (Times Leader)

New stuff on display in Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=56499

The Met's Perseus is returning to the spotlight after a lengthy
cleaning:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/arts/design/16voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/anbju (Daily News Tribune)

Revenger's Tragedy:

http://tinyurl.com/7agdf (NYT)
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ON THE WEB
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Stoic Works:

http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/stoa/stoaclas.htm

Interesting animated gif demostrating the evolution of our
alphabet:

http://janpeters.net/pics/stuff/alphabet.gif

Nice companion website to the upcoming PBS program 'The Mummy
Who Would Be King':

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mummy/
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OBITUARIES
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Yehuda Feliks:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=94591

Hayim Tadmor:

http://biblical-studies.blogspot.com/2005/12/sad-news.html

Mary Littauer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/nyregion/17littauer.html

Louana M. Lackey:

http://tinyurl.com/7z9j8 (Sun)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Not really news, but folks might be interested in this Macleans
article all about Anatoli Fomenko's calendrical theories:

http://tinyurl.com/976qd
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Edward Rockstein,Hernan Astudillo,Jason McLaren, John Hall,
John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Kim Dammers,
Mata Kimasitayo,Maureen Fant, Michael Oberndorf, Richard C.
Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Tim Parkin,
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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EARLY HUMANS
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Humans in Suffolk/Northern Europe 700,000 b.p.?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1930694,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/bycy4 (Telegraph)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10466325/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4526264.stm
http://tinyurl.com/85psb (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/85fan (SciAm)
http://tinyurl.com/9u895 (CBC)
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4771 (Portuguese)
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AFRICA
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What to do with Aksum?:

http://tinyurl.com/c9ck8 (WPost)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of a major battle (and other things) at Tel Hamoukar:

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/051216.hamoukar.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/8uokb (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10499209/
http://tinyurl.com/e4jss (UPI)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051216092426.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051217/ap_on_sc/ancient_civilization
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-warfare16.html

Assorted finds from Marib (Yemen):

http://www.yobserver.com/news_8902.php

The latest video up at the Archaeology Channel is entitled
Herod: The Builder King:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

... and, coincidentally, there's a reviewish sort of thing
about a book about Herod too:

http://tinyurl.com/8f8q4 (Register-Herald)

An ancient temple and brazier from Darvish Tepe in Qom:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=6035§ion=2

The archaeological potential of the Kurdish autonomous region:

http://tinyurl.com/7ndrn (RFE)

Sassanid-era staircase from Gour:

http://tinyurl.com/8xsfa (Iranmania)

... and Sassanid pillars too:

http://tinyurl.com/8gh5f (Iranmania)

Nice followup piece to that discovery of a church in a
prison at Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/658484.html

... and one on those anchors found in the Dead Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/952yc (JPost)

Not sure there's anything new in this article by Zahi Hawass
on sending a robot into the Great Pyramid again:

http://tinyurl.com/bjl8z

Egyptian antiquities fetched record prices at Christie's
recent auction:

http://tinyurl.com/bcgx6 (Daily Star)
http://tinyurl.com/9os2u (ME Times)
http://news-antique.com/?id=700&keys=antiquity-egyptian-christies

Feature on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (ancient and modern):

http://tinyurl.com/dsxum (Hindu)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Seems to be a water problem in the Forum area of Rome ... they're
now going to close down the Domus Aurea, possibly for two
years:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4522008.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ad5ej (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/arts/13arts.html (fifth item)
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=46335 (Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/d28t9 (ANSA)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1529690.htm

A 1st century Roman mosaic from Lucca:

http://tinyurl.com/ah52r (adnkronos ... Italian)
http://lanazione.quotidiano.net/chan/lucca:5394360:/2005/12/12:
(la Nazione ... Italian)

Evidence of Roman women's presence in Roman forts:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1529248.htm
http://abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1529248.htm

I think this is a repeat, but some guys have found a chunk of
pottery in the River Tees (no pun intended ... surely) which
apparently depicts a g-string-clad Gladiator (looks more like
a Speedo to me):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051212/gladiator_arc.html

Something strange/fishy about this find of a Roman amphora at
Arezzo:

http://tinyurl.com/84obe (Aresso Notizie ... Italian)

Nice article on finds from Pyrgos over the last few dig seasons:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

New home for that famous equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius:

http://tinyurl.com/8dek6 (ANSA)

Nice followup piece to that discovery of a church in a
prison at Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/658484.html

The latest video up at the Archaeology Channel is entitled
Herod: The Builder King:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

... and, coincidentally, there's a reviewish sort of thing
about a book about Herod too:

http://tinyurl.com/8f8q4 (Register-Herald)

... and one on those anchors found in the Dead Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/952yc (JPost)

Feature on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (ancient and modern):

http://tinyurl.com/dsxum (Hindu)

Interesting curriculum at Highland Latin School:

http://tinyurl.com/ccsav (Courier Journal)

Review of Peter Heather, *The Fall of the Roman Empire*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1668466,00.html

Review of Robin Lane Fox, *The Classical World*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1668465,00.html

Review of Victor Davis Hanson's latest:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5776581.html

A review (in the Globe and Mail no less!) of Adam Beresford's
translation of the Protagoras and Meno:

http://tinyurl.com/7wa75

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist has found a missing chunk of an Iron Age
torc in the British Museum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1922526,00.html

The Dutch government has recovered a pile of Dutch East India
Company bullion from a shipwreck:

http://tinyurl.com/75xyw (Age)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Possible evidence of 20 000 b.p. necklaces from China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/14/content_3921748.htm

Real estate developers in New Zealand destroyed some Iwi dwelling
remains recently:

http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/40069/index.php

They've located the time capsule of Kamehameha V ... but left it
in place:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/11/hawaii.king.ap/index.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An 11 000 b.p. site at Fort Drum:

http://tinyurl.com/arl3w (News 10)

Searching for evidence of the Calusa people on Captiva Island:

http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2005/12/051212captiva.shtml
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13384264.htm
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/12/State/Scientists_excavate_C.shtml

Nice profile of UNLV archaeologist Alan Simmons:

http://tinyurl.com/dj26l (Sun)

Nice outcome to a skull-on-EBay story:

http://tinyurl.com/au858 (Daily Press)

Funding to preserve a site in Illinois:

http://www.prairie-advocate-news.com/12-14-05/funds12_14.html

A refresher on some theories (good and bad) on the peopling of
the Americas:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbus.shtml
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of excitement over the discovery of a Mayan 'Sistine
Chapel':

http://tinyurl.com/75kgt (NG)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/arts/design/14maya.html (photo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4526872.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10452176/
http://www.startribune.com/stories/722/5780138.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5053413
http://www.physorg.com/news9065.html
http://tinyurl.com/893mj (Age)

... and the archaeologists who are involved:

http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1207
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/12.15/03-maya.html

... and since we haven't seen this term for a while, I guess
we should draw attention to the clumsy nature of the discovery:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1667500,00.html

A brief item by John Noble Wilford on those Mexican footprints:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/13find.html

Skulls from Brazil have affinities with Australian-Melanesian
peoples:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10441210/
http://tinyurl.com/9f4mr (NG)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178715,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/13obox.htm (2nd item)
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4756 (Portuguese)

How bottle gourds from Africa made their way to South and
Central America:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/hu-ahb121305.php
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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There's some historical stuff in this piece about narwhals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/13narw.html

Celebrating the birthday of the Armenian alphabet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/nyregion/13ink.htm

The latest examination of the Mona Lisa's smile suggests she's
83% happy:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10484224/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4530650.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news9101.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051216/ap_on_sc/mona_lisa_s_smile

Narni is hoping to cash in on the Chronicles of Narnia:

http://tinyurl.com/76vqn (Standard)

Comparanda, ancient and modern, for posting of prayers in public:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1934042,00.html

A Guido Reni fresco which had been painted over has been
restored:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/4531430.stm

Preserving historic buildings:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051207105247.htm

On the origins of assorted expressions:

http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3164109,00.html

One for the linguists out there ... trying to come up with a
standard symbol for a labial-dental flap:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5059863

... and some historical stuff in an NPR piece on bloodless
bullfights:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5059869

On Hannukah and Christmas:

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/121705/faith_20051217027.php

Evidence of typhus and trench fever in remains of Napoleonic
soldiers:

http://www.physorg.com/news9118.html

Review of Leo Damrosch's book on Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/1213/p14s01-bogn.html

Harper Collins is going to set up its own web-searchable
digital library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/books/13harp.html

An almost-touristy thing (but mostly a followup to the Amalia
Library fire) about Weimar:

http://tinyurl.com/ca42y (NYT)

Studying ... over and over ... the Ariaal people:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/international/africa/18tribe.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ostia:

http://tinyurl.com/cc2x3 (Times Leader)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (Jan./Feb. 2006):

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

The Digger (November 2005 ... full text):

http://www.bajr.org/DiggerMagazine/Latest/index.html

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The Museum Case continues ... first comes a really good (if
somewhat late) background piece:

http://tinyurl.com/bnup4 (Telegraph)

... while most of the coverage this week focussed on some
letters written by Marion True:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/arts/design/17gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/857qf (Mercury)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3530928.html

... but there was also a very nice piece on the scale of tomb
raiding in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/cvkhd (Reuters)

A somewhat different role for antiquities in a criminal matter:

http://tinyurl.com/d2pba (Science Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/ddndv (UPI)

On a related matter, last week we had an article about collector
Shelby White, which spawned this letter by Dorothy King to the
NYT (but which doesn't seem to have made it into the paper):

http://phdiva.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-york-times-and-collecting.html
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NUMISMATICA
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E Tomlinson Fort Memorial Library catalogue:

http://coinbooks.org/fortlibrary/

A pile of "ancient" coins from Orissa (somewhat confusing, this
one):

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=66978
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EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Body snatchers legacy to medicine:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4509648.stm

Legendary Coins and Currency:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13367137.htm

Tut opens in Florida:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/nation/13413824.htm
http://tinyurl.com/8vxw6 (Journal)

... with the usual controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/7zrur (Sun Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/85mrv (Times Leader)

New stuff on display in Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=56499

The Met's Perseus is returning to the spotlight after a lengthy
cleaning:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/arts/design/16voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/anbju (Daily News Tribune)

Revenger's Tragedy:

http://tinyurl.com/7agdf (NYT)
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ON THE WEB
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Stoic Works:

http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/stoa/stoaclas.htm

Interesting animated gif demostrating the evolution of our
alphabet:

http://janpeters.net/pics/stuff/alphabet.gif

Nice companion website to the upcoming PBS program 'The Mummy
Who Would Be King':

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mummy/
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OBITUARIES
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Yehuda Feliks:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=94591

Hayim Tadmor:

http://biblical-studies.blogspot.com/2005/12/sad-news.html

Mary Littauer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/nyregion/17littauer.html

Louana M. Lackey:

http://tinyurl.com/7z9j8 (Sun)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Not really news, but folks might be interested in this Macleans
article all about Anatoli Fomenko's calendrical theories:

http://tinyurl.com/976qd
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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A proposal for an 'Out of Asia' theory of human origins:

http://tinyurl.com/859tg (NG)
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AFRICA
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Seems the return of the Aksum obelisk has opened up a debate in
Ethiopia:

http://tinyurl.com/9y2ad (Seattle Times)

... and a semi-related story on the Ark of the Covenant:

http://tinyurl.com/cmrbr

Keeping the Berber language alive:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4502772.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Stone Age origins of the Egyptians?:

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/051217_egyptfrm.htm

Plenty of coverage of research about the high status of little
people in ancient Egypt:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/jws-dcr121905.php
http://tinyurl.com/9lww5 (Telegraph)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051227102614.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news9391.html (scary headline)
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/051227_egyptdwarffrm.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10627768/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4554824.stm

King Tut and more finds from the Egyptian Museum's basement:

http://tinyurl.com/dkevf (SIS)

The latest video online at the Archaeology Channel is "Magic in
Ancient Egypt: Sacred Things and Secret Places":

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Lots of excitement in the blogworld about a NY Times story about
the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep ... the NYTimes story has
expired, but it's still available elsewhere:

http://tinyurl.com/9tyn5 (Journal Constitution)

Houses at Sialk date to 7500 b.c.:

http://tinyurl.com/98hmb (Iran Mania)

Sassanid site from Abyaneh (Iran Mania):

http://tinyurl.com/a2man (Iran Mania)

A big Sassanid city has been found at Oltan Qalasi:

http://tinyurl.com/am5ge (Iran Mania)

A pile of Parthian statuettes:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_11635.shtml

Mothers in the Burnt City were apparently malnourished:

http://tinyurl.com/7b5dv (Iran Mania)

An ancient (Roman?) tomb near Jableh:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051219/2005121904.html

The latest on the fourth 'salt man' from Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=269176

The true size of the pool of Siloam has been figured out:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/661709.html

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=661578
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=661643 (Hebrew)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasite/images/iht_printed/P231205/tn.23126.1.jpg
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/images/printed/P231205/a.a.2312.720.1.9.jpg
(last two are photos)

The Hasmoneans were here ... maybe:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=662291
cf: http://tinyurl.com/7caw6 (JPost)

Al Ahram has a 'year in archaeology' piece:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/775/eg81.htm

Remains of an ancient lighthouse on the coast of Turkey might
have evidence of an ancient tsunami:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=31681

More coverage of that 6th century seal with an image of Jesus
(with photo):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051219/jesus_his.html

Interesting trialogue between Larry Hurtado, Alan Segal, and
John Kloppenberg about the historical Jesus:

http://www.slate.com/id/2132974/entry/2132989/
http://www.slate.com/id/2132974/entry/2133048/
http://www.slate.com/id/2132974/entry/2133208/

Latest on the publication of the 'Gospel of Judas':

http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=1594

Zahi Hawass' latest column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/774/he2.htm

And thankfully, Zahi Hawass nixed an idea to cover the
Great Pyramid with flags:

http://tinyurl.com/atauk (Age)

Repeat of that  story about Hamoukar and the battles fought
there:

http://tinyurl.com/7ancf (Times Leader)
http://tinyurl.com/bkvdo (New Scientist)
http://tinyurl.com/e4xhx (ME Times)
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/051216_warzonefrm.htm

... can't remember if we mentioned this 'update' on the efforts
to send another robot into the Great Pyramid:

http://tinyurl.com/bjl8z (Guardians)

Press release about a new tomb on the history of Iraq:

http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-12-22-02.all.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of an ancient lighthouse on the coast of Turkey might
have evidence of an ancient tsunami:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=31681

Did Romans get the limes idea from China's Great Wall?

http://english.people.com.cn/200512/20/eng20051220_229569.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/20/content_3946843.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544089/posts

The Time Team folks have found another Roman settlement:

http://tinyurl.com/8jdha (Echo)

Update on the work on the Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/9ew66 (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/cabgz (CBC)

More on that new display for the statue of Marcus Aurelius:

http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/12/22/70345.html

... and apparently remains from the Temple of Jupiter will
also be on display:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1939321,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&at

Roman origins of fascism:

http://tinyurl.com/bubno (Telegraph)

Greece is opening an archaeological institute in Rome:

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2005/05-12-22_4.apeen.html

The CBC's Don Murray yaks about Saturnalia:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_murray/20051222.html

The fashion world joins the fight to save Allianoi:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=31904

Lessons of the Peloponnesian War:

http://tinyurl.com/ckkxf (New American)

Archimedes Palimpsest in the news again:

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=2146

Nice blog post (probable undergrad essay) on Yourcenar and
Hadrian:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/classics/230730.html

Bryan Ward-Perkins and Peter Heather discuss the fall of
Rome:

http://blog.oup.com/oupblog/2005/12/the_fall_of_rom.html

J. Rufus Fears compares the U.S. to the Roman Empire:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/hl917.cfm
http://tinyurl.com/dasa6

Comparing George Bush and Alcibiades:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48068

Comparing George Bush and Caligula/Nero:

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/24334

Feature on Bruce Cobbold and his Aeneid translation:

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-27-05/b01li797.htm

Nice piece on what everyone should know about gladiators:

http://www.andpop.com/article/5388

Reviews of 'Rome' in its UK incarnation:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1948472,00.html

Review of Norman Cantor, *Alexander the Great: Journey to
the End of the Earth*:

http://tinyurl.com/e4jxo (Chronicle)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence for the earliest human activity in Northern Europe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051218112650.htm

A hoard of Bronze Age items from Norfolk has been declared
treasure trove (and no, that isn't a photo of a computer
keyboard ... I looked at the story three times before I
realized that):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4549230.stm

Finds from various periods have brought parking lot construction
to a halt near Lichfield:

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/news/es/article_84919.php

Interesting item on the find of a 'secret' 16th century synagogue
from Portugal:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/381990.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4551768.stm (expired?)
http://tinyurl.com/8dhbz (NYT)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article334676.ece

Napoleon's lousy army:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4534540.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/science/27obox.html

... semi-related: recreating Austerlitz with tin soldiers:

http://tinyurl.com/8ghvl (AFP via Yahoo)

The frescoes in Verdala Castle (Malta) are to be restored:

http://217.145.4.56/ind/news.asp?newsitemid=26131

Interesting item about Dutch archaeologists:

http://www.livius.org/opinion/opinion0004.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some Stone Age sites from Tibet:

http://english.people.com.cn/200512/22/eng20051222_230124.html

Mo' better coverage of that paleolithic ostrich shell necklace
from China:

http://tinyurl.com/crhgr (Discovery.com)

2500 b.p. tombs in Viet Nam:

http://tinyurl.com/9huya (VNS)

500 tombs dating to the Warring States Period have been found
in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/30/content_3990107.htm

More Warring States dynasty stuff:

http://english.people.com.cn/200512/30/eng20051230_231884.html

A Han or Qin dynasty bronze horse and chariot:

http://english.people.com.cn/200512/28/eng20051228_231270.html
http://tinyurl.com/73sn6 (LA Times)

Zhou dynasty 'treasures' from Hancheng:

http://english.people.com.cn/200512/19/eng20051219_229181.html

Ancient eunuch tombs from Chengdu:

http://english.people.com.cn/200512/29/eng20051229_231651.html

China's launching a major study of a section of the Great Wall:

http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=403400

An interesting tomb from Nara Prefecture:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200512190124.html

Feature on ancient footprints in Mungo National Park:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2449862005
http://www.herald-sun.com/firstnews/37-682027.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20051219/footprint_arc.html
http://tinyurl.com/8ahkc (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/dq2ec (ABC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10566347/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10576472/
http://tinyurl.com/bdt77 (Telegraph)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051222/sc_nm/australia_footprints_dc
http://tinyurl.com/b6keg (SMH ... different photo)

Transcript of a radio program about sites revealed in last
year's tsunami:

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1538181.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 3000 b.p. 'weapons factory' in Connecticut:

http://tinyurl.com/crhya (NG)

They're closer to identifying the Lewes shipwreck:

http://tinyurl.com/bnxje (Cape Gazette)

Vestiges of the Battery Wall in Battery Park:

http://tinyurl.com/czza9 (LA Times)

Digging up a Memphis bordello:

http://tinyurl.com/bzu62 (Mercury)
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=22194
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/13481725.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051224/ap_on_re_us/memphis_dig_1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5501656,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051224/ap_on_sc/historic_dig

Processing finds in Old Salem:

http://tinyurl.com/7vqmd (Journal)

Funding for projects in Maryland:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/12_21-32/TOP

Repeat of that story of humans bringing bottle gourds to the
New World:

http://www.physorg.com/news9246.html

There wasn't just gold on the Atocha, it appears:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10636013/

Uncle Tom's Cabin is for sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/national/25cabin.html

Reviews of a couple of books on the history of religion in the
U.S.:

http://tinyurl.com/e4ggh (NYT)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Peruvian canals are apparently the most ancient in the New World:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179839,00.html

More on Peru's attempts to recover artifacts from Yale:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1229/p01s03-woam.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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In case you missed it, Susanne Osthoff was released:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4540540.stm
http://tinyurl.com/bxg8w (Science Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/7uc6c (UPI)

3d images of shipwrecks:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179128,00.html

Young Archaeologist of the Year:

http://tinyurl.com/88vtn (BBC)

Interesting item on aerial photography and archaeology:

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=52905

The Rabula Gospels have been shown to have been repainted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/arts/19arts.html (3rd item)

Wine snobbery through the ages:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/26/opinion/edstandage.php

Nice piece on Philip Pullman and his children's novels:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051226fa_fact

Hanukkah origins:

http://tinyurl.com/ac9me (JPost)

The 'Difficult Dialogues' program at OU looks interesting:

http://www.athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=22949

Somewhat spurious origins for Boxing Day:

http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/exclusive_arch.asp?ex_id=197

The Catholic Church is rethinking the idea of Limbo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/28/international/europe/28limbo.html

Veronica's Veil is in the news again (I seem to have missed it
the first time around):

http://tinyurl.com/7cqvn (Telegraph)

OpEd piece taking Thomas Carlyle as a point of departure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/29/opinion/29McMahon.html

What they don't teach you in grad school:

http://www.insidehighered.com/workplace/2005/11/30/tips (pt. 1)
http://www.insidehighered.com/workplace/2005/12/08/hints2 (pt. 2)

I don't usually cover 'mammoth' stories, but since we haven't had
a dna story in a while ... they're reconstructing the mammoth
genome:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10533418/
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/051219_mammothfrm.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4535190.stm
http://www.latercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_177919858,00.html

... and if we talk about mammoth bones, we might as well mention
this cache of dodo bones too:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10589182/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4556928.stm

Review of Rodney Stark, *The Victory of Reason*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/books/30book.html

Review of Juliet Barker, *Wordsworth: A Life*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/books/review/01fenton.html

Review of Anthony Holden, *The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt -
Poet, Revolutionary, and the Last of the Romantics.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/books/review/01marshall.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Agrigento:

http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=4511&lang=US

Oenoanda:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=64659

Jordan:

http://www.daily-news.ro/article_detail.php?idarticle=20632

Revolutionary War sites:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/travel/escapes/23foot.html

Zanzibar:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/20/travel/trzan.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Ancient Egypt Magazine (Dec./Jan.):

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue33.htm

Amphora 4.2 (full text):

http://www.apaclassics.org/outreach/amphora/2005/Amphora5.1.pdf

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Plenty of coverage of a 74-year-old Italian antiquities
plunderer's activities (awk!):

http://tinyurl.com/8n2r7 (CBC)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1674314,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4564518.stm
http://tinyurl.com/8tgsz (photo)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=79070
http://tinyurl.com/apgwg (Herald)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10617386/
http://tinyurl.com/cxv6z (Telegraph)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/29/arts/29arts.html

... while Italy is 'going on the offensive' to recover previously-
purloined (or so claimed) artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/26/arts/design/26loan.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/27/features/loans.php

... and is close to a 'deal' with the Met:

http://tinyurl.com/degm2 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/dxhu7 (Newsday)

More successes for the carabinieri in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/8yn3w (AGI)

Some Bronze Age axe heads being offered for sale on eBay
were returned 'to the crown':

http://tinyurl.com/7lswb (Telegraph)

The LA Times had a very nice piece on the 'murky world' of the
antiquities trade:

http://tinyurl.com/8jfst

Suzan Mazur continues her look at some of the characters in the
Museum Case (these are different):

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00224.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00252.htm

French customs officials have recovered a huge number of
antiquities purloined from Morocco and Mali:

http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=49&id=11817
http://tinyurl.com/deuax (Examiner)

A couple of Israelis were busted:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/659347.html

Perhaps not surprisingly, Bulgaria now has an antiquities
smuggling problem:

http://tinyurl.com/9og8a (NPR)

This is a weird one ... a man in Hawaii has been jailed for
not disclosing where he buried some antiquities stolen from
a local museum:

http://tinyurl.com/9bnwo (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/atqyy (ABC)
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/28/national/28artifacts.html

A number of items were stolen from the museum at Crystal River
Archaeological State Park:

http://tinyurl.com/b7683 (SP Times)

Officials say an Iron Age cemetery near Khorramabad (Iran) has
been seriously plundered:

http://tinyurl.com/aj2v5 (IranMania)

Strange story of the murder of a Russian archaeologist:

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20051227/42740803.html

Not 'crime' per se, but a commentary on antiquities laws in
India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1339273.cms
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NUMISMATICA
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Bank of Canada Currency Museum:

http://www.currencymuseum.ca/eng/collection/index.php
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Immortal Pharaoh:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20911-1952775,00.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/53033.html

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/7lfqu

  From Byzantium to Modern Greece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/arts/design/30gree.html

Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/arts/design/19fran.html

Secular and Sacred: Scholars, Deities, and Immortals in Chinese Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/arts/design/31sacr.html

A Perfume Museum in Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/9g2sc (German)

More troubles for the Getty Trust:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4551768.stm
http://tinyurl.com/7kb6n (Reuters)

... more Getty news:

http://tinyurl.com/8arxm (LA Times)

The colour of Tut controversy continues to rage:

http://tinyurl.com/dcd2r (Sun Sentinel)

Some new galleries opened at the ROM over the past week or so:

http://tinyurl.com/85p3q (Star)

Hype for the Great Egyptian Museum:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=116

Bicentennial for the Samuel T. Freeman auction house:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/arts/design/30anti.html
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ON THE WEB
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Assorted Greek Dictionaries (in Greek):

http://www.komvos.edu.gr/dictionaries/dictonline/DictOnLine.htm

Ancient Human Occupation of Britain:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ahob/index_2.html

Sutton Hoo Research Project:

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/projArch/suttonhoo_var_2004/
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OBITUARIES
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D.R. Shackleton-Bailey:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1952659,00.html

James L. Swauger (excavator of Fort Pitt):

http://kdka.com/topstories/local_story_359074546.html
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-12242005-588918.html

Harold Lawton

http://tinyurl.com/cwx4j (Telegraph)

Mary Littauer:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/19/america/web.1219obitlitt.php
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals might have been better hunters than previously
thought:

http://www.archeologie.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=46&c=116

... while a couple of Neanderthal skeletons from Croatia may
be older than previously thought:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060106003648.htm
http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6339.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/wuis-rot010506.php

The invention of agriculture apparently contributed to a
world-wide baby boom in the Neolithic:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060103114116.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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JHU is doing the online dig thing again at their Mut Temple
dig in Luxor:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/517129/

More from Hamoukar ... this time through the eyes of one of the
(young) archaeologists working there:

http://tinyurl.com/8r8hn (Daily Record)

Interesting burial from Iran's Burnt City:

http://tinyurl.com/9ythr (Iranmania)

... while five different burial styles have been found at
Achaemenid and Sassanid sites:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=273247

They're finding the locations of the ports of Tyre and Sidon:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060102/full/060102-11.html
http://www.physorg.com/news9599.html

Potentially important discovery of remains of a post-Roman-
sack-of-Jerusalem Jewish village in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/baval (JPost)
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/664956.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10713177/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1471755
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=791
http://tinyurl.com/dpdp7 (AP via Yahoo)

A Byzantine-era 'underground city' and cistern near
Mt. Ali (Turkey):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=32315

The latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://tinyurl.com/7bfnr (JPost)
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=28031
http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=170639

cf: http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060102-123421-5168r.htm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=96039

More/repeat coverage of that pair in the tomb of Niankhkhnum
and Khnumhotep:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1965612,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/7affk (IHT)

Repeat of that dwarfs-in-Egypt story:

http://tinyurl.com/82j7f (ME Times)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060102/dwarf_arc.html

Good review of Nova's "The Mummy Who Would Be King":

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/arts/television/03mart.html
http://tinyurl.com/7a8hp (Oregonian)

... and PBS's new series "Walking the Bible":

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/arts/television/04heff.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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One of the things revealed at the current AIA/APA meeting in
Montreal is the discovery of a 6th century Greek temple in Albania:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060106122516.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news9667.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uoc-nlg010606.php

Mole activity has led to the discovery of a Romano-British villa
in Cotswold (UK):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1668955.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006000222,00.html

Artemidorus of Ephesus' map will be on display in Turin:

http://tinyurl.com/dmew2 (ANSA)

Mysterious coins from Pergamum:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=32370

Reflecting on the Odyssey:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12004071_1

Reflecting on Victor Davis Hanson (different):

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA04Ak02.html
http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/12/the_pericles_of.php

Christopher Logue won the Whitbread Prize for his Cold Calls:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1677536,00.html

Review of Dorothy King, *The Elgin Marbles*:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1681545,00.html

Review of Wilkins and Hill, *Food in the Ancient World*:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/thereview.cfm?id=132006

Review of Nigel Spivey, *Songs on Bronze*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25337-1947960,00.html

Review of Diana Kleiner, *Cleopatra and Rome*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article336482.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Piles of Bronze Age tools have been found at a site in Somerset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4576710.stm

Remains from various periods found in an excavation in Wiltshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4587666.stm

Nice coverage of the discovery of some bog bodies from Ireland:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060107/sc_nm/life_gel_dc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4589638.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news9676.html

Tooth-filing Vikings:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18925335.100

... while plans are afoot to excavate a number of Viking
longhouses on Unst:

http://tinyurl.com/ck5sz (Shetland News)

Nice feature on the 'Standing Stones of Callanish':

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=992006

Cleaning up a medieval cemetery/monastery in Ireland in the
hopes of creating a tourist attraction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4578356.stm
http://tinyurl.com/dw8eg (Saoirse)

Edinburgh's links to 'the Black Death':

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=15172006

Recent research suggests the execution of William Wallace was
the 'main attraction' at an annual fair:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=32682006

Repeat of that Napoleon's-lousy-army story:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060102/napoleonarmy_his.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On the origins of Chinese civilization:

http://china.org.cn/english/2006/Jan/153942.htm

Chinese archaeologists are planning to 'excavate' that 800 b.p.
ship found on the 'marine Silk Road':

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1541392.htm
http://tinyurl.com/cxf5j (Advertiser)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-1969222,00.html
http://www.physorg.com/news9513.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/05/content_4014726.htm

A Ming Dynasty tomb from China's Hubei province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/08/eng20060108_233733.html

A Yuan Dynasty tomb from China's Shanxi province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/07/eng20060107_233632.html

The debate is heating up (it appears) over how to treat the
tombs of Japan's ancient emperors:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200601050119.html

The oldest Koran is in Tashkent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4581684.stm

Repeat of that 'outback footprints' story:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060107/fob1.asp

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Nice feature on Bill Kelso and Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/daad5 (Picayune Item)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10713764/
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3561419.html
http://tinyurl.com/9f5nv (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/9mug6

Digging in downtown Wilmington:

http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=4316914&nav=2gQc

Old aerial photography of Hohokam sites:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0105phxaerial05.html

They did some CT scans on some Moche pottery:

http://tinyurl.com/a56ge (Tribune)

Archaeologists are involved in the restoration of New Orleans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/03prof.html

"Influence" in various periods of American politics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/opinion/06waldman.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery that the Mayan writing
system is older than previously thought:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10724962/
http://tinyurl.com/abopd (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/a4fyl (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/bf7c6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/czj6s (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/8wm6f (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3531953a12,00.html
http://www.physorg.com/news9629.html
http://tinyurl.com/8r6ll (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/8etez

A 2500 b.p. Maya ball court has been found in the Yucatan:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/miami/16507.html

John Noble Wilford looks at the evidence for ancient Peruvian
canals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/03peru.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/04/healthscience/sngation.php

... as do others:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10707742/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_sc/peru_archaeology
http://tinyurl.com/e3brs (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/csaq7 (CNN)

Repeat of the Peru-wants-Machu Picchu-artifacts-back story:

http://tinyurl.com/exdyn (USA Today)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're doing some checks on that skull claimed
to be Mozart's (this might be a repeat):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10697272/
http://tinyurl.com/cn4gc (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/cpo7v (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1677544,00.html

cf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4570012.stm

... and something DNAish about cannibalism and Kiru for which I
don't have enough caffeine in me to understand:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060103183333.htm

Interesting (but chatty) item on mathematical precision in
ancient architecture:

http://tinyurl.com/838ma (Manitoban)

Item on the (re)discovery of a Byron manuscript once thought
lost:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4577818.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/books/04byron.html

Interesting feature on the role of Scots in various
revolutions:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/53578.html

Can't remember if we mentioned this piece by Harold Bloom on
the Vatican's rethinking of the concept of Limbo:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/01/opinion/edbloom.php

Plenty of coverage of a project to define seven new wonders
of the world (some of the things nominated are ancient, though):

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=3072006
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1355711.cms
http://tinyurl.com/dae59 (Kathimerini)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1464920&page=1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1676487,00.html

Some folks might be interested in this piece on 'bark cloth'
production in Uganda:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/international/africa/03uganda.html

Reflecting on the return of the Axum obelisk:

http://tinyurl.com/7zxwq (LA Times)
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Hartford:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/travel/escapes/06trip.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Three Iranians were arrested in Greece on suspicion of antiquities
smuggling:

http://tinyurl.com/9jbxc (ME Times)
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NUMISMATICA
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Interesting pair of articles from 1861 issues of Harper's
Magazine on how U.S. coins were made (from start to finish) at
that time:

http://www.pdxcoinclub.org/articles/MakingMoneyPart1/makingMoneyPart1.pdf
http://www.pdxcoinclub.org/articles/MakingMoneyPart2/MakingMoney.pdf

[sorry ... I can't seem to tinyurl these ones, so they might wrap
on you]

Page on fakes of various numismatic (and other) items:

http://www.exonumia.com/fakes.htm

Mysterious coins from Pergamum:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=32370
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Forgotten Empire:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/776/cu2.htm

  From Byantium to Modern Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/dapel (Star-Ledger)

Fra Angelico:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/14967/

Legacy of Homer:

http://tinyurl.com/8c7yn

Pompeii: Stories from and Eruption:

http://tinyurl.com/9oh4t (Statesman)

Antonello da Messina: Sicily's Renaissance Master:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/arts/design/06anto.html

Stuff from Herakleion is going on display in Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/869bh (IOL)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/arts/07arts.html (fifth item)

The Cleveland Museum of Art is getting a new director:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/arts/design/06voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Hamlet:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/15099/
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OBITUARIES
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B.W. Robinson:

http://tinyurl.com/8klhy (Telegraph)

Maurice Beresford:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1966039,00.html

Robert Bell:

http://www.newsok.com/xml/rss/1723845/
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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I can't figure out where best to categorize this one, but the
'mind boggling' quality of it suggests this might be closest ...
an Italian priest will be summoned into an Italian court to prove
that Jesus existed:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1967413,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/7ub6t (UPI)
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EARLY HUMANS
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Was the Taung child killed by an eagle?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4609222.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10819471/
http://tinyurl.com/8ow3g (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/12/D8F39VDOF.html
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_3399145?source=rss
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AFRICA
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Dam construction once again threatens archaeological sites ...
this time in the Sudan:

http://tinyurl.com/c3plm (Telegraph)

Ethiopia marked the 100th anniversary of Enno Littmann's
expedition to Askum:

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/12/eng20060112_234693.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A mummy is suggesting the ancient Egyptians (in Ptolemaic times)
consumed pork:

http://tinyurl.com/ade3b (Discovery News)

A Jiroft inscription is claimed to be the oldest written script:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_12225.shtml

Migrants from the Burnt City?:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0601140074151749.htm

Sassanid frescoes:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jan/1070.html

The Ishtar Gate (in Berlin) is undergoing restoration:

http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/10618637/61129
(German)

Israel is denying digging beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque:

http://tinyurl.com/8nms2 (ME Times)

More on that post-Vespasian Jewish village find:

http://tinyurl.com/7ts2h (JPost)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Hot on the heels of claims that the Chinese invented golf (see
below) comes the claim that the Romans did:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1986580,00.html

... while Mary Beard writes about some Roman stereotypes:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1604024,00.html

Plans are afoot to dig on the tiny island of Keros:

http://tinyurl.com/a4p84 (CBS)
http://tinyurl.com/7b57l (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060110/ap_on_sc/art_cycladic_secret

Nice piece on Susan Lusnia (and others) returning to Tulane:

http://tinyurl.com/a28gf (News Record)

This might have implications ... Heidelberg University is
returning a piece from the Parthenon frieze to Greece:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3575056.html
http://tinyurl.com/bdutw (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/7k3g5 (Tribune)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4610826.stm

... then again, there's Dorothy King's book on the Marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/dxp85 (Guardian)

Interesting speech on the legacy of Augustine:

http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.23661/pub_detail.asp

Yesterday was the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Laocoon
group:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=82687

A Classical Studies major at MSU:

http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=33961

U.S. as Athens:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48256

Review of R. Bittlestone, *Odysseus Unbound: The Search for
Homer's Ithaka*:

http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=63790§ion=books

Review of Victor Davis Hanson, *War Like No Other*:

http://tinyurl.com/cknj9 (WPost)

Review/announcement of P. Sotirakopolou, *The Keros Hoard*:

http://www.cycladic-m.gr/en_version/news.asp (third item)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The 'race against time' to excavate underwater Stone Age sites
near the Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/e3k59 (IWCP)

Repeat of coverage about those fashionable bog men from Ireland:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10789343/
http://www.physorg.com/news9843.html

Groovy tooth techniques found in Vikings were probably learned in
North America:

http://tinyurl.com/8mrl5 (National Post)

A motorway (again) threatens the site of Tara:

http://tinyurl.com/bf8yg (Telegraph)

... and perhaps fears are higher because road construction did
not stop when a 7th century burial ground was found in Co Laois:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0111/m7.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A Paleolithic quarry from Hong Kong?:

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/15/eng20060115_235592.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200601/12/eng20060112_234751.html

A pile of cliff tombs from China's Shaanxi province:

http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/2006-1-10/65@292401.htm

Also from Shaanxi province comes word of the discovery of a
hitherto unknown 'small ancient state':

http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=407855

Chinese archaeologists have excavated what appears to be a Yuan
dynasty tomb of a coin collector:

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/15/eng20060115_235621.html

I think this is the same Ming Dynasty tomb we mentioned last
week:

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/08/eng20060108_233733.html

... and there's a Ming Dynasty village too:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/13/content_4048996.htm

A dozen sites found during construction in Beijing:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/12/content_4043816.htm

Digging Mongolia:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10779575/
http://tinyurl.com/7v76w

Some Danish tourists came across an ancient Maori adze on a
New Zealand beach:

http://tinyurl.com/9feyc (Herald)

Strange time of year for this one ... did the Chinese invent
golf?

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/54020.html

(cf. a semi-similar item in the Greece and Rome section)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A prehistoric baby boom in North America (repeat of a story
from last week, I think):

http://tinyurl.com/bvg4l (NG)

A Tequesta people (maybe) 'crypt' has been found in downtown
Miami:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060114/ap_on_sc/burial_sites_2
http://tinyurl.com/9599j (ABC)
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/13/State/Indian_burial_method_.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/8lfgn (Forbes)
http://tinyurl.com/9mlt2 (Ledger)

This is potential Crime Beat material, but we'll put it here
first ... an archaeologist seems to be taking an awfully long
time returning a ring associated with (possibly) Walter Raleigh's
Lost Colony:

http://tinyurl.com/9ed69 (Times Dispatch)
http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-688838.html

Interesting if true: the family that gave the Donner Party its
name apparently did not participate in the cannibal activities
associated with it:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060113111909.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060114/ap_on_sc/donner_party_7
http://tinyurl.com/bqqum (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/cjber (Star-Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/7gztd (Newsday)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10828045/

Searching for remains of the Raisin River Massacre:

http://tinyurl.com/abah3 (Monroe News)

They're looking at the possibility of saving remains of a Union
camp on Folly Beach:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060110/ap_on_sc/folly_encampment_1

Recent storms revealed sites associated with General Vallejo's
ranch in California:

http://tinyurl.com/a4frr (Press Democrat)

Can't avoid the archaeological preliminaries to construction in
Pennsylvania:

http://www.knowledgeplex.org/news/138714.html

An OpEd piece on the importance of the Rio Nuevo dig (Tucson):

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/local/010906a2_ct_rionuevo

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on the 'Obsidian
Trail':

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

New (?) evidence of Zheng He's discovery of the Americas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4609074.stm
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5381851
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1681913.html

... or maybe it was some Catalan pirate:

http://tinyurl.com/79tsa (La Tercera ... Spanish)

USC is looking for dig volunteers:

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?s=4344119

Review of Louise Knight, *Citizen: Jane Addmas and the Struggle
for Democracy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/books/review/15wolfe.html

Review of Richard Bushman, *Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/books/review/15kirn.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 750 b.p. jaguar relief from Peru:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/culture/20060112TDY03003.htm

Repeat of that 300 B.C./B.C.E. Mayan writing story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/science/10maya.html (JNW)
http://tinyurl.com/bptrn (ME Times)

Earliest evidence of use of irrigation in the Americas:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/04/healthscience/sngation.php
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, turns out the Mozart's skull tests are
inconclusive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/arts/10arts.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10771052/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4593728.stm
http://physorg.com/news9689.html

... while tests suggest that all Ashkenazi Jews are descended
from four women:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10827385/
http://tinyurl.com/bp95y (JPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4611592.stm

Back with Mozart ... the British Library is putting his musical
diary online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4602542.stm
cf: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

Interesting item on 'mail privacy' in various eras:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/opinion/13kahn.html

How Yale helped launch the 'oil economy':

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

Interesting item on books bound with human leather in various
libraries:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_Human_Leather.html

Darwin's house is getting World Heritage status:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/arts/13arts.html (sixth item)

... while they're pondering the whole idea of World Heritage
Status and the implications of the ever-growing list:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/travel/15journeys.html

Some old maps of Malta are to be digitized:

http://217.145.4.56/ind/news.asp?newsitemid=26662

Review/comments on Kwame Appiah's latest tome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/arts/09conn.html

Review of Barnaby Rogerson, *The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad*:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jan/1070.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Freud's Vienna:

http://tinyurl.com/ajqo4 (SMH)

Leipzig:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/10/news/trleip.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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More on the deal the Italian government is offering the Met in
regards to claimed antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/nyregion/13met.html
http://tinyurl.com/9ablw (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/avcge

... meanwhile, in the Museum Case, this week we heard from a
feisty Robert Hecht:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/arts/design/14gett.html
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2006/01/13/71109.html

... and Suzan Mazur wrote an excellent piece about the sale of
the Euphronios Krater:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0601/S00076.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Finding Priscilla's Children:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/arts/13fami.html

Power Dressing: Men's Fashion and Prestige in Africa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/arts/design/15bier.html

A couple of exhibits on Arab life past and present:

http://tinyurl.com/9exxs (Daily Star)

Chain of Generations:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=96462

News of several upcoming auctions in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/arts/design/13anti.html

A pile of museums will be opening in Egypt this year:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/777/he2.htm
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Ajax:

http://tinyurl.com/9q8bt (Union-Tribune)

Hippolytos:

http://tinyurl.com/bb6l2 (Princeton)

Electra:

http://tinyurl.com/9sssm (Detroit News)

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/movies/13keep.html

The Globe is 'going Roman':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1684400,00.html
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OBITUARIES
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Winifred Weter:

http://tinyurl.com/dmryk (Seattle Times)

G. Blakemore Evans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/arts/10EVANS.html

Elliot Forbes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/arts/14forbes.html
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W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
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EARLY HUMANS
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Did Neanderthals reach Europe via Gibraltar?:

http://tinyurl.com/d436h (Guardian)

... even if they didn't, they were apparently good hunters:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060118210756.htm

A 'primitive hominid-like' skull from Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/a93j2 (Bega)
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AFRICA
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Coverage of an upcoming dig in Ghana:

http://tinyurl.com/7ss39
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The largest temple ever found in the Arabian peninsula (5th
century B.C./B.C.E.):

http://www.yobserver.com/news_9184.php

That big model of Temple Mount is being relocated:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=672147

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A couple of interesting items (both different) on Christopher
Logue's in the wake of his Whitbread award:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,1692078,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1692076,00.html

Nice feature on the excavation of a Minoan site on Karpathos:

http://tinyurl.com/8m9nd (Kathimerini)

An ancient copper smelting furnace from Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)
http://www.financialmirror.com/more_news.php?id=2979

Evidence from the Kerameikos suggests Athens plague was typhoid
fever:

http://tinyurl.com/849e8 (Kathimerini)

Pre-Greek remains from Agrigento's Valley of the Temples:

http://tinyurl.com/79n6u (ANSA)

A handful of Roman coins were found near London:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4619682.stm

... leading to this op-ed piece:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10653-2002201,00.html

School construction in Somerset revealed a Roman burial:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4630806.stm

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a 3000 b.p. burial in
the Roman Forum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2002451,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/83cb9 (ABC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10944806/
http://tinyurl.com/8lk4m (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/9wcf7 (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/ab7kr (ctv)
http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2006/01/20/71480.html
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060121_tombfrm.htm
http://tinyurl.com/abkao (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/cb8qz (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/c4t5p (Herald Sun ... best headline)
http://tinyurl.com/9o442 (News 24)

... and there appears to be more to come:

http://tinyurl.com/856h7 (IOL)

... photos:

http://tinyurl.com/arqdv (Repubblica)

A Roman Gymnasium and villa from Beirut:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060120.HTM
(in Arabic, but with photos)

Barbara Gold is offering her services on the history of
Valentine's Day:

http://tinyurl.com/dp7eg (AScribe)

... and she presented a paper at the APA:

http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?ID=10224

Peter Arzt-Grabner brings his papyrological expertise to
Baylor:

http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=38463

Nice feature on Dorothy King and her opinions on the Elgin
Marbles:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4624334.stm

... while Greece is said to be in "sensitive discussions" about
same:

http://tinyurl.com/aa869 (ME Times)

... and there's a repeat of the story that Heidelberg U is going
to return a chunk of same that it had:

http://tinyurl.com/8ajnf (ANA)
http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=563237

Somewhat confusing piece about assorted mythical beasties:

http://tinyurl.com/7qoyh (Herald)

Summary of the last thirty years of restoration on the Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/8ewwl (Kathimerini)

Some 'cyclopean' walls collapsed in Amelia recently

http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-01-18_2398931.html

... here's what they originally looked like:

http://tinyurl.com/bjy57 (LC)

In case you missed Robert Sonkowsky's reading of Horace Ode
1.22 on the Prairie Home Companion:

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2006/01/14/

Make a movie of VDH's work?:

http://tinyurl.com/8q37v (Book Standard)

Review of Dorothy King, *The Elgin Marbles*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article338992.ece

Review of M. Gwyn Morgan, *69 A.D.*:

http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=65383§ion=books

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Neolithic axe head from Barnoldswick:

http://tinyurl.com/9wp54 (BN)

Repeat of the Irish bog mummy story:

http://tinyurl.com/blwbw (NG)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4632296.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060116/bogmummy_arc.html
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=89512006
(with 'reconstruction' photo)

Plans are afoot to excavate a 1000 b.p. burial site at the
Edinburgh Airport:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=91982006

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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An early Neolithic site from China:

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/18/eng20060118_236322.html

Some 1000 b.p. sculptures were found near Karachi (not sure if
this should be a crime beat story or not):

http://www.dawn.com/2006/01/18/local21.htm

Feature on attempts to save Chinese sites threatened by dam
construction:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=139

Repeat of that Chinese tomb-of-an-ancient-coin-collector story:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/15/content_4053885.htm

Repeat of that Ming-Dynasty-village story:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/18/content_4066993.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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That map which supposedly confirms Zheng He's discovery of the
Americas is being met with skepticism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/international/asia/17map.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/16/news/map.php

... they're testing the ink on the map:

http://tinyurl.com/dlfag (Herald)

A 'prehistoric kitchen' from Indiana:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060117/ap_on_sc/prehistoric_kitchen
http://tinyurl.com/d775b (Courier Journal)
http://tinyurl.com/a6rbl (News Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/ahpe9 (ABC)

Big debate in the making over enlarging the Little Bighorn
Battlefield Monument:

http://tinyurl.com/8hvpq (Gazette)

They've restored Ben Franklin's house:

http://tinyurl.com/bxzrj (NYT)

... and there's a nice assessement of Franklin himself:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/opinion/17schiff.html

... and Ben appears to be more popular than ever:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/national/16franklin.html

... and we learn about some of his lesser-known inventions:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10897814/

A possible stop on the Underground Railroad in Connecticut:

http://tinyurl.com/do6jd (Newsday)

... and in case you were wondering, Uncle Tom's Cabin was bought
by the state:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Uncle-Toms-Cabin.html

What would Pocahontas say?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uonc-ucl011906.php
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/movies/20worl.html

... and Bill Kelso seems to approve:

http://tinyurl.com/9s6n9 (Times Dispatch)

Repeat of that Tequesta-cemetery-in-Miami story:

http://tinyurl.com/7gwum (Sun Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/98r9m (Daytona Beach News)

Review of Anna Pavord, *The Naming of Names: The Search for Order
in the World of Plants*:

http://tinyurl.com/brd4k (Tribune Review)

Review of the History Channel's *Lincoln*:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/arts/television/16gate.html

... and PBS's *The War That Made America*:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/arts/television/18heff.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Interesting find of a just-after-the-Spanish-conquest Aztec
mural:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_en_ot/indian_mural_1

Can't remember if we mentioned this discovery of a jaguar relief
from Peru:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/culture/20060112TDY03003.htm

They're still yakking about those Mexican footprints:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4617466.stm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, Niall of the Nine Hostages appears to have
left his genetic mark:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/science/18irish.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10892117/

... and they're going to see if Christopher Columbus may have
left his genetic mark behind too:

http://tinyurl.com/93oye (IOL)

More on that development-of-agriculture-induced baby boom:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10927281/

The Pope's Swiss Guard is celebrating 500 years of service:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5164581
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4630898.stm

Latest on matters relating to Judas:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060120/wl_nm/religion_vatican_judas_dc

Bios of recipients of National Humanities Medals (including
Matthew Bogdanos):

http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2006-01/medals.html

Get ready for a mass-market approach to Jane Austen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/books/18austen.html

A possible portrait of Lady Jane Grey?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4620996.stm

All about the 'Holy Cross Exorcism Room':

http://tinyurl.com/ceu5e

On the naming of Pluto:

http://tinyurl.com/99vtt (JPost)

FWIW, Scarlett Johansson apparently would be an archaeologist
if she weren't an actress:

http://tinyurl.com/ey3qv (Starpulse)

A history of brothels:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article340078.ece

On Brown's Walt Whitman collection:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2973

Michelangelo was apparently paid well:

http://tinyurl.com/asxv6 (Bloomberg)

... and his drawings continue to bring in the bucks:

http://tinyurl.com/blfza (Evening Standard)

BBC Radio has started another series of 'Unearthing Mysteries':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/unearthingmysteries.shtml

Review of Park Honan, *Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy*:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/books/18grim.html

One I messed up last week ... a review of Barnaby Rogerson,
*The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1979333,00.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Herculaneum:

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=103&article=34360

Sabina:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-2001355,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The St. Louis Art Museum might have a stolen mummy mask:

http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (STL Today)

The Guardian has a piece on the ongoing looting of sites in
Iraq:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1689799,00.html

... and the Gazette has a nice feature on Matthew Bogdanos:

http://tinyurl.com/djotm

While Iran is dealing with an ongoing problem of museum theft
as well:

http://tinyurl.com/cqa9z (Iranmania)

Morocco passed a new antiquities law this week, but it appears
to still have 'holes' (maybe ...):

http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=49&id=12298

... while the U.S. and Italy renewed their agreement on
antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/d5wxp (US Info)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/arts/20arts.html (fourth item)

... and Italy and China reached an agreement:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/21/content_4080371.htm

Meanwhile, a bunch of European governments seem to be jumping on
the 'repatriation' bandwagon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1692164,00.html

Coverage of the Museum case continues (nothing really new this
week):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165575

One of the Nazi-looting cases appears to have (finally) come to
an end:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/arts/17klim.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Interesting page on Jacob Perkins:

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/PERK11.htm

Review of Clara Semple, *A Silver Legend: The Story of the Maria
Theresa Thaler*:

http://tinyurl.com/9haw7 (Guardian)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Ink and Blood:

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/19/Weekend/A_war_of_words.shtml

Newsweek has a feature on the recently-renovated Getty (and the
Museum case, although they're a bit behind on that one):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10964624/site/newsweek/
cf: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165578

Museums in the UK seem to be having problems on the acquisition
side of things:

http://tinyurl.com/7mkl5 (Telegraph)

Latest on the Acropolis Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/84yux (Kathimerini)

Egypt's Coptic Museum has reopened:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/778/heritage.htm

Precolumbian Art from Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/dcmn5 (La Tercera ... Spanish)

Assorted Arts news from the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/arts/design/20voge.html

A recent Egyptian acquisition from the Kimbell Museum of Art:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0118/p18s02-hfgn.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Aristophanes in Birdonia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/arts/dance/16gord.html

Burial at Thebes:

http://tinyurl.com/bekty (Chronicle)

Electra:

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=8740

Scenes from Goethe's Faust:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/arts/music/16faus.html

Sejanus: His Fall:

http://tinyurl.com/b37ou (London Theatre)
http://tinyurl.com/bgxxg (Telegraph)
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ON THE WEB
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Turning the Pages:

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
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OBITUARIES
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Erica Reiner (Assyrian Scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/national/22REINER.html

Henry George Fischer (Egyptologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/arts/18FISCHER.html

Philip Grierson (Numismatist):

http://tinyurl.com/chg8m (Guardian)

Isobel Smith (archaeologist):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1687877,00.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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A petroglyph has been found which is being suggested as
documentation of the murder of Oetzi:

http://tinyurl.com/dg3hq (Repubblica ... Italian)

The latest on that Bosnian pyramid claim:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=82139
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PODCASTS
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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman,  Rochelle Altman,
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on Neanderthal hunting abilities:

http://tinyurl.com/8y468 (NG)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Paleolithic tools from Iran's Gilan province:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0601256768152119.htm

Plenty of coverage of the find of remains of some 4000 b.p.
Egyptian sea-going vessels:

http://tinyurl.com/7dvua (CTV)
http://tinyurl.com/9qutt (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/dj2fa (CBS)
http://tinyurl.com/crd52 (Seattle PI)

... I believe this was actually first reported back in March;
see e.g.:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7190

Also plenty of coverage of the discovery of a life-sized statue
of Queen Tiye:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/jhu-jht012406.php
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/779/eg9.htm (photo)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11011618/
http://tinyurl.com/clwga (Tribune)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060128/ap_on_sc/egypt_queen_ti_1
http://tinyurl.com/dx536 (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/8bvw9 (Sun)
http://tinyurl.com/covmz (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://english.people.com.cn/200601/25/eng20060125_238160.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1387596.cms
http://tinyurl.com/avs2k (CNN)
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/6638.aspx (photo)

An update of sorts on the excavations at Jiroft:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_12640.shtml

They might relocate that Megiddo prison in light of the recent
archaeological discoveries there:

http://tinyurl.com/cdy7q (JPost)

... while the IAA has identified the ancient name of the site:

http://tinyurl.com/9eqtd

Sections of Jerusalem's Old City walls are in danger of collapse:

http://tinyurl.com/8edrt (Israel Today)

A sort of roundup of digs in Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/dh6da (JPost)

The Mummy Roadshow guys were out promoting their book:

http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/Lifestyle/content?oid=oid:141283

The JHU in Luxor online dig diary:

http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html

A Biblical Archaeology podcast:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Another (?) copper smelting furnace from Cyprus (this might be
a repeat):

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

Restoring Seut III's mask:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=58141

Was typhoid the Athenian plague?:

http://tinyurl.com/b2e7p (SA)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10992720/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4639840.stm
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1553920.htm
http://www.livescience.com/history/060123_athens_fall.html
http://webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&aId=8177
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060123163827.htm
http://tinyurl.com/8jlsf (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/84kcf (SMH)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060123/typhoid_his.html
http://tinyurl.com/cbej3 (Medical News)

They keep finding stuff during construction of a tunnel across
the Bosporus:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1694257,00.html

Rethinking Archimedes' 'death ray':

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/112887

The Artemidorus Papyrus will be on display in Turin:

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=682197
http://tinyurl.com/cfrcp (WPost)

Another marathon reading of the Iliad:

http://tinyurl.com/9dzh2 (Greek News)

More coverage of Dorothy King's views on the Elgin/Parthenon
Marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/asnl9 (Reuters)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/01/26/elgin-marbles.html

More coverage of that Roman burial from Cheddar:

http://tinyurl.com/ckzfq (Mercury)

JCL Convention coverage:

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=70625&ntpid=0

The Dianae Lacus foundation has won an environmental prize:

http://tinyurl.com/9c6ck (AGI)

Classics major success on Jeopardy:

http://tinyurl.com/ap7uj (Maroon)

Nikos Kazantzakis site:

http://www.historical-museum.gr/kazantzakis/index.html

The Lukeion Project:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb336043.htm

High tech latin:

http://tinyurl.com/axymq (Huntsville Times)

Audiostoa (reading Epictetus):

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Audiostoa

Repeat coverage of that Greek temple find from Albania:

http://tinyurl.com/ddah6 (50 Connect)

Review of Boris Johnson, *The Dream of Rome*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-2008445,00.html

Review of Peggy Sotirakopoulou, *The Keros Hoard: Myth or
Reality*:

http://tinyurl.com/c6fvr (Kathimerini)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Neolithic Europeans were apparently making cheese and yogurt:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060123/dairy_arc.html

The cause of death of a Swedish bog man has been determined:

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2920

A large medieval cemetery has been found during shopping centre
construction in Leicester:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11005608/
http://tinyurl.com/9xkka (Chicago Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/8mxcy (AP via Yahoo)

Medieval remains at Teeside:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/4648112.stm

They've found Henry VIII's 'lost chapel' at Greenwich:

http://tinyurl.com/8bofy (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/e3s77 (Bexley Times ... photos)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1694341,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1694344,00.html

They're arguing (again) about the Sussex:

http://tinyurl.com/8byta (NYT)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Paleolithic tool site from Bolpur (West Bengal):

http://tinyurl.com/expjy (Business Standard)

Petroglyphs are suggesting skiing was a Chinese invention:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060123/sp_nm/china_ski_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/83xnp (Arab Times)

Chinese archaeologists have found a 'major structure' on a
palace site in Xi'an:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/24/content_4093780.htm

Resuming a dig at a Harappan site:

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=166394

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 10,000 b.p. site from coastal Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/cmtj9 (NewsAshland)

Another possible repeat (or followup) -- excavating a Calusa
site in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/738bu (NBC)
http://tinyurl.com/9ynbf (Naples News)

Nine sites from various periods from a farm site near Cranberry
Township:

http://www.gatewaynewspapers.com/cranberryjournal/57430/

Checking out what's at the bottom of Little Salt Spring (Florida):

http://tinyurl.com/bs2rn (Herald Tribune)

Excavating Fort Hawkins:

http://tinyurl.com/9oo3v (Telegraph)

Another wall gets in the way of subway construction in Battery
Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/nyregion/23wall.html

cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/nyregion/27lives.html

Nice feature on Manhattan archaeologist Amanda Sutphin:

http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/newnews/news011106b.html

Remember those ship remains found in downtown San Francisco
last fall? Here's an update:

http://tinyurl.com/7zhc5 (Chronicle)

Another suggestion for Lincoln's 'clumsy gait':

http://tinyurl.com/7u34f (AP via Yahoo)

Piece on the Winchester rifle:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5168855
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Earliest irrigated agriculture in the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/bbkb6 (Sun Sentinel)

More coverage of the linguistic side of 'The New World':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060123171641.htm

More coverage of that just-after-the-conquest mural from Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/dqaax (LSJ - nice photo)
http://tinyurl.com/8sz7u (Herald)

Pondering a 'new type' of building recently found in Peru:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uadb-aur012406.php

This story of Peru trying to get artifacts back from Yale has
been around for weeks now:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20060125/bs_bw/nf200601256115

The latest online video at the Archaeology Channel looks at
the preservation of some Maya traditions in the wake of
mudslides:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The shape of the human skull has apparently changed over the
past 650 years:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4643312.stm

More on the Ashkenazi progenetrix:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/weekinreview/22harmon.html

Celebrating Mozart's birthday:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5164428

... and seeing the math in his music:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5175371

Dog burials in various cultures:

http://tinyurl.com/c9kd5 (USA Today)

Interesting feature on illuminated manuscripts:

http://tinyurl.com/7otwv (Times)

Folks keep sending this in, so here it is ... coverage of a
story suggesting knowledge of geometry (hmmmmm) is innate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/science/24geom.html

Arguing about the history of India:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0124/p01s03-wosc.html

Some 'new' Caravaggios have been found/identified:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4648258.stm
http://tinyurl.com/abq39 (CBC)

Some updates on that story of the case in Italy where they have
been asked to prove the existence of Jesus:

http://tinyurl.com/9oz8w (AP via Yahoo)

Review of Stuart Kelly, *The Book of Lost Books*:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/26/features/BLUME.phpj

Robbie Burns and Eleanor of Castile were among the ODNB 'lives
of the week' last week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Various Roman sites recommended by Robin Lane Fox:

http://tinyurl.com/7jtgk

Sinop

http://tinyurl.com/aeote (Daily Star)

Mayan Yucatan:

http://tinyurl.com/7vx7e (Inquirer)

Big South Fork:

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/13696685.htm

Interesting piece on touristy guidebooks through the ages:

http://tinyurl.com/a6z2n (SMH)

Recreating the 'Grand Tour':

http://tinyurl.com/dby9p (Telegraph)

Rome's bridges:

http://tinyurl.com/ajab9 (WIR)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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The Digger:

http://www.bajr.org/DiggerMagazine/Latest/index.html

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Could the US have saved Iraq's cultural heritage?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1693987,00.html

Interesting piece on the US Antiquities Act and its role in
protecting sites in the west:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/38265.html

On items looted from India:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060123/asp/nation/story_5754443.asp

Modern graverobbing (for decorating purposes?):

http://tinyurl.com/ajlkl (News Journal)

A stolen Cellini figurine was recovered this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/arts/23arts.html (fourth item)

... which turned out to be the Saliera (which was stolen three
years ago):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/arts/design/26cell.html

Someone's stealing London bronzes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/arts/design/26bron.html

A bit out of our period of purview, but since there's so little
crime news this week, folks might be interested in some
questionable practices at the Burke Museum:

http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0604/burke.php
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0604/burke-document.php
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NUMISMATICA
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Greek Banknote Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/96354 (Kathimerini)

Eagles on coins:

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/virtual_eagles/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Michelangelo's drawings:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1695014,00.html

Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption:

http://tinyurl.com/9g9pw (ANSA)

Excavating Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/af3mp (Times Argus)

La Domus del Gianicolo:

http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=5914

Tons of coverage of the reopening of the Getty, 'under the cloud
of scandal':

http://tinyurl.com/8scjo (Observer)
http://tinyurl.com/7zxek (Union-Tribune)
http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_3433691
http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_entertainment.asp?id=125001
http://tinyurl.com/888ob (Reuters)
http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=1711
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article341262.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1696923,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4656944.stm
http://tinyurl.com/7zqpf (USA Today)

... and the resignation of a Getty Trust member:

http://tinyurl.com/btvtn (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Getty-Resignation.html

... but there was a piece on their conservation program as
well:

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/6534108/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news

A famous Rembrandt was on the auction block this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/arts/design/27voge.html

An antiques dealer has an exhibition of Renaissance and Medieval
stuff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/arts/design/27anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Hecuba:

http://tinyurl.com/d9vzk (NYT)
cf: http://tinyurl.com/8spp5 (NYT)

Sejanus:

http://tinyurl.com/dmedt (Independent)

Odyssey:

http://www.dowling.edu/news/news.php?eventid=214

Romans in Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/72oec (Independent)

Tristram Shandy:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/movies/27shan.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5175335
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OBITUARIES
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Owen Hannaway (History of Science):

http://tinyurl.com/d2tc3 (Sun)

Basil Robinson (Japanese swords; Persian miniatures):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2009656,00.html

Philip Grierson (Numismatist):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1688576,00.html

Joseph Milik (Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar):

http://tinyurl.com/a99wf (LeMonde)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Feature on the 'Phoenician Inscription Rock' a.k.a. the
Decalogue Stone from New Mexico:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/38502.html
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on early humans and dog burials:

http://tinyurl.com/bpgyz (ABC)

Repeating the Neanderthals-were-great-hunters story:

http://tinyurl.com/dav5w (Discovery.com)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I suspect we'll be reading about this one for a few weeks ...
the latest theory is that King Tut died because of a knee
infection:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060130/tut_arc.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=2370
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1400519.cms
http://tinyurl.com/bcnpw (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://www.physorg.com/news10508.html

Rising groundwater is threatening the temples of Luxor:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1702518,00.html

... while three 'mysterious' bits of statuary have been found
in the temple of Amunhotep III at Luxor:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=154842006
http://tinyurl.com/7k8pv (Mail and Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/d7cyq (SIS)
http://tinyurl.com/73d4x (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/7ke8a (ditto)
http://tinyurl.com/76jed (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/d5tqu (IOL)

More coverage of that statue of Tiy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060130153552.htm

Brief item on the discovery of three (natural?) mummies in
Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/news_9399.php

A warrior buried in 'attack position' from Gohar Tepe:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060123/warrior_arc.html

Three clumsy kids in Israel have stumbled upon an intact
Second Temple burial cave:

http://tinyurl.com/97ytp (JPost)

The Israel Antiquities Authority is recommending moving that
Megiddo Prison:

http://tinyurl.com/8hqh3 (IAA)

Arguing about development in Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/8wcvk (Globes)

An update on that 2000 year old sprouted date seed:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=97582

NPR interview Mark Zvi Brettler all about his historical-
critical approach to the Bible:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5174963

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Ancient Greek shipwreck off Chios:

http://tinyurl.com/bgs4c (AScribe)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11150690/
http://tinyurl.com/chbt2 (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060202_wreckfrm.htm
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/archaeology.html
http://tinyurl.com/7poye (UPI)
http://www.physorg.com/news10490.html

Most photos:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060130/greekship_arc.html

A Roman-era burial from Crete:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11149174/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060202/ap_on_sc/greece_archaeology
http://tinyurl.com/bjxjm (Olberlin Times)
http://tinyurl.com/au4ed (Forbes)

A monumental staircase has been found at Hadrian's Villa:

http://tinyurl.com/ajjh6 (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/cpmgs (adnKronos ... Italian)
http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=62378 (Italian)

Remains of a small Roman farm (maybe) have been found near
Bradford:

http://tinyurl.com/bh4hm (Telegraph and Argus)

The Medea Project:

http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?ID=10304

More typhoid-as-plague-of-Athens coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/du9ns (Indy Star)
http://tinyurl.com/dnxx3 (Toronto Star)
http://tinyurl.com/9p9n5 (USA Today)

More Artemidorus Papyrus coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/7jbdl (Kathimerini)

JCL Coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/e4buc (Herald Democrat)

Review of John Prevas' book about Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/cmv7v (PBDN)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Bronze Age burial from Rathlin Island:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4673622.stm

A metal detectorist in Cambridge has found an Iron Age ring:

http://tinyurl.com/dsbpq (CEN)

Archaeologists have apparently solved the 'mystery of Llywelyn':

http://tinyurl.com/98hqb (Telegraph)

A dig at a 12th century church site in Aberdeen is about to
get under way:

http://tinyurl.com/8t7j8

More coverage of the find of Henry VIII's chapel at Greenwich:

http://tinyurl.com/cwx8j (ME Times)

They're just starting to excavate a huge medieval graveyard
outside London:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060131091935.htm

While a mysterious 'victim' in France turned out to have died
six or so centuries ago:

http://tinyurl.com/9efhk (AFP via Yahoo)

Investigating the Spanish settlement on Tenerife:

http://tinyurl.com/7fnwq (Tenerife News)

The Time Team gang have found an early cotton mill in Manchester:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4681226.stm

Plans are afoot to save/restore Newark Castle:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=159412006

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some 30,000 b.p. Aboriginal stone houses:

http://tinyurl.com/cyrfg Warrnambool Standard)

A 7000 b.p. sacrificial altar from Hunan:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/29/content_4114473.htm

An update (of sorts) on that sunken city in the Gulf of Cambay:

http://newstodaynet.com/01feb/ss1.htm

The mural at Lahore Fort will undergo some restoration:

http://tinyurl.com/dwx4m (Daily Times)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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10,000 b.p. site from Oregon:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_sc/ancient_site

Nice coverage of the excavation of a Calusa site (I think we've
mentioned this dig before):

http://tinyurl.com/bdv79 (Sun Herald)

A Conestee site from North Carolina:

http://tinyurl.com/dwt9k (CNN ... date?)

Mystery object in a Civil War cemetery in Georgia:

http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=70678

NPR had a feature on visiting Uncle Tom's Cabin:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5188487

cf:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=860450
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1147132

That archaeologist has returned that 'Lost Colony ring' that
was in the news a while back:

http://www.herald-sun.com/state/6-697025.html

A mysterious safe full of jewellery has been excavated in
Waterville:

http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/2383463.shtml

Mystery bones (probably? Native American) from Sneads Ferry:

http://tinyurl.com/84vee (Daily News)
http://tinyurl.com/7g295 (WWAY)

I don't quite understand (or actually I do) the reasoning behind
this pending bill in Utah which would limit archaeologists'
input when it comes to development of public lands:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=156838
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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The oldest (16th century) remains of African slaves in the
Americas have been found in Mexico:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/science/31slav.html (JNW)
http://tinyurl.com/d2lkf (Detroit News)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11111366/
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=70827
http://www.physorg.com/news10412.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060201185928.htm

great photo:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uow-afe013106.php

Nice feature on the technology they're using at Macchu Pichu:

http://www.geoplace.com/uploads/featurearticle/0602da.asp

The Peru v. Yale dispute continues to get attention:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2025316,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/arts/design/01mach.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/01/features/museum.php
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, there are piles of coverage of research
suggesting Oetzi was infertile and, apparently by extension,
a social outcast (next they'll be telling us that's why he had
that arrowhead in him):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060204/ap_on_sc/italy_iceman_3
http://tinyurl.com/882sp (CTV)
http://tinyurl.com/84egt (Age)
http://tinyurl.com/cu62l (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1562360.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11164518/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4674866.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news10524.html

All about Pythagoras' Theorem:

http://tinyurl.com/bqwt5 (Star)
http://tinyurl.com/8yp4y (LA Times)

The annual rants about using Roman numerals to refer to Super
Bowls (all different):

http://tinyurl.com/cjhda (Daily Advertiser)
http://tinyurl.com/8xcwj (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/bef4r (SI)
http://tinyurl.com/8vdyz (Pilot)

As might be expected, the Olympics in Turin are also bringing
attention to the Shroud:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11129758/

There's a new Yahoo group discussing human migrations:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HumanMigrations/

Review of Lizzie Collingham *Curry: A Tale of Cooks and
Conquerors*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/books/01grim.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/books/review/05mcculloch.html

Review of Benson Bobrick, *The Fated Sky: Astrology in History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/books/review/05teresi.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A pot was stolen from the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in Charlotte:

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/6711763/detail.html

A new revelation (maybe) in the smuggling-from-Iraq department:

http://tinyurl.com/87mnb (Azzaman)

Lots of coverage of the Met's decision to return the Euphronios
krater (and other items) to Italy because of their questionable
origins:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/arts/04muse.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/arts/03muse.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/03/features/bohlen.php
http://tinyurl.com/a86d2 (Bloomberg)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3635691.html
http://tinyurl.com/d7nws (Bloomberg)
http://tinyurl.com/9x77g (ANSA)

... and the NYT has an excellent piece on the background of
how the krater made its way to the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/nyregion/05met.html

There must be money in looting underwater sites ... check out
the equipment this trio from Spain had:

http://tinyurl.com/7a2qq (Canada.com)

Russia is returning a bunch of Calvinist stuff to Hungary, which
had been looted during WWII:

http://www.eni.ch/articles/display.shtml?06-0083
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NUMISMATICA
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An Oregon gold coin has fetched a handsome price at auction:

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=82759
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Bactrian Gold:

http://tinyurl.com/9zs6a (AFP via Yahoo)

Veronese's Allegories:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/arts/design/03voge.html

Fra Angelico:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/arts/design/05shattuck.html

Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0201/p18s04-hfes.html?s=hns

I'm sure everyone has heard about a clumsy visitor to the
Fitzwilliam/British Museum stumbling and smashing a couple of
Qing dynasty vases:

http://tinyurl.com/e2xqt (Telegraph)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1558216.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1698476,00.html

Cf. a piece on other 'museum accidents':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1698476,00.html

Nice coverage of an (upcoming) sale of antique glass:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/arts/design/03anti.html

The Smithsonian has selected a site for its National Museum of
African-American History and Culture:

http://nytimes.com/2006/01/31/arts/design/31museum.html
http://nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Black-History-Museum.html

... and they're also at the centre of a repatriation-of-bones
dispute:

http://tinyurl.com/cppav (KPO)

More coverage of the Getty reopening:

http://www.canyon-news.com/artman/publish/article_4068.php
http://tinyurl.com/cw24l (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/7e837 (LA Weekly)

... and a nice piece on the conservation team there:

http://tinyurl.com/cj9t2 (LA Times)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Hecuba:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-2-4/37677.html

Coronation of Poppaea:

http://tinyurl.com/8bo7l (Herald and Review)
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ON THE WEB
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Thesaurus Occitan:

http://195.221.140.202/
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OBITUARIES
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John Graham (Classicist ... scroll down):

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v52/n20/obit.html
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PODCASTS
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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Prehistoric remains from India (there seems to be some problems
with dating in this one):

http://tinyurl.com/77nfb (Webindia)

... and this one might be different (but with similar dating
problems?):

http://tinyurl.com/ads75 (Webindia)

25,000 b.p. petroglyphs from France:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11200085/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/france_cave_drawings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4686724.stm
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060206/D8FJBGRO0.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/06/world/main1284852.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1704958,00.html

cf recent research suggesting some petroglyphs were more akin to
'teenage graffiti':

http://www.livescience.com/history/060214_cave_art.html

... and another piece on similar matters:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2037531,00.html

Human behaviour was driven by their 'victim' status:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4729050.stm

... perhaps related to the way they walked (?):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/asu-eha021506.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Neolithic/Middle Elamite caves at Qasr-e Shirin:

http://www.pendar.net/en/main1.asp?a_id=446

Old and Middle Kingdom ship remains (anchors) from Ain Kukhna:

http://tinyurl.com/9jpx2 (SIS)

I'm sure everyone has seen the massive coverage of that tomb in
the Valley of the Kings, but just in case you didn't:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4700032.stm
http://www.memphis.edu/releases/feb06/kv10.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11252094/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=208422006
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1600143
http://tinyurl.com/8zurc (WPost)

... the coverage continued this week:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/02/11/1139542445498.html
http://tinyurl.com/e2uy8 (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/cenu8 (CNN)

... nice features on some of the archaeologists (different):

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=678817
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5518881p-4972036c.html
http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/02/12/1437957-sun.html

... and the New York Times recalled the opening of Tut's tomb:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0216.html

... speaking of Tut, we are now being told that he liked white
wine:

http://tinyurl.com/9aqnr (New Scientist)

Interesting (past) threat to the pyramid of Cheops:

http://tinyurl.com/895c5 (Makfax)

I think this tomb discovery is referring to something different:

http://tinyurl.com/7fz2d (Avvenire ... Italian)

A colossal head of Amenhotep III has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/9jykm (SIS)

Treating eye ailments in ancient Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/8b7v6 (OT)

Al-Ahram had a nice feature on those recently-found Egyptian
seafaring vessels:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/782/hr2.htm

6000 b.p. tombs near Kiryat Gat:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=680014

An ancient synagogue from Ramallah:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=98111

... followup:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=680102

They're arguing over recent finds at Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/7wpvx (JPost)

... and things that turned up when digging to create the
Museum of Tolerance:

http://tinyurl.com/9n9d9 (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/8qofm (Boston Herald)

A Phoenician port of some sort has been found at Trapani:

http://www.agenews.it/notizia.php?c=11&in=36839 (Italian)

Restoring Cyrus' tomb:

http://www.pendar.net/en/main1.asp?a_id=444

... and one of Cairo's old Islamic neighbourhoods:

http://tinyurl.com/9w34f (Daily Star)

Textiles from the Burnt City:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_12801.shtml

All about the book of Enoch:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/13797220.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Greek hiker found a Neolithic gold pendant:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11397205/
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10003836.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/7ekvn (ABC)
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=66556
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/16/D8FQGAKG1.html

A massive Macedonian tomb from Pella:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11327641/
http://tinyurl.com/arev5 (Reuters)
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/13856884.htm
http://tinyurl.com/7ez4k (Herald Sun)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/13/tech/main1307999.shtml
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=66287
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060214_tombfrm.htm

A huge wall in the foothills of Mt. Olympus:

http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10003883.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/7h5ld (ME Times)

Can't remember if we mentioned these fortifications from Crete
before:

http://tinyurl.com/73lvy (ME Times)

Some exciting finds from Hadrian's Villa:

http://tinyurl.com/8k3db (AP via Yahoo)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11236517/
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060206-024503-5049r
http://tinyurl.com/9cdch (Canada.com)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1591838

More (I think) coverage of that burial from the Roman forum:

http://tinyurl.com/8wl3v (NG)
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060208-062901-3571r

Britain is likely going to lose possession of a recently-found
Roman tombstone:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2031508,00.html

A hoard of germanic weaponry from the Czech Republic:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/75672

Roman ovens from Spain:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_2421.shtml

Digging Maxentius' palace:

http://tinyurl.com/9wvbc (RMN)

All about Boudicca's hubby:

http://tinyurl.com/a3q9f (EDP24)

More on the identification of Ithaka:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060214-024719-8382r

The ancient Thracians were master goldworkers:

http://tinyurl.com/9xwac (Dispatch)

Evidence of Greek surgery before Hippocrates:

http://www.archaeology.org/0603/abstracts/surgery.html

Learning history via Roman coins:

http://tinyurl.com/7fu92 (Capital Journal)

The Hollywood effect:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=567261

Somewhat conflicting reports on the state of sites on the
Palatine:

http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=1451
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1711767,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/8k9vr (ANSA)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article345946.ece

Some coverage of the Artemidorus Papyrus:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060206/papyrus_arc.html
http://tinyurl.com/9loqf (Repubblica ... Italian)

Another UK education minister suggests it isn't a bad thing if
students aren't studying Classics:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1711647,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/8v8yf

Possible scandal-in-the-making: the excavations at Pompeii are
being ever-underfunded:

http://www.casertanews.it/public/articoli/art_20060216064316.htm

Roman numerals basics:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/02052006/accent/86430.htm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Bronze Age mourners used flowers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4697748.stm

The poverty of Belfast in the 17th/18th century:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4695388.stm

Mysterious medieval wall painting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4683644.stm

They're still pondering road plans around Stonehenge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4694894.stm

... while discovery of a Bronze Age site won't hold up some
other road construction:

http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/news/story.asp?j=27001

... but finds are holding up work at a Yorkshire quarry:

http://tinyurl.com/9hylf (Leeds Today)

... and they're still arguing about Thornborough Henges:

http://tinyurl.com/7m64o

Surveying the Royal Mile:

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=200952006

More coverage of Henry VIII's chapel:

http://tinyurl.com/8xj8s (NG)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some Buddhas have been excavated near Chennai:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/12/stories/2006021200332000.htm

Still looking for Genghis Khan's tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/bclsf (WPost)

A controversial Australian rock art book:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1563141.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The latest on Kennewick Man:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/13803730.htm

1400 b.p. mocassin from a Canadian Glacier:

http://tinyurl.com/e4mpu (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/9lanx (CBC)

A survey in Cranberry Township (Pa) has turned up some native
artifacts:

http://tinyurl.com/9tgzn (WHP)
http://tinyurl.com/8fd7k

Some Catawba remains:

http://tinyurl.com/9xdgp (Lancaster News)

A feature on the Shakers:

http://tinyurl.com/88zwl (New Yorker)

It appears natives decimated bird populations too:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060213090658.htm

Plans for Cahokia Mounds:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13888403.htm

Mesa Verde conference:

http://tinyurl.com/75afq (Herald)

An interview with Henry Louis Gates about an upcoming PBS
miniseries:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5196745

Assorted items relating to Presidents' Day:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5203695

Combat trauma during the Civil War:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060206/ap_on_he_me/civil_war_stress

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about Range Creek
Canyon:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Using technology to find Maya ruins:

http://tinyurl.com/7fx63 (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/97n7h (Science Daily)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/518073/?sc=rssn

This Peru v. Yale thing definitely seems to have legs:

http://tinyurl.com/72nuy (Australian)

Brown has acquired a major Latin American book collection:

http://tinyurl.com/c9lop (Brown Herald)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The remains of Joan of Arc are the latest subject of DNA tests:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4711784.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11330320/

A followup to that story of the guy who broke the vase at the
Fitzwilliam:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1703206,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/89rsn (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4671450.stm

The 'Protestant Cemetery' in Rome needs some fixing up (as do
some of the anachronisms in the coverage):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/books/08ceme.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060213/lf_afp/afplifestyleitaly

Interesting slide show of the influence of Africa on Picasso:

http://tinyurl.com/99562 (BBC)

Nice feature on Rembrandt:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1707085,00.html

A 'lost' Robert Hooke manuscript has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4696484.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/arts/10arts.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1705687,00.html

cf:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4700714.stm

They're salvaging the Graf Spee:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11278181/

I'm somewhat surprised there haven't been more articles on the
Shroud of Turin (which will probably be renamed the Shroud of
Torino soon, no?) of late:

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/2334491.html

Questioning de Coubertain:

http://tinyurl.com/955hr (Sun)

The New Yorker had a feature on Mary Magdalene:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060213fa_fact2

They've shelved the 'Jesus Case':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060210/od_nm/religion_jesus_dc

Review of Ross King, *The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary
Decade that gave the World Impressionism*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/books/10book.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Toutankhamon Magazine (French magazine about Egypt):

http://toutankhamonmag.free.fr/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Italian police have recovered items from a number of periods from
a bust near Bari:

http://www.agenews.it/notizia.php?c=11&in=38100 (Italian)

Greek and Italian police are working together:

http://tinyurl.com/8bl3k (Kathimerini)

A pile of ancient coins were stolen from a Bulgarian Museum:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=58776
http://tinyurl.com/9hsub

... while a Bulgarian man was arrested for possession of
illicit antiquities:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=58875

Brian Rose lectures on antiquities theft:

http://tinyurl.com/ajybm (Daily Pennsylvanian)

In the Museum Case, the Met is returning the Euphronios Krater:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2026841,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/7fg5k (LA Times)

... related interview with Philippe de Montebello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/19wwln_q4.html

... and reaction from Cerveteri:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3652951.html

... and an interview with prosecutor Maurizio Fiorilli:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00189.htm

... another piece at the Getty is being brought up too
(third item):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/arts/09arts.html

Nice feature on the case in Archaeology:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/italytrial/

McGuile Gibson was talking about antiquities theft:

http://tinyurl.com/8l39m (Maroon)

Meanwhile, compensation is the answer in a Nazi loot case:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=163

... and Egypt is going after a mask in the St. Louis Art
Museum:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=176
http://tinyurl.com/bsyg7

Vandalism at Gettysburg:

http://tinyurl.com/8utp3 (UPI)

Controversy at the Ohio Historical Center:

http://tinyurl.com/7zney (Dispatch)
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NUMISMATICA
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Sale of an 1844 $10 gold piece:

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/2299436.html

Big bucks for an Anglo-Saxon gold coin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4692162.stm
http://tinyurl.com/7jcyo (Telegraph)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1705614,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1567054.htm

A 'lucky coin' from a medieval ship:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4686056.stm

Money in Georgia (semi-review):

http://eng.primenewsonline.com/?c=122&a=5865

Socalled Dollar Collectors:

http://www.socalleddollar.org/

New Orleans Mint:

http://www.drmweaver2.com/nomint/article_reprint.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh:

http://www.wrmea.com/archives/Jan_Feb_2006/0601056.html

Bactrian Gold:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=35016
http://tinyurl.com/b5p7n (Gulf Times)

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/13852506.htm

Holy Madness:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/arts/design/10rubi.html

More controversy for the Tut exhibition in Fort Lauderdale:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13844764.htm

Scottish museums are pondering the cessation of 'home loans':

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/55628.html

More troubles among the directors of the Getty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/arts/design/10gett.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3890947
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4700448.stm

Brouhaha over the sale of some Blake watercolours:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/arts/design/16blak.html

Vatican Museums are 500 years old (ninth item):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/arts/15arts.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Avalon:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/theater/reviews/07aval.html

All's Well that Ends Well:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/theater/reviews/14all.html

The Seven:

http://tinyurl.com/8d325 (NYT)
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ON THE WEB
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Scrolls from the Dead Sea:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Baby alien from the attic:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1703094,00.html
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PODCASTS
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Aren
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Rockstein, David Welsh, Francis Deblauwe, Hernan Astudillo,
Gene Barkley, Jay Marlles, John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Louis A. Okin, Mata Kimasitayo,Michael Oberndorf, Mark Morgan,
Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Susan Jaslow, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Apparent rapid migration of homo sapiens into Europe has
ramifications:

http://tinyurl.com/mqocc (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11503608/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/ap_on_sc/britain_neanderthals
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_2127935.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/jdov9 (Telegraph)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/23/news/migrate.php
http://tinyurl.com/qvuy8 (Seattle PI)

Our largest known female ancestor:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060225/fob3.asp
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=5102 (Portuguese)

On the evolution of blondes (are they serious?):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2058688,00.html

More on petroglyphs as 'ancient graffiti':

http://tinyurl.com/zptl3 (Independent)

This seems appropriate in this category ... backward evolution:

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/060221_unertanfrm.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Another one of those 'look what we found in storage' things (this
time an Egyptian piece in a UK museum):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4732236.stm

There's a dig diary for KV-63 ... that newly-discovered tomb in
the Valley of the Kings:

http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/index.htm

... and more press coverage of same:

http://tinyurl.com/nye8z (Beacon Journal)

Press releaseish thing from the Johns Hopkins dig in Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/k7pcx

Bronze and Iron Age remains from Jordan:

http://tinyurl.com/zdunc (ME Times)

Somewhat strange (and undated) report on the find of some Bar
Kokhba coins:

http://tinyurl.com/3ahcb (CNN/Netscape)

Tel es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project blog:

http://gath.wordpress.com/

Some fragments from the Gospel of Judas:

http://www.speroforum.com/blog/entry.asp?ENTRY_ID=615

More GoJ coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/q32q7 (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/quhtq (WP)

A pile of ancient manuscripts have been found in a Coptic
monastery:

http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/29/0529conn.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Egyptomania Blog:

http://www.karyben.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Nice coverage of the UNC Ancient World Mapping Center:

http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-703770.html

A Roman villa site has been found near Catania:

http://tinyurl.com/z5ck9 (ANSA)

Lots of coverage of a study of gladiator bones suggesting that
gladiators fought 'by the rules':

http://www.physorg.com/news11105.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11503539/
http://tinyurl.com/jeaot (Reuters)

They've found traces of the original colours of the Parthenon:

http://www.physorg.com/news11191.html
http://tinyurl.com/nlv9c (AFP via Yahoo)

An earthquake did some damage to Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=59616

Heidelberg University has returned its chunk of the Parthenon to
Greece:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=185

A strike by tutors at Oxford may affect some Classics students:

http://tinyurl.com/hojgk (OS)

More on the Lukeion Project:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/prweb350469.htm

More coverage of problems with sites on the Palatine:

http://tinyurl.com/pxkmt (ST)

Romans and gay marriage:

http://hnn.us/articles/21319.html

That trailer/short film by Francesco Vizzoli on Caligula is
coming to New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/arts/design/26yabl.html

Last week we mentioned a Roman 'tombstone' from Lancaster ...
here's a photo:

http://www.romanarmy.com/imb/imagebase-show.asp?ID=232

... and the story of same continues:

http://tinyurl.com/z3zeb (MT)

The pope is promoting Latin again:

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=42574

Review of Dorothy King,*The Elgin Marbles*:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/books_pfv.php?id=3261

Review of a couple of translations of Catullus:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Check.asp?idArticle=11907&r=txlwi

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Another Latin teacher enters the blogosphere:

http://promagistris.blogspot.com/

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Bronze Age burial mound from Wales with all sorts of interesting
connections:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART34334.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581211/posts

An 'ancient' refuge (not sure about the dates on this one):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4750366.stm

The Mary Rose folks have helped preserve a 2350 b.p. wooden
boat:

http://tinyurl.com/rvtub (Herald)

Finds from various periods from sites in St. Neots:

http://tinyurl.com/ktndb (St Ives Today)

Medieval site from the Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/ktlh9 (IWT)

Oldest Ottoman baths on Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=24513&archive=1

Digging 19th century Edinburgh:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=286442006

No quarrying near Thornborough Henges:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1715002,00.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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8000 b.p. 'fire drill' from China's Zhejiang province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/21/content_4208461.htm

Worship of the phoenix in China appears to be very old:

http://english.people.com.cn/200602/23/eng20060223_245386.html

The Chinese Pompeii:

http://english.people.com.cn/200602/21/eng20060221_244695.html

Remains of a Harappan city (!) have been found in Haryana:

http://tinyurl.com/j8mzt (Business Standard)

Interesting items from a Suyama tomb excavation(Japan):

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/culture/20060224TDY03002.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Did the first 'Americans' come from Europe?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11451616/
http://tinyurl.com/zeasq

... or did Asians follow the 'Kelp Highway'?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11451754/
http://tinyurl.com/ebcz9

... and were there just 70 of them?:

http://www.livescience.com/history/050525_america_settlers.html
http://tinyurl.com/kvqwj (the paper)

A very old 'muktuk' has been found in Alaska (no, I didn't know
what a muktuk was either):

http://tinyurl.com/n3xu8 (CBC)
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7467551p-7377824c.html

I can't remember if we mentioned this 1400 b.p. mocassin find
last week:

http://tinyurl.com/ob9g4 (AFP via Yahoo))

Kennewick Man was apparently purposely buried (i.e. not a
flood victim):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11532671/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060224/ap_on_sc/kennewick_man
http://tinyurl.com/z9rzo (ST)
http://tinyurl.com/oqaw4 (ABC)

... and they're wondering what he ate:

http://tinyurl.com/lfx2q (RMN)

Prehistoric Kansas:

http://tinyurl.com/h5co6 (Journal-World)

Trying to figure out how some Hopi pottery was made:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/local/022006_pots

Latest on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11512305/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/ap_on_sc/blackbeard_s_ship

A storm has revealed a bunch of stuff relating to the early
history of Louisbourg:

http://www.cbc.ca/ns/story/ns-louisbourg20060222.html

A 19th century shipwreck revealed by Hurricane Rita (or
maybe Katrina):

http://tinyurl.com/z8x42 (Register)
http://tinyurl.com/qsp4d

Excavating an African-American cemetery in Oakland:

http://tinyurl.com/rpdyu (WOT)

Review of Robert Wilson, *The Explorer King: Adventure, Science,
and the Great Diamond Hoax*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/books/22grim.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Excavating a 17th century Church site in Salvaterra (Brazil):

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=5094 (Portuguese)

Guatemala honours some U.S. archaeologists:

http://tinyurl.com/m66ty (NBC)

That Yale-Macchu Pichu thing just won't leave the news:

http://www.nbc5.com/money/6427758/detail.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Shakespeare's death mask?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/books/23shake.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4742716.stm

Interesting feature on the work of a forensic anthropologist:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/nyregion/21examiner.html

Has a 'new' Michelangelo been found?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/arts/24arts.html (fourth item)

Review of Matthew Stewart, *The Courtier and the Heretic:Leibniz,
Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/books/review/26schillinger.html

Review of Brian Fagan, *Writing Archaeology*:

http://archaeology.about.com/b/a/244901.htm?nl=1
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter (Winter 2006):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter06

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Lots of coverage of the Met's 'treaty' with Italy (sorry ...
that's what the photo accompanying the first NYT story seems to
be):

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/arts/design/22anti.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/arts/design/21anti.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/arts/design/20anti.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11476843/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4734670.stm
http://www.wkrn.com/node/5693
http://tinyurl.com/k5v62
http://tinyurl.com/e62ll (ANSA)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/20/features/metart.php
http://tinyurl.com/znkdm (Bloomberg)
http://www.recirca.com/artnews/476.shtml

We're also now getting the first 'ripple effects' of the Met's
deal with Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/arts/design/22muse.html
http://tinyurl.com/ecbha (Newsday)

... and Greece and Italy are teaming up for future pursuits:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article347371.ece

... and the Boston MFA is next on the list:

http://www.wlbz2.com/home/article.asp?id=31957

... and collectors are being painted as bad guys:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/arts/25muse.html
http://tinyurl.com/z8saw (Bloomberg)

Kathimerini has a big feature on antiquities theft issues
(check out the links in the sidebar too):

http://tinyurl.com/rnwgu

Meanwhile, that Egyptian funerary mask in St. Louis doesn't
seem to be getting much coverage outside of St Louis:

http://tinyurl.com/f8hdb (Post-Dispatch)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4746772.stm

The 'Modica Charter' is designed to protect mosaics from theft:

http://tinyurl.com/lb7wp (AGI)

Piles of stuff are still missing from Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/esxca (Azzaman)

... although Spanish police found some (apparently) this week:

http://tinyurl.com/mtsqn (Australian)

Art theft in Rio:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4749756.stm
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NUMISMATICA
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Technically a crime story (it appears) but seems more appropriate
here ... a scandal in Ohio involving political fundraising and
investment in rare coins (or something like that; I don't quite
follow it):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060213/ap_on_re_us/ohio_scandal
http://tinyurl.com/knbnj (Blade)

Ancient coins at Bryn Mawr:

http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2006-02-23/coins.shtml
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Goya's Last Works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/arts/design/24goya.html

Degas, Sickert, and Toulouse-Lautrec:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/arts/design/24sick.html

Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/arts/design/24anti.html

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=226828
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/13958681.htm
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/13935099.htm

Chimu: Imperial Riches From the Desert of Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/qluf4 (JPost)


Heroes and Athletes:

http://tinyurl.com/kfw5o (La Stampa)

The Thinking Muse:

http://tinyurl.com/emg93 (ANSA)

Janiculum Marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/zt2vg (WIR)

Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption:

http://tinyurl.com/gcu33

Virginia City Saloons:

http://tinyurl.com/pcwah

The Met is also the subject of another, less publicized, attempt
to relieve it of an object it acquired at auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4737618.stm

The Pergamon Museum (Berlin) is getting some much-needed cash:

http://tinyurl.com/lpy2f

They're still writing about the renovated Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/kcsme (New Yorker)
http://tinyurl.com/kwrrm (WP)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/jgjwa (SBT)

The Seven:

http://tinyurl.com/j2xhq (Vibe)
http://www.villagevoice.com/theater/0608,feingold,72270,11.html
http://tinyurl.com/jf42o (NYT)

Medea:

http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=72515§ion=localnews

Odyssey:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/95ea62e2-a437-11da-897c-0000779e2340.html

La Calisto:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/13962508.htm

Fanny Hill:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/theater/reviews/22fann.html

Greece: Secrets of the Past (IMAX):

http://tinyurl.com/ewh8p
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology:

http://www.kl.oakland.edu/kraemer/edcm/

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names:

http://tinyurl.com/2fxco
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OBITUARIES
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Henry Michael (archaeologist/dendrochronologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/national/25michael.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
So ... were you one of the (apparently many) taken in by the
'ancient recording' hoax?:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002875.html
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PODCASTS
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Francis Deblauwe, Hernan Astudillo,
Gene Barkley, Jason McLaren, John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Louis A. Okin, Michael Oberndorf, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Susan Jaslow, Tim
Parkin, 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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EARLY HUMANS
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Pondering increasing human brain size:

http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/mar/evolution030206.html

Can't remember if we had this 'origin of blondes' story last
week:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2058688,00.html

... if you read to the end of that one, you'll have to read this
too:

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/statement05/en/

More on 'man the hunted':

http://www.physorg.com/news11253.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
In case you were wondering about the Axum obelisk:

http://tinyurl.com/n4fnf (IOL)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a Pharaonic Sun Temple
and some statues of Ramses II (maybe) beneath a market in Cairo:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11588559/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060226/ap_on_sc/egypt_sun_temple
http://tinyurl.com/qqeb3 (Sun)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26135729.htm
http://tinyurl.com/r6jmm (WP)
http://tinyurl.com/ndc2u (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/r2c34 (NG)
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/27/D8G1GT980.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/02/27/sun.temple.ap/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/nevok (Reuters)

A Phoenician temple from Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/qbrtj (ANSA)

More coverage of the excavation of those Egyptian sea-going
ships:

http://www.physorg.com/news11247.html
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060227_shipfrm.htm

More coverage of the finds in the Valley of the Kings:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5201034

More coverage of Egypt's desire to get that mask back from the
St. Louis Art Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/gx4m6 (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/f8hdb (STL Today)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Interesting study in the works on the 'true value' of Roman
coins:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/uol-ate030306.php
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060303-065440-4795r
http://www.physorg.com/news11419.html

A Phoenician temple from Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/qbrtj (ANSA)

A colony of Argillos on Andros:

http://tinyurl.com/pba4u (Kathimerini)

Is there a Roman palace under some war time bunkers in York?:

http://tinyurl.com/kacnf (YP)

A pile of ancient theatres are being excavated in Anatolia:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=37208

Tom Palaima takes on the spending on athletic programs:

http://tinyurl.com/ld8zk (Statesman)

Review of Mary Beard and John Henderson, *Classics: A Very Short
Introduction* (plus a book on Plato's Symposium):

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1721945,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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10 000 b.p. burials from Poland:

http://tinyurl.com/npf89 (M&C)

Ancient Finnish costumes (pdf):

http://tinyurl.com/lbte5

All about Scotland's brochs:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=282072006

A 14th-century shipwreck from Stockholm:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11655994/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060304/ap_on_sc/sweden_old_shipwreck

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 3000 b.p. 'cliff painting' from China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/26/content_4229522.htm
http://tinyurl.com/mckpy (News24)

A Qing dynasty female 'mummy' from China's Chongqing district:

http://english.people.com.cn/200603/05/eng20060305_248051.html

1500 b.p. mural paintings from Shaanxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/03/content_4254465.htm

More coverage of 'China's Pompeii' in Henan province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200603/03/eng20060303_247685.html

Quite a bit of coverage this week of the discovery of Tambora,
'the Pompeii of the east':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/science/28volc.htm (JNW)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Lost-Civilization.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11594274/
http://tinyurl.com/pmylb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4748902.stm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/518244/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/28/content_4239135.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0302/p14s03-sten.html
http://tinyurl.com/pble9 (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://tinyurl.com/jn2bp (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/pxxpu (CBC)

Some Hawaiian remains have been re-interred:

http://starbulletin.com/2006/03/01/news/story10.html

... while some Silk Road relics will be preserved:

http://tinyurl.com/rygem (China Daily)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some archaeological activities from northern Alberta:

http://www.lakesideleader.com/newsroom/volume35/060301/story8.html

A paleo-point from Pennsylvania:

http://tinyurl.com/ef2kt (Public Opinion)

Development and archaeology apparently don't get along well in
Georgia:

http://tinyurl.com/q89bq (Red and Black)

An 8000 b.p. 'milling' site from California:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11653573/
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/14007712.htm
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_3568089

Native Americans apparently 'decimated' bird populations:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060213090658.htm
http://tinyurl.com/nrox6 (Pioneer Press)

Continuing coverage of the excavation of that Calusa site in
Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/qu5h2 (News Press)

Honey Bee Village (a Hohokam site) will be preserved:

http://tinyurl.com/llfpu (Explorer)

Excavating a Civil War prison camp (for quite a long time):

http://tinyurl.com/h5eeu (Dispatch)

Good update on the excavation of that whaling ship found in
San Francisco's financial district:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5240154

... while they're still wondering what to do with some
wrecks in the Hudson:

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=454863

Meanwhile, subway construction in New York has run into
ANOTHER wall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/nyregion/01wall.html

Seems that ship uncovered by hurricanes in Alabama isn't going
to be excavated after all:

http://tinyurl.com/jjmc8 (Register)

More coverage of what Kennewick Man ate:

http://tinyurl.com/lfx2q (RMN)

A 'geoglyph'?:

http://www.vvdailypress.com/2006/114105665131652.html

Review of Mark Kurlansky, *The Big Oyster: History on the
Half Shell*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/books/review/05royte.html

Review of Michael Kazin, *A Godly Hero: The Life and Times of
William Jennings Bryan*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/books/review/05lingeman.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Corn was being cultivated in the Andes in Peru much earlier than
previously thought:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11621955/

Peru is now officially suing Yale over those artifacts from
Macchu Pichu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4770002.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/arts/03Arts.html (4th item)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Not sure where to categorize this one, but if you want a preview
of the language that's going to be used in Mel Gibson's
*Apocalypto*, he'll apparently be speaking it at the Oscars:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060304/ap_en_mo/people_gibson_3
http://tinyurl.com/z58mr (ABC)
http://www.heraldsun.com/features/wire/29-708748.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4775256.stm

On depictions of Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/arts/design/04shak.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060227/shakespeare_his.html

Did the plague trigger the 'Little Ice Age'?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4755328.stm

Gospel of Judas coverage/hype:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11655998/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_sc/gospel_of_judas

Is this Copernicus' head?:

http://tinyurl.com/p5gao (WPost)

Remember the Nebra Sky Disk? I believe this is the first (or
maybe second) claim to have 'deciphered' it:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1915398,00.html

The Kyoto Digital Archive project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/arts/04shri.html

A somewhat strange essay suggesting there is a 'truce' between
science and religion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/science/28essa.html

Interesting feature on T.E. Lawrence:

http://tinyurl.com/qougg (JPost)

There seems to be an incipient campaign to have the Altar of
Pergamum returned to Turkey:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=36897
http://www.thenewanatolian.com/opinion-1969.html

... while we get more 'who owns the past' pieces (different):

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/14024323.htm
http://tinyurl.com/pznkq (WTimes)

Recreating an ancient whiskey recipe:

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2006/02/28/whisky-triple060228
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1718206,00.html

Previewing the Archaeology Channel's film festival:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of a book on aerial photography of sites:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/travel/0,,1722895,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Brief item on the discovery of stolen antiquities in a Jerusalem
store:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=99226

More coverage (with photos) of the recovery of some stolen Iraqi
artifacts in Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/mgpv2 (ME Times)

blog (better) coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/lzgj6

The Princeton Art Museum seems to be the next subject of Italian
pressure:

http://tinyurl.com/qj7ee (Times)

... perhaps a bit of fallout from all this as well: Cyprus is
trying to keep its antiquities:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=24654&cat_id=1

Interesting interview with an erstwhile art forger:

http://tinyurl.com/jvp23 (NYT)

Nice feature on the Art Loss Register:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0301/p17s01-alar.html?s=hns

Another feature/interview with Matthew Bogdanos:

http://tinyurl.com/qhs9w (Inquirer)

In case you're following (or want to follow) the DaVinci Code
plagiarism trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/arts/28code.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4754308.stm
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NUMISMATICA
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Analysis of Roman Silver Coins: Augustus to Nero:

http://tinyurl.com/rr5lw (AHDS)

Coins of Venice:

http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/arts/design/27goth.html

Mr. Whatman's Mill: Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in
Eighteenth-Century Britain:

http://ycba.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition_current.asp#cur_2

Globalization in Ancient Costa Rican Arts:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Evox/0506/0306/hood.html

Excavating Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/ndsoo
http://tinyurl.com/lgtug

National Slavery Museum:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11608337/

National Museum of Women in the Arts:

http://tinyurl.com/p4nuu
http://tinyurl.com/r5jsy (CBS)

More coverage of the dispute associated with the Museum of
Tolerance:

http://tinyurl.com/qytox (Architectural Record)
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=28588
cf.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=688634
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=12127

Good interview with the Met's Philippe de Montebello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/arts/28mont.html

... and another:

http://tinyurl.com/qlgls (PBS)

A Regency auction in London next week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/arts/design/03Anti.html

Juilliard has been given a major collection of music
manuscripts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/arts/music/01gift.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4761774.stm

The AIA has come out with a major statement/series of documents
calling for responsible museum acquisition policies:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10344
http://tinyurl.com/koh9a (Plain Dealer)

... while the Antiques Roadshow ponders similar questions:

http://tinyurl.com/m5q2p (PBS)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Beowulf(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/arts/02linc.html

El Quijote:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/theater/reviews/02espa.html

The History of Cardenio:

http://tinyurl.com/zka5r (NYT)

Jordi Savall (Viola da Gamba):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/arts/music/04jord.html
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ON THE WEB
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Online Medieval and Classical Library:

http://omacl.org/
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OBITUARIES
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Machteld Mellink (Near Eastern Archaeologist):

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/obituaries/14004095.htm

Hayim Tadmor (Assyriologist)

http://www.aajr.org/obituaries.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article348000.ece
(partial)

Arnold Rogow (historical writer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/nyregion/02rogow.html

The NYT reprised Howard Carter's obit this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0509.html

... and Susan B. Anthony's:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0215.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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