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... another done-in-the-fog-of-an-allergy-attack issue ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Another DNA thing from a Neanderthal gives evidence on when
humans and Neanderthals 'diverged':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15732243/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1949475,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6146908.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p01s02-usgn.html?s=hns

Interesting implications from a child(ren) burial from Upper
Paleolithic times:

http://tinyurl.com/yj6u79 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/y8adjl (SciAm)

Review of Gregory Curtis,*The Cave Painters*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1114/p16s01-bogn.html?s=hns
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The tenth season of excavations at the Burnt City is under way:

http://www.irna.com/en/news/view/line-16/0611165400171914.htm

Another dam ... more ancient sites threatened, this time in
Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1161.html

Jiroft rock tombs:

http://tinyurl.com/w9jeu (Iran News)

A feature on the finds from Tel Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=789534

... and one on the Bronze Age burials at Bayit Vagan:

http://tinyurl.com/ykfcm2 (JPost)

Another piece on finds from Temple Mount rubble:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15770197/from/RS.3/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_sc/israel_temple_trove_2
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Israel_Temple_Trove.html
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/59106.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/y5zml5 (IHT)

More on Qumran latrines:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15689591/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uonc-rlr110306.php
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1984457.ece
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003425387_scrolls14.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-5.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14find.html (JNW ... this has
the headline that I thought was 'obvious')

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A talk on the ancient religion of Malta [not quite sure where
to classify this one]:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=42143

Plenty of coverage of the find of a Roman shipwreck laden with
garum:

http://tinyurl.com/y52ygf (LA Times)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1790706.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y8fe2w (CNN)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6146592.stm
http://tinyurl.com/svnk2 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/y7velu (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/14/world/main2180091.shtml
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/134941,CST-NWS-spain14.article
http://tinyurl.com/yx3v5x (WPost)

... and some on a major Roman coin horde from the Netherlands:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15705411/
http://tinyurl.com/yazblb (IHT)

A Roman tombstone/inscription is staying in Lancaster:

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=336281&sid=FTP

First review I've seen of Anthony Everitt, *Augustus*:

http://tinyurl.com/yez8dz (Post Dispatch)

Review of Cartledge, *Thermopylae*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article1996765.ece

More reviews of Fagles Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/tpggz (Boston Globe)
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/16/arts/16612.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/y6v94l (LA Times)

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Stonehenge as a 'Lourdes of the ancient world':

http://tinyurl.com/yx85ag (AlphaGalileo)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1996338.ece
http://www.physorg.com/news82898170.html

Digging for Spain's hidden Jewish heritage:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/05/news/spain.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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A sort of 'state of the excavation' piece on work at Chang'an:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/19/eng20061119_323087.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

Road construction in Hanoi has revealed an 800 b.p. altar:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=22198

Britain's Natural History Museum is returning some human remains
to Tasmania:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15765362/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6157572.stm
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NORTH AMERICA
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North America's "Stonehenge":

http://tinyurl.com/ybv9tn (Seacoast Online)

The search for Tuscarora artifacts in Wilson County:

http://www.wilsondaily.com/Wil_region/Local_News/287500020505005.php

Female burials from pre-Hispanic New Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061112094745.htm

An antebellum southern tannery:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15996678.htm

Protecting an 'ancient oak':

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/16043180.htm

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Manacan people's
attempts to reclaim their heritage:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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This one will get a lot of attention, I bet ... remains from
an Aztec site at Tecuaque show signs of ritual cannibalism:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14485960/

That recently-discovered stone monolith in the heart of Mexico
might be a big 'tombstone':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_sc/mexico_aztec_tomb_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_sc/mexico_dig_2
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=167769
http://tinyurl.com/ymcouf (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15757468/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1703602006
http://tinyurl.com/v6mlo (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/y4xkjs (LA Times)

The pre-Columbian site of Chan Chan (Peru) is the latest to be
threatened by the forces of nature:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/2744
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Well, if nothing else, Tom Cruise's impending nuptials have
brought some attention to Odescalchi Castle, which has an
interesting history:

http://tinyurl.com/yes7wm (AP via Yahoo)

Interesting piece on our penchant (or at least academe's) for
"literary gossip":

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2454013,00.html

First it was Greek hair dye, now it's Damascus steel which is
said to have benefitted unbeknownstedly from nanotechnology:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymokod (Telegraph)

On climate change, the rise of civilizations and human migration:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785941.htm

Some hitherto unknown/missing Fra Angelicos have been found and
will be coming to auction (of course):

http://tinyurl.com/yejkzx (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15713482/

Kluge prize recipients:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/books/15klug.html

On the anniversary of the stock ticker:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6490325

On the history of the periodic table:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoc--ucp111706.php

Assorted arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/13/arts/13arts.html

This one on digital imaging techniques being used on 700 year
old Sanskrt manuscripts is making the rounds again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6149702.stm

Life Sciences techniques meet Art Conservation:

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/36518/

The hype officially begins for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto:

http://prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb480167.htm

Chocolate as an ancient treatment for hypchondria (works for
me!):

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785948.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Greece:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p18s02-hfes.html?s=hns

Istanbul:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/news/tristan.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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Customs officials in Pakistan prevented a major antiquities
smuggling attempt:

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/19/top10.htm
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NUMISMATICA
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Interesting article on Alexander coinage from Ptolemy:

http://tinyurl.com/y3g64a (Saudi Aramco World)

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/yz9a4u (Blade)

Amarna:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15720389/

History of early Judaism and Christianity:

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Museum_of_Art_Fort_Lauderdale.html

The Met's refusing to show a (rather recent) painting which is
the subject of an ownership dispute:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/arts/design/15gros.html
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OBITUARIES
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S. Lane Faison (art historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/obituaries/14faison.html

Technically not an obituary, but an announcement of the death of
Yizhar Hirschfeld from Jim West's blog:

http://tinyurl.com/ydsu6q
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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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Hi,

I don't think I can get an issue out this weekend ... Real life has intruded
in a big way and I have a pile of stuff to get caught up on. Explorator will
return next week. Apologies.

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Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
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A 70 000 b.p. religious artifact/evidence of ritual:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061130081347.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yz4ys4 (Digital Journal)
http://tinyurl.com/ygxpxe (Canada.com)
http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/python_english
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061130_python.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ycsbnd (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15970442/
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AFRICA
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Nice feature on petroglyphs in South Africa:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061122/lf_nm/safrica_rock_dc_1

On the treasures of Timbuktu:

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.org/issues/2006/december/timbuktu.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Did the Egyptians use concrete when building the pyramids? (didn't
someone else suggest this a while back?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/science/30cnd-pyramid.html
http://tinyurl.com/vbwom (KC Star)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2480751,00.html

Relocating an Egyptian village to protect tombs:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/061203/43/69y2c.html
http://tinyurl.com/yyey34 (WPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6202342.stm

They're talking (again) about sending a little robot up a shaft
of the Great Pyramid:

http://tinyurl.com/ym69tl (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20852379-1702,00.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/01/eng20061201_327276.html
http://tinyurl.com/yka2vo (IOL)

Not sure why, but the Tut-died-from-a-broken-leg story is making
the rounds again:

http://tinyurl.com/ydno8j (Seattle Times)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10412891
http://in.news.yahoo.com/061128/139/69siu.html

Brief item on a pharaonic cemetery near Luxor (but it doesn't really
sound like a cemetery):

http://tinyurl.com/wr78u (SIS)

A sort of overviewish thing on what has been found at Tel Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=789534

Italian troops working on a road in Lebanon came across some
artifacts:

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

A pile of sites from Anatolia:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=59897

On peaches at Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/794492.html

More on Qumran latrines:

http://tinyurl.com/yaeqbq (Sun)

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about mummy preparation:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

On the web: The Open Scrolls Project:

http://www.openscrolls.org/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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There might be some sort of record set here ... an amazing mass
of coverage over 'solving' what the Antikythera mechanism was
used for:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061127/full/444534a.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymkkjm (NG)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6191462.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/science/30computecnd.html (JNW)
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061202/fob6.asp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061129151439.htm
http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=4640
http://tinyurl.com/y9x8u8 (CNN
http://www.sys-con.com/read/307495.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061129/sc_afp/sciencehistory_061129202046
http://tinyurl.com/yylnwa (NPR)
http://tinyurl.com/y255xr (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/cu-moa112806.php
http://www.physorg.com/news84029305.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymkobq (SciAm)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15953550/site/3000001/

... all AP versions:
http://tinyurl.com/tude2 (AP via AOL)
http://www.unison.ie/stories.php3?ca=27&si=1732604
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650211968,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15984363/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_sc/greece_ancient_computer_5

... satis superque, I think.

There was a pile of Archimedes Palimpsest coverage too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/arts/27greek.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/29/features/greektext.php

A 1600 b.p. Roman sarcophagus from London:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6196972.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y92ake (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/y6wxpo (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yyx2b9 (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/wgjvm (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233659,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1781972006

And, of course, there was that She-Wolf story:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/11/22/shewolf_arc.html

Interesting curse tablet from Leicester:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061130081359.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uol-uol112806.php
http://tinyurl.com/yfxuph (LA Times)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006550819,00.html

A Roman necropolis near Latakia:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061128-111943-6710r

Excavating Kenchreai:

http://www.themacweekly.com/articles/20061119/news/10898

Evidence of Amathus' Ptolemaic past:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=29260&cat_id=1

Norwegians in the Legions?:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6838

Harry Mount's making the rounds talking about Amo, Amas, Amat and
all that:

http://tinyurl.com/yao8hs (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/vmh8q (Daily Mail)

Why seminarians need Latin:

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1106-gallagher

Robert Harris was drawing parallels between Rome and the USA:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6523758

A display of recently-found items from Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/y2utl5 (AFP via Yahoo)

Latin in the Bronx:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/education/29education.html

On the web: nice NOVA item on some Hellenistic papyri (featuring
Robert Macfarlane):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3318/04.html

Another Aeneid-reading athlete:

http://tinyurl.com/yfcatl (Courier Journal)

More on that garum shipwreck:

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1124shipwreck1124.html
http://tinyurl.com/yebjzp (NG)

More on Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/yzzax9 (Herald Tribune)

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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More coverage of Stonehenge as an ancient Lourdes:

http://tinyurl.com/yzrmqa (Telegraph)
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/11/29/10085841.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1961314,00.html

Claims of the earliest evidence of Christianity in the UK from
a burial (that can't be right, can it?) from 1400 years ago:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2029264.ece

Vandal burial in Slovakia:

http://mujweb.atlas.cz/veda/archaeology/Tatry_find.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yzamx5 (Slovak (?), with photos)
http://www.sme.sk/c/2994753/germansky-tutanchamon-pod-tatrami.html
(ditto)

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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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Housing development on Long Island ... ca 1000 b.p. skull found:

http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_335113810.html
http://tinyurl.com/y7sln8 (CTV)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_sc/indian_skull_1

An interesting article on Desert Archaic Indians:

http://www.desertusa.com/ind1/ind_new/ind3.html

Nice item on some burials from Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/ydu3tc (RedOrbit)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061122/ap_on_sc/jamestown_remains_3
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/20/jamestown.remains.ap/index.html

Excavating Fort Selkirk:

http://www.whitehorsestar.com/auth.php?r=45074
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 'trove' of pre-incan tombs from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/yxebqk (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/ybade7 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ydvv2a (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/yh2de9 (IHT)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6172530.stm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An avalanche on Mount Etna some 8000 years b.p. appears to
have triggered a massive tsunami:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061128083754.htm
http://www.sys-con.com/read/307495.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/01/content_5419215.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15971504/
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061128-113115-5955r

And also on the natural disaster front ... an 18th century Icelandic
volcano eruption has been linked to famine in Egypt:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061121232204.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10649&feedId=online-news_rss20

One of the alchemists' secrets appears to have been cracked:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/ucl-2ct112006.php

Putting a face on Jack the Ripper:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15826443/

A history of poisoning:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6569885

Interesting reviewish thing about Descartes:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/061120crbo_books

A 15th century drawing of Stonehenge:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1957926,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ephesus:

http://tinyurl.com/y9oe9v (CNN)

Buddhist Monasteries in S. Korea:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/travel/26journeys.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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Looting sites in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/yf9hty (Star Tribune)

On illegal artifacts and funding terrorism:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2007472.ece
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20061123-123211-8809r.htm

Greece is now going after Marion True too:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061121/en_nm/greece_antiquities_getty_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/ycgghq (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ynz7hm (Reuters)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1725812006

... I think this is related to the above:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=24270&c=90
http://tinyurl.com/ygoud4 (IHT)

... as might be this follow up to that Schinoussa story from a
while back:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2468627,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yc5zf5 (Kathimerini)

Trying to beat the illegal diggers to artifacts in Lorestan:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6840

Big bust in Bulgaria:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/23/eng20061123_324298.html

Tomb robbing in Israel and Palestine:

http://tinyurl.com/ymv5zb (Chronicle)

Another guy stealing valuable books from libraries and selling
them:

http://tinyurl.com/ydt3y9 (UPI)

Suzan Mazur had a very interesting interview with the author of
the Medici Conspiracy:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00363.htm

Some guy was arrested for trying to sell a lock of Ramses II's
hair:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6195646.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15959040/

... and I couldn't resist including this one ... Lara Croft is
in trouble:

http://tinyurl.com/yevpa7 (Forbes)

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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Afghanistan: Rediscovered Treasures:

http://tinyurl.com/uzcgc (AFP via Yahoo)

Daily Magic in Ancient Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18373

Whiney coverage of that Sassanid exhibition at the Louvre:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/01/opinion/melik2.php

Strange series of events in the Getty-Italy thing these past couple
of weeks ... first, the Getty said it would return 26 artifacts:

http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=71078
http://tinyurl.com/ycl5op (AP via Yahoo)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ak92lRHyi.Oo
http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=24275&c=90

... then there was some sort of impasse because of some of the
items (or maybe early journalistic spin made this into something
more dramatic?):

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/22/news/getty.php
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/27/eng20061127_325510.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymf6wc (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ylkd7q (Globe)
http://www.nysun.com/article/44053
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1739902006
http://tinyurl.com/yjvmrk (Bloomberg)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2007486.ece

... which moved Michael Brand to write an op-ed piece:

http://tinyurl.com/ynhpg6 (Peninsula Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ybh4bc (LA Times)

What the Boston MFA got for its returns to Italy:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18347
http://tinyurl.com/yfnoxp (IHT)

Another report on Berlin's Museum Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/arts/design/27bode.html

A pile of items from a shipwreck near Java will be coming to
auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6162804.stm
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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A topical piece from the Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55531
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EARLY HUMANS
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"Little Foot" has been taken out of the human family tree:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uol-aar120706.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061207161021.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061207/sc_afp/sciencepaleontology

Did Neanderthal women hunt side-by-side with the men?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/05nean.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uocp-gdo120406.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061207-sex-humans.html

... then again, they might have been cannibals:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16043669/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6209554.stm

More coverage of that prehistoric baby burial:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16097378/
http://www.livescience.com/history/061207_ancient_burial.html
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AFRICA
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More coverage of that early ritual site in Botswana:

http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061203-054535-3136r
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061204-084824-3752r
http://tinyurl.com/yfuaxw (UPI)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a tomb of a sixth dynasty
doctor:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1809452006
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061205/2/11o7p.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16065823/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061205/sc_nm/egypt_mummy_dc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061207/ap_on_sc/egypt_mummy_3
http://tinyurl.com/yev3fo (Reuters via Topix)
http://www.livescience.com/history/061206_ap_doctor_mummy.html
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/16180088.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ylltsk (JPost)
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005782223
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-12-06-voa63.cfm
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4383506.html (why bizarre?)

More coverage of the moving of folks from Luxor for archaeological
protection purposes:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16032006/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/03/news/luxor.php

Potsherds from Rabat Tepe:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6856

More coverage of the theory that concrete was used in the construction
of the pyramids:

http://tinyurl.com/yzwhxk
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061209122918.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2480751,00.html

... and Tut's death:

http://tinyurl.com/ycmmcj (Globe)

Sacrificial altars from Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1005&p=lastpage&a=1

Remains of a Christian-Jewish settlement at Mishmar David:

http://tinyurl.com/ylmn6f (JPost)

An early church which called itself Shiloh:

http://tinyurl.com/yxks9u (Telegraph)

And now we get the first 'revisions' to the Gospel of Judas:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/04/judas-scholars.html

Berkeley has cancelled its Israel program:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_4768112

How the press covers the Biblical Archaeological Society meeting:

http://tinyurl.com/ycbkhr (Washington City Paper)

Review of a couple of books on Islamic archaeology:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=798428

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Just as the last Explorator was going out, the trickle of articles
about the discovery of Maxentius' insignia started:

http://tinyurl.com/yj49wn (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yaug8n (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ybcp8v (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6255899,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16031991/
http://tinyurl.com/y9pxrq (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/yaos2n (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/ybxguu (Seattle PI)

Plenty of coverage of Vatican claims of having discovered the
tomb of St. Paul:

http://tinyurl.com/ygrvqj (SMH)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/478358p-402428c.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-12-06-paul_x.htm?csp=34
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6219656.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6262052,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16083789/
http://tinyurl.com/ybmgsa (IHT)
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/08/paul-tomb.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061207/ap_on_sc/vatican_st_paul_s_tomb_3

What some Classics majors at Holy Cross are doing:

http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/features/2006-2007/homer

Not sure why this showed up at a Physics Journal site:

http://www.physorg.com/news84727530.html

Nice article on the UHelsinki's efforts at Pompeii:

http://www.helsinki.fi/uh/4-2006/juttu3.shtml

Danielle Allen is now on the Pulitzer Prize board:

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=5783145

... and what Richard P. Saller is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/yd3l4e (Stanford Report)

OpEd piece comparing Bush and Xenophon:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061203-073918-9377r

More coverage of the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://tinyurl.com/ylm68u (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/yfx7yw (Sentinel)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2697384&page=1
http://tinyurl.com/ybsamg (SciAm)

... plus some nice images:

http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Greek-Archae-Astr-Antikythera.htm

... and a really nice one:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061205.html

More coverage of that curse tablet from Leicester:

http://tinyurl.com/vdrqn (NG)

... and that sarcophagus from London:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/4373917.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2692121
http://tinyurl.com/ydvkh6 (IOL)

Review of Everitt's *Augustus*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20061209-102724-5205r.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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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One from a month ago which escaped my notice ... the discovery
of a possible third Jellinge stone in Denmark:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/98868.html
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/98753.html

Prehistoric bones from a beach in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1795822006

Hyping the solstice at Newgrange:

http://tinyurl.com/yhvluk (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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Another dam, another article on the archaeological sites to be
inundated (in Pakistan, this time):

http://in.news.yahoo.com/061206/139/6a28a.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=62656

Plans are afoot to do 'something' with India's 'Pompeii':

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1863691,0008.htm

Not really 'news', but a nice feature on the discovery of the
'Wanli':

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=234160

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Review of Gabor Boritt, *The Gettysburg Gospel*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/books/04masl.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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With all the reviews of Apocalypto (see below), National
Geographic has a feature on 'what it was really like':

http://tinyurl.com/yjgnvu
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More coverage of that ancient Mediterranean tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/yhwx6w (NG)

Some newly-restored medieval frescoes are now on view again:

http://tinyurl.com/yeup6c (CBC)

Here's a new (to me) suggestion for the 'real' date of Jesus'
birth:

http://tinyurl.com/yat9pe (Tribune)

On James II and water scooters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/nyregion/09patent.html

'Digging' an archaeology class:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/16101569.htm

Interesting letter found from the father of the Brontes:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2485237,00.html

Review of John Hailman, *Thomas Jefferson on Wine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/McInerney.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Villa Torlonia:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/03/sunday/main2223572.shtml
================================================================
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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Idol recovery in Delhi:

http://tinyurl.com/yjsw9v
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NUMISMATICA
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On the web - the Forgery Network:

http://www.forgerynetwork.com/

On the web - Numismatic Search Engine:

http://www.coinbooks.org/search/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Rediscovered Treasures of Afghanistan:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16127616/site/newsweek/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/05/news/guimet.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6215002.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y7lss3 (Telegraph)

Athens-Sparta:

http://tinyurl.com/ylbbvd (USA Today)
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18412
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061205/ap_on_re_us/greek_artifacts_2
http://tinyurl.com/ye5zvj (Topix)
http://www.newsone.ca/hinesbergjournal/ViewArticle.aspx?id=32240&source=2

In the Beginning:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/08/opinion/melik9.php

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/ygabms

Brief item on the opening of an exhibition of finds by Goddio:

http://tinyurl.com/yfyxcr (AFP via Yahoo)

Some original Thomas Edison light bulbs are coming to auction:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16073153/

On the restoration of the Yale Museum of Art:

http://tinyurl.com/yk3h87 (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/yllj9h (NYT)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Reviews of Apocalypto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/movies/05apoc.html
http://tinyurl.com/y3ab8n (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yhblrb (Globe)

... of course, Mayan groups don't like it:

http://tinyurl.com/ygt59s (CBC)
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/1207/gibsonm.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6216414.stm
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OBITUARIES
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Robert Volpe (Art Theft expert):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/nyregion/05volpe.html

Robert Rosenblum (art historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/arts/design/09rose.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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon,
David J. Critchley, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli,
John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, Ron Thompson, Ross W. Sargent, Rick Pettigrew,
Bob Heuman, 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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Humans apparently migrated out of Africa ... then some returned:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_332906.html
http://tinyurl.com/y6n5mb (NG)

Rescanning a Neanderthal jawbone:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/6171325.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 4800 b.p. artificial eyeball:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6857

On the ethnic diversity of ancient Egypt:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/16194424.htm

A connection has been made between artifacts from Ur and the
Burnt City:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=421712
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1161.html

A stone slab is believe to be the gateway to Cambyses' tomb:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1150.html

Another cuneiform inscription from Rabat Tepe:

http://tinyurl.com/yye64a (Iranmania)

35 "ancient aqueducts" have been found on Iran's Khark Island:

http://tinyurl.com/ururz (Iranmania)

... some Palmyrene tombs have been found there too:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6872

Excavations at Hegmataneh are 'proving' a legend (I have
never heard of) about Alexander the Great:

http://tinyurl.com/yc5aau (Iran News)

Blasting operations have damaged a Sassanid fort:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6870

Brief item on the discovery of an ancient bathing building in
Turkey:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/13/eng20061213_332124.html

Al-Ahram has a feature on the Deir Al-Surian library:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/824/he1.htm

Renewed concerns that a Temple Mount ramp is going to collapse:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=117536
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801410
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=801542

Someone is doing the revisionist thing with the story of
Channukah:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801409

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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The Pope has been asked to return a chunk of the Parthenon he
probably doesn't even know is in one of the Vatican Museums:

http://tinyurl.com/y8a9dr
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/world/europe/15briefs-greekbishop.html
http://tinyurl.com/yekmsf (WPost)

More on that St. Paul's tomb discovery:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=061216_Ne_A13_Tombb33874
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=24615
http://tinyurl.com/y7h7w4 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/wxd8f (AP via Yahoo ... photo)
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061212/1058428.asp (photo)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2109936.html
http://tinyurl.com/yd3pec (NG)
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=7007
http://tinyurl.com/ymm8zt (IHT)

... and they're floating trial balloons about opening it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16155676/

More Antikythera Mechanism coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ykgfgk (WPost)

Yet another NYT review of Fagle's translation of the Aeneid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Leithauser.t.html

... and an Opeddish thing arising therefrom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/arts/11conn.html

Review of Andrew Dalby, *Rediscovering Homer*:

http://www.slate.com/id/2155360/?nav=tap3

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Haven't heard about Seahenge in a while ... so:

http://tinyurl.com/yyvyz4 (King's Lynn Today)

National Geographic has a very interesting online feature on
artifacts from various periods found during an excavation in a
Slovenian river:

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/feature6/
also:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/backstories1.html

London's slave port past:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6177073.stm
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/579424

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 pile of noble tombs from various periods from Sichuan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/11/eng20061211_331158.html

... not sure if these are associated with the above:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/14/eng20061214_332562.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/11/eng20061211_331162.html

Another site threatened by neglect in India:

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14351738

A South Seas 'Adam and Eve' tale?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/fm-fms121206.php
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/175574,CST-NWS-turtle17.article
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061213104214.htm

Some early(ish) Christian burials from the Ukraine:

http://en.for-ua.com/news/2006/12/15/111805.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The ongoing search for oil in Wyoming has led to a boom in
archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/y8ws4r (Gazette)

Finds from various periods in Norristown:

http://tinyurl.com/yy88zx (Times)

They've identified the Swamp Fox's personal servant:

http://tinyurl.com/yyq52y (News Daily)

An 1849 shipwreck in Lake Ontario:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_on_sc/shipwreck_found
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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That Genographic project to collect DNA from all the various
peoples of the world has hit a snag:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/us/10dna.html

... while another dna study tells us about the development of
lactose intolerance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/opinion/14thu4.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/design/15voge.html

Historians and anthropologists are all over Apocalypto:

http://tinyurl.com/uenhg (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/y2efdn (CPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ye5r9w (Chronicle)
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/061218crci_cinema

While looking for St. Paul's tomb, archaeologists came across
a life size (!) drawing of the dome:

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

Sheet music of all of Mozart's works is available online:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061212/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentmozart

Some relics of Joan of Arc are probably not:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061217/ap_on_sc/france_joan_of_arc_2

CNN offers advice to budding archaeologists:

http://tinyurl.com/y3rwx5

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the role of
archaeology in investigating human rights abuses:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

More coverage of that Etna-caused tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/yhks4u (New Scientist)

On the web: interesting Cultural Property Advice site from the
UK:

http://www.culturalpropertyadvice.gov.uk/

Reviews of a couple of books about Satan:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25349-2501661,00.html

Review of David Standish, *Hollow Earth*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25549-2501663,00.html

Review of Max Boot, *War Made New*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Bunting.t.html

Review of Robert Kagan, *Dangerous Nation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Bunting.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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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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I think this is the first mention we've had of tomb robbing in
China (if not the first, the first in a long time):

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/16/t20061216_9778766.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_332965.html

Some statues are (finally) returning to India:

http://tinyurl.com/y5sqw8 (GNN)

... and a stolen one found in Spain is returning to Italy after
quite a long time (why do these things take so long?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_ot/stolen_art_3

A professor was busted for possession of illegal antiquities in
Greece:

http://news.ert.gr/en/12/22324.asp
http://tinyurl.com/yg9d8l (makfax)

... and the professor had a second apartment to house his stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/tm6xb (Kathimerini)

An Op-eddish sort of thing on the illegal antiquities trade:

http://tinyurl.com/yywsw6 (CNN)
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NUMISMATICA
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Nickel Arts Museum:

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nickle/collection/index.shtml

Massachusetts Historical Society:

http://www.masshist.org/objects/2006april.cfm

Hellenic Numismatic Society:

http://www.coins.gr/hellenum

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Egypt's Sunken Treasures:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Entertainment/547545.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/ap_on_sc/underwater_treasures_2
http://www.physorg.com/news85470327.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aAO3h3rdtB_U
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/12/15/ap3260011.html
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/entertainment/16249577.htm

Bactrian Gold:

http://tinyurl.com/yxr44w (Inquirer)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16127616/site/newsweek/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16160636/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6612928
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/arts/design/14guim.html

Imperial Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/ylfr5v (go DeKalb)

Now the Getty has agreed to return a couple of more items to
Greece:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4841263
http://tinyurl.com/yxv7zb (CBC)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1970877,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/arts/design/12gett.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/arts/design/11arti.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2500140,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1841652006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6169331.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yf8tfx (IHT)

Trying to keep an Eakins in Philadelphia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/design/15voge.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626805
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6622315

On the newly-restored Yale Art Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/arts/design/11kahn.html

On the Mayme Agnew Clayton Collection ... black history in
search of a home:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/arts/14clay.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Some humour from the Onion on archaeologists' efforts to protect
the dwindling mummy population:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56266?utm_source=slate_rss_1
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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Croman mac Nessa,
Dave Sowdon, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Dorothy King, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Bob Heuman, Stephen Balbach, Toke Lindegaard
Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a slow week.
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EARLY HUMANS
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On variations among European Neanderthals:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061222092638.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ua49f

Review of Gregory Curtis, *The Cave Painters*:

http://tinyurl.com/y7b97y (WPost)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A major prehistoric site near Bam:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1188.html

semi related?:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6877

A recently-found inscription is shedding light on some folks
associated with Karnak:

http://tinyurl.com/y2sf8e (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.physorg.com/news85636600.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/18/eng20061218_333522.html
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/579612

More coverage of that Essene latrine story:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/803283.html

Digging Khirbet al-Yahud:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801792

Report on Beit Ha-Kerem:

http://tinyurl.com/v84be (IAA)

Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a 1500 b.p. bathing
complex in Turkey:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=156494

Radio show on Sean Kingsley's theory about the whereabouts of
the Temple Treasure:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2006/1809700.htm

I think we've seen this Dakhla glass story before:

http://tinyurl.com/yhtdhn (NG)

Digging Al-Khidr (Kuwait):

http://tinyurl.com/ya8ele (Kuwait Times)

King David was on trial:

http://tinyurl.com/vmy77 (Sun)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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They're going to remove some metopes from the Parthenon because
of pollution:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=25437
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/12/22/parthenon-metopes.html

The Domus Aurea is reopening:

http://tinyurl.com/w9z8y (Reuters)
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20061222/101117.shtml
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=74443

Technology has revealed some old decrees at Herculaneum:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/20/oldgarbage_arc.html

In case you missed the analemma over the temple of Zeus photo:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061223.html

More Antikythera Mechanism coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/y5e6oz (El Pais ... Spanish)

More Paul's tomb coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yyw7gb (El Pais ... Spanish)

More reviews of Fagles' *Aeneid* translation:

http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=20070115&s=wilson011507
http://tinyurl.com/y8bbjz (Globe and Mail)

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist has come across some medieval coinage:

http://tinyurl.com/w7ygc (This is Bradford)

Solstice at Newgrange:

http://tinyurl.com/tc63z (AFP via Yahoo)

Vikings will soon sail again to Ireland:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/99623.html

On the web: the plan of the monastery of St. Gall:

http://www.stgallplan.org/

Review of Judith Zinsser, *La Dame D'esprit: Biography of the
Marquise du Chatelet*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Weber.t.html

Review of Thomas Cahill, *Mysteries of the Middle Ages*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Rowland.t.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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How humans reached Australia:

http://www.fijivillage.com/artman/publish/article_34614.shtml

Some Australian petroglyphs are going to be removed to make
way for an oil and gas project:

http://tinyurl.com/yhlguf (CBC)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061220/2/11uf3.html

Techy stuff going on with a mummy of a shaman from China:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/22/eng20061222_335179.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Looking for the Michigan land bridge:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16280930/

Another side of Clement Clarke Moore:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Collins.html

Review of Douglas Wilson, *Lincoln's Sword*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/books/19kaku.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Heavy rains have damaged the ruins at Chan Chan:

http://tinyurl.com/y2rz5f (AP via Yahoo)

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Donny George at Stony Brook U:

http://tinyurl.com/y4k2zn (Newsday)

More coverage of that Joan of Arc bone thing:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16257470/

Honouring Sweden's role in Cypriot archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

Plans are afoot to 'digitally reunite' the Codex Sinaiticus:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=100403

Interesting item on plagiarism in the age of Google:

http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/

... and one on soldiers' rescuing of assorted art works during
WWII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/books/19monu.html

Reading Shakespeare is good for your brain:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061218122613.htm

On that Genographic Project ... which seems to be building up
to something:

http://www.db2mag.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193105321

Rapping Chaucerian:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061218/ap_en_mu/chaucer_rapper

Review of David Christian, *How Language Works*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/books/18dick.html

Review of Andrew Hussey, *Paris: The Secret History*

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/books/21ridi.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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City of David:

http://tinyurl.com/u8a3h (JPost)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (Jan/Feb 2007):

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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Suzan Mazur's latest ... this time on a Bronze Boy which will
likely be in the news soon:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00326.htm

More eBay in the UK coverage:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2510018,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yxu4yx (This is London)
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NUMISMATICA
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On the web: Medieval Coinage:

http://www.medievalcoinage.com/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Egypt's Sunken Treasures:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16257440/
http://tinyurl.com/yyy9ae (AP via Yahoo ... slide show)
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/12/15/ap3260011.html

Discovering Tutankhamun:

http://www.nysun.com/article/45604

Stories in Stone: Conserving the Mosaics of North Africa:

http://tinyurl.com/ymojjf (ArtX)

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/GOLB/dead_sea_scrolls.html

Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1201/p16s01-alar.html?s=hns

Rubens and Bruegehl:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/arts/design/23rube.html

The Getty's dispute with Italy is heating up again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/arts/21gett.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061220/en_nm/italy_getty_dispute_dc
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/22/content_5520590.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6654604

cf: http://tinyurl.com/y5npmo (Courier)

... as is Greece's dispute with the Cleveland Museum:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=25360

Assorted arts items of interest from the NYT's Arts Briefly
column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/arts/18arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/arts/20arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/arts/21arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/arts/22arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/arts/23arts.html

A new home for some of Norway's Viking ships:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061221/en_nm/vikingships_norway_dc
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061220-042652-5422r

A year in review piece on repatriated art and the like:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/arts/design/24kimm.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Robert Rosenblum (Art Historian/Curator):

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2091823.ece

Lynne Abel (classicist):

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/Abel.obit.html

Lillian Ray Martin (Nautical Archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/y2jbbo (BTF)

Samuel Devons (Physicist/Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/nyregion/17devons.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Bill Kerr, Dorothy King,
Al Schlaf, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths,
Ross W. Sargent, Rochelle Altman,Rick Pettigrew, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

n.b. links to Asian sources are very slow this a.m. ... no
doubt connected to:

http://tinyurl.com/ya3vov (Bloomberg)
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AFRICA
================================================================
More coverage of that early ritual site in Botswana:

http://tinyurl.com/y994pk (NG)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Another cuneiform inscription from Rabat Tepe:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=12/27/2006&Cat=10&Num=6

A film crew has done some damage to Persepolis:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1268.html
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_19799.shtml

Remembering the 2003 earthquake at Bam:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6900

No evidence of Medes at Ecbatana:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6905

Zahi Hawass doesn't want Tut near a casino:

http://tinyurl.com/yl37t7

Somewhat strange 'application' of the Epic of Gilgamesh:

http://www.va.gov/gilgamesh/swf_files/part1_pub.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Interesting AP piece on Keros and the Cycladic art therefrom:

http://tinyurl.com/ybm2ma (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/yn84ck (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/yl8ftq (WPost)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_sc/apn_secrets_of_keros

Rome is 'suddenly' concerned for the stuff that lies beneath
the city:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/arts/25arti.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/25/news/rome.phpf

More Archimedes Palimpsest coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ylj6f6 (KTLA)
http://tinyurl.com/ylbtoe (LA Times)

Carl Springer has been given a Mellon Grant to translate
Sedulius:

http://tinyurl.com/yghzgw (Intelligencer)

Oped feature on the application of some myths to modern
situations:

http://tinyurl.com/ykwp5h (SMH)

A feature on Pierre Vidal-Naquet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/magazine/31naquet.t.html

... and one on Anne Carson:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1979862,00.html

Can't remember if we mentioned this 'Emperors in Crisis'
thing before:

http://www.physorg.com/news84727530.html

Just in case you missed this silly dispute over the naming
of a Macedonian airport:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6216225.stm

A piece on the early Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/ymussn (LA Times)

Review of the audio version of Imperium:

http://tinyurl.com/yd74nk (Herald)

Reviews of a couple of well-reviewed books on Caesar and Augustus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/books/review/Coates.t.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/29/features/IDLEDE30.php

... and another:

http://tinyurl.com/ye6oe9 (LA Times)

... and an interview with Adrian Goldsworthy:

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/12/20061228_b_main.asp

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
That Bronze Age log boat from the River Tay is in the news again:

http://tinyurl.com/yma4al (BBC)

... while there is ongoing controversy about plans to move those
Viking ships (we mentioned last week):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/europe/25viking.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/25/news/viking.php

13th century finds from Berwick:

http://tinyurl.com/ybcd7c (Berwick Today)

On the restoration of the Villa Torlonia:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2519626,00.html

Review of Stella Tillyard, *George III and his Scandalous
Siblings*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/books/27grim.2.html

Review of Vic Gatrell, *City of Laughter*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/books/29book.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Humans are being blamed for the demise of Australia's giant
kangaroos:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16359687/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_sc/australia_megafauna

Trying to identify a caucasian mummy from China:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061224-032826-6357r

cf.:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/25/eng20061225_335707.html

A Mongolian fresco/mural appears to depict the funeral of Genghis Khan:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905492.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/ymzzlk (Washington Times)

Mysterious rings from the tomb of China's only empress:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200612/21/eng20061221_334509.html

Excavating the tomb of Qin Hui:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905556.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/27/eng20061227_336103.html

... and a 1700 b.p. three-chambered tomb from Jangxi province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/25/eng20061225_335731.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 9000 b.p. spear point from New Brunswick:

http://tinyurl.com/whpus (Star Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/y2uc2l (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/yaj9l8 (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/ymjxj7 (CBC)

And piles of stuff from beneath a Halifax hotel:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/550002.html

Toronto's heritage is in danger from development:

http://tinyurl.com/ycmrx6 (National Post)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A nice sort of 'overview' of what DNA studies are telling us
about our past:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1980639,00.html

The mystery of the deaths of Francesco I Medici and his wife
appears to have been solved (very interesting):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1979151,00.html

The secret of Stradivarius violins' distinctive sound has
been solved:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061129151126.htm

Intersting item on painters' fingerprints:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/arts/design/31cole.html

Assorted OpEd pieces on what assorted ancient types would be
doing in various situations today:

http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2006/12/whats_your_batt.html

Assorted items of interest from the NYT's Arts Briefly column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/arts/29arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/arts/30arts.html

An excerpt reviewish thing on ancient/medieval cookbooks:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/021262.html

New treatment from a 17th century manuscript:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061228154205.htm

Short feature/interviewish thing with Franck Goddio:

http://tinyurl.com/yjslt2 (Bloomberg)

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel explores media
per/miscon - ceptions about archaeology:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Piece on pomegranates has a nice overview of their history:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1227/p13s02-lifo.html?s=hns

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Minerva Magazine has updated its online news:

http://minervamagazine.com/issue1801/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
================================================================
On the tomb-raiding 'tradition' in the West Bank:

http://tinyurl.com/yhtug7 (Globe)

A foiled smuggling attempt in Jordan:

http://www.petra.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Dec/27/26000.htm

... and one in Algeria:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061220-025324-7697r

Some Chinese terracottas were returned this week:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905537.shtml

Police recovered a stolen painting attributed to Goya:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_244461550,00.html?rL=s
(spanish)

Not specifically about crime, per se, but about investing in
antiquities and the risks attacked thereto:

http://tinyurl.com/yhh57l (Forbes)

I don't think the 'authorities' are right in identifying this
'antiquity' as ancient:

http://english.sabah.com.tr/893921E182C34839AA13CBA30D6B2AEF.html

Interesting piece on some of the folks who recovered Nazi-looted
art at the end of WWII:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2524245,00.html

Suzan Mazur's latest is a very interesting interview with
Italian prosecutor Maurizio Fiorelli:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00370.htm

... while Marion True feels the Getty is letting her take the
fall:

http://tinyurl.com/ylgf69 (LA Times)

Switzerland and Peru have signed an agreement about antiquities:

http://www.nzz.ch/2006/12/29/eng/article7389312.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Big bucks for a coin of Henry VIII at auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/6220490.stm

Review of a book on Cumberland Mining Tokens:

http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/leisure/viewarticle.aspx?id=447775

Star of Bethlehem on a coin?:

http://www.eclipse.net/~molnar/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Athens-Sparta:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/arts/design/29onas.html

In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/ylche3 (Ann Arbor News)

More coverage of the Getty's bronze boy:

http://tinyurl.com/yf2kux (News24)

... and the war of words seems to be continuing (or getting
additional coverage):

http://tinyurl.com/yb3avc (Reuters)

The National Museum in Taipei has reopened:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/28/news/taipei.php (includes
slide show)
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
That 'new' Mozart has been performed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6216719.stm
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
John Heath-Stubbs (poet/translator):

http://tinyurl.com/ya4xlx (Sun Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ymzzlk (LA Times)
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/12/26/heath-stubbs-obit.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6210471.stm
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
The Register has finally stumbled upon the Bosnian Pyramids
story:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/26/bosnian_pyramids/
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Angie Telepenko,
Dan Kiernan, David Critchley, 'Duke Jason', Rick Heli,
John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
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
================================================================
On the evolution of human diets:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070102101811.htm
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AFRICA
================================================================
Nice feature on Zimbabwe:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701050072.html

... related book review:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701050422.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The ancient Egyptians and global warming:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=33182007

Also in Egypt, they're restoring the oldes mud brick wall:

http://tinyurl.com/yjdl6o (SIS)

For reasons I can't quite figure out (is there something new
here?) there is plenty of coverage (again) of the excavations
at Hamoukar as the site of the first 'world war':

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/579880
http://tinyurl.com/y845ek (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/y4c56o (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/yzmfry (Daily Star)

... very detailed (German) coverage:

http://www.zeit.de/2007/02/A-Staedte

Remains of a camel rider from the Burnt City:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0701016358195426.htm
http://tinyurl.com/vll38 (Iranmania)

... and evidence of B12 deficiencies near same:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_19852.shtml

Haven't heard about Egypt's efforts to recover antiquities it
believes should be returned for a while, so:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0104/p07s01-alar.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070104/wl_csm/oantique

More warnings of impending ramp collapses at the Western Wall:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=808569
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3347606,00.html

More coverage of the lack of Median evidence at Ecbatana:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/jan/1003.html

More on those Qumran latrines:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_sc/israel_essene_latrine_5
http://tinyurl.com/y4tned (USA Today)
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/162931.php
http://www.physorg.com/news87054286.html

More Gospel of Judas coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/wk36n (KTLA)

... including interest in same by Jeffrey Archer (!):

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article2132599.ece

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of discovery of a chunk of Roman Road in the Netherlands:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650220885,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y9frs4 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yzakle (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.physorg.com/news87273256.html
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/06/science/15_04_181_5_07.txt
http://tinyurl.com/szx33 (Seattle Times)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16489022/

Item on the stuff they discovered (and are now exhibiting)
during the construction of the Acropolis Museum:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1981038,00.html
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/07/stories/2007010702741200.htm

The Getty Aphrodite came under increased journalistic scrutiny
this week:

http://tinyurl.com/yyu7nm (LA Times ... very interesting)
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20070103-054103-2204r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y2owj6 (Standard)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1982527,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21009435-1702,00.html

... while an Italian village is still asking for its Etruscan
chariot back:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2532086,00.html

OpEd piece on Classics in the UK:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1984465,00.html

... and more from Harry Mount:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/harry_mount/2007/01/post_860.html

... cf, from the Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-2528556,00.html

... along with a letter to the editor:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2531572,00.html

... then there was that bit of 'Mafia Latin':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2528468.html

Was Narcissus a Narcissist?:

http://tinyurl.com/y46d8k (Men's Daily)

More coverage of that Cycladic art from Keros story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_sc/apn_secrets_of_keros_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16418552/
http://tinyurl.com/y5rngc (USA Today)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/31/greekisle_arc.html

More Archimedes Palimpsest coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/y6b43r (LA Times)

More on the impending reopening of the Domus Aurea:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16299259/

Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *Caesar*:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650220597,00.html

... and Everitt's Augustus:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article2122046.ece

Another review of Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/y67xnf (Sun Times)

... semi-related: some letters to the editor of the NYT on one
of their reviews of same:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/books/review/Letters.t-4.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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A follow-up piece to that discovery of a Psalter in an Irish
bog last summer:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2526932,00.html

I think we've covered this medieval image of Stonehenge before:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2526389,00.html

Interesting finds beneath a Scottish "lap dancing bar":

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1896492006

More coverage of the controversy brewing about moving some
Viking ships:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1931642006
http://tinyurl.com/yyb2ra

Nice feature on the Vikings:

http://www.historysociety.ca/bea.asp?subsection=fea

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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Prehistoric artifacts from downtown Taipei:

http://www.cna.com.tw/eng/cepread.php?id=200701040031
http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=57514&ctNode=8

... and remains of Taiwan's 'first settlement':

http://www.physorg.com/news87300532.html

A Phung Nguyen burial from northern VietNam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/060107/culture_an.htm

Slide show of the excavation of a Tang Dynasty tomb:

http://en.ce.cn/National/pic-news/200612/31/t20061231_9957690.shtml

Copper objects in a boat-shaped coffin from Sichuan:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/01/content_5556976.htm

A Harappan period burial from Uttar Pradesh:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1888352,000900010004.htm

Politics and archaeology in Georgia:

http://tinyurl.com/yfswog (AFP via Yahoo)

Not quite sure whether should be filed under Europe or Asia, but
a Vishnu idol has been excavated in Russia's Volga region:

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/15018.asp
http://tinyurl.com/y6z6ky

Japan is going to allow the excavation of 11 imperial tombs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16471340/
http://tinyurl.com/yh2jjq (Globe)
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/84325.asp

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
The Topper Site and its potential implications for the peopling
of the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/y97oqh (St. Pete Times)

An ancient fish hook from the Missouri River:

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Dec/20061231News002.asp (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/y7phq8 (KSHB)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070102/ap_on_sc/ancient_fishhook_1
http://www.physorg.com/news87054364.html

A general overview piece on the mounds at Calusa:

http://tinyurl.com/wf2nc (News-Press)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Using technology to find and follow trails used in ancient
Central America:

http://www.physorg.com/news87044935.html

Semi-related:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/05/27509.aspx

The mystery of those Incan knots is in the news again:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/khipu.html

An OpEd piece on human sacrifice etc. inspired, it seems, by
Apocalypto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/opinion/02childs.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Was there a world wide drought which contributed to the downfall
of the Tang Dynasty and Mayan civilizations?:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=74310
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/03/070103192513.agkxud01.html
http://tinyurl.com/txrxs (New Scientist)

More coverage of that Medici cold case:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6230307.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ymwtu2 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1979151,00.html
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ap/story.asp?AP_ID=D8ME20JO0
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16453497/

The church where Shakespeare is buried is in need of repairs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/theater/04shak.html

Another Indiana Jones movie is on the way:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/061231/139/6apsk.html

Interesting excavation of a 1991 van (no really ... it is
interesting):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cars/story/0,,1980901,00.html

The Biblical Archaeology Society has launched findadig.com:

http://www.findadig.com/

Drinking some very old wine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/dining/03pour.html

Betting on what happens in the next Harry Potter:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,,1978920,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Sailing down/up the Nile:

http://tinyurl.com/yykjte (Courier Mail)
================================================================
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
================================================================
"Poaching" sites in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/y9kd9w (St. Pete Times)
http://tinyurl.com/yebamq (ditto ... followup)

More coverage of Marion True's claims she's 'taking the fall':

http://tinyurl.com/y4mqey (Chronicle)

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Tile Design in Valencia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/arts/design/02tile.html

On creating 'satellite Louvres':

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/arts/design/01louv.html

A 16th century map of Scotland is coming to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6229523.stm

The Italy-Getty war of words continues:

http://tinyurl.com/tf323

The Theatre Museum in London is closing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/theater/02london.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Craig Hugh Smyth (Renaissance Art Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/arts/01smyth.html

Rev. W. Montgomery Watt (Historian of Islam):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2527235,00.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, 'Duke Jason',
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Gene Barkley,
John McMahon, Jason McLaren, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W Sargent, Rochelle Altman,
Rick Pettigrew, Susan Jaslow, Suzan Mazur,Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
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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A skull from South Africa is lending support to one out-of-
Africa theory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/science/12skull.html (JNW)

cf:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070111181736.htm
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/38444.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6253121.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y6k3j3 (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/y2zweh
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16596816/

... and this seems to be the press release that started it all:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/uoca-eeo010807.php
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AFRICA
================================================================
Maps of Africa from various periods are now available on the
web:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6250225.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A sort of state-of-the-excavation/question/conference report
on the Jiroft civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/ylrry7 (Iranmania)
http://www.payvand.com/news/07/jan/1144.html

A pile of sites from various periods from Iran's Lorestan
province:

http://tinyurl.com/uezqs (Iranmania)

What a quartz stela is telling us about the 20th Dynasty
(I think we've had this one already):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/hr1.htm
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=4545

Did the Egyptians reach Malta?:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=248628

Nice feature on Shunet el-Zebib and restoration efforts there:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/09egypt.html

All about Nob:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/811030.html

The Qumran latrine story is still making the rounds:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4439936.html

... while the Gospel of Judas debate continues:

http://tinyurl.com/ssdzt (LA Times)

Review of another book about Gertrude Bell:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/cu4.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A Roman bracelet from Cheshire:

http://tinyurl.com/y6zxfc (This is Cheshire)

A spate of Paliki-as-Ithaka coverage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6256807.stm
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070110-034112-9343r
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=47602007
http://tinyurl.com/yyt4po (LA Times)
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200701120340.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news87670111.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/01/10/homer.odyssey.reut/
http://tinyurl.com/y4kso7
http://www.geotimes.org/current/feature_Ithaca.html (best)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070110181034.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y6bze2 (Telegraph)

Hype for the second season of Rome was everywhere this week:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16600111/site/newsweek/
http://www.sbsun.com/ontv/ci_5008228
http://tinyurl.com/tt3g7 (Boston Globe)
http://www.nysun.com/article/46551
http://tinyurl.com/y8lhra (Weekly Standard)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/arts/television/12rome.html
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2007/01/12/rome/index_np.html
http://tinyurl.com/y8yxqg (Sun Times)

More coverage of that Roman road find in the Netherlands:

http://www.startribune.com/722/story/933964.html
http://tinyurl.com/smejy (Fox)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/05/ap3302894.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/163436
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-05-roman-road_x.htm

A year-in-review piece of finds (mostly ancient) from Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/y49yw5 (Echo)

Some interesting responses to Will Hutton's 'death knell for
Latin' column in the Observer last week:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1989946,00.html

Feature/review on Strassler's Herodotus translation:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0129/111.html

... and one on Ian Johnston's translations of Homer:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6849615

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A television show thing about a very interesting Morayshire
cave with strange infant burials from 3000 b.p.:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1118440.0.0.php

A couple of Viking boat burials from Norway:

http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070109-035301-3064r

possibly related:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1592947.ece

An 'amateur archaeologist' (right ... I'm an 'amateur surgeon')
has found a 15th-century 'grooming implement':

http://tinyurl.com/yxowk7 (Review and Observer)

A Council has purchased a gold torq found by an 'amateur
treasure hunter' (that seems a bit more accurate) a couple
years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/6244811.stm

... while the British Museum has purchased a Saxon Sword which
had been declared treasure a while ago:

http://tinyurl.com/stmx5

... oh, and just in case you have a claim to the British throne:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.10807

... or were planning on purchasing Dracula's castle:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_246081285,00.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Nice photos of some Tang Dynasty finds from Henan:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200701/10/t20070110_10042443.shtml

A number of Han Dynasty relics were returned to China this week:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200701/09/t20070109_10034979.shtml

Another frozen warrior from the Altai region:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21042599-13762,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y89x2w (Australian)

The locals are pondering the big heads on Easter Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/world/americas/09easter.html

India (finally) is going to put up some cash to preserve som
sites:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=77395

Aboriginal graffiti is showing up in urban settings (not really
ancient, but interesting):

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2137661.ece

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some 13000-15000 b.p. stone tools from Minnesota (!):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070113/ap_on_sc/archaeological_find_7
http://tinyurl.com/yku9xo (Newsday)
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/16450766.htm
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_012071945.html
http://tinyurl.com/sbwve
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16600777/

A duck hunter in Arkansas came across what might be a native
burial ground:

http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr/News/44110/

Seeds from Jamestown are telling us more about the people who
lived there:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_sc/jamestown_seeds_6
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16546566/

Some purported slave headstones in Tennessee are apparently
just rocks:

http://tinyurl.com/y7hclq (the Leaf Chronicle)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Maybe the conquistadores didn't bring all those diseases:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070107/ap_on_sc/mexico_ancient_plague

Nice feature on Peruvian mummies:

http://tinyurl.com/vlmph (Daily Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/ygfdbs (This is London)

Another prof comments on Apocalypto:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/16408709.htm

Peru is promoting Machu Picchu as a wonder of the world:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_246052157,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest video on the Archaeology Channel documents an experiment
to show how megaliths could be moved:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Two scholars hang out their shingles for info about Valentines
day ... which do you think newspapers are more likely to
consult (alas):

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526421/?sc=rsln
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526406/

Interesting item on the history of human skin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/09conv.html

They're still looking for daVinci's Battle of Anghiari:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070113/ap_en_ot/lost_leonardo

Haven't had a facial reconstruction in ages ... so they did
one of Dante:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6255223.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16580287/

... perhaps related (on a punk version of the Divine Comedy):

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2121673.ece

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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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
================================================================
Not sure whether we've mentioned the Saving Antiquities website
before ... but they have (inter alia) a number of interesting
podcasts:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/

A 13th century Hebrew Bible which was stolen from the French
National Library a decade ago has been recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/books/10manu.html

Latest in the Marion True saga ... Greece is now going after
her too [I can never decide whether to put this under 'crime
beat' or 'museum-related']:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/arts/design/11loot.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2007/01/11/greece-true.html

... while Italy appears to have the Cleveland Museum of Art in
its sights:

http://tinyurl.com/yjynv9 (Plain Dealer)

... and the Miho Museum in Japan:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/20070112TDY04003.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y6n8fv (IHT)
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/01/12/2003344475
http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,1988169,00.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Abu Dhabi gets a Louvre franchise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/arts/design/13louv.html

Yale University Art Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/arts/design/10yale.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Jean-Pierre Vernant (Ancient Greece Historian)

http://tinyurl.com/yyepsf (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-853661,0.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2144035.ece

Magnus Magnusson (television host):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2537132,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/sbvht (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3561915.stm

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/arts/07fox-genovese.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
From the Onion ... on the discovery of a Mayan nerd in a
prehistoric locker:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41248
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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explorator 9.39                                 January 21, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Birgitta Hoffmann,
Croman mac Nessa, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',
Edward Rockstein, John Hall, John Hill, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo,
Gene Barkley, Joan Griffith, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,Mark Morgan, Dorothy King,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, Suzan Mazur,Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... another slow week.
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
This week, the evidence from a skull is suggesting that humans
and Neanderthals interbred:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_sc/humans_neanderthals_6
http://tinyurl.com/2jp3o7 (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6268777.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2t2obc (Reuters)
http://www.physorg.com/news88139040.html
http://tinyurl.com/28sohy (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/29oud2 (Telegraph)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16639881/

More on the migration-out-of-Africa from that Russian site:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070115-050323-8305r
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AFRICA
================================================================
Oldest pottery found ... in Mali:

http://www.nzz.ch/2007/01/19/eng/article7442480.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Another dam, and this time Iranian mounds are threatened:

http://tinyurl.com/3x3h6j (Iranmania)

More tombs from Lama cemetery (Iran):

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6942

Plenty of coverage of some interesting (though not really 'new')
finds from Hamoukar:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070116205042.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/17/healthscience/snbattle.php
http://tinyurl.com/3xpdbs (Daily Vidette)
http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=77334
http://tinyurl.com/2fcbv9 (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_sc/ancient_civilization_8
http://tinyurl.com/2fcbv9 (USA Today)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/science/16batt.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/uoc-ndo011607.php
http://www.physorg.com/news88195339.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16655063/

... while the oldest backgammon set has come from the Burnt City:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_20127.shtml

Archaeological evidence of the Exodus?:

http://tinyurl.com/3xndub (Jewish Chronicle)

They've found a huge cliff near Temple Mount which might account
for the Romans' difficulty in storming the city:

http://tinyurl.com/yjuvv4 (JPost)

cf: recent finds from Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/yhkccm (IAA)

... and finds from around the Western Wall:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Dig_Item_eng.asp?id=604
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=2415
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119451

I'm can't quite tell whether this is Don't Eat That Elmer material or
not:

http://tinyurl.com/28xfnw (AND)

Volunteer archaeologists have mapped a pile of caves in Turkey:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=63543

Archaeology Magazine's interactive dig at Hierakonopolis has been
updated:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/hierakonpolis/field/

... and the Hopkins in Egypt dig diary has started as well:

http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/2qtn7p (Science Daily)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Thera's civilization was shaped by its response to natural
disasters:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=78930

Railway construction in Germany has revealed some Roman stuff:

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

Plenty of coverage of a religious group's demand to have access
to the Temple of Zeus for their ritual:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650224660,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ekvve (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070119/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_gods
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6283907.stm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245038,00.html

Classics is alive and well in Wisconsin universities:

http://tinyurl.com/2sqo6q (Capital Times)

Mary Beard on the benefits of Latin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1991336,00.html

Reviews of the first episode of Rome:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16600111/site/newsweek/
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/television/articles/070115crte_television

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Stonehenge was probably part of a much larger 'complex':

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070115/139/6b54r.html

An amateur archaeology group (which, I am told, in the UK
is distinct from what metal detectorists do) is enjoying their
work:

http://tinyurl.com/2leo7c (Denbighshire Free Press)

Speaking of metal detectorists, they're getting a lot of credit
in the latest Portable Antiquities Scheme annual report:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=90522007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2552491,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6271879.stm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1992993,00.html

A major study of battlefields in Ireland:

http://tinyurl.com/33fcsj (AFP via Yahoo)

The Online Historical Populations project has launched:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/14/19th_century_uk_online/

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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Plenty of artifacts are being found at venues for the Beijing
Olympics:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070118/sc_nm/olympics_china_relics_dc_1

Some finds from Fengxian:

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=302755&type=Feature

Using radar photography at a site in India:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070117/43/6b85n.html

More details of temple restoration efforts in India:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=82854

Taiwan's earliest sword has been found in Tainan:

http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=59179&ctNode=8

A stone 'slab' (altar?) from Ha Giang:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/200107/culture_another.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The Bering Land Bridge/Clovis theories are back in the news:

http://tinyurl.com/26uf5m

Another early English settlement has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/28qx84 (Daily Press)

An 'amateur archaeologist' found a 17th century iron furnace in
Virginia:

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=5964332&nav=menu368_2
http://tinyurl.com/2a3pzm (IHT)

Nice feature about Bill Kelso and Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/2tbwx6 (NPR)

Just down the road from me, in Caledonia, some recent finds
might bolster some native land claims (or not):

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070117/national/native_occupation_7

A Confederate shipwreck found down in the bayou:

http://iberianet.com/articles/2007/01/17/news/news/news58.txt

A possible Civil War site in Knoxville:

http://tinyurl.com/2rv3b6 (KnoxNews)

Some old bones are holding up the latest Trump project:

http://www.thevillager.com/villager_194/talesfromthecrypt.html
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/20/trump_thwarted.php
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Some Chachapoya 'ruins' have been found in the Andes:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=82958
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070117144302.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-16-peru-ruin_x.htm?csp=34
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/dc-prd011707.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16676630/
http://tinyurl.com/3dp9uw (NG)

The story about how the Taino loved brass is making the rounds
again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/science/16cuba.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Looks like the hype is building for Bob Cornuke's next
expedition:

http://tinyurl.com/3y7ers (Gazette)

Speaking of hype, Mel Gibson is firing back at criticism of
Apocalypto:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070116/en_nm/gibson_dc

More coverage of plans to look once again for Leonardo's Battle
of Anghiari:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/arts/15arts.html (3rd item)

... while an amateur historian has found the burial place of
'Mona Lisa':

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070119/K011906AU.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/afpentertainmentitaly
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6278235.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16710927/

Nice piece on Thomas Hardy:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/070115crbo_books

Latest moves in the 'DaVinci Code' case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/books/17davinci.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/arts/17arts.html

Hype for a TV version of Jane Eyre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/television/19mast.html

They've figured out why Napoleon died (again):

http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept37389/files/338470.html
http://tinyurl.com/2o5uf4 (LiveScience via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16710732/from/id/16656433/
http://www.physorg.com/news88192255.html

Plenty of images to illustrate various news items in slideshow format
from Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/sc/021903anthroarchaeo

Recent floods in the UK washed some potentially strange/horrifying
items into the rivers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6267531.stm

The ten most expensive books of 2006:

http://tinyurl.com/2fhg6o (Forbes)

In case you're wondering what's happening with that 'New Seven
Wonders' campaign:

http://tinyurl.com/3ajejf (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6269207.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16659208/

Some very nice photoshopping of statuary ancient and modern in
the latest Worth1000 contest:

http://tinyurl.com/yd9v9l

Remembering a 'killer cloud' from a couple of centuries ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6276291.stm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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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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Interesting/disturbing item on diplomatic bags being used to
smuggle antiquities:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=552

Good article on the looting of Iraq:

http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/MN_JF07_lost-iraq.cfm

... while Matthew Bogdanos is still on tour:

http://tinyurl.com/297jml

A site in Indonesia is being ransacked:

http://tinyurl.com/2vts9d (Gulf Times)
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070119-062651-4924r

Iran's attempt to recover a piece from the staircase at
Persepolis didn't pan out:

http://www.ttc.org/200701191849.l0jinnu26193.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3bhele (Reuters)

... a pre-trial version:

http://tinyurl.com/2tsrm4 (Telegraph)

Suzan Mazur had a two-part interview with Bruce McNall on the
Bronze Boy and the antiquities market:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00171.htm

I can't remember if we mentioned this Japanese 'spinoff' from
the 'museum case':

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070116TDY02006.htm

cf: http://tinyurl.com/2zrux3

A brazen heist outside a coin convention:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_us/rare_coin_heist

... cf:

http://www.butternut.org/coins/tip4.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for a Church Penny:

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=552643

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Monet's Drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/arts/design/17mone.html

Fraunces Tavern Museum:

http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/

Islamic Art:

http://www.qc.cuny.edu/nis/Releases/viewNews.php?id=234

Winter Antiques show coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/design/19wint.html

American Antiques Show coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/design/19taas.html

Latest in the Marion True trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/arts/design/18gett.html

... but more interesting was the testimony of a former looter:

http://tinyurl.com/3ara3r (Boston Globe)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3VMpGTMfnt8
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_en_ot/looted_antiquities_3
http://tinyurl.com/2yusul (IHT)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Agrippina:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1993747,00.html

Emperor Norton:

http://www.emperornortonthemusical.com/

Otello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/music/19otel.html
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ON THE WEB
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Godchecker: Your Guide to the Gods:

http://www.godchecker.com/
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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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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A snake spell in a pyramid might be the oldest Semitic
inscription:

http://tinyurl.com/2vngfp (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_sc/israel_ancient_spell_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16777017/
http://www.post-trib.com/news/226528,SpellCat.article
http://www.physorg.com/news88850905.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/01/25/snakespell_arc.html

The pharmacy in Ancient Egypt:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=101431

A number of Punic and Phoenician artifacts have been donated
to Heritage Malta:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=249852

The Dor shipwreck has been dated to the 8th century A.D./C.E.:

http://tinyurl.com/yukd4c (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.kwtx.com/news/headlines/5349011.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16790589/
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=06423108195
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=817378
http://www.jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6549

Brief/vague item on the discovery of aqueduct remains in
Jerusalem:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120159

... while the 'saga' side of Temple Mount continues:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355279,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119937

... and Jordan has restored a wooden pulpit to TM:

http://tinyurl.com/2ug8ow (JPost)

The City of David dig has uncovered a pilgrim's road:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/816984.html

The UPenn Museum is preserving a pile of Mesopotamian
relics:

http://tinyurl.com/2vp6tj (Inquirer)

Ancient Egyptian mathematics:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/829/hr1.htm

Some mysterious jars which apparently aren't the canopic jars
of Ramses II:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/01/23/jars_arc.html

An interesting 'how they built the pyramids' suggestion:

http://www.taftmidwaydriller.com/articles/2007/01/19/news/news01.txt

More Tel Hamoukar coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/2m2gjj (Chronicle)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A Bronze Age fertility temple from Apulia (I don't buy it):

http://tinyurl.com/255fd8 (ANSA)

Tons o coverage on the recovery of some gladiator reliefs in
Italy (this is really Crime Beat material, but I don't want the
Classicists among us to miss it):

http://tinyurl.com/2jjega (Sun)
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=95047
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/arts/25arts.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_en_ot/roman_gladiators_2
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=entertainment&id=4966164
http://tinyurl.com/3xw8s9 (Daily Mail)
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/166081.php
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6965
http://tinyurl.com/2qch3k (IOL)
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/174353
http://tinyurl.com/32n8ft (IHT)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16790995/

A fair bit of coverage of the apparent discovery of the
Lupercal cave (just before Valentine's Day ... hmmmmm):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_sc/italy_ailing_rome_6
http://tinyurl.com/37dkpc (NG)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16777034/
http://tinyurl.com/2trgbr (USA Today)
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=86221
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2562572,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2wcrmh (IHT)

Very interesting Gallic burial near Normandy:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2190045.ece
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6964

Not sure how they'll find evidence that Hadrian actually
stayed near his wall:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=458908

Remains of a large Roman building near Cambs (UK):

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART43116.html

An update of sorts on Allianoi:

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/070122-9.html

A storm has damage a Roman mosaic in Koln:

http://tinyurl.com/34295p (Expatica)

Roman influence in India?:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/28/stories/2007012800201800.htm

John Peradotto's Aeschylus article stands the test of time:

http://tinyurl.com/2ks53m (UBuff)

... while Richard Saller becomes Dean:

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/1/24/chicagosSallerToBeDean

Father Foster seems rather pessimistic about the state of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/yrh6r2 (Telegraph)

Perhaps he read this editorial in the Financial Times:

http://tinyurl.com/2sa3t8

... cf some responses:

http://tinyurl.com/35y2zj
http://tinyurl.com/3c3gjr
http://tinyurl.com/338nqh

... and a student response to a similar thread in the Guardian:

http://tinyurl.com/38jfle

... and the benefits of ancient Greek:

http://tinyurl.com/32bsbp (Kathimerini)

... while Michael Elliott gives us some hope too:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1582332,00.html

First we had mafiosi using Latin in secret messages; now it's
turning up in classified ads:

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=112192007

Trying to save Latin at Penfield High:

http://www.mpnnow.com/news/view_story.php?articleId=6084

First 'Roman numeral' story prior to this year's Super Bowl:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4968311

Is 300 the last gasp of sword and sandal flicks?:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2000393,00.html

More coverage of the goings-on at the Temple of Zeus in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/2syfyy (KTimes)
http://tinyurl.com/2wxowm (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=178383
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6285397.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3bvg3g (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/2ty98v (AFP via Yahoo)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=110852007
http://tinyurl.com/2jz9t3 (NG)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6285397.stm

More coverage of that duck hunter inscription from Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/3xxj7j (GNN)

More coverage of Bob Cornuke's plans to find the site of Paul's
shipwreck:

http://www.maltamedia.com/artman2/publish/out_about/article_279.shtml

Review of Martin Goodman, *Rome and Jerusalem*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,,1999581,00.html
http://living.scotsman.com/books.cfm?id=139612007

Review of Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/345boy (WPost)

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Viking ship near Dublin?:

http://tinyurl.com/33oes8 (AFP via Yahoo)

Interesting item on the Tara Brooch:

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-01-25/goods_travel.php

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

Trying again to get Heritage Status for the Antonine Wall:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/580645
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1142099.0.0.php
http://tinyurl.com/32fvp4 (UK)

(I think this is Europe) A Kiev fortress was demolished in the
past couple of weeks:

http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-181023.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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They're going back to the Hobbit cave:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6294101.stm

"Craniotomy" in ancient China:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200701/26/t20070126_10220745.shtml

Plans are afoot for an archaeological glossary of Thailand:

http://tinyurl.com/2lna4k (Nation)

Interesting (but short) slideshow of finds from a Three Kingdoms
era brick (!) tomb:

http://en.ce.cn/National/gallery/200701/24/t20070124_10195282.shtml

A "Pompeii-like" (not really) Female Factory site from Tasmania:

http://tinyurl.com/34j8jr

Metallurgy in ancient India:

http://tinyurl.com/2mv9pn (HTimes)

An Afghan archaeologist talks about Bamiyan:

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=01-23-07&storyID=26170

More coverage of items found at Olympic venues in Beijing:

http://tinyurl.com/2v3ege (AFP via Yahoo)

Review of Edward Dreyer, *Zheng He*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25340-2563759,00.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some 'natural' damage at Mesa Verde:

http://tinyurl.com/2jy6mu (Cortez Journal)

Excavating the first Baptist church in North America:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3261

Yalies in Alaska:

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

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on the Marmet Lock
Replacement Project in Virginia:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of Charles Rappleye, *Sons of Providence*:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3264

Review of Matthew Warshauer, *Andrew Jackson and the Politics
of Martial Law*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/070129crbo_books_crain

Review of John Sedgwick, *In My Blood*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/books/22masl.html

Review of Michael Oren, *Power, Faith and Fantasy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/books/review/Rodenbeck.t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of Olmec influence near Mexico City (!):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16815713/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Mexico-Olmec-City.html
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/39716.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_sc/mexico_olmec_city_4

Acid rain is threatening El-Tajin:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/230574,CST-NWS-olmec26.article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16755251/

http://tinyurl.com/38kk8l (NG)

An interesting relic of the Wari civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/369czx (LS via Yahoo)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526767/?sc=rssn
http://www.physorg.com/news88871748.html

More coverage of those Chachapoya finds in Peru:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=83337
http://tinyurl.com/3ckc8p (STimes)
http://tinyurl.com/34f56f (NG)

The oldest writing from the Americas:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3209
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, a Yorkshire 'clan' has definite connections
to Africa:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6293333.stm

Egypt doesn't like this newfangled 'Seven Wonders' campaign:

http://tinyurl.com/2j5hkh (AFP via Yahoo)

A Bodmer papyrus was donated to the Vatican:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=101738

Celebrating Linnaeus:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127/ap_on_sc/sweden_linnaeus

Big bucks for a Rembrandt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/arts/design/26voge.html
http://tinyurl.com/3adwsq (IHT)

Plans are afoot to excavate a 1957 Plymouth:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/23/buried.car.ap/index.html

Reimagining the Globe:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/22/features/globe.php

Shelfari is an interesting idea:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/288229_shelfari11.html

Interesting coverage of a meeting of the Athanasius Kircher
Society:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/070129ta_talk_seabrook

Tall tales from Yale:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/98_03/talltales.html

On that purported 'code' within quilts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/nyregion/23quilt.htm

A new archaeology degree is available at Austin College:

http://tinyurl.com/355opz (ABJ)

The history of the brassiere:

http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/24-01-2007/86739-bra-0

Thoreau the mathematician:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3271

Keeping Ladino alive:

http://tinyurl.com/2qgcwo (Forward)

Review of Sheila Hodges, *Lorenzo Da Ponte*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/070108crbo_books

Review of some new editions of Alexandre Dumas stuff:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25341-2563847,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Calcata:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/travel/28dayout.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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Another piece on Matthew Bogdanos:

http://tinyurl.com/2t7lto (Palm Beach Life)

Brief item on the return of some purloined artifacts to
Pakistan:

http://tinyurl.com/3ddjbl

... not sure if this is the same:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=85714

OpEd piece pondering Japan's role as 'cultural looter':

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=11912

The price some looters pay in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/2j78yb (Kathimerini)

Another story about recovering Nazi loot:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6365997,00.html

More coverage of looting in Indonesia:

http://tinyurl.com/32jyad (METimes)
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NUMISMATICA
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The Medals Collector:

http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/medals/medals_collector.htm

Canada's latest silver dollar:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/01/18/mint-dollar.html
http://tinyurl.com/7wg38 (photo)

Big bucks are expected for Hong Kong banknote coming to auction:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=ae2hRLEbaIuQ

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Victorian Bestsellers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/arts/27vict.html

Triumph of Eros:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/arts/design/27eros.html

Interesting auction of some 'church silver':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/arts/design/26anti.html

Greece isn't happy with an upcoming auction at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/arts/24arts.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Women of Trachis:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/theater/reviews/24trac.html

Hillard Ensemble:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/arts/music/23hill.html

Coast of Utopia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/theater/26utop.html
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OBITUARIES
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Gordon Kirkwood (Classicist):

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan07/Kirkwood.gl.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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EARLY HUMANS
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Latest in the 'Hobbit' investigations:

http://tinyurl.com/2jvgpj (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,21140698-401,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311619.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/sc_nm/hobbit_species_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16876005/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Gilded solar child relief from Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/830/fr2.htm

On Syria as the 'cradle of civilizations':

http://www.sana.org/eng/22/2007/01/30/99706.htm

A late Byzantine mosaic from Beit Ras:

http://www.petra.gov.jo/nepras/2007/Feb/03/24000.htm

An image of that 'oldest Semitic inscription' (the snake curse
thing) ... with a link to a good press release as well:

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/2979.php?from=89727

cf:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070129100250.htm

Looking at Parthian and Achaemenid fabrics:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=441813

More coverage of Egypt's derision at the new 'Seven Wonders'
thing:

http://tinyurl.com/32c9wm (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070130/3035699.asp

More Dor Beach shipwreck coverage:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070128143941.htm

More coverage of ire arising from Israeli archaeologists'
digging near the al-Aqsa Mosque:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29208864.htm

The fate of those Iranian inscriptions at the Oriental Institute
which were brought into play in a bombing case is still up in
the air, it seems:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/feb/1029.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Some late Roman graves from Hungary:

http://tinyurl.com/28ygwl (MTI)
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=148225

Looking at Pompeii's Samnite origins:

http://tinyurl.com/2f8rp3 (ANSA)

Can't remember if we mentioned this Gallic burial last week:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2190045.ece

Renewed coverage of the find of Maxentius' insignia:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/580962
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C13509-2575075%2C00.html
(photo)

The Roman amphitheatre in Chester now appears to be a miniature
version of the Colosseum:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2214843.ece

They're excavating what they believe was the governor's residence
in Ephesus:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=65242

Quite a bit of coverage of an article in AJA on why Greek art is
so, well, nude:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070202_greek_nudity.html
http://tinyurl.com/2d2fc4 (ls via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16948773/

... here's the original article:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=content&aid=248

What James M. May has been up to:

http://fusion.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=3725

... and Joan Breton Connelly:

http://tinyurl.com/29tg8g (Princeton)

Nice column by Victor Davis Hanson on David Grene's work:

http://www.nysun.com/article/47770

A Classicist is the new prez of the AIA:

http://tinyurl.com/3dz4cu

On Horace and Julie Andrews:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2583236,00.html

A new Classics honour society at Gonzaga:

http://tinyurl.com/2z6y8d

Interesting item on the balance between progress and archaeology
during the ongoing construction of Rome's subway:

http://tinyurl.com/3ccrk6 (IHT)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-03-romesubway_x.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_on_sc/italy_subway_archaeology_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16951411/

A publicity stunt trying to get the return of the Elgin/Parthenon
marbles back did get a lot of publicity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/arts/31arts.html
http://tinyurl.com/2j2atz (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/2pfsph (CBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6313953.stm

The hype for 300 is building:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2000426,00.html

... while Roman Polanski will direct a movie version of Harris' Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/yrhh7b
http://tinyurl.com/2xyt79

More coverage of the impending reopening of the Domus Aurea:

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/16594142.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ysgz4d (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2bdovv (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/2c2l47 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ypqhjo (WPost)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16912846/

More coverage of that gladiator relief antiquities recovery:

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/166081

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some ancient footprints from a Welsh beach:

http://tinyurl.com/24fzqf (Western Mail)

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a 'worker's (or party)
village' near Stonehenge:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/world/europe/31stonehenge.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ogyhk (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/389e86 (Australian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311939.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2rj5k7 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/2oyf33 (USA Today)
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1583400,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2m8j9k (NPR ... good photo gallery)
http://tinyurl.com/33aayl (New Scientist)
http://tinyurl.com/2yn6qm (Globe)
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11067
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070130_durrington.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16887060/

... some video:

http://tinyurl.com/2f7fkl (NG)

... and photos:

http://tinyurl.com/ys7afj (NG)
Finds from various periods during construction of a section of
the A66:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6316349.stm

Another shackled skeleton has been dug up ... this time from
Avila:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_8690.shtml

The Guersey Maritime Trust is trying to preserve a couple of
important shipwrecks:

http://tinyurl.com/364a7z (Press and Star)

A Bronze Age hoard found in Cotswalds will remain there:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/6312365.stm

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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What pollen analysis is telling us about the Terracotta Warriors:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/01/29/terracottaarmy_arc.html

Another discovery credited to clumsiness:

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-1-29/51096.html

On pottery and trade with New Guinea:

http://www.thenational.com.pg/020207/w7.htm

Finding connections between Hindu and Maori cultures:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070128/43/6bjw5.html

Some Maori heads are being returned:

http://tinyurl.com/yv7n99 (ic Renfrewshire)

Plans are afoot to rebuild the A'Famosa fortress in Malacca:

http://tinyurl.com/3dske2 (Star)

On recovering Chinese relics:

http://english.people.com.cn/200701/30/eng20070130_346095.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting flute discovery near Range Creek (Utah):

http://www.sunad.com/index.php?tier=1&pub=2006-12-19&page=news
http://www.sunad.com/index.php?tier=1&pub=2007-01-04&page=news
(scroll down on the latter)

A possible burial mound near Columbus:

http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=6016524

Workers putting in a new waterpipe have seriously damaged a
site in Albuquerque:

http://www.newschannel10.com/global/story.asp?s=6002879

Wow ... archaeology has shut down energy development in a
big chunk of Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5141313?source=email

A temperature record for the Great Plains (which is interesting
in light of recent press attention to a related issue):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070128105107.htm

Interesting opedish thing on assorted tales associated with the
Underground Railroad (especially the 'freedom quilts'):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/opinion/02bordewich.html

Relocating historic houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/garden/01moving.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of that evidence of Olmec culture in central
Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/26z82c (NG)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070131/sc_nm/mexico_olmecs_dc_1
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070201/2/129oz.html
http://tinyurl.com/ynpgwf (Reuters)

More coverage of acid rain damage at El Tajin:

http://tinyurl.com/yvuygy (NG)

More coverage of that controversial bridge to Machu Picchu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6292327.stm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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They're finally going to do some DNA tests to see if folks living
in a Chinese village are/can be descended from Crassus' legions:

http://tinyurl.com/2sbmtk (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/2n5o8z (Gulf Times)

Also on the DNA front, studies suggest that humans arrived in
the Americas rather 'late':

http://tinyurl.com/284jhu (NG)

Revisiting the 1607 flood of southwest England:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6305013.stm

Interesting slavery diary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/6307657.stm

... and a followup to that Barclay's/slavery story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/nyregion/02yards.html

Assorted historical analaogies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/magazine/04wwln_essay.t.html

Folks might be interested to read about the power of 'lecture
podcasts':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/education/31education.html

On spotting forgeries:

http://www.physorg.com/news89574623.html

Two items of interest in this Arts Briefly column from the NYT
(on the delayed opening of the Rijksmuseum and the recovery of
some artifacts from Mali):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/arts/31arts.html

... while this one has items on Robin Hood and using titanium
in some restoration efforts at St. Mark's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/arts/02arts.html

... while the pigeons in St. Mark's Square might have to find
some new digs:

http://tinyurl.com/2bco3s (NewsDaily)

Interesting followup oped piece on the revival of worship of
ancient Greek divinities:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2003096,00.html

Still looking for the Battle of Anghiari:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070130/lf_nm/italy_leonardo_dc_3

Interesting study of memory and literature:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/arts/03memo.html

cf: http://www.biopsychlab.com/

More coverage of that donation of a Bodmer papyrus to the
Vatican:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=101738
http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=4024

The story behind Ashoura:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Mideast-Shiites.html

Questioning the authenticity of some Pollocks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/us/30pollock.html

Review of A.C. Grayling, *Descartes*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Blackburn.t.html

Review of Ewen and Ewen, *Typecasting*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Berreby.t.html

Review of Arthur Allen, *Vaccine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Oshinsky.t.html

Review of Andrew Hussey, *Paris: A Secret History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Weber.t.html

Assorted non-fiction reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/McKelvey.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Chiapas/Palenque:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/53b6d1ea-aca5-11db-9318-0000779e2340.html

Desolation Canyon:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C650225466%2C00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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American Journal of Archaeology 111.1 (January 2007):

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc

Sparta 2.2:

http://prweb.com/releases/2007/2/prweb501915.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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The looting of Afghanistan continues:

http://tinyurl.com/3b9cxd (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/3bv85m (IHT)

A major (maybe) antiquities ring bust in Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/3664dg (News.com)
http://tinyurl.com/375yze (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/yrlkkn (Bloomberg)

More on the use of diplomatic bags in the smuggling of antiquities:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=552

Sentencing in that case wherein some guy in Hawaii tried to sell
some antiquities he found in a cave:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=6027371

Some artifacts from Mali were recovered in France:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6314481.stm
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NUMISMATICA
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The AIA seems to have a special focus on coins in the upcoming
renewal of an agreement about antiquities related to Cyprus:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10301

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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'Gods in Color':

http://tinyurl.com/2t47lh (Kathimerini)
http://news.ert.gr/en/2/23045.asp

Bactrian Gold:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/830/he1.htm

A very interesting collection put together by 'anonymous':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/arts/design/02morg.html

They've been yakking about it for years, but the Uffizi might
actually finally be expanded:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/arts/03uffi.html

Results of an auction of the (mostly porcelain) contents of
a Chinese shipwreck:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/26153.html
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OBITUARIES
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Mary Stanley Low:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2198421.ece

... and from the NYT archives, Frederick Douglass:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0207.html

cf: (for interest's sake):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/nyregion/30old.html
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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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but I think I got them all ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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The debate over 'Turkana Boy':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070207/ap_on_sc/kenya_fossil_debate_7
http://tinyurl.com/2whp4o (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/2lgy4s (Daily Mail)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7379471
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17029155/

An interview with one of the anthropologists studying the
'hobbits':

http://tinyurl.com/26h9dp (CNET)

cf:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/30/flores_brain_model/

... and the latest claim: homo floresiensis was wiped out by
modern humans:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1836140.htm

... and we might as well blame the extinction of a pile of
animal species on Australia on humans too:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/25/news/fossil.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A trio of New/Middle Kingdom sarcophagi from Saqqara:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/832/eg8.htm
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/02/10/10103261.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ntbw7 (News24)
http://tinyurl.com/2j85sa (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/ypnrfd (AFP via Yahoo ... photo)

This Akhenaten era find might be different from the above:

http://tinyurl.com/2fgklu (Reuters)
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/features/?id=19564
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17156100/
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_252088620,00.html

A feature on Zahi Hawass and general Egyptian archaeology:

http://www.thestar.com/Travel/article/181739

Bronze Age remains from Kuwait City:

http://tinyurl.com/yt7z89 (ATimes)

Some criticism of the conclusions being drawn from those
Qumran latrines:

http://www.forward.com/articles/led-astray-by-a-dead-sea-latrine/

Retracing Abraham's travels:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0213/p01s03-wome.html

The exact location of the Second Temple has been pinpointed
(maybe):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070212113227.htm
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070213/139/6c1w4.html
http://tinyurl.com/yruakg (AlphaGalileo)
http://tinyurl.com/yrb5o4 (JPost)

[I'm trying to give the following the attention it merits, hence
the somewhat strange presentation]

Much ire being raised because of an Israeli dig on Temple Mount:

http://tinyurl.com/2dbgl9 (JPost)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/06/ap3399212.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2007179,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_sc/israel_temple_mount_2
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3361666,00.html

... even the UNESCO folks are concerned:

http://tinyurl.com/348uyq

... and Israeli archaeologists had some accusations of their own:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3362223,00.html

... but the dig might not be necessary:

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

... but maybe it is:

http://tinyurl.com/yo946s (MFA)

... whatever the case, it has resulted in the installation of a
webcam at the excavation site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6364467.stm
http://www.antiquities.org.il/home_eng.asp

... but it's further complicated by the discovery of a Byzantine
mosaic and other finds:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2271661.ece
http://tinyurl.com/39cjn6 (JPost)

... and the two sides are still talking, apparently:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121404

Why is the dig going on at all?:

http://tinyurl.com/2dwfnj (IV)

Related item on politics and archaeology in Israel:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6347077.stm

... and another 'illegal' dig which will probably play into this
whole scenario at some point:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=11432

An update on the Oded Golan trial:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/823215.html

Trying to preserve Ur Bilum:

http://tinyurl.com/2vmagv (NPR)

Some 800 b.p. victims of an Iranian earthquake:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6989

Nice feature on Howard Carter:

http://tinyurl.com/3xcvs6 (Morning Call)

... and Lord Carvarvon's doctor:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/16625468.htm

... and the New York Times replicated the front page of their
edition announcing the opening of the tomb:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0216.html

More coverage of that ancient Semitic snake spell:

http://tinyurl.com/3cqeb6 (NG)

An upDate (sorry ... can't resist):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/826167.html

Persepolis Fortification Archive Project:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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DNA evidence from cattle seems to be supporting Herodotus'
claims of Etruscan origins:

http://tinyurl.com/2gysfa (Daily India)

... as does human DNA, apparently:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=65700

... while the Pathans do have some Greek dna in their blood:

http://tinyurl.com/2htyda (Daily Times)

... and we await word on whether some Chinese villagers are
descended from Crassus' legions:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250297,00.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/24/content_3396301.htm

Apparently fitness levels have fallen since the days of ancient
Greece:

http://www.physorg.com/news90153434.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070208100643.htm
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=21793
http://news.com.com/2061-11204_3-6157566.html

For reasons I can't quite comprehend (other than a possible
Valentine's Day connection?) the question of Cleopatra's beauty
was raised again in connection with a coin portrait:

http://tinyurl.com/2na72s (Seattle Times)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/16699224.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2zwc9v (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/2c7jxx (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/2dwup2 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070215/ap_on_sc/britain_cleopatra_coin_6
http://tinyurl.com/2xnqh4 (Times)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070215-cleopatra.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/6357311.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17157862/
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u16004.shtml

Remains of a theatre (possibly that of Acharnae) have been found
in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/yutqb7 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/2b5fhm (Kathimerini)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/16/greektheater_arc.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17177406/

Items from the Kerameikos will soon be on display:

http://tinyurl.com/2gvvea (IOL)

Plans to save a temple of Isis and Osiris at Brexiza:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=80105

Big digs are on the way in Pisidia and Karia:

http://tinyurl.com/2932pv (TZ)

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the discovery of
Rome's Catacombs:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A Roman necropolis from Lincolnshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/6358023.stm

... and some interesting burials from York:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6338765.stm

Another piece on BYU's efforts in revealing what is really
on some ancient papyri:

http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063

Interesting gladiator-related finds from Cheshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/6370899.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2214843.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1398041.ece
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART44027.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007070918,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrqdar (Telegraph)

Another amphitheatre has been found ... this time in Peterborough:

http://tinyurl.com/2p8yco (Peterborough Today)

300 seems to be a hit:

http://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117959583.html?categoryid=38&cs=1

Roman Polanski will direct the movie version of Harris' Pompeii:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/02/04/polanski-pompeii.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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist has found what may be the UK's oldest set
of earrings:

http://tinyurl.com/yrzfet (Metro)

A transcript of an interview with one of the archaeologists who
is working on that Stonehenge village:

http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2007/s1850324.htm

Medieval finds beneath a Somerset barn:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/6345647.stm

Pub construction in Coventry has revealed a medieval leper
colony:

http://tinyurl.com/yo5ack (BBC)

Excavations have revealed some 'strange features' at Bodiam
Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/6330873.stm

Of course there was plenty of Valentinesish coverage of that
discovery of the neolithic 'Romeo and Juliet' burial from
Italy:

http://www.wane.com/global/story.asp?s=6051118
http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.asp?S=6051118&nav=2KPp2Qjt
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070208/ap_on_sc/italy_prehistoric_love_13
http://tinyurl.com/2q6vhm (USA Today)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6338751.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17011786/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17114349/

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 study suggesting the Terracotta
Army was made in a couple of different places:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1841166.htm?ancient

A 1700 b.p. Buddhist temple from Bihar Dhap:

http://tinyurl.com/2x7rv5 (Daily Star)

Can't believe this hasn't already been done ... they're going
to measure China's Great Wall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6352239.stm

More coverage of finds from Olympic venues in Beijing:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/05/news/beijing.php

A huge number of ancient Indian manuscripts are going online:

http://tinyurl.com/ytexhb (IBN)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Still looking for Champlain's grave:

http://tinyurl.com/2xggqc (Gazette)

... and following up on implications of Jefferson's DNA:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6332545.stm

Gold Rush-era human remains from the environs of Sacramento:

http://tinyurl.com/39tmtc  (ABC)

A 'mystery excavation' in Baytown (Texas):

http://stories.baytownsun.com/story.lasso?ewcd=4fea2b55b91b2783
http://stories.baytownsun.com/story.lasso?ewcd=28e0b1aa61cca540

Wanna buy a burial mound?:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16667799.htm

Big bucks for Mesa Verde:

http://tinyurl.com/34vnay (Cortez Journal)

George Washington and the rules of civility:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7466065
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Using looters' trenches to figure out what happened at a site
in Belize:

http://tinyurl.com/2p3en5 (USA Today)

Interesting implications of maize found with an andean mummy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070211202525.htm

They're going to build a replica of a Maya tomb at Rey Pakal:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_250429769,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Ulcers have been around for a long time:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6338357.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070215134529.htm
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6711

African genes in Yorkshire:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/24/yorkshire_y_chromosome/

The Vatican is trying to control overcrowding:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/travel/18journeys.html

The Russian Orthodox Church is angry at an attempt to sell some
relics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6333085.stm

Did the Vikings use 'sunstones' to help them navigate?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6338535.stm

History's greatest banquets:

http://tinyurl.com/2gtv2o (Independent)

The ancient history of hot peppers:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17171454/
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/15/science-chili.html
http://tinyurl.com/37jfm6
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6367299.stm

What Dan Brown hath spawned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/books/16masl.html

More on the search for the Battle of Anghiari:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2204088.ece

Using forensic techniques to discern the colours of ancient textiles:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070208100919.htm

The obligatory (for this time of year) history of kissing piece:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5209683

The story of some 'slave Robinson Crusoes':

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2237660.ece

The next Indiana Jones flick will be out in May, 2008:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6339983.stm

A time capsule from the rubble of Doctor's Hospital (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/nyregion/13ink.html

Interesting series from NPR on the Sunni-Shia split in Islam:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7346199

I swear that almost everyone I know sent me this Youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ravenna:

http://tinyurl.com/2lwepa (Post-Gazette)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter (Winter 2007):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter07

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 looting of sites in Afghanistan continues:

http://tinyurl.com/2uefay (Detroit News)

A major antiquities bust in Spain:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070207/ap_en_ot/spain_looted_art_2

... and a 'medium' one in Algeria:

http://www.elkhabar.com/FrEn/lire.php?ida=59366&idc=52

... and a smaller one in Egypt:

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2067127,00.html

One of the pioneers of prosecuting looters in the U.S. is
retiring:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5210015
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NUMISMATICA
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Liberty Seated Collector's Club:

http://www.lsccweb.org/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Tut:

http://tinyurl.com/37kxdt (Morning Call)

Art of Sassanian Iran:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/arts/design/16sasa.html

Turner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/arts/design/16voge.html

Venetian Brass:

http://tinyurl.com/2jorxx (New Yorker)

The Getty is returning two disputed items to Greece:

http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/28421.html

... while the Louvre has backed down (under pressure from Greece)
from its plans to show the Cleveland Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/yqpft8 (Plain Dealer)

The Met is about to unveil its new Greek and Roman galleries:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19294

... although that Italian village still wants its Etruscan
chariot:

http://tinyurl.com/27uqx7 (Bloomberg)

... and Neil MacGregor apparently isn't headed there:

http://tinyurl.com/yvafmp (Bloomberg)

There's a strike at the Louvre:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/world/europe/15paris.html

What's up at the Uffizi:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/06/features/uffizi.php

Recent acquisitions by the Nasher Museum:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/539873.html
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/02/antiquities.html

Pagans are jumping on the repatriation bandwagon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2005983,00.html
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ON THE WEB
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Interesting book plate collection site:

http://jvarnoso.com/exlibris/
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OBITUARIES
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Bruce Metzger (Biblical Manuscripts Scholar):

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-02142007-1299189.html
http://tinyurl.com/yprxpq (Zwire)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070216-082113-9610r.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/obituaries/16metzger.html

Thomas Rosenmeyer (Greek and Comp Lit):

http://tinyurl.com/23sopm (Chronicle)
http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=23013

Nicholas Howe (Anglo-Saxon Studies):

http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/essays.php?file=essays/liuzza40_1.txt
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http://news.stonepages.com/

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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals couldn't handle the cold?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6341987.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A double wooden statue from Saqqara is getting a lot of press:

http://tinyurl.com/2npx2k (LA Times)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070219/sc_nm/egypt_statues_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/2uj7a4 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2nvcnd (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/2t8ewj (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1930532920070219

A mudbrick tomb therefrom as well (connected to the above):

http://tinyurl.com/2khaz5 (USA Today)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/19/tech/ap/main2492446.shtml
http://www.physorg.com/news91114301.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17229453/
http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/14-821161.cfm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_sc/egypt_tomb_discovered_3
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/healthscience/abox/article_1585627.php
http://tinyurl.com/yv3fbb (AP via Yahoo)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_252699824,00.html

cf:

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/02/mummy_dearest.html

Overview pieces about all recent finds from Saqqara:

http://tinyurl.com/32rxbt (Reuters)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/833/eg11.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/International/popup?id=2889572 (slideshow)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6379431.stm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2012923420070221

A 5000 b.p. artificial eye:

http://tinyurl.com/33c859 (Daily Mail ... photo)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253221,00.html
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2006/December2006/11-12.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1415400.ece

A Persian-era temple from Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/2f7xks (Reuters)

This week's edition of the the Temple Mount Saga has claims that
IAA authorities are hiding the discovery of a Muslim 'prayer
room' found near the infamous ramp:

http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=208729
http://tinyurl.com/3dltmg (ABC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_holy_site_1
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/02/18/10105244.html
http://www.dawn.com/2007/02/19/top18.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827435.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827296.html
http://tinyurl.com/22s7xy (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/26c4uz (IHT)

cf:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=11648
http://tinyurl.com/37uapt (JPost)

... not getting as much press attention is a story about Muslim
construction of a minaret on the site:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54316

This is a story that first surfaced a decade ago and now is making
the rounds again as hype for a book ... ossuaries with the names
of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (apparently from the same tomb) in
a museum storage room:

http://tinyurl.com/3yvhyj (Daily Mail)
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10106901.html
http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=210067
http://tinyurl.com/yroxaa (Telegraph)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3368731,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2wxnql (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/274t7n (Globe and Mail)

... not sure if we had this James Ossuary update:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/823215.html

Interview with the director of the Netherlands Institute in
Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=103287

On pronouncing Babel:

http://tinyurl.com/2d345d (Chronicle)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Vague news about some sort of significant discovery at
Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=77078
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_271801046

Similarly-vague news of the discovery of temples older than the
pyramids in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=76855
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1628380697 (misleading photo)

More coverage of that Acharnes theatre find:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070221/stage_nm/greece_theatre_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/2t65p5 (Reuters)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21267568-1702,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21267568-23109,00.html
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070222-010536-4031r/
http://tinyurl.com/2b5fhm (Kathimerini)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=281582007
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=sci_tech&id=5039898
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_253022535,00.html

... and some fallout therefrom:

http://tinyurl.com/2fgr75 (Kathimerini)

Haven't heard about the Amazons in a while:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=66653

Trying to turn Knidos into something more touristy:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=66606

More on DNA studies and the Etruscans (I can't get this one
to come up this a.m. ... ymmv):

http://tinyurl.com/18r

Review of a couple of books about Pythagoras:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n04/burn02_.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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A missing altar stone from Stonehenge may have been located:

http://tinyurl.com/ypncoj (Western Mail)
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=279972007

Medieval coin find by a father-son metal detectorist team:

http://tinyurl.com/2s9hrl (This is Lancashire)

Vague item about a collapsed tomb in Wilton:

http://tinyurl.com/2ge7yw (Newsquest)

Another recurring search ... lost Jacobite gold:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6375219.stm

Druids are hopping on the reburial bandwagon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6385675.stm

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 pile of 1800 b.p. tombs from northern China:

http://www.hongkongnews.net/story/230203

Interesting underwater finds at Dwaraka:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/23/stories/2007022301242200.htm

Time for the annual there's-too-many-tourists-at-Angkor-Wat
piece:

http://www.dailytidings.com/2007/0222/stories/0222_bp_cambodia.php

Suing the British Museum of Natural History to prevent DNA
testing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_on_sc/aboriginal_remains_1
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2283981.ece

An award for preserving the Gilgit Manuscript:

http://tinyurl.com/yuvesx

Survey of sites in the Punjab:

http://tinyurl.com/2cwfqh

Review of Frank Pope, *Dragon Sea*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/travel/25armchair.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Migrations before Clovis?:

http://tinyurl.com/2l5olv (SciAm)
http://tinyurl.com/3d227d (Miami Herald)
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/healthscience/article_1589473.php
http://tinyurl.com/2xeytq (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070222/sc_nm/clovis_culture_dc_2
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7565568
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2296859.ece
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17298212/

Remember that guy in Utah who had a chunk of land with a treasure
trove of ancient sites (an explorator reader recently asked me
about this ... sorry, I misplaced your address)? Seems he's not
happy with how it's all being managed:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660198618,00.html

A potentially interesting potential cave burial (?) from
Kentucky:

http://tinyurl.com/yvogdj (Courier Journal)

Finds from downtown New Paltz:

http://oracle.newpaltz.edu/article.cfm?id=2908

Cleaning up (excavating?) a shell midden near Savannah:

http://savannahnow.com/node/230712

That burial mound that was for sale is off the market (it seems):

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16763464.htm

Interesting frame restoration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/arts/design/19fram.html

A missing piece of George Washington's tent has been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/science/20tent.html

Searching for the steamboat Nellie:

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6105637&nav=S6aK

The latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the rise
and fall (sort of) of a Virgina family:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of 'Amazing Grace':

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/movies/23amaz.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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(Very) early agriculture in Panama:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/uoc-pof021507.php

Interesting study of Columbus' first settlement:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070223143515.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/527363/
http://tinyurl.com/2folqg (NG)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17242028/

An Amazonian 'Stonehenge':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13582228/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More on the antiquity of hot peppers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/science/20obse.ART.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1849778.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3yp77t (Reuters)

Tile patterns reveal medieval muslim mathematician mastery:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070222/sc_nm/architecture_patterns_dc_1
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2296841.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6389157.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17282496/

A descendant of Franz Ferdinand is trying to recover the family
castle:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2287032.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/world/europe/19castle.html

Interesting climate study in Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1848641.htm

Social guidance for the unread?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/books/24read.html

Michelangelo slept in the Vatican:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/arts/20arts.html (scroll down)

Review of Yale Book of Quotations:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/070219crbo_books_menand

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Athens:

http://www.startribune.com/1513/story/1019358.html

Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/3xnu3d (JPost)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New magazine ... Ancient Warfare:

http://www.ancient-warfare.com/cms/

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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... wow ...  no crime this week?
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NUMISMATICA
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Can coin descriptions in auction catalogs be copyrighted?:

http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/mar07/copyright0307.htm

The 'Crime' of 1873:

http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/MH/Crime/

Coins and Currency in Colonial America:

http://www.history.org/history/museums/coinExhibit/

Roman Provincial Coinage Online:

http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Discovering Tutankhamon:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/23/features/melik24.php

From Above (aerial photography):

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5297822

Final Farewell:

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=24358

Armenia Sacra:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_252664666,00.html

George Stubbs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/arts/design/23stub.html

Noble Silver:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/arts/design/23anti.html

An export ban on a neolithic jadeite axe head from the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/34kfm8 (GNN)

The 'Greenland Example' and the Parthon/Elgin Marbles dispute:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=576

Weekend strikes at assorted Italian museums:

http://tinyurl.com/3d6d5x (IHT)

Greece admits pressuring the Louvre in regards to the Cleveland
Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/328pzg (Plain Dealer)

More coverage of the Getty returning some objects to Greece:

http://www.huliq.com/11540/getty-museum-sign-returns-objects-to-greece

A pile of recovered Nazi loot is heading to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/arts/design/22heir.html
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OBITUARIES
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Frank Snowden (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/2twkc9 (WPost)
http://www.caas-cw.org/snowden.html

Doris Kays (Latin Teacher):

http://obits.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?type=0&id=60772

Bruce Metzger:

http://tinyurl.com/2j8cdz (Seattle Times)
http://www.towntopics.com/feb2107/obits.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Graffiti from Hadrian's wall presages Mel Gibson:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i15182
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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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EARLY HUMANS
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Haven't had a facial reconstruction in a while, so here's one
from a female skull found in a Sicilian cave:

http://tinyurl.com/2n4o3g (ANSA)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Neolithic images of horses in Anatolia petroglyphs:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=66797

An ancient olive oil factory from Milas:

http://tinyurl.com/yu8k85 (TZ)

In case you were in a sensory deprivation box and missed the
blanket coverage, there was much more coverage of the 'family
tomb' of Jesus (interesting how over the course of the week the
focus increasingly fell on James Cameron's involvement):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/us/27jesus.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070225/nysu014.html?.v=88
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/25022007/140/film-maker-christ-s-coffin.html
http://tinyurl.com/2s4t54 (another press release thingy)
http://tinyurl.com/2uve9z (CNN ... lots of video clips)
http://tinyurl.com/3bfsql (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070227/sc_nm/jesus_tomb_dc_3
http://tinyurl.com/3bykv6 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/27/news/jesus.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070301/ts_csm/ctomb_1
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/185534
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17328478/site/newsweek/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6397373.stm

... and reaction from scholars and others

http://tinyurl.com/2s689j (USA Today)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/26/tech/ap/main2515254.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/2jzp7y (Morning Journal)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070226/ap_on_en_mo/jesus_s_burial_4
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070226/ap_on_sc/jesus_s_burial_7
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_en_tv/jesus_s_burial_20
http://tinyurl.com/3x5cg4 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17345429/ (good link to photos)
http://www.physorg.com/news91714687.html
http://tinyurl.com/37qck4 (JPost)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3371608,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2udzjm (ABC)
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=23181
http://tinyurl.com/ytgvsv (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/2u9gtz (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/2esdkr (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/2ev4to (SciAm)
http://tinyurl.com/233tcn (SciAm)

... and the LA Times is catching on to the 'cottage industry'
that seems to be developing:

http://tinyurl.com/2wjx2h

... and reviews of the show are already out:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/arts/television/03stan.html

... and there will be a 'panel discussion' after the show on
Discovery Channel tonight:

http://tinyurl.com/3dzk4e (Press Release)

Here's the program's 'official webpage':

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/tomb/tomb.html

Might as well report on the Jesus Seminar too:

http://tinyurl.com/3xuevq (Sun Sentinel)

Zahi Hawass has a beef with high school textbooks:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3370258,00.html

I think we had this before, but if not, France is going to return
a lock of Ramses II's hair:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070226-013711-2645r

Review of D. Damrosch, *The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great
Epic of Gilgamesh*:

http://tinyurl.com/33bxad (WPost)
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/03/04/ancient_evenings/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Interesting find of a mid-republic Roman coin in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/2u4mgu (Telegraph)

Roman pottery in Dorchester:

http://tinyurl.com/2bwcb4 (Echo)

A 'new' statue of Hera has been found:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_sc/greece_statue_5
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17406301/
http://tinyurl.com/2rysjr (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/347dnm (USA Today)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/02/hera_arc.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ocp54 (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/353xq3 (ANA)

Another agora has been found on the edge of Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/36e4dx (Sun Times)
http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.82636.html
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070302-013631-8341r
http://tinyurl.com/3b2zy5 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/346ru2 (WPost)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17424039/ (Photo)

Interesting item on an early survey of Salamis:

http://tinyurl.com/ys5gwm (Dispatch)

Was there a third Riace bronze?:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/20070226-120103-7583r/

This story seems to put a different spin on the fate of Valerian:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=1171§ionid=351020107

Colin Renfrew on the Sevso treasure:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=580&tf_teaser=0

cf:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=581

What Richard Martin is up to:

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/2/28/openingGates

300 hype:

http://tinyurl.com/3dvreg (Times)

Ancient World Records:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,468947,00.html

More coverage of Maxentius' regalia:

http://tinyurl.com/2vsgvs (Telegraph)
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7022

... and the Acharnes theater find:

http://tinyurl.com/2ukceq (Athens News)

... and Peperikon as a metallurgical centre:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=77114

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of early gasworks in Edinburgh:

http://tinyurl.com/2takwb (BBC)

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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Lapita remains from Vanuatu:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070228/2/12klh.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10426344

Trying to limit damage to historical sites in India:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070227/139/6ckah.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=110347

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Latest on the efforts to excavate (what may be) the Queen Anne's
Revenge:

http://tinyurl.com/38efez (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/339ov2 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17434128/

Early reports of a possible shipwreck off Baja:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/27/tech/ap/main2519328.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/2lnae2 (Seattle Times)

Mystery skeleton from a dried up Oklahoma lakebed:

http://www.kswo.com/Global/story.asp?S=6171878

A sort of 'what's happening at Jamestown' piece:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/arts/design/02jame.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17424643/

More coverage of the use of technology to help look at Native
American textiles:

http://tinyurl.com/2ud6g5 (Live Science via Yahoo)

Digging Fort Vancouver:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17359346/

Not sure how this archaeology and development story in Utah
will work out:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5313118?source=rss

... although there is clarification of legal issues regarding
finds in that state:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660199940,00.html

Robert Ballard is going to check out the Texas shoreline:

http://tinyurl.com/25k6x7 (Examiner)
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/302/2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17418502/

More on Clovis not being the first:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/tau-nec022007.php
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Solar calendar/observatory found in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/2s8wzg (Bloomberg)
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070301_oldest_observatory.html
http://www.physorg.com/news91988735.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/527606/?sc=rssn
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2318720.ece
http://tinyurl.com/35db9v (Telegraph)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070302082441.htm
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070303/139/6cs5p.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6408231.stm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7658847
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17407158/
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_254504407,00.html

A bunch of ancient burials from Colombia:

http://english.cri.cn/2906/2007/02/22/65@198621.htm

... and from Chile:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5666_254479499,00.html

More on the fate of La Isabela:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/27observ.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More (and better) coverage of the math-and-Islamic-tiles story
first mentioned last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/27math.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070303/mathtrek.asp
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/22/tiles_arc.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1426786.ece
http://tinyurl.com/32kspq (SciAm)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7544360

DNA and 'lactose intolerance' (again):

http://tinyurl.com/3aeu87 (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6397001.stm

The Straight Dope on why the alphabet is in 'alphabetical order':

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/070302.html

A 'priceless' 17th century Greek icon has been found beneath
another painting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/arts/01arts.html (2nd item)

There's a big brouhaha brewing over Italy's plans to lend
Leonardo's 'Annunciation' to Japan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/arts/02arts.html (2nd item)

Interview with Martin Jones about ancient crops:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/inconversation/stories/2007/1847869.htm

Al Sharpton's family tree:

http://nydailynews.com/front/story/500577p-422090c.html

Nice feature on art historian Robert Rosenblum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/arts/design/28rose.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Angkor Wat:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/travel/16803616.htm

Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/3xnu3d (JPost)
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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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Fighting 'ruin raiders' in Shaanxi:

http://english.people.com.cn/200702/28/eng20070228_353062.html

Nice piece on technology being used to trace art thefts:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070303/ap_on_en_ot/stolen_art
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NUMISMATICA
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Early Colonial coins:

http://www.history.org/history/museums/coinExhibit/
http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/

Capitoline Coin collection:

http://tinyurl.com/22hptt

Coins of Miletus:

http://rjohara.net/coins/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Amazing Rare Things:

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

Tut:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/Life/articles.asp?articleID=9682

Ink and Blood:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5344567

Praxiteles:

http://tinyurl.com/35mknv

Imperial Rome:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/4583479.html

Chinese terracottas (not the ones you're thinking of):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/realestate/25habi.html

A Saxton atlas is coming to auction:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2023704,00.html
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ON THE WEB
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Mediterranean Archaeology GIS:

http://cgma.depauw.edu/MAGIS/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Alan Eames ('Beer' scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/obituaries/27eames.html

Frank Snowden:

http://tinyurl.com/2jo7os (LA Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/obituaries/28snowden.html
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070227-043034-7136r/
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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In light of what was obviously the 'big story' this week, this
Purimesque post from JPost offers some welcome relief:

http://tinyurl.com/yr2nvk
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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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Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W Sargent,
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Sue Day, Susan Jaslow, 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).

Hope everyone to whom it applies has had a smooth transition to
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Lime burials at Jiroft?:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7028

Masada is in danger of collapse (!):

http://www.nysun.com/article/50179
http://tinyurl.com/2xzlql (JPost)

Trying to save Karnak sites from seepage:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_255216145,00.html

A roundup of the digging season in Kuwait:

http://tinyurl.com/36tlxt (Arab Times)

The Times has a good roundup of reaction to the Lost Tomb of
Jesus thing:

http://tinyurl.com/2hwcts

More:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/jesustomb2.html
http://www.ptsem.edu/NEWS/images/Charlesworth%20comment.pdf
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/835/pe1.htm
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13728
http://www.forward.com/articles/jesus-film-slammed-by-scholars-christians/
http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=640
http://www.joezias.com/tomb.html

There's concern for Iranian sites near nuclear facilities:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2026704,00.html

Latest spinoff from the al Aqsa Mosque/Temple Mount controversy:

http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=17989&lang=en

It's now safe, apparently, for a pile of Afghan artifacts to return
home:

http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/189222

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Neolithic remains from northern Greece:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_254727661,00.html

Quite a bit of coverage of the discovery of what appears to be
a Roman village near Silbury Hill:

http://tinyurl.com/2fw5ke (CNN)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6436967.stm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL1053491320070310
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=384732007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2030645,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2qzfah (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/yuh4co (Wiltshire Times)

... and some 'clumsy' parody of the above:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i16019

Interesting feature on the Seven Wonders:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2030611,00.html

They're going to be looking into the provenance of the Getty
Aphrodite:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aRTaFCY6HnbY
http://tinyurl.com/2hqdeg (LA Times)

Seeking a home for Kritios Boy and other famous statuary(sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/224x88 (CC Times)
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/16836708.htm

More coverage of that other agora found in Athens:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/03/05/3699237-ap.html

The Silures in the news:

http://tinyurl.com/2z4bh4 (Western Mail)

Interesting 'new tradition' developing on the Milvian Bridge:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_eu/italy_bridge_of_love_2

Nice feature on the Archimedes Palimpsest in Smithsonian mag:

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/march/archimedes.php

... semi-related is a 'corrective' to that story out of BYU a few
weeks ago in the 'Daily Universe':

http://newnewsnet.byu.edu/63063.html

Interesting venue for Philoctetes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/health/06soph.html

National Geographic has a feature on the Ides of March:

http://tinyurl.com/2jbxa

Paul Cartledge on 300:

http://tinyurl.com/2ro2wy (USA Today)

... and VDH on same:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/16857427.htm

... and a relevant website:

http://www.300spartanwarriors.com/

Pheidippides' training diary:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/giles_smith/article1464230
.ece

More coverage of Greek and Roman records (of the Guiness variety):

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/583679

... and that Hera statue find:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/583729

New blog of note: Current Epigraphy:

http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 7000 b.p. 'dwelling mound' from Germany:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,470120,00.html

A Saxon burial from Cambridgeshire:

http://tinyurl.com/2y6ksv (BBC)

Okay ... maybe Alfred didn't burn the cakes:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/uol-wsk030907.php

Not quite sure where to put this one ... a Napoleonic shipwreck
is shedding some light on the battle of Acre:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/family_guide/16831013.htm
http://www.ccnmag.com/news.php?id=4904

The Dalhousie Family Papers have been saved for Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=381392007

... and an interesting mural restoration effort therefrom as well:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=309872007

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 hoard of ancient coins from Jeron:

http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070309/0903102.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Apparently very old stone tools from the Walker site in Minnesota:

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1033121.html

... although at least one archaeologist thinks they're 'just rocks':

http://tinyurl.com/yt4jpa (MPR)
http://www.kaaltv.com/article/view/111152/
http://tinyurl.com/2e8oqe (Post-Bulletin)
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_064182158.html
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1033274.html
http://www.walkermn.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=230705

Excavating a former slave market in Natchez:

http://tinyurl.com/28vzp4 (Democrat)
http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6191070

Mystery bones from Summit County:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5405259

A burial will not (apparently) hold up construction at a site
near Sarasota:

http://tinyurl.com/286y7w (Herald)

More Queen Anne's Revenge coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/38efez (LA Times)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of that 'observatory' in Peru:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/science/06sola.html (JNW)
http://tinyurl.com/293nxj (Globe)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/07/healthscience/snancient.php

Challenging theories about population in 1491 Amazonia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/fiot-pc1030607.php
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the DNA front, we have a nice study of the genetic heritage
of the British Isles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/science/06brits.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/05/news/web.0305BRITS.full.php

... and the suggestion that Thomas Jefferson had some Jewish
ancestry:

http://tinyurl.com/yuv8pp (Chronicle)

Descendants of former slaves of the Cherokee have been denied
tribal status:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/us/04vote.html

What unbrushed teeth tell us about past diets (that doesn't
sound right):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/02/foodinteeth_arc.html

A possible portrait of Lady Jane Grey (didn't we have this a
year ago or so?):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,,2026684,00.html

More coverage of the Vatican getting that Bodmer papyrus:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/05/gospel_arc.html

On Emily Dickinson's influence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/arts/design/09wave.html

Putting Hamlet on trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/theater/10haml.html

The latest film on the Archaeology Channel is a parody/comment
of the 'Digging for Truth' series:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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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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Some looted artifacts from Pakistan were returned:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070308/137/6d13f.html
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=46089

A purloined 300 b.p. Quran was recovered:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070309/211/6d3ha.html

Another antiquities bust in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/266tmn (IHT)

... and one in Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/25w4uf (Echo)
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Ancient Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/2x5k4p  (News Sun)
http://tinyurl.com/26lv5n (Tribune)

Tut:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2031293,00.html

The New World:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2028938,00.html

Citizens and Kings:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/02/features/melik3.php

Russia Imagined:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/arts/design/09russ.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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King Lear:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/theater/reviews/08lear.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Theodore Brunner (TLG Classicist)

http://tinyurl.com/2g6ucm (LA Times)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
er ... well maybe Elmer can eat this one:

http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/222838/
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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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EARLY HUMANS
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On Australopithecines' short legs:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_5423097
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17584912/

Early (160 000 bp) homo sapiens developed just like us:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070313/2/12q63.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2032480,00.html
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/312/1
http://tinyurl.com/3ccc2f (Telegraph)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17594036/

... and tooth decay analysis supports the 'Out of Africa' theory:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070316074807.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we've had this story before ... turns out some canopic
jars in the Louvre actually have remains of cosmetics in them:

http://tinyurl.com/2ool98 (New Scientist)
http://tinyurl.com/34ah7f (AFP via Yahoo)

Checking out the dna of a child mummy:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_sc/mummy_child_5
http://tinyurl.com/3ytkjg (WPost)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17635051/

Interesting item on the Philistines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13phil.html (JNW)

A 10 km (!) long 'wall' found near Pasargadae:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1178.html

They keep finding braziers in Qom:

http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0703152177142447.htm

In case you missed the Iranian reaction to 300:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=2975§ionid=3510301
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1598886,00.html
http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1224.html
http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1215.html

cf: http://www.thestar.com/article/190493
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/movies/09thre.html

Searching for Sodom:

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=43230&archive=true

Construction of a light rail transit system in Jerusalem has revealed
a Second Temple community:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121830
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/100562.html

An 'archaeologist for a day' piece set in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/2kd8kp (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/32mveg (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17595732/

Restoring Herod's Massada palaces:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=836467

The UN is poking its nose into the Temple Mount thing:

http://tinyurl.com/37aq9y (JPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6449177.stm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=837163

... while Israel is belatedly celebrating Heritage Status for some
sites:

http://tinyurl.com/2t6epc (JPost)

... and the Incense Route has been so designated as well:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=837186

More followups to the Jesus Tomb story (I'm picking and choosing
here from a huge pile):

http://sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=651
http://sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=640
http://sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=649

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/03/13/jesus.tomb.ap/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_sc/jesus_tomb
http://sbl-site.org/PDF/Pfann.pdf (the article mentioned above)
http://www.uhl.ac/MariameAndMartha/ (ditto)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17599355/ (more shocking is the photo)

http://www.michaelsheiser.com/jesustomb.htm
http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2007/03/jesus-family-tomb-website-errors-and.htm
l

Nice article on obelisks outside of Egypt:

http://www.nysun.com/article/50597

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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The Greeks were stomping grapes in Neolithic times:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/16/oldgrapes_arc.html

A 'trojan' spearhead from Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=77824
http://tinyurl.com/2krvrd (Sofia Echo)

They've found the starting gates at Colchester's circus:

http://tinyurl.com/35mhub (EADT)

A Roman villa on the Via Aurelia:

http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=2879

Robin Osborne delivered the Martin Lecture at Oberlin:

http://tinyurl.com/3a5je5

What Hollywood teaches us about the ancient world:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2034572,00.html

Latin is alive and well in Chicago (maybe):

http://tinyurl.com/2knsey (Courier)

Update on the Acropolis Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/3bqvtk (ANA)

A movie about Heinrich Schliemann is in the works:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/3591/

Classicists react to 300:

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

Will they react to God of War II:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/arts/16Game.html

Barry Strauss on Thermopylae:

http://www.historynet.com/magazines/mhq/3033206.html

The Getty Aphrodite is going to get further study:

http://tinyurl.com/2w3bnh (LA Times)

This isn't really news ... I think it's just about an exhibition
of items found a few years ago (perfume from Cyprus), but it's
presented as news for some reason:

http://tinyurl.com/39ess6 (Monsters and Critics)
http://www.physorg.com/news93275325.html

Chairs for three Classics profs at UPenn:

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v53/n25/chairs.html

Pope Benedict wants to restore the Latin Mass and Gregorian
chant:

http://tinyurl.com/3amazp (LeMonde)

More coverage of the Roman settlement near Silbury Hill:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/584097

The Ides of March after party:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8899367

Interview with the author of *Medicus*:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8972580

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Neolithic massacre site (?) near the Uffington White Horse:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6439401.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3dgfkl (NG)

More human remains (late Iron Age) from the air force base at
Mildenhall:

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=43331&archive=true

A medieval burial ground at a construction site near Preston:

http://tinyurl.com/2mq4dl (PT)

A watchtower from King Sverre's time:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1687823.ece
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/68499

More efforts to protect heritage sites in the UK:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2030119,00.html

Revisionism in the abolition of slavery in Britain:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,,2034333,00.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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The abandonment of Angkor Wat is being blamed on climate change:

http://tinyurl.com/2kcqj9 (Telegraph)

Recent finds near Chennai:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/17/stories/2007031701111600.htm

The debate over whether to excavate some Imperial tombs continues
in China:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070314/19/12qt4.html

Some headless burials are shedding light on the origins of the
Lapita folk:

http://tinyurl.com/363q2g (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17627702/

Vandals are damaging petroglyphs in Australia:

http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,21395441-3102,00.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 'circular site' near Yorktown, Indiana may be a prehistoric
site:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_sc/mystery_circle_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17584684/
http://www.physorg.com/news92982290.html
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5114652
http://tinyurl.com/38av6u

A mound near Bradenton may get county protection:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16898413.htm

Robert Ballard's expedition off the Texas shore doesn't appear
to have found much:

http://tinyurl.com/2qoh9a (GCDN)

Interesting Q&A from the NYT on whether smallpox could have been
spread 'via blanket':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13mqa.html

Three forts in/near New Orleans have been designated among the
ten most threatened Civil War sites:

http://tinyurl.com/365gga (Times Picayune)

Pictographs in Saskatchewan are threatened by erosion:

http://tinyurl.com/395pht (Star Phoenix)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Mexican archaeologists have found a pile of pre-Hispanic burials:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/miami/23791.html

A blog following the dig at Calixtlahuaca:

http://calixtlahuaca.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Tracking human migration/origins via parasite DNA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13para.html
http://www.the-scientist.com/article/home/52881/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17542627/site/newsweek/

... and pig DNA:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/du-psf031107.php
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070313/21/12qaz.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6445261.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312231808.htm

... while human DNA is leading to some 'family reunions':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/arts/14reun.html

Annotating Jane Austen (and others):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/books/16anno.html

Hamlet on trial:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8959519

An earlier date for St. Patrick?:

http://tinyurl.com/353yok (Chronicle)

The evolution of Charles Darwin:

http://tinyurl.com/2k2tbo (Telegraph)

Review of N. Hamilton, *Biography: A Brief History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Stossel.t.html

Review of A. Sisman, *The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Campbell.t.html

Review of R. Pite, *Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Wineapple.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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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 'state of the looting' in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/2qnk6b (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2qcjdg (Daily Star)

Germany just signed on the 1970 UNESCO thing, but there are
concerns that Germany will now become a haven for illegal
artifacts:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/315/5818/1479a

The husband of a curator at the Hermitage has been arrested:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/arts/16herm.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Coins from the El Cazador shipwreck are going to be sold on the
Home Shopping Network:

http://tinyurl.com/3bkj8r (IHT)

Museum Victoria Coins and Medals:

http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/coins/

Athens Numismatic Museum:

http://www.nma.gr/the_museum/uk/index1.htm

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Tut (sans the mask, despite the photo that accompanies most of
these):

http://tinyurl.com/33hp62 (Times)
http://tinyurl.com/2jocfg (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/070312/5/5iu.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6445783.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2347993.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2v65qz (Telegraph)

Eros:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7863408

Russian WWII Booty:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6445989.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2032359,00.html

The Ancient Americas:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17574997/

Incisive Images:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/arts/design/16ivor.html

Faith and Fortune:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/arts/design/16wads.html

From Revolution to Republic:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/arts/design/16prin.html

Quite a bit of coverage of the return to Afghanistan of a
number of artifacts which had been removed from the country:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1874524.htm
http://www.centredaily.com/135/story/44516.html
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070317-022508-3713r/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6462433.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_en_ot/afghan_museum_returns_3
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070317-022508-3713r

In case you were worried, daVinci's Annunciation has arrived
safely in Japan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/arts/17arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/arts/13arts.html

More on the Vatican's attempts to limit traffic through its
museums:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_5412304?source=rss

Coverage of the European Fine Art Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/arts/design/12fair.html

Looks like the Albright-Knox Museum is going to sell off its
antiquities:

http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/31956.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/arts/design/14albr.html

Not sure whether this is the right category for this piece about
the brothers who run Phoenix Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/business/yourmoney/18Art.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Dido and Aeneas:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2036381,00.html

King Lear:

http://tinyurl.com/2jlwfv (New Yorker)

Andre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/arts/16Game.html
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OBITUARIES
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Clark Howell (Anthropologist of Human Origins):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/obituaries/15howell.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Folks following the Bosnian Pyramid thing might be interested
in a letter sent to (and posted at) my blog this week:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00005646.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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Mike Ruggeri,Rochelle Altman,Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W Sargent,
Rick Pettigrew,Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,W. Richard Frahm,
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EARLY HUMANS
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More coverage of the 'leg up' which Australopithecines may
have had:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258521,00.html

... and a somewhat strange (to me, anyway) about furry babies:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=65232

... but perhaps our view of 'cavewomen' is off?:

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/03/21/cavewoman/
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AFRICA
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Another dam ... another story of archaeologists scurrying to
find as much as they can:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20045
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Remember a few years ago when Egypt was going to relocate a
whole village to protect some antiquities? Seems there's a bit
of snag:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/world/africa/23luxor.html

Remains of bouquets in an Egyptian tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/2lqmwt (SIS)

More coverage of the find of that Second Temple era town in
Jerusalem:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121830

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=12060

... while this 'accusation' sounds vaguely familiar:

http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=18588

A flood of Iranian reaction to '300' this week:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1268.html
http://tinyurl.com/2puzbe (RFE)
http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2007/03/22/3812092-ap.html
http://tinyurl.com/395stq
http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1251.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2131809120070321

Some sort of bacteria is damaging some of Iran's sites:

http://tinyurl.com/38yy5z (New Scientist)

Nice feature on underwater archaeologist Jacob Sharvit:

http://tinyurl.com/2vcqp4 (JNW)

JPost has an interview with Simcha Jacobovici:

http://tinyurl.com/33krb4

[editorial comment from yours truly: how does this
film maker get access to sites when there are photos
of him trampling documents in tombs and his television
series documents him actually breaking in to sites
(e.g. the John the Baptist cave episode)????]

... speaking of which, the Jesus Tomb stuff seems to
have trailed off this week; of the handful of items
that passed my screen, this was the only one which seemed
to add anything to the discussion:

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070324/news/news5.html

Review of David Damrosch's Gilgamesh book:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/Rosen.t.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Some Illyrian ships have been found in Bosnia:

http://www.suntimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=419816

... and more Roman artifacts in India:

http://tinyurl.com/2ryxnf (Daily India)

Good article on Greek theatre acoustics:

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070319/full/070319-16.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070324/139/6dnty.html

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/2r5wzg (New Scientist)

Cambridge now has a cast of the Samos Kouros:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/6478885.stm

Some coverage of JCL activities at Princeton:

http://tinyurl.com/3cyhkf (Times)

... and in Ohio:

http://tinyurl.com/yvru92 (Press and Recorder)

Peter Jones stirs the pot with an article on pronunciation of
Latin:

http://www.theoldie.co.uk/oldie/content/page/284493.html

Pompeiian plants for sale:

http://tinyurl.com/27b5vc (ANSA)

Latin is alive and well at Greencastle-Antrim High:

http://www.therecordherald.com/articles/2007/03/21/local_news/news05.txt

Possible comparanda in this piece on Derek Walcott's poetry:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8962854

An interview with Steven Saylor:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/books/side/4654195.html

Another feature on James 'Athenian' Stuart:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2037352,00.html

More coverage of that Cypriot perfume story:

http://tinyurl.com/2mj7f3
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/584602
http://www.nysun.com/article/50879
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/21/oldest_perfume/
http://tinyurl.com/36o9dd (Telegraph)

Review of Glenn Most's Hesiod translation:

http://tinyurl.com/274uaf (Sun)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A possible medieval hospital site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/6473879.stm

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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Various restoration efforts associated with the Great Wall:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/latestnews/2007322/45036.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200703/22/eng20070322_360103.html

Plans are afoot to dig for a 900 b.p. imperial altar in Viet Nam:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=26308

What archaeology is revealing about class systems in 19th century
Australia:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/22/servant_his.html

The various threats facing Pakistan's sites:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070319/lf_nm/pakistan_ruins_dc_1
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070319/137/6dgy0.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17688415/

A Harappan site is 'crying out' for restoration:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070323/139/6dmns.html

... while restoration efforts are afoot for some temples in
Tamil Nadu:

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=10122

Nice feature on epigraphist Parabrahma Sastry:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/19/stories/2007031911650400.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A possible Mogollon burial near Alamogordo:

http://www.alamogordonews.com/news/ci_5500695

Excavating the home of Thomas Jefferson's "girlfriend":

http://tinyurl.com/39xmp9 (News Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/2s84tt (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17694637

They're digging in the Mall in Philadelphia:

http://www.phila-tribune.com/channel/cityregion/032307/dig032307.asp
http://tinyurl.com/3xy9l2 (UPI)

Searching for the origins of a Hunley crewman:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070322/ap_on_sc/hunley_crewmen
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17743356/

Review of Michael Wallis, *Billy the Kid*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/Stiles.t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An ancient footpath preserved:

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/21713/

New findings on political power in Peru:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/uadb-naf032207.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070322132951.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An author is claiming to have evidence the Portuguese discovered
Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/2og4mx (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/38jvhm (CNN)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17722949/

The Rice portrait of Jane Austen is going to auction:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070323/us_nm/britain_arts_austen_dc_3
http://tinyurl.com/34ad24 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4003244a14297.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/03/23/austen-portrait.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070324/2/12v84.html

They've found Chopin's piano:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070321/od_nm/arts_chopin1_dc

Not sure where to classify this one ... UCL is being sued for
the return of a number of 'Aramaic Incantation Bowls' a
tycoon lent it a while ago:

http://tinyurl.com/37n32u (Times)

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the CyArk project
to digitize various World Heritage Sites:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Interesting projects receiving NEH grants under the rubric of
Digital Humanities Research Awards:

http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/DHI_March2007.htm

Another attempt to save a dying language:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/world/asia/18manchu.html

... sidebar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/world/asia/18manchu_side.html

What if literary heroes and heroines had cell phones?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/Wagner2.t.html

More coverage of pig dna and human migration:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17722417/

More coverage of the UK's pondering of the slave trade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/arts/design/20slav.html

Donation of documents from the Communist Party to NYU:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/arts/20nyu.html

Review of Hanna Blank, *Virgin: The Untouched History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/Kuczynski2.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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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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India is cracking down on antiquities smugglers:

http://tinyurl.com/2wuumg (Times)

Bulgaria wants stuff back:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=78206

The smuggling continues in Afghanistan:

http://tinyurl.com/34knf3 (AFP via Yahoo)

... and Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/2l6bza (Tribune)

Mathew Bogdanos is still commenting on the foregoing:

http://tinyurl.com/yrachy (Fordham)

... and some items are said to be on sale in Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/2bu6ro (Azzaman)

Meanwhile police in Italy have made some more arrests:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/03/22/3806265-ap.html
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0323arttrafficking0323-ON.html

There are a couple of versions of this 'vandals topple column
at Pompeii' story ... one semi-innocent:

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_5490732
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070321/world/pompeii_vandalism_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17729612/

... and one a bit more sinister:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2383885.ece
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10430536
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070323-035854-3175r/

Some divers were fined for pillaging a Roman wreck off France:

http://tinyurl.com/yqsq2h (Dive)

... while some smugglers in Turkey were caught in a sting
operation:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=106269

Some relics for sale on the Internet are fake (really?):

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070323/62538977.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Venice and the Islamic World:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/arts/design/23voge.html

Medea's Gold:

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aaGTZDuKINQc

Praxiteles:

http://tinyurl.com/2ah59p (ANA)

Results from the Albright-Knox Museum sell off:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/arts/24arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/arts/design/21albr.html

... and if you want to read the pre-auction hype:

http://www.buffalonews.com/101/story/36294.html

Hot on the heels of some favourable press in the NYT last week,
Phoenix Art has some things on display:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070320/aqtu062.html?.v=5

Some of those disputed items at the Getty returned to Greece
this week:

http://tinyurl.com/3dts5m (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2kfl73 (LA Times)

More coverage of the building progress of the Acropolis Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/3xeytl (Kathimerini)

The British Museum has acquired a Shang Dynasty bronze vessel:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/03/21/ap3538254.html

A record price for an astrolabe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6475751.stm

Assorted auctions in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/arts/design/23anti.html
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OBITUARIES
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William Gale (numismatist/philanthropist):

http://tinyurl.com/2cmobt (SMH)
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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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EARLY HUMANS
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Okay ... this one's been kicking around for weeks and really
isn't news as far as I can tell, but 'cavemen' apparently
preferred full-figured 'cavewomen':

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/27/fullfigured_hum.html

Last week we had something about early hominids not liking
hairy babies ... this article seems to question the timeline:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17542627/site/newsweek/

Technology is causing a rethink of the implications of homo
rudolfensis:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17873752/

On the web: Blombos Cave:

http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/blombos/
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AFRICA
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Remains of a 'lost' Islamic kingdom in Ethiopia?:

http://tinyurl.com/yv957f (IOL)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Latest from KV-63:

http://www.kv-63.com/

More inscriptions from Jiroft:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=4160§ionid=351020105

Something lost in translation here, I think ... remains of
'Raidan Temple' have been found in Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/view.php?scope=f9129&dr=&ir=&id=128691

The latest how-the-pyramids-were-built theory (although I think
we've heard this one before, no?):

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/585544
http://tinyurl.com/2dmwvw (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/2dgzqp (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17873984/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070331/ap_on_sc/france_pyramid_theory_8

Remains of a First Temple wall in the City of David:

http://tinyurl.com/228u7j (JPost)

... while we get new accusations in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=3926§ionid=3510101

More coverage of the 'standoff' in Gurna:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=504302007

More coverage of that Second Temple village in Jerusalem find:

http://tinyurl.com/2wds3m (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070331-062931-5245r

More coverage of those funerary flowers from Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/838/he2.htm

Some 'Jesus Tomb' addenda:

http://www.hebrewyeshua.com/articles/yeshua_tomb.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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 feature on that Etruscan chariot at the Met (which has been
and will be in the news more I suspect):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/arts/design/29char.html

The search for Ithaka continues:

http://tinyurl.com/3yk2ax (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/2cv3g4 (USA Today)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070326/greece_finding_ithaca.html?.v=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070327/ap_on_sc/greece_finding_ithaca_4
http://tinyurl.com/2dhxs8 (Kathimerini)
http://www.centredaily.com/225/story/51612.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17804766/

Roman remains in Cotswald:

http://tinyurl.com/2vwy4u (Journal)

More Rome-India links:

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=229176
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200703291653.htm
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/87947.asp

A section of the Eridanos river bed is on display:

http://tinyurl.com/2me3rx (ANA)

Hmmm ... a claim that Classical languages actually hurt modern
language learning:

http://tinyurl.com/2ny7md (Telegraph)

... hot on the heels of the news that Ancient History is
being dropped from A-Levels:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article1593767.ece
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2407984.ece
http://education.guardian.co.uk/alevels/story/0,,2046860,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6511747.stm

The perfume-from-Cyprus story continues to get coverage:

http://www.physorg.com/news94190703.html
http://tinyurl.com/2y646h (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070326/ap_on_sc/ancient_perfume_2
http://tinyurl.com/2w9ddv (NG)
http://www.centredaily.com/220/story/54780.html
(the anachronistic headline is obviously a pun attempt)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17802536/

What Jo-Ann Shelton is up to:

http://www.hamilton.edu/applications/calendar/detail.cfm?ID=20666

What Richard Thomas is up to:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4012818a4501.html

More details on that Heinrich Schliemann film:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/3591/

Review of Peter Parsons, *City of the Sharp Nosed Fish*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2046517,00.html

Review of Peter Green, *The Hellenistic Age*:

http://tinyurl.com/2z42bv (WPost)

Review of Pagels and King, *Reading Judas: The Gospel of
Judas and the Shaping of Christianity*:

http://tinyurl.com/33vkcv (WPost)

... cf. this reviewish thing about Judas revisionism:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article2391224.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Medieval burial under a driveway in Wiltshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6504061.stm

Evidence for early 'science' in Medieval York:

http://tinyurl.com/2za3nc (Press)

The latest in the HMS Sussex saga:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2042722,00.html

... and the Stonehenge visitor centre saga:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6507963.stm

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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Interesting Neolithic burial from South Korea:

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200703/200703280025.html

Some 800 b.p. tombs from China's Hebei province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/30/content_5917327.htm

I think we've had this before ... pollen is being used to trace
the origins of Qin's army:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6494851.stm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating Fort Gibson:

http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=123716

... while no excavation will be done at a site where a Clovis
point was found:

http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2007/03/28/news/news5.txt

A nautical dimension to the Underground Railroad?:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703270452
http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=15830

OpEd piece on conserving Native American artifacts and sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/opinion/31moe.html

Native burial site at the Madison Landing building project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/01ctmain.html

Early Charleston furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/30anti.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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'Head squishing' at El Trigal:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070328_cranial_squish.html

Crystal skull stuff:

http://www.thestar.com/Travel/article/196456

Mexico has interesting plans to improve access to inaccessible
sites:

http://tinyurl.com/256q9k (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/28h72w (ABC)

Doomsday in 2012, according to the Maya calendar?:

http://tinyurl.com/2hlrxy (USA Today)

What dung mites tell us about the rise and fall of the Inca:

http://tinyurl.com/2kp47a (Times)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6490389.stm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front ... I can't remember if we've had this bit of
Thomas Jefferson DNA results before:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070328111115.htm

... and the genetic origins of this Viking woman are interesting:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1709020.ece

Microsoft joins the efforts to save Romansch:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aMIDIGeScPZg

Interesting item on how quickly dogs may have been domesticated:

http://tinyurl.com/2jgea7

The 'secret gospel' of Mark is back in the news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/us/31beliefs.html

Evidence of early swimmer's ear?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/23/surfers_arc.html

Darwin apparently did not 'hold back' his theory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6500887.stm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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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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Vague item on 'antiquities' found in some house in Chicago:

http://tinyurl.com/383949 (Tribune)

... a later update is enlightening, I supposed, but I'm still
confused:

http://tinyurl.com/2mfnfn (Tribune)

Iran has lost a court case to recover items from Barakat
Galleries:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2405107.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2jq8ol (WPost)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2045851,00.html

... while Egyptian representatives are off to France to recover
a lock of Ramses II's hair:

http://english.people.com.cn/200703/30/eng20070330_362400.html

Some smugglers were caught in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/3aeppn (IOL)

The looting continues in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/3a89cq (AFP via Yahoo)

... and Afghanistan:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070326-074538-8592r

... and Yemen is being targeted as well:

http://tinyurl.com/yqerxx (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070326-075520-8346r

Interesting feature on stolen art and the lawyers who get
involved in recovery efforts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28law.html

A study of 'nighthawking' is afoot in the UK:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/584731
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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Kindred Spirits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/design/30dura.html

Praxiteles:

http://tinyurl.com/2vkh8m (Bloomberg)

Apocalypse Then:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/design/30apoc.html

Venice and the Islamic World:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/design/30veni.html

More coverage of the Getty returning items to Greece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6505971.stm
http://www.hostelbookers.com/info/news/18104753
http://english.people.com.cn/200703/30/eng20070330_362370.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/30/content_5914500.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2ju6gr (ANA)
http://tinyurl.com/2sz6gu (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/yq7h98 (Kathimerini)

They're trying to make a connection between the Getty sending
items back to Greece and the Elgin/Parthenon marbles:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1593772.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2w97pp (Globe and Mail)
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/197631
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/29/greece.britain/
http://tinyurl.com/3y64wm (IHT)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=492302007
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-29-greece_N.htm?csp=34
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070329/en_nm/greece_elgin_dc_1

... and the rhetoric level is rising:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2046278,00.html

... not sure if this is connected:

http://www.addpr.com/articles/christian/16386.html

... meanwhile, remember a while back when the Vatican was asked
to return some items from the Parthenon in its collection?
They've decided not to do so:

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50188

The New York Times has a special section on museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/

... some highlights:

On renovations to the Denver Art Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28build.html

... and the 'globalization' of museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28global.html

... and the packing of items being shipped:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28getty.html

An earthquake has caused some damage to the museum at
Cephalonia:

http://tinyurl.com/2b2ate (AFP via Yahoo)

... while improper storage at a museum in Turkey has led to
damage of a statue of Mars:

http://tinyurl.com/2o4msk (TZ)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Trio Medieval:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/music/30merk.html
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OBITUARIES
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Anthony Nuttall:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2043723,00.html

Riccardo Francovich:

http://tinyurl.com/235ecw (Italian)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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In honour of the day ... the ancient Israelites snacked on
pizzoh:

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/98
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Albert Reiner, Ales Bukovsky,
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Edward Rockstein, Erica Stewart, Gregory Vogel, Rick Heli,
John McMahon, John McMahon (since we missed him last week!),
Joseph Lauer,Mata Kimasitayo, Patrick Swan, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Ross W Sargent, Rick Pettigrew, Susan Jaslow,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
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EARLY HUMANS
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A find from China is calling the out-of-Africa theory into
question:

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=511592007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6518527.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ynor72 (Telegraph)

Can't remember if we've mentioned this 'evolution of sex roles'
story before:

http://tinyurl.com/2yqgjk

More coverage of the face of homo rudolfensis:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070405-human-skull.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Pumice from the eruption of Santorini has been found in a Sinai
site (and yes, the headline writers continue to have difficulties
with the difference between lava and anything else that comes
out of a volcano):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_sc/egypt_ancient_eruption_5
http://tinyurl.com/2tjerp (Examiner)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070403/2/12z6r.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070403/23/12zdg.html
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=43880
http://www.physorg.com/news94796998.html
http://tinyurl.com/32xsyz (NG)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070404/139/6e52f.html
http://tinyurl.com/26ldkm (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/35ch78 (WPost)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Egypt-Ancient-Eruption.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17920435/

Connected to the foregoing, for reasons unknown, is a piece that
there's no proof the Red Sea was parted (sounds like ZH was making
passing comments while taking journalists to the Sinai site):

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070404-040213-8401r
http://www.cathnews.com/news/704/33.php

... or that the Exodus occurred:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/03/news/moses.php


An overviewish thing (not sure, actually, how to describe this
one) on the Valley of the Kings:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/heritage.htm

Digging resumes at Pardis Tepe:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7062

There's going to be a 'Burnt City Conference' in Ravena:

http://tinyurl.com/2ocwgu (Iranmania)

Some folks are questioning the DNA conclusions in the Jesus
Tomb thing:

http://tinyurl.com/39gcko (Examiner)

More coverage of the latest how-the-great-pyramid-was-built
theory:

http://tinyurl.com/2tbxgq (HT)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Bringing together a bunch of recent stories on the origins of
the Etruscans:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/03/arts/snetrus.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/03etruscan.html
Populonia is restored and open for tourists:

http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/31010

Roman remains from Kephalonia:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070405-071737-1923r
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=150108
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-05-greek-tomb_N.htm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2433875,00.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/04/04/greece.ancient.ap/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=521852007
http://tinyurl.com/2yx2js (IHT)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17954015/

The latest on Allianoi:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=69876

On the orientation of Roman towns:

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0703213

Another teacher uses the ACE program:

http://tinyurl.com/3887qw (Daily Press)

On Hero and Leander:

http://tinyurl.com/2sq3wp (TZ)

What Roger Bagnall is up to:

http://www.nysun.com/article/51916
http://tinyurl.com/2naj5p (Chronicle)

A brief review of 300 by Paul Cartledge:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2048122,00.html

Tons of coverage of that Greek-theater-acoustics story:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/international/2007/04/682350/
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/528722/?sc=rssn
http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1324
http://tinyurl.com/2hfcsa (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070404162237.htm

Wow ... the second time around that Cyprus perfume story has
longer legs than it had when it originally broke two years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/3yylvr (News Leader)
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5573770?source=rss

An interview with Steven Saylor:

http://tinyurl.com/yr7hkc (Statesman)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The latest from Stonehenge (not sure there's anything 'new' here):

http://www.pr-inside.com/stonehenge-secrets-of-the-builders-r82154.htm

Six 2000 b.p. burials from County Clare:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0402/breaking50.htm

Remains of a medieval windmill:

http://tinyurl.com/2xdxx5

Some human remains from Preston are off for testing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/6517485.stm

Interesting item on what are being dubbed 'stonehenge amulets':

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/04/06/stonehengesymbol_arc.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 1000 b.p. coins from Dwarka:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070401/139/6e1bo.html

Bihar's Kamasutra Temple is the latest victim of 'neglect':

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=15907

A temple discovery in Tamil Nadu:

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=16067

Assorted burials etc. in a brief item from Thailand:

http://tinyurl.com/2xq3z3 (Nation)

... and more ancient kilns have been found there as well:

http://tinyurl.com/ypg3gn (Nation)

A 'Roman-style' column in a Han dynasty tomb:

http://english.people.com.cn/200704/04/eng20070404_363720.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some old bones discovered in Oakland County (Michigan):

http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=6338918&nav=0RbQ
http://tinyurl.com/2nojqm (Fox)

An 18th century burial halts construction in North Carolina:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/112/story/72313.html

Remains from the Texas Revolution:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4689986.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ksat/20070406/lo_ksat/11539082
http://www.kvia.com/global/story.asp?s=6331106
http://tinyurl.com/2fy4uw

Searching for the graves of some Continental soldiers who died
from smallpox:

http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_5604959

Profile of archaeologist Amy Wood:

http://tinyurl.com/yq6uky

Review of William Freehling, *The Road to Disunion* (vol II):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Foner.t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of Inca dung-eating mites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/03observ.html (2nd item)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, the Hatfields and McCoys may have had some
genetic reason for their feud:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9450054
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070405/ap_on_he_me/hatfield_mccoy_secret

DNA and genealogy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/us/02dna.html

Belgians are returning to the Middle Ages:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/03/news/belgium.php

Testing of some bones which were supposedly taken from the
pyre of Joan of Arc have turned out to be even more interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/world/europe/05bones.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-France-Joan-of-Arc.html
http://tinyurl.com/27dv4r
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6527105.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17950078/

An interview with Franck Goddio:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2433875,00.html

Good overviewish thing about the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.thestar.com/Life/article/199687

What makes a Stradivarius so special:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/opinion/07marchese.html

More Gospel of Judas coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/3e36k6 (Australian)

... cf an interview with Elaine Pagels:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/04/02/findrelig.DTL
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/04/02/elaine_pagels/
(they don't seem to be the same interview)

... and an interview with the author of a book on the Gospel of
Mary:

http://tinyurl.com/3aao4y (NR)

Review of the *Oxford Campanion to Black British History*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article2424420.ece

Review of Lynn Hunt, *Inventing Human Rights*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Wood2.t.html

Review of Daniel Smith, *Muses, Madmen, and Prophets*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Kramer.t.html

Review of Clive James, *Cultural Amnesia*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Schillinger.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Fez:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/travel/08Fez.html

New Haven:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/travel/escapes/06trip.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
American Journal of Archaeology 111.2:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=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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Latest video at the Archaeology Channel features a pleas by
Donny George to remember the pillaging of the Iraq Museum:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Come-uppance for a pair accused of looting a Native American
site:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wlwt/20070405/lo_wlwt/11537374

A bit -- not much -- of light is being shed on the antiquities
found in a Chicago home:

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_089183945.html

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Portraits of Colonial Jews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/arts/design/06voge.html
(second item)

Colonial Williamsburg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/arts/06will.html

Awakenings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/arts/design/06zen.html

Artifacts from the Fur Trade:

http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/04/03/features/features003.txt

In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/263okt

That Umbrian village wants its Etruscan chariot back from the
Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/arts/design/05char.html
http://tinyurl.com/3bk4gu (great headline, which I'll be er, using)

... speaking of which, here's a nice review of the Met's newly-
reopened Greek and Roman galleries:

http://www.nysun.com/article/51787

cf:

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/installation_gr.asp?PromoSpace=hp

Tajikistan is jumping on the bandwagon in hopes of getting the
Oxus treasure back from the British Museum:

http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/04-04-2007/89016-british_museum-0
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/04/05/tajiktreasure.shtml
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070405-042444-1230r
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070405/ap_en_ot/art_tajikistan_1
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL0521097620070405
http://tinyurl.com/2rrb3e (Telegraph)

More coverage of Greece's hopes in regards to the Elgin/Parthenon
Marbles in the wake of their success with the Getty:

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-4-8/53813.html

... background:

http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=8853

... while it looks like the folks who read the Guardian are getting
bored with the whole campaign:

http://tinyurl.com/2cez7v

Is the US protecting foreigh artifacts?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/arts/design/08kahn.html

What's going to be happening at the Punta della Dogana in
Venice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/arts/design/07veni.html

The Cleveland MoA bought at least one item from the Albright
Knox auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/arts/05arts.html (fifth item)

I suspect there will be more to hear from in this Pollock sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/arts/design/03poll.html

There's a new guy in charge of the Smithsonian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/arts/design/04smit.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Oliver Twist:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/theater/reviews/06twis.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Proceedings of the Old Bailey:

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Elizabeth Reilley (horticulture scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/obituaries/07reilley.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
A nice bit of april-foolery:

http://www.havhingsten.dk/index.php?id=578&L=1

Not sure if this one is in that category, but it might explain
why archaeologists are such happy folk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6509781.stm
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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, David Critchley,
'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Mata Kimasitayo, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, 'cookies4gudea', Steve Feldman,
Stan Nadel, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Nikolaos, William Peck,
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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How 'cave men' chose their caves:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070410/139/6ecza.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=16781
http://tinyurl.com/2hw2he (Discovery)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some 4600 b.p. skulls from Iran will be CT scanned:

http://tinyurl.com/3bcvwj (Morning Call)

A 3000 b.p. cemetery in Babajilan is to be excavated:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7073

An overviewish thing on the Burnt City:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5668§ionid=351020108

Interesting 'statue burial' from Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5658§ionid=351020105

Brief item on some Parthian finds in Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5907§ionid=351020105

On the who-wrote-the-Dead-Sea-Scrolls controversy (nothing
really new here, but a summary of the current prevailing views):

http://tinyurl.com/3doumg (Forward)

cf.:

http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9217.html

Nice feature on Jodi Magness' teaching:

http://tinyurl.com/2sasdr (Daily Tar Heel)

Latest salvo in the Temple Mount saga:

http://tinyurl.com/2ephag (HR)

Latest on the 'Jesus Tomb' thing:

http://tinyurl.com/29yvqf (JPost)
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2007/04/12/lost-tomb.html

More coverage of the return of Ramses II's hair:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_sc/egypt_pharoah_s_hair_3
http://tinyurl.com/326may
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18036842/
http://www.ttc.org/200704101529.l3aftrh29017.htm
http://tinyurl.com/34r9s5 (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/2mhz5c (IHT)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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A statue of Janus at the center of a controversy:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2057517,00.html

More on the portrayal of various aspects of the ancient world in
300:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9587471

A site associated with Boudicca + a power excavator is a formula
for bad things:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/4454

An Antonine Wall workers' camp?:

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=566802007

The Lincoln Aqueduct may have been used after all:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART46087.html

Greek artifacts from Peshawar:

http://www.sparta.markoulakispublications.org.uk/index.php?id=100

I think we've mentioned this Illyrian ships find before:

http://tinyurl.com/3b8wbb (Science Daily)

Time Team has been poking around a Roman fort in Binchester:

http://tinyurl.com/3atekx (NE)

Roger Travis has an interesting approach to the Aeneid:

http://www.advance.uconn.edu/2007/070416/07041607.htm

More Rome and India coverage:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070409/asp/nation/story_7623483.asp

Criticism of Herodotus as a source for 300:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_21315.shtml

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 3000 b.p. ring from Buntingford has been declared treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/35z3vg (Mercury)

A Sixth Century patrix from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/6959/20070411/

A Seventh Century Saxon pendant:

http://tinyurl.com/33ace2 (icLoughborough)

The UK's forgotten battlefields:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2437312.ece

Looking for Rob Roy's house:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6548271.stm

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 Daimer-Basha dam project threatens a number of sites along
the Indus in northern Pakistan:

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,476419,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,476423,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,476424,00.html
(three installments ... German; I think these are all of them,
but one might be just a sidebar)

Evidence of prehistoric 'mining' in Japan:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200704120285.html

Some Mughal-era coins were found:

http://tinyurl.com/3xp8kk (KT)

... and some Ahom artifacts:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070410/asp/northeast/story_7625879.asp

A pile of items from 385 tombs from Inner Mongolia:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200704/09/t20070409_10980010.shtml

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the mounds of Missouri:

http://digmo.org/stories/2007/04/14/ancient-history/

Trying to track down the 'Swamp Fox':

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/nation/17074823.htm

NC formally apologized for slavery:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Slavery-Apology.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/us/12brfs-slavery.html

Interesting item on the campaign to have five friars beatified:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-04-07-friars_N.htm?csp=34

They'll soon be digging up Mission San Jose:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_5626233?source=rss

Latest news from George Washington's still:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18025413/

OpEd on oystering on the U.S. east coast:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/opinion/09jacobson.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A couple of 10,000 b.p. (+) burials in Mexico:

http://www.archaeologynews.org/story.asp?ID=187804&Title=Archaeologists

Evidence for earlier cultivation of maize in Mexico:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/fsu-faf040907.php
http://tinyurl.com/3bukwc (UPI)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070409181647.htm

DNA testing on sacrificial victims from Teotihuacan suggest they
were brought from quite a distance:

http://tinyurl.com/2okzjp (LAT)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18063260/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070411/sc_nm/mexico_pyramid_dc_2
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11245760.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A sidebar to a piece categorized elsewhere provides a handy
list of famous archaeologists and what find they are associated
with:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/564342.html

On the effects various eye diseases may have had on some well
known artists:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070410182854.htm

Interesting item on the 'keepers' of Gregorian Chant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/world/europe/10chant.html

Renaissance magic:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2053433,00.html

History's 100 most influential people (from a Japanese perspective):

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1471

In case you missed MC Nuts rapping Wordsworth's 'Daffodils':

http://www.golakes.co.uk/wordsworthrap/

Another Eakins sale in Philadelphia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/arts/design/12pain.html

We always get theories of how pyramid stones or stonehenge stones
were moved and raised ... this guy has the most plausible method
I've seen yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0

More coverage of the Joan of Arc 'relics' story:

http://tinyurl.com/25b82o (AlJazeera)

Nice profile of Randall White:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/science/10prof.html

On the variety of languages in the Caucasus:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070411-061929-6117r

Archaeological Computing is available for downloading:

http://archcomp.csanet.org/

A Dickens theme park:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070412/od_nm/arts_dickens_dc

On assorted 'digital libraries':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/09conn.html

Review of Hugh Brogan, *Alexis de Tocqueville*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0410/p15s01-bogn.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Roman Africa:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200106/kaplan (rather old)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (May/June 2007):

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

Biblical Archaeology Review (March/April 2007):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.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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Alas, another piece on the continued looting of sites in Iraq:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2449975.ece

... and Peru:

http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20070413-093813-8915r.htm

... and the value of artifacts smuggled out of Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/3dpoxb (Iranmania)
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NUMISMATICA
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Interesting 19th century coin collector's cabinet coming up to
auction:

http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?SaleNo=434&LotIdNo=119001

Canadian Currency Museum:

http://www.currencymuseum.ca/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Temples and Tombs:

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=259801

Nice feature on Caroline Rocheleau, who is one of the people
behind the Temples and Tombs exhibition:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/564409.html

Remember a while back when Greece would not lend certain museum
items because they were too fragile? Other museums are now doing
the same ... in this case, in regards to that famous bust of
Nefertiti:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3TFUp1cnxqM
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=6374

A vigil was held to mark the fourth anniversary of the looting
of the Baghdad Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/3yzqws

An archaeological mysteries contest:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/april11/mystery-041307.html

More coverage of Takjikistan's campaign to get the Oxus Treasure
back:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2053344,00.html
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070405-042444-1230r
http://tinyurl.com/2tg56z (IHT)

This week's installment of the Met chariot saga-in-the-making:

http://tinyurl.com/2lwdfy (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/2xuxvl (Age)

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/39eyvz (Times)

... and another review of the newly-reopened Greek and Roman
galleries:

http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/30298/
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OBITUARIES
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Reginald Fuller (New Testament Scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/obituaries/14fuller.html

Warren Preece (EB Editor):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/us/14preece.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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EARLY HUMANS
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Lucy is not a direct relative of modern humans, apparently:

http://tinyurl.com/2hbdr6 (JPost)

On evolution and equality:

http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_262235122,00.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Questioning a 'ritual suicide' in Mesopotamian tomb (which one?):

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070416_Death_and_the_maidens.html
http://tinyurl.com/23dsff (Oh ... its from Ur)
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/nation/17119210.htm

4000 b.p. artifacts from Sharjah:

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/04/16/10118675.html

Protests about an Iranian dam near Pasargadae flooding sites:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DAH145536.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070421/sc_nm/iran_dam_protest_dc_1

... these seem related:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_world_heritage_5
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11000AX1H0S6
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/04/21/2003357587
http://www.physorg.com/news96264261.html
http://tinyurl.com/2cnx6y (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/2z7c5w (CNN)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6571983.stm

Trying to get World Heritage status for a temple of Anahita:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7092

Terry Wilfong was talking about Tamesia's burial papyrus:

http://tinyurl.com/2zadej (Blade)

... while Egypt was threatening a 'scientific war' if Germany
doesn't return Nefertiti:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2443353,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/ywknkc (NG)
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=150623
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/841/fr1.htm

Another Dead Sea Scrolls fragment acquisition by a US Institution:

http://tinyurl.com/38kq5e (Republic)

... speaking of which, the Biblical Archaeology Society has put
up a nice little website on the DSS:

http://www.bib-arch.org/deadseascrolls/bswbDSSHomePage.asp

Interesting item on the 'Gabriel Revelation':

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=850657

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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The Roman bath at Ankara will be excavated:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=70964

A Thracian chariot was unearthed in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=79622

Some pots owned by Martin Robertson were returned to Greece this
week, with much spin attached:

http://tinyurl.com/2eaqg8 (CBC)
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/04/parthenon_marbles_one_step_clo.html
http://tinyurl.com/38flk9 (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/24pabo (GNN)
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/article_21275721.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/ywddtk (ANA)

Some Roman pots from Cornwall are now on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6571707.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2aocza (TIC)

Reburial of the remains of an ancient Roman teen:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6563909.stm

Finds during Roman subway construction:

http://www.wantedinrome.com/articles/complete_articles.php?id_art=496

Metro construction is also revealing ancient Thessaloniki:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=82343

Road construction between Salonika and Edessa have revealed
some 2000 b.p. tombs:

http://tinyurl.com/yqnn3w (News24)
http://tinyurl.com/2d7tn2 (KT)

... while construction on Naxos threatens a temple of Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/26snvz (Kathimerini)

Research suggests a major tsunami wiped out the Minoas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6568053.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ytt3ex

At the beginning of the week, the British Museum appears to have
opened the door to the possibility of a loan of the Elgin/Parthenon
Marbles to Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/ytahwj (Times)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/54059.html
http://tinyurl.com/2f7tf8 (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/25xw6v (Bloomberg)

... and by the end of the week we were hearing of 'talks':

http://tinyurl.com/27wwt6 (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/29nl7e (UPI)
http://movie.moldova.org/stiri/eng/43607/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6578661.stm

Victor Davis Hanson writes on Imus and Nemesis:

http://tinyurl.com/27k2qj

The 'give us back our chariot' story still has legs:

http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/34719
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/54486.html

Review of Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/reviews/0192880039/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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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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Fifth-century Gupta remains from Bangladesh:

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=20222
http://tinyurl.com/257fjs

Now the Rapa Nui are off the hook for the demise of Easter
Island:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article1657
974.ece

Review of William Dalrymple, *The Last Mughal*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/review/Harshaw.t.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some sort of burial ground found during condo construction in
Miami:

http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/82646.html

Nice feature on Danny Schmidt (what? you mean Bill Kelso isn't
excavating Jamestown all by himself?):

http://tinyurl.com/yozj3b (Daily Press)

... other sources look at Kelso:

http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=7647

... and one on activities planned for Jamestown's 400th:

http://tinyurl.com/245c4h (Daily Press)

A Native burial ground in Connecticut might get in the way of
development:

http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_5690557

Review of David Stewart, *Summer of 1787*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/arts/20book.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of child sacrifice at a Toltec site:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18164233/
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/04/22/2003357740
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_sc/mexico_child_sacrifice_4
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Mexico_Child_Sacrifice.html
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/04/17/4055151-ap.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/17/ap/latinamerica/main2697297.shtml
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=589472007

Evidence for Pre-Incan/Peruvian metallurgy:

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=20051
http://www.physorg.com/news96222703.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/53907.html
http://tinyurl.com/2966ot (LiveScience via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18201003/
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/420/1

A Harvard team is going to dig at Copan:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/04.19/99-copan.html

Nudes are apparently hazardous to ancient sites:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070416/ten-uk-mexico-tunick-3334b85.html

The Torre de los Picos is open to the public:

http://tinyurl.com/2ah6jm (El Pais)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The concept of limbo is officially a dead issue now:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/ts_nm/pope_limbo_dc_1

Latest flick at the Archaeology Channel looks at digital
preservation of sites, using Pompeii as an example:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

That portrait of Jane Austen is back in the news:

http://tinyurl.com/24xmuz (Reuters)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070419/137/6eqyi.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070419/2/1362o.html

Studying impressionists' failing vision:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/health/17eye.html

An Irish town wants to change its name (to something that sounds
like a scene from a Monty Python movie):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6559343.stm

Uranus' rings were possibly seen much earlier than previously
thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6569849.stm

A Rolling Stone gets into the metal detector biz:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/586569

Review of Kate Teltscher, *The High Road to China*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/review/Stuart.t.html

More coverage of Renaissance magic:

http://tinyurl.com/2yf42k (El Pais ... Spanish)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Cyprus:

http://www.bendweekly.com/Living/5081.html

Silk Road:

http://tinyurl.com/2z45sj
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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European Journal of Archaeology (Issue 8):

http://eja.e-a-a.org/2007/04/17/eja-8-3-now-available-online/

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 British smuggler was arrested in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=79490

India is cracking down on the antiquities trade:

http://www.nysun.com/article/52889

... while looting is still going on in Pakistan:

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=51981

Looting in Macedonia:

http://tinyurl.com/yw7y8r (IHT)
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NUMISMATICA
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An 1854 Gold Coin was unearthed this week:

http://tinyurl.com/3cgyvd

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Temples and Tombs:

http://www.thetimesnews.com/onset?id=977&template=article.html

Renoir:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/20/arts/melik21.php

Afghan Gold:

http://tinyurl.com/yvsotr (IHT)

Praxiteles/Empire of the Gupta (two separate exhibitions):

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

Empire of the Gupta:

http://tinyurl.com/ys8sud (El Pais ... Spanish)

Rembrandt's Titus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/arts/design/20voge.html

Paul Mellon's Legacy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/arts/design/20mell.html

A pair of Fra Angelicos (Angelicoes?) fetched a nice price:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/6573443.stm

Criticism of the British Museum's handling of finances:

http://tinyurl.com/39prft (Telegraph)

Coverage of the Antiquarian Book Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/arts/design/20anti.html

It's rather amazing how much press coverage the Met's renewed
Greek and Roman galleries are (still) getting:

http://travel.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2007/04/21/4091886-ap.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_5714224?nclick_check=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_en_ot/art_new_met_galleries_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/arts/design/20anci.html
http://tinyurl.com/29pxbt
http://tinyurl.com/2fteb5 (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/2gx2ny
http://tinyurl.com/yonxq2 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yu4lh3 (Bloomberg - best headline)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18234492/

... while Rome will be creating 'a museum sector':

http://tinyurl.com/yqoger (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2eofrq (UPI)
http://movie.moldova.org/stiri/eng/43249/

Officials from the Cleveland MoA are off to Rome to discuss
claims of looting etc.:

http://tinyurl.com/299vst (Plain Dealer)

... Suzan Mazur fills us in with details of what's being claimed:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00343.htm

A Creationist museum:

http://tinyurl.com/24ww3b
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ON THE WEB
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Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology:

http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/about.php

The Cave of John the Baptist:

http://www.baptistcave.org.il/eng/index.asp
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Mozart's Magic Flute has been found:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i17515

... and Wikipedia celebrated 750 years of American Independence:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Bill Kerr, David Critchley,
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John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman,  Rochelle Altman,
Ross W Sargent, Rick Pettigrew, Stan Nadel, Susan Jaslow,
Sue Day, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

A special thanks goes out to all our 'foreign correspondents'
and to you, our readers, as we celebrate our tenth anniversary
of bringing you the best (and the rest) archaeological news
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EARLY HUMANS
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Latest on the fate of the Neanderthals:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070423185434.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/wuis-tef042307.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Pre-Bronze-Age kilns and other items from Pardis Mound near
Tehran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=7891§ionid=351020108

More coverage of the impending 'scientific war' over Nefertiti's
bust:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1706283.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2rxdp9 (HT)

More on the impending damage to sites from an Iranian dam project:

http://tinyurl.com/2udzrz

... and perhaps because of that, construction of a Metro project
in Iran has been halted due to archaeological concerns:

http://tinyurl.com/2f47a6 (Iranmania)

The Ramat Rahel Archaeological Project:

http://www.tau.ac.il/~rmtrachl/joint%20project.htm

An Egyptian folklore course:

http://www.glyphdoctors.com/course/info.php?id=16

The Jesus Tomb brouhaha continues:

http://tinyurl.com/22cdpm (JPost)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Even more has been found in the Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6591221.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070426-aristotle-book.html

A very nice gladiator mosaic has been found south of Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/3dkfk5 (Telegraph)

Italy must return the Venus of Cyrene to Libya:

http://tinyurl.com/32cny3 (SciAm)
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/24/eng20070424_369163.html
http://tinyurl.com/2v495p (IHT)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070424/ap_en_ot/italy_looted_antiquities_2
http://tinyurl.com/3d3xts (ABC)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6583559,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/ypyd4x

In the steps of Aeneas:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2488817.ece

Roman remains in Croatia:

http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=38932

Roman paintings in the heart of London:

http://tinyurl.com/2aemyr (Times)
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/586985

An interview with Robert Harris:

http://tinyurl.com/2sdx8p (Telegraph)

Nice feature on Penelope Allison's work on everyday life in
Pompeii:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/uol-eli042407.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070424091412.htm
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070425/139/6ezgn.html

... and Lorna Robinson's work bringing Latin to state
schools:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6570171.stm

The community efforts of an Honors Latin Club:

http://www.njherald.com/296579417944722.php

Interesting results from Princeton's 'Major Choices' initiative:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/04/26/news/18276.shtml

There's a new Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies at
Oxford:

http://tinyurl.com/2etja2

Concerns over the Pope's plans for reviving the Latin Mass:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6585247.stm

More coverage of that tomb find from northeastern Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/2ptv5g (GNN)

Review of Peter Parsons, *City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish*:

http://www.newstatesman.com/200704230045

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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'Stone Age' site from Sweden:

http://tinyurl.com/22bvo6 (Science Daily)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/56473.html
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=7123

Remains of a 'lost country' in the North Sea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6584011.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2064221,00.html?gusrc=ticker-1037
04

Very interesting feature on Sutton Hoo's discovery:

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

... and the Collette Hoard:

http://tinyurl.com/2nrlq9 (Channel 4)

... this might be the same:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6586331.stm

A Bronze Age settlement near Manchester Airport:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6592979.stm

A medieval burial has brought work on Bishopthorpe Palace to
a halt:

http://tinyurl.com/2mkef3  (YP)

Human remains from the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon:

http://tinyurl.com/2c7fsc (AP via Yahoo)

An archaeological dig has begun on a venue site for the 2012
Olympics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6594831.stm

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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Africans in New Zealand ca 630 B.C.? (potentially elmer material):

http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/4035911a6663.html

Using China as a paradigm for the rise and fall of civilizations:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070424162511.htm

Another dam -- this time in Pakistan -- and more sites threatened:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,479215,00.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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I don't usually cover items of this sort (that don't directly
involve human remains), but folks might be interested in the
discovery of 'camel' remains in Arizona:

http://www.physorg.com/news96983739.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-04-28-camelbones_N.htm?csp=34
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070428/ap_on_sc/prehistoric_camel

A burial site from 3000 B.C. in Kentucky:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007704251199

Interesting conclusions drawn from a slave burial ground in
Portsmouth:

http://tinyurl.com/37rap4 (SC)

Evidence of the first European to go up the Delaware:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070423130322.htm

Trying to figure out how many folks lived in Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/26ps4b (DP)

... and how Jamestown makes history 'cool':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18237641/site/newsweek/

An early Chinese 'potter's field' in Los Angeles:

http://tinyurl.com/3cs94k (LA Times)

Digging an Alamo site is (apparently) expensive:

http://tinyurl.com/27tao4

Plans are afoot to excavate an 18th century dye house:

http://tinyurl.com/3x8g3e (McCall)

Not much protection for mounds in North Carolina:

http://tinyurl.com/ynollz (SMN)

More coverage of those Tequesta finds in downtown Miami:

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_112134949.html
http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_112210635.html
http://www.local10.com/news/12894109/detail.html?rss=mia&psp=news

Virginia has apologized for using slaves:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/us/26brfs-ANAPOLOGYFOR_BRF.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More on pre-Incan metallury in Peru:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070423100437.htm

One of NASA's images this week was of the site of Chankillo:


http://tinyurl.com/3blk7e
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting feature on Princeton's Anthony Grafton:

http://tinyurl.com/27edx8 (DP)

With the 'let's recreate this or that ancient ship' mentality
seemingly being somewhat popular, it was only a matter of time
before someone recreated Noah's Ark:

http://tinyurl.com/2tet6s (CNN)

Religious history and modern politics clash in India:

http://www.rediff.com///news/2007/apr/26laine.htm

Last week we heard of Bill Wyman's archaeological connections;
this week it's Gabriel Byrne:

http://tinyurl.com/2jph67 (Contact Music)

A St. Paul's tomb update of sorts:

http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=45556

Check out this blog post on a 16th Century gun powder flask/
sundial/compass/watch:

http://tinyurl.com/32kccr

The Atlantic has reprised an article from a few years ago
casting doubts on assorted rituals associated with 'the goddess':

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200101/wicca

One of the best-kept secrets:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070422/lf_afp/austriagastronomysachertorte


The Archaeology Channel features a preview of its 2007 Film
Festival:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Rome:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,21618742-27977,00.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter (Spring, 2007):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring07

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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An Egyptian statue purchased by Bolton Council seems to be a
forgery:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2066781,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3ddgvx (TIL)

More coverage of the looting of Macedonia:

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/2955

... and there's some illegal excavating going on in Iran as
well:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=475530
http://tinyurl.com/24m7x9

Some divers were convicted of plundering a WWI shipwreck which
had some ancient artifacts in it:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=275634&pid=1

Theft (and murder) associated with a piece of the 'True Cross':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6591467.stm
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Sacred:

http://tinyurl.com/35mlpw (Times)

Imperial Portraiture on Roman Coins:

http://www.huliq.com/19618/the-flipside-to-ancient-roman-coins

Gaza at the Crossroads of Civilizations:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6600235.stm

Swedish Cyprus Archaeological Expedition 1927-1931:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb

Roman Coffin Lids:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART46731.html

The British Museum has returned some Aboriginal remains to
Tasmania:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1909144.htm

A lecture by Philippe de Montebello on the history of the
antiquities trade:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20064

They want to move the Italian American Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/nyregion/24museum.html
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ON THE WEB
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Ancient Egyptian Film Site:

http://www.wepwawet.nl/films/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Jon Brett (archaeologist):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/otherlives/story/0,,2066694,00.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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explorator 10.2                                  May 6, 2007
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Matt McCallum, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W Sargent, Bob Heuman, Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
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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Evidence of Mousterian-like artifacts from China(?):

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-05/04/content_865655.htm

On the evolution of human sexuality:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720068.ece
http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,21648664-663,00.html

Only a matter of time before someone made a connection between
climate change and the demise of the Neanderthals:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18492484/

Not sure why this is news ... early humans dug for food:

http://tinyurl.com/3bwydw (LiveScience via Yahoo)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Haven't had a CAT scan of a mummy in a while ... this one reveals
a possible murder:

http://tinyurl.com/2ljejh (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/yv8vj2
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/03/ap/tech/main2756516.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_sc/mummy_scan_7
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18424249/

Haven't had a pharaoh's curse story for a while either ... so
here's one:

http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=8832

Preview of a talk about excavating a tomb of a grand vizier:

http://www.paysonroundup.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/28495

An aristocratic 'settlement' of Sassanid date near Kermanshah:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7123

The complaints about the Ilisu dam continue to generate protests
and op-ed pieces:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=72415

Plenty of sites in Saudi Arabia:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093151712

Excavating David's palace:

http://tinyurl.com/24km93 (Sun)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Really a 'museum' item, but the dating controversy seems to
make it more usefully put here ... a bronze horse attributed to
Phidias' workshop (or Hellenistic) has gone on display after
decades of restoration work:

http://tinyurl.com/24vkbo (USA Today)
http://www.huliq.com/20843/capitoline-museum-displays-bronze-horse
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=1132996
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_on_en_ot/art_bronze_horse_1

That gladiator graveyard at Ephesus is back in the news:

http://tinyurl.com/2agtel (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6614479.stm (different)
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/587242
http://tinyurl.com/yw9mtv (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/2slskp (Telegraph)

A statue of Cybele was found in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=79835

... and remains of an early Roman town:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=80062

A silver ring from Buntingford is raising hopes of a Roman hoard:

http://tinyurl.com/2d85bl (Mercury)

Latin is alive and well in Maine:

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/070430latin.html

Tom Holland writes about the current History controversy in
the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2073009,00.html

Honours for Tim Winters:

http://tinyurl.com/297vay (Leaf Chronicle)

A marathon reading of the Iliad:

http://tinyurl.com/24ljc2 (Age)

More coverage of new finds in the Archimedes palimpsest:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/587168
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article2496636.ece

More on the plague of Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=65444

Review of Peter Green, *The Hellenistic Age*:

http://tinyurl.com/yvfq8b (WSJ)

Review of A. Barbero, *The Day of the Barbarians*

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A possible Celtic temple found during road construction near
Tara:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0503/m3.html
http://tinyurl.com/2z9wla (NPR)

Radio interview about recent work at Stonehenge:

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2007-05-01-voa1.cfm

Medieval finds at a Kinross school construction site:

http://tinyurl.com/ys76ku (BBC)

More coverage of those Lisbon earthquake remains:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/30/tech/main2742547.shtml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18397931/
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_5777002?source=email

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A remote cave in northern Nepal has revealed some very interesting
'frescoes' of the Buddha:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_on_re_as/nepal_buddha_s_cave_4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6624117.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1749991.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2al98a (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2al98a (UPI)
http://www.physorg.com/news97595579.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/181657.php
http://tinyurl.com/yqf9ub (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/23z3p9

Sites at Bardnapur are getting some restoration:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070501/48/6f7vf.html

More coverage of dam threats to Buddhist sites in Pakistan:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,479215,00.html

A pile of wrecks near VietNam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2007/04/690022/

Human remains from a Hawaiian construction site:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/May/02/ln/FP705020403.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Excavating George Washington's house:

http://tinyurl.com/2e7wjz (Daily News)
http://www.centredaily.com/129/story/85536.html

Latest on 'Yames Town':

http://tinyurl.com/28yoeb (ABC)

... and some background (probably associated with the visit
of the Queen):

http://tinyurl.com/yq3vzd (BBC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070430/cm_csm/ejamestown_1

Fire has damaged some important sites in Washington, D.C.:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_re_us/eastern_market_fire

Feature on 'Woodhenge'/The Moorehead Circle:

http://tinyurl.com/27dhen (Dispatch)

Another Walmart, another archaeological site:

http://tinyurl.com/yqteac (Comet)

All about the Alamo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/arts/30conn.html

A Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology is in the
works:

http://tinyurl.com/34zbxo (Press Enterprise)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A Tiwanaku skeleton has been discovered in a much-looted
pyramid in Bolivia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070502/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bolivia_archaeology_1
http://tinyurl.com/yta767 (SciAm)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18445624/
http://tinyurl.com/2adwhz (LAT)
http://tinyurl.com/yrnavw (EITB)
http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/May07/040507/wn03.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18445624/

Feature on Chankillo:

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/may/sun-cult.php

... and Buena Vista:

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/may/digs-peru.php
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The Vatican Library will be closed for a while:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6617735.stm

cf:
http://www.vaticanlibrary.vatlib.it/BAVT/info/it/Informazioni/avvisi.htm

Virginia Woolf on matters Shakespearean:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,2070468,00.html

Not sure how to classify this one ... it's a feature on Shelby White
and the antiquities trade:

http://www.nysun.com/article/53523

Assorted word origins:

http://newsminer.com/2007/04/30/6742

Another claim as to the identity of Jack the Ripper:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_re_af/safrica_jack_the_ripper

Review of William Rosen, *Justinian's Flea*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/0,,2072657,00.html

Review of Georgina Howell, *Gertrude Bell*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/books/review/Worth.t.html

Review of a couple of tomes about Shakespeare:

http://tinyurl.com/2yk3r7 (Inquirer)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Mdina:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=276148&pid=1

Gamla:

http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=7/a/290420071

Apulia:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/travel/06Puglia.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 one of those 'closing the barn door' things,
but they're looking into a theft from the British Museum:

http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/050307/news050307_14.html

The looting of Iraq continues:

http://tinyurl.com/ypo4hl (PBS)

A boulder which was covered in petroglyphs has been stolen from
Yuma:

http://tinyurl.com/2k25yu (Sun)

An old Moravian Pottery case:

http://tinyurl.com/35won5
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Iron Age and Roman Coins from Wales:

http://tinyurl.com/yplsa7 (database)

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Sacred:

http://tinyurl.com/24bco7 (Times)

Work, Rest, and Play:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2069398,00.html

Monet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/design/04mone.html

Assorted exhibitions in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/design/04wart.html

An antiques auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/design/04anti.html

The New York Times has a very nice interactive 'map' thing of
the Met's new Greek and Roman galleries:

http://tinyurl.com/yoxtbr

There's a new museum at Masada:

http://tinyurl.com/2zylc6 (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=855658

The Met has no plans to return that Etruscan chariot:

http://tinyurl.com/yo8bnp  (UPI)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/59344.html

... while the Egypt-Germany thing continues to get attention:

http://www.etownian.com/article.php?id=353

cf:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=662952007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_en_ot/egypt_antiquities_3
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=151070
http://www.knx1070.com/pages/401681.php?contentType=4&contentId=453133
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Cymbeline:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/theater/reviews/04cymb.html

Orfeo ed Eurydice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/music/04orfe.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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A musical 'code' has been found carved in the rafters of
Rosslyn Chapel:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18417877/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6605767.stm
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=6460640&nav=2aKDawoU
http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6460640&nav=menu83_2
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

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http://news.stonepages.com/

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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Massive coverage of the discovery (it appears) of Herod's tomb:

http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2007/05/12/news/237new0.txt
http://tinyurl.com/3y36ye (Tribune)
http://torontosun.com/News/World/2007/05/09/4165235-sun.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4787553.html
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/05/09/9herod.html
http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,21699289-5003419,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6617832,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3b7r2a (LA Times)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4787281.html
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/158/story/30102.html
http://tinyurl.com/3b932x (Sun)
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/her070511mc
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/08/herods.tomb.ap/
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/08/ap3695522.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/08/news/herod.php
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6618373,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6633979.stm
http://www.hunews.huji.ac.il/articles.asp?cat=6&artID=773
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070508102841.htm
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21696532-663,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/289lpr (Press release)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070508/ap_on_sc/israel_herod_s_tomb_9
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18539605/
http://tinyurl.com/2rtgqo (Telegraph)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18628611/site/newsweek/
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/05/08/herod-tomb.html

... nice photosets:

http://tinyurl.com/22cl8f (NG)
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,21444,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2xlfz4 (Yahoo)

... and there was a nice piece on Ehud Netzer's search:

http://tinyurl.com/2ukh7g (LA Times)

... later in the week, some focus was shifting to the political
implications (and doubts associated thereby) of the find:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/858212.html
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=12662
http://tinyurl.com/yrxhkr (JPost)

... and what Herod really was like:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2524437.ece

... best headline:

http://tinyurl.com/26v33f (New York Post)

Somewhat lost in all that was a claim that the Leviticus Scroll
has been 'manhandled':

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/857757.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=858045

... and the search for a king who had 'five rings of power':

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/may/1066.html

Similarly massive coverage for Hawass' campaign to get Nefertiti
back:

http://www.thehindu.com/2007/05/12/stories/2007051205021400.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18608193/
http://tinyurl.com/3y9b4w (IOL)
http://www.nysun.com/article/54259
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/11/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Antiquities.ph
p
http://tinyurl.com/3crfpa (CNN)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_antiquities_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6632021.stm

... interesting interviewish thing with ZH on regrets and the like:

http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7258

There's also growing coverage of a somewhat contentiously-presented
article on Egypt being the 'father of medicine' (n.b., I'm not
suggesting that Egyptians weren't in the forefront of medical
developments; I am saying the way this research is being presented
is less than 'genuous', especially as regards the opinion of
Classicists and/or 'historians'):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070509161143.htm
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=24964
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070510/139/6fl34.html
http://tinyurl.com/2gdrw2
http://tinyurl.com/24ybll

[for those of you looking, I've put the Heliodorus Stele
coverage in the Classics section]

Overviewish thing on Gaziantep:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=72744

Nice feature on the Ahmes Papyrus:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/844/heritage.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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2700 b.p. fabric found in Argos:

http://tinyurl.com/3cctaq (CPost)
http://tinyurl.com/2l7gkq (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_fabric_6
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6620856,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2k8o33 (IHT)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070509-080423-3223r
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18580454/
http://tinyurl.com/ypqsnl

Plenty of coverage of the 'unveiling' of the Heliodorus stele:

http://tinyurl.com/ysrbk5 (Current Epigraphy)
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-5-6/54964.html
http://tinyurl.com/2h55wv (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/856802.html
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20177
(great photo)

The search for Tartessos:

http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=7993

Upcoming excavations at Zeugma:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=72536

I'm pretty sure we had this a month or so ago ... research seems
to suggest Romans used astronomical alignments when setting up
cities:

http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=27387
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/587581
http://tinyurl.com/22btqm (DC)

A second Roman fort at Monmouth:

http://tinyurl.com/2g4cfb (Western Mail)

Very nice article in the New Yorker on the Antikythera mechanism:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_seabrook

Recent coin-hoard-finds from Winchester will remain in the
area:

http://tinyurl.com/ypg2gx

More coverage of Lorna Robinson's activities:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6570171.stm

On the Latin 'boom' in UK state schools:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2078564,00.html

First Latin grad from Virginia Wesleyan:

http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=124579&ran=241369

More coverage of that gladiator mosaic find:

http://tinyurl.com/24zmc2 (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/2dh95e

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The latest on work in and around Silbury Hill:

http://tinyurl.com/27dwzk (Telegraph)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL1123613620070511
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6645367.stm

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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Possibly only one wave of migration to Australia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/science/08abor.html
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/507/3

Harappan remains from Pakistan (?):

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070508/139/6fha0.html

A pile of idols in Tamil Nadu:

http://tinyurl.com/2xzkvl
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14445484

The 'Asuka Beauties' are going to get some much-needed restoration
work:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200705110077.html
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/406375

Another chunk of the Great Wall has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/2lfpn6 (AFP via Yahoo)

A Song Dynasty (maybe) shipwreck from China:

http://tinyurl.com/2jy8s2 (UPI)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070509-033656-3735r
http://tinyurl.com/25qexd (El Pais)

Naga-style artifacts found while working in a rice paddy:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30033796

A site in Hawaii has been bulldozed:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=6500885

More coverage of that Mustang caves find:

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=108788
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=163619
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-05/06/content_6064423.htm

... and an interesting article on the woman behind the find:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070507/43/6ff2v.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A Clovis point in Malibu?:

http://malibusurfsidenews.com/stories/200705/20070510001.html

Remains of some Ohlone people from Santa Cruz:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5880579?source=rss&nclick_check=1

Overviewish things on Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/349vfu (Plain Dealer)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18534104/site/newsweek/
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/thisweek.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2496632.ece
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0508/p13s01-bogn.html?s=hns

... and some recent finds:

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6493959&nav=S6ay

... and a piece on Bill Kelso:

http://tinyurl.com/yqtm4a (WPost)

An 18th century pottery kiln in Hillsborough, N.C.:

http://www.aconews.com/articles/2007/05/02/noc/news/news12.txt
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Nice feature on Inca suspension bridges:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/science/08bridg.html

More coverage of the Tiwanaku human remains:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_266222216,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Piles of purported Mothers Day origin stories this week, so I
think I'll just include this one, which has a list of 'famous
mothers' at the end of it:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=50820

This 'virtual heritage' thing sounds interesting:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/05/08/Virtual_Heritage/

The oldest translation of Peter Rabbit:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070510/od_nm/japan_potter_odd_dc

More coverage of the identity of the Mona Lisa:

http://tinyurl.com/yrv2la (DC)
http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_264631698,00.html

Folks might be interested in a novel series based on the life
of Genghis Khan:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0508/p16s01-bogn.html?s=hns

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Pantelleria:

http://www.dailyherald.com/travel/story.asp?id=312230
================================================================
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
================================================================
Someone is stealing antique Bibles from churches:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/6641015.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2f6oxd
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Venice and the Islamic World:

http://tinyurl.com/33nqjz (WPost)

According to press reports, the Getty Aphrodite is "closer" to
being returned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/arts/design/12aphr.html
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/article_21280218.shtml
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=28311

Claims by Egypt that an item in a Barcelona Museum was illegally
acquired:

http://tinyurl.com/32tf92 (IHT)

The Indianapolis Museum of Art clarifies its position on
antiquities acquisition:

http://tinyurl.com/29mhll (Star)

The Natural History Museum in London is returning some
Aboriginal remains:

http://www.newswire.co.nz/main/viewstory.aspx?storyid=372484&catid=33
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=55460
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6645161.stm
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Last week we had a secret musical code at Rosslyn; this week,
there's a secret code in a Masonic cemetery:

http://tinyurl.com/2sow5y (Evening Times)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1390929.0.0.php

... here's the musical code story (in Spanish), in case you
missed it:

http://tinyurl.com/yvtfgw (El Pais)

On the origins of assorted practical jokes in the ancient
world:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i18685
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EARLY HUMANS
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A remote human ancestor's brain wasn't that big:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070514/sc_nm/primate_fossil_dc_3

Contending with a comet 13 000 years ago?:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2083758,00.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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That 'internal ramp' theory of the pyramids' construction is
kicking around again:

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/LIFE/705190392
http://tinyurl.com/2wyad2 (USA Today ... very good graphics)
http://tinyurl.com/3azhue

Latest finds from the City of David digs:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=12729
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122461

Still a trickle of coverage of the apparent Herod's tomb
discovery:

http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2007/05/18/news/237new0.txt
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18628611/site/newsweek/
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/13009/

Interesting/scary details from the indictment of a PFLP member
this week (scroll down to the final few paragraphs):

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3401232,00.html

The Shahdah banner is going on display:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/may/1175.html

Lichen problems at Persepolis:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7139

Interesting paper on 'preserving' Temple Mount through 3d
laser scanning techniques:

http://www.amerisurv.com/PDF/TheAmericanSurveyor_Jenkins-TempleMount_March20
07.pdf

... while tensions are easing at the Mughrabi Gate:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=859552

On snake cults in the pre-Islamic Middle East:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1926969.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2krgtu (Discovery)

More coverage of Egypt as the 'father' of medicine:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/588106
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uom-eng050907.php
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=29411

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Since the artifact seems to be Greek, we'll put this discovery
of an ancient wooden anchor at Urla in this category:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070516094901.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18728135/
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/530018/

In case you missed it, here's the pile of coverage which wants
to downplay (somewhat) the accomplishment of Alexander's siege
of Tyre:

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070514/full/070514-2.html
http://tinyurl.com/3yg44x (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/33pqjg
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,483050,00.html
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/514/1
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070515-alexander-great.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=29564
http://tinyurl.com/yt6cyb (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/3yw6f3 (SciAm)
http://www.livescience.com/history/070514_tyre_bridge.html

Interesting Roman dental technology find:

http://www.amjmed.com/article/PIIS0002934306008382/fulltext
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=29573
http://tinyurl.com/3bey7o
http://tinyurl.com/226e3y (Discovery)

More finds in Rome's Metro construction project:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2078974,00.html

Also in case you missed it, our friends' protests over the
planned elimination of the Ancient History A-levels has borne
fruit:

here's the 'before'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6656675.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6663437.stm
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9193813
http://education.guardian.co.uk/alevels/story/0,,2079395,00.html

... and the 'after':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6669837.stm
http://education.guardian.co.uk/alevels/story/0,,2081821,00.html

A Roman burial was found during highway construction near
Gravesend (UK):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6669209.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART47448.html
http://tinyurl.com/3yg44x

... and a later Roman burial was found in Trafalgar Square (!):

http://tinyurl.com/33otgh (Daily Mail)

The Roman fort at Tyneside is revealing some details about the
life of Roman soldiers:

http://tinyurl.com/3awmaf (Journal)

Some mosaics apparently from the Gardens of Lucullus have been
unearthed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6664941.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1800843.ece

Some interesting background/details about that Illyrian ships
excavation:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070520-030543-3244r

More/echoed coverage of Romans using the sun to align their towns:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1924665.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2qk7hk (Discovery)

On the 'golden ratio' and the Parthenon:

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_05_07.html

300 is still causing reactions in Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10327§ionid=351020105

... and there are spinoff effects of the movie in Sparta:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/15/europe/letter.php
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=a8zPIRBYLzE8&refer=europ
e

Honours for Anne Groton:

http://fusion.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=3937

Pam Brown will be retiring, but her Latin program will continue:

http://tinyurl.com/34brno (Oregonian)

... and Debra Hickey's program seems to be moving along just fine:

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070516/NEWS01/70516
0309

... and there's another program in Galesburg:

http://www.register-mail.com/stories/051507/WIL_BD7FC795.GID.shtml

The 'Living Classics' program looks interesting:

http://tinyurl.com/389age (Mail)

... and more coverage of the rise of Latin in UK state schools:

http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2542357.ece

A couple of Classical emeriti at Vanderbilt:

http://tinyurl.com/3d2226

ClassCon in the sale of Chrysler:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070516/COL04/705160331

cf an interview with Cerberus:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s8i18745

Global warming threatens Rome's monuments:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6654305.stm

More coverage of that find of 2700 bp fabric in Greece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6620856,00.html

Review of N Saunders, *Alexander's Tomb*:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/845/he1.htm

Review of David Grene, *Of Farming and Classics*

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Bulgarian scientists hope to prove that the sanctuaries at
Perperikon and Tatul predate the pyramids (the Egyptian ones):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=80736

An old shoe from Norway turns out to be realllly old:

http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=79953

Iron Age defences found near Edinburgh Castle:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=780392007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6671617.stm

Plenty of coverage of the find of a very rich Spanish shipwreck
full of gold and silver (mostly in the business pages, it seems):

http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/111874.html
http://tinyurl.com/2l48k5 (Seattle Times)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5935528?source=rss&nclick_check=1
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10544.shtml
http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2007/05/14/daily57.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/64001.html
http://tinyurl.com/2sqyr8 (Reuters)
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=255076
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18736741/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_re_us/treasure_ship

... and it looks like it's going to lead to legal stuff:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/20/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Treasure-Ship.
php
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/us/19treasure.html
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_269862932,00.html

A recently-found map is shedding some light on the siege of Leith:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=778812007

New 'digs' for archaeologists in Essex:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/6661693.stm

More coverage of that 'temple' near Tara:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070515-ireland-tara.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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Chinese writing is apparently 8000 years old (!?):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6669569.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=31164
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070519/139/6fzrg.html

China's navy has been called in to protect archaeologists
excavating a junk:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1782139.ece

Latest plans to clean up the Taj Mahal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6659175.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18709540/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some very old pottery is being excavated in South Carolina:

http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070513/NEWS01/70513
0359/1004

Interesting mule burial in Florida:

http://staugustine.com/stories/051907/news_4605383.shtml

Firepit and tools found during construction of a Maine airport:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514/ap_on_sc/archaeological_dig_1

Remains of Fort Duquesne?:

http://tinyurl.com/2rfh8n (Sun)
http://tinyurl.com/2lsp97 (Inquirer)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070516/ap_on_sc/point_state_park_1
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/pennsylvania/ci_5918072

A mysterious burial ground on Rhode Island?:

http://tinyurl.com/37gtod (Reuters via Yahoo)

Archaeology and development are meeting more and more in
North Carolina:

http://www.charlotte.com/217/story/124696.html

A major drought in Colorado ca 1100?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070517152428.htm

An update on that excavation of the 'President's House' in
Philadelphia:

http://tinyurl.com/3yp8xn (Inquirer)
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/48417/
http://tinyurl.com/2v2hx8 (UPI)

Did Lincoln have smallpox?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18727435/
http://tinyurl.com/3yxuus (SD)

... and what would have happened if he survived?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18737431/

The latest video at the Archaeology Channel is another Cyark
Case study, this time looking at Mesa Verde:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Reflecting on Jamestown's anniversary weekend last week:

http://tinyurl.com/398mms (DP)

Review of Michael Beschloss, *Presidential Courage*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Norton-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An 'upright' burial near Copan:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070517-maya-tomb.html
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_268585768,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, the technology is being used to help piece
together the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/2qt8k7 (JPost)

... and to determine the potato's roots (sorry ... couldn't
resist):

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/515/2

Miniature books:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/arts/design/20grim.html

Cleaning frescoes with salad dressing:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18678951/

On artifacts in war zones:

http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/13014/

Interesting item on Torah restoration:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0516/p20s01-ussc.html?s=hns

Darwin's letters are going online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6657237.stm

Venus figurine variations:

http://archaeology.about.com/b/a/257963.htm

On Star Wars' debt to mythology:

http://tinyurl.com/3dhb2e

Not sure why, but I found this account of the Pomak people
interesting:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=32486&cat_id=1

Using computer technology to 'reproduce' the past:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070515102529.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news98445437.html

Review of Nicholas Weber, *The Clarks of Cooperstwon*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Applegate-t.html

Review of William St Clair, *The Door of No Return*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Elkins-t.html

Review of Tim Willocks, *The Religion*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Cokal-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Nice little tour of Rome:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2557924.ece

Palermo:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/travel/20journeys.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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American Heritage magazine is shutting down:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/arts/17heri.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 New Yorker has a very interesting (and lengthy) account of
the discovery/bust of one of the largest smuggling rings in
India:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/07/070507fa_fact_keefe

Not sure how this one fits into the 'looting of Iraq' thing; it
seems this can be spun numerous ways:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2007-05-19%5Cmos.htm

All about the guy who destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2539338.ece
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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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DeChirico:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL175966420070517

Japanese Masters of the Brush:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/arts/design/18nang.html

Fakes and Forgeries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/arts/18forg.html

Seems to be some early speculation that the Getty will return
its Aphrodite:

http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/38987
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/61898.html

The Getty has added some art scholars to its board of directors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/arts/17arts.html (4th item)

An interview with Philippe de Montebello:

http://travel.independent.co.uk/americas/article2563016.ece

Denmark is going to return a pile of artifacts to Afghanistan:

http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/249917
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/5/60e4c7e0-95c1-4d89-b9d3-f026c436
cf7e.html
http://tinyurl.com/2jasyw
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Orfeo ed Eurydice:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2007/05/21/070521crmu_music_ro
ss

If Explorator were ever to 'sponsor' a dramatic production, it
would probably be for something like this, I suspect:

http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=18495
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OBITUARIES
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Dame Mary Douglas (Social Anthropologist):

http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,,2082786,00.html

John K. Lattimer (Collector of 'interesting' artifacts):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/opinion/17pascoe.html

Karen Hess (Culinary Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/dining/19hess.html

Giorgio Cavaglieri (Urban Preservationist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/arts/design/18cavaglieri.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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Croman mac Nessa,
Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Gene Barkley,
Jim Lockmiller, John McMahon, John Williams, Joseph Lauer,
Kim Dammers, Peter Archdale, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
B. Selavan, Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Belgian archaeologists have found the intact tomb of an
Egyptian courtier:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070520/sc_nm/egypt_discovery_dc_2
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL2032506420070520
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=041090120070521101639
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070521-egypt-tomb.html
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20310
http://tinyurl.com/2zqnuv (NG photos)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18783703/

... excellent official (?) webpage of the find:

http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/egyptology/Henu.htm

Concrete and the pyramids again:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070518_bts_barsoum_pyramids.html
http://tinyurl.com/2gfrqc

Some reexamination of artifacts have established that a chunk of
wood from Turkey is actually the world's oldest wooden anchor:

http://tinyurl.com/23jalb (ANI)
http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/48943/
http://tinyurl.com/2f5cbl (UPI)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070523-122102-5490r
http://www.huliq.com/22361/ancient-wooden-anchor-discovered

Interesting feature on 'Biblical Archaeology':

http://tinyurl.com/yte5b6 (Newsmax)

I've never heard of the controversy surrounding this 'Prophet Moses'
plate before:

http://www.elmasla.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=2016&SectionID=3&SectionName=E
nglish%20Page

Dead Sea Scrolls for Dummies (sort of):

http://www.yumasun.com/news/scrolls_34187___article.html/kuhlken_book.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Interesting finds near Orchomenos:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070524/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_shrine_4
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Greece-Ancient-Shrine.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18829648
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3205693
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/23/ap/tech/main2843054.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/2hkwde (USA Today)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/23/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Ancient-Shrin
e.php

... and winepresses from Thassos:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070524-042735-9562r

An 'Armenian' graveyard is apparently Roman (hope we hear some
more details on this):

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=112112

Some post-saving thoughts about the Ancient History A-Levels:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2084802,00.html

Nice interview with Horace Vella:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=51381

Latin is 'growing' in Georgia:

http://tinyurl.com/yvgz2u (Northeast Georgian)

More coverage of Alexander's seige of Tyre:

http://tinyurl.com/3y4q5r (Discovery)

More coverage of that Trafalgar Square find:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART47613.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6684993.stm

... and the burial under the A2:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/588440

Latest on Polanski's Pompeii:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117965602.html?categoryId=1061&cs=1

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Antonine Wall ... seeking Heritage Status still:

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=800542007
http://tinyurl.com/yq7ctn (BBC)

Nice website on the Silbury Hill excavations 2007:

http://www.users.myisp.co.uk/~gtour/Silbury2007.html

OpEd piece on goings-on in the Tara-Skryne Valley:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/opinion/25muldoon.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/25/opinion/edmuldoon.php

A suspicious fire hit the Cutty Sark this week:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18778157/
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=791422007
http://tinyurl.com/yoaru6

Pollution is affecting the Tower of London:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070521095434.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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They need archaeologists in Hawaii (!):

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/May/26/ln/FP705260350.html
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/120403.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070523/ap_on_re_us/hawaiian_remains

Some Nguyen Dynasty cannons from Viet Nam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/230507/culture_a.htm

A European in a Chinese tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/328qsv (NG)

Rethinking a recent 'altar' find in Hanoi:

http://tinyurl.com/2l5ueq

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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This week, a comet is being blamed for wiping out megafauna
(and maybe Clovis too!) in prehistoric North America:

http://tinyurl.com/2v3nqd (Times)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/530208/?sc=rssn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6676461.stm
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2083758,00.html

Plans are afoot to excavate a very deepwater shipwreck in the
Gulf of Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070523100014.htm
http://www.cdnn.info/news/industry/i070523.html

A lost deSoto battlefield in Alabama (?):

http://tinyurl.com/2nq3ft (PR)

More coverage of the Ft. Duquesne excavations:

http://tinyurl.com/yokgmf (Herald)

Ancestry.com has made available a pile of war records:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18839361/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Possible Aztec 'lightning bolts' found in Mexico:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070525/mexico-volcano-archaeology.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070525/ap_on_sc/mexico_volcano_archaeology_12
http://tinyurl.com/3c3zcz (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/2nyuzo (IHT)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18867416/

More coverage of that Maya tomb with the 'upright' burial:

http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=151735
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, we have some interesting (political?) conclusions
about the DNA of Genghis Khan:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070519131507.htm

I'm not quite sure where I should be putting the Black Swan news,
since it's obviously becoming a major international story, so
this seems to be the place ... this week's general coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/39dz2l (NG)
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/us/19treasure.html
http://tinyurl.com/32j6s8 (WPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6671975.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18785078/

... while a press release from Odyssey Marine seems worth while
singling out:

http://tinyurl.com/2nw8yw

... as does a piece mentioning interest from Disney (!):

http://www.mickeynews.com/News/DisplayPressRelease.asp_Q_id_E_5237Deal
http://tinyurl.com/32qgjx (Sentinel)

... and how Odyssey found the wreckage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6672725.stm

Also in the 'how do I categorize this' category, is an item on
John K. Lattimer's 'collectable':

http://www.startribune.com/commentary/story/1193120.html

Celebrating Linnaeus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/nyregion/23linnaeus.html

Review of Robert Friedel, *The Culture of Improvement*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/arts/21conn.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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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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A Roman ring has been returned to Turkey (the BBC piece has a
very nice photo with a bad caption):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/6680191.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3cjgvh (Gazette)
http://tinyurl.com/253fjm (UPI)

Bosnian archaeologists struggle to beat the looters:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070520-030543-3244r

Yemen is contending with smugglers too:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1052&p=culture&a=1

Strange Bulgarian looter/auction story:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/22/europe/sofia.php

A couple of raids in Turkey:

http://tinyurl.com/ysmwvg (TZ)
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NUMISMATICA
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Some old English coins were found when a Suffolk park pond was
cleaned up:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/6681681.stm

Useful information on coinage in Pepys' (of Diary fame) time:

http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/316.php

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Masterworks of Six Centuries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/arts/design/25mast.html

Mythic Creatures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/arts/design/25myth.html

Gods, Myths, and Mortals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/arts/design/23gree.html

The Israel Museum is putting some interesting Torah fragments
on display:

http://tinyurl.com/ywsvx6 (JPost)

The Creation Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html?hp

Talks between Italy and the Met have bogged down again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/arts/design/26coll.html

... while Albania is seeking the return of some items from
Greece (!):

http://english.people.com.cn/200705/22/eng20070522_376707.html

... and Greece is asking Australia to help get the Elgin
marbles back:

http://tinyurl.com/2ewtqr (Australian)

Previewing Christie's upcoming antiquities auction:

http://www.news-antique.com/?id=782523&keys=christies-antiquities-greek-roma
n-sale

... and some of Moshe Dayan's collection is going to auction:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/863582.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=863350

... as is the 'world's oldest' camera:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6695739.stm

Randolph Macon Women's College is considering selling some of
its art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/arts/design/25voge.html

New head at the Morgan Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/design/24morg.html

A fashion museum is emerging in Chile:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/fashion/24COLLECT.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Iphigenia in Aulis:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/theater/317303_theater26.html

Phallacy:

http://tinyurl.com/2g6uvd (NYT)
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OBITUARIES
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Eugen Weber (French Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/arts/22weber.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/22/america/obits.php

Mary Douglas (Social Anthropologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/world/europe/22douglas.html

Kenneth Sokoloff (Economic Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/obituaries/24sokoloff.html
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PODCASTS
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Nice Podcast on GIS and Archaeology featuring Pedar Foss:

http://tinyurl.com/2lkvuq (Intute)

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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EARLY HUMANS
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There's some connection between walking upright and trees,
apparently:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_sc/walking_in_trees_3
http://www.startribune.com/789/story/1220896.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10588656

La nina di Dikika:

http://tinyurl.com/2qe2ou (El Pais)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Dutch team has found the 3500 b.p. tomb of a priest:

http://english.people.com.cn/200706/02/eng20070602_380260.html

A Ptolemaic bowling alley:

http://tinyurl.com/2qy7m8 (El Masla)
http://tinyurl.com/2fv6ko (SIS)

Nice feature on the Gaza Field School:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm

An Old Persian text has been found among the Persepolis Fortification
Tablets:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/May2007/31-05-discovery.htm

That artificial eye from the Burnt City is in the news again:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/may/1360.html

Work at a nearby mine threatens the Sassanid remains at Chahar
Taqi-e Niasar:

http://tinyurl.com/ypwxx8 (Iranmania)

Nice feature on (my former professor) Krzysztof Grzymski and his
work:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/219734

What they've figured out so far about Gihon Pool:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=864747

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=12881
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/864459.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122581

... and this:

http://tinyurl.com/2kayxy (JPost)

William Dever is taking some potshots:

http://tinyurl.com/yvsb7k

Nice feature on Herod:

http://tinyurl.com/2lh4vn (LA Times)

Some interesting old photos from Iran have been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/arts/design/30phot.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Quite a few versions of this 'fast food in Pompeii' story:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070531_pompeii_life.html
http://tinyurl.com/yty6wt (ditto, via yahoo)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070601/139/6givn.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ag3hz
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18983078/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276852,00.html

Bulgaria's Valley of the Kings is more extensive than
previously thought:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81191

More coverage of things found during Rome's subway
construction:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10365638&ft=1&f=1004

Andrea Carandini believes the Temple of Quirinus sits under the
Italian president's residence:

http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/43030

Can't remember if we mentioned this story about wine presses
being found on Thassos:

http://tinyurl.com/22mh3k (IOL)

Recreating Augustus' Horologium:

http://tinyurl.com/27jqln (Emerald)

A roman diploma at BYU:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660224800,00.html
cf: http://tinyurl.com/22ypw4 (Current Epigraphy)

Honours for Brad Inwood:

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/070530-3194.asp

All about the student delivering this year's Latin Commencement
speech at Princeton:

http://tinyurl.com/yozyrr (Press Release)

Latin motto problems in New Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/ytr7yy (Courant)

OpEd piece on Latin Mass matters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/opinion/30allen.html

Latin is alive and well at East Kentwood High:

http://tinyurl.com/2a6hjc

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Ritual human sacrifice in Upper Paleolithic Europe?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uocp-efa052907.php

A medieval Jewish cemetery in the Czech Republic:

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102160.html

The aftermath of the Cutty Sark fire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6691665.stm

More on the yellowing of the White Tower:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18927182/

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 2100 b.p. melon from Japan:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_fe_st/japan_oldest_melon
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/01/asia/AS-ODD-Japan-Oldest-Melon.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18980972/

An important Hawaiian site:

http://tinyurl.com/yp39l7 (Advertiser)

Remains of a 14th century observatory in India:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070528/48/6gcww.html

Not sure what to make of this piece on the Hephthalites:

http://spotlightongames.com/variant/maharaja/eph.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Low levels of Lake Okeechobee are revealing sites:

http://tinyurl.com/24rotc (PB Post)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/68265.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/123884.html

A talk on what's been found at the Popham Colony site:

http://tinyurl.com/youqkt (Times Record)

Fortifications from the War of 1812 site at Sackets Harbor have
been found:

http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=6586036&nav=menu133_2
http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=6586036

An interview with Bly Straube about Jamestown:

http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/conversation.html

... also on the Jamestown front, John Smith apparently was a
skilled mapmaker:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18963823/

Mystery shipwreck near St. Augustine:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=83100

A group has formed to discuss Clovis issues:

http://malibusurfsidenews.com/stories/200705/20070531001.html

More coverage of the site of the Battle of Mauvilla:

http://www.southalabamian.com/news/2007/0531/News/024.html

Restoring/remaking some Civil War grave markers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/nyregion/28civil.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Another Mayan tomb found near Copan, Honduras (I think this is
different than ones we've mentioned before):

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/530410/
http://tinyurl.com/ypm6hr (AScribe)
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN3042394320070531
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070531103350.htm

... while those clumsy archaeologists have also stumbled upon
some Mayan foundations at Aventura:

http://www.reporter.bz/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2014&Itemid=2

Evidence for decapitation in Peru:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uocp-dar052907.php
http://tinyurl.com/2ay27c (UPI)

More coverage of those Aztec 'lightning bolts':

http://tinyurl.com/2ax4vj (GNN)

On climate change and the development of agriculture in Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070601173931.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The Book of Kells is the latest manuscript to get a high tech
look-over:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/28/news/irish.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/world/europe/28kells.html

Normally I'd put these in their appropriate geographical categories,
but there's a trend of sorts here ... first, sites in Scotland
are threatened by rising sea levels:

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/50181/
http://tinyurl.com/ytyeh4 (UPI)
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=840532007

... as are sites in Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=865705

... and Beijing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6709099.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0525/p06s01-woap.html?s=hns

Some guy is going to try to cross the Atlantic in a reed raft:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/atlantic_vessel_crossing_2
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/nyregion/28sail.html

... while I suspect a Viking longship going across the North Sea will
be more successful:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Viking-Ship.html

No real 'news' in the Black Swan affair, but still coverage:

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/29/Worldandnation/Treasure_may_become_c.shtml
http://www.gibfocus.gi/details_todaysnews.php?id=2312

... although Spain has filed a lawsuit (we all saw that coming):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_re_eu/spain_treasure_ship
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18958738/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6705613.stm

A while back we mentioned the 'excavation' of a Ford Van ... that
project is the latest feature at the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Nice feature on someone going to work at an archaeological site
in Spain:

http://www.daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=396134

Promoting Early Music:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/arts/music/31earl.html

Latest on the British academic unions' attempts to boycott Israel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/world/europe/30britain.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/world/europe/31britain.html

Quite a few Arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/arts/design/01voge.html

Some very old colour (!) photos:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2573293.ece

Interesting job opportunity filled:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10589142

Review of three books about pirates and their ilk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Millard-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Richmond:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/travel/escapes/01American.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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Three NPR stories on the state of the illegal antiquities trade:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10416454
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10457558
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10588693


Some Iraqi smugglers have been arrested:

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/05/28/10128327.html

Latest in the Marion True trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/arts/02arts.html (4th)

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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African Vision:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/arts/design/01afri.html

Tea, Wine and Poetry:Qing Dynasty Literati and Their Drinking Vessels

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/arts/design/01anti.html

More Napoleonic items are coming to auction:

http://tinyurl.com/2j8uep (El Pais)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Fifth Empire:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/movies/01fift.html

Ten Canoes:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/movies/01cano.html

Plenty of coverage of the imminent move of sculptures etc. to
the new Acropolis Museum:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/05/29/acropolis-statues.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/4845116.html
http://tinyurl.com/yvd9ue (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/2lz9oo (WPost)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070530-041337-7231r
http://tinyurl.com/2d3v4d (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/2g9qfu (NC Times)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=840352007
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL2966573520070529

More coverage of the sale of Moshe Dayan's collection:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=863582
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OBITUARIES
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Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood (Classical Scholar):

http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2091644,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2606425.ece

W.K. Pritchett (Ancient Historian/Epigraphist):

http://classics.berkeley.edu/news/articles/story.php?id=16

James Beck (Art Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/arts/29beck.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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I think we've had this one from the Onion before, but it's still
good:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38680
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PODCASTS
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Nice Podcast on GIS and Archaeology featuring Pedar Foss:

http://tinyurl.com/2lkvuq (Intute)

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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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of the most recent investigation into Oetzi's
cause of death:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/e-mo5060607.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_sc/iceman_9
http://tinyurl.com/3242ep (IHT)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070607/139/6gr0e.html
http://tinyurl.com/2lsd8a (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6727665.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2a8pod (News.com)
http://tinyurl.com/ystkv5
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070606-095141-2660r
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071721/
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=888932007

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AFRICA
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Oldest decorative shells found ... in Morocco:

http://www.suntimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=484595
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071731/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The vague description of this 2300 b.p. chamber tomb find from
Turkey suggests it might be Hellenistic, but I'm not sure:

http://english.people.com.cn/200706/08/eng20070608_382397.html

Polish archaeologists have found a wealthy, 5000 b.p. tomb at
'Chicken Hill':

http://tinyurl.com/yv3wvg (PAP)

A Spanish team has uncovered a 1st Intermediate Period cemetery:

http://tinyurl.com/2tccm5 (SIS)

Interesting item on recreating pigments found on walls of
Egyptian tombs:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/70491.html
http://movie.moldova.org/stiri/eng/51633/
http://tinyurl.com/2lr9f8 (UPI)

On food and kitchens in ancient Egypt:

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7488

A mummy at the Berkshire Museum is the latest to get the CT Scan
treatment:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_6063034

Satellite technology has located remains of a 400 AD/CE settlement
in Egypt:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070605_satellite_egypt2.html
http://tinyurl.com/33tomy (ditto, via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071980/

Another Salt Man from Iran:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/June2007/04-06.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2abyvr (Iranmania)

Overviewish thing on digging anywhere in Jerusalem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/world/middleeast/05jerusalem.html

I'll repeat this one since last week I mistakenly placed it in Gaza ... it's
actually the Giza plateau:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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A Torrenueva (Spain) site turns out to be Roman, not Phoenician:

http://tinyurl.com/377p35 (TS)

A pile of amphoras from a Pula site:

http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=49918

Excellent article on gladiators, incorporating some recent
discoveries:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1369

An ancient 'training manual' inscription:

http://tinyurl.com/2du4kd (Age)

Scanning Homer:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan

A Latin program in Southern Ontario gets some press attention:

http://tinyurl.com/2xydek (LFP)

Princeton Commencement coverage:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S18/10/64K00/index.xml

... and Robert Fagles received an honourary degree:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S18/10/64S75/index.xml

I guess I need to mention the crabs-thriving-in-Roman-monuments
thing:

http://www.physorg.com/news100094217.html

Investment advice from Aristotle:

http://www.fool.com/investing/beginning/2007/06/04/what-would-aristotle-buy.
aspx

More on those finds in Trafalgar Square:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6700149.stm

That Pompeii fast food story appears to still have some legs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18983078/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Assorted Bronze Age finds during construction of a bypass in
Cornwall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6712111.stm
http://tinyurl.com/32qwf4 (Packet)

A Bronze Age cemetery on Barra:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1444240.0.0.php

Bronze Age life in La Mancha:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070605121009.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=36586

An Iron Age Mickey Mouse (!):

http://www.thelocal.se/7544/20070608/

Plans are afoot to exhume some bodies from some Viking burials
in Norway to preserve them:

http://tinyurl.com/36tfo5 (SD)

Tara is on the World Monument Fund's 'crisis list':

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2636185.ece

A WWI mass grave near Fromelles:

http://tinyurl.com/38ofxx (BBC)

Review of Tim Blanning, *The Pursuit of Glory: Europe*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2098452,00.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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An octopus led to the find of a Kyoro Dynasty shipwreck:

http://tinyurl.com/3b4tjg (AFP via Yahoo)

Qing Dynasty tombs are threatened by mining:

http://tinyurl.com/2g5twu

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Analysis of some Native American bones from Utah are shedding
light on an 1853 incident:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6090275

More (and varied) coverage of what they're finding in Lake
Okeechobee:

http://tinyurl.com/yp7bw6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/3aqcn8
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/134730.html
http://tinyurl.com/25d9to (UPI)
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/130131.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19046682/

An update on what they've found during the George Washington
house excavation in Philadelphia:

http://www.examiner.com/a-769260~Slave_Passage_Found_at_Washington_House.htm
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19100886/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_re_us/washington_s_slaves

Some interesting stuff about Sitting Bull:

http://tinyurl.com/2tt9dx (Forum)

Modern medicine would have likely saved Lincoln:

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/06/11/prsc0611.htm

... while a recently-found note from Lincoln underscores one
of the great 'missed opportunities' of the Civil War:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19095440/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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On chickens and when folks reached the Americas:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/chicken/
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070609/fob4.asp
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003736035_chickens06.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ww6rf (LA Times)
http://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19035306/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09sat4.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_sc/fowl_finding250
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11987-polynesians-beat-columbus-to-the
-americas-.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2614581.ece

A 1200 b.p. burial ground from Costa Rica:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_273103590,00.html

A burial from ca 1500 a.d. found in Chile during condo
construction:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5666_273139534,00.html

On climate change and the origins of agriculture in Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070601173931.htm

More coverage of that human-sacrifice-in-Peru story:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070606-head-jar.html
(very interesting photo)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Spain is ramping up the pressure in the Black Swan thing:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070606/2/13odd.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4085785a12.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19058333/
http://tinyurl.com/2wyw78 (El Pais)

Looks like the dangers-of-climate-change lobby is going to be
pushing the damage-to-ancient-monuments angle:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_re_us/endangered_monuments
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/world/article/0,1406,KNS_351_5577972,00.html

Nice 'department' piece from Archaeology on the problem of
treasure hunting (in a nautical archaeology context):

http://www.archaeology.org/0707/etc/insider.html

...and an oped piece in the same vein:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/opinion/08kurson.html

A Botticelli fresco in Hungary?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19112886/

How MAGIS is helping archaeologists:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=19577

The World Monument Fund has come out with its annual list of
most endangered sites:

http://tinyurl.com/2uufpc (AFP via Yahoo)

One of the last hunter-gatherer peoples on earth is
disappearing:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19148779/

Assorted arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08voge.html

Sean Connery has apparently turned down a role in the new
Indiana Jones flick:

http://tinyurl.com/37cazx

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81652

Choquequirao:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/travel/03inca.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Ancient Egypt (June/July Preview):

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/

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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Iraq's antiquities are also increasingly falling victim to
militant attacks:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2098255,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3dex8c (Age)

... but this one has a slightly different spin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2098057,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2098272,00.html

Check out the stolen art etc. found at convicted crime boss
Terry Adams' place:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6730925.stm

Vandals hit some petroglyphs in Utah:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660226133,00.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Journey to the Copper Age:

http://tinyurl.com/39664m (Union Tribune)

Genghis Khan and his Heirs:

http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=26615

The Great Cover Up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08rugs.html

The Israel Museum has on display a 'silent era' manuscript of
a chunk of Exodus:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/867003.html
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20468
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_sc/israel_rare_manuscript

... while the Getty has put the Northumberland Bestiary on display:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2095548,00.html

A German archaeologist will be running Berlin's museums:

http://tinyurl.com/38b7mv (Bloomberg)
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=9558

How all the current controversy about repatriation etc. is
causing museums to 'reinvent' themselves:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-09-museums_N.htm

Latest testimony etc. from the Marion True trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/arts/design/09gett.html

Interesting controversy about plans to exhibit the Bactrian Gold:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/07/arts/afshow.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/06/arts/design/06muse.html

Coverage of Sotheby's auction of all that Albright-Knox Museum
stuff:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660227674,00.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/93865.html
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20512
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/08/content_6217171.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/06/08/auction-bronze-artemis.htm
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http://tinyurl.com/2nng99 (IOL)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aSTconzZk_mo&refer=home

Napoleon's sword is coming to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6737909.stm

London antiques fair coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08anti.html

A virtual museum of Achaemenid art:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12377§ionid=351020105

More on that Venetian Customs House being turned into a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Shakespeare in the Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/theater/08shak.html
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ON THE WEB
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Sphakia Survey:

http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/

The Parthenon:

http://www.dkv.columbia.edu/vmc/acropolis/
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OBITUARIES
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W.K. Pritchett:

http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=25202
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/06/05_pritchett.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/yralqt (Chronicle)
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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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