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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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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, Dan Kiernan, Dave Sowdon,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths,
Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... 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/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
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
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
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
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
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/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
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
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
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/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Greece:

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

Istanbul:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/news/tristan.php
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Customs officials in Pakistan prevented a major antiquities
smuggling attempt:

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/19/top10.htm
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
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/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
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
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
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
================================================================
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 9.30                                 November 19, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dan Kiernan, Dave Sowdon,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths,
Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... another done-in-the-fog-of-an-allergy-attack issue ...
================================================================
EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
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
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
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/
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
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/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
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
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
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
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
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/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
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
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
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/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Greece:

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

Istanbul:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/news/tristan.php
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Customs officials in Pakistan prevented a major antiquities
smuggling attempt:

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/19/top10.htm
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
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/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
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
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
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
================================================================
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 9.29                                November 12, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Tim Parkin, Hernan
Astudillo, Croman mac Nessa, Dorothy King,  Ross W Sargent,
Tony Jackson, M.B. Myer, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Edward Rockstein, Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Susan Jaslow,
and W. Richard Frahmfor headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
================================================================
EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
What did early hominids eat?:

http://www.dispatch.co.za/2006/11/11/Features/e2.html
http://tinyurl.com/y66z7a (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/y8dgdt (Telegraph ... very good)
http://tinyurl.com/ybbtuu (Guardian ... different spin)
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4635546?source=rss
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2446395,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y45wlh (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/y8jtym (Health Day via Yahoo)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoca-vdo110606.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uou-abf110306.php
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15640434/

More evidence of human-neanderthal interbreeding:

http://www.physorg.com/news82311440.html
http://tinyurl.com/yablbq (CNN ... strange photo)
http://www.hhmi.org/news/lahn20061006.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061103083616.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061107/sc_nm/science_neanderthals_dc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15611031/
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6290
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/science/09gene.html (JNW)
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AFRICA
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Trying to preserve ancient texts in Timbuktu:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061110/sc_nm/mali_manuscripts_dc_1
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Skulls from "various races" have been found in burials near
the Iranian city of Semnan:

http://tinyurl.com/yxhkph (Iranmania)
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=403654

A Bronze Age graveyard where that Second Temple model once was:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=115003
http://tinyurl.com/wzg3b (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yjk3od (ME Times)

Problems raising a Persian shipwreck:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=11/11/2006&Cat=10&Num=2
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1117.html

Online book: Herbert Verreth, *The northern Sinai from the 7th century BC
till the 7th century AD. A guide to the sources*:

http://www.trismegistos.org/sinai/

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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Roman and Punic finds from Pantelleria:

http://tinyurl.com/ykm7ka (ANSA)

Roman artifact found in a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=5450
http://www.physorg.com/news82319502.html
http://tinyurl.com/yy2szu (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/y4edwg (SD)

A Roman inscription from Bitola:

http://tinyurl.com/v85r9 (makfax)
http://tinyurl.com/yneotl (mrt)

Chlorine and Pompeiian frescoes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/science/07observ.html

A dig in the heart of Canterbury may shed light on Roman Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6128294.stm

A tiny piece of the Erectheion was returned this week:

http://tinyurl.com/yf2jcv (Kathimerini)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6138214.stm
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061107-035315-6443r
http://tinyurl.com/ydj7pf (ANA)
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/11/eng20061111_320567.html

Father Foster is teaching Latin again:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2006/11/foster-ing-latin-once-again-in-rome/

On Oedipus and Bush:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15642593/site/newsweek/

An Aeneidathon:

http://tinyurl.com/w2hhc (Maroon)

More coverage of that xrayed Venus:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/125089,CST-FTR-venus06.article
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-11/06/content_726009.htm

Reviewish thing of Craig Barnes, *In Search of the Lost Feminine:
Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization*:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/51961.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)
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Discovery of a (n undated) quern stone has brought a development
of land near Glasgow do a halt:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1663002006

Finds from various periods at a Berwick site:

http://tinyurl.com/yyooo6 (Berwick Today)

High tech equipment may have located the Fairfax Entrenchment:

http://tinyurl.com/tg93n (This is Bradford)

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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2700 b.p. bronze artifacts from Shaanxi:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/11/eng20061111_320520.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/11/content_5316230.htm

More (?) Warring States burials from Henan:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/Archaeology/188205.htm

Interesting 500 b.p. "corpse" from Shanghai:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-11-9/47957.html

Neolithic petroglyphs near Kalpetta are threatened by neglect:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=46253

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 19th century cast iron sarcophagus from Richmond:

http://tinyurl.com/yyjym4 (Register)

Borderline touristy piece on Pueblo Bonito:

http://www.chieftain.com/life/1162720881/1 (nice pix)

They've concluded work on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://tinyurl.com/y8ttqj (Sun News)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Controversy about a bridge to Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/y2ddc7 (IHT)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_237296373,00.html

Looking for evidence of slave life in the Caribbean:

http://tinyurl.com/vkv2s (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/y6ya6o (ABC)
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=165830
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're finding bits of all sorts of retroviruses
in our genome (does this mean we'll soon be getting another
Athenian Plague story?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/science/07virus.html

Global warming is now threatening sites around the world:

http://tinyurl.com/y54tqf (Mail and Guardian)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_sc/kenya_climate_talks

That Google-Earth-reveals-sites story is popping up again:

http://tinyurl.com/yy6guq (NG)

Review of Judith Summers, *Casanova's Women*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/books/10book.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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New online journal ... Rosetta:

http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_01/Issue01_home.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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Nice 'thought piece' on ongoing looting of sites on the San
Carlos reservation (Arizona):

http://tinyurl.com/yftyx2 (Republic)

related article about some guy who got caught:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1112looters-tidwell1112.html

Meanwhile, according to Marion True, the antiquities market is
corrupt:

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

An historic cemetery in Gebze (Turkey) was looted:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20061104&hn=37942

Christie's stopped the sale of some Bulgarian silver this week:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72244

I suspect this sale of items on a Bulgarian website is crime
connected:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72420

Followup to that big bust on Schinoussa a while back:

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

Interesting followup to that destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas,
suggesting Osama bin Laden was involved:

http://tinyurl.com/yjl34x (ME Times)

Some woman was caught trying to sell a mummy on eBay:

http://tinyurl.com/yzh5fo (Times-Union)
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NUMISMATICA
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The Coinage of the Americas Conference features a (rather pricey)
webcast of the sessions:

http://www.numismatics.org/COAC2006.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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Ancient Bibles at the Smithsonian:

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

The Quest for Immortality tour is stopping in Portland:

http://tinyurl.com/yc6qu5 (Oregonian)

Clash of Empires:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1039043.html

Greek Revival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10anti.html

Neanderthals:

http://tinyurl.com/yctk5d (le monde)

Icons at the Getty:

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

Masterpieces of European Painting From the Cleveland Museum of Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10clev.html

An art gallery in Buffalo is auctioning off stuff it has that
doesn't fit within its 'mission':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10voge.html

A roundup of various exhibitions in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/yazby7 (ANSA)

Italy is threatening to break 'cultural ties' with the Getty,
apparently because talks are going nowhere:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/arts/design/09gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/ynaa6u (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/y423pd (LA Times)

The archaeological museum at Heraklion is closing for a while:

http://tinyurl.com/ycl7ng (AP via Yahoo)

The Vatican is promoting Laocoon:

http://tinyurl.com/ygmbs2 (ANSA)

And folks wonder why there's an antiquities market:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/arts/design/09christies.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Argonautika:

http://tinyurl.com/y7j4nq (Daily Southtown)

Music from the time of Henry VIII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/arts/music/07tudo.html

Twelfth Night:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/theater/reviews/09twel.html
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ON THE WEB
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Temple Mount Archaeological Destruction:

http://www.har-habayt.org/
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OBITUARIES
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James Barr:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1963268.ece
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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, Dorothy King,
R.M. Howe, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
Jim Lockmiller, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Kris Curry, Louis A. Okin, Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths,
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EARLY HUMANS
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More evidence of interbreeding of modern humans and Neanderthals:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/wuis-mhm110206.php
http://tinyurl.com/yjkw8w (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061030_neanderthal_hybrid.html

Romanian fossils come from some of the earliest modern humans
to settle in Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6099422.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I'm sure most folks have already seen the 'Egyptian Girls Gone
Wild' coverage:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15475319/

Not sure whether this is the same Syrian tomb as the one we
mentioned last week ... interesting details about sacrifices of
various beasties:

http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/0610/075.shtml

... this is the one we mentioned last week:

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2006/30oct06/30syria.html

Babylonian cuisine:

http://homepage.mac.com/toke_knudsen/cuneiform_cuisine/Personal84.html

Time for the annual too-many-tourists-are-damaging-Egyptian-sites
coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yxwfyv (SMH)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6109582.stm

Searching for Parthian remains near Ecbatana:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1033.html

A Chinese connection for the Dead Sea Scrolls? (this should probably
be Elmer material ...):

http://tinyurl.com/yj8q7j (Toronto Star)

cf. some previous blogposts by Jim Davila:

http://tinyurl.com/yzju2a
http://tinyurl.com/ya6nnh

and elsewhere:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/dss/marks/review.html
http://tinyurl.com/yb2tjz

Locating Sodom and Gomorrah:

http://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_4556577

An inscription of the general who took Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=782058

Much coverage of the return of the Reisner Papyri to Berkeley:

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_307151221.html
http://tinyurl.com/y3u3jo (Union Tribune)
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/ygz6ta
http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22095
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6106098.stm

Not sure how you "stumble upon" something while swimming, but
a lifeguard has found a 4000 b.p. iron anchor near Netanya:

http://tinyurl.com/y6dbb6 (JPost)

Plans are afoot to repair earthquake damage at Bam:

http://tinyurl.com/t7q7b (Union Tribune)

Celebrating World Heritage status for Bistoun:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1046.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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Reburying a Roman villa to protect it:

http://tinyurl.com/yj76zt (Lynn News)

Major Roman find in the heart of Colchester:

http://tinyurl.com/ydmrzv (EADT)

A Roman villa find in Spain is holding up road construction:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_7187.shtml

A Roman stud:

http://tinyurl.com/yakvsm (CEN)

A Roman chamber tomb from Turkey:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/02/content_5282058.htm

No digging at the Kerameikos:

http://tinyurl.com/yjl76q (Kathimerini)

The Dendra armour needs some conserving:

http://tinyurl.com/yco8nc (Kathimerini)

On politics and graffiti:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/15917714.htm

Can't remember if we mentioned this study on why crimson in
Pompeiian frescoes is fading:

http://www.esrf.fr/news/pressreleases/pompeii
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061030120603.htm

Plenty of coverage of a project to xray a statue of Venus at
the Michael C. Carlos museum with a view to reuniting body and
head:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/04/content_5289241.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_on_sc/x_raying_venus
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15537678/

Plenty of coverage/reviews of Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://www.goshennews.com/entertainment/local_story_307131235.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/ap_en_ot/books_classic_translator_3
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/books/30fagl.html
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1834067,001100040001.htm
http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20061103-090306-6393r.htm
http://www.nysun.com/article/42644

Not sure if we've mentioned this article by Alan Massie on the
popularity of Roman-themed novels:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7889

Folks might be interested in the way this Latin Fest is set up:

http://tinyurl.com/y93n57 (Statesman)

Another view of the Latin Mass:

http://tinyurl.com/yhpzc7 (Boston Globe)

More coverage of the Delphic Oracle stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/y3p5dy (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226504,00.html

More coverage of the Lupanare reopening:

http://www.kthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=36072

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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Time for the annual "Stonehenge is threatened" piece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6112476.stm

Finds from various periods at Kintbury:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1939933,00.html

Viking era coins from Sweden (is it my imagination, or are most
finds in this part of the world made by schoolkids?):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15520771/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226231,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061030/od_afp/swedenarchaeology

... a blogpost tells of other finds too:

http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/4279/44/

A 'new' Viking inscription with runes:

http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=4051990/

Mysterious burials in Leith:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1610722006

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 discovery of some tunnels near X'ian are being linked to
a Han Dynasty power struggle:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=44104
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/01/eng20061101_317254.html

Another neglected monument in India:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/10/30/stories/2006103014270200.htm

Meanwhile, efforts to save a World Heritage site in VietNam
have been halted -- get this -- due to the discovery of
archaeological artifacts (if that doesn't cramp your brain,
nothing will):

http://www.thanhniennews.com/travel/?catid=7&newsid=21601

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A large communal grave has been found at Louisbourg:

http://tinyurl.com/y5kl5s (G&M)
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=901&sc=1

A sort of 'state of the dig' piece on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061030/us_nm/life_blackbeard_dc
http://tinyurl.com/yxtvjw (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/yf55bb (ABC)

Evidence for an autopsy 400 years ago on St. Croix:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061101/ap_on_sc/early_autopsies
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15511638/

Interesting item on 'Inscription Rock' in New Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/ya8ac7 (ABQ Journal)

Promoting Fort St. Joseph:

http://www.dowagiacnews.com/articles/2006/11/02/news/dnnews2.txt

Review of David Naswaw, *Andrew Carnegie*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/books/30gord.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the various
peoples who have called Hell's Canyon (Idaho/Oregon) home:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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This is different (and I'm somewhat skeptical) ... examination
of a fingerprint purported to belong to Leondardo da Vinci
suggests he may have "Middle Eastern" roots:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/28/leonardoprint_his.html

Strange trial of a 92-year-old archaeologist in Turkey (it's
interesting that no one seems to be questioning the claim
itself):

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20061103&hn=37887
http://tinyurl.com/ykfu68 (G&M)
http://tinyurl.com/ymcjsu (JPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6106098.stm

Hallowe'en and the 'cross quarter' days:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15485365/

Also on the Hallowe'en front ... a sort of archaeological
Hallowe'en piece:

http://tinyurl.com/ybpx92 (Daily Campus)

Some saints weren't so 'saintly':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/opinion/01martin.html

Changes to the chimney sweep industry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/world/europe/30sweep.html

A burial at Emily Dickinson's house:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_en_ce/dickinson_grave
http://tinyurl.com/yhjsa5

Most haunted roadways in Britain (in the spirit of Hallowe'en,
of course):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,1935459,00.html

Another copyright case I don't quite understand:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6036755.stm

More coverage of that early horse domestication story:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061023192518.htm

Review of Ole Benedictow, *The Black Death*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25340-2432149,00.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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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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There's some questions about some Turners recovered by the Tate:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23569-2433045.html

Another arrest in Greece -- this time four people in Larissa
who were trying to sell a small collection of antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/y4ml3t (Kathimerini)

A recovered art show in Rome (doesn't the policeperson look like
she posed for the painting?):

http://tinyurl.com/yzxdtj (ANSA)

Looting churches in Italy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1936267,00.html

A Roman ring kerfuffle comes to an end:

http://tinyurl.com/yc7s2u (Advertiser)

Operation 'Bring 'em back' in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/yg75yz (Oregonian)
http://tinyurl.com/yngsqz (Oregonian)
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NUMISMATICA
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A rare coin investment scam:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06300/733364-28.stm

New Jersey paper currency:

http://www.frontierguard.org/Research/NJFG2B09.html

Interesting George Washington skull and crossbones funeral
medal (make sure you look at the reverse):

http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lrid=AN00041293&side=R

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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Upcoming auction news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/arts/design/02auct.html
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ON THE WEB
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Vidimus ... an online magazine devoted to medieval stained
glass:

http://www.vidimus.org./
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OBITUARIES
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Clifford Geertz:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/obituaries/01geertz.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Latest Bosnian pyramid update:

http://tinyurl.com/y2jttw (ABC)
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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, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
Sowdon, David Critchley, Gene Barkley, Croman mac Nessa,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Kris Curry, Louis A. Okin, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W Sargent, Bob Heuman, Stan Nadel, Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Lucy will be touring the U.S.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6082990.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/arts/26arts.html (5th item)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15401398/

... but not at the Smithsonian:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061025/ap_on_sc/smithsonian_no_lucy_2
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An undisturbed Syrian tomb dating to the third millennium
B.C./B.C.E. (coverage of this is quite varied):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061025082150.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y7tpek (Telegraph ... interesting photo)
http://tinyurl.com/y49uh3 (Sun ... I think this is the same site)
http://tinyurl.com/y8pnu9 (NG)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/524603/?sc=rssn
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/science/24tomb.html (great photos)

Recent arrests of tomb raiders in Egypt have led to the discovery
of the tombs of some ancient Egyptian dentists:

http://tinyurl.com/y5swff (NG)
http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=67702
http://tinyurl.com/y3g3mj (NPR)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1929720,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_sc/egypt_new_tombs_6
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15384819/
http://tinyurl.com/ycfeuo (SMH)
http://www.theolympian.com/101/story/47006.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/152350.php
http://tinyurl.com/ynh5uk (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/y9aas6 (JPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6076560.stm
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/22/D8KU1HT80.html

A family tomb from the New Elamite period:

http://tinyurl.com/yepn6r (Iranmania)

Cataloging the cultural resources of Iraq:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2006-07/cataloging.html

Another NG feature on Zahi Hawass:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061024-hawass.html

More coverage of what they're finding in Temple Mount siftings:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/776922.html

Reconsidering Norman Golb's theories on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/yk4ne2 (Tribune)

New edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica:

http://tinyurl.com/ylvtc2 (JPost)

Review of Miriam Vamosh, *Food at the Time of the Bible*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=780027

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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Much coverage of the reopening (for tourists) of Pompeii's
Lupanare:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20061025-113328-5639r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yz92hh (Statesman)
http://tinyurl.com/ygbuqc (Age)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6090486.stm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/27/content_5257273.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2423611,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yanuez (DC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15434770/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6173339,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1932494,00.html
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12300C7HDCWI
http://tinyurl.com/y6wc85 (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/snbhh (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/113424,CST-NWS-italy27.article
http://tinyurl.com/yehgd3 (Globe and Mail)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2006-10/27/content_718165.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ykwsfx (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/yd9fbf (ANSA)

Assorted finds, including a nice bust of Aristotle, from near
the Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/sjpwo (Kathimerini)
http://e.sinchew-i.com/album.phtml?id=2193 (just a photo)
http://tinyurl.com/yav2f5 (IOL)

Update on efforts to save Allianoi:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=57738

The Vatican Necropolis story still has legs, apparently:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650202270,00.html

... as does the Sevso Treasure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/arts/design/25sevs.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/26/features/sevso.php
cf: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1929925,00.html

... and the Temple Treasure theory of Sean Kingsley:

http://tinyurl.com/y23w7j (Chronicle)

... the Delphic Oracle on gas story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2418509,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yllok9 (Australian)

More Latin Mass coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yzcntd (PB Post)

On the quirks of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/yx3arn (Telegraph)

A talk on Greek society:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=50709

EU funding to restore a number of Greek sites:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=75899

Review of Barry Strauss' Trojan tome:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/15817718.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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An 8000 b.p. skeleton of a child from northern Bulgaria:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/26/content_5253488.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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Eastern Zhou dynasty tombs from Henan province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/24/eng20061024_314802.html

2000 b.p. tombs from Viet Nam:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=21473

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On Brown University's connections to slavery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/opinion/23mon3.html

Interesting article on petroglyphs in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/features/ci_4549884

Yamasee artifacts from S.C.:

http://tinyurl.com/ygfpsb (Island Packet)

The Passamaquoddy people have acquired a chunk of land with some
petroglyphs:

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=43784

They're expecting to find a pile of burials in Tucson:

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5579905

George Washington the party guy ... or not:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6388351

Rethinking Uncle Tom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/arts/23conn.html

Interesting 19th century 'true crime' story:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6394129
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Not sure whether we've seen this 'ancient human footprints' from
Mexico story before or not:

http://tinyurl.com/ymu3v9 (CNN)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15425876/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026/ap_on_sc/mexico_ancient_footprints

That Aztec monolith story is still making the rounds:

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=332097&sid=FTP
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Weird sort of DNA front question relating to Billy the Kid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/us/24brfs-002.html

Recreating ancient scents:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb

Manure as evidence for horse domestication:

http://tinyurl.com/uqlc7 (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/wxpat (SciAm)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/gsoa-neo102306.php

A letter from Michelangelo to Catherine of Aragon is coming up
for auction:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=22828&c=90

... as is other Catherinish correspondence:

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

... while the Bodmer's plans to sell a few ancient manuscripts
is causing quite a kerfuffle:

http://www.nzz.ch/2006/10/28/eng/article7202046.html

Latest on Gibson's Apolcalypto:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/061025/2/111pz.html

Future archaeologists should be aware of the IGERT fellowships:

http://tinyurl.com/yfa4mc (blog post)

They may have found the site of Sgt. York's heroics:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15434251/

On the Celtic roots of Hallowe'en:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/butler.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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Rome:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2421587,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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More coverage of the Getty Aphrodite phase of the Museum Case:

http://tinyurl.com/y48l6o (NW Times)

A slap on the wrist for a librarian who stole and sold some
rare books on the Internet:

http://tinyurl.com/y79gyu (Yahoo)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2422037,00.html

Once again we're hearing concerns for Iraq's antiquities:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2420459,00.html
http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=22839&c=90
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=478

Some idiots vandalized some petroglyphs in Utah:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=597895
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4555056

Review of the *Medici Conspiracy*:

http://tinyurl.com/y4jydq (Financial Express)

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NUMISMATICA
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On the Ashmolean's Roman Provincial Coinage Online:

http://www.physorg.com/news81095256.html

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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Tiepolo drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/arts/design/27tiep.html

Assyrian reliefs at the Hood:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=17893

American Indian Art and Artifact Show:

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/3/ARTICLE/7832/2006-10-25.html

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Getty is (slightly) adjusting
its acquisitions policies:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=22848&c=90
http://tinyurl.com/yk6trd (LAT)
http://tinyurl.com/yzgqbo (Bloomberg)

The Museum of the Portuguese Language has opened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/world/americas/23brazil.html

Followup to that piece wherein a teacher was fired for taking
Grade Fives to a museum with naked statues (oh my!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/us/25brfs-001.html

Judging antiques by their owners (!?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/garden/26auction.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Iphigenie and Salome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/arts/music/23lyri.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
John V. Murra (anthropologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/obituaries/24murra.html

Kathryn Jarvis (magistra):

http://tinyurl.com/ycspwu (FCT)

William Bright (linguist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/books/23bright.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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explorator 9.26                                 October 22, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, David Critchley,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
Joseph Lauer, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W. Sargent, 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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The lessons of Piltdown Man:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6054656.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Trying to excavate the Babajian mound before the illicit diggers
do:

http://tinyurl.com/wklg7 (Iranmania)

A Sassanid water mill:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1178.html

A joint Iranian-UChicago excavation on the Susan Plain (Iran):

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1151.html

Big conference upcoming on the archaeology of Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=395072

Syria and Italy are planning a big archaeological institute:

http://www.sana.org/eng/21/2006/10/19/77568.htm

Gobekli Tepi as Eden:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=1007

Finishing some long-unfinished work at Aleppo:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061017/3/2rh00.html

A 5000 b.p. 'stamp' from Harran:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=56794

Finds from various periods found from sifting the dirt from
Temple Mount:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=776922

A new archaeological campus is under construction in the heart
of Jerusalem:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005191985

More coverage of theories about the Temple Treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/yx5zx8 (BG)
http://tinyurl.com/uf667 (JPost)

A construction boom in Jordan is threatening ancient sites:

http://tinyurl.com/y89von (MEFN)

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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Interesting cache of ancient anchors found near a temple of
Aphrodite on Cyprus:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1546372006
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=28471&cat_id=1

Mosaics from Hadrianopolis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=56959

More remains of Colchester's chariot track have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/yxzhq2 (EADT)

The archaeological stuff of Messene:

http://tinyurl.com/y525f4 (AthensNews)

The Derveni Papyrus has been published:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=75684

All about the Seven Wonders:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/7Wonders/story?id=2583185&page=1

Why ancient Greek monuments survived earthquakes (sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/y452g4 (Kathimerini)

More coverage of the Vatican necropolis opening:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1886635.ece
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/09/ap/tech/mainD8KL9O2O0.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6067020.stm

... nice video on same:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2584387

OpEd piece on the Elgin/Parthenon marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/uf667 (New Statesman)

More coverage of theories about the Temple Treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/yx5zx8 (BG)
http://tinyurl.com/uf667 (JPost)

Nice coverage of William Child's work at Marion:

http://tinyurl.com/y3jk5g (Daily Princetonian)

The Latin Table at Princeton:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/10/18/news/16241.shtml

On Dylan and Ovid:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3832755a1860,00.html

Nice profile of Thomas Winter:

http://tinyurl.com/w37xm (Daily Nebraskan)

... and one of Benjamin D'Ooge:

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

Boris Johnson on cheating on exams:

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

Cambridge is no longer teaching Sanskrit:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2161235.cms

Review of Paul Cartledge, *Thermopylae*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-2409733,00.html

Review of Barry Strauss' Trojan War tome:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/entertainment/books/15817718.htm

Reviews of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Theroux.t.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/20/arts/idbriefs21B.php

On the popularity of ancient-themed novels and the like:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7889

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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The Tarxien Temples project (Malta):

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=40601

On Europe's first farmers:

http://tinyurl.com/y86lm6 (AG)

Remains of nine Neolithic structures near Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/wd8xb (GNN)

A 2000 b.p. 'city' near Inverness:

http://tinyurl.com/yy2sgg (Courier)

A Bronze Age cup is returning to Kent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6054316.stm

A Viking ship from Larvik:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1498902.ece

Fears that the Tower of London is being 'overshadowed':

http://tinyurl.com/ycjgyf (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6072580.stm

Trying to protect Castle mound in Norwich:

http://tinyurl.com/yfknbq

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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'Stone Age' axe from near Sydney (not sure if this is the same
one we mentioned last week):

http://tinyurl.com/yfs5no (Age)

Pottery with what might be the earliest examples of written
Chinese language:

http://china.org.cn/english/2006/Oct/185017.htm

More ancient tombs from Henan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/16/eng20061016_312276.html

A pair of interesting burials from Vietnam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/10/622238/

An archaeological site at one of the Olympic venues:

http://tinyurl.com/y5z4y3 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061016-013859-4103r
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6054524.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yyb2a7 (SMH)

Moving a Japanese tomb to preserve it:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061019a8.html

A Chinese kiln in Bendigo:

http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s1763246.htm?backyard

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A Hohokam village in the heart of Phoenix:

http://tinyurl.com/wol4f (Republic)
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5541991
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/29454.php

Restoring damaged petroglyphs in Nevada:

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5566313&nav=menu113_1_5

A Middle Woodland village on Biltmore Estate:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200661018071

A mystery tower on Rhode Island:

http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5549834&nav=F2DO

Searching for a Revolutionary War cemetery:

http://tinyurl.com/y2npzr (BG)

The problem with burials that get in the way of development:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/15786509.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 1200 b.p. canoe in a Mayan ruin:

http://tinyurl.com/wbdrd (KSHB)
http://www.newschannel10.com/global/story.asp?s=5542233
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/15762737.htm

The discovery of an historic floor at Cinnamon Bay (USVI) is
causing delays:

http://tinyurl.com/y3dmj6 (Tradewinds)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Horses might have been first domesticated in Kazakhstan:

http://tinyurl.com/y2k46v (DN)

More coverage of archaeological use of Google Earth:

http://tinyurl.com/uhmut (Observer)
http://tinyurl.com/y4cr8c (Red Orbit)
http://www.newsobserver.com/110/story/498957.html

They've figured out why blue frescoes fade:

http://tinyurl.com/y76ccq (DN)

Demystifying Columbus:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1017/p05s01-woeu.html

Interesting item on Mary Magdalene:

http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2006/mary.asp

On academic charisma:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/061023crbo_books

Chinese follies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/arts/design/20anti.html

The perils of a Picasso:

http://tinyurl.com/ybv6ey (New Yorker)

Review of Ron Rosenbaum, *The Shakespeare Wars*:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/books/20book.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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Caral:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15350058/  (nice photo)
http://tinyurl.com/y27n7o (USA Today ... ditto, but bigger)
http://tinyurl.com/uoa2u (AP via Yahoo)

Istanbul:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/travel/15choicestanbul.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (November/December):

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

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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Egyptian police have broken up what appears to have been a major
smuggling ring:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061016-042000-5671r

More coverage of that pensioner's illicit collection in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/yeon3v

A 'coin thief' in Spain was arrested 'with the goods':

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_6911.shtml

An obviously-purloined gravestone from Belfast was returned
this week:

http://waldo.villagesoup.com/Government/story.cfm?storyID=80513

The Museum Case hit the news again this week with a complicated
tale of the trip of a statue of Aphrodite to the Getty:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4277279.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/19/aphrodite-getty.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_en_ot/looted_antiquities_3
http://tinyurl.com/yflwtu (Mercury)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/arts/19arts.html

A European ambassador was prevented from shipping some Yemeni
antiquities out of the country:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=990&p=local&a=5

Italy and Switzerland have signed a 'deal' to combat smuggling:

http://tinyurl.com/uzrz3 (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/y7lldy (IHT)

... while the US is hesitating on an agreement with China to
limit imports of antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/arts/design/18emba.html

India is cracking down on smuggling of Buddhist relics:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1537202006

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NUMISMATICA
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Fake coins on L.A.'s Skid Row (strange):

http://tinyurl.com/y6hqex (Mercury)

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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Holy Image, Hallowed Ground:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/20/news/raacat.php

Ghiberti's Doors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/arts/design/18emba.html

Louvre Atlanta:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/arts/design/16high.html

Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/21/arts/design/21ehon.html

Americans in Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/arts/design/20pari.html

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/10/21/this_day/news04.txt

Plenty of coverage of the display of the Sevso Treasure/Hoard
in the UK, much to Hungary's chagrin:

http://tinyurl.com/yxvayl (Reuters)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1924109,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6061970.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y684qj (ITV)

Some reaction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2410288,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2414133,00.html

Berlin's Museum Island is getting a lot of press lately:

http://www.fftimes.com/index.php/7/2006-10-16/27557
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6063126.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1886635.ece
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2206814,00.html

A new museum in Thebes (Greece) is on its way:

http://tinyurl.com/y5en6f (Kathimerini)

Coverage of the Internation Fine Art and Antique Dealers show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/arts/design/20fair.html

Assorted music notes from the Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/21/arts/music/21clas.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Marie Antoinette:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/061023crci_cinema

A couple productions of Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/theater/18ishe.html

... and an adaptation of same:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/theater/reviews/17hear.html
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ON THE WEB
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Complete works of Darwin:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15346154/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061019/sc_nm/britain_darwin_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6064364.stm
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OBITUARIES
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Sheldon Meyer (OUP Editor):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/obituaries/18meyer.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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More Sardinia-as-Atlantis coverage:

http://www.physorg.com/news79968780.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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The 'Hobbit' debate continues:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/fm-ced100206.php

... but see:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/jws-nhs100206.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we mentioned this one before, but this one seems to
have more details .... 11 000 b.p. finds from Gobeklitepe:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=56369

A 3000 b.p. cobblestoned 'laneway' from Gohar Tappe:

http://tinyurl.com/y2wmof (Tehran Times)

A Burnt City roundup:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1109.html

Interesting human + dog burial from Iran (plus more):

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1090.html

A large Muslim necropolis from Jaen:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/cgi-bin/news/exec/view.cgi/4/6487

How water reached Zippori:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=772477

A pair of Australian Radio programs on the Codex Sinaiticus:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2006/1751700.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2006/1751720.htm

Reconsidering the mummy's curse:

http://www.newsok.com/article/2951598/?template=entertainment/main

More coverage of that Temple Treasure theory:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2397919,00.html

No more idling engines near the pyramids:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/10/egypt-idling-pyramid.html
http://tinyurl.com/ydpwdc (IOL)

Latest Temple Mount news:

http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1264

Review of the Egypt installment of the 'Engineering an Empire'
docuseries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/arts/television/09empi.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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A huge amount of coverage of the 'opening' of that Vatican
necropolis found under a carpark three years ago:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061010/ap_on_sc/vatican_necropolis_5
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0605747.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1891559,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15198192/
http://tinyurl.com/ybwnzb (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/yfrf24 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/yhch3e (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ykjojd (Freep)
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=21571
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=96502
http://tinyurl.com/yea6bm (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yzgqy2 (DCN)
http://tinyurl.com/ya3jm9 (Bloomberg)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1759385.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ymwgk5 (ANSA)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2143093.cms
http://tinyurl.com/yjb4o5 (Age)
http://www.startribune.com/614/story/731303.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2396172,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15255311/site/newsweek/
http://tinyurl.com/y4hsht (News.com)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Vatican-Necropolis.html

... with an important detail about actually visiting the site:

http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/d3_en.htm

Renewed coverage of the Ithaca-Kephalonia theory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6034367.stm

We're getting another wave of the-pope-intends-to-promote-the
Latin-Mass reports again:

http://tinyurl.com/ybolep (Daily News)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2397919,00.html

Classicists to the rescue:

http://tinyurl.com/yysp36 (Telegraph)

The impact of 'No Child Left Behind':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/education/11education.html

More coverage of that Thracian brain surgery find:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2028609.html
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005130486
http://tinyurl.com/y9pljl (Echo)
http://tinyurl.com/ynfu7k (USA Today)

More coverage of the Plutonion:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=328256&sid=FTP

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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Early Brits were dairy folk:

http://tinyurl.com/y4k5nb (DN)

Neolithic dwellings near Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/upycs (DN)

More on the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5392134.stm

Medieval 'garbage' along Oslo's waterfront:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1488935.ece

Not sure if we'll hear more about the salvaging of this 17th
century ship off the coast of the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/ybard2 (SP Times)

In case you missed it the first time ... the Battle of
Hastings:

http://tinyurl.com/yk5vfo (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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A relic of Stone-age Sydney:

http://tinyurl.com/yjr728 (SMH)

An Eastern Hand Dynasty painted coffin from Inner Mongolia:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/12/eng20061012_311295.html

A Warring States period warrior cemetery from China's Henan
province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/13/content_5199659.htm

... and from the same period, seven tombs from Hebei province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/13/content_5199959.htm

Some Chola period bronze idols have been found:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/12/stories/2006101205700200.htm

Floods are threatening some World Heritage sites in Thailand:

http://tinyurl.com/yd98ej (AFP via Yahoo)

Time for the semi-annual tourists-are-ruing-Angkor-Wat piece:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0918/p06s01-woap.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The latest 'peopling of the Americas' study:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6059 (Portuguese)

... cf. this semi-related bit of info on the Bering Strait:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061011/sc_nm/science_bering_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/yhk8sm (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061012085548.htm

All about the occupations at the Hardscrabble area of Skillet
Creek:

http://www.messengernews.net/News/articles.asp?articleID=4219

Recent finds at Fort Raleigh:

http://tinyurl.com/ymnye3 (Sentinel)

Searching for a War of 1812 cemetery in Vermont:

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=5510760&nav=4QcS

Mystery bones in downtown Philadelphia:

http://tinyurl.com/ynyprj

On wildfires and archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/y23gse (Mercury)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15241805/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061012/ap_on_sc/fire_archaeologist_2

The latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about a couple
Jornada Mongollon sites in New Mexico:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Some Tsimshian artifacts are returning to British Columbia:

http://tinyurl.com/yxeu7c (Globe and Mail)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A Mayan canoe from Belize:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/15762737.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ydlp7t (AScribe)

More coverage of that monolith from Mexico City:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15254497/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061013/sc_nm/mexico_aztecs_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/6050366.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_sc/mexico_aztec_find

More coverage of the role of theater in Maya political
organization:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061002214825.htm

More coverage of those 'cloud warrior mummies' from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/ycluww (blog)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're looking at goats and human migration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/science/10observ.html
http://tinyurl.com/y2252k (NG)

... while here's a somewhat different application of DNS technology:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15240873/

More coverage of that Ptolemaic atlas sale:

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

... and what the results were:

http://tinyurl.com/yh2g3p (Reuters)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=151386
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/12/stories/2006101200282200.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yzlx6z (IOL)

Speaking of auctions, the next one to watch is one of a pile
of Spanish Armada stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/ya7qrp

The latest round of World Heritage Site nominations:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1503192006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6036607.stm

Can't remember if we've mentioned the archbishop's false teeth
yet:

http://www.cathnews.com/news/610/48.php

Robin Hood as scholarly subject:

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

Google Earth is turning out to be a major tool for identifying
potential sites:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/15763952.htm

Reviews of that Marie Antoinette flick:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/movies/13mari.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/movies/11roya.html

A miniseries about Henry VIII is in production:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/arts/television/11tudo.html

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13voge.html

First chapter of R. Rosenbaum, *The Shakespeare Wars*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/chapters/1008-1st-rose.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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Olympos (Turkey):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1003/p20s01-litr.html?s=hns
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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 pile of antiquities found in a pensioner's home in Athens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/arts/11arts.html (5th item)
http://tinyurl.com/ygk73h (IHT)
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=75252

That guy who stole those maps from libraries was (lightly)
sentenced this week:

http://tinyurl.com/t5xff (WCBS)

As advertised, the Cleveland Museum is the next target for
Italy:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00114.htm

... and Greece is having more talks with the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/hz9yz (IHT)

More coverage of Italy showing off recent items it claimed from
the Boston Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/utu6y (IHT)
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=2314

Uttar Pradesh police have recovered an 8th century Buddha:

http://tinyurl.com/yepbjq (Daily India)

On the ongoing pillaging of antiquities in Iraq (with what
must be a misleading photo):

http://tinyurl.com/yauk3x (RFE)

I've never heard 'tomb raider' used in a North American context:

http://tinyurl.com/ym6kql (Oregonian)
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NUMISMATICA
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The old San Francisco mint is to become a museum:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/15620795.htm

A so-called 'hard times token' was found during renovations to
a 17th century house:

http://tinyurl.com/gr8pj (Union Leader)

Medieval and Islamic Mediterranean coins:

http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/

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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China's Liao Empire:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13liao.html

Courbet and the Modern Landscape:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13cour.html

World Maps:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6134 (Portuguese)

An update on the progress of the Met's new Greek and Roman
galleries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/arts/design/08back.html

18th century stuff coming to the block at Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13anti.html

Latest Acropolis Museum coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yfwxgw (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/yenwfb (Kathimerini)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/09/greece.acropolis.ap
http://tinyurl.com/ye66ne (SMH)

... and the Bode in Berlin:

http://tinyurl.com/yb25hs (Raw)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Hmmm ... not Elmer material yet, but will likely lead to some;
a study suggests Britain became an island in less than 24 hours:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/island_britain/

... in fact, I'm sure we'll hear more at a future Atlantis
conference, such as this one which is considering the 'Sardinia
hypothesis':

http://tinyurl.com/y98m5j (ANSA)

And, in the spirit with which this section is compiled, we
must mention Princeton's Carbury Day:

http://tinyurl.com/yylxav (Providence Journal)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

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Archaeologica Audio News:

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dave Sowdon,
Croman mac Nessa, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Jay Craddock, Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Mike Ruggeri,
Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow,
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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The latest DNA thing suggests a jawbone initially identified as
coming from a modern human might be from a Neanderthal (and
possibly the earliest one in Britain):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2383429,00.html

Interesting theory that early humans followed the coast when
they migrated:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5398850.stm

Already someone is questioning the claims about 'Lucy's baby':

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uop-acs100206.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061002214649.htm

cf:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/10/lucys_baby_news.html

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/october/news_9647.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5392134.stm
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AFRICA
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On the desert origins of the pharaohs:

http://tinyurl.com/fxjdg (AramCo World)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An 11 000 b.p. (or thereabouts) house from Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/ktv78 (Australian)
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061004-045017-4695r

A 3000 b.p. burial from Narges Tappeh (Iran):

http://tinyurl.com/k96m6 (Iranmania)
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0610020146102932.htm

King David's spa?:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312035,00.html

More coverage of the need for repairs at sites in Lebanon:

http://tinyurl.com/hkj7x (Taipei Times)
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=29&ContentID=8835
http://tinyurl.com/kw3mz (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ztvf2 (Detroit Free Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_sc/mideast_ancient_sites

DNA analysis on a mummy is revealing the origins (perhaps) of
Leishmaniasis:

http://tinyurl.com/g72kz (SciAm)

Allianoi update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1887394,00.html

Semi-touristy piece on the sculpture of Hercules at Bistoun:

http://tinyurl.com/hqgqa (Iranmania)
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1054.html (photo)

An interview with Bart Ehrman on the Gospel of Judas:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/living/religion/15701139.htm

More coverage of those silver anomalies in Jerusalem pottery:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060927201202.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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Roman mosaics from Somerset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/5406236.stm

A major coin hoard was found by a digger on at a Kent construction
site:

http://tinyurl.com/z7l6b (24 Dash)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/5408262.stm

More theories about gases at Delphi:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1002/2

Allianoi update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1887394,00.html

Somewhat extravagant claims of knowledge of nanotechnology among
the Greeks:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/02/hairdye_his.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5412410.stm

Thracian trepanation:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=70535

A 'radically new' Greek dictionary is in the works:

http://www.physorg.com/news79192540.html

A Roman site lies beneath a proposed skatepark in Horncastle:

http://tinyurl.com/kt5re (Horncastle Today)

In case you missed Robert Harris on Pompey:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/01/opinion/edharris.php

Josiah Ober delivered the Brigance Forum lecture:

http://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=3907

What Thomas Sienkewicz is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/kvt5a (Register)

Semi-touristy piece on the sculpture of Hercules at Bistoun:

http://tinyurl.com/hqgqa (Iranmania)
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1054.html (photo)

Latin in the fish market:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/71441.html

Cicero Speaks:

http://tinyurl.com/zgp3y (Daily Astorian)

Classics on the rise in Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/j5l8a (Australian)

Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *Caesar ...*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20061007-104913-2482r.htm

Reviews of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://tinyurl.com/jat8t (Sun)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Neolithic wooden boats from Macedonia:

http://tinyurl.com/hb6sy (MPT)

... and a followup to that Bronze Age canoe find which was holding
up pipeline construction in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/jsskx (icWales)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5401838.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2389056,00.html

A farmer in Wales discovered one of his outbuildings is actually
a medieval dining hall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5399670.stm

A Jewish cemetery in the heart of Bohemia:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/83914

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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Not sure if this is the same Dong Son bronze drum from VietNam
which we mentioned before:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/10/618317/

6000 b.p. house from Shaanxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/04/content_5168717.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200610/04/eng20061004_308940.html

Hawaiian shipwreck:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2713.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Archaeologists believe they have found the Illinois home of the
founder of St. Louis:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoia-ros100406.php
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/columnists/15674163.htm

A tome honouring the work of Bruce Trigger:

http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/04/trigger/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Aztec ruins in the heart of Mexico City:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5409510.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2528256
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1471142006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061004/wl_nm/mexico_aztecs_dc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15131348/

Archaeologists in Peru have found a cave with 600 b.p. burials
of the warrior Chachapoyas people:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1757142.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1816823.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061005/sc_nm/peru_mummies_dc
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15147928/
http://tinyurl.com/hh6ad (Reuters)

A 700 B.C./B.C.E. monolithic sculpture of a calendar suggests
a high position for women?:

http://tinyurl.com/k8h3f (AP via Yahoo)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650196503,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/gguyx (IOL)

Instead of the Columbus-bashing we usually get around this
time of year, here's a story about something Columbus' men seem
to have valued more than gold:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5403012.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/ucl-hst100306.php

On the role of theatre in Maya political organization:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uocp-nse_1100206.php

National Geographic has a nice set of photos of finds from the
Temple of the Moon at Teotihuacan:

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0610/feature5/index.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Classical language status for Kannada?:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/04/stories/2006100411010100.htm

Freemasons are giving up some of their secrets:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/nyregion/04masons.html

Last week we mentioned a manuscript of Kierkegaard's Either/Or,
but all the coverage was Danish ... here's some in English:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=H&id=91528

Afghan art restorers are being trained in Italy:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/03/eng20061003_308410.html

On Pythagoras, the masculinity of numbers, and the lack of
females in the upper echelons of science:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/science/03comm.html

Interesting item on the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1880284,00.html

On the history of the funerary violin:

http://tinyurl.com/ghtxy (NPR)

I guess we'd better start holding our breath in church:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5406048.stm

Genghis Khan (TM)?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5412410.stm

More coverage of the opening of MU's Center for Studies in the
Oral Tradition:

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=22071

Review of a couple of books on petroglyphs:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19435

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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Parthenon:

http://tinyurl.com/gk9uk (Sun Times)

Kempsey (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/jyoe5
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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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eBay in the UK is (finally) clamping down on sales of illicit
ancient coins:

http://tinyurl.com/gokq9 (Mirror)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5401588.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART40747.html

Very interesting 'story behind the story' thing on that
Greek icon theft:

http://tinyurl.com/zkcgt (Mainichi)
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NUMISMATICA
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On the Mexican Peso and Roman Denarius:

http://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/1159808598.php

Wookey Hole Mill Watermark collection:

http://www.csaquotes.com/wookeyholemillcollection.html

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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Clearly the younger set need some training in how to behave in
museums:

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

... while 'their' parents seem to be unaware of what museums are
about:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/education/30teacher.html

Newsweek's coverage of Italy's exhibition of items recently
recovered from the Getty:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15175628/site/newsweek/

... and other coverage of an upcoming one regarding the Boston MFA:

http://tinyurl.com/f85fk (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/kt4td
http://tinyurl.com/gl9rm (GNN)

... while Cleveland may be next on Italy's list:

http://tinyurl.com/f26v9 (Plain Dealer)

... and Greece is drafting legislation:

http://tinyurl.com/ke3dd (ANA)

... and talking some more with the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/hz9yz (IHT)
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5492024

The Louvre at the High Museum:

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

Silver coins from Iasos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55012

Antique false teeth:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5410408.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2025204.html

More Columbus news ... tangentially ... a 'copy' of Ptolemy's
Cosmographia is coming up for auction:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1816886.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2392578,00.html

Phoenix Art is displaying a pile of ancient art at its gallery:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061005/nyth129.html?.v=68
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Eurydice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/theater/reviews/03eury.html
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ON THE WEB
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Lost and Hidden Christianity:

http://tinyurl.com/gnf9w (BBC)
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OBITUARIES
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Norma Lorre Goodrich (Arthurian scholar):

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06275/726707-122.stm
http://tinyurl.com/kv8fl (IHT)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Haven't heard much about Bosnian pyramids for a while, so here's
a bit of an update:

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1887835,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1887640,00.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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Dave Sowdon, Kris Curry, Croman mac Nessa, Rick Heli, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman,
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
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On the DNA front, it looks like they're going after some more
Neanderthal genetic material:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1451622006

Neanderthal 'butcher shop' from France:

http://tinyurl.com/rl2k9 (Topix)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Neolithic remains from near Izmir:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54909
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/26/eng20060926_306333.html

Neolithic decorated skulls from Tell Aswad:

http://tinyurl.com/fyh3b (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.post-trib.com/news/71296,OldDude.article
http://www.ttc.org/200609241343.k8odht419690.htm

4000 b.p. mills from Kultepe:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/30/eng20060930_307651.html

A British archaeologist thinks he knows what happened to the
stuff looted from the Temple by the Romans:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2373355,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3308449,00.html
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004984901
http://www.cathnews.com/news/609/144.php

9th century B.C./B.C.E. temple from Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/gax6f (Canada Now)

A 3rd century A.D./C.E. synagoge near Maoz Haim:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309730,00.html

Report of the 2006 excavation season at Old Nisa:

http://parthia.com/nisa/nisa2006.htm

Latest on the 'salt men' of Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/sep/1313.html

More coverage of damage to sites in Lebanon during the recent
hostilities:

http://tinyurl.com/mcw76 (Mail and Guardian)

Traces of silver in Second Temple pottery hints at Jerusalem's
wealth:

http://tinyurl.com/gnmzx (JPost)
http://www.physorg.com/news78598479.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/dbnl-saf092706.php

Ongoing concerns for artifacts of Iraq's pre-Islamic history:

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Style/168049/

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)
================================================================
Schoolkids are part of the crew at a dig searching for a Roman
camp in Leeds:

http://tinyurl.com/gu6sv (Leeds Today)

Remains of a Roman dog were found in a well at Liss:

http://tinyurl.com/krmll (Petersfield Today)

Poppaea's villa is to be restored:

http://tinyurl.com/re45t (ANSA)

Kirk Summers sacrifices:

http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/09/29/451ccc989cb08

A short history of Classics at UVa:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=27879&pid=1483

Roman soldiers scrapping in the bath house:

http://tinyurl.com/f6bwf (Telegraph)

Robert Harris on Pompey, piracy, and related matters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/opinion/30harris.html
http://tinyurl.com/z82vk (Amherst Times)

Reviews of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06274/725935-148.stm
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4415187?source=rss
http://tinyurl.com/r5fam (USA Today)

Review of Barry Strauss latest on Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/nh3em (Herald)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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3000 b.p. boat from Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1111362006

5th century Christian tomb from Niis:

http://tinyurl.com/m7bw7 (B92)

A medieval 'lost village' in North Warwickshire?:

http://tinyurl.com/e5xsw (icCoventry)

Assorted sites revealed during the heat wave this summer in
Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1240882006

Trying to save an 18th century lighthouse in Orkney:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1132192006

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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Sa Huynh burial jars:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=20619

3rd century B.C./B.C.E. 'hero stones' from India:

http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/24/stories/2006092406750300.htm

Review of Thomas Keneally, *Commonwealth of Thieves*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/books/review/McCulloch2.t.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A Texas teen found a 1000 b.p. bowl (almost intact) in New
Mexico while on a field trip:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/ap_on_sc/prehistoric_bowl_1
http://tinyurl.com/ojpnk (WPost)

Cataloging Utah petroglyphs:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/194185/

Latest film at the Archaeology Channel: Texarcana Archaeology
Blues:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A Woodland site near Danbury (Ohio):

http://tinyurl.com/flj2m (Plain Dealer)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of those pet burials in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/hrote (Sun Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/pceuu (ABC)
http://www.physorg.com/news78418199.html
http://tinyurl.com/p7tg2 (NG ... nice photo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5374748.stm

More on priestly involvement in the Nazca lines:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/148052
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Controversy over what Confucious really looked like:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/26/eng20060926_306323.html
http://tinyurl.com/n5zfz (Telegraph ... photo)

The technology used to restore the Archimedes Palimpsest has
been used on a 750 b.p. Hindu manuscript:

http://www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=42392&rnews_story_type=18

The Derveni papyrus is also still making news:

http://tinyurl.com/s77gl (GreekNews)

Was the Mona Lisa pregnant?:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Mona-Lisa.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/arts/design/27mona.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5384822.stm
http://tinyurl.com/huz86 (Globe and Mail)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15002161/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15016124/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15029288/

Christopher Columbus and Ptolemy's Geography:

http://tinyurl.com/p6adp (Swiss Info)

Interesting article on Freud's antiquities collection:

http://tinyurl.com/g75h2 (Age)

... and one on the Jesuits:

http://tinyurl.com/s73oh (Australian)

Nice item on Alfred Nobel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/health/26docs.html

A second edition copy of Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or
dedicated to Hans Christian Anderson:

http://www.jp.dk/kultur/artikel:aid=3980810/
(Danish, but with photos)

Using imaging techniques to locate and preserve petroglyphs:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060925084617.htm

More on the reburial of the mother of Russia's last Tsar:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5387572.stm

Dr. Evil in Scotland?:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1432692006

Review of a new t.v. series on ancient engineering:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/engineering/index.html

Robin Hood was Welsh?:

http://tinyurl.com/n7au9 (Daily Mail)

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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Chaco Canyon:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/travel/escapes/29chimney.html

Olympos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55471

Kilmartin:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=848142006

Ardvreck:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1359422006

Petra:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/11/travel/trpetra.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeological Diggings (Australian):

http://www.freewebs.com/diggingsmag/currentissue.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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Plenty of coverage of the Boston MFA's return of a baker's
dozen of antiquities to Italy:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1777822.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060928/ap_en_ot/looted_antiquities_1
http://tinyurl.com/klhz3 (Bloomberg)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29mfa.html
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=159782
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/art/4222548.html
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060929-070052-4237r
http://tinyurl.com/s95ne (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/q23gx (WPost)

Related ... the 'Flying Medea' vase is now in Cleveland:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00366.htm

Greek police recovered some items purloined from around
Thessaloniki:

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

That Medici on trial for antiquities smuggling is offering to
tell the whereabouts of 'object x' to bring the trial to an
end:

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

French police have seized a Romano-Dacian bracelet which was
up for sale in a gallery:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060929/od_nm/france_jewel_dc_1

Greek police have recovered a 700 b.p. icon:

http://tinyurl.com/jxtng (Kathimerini)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/europe/24greece.html

Bulgaria is trying to protect its sites from less-than-
savoury elements in its society:

http://tinyurl.com/guw8p (Echo)

India's press is catching on to the seriousness of antiquities
theft in that nation:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2033281.cms

... while 18 Buddhas were stolen from a Bihar museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5384408.stm

Interesting 'treasure dispute' involving the S.S. Central
America ... this one doesn't appear to have hit the mainstream
press yet:

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=18421
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NUMISMATICA
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Possible threat to educational programs like Ancient Coins in
Education:

http://tinyurl.com/p3lcz (blog)

Numismatic Index of Periodicals:

http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/search_numlit.asp

Napoleonic Medals:

http://www.napoleonicmedals.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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Leonardo:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/design/26leon.html

Dead Sea Scrolls:

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

Bibles Before the Year 1000:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/living/15641177.htm

Through the Valley of the Shadows:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/83611

Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/noguz (ANSA)

Set in Stone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29medi.html

Review of the Ara Pacis Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/design/25paci.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/26/features/meier.php

The trials and tribulations of the National Museum of Cambodia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/design/26angk.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/26/features/museum.php

'Phases' an interior decorator went through:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29anti.html

A Cimbue 'reunion' at the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Semele:

http://nymag.com/arts/classicaldance/classical/reviews/21654/index.html

Richard II:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/criticsTheatre

Somewhat strange item on the (non)staging of part of the Idomeneo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/arts/music/30idom.html
http://tinyurl.com/mnlrz (Chronicle)
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ON THE WEB
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Archaeology Magazine's interactive digs:

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

Cyprus' Department of Antiquities has a new website:

http://tinyurl.com/h4n5u
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OBITUARIES
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Norma Lorre Goodritch (Arthurian scholar):

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

Alfred Mann (Musicologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/obituaries/27mann.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, Charles Fertig,
Stephen Goranson, Ross W. Sargent, Steve Rankin, Amedeo Giampaglia,
Donna Hurst, John McMahon, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
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Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, 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).

Happy Rosh Hoshanah to our friends who follow the Jewish
calendar ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Lots of coverage of the discovery of 'Lucy's baby':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5363328.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/m-mte092106.php
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2471146
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/dikikababy/
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/hominiddevelopment/index.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060918/full/060918-5.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,438219,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/science/21child.html (JNW)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060921/D8K8U6PO0.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/285881_fossil21.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2367328,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1877236,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14922303/from/RS.5/

... here's the Google link if you need more:

http://tinyurl.com/fsv3a

cf.:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucy.html

Good interview with the discoverer:

http://tinyurl.com/jo462 (Independent)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 7000 b.p. site is to be excavated by UChicago folk:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=384373

Report on a Spanish excavation of an Egyptian site:

http://tinyurl.com/s2fnj (press release in Spanish)

A very interesting floor from the treasury at Persepolis:

http://tinyurl.com/hekr9 (Iranmania)

... and the excavations of the Gorgan Wall:

http://tinyurl.com/zegv8 (ibidem)

Good coverage of the ongoing excavations at Ramat Rahel:

http://tinyurl.com/r3eya (JPost)

... while they've run out of money to excavate that church in
a Megiddo prison:

http://tinyurl.com/pxpqb (Globes)

They'll soon be excavating a Parthian/Sassanid shipwreck
recently found in the Persian Gulf:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/sep/1186.html

Nice coverage of the Turin Royal Canon:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/813/hr2.htm

Interesting restoration/reuse of a Hittite dam:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54393

On what needs repairing in Lebanon site-wise after the recent
events there:

http://tinyurl.com/okjf9 (AP via Yahoo)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1874508,00.html

New on the web ... the Polish Egyptological Journal:

http://www.egyptnj.com/

On the year 5767:

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

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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Recent finds in Thesprotia:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=74376

This puts a somewhat different spin on some of those recent
Bulgarian discoveries:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1879633,00.html

They're going to be sprucing up the Circus Maximus:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060921/3/2q9h7.html
http://tinyurl.com/gjdu9 (Reuters)

What the Romans did to Wales:

http://tinyurl.com/fp276 (Western Mail)

Interviewish reviewish thing from NPR with Barry Strauss on
his latest book re-examining the Trojan War:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6117459

More coverage of the Plutonion and its deadly vapours:

http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/21552.aspx

More coverage of the new 'Argo':

http://tinyurl.com/ghr8j (YM)

In case you haven't heard about the impending film production
on the Acropolis:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1874741,00.html

Review of Andrew Dalby, *Rediscovering Homer*:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1409402006

A few reviews of Robert Harris' *Imperium*:

http://tinyurl.com/gk3gx (LA Times)
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/452772p-380990c.html
http://tinyurl.com/kcq9k (WP)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The Ice Age kept getting in the way of settlement of Britain:

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

A mystery dog from Teeside:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/5355992.stm

Interesting discovery of a casement in the remains of a 17th
century fortress in Norway:

http://www.physorg.com/news77992399.html

Strange story of the 'gagging' of a Scottish archaeologist by
a power company:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1374032006

Lengthy piece on Marie Antoinette (might actually be a review):

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/060925crat_atlarge

Finds in a Horncastle garden:

http://tinyurl.com/gqv59 (HC Today)

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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Somewhat vague item on recent finds in Lam Dong (Viet Nam):

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/09/614801/

The imaging techniques used on the Archimedes Palimpsest have
been used to restore a 700 b.p. Hindu manuscript:

http://www.physorg.com/news77908116.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting finds in the 'Quarry of the Ancestors' in northern
Alberta:

http://www.fftimes.com/index.php/3/2006-09-18/27069

White House loot off the coast of Nova Scotia?:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2006/09/21/1873677-cp.html

They'll be looking for the Roanoke colonies again:

http://tinyurl.com/fchfs (Sentinel)

Looking for evidence of 19th century "ethnic" people and
prostitutes in Idaho:

http://tinyurl.com/qqs34 (Bee)

More coverage of that sutler's store find in New York:

http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5416419&nav=2aKD

More coverage of the search for the first Spanish colony in
Georgia:

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

More coverage of those petroglyphs recently found in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4360167
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C650191839%2C00.html
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=500539

An 18th century rectory in St. Louis:

http://tinyurl.com/z8brn (P-D)

Latest on the Hunley:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14807806/

There's going to be a live webcast from Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/zyh5e (DP)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Coverage of recent finds from Peten (Guatemala):

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/81053.html
http://www.jp.dk/nyviden/artikel:aid=3952256/ (Danish, photos)

Mummified dogs from Peru (!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5374748.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_on_sc/peru_ancient_pets_4
http://tinyurl.com/n2wff (BG)

Latest claims about the Nazca lines (not sure if this is Elmer
material yet):

http://tinyurl.com/lhue5 (al Jazeera)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, it appears that most Brits are descended from
a group of Spanish fishermen:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2002919.html
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7817

DNA and the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/286236_science23.html

Finally ... a vaccine against the Black Death:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1468734.ece

A little activity designed to get kids interested in what
archaeologists do:

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/147571

Interesting item on the oldest recorded supernova:

http://tinyurl.com/oo7r5 (AFP via Yahoo)

The journal Oral Tradition now has a web presence:

http://www.research.missouri.edu/news/stories/060920_oraltradition.htm

Can't help but smile at this one (even though I probably
shouldn't) ... a bit of performance art:

http://tinyurl.com/evevt (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/rk26x (BG ... photo of the guy)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1376792006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5355546.stm (photo)

Folks might be interested in this piece on folks trying to
get into Oxbridge:

http://tinyurl.com/kmc7q (FT)

Nice feature on amber:

http://tinyurl.com/edkau (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/laqbj (Raw)

Latest 'old seeds' to germinate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5361396.stm

An unfinished Tolkien work has been finished by J.R.R.'s
son and will soon be published:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/ap_en_ot/books_new_tolkien

A different 'reburial':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5372956.stm

A bit late for us, but interesting ... a Pentagon team has
identified the remains of a WWI soldier:

http://tinyurl.com/gnort (CBS)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14955061/
http://tinyurl.com/jsn3e (Enquirer)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/22/ww.one.id.ap/index.html

This one is interesting for its implications (especially
in Commonwealth countries) ... an Australian court has ruled
that Perth belongs to the Aborigines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/world/asia/21australia.html

Assorted items of interest in the NYT Arts Briefly column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/arts/20arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/arts/18arts.html

Review of Tina Cassidy, *Birth*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/books/review/Jacobs.t.html

Review of John Stubbs, *Donne*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25336-2366922,00.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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Ethiopia:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/travel/17ethiopia.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
The Fall issue of the CSA newsletter has hit the e-waves:

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#fall06

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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Croatian police made an arrest in the museum theft (I think) we
mentioned last week:

http://tinyurl.com/ja7pq (Raw)

... in case I didn't miss it, here's some coverage of the crime:

http://tinyurl.com/l7tdh (Khaleej Times)

Greek police have recovered a Byzantine icon which was stolen
a month or so ago:

http://tinyurl.com/kwzsl (IOL)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/5373666.stm

That map dealer who was stealing stuff from libraries has asked
for a light sentence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/nyregion/20mbrfs-009.html
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NUMISMATICA
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A Charles I coin is coming up to auction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1876305,00.html

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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Ancient Food:

http://tinyurl.com/nc3c5 (AFP via Yahoo)

Arts in Latin America:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/arts/design/22lati.html

Indian Painting:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/arts/design/22indi.html

DaVinci:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5324832.stm
http://tinyurl.com/kdutr (TIL ... dilettante?)
Amarna:

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/amarna/about2.shtml

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/elc35 (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/kgm5o (Seattle PI)

Early Sikh Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/arts/design/18sikh.html

Terracotta Warriors (in Rome):

http://www.mondomostre.it/index.html?includi=cina_ufficiostampa

Israel has opened an underground archaeological exhibit near
the al-Aqsa mosque:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21244188.htm
http://tinyurl.com/hz965 (Reuters)

... and they're planning an exhibition about the Damascus Gate:

http://tinyurl.com/om63w (JPost)

Haven't seen anything about he National Museum of the American
Indian in a while:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/arts/design/22dike.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Hippolytus:

http://tinyurl.com/escdk (Valley Sun)

Persians:

http://tinyurl.com/qv6xo (NYPost)
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/theater/reviews/18pers.html

Greek mythology via puppetry:

http://tinyurl.com/g57l6 (Inquirer)

Richard II:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/theater/reviews/19rich.html
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ON THE WEB
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New page on the city of Aptera:

http://www.just-crete.co.uk/
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OBITUARIES
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Thomas Eubanks (archaeologist):

http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5419811
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PODCASTS
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon,
Geoffrey Fishburn, Tim Parkin, David Critchley, Croman mac Nessa,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hanan Charaf,
Hernan Astudillo, John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Louis A. Okin, Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan, Mike Ruggeri,
Ross Sargent, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

Thanks to all who passed along messages of encouragement during
our recent bout with pneumonia ... what follows is a big double
issue; as far as I can tell this a.m., all the links are working.

...there seems to be a 'site is threatened' theme this week ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Pondering recent discoveries in the Neanderthal world:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1873015,00.html

... the discovery which apparently inspired the foregoing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/science/14neanderthal.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2356606,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/5343266.stm
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060911/full/060911-8.html
http://tinyurl.com/powrr (AP via Yahoo)

On the possibility that modern humans are the evolution's
'odd man out':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060908093606.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14737491/from/RS.2/

Early hominids were eagle fodder:

http://tinyurl.com/n9gz5 (NG)

An origins of man exhibit in Kenya is causing controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/qnznd (MET)
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AFRICA
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Early use of colour symbolism in the Zambia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5329486.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A first century B.C./B.C.E. tomb has been found beneath a
Tel Aviv school:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004767955
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3299730,00.html

A recent political appointment has raised concerns for the
safety of Iraq's antiquities (maybe this was what Donny George
knew was coming):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2359024,00.html

see also:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/812/heritage.htm

cf. more coverage of Donny George's departure:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/11/features/antiq.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/arts/design/09antiq.html

An undisturbed royal tomb from the Valley of the Kings?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2351885,00.html

Did Nefertiti have bags under her eyes?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/09/05/nefertiti_arc.html

A CT scan of a "middle-class" mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/r9zgy (Telegraph)

Using technology to record and interpret Egyptian inscriptions:

http://tinyurl.com/qbxw2 (NG)

Review of a biography of Gertrude Bell:

http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1158432882.shtml

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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A late Roman villa from Laodiceia:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=141655

This one wouldn't work for me a couple weeks ago, but it does
now ... an article in arabic (with photos) on the discovery
of a Roman necropolis in Beirut:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060831.HTM

Remains of a Roman bath house from Kent:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1871816,00.html

A possible Roman villa site in Bottisham:

http://tinyurl.com/n8xlj (CEN)

Construction workers have uncovered a Roman village in
the heart of Bonn:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2143358,00.html

More Roman relics from India ... this time from Elephanta
Island:

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1053100

Another Thracian tomb find in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=69538

Some Roman monuments apparently were damaged during the recent
events in Lebanon:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1874509,00.html

A Roman road in MidSussex is threatened by development:

http://tinyurl.com/oq8b2 (MidSussex News)

Interesting item on 'deadly' features of the temple of Apollo
at Hierapolis:

http://tinyurl.com/hl8m3 (USA Today)

Assorted academics are seeking protection for Roman (and other)
artifacts from Musiris:

http://www.keralaonline.com/newspages/display.php?newsid=2347

Another Rome-as-U.S. piece, this time in the guise of a
television review:

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article1604084.ece

Another Israel-as-Carthage piece:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/762920.html

Middle school mythology fun/learning:

http://www.journalpilot.com/articles/2006/09/13/news/news3.txt

Very good piece on why students take Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/ozvka (GT)

Oliver Stone has done yet another cut of Alexander:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060911n.php

A live version of Ben Hur:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1870304,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060911/stage_nm/france_benhur_dc_2

A woman received what looks like a Bar Kokhba denarius as part
of her change during a recent shopping expedition:

http://www.wltx.com/sports/story.aspx?storyid=41584

In case you haven't read about the EDUCE project:

http://www.stoa.org/educe/

Greek astronomers have appealed the the astronomical community
to keep the universe Greek:

http://tinyurl.com/owuc5 (Australian)

Review (by Lindsay Davis) of an upcoming docudrama about
Rome:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14934-2354065,00.html

Review of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://tinyurl.com/g6tso (Newsday)

Review of a jazzy interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses:

http://tinyurl.com/z3urp (BG)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A neolithic female figurine from Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/g8m4l (ANSA)

They've identified (sort of) Gristhorpe Man (very interesting):

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

Early occupation (attempts) of Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5317762.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06/human_migration_to_britain/

cf.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5352430.stm

There is hope of finding more Iron Age remains at a Teeside
farm site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/5342654.stm

Archaeologists have located (and have begun excavating, of course)
remains of Tolbooth Jail:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1365232006

Recent finds suggest Moscow may be older than previously thought:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/2663/

And a possible Viking settlement/trading post has been found in
Kalingrad:

http://tinyurl.com/ntytl (RS)

Recent Czech finds:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/82630

A Bronze Age 'pyramid' from the Ukraine:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1867373,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/5322894.stm
(I can't remember whether Ukraine is considered Europe or Asia)

Canterbury Cathedral is in need of repairs:

http://tinyurl.com/p9lvh (UPI)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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An ancient drum from VietNam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/120906/culture_a.htm

... and a 600 b.p. village from the same nation:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/09/611308/

Some Han Dynasty footwear:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004804446
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/08/content_5068174.htm

Mold threatens some wall-paintings in a Japanese tomb:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609150162.html

Myanmar's regime is threatening ancient monuments there:

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

Assorted restorations to assorted monuments in India:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1786304,000600010001.htm

On the early history of Kaya:

http://tinyurl.com/qkcdx (KT)

Strange find from Japan (looks like a sculpture of a sock puppet):

http://tinyurl.com/mto9j

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Petroglyphs discovered during construction in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4348721

An ancient quarry in northern Alberta:

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2006/09/15/1843550-sun.html

Remains of 8000 b.p. (!) pit houses in New England:

http://tinyurl.com/nv4kd (NB)

Elsewhere in Utah, remains of Native Americans who were victims of
pioneer violence were found during house construction:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/193381/
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=493356

An 18th-century sutler's shop near Fort Edward:

http://tinyurl.com/eff6l (BG)

They're checking out the wreck of the "Queen of the Waves":

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

Recent finds from Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/ehvva (Daily Press)

Latest on the Hunley:

http://tinyurl.com/rtrf5 (UPI)

More coverage of the search for the first Spanish settlement
in Florida:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/04/eng20060904_299393.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of what may the oldest writing ever found
in the Americas:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060911/full/060911-11.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060916/fob2.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/5347080.stm
http://www.livescience.com/history/060914_oldest_writing.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6077734
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060916/fob2.asp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/earliest_writing_6
http://tinyurl.com/o6cwt (NG)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14834538/
http://tinyurl.com/nl76e (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/kgucp (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/kkzol (Age)
http://tinyurl.com/hj8rw (Birmingham News)
http://tinyurl.com/mps7l (BG)

Remains of a previously-unknown civilization from Honduras:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060909/sc_nm/life_honduras_ruins_dc
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, interesting findings on the domestication of
rice:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060908144231.htm

... and there's a totally unrelated piece on what one learns
from one's own DNA:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/07/opinion/edunoki.php

Did climate change spur the development of civilization?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060910143119.htm

On the development (and survival) of Romansh:

http://tinyurl.com/l998o

Ringing bells the old fashioned way:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/nyregion/13bells.html

Interesting item on the Golem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/11conn.html

American Chronicle has a piece on Roman v. Celtic Christianity:

http://tinyurl.com/repw5

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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Ostia Antica:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/travel/10dayout.html

Horace's Villa:

http://tinyurl.com/lpj42 (WIR)

Turkey:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,20356279-27977,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Suzan Mazur has penned another piece for Scoop, this time on
what Greece wants back from the MFA plus an interview with one
of Robert Hecht's cronies:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00210.htm

Vandals are targeting petroglyphs in Australia:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/060915/21/10jpf.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1741595.htm


That guy who stole the Saliera was sentenced this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/arts/09arts.html (5th item)
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NUMISMATICA
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Carbon County Tokens:

http://lofthouse.com/USA/Utah/carbon/tokens.html

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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Treasures from the Royal Tombs at Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/rtcdm (BFP)

History Lost:

http://tinyurl.com/p6xjl (Reuters)
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/09/15/10067627.html
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/142768.asp

DaVinci Drawings:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1871845,00.html

US museums fear a tax law change will affect their acquisitions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/arts/design/13gift.html

Assorted acquisition/museum news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/arts/design/15voge.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Persians:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/theater/15pers.html

Semele:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/arts/music/15seme.html

Giuditta:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/arts/music/15giud.html
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OBITUARIES
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Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Ancient historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/world/europe/14vidal-naquet.html

Peter Ganz (medievalist)

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1603635.ece
(article might expire by the time it gets to you)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Here's a Bosnian 'pyramid' update for y'all:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/bosnia_pyramids_3
http://www.physorg.com/news77425771.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14824495/

Robots in ancient Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/ras6w (Pravda ... surprise, surprise)

Might as well include the Jesus-buried-in-Japan thing too:

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

... and the latest in Noah's Ark research:

http://tinyurl.com/mpsdf (Skeptical Inquirer)
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060905_noahs_ark.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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apologies to all, but it looks like the cold I picked up in Italy
decided to turn into pneumonia when I return to Canada ... I'll be out
of commission for probably a week (for tomorrow for sure) ...
explorator will resume next Sunday, deo volente ...

dm

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Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young,
Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Mata Kimasitayo, R.M. Howe,
Rochelle Altman, Bob Heuman, Geoffrey Summers,Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

n.b. We will be off to the sunny shores of Sicily for the next
few weeks, so Explorator will be in a hiatus. Look for the
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals' creative side:

http://tinyurl.com/kkmzb (Independent ... may expire)

... and their 'modernity':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060824222042.htm

Early humans may have been prey for large birds:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060830005634.htm

More on the 'hobbit debate':

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/21/hobbit_doubts/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Excavating the 'Beaded Mound' (11000 b.p. nomadic site):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=52670

Good followup piece to the report that Donny George has left
Iraq (the Baghdad Museum was 'sealed'):

http://tinyurl.com/py3ux (WPost)

... more coverage of Donny George's departure:

http://tinyurl.com/jovnq (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/27/news/baghdad.php

The Dead Sea Scrolls origin debate gets the John Noble Wilford
treatment:

http://tinyurl.com/jlabu (Telegram)

"Ancient" gold coins have been found in a Kyrgyz mountain lake:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20060830/53329092.html

National Geographic suggests Lebanon's monuments survived the
recent hostilities unscathed:

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

Recreating ancient Egyptian cosmetics:

http://tinyurl.com/m28jo (ANSA)

More coverage of that 'waterworks' find in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/kqlrd

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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One of the recent Bulgarian finds is a priestess burial:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68755
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68732

... another was a 5000 b.p. gold dagger:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=318934&sid=FTP

Possible discovery of the "hub" of Etruscan civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/qdslj (CdS ... Italian, but most thorough)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2338963,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/zn2pn (News24)
http://tinyurl.com/erdfm (IHT)

Archaeologists have found evidence of the 17 B.C. earthquake on
Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=27637&archive=1
http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

A unique Roman bath house has been found in Kent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/5307258.stm

Plans are afoot to excavate the Roman theatre in Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=756382
(last paragraph)

The Getty will be hosting performances of ancient drama:

http://tinyurl.com/ggc3c (LA Times)

The Domus Aurea will reopen earlier than expected:

http://tinyurl.com/gaeh2 (ANSA)

The Vatican has called for Latin to be revived as the official
working language of the EU:

http://tinyurl.com/lytvp (Total Catholic)

More coverage of the discovery that the Thera eruption was much
larger than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5287124.stm
http://tinyurl.com/laxp3 (USA Today)

A model of an Etruscan tomb is going on tour to raise funds
for the excavation of the real thing:

http://tinyurl.com/ebn47 (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/z3nc3 (ANSA)

The many faces of Cleopatra:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1853443,00.html

Some gossip about HBO's upcoming season of Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/fvqsn (Inquirer)

Plenty of ClassCon in a pedantic piece at the
Conservative Voice:

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/17745.html

Latin is alive and well in Nantucket:

http://tinyurl.com/oey4x (BG)

Can't remember if we mentioned that Scythian mummy
display in Germany:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5283320.stm?ls

More coverage of plans to restore Augustus' mausoleum:

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

More coverage of the idea that the Iliad was written by a
woman:

http://tinyurl.com/l8lkl (DCN)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some guy bringing in his harvest discovered an Iron Age chamber
in North Uist:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/69256.html
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1290462006

A 1300 b.p. belt buckle found by a metal detectorist is going
on display (the BBC one has a good photo):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5292646.stm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1860240,00.html

They're digging sites around Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/k3jc5 (WT)

Remains of a monastery have been found at Holyrood:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1266192006

The National Roads Authority is going to reveal what it's
found:

http://tinyurl.com/rxlkn (

A building associated with Arthur and the roundtable has
been found at Windsor Castle (!):

http://tinyurl.com/l9fux (Independent ... may expire)

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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Rethinking the fall of Easter Island:

http://tinyurl.com/ovnuf (American Scientist)

Plans are afoot to build a replica Chinese 'Treasure ship':

http://tinyurl.com/mg3sm (Shanghai Daily)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Low water levels have revealed a prehistoric skeleton in Lake
Travis (Texas):

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5332909&nav=1TjD
http://tinyurl.com/h3rtv (ABC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14557795/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14572829/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060828/ap_on_sc/prehistoric_skeleton

Excavating an 1840s free black household:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14558620/

Assorted sites in Krape Park:

http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2006/09/01/news/news01.txt

Sewer construction on Vancouver Island has been stalled by the
discovery of some ancient bones:

http://tinyurl.com/fo23f (Canada.com)

Searching for Florida's first Spanish settlement:

http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5331384&nav=8fap
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Is Peru's 'Ice Maiden' in danger?:

http://tinyurl.com/facou (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/fow6e (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/gw353 (ABC)

More on that Aztec ritual slaughter/dinner:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/24/aztec_sacrifices/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Latest claims of authenticity for the Shroud of Turin:

http://www.cathnews.com/news/608/183.php

... semi-related ... the Pope visited Veronica's Veil this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/knlbg (NewsDaily)

The earliest known Bach manuscripts have been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/arts/01arts.html (1st item)

Mozart's role in the evolution of the piano:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/arts/music/30moza.html

A new technique for dating early books and prints:

http://evo.bio.psu.edu/hedgeslab/Publications/PDF-files/176.pdf

Building a medieval style castle:

http://tinyurl.com/qhqt9 (CNN)

More on the return of those papal letters to Poland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5295288.stm

On Piltdown man and Arthur Conan Doyle:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=1275732006

Why Michelangelo matters:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12202058_1

Interesting essay on John Adams and marginalia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/books/review/Brookhiser.t.html

... and one on historians' legacy (or lack thereof):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5286894.stm

Wiki textbooks:

http://tinyurl.com/qjw95 (JPost)

Review of Marina B., *The Medici Giraffe*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20060902-101909-5392r.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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Assorted Bronze Age burial sites in Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1242462006
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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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Greece put on display items recently returned by the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/km97y (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/f33y5 (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ec8ur (Reuters)

... and vowed to go after more:

http://tinyurl.com/fey3q (UT)

... while a similar exhibit is on in Sicily:

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

In the wake of that vandalism to some Arctic petroglyphs, folks
are asking that the carvings be protected (well duh):

http://tinyurl.com/kndr8 (CBC)

... more coverage, with photos of the damage:

http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavik/60901_02.html

The Four Corners region is ill-equipped to deal with looters
and vandals:

http://tinyurl.com/jmuxk (CCT)

A historic shipwreck in Lake Huron was looted of its bell:

http://www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e060829.html

Some idols were stolen from a temple in north Delhi:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=16187

A somewhat strange metal detectorist (not)/eBay tale:

http://tinyurl.com/qy9e9 (OA)

Russia is investigating all its museums after staff have been
implicated in recent thefts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5302094.stm

You've no doubt heard that the missing 'Scream' and other
stolen Munch works have been recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/arts/design/01scre.html

New discussion group of interest ... eFakes:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eFakes-L/

A different sort of 'repatriation' issue ... an Auschwitz
survivor-artist wants some paintings she made returned to her:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/arts/design/30surv.html

China has given a couple of tomb raiders death sentences:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/worlds/?catid=9&newsid=19475

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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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Leonardo da Vinci:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14533735/site/newsweek/

Tattooing in ancient Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/gkbok (UNewcastle)

House of Dona Garcia:

http://tinyurl.com/p3odq (JPost)

Le Coureur (shipwreck):

http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=71435

The Musee des Arts decoratifs is reopening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/arts/design/01anti.html

... as is the Green Vault:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5302612.stm

Neil MacGregor is in Iran to encourage/expand cultural ties
between Iran and the UK:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/sep/1002.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
One of Archaeology Magazine's Interactive Digs have been
updated ... the Pisa Wreck (which is actually a 13th
century shipwreck in the Black Sea):

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/blacksea/index.html

... I'm not sure if we ever mentioned the Heirakonopolis one:

http://tinyurl.com/o7ljk

Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank:

http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/r/170/whm.html

The EDUCE Project (just got some major funding):

http://www.stoa.org/educe/
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OBITUARIES
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Stuart L. Wheeler (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/p7rr5 (Collegian)
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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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catchup issue!  Today's links are from the past few weeks but
should still be working (although some might expire as I put
this thing together) ... still should be able to kill a couple
of hours with this one, though.

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EARLY HUMANS
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How 'modern' were European Neanderthals?:

http://www.physorg.com/news75734944.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uob-hmw082406.php

Marking the 150th anniversary of the first Neanderthal finds:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2135966,00.html

... and suggesting modern humans interbred with them (didn't
we have something suggesting the opposite just a while ago?):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13989908/site/newsweek/
http://tinyurl.com/h9f82 (ST)
http://tinyurl.com/gh3bs (DCN)

... and even if they didn't, there's a Neanderthal genome
project under way:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13955661/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060720105836.htm

Greek Neolithic 'tool shed'?:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1723824.htm

Latest in the homo floresiensis debate:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/flores/hobbit.html
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1721321.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/ps-nhi081606.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060825103718.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5688659
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/science/22tiny.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14457876/

Those 20 000 b.p. footprints in Australia are still in the news:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14063446/

... while humans are 'off the hook' for the extinction of large
animals in prehistoric Australia (for this week, anyway):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14354397/
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AFRICA
================================================================
Cattle were first domesticated by nomads in the Sahara (the
articles are somewhat different):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5192410.stm
http://tinyurl.com/km3cz (MET)
http://tinyurl.com/jvdyb (LAT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13957717/

Archaeologists have found an important site from the Anglo-Zulu
War:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5270322.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A pile of ancient sites have been found in Turkey:

http://english.people.com.cn/200608/25/eng20060825_296534.html

A 3200 b.p. cemetery found in Taleqan (Iran):

http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2611/html/art.htm#s159171

Plenty of coverage of Donny George leaving (or "fleeing")
Baghdad because he no longer feels safe:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060826-100951-6512r
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5289046.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1858880,00.html

An ancient water system in Israel:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/ts_nm/mideast_water_dc_3
http://tinyurl.com/jhe9g (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/kqlrd (Reuters)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14486319/

What we're learning from the Ramat Rahel site:

http://tinyurl.com/kej4z (JPost)

What happened on archaeological sites in Lebanon during the
recent hostilities:

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

Some mystery shabtis found in a museum in the UK:

http://www.londragazete.com/?newsid=8842&category=119

They actually did move that big statue of Rameses II from downtown
Cairo:

http://tinyurl.com/k73ve (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/g4o8n (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5282414.stm

Zahi Hawass believes there's plenty to still be found in Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/jkux6 (USA Today)

A couple of sarcophagi were recently found:

http://tinyurl.com/fuyf6 (SIS)

Interesting item on the use of a laser to clean up an Egyptian
tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/r2gmg (Photonics)

... and spy satellite photos from the 1960s to find sites in
Syria:

http://www.livescience.com/history/060807_syria_satellite.html
http://www.physorg.com/news73840698.html
http://tinyurl.com/kfuaw (SMH)

Five headless sphinxes (sphinges?) from Luxor:

http://tinyurl.com/hqhov (M&C)

I think we had something on this 'space gem' of Tut before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm

The second Royal Mummies Hall has opened:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/808/hr2.htm

A massive stupa and other Buddhist artifacts from Afghanistan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200608/21/eng20060821_295366.html

Questioning the DSS-Qumran connection:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/16/healthscience/snqum.php

Restoration of the walls at Corum is completed:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49982

Another Turkish dam ... more archaeological sites threatened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5249086.stm

Meanwhile, urbanization has led to the 'loss' of a number of
monuments in India:

http://www.nerve.in/news:25350010753

Interesting account of some army engineers' visit to Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/z7zj5 (WP)

Review of 'The Exodus Decoded':

http://tinyurl.com/fz4as (Jewish News)

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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The eruption of Thera was possibly twice as large as previously
postulated:

http://tinyurl.com/o33nm (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/ko36m (TD)

Zahi Hawass is now looking for the tomb of Cleopatra:

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

Recent discoveries from Keros:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2321538,00.html

Greece is wondering how to protect its sites:

http://www.classical1035.com/index.php?nid=65&sid=383710

The Theseus Ring is apparently 'not fake':

http://tinyurl.com/zr43n (IOL)

Interesting item on the rediscovery of some Roman catacombs on
Malta:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=244223

Lemonde had an article (in French, natch) on Hannibal's crossing
of the Alps:

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3230,36-800116,0.html


Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a Scythian mummy in
Mongolia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5283320.stm
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,433600,00.html
(article in German, but with a great photo gallery)

A Thracian city from Turkey:

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/21/eng20060721_285253.html
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49157

They're going to turn Zeugma into an archaeological park (er,
will it be an underwater park?):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49450

A rotating stage at the theatre at Kaunos?:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49361

Interesting discovery of a pile of Phoenician burials on Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/eqys6 (ANSA)

Excavating Commodan-era villa in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/gkmrm (EDP 24)

... and sites along the Black Sea:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=51765

... and Larissa:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=72250

Archaeologists are claiming to have found Caratacus' fabled
'city':

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

Gayton's Roman Villa is bigger than previously thought:

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

Development threatens the archaeological remains of Roman-Indian
contact at Muziris:

http://tinyurl.com/gf5wf (MET)

Plans are afoot (finally) to restore Augustus' mausoleum:

http://tinyurl.com/kcx56 (ANSA)

... while archaeologists claim to have found Augustus' birthplace:

http://tinyurl.com/oaf8z (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/pfpy9 (USA Today)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1052682006

Subway work in Athens is expected to turn up more antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/gpxp9 (IOL)

Another site will be potentially exploited for tourism purposes
in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68507

Remains of a Roman village near Bonn:

http://tinyurl.com/mb36y (News 24)
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=51176

Interesting Roman-era infant burials from the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/pdp75 (Post)

Nice 'experience' piece on the dig at Porolissum:

http://www.alligator.org/pt2/060824summer.php

... and the Agora:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/082006/08242006/216387

An ancient Roman murder?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/4786629.stm

Water workers 'laying pipe' have found a Roman village in
Yorkshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/5217706.stm

Big hype for the return of a chunk of the Parthenon by the University
of Heidelberg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/arts/25arts.html (second item)
http://tinyurl.com/lrqan (Australian)

Latest on the Archimedes palimpsest:

http://tinyurl.com/j2vk3 (Kathimerini)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5235894.stm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5583668
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14226275/

The Antikythera Mechanism is in the news again:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1854232,00.html

Lysippus is getting his own museum:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=51031
http://tinyurl.com/nzm66 (AFP via Yahoo)

A bust of Marcus Aurelius is returning to the Swiss town whence
it came:

http://tinyurl.com/zw2nw (Reuters)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/arts/22arts.html (fifth item)

Funding for the Chester Amphitheatre project didn't materialize,
alas:

http://tinyurl.com/mzctq (Daily Post)

Another journalistic concern for the state of Italy's monuments:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1834106,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Looking for more 'ice age' stuff at Creswell Crags:

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

A bronze age canoe from near Milford Haven has halted pipeline
construction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5282874.stm
http://news.aol.co.uk/article.adp?id=20060824150309990001

... and another bronze age dugout canoe is being excavated in
Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1111362006

... and a bronze age causeway has been found in Suffolk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/5241084.stm

A 5000 b.p. dagger (and more) from Bulgaria:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14235772/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/08/08/dagger_arc.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5251266.stm (photo)

A 3000 b.p. hoard of assorted items from Sedgewick (not
sure if these two articles are related):

http://tinyurl.com/feng7 (Northern Echo)
http://tinyurl.com/hahvw (EDP24)

A cat's actions have caused a rethink of cairns and brochs
in Caithness:

http://tinyurl.com/f22uq (BBC)

A metal detectorist has found some Anglo Saxon stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/j5j3t (Evening Star)

... and another has found an interesting seal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/5261652.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART39372.html

A heat wave in the U.K. has allowed a pile of sites to be
identified:

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1240882006
http://tinyurl.com/jjw67 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/gupnd

Fragments of an 800 b.p. psalter have been found in a bog:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5584495
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1830350,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5216320.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14030255/

cf: http://tinyurl.com/gualu (AD)

... and Irish bog bodies are telling us a lot of stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/h7j5r (Retuers via Yahoo)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14142846/

Vague item about the discovery of a stone head in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68539

Plans are afoot to restore a section of Corfe Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/5276468.stm

A 300 year old (or thereabouts) mummy from the Canary items is
being returned:

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

Diving for the HM Firebrand:

http://tinyurl.com/f3ba4 (BBC)

More coverage of the apartheid society that was early Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5192634.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ke35y (NG)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060720112040.htm

A gas pipeline from Iran to Armenia is destroying/threatening
an ancient city:

http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=24059

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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Archaeological evidence suggests China ruled Xinjiang region
a thousand years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/fark3

2500 b.p. figures are possible precursors to Qin's tomb-army:

http://tinyurl.com/hfcr4 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1851725,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14380274/

... and they've found the tomb of Qin's grandmother:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/29/content_4891709.htm

Meanwhile, they're debating whether to excavate the Qianling
Mausoleum:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/18/content_4848973.htm

A pile of 2500 b.p. pottery from China's Shaanxi province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200608/15/eng20060815_293093.html

Evidence of pre-aboriginal (is that possible in a post-modern
world?) Australians:

http://www.tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25338-2286453,00.html

Hawaiian temples are older than previously thought:

http://tinyurl.com/fmh4h (LS via Yahoo)
http://www.physorg.com/news73660722.html

A 280-year-old mummy of a senior official was found in Beijing:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=10261

Interesting Nazca-like lines in India (with the obvious
speculation):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5237714.stm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A prehistoric site near a Williamsburg school:

http://tinyurl.com/epjqn (Times Dispatch)

Searching for the first Spanish settlement in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/qtlq5 (Herald)

Working on the Francis Marion Trail:

http://tinyurl.com/q2a32 (Sun News)

... and looking for Venture Smith:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14142840/

A 17th century Scottish pistol from Jamestown:

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1089102006

Other important recent finds from a Jamestown well:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14038438/

Looking for the Fort Ancient people:

http://tinyurl.com/fvczv (Western Star)

Some important Acadian artifacts which might point to the
site of deportation:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/522678.html

They've found evidence of Jacques Cartier's first settlement
(1541) near Quebec City (the articles are somewhat different
in focus):

http://tinyurl.com/h43f4 (Canada.com)
http://tinyurl.com/gtqoc (Ottawa Citizen)

Societal structures of First Nations people in Western Canada
may have been more complex than previously thought:

http://www.physorg.com/news74973254.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815162404.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uoc-bhm081406.php

A search for evidence of a 15th century Chinese presence on
Cape Breton Island has come up empty:

http://tinyurl.com/qckg3 (CBC)

Looking for New Philadelphia:

http://tinyurl.com/ftpu8 (LAT)

Rethinking William Davie (while digging up his house):

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/14865351.htm
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun06/daviehouse061306.htm

Looking for artifacts along the Alaskan Way Viaduct:

http://tinyurl.com/fvly7 (Seattle Times)

500 B.C./B.C.E. remains from Lake Worth (Florida) are slowing
down a development project:

http://www.wtlv.com/news/florida/news-article.aspx?storyid=63077

A family cemetery has been found near Cincinnati Airport:

http://tinyurl.com/kbrsl (CP)

Latest film at the Archaeology Channel looks at Hopi fires:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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10,000 b.p. tools and weapons from the Peruvian Andes:

http://tinyurl.com/lyuh6 (MET)

As might be expected, there's plenty of interest in the discovery
of some bones suggesting the Aztecs sacrificed, boiled, and
ate some humans:

http://tinyurl.com/rfbly (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/sc_nm/life_mexico_aztecs_dc_5
http://tinyurl.com/hgdm7 (SMH ... best headline)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1221635.ece
http://tinyurl.com/evhdx (Telegraph)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14485960/

Interesting discovery of a burial near the Amazon dating to
800-1200 B.C./B.C.E:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20060824&hn=35969

Still looking for Columbus' ships:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060730135410.htm
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/27839
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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First dna news on the agenda ... trying to identify whether
Copernicus' remains have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/hllmq (Irish Examiner)

Did gout force Charles V to abdicate?:

http://tinyurl.com/hzj4h (IOL)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14156262/

After a long 'fight', an amateur collector has been vindicated
in his claim of having an El Greco:

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

The Domesday Book has gone online:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14187066/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5242794.stm

Analysis has proven that a portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots is
about 200 years older than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4798749.stm

Potentially 'don't eat that elmer' material, here's an article
on 'ever-burning lamps':

http://tinyurl.com/sx46d (AC)

On the 'foot style' of the Lincoln Memorial:

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

Pope Pius II's 'aesthetic legacy':

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/14/opinion/pienza.php

Nice piece on Mozart:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/060724crat_atlarge

... and his librettist:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586983

Nice 'what the job entails' piece by an archaeologist/forensic
anthropologist:

http://tinyurl.com/f83b6 (WSJ ... no, not that one)

Interesting item on why nails are sold as they are in various
countries:

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

The British Library has acquired a Coleridge archive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/arts/23arts.html (4th item)

Some 700 b.p. letters from popes and kings will be returned
to Poland:

http://tinyurl.com/fwlta (AP)

A fire has damaged St. Petersburg's Trinity Cathedral:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/arts/26arts.html

Carnival has Egyptian roots?:

http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=11800

Review of Matthew Cobb, *Generation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/books/02grim.html

Assorted reviews of interest in the NYT's non-fiction
chronicle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/books/review/McKelvey.t.html

Review of D. Quammond, *The Reluctant Mr. Darwin*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/books/review/Desmond.t.html

Review of M. Belozerskaya, *The Medici Giraffe*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/books/25book.html

Haven't had one of these 'look what I found in the trash' stories
in quite a while:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14077818/

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://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/18/opinion/conway.php

Hindu Temples:

http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2006/07/14/stories/2006071402100600.htm
(great photos)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some idiots have vandalized some petroglyphs in northern
Quebec (strange motives in this one):

http://tinyurl.com/gq7rv (Leader Post)

... while miscommunication has led to the destruction of "stone
age" remains in South Africa:

http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n16_18082006.htm

Plenty of coverage of the Getty's return of a couple of items
to Greece:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=H&id=88806
http://tinyurl.com/fpt33 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/zq54m (Bloomberg)

... and what else Greece wants back (different):

http://tinyurl.com/ewnt9 (Time)
http://tinyurl.com/pjkve (BBC)

... and what museums are doing about provenance (different):

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/4047112.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1825719,00.html

Excellent piece by Suzan Mazur in Scoop on the role played by
the New York Times (and other media outlets) in the illicit
antiquities world:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00171.htm

... and a nice piece from a Madison, Wisconsin newspaper on
what's (not) in local museum collections:

http://www.madison.com/tct/features/index.php?ntid=95948&ntpid=0

A looted Peruvian headress was found in a London lawyer's office:

http://tinyurl.com/jgsft (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/zy2mx (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/hkbed (Reuters)

Iranian authorities busted some smugglers who had a map and were
digging tunnels:

http://tinyurl.com/ky82c (MET)

Not quite sure how to classify this one ... a good article about
a former tombarolo who now makes 'copies' of ancient Etruscan
pieces:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/arts/design/22tomb.html

The lucrative illicit antiquities market (on the internet):

http://tinyurl.com/zuae3 (BG)

That terrorism/Iranian artifacts dispute is still going on:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/20/news/persian.php

Thieves hit the Hermitage in the past weeks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5235148.stm

... while Greece lost another icon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5266494.stm

While one of the 'important' pieces looted from the Baghdad
Museum was recovered:

http://tinyurl.com/ffp9b (IR)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/26/news/treasure.php
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NUMISMATICA
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National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/

Some ancient coin id resources:

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/

Nice article on the Princeton Numismatic Collection:

http://tinyurl.com/gmmlq (PP)

India's first coinage:

http://www.med.unc.edu/~nupam/ancient1.html

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/fdd7r (Art Daily)

Glory of Persia:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_17451.shtml

Napoleon (at the Daheash Museum):

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/articles/060828craw_artworld

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Getty is getting into ancient theatre now:

http://tinyurl.com/fcsvl (LA Times)
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OBITUARIES
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Claire Mousseau (Montreal archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/gelg8

Keith DeVries:

http://tinyurl.com/lsnzb (PI)
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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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A paleolithic kill/butchery site involving an elephant near
London:

http://tinyurl.com/m2o27 (NG)

Still trying to find a DNA link between modern humans and
Neanderthals:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/caveman.html
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AFRICA
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Five sites in Africa have received World Heritage status:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5176110.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists have found a statue of Ram at Luxor:

http://tinyurl.com/m6zvo (SIS)

Finds from various early periods at Tilbasar:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48788

An overviewish thing on the excavations at Catal Huyuk:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48429

... and one on Tel Megiddo:

http://tinyurl.com/mm64f (JPost)

Meanwhile, at those early Christian remains found in a Megiddo
prison:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/736637.html

Debating the origins of Persepolis:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6487

The Behistun monument finally received World Heritage Status:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_16679.shtml

Dispute Over Suicide in the news:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1004112006

Latest news from KV-63:

http://www.kv-63.com/ (scroll down a bit)

An altar from the time of Marcus Aurelius, with Greek inscriptions
has been found near Pompey's Pillar:

http://tinyurl.com/zua5q (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/kg32g (IOL)

More hype about that documentary about the Exodus:

http://tinyurl.com/o785p (JPost)

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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Archaeologists have found remains of a theatre beneath the
remains of the amphitheatre at Serdica:

http://tinyurl.com/mjr2v (Echo)

... semi-related:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=66497

A Daphne and Apollo mosaic from Somerset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/5171108.stm

Recent finds at Stabiae:

http://tinyurl.com/mup5j (ANSA)

Ovid's exile in the news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20060710/bs_ibd_ibd/2006710lands

Too much fluoride in Roman Palmyra:

http://tinyurl.com/rczln (USA Today)

The huge task of trying to preserve sites in Greece:

http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/16128.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/e6qcb (ME Times)

... while there are fears a new road on Andros will destroy
antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/en6wq (Kathimerini)

I think we've mentioned that a couple of Greek theatres will
be closed in August for repairs:

http://tinyurl.com/sxlg4 (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/llxn4 (Telegram)

A thing on kids books translated into Latin:

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

Some guy wants to recreate Hannibal's march over the Alps (for
charity; sans elephants, presumably):

http://tinyurl.com/n47kf

An unexploded mortar from WWII was found at Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/nu763 (IOL)

OpEd piece on Leo Strauss:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/arts/10conn.html

More coverage of that statue of Artemis discovery at Larissa:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/10/tech/main1789721.shtml
http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/10-07-2006/83157-goddes-0
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/14041/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2263935,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/nwdje (IOL)

More coverage of that Thracian town discovery in Bulgaria:

http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=20459
http://tinyurl.com/rodra (Standart)
http://tinyurl.com/ljkkl (Echo)

ClassCon in the name of Microsoft's iPod competetion:

http://tinyurl.com/pvmrs

Interesting item on Rubens' Calydonian Boar Hunt:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2265532,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Looking for the earliest inhabitants of the Thames Valley:

http://tinyurl.com/r8az6 (TIL)

Mesolithic remains from Lincoln:

http://tinyurl.com/q3o97 (Lincoln Today)

Archaeologists have found what may be the oldest church (6th
century) in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/5174896.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1023622006

Cornwall's ancient mines have been given UNESCO World Heritage
Status:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2269249,00.html

... and more sites for the World Heritage list:

http://tinyurl.com/rl2qp

A sort of top ten list of finds from Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1028012006

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 mystery of some ceramic pellets from the Yin Ruins may have
been solved:

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/10/eng20060710_281538.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/09/content_4810939.htm

Did poor soil spark a war in Hawaii?:

http://tinyurl.com/n7dus (Advertiser)

Marking Genghis Khan's establishment of the Mongol Empire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5168702.stm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A gardener in Greenwich found a Sylvan Lake Culture point:

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

Sewer construction in Minnesota reveals Middle Woodland artifacts
(but there's no money to continue the dig):

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=128945
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_191113917.html

Digging at the Fort Ancient State Memorial (Ohio):

http://tinyurl.com/opvxl (Pulse Journal)

Latest bit of info gleaned from the Hunley:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13870913/

Plans are afoot to move Alexander Hamilton's Grange:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/nyregion/12grange.html

What we're learning from the Jamestown excavations:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/072006/07152006/205587

Getting kids interested in archaeology:

http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006607120323
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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You can now reach Machu Picchu by helicopter:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/travel/09transmachu.html

Mayan ruins found via remote sensing from space:

http://tinyurl.com/lvxop (Neatorama)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A Shelley poem has been 'rediscovered':

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/arts/14arts.html (2nd item)

The remains of the Castrato Farinelli are to be dug up and
subjected to CAT scans and DNA tests (not sure what those
tests can really tell them):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5171892.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060712/sc_nm/arts_farinelli_remains_dc_2
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/12arts.html (3rd)
[an item on the restoration of Nelson's Monument follows]

Columbus was a "greedy tyrant":

http://tinyurl.com/gaao9 (AFP via Yahoo)

More coverage of that medieval inscription spat in a Turkish
fortress:

http://tinyurl.com/neg4c (Gulf Times)

There's going to be an appeal in the daVinci Code case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/arts/11arts.html (6th)

Poe's at the centre of a couple of novels:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5543300

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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Uruk is apparently being plundered:

http://tinyurl.com/m5afh (Azzaman)

The latest in that Turkish switch-genuine-items-with-fakes
case is a demand for some pretty hefty sentences:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/arts/14arts.html (5th)

The U.S. returned some smuggled antiquities to Pakistan this
week:

http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/July06/15/10.htm

Latest developments in that Iran-U.S. court case involving
inscriptions at the University of Chicago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/world/middleeast/13briefs-005.html
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1128.html
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1110.html
http://tinyurl.com/r7ed8 (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/rpm6l (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/ovmxo (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/rwgsu (RFE)

Nice item on provenance of items in the Houston Museum of
Fine Arts:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/art/4047112.html

More coverage of Getty plans to return some sculptures to
Greece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/arts/11gett.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=71934
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06192/704836-42.stm
http://tinyurl.com/lrok9 (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ladts (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/rwkly (LA Times)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/news/getty.php
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aLyzBuv.AwmA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5165596.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/arts/design/10cnd-getty.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13801315/

... and Greece is inspired by its success:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1817586,00.html

... and China might get on the 'return our stuff' bandwagon:

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/13/eng20060713_282774.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
================================================================
Treasury of the World:

http://tinyurl.com/lek4a (AD)

National Portrait Gallery:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5554510

What happens when they clean out museum storehouses in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=66467

Nice price for a Shakespeare first folio at auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5175044.stm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5554179
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=10832&pt=e
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Grendel:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5542123
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
David Bright (Andrea Doria expert):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11bright.html

Louis Jacobs (Rabbi and Scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/world/europe/09jacobs.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, Adrian Murdoch,
Croman mac Nessa, David Critchley, Dave Sowdon, Dan Diffendale,
Bruno Vernier,  Edward Rockstein, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',
Hanan Charaf, Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Lampros F. Kallenos, Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan,
Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

... a quiet week
==============================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Four 6000 b.p. skeletons from Khorasan:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0607045558173956.htm
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1030.html

Current thinking is that  KV-63 belonged to Tut's mother
(+ hype for a tv show on it tonight):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/heritage.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ewem7 (AOL)
http://tinyurl.com/qzkk5 (CNN)
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/kv63/kv63.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/egyptkv63/egyptkv63.html

Evidence suggests Anamurium was destroyed by an earthquake:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48188

Work on the Acre railway line is resuming:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=735657

Folks might be interested in the Ulu Burun shipwreck recreation:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=47389

An Exodus documentary:

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

More coverage of the Second Temple model thing:

http://tinyurl.com/qew89 (JPost)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3271211,00.html

More coverage of the imminent removal of the Kotel ramp:

http://tinyurl.com/os3yy (JPost)

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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A Roman (Hellenistic?) head from Baalbek is probably Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/kyplm (Naharnet ... photo)
http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060707.HTM (Arabic with
photos)

A statue (torso) of Artemis from Larissa:

http://news.ert.gr/en/7/19240.asp
http://tinyurl.com/p9l5t (ANA)

... and another statue from Faragola:

http://www.ilgrecale.it/attualita/articolo.php?id=11210 (Italian)

The remains of the oldest Thracian town hitherto discovered:

http://tinyurl.com/zfbfu (Standart)

More finds from Aquileia:

http://tinyurl.com/fjelk (ANSA)

That 'Homer-was-a-woman' thing has raised its head again:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2251270,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/s8n4q (Australian)

Reconstructing the ancient Greek chorus:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1813964,00.html

Recreating Roman cosmetics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5129102.stm

There's going to be Latin news bulletins from the European
Union:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1812166,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/nxmzq (IOL)

Fears there is too much digging going on in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=23075&archive=1

Latin is making a comeback thanks to the Internet:

http://tinyurl.com/ryj64 (mercator)

Review of David Mattingly, *An Imperial Possession*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2259502,00.html

Review of the Loeb Classical Library Reader:

http://tinyurl.com/znz9l (Weekly Standard)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
An Ottoman-era shipwreck off Cyprus is being excavated:

http://www.aquatec-innerspace.com/aiogreenbaywk.htm
http://www.politis-news.com/cgibin/hweb?-A=641595&-V=archive
(Greek; includes interesting video)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/arts/03arts.html (5th item)
http://tinyurl.com/pq33x (ME Times)

Searching for a medieval chapel in Wales:

http://tinyurl.com/m85yl (BBC)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
What some Tang Dynasty porcelain drums are revealing:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/03/content_4788172.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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What they've found in a Jamestown well:

http://tinyurl.com/o8nke (NG)

Interesting skeletons in Preacher's Cave:

http://tinyurl.com/h5y6s (Nassau Guardian)

Bison bones on Orcas Island:

http://tinyurl.com/nr45u (Sounder)

A mystery Bison 'bone bed' in Nebraska:

http://tinyurl.com/e6rj7 (RMN)

A hearth from Fort Ridgely State Park:

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=128810

Bones found on a construction site in Milwaukee:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=459159

Highway construction in Colorado ... must be a site there too:

http://tinyurl.com/k9bkd (RMN)

A 'mystery graveyard' is rediscovered in Boston:

http://tinyurl.com/j2sgo (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/kkuzy (Telegram)

Archaeology's 'interactive dig' at Johnson's Island has some
recent material:

http://tinyurl.com/lgp4n

Coverage of the Society of Georgia Archaeology meeting:

http://tinyurl.com/r6jmf (AJC)

An archaeology professor's death threatens the survival of
a collaborative archaeology program:

http://tinyurl.com/e7cm2 (Star Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/leneh (Gazette)
http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=5122071

Interesting OpEd piece on Devil's Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/opinion/03burrows.html

... and one on Valley Forge:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/opinion/03dobrzynski.html

Podcasting at Colonial Williamsburg:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060703/ap_on_hi_te/colonial_podcasts

Review of Donna Lucey, *Archie and Amelie*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/books/03masl.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Ancient medical stuff:

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

A photo (!) of Constanze Mozart has been found:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2259977,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5157200.stm

The authenticity of a Duccio at the Met is being challenged:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/arts/design/08ducc.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5156984.stm

Stephen Fry's speech on why folks should study history:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1815961,00.html

Feature on Bob Marx:

http://tinyurl.com/ql4br (Florida Today)

That big storm that hit Washington D.C. (and environs) claimed
as a casualty one of the trees depicted on the US twenty
dollar bill:

http://www.nbc10.com/news/9427842/detail.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
================================================================
Rome (I think it's intended to be touristy; maybe not):

http://tinyurl.com/ppdh9 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/mm9em (Age)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2146116
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/07/02/ap2854518.html

Athens:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=43287

Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/ljyc4 (SMH)
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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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General piece on looting in Arizona:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/18360.php

OpEd piece on looting in Iran (somewhat strange):

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1040.html

Another (excellent) lengthy piece on Bob Hecht by Susan Mazur:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00085.htm

We mentioned the auctioning-of-Iranian-artifacts order made
by a US judge last week ... here are some followup pieces:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0607053491155451.htm
http://tinyurl.com/mdkjf (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ov9be (UPI)
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=347528
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=347460

More coverage of the return of that Ides of March coin to
Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/zbvyc (ME Times)
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Time Magazine archive item from 1923 on the publication of the
Corpus Nummorum:

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,727208,00.html

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
================================================================
Assorted exhibitions in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/z4dd9 (ANSA)

Venetian Artists:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07vene.html

Dogs in Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07dogs.html

A terracotta army may soon be in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5140414.stm

The American University in Beirut's museum is getting a facelift:

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

Florence's Archaeological Museum has been renovated:

http://tinyurl.com/mtqmm (ANSA)

Interesting book auction in Edinburgh:

http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=976602006

Assorted auction/antique news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07anti.html

A Warhol Mao is coming up to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07voge.html

Arguing over who owns a regiment's collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/nyregion/06regiment.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Beowulf(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/books/04beow.html

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/ls58r

Macbeth:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/theatre/articles/060710crth_theatre
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Eyewitness to History:

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

cf: http://tinyurl.com/p5j26 (USA Today)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0705/p25s01-stct.html

New Ancient Mesopotamia site from the Oriental Institute:

http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Vern Leroy Bullough (History of Medicine/Sexuality):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/us/03bullough.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
This week, hyphenated George is making press releases about
Poseidon and his connection with horses:

http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2006/7/7/19292/67045
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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, Bruno Vernier,
Croman mac Nessa, David Critchley, 'Duke Jason', Dave Sowdon,
Donna Hurst, Dorothy King, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mary Reed,
Mata Kimasitayo, Michael Oberndorf, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Sean David Reynolds, 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
================================================================
More coverage of that Middle Paleolithic jewellery:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=732573
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Opening a sarcophagus in KV 63 has revealed a bunch of flowers
and embalming stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/jqgdv (Discovery)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060629/ap_on_sc/egypt_new_tomb_10
http://tinyurl.com/ghm99 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/kvzme (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ewk7w (NG)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/29/news/tomb.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5127918.stm
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640190849,00.html
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/06/28/egypt-tomb.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/world/africa/29tomb.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13597524/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/world/middleeast/28cnd-tomb.html

More KV 63 coverage (with a different focus):

http://tinyurl.com/j8zvt (Discovery)
http://tinyurl.com/e9epb (Discovery)
http://tinyurl.com/zsdwm (Australian)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/july/kv63.php

A pair of tombs have been found near the Giza pyramids:

http://tinyurl.com/f9l7l (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/hmywy (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/gr87f (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_219094007,00.html

A 'monument' (sounds like an inscription) from the first century
A.D./C.E. has been found at Palmyra:

http://www.sana.org/eng/21/2006/07/01/44465.htm

A couple of mummies in Milwaukee will be getting the CT scan
treatment:

http://tinyurl.com/hspt6 (CC Times)

Excavating a Second Temple dump:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732068.html

Not sure if we've mentioned this case involving artifacts held
by the University of Chicago being potentially used as compensation
in a bombing case ... in any event, it's now big news:

http://tinyurl.com/ezc2r (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/f55jt (Tribune)

We'll probably hear more about this one ... they're going to
remove that Temple Mount ramp:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=733072

Zahi Hawass is keeping his job:

http://tinyurl.com/ha6qe (ME Times)

A Firefox extension of interest to those involved in
Mishna studies:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2820/

More coverage of the moving of that model of the Temple
to the Israel Museum:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=732574

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)
================================================================
Archaeologists have found what is being touted as the oldest
ritual site in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/h8k4o (AthensNews)

Latest news on the Acropolis museum:

http://tinyurl.com/fun4y (Kathimerini)

... and they're excavating the house being touted as the
birthplace of Augustus:

http://tinyurl.com/kogfu (Espresso ... Italian)

Good coverage of recent finds at an Etruscan site at Cetamura:

http://tinyurl.com/kcrc2 (EurekAlert)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060630095037.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/521655/?sc=rsmn
http://www.fsu.edu/news/2006/06/29/etruscan.discovery/

Recreating Roman makeup:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5129102.stm

Latest coverage on those catacomb bones from Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/jmfrm (Rassegna ... Italian)

They held the Prometheus Festival in Athens this week:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1810722,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/fy6tm (Mail and Guardian)

A debate is raging in the UK over the 'difficulty' of Latin:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2243519,00.html

... subsequent letters:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2246063_2,00.html

... and Mary Beard:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2006/06/is_latin_too_ha.html

Robert Graves' house on Mallorca is now a museum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,1810336,00.html

Some geek/Latin humour (language warning):

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/highbrow-my-culus

HBO's Rome is now on French television:

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3232,36-790207,0.html

The Mica Aurea Restaurant in Rome seems to be filling a
void:

http://www.arsconvivialis.com/

What Colleen McCullough's up to:

http://tinyurl.com/h4r2n (Canada.com)

ClassCon in the Yanksblog:

http://www.yanksblog.com/item/795

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A 400 000 b.p. elephant butcher site in Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5128892.stm

Not sure whether I mentioned this BBC coverage of those
Paleolithic tools found in some guy's garden (good photos):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5098748.stm

Finds from various periods (mostly medieval) from a dig in
Southampton:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/5131110.stm

They've (finally) repaired Margam Castle's window:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5129348.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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Some Paleolithic artifacts from China:

http://www.chinanews.cn/news/2005/2006-06-29/24520.html

This is interesting ... among the remains of the workers who
helped put together Qin's tomb are those of someone of European
extraction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1808394,00.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/28/content_4762391.htm

A Han Dynasty tombs from Hunan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200606/30/eng20060630_278703.html

The two Koreas will cooperate to excavate a Koryo Kingdom site:

http://tinyurl.com/foag8 (Korea Times)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Recently-found artifacts from the Battle of Saratoga are on
display:

http://tinyurl.com/z4aw9 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/kpskc (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/jmdxj (AP via Yahoo)

Excavating a bison kill/processing site in North Dakota:

http://tinyurl.com/fxska (Tribune)
http://www.krtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5103553

Interesting shell midden on the Columbia River:

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

Finds from various periods have been found on a future condo
site in Connecticut:

http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_3984824

Review of Gordon Wood, *Revolutionary Characters*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/books/27kaku.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A tropical 'Stonehenge'?:

http://tinyurl.com/zvx3l (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/nr4b8 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/k8pe6 (Discovery)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13582228/
http://tinyurl.com/kdl7c (NYT)

Historians are beginning to weigh in on Mel Gibson's 'Apocalypto':

http://tinyurl.com/k6y59 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/jlb7f (UPI)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Mathematically, we're all related:

http://tinyurl.com/l6loy (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/hbf5p (ABC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man_1

Nathaniel Hawthorne's remains have been reunited with those of
his wife:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/us/27hawthorne.html

Blog post on wealthy folks funding archaeological digs:

http://tinyurl.com/kyuou

On transliterating Hebrew:

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

Restoring a van der Helst:

http://tinyurl.com/zyfx7 (La Tercera ... Spanish)

Reviewish/interviewish thing on Nigel Spivey and his upcoming
program on How Art Made the World:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/television/26made.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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An update on the Oded Golan trial:

http://tinyurl.com/huk24 (Toronto Star)

More coverage of the return of that 'ides of March' coin to
Greece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1807315,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060628/ap_on_sc/art_brutus_coin_2
http://tinyurl.com/kyfne (ABC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5117366.stm
http://tinyurl.com/zbvyc (ME Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Art-Brutus-Coin.html

A couple of 'crime beat' items in this Arts Briefly column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/arts/27arts.html

OpEdish thing on wars and looting of sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5111196.stm

Spinoff scandal at the Getty from the trial of Marion True:

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

Another looted-artifacts-showing-up-on-eBay story:

http://tinyurl.com/ldr4g (Daily Record)
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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for a gold medieval coin at auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/5130666.stm

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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daVinci:

http://www.msichicago.org/temp_exhibit/leonardo/index.html

An auction of various items (including papyri) from beer magnate
Cornelius Hauck will benefit the Cincinnati Museum Center:

http://www.channelcincinnati.com/education/9447068/detail.html

The Varna Archaeological Museum is cashing in on its Thracian
Treasures exhibit:

http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=21714

The Coptic Museum has reopened:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/801/eg1.htm
http://tinyurl.com/fgtxd (Art Daily)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_219198354,00.html

Assorted auction results from London:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/design/26auct.html

More coverage of the Musee du Quay Branly opening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/arts/design/27bran.html

Some of the Smithsonian's museums have reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/arts/design/27smit.html

Interesting (?) merger of a couple of museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/arts/design/28sout.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Suppliants:

http://tinyurl.com/k6jxs (Kathimerini)

Metamorphosis:

http://tinyurl.com/jmnbu (great photo with this one)

Antigone:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=47338

Interesting item on painted theatre curtains (with slide show):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/us/25vermont.html

There's a new director for the Stratford Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/theater/27stra.html
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ON THE WEB
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Social Change and Cultural Interaction in the Middle Helladic
Argolid 2000 - 1500 BC:

http://www.mhargolid.nl/

Mycenean Presence in Sicily:

http://www.mycpres.com/
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OBITUARIES
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John Oates (Papyrologist):

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/06/oatesobit.html

Mary Martin McLaughlin (Medievalist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/nyregion/26mclaughlin.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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More and more, the Bosnian 'pyramid' claim begins to fall apart:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanagic/update.html

... while we now have a new claim that someone has found the
remains of Noah's Ark:

http://tinyurl.com/om8vk (AOL News)
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4319965

... but how to reconcile that with these claims:

http://tinyurl.com/eq7k6 (DB Journal)
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB1B1OAWOE.html

... and there's another press release from hyphenated George:

http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2006/6/26/104156/618
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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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Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, 'Duke
Jason', Francis Deblauwe, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, R.M. Howe,
Mata Kimasitayo,  Richard C. Griffiths, John McChesney-Young,
Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Ross Sargent, Rick Pettigrew,
Tony Jackson, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

... in a bit of a rush this a.m. ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of redating of some early shell jewellery
which suggests it's 25 000 years older than previously thought:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/science/22cnd-shell.html (JNW)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060623215424.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/aaft-sfi061506.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/ucl-ek062106.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060624/ap_on_sc/oldest_jewelry_4
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2113258
http://tinyurl.com/fnged (NG)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2238984,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/hjgzb (Telegraph)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/06/22/beads.html
http://tinyurl.com/jvu9o (NPR)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5099104.stm
http://tinyurl.com/j4l32 (New Scientist)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13483253/
http://tinyurl.com/efzbn (SciAm)

Achulean tools from the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5098748.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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11 000 b.p. grains from a site near Jericho are causing a rethink
of the beginnings of agriculture:

http://tinyurl.com/qdz26 (JPost)

Hittite burials from Adana:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=46064

The dig in Istanbul continues, and now they have found the
remains of an ancient Byzantine port:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=906372006
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13438452/
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=46860
http://www.livescience.com/history/060620_ap_turkey_port.html

A Second Temple neighbourhood in the City of David:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=105646

More historic "hills" (mounds?) have been found near the
Burnt City:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jun/1172.html

Recent finds from Hormozgan:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jun/1215.html

If it's the solstice, it's time for the annual 'one step
closer to finding Dilmun' piece:

http://tinyurl.com/qz3bn (Gulf Daily News)

Plans are afoot to excavate the salt mine where those 'salt
men' were recently found:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_16283.shtml

Polish archaeologists have found the earliest complete Coptic
translation of the book of Isaiah:

http://tinyurl.com/ft2bo (Press release)

An IAA worker is accused of having a conflict of interest:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=729831

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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An Italian article in which it is claimed that Jean-Yves
Empereur is close to finding the location of the tomb of
Alexander the Great:

http://tinyurl.com/ls3ys (Il Sole)

Caistor Roman Town will be the focus of a major research
project:

http://tinyurl.com/l8t9e (EDP24)

More coverage of those myriad skeletons from a catacomb in
Rome:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=916922006

A Roman road to nowhere?:

http://tinyurl.com/pvgds (EDP 24)

A massive Roman coin hoard from Shippam:

http://tinyurl.com/r98od (Observer)

A Glasgow university has dropped its Classics course:

http://news.scotsman.com/education.cfm?id=928032006

More coverage of that Etruscan tomb find:

http://tinyurl.com/my3my (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/qcsb4 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/rv4tm
http://tinyurl.com/s92wa (UPI)

Still trying to get World Heritage status for the Antonine
Wall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5100616.stm

Classical interest in the latest appointments to the
Williams-Exeter program:

http://iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=20241

Tom Palaima's latest:

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0620-30.htm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

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

http://www.news.wisc.edu/12670.html

More coverage of (and solstice activities associated with) that
Bryn Celli Ddu tomb:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/06/22/tomb_arc.html
http://tinyurl.com/lc4ft

Nice feature on Castlelaw Hillfort:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=880992006

Finds from various periods at the construction site of the
new Kincardine bridge:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=900472006

A 6th/7th century mutilated skeleton from Modena:

http://tinyurl.com/n9go9 (Italian)
http://www.metronews.it/det.php?id=123770&fid=adnk_id
(ditto)

A recently (re)discovered 7th century sword has a unique
construction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/5097510.stm
http://tinyurl.com/rrrgw (Telegraph)

A metal detectorist (dubbed an archaeologist in the article)
has found a 15th century silver 'ear scoop':

http://tinyurl.com/f9cyc (Review)

Archaeologists have found remains of what they're claiming
is Robin Hood's house:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1883640.html
http://tinyurl.com/pu2db (Mirror)

Searching for the Bonhomme Richard:

http://tinyurl.com/zmw54 (BBC)

More on the Mont St. Michel monastery restoration project:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/15/travel/travel16.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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30 000 b.p. artifacts from China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/24/content_4742260.htm

Oh oh ... archaeologists have found some 3000 b.p. tombs in
China shaped like 'pyramids':

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/21/content_4727356.htm

... and double oh oh ... a 'pyramid' at the bottom of a Chinese
lake:

http://english.people.com.cn/200606/23/eng20060623_276708.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/22/content_4732485.htm

2400 b.p. tombs from China's Hubei province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200606/20/eng20060620_275424.html

... and 2200 b.p. tombs from Anhui province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/20/content_4722855.htm

A pile of 12th century Korean pottery has been found in the
sea off South Korea:

http://tinyurl.com/oln2b (Korea Times)

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about the
development of Tamil:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Finds from various periods in a dig in Uwharrie National
Forest:

http://tinyurl.com/gytzh (News 14)

Surveying sites in southern Utah:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/183015/

Schoolkids on a dig in Utah have found some Fremont culture
remains:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=318508

A KSU dig at a Plains Woodland site in Kansas:

http://www.basehorinfo.com/section/frontpagelead/story/7735

Searching for an 18th century glasshouse in Philly:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-06222006-674072.html

Excavating a 19th century Chinese community in Oregon:

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

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 4800 b.p. temple from Peru:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200606210157.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting new method for dating prints and maps:

http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71215-0.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13450604/

Recent research suggests bog bodies were members of their
society's elite:

http://tinyurl.com/mxgnk (Daily Mail)
http://www.online.ie/News/News.aspx?newsId=385385

Once upon a time cat scans of mummies was the fashionable thing;
now it appears to be xraying old paintings ... this time, some
15th century Venetian works:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060619/ap_on_sc/venetian_paintings_3
http://tinyurl.com/ggvyh (USA Today)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2095119

... speaking of which, a CT scan of a mummy has revealed a
2000 year old fraud:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1802733,00.html

A massive dodo grave in Mauritius:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5113372.stm
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/science/060622rf

French academics were worried about an impending auction
of a Stendahl manuscript:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/19arts.html (4th item)

... but it all worked out in the end:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/books/20stend.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/books/22auction.html

The Language Log blog received some attention from the
New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/science/20lang.html

A Kabbalist refrigerator repair man:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/nyregion/20plumber.html

Followup on dna and Genghis' kin ... whoops:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13467247/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Genghis-Kin.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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Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/edl6r (USA Today)

St. Petersburg:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/travel/18culture.html

Amsterdam:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/travel/18next.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Folks should be made aware of a new online publication ... the
New Archaeology Review (hmmm):

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb402628.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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That guy who tripped and smashed those Qing vases at the
Fitzwilliam is not going to be charged:

http://tinyurl.com/o9934 (Mirror)

This week's developments in and/or arising from the Museum case
include plenty of coverage of the Getty's plan to return a
number of artifacts to Italy:

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9407647/detail.html
http://tinyurl.com/z49a8 (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/oxm3w (Chicago Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/nj2mf (Boston Globe)
http://english.people.com.cn/200606/23/eng20060623_276491.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/arts/design/21cnd-getty.html
http://tinyurl.com/fvcl2 (LAT)

... there's also media attention for Robert Hecht:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/arts/design/21hech.html
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20060621-021838-1882r.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/20/news/hecht.php
http://tinyurl.com/qpd2f (Sun)

... and the implications of the case in general:

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/news/shownews.jsp?content=e06179A
http://tinyurl.com/qaqkv (different from above; repeat?)

Meanwhile, the Boston MFA is in negotiations with Italy:

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

... and possibly the current climate has contributed to the claim
that France's possession of the Tomb of the Kings is less than
legitimate:

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

I think we mentioned these (surprising?) results from an
internal review of the Getty last week:

http://tinyurl.com/z7fkl (CBC)
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=144427
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3953347
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060618/ap_en_bu/troubled_getty_3
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2091188

An antiquities bust in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=65484

More coverage of museum security concerns in Turkey:

http://tinyurl.com/gqwy6 (MET)

I think we mentioned quite a while ago that antiques dealer
who was slicing antique maps out of books from the British
Library and elsewhere ... he's been sentenced:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1804920,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/nyregion/23map.html

That purloined petroglyphs case from Nevada a while back is
being appealed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5896119,00.html

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NUMISMATICA
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U.S. Mint Image Library:

http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=photo

Politicians portrayed on money:

http://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html

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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Romans in Asia Minor:

http://tinyurl.com/p53mq (Art Daily)

Road to Byzantium:

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

Legacies (slavery):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/arts/20slav.html

Liotard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/arts/design/23liot.html

Raphael at the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/arts/design/23raph.html

Americans in Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/arts/design/23voge.html

Searching for Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/arts/design/23yale.html

Eyewitness:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/arts/24arch.html

Copenhagen's Glyptotek is reopening:

http://tinyurl.com/mj8ez (Canada.com)

Power struggles at the Brooklyn Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/arts/design/22muse.html

Feature on the Musee du Quai Branley:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/arts/design/22quai.html

Big bucks for a Klimt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/design/19klim.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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King Lear:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/theater/reviews/21lear.html

Twelfth Night:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/theater/reviews/21twel.html
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OBITUARIES
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Leslie Alcock (Archaeologist):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2234977,00.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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We haven't had a press release from hyphenated George in a while,
so here's one:

http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2006/6/23/325/91959
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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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Busy week ... plenty of stuff to occupy the time of those of
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on that 27000 b.p.  cave 'portrait':

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1791174,00.html

Some possible Homo erectus tools from India:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060613/asp/nation/story_6345715.asp

Useful blog post on the Homo floresiensis controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/prmov

More coverage of that Neanderthal DNA story:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=5602 (Portugese)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Latest news from KV-63:

http://www.kv-63.com/index.html

Not often one reads in the news about anything about the Edomites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/science/13edom.html
http://www.physorg.com/news69511439.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/14/healthscience/snedom.php
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/18889

A Waqf official has confirmed the existence of first and second
Temples on the site of the al Aqsa Mosque (wow!):

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50637

The threat to some Assyrian artifacts/inscriptions:

http://www.aina.org/news/20060614111514.htm

An ancient Fars cemetery was "razed" to make way for apartment
construction:

http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2584/html/art.htm#s151269

This is the first we've heard (I think) of the Karnak Development
Project:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/799/heritage.htm

Interesting feature on Zahi Hawass:

http://tinyurl.com/f6uwe (Chronicle)

... and one on Farhad Assar:

http://www.livius.org/opinion/opinion0007.html

Trying to reassemble a manuscript of Maimonides:

http://tinyurl.com/g778r (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/z5zxo (Seattle PI)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13307224/

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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Tons of coverage of a tombarolo leading archaeologists to the
site of an Etruscan tomb dubbed 'the tomb of the roaring lions':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/arts/17wall.html (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/rp4bu (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/p7xzf (AP via Yahoo ... photo)
http://tinyurl.com/mge76 (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/ntfp5 (CTV)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3977603.html
http://tinyurl.com/q9qjh (LA Times)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1665374.htm
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=889242006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2229278,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1800464,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/gw3kq (Bloomberg)
http://tinyurl.com/flba8 (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/rx7yu (La Tercera ... Spanish)

... actually, here's all the photos making the rounds:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=etruscan&c=news_photos

... and the official beniculturi announcement (and photos) in
Italian:

http://tinyurl.com/nv263

Similiter, plenty of coverage of the reunion of a statue of
Venus with its head at the Michael C. Carlos Museum:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199801,00.html
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/06/13/ap2813240.html
http://tinyurl.com/js43b (USA Today ... photo of the body)
http://tinyurl.com/h9ao5 (AP via Yahoo ... photo of head)
http://tinyurl.com/g4xve (CBS)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13307223/

... just the photos:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=Emory&c=news_photos

A Roman coin hoard from Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5089504.stm

A Roman mosaic from Dorchester:

http://tinyurl.com/p4f8d (Echo)

An inscription of Gallienus from Sostra:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=65157

Interesting project to catalog all Greek antiquities in
'foreign' museums (why are journalists involved? surely enlisting
grad students would be far more appropriate):

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/news/shownews.jsp?content=e061531A

Latin Summer is an interesting bit of outreach:

http://tinyurl.com/puvdu (NWI)

Speaking of outreach, Amphora 5.1 is now online:

http://www.apaclassics.org/outreach/amphora/2006/Amphora5.1.pdf

A Latin program in San Jose has been saved:

http://tinyurl.com/qf94b (Mercury)

More coverage of that Roman/Muziris story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4970452.stm
http://tinyurl.com/fptp3 (ANSA)

More on the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.physorg.com/news68796309.html
cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Neolithic round shrine has been found in Prague:

http://tinyurl.com/jkcb3 (Prague Daily Monitor)

The Bryn Celli Ddu chamber appears to have been aligned to the
summer solstice:

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

Remains of a medieval village have been found in East Lothian:

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

Finds from various periods from the Vidy Olympic site:

http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/olympic_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=1825

France has plans for the Benedictine Monastery at Mont Saint Michel:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5087602.stm

More coverage of those Basque inscriptions:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3702437a12,00.html

A metal detectorist and some research have turned up a medieval
ring of importance:

http://tinyurl.com/hhwvx (Daily Mail)

Assorted folks of interest to readers of Explorator received honours
from the Queen this week (Barry Cunliffe, Janet Nelson, Jonathan
Bate, others?)

http://tinyurl.com/kb7rw (GNN)

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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Neolithic interaction between China and the Philippines:

http://tinyurl.com/gpye9 (Manila Times)

Vague item about an ancient tomb found in Viet Nam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/160606/culture_a.htm

... and a site v. construction dispute in Viet Nam:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=16678

More finds among the Jinsha ruins in China:

http://english.people.com.cn/200606/12/eng20060612_273291.html

47 - 2400 b.p. tombs from China's Hubei province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/17/content_4709278.htm

Sucessful relocation of an ancient temple in China:

http://english.people.com.cn/200606/14/eng20060614_274013.html
http://tinyurl.com/qzkkd (La Tercera ... Spanish)

More coverage of those Neolithic axes with Indus symbols on
them:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060612/asp/nation/story_6340816.asp

... and that chessboard on the Great Wall:

http://tinyurl.com/qqre4 (La Tercera ... Spanish)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A Native American burial site found during construction in
San Jose:

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5044084&nav=9qrx

A state-of-the research sort of thing on the Endeavour:

http://tinyurl.com/e73oh (SMH)

Excavating early Tucson:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/15532.php

Pioneer burials in West Des Moines:

http://tinyurl.com/hde4h (WOI)

Native American remains found in a Bloomington (Ind.) house
are to be studied:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060616/ap_on_sc/skulls_found

Looking for James Madison's gate:

http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=4893
http://www.rocktownweekly.com/news_details.php?AID=4893

It appears William Davie's home was not put to the torch:

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/19098

Rescuing/reusing church 'artifacts':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/us/12church.html

Review of James Campbell, *Middle Passages: African American
Journeys to Africa":

http://tinyurl.com/n7h8a (NYT)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Lots of coverage of the discovery of a 4500 b.p. burial in
Mexico featuring some 'dentures' made from animal teeth:

http://tinyurl.com/mvuom (Star Telegram)
http://tinyurl.com/p928l (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/kmfqe (USA Today ... photo)
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=2079792 (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/zs9se (AP via Yahoo ... photo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5079632.stm
http://tinyurl.com/hsfkh (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/14-744088.html
http://www.wtnh.com/global/story.asp?s=5028511
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13316074/

What archaeologists at Yale have learned from those artifacts
from Machu Picchu which Peru wants back:

http://tinyurl.com/qanmg (Boston Globe)
http://www.physorg.com/news69690796.html

An ancient (jade) trading network in the Caribbean?:

http://tinyurl.com/pck62 (NG)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, Chinese folks can now see whether they are
a descendant of Confucius:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060616/od_nm/china_confucius1_dc
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13372791/

... and the domestication of rice has been traced:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060612222106.htm

Inquisition-era graffiti from Sicily:

http://www.physorg.com/news69651571.html

... meanwhile, the Turkish government has ordered a 500 b.p.
Latin inscription removed from a castle entrance:

http://tinyurl.com/k3rc3 (Mainichi)

Last week, Scotland 'reclaimed' the origins of golf ... this week
they're claiming to be the origin of 'the beautiful game' based
on a 17th century Latin schoolmaster's book (my Sicilian
mother-in-law would argue otherwise):

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/64045.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=872362006

The folks who built Stonehenge might have had help from glaciers
(I can't believe this hasn't been suggested before):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/5072664.stm
http://tinyurl.com/flwfe (icWales)

... and 'glacial' also seems to be the way to describe plans
for a road near Stonehenge:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1796829,00.html

A fresco of Cupid and Psyche commissioned by Pope Paul III is
now available for public viewing:

http://tinyurl.com/f5rpp (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/j8q39 (UPI)

NPR has a feature on The Book of Lost Books (including excerpts):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5476008

Interesting item on the U.S. Institute of Heraldry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/washington/13heraldry.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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Kilmartin:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=848142006

Florence:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0601/p18s02-hfes.html?s=hns

Amsterdam:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/15/news/trremb.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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More developments in the exchanging-fakes-for-real-items-in
Turkish-museums case:

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

... with a nice piece on the extent of the problem in Turkish
museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/arts/13muse.html

Another antiquities bust in Crete:

http://tinyurl.com/gntr2 (Kathimerini)

Herschel Shanks is still convinced of the authenticity of the
James Ossuary:

http://tinyurl.com/klk4x (JPost)

Plenty of coverage of the return of an illegally-excavated
'Ides of March' coin to Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/qa8lx (Australian)
http://english.people.com.cn/200606/16/eng20060616_274505.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2226268,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/ee7bj (Kathimerini)

An internal audit at the Getty suggests that more items from
its collection have questionable sources:

http://tinyurl.com/m5g4z (LA Times)

Lengthy op-edish thing on museums wrestling with issues of
provenance:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060617/ap_en_ot/plundered_art_6
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2088587
http://tinyurl.com/r2q55 (Canada.com)


... and an interview with Peter Watson on the issue:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/watson.html


... and another one on how looted art has become a 'political'
issue:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060617/ap_en_ot/hot_buttons_1
http://tinyurl.com/k9he5 (WPost)

... and another one (was there some sort of 'assignment' given
to folks to write about this this week?):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=307

Meanwhile, Christie's removed an Egyptian item from auction this
week due to questions of provenance:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060613/ap_en_ot/egyptian_artifact_1
http://tinyurl.com/hnreg (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/hwrvm (Bloomberg)
http://tinyurl.com/etnt2 (Newsday)

... and Egypt is requesting the return (or loan, at least) of
that bust of Nefertiti:

http://tinyurl.com/jww59 (AD)

Moshe Dayan's collection of potentially-illicit antiquities is
in the news again for some reason:

http://tinyurl.com/q584m (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/j824x (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=185268
http://tinyurl.com/fvc9u (Seattle PI)

cf:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_27.htm
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_27.pdf

More coverage of the anonymous return of that Mayan box:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060609-maya.html

BBC Radio 4 had a piece on 'the Battle for Babylon', which should
still be available for listening:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/sundaybest/pip/xbtmm/

Folks might be interested in an incipient (strange) story about
fake looted artifacts from India (I'm still trying to wrap my
head around this one):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/4175?l=1

... and the History Lost exhibition:

http://www.anemon.gr/history_lost.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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Treasures of Maya Kings:

http://tinyurl.com/krhna (AD)
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/design/16maya.html

Colors of Clay:

http://tinyurl.com/km25g (AD)

Constantine the Great:

http://tinyurl.com/zrt7g

Lahore Fort:

http://www.nerve.in/news:2535005097

Girodet:

http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/17115/index.html

Goya:

http://newyorkmetro.com/arts/art/reviews/16207/

Tut:

http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006606110308

Michelangelo:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/travel/15webletter.htm

Some flags from the American Revolution reached a major price
at auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/nyregion/15flags.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/15/flag.auction.ap/index.html

Another 'Gioconda' ... not by Leonardo:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/us/16portland.html

Some 'new' stuff at the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/design/16voge.html

Restoring the stained glass at the Cloisters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/arts/17cloi.html
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ON THE WEB
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Illicit Antiquities Research Centre:

http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/IARC/home.htm

Rome in Egypt:

http://www.romeinegypt.unipi.it/

19th Century Art Worldwide:

http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring_02/index.html
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OBITUARIES
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Malcom Willcock (Homer scholar):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2227693,00.html

Charles Brush (Archaeologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/nyregion/11brush.html

Margaret Peirce (Latin Teacher):

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=436533

Leslie Alcock (Archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/gx2no (Telegraph)

Flora Gill Jacobs (Dollhouse Museum Founder):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/us/12jacobs.html

James Cameron (Black Holocaust Museum Founder):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/us/15cameron.html

Craig Morris (Archaeologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/nyregion/16morris.html

Hubertus Czernin (Journalist with a connection to Crime Beat):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/16czernin.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Archaeology Magazine has an extensive update to all that
Bosnian 'pyramid' stuff:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanagic/update.html

More skepticism expressed:

http://tinyurl.com/kk6jx (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/rrhrs (AP via Yahoo)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2062244
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/06/15/414.aspx
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199098,00.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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Albert Reiner, Antonio Dell'elce, Croman mac Nessa, Dave Sowdon,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hanan Charaf,
John Hall, John McMahon, Mark Ynys-Mon, Joseph Lauer,
Jose Luis Santos, Kris Curry, Mata Kimasitayo, R.M. Howe,
Rick Pettigrew, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W Sargent, Tony Jackson, Yitzhak Sapir, W. Richard Frahm,
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EARLY HUMANS
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On the DNA front, it appears Neanderthals were more genetically
diverse than previously supposed:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/cp-1yd060106.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060607084833.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5052414.stm
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/06/06/182.aspx

... and possibly invented music:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13154583/

A 27 000 b.p. 'portrait' from France? (awfully simulacra-like):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2211142,00.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1791174,00.html
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AFRICA
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Preparing Meroe for tourism:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/he1.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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More speculation about KV-63:

http://tinyurl.com/gfezv (CNA)
http://tinyurl.com/kzctf (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=16660
http://tinyurl.com/jtgo6 (MET)
http://tinyurl.com/nkg9q (DFP)
http://www.washtimes.com/entertainment/20060606-100331-6468r.htm

Latest on the Bet El excavations:

http://tinyurl.com/nfqux (Blog translation of an article)
http://tinyurl.com/o4n29 (Arouts 7 ... French)
http://www.inn.co.il/news.php?id=150805 (Hebrew ... photos)

A possible Mithraist temple in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/p9mkz (Tehran Times)

Did Zoroastrianism begin at Merv?:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=337450

Excavations have resumed at Nysa:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=45676

Nice overviewish piece on the Bactrian Treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/jlovv  (RFE)

'Interesting' claims about Gobleklitepe:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/4524915.asp?gid=74

Repeat of the white wine in Tut's tomb story:

http://tinyurl.com/qsscw (CNN/Netscape)

Bar Ilan University is planning an Institute of Biblical
Archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/nu9p7 (JPost)

Aren Maeir clarifies/corrects statements attributed to him in
the Jerusalem Post in regards to the above:

http://tinyurl.com/mo2th (blog)

More coverage of ancient figs:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=723769
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060602074522.htm

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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Very interesting Roman (and Basque) inscriptions from Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/qw59m (EITB)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645798/posts
http://tinyurl.com/qo9v4 (best photos)

Robert Ballard will be looking for ancient shipwrecks off Crete:

http://www.physorg.com/news68987308.html
http://tinyurl.com/khfqg (IOL)

Not sure what to make of this sudden flurry of interest in the
Antikythera Mechanism (are Classicists involved in the
'deciphering'?):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20060605/astronomycomp_arc.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=838112006
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/07/antikythera_mechanism/

cf: http://antikythera-mechanism.gr/

Finds from various periods in Kocaeli:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=45481

A necropolis of Roman 'foes' has been found in the Abruzzo
region:

http://tinyurl.com/qtwrc (ANSA)
http://www.physorg.com/news68997452.html (how they were found)

... possibly the same as the above:

http://www.basilicatanet.it/news/article.asp?id=430798 (Italian)

Brief item on the discovery of a Gallo-Roman necropolis in France:

http://www.basilicatanet.it/news/article.asp?id=432069 (Italian)

A roundup piece on the sorry state of preservation of many
monuments in Rome:

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

A Venus has been reunited with her head:

http://tinyurl.com/ob6lx (News Antique)

Latin threatened at a San Jose high school?:

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

Coverage of the launch of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian
Studies at UNottingham:

http://tinyurl.com/efq8v (Kathimerini)

More on the plight of that Princeton Salutatorian:

http://tinyurl.com/fbvw5 (ABC)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/424360p-358065c.html
http://tinyurl.com/mwmsm (Newsday)

More on the Derveni papyrus:

http://tinyurl.com/l2njt (NG)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635213816,00.html
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1612461.cms
http://www.physorg.com/news68388885.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/01/ancient.scroll.ap/

Latest movie at the Archaeology Channel is on the Amphora of
Eleusis:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A petition about the threat to Classical languages in
Portuguese schools (English coverage follows the Portuguese):

http://www.petitiononline.com/classici/petition.html

Excavations have resumed at Nysa:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=45676

Nice overviewish piece on the Bactrian Treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/jlovv  (RFE)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Pieces of the King's Table have been found beneath the Palace
of Westminster:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2217040,00.html

Apparent evidence of an 15th century or so earthquake at Ely
Cathedral:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/5053336.stm

The crisis in Irish archaeology:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2220474,00.html

Excavating medieval Nicosia:

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

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 ancient 'chessboards' have been found engraved on China's
Great Wall:

http://english.people.com.cn/200606/05/eng20060605_271086.html

A 1500 b.p. iron blade from Taiwan (I think):

http://publish.gio.gov.tw/FCJ/current/06060951.html

Some 2000 b.p. Dong Son artifacts from Viet Nam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/080606/culture_an.htm

A 1200 b.p. Buddhist temple in Bangladesh:

http://english.people.com.cn/200606/08/eng20060608_271940.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Kings in Chaco Canyon?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uoca-cca060506.php

Archaeologists are trying to survey sites in Utah before looters
get to them:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060609/ap_on_sc/antiquities_act_2
http://tinyurl.com/efbyl (ABC)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5874690,00.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Antiquities_Act.html

... and troubles trying to preserve sites elsewhere in the U.S.
too:

http://tinyurl.com/rgjvy (OL)

A petroglyph near Phoenix might depict a supernova:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060605_rock_art.html
http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/14-741855.html
http://space.about.com/b/a/256705.htm
http://tinyurl.com/gku3p (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/metro/132533.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13149432/
http://tinyurl.com/pz32e (CNN/Netscape)

... and in case you didn't catch on yourself (the media
doesn't appear to have done so), here's an obvious problem
with the claim:

http://tinyurl.com/pzdgm (LiveScience)

Scots pioneers in the U.S. (actually, a different spin on a
story from last week):

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/63350.html

250 b.p. remains in Fort Edward (N.Y.):

http://tinyurl.com/ntk3j (AP via Yahoo)

In search (in Virginia) of the remains of the Saponi people:

http://tinyurl.com/n64ch (Times Dispatch)

Digging the Donner Party campsite:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6600AP_WST_Donner_Dig.html

Building renovations have damaged one of the oldest Jewish
cemeteries in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/nyregion/09cemetery.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More on the Temple of the Fox:

http://www.missouri.edu/captions/benfer.htm
http://www.showmenews.com/2006/May/20060521News008.asp
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/520388/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Another item on the DNA front ... Genghis Khan's genetic legacy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/science/06genghis.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/opinion/07wed4.html

Folks might be interested in this Fortean Times piece on the
Ark of the Covenant:

http://forteantimes.com/articles/207_ark1.shtml

Scotland has regained its place as the originator of golf:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=860352006

A newly-attributed DaVinci miniature:

http://tinyurl.com/mx5y2 (NewsDaily)

Matthew Bogdanos' book is going to be turned into a movie, it
appears:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060609f.php

Interesting item on digital publishing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/books/05digi.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Review of Matthew Pearl, *The Poe Shadow* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/books/05masl.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Baiae/Cumae:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-2218058,00.html

Burnham Market:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/travel/04next.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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Looks like that 'substitute fakes for real items' in Turkish
Museums goes beyond the Lydian hoard:

http://tinyurl.com/qnk6j (Zaman)

... and it appears that fakes were also used to confuse
authorities in regards to some purloined Dominican artifacts:

http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=14343

Remember those huge sentences for antiquities smuggling in
Egypt a few months back? They've been shortened rather markedly:

http://tinyurl.com/lvptk (Gulf Times)

Remember that Mayan box that had been looted from a cave a few
weeks ago? It's been (anonymously) returned:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060609-maya.html

Vandals have damaged some petroglyphs in Colorado:

http://tinyurl.com/q9fqz (Gazette-Times)
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9348309/detail.html

Review of Peter Watson and Cecelia Todeschini, *The Medici
Conspiracy*:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1794666,00.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Coin and Conscience:

http://library.hbs.edu/hc/cc/

Oriental Coins Database:

http://www.zeno.ru/

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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Treasures of Ancient Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/l5zku (Tennessean)
http://tinyurl.com/oxg2k (Art Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/q5ztg

Chinese Art:

http://tinyurl.com/n4a6j (Art Daily)

A major Greek exhibition is coming to the Onassis Foundation:

http://tinyurl.com/j8wnc (Kathimerini)

Chagall:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=292

The British Museum is staying open late for the Michelangelo
exhibition:

http://tinyurl.com/qwvqb (USA Today)

A moth infestation at Horsham Museum is damaging artifacts:

http://tinyurl.com/ryauq (HT)

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Titus Andronicus:

http://tinyurl.com/pt4lv (Google ... various)

Oedipus (Seneca's):

http://tinyurl.com/pq2bu (Seattle Times)

Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/r49nv (Advertiser)

Nice photo of the set of the Globe's production of Coriolanus:

http://static.flickr.com/62/160309310_2f3fbeff51_o.jpg
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OBITUARIES
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Martin Buber (from the archives, obviously):

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0208.html

Michael Riffaterre (French lit.):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/books/05riffaterre.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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A British archaeologist is adding his name to the list of
professionals casting doubt on claims of a pyramid in Bosnia:

http://tinyurl.com/rrhrs (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/m488k (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/qpech (AFP via Yahoo)

... meanwhile, a UNESCO team will soon be checking it out:

http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?article=362506&lng=1
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13149324/
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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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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a 27 000 b.p. skeleton
from France:

http://www.physorg.com/news68543331.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635212624,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=820972006
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/world/14733383.htm
http://tinyurl.com/pl62o (News24)

More on those singing Neanderthals:

http://tinyurl.com/qes73 (Reuters)

The latest squib in the 'hobbit' dispute:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5021214.stm
http://tinyurl.com/maa7t (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/oahha (NG)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13065961/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Lots of coverage of the discovery of some 11 000+ b.p. figs in
Jordan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/science/02fig.html (JNW)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/hu-t1y053006.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5038116.stm
http://tinyurl.com/o7mg9 (Telegraph)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/science/02fig.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/02/news/figs.php
http://tinyurl.com/m8gyv (NPR)
http://tinyurl.com/q7qxj (NG)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060602/ap_on_sc/ancient_figs_2
http://tinyurl.com/np9nu (JPost)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13085474/
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_214680307,00.html
(spanish)

Nice report on the dig at En Gedi:

http://tinyurl.com/m3jao (IAA)

Report on recent finds at Surtepe (Turkey):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=44785

Hype for another 'live' tomb opening (KV-63) tonight on Discovery
Channel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/world/africa/31tomb.html
http://tinyurl.com/oacbl (Beacon Journal)
http://tinyurl.com/oktqb (Yahoo)

cf:

http://68.178.158.128/Discovery/Egypt/assets/index.html

A jar burial and some arrowheads from Iran:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?section=2&id=6417

I think we've already had this in some form ... King Tut had
some white wine in his tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/r89r7 (USA Today)

Renovating Cyrus' tomb:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0605294391145310.htm

Ali Radwan was honoured by Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/m2hcp (SIS)

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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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a 10th century B.C./C.E.
skeleton in the Imperial Fora:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2006/05/31/1607967-ap.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/ap/20060529/skeleton_arc.html
http://tinyurl.com/nl2ze (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/nefdd (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/lequj (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/o3bzm (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13059675/
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=801632006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197451,00.html
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060531/D8HUEQB80.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2203907,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5031974.stm

Robert Ballard will be looking for evidence of the Minoans off
the shores of Crete:

http://tinyurl.com/qswk4 (Reuters via Yahoo)

Hope we get a photo of this one soon ... a newly-discovered
mosaic near Rome has an optical illusion built into it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1789630,00.html

A Roman villa found near Cheddar:

http://tinyurl.com/mq8qs (Mercury)

I think we've mentioned the threat to these Southwark Roman
(maybe) remains last week:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1786849,00.html

Tons of coverage of the (re)examination of the Derveni Papyrus:

http://www.physorg.com/news68542835.html
http://tinyurl.com/jnjpo (AP via Yahoo ... slideshow)
http://www.theeagle.com/stories/060306/faith_20060603021.php
http://www.livescience.com/history/060601_ap_book.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/272517_scroll02.html
http://tinyurl.com/k5678 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/lfjym (ABC)
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/news/131847.php
http://tinyurl.com/nla2m (CTV)
http://tinyurl.com/r9352 (Kathimerini)

On Roman wine:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/14730726.htm

Restoration of the catacombs at Mylos has been delayed (again):

http://tinyurl.com/q4jn6 (Kathimerini)


The Star-Ledger has a nice profile of rising Classics star
Dan-El Padilla Peralta:

http://tinyurl.com/llza8

Photos of images of ancient Rome in a major sandcastle
competition (amazing):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5033996.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,,1787982,00.html

... the story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2207417,00.html

Review of a collection of Housman letters:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1788971,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist in Wales has found some Iron Age jewellery:

http://tinyurl.com/qsayd (Wales)

Latest on Tara motorway development:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1785481,00.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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Erosion threatens the 'pyramids of the Orient':

http://tinyurl.com/o6wuz (AFP via Yahoo)

Complaints that 2500 b.p. finds from Bangladesh are being
neglected:

http://tinyurl.com/pvm3t (NFB)

Some damage from the recent earthquake in Indonesia:

http://tinyurl.com/lkfr3 (SMH)

More coverage of that discovery of an ancient city in China's
desert:

http://tinyurl.com/lrblu (Spacemart)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An 'ancient pottery operation' at Angel Mounds:

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/14694341.htm
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/05/29/angel_mounds.html

Nice feature on a bison kill site in southern Alberta:

http://tinyurl.com/ohnfv (National Post)

... and one in North Dakota will be excavated this summer:

http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/story/062202006_new2news3.asp

I think we've mentioned the search for remains of a Tlingit v.
Russian battle (1804) before:

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7779845p-7692768c.html

A Timacuan Village in St. Augustine:

http://tinyurl.com/js57j (Florida Today)
http://tinyurl.com/q3qcb (FCN)

Digging up Sandpoint's (Idaho) early history:

http://tinyurl.com/nacxy (BCDB)

For some reason that discovery of a Spanish ship at a
Pensacola naval base is back in the news:

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

Interesting remains from the Whydah:

http://tinyurl.com/pqmt8 (Globe)

Nice feature on Range Creek Canyon (semi touristy):

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3880827

Review of Philbrick's *Mayflower*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04shorto.html

Review of Schama's *Rough Crossings*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04staples.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
More on that Temple of the Fox 'calendar' in Peru:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060529/calendar_arc.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A pile of 'ancient' Iranian books has been transferred to the
Netherlands:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jun/1018.html

Interesting 'underdrawings' found beneath Leonardo's 'Adoration
of the Magi':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2198850,00.html

... semi-related: the search for a lost work of Leonardo:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-2181608,00.html

... and not related at all: recreating the voice of Mona Lisa:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13065968/

Some letters from Voltaire to Catherine the Great recently were
auctioned off:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5033222.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/arts/03arts.html (fifth item)

Interesting item on Florence:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0601/p18s02-hfes.html

There will likely be a lot of 666 nonsense this week, so cf:

http://tinyurl.com/nq6qt (UB)

On Yale on Geronimo's skull:

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002876.htm

In case you haven't seen Eliot Braun's parody archaeology paper:

http://web.infoave.net/~jwest/braun.pdf

Interesting item on the rhetoric of sacrifice during wartime:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5436933

Elaine Pagels on the DaVinci Code:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5422695

Revisionism on the 'Terror' in post-Revolution France:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/060605crat_atlarge

More on that academic boycott of Israel (which I still do not
understand):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5436954

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
================================================================
Review of assorted travel books:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04watman.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A somewhat strange story this week about pieces from the Lydian
Hoard being stolen and replaced by fakes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060530/od_nm/turkey_treasure_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5027074.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5852659,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/okm93 (AP via Yahoo)

... and an arrest in connection thereof:

http://tinyurl.com/lt9jw (ME Times)

The Museum Case continued this week, with the interesting
revelation (by Robert Hecht) that competition in the market
precludes checking provenances:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/arts/01gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/qywlu (Mercury)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3917639.html

Piles of stuff is still missing from the Baghdad Museum and
all excavations have stopped:

http://tinyurl.com/qjdlv (Al jazeera)

Demands are afoot for the return of a 13th century Hebrew
manuscript:

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/64392.htm
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Mormon Banking (attempt):

http://darqueheart.blogspot.com/2006/04/phoney-as-3-bill_07.html
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/josephsmithsbank.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
================================================================
A Devil in the Hair:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/29/opinion/coif.php

Photos of Brunel:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5028976.stm
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Blue Cord Bible Wiki:

http://www.bluecord.org/biblewiki/index.php?n=Main.HomePage
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
With all the DaVinci Code stuff, I'm surprised we haven't
been hearing more about Jesus' purported tomb in Japan:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2201183,00.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, Adrian Murdoch,
Croman mac Nessa, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Donna Hurst,
'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, Jason McLaren,
John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Rick Pettigrew, Karen Young, Richard C. Griffiths,R.M. Bragg,
R.M. Howe, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,S. Kalyanaraman
Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a somewhat quiet week
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AFRICA
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Protecting sites in Kenya:

http://www.businessinafrica.net/news/east_africa/398171.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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They're still wondering what that 'mummification room' found
back in February is:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12990529/

... but that hasn't prevented a television program being made
of the find:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/14663039.htm

A different sort of antiquities possession thing was irking
Zahi Hawass this week:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/us/26tut.html
http://tinyurl.com/j6o5w (CNN)
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060527-035409-8557r
http://tinyurl.com/o8c46 (WPost)

Another theory on how the pyramids were built (and this one isn't
nutty):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/world/africa/27houdin.html

More coverage of that Egyptian-colonization-in-Nubia story:

http://tinyurl.com/j83ae (ME Times)

Time Magazine has brought together a number of its recent
articles on Egypt:

http://www.time.com/time/2006/egypt/index.html

Revolt-era tunnels in Jerusalem (this is a repeat, no?):

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

An Achaemenid irrigation canal near Persepolis:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?section=2&id=6399

Iron Age artifacts from Iran's Lorestan province:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?section=2&id=6395

Restoring the Tel Dan gate:

http://tinyurl.com/r6uov (blog post)

They've moved that big model of the Second Temple:

http://tinyurl.com/qed7q (JPost)

Didn't we already know that Tubingen was going to return a
relief to Egypt?:

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

Ramses II is finally getting out of the traffic:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/796/fr2.htm

... while the mummy of Hatshepsut has returned to Egypt:

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

Review of James Tabor, *The Jesus Dynasty*:

http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0743287231.asp

Interesting 15th century (AD/CE) tale of misuse of a
seal for a nefarious purpose:

http://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=specialnews&item=1663

There's a new Yahoo group for the study of ancient seals:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sealstudies/

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)
================================================================
Is Boudicca buried in Birmingham?:

http://tinyurl.com/hu3fl (BBC)
http://tinyurl.com/pmap4 (Telegraph)

... and the Telegraph sidebar on Boudicca:

http://tinyurl.com/r2ca3

Plans are afoot to excavate a Roman city off the coast of
Egypt:

http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10010261.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/es4x8 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/lyc5f (IOL)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12920232/from/RSS/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060522/sc_nm/egypt_excavation_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/mlpjf (Reuters)

A catacomb in Rome full of Romans buried in 'elegant togas' is
baffling researchers:

http://tinyurl.com/otgp8 (Telegraph)

The Financial Times (!) had a piece about Antinous:

http://tinyurl.com/rtox6

Talking about Kition:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (second item)

Roman artifacts from Yorkshire have been declared treasure trove:

http://tinyurl.com/pkyhn (YPost)

Another drama in which a Classics professor figures prominently:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20060526/en_playbill/99913

Bettany Hughes at the Hay festival talking about Helen:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2006/story/0,,1784358,00.html

Herodes Atticus' Odeon is closed for maintenance:

http://tinyurl.com/ox5af (IOL)

A Middlebury prof has been trying to 'rebuild' Agrippa's
original Pantheon:

http://tinyurl.com/mluve (Press Release)

Greece and Bulgaria are going to cooperate to revive Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=64064

Loomis Award winners at St. Olaf:

http://tinyurl.com/kcgx6

Pondering the largest Roman numeral:

http://tinyurl.com/lwjom (Herald Democrat)

More coverage of the (non) genetic relationship between the
Etruscans and modern Tuscans:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060526065706.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/su-aeu052506.php

Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *Caesar*:

http://tinyurl.com/rvtfg (Independent)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Not quite sure where to put this one, but plans are afoot to
save London's 'stone of Brutus':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4997470.stm

A recently-found (in the UK) Iron Age chariot is going on
display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/5017686.stm

Interesting medieval brooch from the Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/lk5pf

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
More (detailed?) coverage of those Neolithic hand axes with
Indus Valley script (both pdf):

http://tinyurl.com/jma7c
http://tinyurl.com/lx2hu

Some 1200 b.p. 'schoolwork' from China:

http://english.people.com.cn/200605/25/eng20060525_268438.html

Figuring out what was growing in an imperial garden in China's
Guangdong province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200605/25/eng20060525_268439.html

Remains of an ancient city have been found in the desert of
north west China:

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=198979
http://english.people.com.cn/200605/22/eng20060522_267664.html

The excavation of Hanoi's ancient citadel continues:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=15930

The earthquake in Indonesia appears to have spared the Buddhist
temple at Borobudur:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13005172/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Digging at the John Marsh House site (California) has revealed
remains from various periods:

http://tinyurl.com/kwhwh (CC Times)

A pioneer burial at a Des Moines construction site:

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4940783&nav=2HAB

Amateur archaeologists will be searching for a 'lost mission'
in Georgia this summer:

http://tinyurl.com/zmshy (USA Today)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1996298
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12942437/from/RSS/
http://tinyurl.com/kdd35 (Globe)

Contrasting Jamestown and New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/nyregion/25hudson.html

In other Jamestown news, crews are training to sail a replica
of the Godspeed:

http://tinyurl.com/pvelr (Netscape)

The latest film at the Archaeology Channel is about the first
Floridians:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

On Gothic Revival in the early U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/arts/design/27goth.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of that Peruvian 'observatory' discovery:

http://tinyurl.com/j5cyh (Dispatch)
http://www.showmenews.com/2006/May/20060521News008.asp (photo)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2189818,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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In the wake of the DaVinci Code, folks have been trying to get
into the vaults at Rosslyn Chapel:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=770172006

Did climate change contribute to the shift from hunting to
farming?:

http://tinyurl.com/zv2ap (Dispatch)

Interesting hype for a PBS program about Piltdown Man:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hoax/

Dracula's castle is being returned to its former owners:

http://tinyurl.com/qonyc (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2198229,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5016898.stm

A Bronte apology (second item):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/arts/27arts.html

Among the films at Cannes is one about Marie Antoinette:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/movies/25fest.html

Also on the entertainment front, a box set of Cecil B. DeMille
epics has been released:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/business/media/24newseum.html

More coverage of the Columbus DNA results:

http://tinyurl.com/h9buj (Dispatch)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/19/world/main1636948.shtml

More on that John Donne painting:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article620242.ece
http://tinyurl.com/kjtg2 (Telegraph)

Swedish antiques:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/arts/design/26anti.html

Miscellanies are re-emerging as a popular genre:

http://tinyurl.com/hq7jh (Star)

Review of Alastair Cooke, *The American Home Front*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/books/24grim.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Mojave National Preserve:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/travel/26mojave.html
================================================================
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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An arrest on Paros this week ... somehow connected to the
Marion True trial:

http://tinyurl.com/gwpwd (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/gtjmx (UPI)

Assorted sites in Colorado have been looted:

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

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Joel L. Malter Numismatic Library is having an auction:

http://www.maltergalleries.com/auction.htm

Coinarchives.com:

http://www.coinarchives.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
================================================================
Girodet: Romantic Rebel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/arts/design/26giro.html

King Tut:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060526/ap_en_ot/king_tut_exhibit_1
http://tinyurl.com/h2h8a (Chronicle)
http://tinyurl.com/pbrnw (Art Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/ljrg3 (IOL)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12994009/
http://www.nbc5.com/news/9256988/detail.html

Tribal and Textile Arts Show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/arts/design/22trib.html

The Bactrian Gold will not be going on a world wide tour:

http://tinyurl.com/ge34h (ME Times)

The Israel Museum will be undergoing some major renovations:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=282

Expansion plans at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum won't be as
extensive as originally planned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/arts/design/25coop.html

Big bucks for the Newseum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/business/media/24newseum.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Herakles via Phaedra:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/movies/23dvd.html

Hamlet:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/theater/reviews/23haml.html

A musical inspired by Galileo's letters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/books/24grim.html

French Baroque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/arts/music/22earl.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
On mleccha writing:

http://kalyan97.googlepages.com/bronzeagetradeandmlecchawriting

Saving Antiquities for Everyone:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/  (there's a survey)
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Malcolm Willcock:

http://tinyurl.com/j5fql (Telegraph)
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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, Croman mac Nessa,
Barnea Levi Selavan, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe, Rochelle Altman,
Steve Rankin, Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, Mark Ynys-Mon, 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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They've extracted some Neanderthal DNA:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4986668.stm

A fungus is attacking the paintings at Lascaux:

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060511_lascauxfrm.htm

Interesting/strange theory on humans and chimps along the
evolutionary scale:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12836649/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4991470.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/science/17cnd-evolve.html
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060517_hybrid_ancestors.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12836649/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A tomb from Tombos is shedding light on how Egypt 'managed'
Nubia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060517180333.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uocp-ats051706.php
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/71180.asp
http://tinyurl.com/lbznt (UPI)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uocp-ats051706.php

A (possible) palace of Darius in Bolaghi Gorge (Iran):

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?section=2&id=6374

Some 13th century (A.D./C.E.) glass furnaces have been found on
Kish:

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

A pile of stuff relating to the excavation of Tut's tomb is going
to be put online:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1774853,00.html

Politics and archaeology on Temple Mount:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/716266.html

Biblical Archaeology has updated its page on the James Ossuary:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbOOossuary_krumbeinsummary.asp

Geologic forces threaten Masada:

http://tinyurl.com/j25am (JPost)

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)
================================================================
More coverage of those Roman burials near a Gloucestershire
quarry:

http://tinyurl.com/pzrwx (Mail)

More coverage of that 'greek horseman statue' find:

http://tinyurl.com/zr889 (ME Times)

A very interesting brooch from Hadrian's Wall:

http://tinyurl.com/ojfpj (24dash)

The difference identifying something as Greek or Roman is rather
large at Christie's:

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

On the new Ara Pacis museum:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12857394/site/newsweek/

Latin is alive and well in Galesburg:

http://www.register-mail.com/stories/052006/EDU_B9Q4HTU8.GID.shtml

Latin Day in Connecticut:

http://www.wtnh.com/global/story.asp?s=4911695

A pile of Roman coins will be staying in Bristol:

http://tinyurl.com/prgr7 (BBC)

Indiana JCL coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ol2e9 (NWI Times)

75 years ago at Yale:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/12/news/old13.php

Zeus at Eurovision:

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

They're making Gladiator into a musical (!):

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/99744.html

Review of Simon Armitage's adapation of the Odyssey:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1778219,00.html

Review of Malcom Bull: *The Mirror of the Gods*:

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

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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More coverage of Neolithic skull injuries in Britain:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060518-skulls.html

Searching for a lost/disappeared culture in the Lake Baikal
region (c. 10 000 b.p.):

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2006/16/c9163.html

A 600 b.p. skull reconstruction ... alas, no photo:

http://tinyurl.com/qzpwy (icStafford)

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 Dong Son drum from Vietnam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/160506/culture_a.htm

Some well-preserved 1500 b.p. murals from China's Shaanxi
province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200605/18/eng20060518_266722.html

Part three of the 'mystery of the Martyr's tomb' (in Kashmir):

http://tinyurl.com/loawf (Yahoo)

Not sure if folks remember the story last year of the discovery
of a bunch of petroglyphs in Tasmania ... here's an interesting
followup:

http://tinyurl.com/mb96m (Tasmanian)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A log from a farmer's field in Ontario is being linked to one of
the explanations of 'Noah's flood':

http://tinyurl.com/oup4j (Canada.com)
http://www.huntsvilleforester.com/1147884364/

Archaeologists are looking for (and might have found) a battle
site in Alaska:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/43877.html

One of Archaeology Magazine's interactive digs has been updated
... Johnson Island:

http://tinyurl.com/own2l

More finds from downtown Santa Fe:

http://tinyurl.com/lslu2 (KOBTV)

Pioneer burials from West Des Moines:

http://tinyurl.com/oh6z5 (Register)
http://tinyurl.com/p62ne (Gazette)

Native American burial mounds in Minnesota:

http://wcco.com/local/local_story_139141127.html

Is the Bureau of Land Management doing enough to protect (or
even document) sites?:

http://tinyurl.com/mzu6q (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/n2ar8 (Republic)
http://tinyurl.com/nwyzs

Fort Morgan is threatened by nature:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060514/ap_on_sc/endangered_fort

A bunch of Revolutionary War shipwrecks off Rhode Island,
including (possibly) the Endeavour:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2631.htm
http://tinyurl.com/krnyv (CNN)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3671381a11,00.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/520536/?sc=rssn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4994614.stm
http://tinyurl.com/odlxc (Telegraph)
http://www.livescience.com/history/060516_ship_wreck.html

Mesa Verde 'centennial':

http://tinyurl.com/orpdd (VC Star)

Latest news on that 'graving yard' controversy in Olympia (Wash.):

http://tinyurl.com/qd6m3 (Seattle PI)

Latest news on the Hunley:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/14585001.htm
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/politics/14577313.htm

Civil War Photos (book review):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060520/ap_on_re_us/war_photos
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Very interesting mummy from Peru:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20060515/perumummy_arc.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/world/americas/17mummy.html
http://tinyurl.com/ov3dv (Miami Herald)
http://tinyurl.com/q4a9l (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/rjdhq (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_sc/tattooed_mummy
http://tinyurl.com/m7w45 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/ld6ty (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/p5w53 (Myrtle Beach Online)
http://tinyurl.com/p65hh (AOL)

More coverage of that Peruvian 'observatory':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2189818,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/n9dxp (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/onqn6 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/kln24 (NG)

More on that Brazilian 'Stonehenge':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060513/ts_afp/brazilarcheology2
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,416164,00.html
(German)

John Noble Wilford pens a good article on those recently-found
Maya glyphs at San Bartolo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/science/16maya.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C635207815%2C00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, it appears that Spain has the strongest claim
to having Columbus' remains:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/14626092.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ltf7u (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12871458
http://tinyurl.com/r9fc7 (Telegraph)

Similiter, a computer model suggests modern Tuscans are not
connected genetically to the Etruscans:

http://www.physorg.com/news67101858.html
http://tinyurl.com/p3zvp (Stanford)
http://tinyurl.com/o5n7b (ANSA)

Now they're arguing about whether homo floresiensis is a new
species or not:

http://tinyurl.com/grjpf (Chronicle)
http://www.startribune.com/484/story/442046.html
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=Flores
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4994054.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060518/ap_on_sc/hobbit_or_not_it
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12857145/

Being outside academia, I find this one a bit strange ... it's an
'academic boycott' of Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/717551.html
http://tinyurl.com/qk53g (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/nzs6r (JPost)

The Royal Society has 'regained' that manuscript of Robert
Hooke:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4990266.stm

The Mona Lisa at 500:

http://tinyurl.com/nyvjs (Yahoo)

I'm tired of DaVinci Code stuff, but this seems worth
mentioning:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060522fa_fact

... and this review seems to be expressing the communis opinio:

http://www.metronewyork.com/movies/reviews/17041/index.html

More on the controversy surrounding that Levy donation to NYU:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=272

In case you're wondering about the progress of that date seed
from Masada:

http://israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=97582

The Amalia Library is still recovering from that fire a few years
ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/world/europe/17weimar.html

Review of H. Krosney, *The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel
of Judas Iscariot*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20060520-102000-5172r.htm

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://tinyurl.com/ju72c (VC Star)

Staten Island:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/travel/escapes/12trip.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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TAARI Newsletter:

http://www.taarii.org/pdfs/TAARII_Newsletter_01-01.pdf

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The Getty will be returning some items (apparently) to Greece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/arts/television/17gett.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4987660.stm
http://tinyurl.com/lhnre
http://tinyurl.com/o5qey (Bloomberg)
http://tinyurl.com/r9rjk (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/mwmce (ANA)

cf: an interviewish thing with Michael Brand:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/arts/design/15bran.html

... and the Boston MFA seems to be 'next on the list':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/19arts.html

Interesting op-ed piece on the issue:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060517/cm_csm/ysalzman_1

Semi-related: NPR has an interview with Peter Watson, author
of the *Medici Conspiracy*:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5411644

Similiter, a very nice article in the Globe about the
'darker side' of the art/antiquities world:

http://tinyurl.com/zr2da

Possible corruption of IAA officials at Acre?:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=717586

More coverage of Egypt v. SLAM:

http://tinyurl.com/j9lxl (Post-Dispatch)
http://english.people.com.cn/200605/17/eng20060517_266325.html
http://tinyurl.com/rblpz (CNN)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12761941/

Scary looters in Cambodia:

http://tinyurl.com/s96qy (AFP via Netscape)
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NUMISMATICA
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Between East and West: Influence and Change in Coinage:

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/east-west/

New stuff at the ANA site:

http://www.money.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

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
================================================================
Cradle of Christianity:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=15886

Hatshepsut:

http://www.metronewyork.com/arts/art/reviews/16704/index.html

Egypt's Sunken Treasures:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/795/heritage.htm

Nice feature on the Louvre:

http://tinyurl.com/px8t8 (Sun)

... and the Morgan Library:

http://newyorkmetro.com/arts/art/reviews/16853/

The Bactrian Gold will not be going on a world tour, alas:

http://tinyurl.com/mrqj8 (Gulf Times)

Big bucks for a Stradivarius:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4988838.stm

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/nyo2k (NYM)

Assorted reviews of Coriolanus at the Globe:

http://tinyurl.com/movz7
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ON THE WEB
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Description de l'Egypte:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/Catalogue/noticesInd/FRBNF33341149.htm

Iraq War and Archaeology:

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

Franck Goddio Society:

http://www.franckgoddio.org/
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OBITUARIES
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Jiri Frel (Getty Curator):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/arts/design/17frel.html

John Trever:

http://www.ncccusa.org/news/060502deadseascrollsphotographer.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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On the Bosnian 'pyramid' front, there was quite a bit of
coverage of an Egyptian geologist's claim that he thought it
'genuine':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060518/ap_on_sc/bosnia_pyramid_2
http://tinyurl.com/f426b (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/r9y8p
http://tinyurl.com/s396o
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12837694/

... but we're finally beginning to see some skepticism in the
coverage too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/world/europe/15bosnia.html
http://tinyurl.com/q9prf (NG)
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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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Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there, redneck and
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EARLY HUMANS
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Humans are not to blame (this week) for mass extinctions of
large animals in North America 10,000 b.p.:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1772731,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12721432/

Did Neanderthals and 'modern humans' ever meet?:

http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060508_human_evolution.html

Middle Paleolithic remains in Jerusalem (!):

http://tinyurl.com/e88q2 (JPost)

The latest film on the Archaeology Channel is about the
Atapuerca site in Spain:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Lawrence Schiffman gave a talk on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/eljs8 (CJN)

Plans are afoot to put Turkey's underwater archaeological
heritage on display:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=42968

More on lead in Alexandria's Harbour:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060508/alexandria_his.html

It appears that Israel plans on cashing in on that recent
Megiddo prison find:

http://tinyurl.com/hzufa (IAA Press release)

Is Masada threatened by geologic processes?:

http://tinyurl.com/j25am (JPost)

Another piece on the political side of archaeology in Jerusalem:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?section=2&id=6357 (CHN)

Latest from the KV-63 dig:

http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/

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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Fair bit of coverage of a Greek fisherman's find of an ancient
bronze:

http://tinyurl.com/jzerc (CBS ... photo)
http://tinyurl.com/k3mkp (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ezor7 (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/evw49 (Netscape)

... and the story of the discovery of one of the disputed-
ownership Getty bronzes:

http://tinyurl.com/zu4fn (LAT)

A marble head of Augustus was found at a villa site outside
Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/l5maw (ANSA)

Assorted Roman finds from York:

http://tinyurl.com/gdo32 (Yorkshire Post)

... and Ewell:

http://tinyurl.com/h3skm (icSurrey)

A Roman cemetery has been found in a Gloucestershire quarry:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4759611.stm
http://tinyurl.com/jy43v

Very interesting Sabine chariot find:

http://tinyurl.com/jmang (ANSA)

Latin is alive and well in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/gbesl (Republic)

... and Tennessee:

http://tinyurl.com/kfhqc (DNJ)

Some Linear B humour:

http://www.uta.edu/anthropology/petruso/Nestor.html

On symposia:

http://living.scotsman.com/homes.cfm?id=697372006

Nice profile of Rufus Fears:

http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_128002212

The Times had an excerpt from Terry Jones' book on Barbarians:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2168328,00.html

More coverage of what they're finding as they dig that tunnel
under the Bosporus:

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,415463,00.html

More on lead in Alexandria's Harbour:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060508/alexandria_his.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Life in Neolithic Britain was apparently much more violent
than folks previously thought:

http://www.physorg.com/news66569607.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=703232006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4760643.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4757861.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ofejz (New Scientist)

A study of "vernacular" buildings in Scotland in various periods:

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue19/geddes_index.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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Remains of a 2000 b.p. walled city in northeastern China:

http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.49659.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060510/ap_on_sc/china_ancient_city_2
http://tinyurl.com/kz929 (ABC)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-China-Ancient-City.html

Ming Dynasty era tombs at a Beijing Olympics construction site:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060509/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_beijing_tombs
http://tinyurl.com/ly3t4 (Mainichi)
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003496542
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12686821/

Somewhat vague description of the find of an ancient 'seawater
filter' in China's Hebei province:

http://tinyurl.com/gwwoz (Shanghai Daily)

China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2005:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/11/content_4533769.htm

Heat is threatening the Taj Mahal (!):

http://english.people.com.cn/200605/12/eng20060512_264938.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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I havent' heard the "Solutrean Solution" theory (specifically)
as a theory for how humans reached North America, so we'll
put it in this category for now:

http://tinyurl.com/jgkle (Times Dispatch)

... primarily because I'm not sure it's in the same category
as this one:

http://tinyurl.com/jxb4o (Courier Journal)

Recent finds at Jamestown:

http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4877972&nav=ZolHbyvj
http://tinyurl.com/j322x (Pilot)

What's beneath downtown Santa Fe:

http://www.kob.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=25691&cat=HOME

An impending dig in Donner Memorial State Park:

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20060510/NEWS/60509015/-1/rss02

In case you were wondering about Kennewick Man:

http://tinyurl.com/jtcux (Tennessean)

Review of John Eisenberg, *The Great Match Race*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/books/10grim.html

Review of Paul Schneider, *Brutal Journey*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14millard.html

Review of Charles Rappleye, *Sons of Providence*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14reynolds.html

Review of Catherine Allgor, *A Perfect Union*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14norton.html

Review of David Davis, *Inhuman Bondage*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14berlin.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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9000 b.p. footprints in Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/jdzeq (LaTercera ... Spanish)

The Tamtoc site is causing a bit of a rethink of Mesoamerican
history:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12703283/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060509/sc_nm/life_mexico_dc_1
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/05/08/a02n1cul.php (Spanish)

A Brazilian 'Stonehenge' has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4767717.stm

... and we have claims of another 'Stonehenge-like' structure
in Peru:

http://www.physorg.com/news66655425.html
http://tinyurl.com/l24o7 (Statesman)
http://tinyurl.com/jb53k (Oregonian)

Of tangential interest: a bunch of Nukak-Maku people have
abandoned the jungle for more modern digs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/world/americas/11colombia.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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We obviously need a history of Mothers Day piece:

http://www.parisstaronline.com/story.php?id=230038

Skull and Bones and Geronimo:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2006_05/notebook.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/09/geronimo.bones.ap/index.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12591414/

Nice piece on ancient Gnosticism (an interview with New Testament
scholar Peter Jones):

http://www.worldmag.com/articles/11862

Sigmund Freud's art tastes:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1770546,00.html

Interesting DaVinci Code hype focussing on the Holy Grail:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12742919/

... otherwise, DaVinci Code (the movie) hype seems to be
following the model of the Passion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/us/11davinci.html

On the origins of heckling:

http://www.slate.com/id/2141597/

Nice grant for the Taylor-Schechter Genizeh collection:

http://tinyurl.com/jjunv (CEN)

Using old ships' logs to document changes in the earth's
magnetic field:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060508/full/060508-11.html
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060511_magnetic_logs.html

On the deaths of assorted famous explorers:

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/12549

Another xray-ed painting has revealed a painting underneath
another painting:

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/14562875.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ewwwc (IOL)

Huge article on the ongoing efforts to create a sort of Library
of Alexandria on the web:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html

Interesting NPR bit on foreign words which have no English
equivalent:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5403332

This seems appropriate to make note of, given how much info we
cull from the Jerusalem Post and what one of the focuses appears
to be ... there's going to be a Christian edition of the
Jerusalem Post:

http://tinyurl.com/hhpgf

Review of Richard Lingeman, *Double Lives: American Writers'
Friendships*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14blount.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Archeofestival (Perugia/Umbria):

http://tinyurl.com/elv4k

Acre:

http://tinyurl.com/z7qkj (JPost)

Mut Temple photos:

http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=217
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Apollo (May 2006):

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/magazine.php
[not sure if their content has been available online before,
but it is now (with free registration)]

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The St. Louis Art Museum wants more proof that its mummy mask
legally belongs to Egypt:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14564774.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/13/arts/13arts.html
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/14567082.htm
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/May/20060513News025.asp
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12761941/

Suzan Mazur adds another potential player to the 'Museum Case':

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0605/S00135.htm

Nice Op-Ed piece on the 'Museum Case':

http://tinyurl.com/hyjd8 (LAT)

Where that raid on a Schinoussa villa is leading:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1769830,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/j82zb (Kathimerini)

More on those beams from a Spanish mosque which were withdrawn
from an auction at Christie's:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=267&tf_teaser=0

Jacksonville takes on the looters:

http://ap.thecabin.net/pstories/state/ar/20060507/3853005.shtml

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NUMISMATICA
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Hawaiian Coinage:

http://www.journalofantiques.com/Oct04/coinsoct04.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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Sez and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1773177,00.html

DaVinci:

http://tinyurl.com/zurye (Art Daily ... it's back!)

Pompeii:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20060511TDY18001.htm

Group Dynamics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/arts/design/10grou.html

Lewis and Clark:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060511/ap_on_go_ot/lewis_and_clark
http://tinyurl.com/fmb64 (Herald)

Warriors of the Himalayas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/13/arts/design/13armo.html

Mummy: The Inside Story:

http://tinyurl.com/zfot4 (News Journal)

International Fine Art Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/arts/design/12fair.html

Doyle letters at the Morgan Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/arts/design/14shat.html

Plenty of coverage of an exhibition of Goddio's finds in
Alexandria's harbour:

Slideshow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4761259.stm
Another: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,13633,00.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article364336.ece
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/794/fr3.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1375708.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,26909-2174545,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/kxvbs (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/egjbu (MET)
http://tinyurl.com/gnhzg (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/h4a6l (Spiegel ... English)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article364336.ece

The Smithsonian deal with Showtime is turning into a real
brouhaha:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/arts/11smit.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Iphigenia in Aulis:

http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_3816837
http://tinyurl.com/hzf26 (Mercury)

Frogs:

http://tinyurl.com/k6wn9

Three Musketeers:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/theater/reviews/12musk.html
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ON THE WEB
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Archaeological Research Resources:

http://www.har-indy.com/Links.html

Ancient Scripts:

http://www.ancientscripts.com/index.html

Ancient 'Observatories' from space:

http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/ancientObservatories/default.htm
cf: http://tinyurl.com/gbkte

Cornell University Library Online Collections:

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/
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OBITUARIES
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Jiri Frel (Getty Curator):

http://tinyurl.com/f8lrj (LA Times)

Jacqueline Roumeguere (Anthropologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/world/europe/10eberhardt.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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We've had this before (sort of), but folks might need to be
refreshed on the 'Parthenon Code':

http://tinyurl.com/gjlmc (PR Newswire)
http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/060511/md_greek_images_event.html?.v=1
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Levi Selavan, Chris Brunelle, Croman mac Nessa, Dave Sowdon,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Francis Deblauwe,
Hanan Charaf, Joan Griffith, Joan Pasch, John McMahon, John
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Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W Sargent, Rochelle Altman,
Bob Heuman, Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson, W. Richard
Frahm,  and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as
always hoping I have left no one out).
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Apparently King Tut's naughty bits weren't missing after all:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2165774,00.html

Assorted sites around Luxor are getting some restoration:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/hr2.htm

Recent finds in Fayoum and Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/hr1.htm

The threat to pre-Islamic Persian sites in Iran:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/AmilImani50912.htm

Interesting item on a copy of an Egyptian vizier's tomb in a
Polish museum:

http://tinyurl.com/jlrta (press release of some sort)

Egypt has demanded the return of a mummy mask from the St. Louis
Museum of Art (this might be Crime Beat material):

http://tinyurl.com/jty8h (CBC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12598537/

Review of a couple of items on 'The Jewish Goddess':

http://www.forward.com/articles/7728

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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Looking for Cycladic civilization on Keros:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1764919,00.html

More coverage of finds in Roman Paris/Lutetia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_sc/france_roman_ruins
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194518,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/j6bpd (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/mek3f (AOL)
http://tinyurl.com/kjw3w (Times Union)

Another Roman road has been found in Leiden:

http://tinyurl.com/fyyst (Dutch)

Romans in Malta (with interesting typo in the headline):

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=228533&pid=1

I think we mentioned this Roman sarcophagus from Baalbek
in the past week or two ... here's some photos (text in
arabic):

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060503.HTM

Brief item on finds found during the excavations for the
Bosporus tunnel:

http://www.physorg.com/news65795730.html

cf. the spin in this one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4949862.stm

A major Roman villa has been found outside Florence:

http://tinyurl.com/ke9yu (ANSA)

Potentially important Roman inscription from Bulgaria (alas,
a bit vague):

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

More coverage of that paved-over Roman site in Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/hhhk3 (UPI)

Spring cleaning at Aldborough Roman Town:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART37063.html

More coverage of worship of Zeus et al. in modern Greece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1767802,00.html

... and of the possible redating of the Aegean Bronze Age:

http://tinyurl.com/gjwjk (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/e9dy5 (M&C)
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/10975
http://tinyurl.com/j83jp (Innovations Report)

On the latter, see the items at the Thera Foundation:

http://tinyurl.com/eotzl

Edward Bradley has joined the ranks of the emeriti:

http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006050101040

Latin is alive and well in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/hw5f5 (Argus)

Classics is on the rise at Rutgers:

http://tinyurl.com/fp78j (Daily Targum)

ClassCon in Akeelah and the Bee:

http://tinyurl.com/l6f9n (Free Press)

Review of Greg Woolf, *The Murder of Caesar and Political
Assassination*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1768584,00.html

Review of Frederic Raphael, *Some Talk of Alexander*:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/a768359c-db3e-11da-98a8-0000779e2340.html

The Times has an excerpt from Terry Jones, *Barbarians*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2168328,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 2000 b.p. chariot burial from Yorkshire (more of a followup
than a new discovery):

http://tinyurl.com/kg6ww (Leeds Today)

Interesting burial at Tara:

http://www.villagemagazine.ie/article.asp?aid=1677&iid=96&sud=10

Were Cistercian monks at a British abbey trying to make gold?

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060501/monks_his.html

The site of the Battle of Pilleth is up for sale:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/4970150.stm

Quite a bit of coverage of a new 'code of conduct' for metal
detectorists in the UK:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1765522,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/enxgl (IOL)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=657002006
http://tinyurl.com/ggq97 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/kummc (WPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4966424.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 pair of Neolithic axes with Indus script on them (!):

http://www.chennaionline.com/columns/variety/2006/05neolithic.asp
http://tinyurl.com/klq9u (IOL)

A pile of 900 b.p. tombs from Inner Mongolia:

http://english.people.com.cn/200605/04/eng20060504_263023.html

600 b.p. tombs from China's Shaanxi province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200605/01/eng20060501_262451.html

Very interesting piece on possible sites in Tibet:

http://tinyurl.com/fhb3s (Spiegel ... English)

Another Kon-Tiki expedition:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12580158/

The remains of a Tongan princess are being repatriated:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_re_au_an/tongan_princess

Archaeologists revealed the restored Baphuon at Angkor Wat this
week:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article362295.ece

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Did early humans lead to the extinction of prehistoric horses in
Alaska?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uoea-mmh050406.php
http://tinyurl.com/fdz6m (NG)

They're digging up Black Jack Battlefield:

http://tinyurl.com/kteay (Journal-World)

... but apparently didn't find anything:

http://tinyurl.com/fqlok (ditto)

And they didn't find much at Victory Woods either:

http://tinyurl.com/hbkxq (Times Union)

Interesting item on fleeing slaves during the American
Revolution (this might be a book review ... it's hard to tell):

http://tinyurl.com/llo9v (New Yorker)

Digging for O'Fallon's history:

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


Some clarifications in regards to the Baldwin Site mentioned
last week or so:

http://tinyurl.com/fwwxr (pressconnects)

Revisiting the cause of Booker T. Washington's death:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/us/07washington.html
http://tinyurl.com/ehhvr (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/fsa9c (Seattle Times)

The New York Times has a collection of features about Abe
Lincoln:

http://tinyurl.com/qpdvb

Review of Nathaniel Philbrick, *Mayflower*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/books/04masl.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A Maya royal tomb was discovered in Guatemala this week:

http://tinyurl.com/fh6zz (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/kegj5 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/g9ygw (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/z7rac (USA Today)
http://www.smu.edu/smunews/waka/default.asp (same one?)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Just when you think you've figured out your categories, you
get a story about a dig on Bermuda:

http://tinyurl.com/znwxy (Bermuda Sun)

Getting medieval at Augsburg College:

http://tinyurl.com/qa8n7 (Pioneer Press)

The Deir Mar Musa monastery (in Syria) has reopened:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2006/0501/p01s04-wome.html

An interesting pattern to British royal executions:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060501/royals_his.html

A reasonably accurate look at the Ceasarean section in history:

http://tinyurl.com/jbnz3 (LAT)

A young, amateur archaeologist who seems to be doing things
properly:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C635203830%2C00.html

Nice article on 're-attribution' of art in various periods:

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

Celebrating the Swiss Guards' 500th anniversary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4980362.stm

I wonder if the Apocryphon Johannis will get the same attention
the GoJ received:

http://tinyurl.com/gs6db (Citizen)

...meanwhile, it appears there's an access problem with the
Codex Tchacos:

http://tinyurl.com/zkjzv (Journal Star)

Geza Vermes looks at the *DaVinci Code* (and *The Jesus Papers*):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2165341.html

Not really within the purview of this newsletter, but clearly
one of those 'lead a horse to water' things:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/02/geog.test/index.html

Review of Stuart Kelly, *Book of Lost Books*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/books/05book.html

Interesting 'vanity postage stamp' from New Brunswick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/arts/design/05anti.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://tinyurl.com/jxe63 (Newsday)

Easter Island:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/travel/30easter.html

Provence:

http://tinyurl.com/znofq (Telegraph)
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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 recently-discovered Mayan stone box was looted from a cave in
Guatemala this week:

http://tinyurl.com/fef9l (NG)

Scholarly ethics and unprovenanced artifacts ... the debate
continues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/arts/02publ.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/03/features/loot.php

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/06/arts/06arts.html

Plenty of attention being given to a pending meeting between
officials from Greece and the Getty about returning items
claimed as illegally excavated:

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_123200413.html
http://tinyurl.com/lgnqk (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/flwhl (LAT)

Meanwhile ... more artifacts of importance have been found
in Marion True's place:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2166417,00.html

... more coverage of the trial:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/detail.asp?ID=81276&GRP=h

... and the Greek government will be going after True soon
as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/arts/design/05getty.html

Not really sure where to put this one promoting the purchase
of antiquities, but the tone of it suggests that this might be
the right category:

http://tinyurl.com/ju23k (Star)

A plea to save Afghan antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/zu43j (Inquirer)

Another piece on Matthew Bogdanos:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0504/p13s02-alar.html

Trying to solve a major theft of modern art in Florida:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/nyregion/04art.htm

Review of Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini, *The Medici
Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, from
Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums*:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18990
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NUMISMATICA
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Coin clipping by a 17th century vicar:

http://tinyurl.com/ec57c (icHuddersfield)

Portraits of British kings and queens:

http://www.24carat.co.uk/britishmonarchsportraitsoncoinsframe.html

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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Caesarea's Underwater Museum has opened:

http://tinyurl.com/mwgkg (Israel 21)
http://tinyurl.com/nez3g (ME Times)

... as has the Palazzo Grassi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/arts/design/01gras.html

Huntington Library has acquired a nice history of science
collection:

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4846891&nav=9qrx

Big bucks for a Picasso at auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/arts/design/04auction.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/06/arts/design/06buye.html

Authenticity problems for some Chinese items at CSUN:

http://tinyurl.com/hm3yv (Sundial)

Jane Biers is retiring from MU's Museum of Art:

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=19733

Rather strange sports-columnish piece on who might replace
de Montebello at the Met:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=255
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Hecuba:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-hecuba05.html
http://tinyurl.com/jj4xw (Tribune)

Faust:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/theater/reviews/04faus.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
John Trever (photographer of Dead Sea Scrolls):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/us/05trever.html
http://tinyurl.com/etfxg (LAT)

Dimitri Hadzi (sculptor and art professor):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/arts/design/01hadzi.html

Henriette Avram ('modernizer' of libraries):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/us/03avram.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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We're (finally) starting to see some skepticism (in the media)
about claims of pyramids in Bosnia:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12635805/
http://www.livescience.com/history/060504_bosnia_controversy.html

cf: http://tinyurl.com/zk33u (Post Chronicle)
http://tinyurl.com/g5s6j (NZ Herald ... gush gush)

Apparently there were Muslim schools in the southwestern U.S.
in the seventh and eighth centuries:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=aksiyon&alt=&trh=20060316&hn=30981
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Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle
Altman, Bob Heuman, Rick Pettigrew, Steve Rankin, Sally
Winchester, Tony Jackson, Croman mac Nessa,W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 6500 b.p. settlement near Kiryat Gat (Israel):

http://tinyurl.com/z9wql (JPost)

Czech archaeologists are excavating a site with evidence of
occupation through various periods in Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/mbupq (PDM)

Interesting essay in the NY Times on the history of Iran:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30aslan.html

Pre-Islamic cemeteries in Hormozgan:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?section=2&id=6335

What we've learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/7r4/7r4036.html

Nice piece on the political side of archaeology in
Jerusalem:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4942970.stm

... semi-related: the discovery of some Second Temple
burials during expansion of the Knesset is causing a
ruckus:

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

Smithsonian Magazine has a piece on 'biblical archaeology':

http://tinyurl.com/z54vg

More coverage of UCLA's Encyclopedia of Egyptology:

http://tinyurl.com/f94vf (Ascribe)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/wr_nm/egyptology_dc

What the Egyptians did for us:

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=19565

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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A fair bit of coverage for a proposed redating of a chunk of the
Aegean bronze age:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060429124854.htm
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_35106.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/pla7b (Age)
http://tinyurl.com/eukqo (Telegraph)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12502996/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193443,00.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aK6rJ0FRVX_E#
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/Bronze.age.AK.html

More coverage of that Alexander-not-finding Alexandria story:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2006/4/26/3761

Excavating some sort of Roman religious site in Ewell (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/kh5hf (TIH)
http://tinyurl.com/mpkfx (IC Ewell)

Archaeological remains of Paris in Roman times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/world/europe/30paris.html
http://www.basilicatanet.it/news/article.asp?id=418328

... while Spain has consigned remains of Colonia Augusta Firma
Astigi to the bottom of a parking lot:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2157887,00.html

Some Roman cave burials in Baalbeck:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060428.HTM (arabic, photos)

Turkey is claiming ownership of a Hellenizing stele in the
British Museum:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=250

JCL coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/jkxmd

Somewhat strange (it seems to me) claims about coins of
Caligula:

http://tinyurl.com/nw96c (icCoventry)

Getting in the aristeia zone:

http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/uwire/042606aac.html

Talking about Aristotle's Ethics:

http://tinyurl.com/gd2jo

More coverage of the new home of the Ara Pacis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/arts/design/24paci.html

More coverage of the 'palace of Ajax':

http://tinyurl.com/em2jp (IOL)

The outcome of that 'favouritism' case at UA:

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4814390&nav=HMO6HMaY

People are flocking to see the Euphronios Krater while they
still can:

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=536&sid=766926

Mary Beard comments on the poor model for democracy provided
by ancient Athens:

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1764243,00.html

Roman coins in the ANS database:

http://tinyurl.com/pqpp5

A Homer marathon at St. Andrews:

http://tinyurl.com/ejbn7 (Fife)

Eta Sigma Phi at Rutgers:

http://tinyurl.com/k8vno (Targum)

Taking on Tom Palaima:

http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen04272006.html

... I think this is the original column:

http://tinyurl.com/evchx (AAS)

Review of a couple of adaptations of Greek myth:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200604290093.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An Iron Age murder victim in Orkney:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=629992006

Finds from various periods at a school construction site in
Lockerbie:

http://tinyurl.com/zl3hf (BBC)

Time Team's next project:

http://tinyurl.com/kvovw (Wisbech Standard)

Another archaeology v. development dispute ... this time in
Yorkshire:

http://tinyurl.com/rfv6r (Post)

... while archaeologists are poking around the site of the
Olympics in London:

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/9770

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 ninth century bronzes from the Kashmir:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/28/stories/2006042805752200.htm

Trying to figure out where King Naresuan died:

http://tinyurl.com/n3dv4 (Nation)

Road construction has revealed a Laotian temple site:

http://www.historywire.com/2006/04/laotian_temple_.html

Repeating the KonTiki expedition:

http://tinyurl.com/rs8du (CTV)
http://tinyurl.com/pexgj (AFP via Yahoo)

There's no 'lost city' in the jungles of Johor:

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=194332

Review of David Gilmour, *The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in
the Victorian Raj*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30sherman.html

Review of Peter Hessler, *Oracle Bones*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30spence.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Recent news about Kennewick Man:

http://tinyurl.com/jzlhv (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/k3tbb (TerraDaily)
http://tinyurl.com/f3syr (Science Daily)

Dogs in Illinois 1000 b.p.:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/14409918.htm

Digging a Wichita site in Oklahoma:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?section=2&id=6331

Assorted sites v. highway I-86 construction:

http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006604270361

More research is being done on the Hunley:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12479811/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060425/ap_on_sc/hunley

A natural mummy in New Hampshire:

http://www.click2houston.com/family/8956581/detail.html

Review of Nathaniel Philbrick, *Mayflower*:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12440706/site/newsweek/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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All about the Temple of the Fox:

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=19585
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Not sure I understand the importance of this origins of
writing piece:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12480978/

In case you missed the tale of the 'hidden code' in the
DaVinci Code case ruling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/books/27code.html

... and some post-trial comments by Dan Brown:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/arts/25arts.html (third item)

... while the Vatican is urging a boycott of the movie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/arts/29arts.html

Interesting item on women in Renaissance Florence:

http://tinyurl.com/kfzsp (SHNS)

Another archaeological film festival:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0604274985180921.htm

On vampire tourism (or whatever you want to label it):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060424/lf_afp/croatiatourismdracula

Interesting real estate case in New York revolving around
six inches of historical wall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/realestate/30deal.html

A 450 b.p. football (soccer ball) will be on display at
Germany's World Cup:

http://tinyurl.com/km44o (BBC)

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at Plovdiv
through the ages:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Is 'virtual/digital archaeology' a good thing?:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060424/full/4401106a.html

Review of Stuart Kelly, *The Book of Lost Books*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30queenan.html

Review of Karen Armstrong, *The Great Transformation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30wilson.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://tinyurl.com/g6dzl (JPost)

Sofia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/travel/30next.html

Berlin:

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

Caesarea:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2156651,00.html

Caesar's Way (on the Israel Trail):

http://tinyurl.com/kjcsr (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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That big raid on a villa on Schinoussa is going to have some
pretty major repercussions, I suspect:

http://tinyurl.com/fuj28 (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/hsdc4 (Ditto)

... while the Marion True case also has a thickening plot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/arts/27gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/h6h6s (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/gju9x (CBC)

More on the return of Dionysus' head:

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=bizarre&id=4110005
http://tinyurl.com/hu7z2

Nice general piece on looting of sites in the US:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2006/0426/p03s03-ussc.html

... and one on Libya:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4951770.stm

Nazi-looted-art compensation from the British government:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/710436.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4953568.stm
http://tinyurl.com/rxzef (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/hrnqd (UPI)
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NUMISMATICA
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Roman coins in the ANS database:

http://tinyurl.com/pqpp5

Somewhat strange (it seems to me) claims about coins of
Caligula:

http://tinyurl.com/nw96c (icCoventry)

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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Pisa Ships:

http://tinyurl.com/gabar (ANSA)

Morgan Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/arts/design/28morg.html
cf.: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/opinion/29sat4.html

Sotheby's this weekend:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/arts/design/27auct.html

Some items coming up for auction at Sotheby's in June:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/arts/design/28voge.html

Antique garden furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/arts/design/28anti.html

Museums and pork-barrel spending in the US?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/weekinreview/30marsh.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Contrast:

http://tinyurl.com/rbrqf (NYT)

Beowulf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/arts/music/30mcgee.html

Cyclops:

http://tinyurl.com/gxhsd

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/jc38w (Spectator)

Persians:

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

Hecuba:

http://tinyurl.com/gq9tq
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ON THE WEB
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World Heritage Alert:

www.worldheritagealert.org
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OBITUARIES
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Alice Fiske:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/nyregion/28fiske.html

Grady McWhiney:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/us/30mcwhiney.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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That Atlantis-in-Ireland guy is back again:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/4/prweb377577.htm
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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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Francis Deblauwe, George Pesely, Hanan Charaf, James Stewart,
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
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AFRICA
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More on the trans-Saharan mineral trade:

http://tinyurl.com/n34oc (UA press release)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A pair of 1400 B.C./B.C.E. cartouches are shedding light on
Thutmoses III (possibly more noteworthy is the accompanying
photo of Zahi Hawass without his hat):

http://tinyurl.com/rmwls (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ouqlt (News24)

Updates from the KV-63 site:

http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/

The current state of Babylon (alas):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/world/middleeast/18babylon.html

... and an interesting video game to learn about it:

http://tinyurl.com/ppsso (USA Today)

... and more coverage of possible apologies:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200604151413/154054d6

More coverage of those ancient Egyptian seagoing vessels:

http://www.oceannavigator.com/articles/9712/

More/updated coverage of the Cana dig:

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060416-115958-4935r.htm
http://torontosun.com/News/World/2006/04/16/1536389-sun.html

... and some semi-related (?) vandalism:

http://tinyurl.com/o4b3o (JPost)

Ancient ostrich eggs from Israel?:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3240850,00.html

Things don't look good for Palestinian archaeology:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5772/352b

More coverage of that Knights Templar burial in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/gz4v7 (Telegraph)

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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Roman remains in Baalbek:

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

... some semi-related photos (text in Arabic):

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/MANTK060420.HTM
http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060422.HTM

... and an (Arabic) correction to the above:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060421-1.HTM

A Roman shipwreck off Lebanon (Arabic, no photo):

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060421-2.HTM

Claims of a Roman fort in Furness:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=358426

A group is trying to rebuild the Argo (!):

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060423/3/2jgp9.html

Archaeologists have nixed the idea of another athletic event
at Olympia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060422/sp_nm/athletics_olympia_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/f2u7c (Reuters)

The new building housing the Ara Pacis is causing a stir:

http://tinyurl.com/r6jyd (Age)
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=358426
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/21/ara-pacis.html

Ancient Greeks and Romans are being blamed for spikes in lead
contamination in the Nile:

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

General coverage of the opening:

http://tinyurl.com/qe95c (AGI)

Nice piece on that equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius' new
home:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/21/news/conway.php

Very nice slideshow of various objects in Roman museums to
accompany the article too:

http://tinyurl.com/owkrr (IHT)

Preview of a documentary about an interesting Roman 'cold case'
in Yorkshire (personal view: decimation):

http://tinyurl.com/sx77o (YPost)

The Caesar cipher and its modern users:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/mafiaboss_tec.html

Worshippers of the Olympian deities want access to the
Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/s7yux (Kathimerini)

JCL coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ztol6 (Leaf Chronicle)

Brief item on Celtic wine in Italy:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1852868
http://www.slashfood.com/2006/04/19/celtic-wine/

Philip Pullman celebrates the epic (mostly the ancient ones):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2143858,00.html

Followups to that UA 'favouritism' case:

http://tinyurl.com/mopz9 (KVOA)
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/allheadlines/125694.php

Nice coverage of a class participating in the ACE coins
project/thingy:

http://tinyurl.com/n938n (Enquirer)

More coverage of that 'Roman seaside villa' find:

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

More on those Roman 'burial urns' from Cornwall:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART36479.html

A semi-serious call for the return of 'honest' combat sports:

http://tinyurl.com/rm953 (Forbes)

More on those ancient italian forgeries:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/forgery_arc.html

Robert Novak has endowed a chair at UI:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14379021.htm

Review of Frederic Raphael, *Some Talk of Alexander*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-2139219,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Assorted items found during the restoration of Leeds Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4928718.stm

Saxon remains in Southampton:

http://scatoday.net/node/6091

Recreating life in the Iron Age:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4921824.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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2000 b.p. beheaded skeletons from China:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1678622,00050004.htm

A pile of tombs from various periods from China's Henan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/15/content_4426669.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Artifacts associated with the Haudenosaunee people:

http://tinyurl.com/n6bwq (BU Press release)

Remains of a Native American village in downtown Santa Fe?:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42518.html

Digging a Wichita site in Arkansas:

http://www.arkcity.net/stories/041706/com_0002.shtml

More gold from the Atocha?:

http://tinyurl.com/kf4vs

What war time presidents have endured in the past:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346798

A reviewish sort of thing on recent work on the Pilgrims:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/060424crat_atlarge

Virtually rebuilding Ohio earthworks:

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=3757

The history of gossip in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/opinion/21caldwell.html

Review of Alan Taylor, *The Divided Ground*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/books/review/23brookheiser.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More Nazca lines have been discovered:

http://tinyurl.com/mmhzj (METimes)
http://tinyurl.com/p95rw (Mainichi DN ... photo)

Another Kon-Tikiesque expedition:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12395086/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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St. Peter's basilica is celebrating 500 years:

http://tinyurl.com/oblph (Star Telegram)
http://tinyurl.com/lrll8 (AP via Yahoo)

Humanities in the med school curriculum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/design/17sina.html

OpEd piece arising from a Yale conference on demagogues and
democracy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/17conn.html

NPR piece on bows (the musical kind):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5345507

The BBC has an interesting series ongoing called Trench
Warfare about digging in dangerous places:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/trenchwarfare/

The history of gossip:

http://tinyurl.com/rcn6u (Oxford Press)

Rumblings about a deal the Smithsonian made with the Showtime
folks keep popping into my box:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346804

While there was more general coverage of/reaction to the GoJ:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=417358
http://tinyurl.com/reps4 (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/lkssy (Standard)

... and the Gnostic reaction:

http://tinyurl.com/p52ek (LAT)

... there was also an interesting twist in the case as it was
revealed that there are more fragments in the hands of a
rather well-known dealer of manuscripts (who is fighting
bankruptcy):

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/3811400.html
http://tinyurl.com/m33u8 (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/og77c (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/nrb23 (NG)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12407083/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_sc/gospel_of_judas_3
(slideshow)

Review of James Robinson, *The Secrets of Judas*:

http://tinyurl.com/r429o (Record)

On Sabbaticals for non-academics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/business/22sabbaticals.html

History of the depiction of the female nude in art:

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=590302006

Just when you thought the DaVinci Code case was done, some
Russian guy steps up to the plate:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2129945,00.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Pompeii:

http://lowellsun.com/ci_3717288
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter (Spring 2006):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring06

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Incredibly major coverage of the seizure of a pile of antiquities
from a villa on Schinoussa, which appears to have connections to
the Marion True case:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2138616,00.html (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/m4x26 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/re2bc (CBS)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/18/greece-getty.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192164,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/ej2px (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/mo2yh (ditto ... additional details)
http://tinyurl.com/pvx46 (Courant)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/16/content_4431284.htm
http://tinyurl.com/n9j87 (M&C)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/arts/design/19loot.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=587932006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5764009,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/rc85e (Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/18/news/greece.php

A head of Dionysus, stolen ages ago from a villa once owned
by Mussolini, was returned to Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/arts/design/22arti.html
http://tinyurl.com/omrcd (KRT)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/411019p-347703c.html
http://tinyurl.com/z3shw (Newsday)

Interesting talk by Philippe de Montebello asking why only
US museums are the focus of recovery efforts:

http://tinyurl.com/mxr4d (LAT)

cf.:
http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-04-18_1183542.html

This just popped into my mailbox ... a press release about a
documentary DVD on the antiquities trade:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/4/prweb376021.htm

Dealing with the looting of sites in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/mopz9 (Daily Comet)
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/14405749.htm
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
More on those ancient italian forgeries:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/forgery_arc.html

The Queen continued the 'Maundy coin' tradition:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4905376.stm

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
================================================================
Joseph Gandy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/arts/design/21anti.html

Veronese:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/060424craw_artworld

Anasazi Heritage Center:

http://www.telluridewatch.com/042106/anasazi.htm

Ancient Japanese Art:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2006/20/c9141.html

The Morgan Library will soon reopen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/arts/design/20morg.html

Cradle of Christianity:

http://www.forward.com/articles/7667

The Prato Haggadah:

http://www.jtslibrarytreasures.org/prato/prato.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Antony and Cleopatra:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1756984,00.html

Odin: The Opera:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/music/17odin.html

Khan: The Rock Opera:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346789
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
H-Net's dictionaries and language resources page:

http://www.h-net.org/~hre/language.html

Canadian Currency Museum:

http://www.currencymuseum.ca/

Underwater Archaeology in Greece:

http://www.underwaterarchaeology.gr/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Walter Ristow (Maps):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/us/17ristow.html

Jack Lucas (Excavator of Tripontium):

http://tinyurl.com/n2x45 (Harborough Today)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
They began digging into that 'bosnian pyramid' this week and
claim to have found cut stone (although I'd like someone to
mention that natural geologic phenomena such as columnar
jointing are probably a more reasonable explanation):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=237
http://tinyurl.com/nha2e (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/pgvz8 (NG)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12402157/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_sc/bosnia_pyramid_5
(slideshow)
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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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Francis Deblauwe, George Pesely, Hanan Charaf, James Stewart,
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
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headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
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AFRICA
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More on the trans-Saharan mineral trade:

http://tinyurl.com/n34oc (UA press release)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A pair of 1400 B.C./B.C.E. cartouches are shedding light on
Thutmoses III (possibly more noteworthy is the accompanying
photo of Zahi Hawass without his hat):

http://tinyurl.com/rmwls (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ouqlt (News24)

Updates from the KV-63 site:

http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/

The current state of Babylon (alas):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/world/middleeast/18babylon.html

... and an interesting video game to learn about it:

http://tinyurl.com/ppsso (USA Today)

... and more coverage of possible apologies:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200604151413/154054d6

More coverage of those ancient Egyptian seagoing vessels:

http://www.oceannavigator.com/articles/9712/

More/updated coverage of the Cana dig:

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060416-115958-4935r.htm
http://torontosun.com/News/World/2006/04/16/1536389-sun.html

... and some semi-related (?) vandalism:

http://tinyurl.com/o4b3o (JPost)

Ancient ostrich eggs from Israel?:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3240850,00.html

Things don't look good for Palestinian archaeology:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5772/352b

More coverage of that Knights Templar burial in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/gz4v7 (Telegraph)

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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Roman remains in Baalbek:

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

... some semi-related photos (text in Arabic):

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/MANTK060420.HTM
http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060422.HTM

... and an (Arabic) correction to the above:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060421-1.HTM

A Roman shipwreck off Lebanon (Arabic, no photo):

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060421-2.HTM

Claims of a Roman fort in Furness:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=358426

A group is trying to rebuild the Argo (!):

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060423/3/2jgp9.html

Archaeologists have nixed the idea of another athletic event
at Olympia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060422/sp_nm/athletics_olympia_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/f2u7c (Reuters)

The new building housing the Ara Pacis is causing a stir:

http://tinyurl.com/r6jyd (Age)
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=358426
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/21/ara-pacis.html

Ancient Greeks and Romans are being blamed for spikes in lead
contamination in the Nile:

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

General coverage of the opening:

http://tinyurl.com/qe95c (AGI)

Nice piece on that equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius' new
home:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/21/news/conway.php

Very nice slideshow of various objects in Roman museums to
accompany the article too:

http://tinyurl.com/owkrr (IHT)

Preview of a documentary about an interesting Roman 'cold case'
in Yorkshire (personal view: decimation):

http://tinyurl.com/sx77o (YPost)

The Caesar cipher and its modern users:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/mafiaboss_tec.html

Worshippers of the Olympian deities want access to the
Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/s7yux (Kathimerini)

JCL coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ztol6 (Leaf Chronicle)

Brief item on Celtic wine in Italy:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1852868
http://www.slashfood.com/2006/04/19/celtic-wine/

Philip Pullman celebrates the epic (mostly the ancient ones):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2143858,00.html

Followups to that UA 'favouritism' case:

http://tinyurl.com/mopz9 (KVOA)
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/allheadlines/125694.php

Nice coverage of a class participating in the ACE coins
project/thingy:

http://tinyurl.com/n938n (Enquirer)

More coverage of that 'Roman seaside villa' find:

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

More on those Roman 'burial urns' from Cornwall:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART36479.html

A semi-serious call for the return of 'honest' combat sports:

http://tinyurl.com/rm953 (Forbes)

More on those ancient italian forgeries:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/forgery_arc.html

Robert Novak has endowed a chair at UI:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14379021.htm

Review of Frederic Raphael, *Some Talk of Alexander*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-2139219,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Assorted items found during the restoration of Leeds Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4928718.stm

Saxon remains in Southampton:

http://scatoday.net/node/6091

Recreating life in the Iron Age:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4921824.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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2000 b.p. beheaded skeletons from China:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1678622,00050004.htm

A pile of tombs from various periods from China's Henan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/15/content_4426669.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Artifacts associated with the Haudenosaunee people:

http://tinyurl.com/n6bwq (BU Press release)

Remains of a Native American village in downtown Santa Fe?:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42518.html

Digging a Wichita site in Arkansas:

http://www.arkcity.net/stories/041706/com_0002.shtml

More gold from the Atocha?:

http://tinyurl.com/kf4vs

What war time presidents have endured in the past:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346798

A reviewish sort of thing on recent work on the Pilgrims:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/060424crat_atlarge

Virtually rebuilding Ohio earthworks:

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=3757

The history of gossip in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/opinion/21caldwell.html

Review of Alan Taylor, *The Divided Ground*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/books/review/23brookheiser.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More Nazca lines have been discovered:

http://tinyurl.com/mmhzj (METimes)
http://tinyurl.com/p95rw (Mainichi DN ... photo)

Another Kon-Tikiesque expedition:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12395086/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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St. Peter's basilica is celebrating 500 years:

http://tinyurl.com/oblph (Star Telegram)
http://tinyurl.com/lrll8 (AP via Yahoo)

Humanities in the med school curriculum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/design/17sina.html

OpEd piece arising from a Yale conference on demagogues and
democracy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/17conn.html

NPR piece on bows (the musical kind):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5345507

The BBC has an interesting series ongoing called Trench
Warfare about digging in dangerous places:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/trenchwarfare/

The history of gossip:

http://tinyurl.com/rcn6u (Oxford Press)

Rumblings about a deal the Smithsonian made with the Showtime
folks keep popping into my box:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346804

While there was more general coverage of/reaction to the GoJ:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=417358
http://tinyurl.com/reps4 (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/lkssy (Standard)

... and the Gnostic reaction:

http://tinyurl.com/p52ek (LAT)

... there was also an interesting twist in the case as it was
revealed that there are more fragments in the hands of a
rather well-known dealer of manuscripts (who is fighting
bankruptcy):

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/3811400.html
http://tinyurl.com/m33u8 (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/og77c (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/nrb23 (NG)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12407083/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_sc/gospel_of_judas_3
(slideshow)

Review of James Robinson, *The Secrets of Judas*:

http://tinyurl.com/r429o (Record)

On Sabbaticals for non-academics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/business/22sabbaticals.html

History of the depiction of the female nude in art:

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=590302006

Just when you thought the DaVinci Code case was done, some
Russian guy steps up to the plate:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2129945,00.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Pompeii:

http://lowellsun.com/ci_3717288
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter (Spring 2006):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring06

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Incredibly major coverage of the seizure of a pile of antiquities
from a villa on Schinoussa, which appears to have connections to
the Marion True case:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2138616,00.html (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/m4x26 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/re2bc (CBS)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/18/greece-getty.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192164,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/ej2px (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/mo2yh (ditto ... additional details)
http://tinyurl.com/pvx46 (Courant)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/16/content_4431284.htm
http://tinyurl.com/n9j87 (M&C)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/arts/design/19loot.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=587932006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5764009,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/rc85e (Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/18/news/greece.php

A head of Dionysus, stolen ages ago from a villa once owned
by Mussolini, was returned to Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/arts/design/22arti.html
http://tinyurl.com/omrcd (KRT)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/411019p-347703c.html
http://tinyurl.com/z3shw (Newsday)

Interesting talk by Philippe de Montebello asking why only
US museums are the focus of recovery efforts:

http://tinyurl.com/mxr4d (LAT)

cf.:
http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-04-18_1183542.html

This just popped into my mailbox ... a press release about a
documentary DVD on the antiquities trade:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/4/prweb376021.htm

Dealing with the looting of sites in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/mopz9 (Daily Comet)
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/14405749.htm
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
More on those ancient italian forgeries:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/forgery_arc.html

The Queen continued the 'Maundy coin' tradition:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4905376.stm

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Joseph Gandy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/arts/design/21anti.html

Veronese:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/060424craw_artworld

Anasazi Heritage Center:

http://www.telluridewatch.com/042106/anasazi.htm

Ancient Japanese Art:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2006/20/c9141.html

The Morgan Library will soon reopen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/arts/design/20morg.html

Cradle of Christianity:

http://www.forward.com/articles/7667

The Prato Haggadah:

http://www.jtslibrarytreasures.org/prato/prato.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Antony and Cleopatra:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1756984,00.html

Odin: The Opera:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/music/17odin.html

Khan: The Rock Opera:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346789
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
H-Net's dictionaries and language resources page:

http://www.h-net.org/~hre/language.html

Canadian Currency Museum:

http://www.currencymuseum.ca/

Underwater Archaeology in Greece:

http://www.underwaterarchaeology.gr/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Walter Ristow (Maps):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/us/17ristow.html

Jack Lucas (Excavator of Tripontium):

http://tinyurl.com/n2x45 (Harborough Today)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
They began digging into that 'bosnian pyramid' this week and
claim to have found cut stone (although I'd like someone to
mention that natural geologic phenomena such as columnar
jointing are probably a more reasonable explanation):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=237
http://tinyurl.com/nha2e (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/pgvz8 (NG)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12402157/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_sc/bosnia_pyramid_5
(slideshow)
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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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the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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