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In the news this week:

The big news of the week (and much, apparently, to the delight of newspaper
editors) is the discovery of a statue of the pharoah Taharqa, not in Egypt,
but in the basement of a museum where staff used it as a "bike rack".
Here's the various coverage (thanks to numerous readers for the heads up on
this one and watch the wrap on most of the following):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/02/04/timnwsnws01030.html?999

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_630000/630747.stm

Eurekalert has a press release on the sophistication of ice age clothing:

http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uiuc-iac020100.html

Al-Ahram has a nice feature on the opening to the public of the 'Villa of
the Birds', one of the few Roman villas extant in Alexandria (thanks to
Judy Underwood and Cosma Shalizi for the heads up):

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2000/466/eg11.htm

The BBC has a vague sort of report on the results of an archaeological
survey in Wales, which has found (among other things) a secret monastic
cemetery:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_620000/620175.stm

According to the Times of London, a french historian is demanding DNA tests
be done on the body which is in Napoleon's grave (watch the wrap):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/03/timfgneur01009.html?9\
99

The Telegraph has an interesting piece on the archaeological search for the
people who first cultivated chocolate (thanks to Mark Williams for the
heads up and watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001889058918707&rtmo=pbIeQ1se&atmo=99999999&pg=\
/et/00/1/27/ecfchoc27.html

Here's one I missed: a couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post had a
semi-editorial piece on 'dead digs', which has much to say on digs which
are done and never published:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/10/122l-011000-idx.html


AT THE NEWSSTANDS

Discovering Archaeology has a brief update on the 'stairway to the
underworld' on Orkney:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/webex/webex020300-orkney.shtml

Archaeology Odyssey has updated its online content, with a nice feature on
the Garamantine kingdom and the Beirut Museum

http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html


FOLLOWUPS

Discovery.com's newsbrief section has a short piece on the dig at Mendes
(Egypt) reported in last week's Explorator (if this url doesn't work, click
on the archives link at Discovery.com ... thanks to Jim Hammitt for the
heads up):

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/brief2.html?ct=389cccc2

The Elgin Marbles are back in the news; the BBC reports that Turkey is
backing Greece's claim to have them returned while the Telegraph reports
that Greece offered a secret deal to get just a few pedimental sculptures
back (watch the wrap on the latter):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_632000/632430.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001889058918707&rtmo=aN22RJHL&atmo=6666666J&pg=\
/et/00/2/3/wgre03.html


OBITUARIES

Tim Potter (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001889058918707&rtmo=wQAnisib&atmo=6666666J&pg=\
/et/00/1/29/ebpott29.html


Peter Levi (watch the wrap):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/02/02/timobiobi02003.html?999

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=wQA55QKb&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/2/5/eblevi05.html


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[Apologies for lateness ... I slept in!]

In the news this week:

To judge by discussion on various lists, the big news of the week is
report, emanating ultimately from New Scientist, that Romans may have
reached the new world. Here's all sorts of coverage, all variations on the
same theme (thanks to plenty of folks who sent me heads up on this one):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/368093.asp?cp1=1
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ns-drs020900.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/newsns222537.html

The Telegraph has a nice report on how humans in the Mesolithic were rather
more sophisticated than previously thought (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=VMDqfDSK&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/2/10/ecfman10.html

The Washington Post reports on Iraq's recovery of some 5,000 artifacts,
some dating from Sumerian times:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/specials/mideast/iraq/A33067-2000Feb9\
.html

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{}


The BBC has a tantalizingly brief report suggesting Abu Dhabi was inhabited
from at least the third century:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_640000/640597.stm


The Times of London also has a nice report on the recovery in Miami of a
number of artifacts stolen from Corinth:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/10/timfgnusa02008.html?9\
99

The BBC reports on one scholar's claim that King Arthur was actually
Scottish (!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_641000/641424.stm

According to CNN, an American is going to attempt to circumnavigate the
world in a reed boat, which will, no doubt, add more voices to the 'who
populated which continent when' debate (thanks to Karen Cunningham for the
heads up)

EXHIBITS

The Times reports that an impending exhibition of Pompeii erotica has
angered Vatican officials (watch the wrap):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stifgneur01004.html?217\
7977

The Art in the Age of the Pyramids exhibition has finally arrived at the
Royal Ontario Museum (just down the road!) and so there is plenty of
coverage in Canadian newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, which
undoubtedly has the most ridiculous url I've ever seen ... 'watch the wrap'
seems to be an understatement:

http://archives.theglobeandmail.com/search97cgi/s97_cgi?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2\
Fchico2%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fgam%2Fsearch%2Fhtml%2F20000205%2FSAEGYP%2Ehtml&DocOffset\
=1&DocsFound=1&QueryZip=archaeology&Collection=TGAM&SortField=sortdate&ViewTempl\
ate=GAMDocView%2Ehts&SearchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Farchives%2Etheglobeandmail%2Ecom%2Fs\
earch97cgi%2Fs97%5Fcgi%3FQueryZip%3Darchaeology%26ResultTemplate%3DGAMResults%25\
2Ehts%26QueryText%3Darchaeology%26Collection%3DTGAM%26SortField%3Dsortdate%26Vie\
wTemplate%3DGAMDocView%252Ehts%26ResultStart%3D1%26ResultCount%3D10&

[if that doesn't work, just do a search for archaeology at
www.theglobeandmail.com ... thanks to William Kerr for the heads up on this
one] Other coverage at:

http://www.macleans.ca/pub-doc/2000/02/14/Art/index.shtml


FOLLOWUPS

Last week we reported on the discovery near Pisa of the ancient remains of
a Roman and his dog; this week the Times of London has given some excellent
coverage to it at (watch the wrap):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/11/timfgneur02007.html?9\
99


OBITUARIES

The world of ancient history is much poorer off after the loss of G. de
Ste. Croix this week (thanks to various folks who passed along urls on this):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/10/timobiobi02001.html?9\
99

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=quxMJK99&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/2/12/ebsain12.html



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Sorry folks; I neglected to do the ctrl-v with the url for the story of the
American about to circumnavigate the world in a reed boat (thanks to many
for pointing this out!):

http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/02/05/bc.chile.reedboat.ap/index.html


regards and apologies,

dm
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N.B. I'm fiddling with font sizes this week to see if it helps avoid the
'watch the wrap' issue ... if this is a problem for your browser/mail
program, please drop me a line

A somewhat busy week:

I might be biased, but the big news of the week appears to be the supposed
identification of bones found in the Demosion Sema in Athens with the men
eulogized in Pericles' funeral oration -- the source of my bias is that it
was the discovery of this site in 1997 which was the impetus for
Commentarium, which spawned the publication you are reading now. Anyhoo ...
here's plenty of coverage ... the first from Archaeology Magazine, the
remainder various takes on AP and Reuters reports (thanks to William Kerr,
who interestingly was alone in sending me a heads up on this one):

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/athens/index.html
http://www2.nando.net:80/noframes/story/0,2107,500169633-500217358-501025219-0,0\
0.html
http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/peloponnesian000217.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/371390.asp
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/18/timfgnusa01005.html?9\
99


If I weren't biased, I would have made the following the big news story of
the week: Zahi Hawass and friends have uncovered the "Tomb of Osiris",
first hinted at in that 'live' excavation in and around the pyramids a few
months ago. Here's plenty of coverage, most of which are variations on a
Reuters report (watch the wrap on occasion; the Spiegel coverage is in German):

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/osiris000216.html
http://deseretnews.com:80/dn/view/0,1249,150014357,00.html?
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/nf/0,1518,65006,00.html

Also on the Egyptian front, the Philadelphia Inquirer has a feature on
what's happening with the finds from the Barhariya oasis:

http://www.phillynews.com:80/inquirer/2000/Feb/13/front_page/MUMMY13.htm

USA Today has a report on the purported location of Mt. Sinai:

http://www.usatoday.com/aponline/2000021712/2000021712024200.htm


The BBC reports on the playing of the world's oldest flute (this one is
very small, but should still work)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/washington_2000/newsid_649000\
/649296.stm


EurekAlert points us to a news release from Cornell University, which
suggests that Mozart died of natural causes:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb00/Mozart.death.html

According to the Times, Robert Ballard's next search will be in the Black
Sea for Noah's Ark (!):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/15/timfeafea02003.html?9\
99


ON THE NEWSTANDS

Discovering Archaeology's latest online content comes from their July 1999
issue and includes a number of interesting items, including the use of
satellite technology to find sites in Egypt:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/0799toc/7feature1-space.shtml

... one of the few reports on what actually resulted from the search for
King Alfred's bones:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/7randn3-king.shtml

Home page for current issue of Discovering Archaeology:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/index.shtml


In addition to the big story noted above, Archaeology Magazine has some new
online content, including (among other things) a report on the discovery of
a massive horse burial in a Kurgan:

http://www.he.net:80/~archaeol/0001/newsbriefs/horses.html

... and an abstract of a feature on Roman life on the Danube:

http://www.he.net:80/~archaeol/0001/abstracts/insight.html

Table of Contents for current issue of Archaeology:

http://www.archaeology.org/0003/toc/toc.html

FOLLOWUPS

Kennewick Man is back in the news, free to be DNA tested etc.:

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/neanderthal000218.html

EurekAlert alerted me to a UMichigan news release on research which
pinpoints rather exactly (if one can say skull analyses are exact) whence
aboriginal North Americans came. I also include another report on the
matter from Discovery Channel Canada (thanks to John Carr for the heads up):

http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/Releases/2000/Feb00/r021500b.html
http://www.exn.ca/html/templates/htmlpage.cfm?ID=20000218-55

OBITUARIES

The Times obituary for Tim Potter:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/18/timobiobi01004.html?9\
99



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On the web this week:

The big news of the week appears to be the discovery of warehouses and
docks in Rome in the Transtevere district (lots of coverage):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/21/timfgneur01004.html?9\
99
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=r3Q2F9hX&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/2/21/wrom21.html

Also on the Roman front, there appears to be much controversy over the
Italian government's pledge to infuse Pompeii with massive amounts of cash
to help preserve it; here are three reports from disparate sources:

http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0002/26/text/world25.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/02/24/timfgneur01001.html?9\
99
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=Vw1Plk1x&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/2/23/wpomp23.html


Still on the Roman front, research in the Domus Aurea suggests that Nero
used wall paintings in the non-public rooms, and contributed to a decline
in Roman wall painting (qualis artifex indeed!):

http://www.alphagalileo.org/fetchpn.asp?id=3109&accept_language=en
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/nosr-enr022100.html


Also potentially on the 'big news' side of things, archaeologists think
they might have found the location of Captain Kidd's ship, off the coast of
Madagascar (thanks to Bill Kerr for the heads up):

http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/national/science/022200sci-archaeo-madagasca\
r.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/0223pirate.shtml


The Miami Herald has a piece on how widely the Vikings ranged:

http://www.herald.com:80/content/tue/news/americas/digdocs/041169.htm


The Nando Times has a feature on the technology of 'thermal archaeology':

http://www.nando.net:80/24hour/adn/technology/story/0,1976,500173386-500224406-5\
01065794-0,00.html


Also on the technology side of things come various reports on the dangers
of losing archaeological records because of computer format changes and/or
media deterioration:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/fetchpn.asp?id=3109&accept_language=en
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_654000/654116.stm


LIVE EVENT (sort of)

National Geographic is featuring this week a presentation
(RealAudio/WindowsMedia) by Johan Reinhard, on his discovery of assorted
Incan child sacrifice mummies in 1995 (the presentation was made in
November 1999):

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lectures/99fall/andes.html


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[apologies for crossposting ... you wouldn't believe how many lists I feel
morally-bound to send this to]

Greetings,
This morning I finally connected long enough to my ISP to update my virus
definitions for Norton antivirus and I was greatly dismayed to discover
that I had been infected with the W32.Plage.Worm. I have no idea when I was
infected with same, but the virus apparently first appeared in January of
2000 (which coincides with a time I was having -- and continue to have --
problems connecting with my ISP, including in regards to such things as
scheduled tasks like Live Update for Norton Antivirus). It isn't really a
harmful thing, as far as viruses/worms go, but it is one of those things
one can pass along without even knowing it -- it supposedly sends a message
to any unanswered message it finds in your email program. If you have
received a message like the following from me (or anyone else, for that
matter):

P2000 Mail auto-reply:
' I'll try to reply as soon as possible.
Take a look to the attachment and send me your opinion! '
  > Get your FREE P2000 Mail now! <

... you should do a virus scan. There is an attachment that comes with the
message as a supposed .zip file which can have various names (mine was
news_doc.zip but apparently the name is randomly selected from a list). If
you haven't received such a message, there should be no need to worry.
As for what the virus does, if you're on your computer between midnight and
2 a.m. on a Wednesday, you'll be given a rather disturbing image on your
screen of Hitler with a gun in his mouth and an appeal to stop the "plage"
(sic) affecting the world.

More info on the virus (including info on the various file names of the
attachment containing it) at:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.plage.worm.html
or
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/p2000.htm

I sincerely hope I haven't passed this along to you, but if I have, my
sincerest apologies.

regards,
dm

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On the web this week:

The big news of the week is the discovery of extremely old hand axes in
Asia, which is forcing a rethink on the pace of human development in the
region. Here's more coverage than you can shake a stick at:

http://www.latimes.com:80/news/state/20000303/t000020799.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/asiatools000302.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664967.stm
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000303/history_asiantools.html

Also on the prehistoric front, the BBC reports on that what appears to be
the oldest built structure has been found in Japan (it predates Terra Amata
by 100,000 years at least!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_662000/662794.stm


And as long as we're looking at Asia, Inside China reports on the discovery
of a hitherto unknown Imperial palace:

http://www.insidechina.com:80/news.php3?id=140004


Also in the category of major news are a couple of reports on what the
Tabula Cortonensis tells us about the Etruscan language:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/03/04/timfnffnf01011.html?9\
99
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000303/history_etruscans.html


The BBC reports on the discovery in Iraq of a pre-Islamic 'castle':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_665000/665486.stm


The Jerusalem Post reports on the recovery of a purloined Roman-era bust:

http://www.jpost.com:80/Editions/2000/03/03/News/News.3514.html


CNN reveals that the AmericaQuest folks are going to be mounting a live
interactive expedition to Anasazi territory (thanks to Judy Underwood for
the heads up):

http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/specials/AmericaQuest/preview/


ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Biblical Archaeology Review has a new online issue, which includes one out
of three in print articles on the historicity of the Bible among other
thing; worth a look is the piece on Tel Rehov:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html


Bible Review is also online with new content, chief among which are a pair
of articles dealing with the Nazareth v. Bethlehem debate:

http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html

EXHIBITS

The Bergen Record has a review of the "Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from
Roman Egypt" currently at the Met:

http://www.bergen.com:80/previews/mummy03200003037.htm


TOURISTY PIECES

The Montreal Gazette has a nice little feature on Malta:

http://www.montrealgazette.com:80/travel/pages/000304/3696513.html

Something called FeedMag has an essay on Leptis Magna:

http://www.feedmag.com:80/essay/es290.shtml

The Miami Herald has a piece on the Maya city of Calakmul:

http://www.herald.com:80/content/tue/living/travel/digdocs/051891.htm


A NEW WEBSITE

The Department of Archaeology and Art History of the University of Siena
has just put together a massive website devoted to Medieval Archaeology in
and around Siena. There are rather nice reports on 11 major excavations,
with plenty of photos, QTVR, etc. The site is in Italian, but worth a look
(only 88 hits so far!):

http://www.archeo.unisi.it/archeologia_medievale/welcome.html


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A slow week as far as new discoveries go, but there's plenty of interesting
stuff that hit the web this week:

The New York Times reports on a study suggesting that a fanciful passage in
Chaucer's Franklin's Tale might actually reveal a genuine astronomical
event (watch the wrap ... maybe):

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/030700sci-chaucer-astronomy.html


The Arizona Star tells of threats to the Casa Grande site:

http://www.azcentral.com:80/news/0311monument.shtml


FoxNews  has an interesting piece on the various technologies being used by
archaeologists:

http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/031000/archaeology.sml

EXHIBITS

The Evansville Courier Press and the Chicago Sun Times both have a
reviewish thing on a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit currently making its way
across the U.S. (watch the wrap ... maybe):

http://www.courierpress.com:80/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200003/08+deadsea030800_news.htm\
l+20000308
http://www.suntimes.com:80/output/news/sea05.html


The International Herald Tribune has a very interesting piece on an
exhibition of things owned by the Franciscan order currently on display in
Milan (but no photos!):

http://www.iht.com:80/IHT/TODAY/SAT/IN/holy.2.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

The online content at Discover.com has last month's news (arrgh ... there's
a thing on the Pisa Ships in this month's print issue), but there are a few
interesting features. The first is on the fate of the Vikings (the
seafaring ones, not the NFL team):

http://www.discover.com/mar_00/featvanished.html

... the second is a followup of sorts on the discovery of that inscription
in Egypt which might be the earliest example of alphabetic writing:

http://www.discover.com/mar_00/breakdawn.html

... and the third is a feature on how to make a mummy (for you Brier and
Wade fans):

http://www.discover.com/mar_00/featmaking.html

Discovering Archaeology has a nice article on the burial practices of
Neolithic types:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/webex/webex030200-corpses.shtml



FOLLOWUPS

FoxNews has a nice piece on the 'tomb of Osiris' mentioned in Explorator a
few weeks back:

http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/031100/egypt_osiris.sml


The Telegraph reports that the exhibit of "Roman porn" from Pompeii which
caused a bit of a stir among Church officials will be going on permanent
display (watch the wrap ... maybe):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=glNGZjku&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/3/9/wbul09.html#go8


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Another slow week, but the scans did turn up some interesting stuff
nonetheless:

IN THE NEWS

FoxNews has a nice feature on the Oriental Institute's Demotic Dictionary
project:

http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/031800/egypt_dictionary.sml


The Washington Times has a review of an online Ancient Egyptian webquest
which is kind of nice:

http://www.washtimes.com/familytimes/Webwise-20000312.htm

... since the url in the article isn't active (sloppy webtypesetting),
click here:

http://users.massed.net/~mdurant/AncientEgyptWebquest.htm


Science Daily has a report on how the Cahokia people may have been at a
major trade crossroads:

http://www.sciencedaily.com:80/releases/2000/03/000315075536.htm

EXHIBITS

The Washington Post has a review of the Gold of the Nomads exhibit at the
Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore (this page crashed my browser, but I
suspect it's my computer's fault):

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14906-2000Mar15.html


ON THE NEWSTANDS

I'm not sure how 'new' this is (in web terms), but Scientific American has
a piece from its August 1999 issue on how the whole 'out of Africa' theory
of human origins is being questioned:

http://www.sciam.com:80/1999/0899issue/0899infocus.html


If I didn't mention this one, I should have: Archaeology has a nice online
feature on the Demosion Sema in Athens (supposedly entombing the dead of
Pericles' funeral oration):

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

There's a number of other online features as well at Archaeology, including
a nice feature on Butrint:

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

Discovering Archaeology has a number of new or semi-new features of
interest; the first is on Steven Miller's excavations of the Temple of Zeus
and how it would appear there was a kinder, gentler Zeus:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/0800toc/8randn9-zeus.shtml

There's also a piece on evidence on the Janiculum for a Gothic seige of
Rome in Byzantine times:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/webex/webex031600-goths.shtml


DA also tells us that a DNA test has linked an Incan sacrificial victim to
a local:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/0800toc/8randn4-ancestor.shtml

Also worth looking at is a feature on the importance of camels in the
pre-Islamic UAE (tomb excavation):

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/0800toc/8randn14-afterlife.shtml

FOLLOWUPS

Salon Magazine has a review of D.H.Thomas' *Skull Wars: Kennewick Man,
Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity*:

http://www.salon.com:80/books/feature/2000/03/16/skulls/index.html

This one's a bit old, but I happened upon it when digging up the above
review in Salon ... it's a nice piece on the whole Elgin Marbles debate:

http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/02/05/marbles/

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<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

English translation (probably delayed):
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
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A mixed bag this week (I wasn't quite sure what an appropriate order for
all this stuff would be!):

IN THE NEWS

In the 'big news' category comes Mike Sandars' claim to have found the
remains of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Dead Sea (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=lQkkHAot&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/3/26/wsod26.html

Also on the 'big news' department is the discovery of what may be the
oldest Christian cemetery in Ireland:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0323/hom9.htm

The Times of London reports that a hitherto bit of sloppy pot decoration is
now being used as evidence for fossils in antiquity:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/03/20/timfgneur01007.html


The Guardian reports on an eccentric bishop's bequest to the Vatican: a
sculpture of a satyr in a typically satyric pose, which was supposedly made
by Praxiteles:

http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,150734,00.html

The Telegraph has a report on the Lindisfarne Gospels, which are being
returned to the 'northeast' (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=pbee4ese&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/3/19/nlin19.html

The Telegraph also has a preview of some Anglo Saxon jewellery which will
be auctioned off shortly (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=Q0OOaamR&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/3/25/cmicolle.html

Also in the Telegraph is a report that an erstwhile medieval dyke has been
elevated to the status of a castle:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=Vw44GGZx&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/3/21/nwall21.html

The BBC has an interesting report on the 'richest people' of the past
millennium (various fortunes were converted to modern money) ... it would
appear that William the Conqueror paid his followers well:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_690000/690763.stm


The U. Florida Independent Alligator has a feature on that institution's
involvement in the excavation of the Francisican mission Nombre de Dios:

http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/000322/university-education-145

The Dispatch has a nice feature on Ohio's Serpent Mound:

http://www.dispatch.com:80/news/newsfea00/mar00/216545.html

The Telegraph has a feature on an elderly gentleman's lifetime project of
building a model of the Second Temple (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=lQkkHAot&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/3/22/balang.html

Classicists will be interested in a feature in the Telegraph, contrasting
Martha Lane Fox with her father Robin (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=Vw44GGZx&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/3/15/nlast115.html


FOLLOWUPS

The Western Press has an interesting article on a project to demonstrate
how the stones from Stonehenge were moved to their current location (I
couldn't decide if this was news or a followup to monthly coverage about
Stonehenge! Coin toss ...):

http://www.westpress.co.uk/news/stories/news05.html


OBITUARIES

Kate Washburn:

http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/local/docs/washburn25.htm



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If you're in one of those parts of the world that observes Daylight Savings
time ... it went into effect early this a.m.!

IN THE NEWS

The big news of the week appears to be the results of DNA tests on the rib
of a Neanderthal child, which suggests that Neanderthals weren't directly
related to nor interbred with more 'modern' versions of the species. Here's
plenty of coverage (the BBC coverage has some good links to related
articles from the past on this issue):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_694000/694467.stm
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/03/29/timfgneur01004.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/neanderthal000328.html
http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/national/science/032900sci-anthro-neandertha\
l.html

http://deseretnews.com:80/dn/view/0,1249,155013735,00.html?


Assorted archaeology types are up in arms about plans to gird the Pantheon
in iron bars to protect it from grafitti artist types, according to the Times:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/03/27/timfgneur01001.html

The Savannah Morning News reports on the discovery of a Native American
burial ground:

http://www.savannahmorningnews.com:80/smn/stories/032800/LOCburial.shtml

SAGAS

Discovery.com has the latest in the ongoing Elgin Marbles repatriation saga:

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000329/history_elginmarbles.html

FOLLOWUPS

La Repubblica's Republic of the Arts has a very nice feature on the Pisan
shipwrecks (thanks to Hillary Cool for the heads up!!):

http://www.repubblicarts.kataweb.it/repubblicarts/prima.html

There are a couple of good pieces this week (in the Detroit News and at
MSNBC), on that erotic art from Pompeii exhibition which raised the ire of
Vatican officials:

http://detnews.com:80/2000/religion/0003/29/03300008.htm
http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/388459.asp?cp1=1

The Hindu has an extensive article on the Tomb of Midas (found and reported
on a few months ago), which also wanders into the territory of Lindow Man:

http://www.indiaserver.com:80/thehindu/2000/03/30/stories/08300004.htm

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Egypt Revealed has a couple of nice articles ... the first on the Ptolemaic
port of Berenike:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/032200-berenike.shtml

... as well as an article on the Oriental Institute/University of Chicago's
Demotic Dictionary project:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/031500-demotic.shtml

Discovering Archaeology has a couple of items of interest, including a
report on an outpost of the Inca empire:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/0800toc/8feature5-empires.shtml

... and evidence of a Roman medical technique:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/0800toc/8randn12-remedy.shtml

REVIEWS

The Times of London has a review of Mary Beard and John Henderson's
*Classics: A very short introduction*

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/01/timbooboo01012.html

Lingua Franca has a couple of 'group reviews' of interest; the first being
a review of E. Hornung's *Akhenaten and the Religion of Light* and J.
Tyldesley's *Nefertiti, Egypt's Sun Queen*:

http://www.linguafranca.com/br/0004/osborne.html

... the second is on J.G.A. Pocock's *Barbarism and Religion* volumes,
which will be of interest to fans of Gibbon:

http://www.linguafranca.com/br/0004/armitage.html

Not really dealing with the ancient world, but I keep running into reviews
of it and it looks potentially interesting and appropriate for this rag,
the Seattle Times has a review of *The Plato Papers*:

http://www.seattletimes.com/news/entertainment/html98/plat02_20000402.html


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Plenty o' stuff this week:

OLD WORLD NEWS
The Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists is revealing tons of new
stuff. One big item was the discovery of a new pyramid in the Bahariya
Oasis region -- I actually heard about this three weeks ago on a sports
radio station, but things didn't begin appearing in print until this week
(the sports station probably broke an embargo) (thanks to Judy Underwood
for some of what follows):

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/egypt000404.html
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000403/history_pyramid.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_699000/699869.stm
http://www.spokane.net:80/news-story-body.asp?Date=040300&ID=s762379&cat=
http://www.accessatlanta.com:80/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/monday/news_838ee3e\
9158090f400fe.html


Also revealed at the Congress was the discovery of a new chamber in the
Meidum Pyramid, according to Egypt Revealed:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/040500-meidum.shtml

Another item from the Congress: how studies of mummies are helping modern
understanding about disease:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_698000/698022.stm

I'm not sure if this was revealed at the Congress, but perhaps it was: the
Rheinische Post is reporting on the discovery of a new sphinx near Luxor
(article in German) (thanks to Hanna Orr for the heads up):

http://www.rp-online.de/news/wissenschaft/2000-0403/sphinx.html

Also on the Egyptian front, Egypt Revealed has a nice piece on the various
artifacts lurking in museum basements:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/032100-basements.shtml

Still in Egypt (wow!), Middle East Times has a feature on the ongoing
dig/reconstruction of the burial complex of Maya (thanks to Judy Underwood
for the heads up):

http://metimes.com/2K/issue2000-13/commu/team_resurrects_crumbled.htm

The Times of London has a nice piece on an iron age warrior's grave, which
includes some non-typical items:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/07/timnwsnws01024.html

The BBC reports on evidence that the Vikings might have created a
telescope, quite a bit earlier than the Dutch (thanks to Bob Keeter for the
heads up):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_702000/702478.stm


The Irish Times has a sort of touristy piece on Hierapolis and other sites
in Turkey:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/world/2000/0404/wor19.htm

The Irish Times also has a piece on plans to restore the 'Red Earl's' hall:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0403/reg4.htm


NEW WORLD NEWS

The big New World news item appears to be the discovery of a campfire in
Virginia, which is causing much rethinking about when folks arrived there.
Here's plenty of coverage, all variations on the same AP story:

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/first_americans000407.html
http://www.bergen.com:80/morenews/earlyam200004075.htm
http://www.accessatlanta.com:80/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_83de47b\
4367860c00075.html


The Boston Globe reports on the discovery of a prehistoric site last summer
(thanks to Judy Underwood for the heads up):

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/093/metro/Prehistoric_artifacts+.shtml

A University of Pennsylvania dig is telling much about the origins of the
Iroquois, according to a Eurekalert release:

http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/psu-adp040500.html


The Denver Post has a touristy feature on Durango:

http://www.denverpost.com:80/news/news0402k.htm


Foxsports (yes, the sports page) tells of the plans to use satellite
imagery to assist a dig in Alaska:

http://www.foxsports.com:80/wires/pages/70/spt121970.sml


THE ANTIQUITIES TRADE

The Times has a report on one recent theft which was apparently 'done to
order':

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/03/timfgneur01002.html

The Times also reports on the Chinese government's demand for return of an
artifact which recently turned up at auction in New York:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/06/timfgnfar03001.html

Nandotimes reports on how a museum employee in Spain was responsible for
the theft of millions of dollars' worth of antiquities:

http://www2.nando.net:80/noframes/story/0,2107,500190494-500256896-501315779-0,0\
0.html

FOLLOWUPS
Discover Magazine has finally put their article on the Pisa ships online:

http://www.discover.com/apr_00/featlost.html

The Sydney Morning Herald has more on the erotic art from Pompeii exhibit:

http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0004/03/text/features4.html


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Our usual mixed bag:

OLD WORLD NEWS

The big news of the week (to me, anyway) appears to be the announcement of
plans to try and find the remains of Cambyses' lost army, near Siwah
(thanks to Bill Kennedy for the heads up):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/393420.asp?cp1=1



The Telegraph has a nice report on what a major street in first century
London looked like, and plans to recreate it (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=LbhllNNd&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/4/16/nold16.html

The Oregonian has a nice feature on the Urumchi mummies (watch the wrap):

http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/04/sc_4\
1mummy12.frame

Probably because of the Passover/Easter season, USNews and World Report is
reprising an article from October on the archaeological evidence for
various Biblical personalities and events:

http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/991025/bible.htm

NEW WORLD NEWS

Discover.com has a report suggesting the early residents of Jamestown might
have been poisoned!:

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000413/history_colonists.html


SAGAS
The next step in the Kennewick Man saga will be deciding which bones will
be subjected to DNA testing, according to the Oregonian (which also has a
nice archive of stories relating to KM, in case you just can't get enough)
(watch the wrap; on my mailer here it's only one letter wrapped, so you
might miss it!):

http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/04/sc_4\
1kendna12.frame

AlphaGalileo reports that a student at Bradford is part of a team that won
the "oscar of conservation" for his work on a bronze age shield:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ReadNotice.cfm?releaseid=3504

EXHIBITS

A very nice website has gone up devoted to Piero della Francesca's Arezzo
frescoes (thanks to Jean P. Lindsey for the heads up):

http://www.pierodellafrancesca.it/piero_gb/index.html


THE ANTIQUITIES TRADE
The Telegraph has a feature called "Yesterday in Parliament" which includes
a rather lengthy account of a committee meeting involving Lord Renfrew and
his thoughts on Britain's negligent role in the illicit antiquities trade
(watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=LbhllNNd&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/4/14/npar14.html#go4


STUFF I MISSED
Last week I neglected to mention quite a few things related to new world
archaeology, so here they be (thanks to Karen C. for all of these):

The Denver Post on vandals defacing some rock art:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0409k.htm

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on mounds in Wisconsin:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/apr00/tribes09040800a.asp

The Augusta Chronicle on early Spanish remains in South Carolina:

http://augustachronicle.com/stories/040900/met_124-1899.shtml

An article on the damage ATV's are doing to mounds in and around Cahokia:

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsnews/093nd1.htm



FOLLOWUPS
The New York Times has a decent article on the Cactus Hill site in Virginia:

http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/national/science/041100sci-archaeo-us.html

... as does Science News:

http://www.sciencenews.org/20000415/fob1.asp


Discovery.com has one of the better features on Mayor's idea that fossils
inspired many features of ancient mythology (this is the first one with a
picture of the pot that started the thinking, I believe)(thanks to
"Hyper10n" for the heads up):

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000412/history_myths.html


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Plenty of stuff this week:

The big news of the week appears to be one scholar's suggestion that the
bones found in "Philip's Tomb" aren't those of Alexander the Great's
father, but of his half (wit) brother Philip Arrhideus. Here's plenty of
coverage ... that from the Independent and Discover.com is the most balanced:

http://www.eurekalert.org:80/releases/aaas-sfr041300.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-04/alexander210400.shtml
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000421/history_philip.html
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/042000-philipii.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/042100/alexander.sml
http://library.northernlight.com/HB20000420510000011.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
http://www.accessatlanta.com:80/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_83ffbed\
19555d0cb00ad.html


OLD WORLD NEWS

The Independent reports on the suggestion that Stone Age Europeans may have
chowed down on their fellows:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-04/stoneage230400.shtml

Discovery.com reports on the discovery of a large Egyptian temple complex
for the crocodile god, appropriately in Crocodilopolis:

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000418/history_crocodopolis.html

Cyprus News reports on what's been found recently at Idalion:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cypio/2000/00-04-17.cypio.html#04


ABCNews picks up an AP report on the discovery of a Greco-Roman fortress in
Egypt's western desert:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000420_784.html


The Times (London) has a brief piece suggesting that pot decoration in
ancient Greece had the same effect as magazine covers do today in terms of
creating societal standards of beauty:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/20/timnwsnws03036.html

As might be expected this time of year, we have a feature on scholars
disagreeing over the exact route Jesus walked when he was crucified:

http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/016989.htm

Also somewhat timely is the Christian Science Monitor's report on ancient
Roman censuses:

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/04/19/text/p1s3.html


The Times (London) also has a report on how St. George was never actually
in England:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Times/timnwsnws03031.html

The Montreal Gazette has a feature on the discovery of the Elizabeth and
Mary shipwreck:

http://www.montrealgazette.com:80/news/pages/000419/3958758.html


The Times (London) has a report on the meeting of the Classical
Association, as well as an editorial on why the study of Classics remains
important:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/17/timopnedt01002.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/19/timnwsnws01015.html


The Times also has a piece on a project in Northumberland where they're
living la vida neolithica:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/21/timfeafea02001.html

Also in the Times (and sounding like a tale from Herodotus), researchers
have suggested that the babbling of babies is a clue to the earliest
language development (becos anyone?):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/21/timfgnusa01002.html



NEW WORLD NEWS
According to ABCNews, a mysterious 'skystone' might be evidence that the
Puyallup people might have been making astronomical observations:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/skystone000418.html


DNA and ARCHAEOLOGY
ABCNews reports that DNA evidence has proven that Louis XVII died in prison:

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/world/DailyNews/france_king000419.html

Somewhat more interesting is a study of mitochondrial DNA which suggests
that all Europeans are descended from seven groups of women:

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/daughters000420.html


SAGAS
Another item on upcoming DNA tests on Kennewick Man:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20000422_922.html

REVIEWS
The Times (London) has a review of  Joyce Tyldesley's *Ramesses: Egypt's
Greatest Pharaoh:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stibooboo01005.html

The Times also has a review of Margaret Reynolds *The Sappho Companion*:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/20/timbooboo03018.html

Some Explorator readers will no doubt be interested in the Seattle Times'
review of Maguib Mahfouz's *Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth* (a novel):

http://www.seattletimes.com/news/entertainment/html98/akhe23_20000423.html


ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Archaeology Odyssey has a new issue on the web, which includes feature
articles on Hermann Hilprecht's work, Vitruvius, and some news items on the
Villa of Agrippina, the Elgin Marble saga, among other things:

http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html


EXHIBITS

A brief notice in the International Herald Tribune informs that the
Capitoline Museum has (finally) reopened (thanks to Judy Underwood for the
heads up):

http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/WED/IN/travel2.2.html

The New York Times has a special section on Museums this week, as well as a
feature on Egyptian stuff in the area:

http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/arts/041900mus-index.html
http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/arts/041900mus-egypt.html

A new source I stumbled across called the Art Newspaper has a couple of
items that seem to fit in this category: one a report on Italy's Etruscan
collections and another on the return of a head of Nefertari (both on the
same page):

http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/archaeology/archeology.asp

The same source also reports on the Pushkin Museum's putting all those
famous Trojan artifacts on permanent display (pardon the awkward sentence
... this is a big issue!):

http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=1415

THE POLITICS OF ARCHAEOLOGY

The Telegraph reports on efforts to prevent Britain's oldest amphitheatre
from being buried beneath a courthouse (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=kNYb3Jop&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/4/18/namph18.html

The Irish Times reports on efforts to save some 60 or so unexcavated sites
from damage during roadbuilding:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0420/hom15.htm

OBITUARY

Leighton Reynolds (watch the wrap)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=r2Fbm3XX&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/4/8/ebreyn.html


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                                Volume 2, Issue 88 -- April 30, 2000
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The big news of the week, although it only seems to be getting coverage in
a Washington Post article being picked up by other dailies, is the
discovery of what is probably the oldest (and predynastic) temple in Egypt.
Here's a couple of versions of the same story:

http://detnews.com:80/2000/religion/0004/27/04270010.htm
http://www.suntimes.com:80/output/news/sci25.html


OLD WORLD NEWS

The BBC reports that there is evidence that early humans were weaving
clothing rather earlier than usually thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_725000/725803.stm


Xinhua reports on the discovery of some very old graves (ca 4500
B.C./B.C.E)  in Iraq:

http://library.northernlight.com/EB20000420090000035.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

Egypt Revealed has a nice little feature on Tell Tebilla:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/041800-tebilla.shtml

The Albuquerque Journal has an item on ancient Babylonian abilities to
predict eclipses:

http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/1scitech01-20-00.htm

ABCNews picks up a Reuters story relating that archaeologists have
completed the restoration of some Roman baths near (sort of ) Cairo:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000427_2503.html

The Telegraph reports on the discovery of a ring in Wales, which suggests
that Roman influence in Britain may have lasted rather longer than
conventionally believed:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=kNYqxCqp&atmo=kNYqxCqp&pg=\
/et/00/4/25/nring25.html


Discovering Archaeology has a feature on the discovery of 15 Byzantine-era
coins:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/042600-coins.shtml

If you can read Swedish, the Arbetet has an article on recent discoveries
in Lund (thanks to RM Howe for the heads up):

http://www.arbetet.se/nyheter/nyheter.asp?S=-1&M3=3&M1=1745&text=&date=


Thor Heyerdahl is apparently going to  explore a purported Sicilian
"pyramid" (I guess one man's pile of stones is another man's pyramid)
(thanks to Bill Kennedy for the heads up):

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20000425_2044.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/399474.asp?0m=-23C

The Andalou Press agency has a couple of items of interest on Ephesus and
Amazons (you'll have to scroll through the page)(thanks to Arnd Lis for the
heads up):

http://www.hri.org/news/turkey/anadolu/2000/00-04-28.anadolu.html


NEW WORLD NEWS

We're somewhat scant for New World News this week, but I did come across a
website which is devoted to the preservation of the Monitor -- you can
follow the 'dig' throughout the summer at:

http://www.mariner.org/monitorcenter/expeditions/spring2000/


FOLLOWUPS

More coverage of the question of who was buried in Philip's tomb:

http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/national/science/042500sci-archaeo-greece.ht\
ml
http://www.newscientist.com:80/news/news_223636.html
http://www.latimes.com:80/news/science/science/20000427/t000039725.html
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/042000-philipii.shtml

The Detroit News has a nice feature on the folks who are doing DNA tests
etc. on the bones found in the Demosion Sema:

http://detnews.com/2000/nation/0004/21/a12-40777.htm


SAGAS
More on the DNA tests for Kennewick Man:

http://www.seattlep-i.com:80/local/kman26.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/kennewick000426.html


ON THE NEWSSTANDS

The latest issue of Archaeology is online, with features on "The 'Seated
People' of the Rainforest" and the Nasca lines, among other things:

http://www.archaeology.org/0005/toc/toc.html

Bible Review also has a new issue online, with features on the relatives of
Jesus and the location of Mt. Sinai (among other things):

http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html

LATIN IN THE NEWS

The Ottawa Citizen reveals that the Ottawa Public Library's used book store
wants to change its name from Ex Libris, because people don't know what it
means:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com:80/entertainment/000429/4014546.html


EXHIBITIONS

The New York Times has a review of an exhibition devoted to the Vikings:

http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/national/science/042800sci-archaeo-canada.ht\
ml

ABCNews has a feature on the Smithsonian's exhibit on the 1000th
anniversary (!) of Vikings in America:

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/vikings_000428.html

OBITUARIES

De Coursey Fales (scroll down a bit; if you read past Fales' obituary, you
will also find the obituary of Terence McKenna, who wrote *The Road to
Eleusis*)

http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0004/28/text/obituaries.html


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                                       Volume 3, Issue 1 -- May 7, 2000
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Our third year begins with a good variety of stuff:

OLD WORLD NEWS

The big news of the week appears to be the discovery that humans may have
migrated up the coast of Africa rather than taking the 'Nile route' (thanks
to Bill Kennedy for the heads up)(watch the wrap in some cases):

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/ancienthuman_route000503.html

http://archives.seattletimes.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=oyst04&da\
te=20000504&query=archaeologist
http://www.msnbc.com/news/402959.asp?0m=-219

Also qualifying as rather big news would be the discovery of what is
described as a "five star hotel" in Pompeii (watch the wrap in some cases):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=qXdpqpu9&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/5/4/wpomp04.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_735000/735536.stm


The Sunday Times has an article on the 'thumbs down' gesture in the arena
(which doesn't even mention Wallace-Hadrill!):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stinwenws02005.html

The Sydney Morning Herald has a conventional feature on the Colosseum:

http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0005/05/text/features3.html

The New York Times has a feature on how the site of Belkis is being
threatened by rising waters:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,44020,00.html

Also getting a lot of press (again) is the suggestion that Napoleon might
have been poisoned:

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000505/history_napoleon.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/napoleon000504.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

ABCNews has a nice piece on what recent research into the Inca Mummies has
revealed (thanks to Michael Ruggieri for the heads up):

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/mummies990429.html


ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Time Magazine has a nice cover article on the Vikings:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,44020,00.html

Egypt Revealed has a short piece on how Egyptian religion spread across the
Mediterranean:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/050300-afterlife.shtml


SAGAS
A researcher has suggested that Lord Elgin's letters might ultimately solve
the problem of the Elgin marbles (yeah ... right):

http://www.foxnews.com/etcetera/050300/elgin_marbles.sml


FOLLOWUPS

The LA Times has a feature on the Cactus Hill site in Virginia:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20000504/t000042093.html

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Here's a corrected url (thanks to Perlina Varon for catching this ...
cutting and pasting continues to be my nemesis):

The New York Times has a feature on how the site of Belkis is being
threatened by rising waters:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/050700turkey-rome.html


Apologies all around ...

regards,

dm

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                                        Volume 3, Issue 2 -- May 14, 2000
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A nice mix, but mostly followups:

LIVE EVENT (sort of)

Yesterday the Exploratorium site did a live CT Scan of a mummy and it's
still available today. Go to the following url and click on the thing
claiming to link to a live broadcast (requires RealPlayer):

http://www.exploratorium.com/bodies/webcast_5_13.html

OLD WORLD NEWS

The big news of the week appears to be the discovery of homo erectus
fossils in the Caucasus, which pushes back by a couple of hundred million
years the time when human-like species left Africa (thanks to Bill Kennedy
and Karen C. for some of the following):

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/hominid_caucasus000512.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_745000/745080.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/406043.asp?0m=-14Q
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/wires/0511/p_ap_0511_24.sml

Also on the paleolithic side of things, the BBC reports on the discovery of
a very old 'tool factory':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336555.stm


Northern Light brings a couple of Xinhua reports on recent discoveries in
China:

http://library.northernlight.com/FA20000509480000157.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
http://library.northernlight.com/FA20000509480000124.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

The Times of London reports on one of the spinoffs of the popularity of
Gladiator ... the Colosseum is going to be refurbished a bit for use as a
theatre:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/08/timfgneur02001.html

The Times also reports that someone has figured out how Archimedes' "death
ray" worked:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/05/14/stinwenws02011.html

The Zenit news agency (?) reports on the discovery of a cave in Turkey,
with plenty of frescoes depicting St. Paul and various other early
Christian personalities:

http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2653

Chennai Online reports on the discovery of some ancient statuary in India
(thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads up):

http://www.chennaionline.com/newsview/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7BCE66B37C%2D13BF%2D1\
1D4%2D809B%2D009027DEA219%7D&CATEGORYNAME=Chennai+News


The Times of London also reports that Stonehenge will be open for the first
time in a decade on the Solstice:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/12/timnwsnws01035.html

The Telegraph reports that the team which worked on preserving the Mary
Rose will be offering their expertise to the world (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=r2ta3FFX&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/5/14/nrose14.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

The New York Times has a feature on the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux
Meadows (no relation):

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/050900sci-archaeo-canada.html

The Bergen Record reportson the discovery of the headless remains of the
conquistador Cordoba (thanks to Karen C. for the heads up):

http://www.bergen.com/morenews/remains7200005077.htm

The Deseret News has a piece on older remains which were found during the
search for a Pony Express post:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,170006935,00.html

FoxNews has a report on an expedition to raise the Hunley:

http://www.foxnews.com/national/0508/d_ap_0508_93.sml

FOLLOWUPS

Plenty of sources are reporting on the threat to the site of Belkis
(Zeugma) by rising dam waters (lots of stuff is being discovered in the
emergency excavation):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/11/timfgneur02004.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=r2ta3FFX&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/5/14/wzeug14.html

http://archives.seattletimes.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=damm07&da\
te=20000507&query=archaeologist


Discovery.com has a feature on the 'hotel' found at Pompeii reported last week:

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000511/history_pompeii.html

ABCNews has a nice feature on the clothing worn by Venus figurines:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/hats000509.html

The Washington Times has a feature on the Smithsonian's Viking exhibition:

http://www.washtimes.com/entertainment/default-20005422210.htm

OBITUARY

Homer Thompson

http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaystory?2000/05/14+139.raw+World

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                                         Volume 3, Issue 3 -- May 21, 2000
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The big news of the week appears to be the discovery of a Mayan city in
Guatemala (I was literally flooded with stories from loyal intrepid
readers, far too numerous to mention individually, but thanks!):

http://news.excite.ca/news/ap/000514/19/int-guatemala-ruins
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/20/timfnffnf03002.html
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000515/history_mayancity.html
http://www.nando.net/noframes/story/0%2C2107%2C500204274-500283561-501520071-0%2\
C00.html

OLD WORLD NEWS

Coming in a close second for 'major news' is the discovery of an iron age
village in England which boasted two storey homes and evidence of decent
stonemasonry:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/16/timnwsnws03008.html
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000517/history_village.html

The Derbyshire Times has a nice little report on the discovery -- by some
schoolkids doing an environmental project -- of a major Neolithic site
(thanks to Sue Quick for the heads up):

http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/story9.html

Arabia.com has a tantalizingly brief note on the discovery of some Old
Kingdom tombs near Memphis:

http://www.akhbar.com/article/0,1690,ArabiaLife|20388,00.html

Northern Light has a couple of Xinhua pieces on the ongoing flood of
archaeological discoveries in China:

http://library.northernlight.com/FB20000516370000176.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
http://library.northernlight.com/FA20000512380000067.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

Science Daily has a nice review/press release on a major new work on the
real, non-idyllic life of ancient pacific islanders:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000512082330.htm

NEW WORLD NEWS

Northern Light brings an AP report on evidence of a pre-Revolutionary
English settlement in Florida:

http://library.northernlight.com/EA20000519770000024.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

The Arizona Star has an interesting feature on packrat middens:

http://www.azcentral.com:80/news/0520packrat.shtml

There are some conflicting reports on the effects of the Los Alamos fire on
archaeological sites:

http://news.excite.ca/news/ap/000516/09/fires-archaeology
http://news.excite.ca/news/ap/000515/19/fires-archaeology


FOLLOWUPS

News continues to come in about Belkis/Zeugma (thanks to Bill Kennedy for
the heads up on one of these):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000518/aponline050237_000.htm
http://library.northernlight.com/FA20000516940000094.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/5279.asp?cp1=1

... as does various approaches to criticizing/praising the movie Gladiator
(this week the emphasis seems to be on the historicity of the film):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/17/timfeafea02006.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/17/timfeafea01007.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=lnFSAknt&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/5/14/wzeug14.html
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/051200-gladiator.shtml
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/gladiator/index.html
Discovering Archaeology has a nice little feature on the 'camel tombs' of Oman:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/0800toc/8randn14-afterlife.shtml

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Biblical Archaeology Review is out with a new online issue, with the major
feature looking at the recently-discovered temple at 'Ain Dara:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html

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                                          Volume 3, Issue 4 -- May 28, 2000
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Sorry for the delay today folks ... internet difficulties this a.m. (P.S.
We'll miss you, Rocket!)

Not a lot of news, but a lot of coverage of a couple of items:

The big news of the week seems to be the excavation at Tell Hamoukar, which
is pushing back the date for the creation of 'civilization'. Here's more
coverage than you can shake your trowel at (thanks to John Carr and Louis
Okin for some of what follows):

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/egyptmayor000523.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000523/aponline070301_000.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Science/2000-05/6000yrcity240500.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/052300sci-archaeo-syria.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0%2C2669%2CART-44932%2C\
FF.html
http://www.csmonitor.com:80/durable/2000/05/25/p3s1.htm
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000523/history_syria.html

The Turkish Cypriot press has a brief item on the discovery of a 5th
century B.C.E. cemetery:

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/tcpr/2000/00-05-23.tcpr.html#05

Inside Denver has a nice feature on Paolo Visona and his excavation of what
is possibly Mamertion:

http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0525close.shtml

The Times of London has a touristy piece on various amphitheatres which are
found in the blessed realm:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/27/timtrltrl02014.html

The Times of India has a report on the discovery of an Ashoka stupa in
India (thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads up):

http://www.timesofindia.com/today/27indi7.htm


ABCNews reports that there might be more tests on the Shroud of Turin
(thanks to 'Sujazz" for the heads up):

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/turinshroud000523.html

EXHIBITS

The San Francisco Examiner has a report on an exhibit at SFSU on Daily Life
in Ancient Rome:

http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/22/\
DD93843.DTL

The Art Newspaper has a report on and exhibition at the Israel Museum in
Jerusalem which features various artifacts documenting the early history of
Christianity:

http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/archaeology/archeology.asp

FOLLOWUPS

The big followup news is the reportage which came hot on the heels of Fox's
"Opening of the Tombs" special last week (which I missed, because it was a
long weekend in Canada and so I thought Tuesday was actually Monday ...
d'oh!). Here's all kinds of coverage, including (at the end) a link to
Fox's own coverage (which has some video, but not, apparently, the whole
two hour special) and a link to Zahi Hawass' site, which has more on the
Barhariyah Oasis discoveries:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/egyptmayor000523.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000523/aponline234010_000.htm
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/25/timfgnafr02002.html
http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid%5F761000/761333.stm
http://www.exn.net/html/templates/htmlpage.cfm?ID=20000524-55
http://www.foxnews.com/science/egypt/story_nine_new.sml
http://guardians.net/hawass/

SAGAS

More on the Elgin Marbles in the wake of an international conference:


http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/25/timfgneur01001.html
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2000/00-05-24.mpa.html#06

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                                           Volume 3, Issue 5 -- June 4, 2000
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Plenty happening this week:

Two items strike me as qualifiying as 'big news', although they aren't
receiving equal coverage. The first is the discovery by Goddio and his crew
of what appears to be the submerged remains of the cities of Herakleion,
Canopis, and Menouthis in Abukir Bay (most of the coverage comprises
variations on AP and/or Reuters stories ... the Times of London coverage
was a 'web special' and has photos etc.; BBC coverage is pretty good as well):

http://www.the-times.co.uk/onlinespecials/world/egypt/
http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle%5Feast/newsid%5F775000/77555\
8.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000603/aponline144910_000.htm
http://cnn.com:80/2000/WORLD/meast/06/03/bc.egypt.lostcities.ap/index.html
http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/world/DailyNews/cities000603.html
http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/415945.asp?cp1=1
http://www.herald.com:80/content/today/digdocs/082760.htm
http://www.abc.net.au:80/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-4jun2000-23.htm
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000603/15/science-egypt-archaeology

The second is the discovery of a lost city in Peru, although it seems to be
only getting minimal coverage from the news sources:

http://cnn.com:80/2000/WORLD/americas/06/03/bc.peru.lostcity.ap/index.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000603/aponline181956_000.htm

OLD WORLD NEWS

The Times of London also reports on some recently-discovered petroglyphs in
France:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/05/30/timfgneur03001.html

The Telegraph reports on damage done to Silbury Hill by recent rains (watch
the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=r2r9b9kX&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/5/31/nhole31.html

Two items in the Irish Times refer to danger to various archaeological
sites in the face of various building projects:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0529/west4.htm
http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0529/hom12.htm

The Hindu reports on restructuring at the Archaeological Survey of India:

http://www.indiaserver.com:80/thehindu/2000/06/02/stories/0202000m.htm

NEW WORLD NEWS

The Washington Post reports on the discovery of some very old and possibly
ancient canoes in Florida:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/fl/A53008-2000Jun2.html

The Miami Herald reports on what excavations at a sinkhole in Florida has
been turning up:

http://www.herald.com:80/content/sun/docs/002044.htm

CLASSICISTS' CORNER

Some items in the press which will appeal especially to the Classicists
among us include Wilfred Stroh's reading of Book 4 of the Aeneid (in Latin)
as part of Ohio University's 'Panathenaia' (thanks to William Owens for the
heads up) (requires RealPlayer):

http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/aeneid/


The Bergen Record has a feature on Dorothy Belle Pollack, a one-woman
outreach machine:

http://www.bergen.com:80/region/classicds200006012.htm

The Courier Press has a nice feature on retiring Latin teacher Jane Ann
Reinitz (watch the wrap):

http://www.courierpress.com:80/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200005/29+retiringteach052900_ne\
ws.html+20000529

A feature on the revival of Latin in Cleveland:

http://www.ohio.com:80/bj/news/ohio/docs/023830.htm

BOOK REVIEWS

The LATimes has a review of A.D. Marcus *The View from Nebo: How
Archaeology is  Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East*:

http://www.latimes.com:80/news/state/20000603/t000052469.html

The San Francisco Chronicle has a review (sort of) of A. Mayor's *The First
Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times*

http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/hotnews/stories/03/m\
onsterssun.dtl

The Lebanon Star has a review (again, sort of) of the third revised edition
of *Byblos Through the Ages*:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb:80/03_06_00/art3.htm

SAGAS

The Greek president was in Canada this week and Canadian Classical
archaeologists might be surprised/dismayed/heartened to know that our
government apparently is backing Greece's claim to have the Elgin Marbles
returned to them (the story is buried in a long account of the president's
visit ... it's the first article on the following page):

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2000/00-05-30.ana.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Discovering Archaeology has a number of items of interest this week,
including features on the 'cradle of agriculture', Ancient Petra,
revisionism in regards to an ancient Syrian goddess, and stuff about the
tv-opening of the Barhariyah tombs. Access to all from:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/

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<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

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                                            Volume 3, Issue 6 -- June 11, 2000
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Another busy week (n.b. my mail program had the never-popular "unhandled
exception" just as I finished and I might have messed up some urls in the
meantime ... still, they should all point to something archaeological):

The big news appears to be a 'rediscovery' ... specifically, the
rediscovery of a skeleton found at Stonehenge which was thought lost during
the Blitz. It was found and, although not dated yet, has turned out to be
the skeleton of someone who met a violent end by decapitation (and you can
imagine the spins being put on this, to say nothing of horrible puns in
headlines). Lots of coverage (watch the wrap on the Telegraph piece):

http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-dyn/nation/A30611-2000Jun9.html
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/09/stonehenge.htm
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/10/timnwsnws02008.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_784000/784348.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Science/2000-06/skeleton100600.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=wAjwstAb&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/6/10/nbone10.html


OLD WORLD NEWS

Coming in a close second as major news would be the discovery of a number
of "cave paintings" in the desert south of Cairo which reflect three
different periods (apparently) of Egyptian history:

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/cavedrawing000608.html
http://www.sltrib.com:80/06082000/nation_w/56149.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/06/07/egypt.discovery.ap/index.html
http://www.suntimes.com:80/output/news/cave08.html

The Independent reports on some metal detector types' discovery of a rather
major Roman coin hoard:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-06/roman100600.shtml

The Age has a report on the discovery of a Roman era vessel decorated with
tons of gladiator scenes (thanks to Martin Wallace for the heads up):

http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000611/A54936-2000Jun10.html

Frankfurther Allgemeine has an article by Paul Zanker on the Imperial fora
(this one's in English, but has a scary wrap)(thanks to Birgitta Hoffmann
for the heads up):

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?sub={F1B72E51-3783-11D4-A3AA-\
009027BA22E4}&doc={97397035-33E2-11D4-A3AA-009027BA22E4}

L'Hebdo (a Swiss newspaper) has an article (in French) on the suggestion
that a bust of Marcus Aurelius might be Julian (thanks to Sally Winchester
for the heads up):

http://www.webdo.ch/hebdo/hebdo_2000/hebdo_23/rome3_23.html

(the article doesn't include a photo of the bust, but there's one at

http://www.lausanne.ch/musees/archeo.htm

Ananova (formerly the Press Association) tells of a project to restore
Atilla the Hun's palace:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_6177.html

Eurekalert points us to a project which is making a number of Islamic
medieval medical manuscripts available on the web:

http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/nlm-imm060700.html

The Irish Times has an interesting feature on the Crusades:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/features/2000/0605/fea20.htm

The Telegraph has an interesting feature in its Connected section: a
timeline of inventions (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=wAjwstAb&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/6/8/ecfinv3.html


NEW WORLD NEWS

The Independent reports on a scholar's suggestion that he knows where the
Vikings' Vinland was:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Americas/2000-06/viking040600.shtml

MSNBC has a report on excavations to reveal what happened during the 'lean
times' at Jamestown:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/417273.asp

Fox has a report on excavations to look into Indianapolis' Black history:

http://www.foxnews.com/national/0608/d_ap_0608_44.sml

CLASSICISTS' CORNER

An interesting article on what Virgil might inspire someone to do:

http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=1881656&ern=y

A piece in the Dallas Morning News has an interesting comment on Latin:

http://dallasnews.com/lifestyles/books/92842_FW11.html

The Montreal Gazette has a piece on why Latin used to be useful (which is
not the conventional view) and what has replaced it:

http://www.montrealgazette.com:80/editorial/pages/000604/4218615.html


FOLLOWUPS

More on the discoveries in Abukir Bay:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/415945.asp
http://www.iht.com:80/IHT/TODAY/TUE/IN/cities.2.html
http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/turkish_city000605.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/05/timfgnmid02002.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-06/frozen050600.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=wAjwstAb&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/6/5/warc05.html

As for Zeugma, there are a couple of good things to say ... there has been
a reprieve of ten days or so given to the inundation of the lower city; in
addition, there is going to be a massive excavation effort in the upper
city, which won't be under water until October or thereabouts:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/06/timfgneur02002.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_784000/784673.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/413949.asp

More on the discovery of a lost city in Peru:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/06/timfgname01001.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/416625.asp

SAGAS

More Elgin Marbles stuff (some editorial -- watch the wrap on the Telegraph
pieces):

http://www.post-gazette.com:80/forum/20000608edelgin3.asp
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/09/timpolpol01003.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/06/timnwsnws02011.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/05/timfgneur02005.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=QxzQ9Q0R&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/6/9/nelg09.html

BOOK REVIEWS

Also in Frankfurter Allgemeine (and in English) is a review of Accardo et
al *Marc Aurel. Der Reiter auf dem Kapitol* (again, watch the wrap) (again,
thanks to Birgitta Hoffmann for the heads up):

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?sub={F1B72E98-3783-11D4-A3AA-\
009027BA22E4}&doc={715C656A-3963-11D4-B98C-009027BA226C}

The LATimes has a review of Steven McKenzie's *King David: A Biography*

http://www.latimes.com:80/news/state/20000610/t000055008.html

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<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

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Plenty of tidbits, but nothing which seems to be 'major news' this week:

If one *had* to select something that was major news, it would probably be
the discovery of evidence which suggests Neanderthals were skilled hunters,
not scavengers (plenty of coverage):

http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/national/science/061300sci-anthro-neandertha\
l.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_787000/787918.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/06/000613071408.htm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/419671.asp?0m=-23G

Also on the prehistoric front, the BBC reports on some new evidence for
earlier development of weaving skills:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_790000/790569.stm

The Sun Times reports that tests are going to be made on one of those
erstwhile 'carnival mummies' from Niagara Falls to determine whether it is
of royal blood:

http://www.suntimes.com:80/output/news/mum16.html

A couple of reports have surfaced of the discovery of the tomb of Ramses
II's chief of staff:

http://www.iht.com:80/IHT/TODAY/TUE/IN/ramses.2.html
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000613/history_egypt.html


According to Northern Light, a Greek archaeologist is claiming to have
discovered some fragments of Zeus' throne:

http://library.northernlight.com/FC20000612070000161.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

The Telegraph reports on the discovery of a hitherto unknown amphitheatre
at Forum Novum (on the outskirts of Rome ... watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=qXtJ9KM9&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/6/16/wamp16.html

Northern Light has various reports from Xinhua detailing recent discoveries
in China:

http://library.northernlight.com/FA20000618710000068.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
http://library.northernlight.com/FD20000612840000061.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
http://library.northernlight.com/FA20000612230000010.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting piece on the increasing
role of amateurs in basic research in numerous fields, including archaeology:

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/06/15/p14s2.htm

CLASSICISTS' CORNER

Classicists will no doubt be thrilled to learn that Susan Alcock (UMich)
has nabbed a MacArthur 'genius award':

http://detnews.com:80/2000/metro/0006/14/c01-74879.htm

A piece on the history of commencements at Dartmouth is also of some interest:

http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/000612/university-32

FOLLOWUPS

The Stonehenge decaptitation (thanks to Bill Kennedy for one of these):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/418703.asp?0m=-25G
http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/061400/times_stonehenge.sml
http://www.newscientist.com:80/news/news_224341.html
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000612/history_stonehenge.html

Tell Hamoukar:

http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/scitech/docs/sciscene13.htm

SAGAS

Elgin Marbles:

http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000626/elgin.htm
http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/archaeology/archeology.asp

EXHIBITS

The San Jose Mercury has a review of an exhibit called "The Golden Age of
Chinese Archaeology":

http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/ent/docs/chinese17.htm

Also qualifying as an exhibit, I suppose, is a review of the IMAX film "The
Mysteries of Egypt" (put together by the National Geographic folks):

http://www.dallasobserver.com:80/issues/2000-06-15/nightday.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Discovering Archaeology has a bunch of new online content, including a look
at the Indus Valley civilization, the Anasazi, Medieval shipbuilding, life
on the edge of the Egyptian desert, and empires of the Andes

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0800toc/0800toc.shtml

Archaeology Odyssey also has a new online issue, with a feature article on
the art of the Thracians:

http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html

Bible Review  joins its sister publication with a feature on Megiddo:

http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html

DIVERSIONS

The Washington Post entertainment section has a Flash game in which you
play the part of a gladiator in the 'coliseum' (sic):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/entertainment/games/index.htm


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Plenty on the web this week:

The big news of the week is probably the discovery of a number of
Anglo-Saxon graves at Sutton Hoo; here's plenty of coverage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_802000/802819.stm
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/24/timnnfnnf01003.html

OLD WORLD NEWS

Coming in a close second for big news is the report of the discovery of
various tombs of folks who worked on the pyramids, who apparently weren't
slaves (thanks to Tom Simms and Pat Ryan for the heads up on this one):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_8193.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/23/timfgnmid01004.html
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000623/hi_pyramids.html

This really should be a followup, but since it happened so long ago ... The
Times reports that a couple of lads with metal detectors will financially
benefit from their discovery of a massive Roman coin hoard a couple of
years ago:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/24/timnnfnnf01002.html

The Irish Times reports on the discovery of a 6th century AD wooden crozier
in County Offaly:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0622/hom5.htm

Discover magazine has a brief item on the discovery of aquaculture ponds in
a byzantine site:

http://www.discover.com/jul_00/fishy.html

There has been plenty of coverage of the discovery of a number of tombs in
the ruins of a 10th century Spanish church (all the following are varying
themes on the same AP story):

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/latestap/A34615-2000Jun21.html
http://www.spokane.net:80/news-story-body.asp?Date=062200&ID=s817552&cat=

The Hindu has a feature on the discovery of what might be  a provincial
capital of the Harappan civilization:

http://www.indiaserver.com:80/thehindu/2000/06/19/stories/0219000n.htm

The BBC also has a report on some finds in India:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_797000/797151.stm

The Times has a couple of items relating to the Venerable Bede:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/20/timnwsnws01025.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/20/timnwsnws01026.html

The Times also reports on the discovery of another version of the Last
Supper, apparently done by Leondardo's workshop, with contributions from
the master himself:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/24/timfnffnf01002.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

The Salt Lake Tribune has a nice piece on a Mayan panel excavated by a BYU
professor:

http://www.sltrib.com:80/06242000/utah/61570.htm

The Evansville Courier Press reports on a prehistoric site in Indiana
currently being excavated:

http://www.courierpress.com:80/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200006/20+artifacts062000_news.h\
tml+20000620

Another development in Miami might be halted because of the discovery of
prehistoric remains:

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/miami_indianburial000620.htm\
l

The Times of London has a nice article on the fraud associated with the
Frobisher expedition:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/23/timcrtcrt01008.html

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a report on the discovery of a number of
early colonists' graves:

http://web.philly.com:80/content/inquirer/2000/06/21/city/PCEM21.htm

A brief report on plans to 'excavate' the CSS Alabama:

http://www.al.com:80/news/mobile/Jun2000/20-a381584a.html

CLASSICISTS' CORNER

The San Francisco Examiner reports on the recent rise in the price of
Classical art; the implications for the illicit trade of such items are
strangely ignored:

http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/19/\
DD983.DTL

Greece will be adopting the Euro and so the drachma will be no more ... the
locally-made Greek Euros will still have some Classical content:

http://news.excite.com:80/news/ap/000618/14/greece-drachmas-demise

There's a mote of Classical content in Michael Dirda's column in the Post
on the imperiousness of bestseller lists:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14112-2000Jun17.html

FOLLOWUPS

More on Tell Hamoukar this week (with some new info in the piece from Ananova):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_8365.html
http://www.latimes.com:80/news/science/science/20000622/t000059092.html

Also in regards to Tell Hamoukar, CBC Radio's "Quirks and Quarks"
interviewed one of the excavators from the Oriental Institude (Gibson ...
apologies, I missed the first name). The program is available today in
RealAudio format at the following page (it's part of the program with the
main feature 'Is Menstruation Necessary' ... I *think* it was the feature
after this first one, but may have been a bit later ... social historians
might find things of interest in the Menstruation story as well, although
there is nothing specifically ancient mentioned there):

http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/archives.htm

Those interested in what went on at Stonehenge during the solstice can read
about it in the Times:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/22/timnwsnws01002.html

REVIEWS

The Times has a review of Monk and Raphael's *From Socrates to Turing*

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/21/timbooboo02011.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Biblical Archaeology Review has new online content, with articles on
ancient Sepphoris and the veracity of Exodus (there's also a review of a
book on the latter subject):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html

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<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

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http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
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Belated happy Canada Day to my fellow Canucks and early happy Independence
Day to our friends down south ... apologies to all for lateness of this
issue (real life intruded again!). Anyhoo, there's plenty to report this week:

The big news of the week is actually also a followup ... it would appear
that the genuinity (is that a word?) of a number of petroglyphs in the
Egyptian desert -- reported a couple issues back -- is now being questioned
(not least by Kent Weeks) (thanks to Bill Kennedy for some of what follows):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/427832.asp?0nm=-22B&cp1=1
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/latestap/A26012-2000Jun30.html
http://www.canoe.com:80/CNEWSFeatures0006/30_egypt.html
http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/063000/egypt_drawings.sml

OLD WORLD NEWS

According to various sources' acquisition of a Reuters story, three
Egyptian tombs found in the 1930's are to be opened to the public:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/travel/DailyNews/egypttombs000629.html
http://detnews.com:80/2000/religion/0006/29/06300003.htm
http://www.iht.com:80/IHT/TODAY/SAT/IN/giza.2.html

Egypt Revealed has a nice feature on early Egyptian trade routes:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/062200-overland.shtml

A couple of reports on a CT scan performed on the mummy known as 'Nellie",
at UWash:

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com:80/local/mum27.shtml
http://www.sltrib.com:80/07012000/nation_w/63460.htm

Discovery.com has a report on the earliest coinage:

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000627/hi_coins.html

The Washington Post reports that Israel has granted permission for
archaeological excavations on Temple Mount (thanks to mata kimasitayo for
the heads up):

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/or/A14584-2000Jun28.html

Kathemeri reports on some rather significant discoveries in Alexandria's
harbour (hopefully this one sticks around)(thanks to Adam D. Philippidis
for the heads up):

http://www.k-english.com/content.asp?id=35883&ekd=y

The Times of London reports on the discovery of what appears to be the
remains of a large Roman tower complex near Spitalfelds (where last summer
that swell sarcophagus was found):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/07/01/timnnfnnf01003.html

The Times of London also has a story on the progress (and the little blip
in same) of that group which is dragging a big stone to Stonehenge to see
what was involved:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/30/timnwsnws01031.html

The New York Times reports on an American archaeologist being held for
having a small amphora in his luggage (thanks to mata kimasitayo):

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Greece-Antiquites.html

The BBC has a touristy piece on Damascus:

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle%5Feast/newsid%5F771000/77182\
8.stm

The Montreal Gazette has a similarly touristy piece on cruising the Nile:

http://www.montrealgazette.com:80/travel/pages/000630/4362095.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

Discovery.com has a report on a recently-discovered maya inscription from
Guatemala:

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000630/aw_maya.html

CLASSICISTS' CORNER

The Washington Post has a feature on the (not-so) retiring Latin teacher
Christine Sleeper:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/schools/A16918-2000Jun29.html

The Christian Science Monitor has a nice feature on the resurgence of Latin
in American high schools (thanks to Rick Lafleur for the heads up):

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/06/27/p15s2.htm

FOLLOWUPS

More on Zeugma:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/latestap/A11727-2000Jun28.html

USNews and World Report has a nice little summary of some of the major
recent archaeological discoveries:

http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000710/lost.htm

REVIEWS

Boston Review has one of Anne Carson's *Men in the Off Hours*:

http://bostonreview.mit.edu:80/BR25.3/dagata.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

History Today has a short article (sans pictures, alas) on the Uluburun
shipwreck:

http://www.historytoday.com/article/article.cfm?article_id=1720

Archaeology Magazine has a new online issue, with plenty of archaeological
content:

http://www.archaeology.org/0007/toc/toc.html

ONLINE DIGS

Speaking of Archaeology Magazine, they are also 'hosting' an 'interactive
dig' in which Amelie Walker takes surfers through assorted caves in Belize
which are being 'excavated' online:

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

By the way, if anyone has any links to current online digs, feel free to
pass them along!

HMMMM

A number of news sources picked up a story on one entrepreneur's
mummification business:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/06/28/timfgnusa03002.html
http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/mummification_trend000627.ht\
ml

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<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

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http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
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Greetings,

Explorator will be delayed today ... I'm in the wilds of Alberta and the
roaming abilities of my ISP suddenly stopped working last night at 9.00
p.m. ... I certainly can't afford the long distance charges, so I'll be
arguing with tech support folks later on when they decide to wake up.

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OLD WORLD NEWS

The Toledo Blade makes its reappearance in these epages with a story on the
results of assorted tests on a couple of mummies in the Toledo Museum of
Art (some careless editing in this one):

http://www.toledoblade.com:80/editorial/feat/0g09mum.htm

CNN has a nice feature on the reopening of the pyramid of Chephren to tourists:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TRAVEL/NEWS/07/07/egypt.pyramid.reut/index.html

The Hindu has a report on various matters archaeological in India:

http://www.indiaserver.com:80/thehindu/2000/07/07/stories/0207000l.htm

I think this is a followup, but it was long ago so here it is again ... a
couple of sources are reporting on the beginning of the search for the tomb
of Genghis Khan (watch the wrap on the Telegraph piece):

http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000706/hi_genghis.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=fq3aorss&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/7/9/wgeng09.html


The Art Newspaper has a nice feature on various virtual archaeology projects:

http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/archaeology/archeology.asp

A press release and article in Science Daily deal with excavations
associated with the Kuril Island Project:

http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uw-ias070600.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com:80/releases/2000/07/000706060008.htm

A couple of items (from the Times and the Art Newspaper) on Italian demands
that Britain return an important 12th century manuscript apparently
misappropriated during WWII:

http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/index.asp
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/07/03/timnwsnws03015.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

  From Knoxville Tennessee comes news of an important fossil find (thanks to
Donna for the heads up):

http://www.knoxnews.com/archives/browserecent/07062000/archives/11427.shtml
http://www.knoxnews.com/archives/browserecent/07072000/archives/11490.shtml

An item in the St. Paul Pioneer on 'dissing' the Kensington runestone:

http://www.pioneerplanet.com:80/seven-days/6/news/docs/007514.htm

CLASSICISTS' CORNER

The San Francisco Examiner has an interesting piece on the wines of
Campania and their connections to the ancient Greeks and Romans:

http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/07/05/\
FD104830.DTL

Slate Magazine has a piece on "How to win a MacArthur" which suggests being
a classicist (among other attributes) might not be a bad thing:

http://slate.msn.com:80/Assessment/00-07-07/Assessment.asp

A new high school in the Washington area is having problems finding a Latin
teacher:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/A54907-2000Jul6.html

A report on the quarterfinals at Wimbledon reveals a 'classical connection':

http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=1957561&ern=y

A piece in the Chicago Tribune on the Harry Potter mania reveals what sorts
of folks are reading it (with some classical content, of course):

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-45659,FF.htm\
l

FOLLOWUPS

The Jerusalem Post provides a different perspective on the Temple Mount
controversy:

http://www.jpost.com:80/Editions/2000/07/06/Features/Features.9293.html

Another report on that crozier discovered in Orkney:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/07/04/timcrtcrt01001.html

SAGAS

Kennewick Man:

http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/070700/kennewick.sml

REVIEWS

The New York Times has a review of Adrienne Mayor's *The First Fossil
Hunters* (by the way, has anyone in Canada managed to find a copy of this
... all the bookstores I go to can order it, but I don't like waiting ...)

http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/national/science/070400sci-archaeo-greece.ht\
ml

Also at the New York Times is a review of  S.H. Nuland's *The Mysteries
Withing: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths* which has some interest for
fans of ancient medicine:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/070400hth-book-myths.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Discovering Archaeology has a bunch of interesting items, ranging from
"Canada's Iceman Revisited" to "Jewish Palaces of Jericho" to a piece on
the Lindisfarne Gospels and assorted other things:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/

Egypt Revealed has an item on a couple of statues of Ramses II:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/062800-statues.shtml

OBITUARY

Frank Norman (thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads up; mind the wrap):

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk:80/dt?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=3muwBKnM&atmo=3muw\
BKnM&pg=/00/7/7/db01.html

WHOOPS

While waiting for technicians to admit that something was wrong with their
ISP connection (which they never did, but fortunately my father has some
sort of free long distance plan ... woo hoo!), I was cleaning up the
'personal' mail file and found a bunch of stuff I meant to include in
Explorator but forgot (doh!):

Andy Burnham has put together a good webpage of realaudio files, which
includes a 40-minute panel discussion from the recent ASLaN conference, a
piece on Sounds from the Solstice (on what was going on at Stonehenge at
that time), and assorted other files of interest to folks with an interest
in megaliths in Britain (thanks to Andy for the heads up):

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/aburnham/pers/sounds.htm

A month or so ago, the BBC had a feature on Sulpicia (thanks to Jack Kolb
for the heads up):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_784000/784873.stm

REGULAR FEATURES

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<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

English translation (probably delayed):
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
<url:http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html>

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Plenty o' links this a.m. ...

The big news of the week appears to be the discovery of the 'oldest
mummies' ever found ... relics of the Chinchurro folk:

http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/071300/times_mummies.sml
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/sti/2000/07/09/stinwenws03024.html

OLD WORLD NEWS

The Archimedes Palimpsest returns to the news, with a few stories about
what is being done with it (this should probably be a followup, but it's
been so long!):

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/scripts000713.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/07/13/p17s1.htm

The Independent reports on the rather amazing discoveries of the remains of
the Garamantes civilization:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-07/sahara150700.shtml

The Aftenposten (Norway) reports (in English) on the discovery of a rather
large Viking home (thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads up):

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/d150063.htm

The Irish Times reports on the discovery of assorted Iron Age remains in a bog:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0713/reg3.htm

The Sunday Times reports on changes to official guidebooks in Scotland in
regards to the Declaration of Arbroath, to demythologize it and bring it
rather closer to what historians have been claiming for quite a while:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/sti/2000/07/09/stiscosco02009.html

A couple of sources have pieces on plans to use 'space age technology' to
locate a lost work of DaVinci (thanks to Chris Camfield for the heads up):

http://www.foxnews.com/science/071000/times_davinci.sml

Also on the technological side of things, there is great excitement over
plans to use DNA analysis to try to determine how long the Vikings might
have lingered in (eventual) U.K.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_828000/828453.stm
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/sti/2000/07/16/stiecoeco02014.html

NEW WORLD NEWS

The Houston Chronicle reports on excavations at Cerro Juanaquena (thanks to
Michael Ruggieri for the heads up):

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/597618

The Washington Post has a strange little article on the discovery of a
native American medallion which supposedly had a curse attached to it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43852-2000Jul14.html

The Post also has a much more conventional article on the search for Native
American artifacts along the Potomac:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/community/loudoun/A51379-2000Jul16.ht\
ml

And completing the scholastic law of three, the Post also has a piece on
the search for artifacts in Jamaica:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/latestap/A9689-2000Jul9.html

A couple of news sources are waxing electronic over the discovery of
Williamsburg's 18th century theater:

http://www.phillynews.com:80/content/daily_news/2000/07/10/features/COLO10.htm


CLASSICISTS' CORNER

The LA Times has a obituaryesque thing on Sally Fitzgerald, wife of Robert
(the translator) which might raise a few eyebrows:

http://www.latimes.com:80/news/state/20000714/t000066151.html

The Orange County Weekly has a reviewesque thing called "Big Old Jews"
which eventually talks about Philip Roth's *Human Stain*:

http://www.ocweekly.com:80/ink/00/45/books-bonca.shtml


FOLLOWUPS

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a somewhat bland editorial on Zeugma:

http://www.post-gazette.com:80/forum/20000712eddig3.asp

The Washington Post has a lengthy article on the Temple Mount activities:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7462-2000Jul8.html

All of a sudden there is an awful lot of coverage about the decapitated
skeleton from Stonehenge again (the final two items are 1)a useful little
timeline from the Sunday Times on Stonehenge and 2) a link to a site called
Hengeworld, which has all the latest news on the pile of stones) (watch the
wrap on the Telegraph piece):

http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/071400/stonehenge.sml
http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/stonehenge000714.html
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/07/14/timfeafea02004.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=V6w3fDqK&atmo=hhhhhhhe&\
pg=/et/00/7/14/nheng14.html

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/07/14/timfeafea01005.html
http://www.hengeworld.co.uk/

More on the fossil finds at the Gray site (thanks again to Donna for the
heads up):

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/11792.shtml?

REVIEWS
This is London has a review of Michael Pitts' *Hengeworld* (watch the wrap):

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk:80/dynamic/lifestyle/review.html?in_review_id=2980\
07&in_review_text_id=242481

Spokane.net has a review of Roger Downey's *Riddle of the Bones: Politics,
Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man*

http://www.spokane.net:80/news-story-body.asp?Date=070900&ID=s824269&cat=

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

USNews and World Report has a bonus double issue thing which is devoted to
''Mysteries of History', many of which are of interest to folks who read
this e-rag; I've culled the ones which I believe will be of interest; the
final link is to the main index page which has links to all the articles
(just in case my interests and yours don't quite overlap!):

Indus Civilization:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/indus.htm
The Sphinx:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/sphinx.htm
Homer:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/homer.htm
Anasazi:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/anasazi.htm
King Arthur:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/king.htm
Stonehenge:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/stonehenge.htm
Shroud of Turin:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/shroud.htm
Marco Polo:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/marco.htm
Pope Joan:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/pope.htm
Columbus:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/columbus.htm
DNA analysis:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/dna.htm
Whodunit? (how assorted folks died, including Tut and Al the more than
adequate):
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/whodunit.htm

Also of interest would be the article on hoaxes:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/great.htm

Index:
http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/index.htm

OBITUARY

William Willis (scroll down a bit):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/latestap/A47068-2000Jul14.html

REGULAR FEATURES

CTCWeb's Words of the Week
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html
<url:http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html>

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html
<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

English translation (probably delayed):
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
<url:http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html>

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                                             Volume 3, Issue 12 -- July 23, 2000
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A somewhat quiet week, it seems ...

The big news of the week is the the fires in Mesa Verde National Park in
Colorado are revealing all sorts of archaeological sites ... here's some of
the coverage:

http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/us/DailyNews/mesaverdefire000722.html
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/nv/A25368-2000Jul21.html

OLD WORLD NEWS

Coming in a very close second for the 'big news' title (it lost the coin
toss), is a brief item from the Athenian News Agency on the discovery of
substantial human remains and numerous artifacts dating from Mycenean times
(thanks to Arnd Lis for the heads up):

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2000/00-07-20.ana.html#25

Also apparently big news (to judge by coverage) is the news that Greek
tragedies are being put in in a refurbished area of the Colosseum (thanks
to numerous folks for the heads (headses?) up on this):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/07/19/timfgneur01002.html
http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/world/DailyNews/rome000718.html
http://www.bergen.com:80/morenews/stage20200007207.htm

The Independent has a report on efforts to discover evidence for earlier
inhabitation of Scotland:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-07/scotland230700.shtml

Ananova tells of new evidence which brings syphilis to the UK rather
earlier than previously thought:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/heritage_health-diseases-syphilis-uk_916540.ht\
ml

The erstwhile Glasgow Herald reports on the discovery of quite a few
millennium-old burials (thanks to Leo Boberschmidt for the heads up):

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/19-7-19100-22-53-51.html

Excite News has an item from the University Wire on how technology from BYU
is being used on ancient/medieval manuscripts:

http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/000719/tech-8

According to the Hindu, assorted historians are asking for major changes in
the administrative structure and purview of the Archaeological Survey of India:

http://www.indiaserver.com:80/thehindu/2000/07/18/stories/0118000d.htm

NEW WORLD NEWS

Construction of a soccer field in Fall City (Washington) has revealed some
Native American artifacts:

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com:80/local/fall19.shtml


CLASSICISTS' CORNER

The University Wire brings news of the upcoming National Junior Classical
League hoedown in Oklahoma:

http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/000721/entertainment-arts-61

The UW also brings a followup on the onlinicization (I think I'll trademark
that word) of classics courses at various universities:

http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/000719/university-education-56

A Latin teacher is now on the staff of the Governor of Maryland:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/schools/A11763-2000Jul20.html

I'm not sure whether folks will be interested in this, but I sense a
'classical' connection is lurking behind the views of Diane Ravitch, an
apparently well-known education critic:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/educationreview/A190-2000Jul18.html


FOLLOWUPS

Those mummies from a Niagara Falls museum are back in the news, this time
apparently with hopes that DNA tests prove one of them to be the mummy of
Ramses I:

http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/072000/times_ramses.sml

More on excavations of the Garamantes (thanks to Jennifer Wees for the
heads up):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_845000/845160.stm

EXHIBITIONS

Radio Free Europe has a reviewish sort of thing on a the New York
exhibition of artifacts from Ur:

http://www.rferl.org:80/nca/features/2000/07/F.RU.000721153638.html

USA Today has a similar thing on a new exhibit at the London Museum called
"High Street Londinium":

http://www.usatoday.com:80/usatonline/20000721/2478556s.htm

CNN reports on a couple of new antiquities (oxymoron?) recently acquired by
a museum in Fort Worth:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/STYLE/arts/07/19/kimbell.exhibit/index.html

REVIEWS

Fans of historical fiction set in Egypt will be interested in the
Washington Post's review of Elizabeth Peters' *He Shall Thunder in the Sky*
(we'll ignore the use of shall with the second person in the title there ...)

http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-dyn/print/sunday/bookworld/A25870-2000Jul22.html

WEBSITES

Today's scan picked up the companion website of a BBC documentary series
called "Road to Riches", all about the development of wealth and monetary
economies. There's quite a bit of ancient stuff on the website, plus
transcripts, interviews, etc. ... definitely worth a look.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/road_to_riches/default.stm

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Egypt Revealed has a nice feature on our fascination with mummies:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com:80/071500-mightypharaoh.shtml


Nature has a brief piece on our longstanding relationship with nits:

http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000727/000727-3.html

REGULAR FEATURES

CTCWeb's Words of the Week
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html
<url:http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html>

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html
<url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html>

English translation (probably delayed):
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html
<url:http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html>

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are scoured on a daily basis 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 when a sufficient number of urls are
gathered (usually a minimum of three stories), they are delivered to your
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                                              Volume 3, Issue 13 -- July 30,
2000
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Wow ... if today's issue doesn't get you out of mowing the lawn, nothing
will ...

A news item that makes it to both the Howard Stern show and the Dr. Laura
Show on the same day must be big news .... it is, of course, the widespread
coverage of the discovery of a 2000-year-old toilet in China which apparent
had running water (although no flush ... only the Telegraph report (on
which mind the wrap) really gave this story 'in depth' coverage):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=LlbLhL7d&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/7/27/wloo27.html
http://www.latimes.com:80/news/science/science/20000727/t000070411.html
http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0007/29/text/pageone8.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_18930.html
http://library.northernlight.com/FD20000725560000028.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

Actually the really big news has to be the continuing fires at Mesa Verde
... see the Followups section below.

OLD WORLD NEWS

One I missed: the Sunday Times last week had an item about claims that
Arthur Evans' whole Minoan thing was essentially a "racist myth" (see the
reviews section below for a review of the book which sparked the article):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/sti/2000/07/23/stinwenws02008.html

The New York Times has a feature on how much of the Old Testament isn't
confirmed by archaeological evidence:

http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/arts/072900david-bible.html

There was plenty of attention given to the discovery of an apparent source
(as claimed by ancient authors) for the oracle of Delphi's trances:

http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20000725/353020.html
http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/07/07262000/oracle_2873.asp
http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/scitech/docs/delphi25.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_19101.html

The Telegraph has a feature on the excavations of Commodus' villa, complete
with 'home amphitheatre' of course (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=LlbLhL7d&atmo=HHHHHH8L&\
pg=/et/00/7/24/wrom24.html

Also on the gladiatorial front, the Telegraph also reports on how the movie
*Gladiator* has renewed interest in gladiatorial training in Italy:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=qXuqRbK9&atmo=99999999&\
pg=/et/00/7/28/wglad28.html

A Kent archaeologist's life-long efforts to find the lost Roman town of
Noviomagus appears to have borne fruit (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=fqafMNqs&atmo=fqafMNqs&\
pg=/et/00/7/30/narch30.html

Science Daily reports on the discovery of another submerged very early
church in the excavations at Aperlae:

http://www.sciencedaily.com:80/releases/2000/07/000727080709.htm
   Search Cool Links

The BBC has a report on the discovery of an Iron Age fort in Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_856000/856505.stm

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interesting item on the history of
the swastika and efforts to disassociate it with Nazi Germany:

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com:80/national/swas29.shtml

The Irish Times reports on a new code of practice for the National Road
Association which should help deal with controversies over what happens
when archaeological sites are found:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0727/hom11.htm


NEW WORLD NEWS

Northern Light brings a report on the discovery of a Spanish/Portuguese
fortress in Brazil:

http://library.northernlight.com/FC20000726350000154.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

A couple of versions of the same report on the discovery of a 'lost'
pioneer town in Wisconsin:

http://www.jsonline.com:80/news/state/jul00/best28072700a.asp
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=82210709

CLASSICISTS' CORNER

Among a trio of books reviewed by the Washington Post dealing with assorted
folks from the boomer generation is Daniel Mendelsohn's memoirs "The
Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48000-2000Jul15.html

Classicists might be interested to know that on the full moon in August,
the Acropolis will be open to tourists:

http://www.iht.com:80/IHT/TODAY/SAT/IN/travel1.2.html

The NEH's magazine has an interesting article on the connection between
poverty and a classical education (and no, it has nothing to do with being
a grad student or a professor 8^)):

http://www.neh.gov/publications/humanities/2000-05/clemente.html

The Pope greeted assorted groups in appropriate languages the other day:

http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=5394

FOLLOWUPS

Here's one I missed: a Time Magazine piece on what's going on at Herakleion
(a month late):

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,47115,00.html

On Mesa Verde fires (there's some duplication in the items below; watch the
wrap on the accessatlanta piece):

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Americas/2000-07/indian250700.shtml
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/world_us-fires-heritage-environment_917844.htm\
l
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/mesaverde000726.html
http://www.bergen.com:80/morenews/fire25200007254.htm
http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0727arch1.shtml
http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0725ana2.shtml
http://www.pioneerplanet.com:80/seven-days/5/news/docs/004800.htm
http://www.abqjournal.com:80/news/88908news07-27-00.htm
http://web.philly.com:80/content/inquirer/2000/07/24/national/MESA24.htm
http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0726arch5.shtml
http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-dyn/articles/A55687-2000Jul27.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/07/26/fires.archaeology.ap/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/072600/mesaverde.sml
http://www.accessatlanta.com:80/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_93d733\
be941be1500057.html

On tragedies at the Colosseum:

http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0007/24/text/features5.html

On Zeugma:

http://www.hri.org/news/turkey/anadolu/2000/00-07-28.anadolu.html#09
http://library.northernlight.com/FA20000723670000017.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

On Stanford's efforts to reassemble the Forma Urbis:

http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/072600-rome.shtml

On a lost Da Vinci below a Vasari:

http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=2831


EXHIBITIONS

CNN has a nice feature on the "Drink and Be Merry" Wine and Beer in Ancient
Times" exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/FOOD/news/07/28/ancient.drinkers.ap/index.html

The Toledo Blade reports on  "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti,
Tutankhamen" which opened this week at the Art Institute of Chicago:

http://www.toledoblade.com:80/editorial/feat/0g23phar.htm

The LA Times has a general sort of thing on what's in the Maritime Museum
of Finland:

http://www.latimes.com:80/news/state/20000728/t000070685.html

REVIEWS

Today's Sunday Times has a review of J. Alexander MacGillvary's *Minotaur:
Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth":

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/sti/2000/07/30/stibooboo03007.html

Scientific American has a review of   David Thomas' *Skull Wars: Kennewick
Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity*

http://www.sciam.com/2000/0700issue/0700reviews1.html

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