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Ross W Sargent, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

... I had a major hardware issue halfway through typing up this
week's issue, resulting in a complete loss of everything I had
done up to that point (including some from 'correspondents').
I *think* I've recovered everything that was sent in, but if
I'm missing something or have neglected to acknowledge your
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EARLY HUMANS
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There's some connection between walking upright and trees,
apparently:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_sc/walking_in_trees_3
http://www.startribune.com/789/story/1220896.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10588656

La nina di Dikika:

http://tinyurl.com/2qe2ou (El Pais)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Dutch team has found the 3500 b.p. tomb of a priest:

http://english.people.com.cn/200706/02/eng20070602_380260.html

A Ptolemaic bowling alley:

http://tinyurl.com/2qy7m8 (El Masla)
http://tinyurl.com/2fv6ko (SIS)

Nice feature on the Gaza Field School:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm

An Old Persian text has been found among the Persepolis Fortification
Tablets:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/May2007/31-05-discovery.htm

That artificial eye from the Burnt City is in the news again:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/may/1360.html

Work at a nearby mine threatens the Sassanid remains at Chahar
Taqi-e Niasar:

http://tinyurl.com/ypwxx8 (Iranmania)

Nice feature on (my former professor) Krzysztof Grzymski and his
work:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/219734

What they've figured out so far about Gihon Pool:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=864747

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=12881
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/864459.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122581

... and this:

http://tinyurl.com/2kayxy (JPost)

William Dever is taking some potshots:

http://tinyurl.com/yvsb7k

Nice feature on Herod:

http://tinyurl.com/2lh4vn (LA Times)

Some interesting old photos from Iran have been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/arts/design/30phot.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Quite a few versions of this 'fast food in Pompeii' story:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070531_pompeii_life.html
http://tinyurl.com/yty6wt (ditto, via yahoo)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070601/139/6givn.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ag3hz
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18983078/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276852,00.html

Bulgaria's Valley of the Kings is more extensive than
previously thought:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81191

More coverage of things found during Rome's subway
construction:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10365638&ft=1&f=1004

Andrea Carandini believes the Temple of Quirinus sits under the
Italian president's residence:

http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/43030

Can't remember if we mentioned this story about wine presses
being found on Thassos:

http://tinyurl.com/22mh3k (IOL)

Recreating Augustus' Horologium:

http://tinyurl.com/27jqln (Emerald)

A roman diploma at BYU:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660224800,00.html
cf: http://tinyurl.com/22ypw4 (Current Epigraphy)

Honours for Brad Inwood:

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/070530-3194.asp

All about the student delivering this year's Latin Commencement
speech at Princeton:

http://tinyurl.com/yozyrr (Press Release)

Latin motto problems in New Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/ytr7yy (Courant)

OpEd piece on Latin Mass matters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/opinion/30allen.html

Latin is alive and well at East Kentwood High:

http://tinyurl.com/2a6hjc

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Ritual human sacrifice in Upper Paleolithic Europe?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uocp-efa052907.php

A medieval Jewish cemetery in the Czech Republic:

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102160.html

The aftermath of the Cutty Sark fire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6691665.stm

More on the yellowing of the White Tower:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18927182/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 2100 b.p. melon from Japan:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_fe_st/japan_oldest_melon
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/01/asia/AS-ODD-Japan-Oldest-Melon.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18980972/

An important Hawaiian site:

http://tinyurl.com/yp39l7 (Advertiser)

Remains of a 14th century observatory in India:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070528/48/6gcww.html

Not sure what to make of this piece on the Hephthalites:

http://spotlightongames.com/variant/maharaja/eph.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Low levels of Lake Okeechobee are revealing sites:

http://tinyurl.com/24rotc (PB Post)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/68265.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/123884.html

A talk on what's been found at the Popham Colony site:

http://tinyurl.com/youqkt (Times Record)

Fortifications from the War of 1812 site at Sackets Harbor have
been found:

http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=6586036&nav=menu133_2
http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=6586036

An interview with Bly Straube about Jamestown:

http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/conversation.html

... also on the Jamestown front, John Smith apparently was a
skilled mapmaker:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18963823/

Mystery shipwreck near St. Augustine:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=83100

A group has formed to discuss Clovis issues:

http://malibusurfsidenews.com/stories/200705/20070531001.html

More coverage of the site of the Battle of Mauvilla:

http://www.southalabamian.com/news/2007/0531/News/024.html

Restoring/remaking some Civil War grave markers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/nyregion/28civil.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Another Mayan tomb found near Copan, Honduras (I think this is
different than ones we've mentioned before):

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/530410/
http://tinyurl.com/ypm6hr (AScribe)
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN3042394320070531
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070531103350.htm

... while those clumsy archaeologists have also stumbled upon
some Mayan foundations at Aventura:

http://www.reporter.bz/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2014&Itemid=2

Evidence for decapitation in Peru:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uocp-dar052907.php
http://tinyurl.com/2ay27c (UPI)

More coverage of those Aztec 'lightning bolts':

http://tinyurl.com/2ax4vj (GNN)

On climate change and the development of agriculture in Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070601173931.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The Book of Kells is the latest manuscript to get a high tech
look-over:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/28/news/irish.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/world/europe/28kells.html

Normally I'd put these in their appropriate geographical categories,
but there's a trend of sorts here ... first, sites in Scotland
are threatened by rising sea levels:

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/50181/
http://tinyurl.com/ytyeh4 (UPI)
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=840532007

... as are sites in Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=865705

... and Beijing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6709099.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0525/p06s01-woap.html?s=hns

Some guy is going to try to cross the Atlantic in a reed raft:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/atlantic_vessel_crossing_2
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/nyregion/28sail.html

... while I suspect a Viking longship going across the North Sea will
be more successful:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Viking-Ship.html

No real 'news' in the Black Swan affair, but still coverage:

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/29/Worldandnation/Treasure_may_become_c.shtml
http://www.gibfocus.gi/details_todaysnews.php?id=2312

... although Spain has filed a lawsuit (we all saw that coming):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_re_eu/spain_treasure_ship
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18958738/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6705613.stm

A while back we mentioned the 'excavation' of a Ford Van ... that
project is the latest feature at the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Nice feature on someone going to work at an archaeological site
in Spain:

http://www.daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=396134

Promoting Early Music:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/arts/music/31earl.html

Latest on the British academic unions' attempts to boycott Israel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/world/europe/30britain.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/world/europe/31britain.html

Quite a few Arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/arts/design/01voge.html

Some very old colour (!) photos:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2573293.ece

Interesting job opportunity filled:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10589142

Review of three books about pirates and their ilk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Millard-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/travel/escapes/01American.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Three NPR stories on the state of the illegal antiquities trade:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10416454
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10457558
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10588693


Some Iraqi smugglers have been arrested:

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/05/28/10128327.html

Latest in the Marion True trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/arts/02arts.html (4th)

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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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African Vision:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/arts/design/01afri.html

Tea, Wine and Poetry:Qing Dynasty Literati and Their Drinking Vessels

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/arts/design/01anti.html

More Napoleonic items are coming to auction:

http://tinyurl.com/2j8uep (El Pais)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Fifth Empire:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/movies/01fift.html

Ten Canoes:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/movies/01cano.html

Plenty of coverage of the imminent move of sculptures etc. to
the new Acropolis Museum:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/05/29/acropolis-statues.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/4845116.html
http://tinyurl.com/yvd9ue (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/2lz9oo (WPost)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070530-041337-7231r
http://tinyurl.com/2d3v4d (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/2g9qfu (NC Times)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=840352007
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL2966573520070529

More coverage of the sale of Moshe Dayan's collection:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=863582
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OBITUARIES
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Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood (Classical Scholar):

http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2091644,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2606425.ece

W.K. Pritchett (Ancient Historian/Epigraphist):

http://classics.berkeley.edu/news/articles/story.php?id=16

James Beck (Art Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/arts/29beck.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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I think we've had this one from the Onion before, but it's still
good:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38680
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PODCASTS
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Nice Podcast on GIS and Archaeology featuring Pedar Foss:

http://tinyurl.com/2lkvuq (Intute)

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Croman mac Nessa,
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Hernan Astudillo, Jim Lockmiller, John McMahon, Jona Lendering,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of the most recent investigation into Oetzi's
cause of death:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/e-mo5060607.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_sc/iceman_9
http://tinyurl.com/3242ep (IHT)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070607/139/6gr0e.html
http://tinyurl.com/2lsd8a (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6727665.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2a8pod (News.com)
http://tinyurl.com/ystkv5
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070606-095141-2660r
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071721/
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=888932007

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AFRICA
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Oldest decorative shells found ... in Morocco:

http://www.suntimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=484595
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071731/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The vague description of this 2300 b.p. chamber tomb find from
Turkey suggests it might be Hellenistic, but I'm not sure:

http://english.people.com.cn/200706/08/eng20070608_382397.html

Polish archaeologists have found a wealthy, 5000 b.p. tomb at
'Chicken Hill':

http://tinyurl.com/yv3wvg (PAP)

A Spanish team has uncovered a 1st Intermediate Period cemetery:

http://tinyurl.com/2tccm5 (SIS)

Interesting item on recreating pigments found on walls of
Egyptian tombs:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/70491.html
http://movie.moldova.org/stiri/eng/51633/
http://tinyurl.com/2lr9f8 (UPI)

On food and kitchens in ancient Egypt:

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7488

A mummy at the Berkshire Museum is the latest to get the CT Scan
treatment:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_6063034

Satellite technology has located remains of a 400 AD/CE settlement
in Egypt:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070605_satellite_egypt2.html
http://tinyurl.com/33tomy (ditto, via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071980/

Another Salt Man from Iran:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/June2007/04-06.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2abyvr (Iranmania)

Overviewish thing on digging anywhere in Jerusalem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/world/middleeast/05jerusalem.html

I'll repeat this one since last week I mistakenly placed it in Gaza ... it's
actually the Giza plateau:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Torrenueva (Spain) site turns out to be Roman, not Phoenician:

http://tinyurl.com/377p35 (TS)

A pile of amphoras from a Pula site:

http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=49918

Excellent article on gladiators, incorporating some recent
discoveries:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1369

An ancient 'training manual' inscription:

http://tinyurl.com/2du4kd (Age)

Scanning Homer:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan

A Latin program in Southern Ontario gets some press attention:

http://tinyurl.com/2xydek (LFP)

Princeton Commencement coverage:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S18/10/64K00/index.xml

... and Robert Fagles received an honourary degree:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S18/10/64S75/index.xml

I guess I need to mention the crabs-thriving-in-Roman-monuments
thing:

http://www.physorg.com/news100094217.html

Investment advice from Aristotle:

http://www.fool.com/investing/beginning/2007/06/04/what-would-aristotle-buy.
aspx

More on those finds in Trafalgar Square:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6700149.stm

That Pompeii fast food story appears to still have some legs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18983078/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Assorted Bronze Age finds during construction of a bypass in
Cornwall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6712111.stm
http://tinyurl.com/32qwf4 (Packet)

A Bronze Age cemetery on Barra:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1444240.0.0.php

Bronze Age life in La Mancha:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070605121009.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=36586

An Iron Age Mickey Mouse (!):

http://www.thelocal.se/7544/20070608/

Plans are afoot to exhume some bodies from some Viking burials
in Norway to preserve them:

http://tinyurl.com/36tfo5 (SD)

Tara is on the World Monument Fund's 'crisis list':

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2636185.ece

A WWI mass grave near Fromelles:

http://tinyurl.com/38ofxx (BBC)

Review of Tim Blanning, *The Pursuit of Glory: Europe*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2098452,00.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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An octopus led to the find of a Kyoro Dynasty shipwreck:

http://tinyurl.com/3b4tjg (AFP via Yahoo)

Qing Dynasty tombs are threatened by mining:

http://tinyurl.com/2g5twu

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Analysis of some Native American bones from Utah are shedding
light on an 1853 incident:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6090275

More (and varied) coverage of what they're finding in Lake
Okeechobee:

http://tinyurl.com/yp7bw6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/3aqcn8
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/134730.html
http://tinyurl.com/25d9to (UPI)
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/130131.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19046682/

An update on what they've found during the George Washington
house excavation in Philadelphia:

http://www.examiner.com/a-769260~Slave_Passage_Found_at_Washington_House.htm
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19100886/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_re_us/washington_s_slaves

Some interesting stuff about Sitting Bull:

http://tinyurl.com/2tt9dx (Forum)

Modern medicine would have likely saved Lincoln:

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/06/11/prsc0611.htm

... while a recently-found note from Lincoln underscores one
of the great 'missed opportunities' of the Civil War:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19095440/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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On chickens and when folks reached the Americas:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/chicken/
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070609/fob4.asp
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003736035_chickens06.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ww6rf (LA Times)
http://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19035306/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09sat4.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_sc/fowl_finding250
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11987-polynesians-beat-columbus-to-the
-americas-.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2614581.ece

A 1200 b.p. burial ground from Costa Rica:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_273103590,00.html

A burial from ca 1500 a.d. found in Chile during condo
construction:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5666_273139534,00.html

On climate change and the origins of agriculture in Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070601173931.htm

More coverage of that human-sacrifice-in-Peru story:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070606-head-jar.html
(very interesting photo)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Spain is ramping up the pressure in the Black Swan thing:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070606/2/13odd.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4085785a12.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19058333/
http://tinyurl.com/2wyw78 (El Pais)

Looks like the dangers-of-climate-change lobby is going to be
pushing the damage-to-ancient-monuments angle:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_re_us/endangered_monuments
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/world/article/0,1406,KNS_351_5577972,00.html

Nice 'department' piece from Archaeology on the problem of
treasure hunting (in a nautical archaeology context):

http://www.archaeology.org/0707/etc/insider.html

...and an oped piece in the same vein:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/opinion/08kurson.html

A Botticelli fresco in Hungary?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19112886/

How MAGIS is helping archaeologists:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=19577

The World Monument Fund has come out with its annual list of
most endangered sites:

http://tinyurl.com/2uufpc (AFP via Yahoo)

One of the last hunter-gatherer peoples on earth is
disappearing:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19148779/

Assorted arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08voge.html

Sean Connery has apparently turned down a role in the new
Indiana Jones flick:

http://tinyurl.com/37cazx

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81652

Choquequirao:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/travel/03inca.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Ancient Egypt (June/July Preview):

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Iraq's antiquities are also increasingly falling victim to
militant attacks:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2098255,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3dex8c (Age)

... but this one has a slightly different spin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2098057,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2098272,00.html

Check out the stolen art etc. found at convicted crime boss
Terry Adams' place:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6730925.stm

Vandals hit some petroglyphs in Utah:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660226133,00.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Journey to the Copper Age:

http://tinyurl.com/39664m (Union Tribune)

Genghis Khan and his Heirs:

http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=26615

The Great Cover Up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08rugs.html

The Israel Museum has on display a 'silent era' manuscript of
a chunk of Exodus:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/867003.html
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20468
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_sc/israel_rare_manuscript

... while the Getty has put the Northumberland Bestiary on display:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2095548,00.html

A German archaeologist will be running Berlin's museums:

http://tinyurl.com/38b7mv (Bloomberg)
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=9558

How all the current controversy about repatriation etc. is
causing museums to 'reinvent' themselves:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-09-museums_N.htm

Latest testimony etc. from the Marion True trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/arts/design/09gett.html

Interesting controversy about plans to exhibit the Bactrian Gold:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/07/arts/afshow.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/06/arts/design/06muse.html

Coverage of Sotheby's auction of all that Albright-Knox Museum
stuff:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660227674,00.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/93865.html
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20512
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/08/content_6217171.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/06/08/auction-bronze-artemis.htm
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http://tinyurl.com/2nng99 (IOL)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aSTconzZk_mo&refer=home

Napoleon's sword is coming to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6737909.stm

London antiques fair coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08anti.html

A virtual museum of Achaemenid art:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12377§ionid=351020105

More on that Venetian Customs House being turned into a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Shakespeare in the Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/theater/08shak.html
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ON THE WEB
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Sphakia Survey:

http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/

The Parthenon:

http://www.dkv.columbia.edu/vmc/acropolis/
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OBITUARIES
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W.K. Pritchett:

http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=25202
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/06/05_pritchett.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/yralqt (Chronicle)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, 'cervus35',
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
James Spinti, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
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Rick Pettigrew, Sally Winchester, Stan Nadel,Steve Rankin, Terry
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for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
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Happy Fathers Day to all you fathers and father figures out there.

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EARLY HUMANS
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Oh those innovative Neanderthals:

http://tinyurl.com/yoxakr

More on human sacrifice in Paleolithic times:

http://tinyurl.com/284ley (LS via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19174423/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070615/ap_on_sc/europe_human_sacrifice

Lascaux-like petroglyphs near Kom Ombo (Egypt):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/he1.htm
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AFRICA
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Some 'lost' Muslim towns have been found in Ethiopia:

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=493067
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Second Temple Jewish settlement found between Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv:

http://tinyurl.com/36my3f (JPost)

Arutz Sheva has an interview (in English) with Prof. Netzer about
Herodion (it takes a while to connect):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/TV/?act=one&id=1979

Not getting as much publicity as the Rome Reborn project (see
below) is the Qumran Visualization Project:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=17788

... check it out at:

http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/

More on politics and archaeology in Jerusalem:

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070611Jerusalem.asp

The Mahzor Nuremberg is online:

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss%2Dpr/mahzor%2Dnuremberg/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A labyrinth image from Bulgaria (hmmmmm):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81857
http://www.physorg.com/news101125950.html
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=152684
http://tinyurl.com/2cjr8e (UPI)
http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/52892/
http://tinyurl.com/3amo8f (Echo)

... and a Mycenean sword cap:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81791

... and stuff from the Temple of Cybele:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81769

... and a labrys too:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81728

Mycenean and Roman remains near Olympia:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070611-122131-3191r

A 2500 b.p. sarcophagus with scenes from Homer on it:

http://tinyurl.com/27c3tt (Hindustan Times)

Tons of coverage of Rome Reborn:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6743991.stm
http://tinyurl.com/29yy4y (LA Times)
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=54222&r=rss
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/224075
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1470133.0.0.php
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9729127-7.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-06-11_11195023.htm
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19173006/

... see it for yourself (in limited form) at:

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/

John Noble Wilford ponders the story of Romulus and Remus:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/13/arts/snlegend.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/science/12rome.html

I think we've heard of this theory questioning the antiquity of
the Capitoline she-wolf:

http://tinyurl.com/2pt8nr (WIR)

More on that digitization of Homer project:

http://tinyurl.com/36eyqw
http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=601

Remains of a Roman road found during pipeline construction in
Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/6760363.stm

A pile of antiquities have been found hidden at a Greek royal
residence:

http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/38545.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyz9
http://tinyurl.com/3ydsv6 (Times)

Not sure whether there's anything 'new' in this origins-of-the
Etruscans piece:

http://www.physorg.com/news101272605.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070616191637.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/esoh-aew061307.php

OpEd piece on Romes 'immigration policy':

http://tinyurl.com/ys4rtp (LA Times)

Review of Christopher Tadgell, *Antiquity: Origins, Classicism
and the New Rome*:

http://tinyurl.com/2mslct (Times)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A map of Hailes Abbey has been "discovered":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/6744825.stm

I think we mentioned this Iron Age Swedish 'Mickey Mouse' last
week:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070616/139/6h23k.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some (very early) Zhou Dynasty tomb figures:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/10/content_6224244.htm

3rd century B.C./B.C.E. finds near Nalanda University:

http://tinyurl.com/29fkzz (Times)

A Chinese shipwreck full of Ming dynasty porcelain:

http://tinyurl.com/34xnwk (Star)
http://en.ce.cn/National/Local/200706/14/t20070614_11748862.shtml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19209958/
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4094193a12.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/13/china.ming.treasure.reut/index.ht
ml

Closing in on a Spanish shipwreck in Australia:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,21915845-5003406,00.html

Google Books will be digitizing some Indian texts:

http://tinyurl.com/ysjsas

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the DNA front, efforts will be made to locate descendents of
the Lost Colony:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19177130/

Checking for Native remains prior to building a housing
development in Connecticut:

http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_6163511

Interesting item about Rochambeau:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/world/europe/15rochambeau.html

A Spanish galleon full of pearls off the shore of Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/2yrvnu (USA Today)
http://www.nbc6.net/news/13515421/detail.html?rss=ami&psp=news
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/16/america/NA-GEN-US-Treasure-Ship.ph
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19256157/

Arkansas is the latest state to 'apologize' for slavery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/16/us/16brfs-resolution.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of a mass child sacrifice in Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/2bjuxk (NG)

The latest Cyark Case Study at the Archaeology Channel looks at
Chavin de Huantar:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Last week there was investment advice from Aristotle; this week
it comes from Copernicus:

http://tinyurl.com/24mdva

The next 'Harry Potter' may be a boy archaeologist:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070612/en_nm/arts_publisher_dc_2
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3882555
http://tinyurl.com/39wetr (Telegraph)

Some frescoes have been discovered in the Sanctuary of the
Santa Scala:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0703423.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2mhurg

A piece of a 19th century 'bomb lance' was found in a
harvested whale:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_re_us/century_old_whale

Interesting article on some recently-restored-by-the-Getty
paintings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/arts/design/10wyat.html

A contractor accidentally cut off the water to the Trevi Fountain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6749471.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2101612,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Greek Islands:

http://tinyurl.com/23v8zk (Telegraph)

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Rosetta:

http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Quite a bit of coverage of the arrest in Sudan of a bunch of
guys smuggling mummies:

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article22412
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070616/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_sudan_antiquities_1
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=029090120070616201926
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL1630586320070616
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=53775
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21918502-1702,00.html

A stolen Apollo statue was returned to Greece:

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/01837.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/yvcz4g (UPI)
http://www.nzz.ch/2007/06/15/eng/article7926788.html
http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=41956
http://tinyurl.com/2sgt8v (IHT)

... while Italian police have recovered an entire temple (!):

http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/146796.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-06-12_112101728.ht
ml
http://www.pr-inside.com/italian-police-recover-ancient-greek-temple-r151322
.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6703305,00.html
http://dcnonl.com/article/id23007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_re_eu/italy_dumped_temple_2

A pile of pre-Columbian relics were returned to Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/yrnxbk (WPost)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070614-114622-8391
http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/138952.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070613/us_nm/usa_peru_artifacts_dc_1
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13400887.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6751167.stm

Iraq's cultural heritage continues to be threatened:

http://tinyurl.com/3x29jh (Al Jazeera)

Thieves have damaged a medieval site in Leicestershire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/6747389.stm
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NUMISMATICA
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American Bank Note Company:

http://www.coxrail.com/ABNCo.htm

A Cnut penny on display:

http://tinyurl.com/yw6mab

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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A Golden Legacy: Greek and Roman Jewellery:

http://tinyurl.com/2doydt

Treasures of Ancient Egypt:

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=185342&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=3008
8

The Getty and the Italian government are at an 'impasse':

http://tinyurl.com/2rddm5 (Bloomberg)

Cradle of Christianity:

http://tinyurl.com/3drdus
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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explorator 10.9                                 June 24, 2007
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Diana Wright, Don Buck,
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Jaslow, Hernan Astudillo, Joe Flatman, Gene Barkley, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mitch Allen, Nancy Jenner, Pat Wary, Rochelle Altman,
Mata Kimasitayo, Ross W Sargent, Stan Nadel, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals were innovators:

http://www.physorg.com/news101477918.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070619164133.htm

80000 b.p. beads from Morocco:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070618_morocco_beads.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/c-dot061807.php

A 35000 b.p. mammoth ivory carving (ivory carving of a mammoth):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,druck-489776,00.html
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AFRICA
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A pile of Neolithic petroglyphs have been found in Algeria:

http://tinyurl.com/2bdafn (GNN)

John Noble Wilford on the search for Kush:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/science/19kush.html
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Science/843144.html

... seemingly spawned by this discovery:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6767203.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2106876,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19313347/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/19/news/nile.php
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/07/070619.sudan.shtml
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/uoc-arc061407.php
http://www.livescience.com/includes/iab.html?url=/history/070619_nile_gold.h
tml
http://tinyurl.com/2wwawu (NG)

Latest on the Axum obelisk:

http://english.people.com.cn/200706/21/eng20070621_386226.html

... while Ethiopia is now asking for the return of the remains
of one of its princes:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2669850.ece
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Cambridge team has found a 3000 b.p. mummy:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7184
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/23/1959786.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070622/sc_afp/egyptarchaeology_070622200806

More details about that Leuven team's find a few weeks ago:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/850/he1.htm

Latest in Hatshepsut research:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/eg3.htm

A 6000 b.p. burial behind Gelabar Dam:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7182

Another Iranian 'salt man' has been found (I think this one is
different from the one a couple of weeks ago, but I'm not sure):

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070623/139/6haxu.html

Those finds (specifically the burials) from Masada are being
questioned:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070622/ap_on_sc/israel_masada_revisited
http://tinyurl.com/2899a4 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/27m7aq (CFreePress)
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/148286.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/22/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Masada-Revisi
ted.php
http://tinyurl.com/2gexse (JPost)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19378819/

More Virtual Qumran coverage:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/uoc--vqs061807.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070619094251.htm

The annual solstice-at-Dilmun piece:

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=185779&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=3009
3

Review of Pagels and King, *Reading Judas*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/books/review/Prothero-t.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A couple of revivals of solstice celebrations at various ancient
sites (all different):

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/2007/06/23/4283874-sun.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/21/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Ancient-Relig
ion.php

A fragment of a marble relief was returned to Greece this week:

http://tinyurl.com/ypm3f8 (ANA)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/arts/23arts-001.html

Nice feature on Isthmia:

http://tinyurl.com/ywm892 (Spero)

A pile of Pompeii houses are reopening to the public:

http://tinyurl.com/3cz6v4 (ANSA)

Latest on the Latin Mass:

http://www.newsdaily.com/TopNews/UPI-1-20070618-13413800-bc-vatican-pope.xml

In case you needed some proof the Vatican still corresponds in
Latin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6224712.stm

More on Etruscan origins:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2105308,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/37pfcc
http://tinyurl.com/3d3eoh (LA Times)

An interviewish thing with Cullen Murphy:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11156034

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Nice feature on Lindow Man:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2107854,00.html

A Roman city wall in Rochester (no, not New York):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6767879.stm

Medieval (!) jewellery in a Thracian burial mound:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81981

Excavating the first 'isolation hospital':

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2656029.ece

A mass Quaker grave in Cambridgshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/6229320.stm

Controversy at the Thames Gateway:

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2105366,00.html

A saga-in-the-making over the authenticity of El Cid's sword:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2651055.ece

Solstice at Stonehenge:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/lf_afp/lifestylebritain_070621152357

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On the origins of the dingo:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1952216.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A collapsed sea wall puts the Miami Circle in jeopardy:

http://tinyurl.com/yvbxuy (Sentinel)
http://www.theledger.com/article/20070621/APN/706210681
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/146362.html

Investigating the mysterious 'Upton Chamber' (you'll probably
have to scroll down for this one ... there's a big blank at the
beginning):

http://tinyurl.com/33ggv5 (Boston Globe)

In Atlanta, it's not just Native American burials that seem
to get in the way of development:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/realestate/17nati.html

The Mohegan people have restored an ancient burial ground:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19365485/from/RS.5/

Review of Beverly Lowry, *Harriet Tubman*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/books/review/Bell.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of what might be the first gunshot wound in
the western hemisphere (in Peru):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/science/20inca.html
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_6200335
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-06-21-voa47.cfm
http://tinyurl.com/2nzw3s (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/3657sp (AFP via Yahoo ... photo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/ap_on_sc/first_gun_victim_1
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/20/tech/main2955160.shtml
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2686851.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6221280.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19325993/

Nice feature on Machu Picchu and the various disputes associated
therein with Yale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/magazine/24MachuPicchu-t.html

I think a search for pre-Columbian remains on St Maarten would
go in this category:

http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/k030/arch030.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Quite a bit of coverage of troops in Iraq getting 'archaeological
playing cards':

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/22/ap/politics/main2970039.shtml
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070620-055454-5451r
http://tinyurl.com/3cs9wm (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/2swmou (IHT)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2106988,00.html (photo)

... and you have to see the oped piece (and more photos):

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/06/drive_around_not_over_archaeol.html

Latest in the Odyssey saga (that sounds strange) ... a Spanish
judge has impounded a couple of ships belonging to the company:

http://tinyurl.com/2yf22k

Isaac Newton's 'religious side':

http://tinyurl.com/35dykw (USA Today)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/18/newton.papers.ap/index.html

Scholarly reaction to the impending closing of the Vatican Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/arts/design/23libr.html

Interesting item on the gardens at Bomarzo:

http://tinyurl.com/2fkr82 (Telegraph)

An Indiana Jones movie update:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6229544.stm

Reviews of Ryszard Kapuscinski, *Travels With Herodotus*:

http://tinyurl.com/ysbz6a (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/2q7gov (Telegraph)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Stift Klosterneuburg (with a bit of history too):

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/travel/17cultured.html

The road back to Damascus:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/travel/24Syria.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Corruption hampers work at Ghandara sites in Pakistan:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070621/139/6h88l.html

Tibet has returned some stolen idols to Nepal:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/74922.html

Mummy smugglers in Sudan get their comeuppance:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4099484a4560.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Gods, Myths, and Mortals:

http://cmom.org/exhibitions/aboutgmm.html

Greeks on the Black Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/37bqxr (LA Times ... slide show)

The Wellcome Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/arts/design/21well.html

A private Abraham Lincoln collection:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19296033/

Egypt has asked to 'borrow' the Rosetta Stone:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=668

Nice oped piece on why museums (in the UK) should remain
free:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2669895.ece

A new head of antiquities for the Getty:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070621/getty_curator.html
http://tinyurl.com/2b7ctd (LATimes)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002
621.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_re_us/getty_curator_1
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ON THE WEB
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Journey of Mankind (a Yahoo pick with plenty of subject matter
which touches on our purview):

http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20070615.html

Archaeology and Paleopathology Ning group:

http://bioarchaeology.ning.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Peter Ucko:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2686806.ece
http://worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/site/peter_ucko.php

Alan Kaye (Linguist):

http://campusapps.fullerton.edu/news/inside/2007/kaye.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Some chronologically-challenged guy is claiming the Grail lies
beneath San Lorenzo Outside-the-Walls:

http://tinyurl.com/2fvpan
http://www.physorg.com/news101704852.html
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21287933.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/29vtq9 (Science Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/ytpfv5 (Telegraph)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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explorator 10.10                                 July 1, 2007
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Croman mac Nessa,
Dave Sowdon,David Critchley,Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Gene Barkeley,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Patrick Swan, Pat Wary,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Ross W Sargent, Rick Pettigrew,
Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

Lots of repeats this week ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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A Neanderthal genome?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_on_sc/neanderthal_dna_4
http://www.cbs8.com/story.php?id=94564

From Spain comes the first 'west Europe tooth':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6256356.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2w98tq (El Pais ... Spanish)

Not sure about these claims of Homo erectus living in settled
communities 400,000 b.p.:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1980396.ece

Checking out Lucy's legs:

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/lucys-legs

... by the way, she'll soon be touring the US:

http://tinyurl.com/2qaafb

More on that mammoth ivory carving:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2714179.ece

John Noble Wilford on the human family tree:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/science/26ance.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is an interview with
Louise Leakey:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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AFRICA
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More on the search for Kush:

http://www.twincities.com/ci_6211580?source=rss&nclick_check=1

Some historically-significant statues have been returned to
Kenya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/arts/design/26arti.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of the apparent (and hasty?) identification
of Hatshepsut's mummy:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/172265.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11478188
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11478981
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/27/world/main2986281.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/38rsqe (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/3547nx (Sun)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_sc/egypt_lost_queen_19
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=994892007
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/851/fr1.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/26/egypt.mummy.reut/index.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10448116
http://tinyurl.com/ysbyr6
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=21228
http://www.guardian.co.uk/egypt/story/0,,2112307,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/26/news/mummy.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/world/middleeast/27mummy.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1995185.ece
http://tinyurl.com/ypxwa6 (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yuwuol (Telegraph)
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/229846
http://tinyurl.com/2t9q62 (La Tercera - Spanish)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19454551/

On the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/2k6bhz (LAT)

More coverage of Joe Zias' (et al) views on Masada:

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=47914

Review of Aryeh Kasher, *King Herod: A Persecuted Persecutor: A Case
Study in Psychohistory and Psychobiography*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=876330

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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I think we've heard of this 'tomb of Orpheus' discovery before:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1942829985

A first/second century Roman burial from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=82412

The pope is allowing the Tomb of St. Paul to be opened/examined:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56460
http://www.kath.net/detail.php?id=17163
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52096

... and wider use of the Latin Mass:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6264660?source=rss

The gods are smiling on the Met's new galleries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/nyregion/30coins.html

Donald McGuire has been pondering "classics":

http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol38/vol38n41/articles/UBTS-McGuire.html

Carl Huffman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13964

More coverage of the origin of the Etruscans:

http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=3360

This week's U.S.-as-Rome comparison:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/weekinreview/01goodheart.html

Review of Joan Connelly, *Portrait of a Priestess*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Coates-t.html

Interview/review of Vicki Leon, *Working IX to V*:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11515654

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A storm has revealed remains of some Iron Age (maybe) roundhouses
in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6238302.st
m

... and here's a 'royal' one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6242634.stm

Medieval tiles at Abbey College:

http://tinyurl.com/yww7v3 (CEN)

Restoration of Gorton Monastery has been completed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6235300.stm

... as has Versailles' Hall of Mirrors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/arts/design/26mirr.html

Review of John Preston, *The Dig*:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2078193,00.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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There's a 'mystery building' within Qin's tomb:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070701/sc_nm/china_mausoleum_dc_2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6258586.stm

Earliest wooden figurines from China:

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-6-25/56866.html

The murals from the Takamatsuzuka Tomb have been removed:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20070627a5.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Remember that Port Angeles site? Development was held up by the
discovery of some bones there:

http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/146918.html

[n.b. a later report, which has expired, noted the bones were
from animals and weren't 'historically significant']

Excavating the Nicodemus settlement:

http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/dig062607.shtml

They're going to use some new thermal imaging technology in
Philadelphia:

http://www.whig.com/323965569392256.php

A pottery kiln and well in North Carolina:

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/8143.html

Very nice feature on the Hunley:

http://tinyurl.com/ywc5vp (US News)

Mapping the Etowah Mounds:

http://tinyurl.com/2m4oly (AJC)

For the various holidays in the US and Canada ... an
account of American Royalists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01wwln-essay-t.html

Review of Sally Denton, *Passion and Principle*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Swartz-t.html
==========================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Squash seeds from Peru suggest farming began much earlier there
than previously thought:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/science/29squash.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070628-first-farming.html
http://tinyurl.com/yorxwm (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/2n29lh (LAT)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_sc/ancient_crops
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/531067/#imagetop
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19499488/

cf:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070628/sc_nm/farming_dc_1

Extended article on Chankillo:

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/sun-kings
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the origins of domestic cats:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/29/1182624168917.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070629/ap_on_sc/earliest_cats_8
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070625/full/070625-10.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2115009,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2720093.ece
http://tinyurl.com/38lbjc (Daily Mail)

Some human DNA news that may be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/science/26human.html

David's getting a cleaning (didn't he just get one?):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2112296,00.html

Hype for that Viking Warship:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6248978.stm

Hype for a medieval medicine conference:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070625091139.htm

Dracula's castle has been sold:

http://tinyurl.com/3blp77 (El Pais ... Spanish)

Some healthy (rare?) skepticism in this piece of Incan remains
in a Norwegian churchyard:

http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/5773/44/

Questioning the claims about the Nebra Star Disk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6722953.stm

One for fans of Wikipedia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html

Latest sites to get World Heritage Status:

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=88800

Nice overviewish article (from 2005) on various surveying
techniques:

http://www.amerisurv.com/content/view/3876/

The plot to steal Lincoln's body:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070624/2corpse.htm

Piero della Francesca:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/29/arts/Conway.php

On climate change and monuments:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/19/eveningnews/main2952286.shtml

On the decomposition of modern garbage:

http://www.slate.com/id/2169287/nav/fix

More on those archaeological playing cards being issued to
soldiers in Iraq:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46517
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070620-055454-5451r

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Review of Gareth Hinds, *Beowulf*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/McGrath-t.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Syria:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/travel/24Syria.html

Bayreuth

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/travel/01journeys.html


Savannah:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/travel/01hours.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
More coverage of Italy's return of smuggled items to Pakistan:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/06/25/4289207-ap.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070625/smuggled_antiquities.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Literary Letters:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1000772007

Portugal and the World:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/arts/design/29sack.html

The old Acropolis Museum will be closing on Monday:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/30/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Acropolis-Mus
eum.php

More on the Getty's new curator:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/arts/design/26getty.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Orpheus:

http://www.glimmerglass.org/box_office.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Brevard Childs (Old Testament Scholar):

http://www.yale.edu/divinity/news/070625_news_childs.shtml

Alan Kaye:

http://campusapps.fullerton.edu/news/inside/2007/kaye.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
I suspect this Red Bird Petroglyphs piece belongs here:

http://www.guardonline.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=40083&format=html

More on that guy who thinks the Grail is in Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/2evqxy

Assorted Mayan calendar nuttiness:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01world-t.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Karl Wittwer,Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Albert Reiner, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W Sargent, Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
  week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
================================================================
EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
More on the possibility of reconstructing the Neanderthal
genome:

http://tinyurl.com/32bx82 (USA Today)

Interesting finds related to a 'supereruption' 74 000 b.p.:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070705-india-volcano.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
I think this preserving-manuscripts-in-Timbuktu story makes
the rounds every year:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0,,2116208,00.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Latest revelations from the Persepolis tablets:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7193

Finds from behind the Salman-e Farsi dam:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/July2007/03-07.htm

More coverage on the identification of Hatshepsut's mummy (the
first one is a different perspective):

http://tinyurl.com/2wwgjl (Examiner)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1995185.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1996331.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2lsyas (Australian)

An interview with Zahi Hawass:

http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/detail?articleId=10880

Preserving ancient Yemini inscriptions:

http://www.yobserver.com/culture-and-society/10012539.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Bulgarian archaeologists have found Roman items in a Thracian
tomb:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=82730

Not sure if this refers to older stuff from the same tomb or not:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=82541

... and I think we've had this Tomb of Orpheus news before:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1942829985

... and possibly this Thracian 'palace' from Peperikon too:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1517336169

A Roman winery from France:

http://www.decanter.com/news/127087.html

Chatty sort of thing on Cappadocia:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/yazarDetay.do?haberno=115773

... and one on the Kingdom of Colchis:

http://www.abkhazia.com/content/view/318/63/

Some NGLE news:

http://www.catholic.org/prwire/headline.php?ID=3772

... and JCL coverage:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07182/797883-54.stm

Latin Mass update:

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52234
http://tinyurl.com/28lxcv (Telegraph)

On Latin mottoes and UK politics:

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,2112903,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6248670.stm

Review of Joan Connelly, *Portrait of a Priestess*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Coates-t.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A Bronze Age 'sepentine mound' in England:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6757971,00.html
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200707051001.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2slqgt (IHT)

A 'solstice circle' from the island of Foula:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1046352007

Some medieval church remains from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=82735

Students uncover a possible Saxon burial near Chediston:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6269746.stm

On road construction and Saxon burials:

http://tinyurl.com/yqnhad

Nighthawking has become a major enough concern that a study
has been commissioned:

http://tinyurl.com/2yrmjj (Telegraph)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Somewhat vague report on finds from various periods in Lahore:

http://tinyurl.com/2gtagy (Gulf Times)

Assorted finds from an Eastern Zhou dynasty tomb:

http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/91001.asp

More on the mystery building in Qin's tomb:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070701/ts_nm/china_mausoleum_dc_2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6258586.stm
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070702-060138-8639r
http://tinyurl.com/2neuz3 (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19562865/

Workers building an Ikea (what ... not a Walmart?) in Nanjing have
destroyed some tombs in in the process:

http://tinyurl.com/3duwyb (U-T)

The latest on Australia's plans to protect petroglyphs:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1969349.htm?ancient

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Digging an Aleutian site in Alaska:

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070207/sta_crews00
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/story/9112357p-9028572c.html1.shtml

An update on the dig at Independence Mall in Philadelphia:

http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_188111528.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/04dig-.html

... and on DeSoto's camp:

http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/160142.html

Plans are afoot to restore (sort of) Gettysburg:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-04-gettysburg_N.htm?csp=34

Penn States' archaeological field school:

http://tinyurl.com/2dezzp (SD)

Giulio Magli, "Astronomical references in the planning of
ancient roads I. The case of the so-called Great Hopewell Road"

http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1325

Review of Andrew Ferguson, *Land of Lincoln*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/books/review/Shenk-t.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Not sure if we've had coverage of this Mochica tomb discovery
before:

http://tinyurl.com/2xo79w (LiP)
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
That replica Viking ship has set sail:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070701/2/13vgf.html

The trials and tribulations of contract archaeology:

http://abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/02/archaeology-its-dirty-job/

In case you were wondering how the New Seven Wonders voting
turned out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/6281284.stm
http://tinyurl.com/25yt4h (LAT)
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,22037555-27977,00.html
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/233570

... along with an interesting item on one of the candidates (from
Easter Island):

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2734673.ece

... and the best of the pre-result hype:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19570288/

Brown has acquired the David Pingree papers:

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-180.html

Heritage Book Shop in LA is closing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/books/05heri.html

Some Wimbledon history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/sports/tennis/07falcon.html

The Odyssey shipwreck 'update':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2120811,00.html

... and the San Jose might be another shipwreck to watch:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19623501/

Classical music in peril?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/arts/music/02conn.html

The inspiration for Indiana Jones?:

http://tinyurl.com/3cryd2 (Register)

... and just in case you need a fix of Indy movie gossip:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a64178/indiana-jones-to-get-married.html

Review of Noga Arikha, *Passions and Tempers:A History of the Humours.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/books/review/Nuland.html

Review of Joseph Epstein, *Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide*

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/books/review/Caldwell.html

Long review/article on Garibaldi:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/07/09/070709crbo_books_park
s

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Butrint:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6278418.stm

Lycia:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=115165

Cnidus/Datca:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=77520
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
AJA 111.3:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
These are hard times for tombaroli:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/05/europe/EU-FEA-GEN-Italy-Tomb-Raide
r.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19585643/

... and in the same vein:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/arts/design/04dig.html

I've been waiting most of the week to find more details on this
bust in Corinth, but none have been forthcoming:

http://tinyurl.com/36dvzj (Kathimerini)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/03arts.html

More on Italy's plans to return some smuggled items to
Pakistan:

http://tinyurl.com/337643 (Globe)

The True/Hecht trial has been delayed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/arts/05arts.html (4th item)

OpEd piece calling for the return of 'stolen' African items:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200706261066.html
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.star-telegram.com/visual_arts/story/162493.html

Greeks on the Black Sea:

http://www.presstelegram.com/entertainment/ci_6322840

China's 'Mona Lisa':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/design/03pain.html

There's a new museum at Masada:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3421045,00.html

The British Museum is planning a new major exhibition hall to
house 'blockbuster' type exhibitions:

http://tinyurl.com/2lpyaf (Times)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6272480.stm

The Old Acropolis Museum is now closed:

http://tinyurl.com/2ryf85 (Kathimerini)

... while criticism of the new Ara Pacis Museum continues:

http://tinyurl.com/2wbwzr (ANSA)

A letter of Napoleon to Josephine has fetched a record price:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/04/ap3883591.html

... and big bucks for a Raphael:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/arts/07arts-APORTRAITBYR_BRF.html

The Met has put on display an item it bought at the Knox-Albright
auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/arts/design/06voge.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Michael Oberndorf, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Rick Heli,
Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent,Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
A possible missing link jawbone:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070713-ancient-jawbones.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6291254.stm

Rethinking the implications of the Lake Toba eruption:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288799,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/37tw2h (LS via Yahoo)

Blaming bad backs on our early forebears (this can't be a new
theory):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070715/sc_nm/humans_walking_dc_1
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
More on the 'Lascaux of the Nile':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070711-egypt-artwork.html

They're going to be checking the identities of a pile of mummies
in the Egyptian Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/ywxac3 (IOL)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/13/america/mummy.php
http://tinyurl.com/35llog (Chicago Tribune)

... while an Egyptian mummy in India needs some preservation:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/03/stories/2007070357870200.htm

Plenty of coverage/hype about a cuneiform tablet which mentions
a biblical personnage:

http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,22060647-5003406,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22060312-663,00.html
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=13409
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART48827.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2056362.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2qszxg (Telegraph)

A possible site for 'Miriam's Well':

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123007

Another take on the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3425352,00.html
http://chicagojewishnews.com/story.htm?sid=1&id=250911

Qumran was once a fortress (maybe):

http://www.livescience.com/history/070712_scrolls_site.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19749433/

Another digging season is about to begin at Zeugma:

http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-27585.html

A medieval fort in Syria once hosted the Assassins:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL1114464920070713
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSL1114464920070713

A new dig at Temple Mount renews the saga:

http://tinyurl.com/25epby (JPost)

... although this would have done it too:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123042
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4397
cf: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56626

In case you need to 'catch up' with the saga:

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

Israel has asked Turkey to return the Siloam Inscription:

http://tinyurl.com/3ac42r (JPost)
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/191763.php
http://tinyurl.com/34n6ly (Globe and Mail)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-07-13-tablet_N.htm?csp=34
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070713/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_ancient_tablet_1

A feature on Zahi Hawass' 'mission':

http://www.nysun.com/article/58293

Petra's recent classification as a 'Wonder' has led to calls
for its preservation:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093159086

... and a nice feature on the place:

http://tinyurl.com/yoqm5c (Daily Star)

More coverage of the search for Kush:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070712/sudan.shtml

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Some recent finds from Peperikon:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1963793751
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=82841

Another Thracian mask has been found:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1923342075

Some more finds from Bulgaria (different):

http://tinyurl.com/3bj8yg (Echo)
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=82794

On cleaning up Herodes Atticus' theatre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/world/europe/08greece.html

A metal detectorist in the UK has found an interesting Roman
slave-related item:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART48885.html

Another digging season is about to begin at Zeugma:

http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-27585.html

What Roman farmers left behind:

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/070708_rome-farmers.htm

A strike has closed the Acropolis for a while:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100014_13/07/2007_856
33
http://tinyurl.com/2cog3y (SMH)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6775585,00.html

... and some semi-related fallout from the Seven Wonders vote:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_10/07/2007_854
94

A chronically-challenged piece on a trial for Roman emperors:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-13_113116536.ht
ml

Pedar Foss' latest:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=19702

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Finds from various periods at a site outside Durham City:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/6282220.stm

Plans are afoot to dig near Scone Palace:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1046372007

Racing to study some Iron Age longhouses before storms wash them
away:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1079032007

Italy has set up an Iceman Lab (kind of late, no?):

http://tinyurl.com/2lqttf (ANSA)

The papal dungeons in the Castal Sant'Angelo are reopening for
tourists (maybe 'to tourists' is less ambiguous):

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52344
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/12/ap3910227.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/12/europe/EU-TRV-Italy-Papal-Dungeon.
php

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A major Buddhist site in India:

http://tinyurl.com/yvhqrk

Tang Dynasty finds from Vietnam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2007/07/717893/

A Southern Dynasty tomb in downton Guangzhou:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200707/10/t20070710_12114466.shtml

More porcelain from that Ming Dynasty shipwreck:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200707/15/t20070715_12173941.shtml

Future earthquakes could flatten Nijo Castle:

http://tinyurl.com/3xh2x4 (JTimes)

Review of Colin Thubron, *Shadow of the Silk Road*:

http://tinyurl.com/22l3eg (Globe)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An ancient massacre/genocide site in New Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/3ct392 (NK)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070712-chaco-massacre.html
http://tinyurl.com/3ateq8 (NG ... photos)

Look what the squirrels dug up:

http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_194095839.html

Nice feature on the Anasazi:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11828089

Evidence that Alabama's slaves also worked in the iron works:

http://tinyurl.com/2wwa4a (AJC)

Nice feature on Oregon archaeologist Julie Schablitsky:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/09/261633.aspx

More on that kiln in Hillsborough:

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/8367.html

Mysterious underground rooms found in the wake of a sinkhole/
condo construction in Ossining, NY:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/nyregion/14mystery.html

Sewage lagoon construction threatens a possible First Nation
burial ground near Fort Qu'appelle:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/07/10/sewage-nation.html

Getting the younger set interested in history:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070709/ap_on_re_us/cumberland_club

Chattel Houses of Barbados (photos):

http://tinyurl.com/2sro9x (BBC)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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On the antiquity of 'Mexican Cuisine':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070709171645.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6287406.stm
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070710-044856-9444r
http://tinyurl.com/2lkh8m (LS via Yahoo)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/s-aal070307.php

Another new 'Wonder' candidate (Machu Picchu) fears the
aftermath:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1098052007

Latest Cyark Case Study on the Archaeological Channel looks at
Tikal:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An interesting 'Nazi Holy Grail' item:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,478958,00.html

The Odyssey saga is heating up:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6896645.stm
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_11483.shtml
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2007/07/09/daily38.html

Another guy crossing the Atlantic in a raft:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6294786.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2ff66e (Newsday)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/81691.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_us/ancient_mariners_3

On pants and their role in Western history:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2124165,00.html

A 'new' Caravaggio 'original' has been discovered (maybe):

http://www.artinfo.com/articles/story/25347/caravaggio_original_discovered_i
n_italy

Interesting/useful software 'lights up' sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6284760.stm

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/arts/13voge.html

More on the Seven Wonders vote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/arts/09arts.html

Nice photogallery of Wonders Ancient and recently-voted:

http://tinyurl.com/2q8ncj (NG)

Perhaps more interesting are the latest additions to (and
deletions from) the UNESCO World Heritage list:

http://www.miamiherald.com/986/story/165297.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://tinyurl.com/ypv5xs (Times)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Metal detectorists have damaged a villa site in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/6289762.stm

Greece is planning a big crackdown on antiquities smuggling:

http://tinyurl.com/yuztmm
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/07/09/greece-antiquities-smuggli
ng.html

More coverage of the decline of tombaroli in Italy:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/182166.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some suspiciously-good-condition Roman coins were found on
a UK beach:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6895653.st
m

Christian Gobrecht:

http://www.uspatterns.com/chrisgob.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Ancient Garden from Babylon to Rome:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/12/arts/conway.php

Royal Tombs of the Scythians:

http://www.magazine-deutschland.de/ereignis_meldung.php?id=553

Lots of coverage of Italy's ultimatum to the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/29xcv4 (LAT)
http://www.news1130.com/news/entertainment/article.jsp?content=e071053A
http://www.nysun.com/article/58192
http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_6341142?nclick_check=1
http://tinyurl.com/3exfvr (ANSA)

Athens' Epigraphical Museum is looking for more tourists:

http://tinyurl.com/2xo9wn (kathimerini)

More on the transfer of items to the new Acropolis Museum:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-07/13/content_6368090.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/07/12/greek-sculpture-museum.htm
l
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/12/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Acropolis-Sta
tues.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2067140.ece

Some famous recently-restored Etruscan items are returning to the
Villa Giulia:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-13_113116526.ht
ml

More on the new museum at Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/879660.html

Another saga brewing in relation to Israel's Museum of Tolerance:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/880732.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/880500.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Penelopiad:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/atwood.html
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ON THE WEB
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Sunken Treasure Bibliography:

http://www.sunkentreasurebooks.com/
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Albert Reiner, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',
Edward Rockstein, Eric H. Cline, Hernan Astudillo, Jim Lockmiller,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,Mata Kimasitayo, Pat Wary,
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Thomas McGinnis,W. Richard Frahm,  and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

the 'I think my hard drive is dying' issue ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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The latest salvo in the 'out of Africa' v 'multiple origins'
debate:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/babs-nrp071607.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070718/sc_nm/evolution_skulls_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19832535/
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/718/3

More coverage of that 'Lucy's relative' find:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070717_lucy_link.html

On the origins of bipedalism:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/wuis-too071607.php
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/07/17/chimps.on.treadmills.reut/index.h
tml

Paleolithic items from Abu Dhabi:

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/07/17/10139893.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An Old Kingdom settlement in Egypt's Western Desert:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070716-104644-5178r
http://tinyurl.com/2taqh6
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=
83895

Classifying some recently-found Parthian objects:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/July2007/16-07-discovered.htm

An Iron Age burial ground behind Kalpush Dam:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/jul/1202.html

More calls to protect Petra in the wake of its Seven Wonders
designation:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/17/africa/ME-GEN-Jordan-Petra.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070718/ap_on_sc/jordan_petra_5
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19814445/

Plenty of coverage of a British Museum decipherment of a cuneiform
tablet mentioning a Biblical personnage (I think we mentioned this
last week):

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1645738,00.html
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART48827.html

A DNA followup to the identification of Hatshepsut story from a
couple of weeks ago:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/uom-muh071307.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070716133119.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hatshepsut/

A possible 'new' fragment of Genesis from the Judean Desert

http://targuman.org/blog/?p=716 (Blog post)

This week's 'developments' at Temple Mount:

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Culture/11686.htm

On ATV drivers and archaeological sites:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=884080

The Siloan inscription apparently will be returned:

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=35290

Review of Eric Cline, *From Eden to Exile*:

http://tinyurl.com/3bxtd2 (USA Today)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of evidence for very ancient seafaring
culture on Cyprus:

http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=730&pgID=6013&nwID=5041
http://tinyurl.com/ysj29v (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_sc/cyprus_ancient_mariners_6
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=33666&cat_id=1

A Mycenean burial from  Western Greece:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070716/sc_nm/greece_grave_dc
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL1676411820070716
http://en.rian.ru/world/20070717/69107869.html

Plenty of finds from Bulgaria this week ... first an interesting
'throne' from Perperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=83222

... and more impressive, yet another one of those gold masks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19791150/
http://tinyurl.com/2v25c6 (IHT)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070716-062640-7820r
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/16/ap3917848.html

... and a ring:

http://tinyurl.com/38s7gs (Echo)

... and a nymphaeum:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1209067016

A sort of round-up piece of other finds in Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=s1511

Roman burials in Veroia:

http://tinyurl.com/322f7t (IOL)
http://www.pr-inside.com/roman-graves-uncovered-during-roadworks-in-r179282.
htm

A second century bathing complex in Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/2u88nj (IHT)
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11000AX1MJTG
http://www.mercurynews.com/healthandscience/ci_6414910?nclick_check=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_sc/italy_ancient_bath
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/20/romanbath_arc.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19856801/

Recent finds from London (repeat?):

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL1780886220070717

... and the verdict for Nero is in:

http://tinyurl.com/32mh77 (ANSA)

Being guided by a mosaic in Kelenderis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=77787

Upcoming digs at other Classical sites in Turkey:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=78839

Cecil Adams on the historicity of the Trojan War:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/070720.html

Build your own centurion:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41079

Not sure if this will end the controversy about the Latin Mass
or not:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-19_119110625.ht
ml

Fires in Greece were threatening sites this week:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100002_18/07/2007_858
22

Why did Rome fall?:

http://hnn.us/articles/40538.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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When (and how) Britain left Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6904675.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2xmn83 (Chronicle)

Plenty of coverage of a family's discovery of a Viking hoard in
the UK:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/19/london.viking.reut/
http://tinyurl.com/2qgnh6 (Times)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6906107.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6906482.stm (Photos)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec07/vikings_07-19.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2130474,00.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2130832,00.html
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/19/1983238.htm?section=world
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/19/nviking119.x
ml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19861099/

Plans are afoot to excavate some (Neolithic?) burial mounds in
the Netherlands:

http://tinyurl.com/35yhs4

Medieval burials beneath Trondheim's Nidaros cathedral:

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article896098.ece (Norwegian)

The dig at Scone Abbey is already bearing fruit:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1139172007

Assorted finds near Stiklestad:

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/nordtrondelag/article896051.ece (Norewegian)

A medieval city gate from Eindhoven:

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=42071

Just in case you haven't seen Homer and the Giant:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/6901543.stm

The mystery of Mannings Hill:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2785470.ece

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some items from the mysterious Jinsha culture have been found
in China:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6220825.html

Remains of an "ancient" bridge in VietNam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/110707/culture_an.htm

An ancient irrigation canal from Japan:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070719TDY16003.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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This dig at an Acadian site on the border between New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia is getting a fair bit of coverage up here in
the Great (Humid) White North:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2007/07/16/nb-beaubassin.html
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/848077.html

The stuff you find in 130 b.p. outhouses:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3387361
http://tinyurl.com/2mzalh (LAT)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/ap_on_fe_st/odd_outhouse_artifacts

Early report of finds at a Pennsylvania school construction
site:

http://tinyurl.com/2rw43m (Inquirer)
http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_6387253

More on finds from Lake Okeechobee (not sure there's anything
we haven't seen in this one):

http://tinyurl.com/2rsxna (LAT)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
I think this 'upright burial' from Honduras is a repeat:

http://tinyurl.com/2k8ox4 (LT)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Grumbling about the Vatican Library's impending closure:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6901606.stm

A fresco depicting Pope Alexander VI and his mistress is
causing assorted comments:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6909589.stm
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-19_119107238.ht
ml

Folks might like a YouTube Video of an archaeological field
class at UConn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7895A0zCig

Interesting article on what was done to protect antiquities and
the like during WWII:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/03_03/keller.html

... and one on Yale commencements and apostasy:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2005_03/old_yale.html

... and the theft of Geronimo's bones:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2006_05/notebook.html

... and on Goya as a "dissident":

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/07/23/070723ta_talk_singer

Latest in the Odyssey saga (hmmm):

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/17/ap3922803.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6793261,00.html

... and a piece in the Economist about treasure hunting:

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9516736

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/arts/19arts.html

Interesting implications in this Jane Austen story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/arts/20arts-NOCENSUREFOR_BRF.html

More coverage of that Viking ship voyage re-creation:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6900902.stm

... which doesn't seem to be going according to plan this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6903308.stm

Review of Colin Thubron, *Shadow of the Silk Road*:

http://tinyurl.com/2humd6 (Chronicle)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Amalfi Coast:

http://tinyurl.com/2pru6x (Age)
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Vandals have damaged (again) some Utah petroglyphs:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/228883/4/
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,695192640,00.html

... and a Squaxin site in Washington:

http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/165512.html
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=6812347

This seems appropriate here ... the US has imposed restrictions
on the importation of ancient coins from Cyprus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/arts/design/18coins.html
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=33667&cat_id=1

The Art Newspaper comments on possible hypocrisy by Italy in
regards to the return of antiquities:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=688

Greece vows to maintain its policy of publicizing the return
of antiquities:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_20/07/2007_859
11

... but doesn't want to return some Byzantine plates to
Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/2rxmx7 (Echo)

A restored Hercules of Veii is back on display:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-18_118104202.ht
ml

Italy's talks with the Getty are "down to the wire":

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-18_118102164.ht
ml

An antiquities bust in Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/3yarqn (Echo)

The latest Nazi loot recovery effort:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/arts/18arts-HEIRSSEEKRET_BRF.html

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
8th/9th century Chinese coins found in VietNam:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=29991

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Chinese Porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/arts/design/20anti.html

Michael Bland and his "dream job":

http://tinyurl.com/3calqz (TD)

Interesting items coming to Bonham's arms and armour auction:

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9532950

Not sure if we mentioned this brouhaha over the tearing down
of some significant (modern) buildings so folks dining in the
restaurant of the new Acropolis Museum can see the rock:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100020_21/07/2007_859
61

On this page is a link to the Minerva article by Jerome
Eisenberg on the authenticity (or lack of same) of the Met
chariot (the pdf in the right column; it is in English):

http://tinyurl.com/34fq28 (Archaeogate)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Richard III:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/theater/reviews/21rich.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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More coverage of that holy-grail-is-in-Rome claim:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/75220.html
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Croman mac Nessa,
Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Diana Wright,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent,
Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

... I'm in the midst of an ear infection, so today's coverage
might not be as thorough as usual (I've been quick on the
delete button at times).

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EARLY HUMANS
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One million b.p. human footprints from Pakistan:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070728/139/6iqdw.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 3500 b.p. Egyptian fortress in the Sinai:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6221824.html
http://tinyurl.com/2gvq6l

Testing is afoot (sorry ... couldn't resist) of a pair of
prosthetic toes found with mummies over the past few years to
see if they were 'functional':

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/uom-ssi072607.php
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-28/58119.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070726/national/oldest_prosthesis_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6918687.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070727084801.htm
http://tinyurl.com/29goxj (Telegraph)

Another Persian geometrical inscription/petroglyph:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7237

That Egyptian bowling story is in the news again for some
reason:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070726/139/6imsc.html
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1989990.htm?ancient

An overviewish thing on recent finds in Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/2n9jqn (JPost)

An alternative to the Mughrabi Bridge?:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/886039.html
http://tinyurl.com/3dnjjp (JPost)

More coverage/claims about that Jeremiah cuneiform mention:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1645738,00.html

The story of the 'Third Temple':

http://tinyurl.com/23g9m6 (JPost)

Latest example of the politicization of archaeology related
to Israel:

http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/11769.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Quite a bit of coverage of research into 'pre-Alexandria':

http://www.livescience.com/history/070724_before_alexandria.html
http://tinyurl.com/2auzhp (ToI)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070723174707.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19938755/
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=07615841029

More finds from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=83447

... including a horse-head-shaped vessel (no photo?):

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_922374272
http://tinyurl.com/yud7g3 (Echo)

... while some news services are just getting around to reporting
on that mask from a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3382569
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul16/0,4670,AncientMask,00.html

PreRoman plumbing at Villa del Foro:

http://www.valenza.it/index.php?pag=notizia&id=15840 (Italian)
http://www.giornal.it/Pagine/Articolo/Articolo.asp?ida=16638

Plans are afoot to dig up ancient Teion:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=78680

Roman mosaics from Nimes:

http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20070727/106529.shtml

Romuliana is now on UNESCO's list:

http://www.birn.eu.com/en/95/10/3716/

They're restoring the Jewish catacombs beneath Mussolini's
villa:

http://tinyurl.com/2czbrw (ANSA)

The sunken Roman forts at Meols will soon be in a documentary:

http://tinyurl.com/2r3e7h

More coverage of that second century Roman bathing complex:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL2476764920070724

Did 'salt men' give rise to stories of satyrs?:

http://tinyurl.com/yusjpj (USA Today)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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They've exhumed the remains of Pico della Mirandola (and
Ambrosini) to see if they were poisoned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6920443.stm

... and Schiller and some kin are also being checked out:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2133279,00.html

More coverage of that UK Viking hoard:

http://tinyurl.com/2g7f5p (WPost)
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/19/london.viking.reut/

Remembering the Clearances:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1151632007

Latest news from Crewell Crags:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/6921125.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

Review of Lesley Chamberlain, *Motherland*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Lilla-t.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Some followups to that piece on octopus-found porcelain from
Korea a few weeks ago:

http://tinyurl.com/26kphw (Star)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2007-07/25/content_5443246.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6906482.stm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/19/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Viking-Treas
ure.php
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2130832,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2785479.ece
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21106
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/24/1986867.htm

Some Korean mummies may help in the fight against hepatitis b:

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/62123/
http://tinyurl.com/2fu4pq (UPI)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/86742.html
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://tinyurl.com/ynul87

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

An ancient bronze drum from VietNam has been restored:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2007/07/722942/

OpEddish sort of thing on China's Grand Canal:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/world/asia/24canal.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting 3000 b.p. whalebone mask found in Alaska:

http://tinyurl.com/ysm27a (Science Daily)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/28/america/NA-GEN-US-Ancient-Mask.php
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=6854808
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070728/world/us_ancient_mask_1
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/9169966p-9086365c.html

... as well as some more recent finds from the same state:

http://newsminer.com/2007/07/28/8142

Somewhat vague item on a dig going on at a Dayton cement
plant:

http://tinyurl.com/2r29ge (Lantern)

A Cincinnati field school is digging up 'Parker House':

http://tinyurl.com/2h2tkx (Ledger)

Finds from various periods at a Kankakee River site:

http://tinyurl.com/2byrja (Courier-Journal)

Searching for Jamestown's first church:

http://tinyurl.com/ytbqjg (DP)

Nice piece on one of the folks who worked on the Monitor
excavations:

http://tinyurl.com/2wmkdd (Tribune)

The dig at the Bryant-Barker Tavern site is coming to an end:

http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=26551

More on things found in a receding Okeechobee:

http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1329110.html

Concerns for artifacts unfound in Greensboro:

http://tinyurl.com/376dbu (News Record)

Review of Eric Dolin, *Leviathan*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Barcott-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A legal dispute over Chichen Itza:

http://tinyurl.com/yo69dh (El Pais ... Spanish)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Romano Prodi is trying to revive old pilgrimage routes in Italy:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-27_127109179.ht
ml

Mona Lisa apparently suffered from hyperlipemia:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-25_12587313.htm
l

... while Canova 'cheated' in his sculpture of Napoleon's sister
as Venus:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-24_12492172.htm
l

... more Canova news:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-25_12585859.htm
l

Rethinking Dark Age medicine:

http://www.livescience.com/health/070723_medieval_medicine.html

Latest in the Black Swan case:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_11609.shtml

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel interviews some
anthropologists about what they do:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of a biography of Gustave Courbet:

http://tinyurl.com/2ylzks (New Yorker)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Appian Way:

http://tinyurl.com/29cggf (FP)

Greece:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/travel/29greece-1.html

Arlington:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19954561/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some sixth-century Roman gold coins from Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/2o7jsm (Echo)

A big Roman coin hoard from Wales has been declared treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/2se6z2 (Mail)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/6917481.stm

A $2 million dime (!):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12329317

On minting coins in Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1068&p=culture&a=1

A Billon tetradrachm from Alexandria ... found in the UK:

http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/heritage?articleid=3037137

An Ides of March denarius is the Fitzwilliam's 'Coin of the Moment':

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/exhibitions/CoinOfTheMoment/Ides/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL2621441820070726

A German collector has returned some objects to Peru:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6223710.html

OpEd piece on the Italy's 'ultimatum' to the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/3954op (LAT)

A feature on the Met's Philippe de Montebello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/arts/design/29mcgr.html

cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/arts/design/29fink.html

More coverage of the dispute over tearing down some buildings
to make the view from the Acropolis Museum better:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2137025,00.html

Salzburg World Fine Art Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/arts/design/27anti.html

France has a problem getting the French to visit its museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/arts/23muse.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Imeneo:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12259249

Assorted movies about artists:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12048352

... including Moliere:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/movies/27moli.html

Athens and Epidaurus Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/arts/design/24fest.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Alanah Woody (Petroglyph conservationist):

http://tinyurl.com/3e3jcj (LAT)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Deaths.html (scrolld down)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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As might be expected, there's plenty of coverage of a claim of
some guy to have found DaVinci codish stuff in DaVinci's
'Last Supper' ... squirrels have been placed on alert:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22138621-2,00.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-07-25_12593371.htm
l
http://www.pr-inside.com/experts-skeptical-on-claim-of-new-r184574.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19997794/

... check it out for yourself (photos):

http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5024588-5007150-1,00.html

It's about on the same level as this Dead Sea Scrolls diet
plan:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i22247
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, on Buck,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Mitch Allen, Patrick Swan, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman,
Rob Smith, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Steve Rankin,
Tijl Vereenooghe, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Early humans in China:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801174826.htm
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AFRICA
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3500 b.p. petroglyphs (frescos?) from Batna (Algeria):

http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid
=7063
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 'gentrified' 26th dynasty tomb near Abu Sir:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070802-egypt-burial.html

A Kufic inscription from Iran's Ilam province:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7241

Latest CT scan of a mummy with interesting results:

http://www.ascensioncitizen.com/articles/2007/08/01/news/news01.txt

... and another mummy autopsy:

http://tinyurl.com/3avncn (NOLA)

Interesting item on Nahal Mishmar:

http://tinyurl.com/2gozoz (JStandard)

More coverage of that Hyskos fortress in the Sinai:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070727-egypt-fort.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A colossal statue of Hadrian has been found at Sagalassos:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hadrian/
http://www.gundem.be/go.php?go=30506fb&do=details&return=last_news&pg=1
(Turkish)
http://www.vrtnieuws.net/cm/vrtnieuws.net/nieuws/regionaal/Vlaams-Brabant/1.
160691
(Dutch, with an audio interview)

A report on the ongoing dig at Paphos:

http://www.financialmirror.com/more_news.php?id=7825&nt=Politics
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

Plans are afoot to excavate Alexander's colony at/of Icarus:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070801-021350-9158r
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=86468

A fair bit of coverage of the excavation of a tannery site in
Rome:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070801/ap_on_sc/italy_ancient_tannery_8
http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=141331
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/31/ap3973507.html
http://tinyurl.com/yusbwx (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/3y9zta (IHT)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20059886/

Nice piece on the ongoing excavation of an Iberian temple site:

http://www.costablancaleader.com/news/article.php?article_id=12362&article_s
ection_id=1

Remember those Roman curse tablets which were found a year or so
ago? This isn't about them, but is semi-related:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART49545.html

Latest find spot for a Thracian item is somewhat different (but
perhaps not surprising):

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2444085.html

More on the Acropolis Museum v Art Deco House saga:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Greece-Art-Deco-vs-Antiquity.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Bronze Age skeleton/burial from near Peterborough:

http://tinyurl.com/2ejjqm (PT)

A 2000 b.p. Sami village:

http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=92779

A pile of Viking graves near Trondheim:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1911815.ece

A unique medieval ditch near Prague:

http://launch.praguemonitor.com/en/138/czech_national_news/10225/

A possible medieval mosque in Sicily:

http://www.physorg.com/news105029488.html

Excavating a mass grave from the Battle of Wittstock:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,497461,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1201232007

Recent flooding in the UK has threatened some sites:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2136400,00.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 5600 b.p. 'tinder device':

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6230419.html

A major 2500 b.p. tomb/multiple burial from Jianxi:

http://tinyurl.com/22rqnm (CCTV ... video)
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6228297.html

2000 b.p. tombs from Sri Lanka:

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_07/August1141011SL.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An update of sorts on that ongoing dig at Beaubassin (Nova
Scotia):

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/851460.html

Pondering the implications of the fate of the Anasazi:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12313268

A Hohokam canal near Tempe:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/59097.php
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0731tr-asudig0801.html

The dig at Philadelphia's Mall has come to an end:

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=5528324
http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_212133339.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A possible Aztec ruler burial in Mexico City:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/world/americas/05aztec.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Mexico-Aztec-Tomb.html
http://tinyurl.com/38ted3 (WPost)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/03/ap/world/main3132619.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/26rmfu (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/08/03/aztec-ruler.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20110418/

... not sure if this is the same:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070801/sc_nm/mexico_pyramid_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20081404/

An ancient observatory in Mexico (possibly a repeat):

http://tinyurl.com/37n3p9 (La Tercera)

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Rethinking the 'cradle of civilization' idea:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/aaft-bma080107.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070802182042.htm
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2007/0802archaeology.shtml

Someone is trying to revive the study of cosmography:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6928344.stm

The statues in St. Peter's square are the latest to be threatened
by various environmental factors:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.1100935113

A missing Medici duchess may have been found:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-08-02_102107993.ht
ml
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2819578.ece

Interesting item on finding sites from old aerial photos:

http://tinyurl.com/yqqew3 (WPost)

The 'genetic shadow' of the Black Death:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12393?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn12393

Using DNA to (re)identify Titanic victims:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20059682

It isn't a van Gogh:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6929086.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2mzvo5 (El Pais)

The latest replica vessel to get in trouble:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/arts/design/04voya.html

Rebuilding the Hermione:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/31/news/france.php

Remains of the UK's first mosque:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2826203.ece

Interesting item on teaching soldiers about cultural property:

http://aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/update/sum07/sum0702.html

What it's really like being an archaeologist:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3390705435543114962

The history of Leprosy:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1994304.htm

A column on the influence of ancient works on modern art:

http://tinyurl.com/36k6w3 (Dispatch)

Review of C. Kinneally, *The First Word*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/29/RVGTBR6CRD1.DTL

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Aztec Ruins National Monument:

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/496194,TRA-News-aztec05.article

Appian Way:

http://www.mcall.com/travel/all-appianway.5974365aug05,0,3872317.story?

Sicily:

http://www.arabia.com/article.cfm/id/172779

Agriturismo in Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/3x5px5 (WPost)

Oneida:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/travel/escapes/03Oneida.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some 'clandestine digging' was discovered at a Byzantine site
near Enna:

http://tinyurl.com/yumour (Italian)

Those Byzantine-era plates which Bulgaria wants back from Greece
are being investigated:

http://tinyurl.com/32bq3p (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/ywxlxg (Echo)

The anti-piracy police came across some antiquities:

http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=4717&lang=en

A stolen Angkor-era statue has been returned to Cambodia:

http://tinyurl.com/27uqqb (Star)
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NUMISMATICA
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A hoard of 800 b.p. gold coins has been declared treasure:

http://www.woking.co.uk/news/woking/2013/2013476/coin_find_is_treasure

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Mosaics of the East:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-08-03_103100153.ht
ml

Islamic Art:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6902755.stm

Brass Menagerie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/arts/design/03anti.html

William Ranney:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/arts/design/03rann.html

Tapestry in the Baroque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/arts/design/03voge.html

A huge amount of coverage of the agreement reached between
Italy and the Getty this week ... this is just a small sampling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/arts/design/02gett.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12428709
http://tinyurl.com/3y9gqf (LAT)
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-08-01_10192695.htm
l
http://www.ocregister.com/news/class-wirep-getty-1795105-italy-museum
http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_6523885?nclick_check=1
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=18219§ionid=3510212
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6820462,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,497992,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20079421/site/newsweek/
http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKL0273796320070803
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2831117.ece

Here's what's being returned:

http://www.getty.edu/news/press/center/objects_to_be_transferred_to_italy_08
0107.pdf

There was some hype before the agreement, if you're interested:

http://tinyurl.com/2o7arw (LAT)

The director of the Guggenheim has decided to work for Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/arts/design/31gugg.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Becoming Jane:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/movies/03jane.html

Bookends:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/theater/01bookend.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy,Dave Sowdon,
Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein,Erica Stewart, Rick Heli,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,Kris Curry,Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths,Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Rick Pettigrew,Ross W. Sargent,Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

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some contributions were lost in the 'import' ... apologies if
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EARLY HUMANS
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More voices from the 'out-of-Asia-too' theory:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20149502/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070807/ts_alt_afp/usscienceorigins_070807015957
http://tinyurl.com/2f5xwg (USA Today)

Rethinking where h. habilis fits on the evolutionary family
tree (and other things; this story is being spun in
various ways):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20178936/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/science/09fossil.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/070806-5.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6937476.stm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/09/MNH2RF2HD.DTL
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0980963720070809?feedType=RSS
http://tinyurl.com/2ghj2e (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6579601
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070808-early-humans.html
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/08/08/skulls-leakey.html?ref=rss
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2224912.ece

... and something for the 'what happened to the Neanderthals'
debate too:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070807145140.htm

... as well as some Neanderthal DNA info:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article638368.ece

Lucy's on tour:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20153408/

... but there are concerns:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_sc/ethiopia_lucy_on_tour
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070807/us_nm/ethiopia_fossil_dc
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AFRICA
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Another story on all those print resources in Timbuktu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/world/africa/07mali.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/06/africa/mali.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Nice overviewish thing on the simmering controversy over that
recent Leviticus fragment find:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/892229.html

More coverage of the rethinking the 'cradle of civilization
idea:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070809_origins_civilization.html

More coverage of that Egyptian fortress find in the Sinai:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/857/hr1.htm

A Byzantine church from Tiberias:

http://tinyurl.com/2bxm3w (IOL)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00315.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ypxq8a (IAA)
http://tinyurl.com/2gjelu (MFA)

Byzantine mosaic from Yavneh Yam:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/890786.html

Cuneiform Cuisine (sandwedges? ... sorry, couldn't resist):

http://sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=703

Plans are afoot for getting tourist bucks out of the royal
burials at Alacahouyuk:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=78982

... plus news of some new finds:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=79388

This impending dam collapse might have some implications for
archaeology in Iraq, I suspect:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2843961.ece

Review of Eric Cline, *From Eden to Exile*:

http://www.kansas.com/194/story/145216.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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An Etrusco-Roman tomb at Grossetta (so far all the coverage is
Italian):

http://tinyurl.com/ysvgz8 (CdS)
http://www.agi.it/firenze/notizie/200708111201-cro-r012076-art.html

Clumsy archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered a (Greek?)
tomb:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=83923
http://tinyurl.com/337y2m (Echo)
http://tinyurl.com/26gkqw (Echo)

Assorted Roman finds from Towcester:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news?articleid=3093060

An update on the situation at Allianoi:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=80597

The A-level thing in the UK isn't over:

http://tinyurl.com/2be3v9 (Times)
http://www.londongreeknews.co.uk/story.php?id=217

Tony Perrottet goes to gladiator school:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,20437953-27984,00.html

... which seems to be associated with a feature on the Colosseum:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,22216023-27977,00.html

A Roman salted fish factory in Spain:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_11901.shtml

An item about the Euphronios Krater:

http://tinyurl.com/2cnw5s (WSJ)

In case you missed the news about the fire at Cinecitta:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2146525,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6941101.stm

More coverage of that colossal Hadrian find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070808-rome-statue.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/08/10/hadrian-statue.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2853816.ece
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=6878&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO
http://www.focusmag.co.uk/newsread.asp?ID=32946

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

More coverage of that Roman tannery find:

http://dcnonl.com/article/id23925

More on plans to excavate Alexander's colony on Falaika:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6930285.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ysjf8v (Kathimerini)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Mesolithic site has been found off the Isle of Wight:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070809_aqua_dig.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20215343/
http://tinyurl.com/ypsy69 (LS via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/6928293.stm

An Anglo Saxon site near Harborough:

http://tinyurl.com/2bqh68 (Mail)

An 800 A.D. (or thereabouts) fortification has been found
beneath a soccer field in Nola:

http://www.denaro.it/go/a/_articolo.qws?recID=282952(Italian)

Somewhat vague item on finds from various periods in Southgate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/6934390.stm

Review of A. Tinniswood, *The Verneys*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/books/review/05good.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A site in Victoria (Australia) is older than previously thought:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/12/2002654.htm

Still looking for the Sleeping Buddha:

http://tinyurl.com/26vsdm (CSM via Yahoo)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A reworked Clovis point from Alexandria (Va):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20211449/
http://www.nbc4.com/news/13863212/detail.html

Archaeology and politics in Barrie, Ontario:

http://tinyurl.com/2feawt (Examiner)

... while some Hohokam canals are holding up development in
Mesa:

http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=6918225
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/94918?source=rss&dest=STY-94918

The search for Florida's 'lost settlement':

http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_9009.shtml

An Indianapolis fisherman brought up a 145 b.p. grave marker:

http://tinyurl.com/222xez (Tribune)

Nice little video on the Queen Anne's Revenge excavation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7iHgcnh3h0

Celebrating St. Augustine's 442nd birthday:

http://tinyurl.com/2y5ky9 (IHT)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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The search for Machu Picchu's 'twin':

http://tinyurl.com/25efv3 (Tenerife News)

Not sure whether we've had this Bolivian Pyramid find story
yet or not:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070806-pyramid-tomb.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Another Viking ship recreation has embarked:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2856867.ece
http://tinyurl.com/yr327u (SPB)

France has been setting fashion trends for hundreds of years:

http://tinyurl.com/2nzzoh (Times)

Haven't had an 'ancient beer' story in a while:

http://www.online.ie/Home/News.aspx?newsId=836042
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6941951.stm

Here's a new one (to me, anyway) ... a mummy in the Brooklyn
Museum will be getting an X Ray Fluorescence scan (XRF):

http://tinyurl.com/2g8f5o (Daily Eagle)

... but this one says it's a CT scan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/arts/06mumm.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel: What is Archaeology?:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Archaeologists for a day:

http://www.rocktownweekly.com/skyline_details.php?AID=11612&sub=Rural%20Pen

Latest in the Odyssey affair:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_11941.shtml

Review of F. Fernandez-Armesto, *Amerigo*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/books/review/Philbrick-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/travel/12sardinia.html

Kos:

http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-28193.html

Afek:

http://tinyurl.com/23bl4t (JPost)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Vandals damaged petroglyphs in Wisconsin:

http://tinyurl.com/yse5rr (Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/2aufqj

... and Spain:

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/13549

A couple of Indian government officials have been charged with
trying to sell a very old Quran:

http://tinyurl.com/2z9xoh (HT)

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================


Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Desiderio di Settignano:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/arts/design/10desi.html

Monet sketches:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/arts/design/10mone.html

The terracotta army is headed for the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6935754.stm

... then Houston:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/entertainment/5042038.html

Nice piece on the new Masada museum:

http://tinyurl.com/2ctm7u (JPost)

OpEd pieces in the wake of the Getty returns:

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9637669
http://tinyurl.com/25jgee (IHT)

Board room stuff from the Smithsonian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/arts/design/09smit.html

Plans for a new Israel Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/arts/design/12erla.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Folks might be interested in the Archaeoseek Ning network:

http://archaeoseek.ning.com/
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OBITUARIES
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',Edward Rockstein,
Erica Stewart,Jim Lockmiller,Joan Griffith,John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer,Mike Ruggeri,Rochelle Altman,Ross W. Sargent,
Stan Nadel,W. Richard Frahm, and oYonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Why we don't look like Neanderthals:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813101018.htm

More coverage of the 'out of Asia too' theory:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=7556

... and Lucy's tour:

http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_287506274,00.html
(Spanish)

More on where homo habilis fits on the evolutionary family tree:

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2846545.ece
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AFRICA
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Egypt 'one ups' the Roman footprint find (see below):

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008230671
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Vague item on finds relating to Rameses II:

http://tinyurl.com/38a28n (SIS)

Not sure if we've mentioned this 'wrinkled Nefertiti' story
yet:

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=42679

... or this Egyptian 'noblewoman' tomb find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070816-egypt-tomb.html

Nice followup story on that 'Demetrios the mummy' story:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/14/mummy_arc.html

Assorted finds from various periods in Turkey:

http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-28261.html

More coverage of that Sinai fortress:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/857/hr1.htm

More coverage of that cuneiform biblical bit:

http://tinyurl.com/2bg75d (Discovery)

The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews Eric Cline about his
latest book:

http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v53/i50/cline/

Review of H. Tristam, *The Survey of Western Palestine*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=894463

Review of Gamal al-Ghitani, *Pyramid Texts*:

http://tinyurl.com/2nhhsv (Daily Star)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Phoenician site in Sardinia:

http://tinyurl.com/263dka (ANSA)

Coverage (in English) of that intact Etruscan tomb find:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070813/sc_nm/italy_etruscans_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20251147/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/14/2004536.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2fzxf4 (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/yonzrp (IOL)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/14/etruscan.tomb.reut/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/yufzrr (SD)
http://tinyurl.com/324wtg (SciAm)
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=3533

... and it's interesting because an amateur group found and
excavated it:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/17/europe/tuscany.php

A Roman soldier's footprint:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/893525.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/893560.html
http://tinyurl.com/22k5j6 (Journal)

Another tomb from Apollonia:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84199

A large cistern/water storage facility at Peperikon:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1346787101
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84290

Good NJCL coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yoajfh (Bulletin)

More on Eisenberg's thoughts on the Met Chariot:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/93170.html
http://tinyurl.com/2czb92 (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/2frxjn (UPI)

More/followuppish coverage on those Gladiator reliefs
from a while back:

http://redazione.romaone.it/4Daction/Web_RubricaNuova?ID=89258&doc=si

Another story on the 'lost' third Riace Bronze (Italian):

http://tinyurl.com/2y7j2n (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/2frc9l (ANSA ... English)

Another Archimedes Palimpsest story:

http://tinyurl.com/yvka7h (Business Standard)

Strange opEd piece on the Getty Aphrodite:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0816/p19s02-hfes.html

Gladiator schools are much in the news this week (sort
of ... these are different):

http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=7591
http://tinyurl.com/yp6pbz (SMH)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Petroglyphs in Somerset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/somerset/6947774.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6947774.stm

A Neolithic settlement in Orkney:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6943696.stm
http://www.24dash.com/news/7/25980/index.htm

Remains of a 'lost' tower at Edinburgh Castle:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1274532007

Medieval burials at Aldbourne:

http://tinyurl.com/2v8s2f (TIW)

The Mary Rose is fighting bacteria:

http://tinyurl.com/295rnk (Telegraph)
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/latest?articleid=3105399

A woman found a medieval cross in a trash can in Austria:

http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/16-08-2007/96013-ancient_cross-0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6855232,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2871498.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070816/ts_nm/austria_cross_dc (photo)

Plans are afoot to dig at Fort William in Lochaber:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6944682.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Plenty of coverage (with various spins) on the urban sprawl
which surrounded Angkor Wat:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070813/sc_nm/cambodia_angkor_settlement_dc_1
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22240801-30417,00.html
http://www.livescience.com/history/070813_angkor_sprawl.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070813/wl_asia_afp/usarchaeologycambodia_070813210\
755
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12474&feedId=online-news_rss20
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2148132,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6945574.stm
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,499844,00.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070813-angkor-wat.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/16/news/angkor.php
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2864205.ece
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/2003344.htm?ancient

Threats to Australian sites (maybe):

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1998567.htm?enviro

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Pima/Apache burial from Tucson:

http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=6921744
http://tinyurl.com/2xaajd

A pre-Clovis site at Little Salt Spring:

http://tinyurl.com/23qy5h (Sun Herald)

More on that Clovis point from Alexandria:

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=86019&paper=59&cat=104

The Makemie House dig is bearing fruit:

http://tinyurl.com/yszz9c (Daily Times)

Overviewish thing on the Popham colony:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p13s01-litr.html?s=hns

Lincoln may have had a facial defect:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_re_us/lopsided_lincoln
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Some Mochica finds from northern Peru:

http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_287044571,00.html
(Spanish)

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The viking ship is now in Ireland:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070814/tod-uk-ireland-vikings-1a5e080_1.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_ireland_vikings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6947453.stm

... and the Danes apologized (?!):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2149421,00.html

Did Indian mathematicians beat Newton to the punch?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813091457.htm

On the origins of white rice:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/95059.html
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_63545.shtml

Ballard is heading back to the Black Sea:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070815173122.htm

... and there's going to be a television series based on
treasure hunting/archaeology (hmmmmm):

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-cbs.html

This week's coverage of the Odyssey saga:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2861731.ece
http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/13/magazines/fsb/odyssey_marine.fsb/

They take their bridges seriously in Venice:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/12/europe/venice.1-113317.php

Interesting radio program on the end of slavery:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/2001980.htm

... and on early humans affecting climate:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1996141.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Appian Way:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/travel/bal-tr.appian12aug12,0,1953408.story

Luino (Italy):

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/09/travel/tomb.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Philosophy Now (July/August 2007):

http://www.philosophynow.org/index.htm

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A vandal has defaced petroglyphs in Orkney:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6946978.stm
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1294652007

... followup:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6951100.stm
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NUMISMATICA
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A pile of English Civil War coins are 'going home':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6949422.stm

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Good overview of the Acropolis Museum v. Art Deco House
controversy:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2003827299_webparthenon06.html

... and more coverage:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aGRFIBV7NMM8&refer=home

More on the terracotta army coming to the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6935754.stm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKROB73064620070817

On fixing the Israel Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/arts/design/12erla.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/13/arts/museum.php
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Bacchae:

http://tinyurl.com/27saw7 (Times)

Oresteia (at Epidaurus):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ_&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp?fdate=18/08/200\
7

Penelopiad:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2151495,00.html

Last Legion:

http://tinyurl.com/yphne6
http://www.straight.com/article-105749/the-last-legion
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=377848&rel_no=1
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Freud's Antiquities:

http://www.freud.org.uk/fmcolle.htm
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Dave Sowdon,Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Bishop, Mike Ruggeri, Pat Wary, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman,Ross W. Sargent,Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Interesting video about Louis Leakey:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2463962385339685930&q=archaeologist
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AFRICA
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More on that very old footprint:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0820/egypt.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/4172623a6418.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/sc_nm/egypt_antiquities_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6956902.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20360598/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A section of an ancient canal has been found in northern Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/3ahuus (Iranmania)
http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=541102

A 2500 b.p. Ahmani structure:

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=33365

Bronze Age climate change and Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=896578

Trying to preserve Samarkand:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-ubekistan-samarkand.html

Latest on the Bamayan Buddhas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6956327.stm

A couple more mummies will be getting the CT scan treatment:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20364121/

More coverage of that CT scan of 'Demetrios':

http://tinyurl.com/325e4q (Tribune)

Some humour:

http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2007/MGG0816.gif

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Some ostraka fount in a Dorset cellar are being translated:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2153479,00.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=62689&in_page_id=34
(strange photo)

Roman remains at a Wiltshire golf club:

http://tinyurl.com/34ccbc (WT)

The 'capitol' of Sarmizegetusa has been found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/24/content_6593962.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6246870.html

An ancient 'hideout' found in Albania:

http://tinyurl.com/2w5akh (USA Today)

... this appears to be the same site:

http://tinyurl.com/26qhv4 (SET)

The fires in Greece are threatening Olympia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070826/wl_nm/greece_fires_dc_5
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6964345.stm
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,22309768-5005361,00.html

Mycenean 'waterworks' at Midea:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070825/ap_on_sc/greece_prehistoric_water_system_2
http://tinyurl.com/3afpfz (JPost)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6874950,00.html

Illuminating the 'Dark Ages':

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22277026-16947,00.html

Latest finds at Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART49979.html

A dig resumes on Cyprus:

http://www.financialmirror.com/more_news.php?id=7989&nt=Politics

Plato lives (sort of):

http://www.guardonline.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=40943&format=html

The 'US and Rome' comparisons are starting up again:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7e30665c-5047-11dc-a6b0-0000779fd2ac.html

More coverage of that Etruscan tomb find (by amateur archaeologists!):

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/14/etruscan.tomb.reut/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/design/21tomb.html

More coverage of the cistern/reservoir at Peperikon:

http://tinyurl.com/2josev (Echo)

More coverage of the rivalries in Bulgarian archaeology too:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1859499258
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n119871
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84399

... and the Mayor of Gladwin took part in some of the excavations
this summer:

http://www.gladwinmi.com/record/?section_id=3&story_id=48746

More coverage of that Roman soldier footprint find:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070823_roman_footprint.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/532736/?sc=rsln
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/24/content_6597779.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070824184336.htm

More on Ballard returning to the Black Sea:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20360061/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist found a medieval pendant in Osmington:

http://tinyurl.com/2u5hma

More on the upcoming dig at Fort William:

http://news.scotsman.com/inverness.cfm?id=1287242007

I think we've had this Neolithic-Settlement-under-English-
Channel story before:

http://tinyurl.com/2mkz7y (LS via Yahoo)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating the original Montreal:

http://tinyurl.com/2p2k9s (Globe and Mail)
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/247925

Excavating a slave site at Lloyd Manor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/19mainli.html

Interesting stuff by the York River:

http://tinyurl.com/2955dk (Washington Post)

Latest on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://tinyurl.com/2wkhsj (News Record)

Possible Rosario Line find in St. Augustine:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=89630

Yet another spin on the peopling of the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/3btrsk (Times Colonist)

... and another:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=35913

Mystery graves in Philipsburg:

http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/k086/grave086.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of a manioc 'plantation' from El Salvador:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/uoca-ctd082007.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820122541.htm
http://tinyurl.com/37rbjj (LAT)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070820-maya-crop.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/sc_nm/volcano_manioc_dc_1
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_6674459
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/science/21maya.html

There were concerns about what Hurrican Dean would do to some
Maya sites:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20364988/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Tons o' coverage of the apparent find of the remains of Alexei
and (possibly) Anastasia:

http://tinyurl.com/3d8oqc (NYDN)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695204186,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ws23j (USA Today)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/24/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Czars-Son.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzlwfGMJyMQ

Similarly tons o' coverage of the discovery of a 5000 b.p.
piece of gum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6954562.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2471387.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22274715-5002700,00.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/95704.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/21/2010370.htm
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/2010771.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20365582/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2289940.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/20/archaeology
http://tinyurl.com/32o3wm (metro)

... and I wonder if it will be given the DNA treatment like this
somewhat younger piece was:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/822/4

Mysteries about medieval skulls:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2324459.ece

A missing Constable sketch has been found:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2155406,00.html

Ancient Scots sang songs to attract seals to traps (!):

http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=54721

Gay marriage 600 years ago in France?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070823110231.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Vague item on a foiled smuggling attempt by a Bulgarian:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n120250

A purloined Egyptian 'duck' has been returned:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6243240.html

A sort of 'positive side' to looting:

http://tinyurl.com/35efqn (USA Today)
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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Qing Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/arts/24qing.html

Terracotta Warriors:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2153656,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3y3z6n (Telegraph ... an opEddish thing)

Lucy:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13864812

Masterpieces of Indian Painting:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2155526,00.html

Praxiteles:

http://tinyurl.com/2jl732

18th Century Furniture at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/arts/design/24anti.html

I guess the Getty wants a 'safe' exhibition:

http://www.huliq.com/30960/medieval-treasures-travel-to-getty

Latest coverage of the 'Met Chariot' thing:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12738928&ft=1&f=1001

A Museum of Slavery is opening in Liverpool:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/21/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Slavery-Museum.p\
hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/arts/design/22slav.html

Yale and Peru are still talking about the Machu Picchu relics:

http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=2850?=atnb
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ON THE WEB
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An online atlas of Hadrian's Wall:

http://perlineamvalli.org.uk/
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OBITUARIES
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Philip Masters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/nyregion/23masters.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Plenty of coverage (alas) of this 'curse of the pharaohs' story:

http://tinyurl.com/2y52a2 (Telegraph)
http://www.7days.ae/showstory.php?id=57060
http://tinyurl.com/3e3bxn (Daily Star)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Another new theory about what killed the Iceman:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20495781/
http://tinyurl.com/2jned7 (IHT)
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AFRICA
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On climate change and 'out of Africa':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070828155004.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Claims (I think we've heard this before) that there was a
second Sphinx:

http://tinyurl.com/38n5qd (Daily India)

Very interesting mass burials from Tell Brak:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6971289.stm
http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_293931389,00.html

... and a rather different spin on what the site tells us:

http://tinyurl.com/3dfuc5 (SciAm)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830150109.htm
http://tinyurl.com/38qr59 (LAT)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/hu-nrc082807.php

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://tinyurl.com/2amuth (JPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6967457.stm
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29216520070829
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/30/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Holy-Site.php
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123525

... buried within that dispute are claims about the discovery of some
remains of the Second Temple:

http://www.culturalnews.it/Article.aspx?c=39&a=3743 (Italian)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/899374.html
http://tinyurl.com/2lqmx7 (JPost)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123539
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/30/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Holy-Site.php

... with some skepticism about same:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iUzxureMd9FeVLdn7COA01N4HFBA

Remains of a fortress at Gezer:

http://www.star-telegram.com/religion/story/213475.html

I think we've mentioned this 'Second Great Wall' from Iran
find before:

http://tinyurl.com/2qboye

Zahi Hawass is 'on tour' again:

http://tinyurl.com/34zd9v (Inquirer)

Press release about a web-based cuneiform translator:

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=763333

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A small selection of the massive coverage of the fires which
raged in Greece this week ... Olympia was saved:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070826/sc_afp/greecefires_070826174313
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070827/3/36z79.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070827/ap_on_re_eu/greece_fires_69
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_on_re_eu/greece_fires_61
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_on_re_eu/greece_fires_56
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070826/wl_nm/greece_fires_dc_7
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3525369
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22313496-5001028,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13959793&ft=1&f=1001
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13997895&ft=1&f=1004

... there were also several features on Olympia itself:

http://tinyurl.com/28f2jw (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/2z6y9a (WPost)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_olympia_glance_1
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/08/27/ancient_olympia_at_a\
_glance/

... and tourists have begun to return to Olympia:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070901/3/37a3i.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01586481.htm

Roman mosaics at Hasankeyf:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=120581

A Roman burial in Huntingdon:

http://tinyurl.com/37kk9j

Latest from the Roman Gask Project:

http://tinyurl.com/2xdwjc (AG)

The palace of Vercingetorix may have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/332x5y (Telegraph)

Some Roman baths in Malta are in a deplorable state:

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=14651

This might be 'elmer' material, but an archaeologist is claiming to
have located some 'lost city' mentioned by Pytheas:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070827/139/6jyi4.html
http://tinyurl.com/2jbgwu (Times of India)

A feature on garum:

http://tinyurl.com/248fuj

More coverage of that Roman footprint:

http://tinyurl.com/22dzhq (SD)
http://tinyurl.com/ypzpsd (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/yvapsf

More coverage of that Etruscan tomb:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070831-italy-tomb.html

Review of Andrew Dalby, *Rediscovering Homer*:

http://tinyurl.com/2w47kd (WPost)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An 'extension' of the Ferrybridge Henge has been found:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART50167.html

A 15th century ring has been declared treasure:

http://www.thisissalisbury.co.uk/display.var.1639463.0.ring_declared_treasure.ph\
p

Bulgarian archaeologists have found a medieval Christian
necropolis at Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84619

... and this puts an interesting spin on it:

http://tinyurl.com/253onl (Daily India)

Mass burial of plague victims on one of Venice's islands:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070829-venice-plague.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Muziris is threatened ... apparently due to lack of funding:

http://newspostindia.com/report-12676

An eighth century Hindu tomb from Kashmir:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01586481.htm

A 260 b.p. 'screen wall' from China's Hebei province:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6250864.html

Evidence that the Spanish or Portuguese may have beat Cook to
Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/33f59b (Telegraph)
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22345028-3102,00.html

A cellar with 1.5 tons of ancient coins from China:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6251751.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-08/31/content_6071511.htm
http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_293813461,00.html

Sandstorms threaten China's Great Wall:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2158547,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2906342.ece

I think we've mentioned this change in Europeans' skull shape
before:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/25/1?gusrc=rss&feed=science

More coverage of Angkor's size:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/16/news/angkor.php?rsstravel

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A Freemont burial in Utah:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/235755/4/
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6749403?source=rss

A follow-up piece on the Independence Mall dig:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20070829_Buried_treasure.html

A sort of 'state of the question' piece on the peopling of the
Americas:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=35913

Interesting item on resident curators:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/garden/30curators.html

... with some exempla:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/garden/30delaware.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/garden/30massachusetts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/garden/30maryland.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/garden/30cbox.html

Plans are afoot to search for John Paul Jones' boyhood home:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/uoo-ort083007.php
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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On Maya elite crafts:

http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2007/08/29/mayan-elite/

Hurricane Dean uncovered some eighteenth century cannons in
Mexico:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/sc_nm/mexico_cannons_dc

Plans are afoot to study some 'natural' mummies from Mexico:

http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_293606333,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Completion of restoration of some frescoes by Raphael is almost
complete:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2003853358_webraphael27.html

The BBC is putting together a drama based on archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/2h7uj3

Did Beethoven's doctor kill him?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_en_mu/who_killed_beethoven

Interesting article on Freud's antiquities collection:

http://tinyurl.com/2kc8aq (Age)

Another stumbling archaeologist:

http://www.navanitarakeri.com/travel/2007/08/27/naturally-a-manuscript/

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/arts/28arts.html (2nd, 3rd, 4th)

The key to saving the Titanic:

http://tinyurl.com/2ol6st (Telegraph)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Quebec City:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/travel/26next.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Good article on the looting of Bulgarian sites:

http://tinyurl.com/2pxcy6 (Telegraph)

Vague item on what appears to be a major bust in Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n120886

A purloined Iron Age sword has returned to the UK after showing
up at an auction in Germany:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6968115.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2v2452

A possibly-stolen clay tablet:

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=271101

A couple of Ptolemaic maps were stolen from Spain's national
library:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2914407.ece
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NUMISMATICA
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A cellar with 1.5 tons of ancient coins from China:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6251751.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-08/31/content_6071511.htm

A bunch of gold coins from an English garden:

http://tinyurl.com/342yu6 (DI)

Interesting 'coin collector' story:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0829/p20s01-woap.html?s=hns

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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River of Gold - Precolumbian Treasures:

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/rog/index.shtml

Lucy arrives in the U.S.:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3542345&page=1

Assyrian sculpture at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/arts/design/31anti.html

Some acroliths have been returned to the Aidone Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/arts/design/01rest.html

I genuinely can't believe they're still protesting at the Tut
exhibit:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13992421
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Iphigenia 2.0:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/theater/reviews/27iphi.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Bad Archaeology:

http://www.badarchaeology.net/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Peggy Samuels (Biographer and Art Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/arts/design/28samuels.html

Edward Seidensticker (translator):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/arts/31seidensticker.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
An Asian 'Atlantis' has been found off Japan (I think we've
heard this before):

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP23797320070827
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PODCASTS
================================================================

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent,Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of some 3000 b.p. beehives:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/thuo-erf090307.php
http://www.rehov.org/bee.htm
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_6815730?source=rss&nclick_check=1
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070904/139/6kb2k.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_sc/ancient_honey_8
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070904114558.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3557259
http://tinyurl.com/ypev7w (JPost)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_on_sc/ancient_honey
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=900809
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/05/ancient.honey.ap/index.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20588417/

Plenty of coverage of apparent photographic proof that antiquities
are being destroyed at Temple Mount:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gltAsV6Z1vF8YKN-psJTduQT9ZrQ
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57445
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123575
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123525
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123539
http://voanews.com/english/2007-09-01-voa10.cfm (includes audio)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=899374
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123622

... there are still questions, however, whether the remains are
of the Second Temple:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iUzxureMd9FeVLdn7COA01N4HFBA

... and it appears that some 15% of excavations have been conducted
'over the Green Line':

http://tinyurl.com/28dh6w (JPost)

An update on this season's excavations at Tell Hatzor:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=900032

Brief (and possible repeat) item on finds at Gezer:

http://www.star-telegram.com/religion/story/213475.html

More Solomonic-era remains:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=898053

An item on the Philistines:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=900447

A pile of sites found in Iran's Sistan Plain:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070903/139/6k9lk.html
http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=546352
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7275
http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2007/September/3/Iranian-archaeologists-discover-\
14138.asp

Finds from various periods at Keramos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=82789

An interview with Ehud Netzer:

http://www.rsi.sg/english/frontiers/view/20070905132012/1/.html

More coverage of the Tell Brak mass graves:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070907-syria-graves.html

... and the 'origins of cities' theory tied to Tell Brak:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070903/139/6k9bt.html
http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=56967
http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12562&feedId=online-news_rss2\
0

I think we've mentioned this impending return of the Hezekiah Inscription
to Israel before:

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070905/FOREIGN/109050039/1003

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Cyprus is planning a major shipwreck survey after a Roman
shipwreck find:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=34536&archive=1
http://tinyurl.com/28sp96 (Kathimerini)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKPAR65915620070906
http://tinyurl.com/2glm4d (IOL)
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20625161/

Roman shipwreck off Cartagena:

http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=57875
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/13694

A Roman burial at Huntingdon:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/170738.php/Roman-skeleton-unearthed-at-dig-in-UK
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=21716§ionid=3510208

... and similiter at Poundbury:

http://www.24dash.com/communities/27080.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6978868.stm

Vercingetorix's palace:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070903/139/6k96z.html

We mentioned last week the deplorable state of some Roman baths
on Malta ... they didn't get the restoration funding, alas:

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=14868

Assorted stories of the aftermath of the fires at Olympia:

http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=57869
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070903/ap_on_re_eu/greece_fires_5
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_05/09/2007_87453
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5geGr9Hitm3LDwfqecg0uDfVODSUA
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Greece-Fires.html

More coverage of the Gask Ridge finds this year:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART50231.html

Plenty o' gossip about a planned I, Claudius remake for the big
screen:

http://itn.co.uk/news/091726510b99e31b9219ec38489cbb1f.html
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2163396,00.html
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=230637492&p=z3x638y98

Some useful Latin phrases:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/08/31/latin.words/

Via Egnatia news:

http://tinyurl.com/39ou2a (Kathimerini)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Remains of the 'sky disc' people:

http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=14001

A 7th century necropolis from Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/2xr6zp (Echo)

Latest on the dig at Fort William:

http://tinyurl.com/ytpcsf

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 700 b.p. 'tree coffin' from Quang Tri:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2007/09/737088/

Plans are afoot to restore Hanoi's ancient citadel:

http://tinyurl.com/26obpa (AFP via Yahoo)

A Chinese shipwreck is going to be hauled out of the water:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200709/05/t20070905_12796246.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6254760.html

Apparently they're not going to excavate Qin's mausoleum:

http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=57226
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/31/content_6640220.htm
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ezine/2007-09/03/content_6075235.htm

... but they've found his grandmother's tomb:

http://cgi.rednet.cn/news/show.aspx?id=10501974

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Possible Clovis points in Oregon:

http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/science/1188951940242820.xml

Finding things in (currently dry) Falls Lake:

http://www.thedurhamnews.com/front/story/83396.html

A possible petroglyph in Lake Michigan:

http://tinyurl.com/29qzov (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20593217/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Pig DNA is revealing things about early humans in Europe:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/du-pss083107.php
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-pigs4sep04,1,4515146.story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6978203.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070903204822.htm

A comic for your enjoyment:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ezine/2007-09/03/content_6075235.htm

Nice feature on CT scans of bog mummies:

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0709/bog-bodies/bog-bodies.html

A relic of St Francis is apparently a fake:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-09-05_105109928.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20612505/
http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_295333914,00.html

Living in an old house in Wales:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/realestate/greathomes/04gh-wales.html

... semi-similar:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2934334.ece

Italy's 'action plan' for mitigating damage caused by earthquakes
to art etc.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/arts/design/04quak.html

Interesting daVinci news:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/2024699.htm

Plans are afoot to build a really big pyramid in Germany (!):

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2921872.ece
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/05/giant_pyramid/

Review of Scott Weidensaul, *Birds of a Feather*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Wilson-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
A different sort of touristy threat at Sigirya:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6970173.stm
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Minerva (July/August 2007):

http://minervamagazine.com/index.asp

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Latest movie on the Archaeology Channel is about the cultural
destruction going on in Iraq:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Another major bust in Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/2awomk (Echo)

Egypt has accused some Belgian diplomats of destroying
antiquities:

http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/2705.htm
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Feature on the Carson City mint:

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070823/ENTERTAINMENT/108230092

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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La Doncella:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20630688/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6983300.stm

Terracotta Army:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6980040.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/06/baterra106.xml
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9762756

More on those Virginia Art Museum returns:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=30602&pid=1605
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=30600&pid=1605
http://www.cstv.com/sports/c-rugby/uwire/090407aaa.html

Davey Crockett's last known letter:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_re_us/crockett_letter

... but it might be fake:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20642085/

An overviewish thing on the appeal of various museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/arts/design/09shattuck.html

... and the Philadelphia Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/arts/design/06muse.html

Topps created a trio of very nice/strange/expensive George
Washington collectibles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/05george.html

An auction of some golf clubs of interest (to some):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/arts/design/07anti.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Balochi Dictionary:

http://sarbaaz.com/sayadganj/
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PODCASTS
================================================================

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Diana Wright, Dorothy King, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
Erica Stewart, Gene Barkley, Hernan Astudillo, Albert Reiner,
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Kris Curry,
'zuamdario','Warrior Chef', Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Richard Price, Ross W. Sargent,
Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Early humans just didn't have the legs:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2434423.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/11/running
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/09/11/sciwalk111.xml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20746297/

... but they did have good oral hygiene:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20728725/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070911/sc_nm/spain_neanderthal_dc_1

Questioning the role of climate change in the Neanderthals'
demise:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6992721.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/uol-neo091107.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/sc_nm/neanderthals_climate_dc_1

More Neanderthal news:

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2956409.ece
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AFRICA
================================================================
Libya is trying to boost tourism:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkXV8YPuOgJXZ_jINmR5rF7Xr-Jw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6989977.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20713770/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The Egyptians mummified cats with great care:

http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=154
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070914/139/6kr7k.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070912155750.htm

Xerxes' tomb is threatened by a railway:

http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=206
http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=551210
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7291

Remains of a secret tunnel found in Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/2coy5z (IAA)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10462804
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104085.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22391492-23109,00.html
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/09/11/10152880.html
http://tinyurl.com/2uew4c (USA Today)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070910085142.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6986869.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news108627337.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20682245/
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070909-0956-israel-ancientescapehatch\
.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123640
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6909651,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2slwbg
http://tinyurl.com/ywtyal (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/09/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Ancient-Escape-Ha\
tch.php
http://tinyurl.com/2ffp4y (El Pais)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2947458.ece

This week's Temple Mount coverage ... first, an opinion piece
by Herschel Shanks:

http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/091307/commAThunderingSilence.html

... a story on what they're finding:

http://tinyurl.com/2k4dh6 (JPost)

... legal manoeuvres:

http://tinyurl.com/3c37ra (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/902491.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=902475

... more op ed pieces:

http://tinyurl.com/3bmzv9 (FP)

... alia:

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104117.html
http://tinyurl.com/2k4dh6 (JPost)

Report on excavations on Mount Zion:

http://web.infoave.net/~jwest/zion.pdf

Nice overviewish thing on Beit She'an:

http://tinyurl.com/2twk29 (JPost)

Not sure if we mentioned the dam threat to Hasankeyf yet:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6990438.stm

More coverage of biblical beehives:

http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/this_weeks_issue/news/?content_id=3652

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Vague report of a stone vault find at Peperikon:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n121973

A possible Roman burial at Corfe Castle:

http://tinyurl.com/3y26d5 (Echo)

A second century B.C. temple in Armenia (not quite sure where
to classify this one):

http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=2486&CID=2468&IID=&lng=eng

A Greek amphora found on the coast of Albania (more than one,
actually):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_sc/albania_ancient_shipwreck_2
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep12/0,4670,AlbaniaAncientShipwreck,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20751358/
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j3QtCeueZ7w12PhlVk6gcdHDUQ1Q
http://tinyurl.com/3ynsy6 (IHT)

A very nice funerary monument from Modena:

http://www.modena2000.it/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=60887
(Italian)

Can't remember if we mentioned this Temple of Augustus find yet:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=82475

Vandals threaten the Colosseum (still):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2457310.ece

The aftermath of the fires at Olympia:

http://tinyurl.com/39rug9 (Kathimerini)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17762
http://tinyurl.com/2eky9g (Kathimerini)

The Art Deco house lost:

http://tinyurl.com/2rpweq (IHT)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6920144,00.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL1268638420070912

Another venue for a Latin Mass:

http://tinyurl.com/2twxzd (Union Leader)

More coverage of that Temple of Herakles identification:

http://tinyurl.com/3cwsor (DI)
http://tinyurl.com/237c6w (Kathimerini)

More coverage of plans to look for wrecks off Cyprus:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/2028698.htm

That Etruscan tomb story still has legs:

http://tinyurl.com/2r439h (Daily Times)

A forthcoming strike has led to Roman Polanski leaving the Pompeii
project:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2168059,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6989642.stm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Ancient Scots mummified their dead too, it appears:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/14/mummifiedscots_arc.html

A prehistoric building in a Swiss lake:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=281502

Some recently-found Avar burials:

http://burgenland.orf.at/stories/220730/ (German)

Some Viking remains were removed from their mound this week:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1988891.ece

... not sure if this is the same:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/sc_nm/vikings_dc

A Viking ship beneath a British pub?:

http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/11/2029239.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3cydlc (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6986986.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2947402.ece

How Scotland lost her empire:

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,,2166523,00.html

The UK's ten oldest recipes:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10463655
http://tinyurl.com/372wxz (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/3x2f9y (Daily Mail)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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1700 b.p. tombs from northern China:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6261074.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Assorted finds from caves on Huxley Island:

http://www.qciobserver.com/Article.aspx?Id=2882

Digging a site in Allegany County:

http://tinyurl.com/ys9saz

Trying to protect Anasazi sites:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6879463

Review of Jay Winik, *The Great Upheaval*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/books/15gord.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Phoenician DNA is the latest bit of genetic material of
interest to us:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/sc_nm/phoenicians_dna_dc_2

... while quite a few folks in Egypt claim descent from
Mohammed:

http://tinyurl.com/2syas9 (El Pais ... Spanish)

On potatoes and evolution?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6983330.stm

More relics of St. Francis (a different spin than last week):

http://tinyurl.com/2vuprb (Yahoo)

CNN tells us how to make it as an archaeologist:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/08/shortcuts.archaeology/

Another xray technique for reading ancient manuscripts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/13/4
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/93089.asp
http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/?jp=mhcwqlojauoj
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6991893.stm

Latest replica ship launch ... a Roman Galley (sort of):

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/107767.html

Medieval women had 'girl power' (scary photo):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/6987874.stm

Genghis Khan was not, shall we say, 'tolerant':

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/30/genghis_khan_code/


A sort of 'state of the thing' thing on the Odyssey odyssey:

http://tinyurl.com/2nwk2f (CNN)

Interesting essay on the 'Canon wars':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Donadio-t.html

... and a story on Rosh Hoshanah in a New York temple:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/nyregion/13eldridge.html

Review of a new translation of the Paradiso:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/09/03/070903crbo_books_acocella

Review of Linda Colley, *The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Marshall-t.html

Brief reviews of assorted non-fiction tomes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Sussman-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The graffiti at Skara Brae has been removed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6985049.stm

Slate has a piece on a (somewhat naive) suggestion on how to
eliminate the black market in antiquities:

http://www.slate.com/id/2173775/

The Taleban have attacked another Buddha ... this time in
Pakistan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6991058.stm
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A pensioner has discovered some old coins in his late wife's
purse:

http://tinyurl.com/2qyp9v (Review)

A "stash" of 6th/7th century coins from Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=34665&cat_id=1

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/arts/design/14piss.html

Inca Mummies:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/11/healthscience/sninca.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/science/11mummu.html

Colouring the Elgin/Parthenon marbles:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6986756.stm

Terracotta Warriors:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/13/baemperor113.xml
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,505394,00.html

The Guennol Lioness is coming to auction:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=22189
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/15/2033767.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070914/ennew_afp/entertainmentart_070914224645
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aS6NrsdakBTI&refer=muse

An interesting item on wine which supposedly belonged to
Thomas Jefferson:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_keefe

A first edition of the Book of Mormon:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/14/america/NA-REL-US-Mormon-Book-Auction.\
php

Zahi Hawass is steaming mad because Germany won't lend the bust
of Nefertiti:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aQ6UXt8pGDNE&refer=europe

Yale will be returning those disputed artifacts from Machu
Picchu:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070916/ap_on_sc/peru_yale_machu_picchu
http://tinyurl.com/37deqv (Courant)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=afhY6Dk67a.4&refer=us

... while Harvard has returned a bell to Russia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/world/europe/13briefs-bells.html

Some Maori artifacts were returned to New Zealand:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20697034/

The Walker has a new head:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/arts/design/12walk.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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King Lear:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/theater/reviews/14lear.html

Re-evaluating Edvard Grieg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/arts/music/16tomm.html
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OBITUARIES
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John Crook (Roman Social History):

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2964531.ece

Alexander McKay (Classicist):

http://cac-scec.ca/ccb/ccb13/ccb13_12_3.html

Douglas Eugene Savoy:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070916/ap_on_re_us/obit_savoy_4
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PODCASTS
================================================================

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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The latest 'missing link':

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1502942007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7003502.stm
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070917/full/070917-6.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070919/sc_nm/human_ancestor_dc_1
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/wuis-ham092007.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/science/19cnd-fossil.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070919-human-fossil.html

JNW ponders early humans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/science/18evol.html?th&emc=th

Latest on the homo floresiensis front:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/science/21indo.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_sc/hobbit_wrist_4
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14546763&ft=1&f=1001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7004525.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2mwzb9 (NS)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Remains of what appears to be some sort of New Kingdom temple
complex at Luxor:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070922/43/6l2n3.html
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008591456
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6267681.html

The dig at Rashkan Fortress will continue:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7310

A Bronze Age structure from the Gaza Strip:

http://tinyurl.com/3dclb2 (JPost)

... and one from the Negev:

http://tinyurl.com/2s66pr (JPost)

Developments in the Temple Mount legal proceedings:

http://tinyurl.com/3xyf38 (JPost)

Excavating (the possible site of) Sodom:

http://www.star-telegram.com/religion/story/227912.html

Tourism plans for the Phrygian Valley:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=83193

More coverage of train vibrations and the tomb of Xerxes:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=152881

More on the Tel Rehov beehives:

http://tinyurl.com/2u9vmx (GFT)

Review of Sean King, *God's Gold*:

http://tinyurl.com/3yx4nv (Inquirer)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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You can own your own Roman bath house:

http://tinyurl.com/2bls4s (Times)

Another Thracian tomb has been excavated:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1784704374
http://tinyurl.com/2kob5x (Echo)

... and another:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=85385
http://tinyurl.com/3yohkt (TN)
http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=1987

When a Classics prof accompanies the Huskies to Greece:

http://seattlest.com/2007/09/19/an_interview_wi.php

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Bronze Age burial near Peterborough:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6998614.stm

Sites from various periods in Malta:

http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2007/September/17/Bronze-settlement-15860.asp

The motorway v. Tara dispute is heating up again:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2175188,00.html

A "Prague Pompeii" is complicating development projects:

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/171/prague_news/12179/

A medieval Bulgarian inscription:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=85462

More coverage of the ancient Scots mummifying their dead story:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/2035481.htm
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070917/139/6kugt.html
http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=1380
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/110754.html

Review of Richard Aldous, *The Lion and the Unicorn*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/books/19grim.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A possible 'shivling' find:

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=sep1807/at05

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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40 more Peruvian mummies have been found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/20/content_6759375.htm

Aztec child sacrifice:

http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_299127960,00.html
(Spanish)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An update on the Odyssey kerfuffle:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_12616.shtml

Hollywood and the 'clash of civilizations' (Persian and Greek):

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/sep/1188.html

This 'climate change' story has been making the rounds with
various spins being put on it:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3607188
http://tinyurl.com/3cxo3k (CTV)

A pile of rare medical and astronomical manuscripts were
'rediscovered' in Egypt's National Library:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070917/139/6ku5b.html
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000001/0203000000000000000832.htm

Interesting item on the Brunel Tunnel:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6996161.stm

The annual 'endangered languages' piece:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2976695.ece

... and another:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/science/19language.html

Aftermath of Europe's last 'witch hunt':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7003128.stm

Genetic origins of morality?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/science/18mora.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is Anthropology Field Notes 3:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The British Post office has a set of stamps commemorating 350
years of British military uniforms:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7004044.stm

The Devil's Bible has returned to Prague:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/21/arts/EU-A-E-BKS-Czech-Devils-Book.php

Interesting tombstone tale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/nyregion/19headstones.html

Strange mummified baby story (even made it to our local news):

http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO62590

Sloppy revisionism in the Joan of Arc story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2174481,00.html

Review of Lloyd Jones, *Mr. Pip*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/books/17masl.html

Brief reviews of assorted non-fiction items:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Sussman-t.html

Review of James Kugel, *How to Read the Bible*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Plotz-t.html

Interesting research into 'handedness':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/science/18obleft.html

Review of Jay Winik, *The Great Upheaval*

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0918/p14s02-bogn.html?s=hns

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://www.startribune.com/1513/story/1435497.html

Petra:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/travel/201299.php

Rome on a bicycle:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel/23explorer.html

Bologna:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel/23explorer.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter (Fall, 2007):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#fall07

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A major antiquities bust in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/ytuklp (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/ytnqye (UPI)

Antiquities smuggled from Bulgaria most often go to Germany,
it seems:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n122296

Copies of some items from the Danish national treasure were
stolen this week:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/17/europe/EU-ODD-Denmark-Golden-Horns.php

... but recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/arts/20arts.html (third item)

A couple of items were returned to Greece this week (not sure
why):

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jnxCRIi9Cfjg0b5XPP4UFbuTkaGg
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5qASDzNGzx_mDgzCUyAGwVQzsNA

...while a Macau "casino tycoon" has purchased a previously-
looted item and donated it to China (interesting implications):

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663704,00.html

This story first surfaced a couple of weeks ago ... an Egyptian
antiquities official has been charged with taking bribes for
restoration contracts; not sure if it's in our purview, but
we'll mention it in case more comes to light:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6999298.stm

Opeddish sort of thing on the ongoing looting of sites in Iraq:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2970762.ece
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coins for Education endorsed:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=2892

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
The Age of Rembrandt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/arts/design/18remb.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/arts/design/21remb.html

Roman Art from the Louvre:

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=7099722&nav=9Tai

Babylon is coming to Paris and other places:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=4559

Assorted exhibitions in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/243xg5 (ANSA)

The Times has a nice profile of Neil Macgregor:

http://tinyurl.com/2dyelb

... while Bloomberg has one on Philippe de Montebello:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ah57slRNBL3E&refer=muse

More coverage of the Yale/Peru deal:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/09/18/peru-yale.html

... photos of the objects:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7000017.stm

Israel's Archaeological Centre holds an annual auction:

http://tinyurl.com/2mraan (JPost)

More on that new home for Peruvian mummies:

http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_299321716,00.html
(Spanish)
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Gene Savoy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/us/19savoy.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/240206.html

John Crook:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/19/db1901.xml
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Haven't heard about that 'Japanese Atlantis' in a while:

http://www.cdnn.info/news/science/sc070918.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses
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AFRICA
================================================================
Interesting semi-touristy thing on Lalibela's rock-hewn churches:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070927/lf_nm/ethiopia_tourism_dc_1

Review of Tim Jeal, *Stanley*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Theroux-t.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Interesting new (!) finds from Tut's tomb:

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7009272
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL24428432.html
http://tinyurl.com/2s3c5f (AFP via Yahoo)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7PwdB3jIye5ggAVG3SwOhM2JqUA
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070925-045035-7519r

Zahi Hawass is also on record that Tut was not black:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070925-115047-2690r
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iB6u3XEMp9IrJfl-kH6FHNgZCg_A
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070925/wl_africa_afp/egyptarchaeologytutankhamunra\
ce

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of the quarry used to build
the Second Temple:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5glGujsIFl1M38VZe4Zng-VZgtoFg
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1524412007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070923/wl_nm/israel_temple_dc_1
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5_ue2qL2NedhbxPYz7ga_vKF2pQ
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104294.html
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070923-105435-5277r
http://tinyurl.com/2ju263 (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/3ypztl (JPost)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3453394,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2salt7 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_temple_stones

Interesting controversy brewing over Nadia Abu El-Haj's tome on
archaeology in Israel:

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/26830

Nice article on 'Biblical Archaeology'(with a sidebar):

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/09/30/raiders_of_the_faux_a\
rk/
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/09/30/true_treasures_of_the\
_holy_land/

On the Ramel Rahat excavations:

http://tinyurl.com/39br69 (JPost)

Plans are afoot to excavate at Karkamis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=84139

Workers restoring a mosque in Luxor have come across remains of
a temple to Ramses II:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070927-egypt-temple.html

Sites from various periods identified near a dam in western Iran:

http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=6073
http://www.payvand.com/news/07/sep/1301.html

3000 b.p. burials near Galabar dam:

http://tinyurl.com/yta979 (Iranmania)

Buying land to protect Gohar Tepe:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7316

Excavations at Cyrus' palace have resumed:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7317

I think we've already mentioned this very long wall found in Iran:

http://www.physorg.com/news109958500.html

On paint remains on royal tombs in Iran's Fars province:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=153876

The Tel Dor shipwreck may provide evidence of 'fire fishing' in
antiquity:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/25/firefishing_arc.html

An interview with Gabriel Barkai on the damage being done to
Temple Mount:

http://tinyurl.com/2zq568 (infolive)

... not sure whether this is a 'twist' in the saga or not:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=906483

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Evidence of a settlement near a Roman fort at Perthshire:

http://tinyurl.com/2r4u2x

Teaching Latin is a good thing:

http://www.register-mail.com/stories/092607/EDU_BED8NJDE.GID.shtml

On Cabernet Sauvignon's (possible) Greek routes:

http://www.decanter.com/news/145560.html

All about Classical Christian education:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30Christian-t.html

An old (but good) OpEd piece by Zeus in the Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33684

More 'colorization' efforts:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/09.27/01-gods.html

More coverage of that shipwreck found off the coast of Albania:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20912743/
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/69047.html

More on that Roman bath house that's for sale:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7016636.stm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
3500 b.p. child burial near Peterborough:

http://www.thelondonnews.net/story/285294

1000 b.p. 'portable altar' from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/8628/20070927/
http://tinyurl.com/2atno9 (DI)

A pile of medieval burials from Russia:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/4827/

More coverage of the find of probable Romanov remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7018503.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Ice Age Australians lived in caves:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/2039661.htm

Rice was being cultivated in China 7700 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/35ttbk (LAT)

Ziying's tomb has been located:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6273747.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/28/content_6807842.htm

Some ancient statuary from Vietnam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2007/09/745787/

... and ancient gongs too:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2007/09/744513/

The Hawaii-Tahiti connection has been proven:

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070924/full/070924-9.html

Gotland and Easter Island try to preserve their heritage:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/10/arts/trgotland.php

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Still looking for the 'lost colony':

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ig4Sl_hoqgKBpJ8WwaqEPljh3zJw
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20912608/

PreColumbian canoes in Lake Trafford:

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070927/NEWS01/70927015/10\
75

Mapping Mannahatta:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/10/01/slideshow_071001_maps

A mystery cannon from Virginia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_sc/mystery_cannon
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20968916/

Interesting remains at Toronto's Don Jail:

http://tinyurl.com/2lnocf (CTV)
http://www.canadaeast.com/news/article/82778
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2007/09/27/4529632-sun.html

Nice feature on the House of the Seven Gables:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/arts/design/28anti.html

Assorted theories on the peopling of the Americas:

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/09/23/helena_life/c010923_02.txt

Searching for Indiana's past:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709240431

Problems for 18th century intellectuals when they went to Big Bone
Lick:

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070928/LIFE/709280348/100\
5
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
More 'Cloud Warriors' found in a Peruvian fort:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070926-peru-bodies.html

The demise of the Maya in Belize:

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V10/N39/C3.jsp
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A copy of the Magna Carta is heading to the auction block:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/nyregion/25magna.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7014220.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2m8upa (El Pais)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2998921.ece

On the 'Golden Ratio':

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/864/heritage.htm

Some items marking Rumi's 800th birthday:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14775838
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7016090.stm

The Wedding at Cana has returned home ... sort of (interesting
implications with this one, no?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/arts/design/29pain.html

Some guy just completed a trek in the footsteps of Genghis Khan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7009390.stm
http://tinyurl.com/36gtud (El Pais)

This year's MacArthur Grant recipients:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUT7ZrlEI7rJJvUd1SNhR1Xiqdiw
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913817/k.3EC5/2007_Overview.htm

That comet/Ice Age theory is back in the news:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/nau-rts092407.php

Assorted Arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/arts/29arts.html

Review of Janine Burke, *The Sphinx on the Table*:

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/164/10/1620

Review of Laurel Ulrich, *Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/harrison.html

Review of Jay Winik, *The Great Upheaval*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Ellis-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Queens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/nyregion/25ink.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Interesting story about American Digger magazine:

http://tinyurl.com/22r45p (AJC)

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
On the smuggling of Chinese antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/2vq35u
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gCn5DQcVBN_yPLOfkoGyJuyNnDpA

Latest claimants for some art looted during WWII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/arts/design/26clai.html
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
The Creative Photograph in Archaeology:

http://www.fairfield.edu/art_ex_photogarch.html

Painted With Words:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/arts/design/28vinc.html

Roman Art from the Louvre:

http://cms.ibj.com/ASPXPages/6iframes/FrontEndArticlesDetailPage.aspx?ArticleID=\
05003&NoFrame=1
http://www.therepublic.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=111&ArticleID=11309\
9&TM=14217.71

Piranesi as Designer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/arts/design/28pira.html

The 'official' Getty returns story:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/26/europe/getty.php
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/09/getty-museum-signs-agreement-to-re\
turn.php
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a9tEWjbT88WA&refer=muse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7013471.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/arts/design/26gett.html

... and the civil case against Marion True has been dropped:

http://tinyurl.com/yu49lx (LAT)

The latest call for the Parthenon/Elgin marbles' return:

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw200709241427252\
00C892174

... and the schedule for opening the museum to house them:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=5726043&maindocimg=5725562&servi\
ce=6

The Vatican has opened a Numismatic (and Philatalic) Museum:

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10438

A new art museum is trolling among cash-strapped schools:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14829457

A floating art market/museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30Ryacht.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Misanthrope:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/theater/reviews/25bran.html
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
British Academy Lectures:

http://britac.studyserve.com/home/default.asp
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Albert Fuller (Early Music):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/arts/25fuller.html

James Noble:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/arts/29noble.html

Norman Cohn:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3010167.ece
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Erica Stewart,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent,
Shelley Wachsmann, Sally Winchester, Patrick Swan,
Steve Rankin, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

n.b. ... in transitioning from my laptop-based version of
Thunderbird to a USB portable apps version, I think I lost/deleted
some items. Apologies if your contribution was not included.
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Neanderthals were more geographically widespread than
previously thought:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21090350/
http://tinyurl.com/2wermx
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/02nean.html

You can now 'walk in' ancient human footprints from Italy:

http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=425106
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071006/9/1ye0.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071006/sc_nm/science_italy_footsteps_dc_1

Reviewish sort of thing on CroMagnon art:

http://tinyurl.com/3exr4h (SciAm)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Three mummies are getting the full 'forensic' treatment:

http://tinyurl.com/2evu5f (Age)

The Nile is going to be surveyed for sunken antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/2r3g2f (DI)

... while Anubis floated down the Thames this week:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_en_ot/art_anubis

Dakhla Oasis petroglyphs were apparently made by shepherds:

http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=8886

Finds from Taaleb Khaan hill:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7331

Some significant discoveries at Ebla:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6277024.html

A Parthian fort in Malayer:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/October2007/05-10.htm

Ancient documents portend a major earthquake, apparently:

http://tinyurl.com/2o6pkk (UPI)

Now Cyrus' tomb is threatened:

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2007/10/05/255.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21107456/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071003/lf_nm/iran_cyrus_dam_dc_2

The Sanhedrin at Sepphoris:

http://tinyurl.com/2lx8jf (JPost)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
This piece on the ancient Greeks building wonderful things
without fully understanding the math involved is being picked
up in a lot of places:

http://tinyurl.com/yqmqsq
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071002144301.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/hu-ewm100207.php

The Archimedes Palimpsest is in the news again (although I don't
see anything 'new'):

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071006/mathtrek.asp

A Roman mosaic was found during renovations on a private structure
in Arezzo (but all the coverage is in Italian, so far):

http://tinyurl.com/2z57zf (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/yrfqee

The Fanum Voltumnae has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7028330.stm

A Roman centurion burial:

http://www.midlands-housing.co.uk/mnews/matrix-meets-the-romans-1070-20.html

Touristy thing full of ClassCon on Delphi:

http://www.kentucky.com/507/story/195777.html

More finds at Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=85983

Italy is apparently having a telethon to support endangered
antiquities:

http://www.pr-inside.com/italy-s-tv-marathon-to-rescue-threatened-r234517.htm

'300' is still being analyzed for meaning:

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3918

... while Mary Beard is commenting on what it got right and
wrong:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2007/10/10-things-the-m.html

They'll be excavating Ephesus for a long time:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=123445

WSJ has a piece on Vicipaedia:

http://tinyurl.com/2xofqu

Some Catullus in the Guardian:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2184599,00.html

What Susan Alcock is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/2u74sq (BDH)

John Boardman honoured:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_82127_06/10/2007_88651

Bad things happening at a site in Malta:

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=15391

More coverage of Rome Reborn:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2583317\
.ece

Review of Joan Breton Connelly, *Portrait of a Priestess*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e2581303.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Bronze Age remains in Edinburgh:

http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2007/September/30/4000-year-Bronze-pits-17500.asp

Scotland's earliest settlement:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1589142007

Viking remains in Norwich:

http://tinyurl.com/22c7td (EN)

A mysterious face in a tapestry depicting the Battle of Culloden:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1596772007

A runestone which was built into a Norwegian church has been
deciphered:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2033018.ece

... related:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2030287.ece

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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More on the antiquity of rice cultivation in China:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21096855/
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3007152.ece

More on the Ziying tomb find:

http://www.indiaenews.com/asia/20070929/72684.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A bunch of Confederate documents were auctioned off this week:

http://www.kentucky.com/216/story/190111.html

Port Angeles has hired a staff archaeologist:

http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/233667.html
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20071004/NEWS/710040304

More coverage of those canoes found in Lake Trafford:

http://www.winknews.com/news/local/10289722.html (video)

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the Queen Anne's
Revenge:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of this story of Inca children being
"fattened up" for sacrifice:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/wt-sui100107.php
http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_302034262,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_sc/inca_sacrifices
http://tinyurl.com/29xaxc (Telegraph)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21089132/
http://tinyurl.com/26mc5z (LAT)
http://tinyurl.com/2hpbhp (Reuters)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071003-inca-sacrifice.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Nice pair of essays on Islam, the Greeks, and the Scientific
Revolution:

http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3559&cid=3&sid=9
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3568&cid=3&sid=9

Technology is helping to recover lost gravestone text:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technology/7024672.stm

More 'culture cards' for US troops in Iraq:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119145397259448308.html

Antispam technology is helping to preserve old books:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7023627.stm

The Vatican is about to release an important document about the
Templars:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/05/wvatican105.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7029513.stm

Buying books in bulk:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/10/01/071001ta_talk_kelley

Erosion and rising sea levels threaten sites:

http://environment.independent.co.uk/article3015288.ece

On historical revisionism:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2185468,00.html

On the length of the PhD:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/education/03education.html

cf:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=921

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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American Journal of Archaeology 111.4:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another bust in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=35133&cat_id=1
http://tinyurl.com/2xmgl4 (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/278hyu (IOL)

... and items recovered near Piazza Armerina:

http://tinyurl.com/23brk2 (Italian)

Italy has also arrested a 'priestly thief':

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4222991a4560.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071001/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_books_thief_1

Nice feature on Francesco Rutelli:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1668858,00.html

... and Donny George is still on the lecture circuit:

http://tinyurl.com/2e9u82 (LAT)

Police in Australia have recovered some previously-stolen maps:

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=44652

A stolen DaVinci has been recovered:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article3028722.ece
http://www.newsdaily.com/TopNews/UPI-1-20071005-00191200-bc-scotland-leonardo.xm\
l

Another Buddha has been blown up:

http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=10395
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NUMISMATICA
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Armenian Numismatic Society:

http://www.armnumsoc.org/

Numismaster:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis.jsp

Nice blog post on a recently-found Viking horde from Sweden:

http://floydssecrets.blogspot.com/2007/09/viking-treasure-trove-discovered-in.ht\
ml

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Eternal Ancestors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/arts/design/05afri.html

Gods in Color:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519866

The Grand Atelier:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3024744.ece

Renoir Landscapes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/arts/design/05reno.html

African Burial Ground:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21150548/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7031142.stm

Tut's mummy is going to be on display:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6277261.html
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22523967-912,00.html
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071002/9/1wj3.html

A sort of 'state of the protest' piece on the Elgin/Parthenon
Marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/273yh3 (WPost)

... and the campaign will likely be stepping up in the near
future:

http://tinyurl.com/2z6jmu (IHT)

Meanwhile, statuary is moving to the new Acropolis Museum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6968924,00.html
http://www.currentargus.com/ci_7076264
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_7076055
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i67NIiqRczu4bMznU5Q5-OuHEZXAD8S1V6GG0
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_re_eu/greece_acropolis_museum_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21116615/
http://tinyurl.com/2f7jxm (ANA)

Greece is also planning a museum devoted to Alexander the Great:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/01/2047752.htm

The Getty has begun sending items back to Italy:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/10/03/getty-italy-return.html

Germany has agreed to lend a statue to Egypt for display:

http://tinyurl.com/29jtv7 (IOL)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/116945.html

Assorted arts/museum items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/arts/03arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/arts/design/05voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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In Scaena:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/04/content_6830044.htm

This year's Cambridge Greek Play is ...

http://tinyurl.com/29424c (CEN)
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ON THE WEB
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Ostia: Topographical Dictionary:

http://www.ostia-antica.org/dict.htm

Danaos Project (deepwater archaeology in the Aegean):

http://ina.tamu.edu/danaos/
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OBITUARIES
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Joseph V. Noble:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/arts/29noble.html

Frederick Burkhardt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/us/05burkhardt.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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On megadroughts in Africa and human evolution:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071008171121.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/uoa-naa100407.php
http://www.physorg.com/news111083381.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some 11 000 b.p. "murals" from Syria:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/12/2057741.htm
http://www.ttc.org/200710091759.l99hxns06653.htm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/071012/2/14nz1.html
http://tinyurl.com/2o2ls4 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300138,00.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSOWE14539320071011?sp=true

Usually they save this sort of find (from Turkey) for Valentine's
Day:

http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=9610
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=124094

Jezebel's seal (?):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/911612.html

Nice article on some Yemeni mummies:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1090&p=report&a=1

An Israeli archaeologist was "stoned" near Temple Mount this week:

http://tinyurl.com/38d3uo (JPost)

... and the legal wranglings continue:

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=36375

... but the digs will resume:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=912425

... the Hebrew version of the above has an interesting photo:

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=912577

Press coverage of a Dead Sea Scrolls conference:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jqPK11wcmD_xUrnTqYdTw_Z9n7tQ

More coverage of that tunnel found in Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/3yoc8y (DT)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains from the time of Numa:

http://tinyurl.com/2kz3f7 (Times)
http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=9788

... Martin Conde's photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/sets/72157594580930580/

A second century pair of burials from Varna:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=86380

A possible Roman site in Laconia:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100018_10/10/2007_88765

Hmmmmm ... "Roman" burials in Copenhagen:

http://tinyurl.com/33xacl (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/32mnjc (Globe)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jcPHO2Lh8biprvT2SKanzJ6bAHmwD8S6K3VG0

A major horde of Roman coins found in the wall of a fourth-century
house:

http://tinyurl.com/33etr5 (IHT)
http://www.townhall.com/news/sci-tech/2007/10/10/ancient_roman_coins_found_in_po\
rtugal
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gzRSlQD-bM9LpsiadUaYAt05EhKgD8S6FKN81
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071010/ap_on_sc/portugal_roman_coins_3

The TLS Classics issue is out:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e2581303.ece

Here's how that Italian telethon for antiquities turned out:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2185804,00.html

More coverage of that Greeks-didn't-know-math piece:

http://www.livescience.com/history/071009-first-catapult.html
http://tinyurl.com/392x3x (LS via Yahoo)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/10/content_6858355.htm

A marathon Odyssey reading:

http://www.middlebury.edu/about/pubaff/news_releases/2007/pubaff_633271718777810\
401.htm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A mysterious carved stone from Whitby Abbey:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART51381.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300876,00.html

What we've learned from the Mary Rose:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7038519.stm

Is Cadiz Europe's oldest city?:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3041063.ece

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 5500 b.p. tomb from central China:

http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_304281214,00.html
(Spanish)

A very large statue of Lord Vishnu has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/2kxv2q (Times)

Some Hawaiian remains were accidentally unearthed:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=7203392

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Nice article on a Fort Ancient culture excavation near Dayton:

http://tinyurl.com/2s76x6 (Dispatch)

More of Upper Fort Garry has been found:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/10/11/upper-fort-garry.html

The wreck of the Torrent has been located off the coast of
Alaska:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Shipwreck-Found.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_sc/shipwreck_found

... and a sort of 'state of the excavation' piece on some
shipwrecks off the coast of Florida:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_sc/florida_shipwreck
http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/268403.html

Nice video overview of the Queen Anne's Revenge 'dig':

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9065080913136867912&q=archaeologist
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Searching for Columbus via DNA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/us/08columbus.html

On comets and Ice Ages:

http://www.georgehoward.net/cbays.htm
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=741568C2D58A9793

An interviewish thing with Colleen McCullough:

http://tinyurl.com/2nzwt9 (Age)

These anthrocast podcasts are worth a listen:

http://www.anthrocast.com/

On the Church and astronomy:

http://tinyurl.com/2pb7t7

Robert Hooke's notes are now online:

http://tinyurl.com/2vcxgk (IHT)

The National Book Awards:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/books/11nati.html

An article on the 'hidden curriculum':

http://tinyurl.com/2q9bna (NR)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Almost every week for the past year there has been something on
Libyan tourism ... so here's the latest:

http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci_7118920?nclick_check=1

Delphi:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/travel/story/160194.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some petroglyphs in Norway have been vandalized:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2039228.ece

... as has a 5000 b.p. monument in Lancashire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7039675.stm

... and a Monet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/arts/design/08monet.html

The FBI has recovered a map stolen from Spain's National
Library:

http://tinyurl.com/3cv7gc (El Pais)

... and more coverage of last week's bust in Australia which
netted similar items:

http://tinyurl.com/3dyss8 (El Pais)

More coverage of that bust on Cyprus:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=580654

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

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Roman Theatre History:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7033626.stm

Seduced (potentially offensive):

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2187310,00.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL1021172920071010
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/11/2056548.htm

Arcimbolo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/arts/design/10arci.html

Tapestries in the Baroque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/arts/design/11tape.html

The Four Masters and the World:

http://www.ucd.ie/news/0710_october/101007_four_masters.html
http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/pressRelease.php?headerID=725&pressReleaseArchi\
ve=2008

UCL is being criticized for its handling of a repatriation sort
of thing involving some "bowls" from Iraq:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/120297.html

Interesting venue for a museum in Turkey:

http://tinyurl.com/2r8534

The movement of antiquities to the new Acropolis Museum seems
to be getting an awful lot of press coverage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6983657,00.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i67NIiqRczu4bMznU5Q5-OuHEZXAD8S5T5680
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/122518.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL1123826620071011

More on Tut's mummy being displayed for the first time:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071009-king-tut.html
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=4343
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Golden Age:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/movies/12gold.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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explorator 10.26                                October 21, 2007
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Ales Bukovsky, David
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Edward Rockstein, Erica Stewart, Rick Heli, Gene Barkley,
John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Steve Rankin,
Susan Jaslow, Tim Parkin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Prehistoric humans ate seafood and painted themselves:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22606509-5005961,00.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071018/139/6m3e8.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/science/18beach.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7049597.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071017/sc_nm/humans_shellfish_dc_2
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/17/national/a100210D97.\
DTL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_sc/early_seafood
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071017-cave-coasts.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071017145252.htm

Neanderthals had one of the genetic markers for speech:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/science/19speech-web.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/science/19speech.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/19/MNM6SS9C6.DTL
http://tinyurl.com/3ypwjy (LS via Yahoo)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting find at Aswan Obelisk quarry (not really a 'find';
more of a theory):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/ps-aoq101607.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071016131326.htm

Latest theory on the construction of the pyramids:

http://www.comics.com/creators/rubes/archive/images/rubes2002444471017.gif

The Temple Mount dig is on hold for now:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/912712.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hUExQu9SgiXPZuWb9EIVNX7Scsfg
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=912425
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/134646
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=912712
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/134646

... or is it?:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/14/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Holy-Site.php
http://tinyurl.com/2rr6tm (JPost)

... but the Mughrabi bridge plan is tentatively approved:

http://tinyurl.com/2e3y5o (JPost)

Touristy plans for Foca:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=85868

Trying to save some Afghan minarets:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071018/sc_nm/afghan_minarets_dc_1

Politics of archaeology in the Middle East:

http://www.forward.com/articles/11840/

Halle Berry as Nefertiti?:

http://tinyurl.com/yqky6r

More on that 'embracing burial' from Turkey:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071017-turkey-lovers.html

More on that 'overdue earthquake' (some interesting info in this one):

http://tinyurl.com/35sutz (JPost)

More on the Temple Mount stones quarry:

http://tinyurl.com/3ckds5 (IAA)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A major Roman villa found in Macerata:

http://www.bymarche.it/notizia.asp?id=12684  (Italian)

A trickle of reports about finds in Varna:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=86435
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1786222044

Short feature on the Pantheon:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=6296

The Greeks and Romans liked spooky stories:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/534410/?sc=rsln
http://www.physorg.com/news111859786.html

Trajan's Market is open to the public again:

http://tinyurl.com/28csbk (ANSA)

Even more coverage of the Greeks' lack of math:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3738174&page=1

Review of Charlotte Higgins, *Latin Love Lessons*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2194962,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting 7000 b.p. statue from the Czech Republic:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071020/139/6m6wa.html
http://tinyurl.com/38sbm9 (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/2wmn8q (photos)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/19/content_6904651.htm

Some Saxon burials:

http://tinyurl.com/2gb6yd

Latest in the Tara v. motorway dispute:

http://tinyurl.com/2yurj2 (Echo)

Review of Piers Brendon, *The Decline and Fall of the British
Empire 1781-1997*:

http://tinyurl.com/2ezdv3

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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They're digging Patlipura:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071018/43/6m3xk.html
http://www.bihartimes.com/news07/Oct/18ten10.html

Some villagers in Northern India have found a 'treasure trove':

http://tinyurl.com/ysbr59 (Daily Times)
http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=11516

Interesting under water finds from Korea:

http://tinyurl.com/25qbw5 (DC)

A Ly Dynasty site in Hanoi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/science/16dig.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/16/healthscience/snviet.php

Did a major tsunami hit New Zealand 500 years ago?:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4238301a1861.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some Tlingit remains from Alaska are to be returned:

http://www.physorg.com/news112105152.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_on_sc/tlingit_remains

Interesting use of technology to trace Native American trade
routes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071015/ap_on_sc/radiation_artifacts

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Pondering the implications of some Huastec finds:

http://tinyurl.com/35bdsl (MySA)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Now they're using DNA to figure out things about ancient
shipwrecks:

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/071015_amphorae.htm

The 'Fifty Key Dates from World History' should give rise to
some discussion by the coffee pot:

http://tinyurl.com/2syre9 (Times)

Latest development in portraits of Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/arts/19arts-TESTFAVORSSH_BRF.html

More stuff happening in the Odyssey saga:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7054809.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2673731.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,2192773,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=3737075&page=1

... and a nice oped piece on the business of treasure hunting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7037192.stm

Some interesting stuff on the (updated) AIA education page:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10413

25 'secrets' of the Mona Lisa:

http://tinyurl.com/2a2lht (LS via Yahoo)

More coverage of the 'absolution' of the Knights Templar:

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/templ437.html
http://www.nbc5.com/slideshow/news/14341307/detail.html (photos)

Review of A.J. Jacobs, *The Year of Living Biblically*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/books/18masl.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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More on Libya's plans to boost tourism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/science/16liby.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Smuggling is still a problem in Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1095&p=front&a=1

The guy who stole those maps from Spain's National Library was
found in Argentina:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/125722.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/125795.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/126416.html

Thefts from historic houses:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/df631bca-7e9d-11dc-8fac-0000779fd2ac.html

An elderly British couple has been making fake Egyptian stuff
and trying to sell it to museums:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/20/2065133.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2v4kny (JPost)
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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://tinyurl.com/2dqzwm (ANSA)

Bernini's Paintings:

http://tinyurl.com/yux693 (ANSA)

Canova:

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

Caravaggio:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=58974

Tapestry in the Baroque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/arts/design/19baro.html

Medieval Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/arts/design/19blum.html

River of Gold:

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071014/LIFE02/710140321

Seduced (potentially offensive):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7045772.stm

The Hunt:

http://info.artline.ro/2_585_The_Hunt__Myth_and_Reality_13339.html

Impressed by Light:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/arts/design/16ligh.html

Alfred Dreyfus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/arts/design/17drey.html

The moving-to-the-new-Acropolis-Museum hype continued unabated
this week (this is just a very small sampling):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7044576.stm (photos)
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100002_15/10/2007_88950
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/124006.html
http://tinyurl.com/yqh9uu (ANA)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5D49EF87-E636-4022-B31D-2A28BB19643A.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071014/wl_nm/greece_acropolis_dc_1
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAtwMffhNRV8KMp7wmZfWG1kA__w
http://tinyurl.com/2hoypc (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3061142.ece
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1643912007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2191241,00.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1016/p07s02-woeu.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,511552,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7044407.stm

... and the OpEds resume:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2192129,00.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_columns_100022_16/10/2007_88983
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/10/should_london_finally_lose_the.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=15&entry_id=21285

A major antiques dealer in Paris is going out of business with
a bang:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/arts/design/19anti.html

The Salander-O'Reilly Gallery is afflicted with plenty of lawsuits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/nyregion/19gallery.html

Some guy used the Terracotta Warriors exhibit to protest
something:

http://tinyurl.com/33laqz (Daily Mail)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antigone:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2193300,00.html

Seneca's Oedipus:

http://cornellsun.com/node/25294

Iphigenia in Tauris:

http://seattleweekly.com/2007-10-17/arts/opera-review-iphigenia-in-tauris.php
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OBITUARIES
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Deno Geanakoplos:

http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=50255
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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explorator 10.27                                October 28, 2007
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, David Critchley,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Diana Wright,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W. Sargent, Susan Jaslow, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and
W. Richard Frahm, (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Apparently some Neanderthals were redheads:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/hu-adr102507.php
http://www.physorg.com/news112540317.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21474978/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7062415.stm

... although ANSA and El Pais gave it a different spin:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-10-26_126131388.html
http://tinyurl.com/2kjvu3

More on African megadroughts and evolution:

http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2007/october/malawi.htm

More on painted-seafood-eating early humans:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/2064368.htm
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AFRICA
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Ethiopia has begun the task of re-erecting the Axum obelisk:

http://tinyurl.com/2kakg5
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
For reasons unknown, there's a spate of coverage (again) about
those 11,000 b.p. paintings from Syria:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20071023-084658-2536r
http://tinyurl.com/3dukat (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=8618\
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http://www.adetocqueville.com/200710230414.l9n4ejv08681.htm
http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/071023043520.78cmg641.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/syriafrancearchaeologydiscovery

... and the Jezebel's seal story too:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071023/137/6mba0.html
http://tinyurl.com/2t244w (JPost)
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=524452&ez\
_search=1
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL2317518720071023

A 'Sasanian' wine production facility:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/October2007/22-10-discovery.htm

We're starting to hear more about First Temple evidence at
Temple Mount:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/21/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Holy-Site.php
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/915288.html
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/22/2065758.htm?section=world
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071023-jerusalem-artifacts.html
http://tinyurl.com/2qdvpg (MFA)
http://tinyurl.com/25grdz
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123989
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=915241
http://tinyurl.com/3bcq3z (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/2jtorc (IAA)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123989

... while a Mufti has claimed the Western Wall was never part of
the Temple:

http://tinyurl.com/374dxe (JPost)

... while the 'other stuff' about Temple Mount continues to make
headlines:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58273
http://tinyurl.com/2wx7o8 (JPost)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3462904,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124012

A followup to that 'tunnel' story from the past month:

http://www.forward.com/articles/11873/

More on 'Herod's quarry' (with slideshow):

http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/30810/

Interesting Tom Sawyer-like approach to archaeology at a site
outside Jerusalem:

http://www.miamiherald.com/986/story/283198.html

Latest on the Hasankeyf dam:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=avg9WRGc9gDg&refer=home

I could have sworn we heard this ages ago, but apparently Tut was
killed in a hunting accident:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article3084330.ece
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071022/139/6m8jj.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071023-king-tut.html

Not sure if we've heard about this cuneiform discovery before:

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20071023/CPSCIENCES/71023077/1020/

http://tinyurl.com/2tdh93 (JPost)

More coverage of that canal linking to a quarry in Egypt:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071024-ancient-egypt.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071025/139/6me7t.html

Nice 'pop' article on mummification:

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/mummification-is-back-from-the-dead

Review of Martin Goodman, *Rome and Jerusalem*:

http://www.nysun.com/article/65187

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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More on Greeks, Romans, and ghost stories:

http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=12671

Evidence of Punic child sacrifice:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Cultura/?id=1.0.1456304536 (Italian)

A Roman tombstone from Scotland (!):

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1718052007

Possible Roman camp in Monifieth:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7059681.stm

Vague item about a Roman statue find in Bulgaria:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_380438511

A Roman villa from Austria:

http://tinyurl.com/325k92 (IOL)

The digging is resuming at Herculaneum:

http://tinyurl.com/2oqksd (Times)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/24/wdig124.xml
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200710241321.htm

Coca Cola will be helping to fund the restoration of Olympia:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071024/20071024005885.html?.v=1

More Olympia restoration coverage (all different spins):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100015_25/10/2007_89339
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-7023911,00.html
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=9676\
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An Aeneid reading for a cause:

http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2007/10/25/marist/

Mary Lefkowitz in the LA Times:

http://tinyurl.com/3ywnew

The Vatican is selling Latin Missals again:

http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10754

Review of Emily Wilson, *The Death of Socrates*:

http://tinyurl.com/3ca2qs

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Trying to figure out Silbury Hill:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2733437.ece
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2198955,00.html

Some Medieval remains in Stockholm:

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212111279.shtml

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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No evidence of Epang Palace has been found:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/229363.htm

A French court has blocked the return of a mummified Maori head:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21457493/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting new approach to the 'peopling of the Americas'
contest:

http://tinyurl.com/32hjxw (SD)

The Water Witch may have been found:

http://www.telegram.com/article/20071025/APA/710250974
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21479354/

What they're finding in Merchants' Square:

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-news_cwdig_1020oct20,0,6199416.story
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Arguing over ownership of some Mayan ruins:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1017/p20s01-woam.html?s=hns
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Still/once again looking for Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071022/ap_on_re_eu/italy_lost_leonardo
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-10-23_123133266.html

... while concerns about pollution affecting the 'Last Supper'
were apparently baseless:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-10-26_126136227.html

... and it now is on the Internet in very high resolution:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7065903.stm

... and a scan of the Mona Lisa is revealing items of possible
interest:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071022/ap_on_sc/mona_lisa_mystery

Moving a 750-year-old church:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7058366.stm

Belief in witchcraft serves a basic human need, apparently:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071024143613.htm

Taking DNA testing to its illogical extreme:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/fashion/25Cyber.html

I think we've mentioned the 'tenure case' of Nadia Abu
El-Haj before ... it's still being discussed:

http://tinyurl.com/3bn9tu (Forward)

Ancient clay remedies are being studied (probably will be
more on this next week):

http://www.newsdaily.com/Science/UPI-1-20071025-13333100-bc-us-claymedicine.xml

More on Vatican revelations about the Knights Templar:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-10-25_125127949.html

All about Durga Pujo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/world/asia/22India.html

Did a volcano eruption inspire Frankenstein?:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14356493

... and more about that volcano:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15448607

On translating War and Peace:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15528712
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15524432

The Open Content Alliance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html

Review of Harold Schechter, *The Devil's Gentleman*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/books/24grim.html

Review of Rene Weis, *Shakespeare Revealed*:

http://tinyurl.com/35xdkx

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another bust in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=86828

More coverage of that Argentinian Ptolemaic Map thief:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2708751.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2m8ma9 (El Pais)
http://tinyurl.com/3x6ov9 (El Pais)
http://tinyurl.com/2rxgq2 (El Pais)
http://tinyurl.com/ysuw9d (El Pais)

Turkey tightens security in its museums:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=125617

I think this is the second or third example we've seen in
Explorator of some pensioner having a 'private museum' of
illicit antiquities:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1687012007
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3760863&page=1
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NUMISMATICA
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ANS Magazine (Spring 2007):

http://www.ansmagazine.com/

Assorted gold-related articles:

http://www.goldrushgallery.com/news/

An old coin found in Northumberland has turned out to be a fake:

http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/latest-news/Old-coin-is-fake-.3414345.jp

Encyclopedia of Small Silver Coins:

http://www.dewardt.net/encyclopdia.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20071028/NEWS/710280303/-1/NEWS03

Seurat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/arts/design/26seur.html

The Arts of Kashmir:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/arts/design/26kash.html

More on the impending display of Tut:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200710221240.htm

Slideshow about the new Acropolis Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/2uwskp (NYT)

Tut is returning to Dallas:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20071022/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_king_tut_exhibi\
t

Princeton University is the latest institution to agree to return
items to Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/33qqzt (Newsday)
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S19/34/26K47/index.xml
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2641703520071027
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/27/arts/design/27prin.html

Nice item on the Vasa Museum:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/23/arts/vasa.php

The old mint in New Orleans is reopening with some interesting
exhibitions:

http://www.wdsu.com/news/14358928/detail.html

There has been some 'revamping' of Athens' Numismatic Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/38smyb

A Rembrandt fetches a nice price:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7064382.stm

... as does an 800 year-old Koran:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7060045.stm

Nefertiti is now 'more German' than Egyptian (!):

http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Nefertiti_now_more_German_than_Egyp_05012007.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/2rrx98 (Sun)

Medea:

http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/10834186.html

Philoktetes:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/theater/reviews/23phil.html

Macbeth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/arts/music/24macb.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Ales Bukovsky,
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Erica Stewart, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Karl Wittwer, Richard
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Bob Heuman, Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Richard C.
Griffiths, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Nice feature on the excavation of the "House of Millions of
Years":

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/egyptiantemple-200711.html

The Gospel of Judas is back in the news (for different reasons):

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/112007/11032007/330158
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/ru-rup110107.php


Interesting item about the fate of a prehistoric site in Jordan:

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=19435

Can't remember if we've mentioned this cuneiform tablet find
before:

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/233828.html

Another 'Biblical Archaeology' piece:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07302/829332-85.stm

An interview with Lee Levine on the effects of the destruction
of the Temple on Jewish communal life:

http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1294

Road construction in Iran has destroyed some significant sites:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/October2007/30-10-overnight.htm

Zahi Hawass sold some of his hats:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/31/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Hawass-Hat.php

Latest Temple Mount developments:

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=36629

Stanford has acquired a major Egyptology library:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/october31/erichsen-103107.html

More coverage of Jezebel's seal:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071026210336.htm

More on Tut and his death (and other things):

http://tinyurl.com/3y2msh (Daily Mail)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A section of the Aurelian Wall collapsed in heavy rain:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695224168,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2007-11-02-rome-wall-collapse_N.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071102/ap_on_sc/italy_ancient_wall_3

A Roman tombstone from Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7066539.stm
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1791961.0.0.php

Searching for Artemis Amrysia:

http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=2485

Semi-touristy thing on Pompeii:

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695215210,00.html

More on Deborah Felton and Hallowe'en:

http://tinyurl.com/3xlcra

More on impending resumption of digging at Herculaneum:

http://tinyurl.com/364cmq (Athens News)

Plenty of coverage of a dna study on some shipwreck cargo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071102/ts_nm/shipwreck_dna_dc_2
http://www.physorg.com/news112978421.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN0228463120071102

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An Iron Age chain from Scatness:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7073020.stm

Searching for evidence of a medieval fire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/6993087.stm

A 'giant' burial in Norway:

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2065664.ece

The Red Lady is older than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7069001.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3c6hel
http://www.physorg.com/news112978558.html

Review of Graham Robb, *The Discovery of France*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/books/02book.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some good coverage of a Vanuatu burial of some headless skeletons:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071102-headless-skeleton.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21531485/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071030/sc_nm/vanuatu_skeletons_dc_1

Plans are afoot to raise a Southern Song Dynasty shipwreck:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6295336.html

Renovations are afoot at the Terracotta Warriors site:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6293091.html

Evidence of ancient Polynesian seafaring skills:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071101/139/6mp6v.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Just when you thought you'd heard the last about Kennewick Man:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003988146_webkennewickman01m.ht\
ml

High tech methods to trace Southeastern pottery:

http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2007/10/31/local_news/area_news/area04.txt

An archaeological site holds up road construction in Montgomery
County:

http://tinyurl.com/3b5ldk (WPost)

Interesting bit of New York Subway history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/nyregion/02plaque.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A major pre-Taino/Taino settlement on Puerto Rico:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071029-puerto-rico.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/puerto_rico_archaeological\
_find
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/287610.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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In case you were wondering, Nadia Abu El-Haj was granted tenure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/nyregion/03barnard.html
http://www.nysun.com/article/65748

A different approach to Wikipedia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/techbit_wikipedia_term_papers

Nice feature on the dendrochronology projects at Cornell:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071027172611.htm

On the 'rise of the salvagers':

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article3106909.ece

The oldest Bratwurst recipe:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071101/od_nm/germany_bratwurst_dc

Latest movie on the Archaeology Channel: Shovel Bum Joins the
Army:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Explorator 2177:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3025645929721292107

Wanna be part of a Viking ship crew?:

http://www.havhingsten.dk/index.php?id=979&L=1

Liz Taylor gets to keep her vanGogh:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-art-vangogh-taylor.html

A sort of history of bartending:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/dining/31cock.html

Not sure if this is a new deck or just renewed coverage:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/31/iraq.archaeology.cards.ap/index.html

More on that High-Res "Last Supper":

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071029-supper-picture.html

Review of Jason Goodwin, *The Snake Stone*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/books/29masl.html

Review of Elizabeth Samat, *Soldier's Heart*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/books/review/Pinsky-t.html

Review of Jonah Lehrer, *Proust Was a Neuroscientist*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/books/review/Max-t.html

Review of Barry Smith, *Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of
Wine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/books/review/Steinberger-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A number of purloined Neolithic items were returned to Greece this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/2qrgt5 (ANA)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aPK9Gj3xrKNI&refer=muse
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21549124/
http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_7322141

OpEd piece on Italy's pursuit of antiquities:

http://www.startribune.com/1513/story/1522726.html

More coverage of Princeton's returning of items to Italy:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/10/30/italy-looted-princeton.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=29045§ionid=3510212
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ap6mDgeP4kqE&refer=home
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5is_bcmuTOwPCXlYk6aWb_ugCT9RgD8SJHEOO0

... on which, it is also worth perusing David Gill's blogposts
for the past week or so:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com

I don't think we've had this sort of 'looting of India' piece
before:

http://tinyurl.com/2lzugz

The (U.S.) National Archives has acquired a couple of catalogs
of WWII looted art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02nazi.html

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
ACE:

http://ancientcoinsforeducation.org/

Interesting story about a find of piles (literally) of old
coins:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071027/ap_on_re_us/odd_hidden_coins_1
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071027/D8SHP3B00.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20071028/NEWS/710280303/-1/NEWS03

Drawing Connections:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/arts/design/01draw.html

Pompei Batoni:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3112821.ece

Buddhist Sculpture from China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02xian.html

Gabriel de Saint Aubin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02fric.html

Gifts for the Gods:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/arts/design/03temp.html

The Impressionists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02voge.html

A feature on the Getty Villa:

http://www.startribune.com/1513/story/1522723.html

A different spin on the Tut exhibition:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2204697,00.html

... and more coverage of the impending exhibition of Tut's
mummy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7077423.stm

The Prado has some new exhibition space:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/31/arts/prado.php

Never knew there was such a thing as a 'print fair':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02prin.html

An upcoming auction of Napoleonic style furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02anti.html

Assorted auctions:


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/arts/design/04voge.html

More press coverage for the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/arts/design/28ouro.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/29/arts/arch.php
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/34bqdg

Hamlet:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/theater/reviews/01haml.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/theater/04gure.html

Henry VI:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/04theatnj.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Article on assorted online historical resources:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/11/05/071105on_onlineonly_grafton

1905-1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/pa/breasted/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
James Michie:

http://tinyurl.com/35nxph
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, A.J. Wright, Dave Sowdon, 'Duke Jason',
Edward Rockstein, Dorothy King,  John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Laura Flusche, Mike Ruggeri,Michael T. Stulac,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Tim Parkin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and W. Richard Frahm
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Did Stone Age 'feminism' lead to the decline of the Neanderthals?
(this really should be 'elmer' material):

http://tinyurl.com/3ahoap (BG)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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BBC coverage of the Tut exhibition (see below) also includes a
quick guide to mummification:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7074082.stm

... while the Yorkshire post has a piece on how Egyptian culture
'inspires' us:

http://tinyurl.com/3ybat3 (YP)

A Median ring find:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=30516§ionid=351020105

... and the Scotsman had some background on Tut:

http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1761342007

Remains of Nehemiah's Wall?:

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4418.2664.0.0
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58623

A Hittite cult site and fortress from Turkey:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071030133030.htm

Latest in the Temple Mount saga seems to be a class action lawsuit:

http://tinyurl.com/34zyeh (UPI)
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58582
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124158

Discussing digitization of the DSS:

http://tinyurl.com/36kt7o (JPost)
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1285\
&module_id=#as

A lecture on the DSS:

http://kennedy.byu.edu/events/mp3playing.php?id=14 (mp3)
http://kennedy.byu.edu/cms/video.php?title=Global%20Awareness%20Lecture%20&id=28\
4952575&ref=14
(video)

The excavations in Bitlis will continue:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=87647

A piece of the Aleppo Codex is returning to Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/2klwb3 (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=920674
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_ancient_bible

More on Jezebel's seal:

http://tinyurl.com/2jmmxo (LS via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2jmmxo
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071109/139/6n1a7.html
http://www.livescience.com/history/071108-queen-jezebel.html

Review of C. Bonnet and D. Valbelle, * The Nubian Pharaohs: Black
Kings on the Nile*:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/870/heritage.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Roman finds from Spalding:

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/Dig-unearths-finds-from-Roman.3454425.jp

In Bulgaria, seals have been found dating to the first Bulgarian
Empire:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=87125

A Thracian tomb has changed the course of the Thrakia highway:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_885373965

Cartagena's Roman theatre will soon be open to the public:

http://www.roundtownnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13126&I\
temid=9

Not sure why there's an argument about the origins of Orpheus:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=f1482
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=s1637

Harry Mount on Latin in the US in various fora:

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12267

Another 'rise of the Latin Mass' piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/us/10latin.html

Nice interview with Debbie Felton on matters Hallowe'enish:

http://eternallycool.net/?p=724

More on that 'salad dressing' shipwreck:

http://www.livescience.com/history/071108-shipwreck-genes.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21707258/

Review of J. Davidson, *The Greeks and Greek Love*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2208343,00.html

Review of M. Beard, *The Roman Triumph*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/history/\
article2828850.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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On Stonehenge as a prehistoric Lourdes (again):

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=402&Itemi\
d=26

... and a major Neolithic settlement has been found near
Stonehenge too (I think we've had this before):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7078578.stm
http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2007/November/6/Largest-Neolithic-monument-21190.\
asp

Every couple of years we get a Robin Hood story ... this time
it's about the plight of Sherwood Forest:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_re_eu/shrinking_sherwood

Another piece pondering the 'meaning' of Silbury Hill:

http://tinyurl.com/2ej6q6 (Daily Mail)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Remains of an ancient city in Chongqing:

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-11-6/61708.html

China's dependence on coal is damaging sites:

http://tinyurl.com/3y26wd (IHT)

More coverage (with photos) of those headless Vanuatu burials:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/Vanuatu-pictures/\
index.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Rescuing an early example of Canadian shipbuilding:

http://tinyurl.com/37eptb (Citizen)

Assorted artifacts found prior to highway construction in
Maryland:

http://www.wmal.com/Article.asp?id=506558&spid=

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 4000 b.p. temple from Peru:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKN1018888320071111
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071111/sc_nm/peru_archaeology_dc_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1018888320071111
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Comparing the nature of Greek and Egyptian deities:

http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/news/ci_7341892

The ethics of DNA research:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/us/11dna.html

Taking on the 'Iceman's Curse':

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,22720494-401,00.html

Interesting piece (with video) on P.T. Barnum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/arts/09expl.html

Business lessons from Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/business/10shakespeare.html

OpEd piece inspired by the Terracotta Army exhibition:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2207150,00.html

If assorted historical personnages had publicists:

http://usaweekend.com/07_issues/071111/071111humor-publicists.html

Preserving turkeys (!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/dining/07turk.html

Review of P. Bayard, *How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/McInerney-t.html

Review of A. Collier, *The Humble Little Condom*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Genzlinger2-t.html

Review of C. Hitchen, *Thomas Paine's Rights of Man*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Brookhiser-t.html

Review of M. Aronson, *Race: A History Beyond Black and White*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Rodberg-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://www.ocregister.com/travel/greece-greek-oracle-1915023-delphi-mythology

Izmir:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88153

San Juan:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/travel/11SanJuan.html

Oxford:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/travel/11day.html

Portugal:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/travel/11next.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Art dealer Jerome Eisenberg has returned some items to Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/3xuc48 (IHT)
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Cultura/?id=1.0.1519801981
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=12560&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5is_bcmuTOwPCXlYk6aWb_ugCT9RgD8SOC5QO0

An illegal mining operation has destroyed (!) a section of the
Great Wall:

http://en.ce.cn/National/Local/200711/08/t20071108_13524983.shtml

Those stolen Ptolemaic maps in the news of late have been returned
to Spain:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071109/43/6n1at.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/139072.html
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NUMISMATICA
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10th/11th century Chinese coins found in Vietnam:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6299182.html
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2007/11/753918/

A rare Spanish coin from a Nashville cemetery:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16161989&ft=1&f=1003

Hawaiian Coinage:

http://www.journalofantiques.com/Oct04/coinsoct04.htm

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Renaissance Siena:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2204723,00.html

Roman Word: Religions and Everyday Life:

http://www.flyernews.com/article.php?section=AE&volume=55&issue=14&artnum=04

Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption (official site):

http://www.pompeiibirmingham.com/

Latest in the 'Art Deco House' (Athens) saga:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20071105195817527C30\
1437

More coverage of those Princeton returns:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/11/05/news/19189.shtml

More coverage of the exhibition of Tut's mummy (with various
photos):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7078091.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/tut-display/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071104-tut-mummy.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071105/ap_on_sc/king_tut_s_mummy_15
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/04/wtut204.xml
http://tinyurl.com/3a76yu (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/3aefpm (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/yp2olw (WPost)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22709708-30417,00.html

Big bucks for a Chinese vase:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071107/ap_en_ot/britain_qing_vase_1

Report from Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/arts/08auction.html

New items for the Neue Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/arts/design/09voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Trojan Women 2.0:

http://tinyurl.com/2lxpkl
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Now they're finding music in the Last Supper (maybe they'll
get together with those guys who found 'music' in Roswell Chapel
and have some sort of Templar Tunefest):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/09/last-supper-da-vinci.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon,
Donna Hurst, Dorothy King, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe, Bob Heuman,
Rochelle Altman,  Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent,
Michael T. Stulac, Susan Jaslow,  Patrick Swan,
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and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
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Prehistoric women had a "passion for fashion":

http://tinyurl.com/32zf3s (Reuters)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1794402007
http://tinyurl.com/3yrlxh (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/2v3kmn (Daily Mail)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071112/sc_nm/archaeology_balkans_dc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21758213/?gt1=10547

A brouhaha is brewing over Turkana Boy:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2835639.ece

Did early humans do more gathering than hunting?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/uosc-ham111107.php

More on Stone Age 'feminism' and the Neanderthal decline:

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/11/10/stone_age_feminism/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Median era ring from western Iran:

http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=19410

A pair of Sasanian inscriptions from northeastern Iran:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/November2007/15-11.htm

A Roman era necropolis from Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/2kmelm (TN)
http://tinyurl.com/3ar6pu (JPost)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/15/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Archaeology.php
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=31184§ionid=3510212
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5itbQ6FT2pAJiQPcnyqirO4akVwdQ

Remember that artificial eye story from last year? The owner of
that eye is going to get the 'facial reconstruction' treatment:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=30641§ionid=

A good what's-the-fuss-all-about piece on the Temple Mount
brouhaha:

http://tinyurl.com/2wx2yx (Chronicle)

... and here are this week's developments:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124246
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3472537,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3471160,00.html
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105306.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=924948
http://tinyurl.com/2qsebk (JPost)

Remains of a Roman-era street found in the Western Wall tunnels:

http://tinyurl.com/36f4zn (JPost)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL1558737720071115
http://tinyurl.com/35xj64 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/2mo3tl (IAA)

Egypt is going to limit visits to Tut's tomb:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqQH7QXr-ov3MKURbj12xQ9ZLeVQ
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN147354.html

While Zahi Hawass is asking Lord Carnarvon's descendants to
return items from Tut's tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/2utxkk (Times)

... and the Times has a major feature/insert on Tut and the exhibition:

http://tinyurl.com/2mnvay
cf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7078045.stm

While the Telegraph has a bunch of little tidbits on 'weird'
Egyptian 'history':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/17/negypt117.xml

... and other put their two cents in:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2210531,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3157789.ece

... and JNW ponders the revealing of Tut's visage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/weekinreview/11wilford.html

... in case you missed it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21623825/

The Sphinx isn't threatened by water damage:

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL1544311.html

I missed this one when it was on (dang) ... a new take on
the Jesus Tomb thing:

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/275520

A Hittite dam has revived a farming village:

http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=155183

Trying to borrow the Siloam inscription (hmmmm):

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=127131

More coverage of what is being touted as Nehemiah's Wall:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58623

More coverage of that Aleppo-Codex-fragment-return story:

http://tinyurl.com/39gpoo (Star)

More on Jezebel's seal:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21693714/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A late Roman fortress from Bulgaria:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1238826813

Some Roman remains from Turkey (are these new?):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88298
http://www.nirvanainternational.com/news/archaeology/archaeological-find-in-turk\
ey-18357457

... and from Spalding:

http://tinyurl.com/39gefc (ET)

... and what they've found in the Valentini Palace:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/141990.html

An archaeology student found some Roman stuff in his garden (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/33dk4q

Apathy and Aristotle's Lyceum:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071113/139/6n5pn.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 15 000 b.p. hunter's site from Russia:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071112/43/6n4ie.html
http://en.rian.ru/science/20071112/87626985.html
http://en.rian.ru/science/20071112/87626985.html

On the fall of the Bronze Age Agaric people:

http://tinyurl.com/3xo8bb (Daily India)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7093685.stm

A "perfect" shipwreck from the Baltic:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7096405.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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They're finding lots of stuff as they prepare for the Olympics
in China:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/wl_nm/china_olympics_relics_dc_1

Female warriors from Cambodia?:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/311698/1/.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Tantalizing evidence of a Spanish presence in Georgia:

http://www.macon.com/198/story/184923.html
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/living/stories/2007/11/12/fernbank_1112.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel retells one of the
stories of the Clatsop people:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More (and better) coverage of that 4000 b.p. Peruvian 'temple
of fire' find (and the paintings associated with it):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071111/ts_nm/peru_archaeology_dc_3
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071111/ap_on_sc/peru_temple_1
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22740608-663,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3bge7z (Globe)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/12/content_7055080.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2s9ler (USA Today)
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/11/11/peru-temple-moche.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071112-AP-peru-temple.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071112-peru-temple.html
http://tinyurl.com/35e9fn (NG ... photos)
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6300843.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqVny7Ylhq-1TruZdhU0Z9n-B6CwD8SSFE7O0
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3155088.ece
http://mnweekly.ru/world/20071115/55289911.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Peru-Temple.html

... I think I messed up earlier with grouping the cave paintings with the
above:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/142281.html

The Maya apparantly "devastated" big game in Central America:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12489479.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2k3lym (NG)


On ancient use of chocolate/cacao beans:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071112-chocolate.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkkkGHqzXlMyHaf6FUjBry4QLurQ
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_sc/ancient_chocolate
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071112/sc_nm/chocolate_beer_dc_2
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/2089421.htm?ancient
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7087899.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13obchoc.html
http://tinyurl.com/3777yc (LAT)
http://www.healthscout.com/news/1/610049/main.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21759013/
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=8036
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/13/archaeology.sciencenews?gusrc=rss&\
feed=11
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The 'Great Flood' is now being linked to the spread of agriculture:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-11/18/content_6262123.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071118/sc_nm/farming_flood_dc_1

Article(s) on the oldest papyrus books in Northwest Europe:

http://tinyurl.com/2m4s85
http://tijlv.studentenweb.org/mt/archives/2007/11/meest_complete.html

The Times explains the Tut curse:

http://tinyurl.com/yrfv96

Discussing digitization:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton

On the return of the Green Fairy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/arts/12conn.html

Piece on Linnaeus (in Portuguese):

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=8020

The last two speakers of a Central American language aren't speaking:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/071116/21/14zd9.html

Have presidents been pardoning the wrong animal at Thanksgiving?:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1116/p09s02-coop.html

On the roots of fundamentalism:

http://tinyurl.com/2lmxea (scroll down)

Assorted Arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/arts/16arts.html

Review of John Burrow, *A History of Histories*:

http://tinyurl.com/3a2brg (Times)

Reviews of Peter Ackroyd, *The Fall of Troy*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1113/p13s02-bogn.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/books/review/Leavitt2-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://tinyurl.com/2jrku3
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A very interesting story of an elderly couple who made fakes and
sold them to the British Museum (including the Amarna Princess!!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7091435.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2k5zyn (Daily Mail)

They're still talking about those stolen Ptolemaic maps:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2209582,00.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/139162.html
http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=8223
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/12/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Stolen-Maps.php
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3155081.ece

Israel recovered a number of antique clocks stolen from
museums back in 1983:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL1260470920071112
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article3152350.ece

Italy has returned a number of antiquities found in a Milan
market to Iran:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/13/europe/EU-GEN-Italy-Iran-Looted-Art.ph\
p
http://www.artinfo.com/articles/story/26083/italy-returns-plundered-artifacts-to\
-iran

Gunmen looted Tell Asmar this week (you might have to click a few
times to get this one to load):

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2007-11-9\kurd3.htm

Donny George continues to lecture on the looting of Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/3bx4c7 (Cortez Journal)

More coverage of recent returns to Italy:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21662091/

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Coin collectors are suing the US government in regards to
recent restrictions on import of antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/arts/design/17coin.html
http://tinyurl.com/3cy37b

Roman coin denominations:

http://www.romanorum.com.au/Info/Help/denoms.asp

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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La Mediterranee des Phenicians:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/871/cu5.htm

French Founding Father:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/arts/design/16made.html

They're keeping the Acropolis Museum move in the news:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/15/stories/2007101575522400.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2jdk96

The 'Spartans' are helping out the National Museum of Iraq:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48127

Some new galleries at the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/arts/design/16ocea.html

An 'Old West' auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/us/12auction.html

Some shrunken heads are returning to New Zealand:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7093972.stm

Hmmm ... should we be wondering about the credentials of the
new curator of the National Museum of Iran?:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=585132
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Some backgroundish (p)reviewy things for Beowulf:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119491508641690678.html
http://tinyurl.com/2qdayh (LAT)
http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/movies/16beow.html
http://www.news.wisc.edu/14433
http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/3815/dr-richard-north-on-beowu\
lf.html
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ON THE WEB
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/bmsaes.aspx
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OBITUARIES
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Harold Berman (legal historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18berman.html

James Michie:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2205340,00.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Climate change is being blamed/credited for human
evolution:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/19/climatechange.evolution
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 13th Dynasty sarcophagus:

http://tinyurl.com/2ql4e2 (SIS)

Interesting item on Egypt's number system:

http://tinyurl.com/2nsve3 (Times)

A Roman/Byzantine era synagoge find from Galilee:

http://www.physorg.com/news114866384.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071121100831.htm
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2007/11/21/excavation_unearths_ancient_syna\
gogue/5218/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071122/139/6nk5p.html
http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=21450
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/thuo-roa112107.php
http://hunews.huji.ac.il/articles.asp?cat=6&artID=827

An inscription found on Khark Island may add some new words to
our knowledge of ancient Persian:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071121/139/6nj8k.html
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=157573
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/November2007/20-11.htm

A sort of in-case-you-haven't-read-about-Temple-Mount-in-the
last-month piece:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/18/MNSFT3F39.DTL

This week's developments:

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=36841
http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-29631.html
http://har-habayt.org/whats.html

Latest buzz in the row between Germany and Egypt over the bust
of Nefertiti:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hxPqqngFv10-uZajMSF2Fqs1pMUw
http://tinyurl.com/38r3yr

Byzantine remains from Tel Aviv:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3473515,00.html

An item on Biblical archaeology and Tell Megiddo:

http://www.physorg.com/news114794172.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071120142829.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/afot-dbh112007.php

Aren Maeir was talking about Biblical archaeology recently too:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695230112,00.html

Rerun of that artificial eye story:

http://www.agi.it/world/news/200711211427-cro-ren0041-art.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================

At the beginning of the week, there was a flood of stories on
reannouncement of the supposed find of the Lupercal:

http://www.pr-inside.com/archaeologists-in-rome-unveil-grotto-linked-r310132.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071120/ap_on_re_eu/birth_of_rome_7
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jO8ePbIxuhDXO1o4UUCzMsVrGDmAD8T1G1CG1
http://en.rian.ru/culture/20071120/88847818.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7104330.stm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-11-20-rome-grotto-romulus_\
N.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/world/europe/21rome.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/20/europe/rome.php
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/212664.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/20/AR2007112001872.\
html
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/11/21/1121rome.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2214553,00.html
http://roma.repubblica.it/dettaglio/Trovato-il-Lupercale-la-grotta-di-Romolo-e-R\
emo/1391168
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.1580810952
http://www.ccnmag.com/news.php?id=5846
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2909949.ece
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071120-rome-grotto.html
http://www.thestar.com/article/278130
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070126-rome-palatine_2.html
http://www.beniculturali.it/sala/dettaglio-comunicato.asp?nd=ss,cs&Id=2579
http://www.leggonline.it/vedinews.php?id=2254
http://www.barimia.info/modules/article/view.article.php?1685
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3246,36-980878,0.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/20/birth.of.rome.ap/index.html

... and a story on how myth influences archaeology:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7107071.stm

... by the end of the week, we were beginning to see some skepticism:

http://in.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idINN2331072520071123
http://tinyurl.com/2wubce (Italian)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071123/od_nm/archaeology_cave_dc_2
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/world/europe/24briefs-CAVE.html
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=96472af4-be5c-4378-9783-99\
f38797c3e7

... a couple of nice photosets including more coverage from the Italian
press:

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/08/gallerie/spettacoliecultura/grotta-romolo-e-rem\
o/1.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/sets/72157603251450933/detail\
/

Hidden in the press conference was news that they're going to begin charging
to get into the Forum:

http://www.design-oggi.it/archives/0002624.html

Latest news from Allianoi:

http://www.huliq.com/42631/ancient-site-turkey-set-be-flooded

A Roman burial in Yorkshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7107119.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1840142007
http://tinyurl.com/3x96zy
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART52125.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/23/nroman123.xml

... and another from Wiltshire:

http://tinyurl.com/2qewah

I think we had this Roman-era necropolis find in Syria already:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88835
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C11%5C19%5Cstory_19-11-2007_\
pg9_7
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009222635

Nothing new in this one, but it's a nice piece on the Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=14834

A proposal for mandatory Latin in Swiss schools:

http://tinyurl.com/36h2kl

Nice article on Lawrence Alma-Tadema (with a nice slide show):

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/22/arts/conway.php

Art Deco house update:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2891014.ece

Villas found at Zeugma are going to be protected by a roof:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88684

Review of Nicholas Ostler, *Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin*:

http://tinyurl.com/327mel

Review of Frederick Ahl's translation of the *Aeneid*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/poetry/0,,2212422,00.html

More on those Roman remains in a Yorkshire garden:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071119/139/6nfoc.html

More on that 'ancient salad dressing' story:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,310038,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A freelance archaeologist has come across an Anglo Saxon
burial ground:

http://www.24dash.com/environment/29455.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7104498.stm

Cuts to the Portable Antiquities Scheme budget?

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2215506,00.html

... even with reports like this?:

http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINL2246877020071122
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1BPzFcBS6p0&refer=muse
http://tinyurl.com/2nwxln

Interesting Virgin Mary statuette from the Czech Republic:

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/217/czech_national_news/14910/

Video on a recent runestone find (scroll down):

http://politiken.dk/fotografier/

... I think this is the same story:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/104461.html

A progress report on the restoration of the Cutty Sark:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7105813.stm

The Knights Templar (hmmmm) are going to Bulgaria:

Stonehenge tunnel plans are about to be scrapped:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/7103371.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Brief item on the discovery of some ancient wine from China:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-11/20/content_6265920.htm

On skeletal evidence from Vanuatu and the spread of gout:

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071119/3/2gyq.html

Add the Buddha of Swat to the list of monuments destroyed by
Taliban sympathizers:

http://tinyurl.com/23ghq5

Jade jewellery is revealing trade routes in southeast Asia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071119/sc_nm/jade_asia_dc
http://tinyurl.com/38zyw7
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/11/20/2095026.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Nice item on what's been found in and around Fort Bragg:

http://tinyurl.com/3e5own

On history and football rivalries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/sports/ncaafootball/23border.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
More on the Maya and large game decline:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071114200920.htm

More on early chocolate use:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/uop-tec111907.php
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The Vatican archives on the Borgias are going digital:

http://tinyurl.com/32gzty (El Pais)

Following assorted Viking ships around:

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/nov/the-return-of-the-vikings

The 'other side' of those DNA tests:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/business/25dna.html

Archaeological vacations:

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/nov/24/24d01israel/

Reviews of Peter Ackroyd, *The Fall of Troy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/books/review/Leavitt2-t.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/books/ci_7498685?nclick_check=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201318.\
html

More coverage of "Noah's Flood" spurring on the spread of
agriculture (kind of strange how this one is being spun):

http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/25339
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1452939
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10476849
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071118/ts_nm/farming_flood_dc_2
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/uoe-fk111507.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071120-noah-flood.html

... and maybe a comet caused the flood:

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/nov/did-a-comet-cause-the-great-flood

... and clearly someone has too much time on their hands:

http://tinyurl.com/22umcy

The latest efforts to save the petroglyphs at Lascaux:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/20/europe/EU-GEN-France-Cave-Drawings.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_re_eu/france_cave_drawings;_ylt=ArI5XL\
XMYethbIPHLsq60oOs0NUE

The mystery of the House of Mirth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/books/21wharton.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Inside jobs in an Indonesian museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7107406.stm
http://www.mysinchew.com/node/3463
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/22/asia/AS-GEN-Indonesia-Museum-Thefts-1s\
t-Ld-Writethru.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071123/lf_nm_life/indonesia_statues_dc_1

... and in the Greek Culture Ministry:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/145740.html

Marion True's trial in Greece is coming up:

http://www.pr-inside.com/former-getty-curator-faces-antiquities-smuggling-r31047\
4.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/arts/20arts.html

A call for the West to preserve Iraqi heritage:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88912

Swiss and Peruvian authorities have compiled a 'red list' of
Peruvian items most at risk of being purloined:

http://tinyurl.com/2svydq
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Moneta site has been recently updated:

http://www.cultura-net.com/moneta/content.htm

Mexican coins:

http://www.mexicancoinmagic.com/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
La Mediteranee des Pheniciens:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3WQ8n3TvSO4&refer=muse

Late Titian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/arts/design/22titian.html

Ghiberti doors at the Met:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2007/11/26/071126gonb_GOAT_notebo\
ok_schjeldahl

Smithsonian fundraising:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/us/20smithsonian.html

The Detroit Institute of the Arts is the latest museum to be
refurbished:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/arts/design/23detr.html

The Baghdad Museum will be reopening soon:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article2937102.ece

An Italian court has ruled that the Getty Bronze does not have
to be returned:

http://tinyurl.com/2vg9ud (LAT)

... but the Getty did return a golden wreath to Greece:

http://www.pr-inside.com/golden-wreath-returned-to-northern-greece-r314724.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2tpd3t (ANA)

More coverage of the return of some antiquities to Italy by
Princeton:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/10/30/ap4276958.html
http://tinyurl.com/3xupbw
http://www.pr-inside.com/italy-princeton-museum-reach-deal-to-r269218.htm

China is planning an underwater museum for an ancient shipwreck:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2604570.html

The latest on the Torlonia collection:

http://tinyurl.com/2ru6aq (La Repubblica)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Women of Troy:

http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071122/ENT08/711220306
================================================================
PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, D. Buck, 'Duke Jason',
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Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew,
Ross W. Sargent, Sally Winchester, Barney Selavan, Steve Rankin,
Susan Jaslow, Patrick Swan, and W. Richard Frahm for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a somewhat quiet week ...

================================================================
EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
On the dating habits of early humans:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22028113/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071129-ancient-harem.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2968548.ece
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AFRICA
================================================================
Pre-Axumite antiquities from Ethiopia:

http://jimmatimes.com/article.cfm?articleID=17454
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
On the use of 'biological warfare' by the Hittites and
Arzawans:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/28/biological-warfare-rams.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-11-26_126149669.html

Traces of a fire at Pasargadae:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=594569

Ptolemaic mummies from Al-Fayum:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=410340&sid=FTP
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/5272/
http://tinyurl.com/385qwb

That purported 'Wall of Nehemiah' is back in the news again:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/206421.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071130-AP-israel-jerusalem.html
http://tinyurl.com/3x3zn6 (JPost)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/29/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Jerusalem-Dig.php
http://tinyurl.com/2ngjm3
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_sc/israel_jerusalem_dig

Interesting infant burial from Palmyra:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/071201/world/syria_antiquities_1
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0712010602165130.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_antiquities_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22055576/

Some Tamil Brahmi script has been found in Egypt:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/21/stories/2007112158412400.htm

Smithsonian Magazine has a nice article on the Ark of the Covenant:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/ark-covenant-200712.html

How the Temple Mount thing is playing in the Arabic press:

http://www.imemc.org/article/51732

On archaeological vacationing:

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/nov/24/24d01israel/

Petroglyphs in Egypt are threatened:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009268149

More coverage of that Byzantine synagogue find:

http://tinyurl.com/34p6sj (Israel Times)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Growing skepticism about that recent 'Lupercal' find:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,520440,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22813219-12377,00.html
http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/aktuelles/wissen/503291

Roman remains found at one of London's Olympic sites:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22008567/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7117040.stm

A followup piece to that recent discovery of Roman burials in
Wiltshire:

http://tinyurl.com/27kjyk

Feature on the Pisa Ships:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2937145.ece

Review of N. Ostler, *Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin*:

http://tinyurl.com/3xnwm5 (LA Times)

Review of *Great Moments in Greek Archaeology*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Coates-t.html

Review of Colleen McCullough, *Antony and Cleopatra*:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22842282-5003424,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Latest movie at the Archaeology Channel is on the Mosfell
Archaeological Project (Iceland):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A number of Napoleonic soldiers were reburied:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071125/ap_on_re_eu/napoleon_s_soldiers

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Remains of an ancient city in China's Zhejiang province:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071201/139/6nxtu.html
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6312228.html
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200711/30/t20071130_13772946.shtml

Photos of finds from burials recently found in Henan province:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-11/28/content_6285804.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
On the DNA front, the latest study suggests Native Americans
descend from Siberian folk:

http://tinyurl.com/2vtqxt (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/38xx55 (Journal article)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/uomh-gss112607.php

Don't tell me the Kennewick Man thing is reemerging from its
slumber:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071201/ap_on_go_co/kennewick_man_4
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071201/9/2ufs.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=441391

Some old maps of Vermont are going online:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071125/ap_on_re_us/old_maps

On Amerigo's map:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02wwln-lede-t.html
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The Gospel of Judas is back in the news (actually an OpEd piece):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/opinion/01deconink.html

... see also:

http://www.aprildeconick.com/gospelofjudas.html

A very strange Gunpowder Plot artifact (artifiction? articoincidence?):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4969\
36&in_page_id=1770
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/7115174.stm

Washington's Masonic past:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071129/lf_afp/entertainmentusfreemasonsbooks

William Safire's column has assorted items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02wwln-safire-t.html

That whole race/IQ thing is bubbling up again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/books/01race.html

Reviewish thing (with interview) of Umberto Eco's *On Ugliness*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Finnerty-t.html

Followup to the granting of tenure to Nadia Abu El-Haj:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=929660

On 'black vernacular music':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/arts/music/02warr.html

Did human activities alter bear genetics?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071126115307.htm

Reviewish sort of thing of the shorter OED:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/arts/26conn.html

Review of Katherin Ashenburg, *The Dirt on Clean*:

http://sacdcweb01.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/11/30/dirt_on_clean/index_np.html

Review of Paul Johnson, *Heroes*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113000075.\
html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Canada Park (Israel):

http://tinyurl.com/327tcw (JPost)
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A positive story on efforts to recover looted Iraqi antiquities:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/29/2105564.htm
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=8665&ccid=18

A Greek court has dismissed the charges against Marion True:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/11/27/true-greece-court.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_29/11/2007_90594
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/27/getty.court.ap/
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-getty28nov28,0,789009.story?coll\
=la-home-center
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02artsct.html

Peutinger Map:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL2650393720071126
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7113810.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071126/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_austria_map

The Guennol Lioness is coming to auction and expected to reach
a nice price:

http://tinyurl.com/39ug5m

A sort of 'state of the negotiations' piece on Italy's attempts
to recover artifacts from U.S. museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/design/01anti.html

An upcoming display/sale of Roman items at Phoenix Art:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071129/20071129005213.html

More coverage of 'Spartan' help in Iraq:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48127

Feature on the Eldridge Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/design/01eldr.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Iphigenie en Tauride:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/arts/music/29iphi.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
J. Richard Steffy (ancient ship reconstructionist):

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5344814.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W. Sargent, Susan Jaslow, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

Happy Hannukah!
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Evidence of tuberculosis in some homo erectus remains:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/uota-mac120407.php
http://www.physorg.com/news116230398.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071207091852.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071207-tb-evolution.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7130760.stm
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15709/1066/

A rerun/analysis of that Neanderthal find from back in
October:

http://tinyurl.com/2rw7vz (Dispatch)

More coverage of the fungus problem at Lascaux:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/world/europe/09cave.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Evidence of Dogon and Bamama sacrifice:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203091232.htm
http://tinyurl.com/34tjyt (New Scientist)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Much coverage of the discovery of what is being identified as
the house of Helene of Adiabene:

http://tinyurl.com/3xjepo (AP)
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105751.html
http://tinyurl.com/2jh5aw (JPost)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22114603/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124482
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071206/ap_on_sc/israel_queen_s_house
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=931674
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i7NiFRxGJpEGQj58csK1kblhnTpw
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5Xmggsj_n39zKXq5FW5iq4e7L0AD8TC6HFG0
http://tinyurl.com/2qggqv (video)

Overviewish thing on the French excavations at Karnak:

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3244,36-985210@51-985333,0.html

An alabaster vase has been returned to Egypt:

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=10689

Somewhat vague coverage of an 18th century B.C./B.C.E. burial
site (or sites) near Damascus:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20071204/90849186.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071204/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_archaeology_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22097619/

Another mummy is getting the CT scan treatment:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7138535,00.html

Rethinking Byzantine Judaism:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=930817

A call for the return of bits of the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/930333.html

Interesting radio program on 'Biblical archaeology':

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/2109263.htm

More on the Hittites' use of 'germ warfare':

http://tinyurl.com/2n6ohd (Telegraph)

More coverage of the 'baby in a jar' burial from Palmyra:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-AP-syria-antiquities.html

Review of Nina Burleigh, *Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the
Unveiling of Egypt.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/books/review/Bouton-t.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A major find of bronze tableware (for want of a better word,
I guess) in London:

http://tinyurl.com/2dh4wh (Daily Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/39efue (Telegraph)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2223766,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2p8oqw (Times)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22133252/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071207/139/6o5x1.html

The English press got hold of the Herculaneum throne story this
week:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=rare-ancient-wooden-thron
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315246,00.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=33908§ionid=3510212
http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL04138888.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071204/sc_nm/italy_throne_dc_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0413888820071204
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3001613.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7128553.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22104595/

Ancient Roman glue from Germany:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071208/139/6o7ec.html
http://tinyurl.com/2joguq
http://tinyurl.com/3d552p
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3226417.ece

A Roman town site (Chester Farm) might be put up for sale to
protect it:

http://tinyurl.com/2rzm5b (ET)

They're going to be raising a Roman barge found at Cologne:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/155522.html

Nice feature on the House of the Surgeon:

http://tinyurl.com/37cnog (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/2urrjc (Italian coverage)

Investor's Business Daily has a feature on Schliemann:

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=21&issue=20071206

In case you missed it, here's Harry Mount's piece on Latin in the
New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/opinion/03mount.html
ttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/opinion/03mount-latin.html

... and some followup letters to the editor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/opinion/l05latin.html

Review of Mary Beard, *The Roman Triumph*:

http://tinyurl.com/3955zd (Times)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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More evidence that Liverpool was a major Viking settlement:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2220798,00.html

As suspected a few weeks ago, the Stonehenge tunnel plan is
being scrapped:

http://tinyurl.com/3dty25 (Reuters)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22133602/
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article3231222.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/7130666.stm

On ancient Irish breweries:

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-12/ps_ale

A mystery (solved) on Greenland:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1128/p13s01-stgn.html

Searching for a Lascaux-like site in the UK:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2222879,00.html

More coverage of those horse bones in a Yorkshire kiln:

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/article.php?aid=165448&aff=rss

Review of Kate Colquhoun, *Taste: The Story of Britain Through
Its Cooking*

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/books/review/Jack-t.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 2200 b.p. burial from China's Hubei province:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-12/07/content_6304093.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6316695.html

A shell mound with a burial from Guangxi:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/234465.htm

Excitement about the Liangzhu ruins:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6314224.html

Plans are afoot to excavate a horse and chariot in Viet Nam:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/07/content_7215171.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of an ancient Maya marketplace:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/245945/
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/66605
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/535748/?sc=rssn
http://tinyurl.com/37q2wf
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7620583

I don't think we've mentioned this ancient Maya 'death vase'
find yet:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-maya-vase.html

Possible evidence of pre-European fermentation of alcohol:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/dnl-des120507.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071205140118.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/535910/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Pondering Hannukah:

http://tinyurl.com/2k5grf (JPost)

Claims that Leonardo da Vinci was an Arab, based on his fingerprint
(hmmmmmmmmmmm):

http://tinyurl.com/2szvqc (Telegraph)

Interesting item on feuding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/weekinreview/09goodnough.html

Strange happenings in Paris' Pantheon:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3196264.ece

What is possibly Michelangelo's last sketch has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7133116.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071206/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_michelangelo_found

Arguing about the authorship of "Night Before Christmas":

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Night-Before-Christmas.html

Feature on the underwater archaeology program at Indiana University:

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=46646&comview=1

On electronic 'orality':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/weekinreview/02wright.html

On absinthe's 'comeback':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/dining/05absi.html

Mark Twain's "Is He Dead" isn't that bad, apparently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/theater/09gree.html

Carbs apparently make us human:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09starch.

More on the map that named America:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071203/us_nm/usa_map_dc

More coverage of that 'Noah's flood' story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201535.\
html

Review of Gregory Clark, *A Farewell to Alms*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/books/review/Friedman-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2007/dec/03/hot-spot-frozen-time/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Nice video report on the return of some purloined Sipan pieces
to Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/3xetat (NG)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2222675,00.html

A Greek barber had quite a few ancient coins of questionable
provenance:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2995087.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_coins_1
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/152403.html
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Dec03/0,4670,GreeceAncientCoins,00.html

Brief item on the recovery of some items from Gravina:

http://tinyurl.com/2jklym (Italian)
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Painted With Words:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14987430

Peutinger Map:

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=46542

Artisans and Kings:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1127/p18s02-hfks.html

Fordham is opening a museum for Greek, Roman, and Etruscan
Art:

http://www.nysun.com/article/67604

Fighting over ownership/possession of some Picassos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/08/arts/design/08muse.html

The Portland Art Museum has acquired a Van Gogh:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16792247

The Met's 19th century galleries have reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/arts/design/07euro.html

An amazing price for the Guennol Lionness:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7130337.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071206/ap_en_ot/ancient_lion_3
http://www.news-antique.com/?id=783375&keys=Sotheby-Guennol-Lioness
http://tinyurl.com/2subzs (AFP via Yahoo)

Big bucks too for a couple of pages of Mozart:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7127343.stm

Italy will be helping refurbish the Egyptian Museum in Cairo:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.1644018855

... and restoring some of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/2vx4gx

There's a new guy in charge of the Vatican museums:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/152952.html

Latest coverage of the move of items to the new Acropolis Museum:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gB-fyRS6c_HoRqeRw7NC4oCIskxA
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Cymbeline:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/theater/reviews/03cymb.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Richard Leigh (knights templar/freemason/da vinci code):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/01leigh.html

John Strugnell:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/us/09strugnell.html
http://tinyurl.com/35g7sq
http://tinyurl.com/3yguu5

H. Wiley Hitchcock:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/nyregion/09hitchcock0.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dan Diffendale, Dave Sowdon,
Edward Rockstein, Dorothy King, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Ross W. Sargent, Rick Pettigrew, Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... mostly repeats this week, it seems, but enough to help
you delay shovelling snow ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on that ancient tuberculosis case:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/91186.php
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=33299
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071215/fob2.asp
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071207-tb-evolution.html

Natufian finds from Jordan:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/13/ancient-toolkit.html

On (ongoing? accelerating?) human evolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/science/11gene.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Evolution-Speedup.html
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=8149

... and an aspect of evolution which impacts women:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/science/13pregnant.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Quite a bit of coverage of the excavation of an Egyptian
glass-making site:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=3882
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071214/nyf050.html?.v=101
http://www.physorg.com/news116845537.html
http://tinyurl.com/33wmxh (LS via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2s68bm (UPI)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/159115.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/cu-aeg121407.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071214094026.htm
http://yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_72837.shtml

Another mummy gets CT-scanned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7136135.stm
http://tinyurl.com/38jwuh (LL)

Remains of an Achaemenid village near Persepolis:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/December2007/13-12.htm

Report on excavations in East Jordan:

http://tinyurl.com/2o4c9q (AG)

More on the call for the return of fragments of the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2007120920071207aleppo.html

More coverage of the discovery of Queen Helene's mansion:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/07/queen-helene-mansion.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On the 'deposhing' of Latin:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/comment/story/0,,2224997,00.html

A somewhat confusing claim about lack of archaeological evidence
of the exposure of children in Sparta:

http://tinyurl.com/2j6vwj (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/11/2115075.htm
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hHzsLiMdT06yLSvTLMEozBFUC1sQ
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=27&ContentID=50429

Ammerman's ideas on evidence for early seafaring on Cyprus are
making the rounds again:

http://blogs.colgate.edu/2007/12/renaissance-man-of-archaeology.html

First evidence of the Gallic divinity Toutatis in France:

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3244,36-990203@51-985333,0.html

Latest news from Caistor Roman Town:

http://www.physorg.com/news116766620.html

The latest online petition seeks to preserve the Diolkos:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/2007/09/diolkos-petition.html
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/870477005

Augustus' house will partially reopen to the public:

http://tinyurl.com/2p2enb (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ys73fn (AP)
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINL1016325620071210
http://itn.co.uk/news/a9feb070d87cb38c58c3de81c794092c.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/11/wrome111.xml
http://tinyurl.com/257kbw (El Pais)

Remains of a Temple to Augustus have been found in Tarragona:

http://tinyurl.com/2exkqf (El Pais)

More coverage of that Roman glue find:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/14/romans-glue-helmet.html

More coverage of the claimed find of the Lupercal:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/20/europe/rome.php

More coverage of that Roman 'tableware' find in London:

http://tinyurl.com/36c4kw (SMH)
http://uktv.co.uk/history/news/aid/597286

More coverage of the opening of the House of the Surgeon:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/wroman109.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7137224.stm

More coverage of plans to raise a sunken Roman barge near Cologne:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/155522.html
http://tinyurl.com/36jcfm

A reviewish (?) sort of thing claiming a different interpretation
of the Oedipus story (in a Freudian context):

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2227681,00.html

Review of Harry Mount's and Nicholas Ostler's recent respective
tomes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/books/14book.html

... and one just of Ostler:

http://www.nysun.com/article/67890

I'm not sure whether this is one of the 'Roman coffin finds' from
the UK that we've recently mentioned or not:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART52638.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Prague's oldest ramparts:

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/231/prague_news/15834/

The mystery of a Sussex Church has been solved:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART52481.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting speared skeleton find from Australia:

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20071212-16709-2.html

More interesting finds from Vanuatu:

http://tinyurl.com/2mwg5x (SMH)

Another progress v. archaeology crisis in India:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/12/stories/2007121259390200.htm

1000 Eastern Zhou Dynasty tombs from China's Henan province:

http://tinyurl.com/3bb8rh (UPI)

They're still working on that 800 b.p. ship recovery:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6319839.html

Another Buddha threatened:

http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=12872

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Did a comet/asteroid blast wipe out large mammals in North
America 13,000 B.C.?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6676461.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7130014.stm

Plenty of coverage of the apparent find of Captain Kidd's
ship:

http://tinyurl.com/2was6v
http://pantagraph.com/articles/2007/12/15/news/doc476311092040a928805106.txt
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/536241/?sc=rssn
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/14/news/Caribbean-Captain-Kidd-Wreck.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213162036.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/14/wpirate214.xml

[n.b. ... the Telegraph headline: "Diver stumbles upon ..."; not
sure how divers 'stumble']

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on the so-called
Beeswax Shipwreck of Nehalem:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Somewhat out-of-date (?) story on recent (?) finds associated
with deSoto:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-12-15-desoto_N.htm

That watch from the Hunley is not the 'smoking gun' it was
believed to be:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071214/ap_on_sc/hunley

UConn is getting a nice collection of arrowheads:

http://tinyurl.com/3dauab (Courant)

On the bicentennial of the US's first recorded meteorite:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1213/p20s01-usgn.html

More coverage of the 'America' map:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7142784.stm

Review of Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor (eds.)*My Dearest
Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams*

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/books/11kaku.html

Review of Edward J. Larson, *A Magnificent Catastrophe*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/Troy-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Another one of those stone spheres has been found in Costa Rica:

http://www.costaricaholiday.co.uk/blog/?p=358

More coverage of that Maya marketplace find:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203134409.htm

I think we've had this 'subatomic particles' technology to
investigate Mayan ruins story before (or something like it):

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071208/bob8.asp
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A history of olives in the ancient world:

http://tinyurl.com/3y44yw (Gulf Daily News)

Feature on Lisbon's Jeronimos Monastery:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7141972.stm

Dispute over a copy of the Declaration of Independence (I think
we mentioned this a couple of years ago):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/us/11declaration.html

Tongue-in-cheek article about a new genre of literature, with
content that seems to fit our readership:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1214/p20s02-ussc.html

Despite all the trials etc., antiquities are the "hottest
investment"

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1693792,00.html

On the unknown megillah of Hannukah:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7610

On the translation of the Bible and the birth of fundamentalism:

http://tinyurl.com/3bt3q5 (LS via Yahoo)

On counterfeit art and the folks who do it:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article3237308.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7141906.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2vq837
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/arts/13gauguin.html

Interesting item on how "Cleopatra's Needle" arrived in London:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3056700.ece

On interest in historical texts in China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16wwln-idealab-t.html

The IQ and race thing seems to be making the rounds again:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/12/17/071217crbo_books_gladwell

Review of Simon Armitage, *Sir Gawain and the Green Knight*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/Hirsch-t.html

Review of Katherine Ashenburg, *The Dirt on Clean*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/Ivry-t.html

Review of Laura Amy Schlitz, *Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices
from a Medieval Village*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/Schwartz-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=89734&sc=264

Alexandria:

http://tinyurl.com/2kra8a (Chronicle)
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/travel/16nextstop.html

Tikal:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/travel/16Tikal.html

Piedmont:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/travel/16journeys.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another idol theft in India:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=3886

More news of thefts of antiquities in Indonesia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/arts/12arts.html (scroll down)
http://tinyurl.com/3ca7sh (artinfo)
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Lucas Cranach the Elder:

http://tinyurl.com/2nea3p (NYorker)

Magna Carta:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/11/nmagna111.xml

The Red Lady of Paviland is going on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7132451.stm

An update on the Baghdad Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7144701.stm

Some terracotta warriors on display in Germany are apparently
fakes:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,523341,00.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/156199.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071211/wl_nm/germany_china_soldiers_dc_1
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/12/2116581.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/13/wsoldiers113.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2226327,00.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aaE5Pwgabsqg

Caryatids are the latest major sculpture to move to the new
Acropolis Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/3a8nan (ANA)

The Smithsonian is having money problems:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/arts/13arts.html (scroll down)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Is He Dead?:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/theater/reviews/10dead.html
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2007/12/17/071217crth_theatre_lahr

La Virgen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/theater/12virgin.html

The Devil's Disciple:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/theater/reviews/14devi.html
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Henrietta Yurchenco (folklorist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/arts/14yurchenco.html

John Strugnell:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521235

J. Richard Steffy:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-steffy_obitdec11,1,1998481.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-steffy9dec09,1,3384969.story
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The Book and the Spade:

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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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