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EARLY HUMANS
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Hopefully we'll hear more of this 'paleolithic Pompeii':

http://tinyurl.com/6lsbp5 (NS)

Oldest human (like) remains in western Europe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080403185958.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A cuneiform tablet is being connected to the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah (numerous problems with this, I suspect):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3649054.ece
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=41885
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/31/scitablet131.x\
ml
http://tinyurl.com/5637et
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=5510\
10&in_page_id=1770

A find at a market in Cairo suggests Tutankhamun played marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/55wa57 (ET)

Nice feature on Elaine Pagels work:

http://www2.nysun.com/article/74033

... and evidence of globalization at Ramat Rachel:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080402120504.htm

A lecture on Kathleen Kenyon:

http://www.baylor.edu/lariat/news.php?action=story&story=50176

Plans are afoot for Tiberias:

http://tinyurl.com/67ecpw (JPost)
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1366\
&module_id=#as

Donald Redford on how the pyramids were built:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080328104302.htm

I think we've already mentioned these First Temple remains:

http://tinyurl.com/64ovyu (CJN)

Inauspicious date on this Ark of the Covenant story:

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/348570.aspx

Nice video of the 'sifting' going on at Temple Mount:

http://www.sourceflix.com/vid_sifting.htm

More coverage of the Red Snake:

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1555&Item\
id=27

More coverage of that colossal statue of Tiye:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080331-egypt-statue.html

More coverage on how life was tough for early Egyptians:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6384003.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/31/2203404.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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On Minoan DNA:

http://tinyurl.com/5wluw8 (Kathimerini)

Some new sermons by Augustine have been discovered (I think this
is legit):

http://www.uni-erfurt.de/presse/archiv/pressemitteilungen/2008/doc/49_08.htm

A Roman jug handle from a Cumberland beach:

http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=822272

Possible Roman burials at Oxford:

http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.2163540.0.bones_find_may_be_roman.php

Plans are afoot to restore (somewhat) the Circus Maximus:

http://tinyurl.com/5876sa (Independent)

Coverage of the European Festival of Latin and Greek:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3685859.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/05/wrap105.xml

Feature on Apollo at Bassae:

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/abril/juev3/14frisos-i.html

Threats to the Appian Way:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/arts/design/05appi.html

Nice overview of the history of excavations at Fishbourne Roman
Palace:

http://www.chichester.co.uk/chichester/Fishbourne-field-that-entranced-the.39161\
29.jp

Nice article on ancient science/engineering:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01clas.html

... and one on Valerio Manfredi:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL3130125920080402

More on how Actium changed the world:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/229407.php/Battle-of-Actium-in-31-BC-changed-the-\
world

That Mount Lykaion story still has legs:

http://www.huliq.com/55822/dig-turns-surprises-and-questions-ancient-greece

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're digging at Stonehenge:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2269815,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080331/sc_nm/britain_stonehenge_dc_1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/31/nstonehenge131.x\
ml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/first-stonehenge-dig-in-44-years-\
802950.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-secret-of-stonehenge-80311\
3.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4610b5ec-ff74-11dc-b556-000077b07658.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7322134.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=5516\
68&in_page_id=1770
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainarchaeologyhistoryheritage

cf:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/02/do0207.xml

... and there's a dig diary online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/stonehenge/

Possible earliest straightforward evidence of whaling (from
Russia):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uoaf-rrt040408.php
http://tinyurl.com/yu9pyt (DI)

A medieval gateway at Taunton Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7326112.stm

Fifty years of Czech archaeology:

http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2008/04/02/fifty-years-of-czech-egyptology.ph\
p

Flooding threatens historical sites in Norfolk:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/31/easwamp131.xml

Viking-era Arab coins from near Stockholm (!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7330540.stm

... while there's a major Viking conference coming up:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uon-fbt033108.php

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblo /index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Buddha relics in a Pakistan dam:

http://www.karachinews.net/story/344723

A Maori midden:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1680979

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting underwater archaeology report about 16th century
Basque remains in Red Bay:

http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/April2008/04/c2586.html

Plenty of press coverage for the extraction of some human
DNA from feces found in Oregon which suggest ties to Siberia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uoc-tvt040308.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uoo-rlb033108.php
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/04/04/5190871-sun.html
(best headline)
http://tinyurl.com/3djwyr (BG)
http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/109188/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/03/MNHQVUHKI.DTL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/us_nm/humans_feces_dc_3
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080403.woldpoop0303/BNStory\
/Science/home
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/science/04fossil.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/539341/?sc=rssn
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89355318
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7329505.stm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004322592_weboldpoop03m.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080403-first-americans.html
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=8658

Prehistoric bones in a Wisconsin cave:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_sc/old_bones_2

Some old bones found near Kingston's RMC likely belong to some
1800s navy-type:

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=971560

Diving for a shipwreck off Cape Danger:

http://www.homertribune.com/article.php?aid=2787

A possible slave burial dispute in/near Kansas City:

http://www.kccall.com/article.cfm?articleid=2208

Fire has destroyed some historic buildings in Quebec City:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/7331958.stm

Searching for Cinnabar:

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/03/30/news/mtregional/news07.txt

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on the excavation
of an 18th-century church in Virginia:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

On the continuation of slavery after the Civil War:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89051115
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A temple find at Cusco:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080331-inca-temple.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=42380

On Aztec math/taxation:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/sc_nm/aztecs_math_dc_1
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6386673.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7329462.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=44178
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n03475865-aztecs-math/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080403-aztec-math.html

Earliest known gold jewellery in the Americas has been found in
Peru:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7323351.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01obgold.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_sc/oldest_gold_8
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4560581
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080331200242.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080331/sc_livescience/oldestgoldartifactin\
americasfound
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3238372147353821600
http://www.livescience.com/history/080331-old-gold.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080402-necklace-video-ap.html
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=8637
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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There's going to be an Ice Man symposium in Victoria:

http://tinyurl.com/68xmk8 (Sun)

Humans learned about medicine from monkeys, apparently:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/01/scimonkey101.x\
ml

The world's oldest practicing archaeologist:

http://tinyurl.com/36mtq9 (Independent)

Raphael's Madonna del Cardellino has been restored:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/wraphael101.xml

There's a new Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology
at UB:

http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol39/vol39n27/articles/ArchaeologyInst.html

Some April foolery:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0401/p19s01-hfks.html
http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/080401-llm-april-fools.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin

A celebration of poetry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/books/05poetry.html

Eighteenth century bling:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e3667581.ece

On the origins of Miss Havisham:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e3626999.ece

A history of ballet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/arts/dance/03ball.html

The need for accurate time:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/features/clock_work_1948.html

I guess this sort of thing explains the popularity of shows about the
comparative intelligence of fifth graders:

http://tinyurl.com/6bkov4

Orgies through the ages:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3654980.ece

The latest in the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aCf8q9KEmHbo&refer=europe

Review of Peter Morris, *But Didn't We Have Fun?*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/books/review/Olney-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The aftermath of that Easter Island 'delobing':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23972657/

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/57sfer (Independent)

Some aboriginal art was stolen from an Australian museum:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/01/2204203.htm

Graffiti-vandals are damaging Peru's Sacsayhuaman fortress:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/553408.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/232110.php
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_345964867,00.html

Tourists are stripping Rome bare:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/03/wrome103.xml
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=44197

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A major dispute between the Hispanic Society of America and the
ANS over ownership of a collection ... I'm sure we'll be
hearing moe about this one:

http://tinyurl.com/5chtv2 (Spanish)

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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Poussin:

http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=9e1c8941-974b-40e4-a651-66404e4d897a

Tut:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23764

Japanese lacquer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/arts/design/04lacq.html

Vienna Workshops Jewellery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/arts/design/03wien.html

Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/arts/design/05muse.html

Earl Cunningham:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/arts/design/04cunn.html

Babylon at the Louvre:

http://tinyurl.com/6pn7y2
http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/babylon-exhibition-in-the-louvre/

The latest Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga coverage:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-30-marbles_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.newsday.com/travel/ny-f5635998apr06,0,3195914.story

What's hiding in the British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/3xdg6p (Independent)

Museums are 'struggling' with provenance issues:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0402/p13s01-alar.html

Arsinoe visits Rome:

http://www.theromanforum.com/articolo.asp?ID=677

A record price for a Lincoln letter:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7329815.stm

The auction of what might be the world's oldest photo has been
put on hold:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/arts/03arts-ISPHOTOOLDOR_BRF.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antony and Cleopatra:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/theater/reviews/04anto.html
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OBITUARIES
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Nicolas Coldstream:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/04/db0402.xml

Robert F. Goheen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/nyregion/01goheen.html
http://www.northjersey.com/education/University_man.html

Robert Fagles:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/03/28/20597/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89248513&ft=1&f=1001
http://tinyurl.com/6lnqaa (NP)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-fagles30mar30,1,529494\
9.story
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/29/style/obit.php

Jules Dassin:

http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/561392.html

Robert P. Lang:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/nyregion/04lang.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Ian Evans, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Karl Wittwer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Hernan Astudillo, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Some Neanderthal humour:

http://www.creators.com/comics/42/16857_image.gif
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AFRICA
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Remains of a medieval Moroccan city near Fez:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=22292&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO

Efforts being made to keep African artifacts in Africa:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080407162341.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 3000 b.p. anchor from somewhere around Kyrenia (?):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=101452

Israeli and Palestinian archaeologists have drafted an accord
with a view to preserving historical sites:

http://tinyurl.com/57g9l6 (JPost)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080411123057.htm

The arched gate at Ashkelon has been restored:

http://tinyurl.com/6xksph (JPost)

Recreating an Egyptian boat:

http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080407/NEWS01/804070311

More coverage of Assyria's corporate attitudes:

http://tinyurl.com/5fu9ar

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 fragment of an equestrian statue from the Colosseum:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.2056023971
http://cavallomagazine.quotidiano.net/2008/04/09/79225-statua_equestre_imperiale\
.shtml

A Roman altar in Manchester:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1044666_roman_soldiers_gift_found

A pile of Greek theatres are in need of repairs:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2008/04/12/greece-theatres.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080410/lf_nm_life/stage_greece_ancient_theatres_dc_\
1
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23521657-38200,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL1074878120080410

... and the Appian Way is threatened by development:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/06/europe/appian.php
http://tinyurl.com/5u6qk9 (Independent)

cf:

http://guide.dada.net/latino/interventi/2008/04/327276.shtml

The pace of restoration on Parthenon metopes is to increase (maybe):

http://news.theage.com.au/pace-of-parthenon-restoration-sped-up/20080410-25c2.ht\
ml
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5nnOnhHQxEPwxOgJ22WqjrkmNCw

An Allianoi update:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7340499.stm

A mass grave of victims of 'Justinian's plague':

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.2059849995

Pytheas visited the Isle of Man (maybe):

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Pytheas-visited-the-Isle-of.3958675.jp

A response to Berlusconi's ability-in-Latin claim:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/charlotte_higgins/2008/04/the_glory_that_was\
_rome.html

... in case you missed the claim itself:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7333788.stm

Remembering Fagles and Goheen at Princeton:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/04/07/20764/

... and Fagles alone:

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/a-closer-feel-for-virgils-latin/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/books/30fagl.html

A new sculpture of Aristotle in New York:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/athena-and-socrates-meet-aristotle/

Review of a couple of recent works on women in ancient Rome:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e3713243.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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A mini-Stonehenge at Rochdale?:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1044424_rochdales_stonehenge

Those skeletons found in Oxford may be executed criminals from
Saxon times:

http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.2175214.0.experts_bone_up_on_grisly_relics\
.php

A Viking coin hoard from Sweden:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080408-viking-hoard.html

Plans for Famagusta:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?FrontPageNewsID=304_4

More coverage of the new dig at Stonehenge:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89421332&ft=1&f=1004
http://www.newsweek.com/id/131413

... with some potentially interesting results already:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7337292.stm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=50948§ionid=3510212
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080409/sc_afp/britainarchaeologyhistoryheritagesto\
nehenge_080409204216
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24049973&afid=1

More coverage of that Russian whaling scene in ivory:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/229543.php/3000-year-old-ivory-carving-depicts-wh\
aling-scene
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080404160335.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 35,000 b.p. aboriginal tools site in Western Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/6d8qjo (Age)
http://news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23496520-5005361,00.html
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/080406/9/4s6p.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=146&ContentID=66519
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/sc_nm/australia_aborigines_dc_1
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4602334
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23994531/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/07/ancient-tools-australia.html

Interesting 2500 b.p. 'trading centre' site in Bangladesh:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/230841.php/Bangladeshi-artifacts-reveal-2500-year\
-old-craftsmanship

Remains of a 10th century temple in Karchana:

http://tinyurl.com/66vtcc (HT via Yahoo)

A 'burial cave' in the Philippines (I think):

http://www.yehey.com/news/Article.aspx?id=209172

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the disappearance of the Anasazi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08anasazi.html

A copper ax blade from Wisconsin (!):

http://www.record-eagle.com/statenews/local_story_100095019.html

Brief coverage of a dig at Wakulla Springs (Florida):

http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/17481829.html

An interesting dig is adding to what we know of the history
of the Welland Canal:

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=976762

A different sort of cannon burial:

http://www.wptz.com/news/15815655/detail.html

More coverage of those Oregon feces:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080403/sc_afp/scienceanthropologyus

Review of Scott Reynolds Nelson, *Ain't Nothing But a Man*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/books/review/Downes-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An important recent Mayan sculpture (including possibly one of
the first Maya king) find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080407-maya-video-ap.html

Early Mixtec cremations:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080409-cremations.html

Searching for Montezuma's treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/6zomh9 (El Pais)

More coverage of Aztec math/taxation:

http://tinyurl.com/69unyr (ToI)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The fascist origins of the Olympic Torch run:

http://tinyurl.com/5skceh (Independent)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/photogalleries/torch-pictures/

... and on W.G. Hardings' 'roots' (maybe):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/magazine/06wwln-essay-t.html

The National Trust has saved William Caxton's prayer book:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/07/ncaxton107.xml

More on DaVinci's Arab origins:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2273051,00.html

On 'heart burials' at Westminster Abbey:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/12/do1207.xml

A gynecologist rethinks Mary Queen of Scots:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3695007.ece

On hoodies and medieval juvenile delinquents:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/08/nhoodie108.xml

Reading a rought draft of the US Declaration of Independence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/arts/design/12libr.html

Some Pulitzer Prizes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/arts/2008Pulitzer.html

Bringing historical figures to the kiddies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13osbornect.html

Review of George Johnson, *The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Dizikes-t.html

Review of Clive James, *Cultural Amnesia*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/roundupstory/0,,2272992,00.html

Review of Katherine Ashenburg, *Clean*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2272878,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Oxford pub crawl:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/travel/13Journeys.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The Times has an extensive piece revisiting the sacking of
Baghdad's Museum (it's the fifth anniversary):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3721584.ece

... in the same vein:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-antiquities9apr09,1,372955.s\
tory
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=amiZWYUJIHeI&refer=muse

... see also:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html

Lead thieves are targeting church roofs in England:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/03/business/metal.php

Some important antiquities were recovered from a boathouse in
Fiumicino:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-04-11_111212604.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/arts/12arts-ANEMPERORFOU_BRF.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/234026
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7455694
http://www.pr-inside.com/italian-police-recover-rare-statue-of-r531835.htm
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/nationworld/story/227123.html

... while Spanish authorities also made a major bust:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080412/ap_on_re_eu/spain_treasure_plunder
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24068480&afid=1

A theft at a site in Saba was thwarted:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news151187.htm

Supposedly some marble from the Parthenon was for sale on the
Internet (this is the only reference to it all week):

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/492

The head of one of Greece's big environmental and cultural
organizations was charged with possession of illicit antiquities:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100012_09/04/2008_95301

More coverage of that Easter Island ear chipper:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7337927.stm

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A Roman coin exhibition (hmmmm):

http://www.ksn.com/news/local/17555249.html

Perspectives in Numismatics:

http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/

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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Lindow Man:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=3524

DaVinci:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7289729.stm

Newseum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/arts/design/11news.html

The key to the Kaaba fetched a handsome price:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7341248.stm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aTAHGhTZm.lY&refer=muse
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3716308.ece

... as did the gold dagger of the guy who built the Taj Mahal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7337978.stm

The National Museum of Scotland is going to return some
Aborigine skulls:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7341046.stm

Interesting items from the Philpott Collection:

http://libraries.uta.edu/SpecColl/crose04/Philpott.htm
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OBITUARIES
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Nicolas Coldstream:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3707107.ece
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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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What Neanderthals would have sounded like:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080416/sc_nm/neanderthals_voice_dc
http://tinyurl.com/5p973f
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/16/scineander116.\
xml

Pondering the social implications of cooking food:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/inconversation/stories/2008/2211981.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Rather vague piece on the discovery of a pile of items indicating
the oldest human presence in Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news151853.htm

A 3000 b.p. 'board game' from Kharg:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/April2008/19-04.htm

All sorts of interesting things are being found in the bed of
the Nile:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/893/he1.htm

Seti I's tomb is larger than previously thought:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080417-seti-tomb.html

They've put a face on a mummy in the Berkshire Museum:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_8969010?source=most_emailed

They're going to 'reunite' the various Colossi of Memnon:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3NkGDWMD6uksLCFwvgG--6-PPPg
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080417/lf_afp/egyptculturediscoveryarchaeology_080\
417072047
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3768070.ece

Some Western Wall stones are in danger of crumbling:

http://tinyurl.com/5yrx9m (JPost)

More coverage of that 'accord' between Israeli and Palestinian
archaeologists:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976273.html

Tourism is booming in Syria:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7346100.stm

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)
================================================================
Interesting Roman staircase found:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-04-17_117196593.html
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=4378

A Roman sarcophagus from outside of Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/18arts-001.html

A Greek temple near Alexandria:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000001/0203000000000000000980.htm

A retelling of Eos and Tithonus:

http://tinyurl.com/55h5xx

A "cybercarpet" tour of Pompeii has been developed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/7346325.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5gggxb
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2214434/let-pompeii
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=48190

... which might be a good thing, in light of plans to make money
off Pompeii:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/132027

Coverage of a Ross Scaife memorial:

http://tinyurl.com/6zjy8c

More coverage of the Archimedes Project:

http://tinyurl.com/5lwjkv

More coverage of the pollution threat to the remaining Parthenon
metopes:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=166385
http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=193693
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5nnOnhHQxEPwxOgJ22WqjrkmNCw
http://www.physorg.com/news127310319.html

Reviewish sort of thing of Mary Lefkowitz, *History Lessons*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120821739801814533.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)
================================================================
I think we've had this druid burial before:

http://tinyurl.com/6fomq3 (Independent)

They're wrapping up the dig at Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/579vqz (CTV)

A tenth century ring found by a metal detectorist has been declared
treasure:

http://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/wetherby/Treasure-hunter-unearths-ancient-ring.399\
4973.jp

What we're learning from medieval cod bones:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3738383.\
ece

Review of Susan Nagel, *Marie-Therese: Child of Terror*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/books/review/Steiker-t.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Dental work on homo floresiensis may cause some questioning of
the antiquity of the 'hobbit' (or not):

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=flores-hobbit-root-canal

More coverage of that 'burial cave' in the Philippines:

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/gen/2008/04/18/news/ancient.artifacts.found.in.\
cave.html
http://mindanao.com/blog/?p=3611

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An overviewish sort of thing on Clovis sites in Texas:

http://www.corsicanadailysun.com/news/local_story_110204439.html

The latest video at the Archaeology Channel is an interview with
Dennis Jenkins about matters pre-Clovis:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/vidint/jenkinsint.html

Nice profile of Connecticut's state archaeologist (Nicholas
Bellantoni):

http://tinyurl.com/57wpyq

Somewhat strange fundraising suggestion for Florida's state
coffers:

http://www.news4jax.com/news/15856965/detail.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A state-of-the-situation piece on the Yale-Machu Picchu saga:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n13427115-peru-yale-machupicchu/
http://tercera.cl/contenido/27_4244_9.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080414/sc_nm/peru_yale_machupicchu_dc_1
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24108346&afid=1

The implications of some textiles from Honduras:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/539875/
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=49134
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/231765.php/Ancient-Mayans-were-highly-skilled-spi\
nners-and-weavers

Bandurria is the oldest site in Peru (and possibly the Americas):

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=wGAafA+K3GA=

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A bit out of our date range, but folks might like this collection
of photos etc. from the 1908 Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/69oc76 (DM)

With the Indiana Jones movie on the way, I suspect we'll be reading
a lot about crystals skulls and their (in)authenticity:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i0MtZtshBPW5OUhodfTDezFkR5_Q
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/19/wskull119.xml

... and no doubt we'll read more about the 'prophecies' of the
Mayan calendar:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/15/2217547.htm

Darwin's private papers are hitting the Internet:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l16852315-britain-darwin/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7351980.stm
cf: http://darwin-online.org.uk/

On the Titanic's rivets:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15titanic.html

'Earthquake' archaeology:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/17/earthquake-archaeology.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416174634.htm

How epidemics shape cities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15chol.html

Old(est?) photos and the problems of dating them:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/arts/design/17phot.html

Recreating Jefferson's library:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041004241.\
html

You can now get married in Kent's Cavern:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7346069.stm

Interesting item on endowment funds:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/education/13endow.html

Some Kabbalah history in this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13kabbalah-t.html

The Odyssey Marine saga is beginning to get confusing:

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1832990720080418

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Pergamum:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=139115&bolum=117

Palazzo Massimo:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/travel/15frescoes.html

Rome:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/travel/20rome.html

Alabama:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/travel/escapes/18alabama.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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I think we've mentioned this recovered bust of Marcus Aurelius
(now returning to Algeria) before:

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.@AM19594.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/04/12/looted-antiquities-found.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080414-emperor-picture.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/arts/12arts-ANEMPERORFOU_BRF.htm

... and the restitution to be paid by that family of forgers:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Payback-time-for-trio-in.3996165.jp

A followup to that story of a Greek environmental agency's official's
(awk) possession of antiquities:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_15/04/2008_95541

An antiquarian in Italy has been charged with possession of
antiquities:

http://www.arezzonotizie.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56265&Item\
id=2

A number of historic synagogues in Tehran have been demolished:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.2075294012

An update on the Oded Golan trial:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974483.html

Items revealed as Alpine glaciers melt are being looted:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3761080.ece

More coverage of the recovery of assorted antiquities, especially
a bust of Lucius Verus:

http://www.dailymail.com/News/200804110411
http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_8892079
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jaJh0pvQRAtZ2pc6r46X6l3ny7LA

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A teacher has found a box full of old coins in Russia:

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080414/105021944.html

A Princeton numismatist has received a Guggenheim:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/04/09/20801/

Trying to get a Trafalgar medal:

http://tinyurl.com/6mt5gz

1794 Large Cents:

http://www.1794largecents.com/1794/index.html

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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Babylon/Iraq:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2273427,00.html

Egypt's Sunken Treasures (very misleading headline on the first one):

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=91094
http://tinyurl.com/5j5fmu
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&i
nt_new=23882
Lindow Man:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/arts/s/1045851_2000yearold_\
murder
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1045895_lindow_man_returns_home

Homer's Influence:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikZNXHZh5CiEcuOfqqn9BwkZCD4g

Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/design/18wove.html

Reflecting Antiquity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/design/18anti.html

Illuminating the Medieval Hunt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/design/18morg.html

This seems like the right category for this one ... a small
private university in Cleveland has found an antiquities
collection which it might use to solve its financial problems:

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=8167826

The Nevada Historical Society has acquired a nice collection:

http://www.newsreview.com/reno/Content?oid=651193

Artifacts from the State Museum in New Orleans are returning:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89785610

An Egyptian mummy in India (among other items) is in serious
need of conservation:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Why_a_mummy_might_die/articleshow/29646\
56.cms

A two-headed Roman sculpture is coming up for auction at
Bonham's:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23913

... as are some Ur 'grocery lists':

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23923

A Peaceable Kingdom comes to auction too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/design/18voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/5j3p93

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/arts/music/19akad.html

Pondering Dvorak's *New World* influences:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89785616
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OBITUARIES
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Krister Stendahl:

http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/article_archive/stendahl.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/us/16stendahl.html

David Freedman:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-freedman17apr17,1,3210\
473.story

Nicolas Coldstream:

http://tinyurl.com/6oknvo
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Ruins found in Antarctica:

http://www.lauralee.com/news/kadath.htm

... and the Severn Boat is said to have crossed the Atlantic:

http://www.lauralee.com/news/severnboat.htm

This (spoof) touches on a number of items in today's Explorator:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i33977
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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 carrying children and walking upright among early humans:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080423093254.htm

What Neanderthals chowed down on:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/23/neanderthal-meal.html

DNA suggests a split, then rejoining of the early human family
tree:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7358868.stm
http://tinyurl.com/67afqg (JPost)
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=52520
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424130710.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080424/ap_on_sc/close_call
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24295165&afid=1
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Nice feature on Gobekli Tepe:

http://tinyurl.com/5lfolq (WPost)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/23/archaeology.turkey
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/rp042408a.shtml

The Egyptian 'concrete' theory is making the rounds again:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/23/mideast/pyramid.php
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/04/22/a_new_angle_on_pyramids/

Interesting theory about product 'branding' in ancient Mesopotamia:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=53037
http://tinyurl.com/6b6rm8

Another calculation of the Talpiot tomb 'odds':

http://tinyurl.com/6kuajr (G&M)

Hellenistic influences at a Sassanid site:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=669665
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/April2008/21-04.htm

Another possible Fire Temple site:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/April2008/24-04-possible.htm

Rising water levels and Egyptian sites:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89660898&ft=1&f=1001

Coverage of the ARCE meeting in Seattle:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004370166_egypt24m.html

The annual 'they-still-speak-aramaic' article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/world/middleeast/22aramaic.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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Rethinking the tombs at Vergina:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080423-alexander-great.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=52310
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=53290§ionid=3510212
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/232681.php/Royal-artifacts-in-ancient-Greek-tomb-\
belong-to-Alexander-the-Great

... and we're beginning to get some (renewed) hype about the tomb of
Cleopatra (and Antony):

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.2103859346
http://tinyurl.com/489exd

Remains of a Roman turf wall along the Medway River (this
article is unfortunately truncated):

http://kentonline.co.uk/news/default.asp?article_id=40451

Another headless Roman burial from the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/6j8ktu

Remains of a gate "built by" Nero in Cologne:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/26/witaly226.xml

More finds at that Temple of Cybele in Balchik:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=92523

Nice feature on the Archimedes Codex:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0415/p20s01-ussc.html

Celebrating Rome's birthday:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7357515.stm

... in case you don't know the story:

http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=142069

A Parilia conference at Skidmore:

http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?ID=13947

... and an Undergrad Conference at MiamiU:

http://www.sbc.edu/news/?id=2567

All about Alexander the Great:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/1124/2/

Review of a couple of books on women in ancient Rome:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e3713243.ece

... and some recent books on Herodotus:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/04/28/080428crbo_books_mendelso\
hn

Review of Simon Armitage, *The Odyssey*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/books/review/Parker-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/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An Anglo-Saxon mound in Sherwood Forest:

http://tinyurl.com/3lu6mu

Rethinking the claim that the Saxons imposed 'apartheid' on
Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/5lajur (New Scientist)

... and the fate of a woman buried in the Oseberg Viking ship:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080425/sc_nm/viking_queen_dc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24311569/
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l25890275-viking-queen/

Medieval remains found during toll road construction near
Durham City:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/7362527.stm

More coverage of the Druid burial:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10505841

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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Sites from various periods along the Great Wall:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6397046.html

A Lapita 'jewellery box' from Fiji:

http://www.fijilive.com/news_new/index.php/news/show_news/4072
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/23/asia/AS-GEN-Fiji-Ancient-Jewelry.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3803938.ece

Megalithic burials/pottery from Tamil Nadu:

http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/27/stories/2008042757322000.htm

An erotic sculpture from Jharkand:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200804251021.htm

A dam -- this time in Pakistan -- threatens assorted sites:

http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36327&Itemid\
=2

More on those cave burials in the Philippines:

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/gen/2008/04/27/news/ancient.artifacts.found.in.\
cave.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the significance of dog burials in the souther U.S.:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080423-dog-burials.html

An update on Canada's 'iceman':

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=e9d68150-22ab-4b53-bce\
f-c0514231148e
http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/victorianews/news/18143434.htm\
l

Road construction in California has revealed some Mi Wuk artifacts:

http://cbs13.com/local/calaveras.county.artifacts.2.705413.html
(more details in the video report)

What a five-year-old dug up in grandma's garden:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/littleton/news/x317099158

An 18th century log road from Annapolis:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/540078/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080423180059.htm

Colonial remains from near Providence:

http://www.projo.com/ri/warwick/content/WB_body_04-22-08_C49RUE5_v11.3743ac2.htm\
l

Digging sites on the Kankakee River:

http://tinyurl.com/6o8lg5 (NWI)

Archaeologists were unable to find the remains of one of the
early figures in the Mormon Church:

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/223614/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A pre-Columbian sacrificial tomb site from near Bogota:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080424-society-video-ap.html
http://english.ntdtv.com/?c=254&a=2850
http://rtv.rtrlondon.co.uk/2008-04-23/26e62156.html

On Inca trepanation:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/31466/title/Incan_skull_surgery

More on those Maya textiles from Honduras:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080425-maya-fabric.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The Terracotta Army was covered with an egg-based paint:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/21/2223137.htm

... while there is evidence of the use of oil paint at Bamiyan:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/esrf-slu042108.php
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226769.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=51973
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6397829.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7361994.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24261371/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080422/sc_livescience/earliestoilpaintings\
discovered
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080422083309.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
4/22/sciart122.xml

The impact of a volcanic eruption in 1600:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080423135236.htm

A nice 'overview' of the repatriation (for various reasons)
issue:

http://tinyurl.com/6yu76u (Dispatch)

Pondering Darwin's back yard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25darw.html

... and more coverage of Darwin's papers online:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89928839

Interesting detail about the Mona Lisa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/arts/design/23arts-MONALISAEMER_BRF.html

An abstract/overviewish thing on the Odyssey Marine thing:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/07/080407fa_fact_colapinto

The world's oldest living tree is in Sweden:

http://www.info.umu.se/NYHETER/PressmeddelandeEng.aspx?id=3061

France's crumbling lighthouses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/europe/23lighthouse.html

An excerpt from James Cuno, *Who Owns Antiquity*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120904994893541791.html

... and an OpEd sort of piece by Cuno himself:

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=10678

Another OpEd piece pondering similar questions:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/36567.html

... and what about that Indiana Jones guy?:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89724552

Review of Germaine Greer, *Shakespeare's Wife*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/books/review/Roiphe-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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New York Museums:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/travel/27weekend.htm
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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France has returned a pile of stolen antiquities to Burkina
Faso:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080418/lf_afp/burkinafranceculturearchaeologycrime\
_080418190700

Syria returned a pile of stolen antiquities to Iraq:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h0aVORs5t2W5HbYcrWWnJJ2t5HagD907OJSO0
http://tinyurl.com/65enu2 (JPost)
http://www.pr-inside.com/syria-returns-to-iraq-hundreds-of-r553527.htm

Italy put a pile of recovered/returned items on display:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-04-24_124189019.html

A lekythos was returned to Greece:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLYtJguyw7T0r47q2epHyzTV7Nxg
http://tinyurl.com/6rr938 (CTV)
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100015_22/04/2008_95805
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24243162/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080421/ap_en_ot/ancient_urn_1
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23958
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080421/ancient-urn-returns-to-greece-from-swit\
zerland.htm

Bust in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=38931&cat_id=1

More coverage of the charges against that Greek heritage official:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/22/greece

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Numismatics in the Philippines:

http://www.filipinonumismatist.com/2008/04/philippine-numismatic-and-antiquarian\
.html

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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Homer:

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695273665,00.html

Asa Ames:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25ames.html

El Greco to Velazquez:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25grec.html

Recovered Nazi Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27brucect.html
(nice slide show)

There is need of a museum at Troy:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=102407

Latest on the Lewis Chessmen:

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Stalemate-for-Lewis-chessmen.4004998.jp

A Turner is coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/25arts-TURNERLANDSC_BRF.htm

A French Crown jewel returns to France:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/arts/design/23arts-FRENCHJEWELH_BRF.html

The Trovador is back on the auction block:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Secrets of the Dead keeps going and going:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/arts/television/23secr.html

Cranford:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89941160

Israel in Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27spotwe.html
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OBITUARIES
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Germain Tillion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/world/europe/25tillion.html

Khalil Gibran:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/04/kahlil_gibran_b.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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, Rick Pettigrew,
Bob Heuman,Ross W. Sargent, and W. Richard Frahm,
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a quiet week ...

================================================================
EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Nutcracker Man may have had a different diet:

http://www.physorg.com/news128750816.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
A 500 year old shipwreck off South Africa/Namibia:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.treasure02may02,0,7017129.story
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=70426
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_af/namibia_shipwreck
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7376259.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1915703/500-year-old-shipwreck-found-b\
y-diamond-firm.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Medical examiners weigh in on Akhenaten's 'androgeny':

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdvQNzx1hwtpXa2_M-CQn2wjs08AD90DE8AG0
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/science/bal-md.pharaoh02may02,0,1675321.story
http://tinyurl.com/646t2y
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080502-AP-feminine-ph.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_sc/feminine_pharaoh

Fossil shells and the pyramids:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/28/2229383.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)
================================================================
A mass Roman grave in Gloucester:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1915073/Mass-Roman-grave-discovered-in-Glouceste\
r.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7374836.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3850936.ece

A Roman brooch found a few years ago is treasure trove:

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Brooch-deemed-treasure-trove.4040259.jp

Gladiator school reminiscences:

http://tinyurl.com/6793ym (CTrib)

A Roman reburial:

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Roman-woman-laid-to-rest.4029795.jp

A lengthy article on Roman costume:

http://tinyurl.com/5rxwlr

Another article on Roman technology:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1065053.html

Saudi (sic) women had more rights in Roman times than today:

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12154&size=A

In case you didn't know about Boris Johnson's Classics background:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7376621.stm

Review of a couple of books about Herodotus:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/04/28/080428crbo_books_mendelso\
hn

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 flint blade from Herefordshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7370664.stm

... and they're looking for a Bronze Age axe 'factory':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7371344.stm

Another stone circle:

http://www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk/news/s/1047424_magic_and_mystery_tour

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
They've opened a fifth century Japanese imperial tomb:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080428-ancient-tomb.html

A pile of petroglyphs have been found in Inner Mongolia:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=53701

Even more damage to the Bamiyan Buddhas?:

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=182&ContentID=71165

On the origins of Chinese porcelain:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=53642

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Looks like there's a battle brewing over the shipwreck of the
Griffon:

http://tinyurl.com/55jdrb

I think we mentioned these Nevada documents before:

http://www.newsreview.com/reno/Content?oid=651193

On the history of Cuttyhunk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/books/30horw.html

Nice article on Turtle Mound:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-mound2908apr29,0,5758195.s\
tory

More on Canada's Iceman's DNA:

http://juneauempire.com/stories/050408/loc_275270355.shtml
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080428.wbcfrozen28/BNStory/\
National/home
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=17ea4959-7e5\
b-463b-8c12-4e27e8e1d933
http://www.ecanadanow.com/news/science/ancient-frozen-man-linked-to-17-people-in\
-canada-20080429.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of early domestication of sunflowers:

http://www.physorg.com/news128668719.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429075321.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080428-sunflowers-mexico.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/fsu-sde042908.php
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/04/29/mexican_sunflower_origin_is_dete\
rmined/8780/
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/105735.php

More on early chocolate use:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/apr/07-getting-drunk-on-chocolate-in-1100-bc

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
This week's crystal skull coverage:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3834827.\
ece

Podcast about those Bamiyan oil paintings:

http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=9BD46D19-CCAC-CB0B-8779626313B2A724&\
sc=rss

I could have sworn they did this DNA thing on what was thought to
be the remains of Nicholas' children last year:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_eu/russia_czar_s_family
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/world/europe/01russia.html

X-rays reveal a hidden portrait of Shakespeare (maybe):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7372629.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1912309/The-%27ghost-figure%27-of-Shakesp\
eare%27s-patron.html

Schiller's skull ... isn't:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/203022,schiller-skull-unmasked-as-a-fake\
--summary.html

Checking out Ishi's brain:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2008/2223973.htm

Some Guggenheim recipients:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/04/09/20801/

Records from trials at the Old Bailey are now online:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3834980.ece

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is a preview of their annual
film festival:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

On satire in various periods:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/05/seeking_21st_century_poetic_sa.html

Review of Solomon Volkov, *The Magical Chorus*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/books/review/Gessen-t.html

Review of Tony Horwitz, *A Voyage Long and Strange*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/books/review/Ferguson-t.html

Review of Christopher Benfey, *A Summer of Hummingbirds*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/books/review/Miller-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Illegal excavations continue unabated in Mardan:

http://tinyurl.com/597pnb

Syria has returned a pile of purloined antiquities to Iraq (more
coverage):

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/04/27/iraq-museum.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/29/Iraq.treasures/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/7370291.stm
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/918523,iraqmuseum042708.article

... while an Iraqi official accuses the West of not doing enough
to stop the trade of stolen antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/6btc2k (Independent)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2277299,00.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=arlG9bOWRlsM&refer=home

A major bust in Germany involving Latin American antiquities:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,550711,00.html
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/18400064.html

More on that big bust in Spain:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24068480&afid=1

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Not sure what it is about kids in Sweden, but they seem to
find an awful lot of stuff ... this time, a pile of medieval
coins:

http://www.thelocal.se/11410/20080428/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,550406,00.html

Some nineteenth century medals are coming to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7364436.stm

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Designed by Architects:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02anti.html

  From the Land of the Labyrinth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02anti.html

Master Drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/04artsct.html

Gustav Rau's eclectic collection is coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02voge.html

Rome's new mayor isn't a fan of the Ara Pacis museum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3854713.ece
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23626744-5001028,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/arts/01arts-ROMESMAYORPL_BRF.html

More on the Yale-Peru dispute:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24108346&afid=1
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Vivaldi's Agrippo:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080501-vivaldi-opera-revived-argippo-italy-czech
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Charles Tilly:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/nyregion/02tilly.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Donna Hurst, Dorothy King, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Richard Price, Rick Riedlinger, Bob Heuman, Ross W. Sargent,
Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, and W. Richard Frahm,
for headses upses this week (as always  hoping I have left no one out).

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, redneck and otherwise ...
================================================================
EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Neanderthals have big mouths:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080502-neandertal-mouth.html

... and this week they have been put on a different part of the
hominid family tree:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080505/ts_afp/scienceanthropologyneanderthals
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080504/tsc-science-anthropology-neanderthals-c2ff\
8aa.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
85,000 b.p. "finery" from Morocco:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9183\
1

Possible discovery of the remains of the Queen of Sheba's palace
at Axum (I'm confused ... wasn't Saba in Yemen?):

http://tinyurl.com/5scvee

More coverage of that shipwreck off the coast of Namibia:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=759788
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080508/FOREIGN/651933122/1003
http://www.namibian.com.na/2008/May/national/081362442.html
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=482773
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Recent (?) finds in Aswan (we may have covered these already):

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=14353_0_1_0_M

Latest finds at Yazdegerd Fortress include some Parthian period
residences:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/May2008/08-05-discovery.htm

High tech equipment is heading to the dig at Persepolis:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=54295§ionid=351020105

I suspect we'll be hearing more about the Talpiot Tomb:

http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories_local.php?id=107684

An article on the first "Iranian" satraps:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_25026.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/
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The latest Roman-statuary-in-colour piece:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/264928/136/

More Etruscan tombs found at Tarquinia:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Italian-builders-uncover-2000yearold-tombs.406128\
3.jp
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/05/07/etruscan_tombs_uncovered_in_ital\
y/2865/
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=4434

Gladiatrices or footwear or something like that:

http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=504449

Nice feature on Latin teacher J.D. Munday:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20080506_Teacher_instills_love_of_Latin.htm\
l

Folks are all excited about the Vatican adding a Latin section to
its website:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/the-vatican-tries-a-little-web-ii0/?\
hp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7393548.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/world/New-website-for-latin.4071455.jp

... and here it is:

http://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_index.html

Helene Foley has been elected to the AAAS:

http://www.barnard.edu/newnews/news050508.html

A feature on Daniel Mendelsohn:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/981968.html

A feature on Christine Bruns-Ozgan and her dig at Knidos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=103984

Lessons from David Potter:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2303&dept_id=478844&newsid=19671978&PAG=4\
61&rfi=9

More coverage of those Roman burials at Gloucester:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART56936.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1915073/Mass-Roman-grave-discovered-in-Glouceste\
r.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)
================================================================
Dredging off Yarmouth has brought up a pile of flint tools:

http://www.maritimejournal.com/archive/2008/june/dredging/dredging_industry_assi\
sts_mammoth_discovery

A Coventry metal detectorist has found a medieval gold ring:

http://tinyurl.com/436c4j

... while on the Isle of Man, metal detectorists have found a
Viking sword:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Metal-detectorists-thrilled-at-Viking.4052052.jp

... while a Viking trading site is emerging in Ireland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7385237.stm

... and the Viking cod trade is back in the news:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/05/archaeology.heritage

Finds from various periods are getting in the way of construction
at Granborough:

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/39Roman39-threat-to-stud-farm.4066221.jp

More coverage of the recent dig at Stonehenge:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/05/05/scientists_chip_away\
_at_mystery_of_stonehenge/

Digging in a car park in Cheshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7391694.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Denying last week's claim about further damage to the Bamiyan
Buddhas:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10507966

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
An ancient canoe from Florida:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24468049/
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?s=rss&storyid=79704
http://www.tbnweekly.com/content_articles/050608_pco-01.txt

Potentially interesting burials on the Plains of Abraham:

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=b48b0cb3-61ea-4dcc-9e61-7\
74195bdb6af
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/05/07/skeletons_found_at_quebec_histo\
rical_site/5988/

Interesting/strange story of a skull found in a colonial-era house
near Albany:

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=8277561
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/may/06/0506_skull/

On comets and North American extinctions:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080506-comet-extinct.html

More coverage of DNA results from Canada's 'Ice Man':

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080504/world/dna_link_1
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/southeast/story/396277.html
http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=8269113
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Remains of chewed-up seaweed is helping to further date Monte
Verde:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKN0839099920080508
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080508/sc_afp/uschileanthropologyarchaeology_08050\
8205343
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24525317/
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-seaweed10-2008may10,0,4255279.story?t\
rack=rss
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004404789_seaweed10.html?synd\
ication=rss
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111530&org=NSF&from=news
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/stories/monteverde.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080508143324.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2008-05/aaft-sas050208.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080508-first-americans.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/31865/title/Slowpoke_settlers

On Aztec turquoise:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3872341.\
ece

I think we mentioned this very interesting burial site from
Columbia before:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080509-colombia-tombs.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
An interesting medieval mosaic has been restored at Westminster
Abbey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/05/archaeology.art

We should mention the legal case percolating on Lesbos:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/who-are-the-real-lesbians-821610.html

Assorted news from the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0650456920080506
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/05/05/daily23.html

... but this seems to be the important stuff:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1738445,00.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyEiC0HHpp2oUF24ZFrVqgxck2OQ
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Spain-lays-claim-to-250m.4070282.jp

Waltzing Matilda was not a socialist:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/7384056.stm

They still 'beat the bounds' at St. Albans:

http://tinyurl.com/6ajtw8

On the desertification of the Sahara:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080508-green-sahara.html

Paleoanthropologist Holly Dunsworth is the latest 'This I Believe'
subject at
NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90311455

More coverage of the not-Schiller's-skull story:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3310327,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/08/europe/journal.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24453831/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/arts/design/05arts-WHERESSCHILL_BRF.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/world/europe/09skull.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/sc_nm/germany_schiller_skull_dc_3

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Ostia:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/09/TRLTVTRSP.DTL&feed=r\
ss.travel

Rossville:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/realestate/11livi.html

Jam:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7380050.stm

Capuchin Catacombs:

http://tinyurl.com/5zut4z (Daily Mail)
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A French engineer is busted at Yemen's airport:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9172\
8
http://tinyurl.com/6xut7w
http://tinyurl.com/6daczd

... but he got bail (it seems) because most of the objects were
fake:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080505/twl-yemen-france-justice-culture-3cd7efd.h\
tml
http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10014190.html

... and a Canadian was similarly caught at the airport:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news153652.htm

Meanwhile, a trial of smugglers in Yemen was adjourned:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news153399.htm

Italian police recovered a stolen Roman bath:

http://technology.iafrica.com/news/science/889298.htm

I think we mentioned this medieval crucifix found in an Austrian
garbage can a few months ago ... if it is the same one, it turns out
to have been Nazi loot:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06926779.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL0692677920080506
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4514413a12.html

More looted Iraqi antiquities are being returned:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-05-06%5Ckurd.htm

More coverage of those recovered pre-Columbian artifacts in
Spain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7385775.stm
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/18690409.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Nice profile of a Vietnamese coin collector:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/profiles/2008/04/780789/

More coverage of that Swedish kid's coin hoard find:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,550406,00.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
The BBC has a video preview of the new Acropolis Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7381738.stm
cf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7380279.stm

Cyprus is toying with tax incentives to help repatriate
antiquities:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=39043&cat_id=1

Chicago's Field Museum has a shiny new xray machine:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/fm-xrp042908.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080507083944.htm

An update on the progress at the Baghdad Museum:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1738136,00.html

Italy has reached a deal with the Cleveland Museum of Art:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/09/europe/EU-GEN-Italy-Looted-Art.php
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5B_fXzh1mZDgNkcHj02v20kUp6A
http://www.cftktv.com/news/55/716003

... or have they:

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/05/negotiator_cleveland_mu\
seum_of.html

Results of the latest 'big auction' at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/nyregion/07auction.html

... while some Roccoco stuff is coming to both Christie's and
Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09anti.html

The latest in the Yale-Peru saga:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_05/lv_machupicchu.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Macbeth(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/music/09macb.html

Ariadne Unhinged:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/dance/09aria.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Old Bailey:

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

Background (if you missed it last week):

http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11294471

Yale Daily News historical archive:

http://images.library.yale.edu:2007/cdm4/browse.php
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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AFRICA
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The Namibian government has taken over the responsibility of
excavating that shipwreck:

http://www.namibian.com.na/2008/May/national/082EC5DBE.html

More coverage of the claim of having found the Queen of Sheba's
palace in Ethiopia as wells as Ark of the Covenant claims:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3919430.ece
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355264,00.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Remains of a pre-Achaemenid city in Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=684385
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/240880.php/Archaeologists-discover-pre-Achaemenid\
-era-city-in-Iran

Pyramid math:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/890/heritage.htm

Zahi Hawass on NPR:

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/05/15/egypt_antiquities/

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)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of a find of what is claimed (on what evidence?)
to be a bust of Julius Caesar fished out of the Rhone near Arles:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23696568-26040,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/14/2244618.htm?section=entertainment
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2008-05-14-caesar-bust-found_N.\
htm?csp=34
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3932198.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1954876/Divers-find-bust-of-Julius-Cae\
sar-in-Rhone-River.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2279991,00.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/05/15/bald-bust-of-caesar-river-fin\
d-89520-20418076/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7402480.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/world/europe/16briefs-CAESARWASAMB_BRF.html?re\
f=world
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080516-AP-caesar.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24604623/
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=21046970853
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/14/caesar.bust.ap/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_sc/france_caesar_bust
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/05/14/bust-caesar.html

Remains of a Roman road in Wigan?:

http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Roman-road-uncovered.4073164.jp

A Roman "ritual plate" from Hissar:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=93138

The excavation of Ankara's Roman baths is resuming:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=142053

... and plans are afoot to promote Aizanoi as the site of the world's
first stock exchange:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=61464

Another feature on Oxyrhynchus:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/khaled_diab/2008/05/found_the_dustbin_of_his\
tory.html

Mary Lefkowitz writes at HNN:

http://hnn.us/articles/49650.html

More coverage (with photos) of that Valens coin find from Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/897/he4.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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Rumours of Bronze Age burials near Dromore:

http://www.dromoreleader.co.uk/dromore-news/BRONZE-AGE-GRAVE-FIND-.4075138.jp

They've done a facial reconstruction of King Svend:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/107251.html (no photo, alas)

A metal detectorist has found some medieval jewellery in
Bridgwater:

http://tinyurl.com/5ebfha

Similiter, a "posey ring" from Yorkshire:

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Treasure-hunter-Leonard-is-Lord.40862\
10.jp

Drought in Spain is allowing remains of a medieval village to
be seen again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7398012.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
The earthquake in China has damaged a 2000 b.p. dam:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/05/14/ancient_dam_threatened_by_china\
_quake/9057/

... but the Leshan Buddha escaped unscathed:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a6FdQEmD..Zk

Gurkhas are gettings some press attention:

http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/National/a/i/Nepal-Gurkha\
History
http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/National/a/i/Nepal-Warrio\
rsfromthe

Remains of the oldest Buddhist tower (not sure I understand this
one):

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200805/200805130005.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the Foguang
Temple in Shanxi:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Short feature on dating the Farpoint site (Malibu):

http://malibusurfsidenews.com/stories/208805/20080515001.html

... and one on the Topper site:

http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992912064227409&ShowArticle_ID=11011405\
084293699

... and one on the Lost Towns Project (Maryland):

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/today/bal-to.archdigs17may17,0,\
4418901.story

Looking for a shipwreck off the coast of Oregon:

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_051408_news_oregon_treasure.fe003143.h\
tml

On Connecticut's stone walls:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/18colct.html

Review of a couple of books on the Colfax Massacre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Boyle-t.html

Review of Paula Giddings, *Ida: A Sword Among Lions*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Lingeman-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Using satellite technology to find sites in Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080513112348.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=60108
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/05/14/satellite_may_help_explore_ancie\
nt_mexico/6024/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/riot-aus051308.php

Inca surgeons were good at handling head trauma:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=59537
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080512-inca-skulls.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Several Druze villages in Israel are a sort of "genetic snapshot"
of the region:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080508182219.htm

This week's looks at crystal skulls:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080511/entertainment/mexico_crystal_skulls_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_en_mo/mexico_crystal_skulls_4
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24547679/
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700225288,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/11/america/LA-FEA-A-E-MOV-Mexico-Crystal-\
Skulls.php

... and specifically, the one in the British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/5nbpog (THN)

... along with a piece that Indiana Jones wasn't exactly doing
archaeology properly:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_en_mo/film_indy_and_archaeology_1
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/13/entertainment/e04214\
5D15.DTL
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24595365/
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/5774986.html
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/jones-indiana-indy-2044622-maurer-archaeology

... but Harrison Ford did get elected to the AIA's board of directors
(no ... really ... he did!):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_en_ce/people_harrison_ford_2
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/16/DD3S10N6IL.DTL
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=61449
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10477
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/16arts-FOOTNOTES_BRF.html

Searching for geriatric buttercups:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3913793.ece

Did el Nino help Magellan?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_sc/magellan_el_nino
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080515171026.htm

Rethinking Monty Python's Parrot Sketch:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3941733.ece

How the Sahara dried out (maybe):

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=from-bountiful-to-barren-sahara-desert

Latest on the Odyssey Marine v Spain saga:

http://news.theage.com.au/world/spain-claims-millions-in-sunken-treasure-2008051\
4-2e80.html

Nice reviewish thing on political put-downs in history:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90337494

Review of a couple of works on technology and the development of
the West:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/05/12/080512crbo_books_lepore

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Iraqi officials are implicated in the smuggling of antiquities:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-05-13%5Ckurd.htm

... and the looting continues, five years on:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&article_id=92065

More coverage of what that French national was trying to smuggle
out of Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news153992.htm
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=91832
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news154028.htm

... and some details from his trial:

http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10014228.html

An Asian art expert in LA was indicted:

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_9239735
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27564/asian-antiquities-expert-indicted-for-fe\
deral-wire-fraud/

... but died in custody:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/363076_antiquities15.html?source=mypi
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004418394_loot16m.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27577/asian-antiquities-expert-dies-in-federal\
-custody/

Calls for anti-smuggling legislation in the UAE:

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Heritage_and_Culture/10213993.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Bactrian Hoard:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-afghan-gold_wedmay14,0,6629551.story

Colonial Porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16anti.html

Tribal and Textile Arts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16trib.html

The Horse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16hors.html

Daumier:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/18artsnj.html

The Israel Museum is putting the Great Isaiah scroll on display:

http://tinyurl.com/5dofey (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/982883.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080514/tpl-uk-israel-museum-scrolls-43a8d4f.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080513-AP-israel-anci.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_ancient_scroll

... while the National Archaeological Museum in Athens is
putting its Egyptian collection on display:

http://www.pr-inside.com/athens-museum-to-show-its-priceless-r586600.htm
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBF0fLorPGhYi21eaAsXrRdCBgYA
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10510179
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghnjknP4tgLiY7lzbRud65-QOluA

The NJ State Museum's main building has reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/arts/design/17muse.html

Some of Iran's 'salt men' have found a home:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/May2008/14-05-ancient.htm

A Bible Museum is coming to Dallas:

http://www.cornerstone.edu/news/inside_cu/?news_ID=3870

A Beccafumi was damaged when it fell out of its frame:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/arts/17arts-PAINTINGDAMA_BRF.html

One of the Smithsonian's directors has resigned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/arts/17arts-SMITHSONIAND_BRF.html

Feature on James Cuno:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/arts/design/18fink.html

More coverage of the (supposed) deal between Italy and the
CMA:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/05/09/cleveland-italy.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Monteverdi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/music/16vesp.html

Assorted upcoming theatre performances in the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/theater/11webtheaterlist.html

... and dance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/arts/dance/11danc.html

... and Classical music:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/arts/music/11clas.html

For you fans of Gregorian Chant:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-austria-monks.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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AFRICA
================================================================
I think we've mentioned plans to recreate the Necho-
circumnavigation-of-Africa thing before:

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL19251251.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A prehistoric cave site from Galilee:

http://tinyurl.com/6gjqg5 (MFA)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/22/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Prehistoric-Finds\
.php
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2008-05-22-ancient-galilee-tool\
s_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1380\
&module_id=#as

Possible Elamite burials from Ramhormoz:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=686873
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=56516§ionid=351020105

Doubts about a bronze mace head:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1218.html

Another Second Temple quarry site has been found in Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/5r3j7r (JPost)
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/242000.php/Archaeologists-uncover-quarry-from-Sec\
ond-Temple-period-in-Israel

Nice feature on Hyrcanus' estate:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211434077556&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

A Psalm scroll fragment (I don't think this is new):

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1379\
&module_id=#as

Pondering Kabbalah:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211434084404&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

The hype is building about the 'discovery' of Cleopatra's tomb:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3998944.ece

More on Ahkenaten's medical condition:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/108160.php
http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/08-05-20-01.all.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)
================================================================
Greek/Roman harbour remains from Calabria:

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1095-9270.2007.00160.x?cooki\
eSet=1

The hype is building about the 'discovery' of Cleopatra's tomb:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3998944.ece

Recreating Roman 'cement':

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2244816.htm

Latest finds from Vindolanda:

http://tinyurl.com/6lbkvv (Journal)

Some guy has traced Odysseus' route (sort of) and has written a
book about his experiences:

http://www.kansascity.com/724/story/633965.html
http://www.macon.com/262/story/359662.html

Review of Mary Lefkowitz's latest:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/siege-of-the-ivory-tower/76754/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia [technical problems]:

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)
================================================================
Evidence of a 6000 b.p. trade link between Ireland and Britain:

http://www.pr-inside.com/year-old-trade-link-between-clare-r598088.htm

African beads in Cork:

http://www.examiner.ie/story/ireland/gbmhcwidcw/rss2/

... and it seems the Scots came from Ireland too:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article3965241.ece

Some gunnery has been recovered from the wreck of the Alderney:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb954164.htm

An old/ancient bridge in Skopje has been restored:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/1470/2/

More coverage of that Danish king's facial reconstruction:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=61982

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A Buddhist monastery (and other sites) in Afghanistan:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=64080
http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/20534/

A pile of 2500 b.p. burials on Guam:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=8376361
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080524/NEWS01/805240311/1002

A possible aboriginal burial on a beach:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080519/21/16x48.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/20/2250309.htm?site=southwestwa

More coverage of the earthquake damage to that ancient Chinese
dam:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90575185

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
They're doing the DNA/living descendents thing on remains from
Alaska:

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/414928.html
http://www.ktva.com/alaskanews/ci_9350169

The ongoing search for the Lost Colony:

http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2008/05/21/features/feats2251.tx\
t

A gold "earwax spoon" from a Spanish shipwreck:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080520-gold-toothpick.html
http://www.local6.com/news/16336584/detail.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_sc/florida_artifacts

A Civil War shipwreck in the Hillsborough River:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/article516881.ece
http://tinyurl.com/58lg42

A Monitor update:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080515102043.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Another study of the Nazca lines is in the works:

http://www.physorg.com/news130681390.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Pondering the role of the boat in the colonization of the
world:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/20-did-humans-colonize-the-world-by-boat

Plans are afoot to investigate a 19th century shipwreck which
contains ancient Egyptian artifacts:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080522/108133998.html

... and more tests for the Shroud of Turin:

http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12725
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-052008-shroud-of-turin-may21,\
0,6786081.story

Sulfur in marine shipwrecks:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080516094353.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/src-sim051608.php

Booms and busts in the past:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7413421.stm

Plenty of 'real story of the crystal skulls' stuff this week:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90483164
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080523163016.htm
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/05/25/indy-in-bogus-skulls-s\
hock-91466-20970593/
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=64386
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32540/title/Theyre_fake,_Indy!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7417133.stm
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/may/22/anthropologist_sheds_light_movies_premi\
se/
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=7a1d2265-a6ed-4480-9aad-ee7f535\
ec5c0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7414637.stm

... and it appears every newspaper tracked down a local archaeologist
(including some 'big names') to criticize Indy's abilities as same:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=119353
http://www.skynews.com.au/Showbiz/article.aspx?id=236427
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302453.\
html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121157677439918285.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iW0BWUxy4O4CnfgWKgWw1GPk9Xng
http://www.kval.com/news/local/19195604.html
http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20080522.113910&time=12%\
2015%20PDT&year=2008&public=0
http://onlineathens.com/stories/052208/marquee_20080522006.shtml
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/peopleandplaces/local_story_142181255.html
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9335309
http://stars.ign.com/articles/875/875888p1.html
http://www.easterneronline.com/news/2008/05/21/Opinion/Famous.Archaeologist.Spur\
s.Debate-3374252.shtml
http://www.dailydemocrat.com/ci_9333520

... and I guess we should have a review:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/movies/22indy.html

... and the tale of an obsessed fan:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/364092_indyfan22.html

This really should be Elmer material ... was Shakespeare really a
Jewish woman?:

http://www.forward.com/articles/13424/

A history of hangovers:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_acocella

Mozart's rivals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/arts/music/25gure.html

Microsoft is shutting down its book scanning project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/technology/24soft.html

Interview with an author of a recent biography of Louisa May Alcott:

http://www1.cuny.edu/forums/podcasts/?p=417

Review of Ruth Brandon, *Governess*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/books/review/Cokal-t.html

Review of Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom, *Rediscovering Jacob Riss*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/books/review/Power-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Izmir:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=105338

African-American Heritage Trail:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/travel/25trail.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter (Spring 2008):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring08

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some vandals chipped off a bit of Stonehenge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7414491.stm
http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/632240.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080522/ap_on_re_eu/britain_stonehenge_attack_1
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2008/05/22/stonehenge-vandal.html

... and vandals are hitting sites in Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10014299.html

A purloined Yemeni artifact turned up at a London auction:

http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10014279.html

A stone phallic symbol was stolen in Thailand:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30073504

An historian has pled guilty to stealing a Lincoln letter:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/od_nm/lincoln_theft_dc

More on the looting of sites in Iraq:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080519/ts_csm/oloot

Some fake old furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/garden/22hobbs.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Afghanistan's Hidden Treasures:

http://tinyurl.com/5m8pvt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/arts/design/23afgh.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/05/23/arts/0523-AFGHAN_index.html

Temple of Artemis:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=142558

"Naked" mummies in the Manchester Museum have been covered up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/arts/design/23arts-FORNAKEDMUMM_BRF.html
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=47645&cat=11
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/maev_kennedy_fri_am_pic.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23739349-38200,00.html?from=public_rss

... and Zahi Hawass approves:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9237\
4
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080522/lf_afp/britainmuseumegypthistory_0805221614\
21
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5inRBY4fRPJcg0BHtT8mKE4bLzeng
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/arts/design/23arts-FORNAKEDMUMM_BRF.html

A bill has been sent through the Greek government defining the mission
of the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6458236&maindocimg=5274666&servi\
ce=98

There's a new curator of antiquities at the Getty:

http://art.blogging.la/2008/05/getty-announces-new-curator-of-antiquities/

The Scream is back:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/arts/22arts-RETURNOFTHES_BRF.html

... but nobody wants to see the Blue Boy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/arts/design/25fink.html

Some auction records at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/arts/22arts-RECORDSBROKE_BRF.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Oedipus Loves You:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/theater/reviews/24oedi.html

Amistad:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/arts/music/24amis.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
C.W.J. Eliot (Classicist):

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=136604&sc=98

J.C. Hurewitz:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/nyregion/23hurewitz.html

Wilfrid Mellers (musicologist):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/arts/music/23mellers.html

Jan Pokorny:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/nyregion/23pokorny.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Kai-Christian Bruhn, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Steve Rankin,
Rick Pettigrew, 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
================================================================
Latest in the homo floresiensis quest:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=65412

Pondering the walking-on-two-feet thing:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/uow-dwo052908.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080529140042.htm
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AFRICA
================================================================
The Axum Obelisk will be re-erected soon:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7853
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
An Egyptian fortified city in the Sinai:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_ancient_city_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24860550/
http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080529/twl-uk-egypt-fort-13abf6c.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/28/ap/tech/main4133255.shtml
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-05/29/content_6718953.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6420805.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-05/29/content_6719604.htm
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=26158
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/29/2258720.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/29/content_8273012.htm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=57755§ionid=3510212
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL2838709720080528

They're going to do DNA tests on a mummy to see if it is Thutmose I:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080529/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_mummy_dna_1
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-29-egypt-mummy-dna-test_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/shared-gen/ap/Middle_East/Egypt_Mummy_DNA.ht\
ml
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24882319&afid=1&pg1=1

A pile of damaged (and other) cuneiform tablets from Iraq are going
to be digitally restored/preserved:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/29/iraq-cuneiform-tablets.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=66870

Not sure what category to put this Persian 'cup' discovery, but
it certainly received a lot of press attention:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080528/od_afp/lifestylebritainauctionhistory_08052\
8122922
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/29/2259111.htm
http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1287.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080528/wl_uk_afp/lifestylebritainauctionhistory
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/somerset/7421774.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2039090/Rag-and-bone-cup\
-dates-to-300BC.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4016077.ece
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=57673§ionid=3510212
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2282417,00.html

Archaeologists have found a portico to a temple to Khnum:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=65820
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080527-egypt-temple.html

Greek-inspired architecture from Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58095§ionid=351020105

The Israeli Army is accused of taking a stone coffin from Palestinian
territory:

http://www.imemc.org/article/55105

... while some Islamic-era skeletal material from Temple Mount has
disappeared:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/988803.html

More on that Israel-Palestine archaeological pact:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-archaeology30-2008may30,0,11\
00506.story

More coverage of that prehistoric cave site in Galilee:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=65358
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/galilee-cave-reveals-secrets-of-hunter\
gatherers-834599.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126281
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=987485

More coverage of that Second Temple quarry:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126296
(includes a video)

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)
================================================================
Some rather broad claims about the status of women in Mycenae
based on DNA:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/01/genetics.sciencenews

A Roman "agora" excavation in Turkey:

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

... and evidence of a circus in Mugla?:

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME09.@AM17484.html

A possible temple of Dionysus found in Bulgaria:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_540930868

Work has begun on a shipwreck off Cyprus:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080530/lf_nm_life/cyprus_shipwreck_wine_dc_2
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=39503&cat_id=1

The Vatican has restored the Valerii Mausoleum:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.2201338860
http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12751
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/27/europe/EU-GEN-Vatican-Pagan-Tomb.php
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802845.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/27/world/main4130008.shtml
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/ptres435.html
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flavatican0528sbmay28,0,5299539\
.story
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-27-vatican-tomb_N.htm?csp=34
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24846698&afid=1

More scholars are weighing in on the Caesar bust thing:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,ra16m1/wissen/special/67/174544/index.html/wissen/ar\
tikel/74/176540/article.html
(Paul Zanker)
http://www.faz.net/s/RubEBED639C476B407798B1CE808F1F6632/Doc~E780B012840B449D8B9\
8A812814DAE479~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
(W.Will)
http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article2048969/Das_kann_nicht_Caesar_sein.html

(interview with L. Giuliani)

Wired was looking at Thales' eclipse:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/05/dayintech_0528

Princeton's Latin salutatorian:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/18/95E73/index.xml

More coverage of the Cleopatra tomb claims:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=64693
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/97427/Egypt-New-Aphrodite-statue-Cleopatra-bust-othe\
rs-found
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/archaeologist-claims-discovery-of-c\
leopatras-tomb-re-issue_10052930.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h1PiWWruRiJiuZptdlvqLZhFg-5Q
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3998944.ece
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/26/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Antiquities.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080530-antony-cleopatra.html
http://tinyurl.com/5e798p (El Pais)

... with some info on the sponsor:

http://tinyurl.com/5ecw5x (Dominican Today)
http://tinyurl.com/66atc5 (ditto)

Chicester's Roman baths will re-emerge:

http://www.chichester.co.uk/chichester/Roman-baths-in-Chichester-surface.4127675\
.jp

As the Olympics approach, I'm sure we'll see plenty of these 'origins'
pieces:

http://www.dunnvillechronicle.com/Community/NewsDisplay.aspx?c=5951

Cabernet in Greece?:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6479426&maindocimg=4736725&servi\
ce=96

Remembering Robert Fagles:

http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1212120355128450.x\
ml&coll=5

More on colorizing statues:

http://www.projo.com/art/content/lb_ancient_color_art_05-28-08_96A0OKP_v15.237e9\
9f.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia [technical problems]:

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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DNA tests on a tuft of hair from Greenland is causing yet
another rethinking of ideas about migrations thereto:

http://tinyurl.com/6bfcbd (NS)
http://www.genomeweb.com/issues/news/147236-1.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90960697&ft=1&f=1007
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/uoc-rgi052708.php
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1159750
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/science/30ancestor.html

Latest theory about Stonehenge postulates about the builders'
mathematical abilities:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=65329
http://tinyurl.com/6a9msd (Independent)

... no, the latest is that it was an ancient royal cemetery:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4029449.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080529/sc_nm/stonehenge_cemetery_dc_2
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/29/healthscience/druid.php
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080529/tsc-uk-stonehenge-cemetery-9ff7fe2.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23782069-38200,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-hsston0530,0,6668645.story?track=rss
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stonehenge-was-domain-of-the-dead-says\
-scientist-836760.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/scienc\
e/jan-june08/stonehenge_05-30.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/science/30stonehenge.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUO3TIhS633b5jL6pyqLx8TuNvkg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7426195.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080529-stonehenge-cemetery.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24873901&afid=1
Interesting burial of a Lombard warrior and his horse:

http://tinyurl.com/4s5a72 (Telegraph)

Medieval baby bottles from Russia:

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080526/108438896.html

Searching for medieval remains near Carmarthenshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7427891.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Some terracotta warriors and assorted sites were damaged in the
recent earthquake in China:

http://tinyurl.com/5pwc4m (SMH)

An archaeologist inspired by Indiana Jones is excavating in
Turkmenistan:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=64905

A Maori 'pompeii'/'time capsule':

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10512676
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=65349

Drought is exposing some Aboriginal burial grounds:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080531/21/172zg.html

What DNA is telling us about the origins of the population of
Southeast Asia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080523163046.htm

More coverage of those burials on Guam:

http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=14945

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Excavating McDowell House (Morganton, NC):

http://tinyurl.com/6fmaa5

Not sure if we mentioned this plantation site excavation before:

http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/274197.html

What's going on at Valley Forge:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/us/30valley.html

Restoring the Grange:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18grange.html

Digging in David Caldwell Historic Park (Greensboro, NC):

http://news14.com/content/headlines/596142/archeology-dig-underway-in-triad/Defa\
ult.aspx

Review of Ginger Strand, *Inventing Niagara*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/books/review/Sullivan-t.html

Review of Paula Uruburu, *American Eve*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/books/review/Calhoun-t.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Using satellite technology to find sites in Oaxaca:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/riot-aus051308.php
http://tinyurl.com/68fej6

Those 40,000 b.p. footprints are back in the news (why?):

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32728/title/Footprints_in_the_ash

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel looks at Caral:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Interesting mollusk-shell pyramid:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2008/05/ancient-mesoamerica\
-news-updates-2008_30.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Not sure if we've had this Viking DNA story yet:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080527201804.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90877/6421861.html
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/researchers-rec.html

A brief interview with James Cuno about his recent book:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/accent/240974.php

... and one with Nikolay Sarakov about archaeology in Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=f1623

Excellent article on the Gospel of Judas fiasco:

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i38/38b00601.htm

The Leaning Tower of Pisa should be good for a few centuries:

http://tinyurl.com/4t8ole (Telegraph)
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l28340884-italy-tower/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7423957.stm

A pair of mysterious duelling pistols:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7414544.stm

A portrait of Elizabeth I has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/7421051.stm

Spinning daVinci for a newer audience:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/business/01unbox.html

I'm sure we'll be seeing plenty of reviews of this book claiming
that China sparked the Renaissance:

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/05/30/did-china-spark-the-renaissance

Hopefully this is the final wave of ask-the-local-archaeologist
what-he/she-thinks-about-Indy stuff:

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/ci_9333520?source=most_emailed
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139681.asp
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2008/05/31/archaeologist-view\
s-indiana-jones-as-thi-42.php

... and the real-story-of-the-crystal-skulls thing is wearing
a bit thin too:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orl-skull08may28,0,4668139.story
http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2008-05-26-crystal-skulls_N.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6968mh
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=8996

... but the reconsideration of plundering of cultural heritage seems
to be a good thing:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080527211802.htm

... and you've got to love this photo:

http://www.theonion.com/content/from_print/daring_bush_returns_from

Are you ready for the 'new humanities'?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/27angi.html

A disputed Hals has been authenticated:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/design/30voge.html

Huet's monkey room has been restored:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/design/30anti.html

The Odyssey Marine folks have found a couple more shipwrecks:

http://in.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idINN2929819420080530
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080530/sc_nm/odyssey_shipwrecks_dc

More tests for the Shroud of Turin:

http://tinyurl.com/6yctpr (JPost)

... and it's going to be on display:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2054106/Turin-Shroud-to-g\
o-on-public-display.html

Review of Simon Swain (ed.), *Seeing the Face, Seeing the
Soul*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e3930776.ece

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Turkey:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/your_say/article4032001.e\
ce

Gamla:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126281
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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


================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Treasure hunters are pillaging Bulgaria's sites:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n141521
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n141525

Drug smugglers pose a threat to sites in Guatemala:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n27274870-guatemala-maya/

A bust in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/987931.html
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1395\
&module_id=#as

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
An Islamic coin (805 A.D.) from Oslo:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2452938.ece
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/05/29/ancient_islamic_coin_found_in_no\
rway/6778/
http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/123273/

A possible 'forged painting' on Korea's bank notes?:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/05/117_24459.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
The Greeks:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24471

Vermeer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/design/30voge.html

Society of the Dilettanti:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24495

Michelangelo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/arts/design/31michel.html

Bible Lands Museum:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041428464&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

Medieval and Renaissance Treasures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/arts/design/31medi.html

A couple of Tyches are coming to auction this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/design/30anti.html

More on the covering-up of some 'naked' mummies:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/22/2252089.htm

There's a new curator of antiquities at the Getty:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24443

Another 'who owns antiquities' piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/arts/design/27conn.html

Nice feature on the Bactrian Hoard:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/afghan-treasures/atwood-text
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ON THE WEB
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Maps of War (really neat!):

http://www.mapsofwar.com/
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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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Humans began wearing shoes 40 000 years ago:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080605/sc_livescience/firstshoesworn40000y\
earsago

Plenty of coverage of a site suggesting prehistoric/neolithic
man fought (to the death) over women:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/du-mfo053008.php
http://tinyurl.com/4g8m7b (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5ronot
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxjTxX0X_O43S3zUpq9bXSB7AHdA
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602214132.htm
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news-feed/2008/06/03/cavemen-sex-wars-86908-20\
592941/
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58563§ionid=3510212
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/7432306.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2066554/Neolithic-men-were-prepared-to-fi\
ght-for-their-women.html
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AFRICA
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More coverage of plans for the Axum Obelisk:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=67770
http://www.france24.com/en/20080605-famous-ethiopian-obelisk-be-relocated-axum-u\
nesco
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Trying to figure out what happened to Atlit-Yam:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/989977.html

Some missing sections of the 'Sphinx road' and a bit of Menkauhor's
pyramid have been found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/04/content_8308074.htm
http://www.afrol.com/articles/29209
http://www.topnews.in/sphinx-road-missing-sections-discovered-egypt-245912

... later in the week, more details about the pyramid were being
revealed:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58870§ionid=351020502
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL05866560.html
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-33922020080605
http://tinyurl.com/56zl4e (JPost)
http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_948 9033
http://www.pr-inside.com/egypt-s-chief-archaeologist-claims-rediscovery-r627237.\
htm
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/650711.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/world/ny-world065715773jun06,0,985474.s\
tory
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=al1RoDcn9FRw&refer=canada
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080605-new-pyramid.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080605-pyramid-video-ap.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7566094
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060503656.\
html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24985028/
http://tinyurl.com/5au6e3 (AP via Yahoo)
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/05/missing.pyramid.ap/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/5f33hp (El Pais)

... photos:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/pyramid-photos/

... and I can't get this one to come up right now, but it's Al Ahram's
coverage of the above, with the added detail that they admit they have
not found Cleopatra's tomb:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/900/he2.htm

Remember that Egyptian fortress found a week or so ago? There's
an Achaemenid one there too, apparently:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=59121§ionid=3510212

... here's more coverage of the Egyptian one:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=68340
http://www.ktva.com/ci_9405852?source%253Dmost_viewed.20F88DA3D7D369F5BB70F37298\
7EAE1F.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080602-egypt-fort.html

Some more mummies are off for DNA testing:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080606-egypt-mummies.html

Some hype for the Tel Kadesh dig:

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6593

This week's salvos in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65919

More coverage of that Hellenistic-inspired structure in Iran:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=67779

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 temple of Dionysus in Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/66yjme

A burial found in Thessaloniki during subway construction:

http://www.physorg.com/news132056741.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iXsNLIuRTKsvjjFNQlcTTWSsxkXgD914O4VO0
http://www.lcsun-news.com/apcontent/ci_9502830
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/256/story/340960.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_grave_2

The Nemean games are coming up:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/04_nemea.shtml

A sort of summary of recent finds in Rome (we've covered most
of these) during subway construction and elsewise:

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/Mythical-Cave-of-Rome-s-Founders-Dis\
covered.html

Some ancient Olympics stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/6k2bbz (BBC)

Philip Freeman has a new book out on Julius Caesar:

http://publicinformation.luther.edu/2007_08/june/facultystaff/freemancaesarbook.\
html

In case you missed Boris Johnson's pronouncements about the benefits
of Classics:

http://tinyurl.com/6ycrou (Telegraph)

... and some reaction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/06/classics.boris

Assorted NLE results (all different schools):

http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/features/local_story_153175513.html
http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080602/APC0101/80602044\
2/1979/APCbusiness
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19738040&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=2184\
9&rfi=6

More coverage of the Mazotos shipwreck 'dig':

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/The-2000yearold-39supertanker39.4162421.jp
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article40840\
02.ece
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25021552/

More coverage of those rather iffy claims about the status of
Mycenean women:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=67747
http://www.physorg.com/news131634720.html
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=3696

... and Discover Magazine designated it as the worst
science article of the week:

http://tinyurl.com/6bmy7l

More coverage of cabernet having Greek origins:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=67810
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=446728&sid=ftp

Review of Kitty Ferguson, *The Music of Pythagoras*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121099042973500689.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia [technical problems]:

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

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains from various periods (mostly Roman?) at an infirmary
site in Worcester:

http://tinyurl.com/5hyqyz

Remains of a medieval church which 'tumbled into the sea' (along
with other bits of Dunwich) may have been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7441759.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4069386.ece

More on Stonehenge being a cemetery:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL295858620080529
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32729/title/Domain_of_the_dead
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/31/2261257.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91072897&ft=1&f=1007

... and some interesting commentary on Stonehenge theories:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/01/heritage

Meanwhile, the 'Stonehenge of Sevilla' may have to make way for
supermarket construction:

http://www.theolivepress.es/2008/06/02/stonehenge-of-sevilla-to-become-a-burial-\
site/

More coverage of that Greenland migration thing:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080529141347.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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An 11th century Jain statue was found during excavations in
Pushkar:

http://tinyurl.com/6mkw2z

Interesting temple-building material in Bangladesh:

http://www.freshnews.in/ancient-temple-material-found-in-bangladesh-4539

A Maori massacre site:

http://tinyurl.com/5jcckx

... and proof that the Maori were the first 'New Zealanders':

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/03/maori-new-zealand.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/03/ap/tech/main4149698.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/5zvhk9 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080603162919.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_sc/sci_new_zealand_human_arrival

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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There are some digs going on in the Grand Canyon:

http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/NEWS01/80603008

A site in Idaho is in danger of being washed away:

http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/186169.html

Moving the Grange:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/nyregion/07grange.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A human sacrifice site in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080604-human-sacrifice.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/Peru-photos/index\
.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=69306

Remains of Montezuma's palace:

http://tinyurl.com/6x78zt (El Pais)

Still wondering why those Mexican footprints are back in the news:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080606-ancient-footprints.html

Brief feature on the Ichic Willcahuain site:

http://www.andina.com.pe/ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=ppB5nvpUwrI=

Was Machu Picchu found forty years earlier than previously thought?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7439397.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7566017

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Nice feature on Fran(c)k Goddio:

http://tinyurl.com/56cra8 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5flbb5 (El Pais)

On the unpopularity of AE Housman:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/lately_unfashionable_ae_housma.html

They've done the infrared thing to Gallego's 'Raising of Lazarus':

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06/08/arts/20080608_CLOSE_GRAPHIC.html

More coverage of Odyssey Marine's recent finds:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/02/content_8302652.htm

More coverage of the Shroud of Turin going on display:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802940.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL025228720080602
http://eursoc.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/2526/Turin_Shroud_On_Display.html
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/5659
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gc_RcZXPueQ3yPvuZ6wtiFM71xsA
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_ts0zM8jDnCZXGmEdteRNxmKD5w

In case you couldn't access that Chronicle article on the Gospel
of Judas fiasco last week:

http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i38/38b00601.htm

Bar-Ilan University is putting together the 'Jewish digital bookstand':

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=990417

Another reviewish sort of thing of James Cuno, *Who Owns Antiquity?*:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/thebusiness/080605/

Review of Simon Winchester, *The Man Who Loved China*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/books/review/Becker-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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For those of you with university access to journals, the latest
Science Magazine has a number of items of interest:

http://www.sciencemag.org/current.dtl

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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They're investigating a possible antiquities theft in New
Mexico:

http://kob.com/article/stories/S467344.shtml?cat=519

A Bulgarian 'treasure hunter' was caught this week:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=93844

Italian police recovered a pile of looted artifacts (but didn't
make an arrest?):

http://www.pr-inside.com/italian-police-recover-3-500-looted-artifacts-r629416.h\
tm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/06/news/Italy-Looted-Art.php

Confusion about some purloined pieces from the Hermitage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/07arts-WHATPAINTING_BRF.html

... while some paintings stolen from a museum in Nice are being
returned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/world/europe/05briefs-PAINTINGSRET_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A pile of medieval coins were found in Bulgaria:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/news/20080602/gold_coins.html
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1522016209

A feature on the Thornbury hoard:

http://tinyurl.com/64scqo

German Banknotes:

http://www.germannotes.com/

Not sure why, but there's a feature on those Carausius coins
found a long time ago:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=4606


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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Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/design/07wall.html

Goya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/arts/design/06gall.html (scroll down)

Renaissance Faces:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2283549,00.html

Comer collection of Inuit artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/08captainct.html

A call to protect Greek museums from earthquakes:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_1_04/06/2008_97369

Museums have set new (but they don't really seem different)
guidelines for acquiring antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/arts/design/04coll.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-antiquities5-2008jun05,0,54\
27107.story
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--museums-guideline0604ju\
n04,0,4128948.story
http://www.nysun.com/arts/museums-adopt-new-antiquities-guidelines/79307/
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/04/america/NA-GEN-US-Museums-Guidelines.p\
hp
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/437302

... some reaction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/opinion/l06museum.html

... meanwhile, the Getty has acquired a 3rd-century sarcophagus:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-sarcophagus5-2008jun05,0,35\
35749.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/arts/design/05gett.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23819612-23109,00.html

... and you can't help but wonder about these lekythoi:

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jun/06/two-vases-are-indeed-ancient/

Mark Twain House and Museum are in financial difficulties:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/nyregion/03twain.html

What that 'junkman's' double-faced Achaemenid cup reached at
auction:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/05/auction.cup/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/somerset/7437348.stm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58874§ionid=351020105
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2284255,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/05/auction.cup/index.html?section=cnn_la\
test

Haven't heard about this Iran v UChicago dispute in quite a while; here's
the latest:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1305.html

Almost-review, pondering the Elgin Marbles:

http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/06/british-museum-elgin-marbles

The latest piece on the Monteleone Chariot:

http://tinyurl.com/5zqqh8 (Independent)

The Met is planning a tribute show for outgoing Montebello:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aGXZawATmGU0&refer=muse

Big bucks for a first folio Shakespeare:

http://tinyurl.com/6yycoo (Telegraph)

Charles Dickens' chair and desk came to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/arts/06arts-DICKENSDESKA_BRF.html

Coverage of the Olympia International Art and Antiquities fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/arts/design/06anti.html

Can Randolph College sell some art?:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91208908
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Homer in Cyberspace:

http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArticleDetails.asp?eid=7960
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OBITUARIES
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Klaus Perls (art dealer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/arts/design/05perls.html

Anne d'Harnoncourt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/arts/design/03dharnoncourt.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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 the role of 'shuffling' in human development:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080611-ancestor-shuffle.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 5000 b.p. site in southeastern Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=170239

Plenty o' coverage of the find of what is being called the oldest
Christian Church:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7446812.stm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/09/content_8329954.htm
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=8471
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieujtEVcoR9WPEj0ZOIfvkuLcMDgD9181HNG0
http://www.startribune.com/world/19809699.html?location_refer=Timberwolves
http://www.star-telegram.com/190/story/693881.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_re/jordan_oldest_church_9
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06112008/news/worldnews/lost_cave_is_oldest_church_i\
n_world_114977.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25061134/
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080610132718.9c6r9ify&show_article=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080610/wl_mideast_afp/jordanreligionchristianarcha\
eology

... and a couple of interesting reactions to the find:

http://tinyurl.com/5fr3x2 (Globe and Mail)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080613-old-church.html
(oh the irony of the foregoing)
http://tinyurl.com/3nwq3t (ThaiIndian ... same as the above)

A long-awaited update on the status of that Methuselah date palm:

http://www.livescience.com/history/080612-methuselah-tree.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/992356.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080612-oldest-tree.html
http://tinyurl.com/68nuxh (Independent)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-06-12-ancient-tree_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25123015/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_sc/sci_ancient_tree
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,366145,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659724137&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/612/1

They're sending Robert Ballard to look for the Beatrice, which sank
with a pile of Egyptian antiquities on board:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4133540.ece

I think we mentioned this Khnum Temple find a few issues ago:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=445693&sid=FTP

More coverage of the 'lost pyramid':

http://tinyurl.com/65ywmz (Daily Times)
http://newsoxy.com/egypt/missing_ian_pyramid_uncovered/article10999.htm

I think we mentioned this DNA-lab-for-analysis-of-mummies lab in Egypt
a long time ago:

http://tinyurl.com/56stc4

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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Very interesting lower class necropolis near the Ponte Galeria:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSHER95435020080609
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=25685&sez=HOME_ROMA
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKvgUclxefB2iLkkRP6K-nzmlSKQD916NI900
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1423939/archaeologists_discover_ancient_rom\
anera_tombs/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/09/DDQ91165FV.DTL
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-italy0610.artjun10,0,1542084.story
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=59449§ionid=3510212
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080610-AP-italy-ancie.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10515618
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_re_eu/italy_ancient_laborers
http://tinyurl.com/5pvls6 (El Pais)

Oops ... someone snowed us for a long time by putting Hadrian's
head on a 'Greek' body:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2284520,00.html

A Venus-statuette find from Bulgaria (which has an unfortunate
aftermath ... check out the Crime Beat section):

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1446710682

An update (sort of) on that Art Deco house thing:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/06/acropolis_v_art_deco_athenss_d.html

On the pankration as the source for MMA (mixed martial arts):

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/28473-MMA-Origins-Part-One-The-Rise-of-Ancien\
t-Greek-Pankration

Roman horses-and-chariot burial from Greece:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23851106-23109,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/12/2272735.htm

Looking for Roman remains under a car park in Wigan:

http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Digging-into-Roman-past.4165098.jp

Interesting premise behind the establishment of Boy's Latin of Philadelphia
Charter School:

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/17182/cover-story

We can now add the Argo to the latest voyage/ship recreation list:

http://tinyurl.com/5zxbku (ANA)
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/127036/
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/15/apworld/20080615085409&sec=\
apworld

Conventiculum Buffaloniense:

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9447

Steven Ellis is headed for Pompeii:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080614/LIFE/806140347/1035

In case you missed the tutela valui tattoo thing:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/to-decipher-a-tattoo-caveat-emptor/

More coverage of the Mazotos shipwreck:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=39639&cat_id=1
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=71311

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia [technical problems]:

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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Vague item about the find of some 10,000 b.p. tools at the
bottom of a lake in Russia:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/6504/

Also on the prehistoric front, we have one of those
why-didn't-anyone-notice-before things from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/12344/20080610/

A significant Elizabethan shipwreck:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7446423.stm

Big article on the mysteries of Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/6lf4pd (ToL)

... and one on the age of the Great Stonehenge Cursus:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610095001.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=71714

An Iron Age settlement at Seaton Burn:

http://tinyurl.com/45kyly
http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/latest/Iron-age-settlement-unearthed-at.4173655.\
jp

Review of Christopher Duggan, *The Force of Destiny*

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4065612.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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Ancient hindu temples are claimed to have had 'musical pillars':

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=73015

Finds from various periods in Pakistan:

http://www.karachinews.net/story/369175

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Early folk in North America apparently experimented a lot to
perfect the bow and arrow:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610165057.htm

An 18th century British warship in Lake Ontario:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7454578.stm
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25145600&afid=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_sc/shipwreck_found;_ylt=AmGkCbkHm7UFhz\
SUpOzFmcwiANEA
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/nation_world/2008/06/13/d\
dn061408shipwreck.html

Some sort of agricultural 'complex' beneath Williamsburg:

http://www.vagazette.com/news/local/va-news4_061108jun11,0,5993505.story

School's out (or nearly so) so we'll start seeing more of these
kids-on-digs stories:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/06/09/digging_0609.h\
tml

They may have figured out the mysterious New England 'dark day':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080606145620.htm

Wildfires threaten sites in Colorado:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1844244
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080612/sc_nm/colorado_fire_dc_2
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/13brfs-WILDFIRETHRE_BRF.html

Latest from the Topper site:

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/429465.html

Jefferson Davis' home has been restored:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080602/ap_tr_ge/travel_trip_katrina_historic\
_home
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the Chavin
culture:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Some 3000 B.C./B.C.E. anthropomorphic figures from near Lima:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=yLkIs9ugp/8=

A 'box of offerings' has been found during the search for
Ahuizotl's tomb:

http://banderasnews.com/0806/art-greattemple.htm

More coverage of the find of Montezuma's palace:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002899.\
html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25100456&afid=1
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/10/news/Mexico-Aztec-Palace.php
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/06/09/5824471-ap.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The idea of a 'pure' Scandinavian race has been challenged:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/uoc-nrr060908.php
http://tinyurl.com/637cyn (Telegraph)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609172919.htm

Haven't heard of lasers being used in this way before:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23851320-5005961,00.html

I think we've mentioned the 'Michelangelo Code' thing before (and
it really should be Elmer material, I suspect):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4113094.ece

Feature/reviewish thing on Heinrich Heine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/books/11eder.html

... and one on a 150-year-old map of Central Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/nyregion/12central.html

Gotta include the unicorn find story:

http://tinyurl.com/6ogmvh (Telegraph)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080613/hl_time/abriefhistoryoftheunicorn

Interesting item on the Conrad Schick Library:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=990799

Astronomers have confirmed Tycho Brahe's supernova observation:

http://tinyurl.com/5vrr7j (CSM)

The Odyssey Marine saga resumes shortly:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/08/spain.treasure/

Reviewish sort of thing on the top ten philosopher's deaths:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,,2284805,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Delphi:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080615/spectrum/main3.htm

Persepolis:

http://www.explorehoward.com/events-entertainment/9245/majestic-persepolis-exhib\
its-strength-persia/

Lycian Way:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/jun/15/turkey.walkingholidays
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Major antiquities bust in Venice:

http://tinyurl.com/6ykuha (Asca - Italian)

Greeks are apparently the big market for items purloined from
Macedonia:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/601

The Kincaid Mounds (Illinois) have been looted:

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/jun/15/looters/?partner=yahoo_headlines

Some porcelain in the British Museum has been ruled to be
Nazi loot:

http://tinyurl.com/5umldp (Telegraph)

The plundering of Soma:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=106383

Some Picassos were stolen in Brazil:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-brazil-picasso.html

A call for more protection of sites in Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10014407.html

Shortly after the announcement of the find of antiquities at
a site in Bulgaria (see above), the site was looted:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=94117

Comeuppance for some Goya thieves:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/arts/design/12arts-SENTENCESING_BRF.html

Some stolen antiquities from Iraq which were found in the U.S.
were returned:

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSCOL941546
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/10/iraq-museum-return.html
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=170479
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/arts/design/10arts-STOLENARTIFA_BRF.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL941546.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080609/us_nm/iraq_artefacts_dc_1

Hype for the trial of that French guy accused of smuggling Yemeni
antiquities:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10014411.html

... and he was found innocent:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news156360.htm
http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10014418.html

... and news of another case in Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10014429.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some Celtic coins found in Kent fetched a nice price:

http://tinyurl.com/3qu4mv (24dash)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7449175.stm

A Scottish gold coin was found in a dig in Newfoundland:

http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=143931&sc=79

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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Van Gogh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/arts/design/13voge.html

Isaiah Scroll:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126461
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659685025&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Interesting piece on Europe's 'house museums':

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/small-wonders.html

Remains of some Tseycum people ancestors were returned this
week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/nyregion/10remains.html

Slide show of some recent antiquities which were auctioned off:

http://www.iht.com/slideshows/2008/06/13/arts/14melik.php

Some interesting scientific tomes are coming to auction at
Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/science/10auct.html

... as is a portrait of 'Mr. Darcy':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/arts/11arts-AUSTENSINSPI_BRF.html

Early American furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/arts/design/13anti.html

Here's a spinoff that doesn't get much coverage ... the recent
oil price boom is enabling oil-producing countries to buy a
pile of antiquities and other art works:

http://tinyurl.com/6mu2db (El Pais)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Macbeth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/theater/11macbeth.html
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ON THE WEB
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The Megiddo Expedition:

http://megiddo.tau.ac.il/
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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AFRICA
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Stone tools found during swimming pool construction in Pretoria:

http://tinyurl.com/5gjzku
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The 'first farmers' made 'lucky beads' to protect their crops:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7457755.stm
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/33259/title/Green_reapers

DNA analysis confirms that the wheat found at Catal Houyuk is
likely the oldest:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=75939

A 17th dynasty administrative building near Edfu:

http://tinyurl.com/6mxglb

They're using a laser to scan/map Djoser's pyramid:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/902/he2.htm

Some coils of Egyptian rope have been found in a cave
near the Red Sea:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/20/rope-cave-egyptian.html

An ancient 'Christian holy wine factory' in Egypt:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/081618-egypt-wine.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=75095

Humidity is threatening various monuments in Pasargadae:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/June2008/17-06-pasargadae.htm

A hitherto unknown type of Achaemenid architecture at Gachsaran:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/June2008/15-06-a.htm

A Sassanian wall:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/June2008/15-06.htm

The Cyrus Cylinder is going back to Iran:

http://www.radiojavan.com/news/2008/06/18/Cyrus-Cylinder-Returning-To-Iran

Time for the annual Saar Temple piece:

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=220908&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31094

Another politics of archaeology kerfuffle seems to be bubbling up in Silwan:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125787
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/143259

... while that 'archaeology peace plan' seems to have hit a dead end:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=992993

Some 'Hopkins in Egypt' hype:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/541851/

Strange stone 'piles' found as Lake Kinneret recedes:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=993351

More coverage of the 'Methuselah date palm':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17obseed.html
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/20080616_2_000_years_later_.html

More coverage of plans to search for Menkaure's sarcophagus:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6434643.html

More 'lost pyramid' coverage:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/141527

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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Concerns for the Lycabettus Theatre in Athens appear to have
come to a head:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/06/20/blunt-athens.html

This year's Nemean games coverage:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5isMsgWswP3nNzLyE7zDqVcrCgcmQ
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080621/od_afp/greecehistorygamesoffbeat_0806211319\
52

Another Thracian tomb find:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1663209777
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/bulgarian-archaeologists-excavated-thracian-tom\
b/id_30015/catid_70
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n143625

A 1st century building from Sorrento:

http://www.julienews.it/notizia/7827_scoperti-a-sorrento-i-resti-di-un-edificio-\
del-i-sec-dc.html

They're excavating a Roman 'warehouse' near Caerleon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7455657.stm

Ambitious plans for Colchester Roman Circus:

http://tinyurl.com/65ulkq (EADT)

They've figured out the course of a 'lost' Roman road in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/64gffk (Examiner)

Nice feature on the Roman tombs beneath St. Peter's:

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/204721?eng=y

That 'oldest salad dressing' story is still bouncing around (not
sure if this adds anything or not):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/20/dna-salad-dressing.html

More coverage of that burial found in Thessaloniki during subway
construction:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=450193&sid=ftp

If you have access to Nature, there's an article on the Phaistos
disk:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7198/pdf/453990a.pdf

More coverage of the Argo recreation:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/15/apworld/20080615085409&sec=\
apworld

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia [technical problems]:

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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Looking for pre-Roman remains prior to carpark construction in
Leicestershire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7466336.stm

Neolithic remains near Wrexham:

http://www.wrexhamleader.co.uk/news/Neolithic-camp-found-at-Wrexham.4195472.jp

Jewellery found near the Temple of the Sun at Sliven:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=94294

... and a burial of unspecified antiquity near Veliko Tarnovo:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n143693

Some 400 b.p. ship remains found during construction in Oslo:

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/128103/
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2490292.ece

Coverage of Solstice activities at Stonehenge:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1816945,00.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/244808.php
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/21/stonehenge.dawn.ap/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/in_pictures/7467239.stm
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25290019&afid=1

Nice feature/interview about a bog man from Ireland:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2272392.htm

Bronze cannons from near Sciacca:

http://tinyurl.com/55m5zl (Italian)

Review of Rosemary Hill, *Stonehenge*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/06/22/bohil122.xml

... and a review of that, plus Anthony Johnson's tome on the
same subject:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4114486.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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4000 b.p. tombs near Shanghai:

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200806/20080618/article_363676.htm

A 2nd century 'future buddha' statue (among other items) has
been found:

http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42407&Itemid\
=2

Lake sediments provide documentary history of mining and metal
use in China:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080616092214.htm

Pondering how much Aborigine's ways of life have changed over
time:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/06/19/2279784.htm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Very interesting 'fortified village' found near Cluny (Alberta):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/uoc-afo061808.php
http://www.physorg.com/news133082175.html
http://tinyurl.com/5tm8cx (CTV)

Another DNA match for 'Long Ago Person Found':

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/439738.html
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jun/16/juneau-woman-related-ancient-hunter/
http://www.ktva.com/alaskanews/ci_9606730

A dig in PEI is giving info about the Acadians' trade activities:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/17/acadia-dig.html

Recent finds at the Seguin site:

http://seguingazette.com/story.lasso?ewcd=f83524cbff5c5845

They're looking for John Paul Jones' shipwreck again:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/16/usa

More coverage of some recent finds at the Topper site:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/06/17/ancient_tools_south_caro\
lina.html
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/436907.html
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/527645.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/18/usa1?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

More coverage of the HMS Ontario find:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7454578.stm
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/443161
http://tinyurl.com/5yjuhc (Telegraph)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some 5000 b.p. anthropomorphic figures from Peru:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=yLkIs9ugp/8=

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The history (and demise?) of the semicolon:

http://www.slate.com/id/2194087/

Some flags/banners from the Battle of Waterloo have been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7458741.stm

Concerns about some proposed NEH cuts:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/20/neh

Spain is digitizing its National Archives:

http://tinyurl.com/6odnc6 (El Pais)

Baroque spectacle has returned to the Chiesa del Gesu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/arts/design/14chur.html

... while the Chapel of the Sisters has been refurbished:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/nyregion/14chapel.html

They've decided 'Rembrandt Laughing' is a self portrait:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080619/ap_on_en_ot/art_rembrandt_laughing
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/arts/design/20arts-AREMBRANDTRE_BRF.html

You've no doubt heard already that they won't allow any filming of
Angels and Demons in churches in Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/arts/17arts-CHURCHESOFFL_BRF.html

Florence has voted to rescind the motion to execute Dante:

http://tinyurl.com/496ugb (Telegraph)

Oldest computer music:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7458479.stm

Review of Leonard Marcus, *Minders of Make Believe*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/books/review/Miller-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Persepolis:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/06/20/persepolis/index.html

Bursa:

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2008/6/21/lifetravel/1426658&sec\
=lifetravel

Tzipori:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659719039&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

El Camino de Santiago:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0619/p19s03-hfes.html

San Juan River:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/06/travel/06monument.php
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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


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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Mexico has recovered some purloined pre-Columbian artifacts:

http://www.startribune.com/science/20617394.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080621/ap_on_sc/mexico_smuggled_antiquities

Iran recovered a pot found in a truck in Romania:

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0806198104203318.htm

A gas theft in New Mexico has led to some stolen antiquities (and
other things):

http://www.wpri.com/global/story.asp?s=8511344
http://kob.com/article/stories/S479775.shtml?cat=504

Vandals damaged a 13th century church in Leicester:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7457882.stm

More coverage of that major return of antiquities by Jordan to
Iraq:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/06/19/looted-iraq-jordan.html
http://tinyurl.com/5vjzob
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i-b20dwDPbsxKvcNtvinonxM1aig
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/18/content_8395870.htm

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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The ANS collection has made its move:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/nyregion/16coins.html

Some 13th/14th century coins with an image of Jesus from Bulgaria:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/preslav/news/20080618/veliki_preslav_archaeology\
.html

Feature on the Welsh branch of the Royal Mint:

http://tinyurl.com/6ejk4d

More on that gold coin from the Colony of Avalon dig:

http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=143931&sc=79
http://tinyurl.com/6gx3ns

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/culture/story.html?id=d783a3a6-6b2c-4\
2f3-ac31-a19c9e535de9

Hadrian:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/results.asp?id=933

Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24800

Palladio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/arts/design/20anti.html

Like Breath on Glass:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/arts/design/20soft.html

Feature on the Tenement Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/nyregion/17tenement.html

Latest in the Barnes Museum move thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/arts/17arts-OPPONENTSTOM_BRF.html

A tome by Copernicus has fetched a nice price at auction:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Copernico/record/elpepucul/20080617elpepu\
cul_16/Tes

Julius Held's collection is coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/arts/design/20voge.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
John T. Quinn (Classicist):

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x1165649031/Hope-professor-dies-while-joggin\
g
http://www.grandhaventribune.com/paid/295903789883845.bsp
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-42/1213967722258061.xml
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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PETITION
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A petition/letter is being circulated in response to the Italian
government's plans to shut down the Istituto Italiano per
l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO):

http://www.giuseppetucci.isiao.it/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Britain's last Neanderthals were pretty handy:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/23/neanderthal-tools.html
http://www.physorg.com/news133427782.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/ucl-bln062308.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7466735.stm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/06/23/give-neanderthals-some-cred\
it-they-made-nice-tools
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/pesadilla/mamuts/elpepucul/20080623elpepu\
cul_7/Tes

Implications of Neanderthal remains in Balkan caves:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL2768278020080627
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AFRICA
================================================================
The first stage of the rebuilding of the Aksum Obelisk is
complete:

http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/444
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Painted coffins from various periods:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-06/27/content_6800958.htm
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/06/26/egypt_archaeologists_find_ancient_pai\
nted_coffins/afp/
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2347694,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080626/wl_mideast_afp/egyptarchaeology_08062617535\
8
http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=14678
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-06/27/content_6800958.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080626/wl_mideast_afp/egyptarchaeology_08062617535\
8

Vague item about the discovery of a 'royal structure' in
northern Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=61722§ionid=351020105

A 3500 b.p. cylinder seal:

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8704030811

More coverage of that Greek-inspired architecture in Iran:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=77777

Pre-Roman Hellenistic Palmyra:

http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/public_relations/press/pv200806-en.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=77049
http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2008/June/24-Ancient-city-50995.asp

The Naked Archaeologist turns his attention to Sodom and Gomorrah:

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=c7339c1f-75b3-471c-\
bc0b-d0d62c2187b1

More coverage of that Egyptian rope find:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=76238

More coverage of the Saar temple theory:

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=220908&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31094

More coverage of the impending display of the Cyrus Cylinder
in Iran (techically it isn't 'returning'):

http://www.radiojavan.com/news/2008/06/18/Cyrus-Cylinder-Returning-To-Iran

More coverage of the impending search for Menkaure's sarcophagus in a
shipwreck:

http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=21630&t=1&c=33&cg=4&mset=

More coverage of the antiquity of Catal Huyuk's wheat:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=145271&bolum=101

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)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of a theory correlating astronomy with the
date of Odysseus' return:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080623-homer-eclipse.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/24/Homerstudy.ap/index.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=359&objectid=10518190
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20080623-1709-sci-odysseydated.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008013891_odyssey24.html
http://tinyurl.com/5oogqt (Independent)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_sc/sci_odyssey_dated_4
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/24/spaceexploration.sciencenews
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odyssey-may-document-eclipse
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/science/24home.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25337041/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623175435.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4200965.ece
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/26/healthscience/snastro.php
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/06/24/can-an-eclipse-really-hel\
p-us-date-events-in-greek-mythology
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=9023

... the journal article itself is now available:

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0803317105v1

... and a group is trying to redate Caesar's invasion of Britain:

http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2008/06/Caesar062308.html
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/06/look_to_the_ancient_skies.ht\
ml
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/21410774.html
http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/local_story_177113648.html

5000 b.p. jewellery workshop in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=39970&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?LocalNewsID=648

A Thracian 'doctor' burial:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=f1645

An ancient Greek 'towpath' near Corinth is threatened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7479805.stm

A Roman necropolis in Fucino:

http://ilcentro.repubblica.it/dettaglio/Necropoli-romana-scoperta-nel-Fucino/148\
0298

Nice solstice moonrise over Cape Sounion (makes very nice
wallpaper):

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/solmoon_ayiomamitis.jpg

New Roman finds at Alfaz del Pi:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/9060.html

Reviving the Vestalia:

http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20080622/101520.shtml

Global warming threatens Scythian mummies:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/25-frozen-siberian-mummies-reveal-a-lost-ci\
vilization

Fair bit of coverage of the Nemean Games:

http://www.askmen.com/videos/sports-today/ancient-games-re-enacted-in-greece.htm\
l
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7470858.stm
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20080625/102437.shtml

More on the state of sites in Greece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/23/greece.heritage

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia [back online]:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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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Paris has had humans occupying it for much longer than previously
thought:

http://tinyurl.com/5mrhvm (Independent)
http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2008/June/27-Paris-years-older-51466.asp

A Neolithic settlement in Wrexham:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/7471742.stm

Interesting finds at the Black Spout Enclosure:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7475577.stm

An 'arab' was found in a Danish Iron Age burial:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080624-arab-dane.html

Thousands of burials in London have been mapped:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4228215.ece

Remains of medieval maltings at Bury St. Edmunds:

http://tinyurl.com/6hq2gp (EADT)

Items from a recent excavation of a Viking boat burial are going on
display in Sweden:

http://tinyurl.com/4btvhw

Not sure if we've mentioned this Viking ship recreation yet:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/raiders-vikings.html

... while this one needs restoration:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-viking-ship_both_26jun26,0,\
7484116.story

Some WWII bunkers in Denmark were recently revealed by a storm:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/107892.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 Neolithic burials in Shanghai:

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200806/20080618/article_363676.htm

Time for the semi-annual tourists-are-threatening-Cambodia's-
temples piece:

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/103864/Tourism-threatens-Cambodias-ancient-temples

... and they're doing the same at Easter Island:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25379395&afid=1

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting gold 'chalice' found off the coast of Florida:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=6229195
http://cbs4.com/local/Chalice.gold.treasure.2.756568.html
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=26849510713

Investigating the builders of the oldest church in the U.S.:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_9666934

Digging a soggy site in Kansas:

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/jun/22/ksu_archaeology_professor_leads_search_\
lost_treasu/

Looking for evidence of a 1694 massacre:

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080623/GJNEWS_01/113170114

A site with 1500 b.p. artifacts near Onalaska:

http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080621/FON0101/80621062
http://www.wbay.com/global/story.asp?s=8535919

Using archaeomagnetic dating techniques:

http://www.kansas.com/news/state/story/441912.html

Honouring Kathleen Gilmore:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/062408dnmetar\
chaeologist.32d03a67.html

Four Colonial burials at Port Tobacco:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25411852/

Can Inuit oral stories shed light on the fate of the Franklin expedition?:

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=42e42606-a3a0-429d-be43-47a7\
8378edc2

A Chinese burial in the Fraser Canyon:

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2008/06/27/5999916-sun.html

Clues to pioneer diet in Quebec:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=766c680b-d6ef-4f2d-a5ba-ee\
f74cce54d0


More coverage of DNA matches to 'Long Ago Person Found':

http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/062508/news_20080625005.shtml
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Ancient maize varieties:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/asop-amm062308.php
http://www.physorg.com/news133663767.html

Rethinking Maya migrations:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2008-06-22-maya-kiuic_N.h\
tm

Precolumbian 'noisemakers' reassessed:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/27/america/LA-FEA-GEN-Mexico-Pre-Columbia\
n-Sounds.php
http://www.pr-inside.com/recreating-pre-columbian-sounds-r668938.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Some old tomes belonging to Iraq's Jewish community have turned
up in Israel:

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/06/27/rare_iraqi_jewish_books_surface_in_is\
rael/afp/

Bones of the missing Romanovs?:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/06/24/Bones_said_those_of_missing_Romanovs/UPI-\
21261214350921/

Copying biblical texts may have been harmful to monks' health:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/27/poison-monks-mercury.html

Microscopic organisms threaten monuments around the world:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/24/healthscience/24micr.php

Chemical fingerprints of volcanic eruptions and their implications:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080624124308.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Egypt:

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700238123,00.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh (new!):

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is an interview with
Donny George:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The Katas Raj temple was looted of nearly everything:

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C06%5C27%5Cstory_27-6-2008_p\
g13_7

A number of looted items were returned to Mexico from the U.S.
and Canada:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080623-artifacts-video-ap.html

The feds are cracking down on looting in Oregon:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/nwheadlines/2008/06/_more_northwest_front_pages_142.h\
tml

A train guard from Kent who purloined artifacts from Roman sites
has received his comeuppance:

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Court-sentences-Roman-artefacts-thief-newsin\
kent14059.aspx

More coverage of Jordan's return of looted items to Iraq:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/23/2282498.htm
http://en.rian.ru/culture/20080623/111740339.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/arts/design/23arts-LOOTEDANTIQU_BRF.html
http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=578&cat=2
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/06/22/jordan_returns_stolen_antiquities_to_\
iraq/afp/
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL2262024520080622
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/06/22/iraq-artifacts.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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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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Excavating Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24892

Babylon: Myth and Reality:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3440815,00.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aYog2rCe6MWk&refer=muse
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=24896&int_modo=1

Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24883
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/arts/design/27anti.html

Roman Art from the Louvre:

http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_174234432.html
(slideshow)

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1123440.html

Goya:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/travel/22journeys.html

... meanwhile, a piece attributed to Goya has been "downgraded":

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/arts/28arts-AGOYADOWNGRA_BRF.html
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Coloso/seguro/era/Goya/elpepucul/20080626\
elpepucul_8/Tes

They're trying to arrange for the display of the Bayeux Tapestry
in England (but the story is being spun into a repatriation
issue?!):

http://tinyurl.com/5dsa9r (Telegraph)
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Tapestry-row-sparks-new-Norman.4218336.jp

Ivory Coast is auctioning off a pile of antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/arts/design/27anti.html

Big bucks for a Monet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/arts/design/25auct.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Macbeth (?):

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/theater/reviews/23macb.html

The Last Mistress (movie):

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/movies/27mist.html

Bacchae:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/theater/29mcge.html

Romeo and Juliet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/arts/dance/29sulc.html

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/29theatnj.html
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ON THE WEB
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Vieux La Romaine (pristine Roman site with a nice museum):

http://www.cg14.fr/culture/patrimoine/archeologie/musee/
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OBITUARIES
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John Dore (archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/3uvjnz (Independent)

Henry Chadwick (Anglican scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/world/europe/22chadwick.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/22/business/obit.php
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/19/religion
http://tinyurl.com/5htv9y (Independent)

Richard Koke (NY Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/arts/design/25koke.html

Richard Vecoli (Immigration historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/us/23vecoli.html

Charles Parkhurst ("Monuments Man"):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/arts/design/28parkhurst.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo,
John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, 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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'Cave men' loved to sing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080703/sc_livescience/cavemenlovedtosing
http://tinyurl.com/64t4pu

A homo erectus fossil from Morocco:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701141030.htm

Nice piece on the anthropologist who found 'Lucy's daughter':

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/01/BASI11DS1L.DTL
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AFRICA
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An update of sorts on that shipwreck off Namibia:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=4814
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An Old Kingdom "burial ground":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080705/sc_afp/egyptarchaeology_080705172109
http://www.physorg.com/news134531709.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jLLaGNMZjrz8OQIgjUwg8WRchq6w
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/06/content_8496782.htm
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/07/05/ancient_royal_burial_ground_found_in_\
egypt_report/afp/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/06/2295557.htm

Feature on the Tell Edfu dig:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080701-egypt-discovery.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/photogalleries/Edfu-photos/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701121838.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?ref=science

An inscription of Ramses II from (near) Damascus:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9364\
0

A (bizarre) sacrifice-'burial' of an acrobat and horses from
Syria:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=80453

An ancient 'royal structure' from Northern Iran:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=78709

Plans are afoot to excavate the Chehrabad salt mine:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=708534
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=172160

Some 'new' fragments of Leviticus from the Judean desert:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10520219

Very interesting ink-on-stone 'Messiah' tablet (I suspect this will
be getting a ton of press attention):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080705/NEWS/807050615&tc=yahoo
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/453291.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008035408_biblical06.html

They're going to fix up Tell Napoleon:

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docView.asp?did=1000356221&fid=1124

More on that 'oldest Christian church' in Jordan:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5270738&page=1

Review of Jonathan Wilson, *Ancestral Journeys*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Wilson-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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Pompeii has been declared a "disaster zone" and/or is under a
'state of emergency':

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/07/05/pompeii-emergency.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_eu/italy_pompeii_2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7490735.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=80974
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-04_104236746.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jjwFyYLT-xmCK-YkaHGe8Pf8NKBAD91N4A801
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0422602020080704
http://itn.co.uk/news/f6ffa5ad92a2b4bc5c2b5906da94c4fb.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/05/italy
http://www.france24.com/en/20080704-state-emergency-declared-save-pompeii-site-a\
rcheology-italy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/sc_nm/italy_pompeii_dc_3
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Italy-Pompeii.html

Evidence of affluent Roman life at Caerwent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7481869.stm
http://www.topnews.in/archaeological-dig-reveals-stylish-roman-life-250411
http://tinyurl.com/6fsjzc (Telegraph)

A few Elgin/Parthenon Marbles pieces this week:

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/destinations/greece/ar\
ticle4268110.ece

Another portrait of Hadrian is on the move:

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=8612945&nav=menu209_1_1

Five Roman burials from Krinides:

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2008/08-07-03_1.apeen.html
http://www.express.gr/news/news-in-english/47851oz_2008070347851.php3

A rostrum was found off the coast of Sicily:

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212155841.shtml
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/07/01/Rare_Roman_artifact_found_near_Sicily\
/UPI-17071214966114/

Digging the 'Ephesus of the Black Sea':

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108524

Comparing Virgil translations:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/05/do0508.xml

Looking for Roman remains at Birnie:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7487985.stm

Studying ancient attire:

http://tinyurl.com/55zagc (Western)

Concerns over plans to privatize archaeological sites in Sicily:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-03_103231149.html

More coverage of the Nemean Games:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5isMsgWswP3nNzLyE7zDqVcrCgcmQ

More on the tourist threat to Greek theatres:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/article4264580.ece

Feature on the Antonine Wall:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4276718.ece

Comparing Olympics ancient and modern:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080628162032.htm

More coverage of the redating of Caesar's invasion of Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7483566.stm
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25881

... with an interesting related piece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7475285.stm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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're looking at the Ring of Brodgar:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Digging--up--the.4243941.jp

They've been brewing beer in Ireland for quite a while, apparently:

http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2008/June/29-Brewing-tradition-existed-5176\
3.asp

A 13th century necropolis from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=94626
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/13th-century-church-excavated-in-veliko-turnovo\
/id_30261/catid_70

A Jacobean (Elizabethan?) 'Titanic':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2228622/Elizabethan-%27Titanic%27-discovered-by-\
archaeologists.html

Versailles' Golden Gates have been reopened:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080702-versailles-france-gold-gates-louis-iv

The public can voice their opinion about Stonehenge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7482995.stm

More coverage of Vikings and cod:

http://tinyurl.com/5b77v5 (NS)

More coverage of that Viking burial going on display in Sweden
(with a focus on some amber gaming piece found therein):

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/254653.php/Vikings-believed-that-their-dead-playe\
d-board-games-on-their-way-to-the-afterlife
http://tinyurl.com/4btvhw

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 2000 b.p. bronze drum from Viet Nam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/07/792016/

Nice feature on Dunhuang's caves:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/arts/design/06cott.html

Review of a couple of tomes on 'old Beijing':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Sekules-t.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating Washington's boyhood home:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/403105.html
http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702180713.htm
http://www.slate.com/id/2194821/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/science/03george.html

Looking for evidence of the War of 1812 in Lake Erie:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-oh-underwaterbattlef,0,1544419.story

A Hohokam site is holding up 'park construction' (do you construct
a park?):

http://www.explorernews.com/articles/2008/07/03/news/doc486abf137b1e9574652543.t\
xt

A good interview about those human coprolites found a few months ago:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june08/firstamerican_06-30.html

More evidence of an asteroid wreaking havoc 12,900 years ago:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702160950.htm

Digging Austin:

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/07/05/0705feit.html

Dating Yankee Doodle:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/yankee_doodle250th
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1AgNDunHNM9leVm-rceR57bgK6gD91MT9Q84

Looking at some early drafts of the Declaration of Independence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/nyregion/05declaration.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/opinion/04widmer.html

The trouble with teardowns:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/opinion/01tue3.html

Feature on Poplar Grove:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92190792

Sad stories from Gettysburg:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92126534

What to do about Fort Monroe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06fort.html

Quebec City is celebrating its 400th anniversary:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080702-culture-quebec-canada-anniversary-400-years-\
champlain-enigma-french
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/opinion/03fischer.html

Review of Paul Fisher, *House of Wits*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Lee-t.html

Review of Daniel Mark Epstein, *The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/books/03maslin.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plans are afoot to open a sealed cave beneath a Teotihuacan
pyramid:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/04/2294384.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25520043/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Researchers_to_open_sealed_cave/art\
icleshow/3200586.cms
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d4d2a598-14e3-4328-98b8-1b\
805f7282a8&k=77669
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=62567§ionid=3510212
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/sc_nm/mexico_pyramid_dc_1
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=researchers-open-secret-c

Controversy over a petroglyph from Puerto Rico:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/589011.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/42770.html

A pre-Columbian Moche tomb:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7491827.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/06/2295710.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/05/america/LA-GEN-Peru-Archaeologists.php
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hV4pooo_8f9ohoD5Dxa4-8EX9wvA

Another tourists-are-damaging-Machu-Picchu piece:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6ZAdf3xivpIi65Gn_SXTndpDFvwD91L7FM81
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_sc/machu_picchu_endangered

More on those Aztec 'death whistles':

http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/07/how_an_ancient_1.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=5271675
http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/684725.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4238688.ece
http://tinyurl.com/56p6uq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/pre_columbian_sounds

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On Frederick II and the rebirth of Roman culture:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/05/arts/conway.php

On the movie portral of Prince Caspian:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/05/do0507.xml

Did Robert Graves plagiarize?:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/war-poet-robert-graves-stole-w\
ork-from-his-mistress-859980.html

Trying to save a ship from shipworm:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jul/02/archaeology

... while elsewhere, they were firing a cannon found in an
Elizabethan shipwreck:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4244535.ece

Interesting item on Keats:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/07/080707crbo_books_kirsch

On the origins of football (maybe) (European):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7486118.stm

Lyme disease originated in Europe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080629142805.htm

I guess Occam's Razor doesn't apply to the who-wrote-Shakespeare's-plays
set:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92236768
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92142217

What makes a Stradivarius so good:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/arts/music/05arts-ITSALLINTHEW_BRF.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/solved-the-mystery-of-why-stradivarius\
-violins-are-best-858329.html

Can't remember if we had this King-Arthur-was-French story:

http://tinyurl.com/6yg6s3 (Telegraph)

The mould problem at Lascaux continues:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063002363.\
html

Review of Edward Dolnick,*The Forger's Spell*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/books/review/Julius-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Rhodes:

http://www.easier.com/view/Travel/Travel_Guides/article-188292.html

Turkey:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/03/ST2008070303497.ht\
ml

Zadar:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/travel/06next.html?ref=travel

Lampedusa:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/travel/06leopard.html

The smallest U.S. National Park:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92035186

others:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91890528

Diving shipwrecks in N. Carolina:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/travel/escapes/04diving.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
American Journal of Archaeology 112.3 (mostly abstracts):

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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France returned some looted pottery to Italy:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_eu/italy_looted_antiquities_1
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/04/arts/Italy-Looted-Antiquities.php
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5is_bcmuTOwPCXlYk6aWb_ugCT9RgD91N41M00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/05/DDSS11K7OQ.DTL
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Italy-Looted-Antiquities.html

Peruvian officials found some pre-Hispanic textiles for sale in a
Lima market:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/05/america/LA-Peru-Ancient-Textiles.php

That Indonesian museum curator who was involved in theft of some
statuary received his come-uppance:

http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080630/tap-as-gen-indonesia-museum-thefts-64e\
d358.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/02arts-CURATORSENTE_BRF.html

Egypt recovered a looted relief from Bonham's:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080630/egypt_antiquities.html?.v=1
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/30/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Antiquities.php
http://www.pr-inside.com/egypt-retrieves-a-2-500-year-old-stone-r674800.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25460568/
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25460568&afid=1
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/904/he3.htm

Syria returned some items to Iraq:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/404843.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_sc/iraq_artifact_returned;_ylt=AqpjrTU\
XIqoVEJkySnAYzv.s0NUE
http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/07/03/syria_returns_iraqi_antiquities/5c3f/

... and there are some more Iraqi artifacts in Jordan:

http://www.arabtimesonline.com/kuwaitnews/pagesdetails.asp?nid=19207&ccid=9

... and Iraq has set up a task force to look into the problem:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=239488&s=&i=&t=Iraq_creates_task_force_t\
o_probe_stolen_antiquities

Al-Ahram has a feature on Egypt's National Committee to Return
Smuggled Antiquities:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/904/he1.htm

Yemen police foiled a smuggling operation:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10014539.html

Good OpEd piece on the rise in art thefts:

http://tinyurl.com/65js44 (Globe and Mail)

Someone vandalized Hans Christian Andersen's tombstone:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/en_afp/denmarkcrimevandalismcemeteryliterat\
ure
http://jp.dk/uknews/article1384020.ece

A different sort of art theft:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/arts/design/30arts-ARTISTSDAUGH_BRF.html

Documents missing from the National Archives:

http://www.archives.gov/research/recover/missing-documents.html
cf. http://www.archives.gov/research/recover/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Millennia Collection was auctioned off:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=4824

A hoard of Roman coins from a Wrexham farm:

http://www.wrexhamleader.co.uk/news/Hoard-of-Roman-coins-found.4251334.jp

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-04_104232631.html
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/07/04/Museum_planning_Caesar_exhibiti\
on/UPI-18451215202099/

Hadrian:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/05/bahadrian105.xml

Turner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04turn.html

Goya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/design/02abroad.html

Jacob Riis photos:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91981589

Radiance from the Rain Forest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/arts/design/05feat.html

Nordic Heritage Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/arts/design/30conn.html

The Terracotta Army exhibit at the BM has been a huge success:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7485736.stm

Neil MacGregor was apparently asked to run the Met:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=avli9UL1SisA&refer=home
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28006/british-museum-director-turns-down-met/

China's museums are dealing with some interesting problems:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04museums.html

The Brooklyn Museum of Art figures that a third of its Coptic
art collection is fake:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-museum-admits-third-of\
-its-coptic-art-is-fake-858345.html

Steven Spielberg has given a major donation to the Jewish
Museum in Philadelphia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/04arts-JEWISHMUSEUM_BRF.html

A terra cotta relief fell off the wall at the Met:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/07/01/met-relief-fall.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/design/02scul.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/design/01cnd-sculpture.html

The Israel Museum have restored ownership of some 4th century
medallions:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24979
http://www.pr-inside.com/restitution-of-three-nazi-looted-gold-glass-r676849.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL30343606

When 'antiquing' became popular in the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04huds.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Phaethon:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=146522&bolum=110
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=238884&s=&i=&t=Izmir_Festival_To_Host_Wo\
rld_Premiere_Of_Euripides'_Tragedy
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=239572

Bacchae:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/theater/reviews/05bacc.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Nicolas Coldstream (a bit late):

http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,,2289173,00.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Hernan Astudillo, Johannes Deissler, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman,
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hoping I have left no one out).

An awful lot of repeats this week ...
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AFRICA
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An update on that Necho circumnavigation recreation:

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/20080611150353pbogeneral.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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(Much)More coverage of that 'Messiah tablet':

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1897472
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1821076,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/7495006.stm
http://tristatehomepage.com/content/fulltext/?cid=13311
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Tablet-links-Judaism-and-Christianity\
.4264211.jp
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008035408_biblical06.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080706/news_1n6biblical.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999719.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820685,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hebrew-tablet-predates-bible\
-on-resurrection-862065.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23986628-23109,00.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=93947
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4295804.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4295804.ece

cf:

http://bib-arch.org/news/dss-in-stone-news.asp
http://www.bib-arch.org/archive.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=34&Issue=1&ArticleID=16&ex\
traID=14

Video from the dig at Bet Shemesh:

http://wejew.com/media/1641/The_Bet_Shemesh_Dig/

Interesting item on the existence of two Jewish temples in Egypt:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330921923&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=121\
5330921923

More coverage of that Old Kingdom 'burial ground':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080705/sc_afp/egyptarchaeology_080705172109
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011528893
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=454529&sid=FTP
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYGteTgAmukLSDqISyUvrL8EX48g

More coverage of Edfu:

http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/photos_ancient_egypt_town\
_found/

Review of Lesley Hazelton, *Jezebel*:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1214726199575&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

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)
================================================================
Latest press feeding frenzy revolves around suggestions that the
Capitoline She Wolf is actually of medieval date:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25638069/
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5353979
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/072008/07122008/394656?rss=local
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/She-wolf_statue_not_so_ancient/arti\
cleshow/3224782.cms
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/11/ap/world/main4250474.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_re_eu/italy_how_old_the_she_wolf_2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7499469.stm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2289873,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/symbol-of-rome-found-to-be-1000-y\
ears-too-young-863937.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25638069&afid=1
http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2008/07/09/la-lupa-d\
i-roma-medievale-la-prova.html

Interesting curse tablet from Cyprus:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9403\
0
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2355943,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080711/od_afp/cyprusarchaeologyoffbeat_08071109581\
9
http://news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,24005733-5005361,00.html?from=public_r\
ss

A 'modest Venus' has been unearthed near Skopje:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080710-1012-macedonia-ancientstatue.h\
tml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article4312955.ece
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=84208
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/07/10/macedonia-venus-statue.html
http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/649116
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080710/entertainment/art_ancient_statue_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626087/
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g7T8MMVLCUSKHUegInWzZ-9pPxgw
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-quick11-2008jul11,0,5308549\
.story
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25626087&afid=1

An Etruscan tomb from Perugia:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-08_108227140.html

Some doctor is using hospital equipment to look at scrolls from
Herculaneum; not sure if there are any classicists involved in this one:

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/901/story/235510.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008048153_webscrolls13.html

The Jasonites do interesting work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/theater/10odin.html

Interesting marble discus found in the waters off Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/63f6e6 (MFA)

Another bathhouse found at Whitehall Roman Villa:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/A-second-Roman-bath-house.4282006.jp

Praising Hadrian (in conjunction with a new exhibition):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/07/1
http://tinyurl.com/59jeu5 (Telegraph)

... and all about the Pantheon:

http://tinyurl.com/6m6rky

Not sure why this discovery of the hippodrome at Olympia hasn't hit
the English press yet:

http://quotidianonet.ilsole24ore.com/esteri/2008/07/07/102823-scoperto_ippodromo\
_olimpia.shtml
http://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article2178989/Pferderennbahn_im_antiken_Olympia\
_entdeckt.html
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article2171041/Forscher_finden_Pferderennbahn_in_Olymp\
ia.html
http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/region/regional.php?oid=3732200
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news269126
http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/23389.php

... meanwhile, some guy is bringing chariot racing back to Rome (maybe):

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080708/113531821.html

A legionnaire's 'ceremonial lance' from Caerleon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7500223.stm

Horncastle Roman Wall is threatened:

http://www.horncastlenews.co.uk/news/Historic-Roman-wall-is-39at.4267150.jp

Iranian scholars criticize Herodotus (with political overtones?):

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=713844

More coverage of the Phaistos Disk being a fake:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article43189\
11.ece

More 'state of emergency at Pompeii' coverage:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/07/04/ap5184746.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/07/04/europe/OUKWD-UK-ITALY-POMPEII.php
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/5871985.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/arts/design/05arts-EMERGENCYATP_BRF.html
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2353716,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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)
================================================================
Humans were on the future site of Paris much earlier than
previously thought:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080707-paris-humans.html

Time for the semi-annual report on the damage badgers are doing
to UK monuments:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080711-badger-england.html

... and  I see this classic loop is still kicking around:

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

There are still other threats, of course:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7494284.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5jhpq6

... and sites in Norway are threatened by assorted things too:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2529848.ece

They're digging up Nicosia's city centre ... stay tuned:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=40240&cat_id=1

More Ring of Brogdar coverage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7485875.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Some interesting Aboriginal petroglyphs found during a dig
near Sydney Harbour:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/ancient-spirits-lifted/2008/07/12/1215658193\
657.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Those fires in the western U.S. threaten assorted sites (of
course, in a couple of weeks we'll see reports on sites that
have been revealed  by same):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92271539&ft=1&f=1001

Digging near Monk's Mound:

http://tinyurl.com/5mo7j5

Different (for us) questions being raised by the excavation of
'Escalante Man':

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9858626

For once, 'development' loses in NY:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/nyregion/09society.html

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about Shovelbum in
Alaska:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Restoring (sort of) a NY church:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/realestate/13scap.html

Review of a couple of historical novels set in Wisconsin:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92029508
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Very interesting site with artifacts from various periods found
in Bolivia:

http://tinyurl.com/6d2bzw

More coverage of that pre-Columbian Moche burial from Peru:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25568914/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/06/america/tomb.3-298531.php
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1890999
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/archeologists+find+nobility+tomb/231\
8252
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/06/2295797.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/06/peru-tomb-moche.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080708-discovery-video-ap.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25568914&afid=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7491827.stm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Bones from Jericho are going to be used to develop a TB treatment:

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-07-13-ancient-bones-may-lead-to-tb-cure
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jul/13/medicalresearch.health

Coverage of all the 'new' UNESCO Heritage sites (including the
Antonine Wall ... finally):

http://tinyurl.com/55c8xk
http://whc.unesco.org/fr/actualites/450
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/So-what-did-the-Romans.4264327.jp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7487191.stm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2289720,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4296647.ece
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gpa52iNqsliUV7pEXIGT4ZHTv6ZQ
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7494680.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6adhrp (El Pais)

... with some bizarre politics:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bkk157844-thailand-temple/

One of those Viking ship recreations had to seek shelter from storms:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7498059.stm

Interesting photos of damage to monuments in Germany caused by
allied bombing in WWII:

http://tinyurl.com/63433v (Telegraph)

On Stonehenge and Hopewell as burial sites:

http://tinyurl.com/5nuu4m

Nice feature on William John Thoms:

http://blog.oup.com/2008/07/folklore/

Using digital technology to detect fakes:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080710110752.htm

Putting the Codex Sinaiticus online:

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13188

Not sure why these 'crystal skulls' stories are still kicking around:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6ahBqCwNc0-MB4mJ3kpvLyp8uGQ
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/09/2298752.htm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080709/tsc-science-archaeology-entertainment-fi-c\
2ff8aa.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080709/sc_afp/sciencearchaeologyentertainmentfilms\
kull

An Austrian town has removed a statue of Aphrodite after learning
it was a gift from Hitler:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1118864920080711
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380445,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330938608&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

Folks might be interested in this piece on Albanian blood feuds:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/world/europe/10feuds.html

The Marbles Reunited campaign has a new director:

http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/36789/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Alexandria:

http://tinyurl.com/5tlagy (Telegraph)

Lampedusa/Sicily:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/09/travel/leopard.php

Beguinages in Belgium:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/travel/13journeys.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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


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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Brief item on the (illegal?) bulldozing of a site in Illinois:

http://tinyurl.com/6pnlu9

Reexcavation of a Roman house near St. Alban's reveals that a
mosaic therein is no longer there:

http://www.stalbansobserver.co.uk/display.var.2392648.0.0.php

Plenty of press for Shelby White's latest returns of items to
Greece:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080711/greece_looted_antiquities.html?.v=1
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100014_12/07/2008_98517
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/11/news/Greece-Looted-Antiquities.php
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aIACdZ7p1E6k&refer=muse
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/arts/12arts-COLLECTORTOR_BRF.html?ref=arts

Some purloined artifacts are returning to Columbia:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247446.php
http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/jul/08/smuggled-ancient-artifacts-returning-colo\
mbia/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/artifacts_recovered_2
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-07-08-treasure_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/arts/09arts-COLOMBIAGETS_BRF.html

A couple of purloined capitals found in a market in Viterbo:

http://www.tusciaweb.it/notizie/2008/luglio/6_1finanza.htm

Fears of looting of Greek shipwrecks:

http://www.divemaster.com/diving-news/greek-sea-looted-by-divers_20323.html

More returns from Syria to Iraq:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377205,00.html

... while an editorial argues against such returns:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-07-06%5Ckurd.htm

... and a somewhat bizarre claim that there has been no looting
since 2003 is debunked:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68919

A triptych purloined back in 1913 turns up at Sotheby's:

http://tinyurl.com/5tchsn (El Pais)

A first folio Shakespeare has been recovered:

http://tinyurl.com/6k9y68 (Telegraph)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/arts/12arts-SHAKESPEARER_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25083

The Marvel and Measure of Peru:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-peru13-2008jul13,0,6311114.\
story

Court Arts from Nigeria:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24991

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/onlinex.php?id=196

Pietre Dure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/arts/design/11dure.html

Jewish and Other Imperial Cultures in Late Antiquity:

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/fellows08/

Van Gogh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13artsct.html

Interesting virtual tour technology applied to Pompeii:

http://www.physorg.com/news134845567.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/arts/10arts-ANEWTOUROFAN_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080709/tc_afp/italyarchaeologyherculaneummuseum_08\
0709185748
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5isGxvbsVdkF59t1AbzIWAi05iUrQ

Doesn't look like Greece is going to use proprietary 'hand held
guides' at its sites (er ... ever hear of an iPod?):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_07/07/2008_98344

The Uffizi is going to do some "open air restoration"

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-08_108230047.html

Is the British Museum 'the greatest'?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article42960\
37.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article4304258\
.ece

The LA County Museum of Art has acquired a nice Oceania collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/arts/09arts-MUSEUMACQUIS_BRF.html

I think we mentioned this acquisition of a Roman sarcophagus
by the Getty a while ago:

http://www.huliq.com/63956/getty-acquires-roman-sarcophagus

Investigating a Denver acquisition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/arts/11arts-MUSEUMINVEST_BRF.html

More aboriginal skulls are being returned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7497171.stm

They're going to recreate the Parthenon frieze at the Acropolis
Museum:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8077

The Gettysburg Cyclorama is reopening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/arts/design/07cycl.html

Possible fakery in an Art Deco auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/arts/design/08pere.html

Interesting delay in the export of a sculpted club from British
Columbia:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080709.wclub10/BNStory/Ente\
rtainment/home
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Bacchae:

http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/14322
http://uk.reuters.com/article/stageNews/idUKN0840164320080708

King Lear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13artsnj.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
William Sanders (archaeologist):

http://www.centredaily.com/news/breaking_news/story/705747.html
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/07/william_sanders_penn_state_ar\
c.html

John Simon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/us/10simon.htm

Sherman Lee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/arts/design/11lee.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Ross W. Sargent, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week
(as always  hoping I have left no one out).

... a quiet week
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EARLY HUMANS
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The problem of DNA contamination and early hominids:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715204741.htm
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002700

On the acoustics of assorted caves:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html

Item on cave art:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_thurman
cf.: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2008/07/21/080721mama_mail3
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of early use of irrigation in Yemen:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=86866
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716140918.htm

Plans are afoot to rebuild an Egyptian boat found near the
pyramids a while back:

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9928765?source=rss
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/07/19/6208281-ap.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008061124_apegyptancientboat.\
html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824608,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_ancient_boat_2
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkmbFophZH5NVfKiD_XTZ7pZVPDgD920TVT00
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jsHGQZ0zRD7NKFiQ4faIEvx9RaiQ
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-boat20-2008jul20,0,3835672.s\
tory
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=27003
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_on_sc/egypt_ancient_boat_1

An overview of digs going on in Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=147770&bolum=101

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)
================================================================
An overviewish thing on the excavations at Sardis:

http://www.zaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=147956&bolum=101

Plenty of hype about some guys (somewhat unrealistic) plans to return
chariot racing to Rome:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10521989
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-15_115220566.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,566242,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2302705/Roman-chariots-to-thunder-around-Circus-\
Maximus-once-more.html

Nice photo of Jupiter over Ephesus (good wallpaper potential):

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0807/EphesusHadrianus_pan.jpg

More coverage of Phaistos Disk authenticity skepticism:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28092/american-archaeologist-doubts-authentici\
ty-of-phaistos-disc/

More on that ship-discus find:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1054353,CST-NWS-israel14.article
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/13/ap/world/main4256748.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_ancient_relic_1
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2356863,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126823
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109440.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330955367&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/13/africa/ME-Israel-Ancient-Eye.php
(clumsy ...)

More on the ongoing threat to Pompeii:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25735606/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080718/lf_nm_life/italy_pompeii_dc_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSL1848994520080718
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=8d3bed34-bfce-4e23-af76-eab\
100fb35ba
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL1884748620080718
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ale.ebWSOpdg&refer=muse

More coverage of the hippodrome in Olympia:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080715/114036407.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714145253.htm
http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2008/07/052.shtml
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
0881

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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)
================================================================
Finds from various periods during bus station construction in
Warwick:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7513400.stm

Interesting finds from Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/5b3tt5

I suspect this Bayeux Tapestry conference is what was actually
being hyped by the 'ownership dispute' a few weeks ago:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2291107,00.html

Update on the Stonehenge visitors' centre:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2291084,00.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Remember that Cambodian temple at the centre of a border dispute
last week? The dispute is growing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080720/wl_afp/cambodiathailandculturemilitary_0807\
20042644
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Troops-face-off-over-temple.4306208.jp
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080719-0532-cambodia-thailand-temple.\
html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0719/p99s01-duts.html

... and this week's threatened-by-tourists-site: Angkor:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-angkor20-2008jul20,0,4999267\
.story

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Here's a bizarre twist/suggestion about the peopling of the
Americas:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701193203.htm

Archaeologists may have located the site of La Petite-Rochelle:

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=8d3bed34-bfce-4e23-af76-eab\
100fb35ba
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/358279

Arrowhead find on a Massachusetts beach:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080714/hl_nm/palestinians_israel_tuberculosis_dc_3
http://www.sunjournal.com/story/274547-3/NewEnglandNews/Man_finds_ancient_arrowh\
ead/
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1107187&srvc\
=rss

Interesting stuff from a dig at St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans):

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/07/16/6176166-ap.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080716/ap_on_re_us/cathedral_dig

8000 b.p. (maybe) knife from Florida:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25692018/
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jul/15/6000-year-old-knife-unearthed-safety-har\
bor-park/

They're digging Crown Point Fort:

http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080718/NEWS02/807180355/1\
003/NEWS02

Civil War artifacts from the Harding House site (Tenn.):

http://murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=12008

Complaints about not finding enough in Bath:

http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2008/07/13/news/news02.txt
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
PreColumbian mummies with ulcers:

http://www.livescience.com/history/080714-mummy-ulcer.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714192606.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
0730

Nice feature (with video) of a Chancay mummy find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080717-new-mummy-missions.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/photogalleries/peru-mummy-photos\
/index.html

DNA is shedding light on Athapaskan migrations:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/uoia-ycs071508.php

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
OpEd thing on archaeological ethics:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0715/1215940930850.html

Pondering 1625 and New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/opinion/17thu4.html

They've identified/confirmed the remains of the tsarevich:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l15195448-russia-tsar/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/world/europe/17briefings-ROMANOVREMAI_BRF.html

Stanley Fish on the Milton Symposium:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/happy-birthday-milton/

DNA connects German villagers with 'cave men' (Bronze Age, actually):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4333514.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/15/scidna115.xml

Alnwick Gardens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/garden/17northumberland.html

Wikimania 2008:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/wikipedia-goes-to-alexandria-home-of-ot\
her-great-reference-works/index.html

More coverage of Jericho bones and TB research:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7510334.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/16/2305738.htm
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24026038-30417,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jul/13/medicalresearch.health
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1002211
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1002420
See also http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40023
http://www.israel21c.org/link.jsp?enDispWho=Articles^l2199&enZone=Health
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l14578915-palestinians-israel-tuberculosis/
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
0871

Interesting royal funeral in Bali:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/world/asia/16indo.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Vandalism is a major problem at Nevada sites:

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=8680825

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Darwin-Wallace medal:

http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=344

Stewart Collection:

http://www.rowan.edu/library/policies_services/special_collections/stewart.htm

John Chapman's collection is up for sale:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/11/2300747.htm

Nice Victoria Cross collection is going on view:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2270310/World's-largest-VC-collection-to-\
go-on-show.html

Someone accidentally 'spent' some very valuable coins:

http://hopelessutopian.com/2008/06/19/18-rare-coins-mistakenly-returned-to-gener\
al-circulation.aspx

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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Hadrian:

http://tinyurl.com/6rrjr8 (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article43384\
12.ece
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11745577
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25203&int_modo=1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/20/do2009.xml

Muraqqa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/arts/design/18mugh.html

Tombs of Paestum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25165

Yeats:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/arts/design/20dwye.html

Arts of Islam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/world/europe/17briefings-LOUVRETOADDI_BRF.html

Some interesting skeletons in the Museum of London:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7509348.stm

Brooklyn Museum Fakes:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/brooklyn-to-exhibit-fake-art/81900/

Egyptian Revival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/arts/design/11anti.html

Andrea Riccio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/arts/design/18voge.html

Texas Collects Asia:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/travel/5891852.html

Brian Rose can add Director of the UPenn Museum to his CV:

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n01/Rose.html

The Royal Academy of Arts in London has a new director of
exhibitions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/arts/17arts-MUSEUMNOTES_BRF.html

Assorted auction news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/arts/design/16crui.html

Storing the art that doesn't fit in the museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/realestate/commercial/16art.html

Interesting item on Regency furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/arts/design/18anti.html

More coverage of the AAMD guidelines for antiquities
acquisition:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8076

More coverage of Shelby White's returns:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aIACdZ7p1E6k&refer=muse
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
William T. Sanders:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/us/16sanders.html

David H. Greene:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/books/15greene.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Arguing over plans to excavate the Laetoli footprints:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200807220050.html
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AFRICA
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Interesting update on the Axum obelisk (and others):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7505957.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Oldest evidence of human presence in the Nile Delta:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080723101956.htm

If you're looking for the text of 'Gabriel's Revelation':

http://www.hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=162

Feature on recent ideas about Qumran:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331033237&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

... and one one the excavations at Tel Beit Shemesh:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1005648

The Codex Sinaiticus is online (although it doesn't seem to be
able to handle all the attention it's getting!);

http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10522897
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/religion/story/E2360C9A48118D3\
F8625748F000917A7?OpenDocument
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/21/online.bible.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,388182,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_re/britain_ancient_bible_1
http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/663619
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hR5sZZw9OszP2oQshi868c2QXVyQ
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3498858,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/5kueqb (Telegraph)
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/24/online-codex-sinaiticus.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25785089/

More coverage of Egyptian boat reconstruction matters:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080721-boat-video-ap.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,388381,00.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080722/egypt_boat_080722/2\
0080722
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10074831.shtml
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/612788.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-07/21/content_6864195.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10522550
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/22/content_8745366.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/25/egyptian-boat.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/video/0,47-0@2-3244,54-1075735@51-1075740,0.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Interesting 2600 b.p. burial from Italy's Adriatic coast:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-1039.html

2000 b.p. burial from West Sussex:

http://www.littlehamptongazette.co.uk/6427/VIDEO--2000yearold-Roman-body.4298651\
.jp

Remains of a Roman road in Herefordshire:

http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/3546708.Remants_of_roman_road_found/

A Roman spa from Serbia:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=89360
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=64481§ionid=3510212

Lullingstone Roman Villa has been refurbished:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4386888.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/24/heritage.museums

Some Roman dog skeletons:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/7521517.stm

The Telegraph has a nice feature on weblinks for Roman Britain:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/07/26/dlweb1\
26.xml

Water will be running through the Antonine Nymphaeum at Sagalassos
again:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-1500.html

More restoration work for the Parthenon:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jaa1be_yJBiOG96AxTpnbieQ4cpg

Homer's presence in Australian literature:

http://www.thecud.com.au/html/story_kanarakis_22072008.htm

Preserving Stanford's Ptolemaic papyri:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july23/papyri-072308.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-679.html
http://www.physorg.com/news136045798.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6289110

Semi-touristy thing on the dig at Troy:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=243334

Similiter on Sardis:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=147956&bolum=100

Nice Roman tombstone from Lancashire is going on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7521120.stm

Ancient wine 'industry' in Malta:

http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=53046&newscategory=36

Boris Johnson was orating in Latin:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1g1kY8pP0RU&refer=muse

Plans are afoot for that recently-discovered Temple of Cybele in
Bulgaria:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/balchik/news/20080722/cybele_temple.html

Brief item on a Roman bath find in Spain:

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/15253/roman-bath-discovered-at-villena-dig

More on Caesar's landing date in Britain:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92965327

More on the hippodrome at Olympia:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080724-olympics-hippodrome.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25831320/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10523200
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232008/news/worldnews/ancient_discovery_121123.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/world/europe/23briefs-SHADESOFNERO_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080722/sc_nm/greece_olympia_dc_1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7669965

More on the Pompeii state of emergency:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/arts/design/26ruin.html
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/07/pompeii_dying_u.shtml

More on that 'discus':

http://www.cdnn.info/news/science/sc080721.html
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=7ad7c6b2-18b5-4774-ac6c-9a\
f5f9dfcd80&k=37745
http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2008/07/17/news/news12.txt

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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 first millennium A.D. Finnish burial:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/6766/

A lost abbey was found at Scone Palace:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7517392.stm

A medieval still from Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n147006

Finds from various periods at a Norfolk dig:

http://tinyurl.com/6khu3u

Medieval gold ring from Iceland:

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=40764&ew_0_a_id=30\
9398

Review of Hugh Trevor-Roper, *The Invention of Scotland*:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/hugh-trevor-ropers-the-invention-of-scotland/82417/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Neolithic site from China's Yunnan province:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Chinese-unearth--Neolithic-site.4313878.jp
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25802081/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080722/sc_nm/china_excavation_dc_2
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/pek199681-china-excavation/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/22/content_8743141.htm

Nice feature on the Indus civilization:

http://pakistaniat.com/2008/07/20/science-indus-harappa/

Some more Australian petroglyphs are threatened:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/25/rock-art-australia.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080725/sc_afp/australiaartnativeresources_08072503\
3924
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZHDotkgDyPfNT61P9Prkk7iXFig

Finding sites in Afghanistan with Google Earth:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/21/archaeology-google.html

More coverage of those aboriginal petroglyphs at Sydney Harbour:

http://canowindra.yourguide.com.au/news/national/national/general/ancient-spirit\
s-lifted/809923.aspx

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A construction crew has found some pre-Columbian bones in
St. Augustine:

http://www.news4jax.com/news/16959611/detail.html

French pottery near St. Louis:

http://stcharlesjournal.stltoday.com/articles/2008/07/26/news/sj2tn20080726-0727\
stc-dig0.ii1.txt

A slave burial ground beneath a VCU parking lot:

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--slavecemetery0725jul25,0,57\
83556.story
http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=8736579
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-07-25-0308.htm\
l

Latest movie on the Archaeology Channel is about the CSS Water Witch:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Nice feature on DNA and the peopling of the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/5a366c (US News)

Short item on digging at the "Forks" (Winnipeg, Man.):

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080720/wpg_dig_080720/20080720\
?hub=WinnipegHome

An 800 b.p. footprint from Manitoba:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/23/content_8750888.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
July 24 was the anniversary of the discovery (maybe) of Machu
Picchu:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/07/dayintech_0724

Mystery mummy from Peru:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080721/sc_livescience/scientistsunravelmum\
mymystery

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
An old one which has resurfaced ... that 'salad dressing
shipwreck and the role of dna in figuring out what was in the
amphorae:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4368695.\
ece
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=88702

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Italy returned some antiquities to Iraq:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4630840a12.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL423608720080724

Another foiled smuggling attempt at the Yemen airport:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news159839.htm

Some purloined idols from Uttar Pradesh were recovered:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=88780

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Queens of Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/906/heritage.htm

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24024006-16947,00.html

Assorted Hadrianomania stuff (this is all quite varied):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7516157.stm
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110317
http://tinyurl.com/6n8l4c (Telegraph)
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9y2sKPNX7ozqJGbO0oygX6QDi6A
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aV1o8UzFYU7I&refer=muse
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1037131/Emperor-holocaust-How-death-male\
-lover-left-Hadrian-tyrant.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/22/bahadrian122.xml
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/An-emperor-for-our-times.4306643.jp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/21/do2103.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4359430.ece
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/07/22/hadrian.museum/
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i7glfGlNJx0ScWtVpc6ib0Xwg6lQ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121691956508781599.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-25_125215569.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/27/boopp127.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/23/art

Interview with the head of the new Acropolis museum:

http://stories.globalatlanta.com/2008stories/016231.html

Italy is helping to restore some Yemeni antiquities:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1175&p=local&a=4

A Gaza museum is opening:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/24/africa/gaza.php

Plenty of attention for an upcoming 'ancient Elvis' auction:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25274
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07252008/news/worldnews/hunka_stone_121432.htm
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=457443&sid=LIF&ssid=68
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=499889
http://www.theage.com.au/national/slick-and-the-dead-the-king-is-ancient-history\
-20080723-3jyv.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1037205/Are-Roman-tonight-Statue-Elvis-c\
hiselled-1800-years-birth-goes-hammer.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Richard Wade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/nyregion/25wade.html

Eugene Foster:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/us/25foster.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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
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John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri,
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EARLY HUMANS
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DNA evidence suggests no interbreeding between Neanderthals and
CroMagnons:

http://tinyurl.com/6rwvqx (Discovery)
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AFRICA
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An Axum obelisk update:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-31_131140086.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting bulla from one of Zedekiah's ministers:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24115029-12335,00.html
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=5367.3662.0.0
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331162371&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.web-view.net/Show/0X452A2CB6A9FED72A5694C27ADAF4BD0A3B586A0622CA3D31F\
D1655846E94A209.htm
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080801135757861C908041&click_id=588&se\
t_id=1
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1008048
(bizarre headline, though)

Egypt has rewarded some folks who came across some antiquities
while renovating their house:

http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1258308&lang=EN

Haven't we already heard of plans to excavate Chehrabad Salt Mine?:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/July2008/01-07-iranian.htm

In case you thought the Temple Mount saga was dying down:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71117
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331137734&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Recent work on the Zion Gate:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331116860&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

More (different?) coverage on that 'solar boat':

http://www.france24.com/en/20080719-japanese-camera-reveals-pharaohs-solar-boat-\
egypt-archaeology

More Codex Sinaiticus coverage:

http://www.theledger.com/article/20080731/news/808020305&tc=yahoo

More 'Messiah inscription' coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/5staf3

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 embalming in Roman-era Greece:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
1250

Some interesting finds from Aphrodisias:

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/20-centuries-old-piers-unearth\
ed-in-turkey_10078336.html

Plenty of attention for phase two (it seems) of the raising of a
Gela shipwreck:

http://news.ert.gr/en/newsDetails.asp?id=34230
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-28_128240910.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/29/content_8829775.htm
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=459649&sid=ftp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7531639.stm (Video)

... but even more for a report connecting the Antikythera Mechanism
with the Olympics and Archimedes:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7204/full/nature07130.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/31/europe/31computer.php
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395021,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ancient-device-was-used-to-predict-oly\
mpic-dates-881400.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/event/story.cfm?c_id=502&objectid=10524544
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080731/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_gadget_4
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-30-olympics_N.htm?csp=34
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24106319-30417,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=antikythera-mechanism-eclipse-olympics
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iaaYrf3YnqGVYlOWQWKrsS2lJxYQ
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/science/31computer.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080730-greek-computer.html
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jc3LqtL75d342CJVr0NpD9uha1fw
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Olympics/idUSL06431620080731
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926674.300?DCMP=NLC-nletter&\
nsref=mg19926674.300
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008082899_gadget31.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7533457.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/track/sumtxt2008073108/stories/2008/07/31/tech/main430988\
9.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
7/30/scicalc130.xml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080731/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_olympics_greece_calculator
http://tinyurl.com/5w54jp (leMonde)
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-antikythera31-2008jul31,0,3959931.sto\
ry

cf:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_seabrook

Some students in Spain excavated three Roman busts:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_17654.shtml

Calpe Roman Villa excavations have resumed:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/9826.html

Nice article on the Scythians:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/25-frozen-siberian-mummies-reveal-a-lost-ci\
vilization

Next sword and sandals flick on the horizon will be based on the Anabasis:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989886?categoryId=1946&cs=1

More on the Antonine Nymphaeum at Sagalassos:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=458655&sid=ftp

More on that Bognor burial:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3551234.Ancient_grave_found_on_Bognor_new_homes_s\
ite/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A pile of petroglyphs from the UK:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-5261.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7534510.stm
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.14216

related:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/jul/31/1?picture=336120468
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/

A German 'Stonehenge':

http://tinyurl.com/58csen (El Pais)

An early cremation burial from Ireland:

http://news.smashits.com/277930/Cremated-bones-dating-from-3-500-BC-to-2-000-BC-\
unearthed-in-Ireland.htm

Evidence of Napoli in Byzantine times:

http://www.iniziativameridionale.it/agenzia.asp?Id=7357

Medieval burials from a friary dig in Perth:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7533920.stm

Interesting theory about the sinking of the Mary Rose:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4439221.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2480411/Mary-Rose-sank-because-Spanish-cr\
ew-did-not-understand-orders.html

Nice feature on Mt Athos' recovery from that fire back in 2004:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8102

They've started digging for Nicosia's walls:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=40587&cat_id=1

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Neolithic burial from Malaysia:

http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/bnm/20080801/tts-burial-site-research-993ba14.htm\
l

In case you're wondering about that Thai-Cambodian temple dispute:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_temple_dispute_4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7506872.stm

Vague/poorly-translated item on an interesting find from Azerbaijan:

http://www.inform.kz/showarticle3.php?lang=eng&id=167683

Laos is taking some warnings about World Heritage Status seriously:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080729/tsc-laos-heritage-tourism-luangprabang-c2f\
f8aa.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Another Acadian dig ... this one's at Beaubassin:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1070242.html

Anasazi remains threatened by oil exploration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/us/02artifacts.html

Possible colonial-era shipwreck off Puerto Rico:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_sc/puerto_rico_underwater_find;_ylt=Av\
m_2lde_REuQgHhRzfj1EL737YB

A civil war document thought to be a photocopy has turned out to
be genuine:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_on_re_us/civil_war_surrender

Plans to preserve a 19th century church in East Harlem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/nyregion/30church.html

The history of 'industrialization' of the Hudson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/01expl.html

Interesting slave memorial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/arts/design/28benc.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of Olmec cultivation/consumption of cacao:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2008/07/ancient-mesoamerica\
-news-updates-2008_30.html

Working on a Chancy mummy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080718220603.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Dante's heir is being urged to accept Florence's apology:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-28_128240834.html

On the DNA front, which came first: the chicken or Columbus?:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/30/2318696.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080729133618.htm

Plenty of coverage of the 'world's oldest joke':

http://www.thestar.co.za/?fArticleId=4536142
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_university_of_wol\
verhamptons_list_of_wor.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/01/dl0103.xml
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080731/r_t_rtrs_uk_other/tuk-life-britain-joke-d\
c-fa6b408_2.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080731/lf_nm_life/britain_joke_dc

A portrait of a woman beneath a Van Gogh's Patch of Grass:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080730/sc_livescience/portraitofwomanrevea\
ledbeneathvangoghpainting

They're not going to allow folks to examine Chopin's heart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/arts/29arts-CHOPINSHEART_BRF.html

Interesting item on some 'art disasters':

http://tinyurl.com/67rey3 (Independent)

Pondering Emily Dickenson:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/08/04/080804crbo_books_thurman

This is borderline Elmer material ... remember the guy with the
China-reached-North-America-before-Columbus theory? He's now
suggesting Leonardo got his ideas from a Chinese encyclopedia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/sc_nm/britain_book_leonardo_dc_3
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l2428044-britain-book-leonardo/

The cultural significance of the doughnut:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080721152000.htm

Ipswich lace:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/design/01anti.html

The last (maybe) Cagot:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-last-untouchable-in-europe-87\
8705.html

Review of Iain Gately, *Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol*:

http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/48320/

Review of Paul Fisher, *House of Wits*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/books/30book.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Libya:

http://www.canada.com/northshorenews/news/travel/story.html?id=4233c4d5-b6e3-423\
9-8de6-8b930d2eb91c

Kas (Turkey):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111426

Genesis Land:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331158752&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
They're using the military to protect Piazza Amerina's ancient
remains:

http://tinyurl.com/5kpouz (Vivi Enna)

Theft of a pile of religious texts from a synagogue in Safed:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1007083

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Metal detectorists came across a small horde of Roman coins by
Stanton-by-Bridge:

http://tinyurl.com/5b64ck (Evening Telegraph)

American Gold:

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1984/1/1984_1_42.shtml

Journal of East Asian Numismatics:

http://www.dongya.info/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Egypt and Rome:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-08-01_101195681.html

Hadrian:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110840

related:

http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=32833&amid=30256927

Correggio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/arts/design/31corr.html

Queen Claude prayer book:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/08/04/080804ta_talk_mead

The British Museum has saved a medieval astrolabe:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2474799/Unique-medieval-astrolabe-saved-b\
y-the-British-Museum.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7534456.stm
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/arts/articles/2008/08/01/20080801tool.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080731/ap_on_sc/sci_britain_medieval_tool

This week's Acropolis Museum coverage:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aL01SM6B3NV8&refer=home

Strange museum/archaeologist dispute in Antalya:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111341

The Israel Museum has been given an interesting photo collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/design/01voge.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ann Lambton (Persian Scholar):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4379464.ece
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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John McMahon, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Tim Parkin,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Different journalists seem to be spinning this Neanderthal DNA
(and how much is shared with modern humans, if any) in different
ways:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-neanderthal-murder-mystery-888276.\
html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080807/tsc-us-anthropology-genetic-germany-e123fe\
f.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807130824.htm
http://www.france24.com/en/20080807-first-neanderthal-genome-sequenced-anthropol\
ogy-research
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/07/neanderthal-dna.html

How early hominids might have fared at the Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/6zgx6o
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AFRICA
================================================================
DNA is shedding light on when animal herding methods arrived in
southern Africa:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804190635.htm
http://www.healthcentral.com/newsdetail/408/618166.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Remains of a Byzantine olive oil press in northern Israel:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/08/08/Byzantine_olive_press_found_in_Israel/UPI\
-72561218220633/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00097.htm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331213268&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127106

Canaanite soldier burial in Sidon:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24141145-23109,00.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=94781

Humans were using milk some 2000 years earlier than previously
thought:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080806-prehistoric-dairy.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
8/06/scidairy106.xml
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/5845.html
http://www.livescience.com/history/080806-milk-history.html

They're going to do some DNA testing on those fetuses found in
Tut's tomb:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/egypt_tutankhamun_dc
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/06/africa/ME-Egypt-King-Tuts-Fetuses.php
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-08-06-tut-fetuses_N.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aNyqi_ylSNPA&refer=canada
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/06/content_9000723.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/06/tut-children.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUrpC3Kol6I-ebbUlLTwpNw4dhIwD92CVIJ00
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJjHl1AZHMawBftGQReGni_B8_-g
http://tinyurl.com/5plofc
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=26056598
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080806/sc_nm/egypt_tutankhamun_dc_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l6662418-egypt-tutankhamun/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7546041.stm

Results of the 2008 excavations at Tel Kabri:

http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/preliminary-results-of-the-2008-season-\
at-tel-kabri/

Recent finds at Ephesus:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111785

An overview of the excavations at Sardis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110758

I think we've had this Jericho-bones-and-TB story before:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218104249114&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More coverage of Gedaliah's seal:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/archaeology.brings.biblical.history.to.lif\
e/21144.htm
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71386
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127048

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)
================================================================
Quite a bit of press for the discovery of a Thracian chariot in a
tomb in Bulgaria:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1830563,00.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1098055,CST-NWS-chariot08.article
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/251808.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_sc/sci_bulgaria_ancient_chariot_4
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20080806123015\
589C395782
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/223795,bulgarian-archaeologists-unearth-\
thracian-carriage.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gYFRNauWODhgpDRjZfG9KdQoX7ewD92DDRAO0
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/07/bulgaria-chariot.html

French archaeologists have found remains of a large city in
Afghanistan which may have been 'founded' by Alexander:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/252026.php
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/112318/Archaeologists-uncover-ancient-city-in-Afghan\
istan
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20080808072546864C\
322942
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5933277.html

Brief mention of a Dacian necropolis find:

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/roundup/2008/\
08/04/roundup-st-03

Recent finds at Ephesus:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111785

An overview of the excavations at Sardis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110758

Brief item on some finds at Cannae:

http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/GdM_dallapuglia_NOTIZIA_PROV_01.asp?IDNot\
izia=208386&IDCategoria=292

Roman villa at Caserta:

http://www.interno18.it/attualita/3602/ritrovata-una-villa-romana-di-epoca-imper\
iale

Claim that Cleopatra's mummy is in Paris:

http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/08/is-the-mummy-of-cleopatra-buried-in-paris/

The usual cheating-at-the-ancient-Olympics piece:

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Olympics/idUSL655603720080808

Metal detectorists came across a Roman ring at Dunnington:

http://www.pocklingtonpost.co.uk/news/Roman-ring-is-unearthed-in.4341055.jp

The BAS has made available a free ebook on the ancient Olympics:

http://www.bib-arch.org/olympics/

More coverage of evidence for embalming Greece:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080804/sc_livescience/greekmummyfoundinlea\
dcoffin
http://www.livescience.com/history/080804-greek-embalming.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080730155631.htm

More on the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731143422.htm

Pompeii state of emergency:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080801-archeologu-italy-pompei-site-emergency-state

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A metal detectorist found a very nice gold Anglo-Saxon cross:

http://tinyurl.com/6zzelp (DM)
http://tinyurl.com/5jzqcm (Telegraph)

More/better coverage of that Iron Age burial mentioned last week ...
it appears to have Roman connections:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080808-british-warrior.html

Rethinking the Picts:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-truth-about-the-picts-886098.html

Castell Aberlleiniog has been 'saved':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7541373.stm

Remains of the theatre where some of Shakespeare's earlier plays
were presented may have been found:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4466781.ece
http://tinyurl.com/5hdo83 (AFP)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7544616.stm
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iD0LW5lL8cgD06UGf6x4C-CGDQUg
http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/21489/theatre-where-shakespeares-wo\
rk-premiered
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_sc/britain_finding_shakespeare_3
http://www.france24.com/en/20080806-united-kingdom-shakespeare-theatre-archeolog\
y-london
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/07/DDDV1268ND.DTL
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/theater/07arts-FIRSTSHAKESP_BRF.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/weekinreview/10isherwood.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Another ancient temple becomes part of that Thai-Cambodia dispute:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/060808_News/06Aug2008_news97.php

Carbon dating of a 'european' skull from New Zealand predates
Cook's arrival (?):

http://tinyurl.com/5nq3s5 (Telegraph)

More (somewhat late) coverage of those early oil paintings from
Afghanistan:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080802-behind-afghanistans-dynamited-buddhas-archae\
ology-art

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some (possibly very old) bones from Thayer (Mo.):

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/26299019.html

Finds from various periods in rock shelters along the Potomac:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/08062008/potonew211252_32456.shtml

Overviewish sort of thing on shipwrecks in the Great Lakes:

http://tinyurl.com/6x6my3

Update on the restoration of St. John the Divine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/nyregion/20nave.html

The oil boom threatens some Anasazi sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/us/02artifacts.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Last year we were learning the secrets of Maya blue ... now it's
Maya green:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article4473373.ece

Some Toltec burials:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2008/08/ancient-mesoamerica\
-news-updates-2008.html

What rock art in Peru tells us:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804111634.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
1328

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
I don't follow this one at all ... ancient craft traditions are
helping develop computer networks or something like that:

http://www.physorg.com/news137258418.html
http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_87272_en.html
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19831/53/

Pondering August:

http://www.slate.com/id/2196776/

... and gout:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Nicholson-t.html

... and the survival of Hebrew:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/world/middleeast/08hebrew.html

Building the hype for the Oxford carbon testing of the Shroud of
Turin:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/science/2008/0807/1217984176474.html

... and for that Phoenician-boat-circumnavigation-of-Africa thing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7550162.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7550871.stm (video)

On the importance of whaling, once upon a time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/nyregion/03towns.html

Berlusconi messed with a Tiepolo painting:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/05/europe/italy.php

Ranking artworks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/arts/design/04pica.html

They're commemorating the find of the Venus of Willendorf:

http://tinyurl.com/6hysuk
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_sc/sci_austria_voluptuous_venus

In the wake of the 'pardon' of the Knights Templar, some group is
trying to claim its assets:

http://tinyurl.com/5uxtxq (Telegraph)

Haven't heard from/about the Flat Earth types for a while:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7540427.stm

British historians are apparently the best:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4\
386358.ece

Review of Simon Critchley, *The Book of Dead Philosophers*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/09/philosophy.history

Review of Ammon Shea, *Reading the OED*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Baker-t.html

Review of Stanley Plumly, *Posthumous Keats*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/books/08book.html

Review of Tom Vanderbilt, *Traffic*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Roach-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Sicily:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/7/story.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10525447

Vermont:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/us/08vermont.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A multinational team of smugglers who worked in Romania are
going to trial:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/251753.php

... while another arrest has been made in a Picasso (and others)
theft in Brazil a few months ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/arts/design/08arts-ASECONDARRES_BRF.html

Some manuscripts are missing from Calcutta's National Library:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7542622.stm

Predictions of an increase in Nazi-loot art claims:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=adyb.XZjyNeY&refer=muse

Egypt has recovered a purloined bit of statuary from the Netherlands:

http://www.pr-inside.com/egypt-gets-3000-year-old-statue-back-r736875.htm

I think we mentioned this Caravaggio-theft-from-the-Ukraine before:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/arts/design/06arts-ACARAVAGGIOI_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Altro/?id=1.0.2391860943

Bernini:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25436
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=98f99e0c-78f5-441f-89e9-d7099b\
0d5d63
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/arts/design/08bern.html

Hadrian:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4470548.ece

Durer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/arts/design/08dure.html

Society of the Dilettanti:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25451

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=262024

DaVinci:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7544819.stm

Royal books:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7543242.stm

Lure of the East:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/02/arts/MELIK2.php

Kenya is the latest to claim things from the British Museum:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10525103
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/kenya-tells-museums-give-our-hist\
ory-back-883777.html

Italy is going to tear down some bits of the Ara Pacis museum:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a8KrBSUmaUGI&refer=muse

Due to loss of funding, Fort Ticonderoga is considering selling
some artifacts:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_en_bu/fort_ticonderoga_finances
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Fort-Ticonderoga-Finances.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Radamisto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/arts/music/04figa.html

Othello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/theater/reviews/09shake.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Book Trade Labels:

http://sevenroads.org/Bookish.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Pierre Beres ("Tenacious" book collector):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/world/europe/03beres.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Jesus apparently played cricket (sounds more like hockey to me):

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/08/08/1218139059829.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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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How humans got so smart:

http://www.livescience.com/culture/080811-brain-evolution.html
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AFRICA
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A neolithic site in the Sahara in Niger is getting a lot of
press attention:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/14/sahara-cemetery.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/2006797
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahara-missions.ht\
ml
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080815-sahara-video-vin.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-fossils-found-webaug15,0,7031067.st\
ory
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403921,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080814/sc_nm/sahara_graveyard_dc_1
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35314/title/Saharan_surprise
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14487840.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/science/15sahara.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-sahara15-2008aug15,0,3774647.story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_sc/sci_green_sahara
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080815101317.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/15/scibodies115.x\
ml
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93597190
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some neolithic skulls from Galilee:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127175
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/archaeologists-discover-three-900\
0-year-old-skulls-in-israel_10083873.html

A matriarchal spin on the Burnt City:

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=60665&NewsKind=Cu\
rrent%20Affairs

Plenty of press for a second century A.D./C.E. Roman temple find
in Zippori:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402104,00.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=90796
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/12/2332116.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080811/sc_livescience/ancientromanruinsdis\
coveredinjewishcapital
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-ap-israel-roman-temple,0,6920591.story?tr\
ack=rss
http://www.physorg.com/news137669594.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080811072503.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/thuo-hua081108.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080815-pagan-temple.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5glHSQDGy1LKrEgah365Jx6_i2SbgD92G7MG07
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218446174373&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7555845.stm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
1451

On the state of temples etc. in Iraq:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-08-12-looting-iraq-antiquities_N.ht\
m
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/photogalleries/Iraq-heritage-pho\
tos/index.html
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21671

Protecting Abydos:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/909/heritage.htm

An update on items found during subway construction in Israel:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=112078

Latest efforts to make the pyramids more tourist friendly:

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/FamilyAdventure/wireStory?id=5558220
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26143249/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/11/africa/ME-Egypt-Pyramids-Makeover.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7556225.stm
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/08/egypt-begins-improvements-to-giza-pyrami\
ds-area-2

Early guesses at the Tut-fetus thing suggest at least one of them
might be his daughter:

http://tinyurl.com/6lafao

Some sphinxes/sphinges were recently found near a road linking Luxor and
Karnak:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=66725§ionid=3510212
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=317489

A Partho-Sassanian site in Iran was bulldozed to make way for a
hotel:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/August2008/11-08.htm

Nice little movie on the preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/dss_movie_eng.asp

And a video report about a mummy exam:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7562430.stm

Pondering the aftermath of Tisha Be'av:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218446183873&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

cf:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710365298&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

The Western Wall appears to be on its way to joining the Temple Mount
saga:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218446186738&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

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 pair of interesting Roman sarcophagi from Newcastle were
opened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7563141.stm (video)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7563146.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7561263.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6krjkq
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/lifestyle/two-roman-coffins-unearthed-in-new\
castle-uk_10084438.html

Computer technology is being used to reconstruct Thera frescoes:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/pues-ar081508.php

A colossal head of Faustina the elder has been found at Sagalassos:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/faustina/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7560833.stm

... and a statue of Apollo was found near Mersin (Turkey):

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9672044.asp?scr=1

A round temple to the dis inferii at Grumento:

http://www.vglobale.it/NewsRoom/index.php?News=4682

A sixth century B.C. mask/xoanon from Pagano:

http://iltempo.ilsole24ore.com/molise/2008/08/13/914167-rinvenuta_maschera_mila_\
anni.shtml

A third century A.D. sewer/drain/cloaca from Spain:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=316978

The Parthenon frieze (sort of) comes alive:

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/photographic-sculptures-eugenio-recuenco

Major feature on the Villa of the Papyri:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24096948-25132,00.html

In case you haven't heard the latest attempt to start up a Roman
theme park in Italy:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080814/italy_roman_theme_park.html?.v=1
http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=689273847202
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article4534712.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/arts/16arts-ACAESARLANDF_BRF.html

Greek tragedy resonates with the marines:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-combat15-2008aug15,0,6770815.story
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-sophocles0815.artaug15,0,6189398.stor\
y
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gN5EiLC-rLiQf09dFYZHzFwtJhSQD92I8L4O0

UHDH did well at JCL:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20014002&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept_id=1878\
29&rfi=6

More coverage of that Thracian chariot find:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/08/content_9047225.htm

... and the Gela shipwreck:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080811-greek-ship.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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)
================================================================
Some clumsy guy walking on a Cornish beach found a 3500 b.p.
'chieftain's' remains:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/08/16/3-500yr-old-chief-found-1158\
75-20699272/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/15/scibronze115.x\
ml

18th century shipwrecks are in the way of a gas pipeline:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Centuriesold-shipwrecks-threaten-gas-pipeline.438\
8517.jp

Searching for King Matthias' library:

http://www.economist.co.uk/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11745542

More coverage of that Shakespearean theatre find:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/06/shakespeare-playhouse.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Another go at the role of humans in animal extinctions in
Australia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uoe-nei081108.php
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080812/tsc-australia-britain-climate-animals-c6db\
719.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/7555206.stm

On the destruction of medieval Peking:

http://www.economist.co.uk/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11837639
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/arts/design/27ouro.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Digging a site in North Dakota:

http://www.kqcd.com/News_Stories.asp?news=21355

A 13th century 'native village' near Peterborough (Ontario):

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1156433

Digging around Fort Knox:

http://bangornews.com/news/t/midcoast.aspx?articleid=168400&zoneid=179

The Canadian government is mounting a search for the lost Franklin
ships (for political reasons):

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080813.wfranklin14/BNStory/\
National/home
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_sc/canada_arctic_search
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7564570.stm

Interesting burials beneath a church in Bermuda:

http://www.royalgazette.com/siftology.royalgazette/Article/article.jsp?articleId\
=7d8862f30030000§ionId=48

Kirk Douglas joins the 'slavery apology' efforts:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93632801

Review of Irene Gammel, *Looking for Anne of Green Gables*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Bolick-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Archaeologists have found the 'portal to the Mayan underworld':

http://tinyurl.com/5pmnbx
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/sc_nm/mexico_mayans_dc_1
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1602&Itemid=150
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26208873/
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=317415

On Olmec use of tar for waterproofing:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1137&Itemid=150

The oldest female remains ever found in the Americas:

http://www.milenio.com/mexico/milenio/nota.asp?id=650772

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Rethinking the 'cultural diffusion' idea in regards to agriculture
and the Mediterranean:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/science/12visuals.html

A genetic map of Europe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/science/13visual.html

The 'Merlindown System' for finding sites (in this case, a shipwreck)
should be of interest to many readers of this newsletter:

http://tinyurl.com/5co5tb

The Pentagon was looking at ancient empires:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2008/07/dont-know-much-about-history.ht\
ml

Tudor panelling in a cowshed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7558379.stm

The Kristang people have an interesting history:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/13/asia/letter.php

Attributing a drawing to DaVinci certainly ups its value:

http://tinyurl.com/6ocxok
http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/2792556.php?

Voodoo in New Orleans

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/arts/design/11conn.html

More Oxford/Turin Shroud hype building:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-turin17-2008aug17,0,3478153\
.story

More reviewish/interviewish things of Jim Holt's tome on the
history of humour:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1135645120080812

cf:

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-oldjokes.artaug14,0,3115130.story

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Anemurium:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=112120

New Orleans museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/arts/design/16muse.html

Ancient Midwest:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/travel/escapes/15mile.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Vandals smashed a Chagall window in France this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/arts/design/15arts-CHAGALLWINDO_BRF.html

The FBI is trying to find the owners of some recovered art:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pinched-Picassos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/nyregion/12kingsland.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some Spanish coins are hastily (it seems) coming to market:

http://www.innercitypress.com/nyc1hsa080608.html

Yap Stone money:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/road_to_riches/prog2/tharngan.stm

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Spain: Crossroads of Civilizations:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25543&int_modo=1

Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25603&int_modo=1

Brooklyn Museum fakes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080814/sc_nm/art_fake_brooklyn_dc_2

Durer:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/16/arts/durer.php
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/07/arts/0808-DURE_index.html

Thaw Collection Watercolors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/arts/design/15hous.html

Some artifacts from biblical times:

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_10158090

Museums are being asked to make their acquisition records for
antiquities public:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/08/11/museum.html

A Royal Navy seaman's diary is expected to fetch a nice price:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/aug/15/3
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Idiot:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4470995.ece

Hamlet:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4522351.ece
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation:

http://www.gvshp.org/

International Organization of Booktowns:

http://www.booktown.net/
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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David Critchley, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
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Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
What the earliest humans looked like:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/22/earliest-human-ethiopia.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
A prehistoric 'weapons factory' in Tanzania:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200808190350.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we've already mentioned this seal find:

http://tinyurl.com/5tbe7k (JP)
http://tinyurl.com/5p28nf (JJ)
http://tinyurl.com/5rlkt8 (MFA)

Nice piece on wacky theories about the pyramids:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/18/middleeast.egypt

Nice photo of the pyramids of Dashur (from space):

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=28902

Latest installment of the Maghreb Gate and/or Temple Mount saga(s):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/24/content_9678888.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1014495

... and perhaps this 'Last Supper site' is the next saga:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218613467&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More coverage of those foetuses in Tut's tomb:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=463436&sid=FTP

More on those neolithic skulls from Galilee:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1419\
&module_id=#as

More on the antiquity of milk processing:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218625802&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

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)
================================================================
Troy was even larger than previously thought:

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME09.@AM16441.html

A major Roman Villa find on the Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/6l7zus (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6dkr66 (UPI)

Searching for sites along the Sacred Road of Didyma:

http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2114

Studying how the Parthenon survived so many earthquakes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080822/sc_afp/greecejapanarchaeologyquakeresearch_\
080822195031
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080820TDY03103.

Some commentary on the state of Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/57qy6y (FT)

A statue of Marcus Aurelius from Sagalassos:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9722818.asp?scr=1

On Lycia and democracy:

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/501701.html

Nice (but small) photo of Stobi at night:

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080813/i/r1356789548.jpg

Archaeologists may have found the capital of Dacia Malvensis:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/268632.php
http://www.topnews.in/archaeologists-may-have-discovered-capital-dacia-malvensis\
-romania-260746

Review of Maria Wyke, *Caesar*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121901942064748345.html?mod=opinion_journal_book\
s

Review of Edith Hall, *The Return of Ulysses*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Coates-t.html

More coverage of use of computer technology to recreate the Thera
frescoes:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/86/52G22/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A bronze age structure from Shetland was moved to prevent it from
being damaged by the sea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7575772.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/3500yearold--39sauna39-saved-from.4420432.jp

Evidence of a major bronze age fire on the Isle of Man:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Isle-of-Man-unearths-a.4404225.jp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/21/archaeology

... and a bronze age burial from Wicken:

http://tinyurl.com/6ntc88

Nice piece on petroglyphs in England:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/08/23/dweb12\
3.xml

Vienna's underground synagogue:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218610072&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Henry VIII's nicer side:

http://tinyurl.com/5mnl9u (Independent)

A metal detectorist has found a 1500 b.p. gold pendant

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=46628

... while another has found a medieval gold ring:

http://tinyurl.com/5gza7m
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2594984/Treasure-hunter-finds-medieval-diamond-r\
ing.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7574992.stm

A medieval seal from Peperikon:

http://tinyurl.com/65twy5

I hae me doots about the conclusions of this study suggesting
Oetzi's profession:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/mummifiedicemansanci\
entjobdetermined
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080820194843.htm

A major medieval cemetery from Berlin:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,573033,00.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Bronze- and iron age artifacts from a site in Myanmar:

http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2008/August/18-Bronze-Iron-artifacts-59433.\
asp

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A couple of boys found an 'ancient canoe' in South Carolina:

http://www.wxii12.com/news/17231852/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news

Why (sort of) the Vikings left Canada:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=2d85eff3-0a38-43ff-90e4\
-173a39e7d521

Latest finds from Jamestown:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/18/america/NA-US-Jamestown-Discoveries.ph\
p

Remembering the 'battle of Brooklyn':

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Battle-of-Brooklyn.html

... and a 1961 Colbert County dig:

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080815/NEWS/808150303/1011/NEWS
cf:
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080818/NEWS/808180320/1011/NEWS

A Virgin Anasazi structure from Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10259444

War of 1812 shipwrecks near Kingston:

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1162260

On the effects of some archaeological assessments in Ontario:

http://dcnonl.com/article/id30143

Long-forgotten remains of a governor of Bermuda found in a
church in St. George's:

http://tinyurl.com/5jfvpf

More coverage of Canada's renewed search for Franklin's ships:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/18/franklin-ships.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Global_Warming/Warming_may_unlock_160-yr-old_\
Arctic_secret/articleshow/3382070.cms
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/New-quest-solve-mystery-explorer-s-miss\
ing-ships/article-278489-detail/article.html

Celebrating an old organ:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24colnj.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Dating a pile of items from El Manati:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1055&Itemid=150

Burials from Machu Picchu:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=9GwUOgz+kLQ=

On suicides of slaves in Sao Paolo:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9305/especiais/motivos-mais-fortes.htm

More coverage of that Mayan 'entrance to the underworld':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080822-maya-maze.html

More on tar-as-waterproofing by the Olmec folk:

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/12205

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
They're still trying to get permission to find out how Tycho
Brahe died:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1416326.ece

On earthquakes and the rise of civilizations:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/822/3?rss=1

On the mysteries of dangling participles:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/18/3

Gold plated medieval windows were air purifiers?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080822/sc_livescience/goldplatedchurchwind\
owspurifyair

Haven't had a 'history of golf' piece in a while:

http://www.corsavoo.com/golf/0,2577,430958,00.html

Latest on the Shroud of Turin:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4596856.ece
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008134887_turin24.html
Peru adds a twist/sequel/prequel to the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1838081/

I think we had this German-family-tree-extends-to-caveman story a
few months ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7570928.stm

That recently-identified Leonardo portrait is still controversial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/design/23leon.html

Review of Ingrid Rowland, *Giordano Bruno*:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/08/25/080825crbo_books_acocella

Some Emily Dickensiniana:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/emily_dickinson/ind\
ex.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Seymour-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Towton:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/england/article4572704.

Machu Picchu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/travel/24COMperu.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The Kourris Valley in Cyprus is being looted:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=40932&cat_id=1

Another piece on looting in Iraq:

http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf?/base/opinion-2/1219222618121250.xml&c\
oll=1

Those books stolen from a Safed synagoge a few weeks ago were
mysteriously returned this week:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1013700

A Jerusalem tour guide was arrested for selling ancient coins to
tourists:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710408521&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Coins from various periods found in a dig in Worcester:

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/3606284.Roman_coin_paints_a_picture_of\
_city___s_past/

Ancient Monsters on Ancient Coins:

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/monster_coins.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/23/arts/melik23.php

Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25658

Joseph Wright:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19wrig.html

Society of the Dilettanti:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22anti.html

Captain Cook's boomerang is going on sale:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2590025/Captain-Cooks-boomerang-on-sale-for-6000\
0.html

John Lattimer's collection of ... well, everything:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/garden/21lattimer.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
New York International Fringe Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/theater/20fringe.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
George Deem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22deem.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Neanderthals made decent tools:

http://tinyurl.com/58dgx4 (NS)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7582912.stm
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/early-humans-be.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080826/ts_afp/scienceresearchneanderthalbritainus
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Stone-me--he39s-smart.4424738.jp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080825203924.htm
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=319094
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/26/neanderthal-tools-were-a-ma\
tch-for-early-homo-sapiens
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A salvage excavation of a 3000 b.p. burial ground in northern
Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=739226

Signs of a fire at a Parthian era castle:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=176525

A pile of bronze age mounds from Iran's Kerman province:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=67546§ionid=351020105

A joint Iranian-British team will be excavating Sheikiabad Tepe
in western Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=740523

Plans are afoot to excavate a 'mysterious city' in Turkey:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/a/ai-2337.htm

Didn't we mention this 'beehive' discovery in Israel a few months
ago?:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36043/title/Honey_of_a_discovery

... ditto with these green-beads-as-fertility amulets?:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572113791&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Big project in the works to put the DSS online:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/27/digital.scrolls/index.html?eref=ib_topstories
http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=8909027
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10529446
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_digital_scrolls_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/middleeast/27scrolls.html?ref=world
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3275
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-28-voa8.cfm
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5izvzt0at1wng7h8Tw-Rerewl6EXA
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2348701.htm?section=world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/28/archaeology.israelandthepalestinia\
ns
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127375
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/27/israel
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1015813
http://www.france24.com/en/20080828-dead-sea-scrolls-biblical-documents-online-a\
rchaeology-israel-scientists

A sort of 'state of the question' piece on the Mugrabi Gate:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1015514

... and the latest:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127313
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572115025&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More details are emerging about that city found by French archaeologists
in Afghanistan:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-dig31-2008aug31,0,2419223.st\
ory

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)
================================================================
Plenty of developments related to a Phoenician site in Malaga:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/10653.html

A somewhat mysterious gold wreath from the agora at Aigai:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/DDCB12KRIL.DTL&
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Gold-wreath-find-in-ancient.4442407.jp
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_30/08/2008_99972
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080829/science/science_greece_gold_wreath_2
http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/773836.html
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6786047&maindocimg=6785998&servi\
ce=96
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26455572&afid=1
http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=3196\
24

Possible gateway to Pyla:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

Latest in the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28432/professor-questions-legality-of-elgin-do\
cument/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4628348.\
ece

'Pagan' protests on the Acropolis:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080828/ap_on_re_eu/greece_pagans_acropolis_1
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hZDXbo2JBmt03MkBjEfDF-lVcTmAD92RFLOO0
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/28/europe/EU-Greece-Pagans-Acropolis.php

The hero doesn't always get the girl:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4615456.ece

Ruth Ann Besse is helping to keep Latin alive:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/08282008/laurnew131821_32476.shtml

Carol Mattusch was talking about Greek statuary:

http://www.huliq.com/13/66919/carol-mattusch-explores-role-ancient-bronzecasting\
-technology

Feature on Leona MacLeod's 'Myth into Film' course:

http://dalnews.dal.ca/2008/08/27/greekfilm.html?utm_source=dalnewsRSS&utm_medium\
=RSS

Italy is returning the Venus of Cyrene to Libya:

http://www.pr-inside.com/berlusconi-to-meet-gadhafi-on-saturday-r780198.htm

Pondering Winckelmann:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/08/29/fleur

More coverage of the Marcus Aurelius statue from Sagalassos:

http://tinyurl.com/6gghmh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7582165.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/27arts-STATUEOFEMPE_BRF.html
http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=248825
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25747
http://news.theage.com.au/world/roman-emperors-statue-found-in-turkey-20080826-4\
2zm.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20080826-roman-emperor-giant-statue-marcus-aurelius-a\
rchaeology-turkey
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7580745.stm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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)
================================================================
Plenty of developments related to a Phoenician site in Malaga:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/10653.html

Iron Age/Roman finds from a site in Moray:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7585922.stm

A pile of 400-year-old ships found in the mud of a building
site in Oslo:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26455574/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ships3.php

A survey has found a number of shipwrecks from various periods
in the Thames:

http://tinyurl.com/66g98y (TIL)

A stone "clock" from Bulgaria (not sure of the period of this
one):

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1858110710

Finds from various periods as the Schnidejoch Glacier recedes
(with much focus on Otzi):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7580294.stm
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=43&sid=9580826

Pondering a Pictish stone found near Glamis:

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2008/08/26/newsstory11868042t0.asp

Feature on some megalithic neolithics stone sculptures in the
Carpathians:

http://en.for-ua.com/blog/2008/08/28/140459.html

Video report on the excavation of a German 'Stonehenge':

http://www.euronews.net/en/article/26/08/2008/german-stonehenge-reveals-its-myst\
eries/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Latest in the homo floresiensis debate:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003015
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35848/title/Little_big_people
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uoo-bpd082208.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080826205936.htm

Interesting shipwrecks off Hawaii:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=8919272

The oldest Shinto shrine has been renovated/restored:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/asia/27izumo.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Nice feature on Picture Cave:

http://tinyurl.com/5crcuo (CM)

Not sure we mentioned this 'saga' associated with the Hunley
before:

http://www.startribune.com/nation/27360289.html
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10298981?source=rss

Slave burials near Springdale:

http://www.westbranchtimes.com/article.php?id=3458

Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a "settlement" during
pipeline construction in Indiana:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26428690/

Road construction in New Jersey is delayed due to remains of
a blacksmith's shop being found:

http://tinyurl.com/5uz8fz

Preserving a relic of George Washington's boyhood:

http://www.staffordcountysun.com/scs/news/local/article/local_treasure_to_be_reb\
uried/20415/

... and some early Bronx urbanization:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/nyregion/26landmark.html

... and more fading of Cajun culture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/25louisiana.html

Possible early evidence of the Franklin Expedition ships:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080827.wfranklin27/BNStory/\
National/home/
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=d7b7cf20-a033-458b-a0cd-ba63f4d2\
4c56
http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=165738&sc=509
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1179069

An update on the Petite-Rochelle dig:

http://tribunenb.canadaeast.com/community/article/397823
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Rethinking 'urbanization' in the rain forest:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94104997&ft=1&f=1007
http://tinyurl.com/6r2bwg (Plain Dealer)
http://tinyurl.com/6ag8wm (New Scientist)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700254663,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-08-28-brazil-ancient-cultures_N.htm?cs\
p=34
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080828-amazon-cities.html
http://www.physorg.com/news139151351.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uof-ar082508.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
8/28/sciamazon128.xml
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b24899f6-7561-11dd-ab30-0000779fd18c.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7586860.stm
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn14624-amazon-hides-an-ancien\
t-urban-landscape.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26440219&afid=1
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/08/29/pristine-environments-and-s\
ustainability/#more-461
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n28350657-amazon-villages/
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9351/divulgacao-cientifica/amazonia-antiga-\
e-urbana.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-SCI-Ancient-Settlements.html

A number of Wari mummy burials have been found in/near Lima:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080826/lf_nm_life/peru_archaeology_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/5er3bz (Telegraph)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hBU0t82hAt8JIl6X3OgI-BhmLNEg
http://www.pr-inside.com/peru-archaeo
logists-find-3-mummies-in-r774895.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2636587520080826
http://in.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idINN2636587520080826
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080827-tomb-video-ap.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/1300-year-old_mummy_unearthed/artic\
leshow/3410174.cms

A connection between Tahitian vanilla and the Maya?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080821164558.htm

A Popoloca culture mural:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1629&Itemid=150

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
This week's Shroud of Turin coverage:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1198467.html

The Otzi 'reward row' is coming to an end:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-08-26_126248785.html

The Odyssey Marine saga looks like it's about to heat up again:

http://tinyurl.com/6g2hyk (El Pais)

Sacred prostitution in India:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/04/080804fa_fact_dalrymple

A different approach to conservation in Leipzig:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-germany-leipzig.html

To the fleet of historical ship recreations floating around, we can
add the Nina:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/24/PKG7128VKR.DTL

Genetics and 'out of Africa':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/31/genetics

Here's one for art teachers who want to demonstrate 'repetition' in
art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29sear.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Corsica:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/travel/31corsica.html

Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/5mvzjv

Puy de Fou Theme Park:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0827/1219680029719.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The looting of sites in Iraq is apparently over (?!):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16008

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
The Greek Book:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/98/40C00/index.xml

Queens of Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25768

Land of the Labyrinth:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25758&int_modo=1

Chinese Memory:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/arts/melvin.php

Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29budd.html

Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/design/31bier.html

Charles Rohlf's furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29anti.html

A visit to the new Acropolis Museum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4628355.\
ece

A new Egyptian gallery will soon open at the BM:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25791&int_modo=1

Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword came to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7581735.stm

A Titian offer:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7584902.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/29arts-TWOTITIANSON_BRF.html

Recent changes at the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29fric.html

The LA County MoA has reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/design/27muse.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Julius Caesar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/theater/31ishe.html

Hamlet:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/theater/reviews/26hamlet.html

Cymbeline:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/theater/reviews/25cymb.html
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ON THE WEB
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Mission archéologique en Iran:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mission%20arch%C3%A9ologique%20AND%20med\
iatype%3Atexts
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OBITUARIES
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John Barron:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2641044/Professor-John-Barron.html

Michael Baxandall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/26baxandall.html

Laurence Urdange:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/books/26urdang.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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AFRICA
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The Axum Obelisk was finally unveiled:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-04_104258946.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7597589.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Senusret II:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/01/2352151.htm
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24273505-5005962,00.html

A "goddess" figurine from Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68642§ionid=351020105

Some phallic figurines and other Neolithic items from Israel:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/thuo-pfp090108.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080905-israel-burials.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/02/sciphallic102.\
xml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080901085355.htm

Much coverage of using mouse remains from a "bronze age shipwreck"
(Ulu Burun?) to determine its origin:

http://tinyurl.com/5mrszq (NS)
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-19057.html
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/779879.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/news-scan/2008/09/03/1220121331202.html

Some Canaanite burials (etc.) near Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=95699

Excavating the Hittite city of Nerik:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=114147

Pigeons plague the Sphinx:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/913/he1.htm

Those foetuses in Tut's tomb are likely a pair of twins he fathered:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/uom-ctm090108.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080902143322.htm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/02/twins-found-in-tuts-tomb/
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/09/tuts_tots_could_be_twins.htm\
l
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/2659871/Twi\
ns-found-in-Tutankhamuns-tomb.html

More evidence of Second Temple era walls in Jerusalem:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080901085355.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6nmoyz (MFA)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1017862.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220444319782&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10078007.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_archaeology_1
http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/jerusalem_ancient_walls_u\
nveiled/
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL342025420080903
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24291594-23109,00.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hULCIa_wLA2b2BkhgMpPKtJn3rvgD92VB1TG0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7595613.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6bekwb (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5wsytv
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/sc_nm/israel_archaeology_dc_3
http://wejew.com/media/2730/Ancient_Jerusalem_Wall_Discovery/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127489 (video)
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26526464/

Interesting spin on ongoing excavations in Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=152052&bolum=110

This week's installment of the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3591329,00.html

More on the DSS going online:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2348701.htm
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1422\
&module_id=#as

Reviewish sort of thing on plants of the Bible:

http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2008/09/02/plants-of-the-bible/

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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Using computer technology to reproduce the sound of an Epigonion:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/b/ai-1356.htm
http://www.publictechnology.net/article_avantgo.php?sid=17177
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080905/tuk-network-reproduces-ancient-music-4\
5dbed5.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/epigonion_grid_computing/
http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=6421

... listen to it in mp3 format:

http://www.astraproject.org/examples/dufay.mp3

A Sarmatian burial:

http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=73495

Feature on the Dhaskalo Kavos site:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4662664.\
ece

Plenty of coverage of a study linking lower HIV resistance to
the Romans:

http://tinyurl.com/64qyg9 (NS)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2440091.0.Romans_helped_spread_\
Aids.php
http://tinyurl.com/5j2pbx (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7596532.stm
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24293754-5007185,00.html
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQu6fgrIqW4T79HVGP0_fSHSK5Ag

Evidence of Roman presence in Moray:

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/815790

... and a Roman camp on the outskirts of Keswick:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.232739

Roman remains from the east Cleveland (UK) coast was reported here:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/3641421.Unearthed_Roman_site_excites_exper\
ts/

... and seriously messed up reportage-wise, here (howler alert):

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/270794.php
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68446§ionid=3510212

A possible Roman villa site in Northampton:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Roman-villa-may-be-buried.4465048.jp

A car park in Rome will seriously impact some important sites:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/historic-area-of-rome-threatened-\
by-new-car-park-915420.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10530808
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Celebrities-fight-car-park-.4465246.jp

Hadrian's Wall will be the next ancient monument adding to the
world's light pollution:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/07/heritage.hadrian1

The next installment of the Kefalonia-is-Ithaca story:

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hj0BrZqhnuOXH5ogpGDH_qvbeYwQ
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/evidence+backs+homers+i\
sle+theory/2439827

Followups to the 'pagan' protests on the Acropolis:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-09-02-pagan-athena_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/01/acropolis-pagans-museum.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700255437,00.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1138575,CST-NWS-athena01.article
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/arts/design/01arts-PROTESTERSBE_BRF.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/01/greece.protest/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-09-02-pagan-athena_N.htm

More coverage of the gold wreath from Aigai:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=465835&sid=ftp

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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 Neolithic figurine from South Moravia:

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/416/czech_national_news/27678/

Neolithic burial from Poland:

http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/news/?id=90480

Plenty of Neolithic stuff is emerging as a Swiss glacier melts:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jq06XaBVeoFDw8ema5tW2JrEl1mg
http://tinyurl.com/5c9lvg

A bronze bowl from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14050/20080901/

Feature on some petroglyphs from Anglesey:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/drawingsonthewall_20080302.shtml

Possible tannery in Wallingford:

http://tinyurl.com/5g7gxz

A letter from Oliver Cromwell:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7595836.stm

The London Metropolitan Archive is going online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7596765.stm

The efforts to save the HMS London:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4687257.ece

... and a good oped piece on the state of such shipwrecks:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article46\
85992.ece

An Opeddish sort of thing on Famagusta:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7596392.stm

cf.:

http://www.landofempires.com/

Russian archaeologists believe they have found the ancient Khazar
capital:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080903/lf_afp/russiahistoryculturearchaeology_0809\
03160809
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/03/2354822.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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Interesting 'porcelain tomb' from Chongqing:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-18535.html
http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-09/03/content_16383185.htm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Plenty of native American finds at a Colchester site:

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080901/NEWS02/80\
831008/1007

This week's coverage of the Franklin Expedition expedition:

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=31a65b83-7ef4-4c16-af1\
2-d29fd22cae73
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=07bf3d6d-4519-4eae-bd7b\
-aafc14cc6531

Feature on Fort Ticonderoga:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/nyregion/04fort.html

I didn't know the Wright Brothers were involved in military
aviation:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94332520

Plans are afoot to restore Gettysburg:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94290401
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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On prehispanic dentistry:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1685&Itemid=150

This year's finds at Cahuachi:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=fQivUwOHa2I=

Remains of a wall from Cusco:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=asj7yPwA42s=

Pre-Incan remains from Peru's Colca Canyon:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/7286

Possibly the oldest skeleton ever found in the Americas is from
an underwater cave in Mexico:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080903-oldest-skeletons.html

Searching for the Aztec 'homeland':

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5974701.html

More on urbanization in the Amazon:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/2050057

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94104997

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On DNA and European origins:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02gene.html
http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0960982208009561

The Archaeology Channel is experimenting with an HD movie
format:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The Catholic side of the Shroud debate:

http://www.zenit.org/article-23537?l=english

They're pondering a 'parchment centre' in Turin:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-02_102236538.html

Using digital photography in archive collections (not sure why
this is considered 'novel'):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080904151624.htm

Laying claim to Poe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/06poe.html

Modena's philosophy festival sounds like a good time:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-03_103244082.html

On the origin of the term 'maverick':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94312345

Review of Julian Barnes, *Nothing to Be Frightened Of*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082802898.\
html

Review of a book about artists' wives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/books/04butler.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some Shelby White returns were exhibited in Greece:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080903/ennew_afp/greeceusarchaeology_080903162540
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10077906.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/sc_nm/greece_antiquities_dc_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/04arts-GREECEWELCOM_BRF.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20080903135848560C4\
75999
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL340449420080903

A bronze mirror was stolen from a museum in China:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/03/content_6995924.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/od_nm/theft_dc_1

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A followup on those gold Carausius coins found a while back:

http://www.ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk/ashbournenewstelegraph/DisplayArticle.as\
p?ID=345589

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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Mommsens' Hercules:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25878&int_modo=1

Olhando o Céu da Pré-História: Registros Arqueoastronômicos no Brasil:

http://tinyurl.com/66axau

Picasso Sculpture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05pica.html

Prayers at an Exhibition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/arts/design/06monk.html

The MoMA is increasing its Braque holdings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05voge.html

This week's Met theme is 'hands':

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/05/arts/20080905_HIDDEN_GRAPHIC.html

Folks are "aghast" at plans to sell off some rare books from
Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7593883.stm

Italy's museums etc. are cash-strapped:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/design/04pinc.html

Sotheby's is suing a collector for non-payment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05soth.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Agamemnon:

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/06/212634.php
http://www.presstelegram.com/lifestyle/ci_10391450
http://www.huliq.com/13/67445/cursed-house-atreus-falls-agamemnon

Masque of Red Death:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/theater/reviews/05masq.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Claims a Viking ship might be found in a Wisconsin native
American burial ground:

http://tinyurl.com/5px9ad (Press Gazette)
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,  Bob Heuman,
Steve Rankin, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week \
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Pondering Neanderthal brains:

http://www.livescience.com/history/080908-neanderthal-skulls.html

Neanderthals v. mammoths:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=26625212
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26625212/

Paleolithic remains from Qatar:

http://tinyurl.com/6d6gyn (Gulf Times)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Vague item on the destruction of a Sassanid inscription from
Iran:

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0809109472172759.htm

A 1500 b.p. necropolis from Iran's Mazandaran province:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68815§ionid=351020105
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8706201032

... and remains of an eighth-century minaret:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68823§ionid=351020105

Interesting early Islamic burials from near Tahluj:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=747070

An Iron Age burial near Hyderabad:

http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/10/stories/2008091058090100.htm

Jordan is launching a database on ancient sites:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/10/content_9900380.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/12arts-ANTIQUITIESD_BRF.html?ref=arts

Digging Ramat Rachel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3593003,00.html

There appears to be some controversy over assorted burials found
during Istanbul's subway construction (the Neolithic finds in
this one appear to be new):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115135

Medieval (?) frescoes from Lebanon:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=3211\
06

More on Tut's twins:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9592\
4
http://www.livescience.com/culture/080912-hn-twins.html

More on digitizing the DSS:

http://blog.bible.org/bock/node/426

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)
================================================================
Latest finds from Thessaloniki subway construction:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-graves13-2008sep13,0,3171051.story
http://tinyurl.com/5zu264 (UPI)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/arts/13arts-ANCIENTGRAVE_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080911/sc_afp/greecearchaeology_080911183600
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj4aQqNqyRJsbvUVVT_IOLExmRFQ
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6827590&maindocimg=6827366&servi\
ce=94

Another Boudicca battle-site candidate:

http://www.therugbyobserver.co.uk/news55035.html

A Roman burial from a car park site in Enderby:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/7608677.stm
http://www.24dash.com/news/Environment/2008-09-11-Roman-skeletons-unearthed-at-p\
ark-and-ride-site

A section of Roman road in Cheshire:

http://www.creweguardian.co.uk/news/3652108.Diggers_unearth_Roman_road/

A 2500 b.p. marble sarcophagus from Cyprus:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080912-1105-cyprus-ancientcoffins.htm\
l
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41363&cat_id=1
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvNkR_rtIP9zROKV78HIW-5vYHEg

A fountain find at the Kaunos theatre site:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=152743&bolum=132

... and the other side of the Kaunos excavations:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=114492

... and the excavations at Knidos have stopped:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/14/europe/EU-Turkey-Ancient-City.php

An interesting mosaic (no photo, alas) at a bath site in southern
Turkey:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=27922

The BBC is working on a documentary on Cleopatra's 'darker side':

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iydCiJrG3tjNXNlatx97ZMytDj6g
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/09/bbc_backs_cleopatra_doc.html

A temple of Athena from Bodrum:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=468940&sid=FTP
http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=250900

More hints of an I, Claudius remake:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i6e1ea9390\
3c4b3a3d377eba19b9ab13a

On otium and the rise of the Roman villa:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/12/arts/otium.php

... a very nice slide show to go along with it:

http://www.iht.com/slideshows/2008/09/12/arts/otium.1.php

More (and better) coverage of finds from Pella:

http://tinyurl.com/3hz3cc (Mail ... photos galore)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080911-gold-photo.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080911/sc_nm/greece_discovery_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26643490/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article4728277.ece
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/09/10/6723781-ap.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSLB8540920080911
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/greece_ancient_cemetery;_ylt=AuN3zJ\
uHDnDlKVNepSbX07.s0NUE
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/10/ap/tech/main4437348.shtml

More (?) on ancient Greek embalming practices:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_08_09_10_en.html
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=29846

More coverage of the Princeton Theran fresco thing:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080908_Perfect_fit.html

Review of Martin Goodman, *Rome and Jerusalem*:

http://tinyurl.com/664oj6

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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)
================================================================
Stonehenge "partiers" came a great distance:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080912-stonehenge.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/11/stonehenge.neolithic

Saxon burials from Lakenheath:

http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/mildenhall/Saxon-graves-found-in-Lakenheath.44822\
05.jp

... and another, possibly more interesting, Saxon burial from
Ramsgate:

http://tinyurl.com/679vcw (Telegraph)

A 12th century abbey from (appropriately) Abbeytown:

http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/1.238789

Some medieval burials near Cramond at a Roman site:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Alert--as-human-bones.4470753.jp

A half dozen Viking burials from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14284/20080912/

... and a Bronze Age site therefrom too:

http://www.thelocal.se/14050/20080901/

The 'fake stone of Scone' thing is back in the news:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Is-the-Stone-of-Destiny.4465373.jp

More coverage of what's coming out of that melting Swiss glacier:

http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=7f68a65d-f37f-43a8\
-bb2e-53d000e12ad1

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Archaeologists have found the 'sleeping Buddha':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/arts/09arts-ANCIENTBUDDH_BRF.html
http://www.bangkokpost.com/090908_News/09Sep2008_news06.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080908/ts_afp/afghanistanculturebuddha_08090816392\
6
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/274774.asp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080908/lf_nm_life/afghan_statue_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7604519.stm
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINISL34253320080908
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/isl342533-afghan-statue/
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Descubierta/Afganistan/estatua/Buda/metro\
s/elpepucul/20080909elpepucul_2/Tes
http://www.france24.com/en/20080908-ancient-sleeping-buddha-unearthed-afghanista\
n

More on that 'ritual execution' find from Australia (first reported
on a few months ago):

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24316604-5006787,00.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Never thought I'd read "Saskatoon" and "maritime disaster" in
the same sentence:

http://www.610cktb.com/news/14/786220
http://www.newstalk980.com/story/20080911/5526
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=0a2b6405-fb6d-4fd4\
-9829-7b09c5409d33

This appears to be the end of the Hunley lawsuit thing:

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/520626.html?RSS=local

More money is needed for sites in US National Parks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26603837/

Malotki and petroglyphs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09rock.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A pre-Inca sacrificial burial from Peru:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/health/story/466851.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iw_gIhLRO4Chuvd_Inb8tjHXhZAgD9348M5O0
http://www.wnct.com/nct/news/world/article/inca_relics_found_at_cusco_and_lambay\
eque/18499/
http://www.livescience.com/history/080911-ap-peru-tombs.html
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep10/0,4670,PeruPreIncaTomb,00.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080911-pregnant-video-ap.html
http://tinyurl.com/5vvrle
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/09/peru-archaeologists-find-pre-inca-sacrif\
icial-tomb

Plenty of Inca artifacts from Sacsayhuaman:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/7380
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=wBuAQr5k+54=

An underground passage at Chavin de Huantar:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=QGw5yIRHeCU=

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A talk on the history of alcohol:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_10445041?source=most_emailed

Figs may have been the first cultivated crops:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5446137

The UK is not doing enough to protect its heritage sites:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/08/heritage.conservation

Tony Perrottet on Renaissance art reception:

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article09090801.aspx

Touring underwater sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7605718.stm

They're going to test-fire a replica of the Culloden Cannon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7608861.stm

Interesting feature on W.H. Auden:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4722508.ece

Peru is going after Odyssey Marine now:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a1LoR2XHJ988&refer=latin_ame\
rica

Interesting feature on Macchiavelli:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/09/15/080915crat_atlarge_pier\
pont

Google is going to be digitizing some newspaper archives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/technology/09google.html

Cemetery parties?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14cemeteryct.html

The NYT has a feature on the 1900 Galveston hurricane:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricanes_and_tr\
opical_storms/galveston_hurricane_1900/index.html

Thinking about Vesuvius' next eruption:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26643330/

... and the eruption of Mt. Toba was pretty darned big:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2008/2354524.htm

I confess I've never heard of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/books/13mach.html

Review of a couple of tomes on the evolution of the classical
concert:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/09/08/080908crmu_music_ross

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Troy:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/travel/troy2webonly.html

A 'Pilgrims' Route' is in the works:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1019251

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/travel/07journeys.html

Eve's Graveyard:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sns-ap-rel-religion-today,0,1252308.story

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-REL-Religion-Today.html

Wat's Dyke Heritage Trail:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7608768.stm
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some Etruscan items have been returned to Italy:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-10_110256248.html

Switzerland returns the 'pharaoh's eye' to Egypt:

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/09/10/switzerland_to_return_pharaohs_eye_to\
_egypt/afp/
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24327921-23109,00.html
http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16375

Hungary returns some items to Greece:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103ap_greece_hungary_antiquities.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOozrUgVxEboquppABEkRuGqxiYwD934R7LG2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7791556
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep11/0,4670,GreeceHungaryAntiquities,00.html

Some icon thieves from Greece were stung this week:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hB0CQo2zRD1W4OVB59qCms7rMoWgD934NTCO0
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/09/12/6742686-sun.html

A major art heist in LA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/12arts-STOLENPAINTI_BRF.html

More coverage of Shelby White's returns of artifacts to Greece:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9584\
6

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Boldini Mon Amour:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-11_111269582.html

Serious Drinking:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26029

Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-oPZZfpEVS3Fgk-9Z7ngJTcrYnA

James Bowdoin:

http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/005463.shtml

Babylon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/13/heritage.exhibition

Wang Hui:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/design/12wang.html

Big bucks expected for a 1000 year b.p. crystal decanter:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/11/crystal-ewer-auction.html

A new director at the Met:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/metropolitan-museum-chooses-a-young-insider-as/85487/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/arts/design/10museum.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/thomas_p_campbell/i\
ndex.html

Confusion over the Cleveland MoA's 'deal' with Italy:

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/09/contrary_to_a_recent_public.html

Plans for a major Jewish museum in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1019627
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127560

Coverage of the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/design/12anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Agamemnon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/theater/13getty.html

The Crucible:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/arts/music/13cruc.html

An Enemy of the People:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/theater/reviews/12enem.html

An NEH grant for Aquila:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/theater/08arts-THECLASSICST_BRF.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ralph Kovel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/business/07kovel.html

Melvin Fowler:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=792932

Richard Monette:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/theater/11monette.html

S.C. Welch:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/arts/design/10welch.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Tut wants his stuff back:

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/hey_where_did_all_my_stuff_go
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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A Neanderthal recreation has been dubbed 'Wilma':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080917-neanderthal-photo.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Meet_Wilma_the_Neanderthal_woman/ar\
ticleshow/3507761.cms
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A temple (and bits of statuary) of Ramses II found in Cairo:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/ENGLISH/?id=27895
http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/09/16/Ramses_II_temple_discovered_in_Ca\
iro

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/16/2365549.htm
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20080916-87973.htm\
l

Bob Brier is checking out the 'Braided Lady':

http://www.wibw.com/localnews/headlines/28720254.html
http://www.koamtv.com/global/story.asp?s=9045332

A Hittite site from Aslantepe:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9917671.asp?scr=1
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=28338

A theory on those 'nail burials' from Pahluj (which last week
was spelled Tahluj):

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=752991

... in case you missed last week's:

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8706201032

Achaemenid fort from Bam:

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=61512&NewsKind=Cu\
rrent%20Affairs

Overviewish/sidebar sort of things on Tut:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-tut_bio_00gl.ART.Stat\
e.Edition2.27537db.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-tut_toys_00gl.ART.Sta\
te.Edition2.27635c4.html

... and more on his twins:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080914/sc_livescience/kingtuthadtwinsbutwh\
y

Will Smith will play the role of Taharqa:

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/09/08/Will_Smith_to_play_Pharaoh_Taha\
rqa/UPI-41841220881508/

Still looking for bits of the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/39711/

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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This one hasn't made it to the English press yet (but surely
will, depending on how it is spun), but Franck Goddio has found
a very (!) early cup inscribed with 'dia chrestou':

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/09/17/ciencia/1221645751.html

... Tom Elliott is collecting links and bibliography at:

http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/paregorios/alexandria-cup

Bronze Age finds from Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41472&cat_id=1

Roman burials from Leicestershire:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-22518.html
http://tinyurl.com/4bmnwl

... and more from Enderby:

http://www.inloughborough.com/news/2008/09/11541_cemetry.php
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/273279.php

A possible earliest TB victim from the UK:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/uoy-rys091608.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7619343.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART60897.html

Nice coverage of SFSU's Pompeii field school:

http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2008/fall/7.html

So so piece about the 'real' Cleopatra:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/17/2367156.htm

The facade of a Temple of Hadrian has been restored:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.2492798544

On the Roman origins of Venice:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4769204.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2975502/Ancestor-city-of-\
Venice-unearthed.html

Troy was even bigger than previously thought:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4782271.\
ece
http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-3941.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=afwbfeBA35og&refer=home

Sophocles at West Point:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/nyregion/19nyc.html

More on the cessation of digging in Knidos:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_ancient_city_1
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/14/ap/middleeast/main4448055.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091401176.\
html

More (rather late) coverage of that Roman temple at Zippori:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1022549

A followup to those Cypriot sarcophagi:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41446&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

You've no doubt already heard of a German radio station's plans to
broadcast in Latin on European languages day:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080918/od_nm/latin_dc

Review of Mary Beard, *Pompeii*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/articl\
e4782336.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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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Danish archaeologists have uncovered a 1000 b.p. Viking shield:

http://www.startribune.com/science/28595434.html
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/080918/ap/d93928sg0.html
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/health/story/473632.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/232513%2Carchaeologists-find-viking-era-\
shield.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i1Okkcpgncoea88JaPXV2sn9LayAD939C7I81
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425260,00.html

Was the Viking Age triggered by a shortage of women?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/17/viking-women.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26755692/

Strange medieval horse burial from Russia:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/7074/

... and a medieval pottery kiln from Tula:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/7054/

The Cerne Abbas Giant is getting a 'makeover':

http://tinyurl.com/3ovxrs (Daily Mail)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/16/heritage.ruralaffairs


Interesting story behind the search for the Nancy:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article4\
775914.ece

More on the lost capital of the Khazars:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425687,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080920/ap_on_re_eu/russia_lost_capital

I think we mentioned this Saxon burial before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7617772.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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Neolithic burials from Sarawak:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-3906.htm

... and from Malaysia/Borneo:

http://tinyurl.com/3jk8al

Some very interesting petroglyphs from Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-rock-art-that-redraws-our-history/2008/0\
9/19/1221331206960.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Strange spin being put on evidence of rabbit hunting by early
paleoIndians:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-23449.html

Archaeologists have found the original site of Fort Morris:

http://www.publicopiniononline.com/ci_10504426?source=most_emailed

Hurricane Ike has revealed a 'mystery shipwreck' off the coast of
Alabama:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080919/ap_on_re_us/ike_mystery_ship_1
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD335poFsiXACgyERE5aspaTZZpg
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i0OB9hCrLy8t-qivo9YSiy7LkkTAD939UUAG0
http://www.wztv.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.al/3256af94-www.fox17.com\
.shtml

DNA analysis suggests humans were in North America 14,300 b.p. (not
really; the headline is misleading):

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/09/21/dna_indicates_humans_in_n\
_america_14300_years_ago/

On Sally Hemings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html
cf:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/09/22/080922crbo_books_lepore

The last Jews of Calcutta:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Last-Jews-of-Calcutta.html

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about Camp Amache:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Followup to that Saskatchewan shipwreck story from last week:

http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=0a2b6405-fb6d-4fd4\
-9829-7b09c5409d33
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Mass burials near Macchu Pichu:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080915-machu-picchu.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-23016.html

More coverage of those 'sacrifice burials' from Peru:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/2085148
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/080917/3/3p71f.html
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-35528520080917

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Theoretically pushing back the date for domestication of crops:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/research_pushes_back/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080919075005.htm

On the origins (maybe) of 'the finger':

http://tinyurl.com/3f4a7a

David is in danger of falling over:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-19_119269110.html

Did a Spaniard invent the telescope?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/15/spain.telescope
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7617426.stm

A lost piece by Mozart?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_en_mu/eu_mozart_discovery
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7623663.stm

Review of S. Gundle, *Glamour: A History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/books/review/Weber-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Mount Ida and environs:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=153788&bolum=117

The 'Maine Woods':

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/travel/escapes/19american.html

Hueco Tanks:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/travel/escapes/19Pict.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A silver cross -- once thought to be the oldest Christian artifact
in the UK -- has been declared a fake:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4783042.ece
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-24371.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/19/archaeology.anglicanism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/2982490/Ancient-Christian-am\
ulet-declared-a-fake.html

Antiquities smuggling is a growing problem at US ports:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_on_re_us/smuggled_artifacts_1
http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/523669.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hF_95WVQ_r4FVapKjYyOQZGqy8RgD936LTP00
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26705244&afid=1

Some 'unregistered' Mayan artifacts from Belize:

http://www.lovefm.com/ndisplay.php?nid=8669

I wonder why they're bringing up Roxana Brown's death again:

http://tinyurl.com/3fu6vs (LAT)

A pair of smugglers were arrested in Greece:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/20/europe/EU-Greece-Antiquities-trafficki\
ng.php

A stolen Jewish manuscript is being returned:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107ap_israel_stolen_manuscript.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-09-3831892621_x.htm
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/5991393.html

The US returned some purloined antiquities to Iraq:

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-15-voa55.cfm

... and to Mexico:

http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2761\
&Itemid=1

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A pile of Mughul era gold coins was found near an Indian village:

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Sep192008/national2008091990890.asp?section=\
updatenews

An ancient Asian coin was found during a tavern dig in upstate
New York:

http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/coin_1257296___article.html/ancient_new.html

A metal detectorist in Wales has found one of the oldest coins
ever found in Wales:

http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/Coin-found-by-Wrexham-pensioner.4495810.jp

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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Babylon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/13/heritage.exhibition

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26211
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/sep/21/history-mystery-found-in-caves-in\
-an-ancient-land-/
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09182008/news/regionalnews/scroll_over_naysayers__en\
d_of_worlds_old_129632.htm
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/own-this-city/59671/the-dead-sea-scrolls

Van Gogh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19gogh.html

America and the Tintype:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19tint.html

Some upcoming exhibitions from the IAA's collection:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14&title=1

More delays for the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/17/2366731.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6qrgzk

The DSS are coming to the ROM (woohoo!):

http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15374&Itemid=86
http://tinyurl.com/3lw4ky

A gold book pointer is coming to auction:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aX4AnEzcFvyU&refer=muse

They're talking underwater museum at Alexandria again:

http://tinyurl.com/4nnjln (NP)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/photogalleries/Egypt-underwater-\
museum-photos/index.html

Big changes at the Smithsonian?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/arts/15smit.html

Some Chippendales furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
The Tempest:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/theater/reviews/19temp.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Theater-Review-Tempest.html

Tale of Two Cities:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/theater/reviews/19tale.html

Oresteia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/arts/music/15xena.html
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OBITUARIES
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Georgi Kitov:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/world/europe/18kitov.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/18/news/obits.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2984482/Georgi-Kitov.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_re_eu/eu_obit_kitov_1
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/502844
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep18/0,4670,EUObitKitov,00.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hh57rOfxCYvlxao9ufoOOUJbjaMg
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115372
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/georgi-kitov-the-thracian-kings-hunter-dies-at-\
65/id_31758/catid_66
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=97121
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVhJBNwN-kmrDM4Q9FoVe6Hd2yygD939AF8O1
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26791252&afid=1

George Zarnecki:

http://tinyurl.com/42yvkn (Independent)

Avraham Biran:

http://www.huc.edu/news/08/9/biranobit/

cf:
http://www.bib-arch.org/archive.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=25&Issue=5&ArticleID=2&ext\
raID=16
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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 the diet of Neanderthals:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7630042.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/science/23obfish.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/22/scineand122.xm\
l
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080922/sc_livescience/neanderthalsateseals\
anddolphins;_ylt=AuDYh8fvB8gOyON.Tqf39.FdRJ54
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9467/divulgacao-cientifica/neandertais-comi\
am-frutos-do-mar.htm
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AFRICA
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An update of sorts on the efforts to excavate that Portuguese
shipwreck off the Namibian coast:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7634479.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A possible Sumerian site in southern Iraq:

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/09/25/iraqis_plan_dig_at_possible_sumerian_\
site/afp/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080925/twl-iraq-unrest-archaeology-muthanna-3cd7e\
fd.html

A statue of Ramses II has been found:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080924/lf_nm_life/us_egypt_statue_1
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-26016.html
http://tinyurl.com/4xuxcr (Telegraph)
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLO269409.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD93DQU2G0
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/25/content_10110675.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aHHkpWrklZww&refer=muse

Archaeologists are returning to Haft-Tappeh:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=755767

A metal production site from Bam:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70617§ionid=351020105

The Aga Khan is helping to protect sites in Syria:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9617\
2

First Jordan ... now Turkey has a database of sites online:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115823

Istanbul's athletic heritage:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=154072&bolum=132

Pondering (again) the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122238636935776931.html

This week's Temple Mount saga coverage:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/233751,ban-understands-jordans-concerns-\
over-israeli-excavations.html

... and a saga-in-the-making over plans for a shopping mall near the
Mount of Olives:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127742

Concerns that cultural events are damaging the Old City:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017396278&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More coverage of the search for more pieces of the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/218333.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_crown_of_aleppo_2
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/09/27/2008-09-27_scholars_hunt_mis\
sing_pages_of_ancient_h.html

Info on next year's dig at Tiberias:

http://jwest.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/tibearias-excavation-2009/

Some 'shibboleth phonetics':

http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/shibboleths_phonetics_death/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Romans brought leeks to Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7631249.stm

The archaeologist who found that 'Christian Amulet' which has
been declared a fake is defending his find:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4799762.ece

They've found remains of the port at Tharros:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-25_125248178.html

The mysteries of the Riace Bronzes continue to grow:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-24_124243125.html

Interviewish thing with Simon Goldhill:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24390969-27702,00.html

An update of sorts on that Croatian Apoxyomenos statue:

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2008\
/09/25/feature-03

More on Princeton's reconstruction of Theran frescoes:

http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=2970

More on the Mount Lykaion dig:

http://uanews.org/node/21645

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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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Not sure the 'spin' being put on the discovery/exhibition of
artifacts from the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian folk is useful:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/22/cucuteni-neolithic-art.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=26839697

Plenty of coverage for this (somewhat repeated) story of Stonehenge
as a prehistoric pilgrimage/Lourdes-like site:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/2098524
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75938
http://tinyurl.com/3jakvm
http://tinyurl.com/4b9x7a (LAT)
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-09-22-Archaeologists-to-shed-new-lig\
ht-on-secrets-of-Stonehenge
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-stonehenge22-2008sep22,0,4808414.stor\
y
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/22/archaeology
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jotq-lcRiqpfMncDln1tU11pFUoQ
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Leader-The-Neolithic-Health-Service.4516722.jp
   (!)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008196772_stonehenge23.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/light-on-stonehenge.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425926,00.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26838058&afid=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7625145.stm

... while other Stonehenge press coverage is concentrating on
the discovery of its 'birth date':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3046095/Stonehenge-birthdate-discovered-by-archa\
eologists.html

... and the Independent seems a bit more critical:

http://tinyurl.com/4fc8ek

A Bronze Age knife from a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14596/20080926/

They're reopening the Petit Trianon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24arts-RENOVATEDVER_BRF.html

16th century fortress remains from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41549&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

What is causing the Vasa to deteriorate:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
2448

Some 300 b.p. burials found during an Edinburgh dig:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7635634.stm

Cleaning up the Pontine Marshes:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/22/europe/22marsh.php

More on the unsustainability of Iberian peninsula agriculture:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080917074134.htm

More coverage of that Viking shield find:

http://www.koaa.com/wacky_stories/x1142480211/1-000-year-old-Viking-shield-found\
-in-Denmark

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A "prehistoric" 'jar tomb' from Viet Nam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/09/805283/

1000 b.p. earthquake-proof dwellings in Uttarakhand:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080922/jsp/frontpage/story_9869079.jsp

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Looks like we'll be reading more about the Queen Anne's Revenge
in the near future:

http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2008/09/24/features/feats1062.tx\
t

Not sure there's anything new in this report on those coprolites
(and their implications) from the Paisley Caves in Oregon:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26819601/

I don't think there's anything new in this report on the search
for Franklin Expedition remains either:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26308268.htm

Another dam ... some sites

I think we've mentioned the changes at Gettysburg before:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24muse.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A forest fire has damaged some sites near Macchu Pichu:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080924/sc_nm/us_peru_fire_1
http://www.sabcnews.com/world/south_america/0,2172,177368,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080924/ap_tr_ge/lt_travel_brief_peru_machu_p\
icchu_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre48n8pf-us-peru-fire/

Recent finds from Copan:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

Stephen Houston is one of the recipients of a MacArthur grant:

http://www.projo.com/news/content/MACARTHUR_FELLOW_09-23-08_UJBM72H_v38.1c07fcd.\
html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Interesting/useful bacteria found in the Catacombs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26903967/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/sfgm-nlf092408.php
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-26102.html
http://www.physorg.com/news141536814.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924192443.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
2408
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9482/divulgacao-cientifica/vida-nova-nas-ca\
tacumbas.htm

... and some interesting yeast origins for the Fossil Fuels
Brewing Company:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/23/ancient-yeast-beer.html

On the origins of etiquette:

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/salon/article/428994

A 14th-century cookbook is going online:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/22/10?gusrc=rss&feed=technologyfull

An uproar of sorts over the Collins Dictionary folks taking 2000 words
out of the dictionary to make room for new ones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/collins.dictionary.words

In case you want to track that 'phoenician circumnavigation' thing:

http://live.adventuretracking.com/phoenicia

A Middle English Grammar project:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923140838.htm

Milton's 400th is coming up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/books/26milt.html

Garrison Keilor marked the invasion of 1066 and all that:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

For all the MacArthur Genius Grant recipients (or most of them):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/23fell.html

For the Harry Potter fans:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25366

A Medieval festival in Manhattan:

http://www.whidc.org/home.html

More coverage of the controversy over who invented the telescope:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7617426.stm
http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=32962&amid=30258487

In other telescope news, here's one owned by Albert Einstein:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3600205,00.html

Review of F. Baez, *A Universal History of the Destruction of Books*:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/book-burning-and-other-bibliocausts/86438/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Petra:

http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,700261413,00.html

New Mexico:

http://www.economist.com/daily/diary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12284420

Vatican City:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-vaticancity28-2008sep28

Tamil Nadu:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/travel/21journeys.html

Retracing Champlain's route:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/travel/escapes/26champlain.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter (September 08):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#fall08

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A petroglyph was chiseled off a rock in Arizona:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/97636.php
http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=9069222

A bust in Macedonia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080924/ap_on_re_eu/eu_macedonia_antiquities_seized_\
1
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5873787
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/211419.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWMgdKapzkyREJE6nHm47h6-VE1AD93D36M00
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/24/europe/EU-Macedonia-Antiquities-Seized\
.php
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/09/macedonian-police-seize-stolen-antiquiti\
es

Some pre-Columbian artifacts are being returned to Ecuador:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080924/article/809240346&tc=yahoo

A stolen Renoir was recovered:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-26_126264056.html

More coverage of the US returns of Iraqi artifacts:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24387045-1702,00.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpkma_PlXLsuMHomhlwyE26iu9Iw
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70314§ionid=3510212

More on the mysteries of Roxana Brown's death:

http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=5143

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A recent Viking coin/ingot find is going on display:

http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/545/Rare-Viking-ingot-found.4518140.jp

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Nostoi (?):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_25/09/2008_100766
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-09-24-greece-recovered-artifact\
s_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6870752&maindocimg=6867347&servi\
ce=94

Caesar:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_123253025.html

Ancient Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26296

Matilde of Canossa:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=26255&int_modo=1
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-25_125240714.html

Italy has returned a piece of the Parthenon to Greece:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8CB4km-01Y4Ta3mxs6P0Z7hMzSA
http://news.smh.com.au/world/italy-returns-long-lost-parthenon-fragment-to-greec\
e-20080924-4mo2.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_123261368.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8yGH2-ieWX8ELPzgON0yfU2q6ZAD93CIM300
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE48N4PU20080924
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/24/content_10099814.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_italy_parthenon;_ylt=A\
v0D.fAGPa1HhS6PW5VDU37737YB
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_123261368.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/24/parthenon-marble-italy.html

Latest on the Lewis Chessmen:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Fresh-bid--to-return.4531070.jp

A Lord Nelson 'mourning ring' has fetched a nice price at auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3067907/Lord-Nelson-mour\
ning-ring-sells-for-18000.html

There's a new Chair at the Smithsonian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/22muse.html

... and at the Carnegie MOA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24muse.html

Ellis Island Museum is expanding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/nyregion/25ellis.html

Info on some upcoming auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26anti.html

More on the DSS coming to the ROM:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/09/24/rom-scrolls.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080925.wrom25/BNStory/Enter\
tainment
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
The English Channel:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/theater/reviews/24chan.html

New folks in charge of Julliard's Early Music program:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/music/24earl.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Georgi Kitov:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-kitov25-2008sep25,0,5795889.story
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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 travails of Neanderthal mothers:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/09/neanderthal-mothers-had-it-\
tougher-than-modern-moms

The Times was reprinting/revisiting Piltdown Man (in reverse order):

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1953-11-21-06-010&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1953-11-21-06
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1912-12-19-04-008&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1912-12-19-04
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1953-11-23-08-007&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1953-11-23-08
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AFRICA
================================================================
More coverage of that Portuguese shipwreck:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080928/lf_afp/namibiaportugalarchaeologyshipping_0\
80928203712
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzSqBb-JxvrY4OJ-W2TS8Pau0LxQ
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Interesting satellite/atlas project:

http://www.physorg.com/news142012612.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/544745/

Not sure why this Zekediah courtier's seal is back in the news:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/clay-seal-connects-to-bible/

Those Egyptian skulls dug up in a Manchester garden last June
have been returned to Egypt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7644151.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080930/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_ancient_skulls_1
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/223275.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/ap/europe/main4489663.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3110823/Egyptian-skulls-discovered-in-Man\
chester-garden.html
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-09-30-Ancient-skulls-returned-to-Egy\
pt

A pile of phallic figurines from near Nazareth:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/09/08/archaeological-surprise-g\
rave-site-full-of-phallic-figurines/

Nice feature on Eilat Mazar:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017388261&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

More/followup on malls near the Mount of Olives:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127827

What Elain Pagels is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/4pevb4

The Aleppo Codex search story still has legs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26941871/

Another 'early Christian Church' claim/find:

http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=253684

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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Greco-Roman sculptures found in a submerged wall in Kythnos:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/03/DDUK13ACDQ.DTL
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-02-greece-sculpture_N.htm?csp=34
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/10/02/6956741-ap.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/3125501/Roman-statues-fo\
und-under-Aegean-Sea.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=71265§ionid=3510212

Evidence for the English coastline in Roman times:

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Dig-unearths-our-Roman-coastline--newsinkent\
16666.aspx?news=local
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-10-02-Roman-coastline-and-medieval-d\
ock-dicovered-at-Richborough-Roman-Fort
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7648033.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART61315.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1066712/Uncovered-lost-beach-Roma\
ns-got-toehold-Britain.html
http://www.ryeandbattleobserver.co.uk/latest-south-east-news/Archaeologists-unco\
ver-stretch-of-Roman.4552718.jp

Interesting finds from Tavsan Island:

http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2248


... and a very interesting burial from Punta Secca:

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2008/08oct02/mystery.html

... which certain editors messed up (see more below):

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-29714.html

A Mycenean burial with an imported sword:

http://howrah.org/sci_tech_htm/32359.html

That dia chrestou cup find by Franck Goddio is hitting the English
press:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-5788.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26972493/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/01/jesus-bowl.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3122902/Hidden-Roman-coastline-unearthed-\
by-archaeologists-in-Kent.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4870491.ece

Lisbon's Roman cellars:

http://www.portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=29576

A gate from Pelinna:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6896548&maindocimg=4539150&servi\
ce=98

Garum is being used to "date" the eruption of Pompeii (I think they
really mean "confirm the date we've known for ages"):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/29/pompeii-fish-sauce.html

I think we've had this Dionysus sanctuary find before:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/targovishte/news/20081002/dionysus_sanctuary.htm\
l

Apparently Troy has been found (but competent editors have not):

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-5536.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Epics_help_experts_in_finding_Troy/\
articleshow/3542072.cms

... this appears to be the source article the foregoing messed up:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/09/28/hidden_histories/

The New York Times has a nice item (with a slideshow) on Ostia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/arts/design/01fres.html

Charlotte Higgins has written a book about Greek which looks fun/useful:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/01/philosophy.history
cf:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2008/oct/01/ancient.greek\
.literature?commentpage=1

More coverage of that beneficial (maybe) bacteria found in the
catacombs:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924192443.htm

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt*:

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/30190989.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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 a prehistoric village on Ustica:

http://tinyurl.com/3s5c63 (ASCA)

An Iron Age mausoleum from Armenia:

http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=3282&CID=3168&IID=1203&lng=eng

First they tracked Vikings with cod, now with mice:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7645908.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080930/sc_afp/sciencehistoryvikings_080930233727;_\
ylt=Ag02TgJTdxB8yCRxsYCEToLPOrgF

... so it seems a good thing to test some Danes too:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1471685.ece

Nice articles on Stonehenge:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/light-on-stonehenge.html
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2008/2375540.htm

Brief item on the discovery of a "pirate hoard" in London:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23561443-details/Pirate+hoard+fou\
nd+in+East+End/article.do

Saxon remains might hold up supermarket construction:

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Ancient-Saxons-hold-supermarket/article-3\
59601-detail/article.html

More on the cause of the Vasa's deterioration:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080925083203.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
DNA is revealing the diverse origins of those who worked on Qin's
tomb:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003275

A 2300 b.p. pot of 'paddy grain':

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_08/September2901745KA.html

Interesting finds shedding light on Stone and Bronze Age
Viet Nam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/041008/culture_e.htm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Remember the fire in the Cutty Sark? They finally figured out
the cause:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/30/cutty.sark.fire/index.html

Review of Annette Gordon-Reed, *The Hemingses of Monticello*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books/review/Foner-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Satellite imagery has revealed a pyramid structure in Peru:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-6208.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/03/peru-cahuachi.html
http://www.estense.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=42144&format=html

The varied population of Machu Picchu:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37043/title/Machu_Picchu%E2%80%99s_fa\
r-flung_residents

Those scepters found in a Mexican volcano a year or so ago have
been conserved and restored:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2367&Itemid=150

Item on the Temple of the Sorcerer:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

Evidence on the ancient use of Yucca by the Maya:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2368&Itemid=150

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Nice item/reviewish thing on John Stuart Mill:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/06/081006crat_atlarge_gopn\
ik

Justice in the ancient World:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977462886

Cave paintings appear to have been touched up over thousands of
years:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/05/eacaveart105.x\
ml

The 2008 IgNobel Recipients (some archaeological content!):

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/

Short item on the history of dictionaries (sort of):

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4\
878346.ece

Russia has 'rehabilitated' Nicholas II and his family:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081001/wl_afp/russiahistoryroyalscourt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/world/europe/02czar.html

Oetzi's finders have finally been compensated:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/3105153/Oetzi-the-icema\
ns-discoverers-finally-compensated.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-29_129237279.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7643286.stm

Interesting comparanda in this piece on 'hidden Kosovar Christians':

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-us-kosovo-catholics.html

A previously-unknown Brueghel the Younger may have been found:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/30/brueghel-antiques-show.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Fort Royal:

http://www.fortroyal.blogspot.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A professorial couple in Greece are accused of trading in
antiquities (books?):

http://news.ert.gr/en/c/10/35610.asp

A bust in Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news164957.htm

This brief item suggests Kom Peak might have been the target of
illegal excavations:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n154313

A Renoir stolen 33 years ago has been recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29arts-ARENOIRISREC_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
  From the Land of the Golden Fleece:

http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=52058

Arctic Peoples:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=26426&int_modo=1

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ad3ZeXmvBOUo&refer=muse

Van Gogh:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/04/arts/melik4.php

A couple of exhibitions focussing on Trent:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/04/arts/conway.php

Italy is looking for a 'museum czar':

http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-35749820081001

The Queen is lending a Mantegna to the Louvre:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aHTjKeyDSy9I&refer=muse

The Tut exhibition moves to Dallas:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/092908glkingt\
ut.190785c.html

The LA County MoA is getting some nice funding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29muse.html

... while Sotheby's is the subject of a lawsuit (not sure I
get this one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/arts/design/02arts-SUEDARTCOLLE_BRF.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
William Woodruff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/books/29woodruff.html

Marc Raeff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/education/29raeff.html

Benny Kraut:

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110605.html

Elinor Guggenheimer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/nyregion/01guggenheimer.html

Margot Gayle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/nyregion/30gayle.html

Robert E. Lee:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0119.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Joseph Lauer, Les Skeates, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Barnea Selavan, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
The 'fossil trail' suggests early humans left Africa 1.8 million
years ago:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-6594.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting priestly family sarcophagus from near Jerusalem:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027267.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20081006-sarcophagus-fragment-found-near-jerusalem
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110681.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081006/wl_mideast_afp/israelarchaeologyreligion
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/VideoPlayer&cid=11944\
19829128&videoId=1222017491590

Feature on Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in danger of collapsing:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1027042

More coverage of that recently-found Ramses statue:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=15729_0_1_0_M

More coverage of the shopping-mall-near-the-Mount-of-Olives
dispute:

http://thenational.ae/article/20080925/FOREIGN/930431059

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Roman stadium at Pozzuoli is open to the public:

http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/156442/
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/10/Ancient_Roman_stadium_opens/UPI-748312236\
77328/

Brief item on some recent finds in an Ephesus necropolis:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=155539&bolum=101

A Roman villa from Budapest:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=474744&sid=FTP
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/roman_villa/?\
cHash=3a0dd74595
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/one-of-the-earliest-roman-villas-\
unearthed-in-hungary_100104449.html

Pondering where an ancient shipwreck was headed:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

The New York Times covers the 'rise of Latin':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/nyregion/07latin.html

Mary Beard reveals her educational background:

http://tinyurl.com/4nna9w (Independent)

The Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri is expanding online:

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/10/papyrus.html

Nice feature on the URI Classics Society:

http://tinyurl.com/4svj3g

There's a new professorship of Greek Culture at Cambridge:

http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=52189

Your annual Spartathlon coverage:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49804j-us-witness-ultramarathon/

Interesting Hannibal comic:

http://newsok.com/hannibals-epic-campaign-comes-to-web-based-comic/article/33091\
91

Didn't we have something on this Greek 'sacred soil' story a
while back?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/07/greek-temple-soil.html

Athens has a graffiti problem:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100013_07/10/2008_101073
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081006/lf_afp/lifestylegreeceartgraffiti_081006162\
104
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jnCSLPXWftUy9s2w2YKmuHwMeKuw

Big bucks for Vindolanda:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2008/10/06/roman-treasu\
res-are-coming-home-61634-21970504/

Learning Greek at an Oxford estate:

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3736030.Speak_Greek/

Review of Charlotte Higgins, *It's All Greek to Me*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/11/bohig111.xml

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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)
================================================================
Bronze Age war dead from a peat bog in Germany:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24477743-663,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24477743-5012749,00.html

... and an 'Alpine Pompeii' site:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,583452,00.html

Now the reaction to recent Stonehenge reports ... it was a
cremation centre:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7660860.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-6588.htm

A Newport shipwreck restoration update:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7651410.stm

Plans are afoot to restore the 'time ball':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7662138.stm

Review of David Starkey, *Henry: Virtuous Prince*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_rev\
iews/article4875057.ece

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Tantalizingly brief item on wig-wearing musicians being found
in a burial near Xi'an:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-10/08/content_7087153.htm

Virtual Forbidden City tour?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081010/od_nm/us_china_forbiddencity

The origins of Chinese Chess?:

http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2008/07/tangut-chess.html

More coverage of that Australian petroglyph story:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australian-history-rewritten\
-in-rock-art-951828.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-29933.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A 7000 b.p. site from Maine:

http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/31B22D9C80EBCC2E852574DE0\
05E8628?Opendocument

What they've found at the Port Joli (Nova Scotia) dig:

http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-257455-Scientists-digging-for-history-in-Port\
-Joli.html

On the DNA front (sort of), they're tracking down George Washington's kin:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27075856/

An 'angry Abe' letter:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27050783/

The geology connection to the Civil War:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001145032.htm

Trying to get 'official recognition' of some Pequot battle
sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/nyregion/connecticut/12pequotct.html

Review of Jacqueline Jones, *Saving Savannah*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Boyle-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting finds and plans for Xtampak:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2398&Itemid=150

A pile of 'white roads' have been found at Chichen Itza:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

New technique for sourcing Maya pottery:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37338/title/Origins_of_Maya_pottery_m\
aterial_remain_mysterious

More coverage of that pyramid in Peru located by satellite
technology:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27010998/

More coverage of the search for the Franklin Expedition:

http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/oct6_08sh.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A piece (a sidebar?) on ancient math:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502043.\
html

They've figured out what affliction the Ugly Duchess had:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/oct/11/art-painting

Studying death:

http://www.livescience.com/history/081008-death-ways.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008151328.htm

Nice feature on Hebrew illuminated manuscripts:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017482672&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Whither Cardinal Newman's body?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/libby_purves/article4887190.\
ece

Check out this guy's library:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Robert Fulford was writing about archaeology for some reason:

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=864004

Review of some Audobon drawing books:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/science/07bird.html

Review of Edward Kritzler, *Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean*:

http://www.forward.com/articles/14339/

Review of Tom Holland, *Millennium*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/millennium-by-tom-\
holland-956431.html

Nice slideshow of satellite photos of assorted sites:

http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/default.aspx?gid=10

I think we've mentioned this cave-painting-dating story before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7656338.stm
http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2008/10/caves-werent-painted-in-day.html

Review of John Demos, *The Enemy Within*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Greer-t.html

Review of a couple of tomes about Rimbaud:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Hell-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Greek Islands:

http://www.powerboat-world.com/The-Greek-Island-Odyssey/49692/arc
http://www.sail-world.com/USA/The-Greek-Island-Odyssey/49692

Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/3172776/Rome-Eternal-love.html

Roman Gardens:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-gardens12-2008oct12

Ventotene:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/10/06/ventotene.italy/index.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another antiquities dealer in the spotlight:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRZDkUknxHM_OIUR8L2-UiRA73FgD93OBRJ00
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/836757.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_on_re_eu/eu_antiquities_dealer
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/12/europe/EU-FEA-Germany-Antiquities-Deal\
er.php


Vandals are damaging historic buildings all over the UK:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4887933.ece

Not a crime within our purview per se, but this bandit's 'off-duty'
reading material is interesting:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-10_110272237.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A visit to Rome's National Museum's Coin Museum (awk):

http://coinarchaeology.blogspot.com/2008/09/coin-collection-at-museo-nazionale.h\
tml

The Iron Lady on an Iron Age coin?:

http://tinyurl.com/4at3nk

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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Athanasiu Kircher:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26585

Treasures from Assyria:

http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/10/12/lifestyle/371608.txt

John Milton:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26551

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24457377-2862,00.html

Ruins and Rebirth of Art in Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08heri.html

Traces of the Calligrapher:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/design/10trac.html

Paths to Impressionism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/nyregion/new-jersey/12artsnj.html

Native Women's Dress:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08iden.html

The Essential Art of African Textiles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/design/10text.html

Dead Sea Scrolls (lots of complaints about this review):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07scrol.html

Tut:

http://www.suite101.com/blog/bootsphd/tutankhamun_and_the_golden_age_of_the_phar\
aohs_to_visit_mh_de_young_museum

Palladio:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/3152760/Andrea-Palladio-500-yea\
rs-of-architectural-wonders.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/3157982/The-best-of-Andrea-Pa\
lladio.html

Monet to Dali:

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/ENT05/810080397

Venice:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-07_107271022.html

Italy (or rather, ex minister Rutelli) is pressuring Bonham's to
remove some antiquities from an upcoming auction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article49166\
86.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/arts/design/11arts-ITALYQUESTIO_BRF.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28916/italian-politician-tries-to-block-bonham\
s-antiquities-sale/

Arguing over some tribal art from New Guinea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/arts/design/06gift.html

I think we mentioned this crystal ewer when it was coming
to auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3153856/Crystal-jug-valu\
ed-at-100-sells-for-3.2-million.html

The Coleridge Collar is coming to auction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4887698.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7653348.stm

Latest opEd piece on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles kerfuffle:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45552,opinion,greece-has-won-the-debate-over-elgin\
-marbles

The BM bought a Rubens:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/DDHF13EE2C.DTL

A brief state-of-the-Iraqi-returns piece:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-iraq8-2008oct08,0,2413479.s\
tory

Auctions seem to be feeling the pinch:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/arts/design/09arts-SALESUNDERWH_BRF.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Digital Karnak:

http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/

Virtual cemetery G2100 at Giza:

http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~tjchamb/G_2100_Exhibit/Home.html
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OBITUARIES
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Avraham Biran:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/middleeast/06biran.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obit-biranoct07,0,190042.stor\
y
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/06/Noted_archaeologist_Biran_dead_at_98/UPI-\
59821223307306/

William Murphy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/books/09murphy.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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A possible new 'out of Africa' route:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7668250.stm
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AFRICA
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The British Museum has received some blocks from a Sudanese
pyramid:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29004/british-museum-receives-stones-from-anci\
ent-sudanese-pyramid/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some 9000 b.p. bones from Israel are suggesting that tuberculosis
is older than previously thought:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/ucl-ekh101308.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014204442.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081015/sc_nm/us_tuberculosis_origins_2
http://www.healthscout.com/news/1/620287/main.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081015/hl_hsn/earlytbfoundin9000yearoldbones
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1077801/Ancient-bone-discovery-shows-t\
uberculosis-9-000-years-old.html
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003426
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37619/title/Infectious_finds_at_ancie\
nt_site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7668838.stm
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49d9ir-us-tuberculosis-origins/

Time has a feature on the James Ossuary:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1850111,00.html

cf:

http://ia311218.us.archive.org/0/items/UnholyBusinessRevisedReview/burleigh2.pdf
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,439203,00.html

Recreating Temple-era instruments and music:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1028981.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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Disproportionately large coverage of the discovery of Nonius
Macrinus' (a.k.a. the 'inspiration' for 'Gladiator') tomb:

http://news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,24509833-948,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438801,00.html
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/157697/
http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-612.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4953947.ece
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27224453/
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-15_115265741.html
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/277583.php
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tomb-of--real-Gladiator.4602320.jp
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/found-tomb-of-the-general-who-ins\
pired-gladiator-963797.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/3210339/Gladiator-tomb-di\
scovered-by-archeologists.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/17/tomb-of-roman-hero-who-inspi\
red-gladiator-found-115875-20812058/
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/17/na-excellent-ruins-unveiled/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7675633.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/19/2395178.htm

... while there were other major finds from Rome announced this week as
well:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=32968&sez=HOME_ROMA
http://www.roma-citta.it/roma/news_16329-Presentati-4-ritrovamenti-archeologici-\
fra-Palatino-e-Flaminio-cronaca.html
http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=298766
http://www.latimes.com/business/careers/work/la-fg-italy17-2008oct17,0,1756926.s\
tory
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j3r_f0rj7Jv_-nl1jgVR5nizRiVwD93RR97G1
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,439401,00.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72447§ionid=3510212
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/17/roman.ruins.ap/index.html

... and some are playing up the 'Caligula' angle:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20081017/117800978.html
http://www.newspostonline.com/sci-tech/archaeologists-unearth-place-where-roman-\
emperor-caligula-was-murdered-200810189711

Roman remains keep getting in the way of construction projects
in Beirut:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=96858
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/10/16/ancient_history_gets_in_the_way_of_be\
iruts_modern_towers/afp/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081016/lf_afp/lifestylelebanonarchaeologyconstruct\
ion_081016073925
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=28331
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gx-Orkj0FRz607-29Ukvvs9zbzQw

A Roman 'palace' from the 5th/6th century is being excavated in Beirut
as well:

http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-428.htm
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/ancient-roman-palace-excavated-in\
-turkey_100107464.html

Roman mosaic from Srebenica:

http://www.emportal.co.yu/en/news/region/65622.html

A temple of Isis and Osiris from Bulgaria:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1100761771
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/temple-to-iris-and-osiris-unearthed-near-the-bu\
lgarian-black-sea/id_32427/catid_70

A virtual tour of ancient Koln:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,584005,00.html

Not sure if we mentioned this necropolis at Ephesus yet:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=117214
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=476069&sid=ftp
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/1700-year-old-golden-jewelry-disc\
overed-in-necropolis-in-turkey_100106599.html

This week's 'popularity of Latin' piece:

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-education/2008/10/17/latin-surges-in-popularity.h\
tml

... and a nice feature on Latin teacher Rose Williams:

http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2008/10/14/ara/education/7848.txt

On the names of constellations:

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/ancient_egyptia\
n_astronomy_120456.html

There's a possible Argonauts miniseries (?) in the works:

http://tinyurl.com/5adda2 (THR)

... and Brad Pitt's behind a sci fi version of the Odyssey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/oct/17/brad-pitt-the-odyssey
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gerH-NalgVcX8XE33xF4J6qQF0Zg

Lasers to clean monuments on the Acropolis?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27237685/
http://www.euronews.net/en/article/17/10/2008/hi-tech-answer-to-acropolis-pollut\
ion-problem/

More coverage of that tomb in Sicily with both pagan and Christian elements:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013210144.htm

More coverage of the opening of the stadium at Pozzuoli:

http://tinyurl.com/4nggy9 (Telegraph)

In case you missed Maureen Dowd's Latin column last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html

Review of Sarah Ruben's translation of the Aeneid:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24496594-5001986,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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)
================================================================
Anglo-Saxon finds with interesting implications from East
Cleveland (we'll see what happens to this story when it gets
picked up by ANI):

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2008/10/14/rare-finds-unearth-te\
esside-link-with-royalty-84229-22029051/

Did 'Norsemen' bring Christianity to Caithness?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7666916.stm

A 13th century brooch has been declared treasure:

http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/hampshirenews/3751256.Coroner_declares_brooc\
h_is_a_medieval_treasure/

Somewhat confusing account of finds from various periods at a
Bulgarian dig:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/rousse/news/20081014/bulgarian_madonna.html

... not quite sure if this is the same or not:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n156526

Medieval remains in Berlin:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=326312

Finds from various periods at a Tickhill metal detectorist rally:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/doncaster/Items-up-to-3500-years.4589779.jp

A number of shipwrecks have been found in the Gulf of Finland:

http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/21576/

... and a bunch in the Severn:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/18/eaboatwreck118\
.xml

More coverage of recent theories about Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/6nlm67 (Dispatch)
http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-86.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 Gupta-era (?) engraved bit of sandstone from Bangladesh:

http://tinyurl.com/5q9dlb

A 1900 b.p. Buddhist monastery from Gujarat:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-31943.html

A very interesting 9th century shipwreck from the Indian Ocean
(which I thing we mentioned a year or so ago):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7675866.stm

That Cambodia/Thai/Temple/border dispute is still going on:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7667341.stm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A sort of state-of-the-research piece from Jamestown:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/readne/2008/10_15-30/REG

... and a backgroundish sort of thing on the Range Creek site(s):

http://www.sltrib.com/collegesports/ci_3880827

Rethinking Archaic Maine:

http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-5.htm

Trying to save the Arapaho language:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/us/17arapaho.html

NY School buildings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/nyregion/18about.html

They've saved the Falls of Clyde (again):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/us/19ship.html

Review of James McPherson: *Tried by War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/books/review/Smith-t.html

Assorted presidential (and other) tomes:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/20/081020crat_atlarge_lepo\
re
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
This story on the discovery of a couple of important temples in
Peru is coming up 'empty' for me this a.m.; perhaps it will work
for you:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=ZKG4V7jAo+4=

Evidence of early 'drug' use in the Caribbean:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3225729/Stone-Age-man-to\
ok-drugs-say-scientists.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
There are assorted videos on the main page of the Archaeology
Channel which are of interest:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/index.asp

Feting Noah Webster:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081012/ap_on_re_us/defining_a_nation

A bunch of vintage movies are now available online:

http://www.france24.com/en/20081008-europa-film-treasures-archives-online-cinema\
-internet

St Gall joins the ranks of places putting manuscripts online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/books/18libr.html

A timely history of US banking:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122360636585322023.html

The world's first dog?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27240370/

The Clampers stay busy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/us/14california.html

'Stylometrics' sounds an awful lot like literary analyses which
have been around for years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/science/14prof.html

Another spin on the digitization of the Codex Sinaiticus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7651105.stm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Antalya:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=117466

Egypt:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27057246/

The monastery option:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/travel/19journeys.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another bust in Thessaloniki:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gXPbbr0sVi3mWsFLEv-6JnhGo4vwD93QCBHG0
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6935995&service=142

A triad of busts in Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/3s8xq4 (Spain)

A manuscript-smuggling attempt in Yemen was prevented (awk):

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10015017.html

Was John Hobbs selling fakes?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/garden/16hobbs.html

More coverage of a 'colorful' antiquities dealer:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ia2a-LexL13yIcOkKu6-MTZOECUg

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
US Mint Directors:

http://www.coinlink.com/Resources/biographies/us-mint-directors-from-1773/us-min\
t-directors-from-1773/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Ancient Cities of Lazio:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26518

Pompeii and the Roman Villa:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26684
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile&id=1152728&categ\
ories=Exhibits&venueid=791895

Herculaneum:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-16_116285100.html

Dilettanti:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-dilettanti16-2008oct16,0,15\
5418.story

Jim Dine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/arts/design/19fink.html

Grant and Lee in War and Peace:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17hist.html

Andrea Riccio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17ricc.html

Pondering the idea of repatriation:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7672399.stm

New efforts to save Iraq's antiquities:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1226701,CST-NWS-iraq17.article

A private citizen has returned some artifacts to Egypt:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/237405,british-woman-returns-ancient-sta\
tues-to-egypt.html

Another feature on the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/greece/article4937732.ece

The ROM is hosting a symposium on Ancient Egypt and Nubia:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=26626&int_modo=1

Feature on the Amory show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17anti.htm

More coverage of Rutelli's attempts to get some items withdrawn
from Bonham's:

http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=21508&monthview=0&month=10&year=2008

... which were apparently successful:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-14_114283666.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/3205645/Suspicions-that-R\
oman-artefacts-were-illegally-traded.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28986/questioned-antiquities-withdrawn-from-bo\
nhams-auction/
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=4993

... and that 'Elvis' akroterion fetched a decent price:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/66321/-24-000-for-Elvis-

... otherwise, the auction was 'surprisingly' successful:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/18/arts/melik18.php

... perhaps some Russian billionaires were involved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17arts-RUSSIANBILLI_BRF.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Criticism for an upcoming BBC documentary about Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/BBC39s-epic-tale-of-Scotland.4591718.jp

Mary:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/movies/17mary.html

Crusoe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/television/17crus.html

Man for All Seasons:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/10/20/081020crth_theatre_lahr
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OBITUARIES
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Peter Vansittart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/arts/15vansittart.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
I suspect this upcoming conference will have plenty of 'elmer'
material:

http://www.ameinfo.com/171069.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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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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More coverage of the 'waterways out of Africa' story:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/14/ancient-waterways-could-hav\
e-guided-early-humans-out-of-africa/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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DNA from a couple of mummies has revealed some very early examples
of malaria:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/23/mummies-malaria.html
http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-1999.htm

An ancient Neo Assyrian 'governor's palace' at Ziyaret Tepe:

http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/165491/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021094216.htm

They're digging around Persepolis:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=180525

Some high tech analyses of the Great Pyramid are bearing fruit:

http://www.physorg.com/news143788675.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lipyra2112084891oct21,0,5217474.story

... this seems to be a related story (?):

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/pyramidchambers.htm
http://www.pyramidofman.com/blog/secret-chamber-discovered-in-the-great-pyramid/

Tracking the 'a la steatite' cooking pot's production and diffusion:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=content&aid=344

Peter Dorman was talking about Hatshepsut:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=97051

Another 'who wrote the DSS' piece:

http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c347_a13745/The_Arts/Museums.html

... and another:

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=6816

... and another:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Zias_Dead_Sea_Scrolls.shtml

... and another DSS imaging project:

http://www.inboxrobot.com/article.php?nid=43530

Feature on the legacy of the DSS:

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=6816

Big bucks to preserve some heritage items in Iraq:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/design/21arts-14MILLIONTOP_BRF.html

Revisiting that 'Dead Sea Stone':

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=6820

Review of Nina Burleigh, *Unholy Business*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122446027022248721.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

More on the structural problems at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7676332.stm

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)
================================================================
Neolithic remains from Greece:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27348143&afid=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_sc/eu_greece_neolithic_household_4

Nine late Roman columns found in a riverbed in northern Italy:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-21_121267535.html
http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-1495.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/10/22/Ancient_columns_found_in_Italy/UPI-30\
221224655365/
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=478447&sid=ftp
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212180687.shtml

Brief item on a third century tomb find from Garfagnana:

http://www.nostalgiatoscana.it/newsite/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id\
=19830&Itemid=2

A possible Roman site in Hungary:

http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/archaeologis/\
?cHash=521d920cc0

A first century mosaic floor from Bosnia:

http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/archaeologists-discover-a-mosaic-floor-fr\
om-the-roman-era-in-bosnia-200810223808

Not sure if we've mentioned this Imago Urbis project before:

http://www.i-dome.com/flash-news/index.phtml?_id_articolo=12930-Imago-Urbis-racc\
oglie-e-racconta-la-storia-di-Roma.html

They're still poking around that temple of Augustus where the
Res Gestae were found:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=156584&bolum=100

Latin is on the rise in Wales:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education-news/2008/10/22/school-spreads-the-w\
ord-on-latin-class-91466-22085616/

... and in Rocktown:

http://www.rocktownweekly.com/rocktown/profile.php?AID=2715

What James O'Donnell is up to:

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/9070.html

A Cleopatra rock opera is in the works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/movies/25arts-AROCKMUSICAL_BRF.html

More coverage of that virtual tour of Koln:

http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-1501.htm

More coverage of that late Roman 'palace' in Turkey:

http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/ancient-roman-palace-excavated-in-turkey-\
200810223807
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021094216.htm

More coverage of that temple of Isis from Bulgaria:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72903§ionid=3510212

More coverage of laser-cleaning the Acropolis:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/10/20/08/greek-scientists-use-lasers-clean-\
acropolis

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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)
================================================================
Claims that the 'Russians' were the first to do a pile of important
things (shades of many a Star Trek episode?):

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72896§ionid=3510212

Interesting Neolithic 'engraving' from Denmark:

http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article585168.ece

An 11th century spindle adorned with Runes from Reykjavik:

http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=313919

Learning from a Viking burial:

http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-2147.htm

... and the Vikings apparently brought mice to Britain as well:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/01/the-vikings-brought-another\
-group-of-invaders-to-britain-mice/

Plans are afoot to search for St Edmund (sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/6jvh6u

Some gold studs from Stonehenge were (re)discovered in a desk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7684300.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3242724/Britains-most-im\
portant-archeological-discovery-found-in-desk-drawer.html

Can't remember if we've mentioned this Stonehenge 'hedgehog' before:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081021-stonehenge-toy.html

Other finds found in the search for Hull's first Carmelite friary:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Dig-finds-delight-but-ancient.4612417.j\
p

Are the Jelling Stones threatened?:

http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article587048.ece
http://politiken.dk/kultur/article586722.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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"Megalithic" burials from near Nagpur:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Nagpur/Megalithic_burial_sites_found/articles\
how/3616745.cms

Evidence of a long lost people from the Philippines?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081024/sc_nm/us_philippines_archaeology_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27359564/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=artifacts-discovery-might

The high tech search for Khan's tomb:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017081030.htm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A very old awl (and other items) from Indiana:

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081020/NEWS/810200358
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021214301.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/545592/?sc=rssn

Finds from various periods found at a dig at the first mayer
of Petersburg's house in Battersea:

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-23-0204.htm\
l

Latest from the Hunley:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_re_us/confederate_submarine

An African 'spirit bundle' from Annapolis:

http://www.examiner.com/a-1648379~UMd_archaeologists_find_African__spirit_bundle\
_.html
http://www.physorg.com/news143803691.html
http://www.huliq.com/11/71073/archaeologists-find-unique-early-us-relic-african-\
worship
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021120755.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/23/healthscience/snarti.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/science/21arch.html

Digging in Horseshoe Cave (Montana):

http://www.physorg.com/news143990149.html
http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=6402

Interesting finds from the Gore Place dig (Mass.):

http://tinyurl.com/5t8jgx

The Society for Georgia Archaeology was talking about recent
finds:

http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/680/public/news931113.html

Renovating the NYPL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/arts/design/23ouro.html

Restoring a very old flag:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/nyregion/connecticut/26flagct.html

Review of David Reynolds, *Waking Giant*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Winik-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence from mummies  of Tiwanaku 'drug' use:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081022-drug-mummies.html

A heckuvalotof Olmec stone whistles:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/ancient-mesoamerica\
-news-updates-2008_13.html

More coverage of 'drug' use in the early Caribbean:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081020093410.htm
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuId=5&ContentID=103508
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/ncsu-nsf101508.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4969360.ece
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/1020/1

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

National Geographic has some video coverage of those recently-
found temples in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081020-temple-video-ap.html

cf:

http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=19000
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The French are complaining about Agincourt:

http://tinyurl.com/5m3ffh (Telegraph)

On the origins and spread of TB:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017085214.htm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/15/humans-have-hosted-tubercul\
osis-bacteria-for-at-least-9000-years/

In case you've ever wondered about those claims about Eskimo
words for snow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7671137.stm

Elitism v populism in the history of US politics:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/19/INUG13DOB2.DTL

... and New York Times' endorsements:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/23/opinion/20081024-endorse.html

Some very early recordings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/music/26waki.html

More on St. Gall putting its manuscripts online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/books/18libr.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Review of assorted Horror genre novels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Rafferty-t.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Charlottesville:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/travel/26hours.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Clamping down on the sale of looted Afghan art:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/21/baafghan121.xml

A bust in Athens ... with a twist:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hP9484PRBD4UgbEOl8gG6FynGVyA

Some stolen British miniatures were traced to Toronto:

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=531c5987-70b3-4819-982\
6-6ff175e546d5

Thieves are targetting Japan's Buddhist statuary:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3239231/Thieves-target-Japa\
ns-Buddhist-statues.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
On the source of copper for some early American pennies:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27350917/
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/512084.html?nav=742

Some Knights of Malta coinage was recently purchased:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081013/local/bov-buys-rare-coins-of-\
the-knights


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Pompeii and the Roman Villa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24pomp.html

Julius Caesar:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26829
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Julio/Cesar/reconquista/Roma/elpepucul/20\
081022elpepucul_8/Tes

Byzantium:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle4981050.ece
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUvvjNlt8Unb-EtzAMxrrIp2aEOQ

Lazio/Etruscans:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-22_122262022.html

Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6961253&maindocimg=4285621&s\
ervice=98

The Philippe de Montebello Years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24phil.html

The Getty has acquired a couple of Cipriani bronzes:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty22-2008oct22,0,7925403\
.story

Datca jumps on the repatriation bandwagon:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=156623&bolum=101
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=118308

How the current economy is affecting museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20muse.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24voge.html

... and auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/design/21arts-SLOWARTSALES_BRF.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/arts/design/25arts-SOTHEBYSSUFF_BRF.html

Assorted antiques news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24anti.html

DaVinci's Codex Atlanticus is mould-free:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_sc/eu_italy_da_vinci_codex_1

Iraq's National Museum will remain closed for a couple more
years:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5C8UdpS353mnOY8XD-WESGCoF9AD93UD6T00

Athens acquires an El Greco:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24arts-ANELGRECOFOR_BRF.html

One of those brushfires came rather close to the Getty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/24arts-BRUSHFIREQUE_BRF.html

Review of Sharon Waxman, *Loot*:

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20081024_karl_e_meyer_on_sharon_waxman\
s_loot/

... this is sort of a review of that too, I think:

http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/855063.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Cato:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/theater/reviews/24cato.html

Persian music:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/music/20kalh.html

Tallis Scholars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/music/20tall.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Avraham Biran:

http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-biran26-2008oct26,0,3199871.story
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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