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EARLY HUMANS
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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&sectionid=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
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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
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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
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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/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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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/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[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
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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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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/
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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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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
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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
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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)
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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/
================================================================
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/
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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
================================================================
Vandalism is a major problem at Nevada sites:

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=8680825

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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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An awful lot of repeats this week ...
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AFRICA
================================================================
An update on that Necho circumnavigation recreation:

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/20080611150353pbogeneral.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
(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


================================================================
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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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
================================================================
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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'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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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)
================================================================
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)
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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&sectionid=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
================================================================
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
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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
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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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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&sectionid=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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
================================================================
[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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
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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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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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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&sectionid=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)
================================================================
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
================================================================
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/
================================================================
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
================================================================
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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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&sectionid=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&sectionid=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&sectionid=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
================================================================
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
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
[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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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&sectionid=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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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
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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
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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&sectionid=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&sectionid=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&sectionid=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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
================================================================
[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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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
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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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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&sectionid=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
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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/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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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
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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
================================================================
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/
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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
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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
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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
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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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Jay Craddock, John Hall, John McMahon, Mata Kimasitayo,
Ross W. Sargent, Rick Pettigrew, Pam Carnie, Rochelle Altman,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Sally Winchester, and
W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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AFRICA
================================================================
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
================================================================
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/
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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
================================================================
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
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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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EARLY HUMANS
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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
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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
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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&sectionid=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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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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/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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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
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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/
================================================================
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/
================================================================
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/
================================================================
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/
================================================================
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/
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
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
================================================================
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/
================================================================
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
================================================================
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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explorator 11.1                               April 27, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Diana Wright, Michael T. Stulac,
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Mata Kimasitayo, Sally Winchester, Peter Archdale,
'Duke Jason', 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).

n.b. This issue marks the beginning of our 12th year of bringing
you online news from the world of archaeology! A special thanks
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
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&sectionid=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
================================================================
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
================================================================
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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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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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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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&sectionid=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
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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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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
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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
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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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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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to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
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W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
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Humans remains from Atapuerca are the oldest such in Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7313005.stm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2004309060_eye27.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AtHFVbJ__M

Neanderthals wore makeup and chatted (!?):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13536-neanderthals-wore-makeup-and-liked-t\
o-chat.html
http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/33664
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we've had this life-was-tough-for-the-ancient-Egyptians
story before (haven't we?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23844542/
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2886575820080329
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l28865758-egypt-archaeology-study/

Donald Redford ponders the pyramids:

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

New excavations are afoot at Gourtan:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15731.shtml

CBS's 60 Minutes brought up the ossuary business again ... with an
interesting 'confession' about forgery:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/60minutes/main3954980.shtml

... while National Review brought up the Jesus Tomb thing again
(is the expression 'make do' or 'make due'?):

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmQwZjI5NWQ4Zjg1NTlkYjgzY2Y4NGExOTNiYTE1YTE

Sabaen remains from Yemen:

http://www.yemenpost.net/22/LocalNews/20084.htm

Overviewish thing on Ramat Rachel:

http://catholiccourier.com/tmp1.cfm?nid=76&articleid=100495

Interesting National Geographic video on Egypt's 'City of the Dead':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080328-cemetery-video-ap.html

The Temple Mount saga is getting weird:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqKLsrw_vAzHpA0MubslDP55VLgg

A somewhat iffy item on the Copper Scroll:

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/347306.aspx

Hurva Synagogue is being rebuilt:

http://tinyurl.com/2o4zzt (JPost)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Concerns for the Etruscan tomba della Montagnola:

http://www.nove.firenze.it/vediarticolo.asp?id=a8.03.23.19.45

Remains of a 'Roman' roundhouse at Poulton:

http://tinyurl.com/2o8ah2

NPR had a nice feature on Augustus' house:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89050356

Some restoration work at Bath:

http://tinyurl.com/2nfo9m

How Actium changed the world:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/1310842/how_the_battle_of_actium_changed_th\
e_world/index.html

There's a new Classics PhD at Western:

http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/new_phd_in_classics_200803\
27441916/

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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Iron Age remains from an Olympic venue site at Stratford:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7315968.stm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/27/sports/EU-SPT-OLY-London-2012-Archaeol\
ogy.php
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hGZHKivHaOG2fhOQTBTX2DbAkO3A
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/28/dig-finds-first-east-enders-8\
9520-20365271/
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23827627&afid=1

Medieval burials from Aosta:

http://www.regione.vda.it/notizieansa/details_i.asp?id=49827

Rethinking Anglo Saxon burial practices:

http://tinyurl.com/2errva

A metal detectorist has found a Viking jug handle on a Silloth
beach:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.61822

The Time Team folks think they have found evidence of Welsh links
to King Harald (reading an awful lot into one potsherd, no?):

http://tinyurl.com/2467vd

Seahenge is returning to Norfolk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7312429.stm

Analyzing the skulls of some 'Tower lions':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7311134.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/25/scilion125.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3613501.ece

Archaeological concerns for a port development site at Bremore:

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/story.asp?stID=2465

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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Mesolithic (?) remains from India:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7315386.stm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ancient_civilisation_traced_in_WB/articleshow\
/2909378.cms
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Ancient-civilisation-traced-in-Bengal-vi\
llage/289954/

Largest ancient tombs from China:

http://tinyurl.com/3afy7r

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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I'm not sure whether we've mentioned this 'peopling of the
Americas' evidence/theory or not (there have been so many
versions of various ones in the past couple of weeks):

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=396609
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=39597

Possible 1000 b.p. remains from along the Duck River (Tenn.):

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=8069844

Florida is the latest state to apologize for slavery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/us/27florida.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Earliest signs of corn cultivation:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uoc-crd032308.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080324173538.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Pondering the evolution of humour (and spirituality):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/25/ancient-humor-joke.html

Odyssey Marine's out looking for more:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15731.shtml

On Crusaders' genetic legacy in the Middle East:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7316281.stm

Linking Siberian and Native American languages:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080326-language-link.html

A lost Watteau has surprisingly been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/arts/25arts-LOSTWATTEAUT_BRF.html

Problems with Ghandharan replicas?:

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\03\29\story_29-3-2008_pg13_7

Shakespeare's going digital in a big way:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l26582770-britain-shakespeare-digital/

Trying to keep the bell tower in St. Mark's Square from tilting:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-03-27_127200077.html

One for fans of Gregorian Chant:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7307470.stm

On dating Easter:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-id.calendar23mar23,0,6704299.story

Researchers have found and played a recording which predates
Edison:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7318180.stm

Celebrating Zille's sesquicentennial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/design/27zille.html

Trying to identify Schiller's skull:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/sc_nm/germany_schiller_skull_dc_1

In case you've ever wondered about the canonization process:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30saintct.html

A documentary about the martyrdom of Perpetua:

http://www.townhall.com/news/religion/2008/03/26/prof_lends_hand_to_martyrs_docu\
mentary

Review of Katherine Ashenburg, *Clean: An Unsanitized History
of Washing*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/03/30/boash130.xml

Review of Anthony Pagden, *Worlds at War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/books/26grimes.html

More coverage of that Necho voyage recreation:

http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.2140045.0.ready_to_sail_into_history.php

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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Gozo:

http://tinyurl.com/2u6lem
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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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Some idiot tourist knocked the ear off one of Easter Island's
statues:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/27/3?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7313878.stm
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23793523&afid=1

Interesting portrayal/meeting with tombaroli in this feature:

http://www.tampabay.com/features/travel/article432564.ece

More coverage of the recovery of items linked to one of Trajan's
villas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/arts/24arts-ROMANRELICSR_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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On Maundy Thursday coins:

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Landmark-service-treasured-by-NI.3902842.jp

Interesting Temple Bar Medal find:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4444363a11.html

American Bank Note Company:

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

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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In the Forest of Fontainebleau:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/arts/design/28font.html

Venus of Urbino:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20080328TDY12001.htm

Meissen Porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/arts/design/28anti.html

Tree of Paradise:

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/03/25/jewish_mosaics_ancient\
_insights/

Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/arts/design/28isla.html

The Barnes Collection is back in the news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/arts/25arts-FOESOFMUSEUM_BRF.html

Items from the Shelby White collection are on show in Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/arts/29arts-REPATRIATEDA_BRF.html

Latest 'knowingly purloined art' purchase involves the Leopold Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/arts/29arts-ARTANDTHENAZ_BRF.html

More coverage of items returned to the Baghdad Museum:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-03-24%5Ckurd.htm
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Tudors (TV):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/arts/television/28tudo.html

Sense and Sensibility (TV):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/arts/television/29aust.html

Argonautika:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30theatnj.html
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ON THE WEB
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Digging up the Romans (MoL):

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/learning/features_facts/digging/
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OBITUARIES
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Robert Fagles:

http://tinyurl.com/3aeorh (WPost)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080329/ap_on_en_ot/obit_fagles_6
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/29/style/obit.php
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-03282008-1510532.html
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/17105716.html
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080329/LOCAL06/803290\
351
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/books/29fagles.html?hp
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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Don Buck, Dave Sowdon, Dirk Collins,
Edward Rockstein, Donna Hurst, Dorothy King, Rick Heli,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Rick Pettigrew, Bob Heuman, Steve Rankin, Susan Mazur,
and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

Happy Easter! (Belated) Happy Purim!
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EARLY HUMANS
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On the Neanderthal-Human split:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/17/human-neanderthal-split.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080319104600.htm

Rethinking the upright walking thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/science/21bone.html (JNW)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080320/ap_on_sc/standing_up

The Roc-aux-Sorciers petroglyphs are going on display:

http://tinyurl.com/38ubcf (Independent)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A colossal statue of Queen Tiy has been found:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080322/lf_afp/egyptarcheology_080322202539

Iraqi archaeologists have found a major Babylonian town:

http://tinyurl.com/2qeksl

News of these First Temple remains was just beginning to trickle
out in our last issue:

http://tinyurl.com/356grm (Israel News ... video)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6944168819708444085

A Second Temple coin was found in Jerusalem's Old City:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125612
http://tinyurl.com/2uad7h (MFA)
http://tinyurl.com/3ye4st (JPost)

The DAI has unearthed a 7th century B.C./B.C.E. Sabaean temple in
Yemen:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=36699

An Italian project to make copies of cuneiform tablets:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-03-19_119199357.html

Jewish reactions to pagan statuary:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=19094

Nice night shot of Istanbul which looks like it might make
nice wallpaper:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0803/IstanbulNewMoon_tezel.jpg

Metropolis has a website:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=98654

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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How the Greek Agora changed the world:

http://www.livescience.com/history/080317-hs-agora.html

They might be limiting the number of tourists who can visit Pompeii:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.1982640562

A letter to the editor in the Times seems (to me) to have figured
out the correct interpretation of the 'lupercal':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article3571313.ece

Jennifer Lockett gave a talk on Roman cults at TCU:

http://tinyurl.com/2k8vhy

Remains of Colchester's ancient Roman wall have been found:

http://www.topnews.in/archaeologists-discover-part-colchesters-ancient-roman-wal\
l-226839
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/archaeologists-discover-part-o\
f-colchesters-ancient-roman-wall_10029490.html

Bill Prueter's Latin classes were profiled:

http://www.news-herald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19408119&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_i\
d=21849&rfi=6

Nice article on crucifixion:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/349536

On the new GCSE in ancient history:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/18/nhistory118.xml

A plan to photograph Greek New Testament manuscripts:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_8649283?source=rss

They're going to color in (sort of) Trajan's column:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-03-21_121188330.html

More coverage of that Mycenean harbour found by the SHARP folks:

http://tinyurl.com/2u7lvk (LS via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23691610/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338910,00.html

More coverage of that Jewish inscription from a burial in Austria:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080316124416.htm
http://tinyurl.com/389kfo (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/964809.html

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

http://www.newsweek.com/id/124237

More coverage of those Carausius gold coins (mentioned last week
in the numismatica section):

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010372719
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/ncoin117.xml
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/104494/

Review of Zachary Mason, *The Lost Books of the Odyssey* (novel):

http://www.latimes.com/features/la-bk-ehrenreich16mar16,0,6227138.story

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb (?) on a Scottish beach:

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/104228/

Neolithic cremations from Prague:

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/298/czech_national_news/20254/

Interesting Bronze Age burial with 'beer mug' from Kent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7300232.stm

Plans are afoot to look for more Romanov remains:

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080319/101714548.html

More coverage of that paleolithic axe find:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=36522

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 Mathura-style Buddha from Pakistan:

http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2008/March/19/Rare-Mathura-style-37944.asp

More 'hobbit' coverage:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88460825&ft=1&f=1004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7290090.stm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Clovis folk are no longer to blame for the demise of California's
flightless sea duck:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/538719/

An 850 B.C. site in Victoria:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080322.BCBURIAL22/TPStory/Nat\
ional

A Miami Circle update:

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2812&Item\
id=116

Another seafaring peopling of the Americas theory:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=36120

... and a different spin:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320120714.htm
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/verkehr_logistik/bericht-105942.h\
tml

Review of Walter McDougall, *Throes of Democracy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Kazin-t.html

Review of Martha Nussbaum, *Liberty of Conscience*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Bazelon-t.html

Reviewish sort of thing/interview on the early years of baseball:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88752540
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
What DNA tells us about the European colonization of South/Central
America:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7307563.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7308102.stm
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000037

Latest video up at the Archaeology Channel is on the Mirador Basin
in Guatemala:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

More coverage of that pre-Inca temple from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/36puzt (CTV)
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=62437
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080317-fortress-video-ap.html
(video)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the use of LiDAR to find ancient sites:

http://tinyurl.com/37oolx (Dispatch)

Interesting project on trans-pacific rafts:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080319114619.htm

On beer and publication in science:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18beer.html

The (ersatz) Templars are in the news again:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/19/religion

They've cleaned up Donatello's David:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/wdavid117.xml

Just in time for Easter, the Shroud of Turin returns to the news:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23742885/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7307646.stm

John McCain is descended from Robert the Bruce?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/21/johnmccain.uselections2008

The next 'voyage recreation' will apparent be Necho's circumnavigation
of Africa:

http://tinyurl.com/2whm24 (Independent)

Interview with Tom Wolfe on the evolution of speech:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/16/RVD1UF9R9.DTL

Out of our purview, but of interest ... a mummified dinosaur:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_sc/dinosaur_mummy

Reviewish sort of thing of Anthony Pagden, *Worlds at War*:

http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10875595

More coverage of the 'six mothers' theory of the peopling of the
Americas:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=8567

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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Palestrina:

http://www.theromanforum.com/articolo.asp?ID=659

Altenberg (sort of touristy):

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00333.htm
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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
================================================================
Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/magazine/

History Today:

http://www.historytoday.com/frontpage.aspx

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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Rather late notice of recovery of items taken from Trajan's Villa
back in 2002:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=20925&sez=HOME_ROMA
http://www.pr-inside.com/police-seize-artifacts-stolen-from-trajan-s-r494391.htm
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVDlfTKPUuR9QJLLYaC4Lf4zjHSwD8VGODQG0
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080319/ap_on_re_eu/italy_stolen_artifacts_1
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/03/20/artifacts-stolen.html?ref=rss
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23715140&afid=1

A number of items from illegal digs were given to Iraq's museum:

http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News/1-15434-Iraq-museum-receives-ancient-artifa\
cts.html

Another piece on how artifact smuggling is funding Iraqi insurgents:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_steg5HzdwEOHRh8KA4rgpp730wD8VG2UA81
http://www.pr-inside.com/ap-interview-investigator-of-baghdad-museum-r491752.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/19/europe/EU-GEN-Iraq-Looted-Antiquities.\
php
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2266410,00.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/18/iraq.antiquities.ap/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080319-AP-iraq-insurg.html

... related:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/20/iraq_roundtable/index_np.html?sourc\
e=rss

More on those Egyptian mummy smugglers:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080313-AP-egypt-mummy.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
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Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice:

http://www.nysun.com/article/73139

The Color of Life:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-color19mar19,0,7290690.story

The Royal End:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/23/arts/20080323_CLOSE_GRAPHIC.html

Impressionists by the Sea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/23artsct.html

Masters of the Japanese Print:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/arts/design/22prin.html

Interesting item on Roman 'house museums':

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/travel/23journeys.html

Coverage of 'Asia Week':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/arts/design/21trib.html

More Acropolis Museum hype:

http://www.mercurynews.com/lifeandstyleheadlines/ci_8668746?nclick_check=1

... and associated Elgin Marble claims:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080317/lf_nm_life/greece_marbles_dc_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL1716300720080317

... and there's a conference on returning cultural property
going on too:

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/305045.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/17/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Parthenon-Marbles\
.php
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6253000&maindocimg=6228415&servi\
ce=94

Meanwhile, the Iraq museum is apparently not quite ready to open:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/baghdad-pictures/\
index.html

Some interesting 'non-sales' at Sotheby's:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=agUWx42a3Mbs&refer=muse

... while Bruce Ferrini has auctioned off much of his stuff:

http://www.newsnet5.com/akroncanton/15610811/detail.html
http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/16687051.html

... and there was a major auction of Napoleonic stuff:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080320-france-en-nw-pkg-napoleon-400wmv-france
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Dido and Aeneas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/arts/dance/22ober.html

Conversations in Tusculum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/theater/16blank.html
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/03/18/segments/95258

Tudors (Season 2):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/arts/television/23gate.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Ancient Library:

http://www.ancientlibrary.com/index.php
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ross Scaife:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/032008/03182008/364256
http://tinyurl.com/2qhc4z (KK)
http://www.stoa.org/?p=786
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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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Paleolithic axes found off the coast of Norfolk:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080311203247.htm
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/marine/bmapa/north-sea-handaxes/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/10/archaeology
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=52\
7827
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=33241
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/10/archaeology?gusrc=rss&feed=science
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/neanderthal-treasure-trove-at-bot\
tom-of-sea-793678.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Donkeys may have first been domesticated in Egypt:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3525873.ece
http://tinyurl.com/32ou7d (NS)

Latest mummy CT Scan results:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/15/wmummy115.xml

Brief item on the possible find of an Elamite temple in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/2jeoz2 (UPI)

Recent finds west of Temple Mount:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125559
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1350\
&module_id=#as
http://itn.co.uk/news/a9359b2a5b9ad6c7ecfd85a0acc23a44.html

This week's developments in the Temple Mount saga (these are all
different):

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58538
http://tinyurl.com/3ynczm (JPost)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A thousand burials found during subway construction in
Thessaloniki:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_graves_4
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ia6tZBXvHeMXFgmzNPbasri1wUoA
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23566067/
http://www.physorg.com/news124442393.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080311-AP-greece-anci.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/11/ancient-grave-greece.html

... and one of the burials (?) shows signs of brain surgery:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/301632.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_sc/greece_ancient_surgery_2
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336971,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/11/ap/tech/main3927675.shtml
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-03-12-ancient-brain-surgery_N.htm?csp=\
34
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080312/sc_afp/greecearchaeologymedicine_0803121428\
20
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmOACL0J7oTrpF9Aemh1SLc4Ab_A
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/12/ancient-greek-skeleton.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080312-AP-brain-picture.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/skeleton-reveals-ancient-greek-brain-su\
rgery-795739.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23581918&afid=1

Major Roman finds near Wansford/Stamford/Peterborough:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7289660.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2scy3y
http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/Roman-ruins-found-in-wood.3861509.jp

Nice report on the 2007 season at Kissonerga-Skalia (Cyprus):

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=38115&archive=1

OpEddish thing on Oxyrhynchus:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/15/do1508.xml

A Jewish prayer in a Roman child's grave from Austria:

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/archaeological-sensation-austria-15664.html

Identifying Ithaka is turning into a saga of its own:

http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINL1436864020080314

The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP):

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/538548/
http://www.physorg.com/news124465285.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080311120621.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/fsu-fcp031108.php

A virtual reconstruction of the Temple of Apollo:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080314-rome-temple.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=35535

Pondering some of Homer's women:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/03/homers_women.html

A quickie guide to Roman art:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=532275

Remembering Zeph Stewart:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522431

More coverage of that Mycenean burial at Lefkada:

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/03/16/news/columnists/jenkinson/151\
140.txt
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23486148&afid=1

More hype for the opening of the House of Augustus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7286305.stm
http://tinyurl.com/268h4z (Telegraph)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/10/content_7751976.htm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2263804,00.html

More coverage of those Rome subway finds:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004267247_webitalysubway07.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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More coverage of the Stonehenge-as-battle-site theory:

http://tinyurl.com/3aox46

A history of London's business district:

http://tinyurl.com/2s3u3d (Independent)

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 (more hobbits?) bones from Palau:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/11/healthscience/11fossil.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080310-palau-bones.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/palau-pictures/in\
dex.html
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23359090-948,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7290090.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/11fossil.html

http://tinyurl.com/2k5pob (Journal article)

Pre-Pala era structures from Bangladesh:

http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2008/March/15/Archaeologists-find-structures-3747\
7.asp

The semi-annual warning about the state of Angkor Wat:

http://tinyurl.com/2l7smv (Independent)

Have Ned Kelly's bones been found?:

http://tinyurl.com/2wvs2g (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7Mk49rVv_UBeO3c58O0szS75vVA

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
On the DNA front, nearly all of Native Americans can apparently
be traced back to six mothers (why does it always seem to be six?):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/13/native-american-dna.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/native_american_dna

... not sure if this 'peopling of the Americas' article is based
on the same research:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080313-first-americans.html

http://tinyurl.com/3ba42h (Journal article)

An important dig near Lambton (Ontario) is scheduled for this
summer:

http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=935951
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A pre-Inca temple from Peru:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuY-poS_chE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7295754.stm
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLnjbj8eJ6DroE7Z_GZy8VJRqohw
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/14/peru.inca.ap/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004282690_webperutemple14.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_sc/peru_inca_temple_3
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23626672/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/14/archaeology.conservation?gusrc=rss\
&feed=networkfront
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/14/tech/main3937997.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6373804.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080313/sc_nm/peru_archeology_dc_1
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23626672&afid=1

... this appears to be the same (?):

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1332244720080313
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Rethinking the earthquake of 365 A.D. and its implications:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-03/10/content_6521116.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080310-tsunami.html

It was pi day a few days ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7296224.stm

A previously-unknown portrait of Mozart:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_en_mu/mozart_portrait

Looking for guillotined relatives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3556333.ece

Another ancient math problem solved:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080314145039.htm

More coverage of those possibly-drawn-by-Leonardo chess illustrations:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Da-Vinci-Chess.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!]

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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Egypt thwarted some mummy smugglers:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiaeI6f2SlyAUPRg-da9o2mnpAJw
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337071,00.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iPDakkY3BeFHD9fL5OEXzs-IidwwD8VC1QD00
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/03/12/mummy.smuggling.ap/
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23592848&afid=1

The IAA caught a metal detectorist at a site:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=962342
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1348\
&module_id=#as

Tombaroli are operating around Piazza Armerina:

http://tinyurl.com/35lxyh (ViviEnna)

The looting in Ibb continues:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10013883.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some Roman gold coins were found in Derbyshire:

http://tinyurl.com/36r6u7 (Telegraph)

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Brilliant Women:

http://tinyurl.com/3xq6pj (Times)

Golden Graves of Ancient Vani:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14gall.html

Anatomy of a Masterpiece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14asia.html

War Booty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/arts/design/11boot.html

Monumental France:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14bald.html

The New York Times has a big special section on museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/index.html

Assorted antiques items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14anti.html

Bruce Ferrini's collection is being sold off to pay some debts:

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/16699831.html
http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/16687051.html
http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=8021590
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Duchess of Langeais (movie):

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/03/10/080310crci_cinema_denby

John Adams (tv):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/television/14adam.html

Coversations in Tusculum:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/theater/reviews/12conv.html

The Seagull:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/theater/reviews/14seag.html

Changes at the Stratford Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/theater/14stra.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Erica Jesselson (Philanthropist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/nyregion/14jesselson.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
They accidentally washed the Shroud of Turing with a red shirt:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/75621
================================================================
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, Brennus Legranus, Charles Fertig, Dave Sowdon,
Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, 'Duke Jason', George Chaplin,
Rick Heli, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Hernan Astudillo,
Mike Ruggeri, Peter Archdale, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman,Rick Pettigrew, and W. Richard Frahm,
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... did y'all remember about Daylight Savings Time?
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AFRICA
================================================================
The Axum Obelisk will be re-erected later this year:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-03-06_106189731.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A nice update on the El Hibeh dig:

http://www.physorg.com/news123867023.html

Assorted recent finds from Egypt:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=13748_0_1_0_M

Brief item on a First Intermediate Period tomb find:

http://tinyurl.com/2o9suq (SIS)

Can't remember if we mentioned this Parhian fortress find
yet:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/February2008/27-02.htm

Police halted construction work on Temple Mount this week:

http://tinyurl.com/2ntb9d (JPost)

... not sure if this is related to the foregoing or not:

http://tinyurl.com/2sxw2n (JPost)

The impact of digs on the people in the City of David:

http://tinyurl.com/397lb4 (JPost)

Derivative piece about Gobekli Tepe:

http://tinyurl.com/ywmuao (CD)

More coverage of those seals which were recently found in
the City of David:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=29860

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)
================================================================
On the Bacchae and neuroscience:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/03/01/bobacc101.xml

The press is playing up the Odysseus angle in their coverage of
this tomb discovery on Lefkada:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010243575
http://tinyurl.com/2llvyb
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_re_eu/greece_tomb_3
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKpApRGxT8qBnYKipgBF9jET7xdwD8V7EU480
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335569,00.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/06/tomb-greek-island.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080306-AP-greece-tomb.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Greece-Tomb.html
http://www.macon.com/world//story/286313.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23486148&afid=1

A Roman shopping 'mall' in Cirencester:

http://tinyurl.com/3a5q38 (Mirror)

An update on things found during Rome's subway dig:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004267247_webitalysubway07.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU1-kyPmK_taHe_INabzT-kEGvjgD8V8RH500
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_sc/italy_subway_archaeology_4

Recent finds at Pella:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=94026

A Japanese team has restored some Roman tombs near Tyre:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=89552

It'll cost ya if you want to visit the Forum now:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2008-03-04-roman-forum_N.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4386207&page=1

... and the House of Augustus is open to the public now:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-03-07_107191697.html
http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=245759
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3508469.ece

Ovid and Hollywood at Harvard:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522254

Rethinking the epigram:

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/080307-3666.asp

Olympia is apparently ready for the 'flame ceremony':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23450558/

Nice overviewish thing on the Cleveland Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/33x5ok (Scene)

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)
================================================================
Anglo Saxon grave markers at Peterborough Cathedral:

http://tinyurl.com/yom8lr

... while other Anglo Saxon finds are being considered as possible
'treasure':

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/default.asp?article_id=39009

... and some Anglo Saxon human remains are to be reburied:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7283445.stm

17th century smugglers' tunnels:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7279516.stm

Quarrying near Thornborough Henges has been halted for now:

http://tinyurl.com/3adpco

... while Stonehenge faces a new threat of sorts:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2262215,00.html

Finds from various periods at a dig at York University:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7283859.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7283859.stm

Was Stonehenge a site for ritual combat?:

http://tinyurl.com/3559p8 (Gazette and Herald)

More coverage of what's beneath Silbury Hill:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/the-mystery-of-silbury-hill

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Evidence of trade between Israel and China during Crusader times:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080304100410.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uoh-eoc030408.php
http://tinyurl.com/yue7jg

An ongoing regional settlement pattern survey in China:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080303113353.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Debating the fate of a shell mound on Edisto Island:

http://tinyurl.com/2gt8bl (P&C)

A Siberian linguistic link to native languages in North America:

http://www.adn.com/front/story/334139.html

Human impact in the Bahamas:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/04/sciblue104.xml
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Vague/brief item about some recent finds in Mexico:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/06/content_7728787.htm
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest CT scan of a mummy in the Bolton Museum has given it a
new identity:

http://tinyurl.com/2l76tm

The Times of London has a piece on how to get started in 'treasure
hunting':

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article3504894.ece

A renowned Bulgarian archaeologist was one of the victims in a
recent horrific train fire:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=90890

A row over plans to exhume Galileo's body:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7280148.stm

Latest twist in the interpretation of the 'hobbits'' remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7276943.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080305/sc_nm/dwarfs_indonesia_dc_1
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/05/2181122.htm

The search for the Battle of Anghiari is going to be the subject
of a documentary:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-03-03_103177559.html

Latest on the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87928799

... and the latest video at the Archaeology Channel also looks
at Odyssey Marine:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A rare photo of Helen Keller has been found:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/05/national/main3912734.shtml

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
================================================================
Athens:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/travel/s_555885.html

Luxor:

http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=17572

Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde:

http://tinyurl.com/3basbo (STimes)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
We don't often hear of antiquities busts in Israel, but here's
a report on one:

http://tinyurl.com/2sa2wd (IAA)

The sale of a purloined Roman period statue was foiled at
Thessaloniki:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100015_03/03/2008_93990

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
================================================================
Daily Life in Greek and Roman Egypt:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/exhibits/diversity/

Ancient Americas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/arts/design/05amer.html
(slide show)

Looted Art (Nazi):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/03/2178154.htm

Magna Carta:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/03/magna.carta.display/index.html

Roman Triumphs:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-03-05_105182685.html

A grant will allow the Bodleian to display some of its tomes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7280280.stm

A Baghdad Museum update:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7588

An earthquake damaged items in an Israel museum:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=959940
http://tinyurl.com/388aes

They're already hyping the Roman stuff at the June antiquities
sale at Christies:

http://www.news-antique.com/?id=783881&keys=Christies-Tyche-Roman-Goddess
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23457

Another article on the new Acropolis Museum:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-03-05-new-athens-museum_N.htm
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Zenobia:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080225-culture-zenobia-lebanon-queen-palmyra-romans\
-rahbani
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic
Works:

http://aic.stanford.edu/index.html

Economic History:

http://eh.net/
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Moses on drugs?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080304/od_afp/israelreligionoffbeat
================================================================
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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explorator 10.45                               March 2, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Dorothy King,
'Duke Jason', Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W. Sargent, 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
================================================================
Testing the Out-of-Africa hypothesis:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2008/02/21/2169093.htm

Toumai is apparently the oldest human ever found (is this new?):

http://tinyurl.com/3dasgy (AFP via Yahoo)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting 'false doors' in a First Intermediate Period necropolis:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080225-egypt-tomb.html
http://tinyurl.com/2lvj7n
http://tinyurl.com/2oe69g
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=27065

A few reports on the (possible?) discovery of the tomb of Imhotep:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=19555&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO
http://www.huliq.com/51405/pyramid-architect039s-final-resting-place

On Egypt's black pharaohs:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=34836288
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/black-pharaohs/robert-draper-text

The British Museum and the British Army are working to restore Iraq's
cultural heritage:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2259948,00.html
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7570
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/02/british_museum_22.shtml

Another interesting seal from the City of David excavations:

http://tinyurl.com/2sp5pz (IAA)
http://tinyurl.com/2yfd35 (MFA)
http://tinyurl.com/38wjtc (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/2nrsov (JPost)

... I think this story on the 'postal system' is the same subject matter:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125407

A DSS symposium:

http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/state_news/x2052203261

An overviewish/state-of-the-saga sort of thing on damage to antiquities
on Temple Mount:

http://tinyurl.com/ypqsj4

Studying biblical Hebrew 'in context':

http://tinyurl.com/2ojg64 (JPost)

Approaching-touristy thing on Tel Hazor:

http://tinyurl.com/2o4tok (JPost)

A number of objects were damaged in a museum in Israel during a recent
earthquake:

http://tinyurl.com/388aes (JPost)

More coverage of the 'Red Snake':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080218155534.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 second century necropolis on Pantelleria:

http://a.marsala.it/index.php?mod=page&nw=3:10:02:2008:8189

That Mt. Lykaion story still has legs:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=426729&sid=FTP

The Bacchae and the brain:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/03/01/bobacc101.xml

Somewhat vague item on building being approved on an ancient site
in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=37870&archive=1

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A power line route has changed in order not to disturb an Iron
Age site in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7268557.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A 3000 b.p. burial from Drugdhamna:

http://tinyurl.com/36gqtn (ToI)

A Burmese-government-owned cement factory is damaging antiquities:

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=10543

On the popularity of Christianity during the Tang dynasty:

http://tinyurl.com/322j76

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Honouring Washington's slave:

http://tinyurl.com/3xz2wg

They need to get serious about archaeology in Orillia:

http://www.orilliapacket.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=920280

Building out of Spite:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/travel/escapes/29away.html

More coverage of cannons etc. revealed by recent storms in Oregon:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/813128,oregon022608.article
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
"Grim evidence of religious head hunting in ancient Peru":

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080301/timeline.asp

A 5500 b.p. 'plaza' from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/2p4k6e (SMH)
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/080226/9/46il.html
http://www.pr-inside.com/archaeologists-say-they-have-found-5-500-year-old-r4564\
53.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2mrp3o (LAT)
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2524245020080226
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/02/27/2003403086
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-peru26feb26,0,1279969.story
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hDxKNzz4xz7P8AnET2gMA8HFvJQgD8V29AVG1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_sc/peru_ancient_plaza_3
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/27/peru-monument.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080226-peru-oldest.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/28/content_7685968.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2vnqab (El Pais)

Rethinking the 'politics' behind Maya temples:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080225134239.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=27047
http://tinyurl.com/2sq8gn (LS via Yahoo)
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6362021.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23374053/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uoia-rwo022508.php

Unlocking the mystery behind 'Maya blue':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/science/29bluew.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080227/sc_nm/maya_blue_dc_1
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-maya-blue-27feb27,1,1542068.s\
tory
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080227/sc_livescience/secrettomayanbluepai\
ntfound
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=27817

Termite hunters in Sao Paulo have found a 200 b.p. mummy:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1605827
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7266609.stm

That 'lost city of Paititi' discovery reported a few weeks ago
has been determined to be a 'natural formation' (hey ... send
these guys over to look at those Bosnian pyramids):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080222-lost-city.html

The Maya and climate change (again):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080229-servir-maya.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Vikings were flashier dressers than previously thought:

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/98684/
http://tinyurl.com/2par7x
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=26988
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080225101117.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uu-vdn022508.php

The Shroud of Turin is going to get some new carbon dating:

http://tinyurl.com/25up63
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/25/nshroud125.xml

... after it has been photographed in HD:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/28/shroud-of-turin.html

On the apparent lack of knowledge of history of some U.S.
students:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/us/27history.html

Did daVinci illustrate a chess book?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7265257.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/26/italy.chess

They've digitally 'rebuilt' Bach's face:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/arts/01arts-RECONSTRUCTI_BRF.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7270795.stm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2875687020080228

Your hair can reveal where you've been:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080226-hair-water.html

The obligatory (for this time of year) pieces on calendar
reforms:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/opinion/29turney.html
http://tinyurl.com/39afs6

Review of David Anthony, *The Horse, the Wheel, and Language*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Kenneally-t.html

Review of Gary Wills, *What the Gospels Meant*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Gibson-t.html

Review of James McBride, *Song Yet Sung*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Bell-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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Athens:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2181/story/975975.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some items smuggled out of Pakistan have turned up in Italy:

http://www.pakistantimes.net/2008/03/02/top15.htm
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0802287926005129.htm

... while some that were smuggled out of Turkey turned up in a
port in Sharjah:

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Police_and_The_Courts/10192614.html

A pair of Bulgarians were accused of stealing some relics of
St. George:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/396

Those 'acroliths' are being returned to Italy (I thought they
already had been):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/arts/26arts-TEMPELSMANSC_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Nice article on the Princeton numismatic collection:

http://tinyurl.com/2n9j2g (Newsday)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/114921


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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Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire:

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/state/x774171738

Poussin:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=af6IARs7yFd0&refer=muse

Audobon's Aviary:

http://tinyurl.com/2vofs3

Courbet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/arts/design/29cour.html

Ginori Porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/arts/design/29anti.html

Museums are being encouraged to dispose of "burden collections":

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4638/

A Vermeer is heading westwards:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/arts/design/29arts-AVERMEERPAIN_BRF.html

Some damaged Goyas are to be restored:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/arts/design/29arts-GOYASGETANEW_BRF.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Mark Twain's Blues:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/theater/reviews/27twai.html

The Other Boleyn Girl:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/movies/29bole.html

Artefact:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/27/btartefacts127.x\
ml
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OBITUARIES
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Raymond Smith:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/arts/27smith.html
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Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent,
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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Paleolithic finds in Abu Dhabi:

http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=17467&t=1&c=33&cg=4

An 'ancestral human skull' from China:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080220-china-fossil.html
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AFRICA
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The latest guy looking for the Ark of the Covenant:

http://tinyurl.com/yp2ytd (Daily Mail)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Brief item on an Iron Age site in Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43524&sectionid=351020105

Jewelry and makeup in Ancient Persia:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43514&sectionid=3510304

A fragment of what is being billed as the 'oldest Christian
document' was found in an Egyptian monastery:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7562
http://tinyurl.com/2nl4zn (Independent)

The oldest known use of oil paint has been found in Afghanistan:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/19/oldest-oil-painting.html

Another article on the damage being done to sites by foreign
troops in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/3bg6r8

Celebrating 25 years of the Australian Institute in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/885/he2.htm

The Zoroastrian community in Iran is shrinking:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-iran-zoroastrians.html

More coverage of the discovery of the 'Red Snake':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080218155534.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2pwkqu
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=24804
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/great-wall-gorgan

More coverage of that 'warrior tomb' find at Luxor:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15166.shtml
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/885/he1.htm

More coverage of the politics of archaeology in Israel:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/17/MNILV017H.DTL
http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s19&SecId=19&AId=58045

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 Bronze Age whistle/toy from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?LocalNewsID=437

Remains of some Roman ports have been found in Italy:

http://www.culturalnews.it/Article.aspx?c=39&a=6563
http://guide.dada.net/latino/interventi/2008/02/322820.shtml/
http://www.archaeogate.org/subacquea/article/839/1/scoperti-due-porti-romani-in-\
cirenaica-libia.html

Plans are afoot to rebuild Sevtopolis:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_867826041

... and to restore a tannery at Pompeii (didn't we have this
a long time ago?):

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/01/21/4785240-ap.html

Roman remains in Sophia:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1067904105

The new Acropolis Museum will open in the fall:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/02/20/acropolis-museum-fall.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22arts-ACROPOLISMUS_BRF.html

... while the old Acropolis Museum might be turned into a cafe:

http://tinyurl.com/2lhnzm (Kathimerini)
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNATF0RIA8TM_f_qs1mhf-cZiy9A

Jamie Keller has built a successful Latin program:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_8270549?source=most_emailed

UF has awarded the first online doctorate in Classics:

http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/02/20/classics-degree/

BU held a declamation contest:

http://tinyurl.com/2mjuq4

How to Read a Vase lecture:

http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/20088/Thursday/ArtHistory2_21_08.cfm

A petition against a power plant which threatens sites in Viglafia:

http://www.petitiononline.com/adepuydt/petition.html

What made Homer laugh? (if anyone can find this podcast on ITunes,
can they please tell me how they found it? I thought I found it and
it disappeared?):

http://www.thefalcononline.com/story/6495

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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Sarsen stones under Silbury Hill?

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/the-mystery-of-silbury-hill

Tomb of the 'gay lover' of Edward II?:

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

Mary Queen of Scots' death warrant has been saved for the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7251438.stm

More coverage of that possible Druid burial:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,536402,00.html
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=15425

A 12th century monastery is being excavated on Paphos:

http://tinyurl.com/2tu3jk
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=37672&archive=1

Beowulf's End Times:

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002198

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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More coverage of that big city find in India:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7250316.stm

... and a spinoff piece on how archaeologists estimate populations:

http://www.slate.com/id/2184814

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on a temple of Shri
Shiva Nataraja:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Cannons found on an Oregon beach:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1203479714121960.x\
ml&coll=7

Lincoln's summer cottage is now open:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19148438
http://www.lincolncottage.org/

... and some photos of Lincoln's inaugural ceremony have been
found:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19094867

A presidential 'firsts' quiz:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19148447

... and the answers:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19148465

The "Mount" faces foreclosure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/books/23moun.html

OpEd piece on George Washington as lame duck:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18hogeland.html

History and borders and the Tennessee River:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/22water.html

Review of Alan Guelzo, *Lincoln and Douglas*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/books/20grimes.html

Review of Jerome Charyn, *Johnny One Eye*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/books/review/Schiff-t.html

Review of Gretchen Holbrook, *Mr and Mrs Prince*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/books/review/Waldstreicher-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Satellite images have helped to locate some temples in Guatemala:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2021122720080220
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080220/sc_nm/guatemala_maya_nasa_dc_1
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080221/tsc-uk-guatemala-maya-nasa-a337f0f.html
http://tinyurl.com/3at8ky (Gazette)
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=23282045

A pyramid complex in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080220-vicus-pyramids.html
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=160856
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Has the Amber Room been found?:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,536358,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2cj3sr (Independent)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/arts/21arts-THEAMBERROOM_BRF.html

... folks might want to compare previous coverage of the Amber
room suggested it had been destroyed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/may/22/russia.arts (2004)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3738593.stm

... and prior to that, there was a 'recreation':

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E6D9163DF930A15752C0A9669C8B6\
3&scp=2&sq=&st=nyt

I think we've already mentioned this high tech search for Leonardo's
Battle of Anghiari:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/23/wark123.xml

The Cranach nude brouhaha:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/arts/design/18arts-LONDONUNDERG_BRF.html

DNA and 'out of Africa' again:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080220132608.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/22/MN5RV6L1C.DTL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_sc/out_of_africa

Columbus' eclipse:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080218/sc_afp/spaceastronomyeclipsemoon_0802181529\
11

On tight budgets and recording history:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19144445

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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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter (Winter, 2008):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter08

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Operation Ulysses has recovered a pile of antiquities in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/37uj75 (ANSA ... Italian)
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-19_119186886.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/19/europe/EU-GEN-Italy-Looted-Art.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_en_ot/looted_art_1
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4408354a12.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/02/19/italy-recover-artifacts.html
http://www.repubblica.it/2008/02/sezioni/cronaca/tombaroli-bene/tombaroli-bene/t\
ombaroli-bene.html
http://news.therecord.com/article/311434

Marion True's trial in Rome has resumed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/arts/21arts-ANTIQUITIEST_BRF.html

The New York Times looks at some famous art heists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/weekinreview/17kennedy.html
(includes a slide show)

Interesting Roman item purloined from Libya recovered at a Paris
auction (no photo, alas):

http://mathaba.net/news/?x=583012

More arrests in that Asian/Native American investigation:

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2607&Item\
id=109

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Nice price fetched for a penny collection:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19141322

Using numismatic evidence to date Revelation:

http://tinyurl.com/39srkg

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://tinyurl.com/36r3kc

Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/23/america/NA-GEN-US-Museum-Armor.php

Mummies:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-19_119183070.html

Inquisition:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-20_120184433.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_en_ot/vatican_rare_documents

Parmigianino's Antea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22fric.html

Nazi loot:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL189719620080218
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7255353.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/arts/design/20muse.html

Zhang's fakes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/arts/design/24unge.html

Romanesque:

http://tinyurl.com/3alyqa (El Pais)

Sacred Arts of Bhutan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/arts/design/24emer.html

Charles Ethan Porter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24artsct.html

The New Yorker visits the Met's new galleries:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2008/02/11/080211craw_artworld_sc\
hjeldahl

Interesting item from the days of protest of the Stamp Act:

http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=4434&type=UTTM

Latest twist in the Lewis Chessmen saga:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Chessmen-keepers-reveal--fear.3809954.jp

... and the 'tug of war' has begun for the Lindisfarne Gospels:

http://tinyurl.com/38xphz (Independent)

... and there was a big debate about the Elgin Marbles at
Cambridge:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/24/2170928.htm

... and China is apparently going to start going after some of
its 'lost' artifacts:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1161019.ece

OpEd on the Yale-Machu Picchu dispute:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/opinion/23karp-toledo.html

Time ponders the 'Who owns history' question:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1715290,00.html

A sale of Qing textiles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22anti.html

A Monet is back on the market:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22voge.html

A new director at the Wadsworth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24musect.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Duchess of Langeais:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/movies/22duch.html
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ON THE WEB
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Texas Beyond History:

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/index.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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the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
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Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Richard Campbell,
Ross W. Sargent, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... kind of slow this week ...
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Rethinking Olduvai:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?ez_search=1&fuseaction=readrelease&release\
id=527154

Kris Hurst has updated her CroMagnon page:

http://archaeology.about.com/od/earlymansites/a/cro_magnon.htm

More coverage of the mobility of Neanderthals:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/m-mn021508.php
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AFRICA
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Oldest evidence of human sacrifice in Africa:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080215/sc_afp/sudanfrancearchaeology_080215201642
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080215110917463C724344&click_id=31\
&set_id=1
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The earliest known farming settlement in Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/science/12egyp.html
http://tinyurl.com/3b6bdf (LAT)
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=21940
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080211-egypt-farming.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uoc--utu021208.php

A Middle Kingdom 'warrior tomb' is causing some excitement:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=23284
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080215-egypt-coffin.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43374&sectionid=3510212

The Nile threatens Luxor:

http://tinyurl.com/2eqhck (El Pais)

Not sure if we've mentioned this Tel Zayit 'alphabet' stone before:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05314/603769.stm

Nice overviewish thing on Qurna and its necropolis:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/883/feature.htm

... and one on the pyramids:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/884/heritage.htm

Politics and archaeology in east Jerusalem:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/world_news&id=5948366
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1310504.html
http://tinyurl.com/37maf2 (LAT)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jvEspc9hQCfyXHP4EclLWdzi11KgD8UNKNVG0

... others on the same subject:

http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s19&SecId=19&AId=58045&ATypeId=1
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4842.3107.0.0

An Ottoman sea wall at Jaffa will be buried for 'safety':

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/953641.html

Nice overviewish blog post on excavating Byzantium:

http://barista.media2.org/?p=3329

cf:

http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005264.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Maltese cistern is actually a Roman or Punic tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/2udcc6 (ToM)

How the replanting of Olympia is going:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080212/world/olympia_beijing_flame_1

A pair of Roman 'porti' in Libya:

http://tinyurl.com/3898m9 (ANSA)

Plans for a visitor centre at Arbeia Roman Fort have been shelved:

http://tinyurl.com/2v9hck

Catullus was featured at NPR this past week:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18958585

Honours for Caroline Vout:

http://www.huliq.com/50446/cambridge-classicist-wins-inaugural-book-award

They're still arguing about the 'Lupercale':

http://tinyurl.com/2l93h7 (ANSA)

More on Mount Lykaion:

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/225032
http://www.ilreporter.com/articolo.aspx?LANG=ITA&IDCAT=5&IDART=876&PAGE=1
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1254416/ua_experts_help_find_prezeus_relig\
ion_in_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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A possible druid burial (?):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/11/druid-grave.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=21459
http://tinyurl.com/2wkfz4

The Domesday Book is now on the internet (I thought it was already!):

http://tinyurl.com/3b8uy6 (Telegraph)

They've found the 'Great Gate' of Langthorne Abbey:

http://tinyurl.com/2wvx8z (NR)

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 17th century Japanese village in Cambodia (?):

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20080216f2.html

Remains of a major 2500 b.p. city in Orissa (although I think
the Athens comparison is quite a bit off):

http://tinyurl.com/29ojwl (ToI)
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23195459-663,00.html
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080211094710327C183772&click_id=31\
&set_id=1

Learning the lessons of Angkor:

http://tinyurl.com/2vvjlj (DD)

Seoul's historic 'Great South Gate' was destroyed by fire:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080211/2/15spm.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080211/sc_nm/korea_gate_dc_1
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2008-02/11/content_6448893.htm
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/international/2008/02/768276/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/world/asia/12korea.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-SKorea-Landmark-Fire.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-korea-gate.html
http://tinyurl.com/2jgrya (El Pais)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080211/tts-uk-korea-gate-7e8fd03_3.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A possible Chumash site near Santa Barbara:

http://tinyurl.com/2tq83n
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/breakingnews/story/273563.html
http://www.ksby.com/global/story.asp?s=7852477

Possible native remains near Cody (WY):

http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/14/news/wyoming/18-remains.txt

Rather more people may have inhabited Beringia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080213090524.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting item about a 'lake excavation' in Peru:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19115833

More coverage of that Nazca iron mine:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080211-nasca-mine.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A missing manuscript page has been found among the fragments of
the Deir al-Surian monastery:

http://tinyurl.com/2nl4zn (Independent)

... while a couple of other manuscripts have been restored:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080211/local/two-ancient-manuscripts\
-restored

Indiana Jones hype was rampant this week:

http://www.kansas.com/entertainment/story/312770.html
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Oscars2008/popup?id=4273326
http://tinyurl.com/2o33n4
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html

... because of the trailer:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/celebritybull/2008/02/14/new-indy-jones-trailer/

Plenty of Viking DNA in northern England:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080208105851.htm

Napoleon wasn't poisoned (wow ... you mean that paper I wrote
as an undergrad actually had some merit?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080212/sc_nm/italy_napoleon_dc
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080211131357.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3a5eed (Telegraph)

Harvard is pondering a new publishing model:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html

Review of Coleridge's translation of Faust:

http://tinyurl.com/37ykq2 (ToL)

Review of a handful of tomes on historical scandals:

http://tinyurl.com/39ptn2 (ToL)

Review of Judith Herrin, *Byzantium*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0212/p15s01-bogn.html

More coverage of lice and migration patterns:

http://tinyurl.com/39zz38 (LS via Yahoo)

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
================================================================
Cukurcuma:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/travel/10dayout.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Alas, the AJA has gone to a payfer model for articles:

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

Discover Magazine has a top 100 (?) sort of thing happening;
here are the ones within our purview (the urls give the subjects):

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/andean-crops-cultivated-almost-10-000-years\
-ago
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/angkor-was-a-vast-city
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/tablets-of-unknown-ancient-script-surface
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/did-a-tsunami-wipe-out-a-cradle-of-western-\
civilization

... there's also something about those early skates:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/ancient-finns-saved-energy-by-skating

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Italian police recovered a pile of artifacts:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Altro/?id=1.0.1870608139

A drug raid in Greece turned up some antiquities too:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_15/02/2008_93360

More on that forgery family:

http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=589efd96-7ca6-4058-be32-156b13\
7c500c

A major art theft in Switzerland:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/11/swiss.art.theft
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/world/europe/12swiss.html

I think this is the first word of charges being laid in the
Asian/Native American antiquities case:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_8224541

... and other coverage of the ongoing story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/arts/design/17fink.html

Greece returned a couple of purloined statues to Albania:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=apbICdWyflic&refer=muse

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Texas banknote history:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5520647.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Poussin and Nature:

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/art/26181/scape-artist
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/arts/design/15pous.html (slideshow!)

Mystery of the Mayan Medallion:

http://nwaonline.net/articles/2008/02/15/entertainment/021508entmayanexhibit.txt

Land of the Labyrinth:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23279

The British Museum is trying a new online approach:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39292872,00.htm
http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/137572/British+Museum+website+revamp+.html

A Monet in Cologne now appears to be a forgery:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h4h_RxgMj_X8-W61sNF_qRFWiKZw

The origins of the Apollo Sauroktonos are being questioned again:

http://tinyurl.com/2kjgcm (PD)
http://tinyurl.com/34d7ck (PD ... different)

They're extending the exhibition of those recently-returned
-to-Italy-from-the-Met-etc. items:

http://www.pr-inside.com/popular-rome-exhibit-of-returned-ancient-r441732.htm
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Macbeth:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/theater/reviews/15macb.html

Oroonoko:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/theater/reviews/11oroo.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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King,'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W. Sargent,
Rick Pettigrew, Sean Reynolds, Susan Jaslow,
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
================================================================
Neanderthals were more 'mobile' than previously thought:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2008-02-08-neanderthal-teeth-mo\
bility_N.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080208/ap_on_sc/greece_neanderthal_tooth
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A major Achaemenid building found at Lidoma:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/feb/1076.html

The history and politics behind the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=325

Pondering the findspot of the DSS:

http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1089.htm

... and all of the content of the latest issue of Dead Sea
Discoveries is available:

http://tinyurl.com/2nxa8x

The Hopkins in Egypt dig diary has resumed:

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

Revising the reading of that 'Temech' seal:

http://tinyurl.com/2kp4xo (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/2a6ryt

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)
================================================================
Hellenistic finds in Kuwait:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6119012&maindocimg=5576654&servi\
ce=102

A Roman fort in Cornwall:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080205202327.htm

The Romans performed cataract operations:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7194352.stm

Roman remains in Lincolnshire:

http://tinyurl.com/2o4ryh

A couple of years ago we mentioned the discovery of a Roman lighthouse
in Turkey ... the excavations have begun:

http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-31096.html

Rethinking the Lupercal, media style:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2008-02-06-romulus-remus-luperc\
ale_N.htm

Another 'coloured statuary' article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3299711.\
ece
http://www.topnews.in/ancient-greek-and-roman-sculptures-were-multi-coloured-218\
397

... and another on Boadicea:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=5127\
14&in_page_id=1770

A suggestion that Prime Minister Harper read Marcus Aurelius:

http://tinyurl.com/2tr5rh

On the rise of Classics in the UK:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2252360,00.html

Honours for Latin teacher Sean Smith:

http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/79581/

More coverage of the altar on Mt. Lykaion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/science/05zeus.html (JNW)
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=14290&tag=
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/05/europe/altar.php

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Possible Saxon burial from Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/3dtmeq (EDP24)

Archaeologists believe they're close to finding Kenneth MacAlpine's
wooden castle site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7226410.stm

Finds from various periods during sewer construction near the
Avon:

http://tinyurl.com/3ahmnx

Prehistoric finds during M62 construction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7223230.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
An overviewish thing on recent finds at Orissa:

http://tinyurl.com/2pxh5q

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about Ping Yao:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Can't remember if this is the Bamayan cave painting find we
mentioned a couple of months ago:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/photogalleries/Bamian-pictures/i\
ndex.html

Theories about mega-tsunamis hitting Australia aren't confirmed
by the archaeological evidence:

http://www.physorg.com/news121356987.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Native remains from Bridgeport:

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1202120141234401.xml

Seeking protection for some Tsimshian sites around Prince
Rupert Harbour:

http://tinyurl.com/2jebn6
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Lice from mummies is providing some clues about migration:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/06/healthscience/06lice.php
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=20041
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/science/07lice.html

A half dozen Vicus culture pyramids from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/3dfcp7

More coverage of that Nazca iron ore mine:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125405.htm
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
What rats can tell us about ancient migration:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/1568444

A talk on earth science and archaeology:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=52798

Trying to figure out who killed Karl XII:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7228009.stm

... and Pico della Mirandola:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/07/wmedici107.xml

High tech probing of the Mary Rose:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7231173.stm

Notre Dame's bells:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/world/europe/08bells.html

Review of the *Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature*:

http://tinyurl.com/3ym7aw (Times)

Review of Charles Nichol, *Shakespeare the Lodger*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/books/08book.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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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Brief item on a bust in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/36eg4w (ANA)

... and some amphorae were recovered in Calabria:

http://www.telereggiocalabria.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6385&\
Itemid=59

... and some 600 pieces from an antiquities ring at various sites
in Italy:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Regioni/Lazio.php?id=1.0.1846504815

This is possibly the same as the foregoing, and includes a fragment
of the Forma Urbis:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=18308&sez=HOME_ROMA

An American army pilot is charged with antiquities smuggling in
Egypt:

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0630266320080206
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--armypilotarrested0206fe\
b06,0,2449180.story
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4252851&page=1

The spinoff effects of the popularity of Russian icons:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020403089.\
html

Greece returned some purloined antiquities to Albania:

http://tinyurl.com/2wg67c (Earthtimes)

The Asian antiquities smuggling followups:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/arts/design/04frau.html

One of those stolen Ptolemaic maps was returned to Spain:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2154153.htm
http://news.theage.com.au/australia-returns-rare-1482-map-to-spain/20080204-1q0h\
.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5giR6qMZG2j7ZsaIpgVxfk5hXPvFgD8UJO7Q00

Russia has revealed details about a PILE of art stolen by the
Nazis:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ahPiqqiW9wqg&refer=muse

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Drake Map medal:

http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v11n04a18.html

Britannia is disappearing from UK coinage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/28/ncoin128.xml


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Enchanted Stories: Chinese Shadow Theater:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/arts/design/08shad.html

Barbarians:

http://tinyurl.com/3aw94h (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/38f9v9 (Independent)

digNubia:

http://www.connectsavannah.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A6354

Overviewish thing on some recent London auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/arts/design/08voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Fool's Gold:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/movies/08fool.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
James Fuld:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/arts/music/07fuld.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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

... kind of a quiet week ...
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Not quite sure where to put this one ... 100,000 b.p. remains
from Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1124&p=culture&a=1

More coverage of prehistoric shoe-wearing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/24/scishoe124.xml
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AFRICA
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A Punic necropolis from Tunisia:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200801290750.html
http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/jan08/280108-2.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Brief item on some Parthian finds in Iraq:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=17898

Recent finds from Ebla:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=17853&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO
(Italian)

Evidence of a Byzantine city near Corum:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=18498

A fair bit of coverage of the restoration of a 1400 b.p. mosaic
from Israel:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1328\
&module_id=#as
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-01-28-ancient-glass-israel_N.htm
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hch060QBEDXTeTt6cX1D92nHDXHAD8UF3AFG0
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22887840/
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/World/STIStory_201276.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695248120,00.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004150926_mosaic29.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948950.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Israel-Ancient-Mosaic.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/28/tech/main3761977.shtml

Another seal associated with an obscure Biblical figure:

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27307

The 'other side' of life during Amarna:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7209472.stm

Zahi Hawass, meanwhile, was defending Akhenaten:

http://tinyurl.com/2lcjc9 (SIS)

This week's Temple Mount developments:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=949595
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=950178

More coverage of that Greco-Roman mummy find (tied to the discovery of
a 7000 b.p. settlement in the Fayum):

http://tinyurl.com/2uuzj8
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=17900
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/29/content_7522398.htm
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23131092-5001028,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23131092-23109,00.html
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/international/2008/01/766758/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080130-egypt-mummies.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080129231645146C269708&click_id=31&set\
_id=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080129/wl_mideast_afp/egyptarchaeology

... and some nice photos:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/fayoum-pictures/i\
ndex.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A Roman fort from Cornwall:

http://tinyurl.com/37ekn8
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/7217173.stm

Smithsonian Magazine has a lengthy article on the Parthenon:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/13865192.html

Nice story about the UC Antiquity Research Group:

http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1760

Classical Thought at Concordia:

http://cjournal.concordia.ca/archives/20080131/how_the_ancients_made_us_who_we_a\
re.php

More coverage of that altar at Mt Lykaion:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123114601.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2p9nsk
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=6610

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)
================================================================
M62 highway construction exposes a Neolithic site:

http://tinyurl.com/38emfd

... and excavation of a parking lot in Berlin reveals Medieval remains:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080131/wl_nm/germany_berlin_medieval_dc_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080130/ap_on_sc/germany_aging_berlin

Interesting medieval seal at the heart of a metal detectorist
dispute:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7218228.stm

Can't remember if we mentioned this 'Iron Age David Beckham' bog
mummy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4629888.stm

Nice photo of that Bronze Age site in Spain:

http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_080128.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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Evidence of human sacrifice in a 2500 b.p. tomb:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080129-china-tomb.html
http://tinyurl.com/2s9hsn

A pair of 'ancient' temples from Thane:

http://tinyurl.com/2s74t5
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG3_sub.asp?ccode=ENG3&newscode=13407

Some 1000 b.p. kilns from Sichuan:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-01/28/content_6426042.htm
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200801/20080129/article_347107.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Latest on the Miami Circle:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/396549.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/397226.html

A dispute over some Kentucky petroglyphs:

http://news.nky.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080130/NEWS0103/801300373

Growing evidence of a Native burial ground near North Smithfield
(RI):

http://www.woonsocketcall.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18551&It\
emid=27

Weeds threaten Aztec Ruins National Monument:

http://www.daily-times.com/ci_8105263?source=most_viewed

Interesting finds at an Adena site:

http://tinyurl.com/yq6smo (Dispatch)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A Nazca iron ore mine in Peru?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22937483/
http://tinyurl.com/3xhto2
http://www.physorg.com/news120827062.html
http://tinyurl.com/2rmc48
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080131/sc_livescience/miningsitepredatesin\
canempire
http://www.purdueexponent.org/?module=article&story_id=9687
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125405.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/pu-ag012908.php
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/181122,ancient-iron-ore-mine-is-found-in\
-peru.html
http://tinyurl.com/3xhto2 (AScribe)

More on Maya dazzle:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123085308.htm
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A call to 'restore' Milton to his former prominent place:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/01/28/do2805.xml

Not sure where to put this one ... a 300 b.p. Chinese "shopping list"
has been found stuffed inside an 18th century vase in York:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7220717.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080131/od_afp/britainchinaarthistoryoffbeat

On the origin of blue eyes:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10489917

... and domestic cats:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125500.htm

... and what we're losing:

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Cemetery-looting-robs-archaeologists-of.3713853\
.jp

... and what rat DNA tells us:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080201/sc_nm/australia_rats_dc_1

Rethinking whom the plague took:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/health/research/29plag.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/sc_nm/plague_europe_dc_2
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
1/28/sciblack128.xml

Nice feature on 'arabic' science:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2248970,00.html

Interesting item on 'Poor Richard' and Ben Franklin:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/01/28/080128crat_atlarge_lepo\
re

Assorted Arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01voge.html

Review of David Lewis, *God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of
Europe*:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/02/04/080204crbo_books_acocella
cf:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/11/19/011119fa_FACT2

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
================================================================
Appian Way:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/travel/03dayout.html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Interesting video on the antiquities' smuggling world's 'odd
couple':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080201-oddcouple-video-tw.html

The Berkeley Art Museum is implicated in that big Asian
antiquities investigation:

http://tinyurl.com/2lpoq9 (CPN)

... and some museums in Chicago were investigated too:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aSR4jKjuFLtw&refer=muse

... and a nice background piece on the person who's behind the
kerfuffle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/arts/31museum.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/31/arts/dealer.php

Opeddish thing on thefts from Tibet:

http://tinyurl.com/3dueql

UN Peacekeepers in the Western Sahara have apparently dfaced some
petroglyphs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7219297.stm
cf:

http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/vandalism-of-an-african-archaeo\
logical-site/

A New York State archivist is caught after trying to peddle stuff
on eBay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/nyregion/29library.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22883817
A Buddha has been stolen from Orissa:

http://tinyurl.com/2qbjqn

That family of forgers has been sentenced:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iILviip2Nc3QKwJcnmNuhwvF98AQD8UF58NO2
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2248461,00.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

A pile of tombaroli are on trial in Italy:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7375
http://tinyurl.com/2kzbea
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The story of Britannia on UK coins:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article3265406.ece

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Michaelangelo, Vasari, and their Contemporaries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01uffi.html

Ancient Alloy: Bronzes from the Collection:

http://tinyurl.com/2lvmcj

Chinese porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01anti.html

Nice feature on the items the Met was lent in return for the
Euphronios Krater:

http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/TradeTalk/2008-01-29__12-00-33.html

... and what the Getty is getting:

http://tinyurl.com/33hjwy (LAT)

Lindow Man is on the move:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7212023.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/28/archaeology.forensicscience

Nice update on what's happening at the Baghdad Museum:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/107570

This week's installment in the Lewis Chessmen saga:

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Plan-to-return-chessmen-to.3715862.jp
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Burning-issue.3723155.jp
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
A U of I librarian is putting together a useful set of 'field
guides':

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/uoia-uoi012908.php
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,
'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Joan Griffith, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman,
Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow, 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
================================================================
The latest 'missing link' claim:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22808733/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2245579,00.html
http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/China-skull-may-be-missing-link.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080123/twl-china-skull-may-be-missing-link-41f21e\
0.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/177761,ancient-human-skull-found-in-chin\
a.html
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6343340.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/sc_nm/china_skull_dc_1

Cavemen wore shoes:

http://tinyurl.com/324voj (New Scientist)
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The latest Greco-Roman mummy find:

http://tinyurl.com/2mhnlu
http://tinyurl.com/2lrxan
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=420389&sid=FTP
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/210950.php/Ancient-mummies-among-other-relics-une\
arthed-in-Egypt
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000001/0203000000000000000929.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/881/eg6.htm

On the "brutal" lives of ancient Egyptians:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7209472.stm

A 3rd century cemetery from Syria:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcqC6lHr-qFgEzzwzjtgGiLWKl8AD8UBS1R02
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_sc/syria_archaeology_4
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/255038.html

Fallout from the media coverage/Simcha's press release on the
Talpiot tomb:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59910
http://dukereligion.blogspot.com/2008/01/talpiot-tomb-controversy-revisited.html
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080123/30957.htm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1201070788587&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Followup to that Herod's quarry story:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1201070776425&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Trying to transform Irbil into a tourist spot:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22831033/

More coverage of that 'queen's tomb' in Yemen:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=15350

For your next departmental birthday:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravensden/1874362625/in/photostream/

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 altar of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion was used for much longer than
previously thought:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123114601.htm
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/news/fullrelease.php?which=314
http://www.livescience.com/history/081023-zeus-altar.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080123/sc_livescience/worshipsitepredatesz\
eus
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/24/content_7488327.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080125-zeus-altar.html

A tannery at Pompeii will be undergoing restoration:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080121-0649-italy-pompeii-ancienttann\
ery.html
http://www.dailymail.com/News/200801210182
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkLEdIp7bJaGVNH4FjeU0nNYdY-w
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-01-22_122151021.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/world_news&id=5904543
(nice photo)

Plans are afoot to excavate an ancient shipwreck off Cyprus:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22821438/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_sc/cyprus_ancient_shipwreck_3
http://tinyurl.com/2qwsed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012401985.\
html

Another piece on Rome-India trade ... I don't think there's
anything here we haven't seen already:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2008/01/21/stories/2008012150370500.htm

Some coins of Carausius have been found:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3241299.ece

They're finally getting on with the replanting of Olympia:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080122-1301-greece-ancientolympia.htm\
l
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22791566/

On Browning's 'Pheidippides':

http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-hsfitbox225546711jan22,0,1882317.st\
ory

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A metal detectorist has come across a pile of Bronze Age axeheads:

http://tinyurl.com/2s5yfx (Daily Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/3d8byf (Times)
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=420571&sid=FTP

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Rethinking the origins of the Polynesians:

http://tinyurl.com/38zgkz (Canada.com)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080118093728.htm

Khmer civilization is older than previously thought:

http://www.thejapannews.net/story/320484

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
The latest from the Jamestown Rediscovery people:

http://www.dailypress.com/features/family/dp-secrets_072605,0,1778701.story

Low tides reveal (again) a shipwreck near Florence, Oregon:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22769456/

On restoring assorted sites of interest in Flat Rock, Georgia:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18233281

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel provides a stark
contrast with what went on with Kennewick Man:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

More coverage of colonialists' river diversion efforts:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18228525
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plenty of coverage suggesting the ancient Maya sacrificed boys,
not girls (not sure why it needs to be an either/or?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/sc_nm/mexico_sacrifice_dc_3
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23095592-5001028,00.html

They've figured out why Mayan temples "dazzle":

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123085308.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2u9ftu (UPI)
http://www.physorg.com/news120313101.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=16597
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/sc_nm/mexico_sacrifice_dc
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23093081-12332,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
On a 'lost' photo archive of manuscripts of the Quran:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120008793352784631.html

Questioning how much of the Sistine Chapel was actually done by
Michelangelo:

http://tinyurl.com/33cvke (Independent)

Still toasting Edgar Allan Poe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/arts/21arts-POETOASTERPA_BRF.html

A brief history of briefs:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/features/features/article3360062.ece

Brief item on using lasers to find sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/7202361.stm

Latest in the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22826040/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_re_us/shipwreck_treasure

Review of Muzaffar Iqbal, *Science and Islam*:

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

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

http://tinyurl.com/36dvdh (Times)

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.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/travel/article728879.ece
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Big raids in Southern California as the result of ongoing
investigations about antiquities smuggling:

http://www.ocregister.com/community/federal-agents-raid-1966311-bowers-museum
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105494
http://tinyurl.com/326tml (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/36ej36

A very interesting piece on forgeries in the antiquities market
(including the suggestions that the Met's recently-acquired
'Artemis and the Stag' might be in that category):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,529532,00.html

... and more on Artemis and the Stag:

http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/258915.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/259332.html

An Argentine friar's heart was stolen from a Franciscan monastery:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324770,00.html

Illegal digs continue in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/2c595z (LA Times)
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-antiquities0122.artjan22,0,6042262.st\
ory

Colin Renfrew is concerned about illegal digging too:

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Cemetery-looting-robs-archaeologists-of.3713853\
.jp

A metal detectorist dispute is heating up in Cyprus (the first
is the detectorist's story; the second is 'official reaction'):

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=37233&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=37224&cat_id=9

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Family death medals:

http://www.thecoppercorner.com/history/bw_photos1.htm


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Sounds of Ancient Music:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=945833
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1200572505470&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Afghan Gold:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/2008/01/hidden-afghanis.html
(nice photos)

There seems to be a growing trend to make a 'media issue' out
of where recent finds in the UK will end up, e.g., with those
Saxon finds from Teeside:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7203050.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2o2gx7  (Echo)

Latest Lewis Chessmen news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7210537.
http://tinyurl.com/32tfdl
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Lewis-Chessmen-are-pawns-in.3715202.jp

... and Elgin/Parthenon Marbles news:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/27/welgin127.xml

Interviewish thing with the director of the National Museum of
the American Indian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/arts/design/21smit.html

More coverage of the return of the Euphronios Krater:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1881034620080118
http://tinyurl.com/2mvkhn (Newsday)
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566754

More on Shelby White's returns:

http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=7940&mode=thread&order=0
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Argonautika:

http://tinyurl.com/2m3fgp (WTimes)

Asterix at the Olympic Games:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hA9FFmcLuJ_zVJT1ovYHuoyS9WhQ
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Caroline Keck (conservator):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/arts/15keck.html

R. Lansing Hicks:

http://www.yale.edu/divinity/news/080115_news_hicks.shtml

Andy Palacio (Garifuna musician):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/arts/music/21palacio.html

Marie Smith Jones (last Eyak speaker):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7206411.stm
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5477468.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

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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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An Old Kingdom 'middle class' tomb:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080118-egypt-tomb.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=14566
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/99324

A Hemiriate Dynasty 'queen's' tomb from Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10013577.html

Brief item on the discovery of a bronze coffin:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news145011.htm

... and its destruction:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news145241.htm

Some Achaemenid city remains from Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=39054&sectionid=351020105

Recent finds from Catal Huyuk:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=93856

Hyping the National Geographic's 'Black Pharoahs' issue:

http://tinyurl.com/2k4h8w (NYDN)

A First Temple seal from Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/356rbv (JPost)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/139914

The Talpiot Tomb was back in the news, most notably on why it
was kept 'secret' for so long:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/945442.html
http://tinyurl.com/2vemjr (JPost)

... it was part of a conference on the subject:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1704299,00.html
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080118/30896.htm

... and there was a very self-serving press release by JC and
SJ claiming their views have been 'vindicated':

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=811301
http://tinyurl.com/36gusw (Streetinsider)

cf: Jim West's comments:

http://tinyurl.com/2q4zej

... and:

http://www.uhl.ac/blog/?p=393

Meanwhile, it is unlikely that approval will be given to
renew the dig:

http://tinyurl.com/2ub53w (JPost)

The Tomb of Cyrus is threatened:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124898

... or maybe not:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/2006/September2006/02-09.htm

Nice feature on the Nabateans:

http://journal3.ifrance.com/spip.php?article229

David Plotz visited some Biblical sites (it's a series):

http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181865/
http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181915/
http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181916/
http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181917/
http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181918/

A bit of clarification on Egypt's copyright efforts:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080115-egypt-copyright.html

A somewhat late item from the IAA on that Queen Helena house find:

http://tinyurl.com/2trogh

Latest on Temple Mount:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=945297

More coverage of recent finds at Karnak:

http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2008/January/17/Excavations-Karnak-29922.asp

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 Roman bridge on the Tyne has been reconstructed:

http://tinyurl.com/ytmo7g (Journal)

Nice feature on Vindolanda:

http://tinyurl.com/2e9qvh (Daily Mail)

... and one on the Nabateans:

http://journal3.ifrance.com/spip.php?article229

Dr King and Greek lit:

http://tinyurl.com/359xjf (WTimes)

Scandal in the Greek Culture Ministry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/design/19loot.html

Princeton has acquired a Greek coin collection:

http://tinyurl.com/34cojl

Latin's doing fine in Monmouth:

http://www.reviewatlas.com/articles/2008/01/16/news/news2.txt

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Latest finds found during construction of that highway near
Tara:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080114-tara-ireland.html
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/99630

Bronze Age finds at Cambridge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7194650.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2smdjv (EADT)

Predictions of medieval sites at a 'regeneration project' in
Preston:

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Tithebarn-could-yield-medieval-treasures.3687861.jp

Brief item on the find of a 2000 b.p. ring from Norway:

http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=115816

A 16th century Welsh chronicle is now online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/7189408.stm

Interesting items found in the apartment of a dead collector in
Prague:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/99630

Plans are afoot to examine "Britain's Atlantis":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7187239.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3xh9sq
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080116165058.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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Very interesting 2500 b.p. sword find from Jiangxi (looks kind
of small for a sword?):

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-01/16/content_6399567.htm
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200801/17/t20080117_14264929.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6339547.html

I think we mentioned these brick-lined tombs from Chongqing a
while ago:

http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20080115/101246.shtml

This time, the clumsy archaeologists have found a Buddhist
monastery:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=12739
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/318178

... while at another temple site, some 'shell script' inscriptions
have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/2yfue5 (TIndia)
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan152008/scroll2008011546765.asp

A brick structure from Bogra:

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=19882

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Latest on those bones found during LRT construction in
Edmonton:

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/Commentary/2008/01/17/4777869.html
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id26037

They're digging at Lincoln's boyhood home:

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/13891772.html

The early New World was a wetland:

http://tinyurl.com/2wjxdh (New Scientist)

A King Island mask has been returned:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_us/ghost_village_mask

The Shoshone are trying to acquire an historically-significant
graveyard:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7965320

Remodelling a church with an interesting history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13churchwe.html

More coverage of Native Americans' efforts to recover human
remains from Berkeley:

http://tinyurl.com/32tv4e (Globe)

Review of a couple of books focussing on the carnage and the
results therefrom of the Civil War:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/01/21/080121crbo_books_gopnik

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A Mexican time capsule:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-SalgXrLK4v5rMnStHSiZuBFfwAD8U6L4I00

More coverage that agriculture was being practiced in Peru
earlier than previously thought:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=14151
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/andean-crops-cultivated-almost-10-000-years\
-ago

More coverage of that 'lost city' found in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080116-lost-city.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=13642
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080116-paititi-video-ap.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5019419649355201755

More coverage of that 4000 b.p. temple from Peru:

http://www.mnweekly.ru/world/20071115/55289911.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Nice editorial on what the 'archaeological top ten lists' left
out:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/01/15/sci_archaeology.\
html

Columbus is 'credited' with bringing syphilis to Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7183540.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2jwmdr (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080115/od_nm/columbus_dc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/columbuscarriedsyphilisfromnewworldtoeuropestudysugg\
ests
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/15/america/columbus.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15syph.html
http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000148

William Caraher has put together a nice online feature for
Archaeology Magazine on archaeological blogs:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/blogs/

A very strange DaVinci codish thing involving the Koran:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA15Ak03.html

The 'brutal reality' of the tournament:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7192262.stm

Latest on the identity of the Mona Lisa:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080114/ts_nm/germany_mona_lisa_dc
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/arts/16arts-MONAREALLYWA_BRF.html

Book scavenging:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/nyregion/18bigcity.html

Nice overviewish thing on the popularity of dna/genealogy
stuff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13wwln-medium-t.html

Do fortune cookies really come from Japan?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/dining/16fort.html

Arguing about Beethoven:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/arts/music/20whit.html

On the perils of popularization:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Gee-t.html

In light of the primaries, an interesting item on equal rights
and civil rights:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/weekinreview/13leibovich.html

Pope Benedict cancelled a visit to LaSapienza due to protests
with an historical basis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/world/europe/16pope.html

Review of Jack Repcheck, *Copernicus' Secret*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Gingerich-t.html

Review of Bill Hayes, *The Anatomist*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Max-t.html

Review of Andrew Nicholson (ed.), *The Letters of John Murray
to Lord Byron*:

http://tinyurl.com/3x2lz7 (Times)

Review of George Mankari, *Revolution in Mind*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Prochnik-t.html

Review of Geraldine Brooks, *People of the Book*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Fugard-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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Athens:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004120061_webathens14.html

Review of assorted Baedeker Guides:

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article3159576.ece
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Italy feels it has the upper hand in combatting the antiquities
trade:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=17154&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO

A purloined bust of Marcus Aurelius has been returned to Algeria:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=88115
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hVLIB3USJkQsKqEExRQIvjZuizbA
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=23911
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/080115washington.htm

... as has a Chinese pagoda:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6340684.html

Shelby White has returned some looted items to Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/18collect.html
http://tinyurl.com/38xd8j

Recovery of some pages from a manuscript of Isidore of Seville:

http://tinyurl.com/2s3wd5 (El Pais)

Italy still wants the Getty Bronze:

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

This 'World Collections Programme' looks interesting:

http://media.netpr.pl/notatka_91939.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Bruce Brace Coin Collection:

http://arendt.mcmaster.ca/~coins/index.php

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Pompeii Red:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=4032611&page=1

Subsaharan Terracottas:

http://tinyurl.com/3cj89x (El Pais)

The Aesthetic Movement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18anti.html

Chinese antiquities at the Royal Ontario Museum may have been
illegally acquired:

http://tinyurl.com/3cx58n (Globe and Mail)

The Euphronios Krater is back in Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/design/19bowl.html
http://www.decanter.com/news/174012.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080118/lf_nm_life/italy_art_krater_dc_2
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/19/2142137.htm

... and the Met will be getting some nice loans in return:

http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=14804&monthview=0&month=1&year=2008

A major exhibition focussing on Hadrian is in the works:

http://tinyurl.com/26rwjd (Times)
http://tinyurl.com/39snqq
http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/latest-news/Hadrians-bronze-comes-north.3679348.jp

The Louvre is lending some oenochoe to Singapore:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=avQUAqulUqdw&refer=home

They're talking about moving Michelangelo's David:

http://tinyurl.com/348dxn (ANSA)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3345178.ece

A couple of antique shows in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18armo.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18pavi.html

On Montebello's legacy:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=auikLCXvzcyw&refer=muse
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/weekinreview/13donadio.html

How not to run a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/design/19arts-BRAZILIANMUS_BRF.html

I think this is a repeat of the latest word from the BM on
not returning the Elgin Marbles:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/18/2121370.htm
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Maria:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/arts/music/06gure.html

New Jerusalem:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/theater/reviews/14new.html

BBC Jane Austen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/television/19bell.html

Some Shakespeareana:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/theater/20ishe.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Not sure whether I've mentioned this military history forum
yet:

http://feldpost.tv/forum/

Museum of Underwater Archaeology:

http://www.uri.edu/mua/

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Wilhelmina Jashemski (Pompeii historian):

http://tinyurl.com/2s5kuu (WPost)

Bernhard W. Anderson:

http://sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=746
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PODCASTS
================================================================

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Dexter Hoyos, Diana Wright,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Angie Telepenko, Richard
Price,Mata Kimasitayo,Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths,
Ross W. Sargent,Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow, 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
================================================================
The oldest human footprints are eroding:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/13/archaeology.oldest.human.tracks.er\
oding
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting/conventional piece on Masada:

http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/archives/2008/01/011108-al_masada.aspx

The Temple Mount saga continues:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=942970

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 item on ash from the 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius
being found in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/2s9qhh (ANSA)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/170723.html
http://tinyurl.com/2m4mwh (Kathimerini)

This one seems appropriate in this category ... remains of a
'civilization' at the bottom of a Russian lake:

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071227/94372640.html
http://tinyurl.com/ynmz3x

Roman remains in Croydon:

http://tinyurl.com/35werz (Guardian)

... and a Roman lamp from Tadcaster:

http://tinyurl.com/yo76tw

A hoard of Roman coins from Bath:

http://tinyurl.com/37c9x4
http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=3657

Reconstructing a Roman bridge:

http://tinyurl.com/ytmo7g

Thomas Hines is documenting ancient theatres:

http://www.collegenews.org/x7724.xml

Virtually reconstructing the Via Flaminia:

http://www.pr-inside.com/virtual-reconstruction-of-roman-road-r376540.htm
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAVehmVnYXDelGSIDUKimvuE3SGwD8U1RRR00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22558223/
http://www.physorg.com/news119027431.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4115263&page=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080108/ap_on_hi_te/italy_virtual_roads_to_rome

On the state of Classics in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/942930.html

Plans are afoot to touristify the agora of Izmir:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=92842

Is Latin on the rise in the UK?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7172077.stm

... and an interview with Nancy Erickson on the benefits of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/2w2y9l

Judith Hallett is offering information on Roman romance:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/536839/

That salad-dressing-amphora-dna story is making the rounds again:

http://tinyurl.com/2tl2ev (Telegraph)

More coverage of those villas found on the grounds of the Palazzo
Valentini:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/arts/design/22vill.html

More coverage of that Roman marching camp in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Roman-fort--is-revealed.3643430.jp
http://tinyurl.com/25pk54  (Advertiser)

... and the 'Lupercal' story is still kicking around:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4a96040a-be10-11dc-8bc9-0000779fd2ac.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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They're digging at Salisbury Cathedral:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/7173889.stm

Overviewish thing on some recent excavations in Edinburgh:

http://tinyurl.com/36egaz

A Saxon 'execution cemetery':

http://tinyurl.com/2bnro6 (YP)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Nice feature in Time on efforts to save Afghanistan's ancient
art:

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1701306,00.html

A Tongan site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4349525a12.html?source=RSSworldnews_20080110

Dating items found at Pattanam:

http://tinyurl.com/35fjbe
http://en.rian.ru/science/20080109/95815008.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Sphinx of India:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A Nguyen-Tay Son coin hoard:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/01/763254/

More on those spear-killed remains:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695241936,00.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080101193653.htm

More coverage of that Chinese shipwreck raising:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071222/sc_nm/china_ancientship_dc_1

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some pottery was found during construction of a Target store in
Illinois:

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2008/01/07/local/22871851.txt

... while human remains found during LRT construction in Edmonton
caused a bit of controversy:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/01/07/4756321-sun.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/01/08/lrt-archeologist.html
http://tinyurl.com/2vjhuw

On the DNA front ... searching for Native American dna in 'quids':

http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/54039/

Interesting finds from Hovey Lake:

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1532&Item\
id=116

More coverage of evidence for DeSoto's trail:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jewn5kK4IMZuv-_-rHQk352PDSVQ
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An ancient fortress find in Peru:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/page/2 (scroll down)

That Mayan Market find gets the John Noble Wilford treatement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/science/08maya.html

More on the impending 'ct-scan' (really a muon scan) of the
Temple of the Sun in Teotihuacan:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40754

More on that Aztec pyramid in Mexico City:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN2742810220071228?rpc=401&
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Folks might be interested in this item on 'Janus words':

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0104/p18s02-hfes.html

OpEd piece on justifying funding for humanities:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/will-the-humanities-save-us/

Interesting item on audience relations (for want of a better
description, although I'm sure there is one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/arts/music/08audi.html

Latest in the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/12/2137004.htm

On satellites and archaeology:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1764

Ancient documents have led to a theory about the Quadantrid
meteor shower:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/quadrantid_meteors/

Latest 'boat reconstruction' story revolves around a Phoenician
boat which will sail from Tyre to Europe:

http://tinyurl.com/2m6hb9 (Daily Star)

Here's a reconstructed Viking voyage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7171577.stm

Review of Geraldine Brooks, *People of the Book*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/books/07maslin.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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Janiculum Hill:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=62929

Rome:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2236945,00.html

Yemen:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/01/travel/yemen.php?WT.mc_id=travelalert
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology Magazine (January/February 2008):

http://www.archaeology.org/0801/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Theft of a coin collection going to auction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3111669.ece

Another bust in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/3829qj (Kathimerini)

Those stolen Vishnu statues have turned up in a garbage dump:

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2248758,00.html

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Interesting 18th century calendar medal:

http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1970N233

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Tapestry in the Baroque:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3132791.\
ece

The Art of Time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11time.html

The Hand Drawn Negative:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11gall.html

Canova, Bernini:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/arts/design/08cano.html

That sculpture of Artemis and the Stag is now at the Met:

http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/245700.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/246130.html
http://www.nysun.com/article/69142
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/arts/10arts-ARTEMISANDST_BRF.html

The Hearst Museum is the latest to be embroiled in a controversy
about its treatment of human remains:

http://tinyurl.com/2l96m7 (LAT)

... and there's one about the British Museum returning/lending out
the Lindisfarne Gospels too:

http://tinyurl.com/32exfy
http://tinyurl.com/3yna3r

The North Carolina MOA has just received a nice endowment for Classical
collection purposes:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/NEWS/80109063

On the upcoming Egyptian Revival sale at Bonham's:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=22869

... and the Riordan (Americana) collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11anti.html

Plenty of coverage of Montebello's retirement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/arts/design/09futu.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/arts/design/09kimm.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/arts/design/09muse.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a6nPr8K5Ic80&refer=home
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aj8WgohxsyOw&refer=home
http://tinyurl.com/2q69bd

Hadrian's head is on the move as part of a major exhibition:

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jnmFJz3DS1O45oqwb_ylEsVEL6gQ
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aV39geU0LmGs&refer=muse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7181168.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3328406.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/11/nart111.xml
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2238935,00.html

The Met's 'compensation' for returning the Euphronios Krater:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=alqf9OfDp81M&refer=muse
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aoMnCedvDxOQ&refer=muse
http://www.nysun.com/article/69386
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11voge.html
http://tinyurl.com/2onvjx

More on those UVa returns:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7172152.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3ah73r (Daily Progress)
http://www.pr-inside.com/university-of-virginia-to-return-looted-r371380.htm

More on the Lewis Chess pieces:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2239705,00.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Whose-king-40rook-pawn-.3644958.jp
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Rome Reborn:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Erica Stewart,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Bob Heuman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Steve Rankin,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

We're back from our little hiatus and I spent much of yesterday
just skimming the huge backlog in my mailbox; some of the
following might seem a little dated (or even be repeats ... or
might expire before you get this) ... Happy New Year all!
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
John Noble Wilford picks up the ancient tuberculosis story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/science/18skul.html
cf: http://tinyurl.com/32ytez (Journal abstract)

Neanderthals developed sewing, but too late:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/12/21/2123174.htm
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AFRICA
================================================================
More coverage of remains of blood on Dogon artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/04obmali.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
They're still somewhat hesitant about the identity of Hatshepsut's
mummy:

http://www.physorg.com/news117555696.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22350256/

Some recently-found items are being sent to the Baghdad museum:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=35416&sectionid=3510212
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/17/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-National-Museum.php
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBj2SmkrMEFqwjt9ky1By31Mcf4AD8TJEMSO2
http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=&t=04&m=A16&aa=3

A call to restore an ancient church in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/3dxjp7

On the cult of the dead at Ebla:

http://www.archaeology.org/0801/trenches/goddesses.html

I think every year we get a story about Egypt trying to evict
people near archaeological sites:

http://tinyurl.com/3yfd8r (icWales)

A 4500 b.p. tomb of a 'dignitary' has been found by a Czech team:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/169488.html

Recent finds at Karnak are causing some rethinking:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071217-egypt-temple.html
http://tinyurl.com/3cqn6t (Daily India)

Israel was planning to resume work on that ramp:

http://tinyurl.com/39l9ts (KT)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=935358
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124601

... or maybe they weren't:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=129657

... while Egypt is copyrighting/trademarking its
monuments (!?):

http://tinyurl.com/25g6n9 (IOL)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7160057.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/26/2127542.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/egypt/story/0,,2232254,00.html

... and groundwater threatens some of those monuments:

http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=2073

Interesting item on what it's like to dig in Egypt:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/12/19/pharaohs.egypt/

Still debating the Gospel of Judas:

http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=4152
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-eisenman/gospel-fiction-and-the-re_b_77558.\
html

Review of Jill Kamil, *Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of
an Egyptologist.*:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/876/cu2.htm

More coverage of that Egyptian glassmaking site:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071214094026.htm

More on that 14000 b.p. toolkit from Jordan:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071231/139/6p12g.html
http://tinyurl.com/3cnklk

More coverage of those special playing cards US soldiers in
Iraq are playing with:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22991677-16947,00.html

... and it appears to be paying off, as some airmen found some
pottery:

http://www.standard.net/hilltop/122349/

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 article on the possible implications of a Santorini
tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/3bwdcs (Discover)

Near the purported Lupercal has been found the remains of a
basilica associated with the December 25 date for Christmas,
apparently:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hoJ2moM4YRVOcExfi_xzT5fmWF8Q
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4043239
http://www.dailymail.com/News/200712220197
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/italy_roman_christmas
http://www.townhall.com/news/world/2007/12/22/first_dec_25_xmas_tied_to_pagan_sh\
rine

http://news.ewoss.com/articles/D8TMMAJG0.aspx

Can't remember if we've mentioned this find of remains of a
Roman soldier on an Israel beach:

http://tinyurl.com/2ut33x (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/936002.html

... or this Roman marching camp from Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Water-plant-work-digs-up.3641122.jp

... or the Mazotos shipwreck:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=36640&archive=1

A Roman sandal found near Stonehenge:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=80583&in_page_id=34

On the importance of Mesopotamia in Roman-India trade:

http://tinyurl.com/2bj3mk (Times)

Technology is revealing more about Venta Icenorum:

http://www.livescience.com/history/071217-roman-town.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22298156/
http://tinyurl.com/3xpkxj
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317928,00.html

One of those recently-found Roman coffins is going on display:

http://tinyurl.com/2mqrqs (TIW)

... while villas (etc.) excavated at the Palazzo Valentini will be
open to the public:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hH_6aifHIo6zRXuDR2Ua1SXfvahQD8TLCVK80
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/arts/design/22vill.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22346710/

Nice feature on Petra:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/10024576.html

That throne story is still kicking around:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004054376_webitalythrone05.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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Early evidence of skating in Finland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7159057.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/w-waw122107.php
http://www.physorg.com/news117694542.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080104-first-skates.html
http://tinyurl.com/33mdbf (Telegraph)

Possible remains of combatants from the Battle of Aughrim:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3304353.ece

Interesting item on the burial of some bishops 600 years b.p.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/7146828.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Bishops39-lives-unmasked-after-6000.3595191.jp

Colin Renfrew comments on the Portable Antiquities Scheme:

http://tinyurl.com/33xfa4 (Guardian)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some very old noodles:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4335160.stm

I think we've mentioned this spear-impaled skeleton before:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22957344-30417,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/21/2125690.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080101193653.htm

They raised that 800 b.p. Chinese shipwreck:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7156581.stm
http://en.ce.cn/National/Local/200712/23/t20071223_14007358.shtml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3087296.ece
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/22/content_7296095.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5530591697363744727 (video)

... and took it to its own museum:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200712/29/t20071229_14065819.shtml

An eighth-century brick kiln from VietNam:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/education/?catid=4&newsid=34575
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071231/139/6p15p.html
http://www.southeastasianews.net/story/313744

A child found a 3000 b.p. vase in China's Hunan province:

http://news.rednet.cn/c/2008/01/02/1408950.htm

An 1800 b.p. plaque of the only female Jain Tirthankar:

http://www.bangladeshnews.net/story/313742

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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I think this Captain Kidd shipwreck find was announced just
prior to our hiatus:

http://www.canadaeast.com/progress/article/156493

They didn't find the grave of Andrew Jackson's duelling partner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/us/17grave.html
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/81337/

Evidence for deSoto's trail (repeat?):

http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=7501546

Haven't heard about the Miami Circle in a while:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/technology/orl-circle0208jan02,0,992225.story

Interesting finds from Alaska:

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6902858.stm

Low lake levels are leading to looting of sites:

http://www.newsobserver.com/print/sunday/city_state/story/819326.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters/story/825029.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/print/saturday/opinion/story/831283.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/weather/drought/story/838043.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/story/838879.html

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about the Nez Perce
people:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

More on 'beer' brewing by Pueblo folk:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22421656/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318805,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071228/sc_livescience/beerbrewedlongagobyn\
ativeamericans
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A major Taino site from Puerto Rico:

http://tinyurl.com/32xuyp (AJC)

A pyramid find suggests revising the date for the founding of Mexico City:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071228/sc_nm/mexico_pyramid_dc_2
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/28/content_7328039.htm
http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/28253
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22412726/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=844359762098598560 (video)

Nice feature on Columbus' 'lost fort':

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/fort-of-columbus-200801.html

More on ancient chocolate use:

http://tinyurl.com/396c5w (AJC)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're trying to figure out the peopling
of Greenland:

http://tinyurl.com/2qt5en

Medieval diets were apparently healthier than ours:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7148534.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2lgaxz (Daily India)

Out of the myriad Christmas-related stories which flooded the
newswires (with nothing really new for us), this one -- about
a possible alternative site for Bethlehem -- was most
interesting (albeit somewhat vague):

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1298237,00.html
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59367

... followed by a piece on early Christians in Japan:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/lifestyle-japan-christians.html

Figuring out what Monet saw:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/04impr.html

Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus is threatened by mold:

http://www.ambrosiana.it/ing/index.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/world/europe/23davinci.html

The Mappa Mundi has been given special recognition by UNESCO:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/7153508.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3280453.ece

Laying blame when societies 'fall':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/science/25diam.html

*Nature* is now online ... for a price, of course:

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=2602&at

Preserving Gregorian Chant:

http://tinyurl.com/2sh695

Looking for the Celtic 'Land of the Dead':

http://tinyurl.com/yq8hjm

Nice item on the Portinari Altarpiece:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/arts/399436/flemish-tour-de-force.thtml

A new podcast (new to me): The Dig Radio:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

OpEddish sort of thing on armour:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2231081,00.html

Some interesting sketches of penguins:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7154205.stm

What if people stop reading:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/12/24/071224crat_atlarge_crai\
n

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/arts/28arts.html

Review of the works of de Buffon:

http://tinyurl.com/2km9jr (TLS)

cf: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/travel/30Cultured.html

Review of some works on and by Conan Doyle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/books/review/McCarter-t.html

The NY Times reviews assorted books about Islam:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/index.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

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

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/travel/30Yemen.html

Tikal:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/travel/tikal.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology Magazine has chosen its 'top ten' finds for 2007:

http://www.archaeology.org/0801/topten/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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More coverage of that fake Gaugin:

http://tinyurl.com/2ra7vm (CT)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a2_cbkbihhvI&refer=home

A purloined cuneiform tablet was rescued from an eBay auction:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/18/technology/ebay.php
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4018679
http://tinyurl.com/2wyul7
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jTwinlhfBDimsmhIzj-LFzdZDM0w

Searching for some stolen Vishnu statues:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7159169.stm

Suzan Mazur has a nice response to an interview in the New
Yorker with Marion True (which I think I missed) with another
look at some of Robert Hecht's activities:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0712/S00321.htm
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NUMISMATICA
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Major find of pre-Roman, Gaulish coins:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3266591.ece
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3244,36-991019@51-985333,0.html

Interesting donation of a coin book to the ANA:

http://tinyurl.com/32dok5

Latest in Wayne Sayles' (et al) legal suit over restrictions
on Cypriot coins:

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/394858.html

Coins of India:

http://www.bharatcoins.com/1.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Pompeii Red:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5imfIdc7Tp-SlFqK2_nZBBvZW7aiQ
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3273187.ece
http://tinyurl.com/3dwy2a (BBC ... slideshow)

Matisse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/arts/design/21mati.html

St. Fabbiola:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/arts/design/05alys.html

Ashcan School:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/arts/design/28sloa.html

Plenty of coverage of the display of items returned to Italy:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gDmDJuzySwFI614dIah46BD5igRA
http://tinyurl.com/3aj9vr (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/2pq3xb
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-getty18dec18,0,7195492.story
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/216608.php
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.1682985489
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/arts/design/18trea.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-art-italy.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,524061,00.html

...and UVa is the latest to return items from its museum to Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/39zfqs (WTimes)

... while the campaign to get the Lewis Chessmen back has
been revived:

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/scotland/story/0,,2236180,00.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/politics/Salmond--set-for-moves.3617061.jp
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3284888.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7159656.stm

... and Greece was once again asking for the return of the
Elgin/Parthenon marbles:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/160044.html

... with the usual response:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jd_4xMxZl6wT2ZwRIvzYRLB2zf1A

Can't remember if we had anything suggesting a 25% cut to the
British Museum's budget, but the correction at the bottom of
this one clears things up:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2228673,00.html

A glimpse inside the Baghdad Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/world/middleeast/12iraq.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7144701.stm

The Bactrian hoard is coming to the US:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071220-afghan-gold.html

Coverage of that auction of a copy of the Magna Carta:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7151152.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/nyregion/20magna.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/nyregion/19magna.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E2DE1F30F931A25751C1A9619C8B6\
3

On museums making use of podcasts:

http://tinyurl.com/2pj2mt (El Pais)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Trumpery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/science/18darw.html

Edward II:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/theater/reviews/20edwa.html
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ON THE WEB
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Find A Dig:

http://www.findadig.com/
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OBITUARIES
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J. Richard Steffy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/us/04steffy.html

Hugh Massingberd (obituarist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/nyregion/30massingberd.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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