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From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@...>
Date: Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:07 am
Subject: explorator 11.14

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explorator 11.14                                   July 27, 2008
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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§ionid=3510212

Lullingstone Roman Villa has been refurbished:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4386888.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/24/heritage.museums

Some Roman dog skeletons:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/7521517.stm

The Telegraph has a nice feature on weblinks for Roman Britain:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/07/26/dlweb1\
26.xml

Water will be running through the Antonine Nymphaeum at Sagalassos
again:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-1500.html

More restoration work for the Parthenon:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jaa1be_yJBiOG96AxTpnbieQ4cpg

Homer's presence in Australian literature:

http://www.thecud.com.au/html/story_kanarakis_22072008.htm

Preserving Stanford's Ptolemaic papyri:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july23/papyri-072308.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-679.html
http://www.physorg.com/news136045798.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6289110

Semi-touristy thing on the dig at Troy:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=243334

Similiter on Sardis:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=147956&bolum=100

Nice Roman tombstone from Lancashire is going on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7521120.stm

Ancient wine 'industry' in Malta:

http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=53046&newscategory=36

Boris Johnson was orating in Latin:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1g1kY8pP0RU&refer=muse

Plans are afoot for that recently-discovered Temple of Cybele in
Bulgaria:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/balchik/news/20080722/cybele_temple.html

Brief item on a Roman bath find in Spain:

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/15253/roman-bath-discovered-at-villena-dig

More on Caesar's landing date in Britain:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92965327

More on the hippodrome at Olympia:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080724-olympics-hippodrome.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25831320/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10523200
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232008/news/worldnews/ancient_discovery_121123.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/world/europe/23briefs-SHADESOFNERO_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080722/sc_nm/greece_olympia_dc_1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7669965

More on the Pompeii state of emergency:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/arts/design/26ruin.html
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/07/pompeii_dying_u.shtml

More on that 'discus':

http://www.cdnn.info/news/science/sc080721.html
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=7ad7c6b2-18b5-4774-ac6c-9a\
f5f9dfcd80&k=37745
http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2008/07/17/news/news12.txt

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting first millennium A.D. Finnish burial:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/6766/

A lost abbey was found at Scone Palace:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7517392.stm

A medieval still from Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n147006

Finds from various periods at a Norfolk dig:

http://tinyurl.com/6khu3u

Medieval gold ring from Iceland:

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=40764&ew_0_a_id=30\
9398

Review of Hugh Trevor-Roper, *The Invention of Scotland*:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/hugh-trevor-ropers-the-invention-of-scotland/82417/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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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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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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#501

From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@...>
Date: Sun Aug 3, 2008 2:31 pm
Subject: explorator 11.15

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explorator 11.15                                  August 3, 2008
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Rochelle Altman, Ron Thompson, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses
this week (as always  hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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DNA evidence suggests no interbreeding between Neanderthals and
CroMagnons:

http://tinyurl.com/6rwvqx (Discovery)
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AFRICA
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An Axum obelisk update:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-31_131140086.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting bulla from one of Zedekiah's ministers:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24115029-12335,00.html
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=5367.3662.0.0
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331162371&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.web-view.net/Show/0X452A2CB6A9FED72A5694C27ADAF4BD0A3B586A0622CA3D31F\
D1655846E94A209.htm
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080801135757861C908041&click_id=588&se\
t_id=1
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1008048
(bizarre headline, though)

Egypt has rewarded some folks who came across some antiquities
while renovating their house:

http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1258308&lang=EN

Haven't we already heard of plans to excavate Chehrabad Salt Mine?:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/July2008/01-07-iranian.htm

In case you thought the Temple Mount saga was dying down:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71117
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331137734&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Recent work on the Zion Gate:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331116860&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

More (different?) coverage on that 'solar boat':

http://www.france24.com/en/20080719-japanese-camera-reveals-pharaohs-solar-boat-\
egypt-archaeology

More Codex Sinaiticus coverage:

http://www.theledger.com/article/20080731/news/808020305&tc=yahoo

More 'Messiah inscription' coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/5staf3

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Evidence of embalming in Roman-era Greece:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
1250

Some interesting finds from Aphrodisias:

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/20-centuries-old-piers-unearth\
ed-in-turkey_10078336.html

Plenty of attention for phase two (it seems) of the raising of a
Gela shipwreck:

http://news.ert.gr/en/newsDetails.asp?id=34230
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-28_128240910.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/29/content_8829775.htm
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=459649&sid=ftp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7531639.stm (Video)

... but even more for a report connecting the Antikythera Mechanism
with the Olympics and Archimedes:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7204/full/nature07130.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/31/europe/31computer.php
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395021,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ancient-device-was-used-to-predict-oly\
mpic-dates-881400.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/event/story.cfm?c_id=502&objectid=10524544
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080731/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_gadget_4
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-30-olympics_N.htm?csp=34
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24106319-30417,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=antikythera-mechanism-eclipse-olympics
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iaaYrf3YnqGVYlOWQWKrsS2lJxYQ
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/science/31computer.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080730-greek-computer.html
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jc3LqtL75d342CJVr0NpD9uha1fw
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Olympics/idUSL06431620080731
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926674.300?DCMP=NLC-nletter&\
nsref=mg19926674.300
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008082899_gadget31.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7533457.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/track/sumtxt2008073108/stories/2008/07/31/tech/main430988\
9.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
7/30/scicalc130.xml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080731/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_olympics_greece_calculator
http://tinyurl.com/5w54jp (leMonde)
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-antikythera31-2008jul31,0,3959931.sto\
ry

cf:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_seabrook

Some students in Spain excavated three Roman busts:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_17654.shtml

Calpe Roman Villa excavations have resumed:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/9826.html

Nice article on the Scythians:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/25-frozen-siberian-mummies-reveal-a-lost-ci\
vilization

Next sword and sandals flick on the horizon will be based on the Anabasis:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989886?categoryId=1946&cs=1

More on the Antonine Nymphaeum at Sagalassos:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=458655&sid=ftp

More on that Bognor burial:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3551234.Ancient_grave_found_on_Bognor_new_homes_s\
ite/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A pile of petroglyphs from the UK:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-5261.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7534510.stm
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.14216

related:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/jul/31/1?picture=336120468
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/

A German 'Stonehenge':

http://tinyurl.com/58csen (El Pais)

An early cremation burial from Ireland:

http://news.smashits.com/277930/Cremated-bones-dating-from-3-500-BC-to-2-000-BC-\
unearthed-in-Ireland.htm

Evidence of Napoli in Byzantine times:

http://www.iniziativameridionale.it/agenzia.asp?Id=7357

Medieval burials from a friary dig in Perth:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7533920.stm

Interesting theory about the sinking of the Mary Rose:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4439221.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2480411/Mary-Rose-sank-because-Spanish-cr\
ew-did-not-understand-orders.html

Nice feature on Mt Athos' recovery from that fire back in 2004:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8102

They've started digging for Nicosia's walls:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=40587&cat_id=1

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Neolithic burial from Malaysia:

http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/bnm/20080801/tts-burial-site-research-993ba14.htm\
l

In case you're wondering about that Thai-Cambodian temple dispute:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_temple_dispute_4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7506872.stm

Vague/poorly-translated item on an interesting find from Azerbaijan:

http://www.inform.kz/showarticle3.php?lang=eng&id=167683

Laos is taking some warnings about World Heritage Status seriously:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080729/tsc-laos-heritage-tourism-luangprabang-c2f\
f8aa.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Another Acadian dig ... this one's at Beaubassin:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1070242.html

Anasazi remains threatened by oil exploration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/us/02artifacts.html

Possible colonial-era shipwreck off Puerto Rico:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_sc/puerto_rico_underwater_find;_ylt=Av\
m_2lde_REuQgHhRzfj1EL737YB

A civil war document thought to be a photocopy has turned out to
be genuine:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_on_re_us/civil_war_surrender

Plans to preserve a 19th century church in East Harlem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/nyregion/30church.html

The history of 'industrialization' of the Hudson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/01expl.html

Interesting slave memorial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/arts/design/28benc.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of Olmec cultivation/consumption of cacao:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2008/07/ancient-mesoamerica\
-news-updates-2008_30.html

Working on a Chancy mummy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080718220603.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Dante's heir is being urged to accept Florence's apology:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-28_128240834.html

On the DNA front, which came first: the chicken or Columbus?:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/30/2318696.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080729133618.htm

Plenty of coverage of the 'world's oldest joke':

http://www.thestar.co.za/?fArticleId=4536142
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_university_of_wol\
verhamptons_list_of_wor.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/01/dl0103.xml
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080731/r_t_rtrs_uk_other/tuk-life-britain-joke-d\
c-fa6b408_2.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080731/lf_nm_life/britain_joke_dc

A portrait of a woman beneath a Van Gogh's Patch of Grass:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080730/sc_livescience/portraitofwomanrevea\
ledbeneathvangoghpainting

They're not going to allow folks to examine Chopin's heart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/arts/29arts-CHOPINSHEART_BRF.html

Interesting item on some 'art disasters':

http://tinyurl.com/67rey3 (Independent)

Pondering Emily Dickenson:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/08/04/080804crbo_books_thurman

This is borderline Elmer material ... remember the guy with the
China-reached-North-America-before-Columbus theory? He's now
suggesting Leonardo got his ideas from a Chinese encyclopedia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/sc_nm/britain_book_leonardo_dc_3
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l2428044-britain-book-leonardo/

The cultural significance of the doughnut:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080721152000.htm

Ipswich lace:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/design/01anti.html

The last (maybe) Cagot:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-last-untouchable-in-europe-87\
8705.html

Review of Iain Gately, *Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol*:

http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/48320/

Review of Paul Fisher, *House of Wits*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/books/30book.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

http://www.canada.com/northshorenews/news/travel/story.html?id=4233c4d5-b6e3-423\
9-8de6-8b930d2eb91c

Kas (Turkey):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111426

Genesis Land:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331158752&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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They're using the military to protect Piazza Amerina's ancient
remains:

http://tinyurl.com/5kpouz (Vivi Enna)

Theft of a pile of religious texts from a synagogue in Safed:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1007083

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Metal detectorists came across a small horde of Roman coins by
Stanton-by-Bridge:

http://tinyurl.com/5b64ck (Evening Telegraph)

American Gold:

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1984/1/1984_1_42.shtml

Journal of East Asian Numismatics:

http://www.dongya.info/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Egypt and Rome:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-08-01_101195681.html

Hadrian:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110840

related:

http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=32833&amid=30256927

Correggio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/arts/design/31corr.html

Queen Claude prayer book:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/08/04/080804ta_talk_mead

The British Museum has saved a medieval astrolabe:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2474799/Unique-medieval-astrolabe-saved-b\
y-the-British-Museum.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7534456.stm
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/arts/articles/2008/08/01/20080801tool.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080731/ap_on_sc/sci_britain_medieval_tool

This week's Acropolis Museum coverage:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aL01SM6B3NV8&refer=home

Strange museum/archaeologist dispute in Antalya:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111341

The Israel Museum has been given an interesting photo collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/design/01voge.html
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OBITUARIES
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Ann Lambton (Persian Scholar):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4379464.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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Different journalists seem to be spinning this Neanderthal DNA
(and how much is shared with modern humans, if any) in different
ways:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-neanderthal-murder-mystery-888276.\
html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080807/tsc-us-anthropology-genetic-germany-e123fe\
f.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807130824.htm
http://www.france24.com/en/20080807-first-neanderthal-genome-sequenced-anthropol\
ogy-research
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/07/neanderthal-dna.html

How early hominids might have fared at the Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/6zgx6o
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AFRICA
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DNA is shedding light on when animal herding methods arrived in
southern Africa:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804190635.htm
http://www.healthcentral.com/newsdetail/408/618166.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Remains of a Byzantine olive oil press in northern Israel:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/08/08/Byzantine_olive_press_found_in_Israel/UPI\
-72561218220633/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00097.htm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331213268&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127106

Canaanite soldier burial in Sidon:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24141145-23109,00.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=94781

Humans were using milk some 2000 years earlier than previously
thought:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080806-prehistoric-dairy.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
8/06/scidairy106.xml
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/5845.html
http://www.livescience.com/history/080806-milk-history.html

They're going to do some DNA testing on those fetuses found in
Tut's tomb:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/egypt_tutankhamun_dc
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/06/africa/ME-Egypt-King-Tuts-Fetuses.php
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-08-06-tut-fetuses_N.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aNyqi_ylSNPA&refer=canada
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/06/content_9000723.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/06/tut-children.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUrpC3Kol6I-ebbUlLTwpNw4dhIwD92CVIJ00
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJjHl1AZHMawBftGQReGni_B8_-g
http://tinyurl.com/5plofc
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=26056598
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080806/sc_nm/egypt_tutankhamun_dc_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l6662418-egypt-tutankhamun/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7546041.stm

Results of the 2008 excavations at Tel Kabri:

http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/preliminary-results-of-the-2008-season-\
at-tel-kabri/

Recent finds at Ephesus:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111785

An overview of the excavations at Sardis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110758

I think we've had this Jericho-bones-and-TB story before:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218104249114&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More coverage of Gedaliah's seal:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/archaeology.brings.biblical.history.to.lif\
e/21144.htm
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71386
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127048

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Quite a bit of press for the discovery of a Thracian chariot in a
tomb in Bulgaria:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1830563,00.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1098055,CST-NWS-chariot08.article
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/251808.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_sc/sci_bulgaria_ancient_chariot_4
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20080806123015\
589C395782
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/223795,bulgarian-archaeologists-unearth-\
thracian-carriage.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gYFRNauWODhgpDRjZfG9KdQoX7ewD92DDRAO0
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/07/bulgaria-chariot.html

French archaeologists have found remains of a large city in
Afghanistan which may have been 'founded' by Alexander:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/252026.php
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/112318/Archaeologists-uncover-ancient-city-in-Afghan\
istan
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20080808072546864C\
322942
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5933277.html

Brief mention of a Dacian necropolis find:

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/roundup/2008/\
08/04/roundup-st-03

Recent finds at Ephesus:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111785

An overview of the excavations at Sardis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110758

Brief item on some finds at Cannae:

http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/GdM_dallapuglia_NOTIZIA_PROV_01.asp?IDNot\
izia=208386&IDCategoria=292

Roman villa at Caserta:

http://www.interno18.it/attualita/3602/ritrovata-una-villa-romana-di-epoca-imper\
iale

Claim that Cleopatra's mummy is in Paris:

http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/08/is-the-mummy-of-cleopatra-buried-in-paris/

The usual cheating-at-the-ancient-Olympics piece:

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Olympics/idUSL655603720080808

Metal detectorists came across a Roman ring at Dunnington:

http://www.pocklingtonpost.co.uk/news/Roman-ring-is-unearthed-in.4341055.jp

The BAS has made available a free ebook on the ancient Olympics:

http://www.bib-arch.org/olympics/

More coverage of evidence for embalming Greece:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080804/sc_livescience/greekmummyfoundinlea\
dcoffin
http://www.livescience.com/history/080804-greek-embalming.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080730155631.htm

More on the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731143422.htm

Pompeii state of emergency:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080801-archeologu-italy-pompei-site-emergency-state

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist found a very nice gold Anglo-Saxon cross:

http://tinyurl.com/6zzelp (DM)
http://tinyurl.com/5jzqcm (Telegraph)

More/better coverage of that Iron Age burial mentioned last week ...
it appears to have Roman connections:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080808-british-warrior.html

Rethinking the Picts:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-truth-about-the-picts-886098.html

Castell Aberlleiniog has been 'saved':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7541373.stm

Remains of the theatre where some of Shakespeare's earlier plays
were presented may have been found:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4466781.ece
http://tinyurl.com/5hdo83 (AFP)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7544616.stm
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iD0LW5lL8cgD06UGf6x4C-CGDQUg
http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/21489/theatre-where-shakespeares-wo\
rk-premiered
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_sc/britain_finding_shakespeare_3
http://www.france24.com/en/20080806-united-kingdom-shakespeare-theatre-archeolog\
y-london
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/07/DDDV1268ND.DTL
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/theater/07arts-FIRSTSHAKESP_BRF.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/weekinreview/10isherwood.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Another ancient temple becomes part of that Thai-Cambodia dispute:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/060808_News/06Aug2008_news97.php

Carbon dating of a 'european' skull from New Zealand predates
Cook's arrival (?):

http://tinyurl.com/5nq3s5 (Telegraph)

More (somewhat late) coverage of those early oil paintings from
Afghanistan:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080802-behind-afghanistans-dynamited-buddhas-archae\
ology-art

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some (possibly very old) bones from Thayer (Mo.):

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/26299019.html

Finds from various periods in rock shelters along the Potomac:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/08062008/potonew211252_32456.shtml

Overviewish sort of thing on shipwrecks in the Great Lakes:

http://tinyurl.com/6x6my3

Update on the restoration of St. John the Divine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/nyregion/20nave.html

The oil boom threatens some Anasazi sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/us/02artifacts.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Last year we were learning the secrets of Maya blue ... now it's
Maya green:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article4473373.ece

Some Toltec burials:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2008/08/ancient-mesoamerica\
-news-updates-2008.html

What rock art in Peru tells us:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804111634.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
1328

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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I don't follow this one at all ... ancient craft traditions are
helping develop computer networks or something like that:

http://www.physorg.com/news137258418.html
http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_87272_en.html
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19831/53/

Pondering August:

http://www.slate.com/id/2196776/

... and gout:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Nicholson-t.html

... and the survival of Hebrew:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/world/middleeast/08hebrew.html

Building the hype for the Oxford carbon testing of the Shroud of
Turin:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/science/2008/0807/1217984176474.html

... and for that Phoenician-boat-circumnavigation-of-Africa thing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7550162.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7550871.stm (video)

On the importance of whaling, once upon a time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/nyregion/03towns.html

Berlusconi messed with a Tiepolo painting:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/05/europe/italy.php

Ranking artworks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/arts/design/04pica.html

They're commemorating the find of the Venus of Willendorf:

http://tinyurl.com/6hysuk
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_sc/sci_austria_voluptuous_venus

In the wake of the 'pardon' of the Knights Templar, some group is
trying to claim its assets:

http://tinyurl.com/5uxtxq (Telegraph)

Haven't heard from/about the Flat Earth types for a while:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7540427.stm

British historians are apparently the best:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4\
386358.ece

Review of Simon Critchley, *The Book of Dead Philosophers*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/09/philosophy.history

Review of Ammon Shea, *Reading the OED*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Baker-t.html

Review of Stanley Plumly, *Posthumous Keats*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/books/08book.html

Review of Tom Vanderbilt, *Traffic*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Roach-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Sicily:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/7/story.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10525447

Vermont:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/us/08vermont.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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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
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A multinational team of smugglers who worked in Romania are
going to trial:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/251753.php

... while another arrest has been made in a Picasso (and others)
theft in Brazil a few months ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/arts/design/08arts-ASECONDARRES_BRF.html

Some manuscripts are missing from Calcutta's National Library:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7542622.stm

Predictions of an increase in Nazi-loot art claims:

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

Egypt has recovered a purloined bit of statuary from the Netherlands:

http://www.pr-inside.com/egypt-gets-3000-year-old-statue-back-r736875.htm

I think we mentioned this Caravaggio-theft-from-the-Ukraine before:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/arts/design/06arts-ACARAVAGGIOI_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

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

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Altro/?id=1.0.2391860943

Bernini:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25436
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=98f99e0c-78f5-441f-89e9-d7099b\
0d5d63
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/arts/design/08bern.html

Hadrian:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4470548.ece

Durer:

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

Society of the Dilettanti:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25451

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=262024

DaVinci:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7544819.stm

Royal books:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7543242.stm

Lure of the East:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/02/arts/MELIK2.php

Kenya is the latest to claim things from the British Museum:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10525103
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/kenya-tells-museums-give-our-hist\
ory-back-883777.html

Italy is going to tear down some bits of the Ara Pacis museum:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a8KrBSUmaUGI&refer=muse

Due to loss of funding, Fort Ticonderoga is considering selling
some artifacts:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_en_bu/fort_ticonderoga_finances
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Fort-Ticonderoga-Finances.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Radamisto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/arts/music/04figa.html

Othello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/theater/reviews/09shake.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Book Trade Labels:

http://sevenroads.org/Bookish.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Pierre Beres ("Tenacious" book collector):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/world/europe/03beres.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Jesus apparently played cricket (sounds more like hockey to me):

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/08/08/1218139059829.html
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PODCASTS
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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, Donna Hurst,  Dave Sowdon,
David Critchley, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Edward Rockstein,
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EARLY HUMANS
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How humans got so smart:

http://www.livescience.com/culture/080811-brain-evolution.html
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AFRICA
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A neolithic site in the Sahara in Niger is getting a lot of
press attention:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/14/sahara-cemetery.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/2006797
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahara-missions.ht\
ml
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080815-sahara-video-vin.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-fossils-found-webaug15,0,7031067.st\
ory
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403921,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080814/sc_nm/sahara_graveyard_dc_1
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35314/title/Saharan_surprise
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14487840.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/science/15sahara.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-sahara15-2008aug15,0,3774647.story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_sc/sci_green_sahara
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080815101317.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/15/scibodies115.x\
ml
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93597190
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some neolithic skulls from Galilee:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127175
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/archaeologists-discover-three-900\
0-year-old-skulls-in-israel_10083873.html

A matriarchal spin on the Burnt City:

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=60665&NewsKind=Cu\
rrent%20Affairs

Plenty of press for a second century A.D./C.E. Roman temple find
in Zippori:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402104,00.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=90796
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/12/2332116.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080811/sc_livescience/ancientromanruinsdis\
coveredinjewishcapital
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-ap-israel-roman-temple,0,6920591.story?tr\
ack=rss
http://www.physorg.com/news137669594.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080811072503.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/thuo-hua081108.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080815-pagan-temple.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5glHSQDGy1LKrEgah365Jx6_i2SbgD92G7MG07
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218446174373&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7555845.stm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
1451

On the state of temples etc. in Iraq:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-08-12-looting-iraq-antiquities_N.ht\
m
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/photogalleries/Iraq-heritage-pho\
tos/index.html
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21671

Protecting Abydos:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/909/heritage.htm

An update on items found during subway construction in Israel:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=112078

Latest efforts to make the pyramids more tourist friendly:

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/FamilyAdventure/wireStory?id=5558220
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26143249/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/11/africa/ME-Egypt-Pyramids-Makeover.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7556225.stm
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/08/egypt-begins-improvements-to-giza-pyrami\
ds-area-2

Early guesses at the Tut-fetus thing suggest at least one of them
might be his daughter:

http://tinyurl.com/6lafao

Some sphinxes/sphinges were recently found near a road linking Luxor and
Karnak:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=66725§ionid=3510212
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=317489

A Partho-Sassanian site in Iran was bulldozed to make way for a
hotel:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/August2008/11-08.htm

Nice little movie on the preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/dss_movie_eng.asp

And a video report about a mummy exam:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7562430.stm

Pondering the aftermath of Tisha Be'av:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218446183873&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

cf:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710365298&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

The Western Wall appears to be on its way to joining the Temple Mount
saga:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218446186738&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A pair of interesting Roman sarcophagi from Newcastle were
opened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7563141.stm (video)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7563146.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7561263.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6krjkq
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/lifestyle/two-roman-coffins-unearthed-in-new\
castle-uk_10084438.html

Computer technology is being used to reconstruct Thera frescoes:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/pues-ar081508.php

A colossal head of Faustina the elder has been found at Sagalassos:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/faustina/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7560833.stm

... and a statue of Apollo was found near Mersin (Turkey):

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9672044.asp?scr=1

A round temple to the dis inferii at Grumento:

http://www.vglobale.it/NewsRoom/index.php?News=4682

A sixth century B.C. mask/xoanon from Pagano:

http://iltempo.ilsole24ore.com/molise/2008/08/13/914167-rinvenuta_maschera_mila_\
anni.shtml

A third century A.D. sewer/drain/cloaca from Spain:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=316978

The Parthenon frieze (sort of) comes alive:

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/photographic-sculptures-eugenio-recuenco

Major feature on the Villa of the Papyri:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24096948-25132,00.html

In case you haven't heard the latest attempt to start up a Roman
theme park in Italy:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080814/italy_roman_theme_park.html?.v=1
http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=689273847202
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article4534712.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/arts/16arts-ACAESARLANDF_BRF.html

Greek tragedy resonates with the marines:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-combat15-2008aug15,0,6770815.story
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-sophocles0815.artaug15,0,6189398.stor\
y
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gN5EiLC-rLiQf09dFYZHzFwtJhSQD92I8L4O0

UHDH did well at JCL:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20014002&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept_id=1878\
29&rfi=6

More coverage of that Thracian chariot find:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/08/content_9047225.htm

... and the Gela shipwreck:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080811-greek-ship.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some clumsy guy walking on a Cornish beach found a 3500 b.p.
'chieftain's' remains:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/08/16/3-500yr-old-chief-found-1158\
75-20699272/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/15/scibronze115.x\
ml

18th century shipwrecks are in the way of a gas pipeline:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Centuriesold-shipwrecks-threaten-gas-pipeline.438\
8517.jp

Searching for King Matthias' library:

http://www.economist.co.uk/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11745542

More coverage of that Shakespearean theatre find:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/06/shakespeare-playhouse.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Another go at the role of humans in animal extinctions in
Australia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uoe-nei081108.php
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080812/tsc-australia-britain-climate-animals-c6db\
719.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/7555206.stm

On the destruction of medieval Peking:

http://www.economist.co.uk/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11837639
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/arts/design/27ouro.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Digging a site in North Dakota:

http://www.kqcd.com/News_Stories.asp?news=21355

A 13th century 'native village' near Peterborough (Ontario):

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1156433

Digging around Fort Knox:

http://bangornews.com/news/t/midcoast.aspx?articleid=168400&zoneid=179

The Canadian government is mounting a search for the lost Franklin
ships (for political reasons):

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080813.wfranklin14/BNStory/\
National/home
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_sc/canada_arctic_search
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7564570.stm

Interesting burials beneath a church in Bermuda:

http://www.royalgazette.com/siftology.royalgazette/Article/article.jsp?articleId\
=7d8862f30030000§ionId=48

Kirk Douglas joins the 'slavery apology' efforts:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93632801

Review of Irene Gammel, *Looking for Anne of Green Gables*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Bolick-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Archaeologists have found the 'portal to the Mayan underworld':

http://tinyurl.com/5pmnbx
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/sc_nm/mexico_mayans_dc_1
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1602&Itemid=150
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26208873/
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=317415

On Olmec use of tar for waterproofing:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1137&Itemid=150

The oldest female remains ever found in the Americas:

http://www.milenio.com/mexico/milenio/nota.asp?id=650772

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Rethinking the 'cultural diffusion' idea in regards to agriculture
and the Mediterranean:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/science/12visuals.html

A genetic map of Europe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/science/13visual.html

The 'Merlindown System' for finding sites (in this case, a shipwreck)
should be of interest to many readers of this newsletter:

http://tinyurl.com/5co5tb

The Pentagon was looking at ancient empires:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2008/07/dont-know-much-about-history.ht\
ml

Tudor panelling in a cowshed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7558379.stm

The Kristang people have an interesting history:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/13/asia/letter.php

Attributing a drawing to DaVinci certainly ups its value:

http://tinyurl.com/6ocxok
http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/2792556.php?

Voodoo in New Orleans

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/arts/design/11conn.html

More Oxford/Turin Shroud hype building:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-turin17-2008aug17,0,3478153\
.story

More reviewish/interviewish things of Jim Holt's tome on the
history of humour:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1135645120080812

cf:

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-oldjokes.artaug14,0,3115130.story

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Anemurium:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=112120

New Orleans museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/arts/design/16muse.html

Ancient Midwest:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/travel/escapes/15mile.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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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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Vandals smashed a Chagall window in France this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/arts/design/15arts-CHAGALLWINDO_BRF.html

The FBI is trying to find the owners of some recovered art:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pinched-Picassos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/nyregion/12kingsland.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Some Spanish coins are hastily (it seems) coming to market:

http://www.innercitypress.com/nyc1hsa080608.html

Yap Stone money:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/road_to_riches/prog2/tharngan.stm

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Spain: Crossroads of Civilizations:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25543&int_modo=1

Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25603&int_modo=1

Brooklyn Museum fakes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080814/sc_nm/art_fake_brooklyn_dc_2

Durer:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/16/arts/durer.php
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/07/arts/0808-DURE_index.html

Thaw Collection Watercolors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/arts/design/15hous.html

Some artifacts from biblical times:

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_10158090

Museums are being asked to make their acquisition records for
antiquities public:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/08/11/museum.html

A Royal Navy seaman's diary is expected to fetch a nice price:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/aug/15/3
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Idiot:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4470995.ece

Hamlet:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4522351.ece
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ON THE WEB
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Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation:

http://www.gvshp.org/

International Organization of Booktowns:

http://www.booktown.net/
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

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Thanks to rthur Shippee, A.J. Wright, Dave Sowdon,
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this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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What the earliest humans looked like:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/22/earliest-human-ethiopia.html
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AFRICA
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A prehistoric 'weapons factory' in Tanzania:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200808190350.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we've already mentioned this seal find:

http://tinyurl.com/5tbe7k (JP)
http://tinyurl.com/5p28nf (JJ)
http://tinyurl.com/5rlkt8 (MFA)

Nice piece on wacky theories about the pyramids:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/18/middleeast.egypt

Nice photo of the pyramids of Dashur (from space):

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=28902

Latest installment of the Maghreb Gate and/or Temple Mount saga(s):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/24/content_9678888.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1014495

... and perhaps this 'Last Supper site' is the next saga:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218613467&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More coverage of those foetuses in Tut's tomb:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=463436&sid=FTP

More on those neolithic skulls from Galilee:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1419\
&module_id=#as

More on the antiquity of milk processing:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218625802&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Troy was even larger than previously thought:

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME09.@AM16441.html

A major Roman Villa find on the Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/6l7zus (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6dkr66 (UPI)

Searching for sites along the Sacred Road of Didyma:

http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2114

Studying how the Parthenon survived so many earthquakes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080822/sc_afp/greecejapanarchaeologyquakeresearch_\
080822195031
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080820TDY03103.

Some commentary on the state of Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/57qy6y (FT)

A statue of Marcus Aurelius from Sagalassos:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9722818.asp?scr=1

On Lycia and democracy:

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/501701.html

Nice (but small) photo of Stobi at night:

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080813/i/r1356789548.jpg

Archaeologists may have found the capital of Dacia Malvensis:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/268632.php
http://www.topnews.in/archaeologists-may-have-discovered-capital-dacia-malvensis\
-romania-260746

Review of Maria Wyke, *Caesar*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121901942064748345.html?mod=opinion_journal_book\
s

Review of Edith Hall, *The Return of Ulysses*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Coates-t.html

More coverage of use of computer technology to recreate the Thera
frescoes:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/86/52G22/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A bronze age structure from Shetland was moved to prevent it from
being damaged by the sea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7575772.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/3500yearold--39sauna39-saved-from.4420432.jp

Evidence of a major bronze age fire on the Isle of Man:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Isle-of-Man-unearths-a.4404225.jp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/21/archaeology

... and a bronze age burial from Wicken:

http://tinyurl.com/6ntc88

Nice piece on petroglyphs in England:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/08/23/dweb12\
3.xml

Vienna's underground synagogue:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218610072&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Henry VIII's nicer side:

http://tinyurl.com/5mnl9u (Independent)

A metal detectorist has found a 1500 b.p. gold pendant

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=46628

... while another has found a medieval gold ring:

http://tinyurl.com/5gza7m
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2594984/Treasure-hunter-finds-medieval-diamond-r\
ing.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7574992.stm

A medieval seal from Peperikon:

http://tinyurl.com/65twy5

I hae me doots about the conclusions of this study suggesting
Oetzi's profession:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/mummifiedicemansanci\
entjobdetermined
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080820194843.htm

A major medieval cemetery from Berlin:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,573033,00.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Bronze- and iron age artifacts from a site in Myanmar:

http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2008/August/18-Bronze-Iron-artifacts-59433.\
asp

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A couple of boys found an 'ancient canoe' in South Carolina:

http://www.wxii12.com/news/17231852/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news

Why (sort of) the Vikings left Canada:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=2d85eff3-0a38-43ff-90e4\
-173a39e7d521

Latest finds from Jamestown:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/18/america/NA-US-Jamestown-Discoveries.ph\
p

Remembering the 'battle of Brooklyn':

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Battle-of-Brooklyn.html

... and a 1961 Colbert County dig:

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080815/NEWS/808150303/1011/NEWS
cf:
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080818/NEWS/808180320/1011/NEWS

A Virgin Anasazi structure from Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10259444

War of 1812 shipwrecks near Kingston:

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1162260

On the effects of some archaeological assessments in Ontario:

http://dcnonl.com/article/id30143

Long-forgotten remains of a governor of Bermuda found in a
church in St. George's:

http://tinyurl.com/5jfvpf

More coverage of Canada's renewed search for Franklin's ships:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/18/franklin-ships.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Global_Warming/Warming_may_unlock_160-yr-old_\
Arctic_secret/articleshow/3382070.cms
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/New-quest-solve-mystery-explorer-s-miss\
ing-ships/article-278489-detail/article.html

Celebrating an old organ:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24colnj.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Dating a pile of items from El Manati:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1055&Itemid=150

Burials from Machu Picchu:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=9GwUOgz+kLQ=

On suicides of slaves in Sao Paolo:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9305/especiais/motivos-mais-fortes.htm

More coverage of that Mayan 'entrance to the underworld':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080822-maya-maze.html

More on tar-as-waterproofing by the Olmec folk:

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/12205

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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They're still trying to get permission to find out how Tycho
Brahe died:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1416326.ece

On earthquakes and the rise of civilizations:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/822/3?rss=1

On the mysteries of dangling participles:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/18/3

Gold plated medieval windows were air purifiers?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080822/sc_livescience/goldplatedchurchwind\
owspurifyair

Haven't had a 'history of golf' piece in a while:

http://www.corsavoo.com/golf/0,2577,430958,00.html

Latest on the Shroud of Turin:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4596856.ece
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008134887_turin24.html
Peru adds a twist/sequel/prequel to the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1838081/

I think we had this German-family-tree-extends-to-caveman story a
few months ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7570928.stm

That recently-identified Leonardo portrait is still controversial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/design/23leon.html

Review of Ingrid Rowland, *Giordano Bruno*:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/08/25/080825crbo_books_acocella

Some Emily Dickensiniana:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/emily_dickinson/ind\
ex.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Seymour-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/england/article4572704.

Machu Picchu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/travel/24COMperu.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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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 Kourris Valley in Cyprus is being looted:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=40932&cat_id=1

Another piece on looting in Iraq:

http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf?/base/opinion-2/1219222618121250.xml&c\
oll=1

Those books stolen from a Safed synagoge a few weeks ago were
mysteriously returned this week:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1013700

A Jerusalem tour guide was arrested for selling ancient coins to
tourists:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710408521&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Coins from various periods found in a dig in Worcester:

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/3606284.Roman_coin_paints_a_picture_of\
_city___s_past/

Ancient Monsters on Ancient Coins:

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/monster_coins.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/23/arts/melik23.php

Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25658

Joseph Wright:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19wrig.html

Society of the Dilettanti:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22anti.html

Captain Cook's boomerang is going on sale:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2590025/Captain-Cooks-boomerang-on-sale-for-6000\
0.html

John Lattimer's collection of ... well, everything:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/garden/21lattimer.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
New York International Fringe Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/theater/20fringe.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
George Deem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22deem.html
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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 made decent tools:

http://tinyurl.com/58dgx4 (NS)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7582912.stm
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/early-humans-be.html
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080825203924.htm
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=319094
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/26/neanderthal-tools-were-a-ma\
tch-for-early-homo-sapiens
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A salvage excavation of a 3000 b.p. burial ground in northern
Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=739226

Signs of a fire at a Parthian era castle:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=176525

A pile of bronze age mounds from Iran's Kerman province:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=67546§ionid=351020105

A joint Iranian-British team will be excavating Sheikiabad Tepe
in western Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=740523

Plans are afoot to excavate a 'mysterious city' in Turkey:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/a/ai-2337.htm

Didn't we mention this 'beehive' discovery in Israel a few months
ago?:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36043/title/Honey_of_a_discovery

... ditto with these green-beads-as-fertility amulets?:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572113791&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Big project in the works to put the DSS online:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/27/digital.scrolls/index.html?eref=ib_topstories
http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=8909027
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10529446
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_digital_scrolls_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/middleeast/27scrolls.html?ref=world
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3275
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-28-voa8.cfm
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5izvzt0at1wng7h8Tw-Rerewl6EXA
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2348701.htm?section=world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/28/archaeology.israelandthepalestinia\
ns
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127375
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/27/israel
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1015813
http://www.france24.com/en/20080828-dead-sea-scrolls-biblical-documents-online-a\
rchaeology-israel-scientists

A sort of 'state of the question' piece on the Mugrabi Gate:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1015514

... and the latest:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127313
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572115025&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More details are emerging about that city found by French archaeologists
in Afghanistan:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-dig31-2008aug31,0,2419223.st\
ory

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of developments related to a Phoenician site in Malaga:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/10653.html

A somewhat mysterious gold wreath from the agora at Aigai:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/DDCB12KRIL.DTL&
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Gold-wreath-find-in-ancient.4442407.jp
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_30/08/2008_99972
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080829/science/science_greece_gold_wreath_2
http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/773836.html
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6786047&maindocimg=6785998&servi\
ce=96
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26455572&afid=1
http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=3196\
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Possible gateway to Pyla:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

Latest in the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28432/professor-questions-legality-of-elgin-do\
cument/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4628348.\
ece

'Pagan' protests on the Acropolis:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080828/ap_on_re_eu/greece_pagans_acropolis_1
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hZDXbo2JBmt03MkBjEfDF-lVcTmAD92RFLOO0
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/28/europe/EU-Greece-Pagans-Acropolis.php

The hero doesn't always get the girl:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4615456.ece

Ruth Ann Besse is helping to keep Latin alive:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/08282008/laurnew131821_32476.shtml

Carol Mattusch was talking about Greek statuary:

http://www.huliq.com/13/66919/carol-mattusch-explores-role-ancient-bronzecasting\
-technology

Feature on Leona MacLeod's 'Myth into Film' course:

http://dalnews.dal.ca/2008/08/27/greekfilm.html?utm_source=dalnewsRSS&utm_medium\
=RSS

Italy is returning the Venus of Cyrene to Libya:

http://www.pr-inside.com/berlusconi-to-meet-gadhafi-on-saturday-r780198.htm

Pondering Winckelmann:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/08/29/fleur

More coverage of the Marcus Aurelius statue from Sagalassos:

http://tinyurl.com/6gghmh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7582165.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/27arts-STATUEOFEMPE_BRF.html
http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=248825
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25747
http://news.theage.com.au/world/roman-emperors-statue-found-in-turkey-20080826-4\
2zm.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20080826-roman-emperor-giant-statue-marcus-aurelius-a\
rchaeology-turkey
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7580745.stm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Plenty of developments related to a Phoenician site in Malaga:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/10653.html

Iron Age/Roman finds from a site in Moray:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7585922.stm

A pile of 400-year-old ships found in the mud of a building
site in Oslo:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26455574/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ships3.php

A survey has found a number of shipwrecks from various periods
in the Thames:

http://tinyurl.com/66g98y (TIL)

A stone "clock" from Bulgaria (not sure of the period of this
one):

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1858110710

Finds from various periods as the Schnidejoch Glacier recedes
(with much focus on Otzi):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7580294.stm
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=43&sid=9580826

Pondering a Pictish stone found near Glamis:

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2008/08/26/newsstory11868042t0.asp

Feature on some megalithic neolithics stone sculptures in the
Carpathians:

http://en.for-ua.com/blog/2008/08/28/140459.html

Video report on the excavation of a German 'Stonehenge':

http://www.euronews.net/en/article/26/08/2008/german-stonehenge-reveals-its-myst\
eries/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Latest in the homo floresiensis debate:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003015
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35848/title/Little_big_people
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uoo-bpd082208.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080826205936.htm

Interesting shipwrecks off Hawaii:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=8919272

The oldest Shinto shrine has been renovated/restored:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/asia/27izumo.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Nice feature on Picture Cave:

http://tinyurl.com/5crcuo (CM)

Not sure we mentioned this 'saga' associated with the Hunley
before:

http://www.startribune.com/nation/27360289.html
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10298981?source=rss

Slave burials near Springdale:

http://www.westbranchtimes.com/article.php?id=3458

Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a "settlement" during
pipeline construction in Indiana:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26428690/

Road construction in New Jersey is delayed due to remains of
a blacksmith's shop being found:

http://tinyurl.com/5uz8fz

Preserving a relic of George Washington's boyhood:

http://www.staffordcountysun.com/scs/news/local/article/local_treasure_to_be_reb\
uried/20415/

... and some early Bronx urbanization:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/nyregion/26landmark.html

... and more fading of Cajun culture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/25louisiana.html

Possible early evidence of the Franklin Expedition ships:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080827.wfranklin27/BNStory/\
National/home/
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=d7b7cf20-a033-458b-a0cd-ba63f4d2\
4c56
http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=165738&sc=509
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1179069

An update on the Petite-Rochelle dig:

http://tribunenb.canadaeast.com/community/article/397823
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Rethinking 'urbanization' in the rain forest:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94104997&ft=1&f=1007
http://tinyurl.com/6r2bwg (Plain Dealer)
http://tinyurl.com/6ag8wm (New Scientist)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700254663,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-08-28-brazil-ancient-cultures_N.htm?cs\
p=34
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080828-amazon-cities.html
http://www.physorg.com/news139151351.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uof-ar082508.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
8/28/sciamazon128.xml
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b24899f6-7561-11dd-ab30-0000779fd18c.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7586860.stm
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn14624-amazon-hides-an-ancien\
t-urban-landscape.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26440219&afid=1
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/08/29/pristine-environments-and-s\
ustainability/#more-461
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n28350657-amazon-villages/
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9351/divulgacao-cientifica/amazonia-antiga-\
e-urbana.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-SCI-Ancient-Settlements.html

A number of Wari mummy burials have been found in/near Lima:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080826/lf_nm_life/peru_archaeology_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/5er3bz (Telegraph)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hBU0t82hAt8JIl6X3OgI-BhmLNEg
http://www.pr-inside.com/peru-archaeo
logists-find-3-mummies-in-r774895.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2636587520080826
http://in.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idINN2636587520080826
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080827-tomb-video-ap.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/1300-year-old_mummy_unearthed/artic\
leshow/3410174.cms

A connection between Tahitian vanilla and the Maya?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080821164558.htm

A Popoloca culture mural:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1629&Itemid=150

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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This week's Shroud of Turin coverage:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1198467.html

The Otzi 'reward row' is coming to an end:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-08-26_126248785.html

The Odyssey Marine saga looks like it's about to heat up again:

http://tinyurl.com/6g2hyk (El Pais)

Sacred prostitution in India:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/04/080804fa_fact_dalrymple

A different approach to conservation in Leipzig:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-germany-leipzig.html

To the fleet of historical ship recreations floating around, we can
add the Nina:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/24/PKG7128VKR.DTL

Genetics and 'out of Africa':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/31/genetics

Here's one for art teachers who want to demonstrate 'repetition' in
art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29sear.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Corsica:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/travel/31corsica.html

Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/5mvzjv

Puy de Fou Theme Park:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0827/1219680029719.html
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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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The looting of sites in Iraq is apparently over (?!):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16008

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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The Greek Book:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/98/40C00/index.xml

Queens of Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25768

Land of the Labyrinth:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25758&int_modo=1

Chinese Memory:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/arts/melvin.php

Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29budd.html

Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/design/31bier.html

Charles Rohlf's furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29anti.html

A visit to the new Acropolis Museum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4628355.\
ece

A new Egyptian gallery will soon open at the BM:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25791&int_modo=1

Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword came to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7581735.stm

A Titian offer:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7584902.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/29arts-TWOTITIANSON_BRF.html

Recent changes at the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29fric.html

The LA County MoA has reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/design/27muse.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Julius Caesar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/theater/31ishe.html

Hamlet:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/theater/reviews/26hamlet.html

Cymbeline:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/theater/reviews/25cymb.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Mission arch�ologique en Iran:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mission%20arch%C3%A9ologique%20AND%20med\
iatype%3Atexts
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OBITUARIES
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John Barron:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2641044/Professor-John-Barron.html

Michael Baxandall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/26baxandall.html

Laurence Urdange:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/books/26urdang.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to
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Donna Hurst,
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Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri,
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   Ross W. Sargent,
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Bob Heuman,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always
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AFRICA
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The Axum Obelisk was finally unveiled:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-04_104258946.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7597589.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Senusret II:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/01/2352151.htm
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24273505-5005962,00.html

A "goddess" figurine from Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68642§ionid=351020105

Some phallic figurines and other Neolithic items from Israel:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/thuo-pfp090108.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080905-israel-burials.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/02/sciphallic102.\
xml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080901085355.htm

Much coverage of using mouse remains from a "bronze age shipwreck"
(Ulu Burun?) to determine its origin:

http://tinyurl.com/5mrszq (NS)
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-19057.html
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/779879.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/news-scan/2008/09/03/1220121331202.html

Some Canaanite burials (etc.) near Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=95699

Excavating the Hittite city of Nerik:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=114147

Pigeons plague the Sphinx:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/913/he1.htm

Those foetuses in Tut's tomb are likely a pair of twins he fathered:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/uom-ctm090108.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080902143322.htm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/02/twins-found-in-tuts-tomb/
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/09/tuts_tots_could_be_twins.htm\
l
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/2659871/Twi\
ns-found-in-Tutankhamuns-tomb.html

More evidence of Second Temple era walls in Jerusalem:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080901085355.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6nmoyz (MFA)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1017862.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220444319782&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10078007.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_archaeology_1
http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/jerusalem_ancient_walls_u\
nveiled/
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL342025420080903
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24291594-23109,00.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hULCIa_wLA2b2BkhgMpPKtJn3rvgD92VB1TG0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7595613.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6bekwb (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5wsytv
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/sc_nm/israel_archaeology_dc_3
http://wejew.com/media/2730/Ancient_Jerusalem_Wall_Discovery/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127489 (video)
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26526464/

Interesting spin on ongoing excavations in Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=152052&bolum=110

This week's installment of the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3591329,00.html

More on the DSS going online:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2348701.htm
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1422\
&module_id=#as

Reviewish sort of thing on plants of the Bible:

http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2008/09/02/plants-of-the-bible/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Using computer technology to reproduce the sound of an Epigonion:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/b/ai-1356.htm
http://www.publictechnology.net/article_avantgo.php?sid=17177
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080905/tuk-network-reproduces-ancient-music-4\
5dbed5.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/epigonion_grid_computing/
http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=6421

... listen to it in mp3 format:

http://www.astraproject.org/examples/dufay.mp3

A Sarmatian burial:

http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=73495

Feature on the Dhaskalo Kavos site:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4662664.\
ece

Plenty of coverage of a study linking lower HIV resistance to
the Romans:

http://tinyurl.com/64qyg9 (NS)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2440091.0.Romans_helped_spread_\
Aids.php
http://tinyurl.com/5j2pbx (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7596532.stm
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24293754-5007185,00.html
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQu6fgrIqW4T79HVGP0_fSHSK5Ag

Evidence of Roman presence in Moray:

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/815790

... and a Roman camp on the outskirts of Keswick:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.232739

Roman remains from the east Cleveland (UK) coast was reported here:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/3641421.Unearthed_Roman_site_excites_exper\
ts/

... and seriously messed up reportage-wise, here (howler alert):

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/270794.php
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68446§ionid=3510212

A possible Roman villa site in Northampton:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Roman-villa-may-be-buried.4465048.jp

A car park in Rome will seriously impact some important sites:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/historic-area-of-rome-threatened-\
by-new-car-park-915420.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10530808
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Celebrities-fight-car-park-.4465246.jp

Hadrian's Wall will be the next ancient monument adding to the
world's light pollution:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/07/heritage.hadrian1

The next installment of the Kefalonia-is-Ithaca story:

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hj0BrZqhnuOXH5ogpGDH_qvbeYwQ
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/evidence+backs+homers+i\
sle+theory/2439827

Followups to the 'pagan' protests on the Acropolis:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-09-02-pagan-athena_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/01/acropolis-pagans-museum.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700255437,00.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1138575,CST-NWS-athena01.article
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/arts/design/01arts-PROTESTERSBE_BRF.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/01/greece.protest/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-09-02-pagan-athena_N.htm

More coverage of the gold wreath from Aigai:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=465835&sid=ftp

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting Neolithic figurine from South Moravia:

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/416/czech_national_news/27678/

Neolithic burial from Poland:

http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/news/?id=90480

Plenty of Neolithic stuff is emerging as a Swiss glacier melts:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jq06XaBVeoFDw8ema5tW2JrEl1mg
http://tinyurl.com/5c9lvg

A bronze bowl from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14050/20080901/

Feature on some petroglyphs from Anglesey:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/drawingsonthewall_20080302.shtml

Possible tannery in Wallingford:

http://tinyurl.com/5g7gxz

A letter from Oliver Cromwell:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7595836.stm

The London Metropolitan Archive is going online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7596765.stm

The efforts to save the HMS London:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4687257.ece

... and a good oped piece on the state of such shipwrecks:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article46\
85992.ece

An Opeddish sort of thing on Famagusta:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7596392.stm

cf.:

http://www.landofempires.com/

Russian archaeologists believe they have found the ancient Khazar
capital:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080903/lf_afp/russiahistoryculturearchaeology_0809\
03160809
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/03/2354822.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting 'porcelain tomb' from Chongqing:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-18535.html
http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-09/03/content_16383185.htm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Plenty of native American finds at a Colchester site:

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080901/NEWS02/80\
831008/1007

This week's coverage of the Franklin Expedition expedition:

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=31a65b83-7ef4-4c16-af1\
2-d29fd22cae73
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=07bf3d6d-4519-4eae-bd7b\
-aafc14cc6531

Feature on Fort Ticonderoga:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/nyregion/04fort.html

I didn't know the Wright Brothers were involved in military
aviation:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94332520

Plans are afoot to restore Gettysburg:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94290401
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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On prehispanic dentistry:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1685&Itemid=150

This year's finds at Cahuachi:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=fQivUwOHa2I=

Remains of a wall from Cusco:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=asj7yPwA42s=

Pre-Incan remains from Peru's Colca Canyon:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/7286

Possibly the oldest skeleton ever found in the Americas is from
an underwater cave in Mexico:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080903-oldest-skeletons.html

Searching for the Aztec 'homeland':

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5974701.html

More on urbanization in the Amazon:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/2050057

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94104997

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On DNA and European origins:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02gene.html
http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0960982208009561

The Archaeology Channel is experimenting with an HD movie
format:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The Catholic side of the Shroud debate:

http://www.zenit.org/article-23537?l=english

They're pondering a 'parchment centre' in Turin:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-02_102236538.html

Using digital photography in archive collections (not sure why
this is considered 'novel'):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080904151624.htm

Laying claim to Poe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/06poe.html

Modena's philosophy festival sounds like a good time:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-03_103244082.html

On the origin of the term 'maverick':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94312345

Review of Julian Barnes, *Nothing to Be Frightened Of*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082802898.\
html

Review of a book about artists' wives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/books/04butler.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some Shelby White returns were exhibited in Greece:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080903/ennew_afp/greeceusarchaeology_080903162540
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10077906.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/sc_nm/greece_antiquities_dc_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/04arts-GREECEWELCOM_BRF.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20080903135848560C4\
75999
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL340449420080903

A bronze mirror was stolen from a museum in China:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/03/content_6995924.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/od_nm/theft_dc_1

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A followup on those gold Carausius coins found a while back:

http://www.ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk/ashbournenewstelegraph/DisplayArticle.as\
p?ID=345589

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Mommsens' Hercules:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25878&int_modo=1

Olhando o C�u da Pr�-Hist�ria: Registros Arqueoastron�micos no Brasil:

http://tinyurl.com/66axau

Picasso Sculpture:

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

Prayers at an Exhibition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/arts/design/06monk.html

The MoMA is increasing its Braque holdings:

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

This week's Met theme is 'hands':

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/05/arts/20080905_HIDDEN_GRAPHIC.html

Folks are "aghast" at plans to sell off some rare books from
Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7593883.stm

Italy's museums etc. are cash-strapped:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/design/04pinc.html

Sotheby's is suing a collector for non-payment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05soth.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Agamemnon:

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/06/212634.php
http://www.presstelegram.com/lifestyle/ci_10391450
http://www.huliq.com/13/67445/cursed-house-atreus-falls-agamemnon

Masque of Red Death:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/theater/reviews/05masq.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Claims a Viking ship might be found in a Wisconsin native
American burial ground:

http://tinyurl.com/5px9ad (Press Gazette)
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PODCASTS
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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,  Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Pondering Neanderthal brains:

http://www.livescience.com/history/080908-neanderthal-skulls.html

Neanderthals v. mammoths:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=26625212
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26625212/

Paleolithic remains from Qatar:

http://tinyurl.com/6d6gyn (Gulf Times)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Vague item on the destruction of a Sassanid inscription from
Iran:

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0809109472172759.htm

A 1500 b.p. necropolis from Iran's Mazandaran province:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68815§ionid=351020105
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8706201032

... and remains of an eighth-century minaret:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68823§ionid=351020105

Interesting early Islamic burials from near Tahluj:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=747070

An Iron Age burial near Hyderabad:

http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/10/stories/2008091058090100.htm

Jordan is launching a database on ancient sites:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/10/content_9900380.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/12arts-ANTIQUITIESD_BRF.html?ref=arts

Digging Ramat Rachel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3593003,00.html

There appears to be some controversy over assorted burials found
during Istanbul's subway construction (the Neolithic finds in
this one appear to be new):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115135

Medieval (?) frescoes from Lebanon:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=3211\
06

More on Tut's twins:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9592\
4
http://www.livescience.com/culture/080912-hn-twins.html

More on digitizing the DSS:

http://blog.bible.org/bock/node/426

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Latest finds from Thessaloniki subway construction:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-graves13-2008sep13,0,3171051.story
http://tinyurl.com/5zu264 (UPI)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/arts/13arts-ANCIENTGRAVE_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080911/sc_afp/greecearchaeology_080911183600
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj4aQqNqyRJsbvUVVT_IOLExmRFQ
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6827590&maindocimg=6827366&servi\
ce=94

Another Boudicca battle-site candidate:

http://www.therugbyobserver.co.uk/news55035.html

A Roman burial from a car park site in Enderby:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/7608677.stm
http://www.24dash.com/news/Environment/2008-09-11-Roman-skeletons-unearthed-at-p\
ark-and-ride-site

A section of Roman road in Cheshire:

http://www.creweguardian.co.uk/news/3652108.Diggers_unearth_Roman_road/

A 2500 b.p. marble sarcophagus from Cyprus:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080912-1105-cyprus-ancientcoffins.htm\
l
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41363&cat_id=1
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvNkR_rtIP9zROKV78HIW-5vYHEg

A fountain find at the Kaunos theatre site:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=152743&bolum=132

... and the other side of the Kaunos excavations:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=114492

... and the excavations at Knidos have stopped:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/14/europe/EU-Turkey-Ancient-City.php

An interesting mosaic (no photo, alas) at a bath site in southern
Turkey:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=27922

The BBC is working on a documentary on Cleopatra's 'darker side':

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iydCiJrG3tjNXNlatx97ZMytDj6g
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/09/bbc_backs_cleopatra_doc.html

A temple of Athena from Bodrum:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=468940&sid=FTP
http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=250900

More hints of an I, Claudius remake:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i6e1ea9390\
3c4b3a3d377eba19b9ab13a

On otium and the rise of the Roman villa:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/12/arts/otium.php

... a very nice slide show to go along with it:

http://www.iht.com/slideshows/2008/09/12/arts/otium.1.php

More (and better) coverage of finds from Pella:

http://tinyurl.com/3hz3cc (Mail ... photos galore)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080911-gold-photo.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080911/sc_nm/greece_discovery_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26643490/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article4728277.ece
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/09/10/6723781-ap.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSLB8540920080911
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/greece_ancient_cemetery;_ylt=AuN3zJ\
uHDnDlKVNepSbX07.s0NUE
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/10/ap/tech/main4437348.shtml

More (?) on ancient Greek embalming practices:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_08_09_10_en.html
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=29846

More coverage of the Princeton Theran fresco thing:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080908_Perfect_fit.html

Review of Martin Goodman, *Rome and Jerusalem*:

http://tinyurl.com/664oj6

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Stonehenge "partiers" came a great distance:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080912-stonehenge.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/11/stonehenge.neolithic

Saxon burials from Lakenheath:

http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/mildenhall/Saxon-graves-found-in-Lakenheath.44822\
05.jp

... and another, possibly more interesting, Saxon burial from
Ramsgate:

http://tinyurl.com/679vcw (Telegraph)

A 12th century abbey from (appropriately) Abbeytown:

http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/1.238789

Some medieval burials near Cramond at a Roman site:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Alert--as-human-bones.4470753.jp

A half dozen Viking burials from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14284/20080912/

... and a Bronze Age site therefrom too:

http://www.thelocal.se/14050/20080901/

The 'fake stone of Scone' thing is back in the news:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Is-the-Stone-of-Destiny.4465373.jp

More coverage of what's coming out of that melting Swiss glacier:

http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=7f68a65d-f37f-43a8\
-bb2e-53d000e12ad1

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Archaeologists have found the 'sleeping Buddha':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/arts/09arts-ANCIENTBUDDH_BRF.html
http://www.bangkokpost.com/090908_News/09Sep2008_news06.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080908/ts_afp/afghanistanculturebuddha_08090816392\
6
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/274774.asp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080908/lf_nm_life/afghan_statue_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7604519.stm
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINISL34253320080908
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/isl342533-afghan-statue/
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Descubierta/Afganistan/estatua/Buda/metro\
s/elpepucul/20080909elpepucul_2/Tes
http://www.france24.com/en/20080908-ancient-sleeping-buddha-unearthed-afghanista\
n

More on that 'ritual execution' find from Australia (first reported
on a few months ago):

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24316604-5006787,00.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Never thought I'd read "Saskatoon" and "maritime disaster" in
the same sentence:

http://www.610cktb.com/news/14/786220
http://www.newstalk980.com/story/20080911/5526
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=0a2b6405-fb6d-4fd4\
-9829-7b09c5409d33

This appears to be the end of the Hunley lawsuit thing:

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/520626.html?RSS=local

More money is needed for sites in US National Parks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26603837/

Malotki and petroglyphs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09rock.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A pre-Inca sacrificial burial from Peru:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/health/story/466851.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iw_gIhLRO4Chuvd_Inb8tjHXhZAgD9348M5O0
http://www.wnct.com/nct/news/world/article/inca_relics_found_at_cusco_and_lambay\
eque/18499/
http://www.livescience.com/history/080911-ap-peru-tombs.html
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep10/0,4670,PeruPreIncaTomb,00.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080911-pregnant-video-ap.html
http://tinyurl.com/5vvrle
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/09/peru-archaeologists-find-pre-inca-sacrif\
icial-tomb

Plenty of Inca artifacts from Sacsayhuaman:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/7380
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=wBuAQr5k+54=

An underground passage at Chavin de Huantar:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=QGw5yIRHeCU=

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A talk on the history of alcohol:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_10445041?source=most_emailed

Figs may have been the first cultivated crops:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5446137

The UK is not doing enough to protect its heritage sites:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/08/heritage.conservation

Tony Perrottet on Renaissance art reception:

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article09090801.aspx

Touring underwater sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7605718.stm

They're going to test-fire a replica of the Culloden Cannon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7608861.stm

Interesting feature on W.H. Auden:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e4722508.ece

Peru is going after Odyssey Marine now:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a1LoR2XHJ988&refer=latin_ame\
rica

Interesting feature on Macchiavelli:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/09/15/080915crat_atlarge_pier\
pont

Google is going to be digitizing some newspaper archives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/technology/09google.html

Cemetery parties?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14cemeteryct.html

The NYT has a feature on the 1900 Galveston hurricane:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricanes_and_tr\
opical_storms/galveston_hurricane_1900/index.html

Thinking about Vesuvius' next eruption:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26643330/

... and the eruption of Mt. Toba was pretty darned big:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2008/2354524.htm

I confess I've never heard of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/books/13mach.html

Review of a couple of tomes on the evolution of the classical
concert:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/09/08/080908crmu_music_ross

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Troy:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/travel/troy2webonly.html

A 'Pilgrims' Route' is in the works:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1019251

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/travel/07journeys.html

Eve's Graveyard:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sns-ap-rel-religion-today,0,1252308.story

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-REL-Religion-Today.html

Wat's Dyke Heritage Trail:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7608768.stm
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some Etruscan items have been returned to Italy:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-10_110256248.html

Switzerland returns the 'pharaoh's eye' to Egypt:

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/09/10/switzerland_to_return_pharaohs_eye_to\
_egypt/afp/
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24327921-23109,00.html
http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16375

Hungary returns some items to Greece:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103ap_greece_hungary_antiquities.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOozrUgVxEboquppABEkRuGqxiYwD934R7LG2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7791556
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep11/0,4670,GreeceHungaryAntiquities,00.html

Some icon thieves from Greece were stung this week:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hB0CQo2zRD1W4OVB59qCms7rMoWgD934NTCO0
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/09/12/6742686-sun.html

A major art heist in LA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/12arts-STOLENPAINTI_BRF.html

More coverage of Shelby White's returns of artifacts to Greece:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9584\
6

Looting Matters:

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

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Boldini Mon Amour:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-11_111269582.html

Serious Drinking:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26029

Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-oPZZfpEVS3Fgk-9Z7ngJTcrYnA

James Bowdoin:

http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/005463.shtml

Babylon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/13/heritage.exhibition

Wang Hui:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/design/12wang.html

Big bucks expected for a 1000 year b.p. crystal decanter:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/11/crystal-ewer-auction.html

A new director at the Met:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/metropolitan-museum-chooses-a-young-insider-as/85487/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/arts/design/10museum.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/thomas_p_campbell/i\
ndex.html

Confusion over the Cleveland MoA's 'deal' with Italy:

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/09/contrary_to_a_recent_public.html

Plans for a major Jewish museum in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1019627
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127560

Coverage of the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/design/12anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Agamemnon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/theater/13getty.html

The Crucible:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/arts/music/13cruc.html

An Enemy of the People:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/theater/reviews/12enem.html

An NEH grant for Aquila:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/theater/08arts-THECLASSICST_BRF.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ralph Kovel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/business/07kovel.html

Melvin Fowler:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=792932

Richard Monette:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/theater/11monette.html

S.C. Welch:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/arts/design/10welch.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Tut wants his stuff back:

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/hey_where_did_all_my_stuff_go
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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, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,  Edward Rockstein,
Geoffrey Fishburn, Rick Heli, John McMahon,  Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
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EARLY HUMANS
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A Neanderthal recreation has been dubbed 'Wilma':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080917-neanderthal-photo.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Meet_Wilma_the_Neanderthal_woman/ar\
ticleshow/3507761.cms
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A temple (and bits of statuary) of Ramses II found in Cairo:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/ENGLISH/?id=27895
http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/09/16/Ramses_II_temple_discovered_in_Ca\
iro

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/16/2365549.htm
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20080916-87973.htm\
l

Bob Brier is checking out the 'Braided Lady':

http://www.wibw.com/localnews/headlines/28720254.html
http://www.koamtv.com/global/story.asp?s=9045332

A Hittite site from Aslantepe:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9917671.asp?scr=1
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=28338

A theory on those 'nail burials' from Pahluj (which last week
was spelled Tahluj):

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=752991

... in case you missed last week's:

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8706201032

Achaemenid fort from Bam:

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=61512&NewsKind=Cu\
rrent%20Affairs

Overviewish/sidebar sort of things on Tut:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-tut_bio_00gl.ART.Stat\
e.Edition2.27537db.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-tut_toys_00gl.ART.Sta\
te.Edition2.27635c4.html

... and more on his twins:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080914/sc_livescience/kingtuthadtwinsbutwh\
y

Will Smith will play the role of Taharqa:

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/09/08/Will_Smith_to_play_Pharaoh_Taha\
rqa/UPI-41841220881508/

Still looking for bits of the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/39711/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
This one hasn't made it to the English press yet (but surely
will, depending on how it is spun), but Franck Goddio has found
a very (!) early cup inscribed with 'dia chrestou':

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/09/17/ciencia/1221645751.html

... Tom Elliott is collecting links and bibliography at:

http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/paregorios/alexandria-cup

Bronze Age finds from Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41472&cat_id=1

Roman burials from Leicestershire:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-22518.html
http://tinyurl.com/4bmnwl

... and more from Enderby:

http://www.inloughborough.com/news/2008/09/11541_cemetry.php
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/273279.php

A possible earliest TB victim from the UK:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/uoy-rys091608.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7619343.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART60897.html

Nice coverage of SFSU's Pompeii field school:

http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2008/fall/7.html

So so piece about the 'real' Cleopatra:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/17/2367156.htm

The facade of a Temple of Hadrian has been restored:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.2492798544

On the Roman origins of Venice:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4769204.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2975502/Ancestor-city-of-\
Venice-unearthed.html

Troy was even bigger than previously thought:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4782271.\
ece
http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-3941.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=afwbfeBA35og&refer=home

Sophocles at West Point:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/nyregion/19nyc.html

More on the cessation of digging in Knidos:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_ancient_city_1
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/14/ap/middleeast/main4448055.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091401176.\
html

More (rather late) coverage of that Roman temple at Zippori:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1022549

A followup to those Cypriot sarcophagi:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41446&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

You've no doubt already heard of a German radio station's plans to
broadcast in Latin on European languages day:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080918/od_nm/latin_dc

Review of Mary Beard, *Pompeii*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/articl\
e4782336.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Danish archaeologists have uncovered a 1000 b.p. Viking shield:

http://www.startribune.com/science/28595434.html
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/080918/ap/d93928sg0.html
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/health/story/473632.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/232513%2Carchaeologists-find-viking-era-\
shield.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i1Okkcpgncoea88JaPXV2sn9LayAD939C7I81
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425260,00.html

Was the Viking Age triggered by a shortage of women?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/17/viking-women.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26755692/

Strange medieval horse burial from Russia:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/7074/

... and a medieval pottery kiln from Tula:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/7054/

The Cerne Abbas Giant is getting a 'makeover':

http://tinyurl.com/3ovxrs (Daily Mail)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/16/heritage.ruralaffairs


Interesting story behind the search for the Nancy:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article4\
775914.ece

More on the lost capital of the Khazars:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425687,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080920/ap_on_re_eu/russia_lost_capital

I think we mentioned this Saxon burial before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7617772.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Neolithic burials from Sarawak:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-3906.htm

... and from Malaysia/Borneo:

http://tinyurl.com/3jk8al

Some very interesting petroglyphs from Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-rock-art-that-redraws-our-history/2008/0\
9/19/1221331206960.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Strange spin being put on evidence of rabbit hunting by early
paleoIndians:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-23449.html

Archaeologists have found the original site of Fort Morris:

http://www.publicopiniononline.com/ci_10504426?source=most_emailed

Hurricane Ike has revealed a 'mystery shipwreck' off the coast of
Alabama:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080919/ap_on_re_us/ike_mystery_ship_1
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD335poFsiXACgyERE5aspaTZZpg
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i0OB9hCrLy8t-qivo9YSiy7LkkTAD939UUAG0
http://www.wztv.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.al/3256af94-www.fox17.com\
.shtml

DNA analysis suggests humans were in North America 14,300 b.p. (not
really; the headline is misleading):

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/09/21/dna_indicates_humans_in_n\
_america_14300_years_ago/

On Sally Hemings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20hemings.html
cf:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/09/22/080922crbo_books_lepore

The last Jews of Calcutta:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Last-Jews-of-Calcutta.html

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about Camp Amache:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Followup to that Saskatchewan shipwreck story from last week:

http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=0a2b6405-fb6d-4fd4\
-9829-7b09c5409d33
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Mass burials near Macchu Pichu:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080915-machu-picchu.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-23016.html

More coverage of those 'sacrifice burials' from Peru:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/2085148
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/080917/3/3p71f.html
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-35528520080917

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Theoretically pushing back the date for domestication of crops:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/research_pushes_back/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080919075005.htm

On the origins (maybe) of 'the finger':

http://tinyurl.com/3f4a7a

David is in danger of falling over:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-19_119269110.html

Did a Spaniard invent the telescope?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/15/spain.telescope
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7617426.stm

A lost piece by Mozart?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_en_mu/eu_mozart_discovery
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7623663.stm

Review of S. Gundle, *Glamour: A History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/books/review/Weber-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Mount Ida and environs:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=153788&bolum=117

The 'Maine Woods':

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/travel/escapes/19american.html

Hueco Tanks:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/travel/escapes/19Pict.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A silver cross -- once thought to be the oldest Christian artifact
in the UK -- has been declared a fake:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4783042.ece
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-24371.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/19/archaeology.anglicanism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/2982490/Ancient-Christian-am\
ulet-declared-a-fake.html

Antiquities smuggling is a growing problem at US ports:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_on_re_us/smuggled_artifacts_1
http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/523669.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hF_95WVQ_r4FVapKjYyOQZGqy8RgD936LTP00
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26705244&afid=1

Some 'unregistered' Mayan artifacts from Belize:

http://www.lovefm.com/ndisplay.php?nid=8669

I wonder why they're bringing up Roxana Brown's death again:

http://tinyurl.com/3fu6vs (LAT)

A pair of smugglers were arrested in Greece:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/20/europe/EU-Greece-Antiquities-trafficki\
ng.php

A stolen Jewish manuscript is being returned:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107ap_israel_stolen_manuscript.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-09-3831892621_x.htm
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/5991393.html

The US returned some purloined antiquities to Iraq:

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-15-voa55.cfm

... and to Mexico:

http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2761\
&Itemid=1

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A pile of Mughul era gold coins was found near an Indian village:

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Sep192008/national2008091990890.asp?section=\
updatenews

An ancient Asian coin was found during a tavern dig in upstate
New York:

http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/coin_1257296___article.html/ancient_new.html

A metal detectorist in Wales has found one of the oldest coins
ever found in Wales:

http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/Coin-found-by-Wrexham-pensioner.4495810.jp

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/13/heritage.exhibition

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26211
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/sep/21/history-mystery-found-in-caves-in\
-an-ancient-land-/
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09182008/news/regionalnews/scroll_over_naysayers__en\
d_of_worlds_old_129632.htm
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/own-this-city/59671/the-dead-sea-scrolls

Van Gogh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19gogh.html

America and the Tintype:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19tint.html

Some upcoming exhibitions from the IAA's collection:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14&title=1

More delays for the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/17/2366731.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6qrgzk

The DSS are coming to the ROM (woohoo!):

http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15374&Itemid=86
http://tinyurl.com/3lw4ky

A gold book pointer is coming to auction:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aX4AnEzcFvyU&refer=muse

They're talking underwater museum at Alexandria again:

http://tinyurl.com/4nnjln (NP)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/photogalleries/Egypt-underwater-\
museum-photos/index.html

Big changes at the Smithsonian?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/arts/15smit.html

Some Chippendales furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
The Tempest:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/theater/reviews/19temp.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Theater-Review-Tempest.html

Tale of Two Cities:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/theater/reviews/19tale.html

Oresteia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/arts/music/15xena.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Georgi Kitov:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/world/europe/18kitov.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/18/news/obits.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2984482/Georgi-Kitov.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_re_eu/eu_obit_kitov_1
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/502844
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep18/0,4670,EUObitKitov,00.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hh57rOfxCYvlxao9ufoOOUJbjaMg
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115372
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/georgi-kitov-the-thracian-kings-hunter-dies-at-\
65/id_31758/catid_66
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=97121
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVhJBNwN-kmrDM4Q9FoVe6Hd2yygD939AF8O1
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26791252&afid=1

George Zarnecki:

http://tinyurl.com/42yvkn (Independent)

Avraham Biran:

http://www.huc.edu/news/08/9/biranobit/

cf:
http://www.bib-arch.org/archive.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=25&Issue=5&ArticleID=2&ext\
raID=16
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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On the diet of Neanderthals:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7630042.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/science/23obfish.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/22/scineand122.xm\
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080922/sc_livescience/neanderthalsateseals\
anddolphins;_ylt=AuDYh8fvB8gOyON.Tqf39.FdRJ54
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9467/divulgacao-cientifica/neandertais-comi\
am-frutos-do-mar.htm
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AFRICA
================================================================
An update of sorts on the efforts to excavate that Portuguese
shipwreck off the Namibian coast:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7634479.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A possible Sumerian site in southern Iraq:

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/09/25/iraqis_plan_dig_at_possible_sumerian_\
site/afp/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080925/twl-iraq-unrest-archaeology-muthanna-3cd7e\
fd.html

A statue of Ramses II has been found:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080924/lf_nm_life/us_egypt_statue_1
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-26016.html
http://tinyurl.com/4xuxcr (Telegraph)
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLO269409.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD93DQU2G0
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/25/content_10110675.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aHHkpWrklZww&refer=muse

Archaeologists are returning to Haft-Tappeh:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=755767

A metal production site from Bam:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70617§ionid=351020105

The Aga Khan is helping to protect sites in Syria:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9617\
2

First Jordan ... now Turkey has a database of sites online:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115823

Istanbul's athletic heritage:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=154072&bolum=132

Pondering (again) the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122238636935776931.html

This week's Temple Mount saga coverage:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/233751,ban-understands-jordans-concerns-\
over-israeli-excavations.html

... and a saga-in-the-making over plans for a shopping mall near the
Mount of Olives:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127742

Concerns that cultural events are damaging the Old City:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017396278&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More coverage of the search for more pieces of the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/218333.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_crown_of_aleppo_2
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/09/27/2008-09-27_scholars_hunt_mis\
sing_pages_of_ancient_h.html

Info on next year's dig at Tiberias:

http://jwest.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/tibearias-excavation-2009/

Some 'shibboleth phonetics':

http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/shibboleths_phonetics_death/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Romans brought leeks to Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7631249.stm

The archaeologist who found that 'Christian Amulet' which has
been declared a fake is defending his find:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4799762.ece

They've found remains of the port at Tharros:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-25_125248178.html

The mysteries of the Riace Bronzes continue to grow:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-24_124243125.html

Interviewish thing with Simon Goldhill:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24390969-27702,00.html

An update of sorts on that Croatian Apoxyomenos statue:

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2008\
/09/25/feature-03

More on Princeton's reconstruction of Theran frescoes:

http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=2970

More on the Mount Lykaion dig:

http://uanews.org/node/21645

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Not sure the 'spin' being put on the discovery/exhibition of
artifacts from the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian folk is useful:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/22/cucuteni-neolithic-art.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=26839697

Plenty of coverage for this (somewhat repeated) story of Stonehenge
as a prehistoric pilgrimage/Lourdes-like site:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/2098524
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75938
http://tinyurl.com/3jakvm
http://tinyurl.com/4b9x7a (LAT)
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-09-22-Archaeologists-to-shed-new-lig\
ht-on-secrets-of-Stonehenge
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-stonehenge22-2008sep22,0,4808414.stor\
y
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/22/archaeology
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jotq-lcRiqpfMncDln1tU11pFUoQ
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Leader-The-Neolithic-Health-Service.4516722.jp
   (!)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008196772_stonehenge23.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/light-on-stonehenge.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425926,00.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26838058&afid=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7625145.stm

... while other Stonehenge press coverage is concentrating on
the discovery of its 'birth date':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3046095/Stonehenge-birthdate-discovered-by-archa\
eologists.html

... and the Independent seems a bit more critical:

http://tinyurl.com/4fc8ek

A Bronze Age knife from a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14596/20080926/

They're reopening the Petit Trianon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24arts-RENOVATEDVER_BRF.html

16th century fortress remains from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41549&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

What is causing the Vasa to deteriorate:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
2448

Some 300 b.p. burials found during an Edinburgh dig:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7635634.stm

Cleaning up the Pontine Marshes:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/22/europe/22marsh.php

More on the unsustainability of Iberian peninsula agriculture:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080917074134.htm

More coverage of that Viking shield find:

http://www.koaa.com/wacky_stories/x1142480211/1-000-year-old-Viking-shield-found\
-in-Denmark

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A "prehistoric" 'jar tomb' from Viet Nam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/09/805283/

1000 b.p. earthquake-proof dwellings in Uttarakhand:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080922/jsp/frontpage/story_9869079.jsp

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Looks like we'll be reading more about the Queen Anne's Revenge
in the near future:

http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2008/09/24/features/feats1062.tx\
t

Not sure there's anything new in this report on those coprolites
(and their implications) from the Paisley Caves in Oregon:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26819601/

I don't think there's anything new in this report on the search
for Franklin Expedition remains either:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26308268.htm

Another dam ... some sites

I think we've mentioned the changes at Gettysburg before:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24muse.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A forest fire has damaged some sites near Macchu Pichu:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080924/sc_nm/us_peru_fire_1
http://www.sabcnews.com/world/south_america/0,2172,177368,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080924/ap_tr_ge/lt_travel_brief_peru_machu_p\
icchu_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre48n8pf-us-peru-fire/

Recent finds from Copan:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

Stephen Houston is one of the recipients of a MacArthur grant:

http://www.projo.com/news/content/MACARTHUR_FELLOW_09-23-08_UJBM72H_v38.1c07fcd.\
html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Interesting/useful bacteria found in the Catacombs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26903967/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/sfgm-nlf092408.php
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-26102.html
http://www.physorg.com/news141536814.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924192443.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
2408
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9482/divulgacao-cientifica/vida-nova-nas-ca\
tacumbas.htm

... and some interesting yeast origins for the Fossil Fuels
Brewing Company:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/23/ancient-yeast-beer.html

On the origins of etiquette:

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/salon/article/428994

A 14th-century cookbook is going online:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/22/10?gusrc=rss&feed=technologyfull

An uproar of sorts over the Collins Dictionary folks taking 2000 words
out of the dictionary to make room for new ones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/collins.dictionary.words

In case you want to track that 'phoenician circumnavigation' thing:

http://live.adventuretracking.com/phoenicia

A Middle English Grammar project:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923140838.htm

Milton's 400th is coming up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/books/26milt.html

Garrison Keilor marked the invasion of 1066 and all that:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

For all the MacArthur Genius Grant recipients (or most of them):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/23fell.html

For the Harry Potter fans:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25366

A Medieval festival in Manhattan:

http://www.whidc.org/home.html

More coverage of the controversy over who invented the telescope:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7617426.stm
http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=32962&amid=30258487

In other telescope news, here's one owned by Albert Einstein:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3600205,00.html

Review of F. Baez, *A Universal History of the Destruction of Books*:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/book-burning-and-other-bibliocausts/86438/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Petra:

http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,700261413,00.html

New Mexico:

http://www.economist.com/daily/diary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12284420

Vatican City:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-vaticancity28-2008sep28

Tamil Nadu:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/travel/21journeys.html

Retracing Champlain's route:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/travel/escapes/26champlain.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA Newsletter (September 08):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#fall08

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A petroglyph was chiseled off a rock in Arizona:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/97636.php
http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=9069222

A bust in Macedonia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080924/ap_on_re_eu/eu_macedonia_antiquities_seized_\
1
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5873787
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/211419.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWMgdKapzkyREJE6nHm47h6-VE1AD93D36M00
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/24/europe/EU-Macedonia-Antiquities-Seized\
.php
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/09/macedonian-police-seize-stolen-antiquiti\
es

Some pre-Columbian artifacts are being returned to Ecuador:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080924/article/809240346&tc=yahoo

A stolen Renoir was recovered:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-26_126264056.html

More coverage of the US returns of Iraqi artifacts:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24387045-1702,00.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpkma_PlXLsuMHomhlwyE26iu9Iw
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70314§ionid=3510212

More on the mysteries of Roxana Brown's death:

http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=5143

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A recent Viking coin/ingot find is going on display:

http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/545/Rare-Viking-ingot-found.4518140.jp

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Nostoi (?):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_25/09/2008_100766
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-09-24-greece-recovered-artifact\
s_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6870752&maindocimg=6867347&servi\
ce=94

Caesar:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_123253025.html

Ancient Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26296

Matilde of Canossa:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=26255&int_modo=1
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-25_125240714.html

Italy has returned a piece of the Parthenon to Greece:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8CB4km-01Y4Ta3mxs6P0Z7hMzSA
http://news.smh.com.au/world/italy-returns-long-lost-parthenon-fragment-to-greec\
e-20080924-4mo2.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_123261368.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8yGH2-ieWX8ELPzgON0yfU2q6ZAD93CIM300
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE48N4PU20080924
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/24/content_10099814.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_italy_parthenon;_ylt=A\
v0D.fAGPa1HhS6PW5VDU37737YB
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_123261368.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/24/parthenon-marble-italy.html

Latest on the Lewis Chessmen:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Fresh-bid--to-return.4531070.jp

A Lord Nelson 'mourning ring' has fetched a nice price at auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3067907/Lord-Nelson-mour\
ning-ring-sells-for-18000.html

There's a new Chair at the Smithsonian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/22muse.html

... and at the Carnegie MOA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24muse.html

Ellis Island Museum is expanding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/nyregion/25ellis.html

Info on some upcoming auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26anti.html

More on the DSS coming to the ROM:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/09/24/rom-scrolls.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080925.wrom25/BNStory/Enter\
tainment
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The English Channel:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/theater/reviews/24chan.html

New folks in charge of Julliard's Early Music program:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/music/24earl.html
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OBITUARIES
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Georgi Kitov:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-kitov25-2008sep25,0,5795889.story
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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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The travails of Neanderthal mothers:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/09/neanderthal-mothers-had-it-\
tougher-than-modern-moms

The Times was reprinting/revisiting Piltdown Man (in reverse order):

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1953-11-21-06-010&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1953-11-21-06
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1912-12-19-04-008&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1912-12-19-04
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1953-11-23-08-007&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1953-11-23-08
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AFRICA
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More coverage of that Portuguese shipwreck:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080928/lf_afp/namibiaportugalarchaeologyshipping_0\
80928203712
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzSqBb-JxvrY4OJ-W2TS8Pau0LxQ
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting satellite/atlas project:

http://www.physorg.com/news142012612.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/544745/

Not sure why this Zekediah courtier's seal is back in the news:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/clay-seal-connects-to-bible/

Those Egyptian skulls dug up in a Manchester garden last June
have been returned to Egypt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7644151.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080930/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_ancient_skulls_1
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/223275.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/ap/europe/main4489663.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3110823/Egyptian-skulls-discovered-in-Man\
chester-garden.html
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-09-30-Ancient-skulls-returned-to-Egy\
pt

A pile of phallic figurines from near Nazareth:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/09/08/archaeological-surprise-g\
rave-site-full-of-phallic-figurines/

Nice feature on Eilat Mazar:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017388261&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

More/followup on malls near the Mount of Olives:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127827

What Elain Pagels is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/4pevb4

The Aleppo Codex search story still has legs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26941871/

Another 'early Christian Church' claim/find:

http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=253684

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Greco-Roman sculptures found in a submerged wall in Kythnos:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/03/DDUK13ACDQ.DTL
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-02-greece-sculpture_N.htm?csp=34
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/10/02/6956741-ap.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/3125501/Roman-statues-fo\
und-under-Aegean-Sea.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=71265§ionid=3510212

Evidence for the English coastline in Roman times:

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Dig-unearths-our-Roman-coastline--newsinkent\
16666.aspx?news=local
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-10-02-Roman-coastline-and-medieval-d\
ock-dicovered-at-Richborough-Roman-Fort
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7648033.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART61315.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1066712/Uncovered-lost-beach-Roma\
ns-got-toehold-Britain.html
http://www.ryeandbattleobserver.co.uk/latest-south-east-news/Archaeologists-unco\
ver-stretch-of-Roman.4552718.jp

Interesting finds from Tavsan Island:

http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2248


... and a very interesting burial from Punta Secca:

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2008/08oct02/mystery.html

... which certain editors messed up (see more below):

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-29714.html

A Mycenean burial with an imported sword:

http://howrah.org/sci_tech_htm/32359.html

That dia chrestou cup find by Franck Goddio is hitting the English
press:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-5788.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26972493/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/01/jesus-bowl.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3122902/Hidden-Roman-coastline-unearthed-\
by-archaeologists-in-Kent.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4870491.ece

Lisbon's Roman cellars:

http://www.portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=29576

A gate from Pelinna:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6896548&maindocimg=4539150&servi\
ce=98

Garum is being used to "date" the eruption of Pompeii (I think they
really mean "confirm the date we've known for ages"):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/29/pompeii-fish-sauce.html

I think we've had this Dionysus sanctuary find before:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/targovishte/news/20081002/dionysus_sanctuary.htm\
l

Apparently Troy has been found (but competent editors have not):

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-5536.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Epics_help_experts_in_finding_Troy/\
articleshow/3542072.cms

... this appears to be the source article the foregoing messed up:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/09/28/hidden_histories/

The New York Times has a nice item (with a slideshow) on Ostia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/arts/design/01fres.html

Charlotte Higgins has written a book about Greek which looks fun/useful:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/01/philosophy.history
cf:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2008/oct/01/ancient.greek\
.literature?commentpage=1

More coverage of that beneficial (maybe) bacteria found in the
catacombs:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924192443.htm

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt*:

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/30190989.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of a prehistoric village on Ustica:

http://tinyurl.com/3s5c63 (ASCA)

An Iron Age mausoleum from Armenia:

http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=3282&CID=3168&IID=1203&lng=eng

First they tracked Vikings with cod, now with mice:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7645908.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080930/sc_afp/sciencehistoryvikings_080930233727;_\
ylt=Ag02TgJTdxB8yCRxsYCEToLPOrgF

... so it seems a good thing to test some Danes too:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1471685.ece

Nice articles on Stonehenge:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/light-on-stonehenge.html
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2008/2375540.htm

Brief item on the discovery of a "pirate hoard" in London:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23561443-details/Pirate+hoard+fou\
nd+in+East+End/article.do

Saxon remains might hold up supermarket construction:

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Ancient-Saxons-hold-supermarket/article-3\
59601-detail/article.html

More on the cause of the Vasa's deterioration:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080925083203.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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DNA is revealing the diverse origins of those who worked on Qin's
tomb:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003275

A 2300 b.p. pot of 'paddy grain':

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_08/September2901745KA.html

Interesting finds shedding light on Stone and Bronze Age
Viet Nam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/041008/culture_e.htm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Remember the fire in the Cutty Sark? They finally figured out
the cause:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/30/cutty.sark.fire/index.html

Review of Annette Gordon-Reed, *The Hemingses of Monticello*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books/review/Foner-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Satellite imagery has revealed a pyramid structure in Peru:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-6208.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/03/peru-cahuachi.html
http://www.estense.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=42144&format=html

The varied population of Machu Picchu:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37043/title/Machu_Picchu%E2%80%99s_fa\
r-flung_residents

Those scepters found in a Mexican volcano a year or so ago have
been conserved and restored:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2367&Itemid=150

Item on the Temple of the Sorcerer:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

Evidence on the ancient use of Yucca by the Maya:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2368&Itemid=150

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Nice item/reviewish thing on John Stuart Mill:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/06/081006crat_atlarge_gopn\
ik

Justice in the ancient World:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977462886

Cave paintings appear to have been touched up over thousands of
years:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/05/eacaveart105.x\
ml

The 2008 IgNobel Recipients (some archaeological content!):

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/

Short item on the history of dictionaries (sort of):

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4\
878346.ece

Russia has 'rehabilitated' Nicholas II and his family:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081001/wl_afp/russiahistoryroyalscourt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/world/europe/02czar.html

Oetzi's finders have finally been compensated:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/3105153/Oetzi-the-icema\
ns-discoverers-finally-compensated.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-29_129237279.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7643286.stm

Interesting comparanda in this piece on 'hidden Kosovar Christians':

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-us-kosovo-catholics.html

A previously-unknown Brueghel the Younger may have been found:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/30/brueghel-antiques-show.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

Fort Royal:

http://www.fortroyal.blogspot.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A professorial couple in Greece are accused of trading in
antiquities (books?):

http://news.ert.gr/en/c/10/35610.asp

A bust in Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news164957.htm

This brief item suggests Kom Peak might have been the target of
illegal excavations:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n154313

A Renoir stolen 33 years ago has been recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29arts-ARENOIRISREC_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

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

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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  From the Land of the Golden Fleece:

http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=52058

Arctic Peoples:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=26426&int_modo=1

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ad3ZeXmvBOUo&refer=muse

Van Gogh:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/04/arts/melik4.php

A couple of exhibitions focussing on Trent:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/04/arts/conway.php

Italy is looking for a 'museum czar':

http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-35749820081001

The Queen is lending a Mantegna to the Louvre:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aHTjKeyDSy9I&refer=muse

The Tut exhibition moves to Dallas:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/092908glkingt\
ut.190785c.html

The LA County MoA is getting some nice funding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29muse.html

... while Sotheby's is the subject of a lawsuit (not sure I
get this one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/arts/design/02arts-SUEDARTCOLLE_BRF.html
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OBITUARIES
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William Woodruff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/books/29woodruff.html

Marc Raeff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/education/29raeff.html

Benny Kraut:

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110605.html

Elinor Guggenheimer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/nyregion/01guggenheimer.html

Margot Gayle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/nyregion/30gayle.html

Robert E. Lee:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0119.html
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PODCASTS
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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,  Rick Heli, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Les Skeates, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Barnea Selavan, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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The 'fossil trail' suggests early humans left Africa 1.8 million
years ago:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-6594.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting priestly family sarcophagus from near Jerusalem:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027267.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20081006-sarcophagus-fragment-found-near-jerusalem
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110681.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081006/wl_mideast_afp/israelarchaeologyreligion
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/VideoPlayer&cid=11944\
19829128&videoId=1222017491590

Feature on Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in danger of collapsing:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1027042

More coverage of that recently-found Ramses statue:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=15729_0_1_0_M

More coverage of the shopping-mall-near-the-Mount-of-Olives
dispute:

http://thenational.ae/article/20080925/FOREIGN/930431059

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Roman stadium at Pozzuoli is open to the public:

http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/156442/
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/10/Ancient_Roman_stadium_opens/UPI-748312236\
77328/

Brief item on some recent finds in an Ephesus necropolis:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=155539&bolum=101

A Roman villa from Budapest:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=474744&sid=FTP
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/roman_villa/?\
cHash=3a0dd74595
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/one-of-the-earliest-roman-villas-\
unearthed-in-hungary_100104449.html

Pondering where an ancient shipwreck was headed:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

The New York Times covers the 'rise of Latin':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/nyregion/07latin.html

Mary Beard reveals her educational background:

http://tinyurl.com/4nna9w (Independent)

The Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri is expanding online:

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/10/papyrus.html

Nice feature on the URI Classics Society:

http://tinyurl.com/4svj3g

There's a new professorship of Greek Culture at Cambridge:

http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=52189

Your annual Spartathlon coverage:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49804j-us-witness-ultramarathon/

Interesting Hannibal comic:

http://newsok.com/hannibals-epic-campaign-comes-to-web-based-comic/article/33091\
91

Didn't we have something on this Greek 'sacred soil' story a
while back?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/07/greek-temple-soil.html

Athens has a graffiti problem:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100013_07/10/2008_101073
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081006/lf_afp/lifestylegreeceartgraffiti_081006162\
104
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jnCSLPXWftUy9s2w2YKmuHwMeKuw

Big bucks for Vindolanda:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2008/10/06/roman-treasu\
res-are-coming-home-61634-21970504/

Learning Greek at an Oxford estate:

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3736030.Speak_Greek/

Review of Charlotte Higgins, *It's All Greek to Me*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/11/bohig111.xml

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Bronze Age war dead from a peat bog in Germany:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24477743-663,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24477743-5012749,00.html

... and an 'Alpine Pompeii' site:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,583452,00.html

Now the reaction to recent Stonehenge reports ... it was a
cremation centre:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7660860.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-6588.htm

A Newport shipwreck restoration update:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7651410.stm

Plans are afoot to restore the 'time ball':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7662138.stm

Review of David Starkey, *Henry: Virtuous Prince*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_rev\
iews/article4875057.ece

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Tantalizingly brief item on wig-wearing musicians being found
in a burial near Xi'an:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-10/08/content_7087153.htm

Virtual Forbidden City tour?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081010/od_nm/us_china_forbiddencity

The origins of Chinese Chess?:

http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2008/07/tangut-chess.html

More coverage of that Australian petroglyph story:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australian-history-rewritten\
-in-rock-art-951828.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-29933.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 7000 b.p. site from Maine:

http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/31B22D9C80EBCC2E852574DE0\
05E8628?Opendocument

What they've found at the Port Joli (Nova Scotia) dig:

http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-257455-Scientists-digging-for-history-in-Port\
-Joli.html

On the DNA front (sort of), they're tracking down George Washington's kin:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27075856/

An 'angry Abe' letter:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27050783/

The geology connection to the Civil War:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001145032.htm

Trying to get 'official recognition' of some Pequot battle
sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/nyregion/connecticut/12pequotct.html

Review of Jacqueline Jones, *Saving Savannah*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Boyle-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Interesting finds and plans for Xtampak:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2398&Itemid=150

A pile of 'white roads' have been found at Chichen Itza:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

New technique for sourcing Maya pottery:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37338/title/Origins_of_Maya_pottery_m\
aterial_remain_mysterious

More coverage of that pyramid in Peru located by satellite
technology:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27010998/

More coverage of the search for the Franklin Expedition:

http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/oct6_08sh.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A piece (a sidebar?) on ancient math:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502043.\
html

They've figured out what affliction the Ugly Duchess had:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/oct/11/art-painting

Studying death:

http://www.livescience.com/history/081008-death-ways.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008151328.htm

Nice feature on Hebrew illuminated manuscripts:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017482672&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Whither Cardinal Newman's body?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/libby_purves/article4887190.\
ece

Check out this guy's library:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Robert Fulford was writing about archaeology for some reason:

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=864004

Review of some Audobon drawing books:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/science/07bird.html

Review of Edward Kritzler, *Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean*:

http://www.forward.com/articles/14339/

Review of Tom Holland, *Millennium*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/millennium-by-tom-\
holland-956431.html

Nice slideshow of satellite photos of assorted sites:

http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/default.aspx?gid=10

I think we've mentioned this cave-painting-dating story before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7656338.stm
http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2008/10/caves-werent-painted-in-day.html

Review of John Demos, *The Enemy Within*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Greer-t.html

Review of a couple of tomes about Rimbaud:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/books/review/Hell-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Greek Islands:

http://www.powerboat-world.com/The-Greek-Island-Odyssey/49692/arc
http://www.sail-world.com/USA/The-Greek-Island-Odyssey/49692

Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/3172776/Rome-Eternal-love.html

Roman Gardens:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-gardens12-2008oct12

Ventotene:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/10/06/ventotene.italy/index.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another antiquities dealer in the spotlight:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRZDkUknxHM_OIUR8L2-UiRA73FgD93OBRJ00
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/836757.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_on_re_eu/eu_antiquities_dealer
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/12/europe/EU-FEA-Germany-Antiquities-Deal\
er.php


Vandals are damaging historic buildings all over the UK:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4887933.ece

Not a crime within our purview per se, but this bandit's 'off-duty'
reading material is interesting:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-10_110272237.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A visit to Rome's National Museum's Coin Museum (awk):

http://coinarchaeology.blogspot.com/2008/09/coin-collection-at-museo-nazionale.h\
tml

The Iron Lady on an Iron Age coin?:

http://tinyurl.com/4at3nk

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Athanasiu Kircher:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26585

Treasures from Assyria:

http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/10/12/lifestyle/371608.txt

John Milton:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26551

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24457377-2862,00.html

Ruins and Rebirth of Art in Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08heri.html

Traces of the Calligrapher:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/design/10trac.html

Paths to Impressionism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/nyregion/new-jersey/12artsnj.html

Native Women's Dress:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08iden.html

The Essential Art of African Textiles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/design/10text.html

Dead Sea Scrolls (lots of complaints about this review):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07scrol.html

Tut:

http://www.suite101.com/blog/bootsphd/tutankhamun_and_the_golden_age_of_the_phar\
aohs_to_visit_mh_de_young_museum

Palladio:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/3152760/Andrea-Palladio-500-yea\
rs-of-architectural-wonders.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/3157982/The-best-of-Andrea-Pa\
lladio.html

Monet to Dali:

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/ENT05/810080397

Venice:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-07_107271022.html

Italy (or rather, ex minister Rutelli) is pressuring Bonham's to
remove some antiquities from an upcoming auction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article49166\
86.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/arts/design/11arts-ITALYQUESTIO_BRF.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28916/italian-politician-tries-to-block-bonham\
s-antiquities-sale/

Arguing over some tribal art from New Guinea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/arts/design/06gift.html

I think we mentioned this crystal ewer when it was coming
to auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3153856/Crystal-jug-valu\
ed-at-100-sells-for-3.2-million.html

The Coleridge Collar is coming to auction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4887698.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7653348.stm

Latest opEd piece on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles kerfuffle:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45552,opinion,greece-has-won-the-debate-over-elgin\
-marbles

The BM bought a Rubens:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/DDHF13EE2C.DTL

A brief state-of-the-Iraqi-returns piece:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-iraq8-2008oct08,0,2413479.s\
tory

Auctions seem to be feeling the pinch:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/arts/design/09arts-SALESUNDERWH_BRF.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Digital Karnak:

http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/

Virtual cemetery G2100 at Giza:

http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~tjchamb/G_2100_Exhibit/Home.html
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OBITUARIES
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Avraham Biran:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/middleeast/06biran.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obit-biranoct07,0,190042.stor\
y
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/06/Noted_archaeologist_Biran_dead_at_98/UPI-\
59821223307306/

William Murphy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/books/09murphy.html
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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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Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Bob Heuman,
Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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A possible new 'out of Africa' route:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7668250.stm
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AFRICA
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The British Museum has received some blocks from a Sudanese
pyramid:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29004/british-museum-receives-stones-from-anci\
ent-sudanese-pyramid/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some 9000 b.p. bones from Israel are suggesting that tuberculosis
is older than previously thought:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/ucl-ekh101308.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014204442.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081015/sc_nm/us_tuberculosis_origins_2
http://www.healthscout.com/news/1/620287/main.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081015/hl_hsn/earlytbfoundin9000yearoldbones
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1077801/Ancient-bone-discovery-shows-t\
uberculosis-9-000-years-old.html
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003426
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37619/title/Infectious_finds_at_ancie\
nt_site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7668838.stm
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49d9ir-us-tuberculosis-origins/

Time has a feature on the James Ossuary:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1850111,00.html

cf:

http://ia311218.us.archive.org/0/items/UnholyBusinessRevisedReview/burleigh2.pdf
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,439203,00.html

Recreating Temple-era instruments and music:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1028981.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Disproportionately large coverage of the discovery of Nonius
Macrinus' (a.k.a. the 'inspiration' for 'Gladiator') tomb:

http://news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,24509833-948,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438801,00.html
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/157697/
http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-612.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4953947.ece
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27224453/
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-15_115265741.html
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/277583.php
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tomb-of--real-Gladiator.4602320.jp
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/found-tomb-of-the-general-who-ins\
pired-gladiator-963797.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/3210339/Gladiator-tomb-di\
scovered-by-archeologists.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/17/tomb-of-roman-hero-who-inspi\
red-gladiator-found-115875-20812058/
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/17/na-excellent-ruins-unveiled/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7675633.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/19/2395178.htm

... while there were other major finds from Rome announced this week as
well:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=32968&sez=HOME_ROMA
http://www.roma-citta.it/roma/news_16329-Presentati-4-ritrovamenti-archeologici-\
fra-Palatino-e-Flaminio-cronaca.html
http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=298766
http://www.latimes.com/business/careers/work/la-fg-italy17-2008oct17,0,1756926.s\
tory
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j3r_f0rj7Jv_-nl1jgVR5nizRiVwD93RR97G1
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,439401,00.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72447§ionid=3510212
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/17/roman.ruins.ap/index.html

... and some are playing up the 'Caligula' angle:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20081017/117800978.html
http://www.newspostonline.com/sci-tech/archaeologists-unearth-place-where-roman-\
emperor-caligula-was-murdered-200810189711

Roman remains keep getting in the way of construction projects
in Beirut:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=96858
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/10/16/ancient_history_gets_in_the_way_of_be\
iruts_modern_towers/afp/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081016/lf_afp/lifestylelebanonarchaeologyconstruct\
ion_081016073925
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=28331
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gx-Orkj0FRz607-29Ukvvs9zbzQw

A Roman 'palace' from the 5th/6th century is being excavated in Beirut
as well:

http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-428.htm
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/ancient-roman-palace-excavated-in\
-turkey_100107464.html

Roman mosaic from Srebenica:

http://www.emportal.co.yu/en/news/region/65622.html

A temple of Isis and Osiris from Bulgaria:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1100761771
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/temple-to-iris-and-osiris-unearthed-near-the-bu\
lgarian-black-sea/id_32427/catid_70

A virtual tour of ancient Koln:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,584005,00.html

Not sure if we mentioned this necropolis at Ephesus yet:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=117214
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=476069&sid=ftp
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/1700-year-old-golden-jewelry-disc\
overed-in-necropolis-in-turkey_100106599.html

This week's 'popularity of Latin' piece:

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-education/2008/10/17/latin-surges-in-popularity.h\
tml

... and a nice feature on Latin teacher Rose Williams:

http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2008/10/14/ara/education/7848.txt

On the names of constellations:

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/ancient_egyptia\
n_astronomy_120456.html

There's a possible Argonauts miniseries (?) in the works:

http://tinyurl.com/5adda2 (THR)

... and Brad Pitt's behind a sci fi version of the Odyssey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/oct/17/brad-pitt-the-odyssey
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gerH-NalgVcX8XE33xF4J6qQF0Zg

Lasers to clean monuments on the Acropolis?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27237685/
http://www.euronews.net/en/article/17/10/2008/hi-tech-answer-to-acropolis-pollut\
ion-problem/

More coverage of that tomb in Sicily with both pagan and Christian elements:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013210144.htm

More coverage of the opening of the stadium at Pozzuoli:

http://tinyurl.com/4nggy9 (Telegraph)

In case you missed Maureen Dowd's Latin column last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html

Review of Sarah Ruben's translation of the Aeneid:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24496594-5001986,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Anglo-Saxon finds with interesting implications from East
Cleveland (we'll see what happens to this story when it gets
picked up by ANI):

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2008/10/14/rare-finds-unearth-te\
esside-link-with-royalty-84229-22029051/

Did 'Norsemen' bring Christianity to Caithness?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7666916.stm

A 13th century brooch has been declared treasure:

http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/hampshirenews/3751256.Coroner_declares_brooc\
h_is_a_medieval_treasure/

Somewhat confusing account of finds from various periods at a
Bulgarian dig:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/rousse/news/20081014/bulgarian_madonna.html

... not quite sure if this is the same or not:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n156526

Medieval remains in Berlin:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=326312

Finds from various periods at a Tickhill metal detectorist rally:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/doncaster/Items-up-to-3500-years.4589779.jp

A number of shipwrecks have been found in the Gulf of Finland:

http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/21576/

... and a bunch in the Severn:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/18/eaboatwreck118\
.xml

More coverage of recent theories about Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/6nlm67 (Dispatch)
http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-86.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A Gupta-era (?) engraved bit of sandstone from Bangladesh:

http://tinyurl.com/5q9dlb

A 1900 b.p. Buddhist monastery from Gujarat:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-31943.html

A very interesting 9th century shipwreck from the Indian Ocean
(which I thing we mentioned a year or so ago):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7675866.stm

That Cambodia/Thai/Temple/border dispute is still going on:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7667341.stm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A sort of state-of-the-research piece from Jamestown:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/readne/2008/10_15-30/REG

... and a backgroundish sort of thing on the Range Creek site(s):

http://www.sltrib.com/collegesports/ci_3880827

Rethinking Archaic Maine:

http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-5.htm

Trying to save the Arapaho language:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/us/17arapaho.html

NY School buildings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/nyregion/18about.html

They've saved the Falls of Clyde (again):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/us/19ship.html

Review of James McPherson: *Tried by War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/books/review/Smith-t.html

Assorted presidential (and other) tomes:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/20/081020crat_atlarge_lepo\
re
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
This story on the discovery of a couple of important temples in
Peru is coming up 'empty' for me this a.m.; perhaps it will work
for you:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=ZKG4V7jAo+4=

Evidence of early 'drug' use in the Caribbean:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3225729/Stone-Age-man-to\
ok-drugs-say-scientists.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
There are assorted videos on the main page of the Archaeology
Channel which are of interest:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/index.asp

Feting Noah Webster:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081012/ap_on_re_us/defining_a_nation

A bunch of vintage movies are now available online:

http://www.france24.com/en/20081008-europa-film-treasures-archives-online-cinema\
-internet

St Gall joins the ranks of places putting manuscripts online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/books/18libr.html

A timely history of US banking:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122360636585322023.html

The world's first dog?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27240370/

The Clampers stay busy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/us/14california.html

'Stylometrics' sounds an awful lot like literary analyses which
have been around for years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/science/14prof.html

Another spin on the digitization of the Codex Sinaiticus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7651105.stm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Antalya:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=117466

Egypt:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27057246/

The monastery option:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/travel/19journeys.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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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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Another bust in Thessaloniki:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gXPbbr0sVi3mWsFLEv-6JnhGo4vwD93QCBHG0
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6935995&service=142

A triad of busts in Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/3s8xq4 (Spain)

A manuscript-smuggling attempt in Yemen was prevented (awk):

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10015017.html

Was John Hobbs selling fakes?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/garden/16hobbs.html

More coverage of a 'colorful' antiquities dealer:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ia2a-LexL13yIcOkKu6-MTZOECUg

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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US Mint Directors:

http://www.coinlink.com/Resources/biographies/us-mint-directors-from-1773/us-min\
t-directors-from-1773/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Ancient Cities of Lazio:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26518

Pompeii and the Roman Villa:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26684
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile&id=1152728&categ\
ories=Exhibits&venueid=791895

Herculaneum:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-16_116285100.html

Dilettanti:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-dilettanti16-2008oct16,0,15\
5418.story

Jim Dine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/arts/design/19fink.html

Grant and Lee in War and Peace:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17hist.html

Andrea Riccio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17ricc.html

Pondering the idea of repatriation:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7672399.stm

New efforts to save Iraq's antiquities:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1226701,CST-NWS-iraq17.article

A private citizen has returned some artifacts to Egypt:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/237405,british-woman-returns-ancient-sta\
tues-to-egypt.html

Another feature on the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/greece/article4937732.ece

The ROM is hosting a symposium on Ancient Egypt and Nubia:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=26626&int_modo=1

Feature on the Amory show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17anti.htm

More coverage of Rutelli's attempts to get some items withdrawn
from Bonham's:

http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=21508&monthview=0&month=10&year=2008

... which were apparently successful:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-14_114283666.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/3205645/Suspicions-that-R\
oman-artefacts-were-illegally-traded.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28986/questioned-antiquities-withdrawn-from-bo\
nhams-auction/
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=4993

... and that 'Elvis' akroterion fetched a decent price:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/66321/-24-000-for-Elvis-

... otherwise, the auction was 'surprisingly' successful:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/18/arts/melik18.php

... perhaps some Russian billionaires were involved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/design/17arts-RUSSIANBILLI_BRF.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Criticism for an upcoming BBC documentary about Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/BBC39s-epic-tale-of-Scotland.4591718.jp

Mary:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/movies/17mary.html

Crusoe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/television/17crus.html

Man for All Seasons:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/10/20/081020crth_theatre_lahr
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OBITUARIES
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Peter Vansittart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/arts/15vansittart.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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I suspect this upcoming conference will have plenty of 'elmer'
material:

http://www.ameinfo.com/171069.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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Subject: explorator 11.27

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and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
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More coverage of the 'waterways out of Africa' story:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/14/ancient-waterways-could-hav\
e-guided-early-humans-out-of-africa/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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DNA from a couple of mummies has revealed some very early examples
of malaria:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/23/mummies-malaria.html
http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-1999.htm

An ancient Neo Assyrian 'governor's palace' at Ziyaret Tepe:

http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/165491/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021094216.htm

They're digging around Persepolis:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=180525

Some high tech analyses of the Great Pyramid are bearing fruit:

http://www.physorg.com/news143788675.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lipyra2112084891oct21,0,5217474.story

... this seems to be a related story (?):

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/pyramidchambers.htm
http://www.pyramidofman.com/blog/secret-chamber-discovered-in-the-great-pyramid/

Tracking the 'a la steatite' cooking pot's production and diffusion:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=content&aid=344

Peter Dorman was talking about Hatshepsut:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=97051

Another 'who wrote the DSS' piece:

http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c347_a13745/The_Arts/Museums.html

... and another:

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=6816

... and another:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Zias_Dead_Sea_Scrolls.shtml

... and another DSS imaging project:

http://www.inboxrobot.com/article.php?nid=43530

Feature on the legacy of the DSS:

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=6816

Big bucks to preserve some heritage items in Iraq:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/design/21arts-14MILLIONTOP_BRF.html

Revisiting that 'Dead Sea Stone':

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=6820

Review of Nina Burleigh, *Unholy Business*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122446027022248721.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

More on the structural problems at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7676332.stm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Neolithic remains from Greece:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27348143&afid=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_sc/eu_greece_neolithic_household_4

Nine late Roman columns found in a riverbed in northern Italy:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-21_121267535.html
http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-1495.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/10/22/Ancient_columns_found_in_Italy/UPI-30\
221224655365/
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=478447&sid=ftp
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212180687.shtml

Brief item on a third century tomb find from Garfagnana:

http://www.nostalgiatoscana.it/newsite/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id\
=19830&Itemid=2

A possible Roman site in Hungary:

http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/archaeologis/\
?cHash=521d920cc0

A first century mosaic floor from Bosnia:

http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/archaeologists-discover-a-mosaic-floor-fr\
om-the-roman-era-in-bosnia-200810223808

Not sure if we've mentioned this Imago Urbis project before:

http://www.i-dome.com/flash-news/index.phtml?_id_articolo=12930-Imago-Urbis-racc\
oglie-e-racconta-la-storia-di-Roma.html

They're still poking around that temple of Augustus where the
Res Gestae were found:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=156584&bolum=100

Latin is on the rise in Wales:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education-news/2008/10/22/school-spreads-the-w\
ord-on-latin-class-91466-22085616/

... and in Rocktown:

http://www.rocktownweekly.com/rocktown/profile.php?AID=2715

What James O'Donnell is up to:

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/9070.html

A Cleopatra rock opera is in the works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/movies/25arts-AROCKMUSICAL_BRF.html

More coverage of that virtual tour of Koln:

http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-1501.htm

More coverage of that late Roman 'palace' in Turkey:

http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/ancient-roman-palace-excavated-in-turkey-\
200810223807
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021094216.htm

More coverage of that temple of Isis from Bulgaria:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72903§ionid=3510212

More coverage of laser-cleaning the Acropolis:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/10/20/08/greek-scientists-use-lasers-clean-\
acropolis

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Claims that the 'Russians' were the first to do a pile of important
things (shades of many a Star Trek episode?):

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72896§ionid=3510212

Interesting Neolithic 'engraving' from Denmark:

http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article585168.ece

An 11th century spindle adorned with Runes from Reykjavik:

http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=313919

Learning from a Viking burial:

http://www.newkerala.com/mn/a-2147.htm

... and the Vikings apparently brought mice to Britain as well:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/01/the-vikings-brought-another\
-group-of-invaders-to-britain-mice/

Plans are afoot to search for St Edmund (sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/6jvh6u

Some gold studs from Stonehenge were (re)discovered in a desk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7684300.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3242724/Britains-most-im\
portant-archeological-discovery-found-in-desk-drawer.html

Can't remember if we've mentioned this Stonehenge 'hedgehog' before:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081021-stonehenge-toy.html

Other finds found in the search for Hull's first Carmelite friary:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Dig-finds-delight-but-ancient.4612417.j\
p

Are the Jelling Stones threatened?:

http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article587048.ece
http://politiken.dk/kultur/article586722.ece

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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"Megalithic" burials from near Nagpur:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Nagpur/Megalithic_burial_sites_found/articles\
how/3616745.cms

Evidence of a long lost people from the Philippines?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081024/sc_nm/us_philippines_archaeology_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27359564/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=artifacts-discovery-might

The high tech search for Khan's tomb:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017081030.htm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A very old awl (and other items) from Indiana:

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081020/NEWS/810200358
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021214301.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/545592/?sc=rssn

Finds from various periods found at a dig at the first mayer
of Petersburg's house in Battersea:

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-23-0204.htm\
l

Latest from the Hunley:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_re_us/confederate_submarine

An African 'spirit bundle' from Annapolis:

http://www.examiner.com/a-1648379~UMd_archaeologists_find_African__spirit_bundle\
_.html
http://www.physorg.com/news143803691.html
http://www.huliq.com/11/71073/archaeologists-find-unique-early-us-relic-african-\
worship
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021120755.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/23/healthscience/snarti.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/science/21arch.html

Digging in Horseshoe Cave (Montana):

http://www.physorg.com/news143990149.html
http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=6402

Interesting finds from the Gore Place dig (Mass.):

http://tinyurl.com/5t8jgx

The Society for Georgia Archaeology was talking about recent
finds:

http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/680/public/news931113.html

Renovating the NYPL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/arts/design/23ouro.html

Restoring a very old flag:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/nyregion/connecticut/26flagct.html

Review of David Reynolds, *Waking Giant*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Winik-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence from mummies  of Tiwanaku 'drug' use:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081022-drug-mummies.html

A heckuvalotof Olmec stone whistles:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/ancient-mesoamerica\
-news-updates-2008_13.html

More coverage of 'drug' use in the early Caribbean:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081020093410.htm
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuId=5&ContentID=103508
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/ncsu-nsf101508.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4969360.ece
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/1020/1

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

National Geographic has some video coverage of those recently-
found temples in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081020-temple-video-ap.html

cf:

http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=19000
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The French are complaining about Agincourt:

http://tinyurl.com/5m3ffh (Telegraph)

On the origins and spread of TB:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017085214.htm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/15/humans-have-hosted-tubercul\
osis-bacteria-for-at-least-9000-years/

In case you've ever wondered about those claims about Eskimo
words for snow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7671137.stm

Elitism v populism in the history of US politics:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/19/INUG13DOB2.DTL

... and New York Times' endorsements:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/23/opinion/20081024-endorse.html

Some very early recordings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/music/26waki.html

More on St. Gall putting its manuscripts online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/books/18libr.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Review of assorted Horror genre novels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Rafferty-t.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/travel/26hours.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Clamping down on the sale of looted Afghan art:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/21/baafghan121.xml

A bust in Athens ... with a twist:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hP9484PRBD4UgbEOl8gG6FynGVyA

Some stolen British miniatures were traced to Toronto:

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=531c5987-70b3-4819-982\
6-6ff175e546d5

Thieves are targetting Japan's Buddhist statuary:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3239231/Thieves-target-Japa\
ns-Buddhist-statues.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
On the source of copper for some early American pennies:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27350917/
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/512084.html?nav=742

Some Knights of Malta coinage was recently purchased:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081013/local/bov-buys-rare-coins-of-\
the-knights


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Pompeii and the Roman Villa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24pomp.html

Julius Caesar:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26829
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Julio/Cesar/reconquista/Roma/elpepucul/20\
081022elpepucul_8/Tes

Byzantium:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle4981050.ece
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUvvjNlt8Unb-EtzAMxrrIp2aEOQ

Lazio/Etruscans:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-22_122262022.html

Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6961253&maindocimg=4285621&s\
ervice=98

The Philippe de Montebello Years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24phil.html

The Getty has acquired a couple of Cipriani bronzes:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty22-2008oct22,0,7925403\
.story

Datca jumps on the repatriation bandwagon:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=156623&bolum=101
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=118308

How the current economy is affecting museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20muse.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24voge.html

... and auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/design/21arts-SLOWARTSALES_BRF.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/arts/design/25arts-SOTHEBYSSUFF_BRF.html

Assorted antiques news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24anti.html

DaVinci's Codex Atlanticus is mould-free:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_sc/eu_italy_da_vinci_codex_1

Iraq's National Museum will remain closed for a couple more
years:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5C8UdpS353mnOY8XD-WESGCoF9AD93UD6T00

Athens acquires an El Greco:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/design/24arts-ANELGRECOFOR_BRF.html

One of those brushfires came rather close to the Getty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/arts/24arts-BRUSHFIREQUE_BRF.html

Review of Sharon Waxman, *Loot*:

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20081024_karl_e_meyer_on_sharon_waxman\
s_loot/

... this is sort of a review of that too, I think:

http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/855063.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Cato:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/theater/reviews/24cato.html

Persian music:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/music/20kalh.html

Tallis Scholars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/music/20tall.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Avraham Biran:

http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-biran26-2008oct26,0,3199871.story
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Date: Sun Nov 2, 2008 2:21 pm
Subject: explorator 11.28

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Barnea Selavan,
Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Elie Bennett,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Rick Pettigrew, Bob Heuman, Patrick Swan, 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
================================================================
On big-nosed Neanderthals:

http://tinyurl.com/6ro5dz (NS)

On the fire/out-of-Africa connection:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/thuo-foo102608.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081026/sc_nm/us_science_fire_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49p23s-us-fire/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of malaria in a couple of mummies:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27345796/

National Geographic has put up a feature on human sacrifice at
Abydos:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html

Recent finds suggest Izmir was inhabited much, much earlier than
previously thought:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=118950

Drought has allowed archaeologists another shot at excavating
Mehr Ali Tepe before the reservoir fills up:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=181286

Plenty of coverage of a study of the DNA traces of the Phoenicians:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7700356.stm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/31/ancient-phoenicians-may-be-forgo\
tten-but-not-go-2/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_sc/sci_phoenicians_4
http://www.startribune.com/science/33610564.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27460517/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081030-phoenician-dna-genographi\
c-missions.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/30/healthscience/genes.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/america/SCI-Phoenicians.php

Piles of coverage of (and spins being put on) the discovery of a
shard purporting to bear the earliest example of Hebrew writing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7700037.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_sc/israel_ancient_inscription_7
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081031/NEWS/81031015
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/31/earliest-hebrew-writing.html
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/natInt/story.aspx?storyid=74914&catid=288
http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/161568/
http://www.kptv.com/education/17854053/detail.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/middleeast/30david.html
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10859629
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Ancient_Hebrew_text_found_in_Israel/art\
icleshow/3657797.cms
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-38657.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445132,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/155015
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27455148/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/30/africa/30david.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/news/ML-Israel-Ancient-Inscription.php
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/30/israel.ancient.text/?iref=mpstoryv\
iew
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJfa-QD2MQYwlFeOwLk5hERiUkOAD9451SUG0
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128174
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/68634/Diggers-find-ancient-Hebrew-text

cf. http://www.elahfortress.com/index.htm

... which came close to eclipsing claims of the possible discovery of
King Solomon's mines:

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/10/27/the-real-life-king-so\
lomon-s-mines.aspx
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008318312_apscikingsol\
omonsmines.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/10/29/Ancient_copper_mines_date_to_Solomon/\
UPI-17921225254394/
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38067/title/Return_of_the_kings
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081028-king-solomon-copper-mine-\
missions.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/28/king-solomon-mine.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5026509.ece
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-solomon28-2008oct28,0,13327\
62.story
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38067/title/Return_of_the_kings
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027174545.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444286,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/6p5b3b (NS)
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/43/16460
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Archaeologists_May_Have_Stumbled_Upon_King_Solomo\
ns_Legendary_Mines_27586.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/uoc--ks102308.php
http://www.physorg.com/news144345677.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/545692/

A list of upcoming digs in Israel:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Archaeological_Exc\
avations_Israel_2009.htm

Susa appears to be bordering on development:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=181187

More coverage of that early TB case:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017622973&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Recent finds near Persepolis:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73317§ionid=351020105

Finds from various periods at Tyre:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=97308

A First Temple water tunnel beneath Jerusalem:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128152
http://www.forward.com/articles/11873/
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225199599844&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1032812

Plans are afoot to rebuild the Artemision in Selcuk:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=118819

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)
================================================================
Trojan (!) sword from Peperikon?:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1474064382

A Roman altar from Dalheim:

http://station.lu/newsDetails.cfm?id=22109

The latest feature on the Archaeology Channel looks at the
Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Scientists are studying the 'earthquakeproofness' of the Acropolis:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20081031-0618-eu-greece-acropolis-earth\
quakes.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iokZ8Sd3sACnxEjAc8jLaDKicCuAD945GD9G0
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D945Q1R81&show_article=1&catnum=-1

Surveying recent restoration projects on the Acropolis:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6988709&maindocimg=6988227&s\
ervice=100

All about the Hippocratic Oath:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7654432.stm

Latin learning with your iPod:

http://www.carteretnewstimes.com/articles/2008/10/28/ara/tech_talk_and_innovatio\
n/7141.txt

Latin is thriving in a couple of Minnesota schools:

http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_10831284

Classics Day at Texas Tech:

http://www.dailytoreador.com/home/news/2008/10/30/LaVida/Carpe.Classics.Day-3515\
008.shtml

What Robin Osborne is up to:

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/908762

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/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
On the DNA front, Oetzi is apparently unlikely to have any
modern descendents:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030123829.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081030/sc_nm/us_iceman_children_1
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
3347

Interesting talk on Viking burial practices:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5019976.ece

Possible Norman ring find:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/Does-ring-found-in-field.4647825.jp

Digging through Martin Luther's garbage:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0%2C1518%2C586847%2C00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/27/martin-luther-protestantism

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
On civic officials and their 'scrolls' in the Warring States
period:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200810/30/t20081030_17233065.shtml
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200810/30/t20081030_17233049.shtml

Evidence of a major tsunami hitting India some 700 years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7697482.stm

An escape tunnel for Chinese emperors?:

http://www.haber27.com/news_detail.php?id=15250

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 making Meadowcroft Rock Shelter into a major tourist
attraction:

http://www.projo.com/travel/content/TRV-MEADOWCROFT_11-02-08_0VBR95E_v10.119032a\
.html

Interesting 'arsenal' in the 'Mardi Gras' shipwreck:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6084688.html
http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/161239/

Some legal aspects of 'home archaeology' in Louisiana:

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081102/LIFESTYLE/81102\
0335

Review of David Fischer, *Champlain's Dream*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/books/review/Boot-t.html

Review of George Herring, *From Colony to Superpower*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/books/review/Joffe-t.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
The latest temple find from Peru housed a 'spider god':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081029-peru-temple.html

An "enigmatic" Maya/Olmec sculpture from Guatemala:

http://www.guatemala-times.com/archeology/takalik-abaj/484-new-maya-olmec-archeo\
logical-find-in-guatemala.html

Opeddish thing taking inspiration from the collapse of the Maya:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/28/climatechange-population

More on the diversity at Macchu Pichu:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081027-machu-picchu-diverse.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
================================================================
Very nice/extensive feature in the Guardian on 100 artworks to see
before you die:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/1000-artworks-to-see-before-you-die

... and one in the Times on Claude Levi-Strauss:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5035934.e\
ce

An amazing restoration of a Raphael:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081028/sc_nm/us_italy_raphael_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49r01m-us-italy-raphael/

I thought we had this 'evidence of Robinson Crusoe' story a few years
ago:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029105803.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7703375.stm

They want to break up daVinci's Codex Atlanticus:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-10-28_128277593.html

On the slave trade and wild rice evolution:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027152539.htm

In case you're in need of some post-Hallowe'en cleaning:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/garden/30haunted.html

On Proust and Art (or vice versa):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02kenn.html

Item on rare books (with slideshow):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/education/edlife/rarebks.html

Thoreau the climatologist:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/28/healthscience/28walden.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_sc/sci_walden_pond
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96206248

Some letters of George III to William IV have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/5nuxa9 (Telegraph)

On the history of hedges:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3259098/Competitors-turn\
-bushes-into-barriers.html

Cardinal Newman's bones are missing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7672099.stm

Does a Led Zeppelin reunion count as 'ancient news' now?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/arts/music/29arts-MOSTOFLEDZEP_BRF.html

Review of Martin van Creveld, *The Culture of War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/books/31book.html

Review of Russell Shorto, *Descartes' Bones*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/books/review/Rosen-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/books/chapters/chap-decartes-bones.html

A couple of other reviews of crime novels which might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/books/review/Crime-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=157068&bolum=117

Tikal:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4740776a34.html

Compiegne:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/travel/02hourfrom.html

Beijing:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/travel/02globe.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology (Nov/Dec):

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

Biblical Archaeology Review (Nov/Dec ... includes a piece on
the Oded Golan trial):

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

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 Iraqui antiquities were seized in Lebanon:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5huJJcZpDncm2aOsIjiG8zYQFOJwg
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-10-29%5Ckurd.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/29/content_10274767.htm

Spain has returned some purloined Peruvian artifacts:

http://www.pr-inside.com/spain-returns-looted-peruvian-artifacts-r883223.htm

More returns of Nazi loot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/31arts-PAINTINGSTOL_BRF.html

Surprisingly little coverage of the apparent 'collapse' of the prosecution's
case against Oded Golan:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/29/MN3U13QHMD.DTL

cf. more reviews of *Unholy Business*:

http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=112898
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/747091.html
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/33535904.html
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/entertainment/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-11/12\
253163485890.xml

More on efforts to protect Afghan antiquities:

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/6918.aspx

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A major Roman coin hoard from Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7699953.stm
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/10/30/treasure-hunter-unearths\
-6-000-gold-coins-91466-22154391/
http://www.mk-news.co.uk/mknews/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=361917

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Aztec World:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26873

Van Dyck:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/01/arts/melik1.php

Picasso and the Masters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/design/28abro.html

Jan Lievens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31liev.html

Some bronze statuary from Yemen is being sent to the Louver (sic)
for restoration:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news167241.htm

Ambitious plans for restoring Afghanistan's cultural heritage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/30/afghanistan-taliban-heritage-museums\
-kabul

Latest Acropolis Museum coverage:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/10/28/acropolis.museum/index.html

Coverage of the Print Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31fair.html

Turner's Temple of Jupiter is coming to auction:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26866

... as is an interesting chapter in the history of longitude:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5041907.ece

Maybe early reports of good auction results were premature:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02voge.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
The Grand Inquisitor:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/theater/reviews/30grand.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Frank W. Walbank:

http://tinyurl.com/59xmwp (Independent)
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/10/29/prof-frank-walba\
nk-64375-22140701/

Herbert Mitchell:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/nyregion/29mitchell.html
cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/29/nyregion/30collector_index.html

Albert Boime:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02boime.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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Redating the "Middle Stone Age" in Africa:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081031102630.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of press for what appears to be the earliest "shaman"
burial found in Israel:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/11/04/2008-11-04_tomb_raider_digs_\
up_witch_12000yearold_s.html
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=f909fac6-b967-48ca-95cd-7c379e06\
55e4
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081104/sc_nm/us_shaman_israel_3
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38287/title/An_ancient_healer_reborn
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L3146544.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/04/2409313.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27520235/
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38287/title/An_ancient_healer_reborn
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034241.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3382395/Israeli-arch\
aeologists-unearth-12000-year-old-shaman-skeleton.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/thuo-ekh110208.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081104-israel-shaman-missions.ht\
ml
http://tinyurl.com/5wccnf
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081104-israel-shaman-missions.ht\
ml
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/10/31/0806030105.abstract
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4a251k-us-shaman-israel/

Interesting First Temple Archer Seal:

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=41161
http://www.israntique.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1442&\
module_id=#as

More on the collapse of the Oded Golan case:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225199631832&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/42064/
http://christianpost.com/article/20081104/-jesus-brother-ossuary-forgery-case-co\
uld-be-dropped.htm

... which seems to have a different spin for Hershel Shanks:

http://bib-arch.org/news/forgery-trial-news.asp

... and reviews of *Unholy Business* are still making the rounds:

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/529746

Byzantine (and earlier) finds from Abu Dhabi:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081106/FRONTIERS/190583377/1036/NEWS

Richard Freund is on a book tour:

http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2008/11/06/news/news07.txt

They're bringing up the 'Jewish Temples never existed' thing again:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80382

A somewhat late report on that 'oldest temple' find at Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/09/worlds-oldest-temple-disc_n_142417.html

More coverage of the oldest Hebrew writing:

http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705260832,00.html
http://en.rian.ru/video/20081105/118126080.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081103-hebrew-text.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/081103-hebrew-text_big.\
jpg
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103091035.htm
http://hunews.huji.ac.il/articles.asp?cat=6&artID=932
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24582858-15084,00.html
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=f69fd099-e1db-4ae4-a929\
-5650576c7e9a

More coverage of the Solomon's Mines thing:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9643/divulgacao-cientifica/as-minas-do-rei-\
salomao.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)
================================================================
In case you wondered what caused the brouhaha in the online
Classics community this week, some UK Councils have banned
Latin in official documents etc.:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/03/europe/EU-Britain-No-Latin.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082427/The-councils-ban-Latin-words-eli\
tist-discriminatory-confuse-immigrants.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3362150/Councils-ban-elitist-and-discrimi\
natory-Latin-phrases.html

Rewind Rome is a 3D show designed to recreate life in ancient
Rome:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27578723/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5107562.ece
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4753332a28.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20081106/tts-uk-italy-history-bed299d.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_en_ot/eu_italy_virtual_rome_1

Colchester is neglecting its Roman heritage:

http://tinyurl.com/62zhf9

Latin Fest at ISU:

http://www.indianastatesman.com/news/2008/11/03/Campus/Isu-Students.Celebrate.La\
tin-3520232.shtml

What Adrian Goldsworthy is up to:

http://www.vmi.edu/NewsCenter.aspx?id=30049

More on studying earthquakes' effect on the Acropolis:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/03/acropolis-earthquakes.html
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/11/02/scientists_installin\
g_system_to_measure_quake_effect_on_acropolis
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081101/ap_on_sc/eu_greece_acropolis_earthquakes_5

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/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A Bronze Age village from northern Romania:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/06/content_10313743.htm

... and a Bronze Age round house from Bognor Regis:

http://www.bognor.co.uk/news/BronzeAge-house-unearthed.4642123.jp

A metal detectorist has found a 700 b.p. brooch:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2008/11/05/700-year-old\
-silver-brooch-discovered-61634-22185531/

Early report of a couple of shipwrecks found by Odyssey Marine
off the coast of Ireland:

http://www.tampabay.com/SearchForwardServlet.do?articleId=893512

More on Oetzi's lack of modern relatives:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE49T83Z20081103?feedType=RSS&fe\
edName=scienceNews

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Trying to recreate the Polynesian 'migration route':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081106122244.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-42244.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/du-6tt110608.php
http://www.physorg.com/news145189704.html

Tying the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties to climate change:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-42034.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/nov/07/ancient-cave-yields-clues-to-chinese\
-history/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_sc/sci_monsoon_in_history_1
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081106165233.htm
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27577705&afid=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7714019.stm

A Wei or Jin Dynasty tomb in a Xiangfan construction site:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200811/04/t20081104_17273533.shtml

An ancient 'ritual site' from Java:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-39876.html

Some ancient pottery was found in Viet Nam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/11/811890/

Interesting finds from a dig in Darwin's Chinatown:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/06/2412537.htm?section=entertainment
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24611771-5005962,00.html
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/11/07/14425_ntnews.html

China's second last emperor was apparently poisoned:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/04/china.emperor/index.html

A somewhat late report on the Sleeping Buddha find:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20081109-171150/New-Bamiyan\
-Buddha-find-amid-destruction

More on early tsunamis:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/11/03/Evidence_of_ancient_tsunamis_is_found\
/UPI-68921225727779/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Remnants of 17th century Santa Fe:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27578984/

Civil War era artifacts are expected in a dig near Heinz Field (Pittsburgh):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27559043/

Some shipwrecks (with an interesting photo) from Lake Erie:

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081103/NEWS16/811030333

Digging the Lenape Meadow site:

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20081102/LIFE/811020318/1005/NEWS01

Review of a couple of books about New York (aimed at children):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/books/review/McMullan-t.html

... and a couple about Lincoln (also aimed at children):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Holleran-t.html

Review of Fred Kaplan, *Lincoln: Biography of a Writer*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/books/07book.html

Review of David Reynolds, *Waking Giant*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/books/03gord.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of "Robinson Crusoe's" campsite:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5052265.ece

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 Archaeology Channel is having a pledge drive:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The five 'oldest acts' of environmental destruction by humans:

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn15102-the-five-oldest-acts-of-envi\
ronmental-destruction.html

Are books vanishing?:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/11/03/conway

Creating a hero out of a legendary pirate:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/06/europe/journal.php

Recreating 17th-century violins:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/nyregion/08violin.html

More celebrating of Levi-Strauss:

http://www.forward.com/articles/14517/
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/11/05/054146.php

Review of Jonathan Bate, *The Soul of the Age*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/04/bobate104.xml

Review of Jed Perl, *Antoine's Alphabet*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Woodward-t.html

Review of Julia Keller, *Mr Gatling's Terrible Marvel*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Byrd-t.html

Review of Carlo D'Este, *A Life of Winston Churchill at War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Kagan-t.html

Review of Peter Ackroyd, *Thames: A Biography*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Seymour-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Switzerland is returning a pile of (mostly Etruscan) purloined
artifacts to Italy:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27577230/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_re_eu/eu_switzerland_stolen_antiquitie\
s_1
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/303787.html
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/581053.html?RSS=general_news
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081105/lf_nm_life/us_greece_vatican_marbles_1
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.2671048729
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-eu-switzerland-stolen-\
antiquities,0,1348963.story
http://www.pr-inside.com/swiss-to-return-stolen-antiquities-to-r899519.htm
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27577230&afid=1
http://wwrn.org/article.php?idd=29507

Some nice photos of those Iraqi antiquities recently recovered in
Lebanon:

http://ancientworldbloggers.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-photographs-of-iraqi-antiq\
uities.html

Israeli police have solve a 25 year old clock caper (Marie
Antoinette had pockets?):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/naaman-diller-israeli-clock-thief

Ancient coins recovered at Sana'a airport:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news167660.htm

Iran is going to help Iraq recover some stolen antiquities:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=74111§ionid=3510212
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-36299420081103
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-11-05%5Ckurd.htm
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8708160812
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7010963&maindocimg=7007170&s\
ervice=96

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
More coverage of that Roman hoard from Wales:

http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/roman-age-coins-hoard-declared-a-treasure\
-trove-200811074829

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/travel/globespotters/?p=599

Vanished Vistas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07anti.html

The Vatican has given Greece the loan of a piece of Parthenon
sculpture:

http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=9021&type=UTTM
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/33915804.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/05/arts/EU-Greece-Vatican-Parthenon.php
http://www.pr-inside.com/vatican-returns-parthenon-fragment-to-r898124.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE4A46A820081105
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29274/vatican-loans-greece-piece-of-the-parthe\
non-frieze/

Auction results continue to be disappointing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07auction.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/design/06auction.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/arts/design/04auction.html

Reviews of Sharon Waxman, *Loot*:

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1856543,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Eakin-t.html

The St Louis Art Museum is putting expansion plans on hold:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/in-tough-times-st-louis-museum-dela\
ys-expansion/

Feature on some 'repatriation' situations:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7709000/7709332.stm

A first hand account of the Charge of the Light Brigade is coming
to auction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/nov/05/charge-light-brigade-memory-sale

... as is a recently-rediscovered Ricci:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/03/us.art.ap/index.html

Spain is returning three items to Egypt:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/07/content_10319331.htm
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/240459,egypt-to-restore-three-pharaonic-\
antiquities-from-spain.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Oedipus Cycle:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/theater/reviews/03oedi.html

Appropriate donation to the Globe:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/donation-sends-shakespeare-plays-ho\
me-to-the-globe

Pondering the titles of musical compositions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/music/06titl.html
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Derek Brewer:

http://tinyurl.com/5rlh6n (Independent)

Avraham Biran:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5075445.ece

Michele Piccirillo:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Necrologicas/Michele/Piccirillo/arqueologo/elpepi\
nec/20081105elpepinec_1/Tes
================================================================
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 we're learning from a homo erectus pelvis:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7721999.stm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/11/14/Ancient_pelvis_provides_development_c\
lues/UPI-68771226705139/
http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/165153/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/nsf-ts111408.php
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20081113/tsc-prehistoric-pelvis-hints-at-early-hu-e1\
23fef.html
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4ac7vn-us-humans-erectus/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of a new pyramid find at Saqqara:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_new_pyramid_5
http://www.journalinquirer.com/articles/2008/11/14/national_and_world/doc491b0fc\
647234402816297.txt
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-egypt-new-pyramid,0,134\
7988.story
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-egypt-new-pyramid,0,385632.sto\
ry
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Another-pyramid-found-in-Egypt.4683971.jp
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6227686
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081111/wl_mideast_afp/egyptarchaeologysaqqara_0811\
11150816
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ad86jJoD_ZAQ&refer=muse
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_CtA25QMzcxzHVQgwjUPuUWsW1A
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404701656&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.pr-inside.com/new-pyramid-discovered-in-egypt-r909106.htm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008380189_pyramid12.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=27661580

An 8th-century church from Palmyra:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7729718.stm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452705,00.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-church15-2008nov15,0,320568\
0.story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_archaeology_6
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/13/news/ML-Syria-Archaeology.php
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/536235
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwGnuNEt72SrvtycjGP7mMxxekig
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27697179&afid=1
Nice restoration of an Egyptian coffin damaged during a student
protest four decades ago:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/11/14/ot-coffin-081114.html
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=0d589112-8fb8-4860-8\
cb4-9ad1c685179a

Latest finds from the Istanbul subway dig include some 8000 b.p. 'urn
burials':

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10320203.asp?scr=1

Phoenician pottery from Lebanon:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_archaeology_1
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/336152.html
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/587573.html
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g1u_xj9pZT9RSBZF9Irdyijn-8Dg
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AB3QW20081112
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081112/sc_nm/us_lebanon_phoencians_discovery_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4ab3qw-us-lebanon-phoencians-discovery/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2130777/posts

Sidebarish sort of thing on sites in Iraq:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_saving_babylon_glance\
_1

... which was probably associated with this piece on concerns for Babylon:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27669499/
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/336150.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27669499&afid=1

cf:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7729064.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7728566.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081111/lf_nm_life/us_babylon_iraq_1

Lots of press attention for a gold earring find from Jerusalem:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1444\
&module_id=#as
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j3P7fAQzODTFc4LJb-CqZ65oEXDAD94C09480
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036366.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5126985.ece
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=27643317

I think we've mentioned this Jerusalem wall find before:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110190511.htm

A Hebrew seal find from a few weeks ago is getting more coverage (if
you poke around the various discussion groups, the authenticity of this
one is being questioned):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110174056.htm
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1442\
&module_id=#as
http://www.israntique.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1442&\
module_id=

They've banned mining at the salt mines where those 'salt men' were
recently found:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/nov/1082.html
http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=780163
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=182132

Using facial reconstruction to determine the 'whiteness' of ancient Hebrews:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1037262

Latest in the construction disputes in Jerusalem:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404730662&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1036990

... and more might be on the horizon:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1037001

ENIM (a new? journal) might be of interest:

http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/egyptologie/enim/index.php?page=uk

More coverage of Gobekli Tepe and the temple there:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-46478.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452365,00.html

More on that shaman burial:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081111/wl_time/12000yearoldshamanunearthedinisrae\
l

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 o' coverage of Google Earth's ancient Rome layer:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/7725560.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/12/rome-reborn-italy
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/ancient+rome+goes+onlin\
e/2826162
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24649840-2,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.physorg.com/news145772630.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/design/13anci.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1085065/When-Rome--simply-log-Goo\
gle-ancient-city-restored-glory.html?ITO=1490
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081112/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_italy_virtual_rome_1

... and the press has latched on the the Philogelos, linking it
to Monty Python's parrot sketch:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27719686/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081114/od_nm/us_comedy_1
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/5147048/ancient-greeks-preempted-dead-pa\
rrot-sketch/
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24649561-5005962,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3085389.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7725079.stm

A major necropolis near Himera:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-11-11_111302237.html
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/37168

Remains of some sort of Roman settlement near Cumbria:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/sundaymirror/2008/11/16/romans-homes-dug-up-115875-\
20898624/
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-11-13-Archaeologists-hail-remarkable\
-Roman-settlement-uncovered-during-pipeline-work

An ancient Greek cheer returned to Yale this week:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/26505

Voting ... Roman style:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97052250

On Cynisca of Sparta:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=80809

Something odd about this Roman head:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_455439417

I think we've had this info about plans for Pompeii before:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-11-11_111295404.html

They're fixing a chunk of Hadrian's wall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7726783.stm

... and they've given Roman Bath a cleanup:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/bristol/7727306.stm

An update of sorts on Knidos:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10319389.asp?scr=1

Latin alive and well at Casper Academy:

http://casperstartribune.net/articles/2008/11/11/news/casper/68a1db7d67a2fc12872\
574fe00012606.txt

What Randall McNeil is up to:

http://www.lawrentian.com/home/news/2008/11/07/News/Mcneil.Awarded.Grant.To.Rese\
arch.Civic.Wisdom-3526848.shtml

What Jody Valentine is up to:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1078787.html

More coverage of 3d Rome:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_history_2
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/viewmedia/63712

More coverage of Macrinus' tomb:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/found-tomb-of-the-gladiator-general/2008/10/17/\
1223750338923.html

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt*:

http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/11/14/cleopatra-last-queen-of-egypt/

Review of Robin Lane Fox, *Travelling Heroes*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/08/greeks-travelling-heroes-review

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/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Is a musketeer's grave in the Netherlands?:

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=3b5ab778-b816-40f3-82c0-0\
4e7f1eeff9b
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5158581.ece

The Mary Rose was the victim of a French cannonball:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3462882/Mary-Rose-sunk-b\
y-French-cannonball.html

An Iron Age 'town in the sky' from Wales:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/11/10/iron-age-town-in-the-sky\
-is-revealed-91466-22216971/

Learning from an excavation at a Georgian monastery in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=42456&archive=1

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Oracle bones from Shaanxi:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/cdaudio/2008-11/12/content_7197855.ht\
m

More coverage of the 'Sleeping Buddha' find:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081109/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanarchaeologybuddhi\
smunrest_081109053934
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20081110/1011191.htm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A bison kill site in Kentucky:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20081109/NEWS01/811090621/1008/NEWS01

Highway construction in Tucson leads to an 'ancient village' find:

http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=9327157
http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=61\
124

Debunking the Grave Creek stone:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/11/11/sci_lepper11.ART\
_ART_11-11-08_B7_2TBQ22C.html

Rebuilding lost Shaker architecture:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081106122247.htm

Pondering the architectural history of Buffalo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/arts/design/16ouro.html

Renovations of the Thomaston Opera House are in the works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/nyregion/connecticut/16spotct.html

Review of a couple of books about Andrew Jackson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/books/10masl.html

The NYT reran Booker T Washington's obituary:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0405.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A 1000 b.p. burial from Bolivia:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20081111f3.html

The Mayan path to the underworld?:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/11/america/mexico.php
http://timesunion.com/ASPStories/Story.asp?StoryID=737964&LinkFrom=RSS
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008371546_mayan10.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081109/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/la_mexico_mayan_afterworld\
_1
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i0X_X9vW5eX27jlXl8wH_UFcp3UgD94BHVEO0
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hndpQxBUQp098lzi92DbOcv6bgjA
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/nov/09/scholar-finds-mayans-buried-highway-\
through-hell/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081110-maya-road-to-hell.html?so\
urce=rss

The environment and Maya decline:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2008-11-08-mayan-decline_\
N.htm

Have archaeologists been ignoring smaller islands in assembling the
archaeological record?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030144633.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Looks like Odyssey Marine might be at the center of some more
disputes:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/12/ireland-spain-shipwreck-ownership-di\
sput

What to do with a liberal arts degree:

http://www.trinitynews.ie/index.php/opinion/editorial/337-so-what-exactly-are-yo\
u-going-to-do-with-your-degree

A response to Dava Sobel's *Longitude* research:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e5136819.ece

Why a Stradivarius sounds like a Stradivarius:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5izn8gvYUaR62V5oSj9wabWC5rljg

cf:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96708334

Opeddish thing on Lewis Hyde and Thoreau etc.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/magazine/16hyde-t.html

Deyrolle Taxidermy has an interesting history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15taxi.html

Review of Alex Beam, *A Great Idea at the Time*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/books/review/Campbell-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/world/europe/italy/road-to-ruins/2008/11/06/12\
25561023718.html

Mexico:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-jaina16-2008nov16
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A father-son team are charged with taking items from a site in
Nevada:

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/state&id=6507455&rss=rss-kfsn-art\
icle-6507455
http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/1013798.html

An Italian doctor is moonlighting as a tombarolo:

http://lanazione.ilsole24ore.com/pisa/2008/11/14/132483-denunciato_medico_tombar\
olo.shtml

Nice article on questionable artifacts held by museums etc.:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/magazine/chi-mxa1109magazineplunderpg10no\
v09,0,953532.story

A Russian church has been stolen (!):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_fe_st/odd_russia_stolen_church

A reward is being offered in the wake of a major theft of Scots coins:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/7705730.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/3371434/50000-rewar\
d-for-stolen-coin-collection.html

More reviews of *Loot*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111303225.\
html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Lots of coverage of a Celtic coin hoard found in the Netherlands:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/health/story/526820.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/13/europe/EU-Netherlands-Celtic-Coins.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5150734.ece
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27701894&afid=1
http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/international/story/492505.html

A stone coin find from Korea:

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200811/news11/20081111-11ee.html

A metal-detectorist has found some silver pennies:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/7719768.stm
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/news/Treasure-hunter-finds-ancient-coins/article-469\
803-detail/article.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/11/14/tutankhamun.pharaohs/index.html

Babylon:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/10/bababylon110.xml
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16512

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/11/12/rom-s-d\
ead-sea-scrolls-2-000-years-old-always-controversial.aspx

Darwin's beard:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3453194/Hair-from-Charle\
s-Darwins-beard-goes-on-show.html

Beautiful Science:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96957080

Princess Poetua's portrait is going on view:

http://tinyurl.com/6akywe (Telegraph)

Some 'new' stuff is going on display at Athens' National Archaeological
Museum:

http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_11/11/2008_102037

Latest in the Peru-Yale Macchu Pichu brouhaha:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27644373&afid=1

Assorted New York gallery shows:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/13/arts/20081114-gallery-tour.html

Canada has cancelled plans for a national portrait gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/arts/10arts-CANADACANCEL_BRF.html?ref=arts

... but the newly-renovated Art Gallery of Ontario has reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15gehr.html
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
US Fraternal Organization chronology:

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/fraternalism/chronology_fraternal_or\
ganizations_america.htm
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Thomas Dunn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/arts/music/10dunn.html

Frank Walbank:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5141125.ece
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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*Here's our double issue after our little hiatus last week; some
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Anastasia Tsaliki,
Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Pat Wary, Ross W. Sargent, Richard Price, Rick Pettigrew,
Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Sally Winchester, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Did rock-throwing humans lead to Neanderthal demise?:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16091-were-neanderthals-stoned-to-death-by\
-modern-humans.html

Paleolithic remains from the Persian Plateau?:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/nov/1272.html

More coverage of that homo-erectus-had-bigger-heads-than-we-
thought story:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/129586.php
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/11/14/2419711.htm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/11/14/homo-erectus-women-had-big-\
brained-babies-new-fossils-suggest/
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AFRICA
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Yet another Libya-is-promoting-archaeology piece:

http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnJOE4AH0GQ.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Brief item on a pile of sites being found in Iran:

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0811268191183810.htm

Interesting inscription referring to a 'separable' soul from
Turkey (ca. 800 B.C./B.C.E.):

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/081120/ironage.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18soul.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/546481/?sc=rssn
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Turkish_monument_to_soul_found/articles\
how/3729747.cms
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/546481/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/uoc-fmr111408.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118071136.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/healthscience/18soul.php

Latest from Persepolis:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-47123.html

A possible identification of the 'screaming mummy':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081121-screaming-mummy-ramses-mi\
ssions.html
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14803762

Major tomb find at Herod's winter palace:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_sc/ml_israel_herod_s_tomb_6
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-herod22-2008nov22,0,4465791\
.story
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038946.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AI7S920081119
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-herod22-2008nov22,0,4263286.story
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/palestine-antiquities/lange-text
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081119-herod-tomb-paintings-miss\
ions.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid\
=1226404780993
http://hunews.huji.ac.il/articles.asp?cat=6&artID=935
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128463
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AI7S920081119
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-ml-israel-herods-tomb,1,178643.s\
tory

What Simcha's up to:

http://media.www.unogateway.com/media/storage/paper968/news/2008/11/18/News/Bibl\
ical.Archaeology.Conference.Highlights.naked.Archaeologist.Lost.Tomb-3549868.sht\
ml

Not sure if we've mentioned this spin on the gate found at the Elah
Fortress (David, Goliath and all that):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081121-biblical-city.html
http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=10882
http://jta.org/news/article/2008/11/16/1000999/new-discovery-adds-to-evidence-of\
-king-david-era-fortress
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/17/MNS314468L.DTL
http://www.lemonde.fr/aujourd-hui/article/2008/11/15/quelques-signes-pour-le-roy\
aume-de-david_1119113_3238.html

A documentary reviewish sort of thing featuring the opinions of William
Dever:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/18/1679514.aspx

Nice interviewish/feature thing with Nina Burleigh about 'Biblical
forgeries':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97088171&ft=1&f=1012

... and she did an OpEd piece for FT:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-burleigh29-2008nov29,0,1546\
620.story

A 'hidden room' might shed light on how the pyramids were built:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081114-pyramid-room.html

Latest movie on the Archaeology Channel is about saving Turkey's sites:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A 3000 b.p. royal burial from Kurdistan:

http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc112708KNC.html

Recent finds from Sir Bani Yas Island:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081124/NATIONAL/350055070/1042

A Byzantine church beneath the Aqsa mosque?:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404750389&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

A major Christian church find from Palmyra:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7729718.stm

More on that pyramid find at Saqqarah:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/17/mideast/cairo.php
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/923/he1.htm
http://www.thehindu.com/seta/2008/11/20/stories/2008112050071700.htm

cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/world/middleeast/17cairo.html

More on 'rescuing' Babylon:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/lifestyle/10379838.asp?scr=1

More on that earring find:

http://www.currentargus.com/ci_10951792 (nice photo)

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 6500 b.p. village from Greece:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g4jZbDsX1hX1WWX21cpDIXicBq9gD9\
4IOSM01
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE4AJ6TH20081120
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008414971_apeugreeceprehistoricvillage.ht\
ml

On the 'credit crunch' of 88 B.C.:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/28/credit-crunch-roman-republic-lect\
ure

A Scythian village from Hungary:

http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/scythian_vil/\
?cHash=cc250b6869

A Roman tombstone (and assorted other finds) from Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7741835.stm

Roman items found during pipeline construction in Penrith:

http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/1.273476

Some important Basque/Roman finds have been declared fakes:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/24/basque-pottery-euskara-eliseo-gil

Another Thracian chariot has turned up:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/21/chariot-bulgaria.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081122/ap_on_re_eu/eu_bulgaria_ancient_chariot_7
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20081121-173647/Ancient-bro\
nze-chariot-unearthed
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24694644-663,00.html
http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/News/21_11_B-9.htm
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/near-perfect-bronze-covered-thracian-chariot-un\
covered-near-nova-zagora/id_33143/catid_70
http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=224043
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/21/chariot-bulgaria.html (pics)
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=27842457&afid=1

... and another Thracian funeral mound was in the news as well:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1173142230

They want to spoil the view in Agrigento:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gas-plant-to-overshadow-greek-tem\
ples-1026327.html

A new survey of Hadrian's wall has revealed plenty:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7747922.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archeology/3463005/Hadrians-wall-bo\
osted-economy-for-ancient-Britons-archaeologists-discover.html
http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/latest-north-east-news/New-finds-at-Hadri\
an39s-Wall.4722086.jp

The Lapis Niger will soon be open to the public:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5216946.ece
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=35424&sez=HOME_ROMA&ssez=CULTURASPET

What Georgia Bonny Bazemore is up to:

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=17998

What Nicolle Hirschfeld is up to:

http://tnjn.com/2008/nov/22/archaeology-professor-scrutini/

They're talking about rebuilding the Colossus of Rhodes again:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/17/colossus-rhodes-greece-sculpt\
ure
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/3470056/Colossus-of-Rhod\
es-to-be-rebuilt.html

Nice feature on the trireme:

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2008/11/17/life/doc492156e977cfc250849868.txt

In case you missed the Classical side of Obama's oratory:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2008/nov/26/classics-bara\
ckobama

... and the Ajax/Philoctetes stuff on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97413320

Latin's back at St Colman's College:

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5377&Itemid=38

... and it's alive and well at Bowdoin:

http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-11-21§ion=3&id=1

Harvard's pondering a Classical Civ course:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525584

KJCL in the news:

http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/603201.html

Roman finds from Macedonia/FYROM:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/867

Honours for Brian Tibbets:

http://www.knox.edu/news-sports-and-events/news-archive/october-2008/tibbets-awa\
rd.html

More on parrot sketch origins:

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/542011

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

Environmental Archaeology in Greece:

http://environmentalarchaeology.wordpress.com/

Archaeology Newsletter:

http://archaeologynewsletter.wordpress.com/home/

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A Neolithic 'family  burial' from Germany:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7733372.stm
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_11009182?source=rss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081117/ap_on_sc/sci_first_family_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081117/sc_livescience/graverevealsviolentd\
eathofancientfamily
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1086703/Buried-arms-Scientists-di\
scover-remains-worlds-ancient-nuclear-family.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=27770938 (best
headline)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081118/sc_nm/us_family_ancient_3
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081117-stone-age-family.html
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4ag73p-us-family-ancient/

A massive prehistoric fort from Wales:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081121-underground-fort.html

A very nice torq (and other items being highlighted by the PAS folks):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7738208.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7736759.stm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aqf5EkqPy6_E&refer=uk
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087549/Pictured-The-350-000-Iron-Age-ne\
ckband-discovered-man-metal-detector.html
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23588968-details/Gold+(and+silver\
)+diggers+on+the+increase/article.do
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iSuGw6hC7xpPHFC-AN_ikKxlycRQ
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5192991.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3484377/Meta\
l-detector-mans-350000-Iron-Age-neckband.html

A 'dugout' from the Black Sea is going to be dated:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n161249
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/29/international/i08553\
5S93.DTL&feed=rss.business
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/384073.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzpycJTrdJgQgqJJEC_a9-G7LPiAD9\
4ON9VG0
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27968305/

Plans to save Monasterboice crosses:

http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/news/crumbling-christian-crosses-1544384.html
http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/news/concern-over-crumbling-state-of-high-cro\
sses-1544405.html

The Guiness folks have an appreciation for history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/garden/27irish.html

More on that musketeer burial in the Netherlands:

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6061687/Fourth-musketeer-burie\
d-in-the-Netherlands

Medieval pottery from Daventry:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Medieval-pottery-found-in-car.4735915.jp

More on the demise of the Mary Rose:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7733296.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A marijuana 'stash' find from China:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081127/marijuana_tomb_0811\
27/20081127
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/544684

On red clothing in China 15000 b.p.:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-11/26/content_7243951.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/26/content_10417287.htm

China has restored Qianlong's 'retreat':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97103030

Traces of a 21000 b.p. road in a cave in Viet Nam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/11/815533/

Nice feature on the 'Loulan Beauty':

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/asia/19mummy.php

... and what DNA tests on the Uighurs reveals:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97219868

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Reclaiming some Canadian history (from the US):

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/11/25/engraving-archeo\
logy.html

Five longhouses found at Tillsonburg:

http://www.tillsonburgnews.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1299379

Objects from the 1700s and 1800s found during road construction in
Connecticut:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458904,00.html

Hopes for Native American relics being found prior to bridge
construction in Pennsylvania:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_598782.html

Hopes that a recently-found Lincoln letter is authentic:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/copy-of-famed-lincoln-letter-tu\
rns-up-in-dallas-1022842.html

Recent research into High Bank Works:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/11/25/sci_lepper25.ART\
_ART_11-25-08_B6_8SBUEDE.html

Interesting story behind Elkader, Iowa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/us/22beliefs.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A mummy burial from near Machu Picchu:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/382874.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=110657
http://www.livinginperu.com/news-7979-peru-ancient-tomb-found-near-machu-picchu
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iuHal0Lolx7btjq2PEMzJG2f9nBAD9\
4O8PH80
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=TGINc/USD1M=

Remains of a slave ship from off the Turks and Caicos:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hMoDPgTe3KFmjauvEOkPLwIAf-cAD9\
4M6ELO1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8092504
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081125_trouvadore.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081126/sc_nm/us_shipwreck_slaves_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081125/ap_on_sc/sci_slave_ship_found

Pondering the Calakmul hegemony:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

A pair of Sican elite burials:

http://enperublog.com/2008/11/28/two-sican-elite-found-at-the-bosque-de-pomac-ar\
chaeological-site/

A 5500 b.p. settlement near Nazca:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=321205&CategoryId=14095

On Amazonian 'super dirt':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081119-lost-cities-amazon.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
================================================================
Brief item on the use of a portable scanner to detect when a
manuscript is in need of help:

http://tinyurl.com/5exye5 (NS)

The Europeana site (competition for Google books) crashed within
hours of opening:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7742390.stm

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/business/worldbusiness/20digital.html

They've positively identified the remains of Copernicus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7740908.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/20/copernicus.remains.dna.ap
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/11/remains-of-cope.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24684266-12335,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_re_eu/eu_poland_copernicus_12

... and a possible portrait of Lucrezia Borgia:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle5227710.ece

I guess we always have to have some sort of Holy Grail story every few
weeks:

http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=24353&option=zenit

Pondering how the guy who made the first 'America' map knew what he
knew:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/16/AR2008111601753.\
html
http://wwrn.org/article.php?idd=29591

The latest on Levi-Strauss:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/28/europe/france.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/books/29levi.html

Folks might be interested in the NY Times list of 100 notable books for
2008:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/100Notable-t.html

How 'epidemics of fear' work:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121151918.htm

The archaeology of homelessness:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081124130956.htm

Pondering Van Dyck's portrait of Charles I:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/22/art

... and why humans go to war:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/11/13/is-war-a-product-of-evo\
lution-or-just-a-flaw-of-man/

101 assorted factoids about history:

http://www.chortler.com/37322101historyfacts.shtml

Feature on the 'landmarking process' in NY:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/arts/design/26landmarks.html

Marketing Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/arts/design/22dire.html

Evacuation Day:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/celebrating-225-years-since-the-bri\
tish-left-town

Caravaggio was a 'photography' pioneer:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-11-28_128287919.html

National Book Awards coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/books/20awards.html

An early islamic inscription might shed light on a mystery about
the Qur'an:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/18/islamic-inscription.html

Still trying to figure out why a Stradivarius is so good:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081108164152.htm

On the journalistic origins of (American) Thanksgiving:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117220543.htm

Assorted famous pirates:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/11/21/f-pirates-whoswho.html

They're going to rebuild the Berlin City Palace:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/arts/29arts-ARCHITECTCHO_BRF.html

Lord Renfrew talks about his favourite things:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e3817064-bc1b-11dd-80e9-0000779fd18c.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/spectrum/Travel-Terrific-Tripoli.4719874.jp

Florence:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/travel/30Florence.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Herschel Shanks thinks archaeologists should 'compete' with looters:

http://bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=34&Issue=6&ArticleID=2

Some smugglers were sentenced in India:

http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=636094

A smuggling ring in Bethlehem was broken up:

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2429208,00.html

The UK has returned a stolen icon to Greece:

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20081119-101944.h\
tml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/20/greece-art-byzantine-icon-her\
itage
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_20/11/2008_102310

Nice feature on looting in the West Bank:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/palestine-antiquities/lange-text

A nazi-looted Matisse has been returned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/arts/design/25arts-STOLENMATISS_BRF.html

A major bust in Dubai:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081126/NATIONAL/363920777/1001/SPORT
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/539642-dubai-customs-seizes-largest-ever-hoard-of\
-smuggled-iraqi-antiquities
http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Police_and_The_Courts/10262740.html

A bust in Foggia:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Regioni/Puglia.php?id=3.0.2730062067

Some book vandalism by an Iranian academic:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/21/british-library-sues-iranian-academi\
c

As were a father-son team working in Nevada:

http://www.fox40.com/pages/landing/?blockID=135151&feedID=190

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some Civil War coins fetched a nice price:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7753412.stm

Coin Weights:

http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/C/coinweights.htm

On the double eagle gold coin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/arts/design/25coin.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Mysteries of the Ancient Ukraine:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=27447
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/results.asp?id=1153
http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/trypilia.php

Darwin's Beard:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/7728307.stm

Lives and Deaths of Popes:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/6125811.html

Return of the Gods:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hgaew66Gs3MOB5oPuCv6CgypRP4gD9\
4NF84G0
http://www.smb.museum/smb/print/ed.php?objID=10803&typeId=10&type=print&lang=en

Herculaneum:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/28/europe/EU-Italy-Herculaneums-Moment.ph\
p

Scales:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/neighborhood/northland/story/885114.html

Dead Sea Scrolls (Rome):

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/27/dead-sea-scrolls-to-be-displayed-in-\
rome/

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/27/news/ML-Israel-Dead-Sea-Scrolls.php

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20081127_ap_deadseascrol\
lstobedisplayedinrome.html

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/6135858.html
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/35194289.html

Dead Sea Scrolls (NY):

http://www.forward.com/articles/14616/

Mantegna:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/22/arts/melik22.php

Bessie Potter Vonnoh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/nyregion/connecticut/23artsct.html

Beyond Babylon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21baby.html

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21love.html

Martin Ramirez:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21gall.html

David Cox:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/arts/design/27cox.html

Museum of Islamic Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/arts/design/24muse.html

Calabrian Treasures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/arts/design/28anti.html

The Cleveland Museum of Art is returning a number of items to
Italy:

http://www.star-telegram.com/238/story/1048654.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081119/us_nm/us_italy_usa_art_1
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aY1kbE9D9T8I
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_looted_antiquities_2
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD9\
4I41DO0
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=27357
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20arti.html

... while Egypt faces problems trying to get that mask back from
the St Louis MOA:

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081124/twl-ml-egypt-mummy-mask-1be00ca.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_mummy_mask_1
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/372403.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/24/mideast/loot.php
http://www.thestar.com/article/542210

cf:
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/stlog/2008/11/the_ka-nefer-nefer_egyptian_mask_\
saint_louis_art_museum_zahi_hawass.php

Ethiopia is raising its voice again about some artifacts in the BM:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gx-udzPpp6fCfHOBTCPwLwCApQKQ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/ethiopia/3506307/\
Ethiopian-president-demands-return-of-looted-treasures-held-in-British-museums.h\
tml

... while a British cleric is suggesting a painting in the National Gallery
belongs to a cathedral:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/arts/29arts-ARCHBISHOPSA_BRF.html

The director of Harvard's Peabody Museum wants to return some
jade to Mexico:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_us_mayan_artifac\
ts_1
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/362111.html

What's happening at the David Museum:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404753788&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

A dispute over a Mexican art collection has sent it into hiding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/arts/design/27gelm.html

A fragment from the oldest copy of the Gospel of John is coming
to auction:

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLS451557.html
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE4AR4KP20081128

An important dental manual is coming to auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3477732/Guide-by-King-Ge\
orge-IIIs-dentist-up-for-auction.html

The Penn Museum is dealing with financial problems:

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/11/26/N\
ews/Financial.Crisis.Forces.Firing.Of.18.Penn.Museum.Researchers-3562067.shtml

... while the renovated National Museum of American History is reopening:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97214627
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21hist.html

Donatello's David has been restored:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-11-28_128290042.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/donatellos-david-gets-a-face-lift/

More generally bad news about auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/arts/design/17auct.html

... but museums seem to benefit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21voge.html

Assorted antiques news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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La Vida es Sueno:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/theater/reviews/17vida.html

Richard Egarr:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/music/20egar.html

Rape of Europa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/arts/television/24euro-webonly.html
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Bayside Historical Society:

http://www.baysidehistorical.org/exhibits.html
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OBITUARIES
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Masud Azarnush:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/nov/1274.html

Michele Piccirillo:

http://tinyurl.com/697xa7 (Independent)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/2008/nov/12/religion

Bill Putnam:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lives-remembered-bill-putnam-103382\
3.html

Avraham Biran:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/25/archaeology-avraham-biran-israel-o\
bituary

John North:

http://tinyurl.com/5ub67x (Independent)
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

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Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Rethinking the "long road to modernity":

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/1201/1

Some very interesting Upper Paleolithic artifacts from Russia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7758986.stm
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/7482/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1603615/artistic_statues_from_stone_age_dis\
covered_in_russia/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/12/04/2008-12-04_magical_stone_age\
_artifacts_discovered_i.html

Oetzi's last meal:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081201101700.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists are rushing to save Bronze-Age sites in Iran prior
to flooding by a dam:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/dec/1019.html

A number of 'missions' will be digging Kuwait:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093222798

Another high tech look at the DSS:

http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3491\
&Itemid=2

... somewhat similar:

http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/16020.html

A Byzantine-era bathhouse from Zikhron Ya�aqov:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1447\
&module_id=#as

A report on the 2008 excavations at Old Nisa:

http://parthia.com/nisa/nisa2008.htm

... and Khuzistan:

http://parthia.com/khuzistan/

More coverage of the Khirbet Qeiyafa excavations:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601104&sid=agxYhKgpSBws

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 very interesting burial of an adherent of the cult of Cybele:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pagan-transvestite-priest-died-af\
ter-ritual-castration-651922.html

A major stretch of the Via Aemilia Scaura has been found:

http://www.instablog.org/ultime/35270.html

A 'lamp factory' from near Modena:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/05/roman-oil-lamps.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Millennia-Old-Roman-Oil-Lamp-Factory-Discovered-9\
9444.shtml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28072109/

A study of stalagmites in a Jerusalem cave is being used to link
climate change to the decline of the Roman Empire:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081204/sc_nm/us_climate_cave_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b35zo-us-climate-cave/

Not sure if we've mentioned the dig at Romuliana here yet:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-53837.html
http://www.zeenews.com/past/2008-12-01/487514news.html

Not sure how 'new' this is, but we appear to have more precise
dating for the Thera eruption:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7093622&maindocimg=1564949&servi\
ce=100

Fair bit of coverage of the 'first credit crunch' in 88 B.C.:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/28/credit-crunch-roman-republic-lect\
ure
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/worlds-first-credit-crunch-may-ha\
ve-occurred-in-88-bc_100125631.html

Another chunk of the Parthenon has been returned:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE4B15XZ20081202
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7094688&maindocimg=7093180&s\
ervice=10
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=29&art_id=nw20081203084110201C760975&set\
_id=1
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29669/greece-gets-another-piece-of-the-parthen\
on/

A hall in the palace of Diocletian has reopened to the public:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081204/utravel/travel_notes_bath_1

One of the items coming up for auction at Sotheby's next week is
a very nice statue of Hadrian:

http://www.iberianet.com/articles/2008/12/04/news/doc4936c519c5d7a891721782.txt

Is Classics at UIC threatened?:

http://www.chicagoflame.com/home/news/2008/12/01/Features/Future.Of.Classics.Dep\
artment.Uncertain-3563115.shtml

... while Harvard is adding a ClassCiv option:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525679

Bonnie Tinsley's Latin fever:

http://www.dnj.com/article/20081204/NEWS07/812040308/1002/rss

... while Karen Guy is doing her part too:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1318136.html

I think we've mentioned this 4th century shipwreck from Cyprus before:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Chipre/estudia/barco/hundido/epoca/Alejan\
dro/Magno/elppgl/20081122elpepucul_6/Tes

HBO's 'Rome' seems to be in the 'we're not dead yet' category:

http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSTRE4B00VV20081201
http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/books/story.html?id=2865b145-1952-401\
6-929c-c64010beaa76

Some NJCL coverage:

http://www.flowermoundleader.com/articles/2008/11/30/flower_mound_leader/news/20\
fm.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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A Bronze age amber necklace from Mellor:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7758075.stm
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1603468/rare_necklace_is_found_in_north_wes\
t_england/index.html

Not sure where to classify this rock-cut tomb from Malta find:

http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsID=56589&newscategory=36
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081207/local/ancient-rock-cut-tombs-\
discovered-near-bulebel

A Medieval bishop's palace from Ross:

http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/3933481.Medieval_Bishop_s_palace_discovered_in\
_Ross/

... and a nearby Medieval library site is to be excavated:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/7749925.stm

The search is on for a treasure-laden Armada shipwreck:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/07/scotland-divers-armada-treasure

More coverage of that dugout 'canoe' find in the Black Sea:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008451092_bulgaria30.html
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_11105163

Review of Piers Brendon, *The Decline and Fall of the British
Empire*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/books/review/Wheatcroft-t.html

Review of Tony Spawforth, *Versailles*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Sullivan-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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A petroglyph might be evidence of a hitherto unknown species of
bat (reading a lot into this one, no?):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7765136.stm

The conservation v. tourism debate in Pakistan:

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=150357

More coverage of that marijuana 'stash' from a Chinese tomb:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/03/marijuana-stash.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460425,00.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008466900_chinapot04.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1315403,CST-NWS-pot05.article

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A rather late repeat of the Paisley Caves thing:

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/dec/04/dna-secrets-caves-latrines-yield-\
new-evidence-abou/

Joseph Smith's journals are being published:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081202/ap_on_re_us/mormon_press

Promoting and reporting on a dig in the Kaibob National Forest:

http://www.williamsnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=8375

Interviewish sort of thing with James McPherson about Lincoln
during wartime:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/books/22linc.html

Interesting slave-trade database project:

http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/National/a/a/SlaveryDatab\
ase

Review of George Herring, *From Colony to Superpower*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/books/24fren.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Dental evidence suggests ancient folk in Peru ate well:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081201200121.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/02/teeth-peru-diet.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/stri-efd120108.php
http://www.physorg.com/news147374126.html
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/12/01/7600746-ap.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081202/lima_peru_081202/20\
081202
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/12/02/Ancient_teeth_suggest_Peruvians_ate_w\
ell/UPI-56831228241812/
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/2DA71FA2\
6FD761E98625751400057917?OpenDocument
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_sc/sci_ancient_teeth;_ylt=AhNeu33l5WuE\
0q_h2Wib5nQiANEA

On pre-Columbian BBQs at grave sites:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081205-tribal-party-missions.htm\
l

Recent finds from the Peralta Archaeological Zone:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

Not sure if we've mentioned this 'lost city' of 'cloud people' find before:

http://tinyurl.com/5v768u (Daily Mail)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/international/2008/December/Lost-City-Discov\
ered-in-the-Andes.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/3545998/Lost-city-of\
-cloud-people-found-in-Peru.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20081202/tsc-expedition-uncovers-ancient-citadel-c2f\
f8aa.html
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=Z9ELyIpRUcc=
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=333756

More coverage of that burial near Machu Picchu:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081201-machudiscovery-video-ap.h\
tml
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-54145.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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A Brown University team is getting a major grant to apply
technology to archaeological reporting type things:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/bu-nab120308.php

Not sure how to classify this piece on assorted bits of wisdom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/opinion/01opart.html

A couple of historians are splitting the Kluge prize:

http://chronicle.com/news/article/5599/2-historians-will-split-1-million-kluge-p\
rize

Pico della Mirandola and the divine gift to mankind:

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/11/hbc-90003927

... and some evidence of Tycho Brahe's supernova:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_on_sc/sci_tycho_s_supernova
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7762939.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-SCI-Tychos-Supernova.html

This week's DNA focus looks at the Etruscans (but seems to have
some dating problems?):

http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ejhg2008224a.html

... and the Moors left their DNA traces on the Iberian Peninsula:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5289283.ece
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/05/healthscience/05genes.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/science/05genes.html

A bit out of our time period, but a nice use of ground penetrating
radar to find some WWII graves:

http://www.military.com/news/article/searchers-say-139-marine-graves-found.html?\
col=1186032325324&ESRC=dod.nl

... and a bit out of our subject matter, but folks might be interested
in the origins of the cold virus:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120073115.htm

... and the water levels in Venice:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7758831.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-EU-Italy-Venice-High-Water.html

On Oscar Wilde's letters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/design/05voge.html

Megavision's digital imaging projects:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-camera2-2008dec02,0,7568720.story

Johns Hopkins is going to have an archaeology program separate from
anthropology:

http://flathatnews.com/content/69631/archaeology-stay-part-anthro-dept

More coverage of technology use to warn when manuscripts are
deteriorating:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-54130.html

Review of five tomes debunking 'pseudohistory':

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122853070522984883.html

Review of Barry Cunliffe, *Europe Between the Oceans*:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812/editors-choice

Review of Susan Pinkard, *A Revolution in Taste*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Weber-t.html

Review of Ann Greene, *Horses at Work*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Crain-t.html

Review of Ian Kelly, *Casanova*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/Bentley-t.html

Review of Les Standiford, *The Man Who Invented Christmas*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/Harrison-t.html

Review of Sarah Vowell, *The Wordy Shipmates*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Heffernan-t.html

Review(ish) of Dennis Danielson, *Paradise Lost*:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/paradise-lost-in-prose

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
================================================================
Milas:

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=160839
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some items taken by a US helicopter pilot have been returned to
Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/arts/design/04arts-EGYPTREGAINS_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_en_ot/antiquities_returned_3
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Ancient-39stolen39-artefacts-head-back.4760824.jp
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081204/stolen_antiquities_\
AM_081204/20081204
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12042008/news/worldnews/pathetic_urn_ings_for_stolen\
_artifacts_142601.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/03/america/NA-US-Antiquities-Returned.php
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gNtQL5ZQChyNJWZpTyV\
f0bToN0SA

Nice OpEd piece on some recent high-profile forgery cases in Israel:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/jan/20/heritage.museums

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A hearing on a hoard of Roman coins found in Shropshire:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/12/04/hearing-over-roman-coins-found-in-field\
/

Some 15th century coins from the Netherlands:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/11/27/Excavations_uncover_15th_century_coin\
s/UPI-53151227820920/

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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Worshipping Women:

http://www.onassisusa.org/occ.art.htm

The Myth of Antiquity:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/results.asp?id=1102892

The Last Emperor's Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/design/05liao.html

Choir of Angels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/design/05ange.html

A preview of the upcoming antiquities auction at Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/design/05anti.html

... while Iraq managed to get Christie's to withdraw some disputed
earrings (with some dating problems in some of these):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1204/p07s02-wome.html

... and that fragment of the Gospel of John was withdrawn from
Sotheby's:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKTRE4AR4KP20081203

Generally, on both auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/design/05anti.html

The National Academy is selling a couple of items to bolster its
finances:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/arts/design/06acad.html

Nice OpEd piece (by Sharon Waxman) about what the new head of
the Met will be dealing with:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/opinion/01waxman.html

... and an interview with Sharon Waxman:

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/12/sharon_waxman_o.html

More/ongoing coverage of the dispute between the St Louis Art
Museum and Egypt over that mummy mask:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29633/st-louis-and-egypt-battle-over-gold-mumm\
y-mask/

Last week we mentioned some layoffs at the Penn Museum due to
economic vagaries ... here's a different spin:

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/12/04/N\
ews/Museum.Firings.Not.Due.To.Economic.Crisis-3569218.shtml

How not to run a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/design/05moca.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Thais:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/arts/music/07davi.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Cornelius Vermeule:

http://tinyurl.com/6bmwxw (BGlobe)

Helmut N. Friedlaender

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/books/01friedlaender.html

Dorothy Sterling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/05sterling.html

Dorothea Rabkin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/05rabkin.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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Dorothy King,
Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Christopher Crockett,
Hernan Astudillo, John Lock, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
Bob Heuman, 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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Neanderthals had tools with handles:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39291/title/Tools_with_handles_even_m\
ore_ancient

The last Neanderthals?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209221750.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some Neolithic pottery from Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78359§ionid=351020105

Was the Sphinx originally just a lion?:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3687646/Sphinx-may-have-\
had-the-face-of-a-lion.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1092827/How-Sphinx-face-mighty-li\
on-time-pyramids.html

Excavating a statue of Rameses II in Sohag:

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-12-13-voa1.cfm

Some perfume vials from Magdala are getting a lot of attention
(and a predictable spin):

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2440841,00.html
http://www.ansa.it/opencms/export/site/notizie/rubriche/inbreve/visualizza_new.h\
tml_843579437.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKTRE4B96DB20081210
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081210/sc_nm/us_religion_perfume_2
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-12-10_110304839.html

The Persian Gulf's appellation is apparently safe:

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0812121268164907.htm
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0812127973195743.htm

Not sure if there's anything new in this Gobekli Tepe piece:

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/gobekli/pp120908c.shtml

Latest Noah's Ark 'theory' has the deluge beginning near Mt Carmel:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728130015&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

Egypt is going to use satellite technology to locate sites:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/10/content_10485003.htm
http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=1248012945

Another version of that 'hoaxes from the Holy Land' piece:

http://www.modbee.com/1592/story/523553.html

... and Hershel Shanks' reaction:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-shanks9-2008dec09,0,1568317.story

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 prehistoric bronze find from Greece:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081211/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_prehistoric_treasure
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008494998_apeugreeceprehistor\
ictreasure.html

Evidence of Illyrian piracy? Or trade?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208092151.htm

A Roman temple (and more?) in Notts:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Historic-Roman-temple-Southwell/artic\
le-532523-detail/article.html
http://www.thelondonnews.net/story/440396

... see also:

http://www.southwellarchaeology.org.uk/

An update on the dig at the Villa delle Vignacce:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081210/lf_nm_life/us_italy_baths_1
http://www.vancouversun.com/newsletters/Rare+artifacts+uncovered+Roman+baths/105\
7354/story.html
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE4B94VX20081210

Evidence for a major lamp 'factory' in Modena:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-57311.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/05/roman-oil-lamps.html

Nice feature on the Antikythera mechanism:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026861.600-decoding-a-2000yearold-comput\
er.html

cf:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2008/dec/11/antikythera-first-computer
http://www.opednews.com/articles/2-000-year-old-Greek-Gear-by-sometimes-blinded-\
081213-717.html

... and the metastory is one of Discover's top stories for
the year:

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/077

... and a nice feature on the final hours at the house of Julius Polybius:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/11/pompeii-vesuvius-escape.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-Vesuvius-Buried-A-Pompeian-Family-99940.shtml
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=28178601
cf: http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00008942.html

A big survey project is coming to Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=42976&archive=1

... not sure if this is related:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?LocalNewsID=877

Big plans for a lightly-researched site near Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/lakesguide/3965048.Secrets_of_important_R\
oman_site_set_to_be_unveiled_/

Some Roman remains from Malaga are to be reburied:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19207.shtml

... while money is being sought to preserve Colchester's circus:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART63189.html

Another Latin-is-alive-and-well piece:

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/franklinpark/news/1322071,fp-latin-121008-s1.article

Review of Garry Wills, *Martial's Epigrams*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/Coates-t.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)
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An 8000 b.p. piece of 'string':

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3113518.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3681143/Archaeologists-f\
ind-piece-of-string-dating-back-8000-years.html

The big news this week appears to be the discovery of an Iron
Age skeleton with a bit of brain still inside the skull:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/health/7777385.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081212081722.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/12/brain-ancient.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-britain-ancient-brain,0\
,4671948.story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081213/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_ancient_brain_10
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013393442

A piece on the discovery of the remains of a trio of grand masters of
the Teutonic knights in Poland is also getting a fair bit of coverage
(although I didn't know dna could be used for dating ... something's
amiss there):

http://www.thestate.com/world/story/619600.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/411049.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gCQ-s1dnaPHHQAgGtLysAZYXMkcQD9\
519N9G0
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008503025_apeubritainancientbrain.html

A possible medieval church find in Oxfordshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7775313.stm

More on that Black Sea dugout:

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2008/nov/29/eu-bulgaria-ancient-boat-1129\
08/?zIndex=17175

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================

More on Chinese cannabis:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/11/ancient.cannabis/index.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/marijuana-stash.html (photos)

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A mystery shipwreck in Lake Ontario:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,466607,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081213/ap_on_re_us/schooner_discovered_2

Digging up a retail establishment in Delaware:

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081210/NEWS/812100370

Searching for remains of a steamboat in a Florida lake:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=125598&catid=\
3

A pre-construction dig near Pittsburgh has hit a 'snag':

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_601940.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
This one's interesting ... a collector has found an Aztec "codex"
hidden inside the statue of a 16th century bishop:

http://tinyurl.com/5b45qs (El Pais)

Stone "idols" from Cuba:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081209-columbus-cuba-archeology-\
missions.html

Maybe Machu Picchu was never 'lost':

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/08/america/journal.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/3687696/Machu-Picchu\
-was-not-so-lost-after-all.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/so-was-the-lost-city-of-machu-p\
icchu-ever-lost-1058004.html

A pile of hieroglyphs from Campeche have been deciphered:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=2687
(scroll down)

Who built the Huacalpalco pyramid?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081208-mexico-pyramid.html

More coverage of that pre-Inca Sican burial from Peru:

http://www.euronews.net/en/article/08/12/2008/ancient-peruvian-burial-site-unear\
thed/

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
================================================================
Celebrating John Milton:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97831678

Latest video on The Archaeology Channel looks at life in a
Tibetan monastery:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

If you have the patience, you can open this pdf and go to page 7
to find an interesting article on computer analysis of Old English
texts:

http://wheatoncollege.edu/Quarterly/Q2009Winter/Dimple2009winter.pdf

More on Tycho's supernova:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-SCI-Tychos-Supernova.html

More on genetics in Spain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/science/05genes.html

Review of Paul Mariani, *Gerard Manley Hopkins*

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/Bailey-t.html

Review of Sherry Jones, *The Jewel of Medina* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/Adams-t.html

Review of Marjorie Garber, *Shakespeare and Modern Culture*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/books/11masl.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
================================================================
Angkor Wat:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08348/930406-37.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml

Easter Island (not really sure where to put this one):

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/12/asia/atease.php
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
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
================================================================
Another piece on the damage caused by U.S. troops stationed in
Iraq:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jvUpUKpfGU3mupF7Xpyb-WMQGQAg

cf: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=digging-ancient-iraq

... and another on the pillaging of sites in Israel:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128795

Interesting item on one of the guys recovering purloined pieces
of art:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7780059.stm

An interview with Sharon Waxman:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97920817

... and an interesting letter from W.V. Harris on these sorts of
things:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/opinion/lweb09vase.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A hoard of Roman coins from near Ellesmere has been declared
treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/6m9rtz

... and another (I think this one is different):

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=5869

Southern Gold Society:

http://www.southerngoldsociety.org/

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum:

http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Myth in Dali's Art:

http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/article933981.ece

Henry VIII:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/11/henry-viii-500-british-musuem

Bonaparte and Egypt:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/12/egypt-paris-exh.html

Andrew Crosse letters:

http://tinyurl.com/5ngs87 (Telegraph)

Carvers and Collectors:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=27805

The Mask of Lincoln:

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

Bellini:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/13/arts/conway.php

Magnificence of the Tsars:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/09/style/ftzar.php

The Master of Fl�malle and Rogier van der Weyden:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/arts/design/11abroad.html

The British Museum now has an on-line catalog:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/advanced_se\
arch.aspx

Egyptian Treasures (not the real title):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7773447.stm

Peru is officially suing Yale over those objects from Machu
Picchu:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12112008/news/worldnews/machu_men_sue_yale_for_loot_\
143649.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081210/us_nm/us_peru_yale_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4B966K20081210?feedType=RSS&f\
eedName=domesticNews
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/peru-sues-yale-get-back-artifacts-2414599

Not sure if we mentioned this 'new' Michelangelo crucifix four years ago; in
any event, it's now on display:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-12-12_112312519.html

Mismanagement at the Guggenheim?:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Guggenheim/oxida/mal/elpepucul/20081214el\
pepicul_6/Tes

A statue of Hadrian fetched a nice price:

http://www.iberianet.com/articles/2008/12/11/news/doc494009b129ca4084525888.txt

And in general, the antiquities auctions weren't that bad:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/13/arts/melik13.php

... and the Cleveland MoA was shopping:

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

The Met also has made some acquisitions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/arts/design/12voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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A Civil War Christmas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/theater/reviews/11civi.html

Lightning at our Feet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/arts/music/11ligh.html

Too Much Memory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/theater/reviews/13memo.html
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OBITUARIES
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Joseph Baumgarten:

http://sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=794

Warren Robbins:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/arts/design/10robbins.html

William H. Pierson:

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

Cornelius Vermeule:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/arts/design/09vermeule.html
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The Dig:

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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Brief item on evidence for homo habilis presence in South Africa:

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=61306ed1-8028-48eb-8187-d73\
61c6b4d94

Neanderthals couldn't handle the heat?:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3867382/Nean\
derthals-could-have-died-out-because-their-bodies-overheated.html
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AFRICA
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Some writing on some recently-found statuary from Sudan may help
decipher one one of Africa's oldest languages:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7786361.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28253896/
http://www.mysinchew.com/node/19312?tid=8
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081216/lf_nm_life/us_sudan_statues_1
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/5218357/sudan-statue-find-gives-clues\
-to-ancient-language/
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2442825,00.html
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLG432974.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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They've identified King Tut's father (turns out it is Akhenaten):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/17/king-tut-father.html

The Tomb of Cyrus has undergone some restoration work:

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8709290873

25 ancient houses have been unearthed at Meibod:

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0812157480192834.htm

I think we mentioned this necropolis near Palmyra before (but it
seems to be getting a pile of coverage now):

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-12-17_117288907.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/12/17/Ancient_burial_site_found_in_Syria/UP\
I-98991229548059/
http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/173504/
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-62194.html

A half shekel coin has been found on Temple Mount:

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/173897/
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/12/19/Ancient_coin_found_in_Temple_Mount_di\
rt/UPI-45891229706818/
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1048260
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728255435&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

BAR is still arguing for the authenticity of that ivory pomegranate:

http://www.bib-arch.org/news/news-ivory-pomegranate.asp

A new theory on where Noah's flood may have occurred:

http://cwnewz.com/content/view/494/2/

Too many tourists are visiting Petra:

http://www.ameinfo.com/178679.html

In case you missed NASA's APOD of Orion at dawn over Nemrut Dagh:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081216.html

More coverage of that Second Temple Jewish town find:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128880

More/different coverage of that 'King David tunnel' find:

http://www.newsok.com/edmond-students-dig-their-way-to-the-find-of-a-lifetime/ar\
ticle/3330930

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 big news this week (mostly in the German press, alas) is the
discovery of a battlefield in northern Germany which suggests the
Romans had a presence (of sorts) there in the late second/early third
century A.D.:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3877796,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596619,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596720,00.html
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/1215/2
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20081218075153715C\
499281
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iY8SwRu6dheaLnRSctQr8uOG-lAgD9\
5399Q01
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-germany-roman-battlefie\
ld,0,5422796.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-eu-germany-roman-battl\
efield,1,4853364.story
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view.bg?articleid=1139253&\
srvc=rssKALEFELD-OLDENRODE
http://www.theage.com.au/world/battlefield-relics-could-rewrite-roman-history-20\
081217-70q1.html
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20081211-16075.html
http://www.wlz-fz.de/newsroom/wissen/zentral/wissen/art680,757226
http://www.n-tv.de/1068870.html
http://www.borkenerzeitung.de/aktuelles/kultur/nachrichten/876525_Roemisches_Sch\
lachtfeld_in_Niedersachsen_entdeckt.html
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article2881449/Hier-metzelten-Roemer-die-Germanen-nied\
er.html
http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wissen_und_bildung/aktuell/1646011_Forsch\
er-entdecken-Schlachtfeld.html?sid=321a1a7ff8ee7cd2c090193edddafd7e
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news293934
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/16/romans-archaeology-germany-teutobe\
rg

A recreation of what Cleopatra really looked like:

http://chattahbox.com/science/2008/12/16/first-accurate-depiction-of-cleopatra-c\
reated/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3792872/Eliz\
abeth-Taylors-Cleopatra-nowhere-near-reality.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1095043/The-face-Cleopatra-Scient\
ists-recreate-true-image-legendary-beauty.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Cleopatras_first_true_image_recreat\
ed/articleshow/3845320.cms

Rome's city council wants some gladiatorial exhibitions:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5369754.ece
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/19/Roman_Coliseum_to_host_gladiator_events/U\
PI-22211229716747/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470047,00.html

This was actually found last year ... a Roman lamp from Spain depicting
a gynecological exam:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=323496&CategoryId=13003
cf (for a photo):

http://terraeantiqvae.blogia.com/2007/062001-aparece-en-leon-la-unica-lucerna-de\
l-mundo-con-una-escena-ginecologica.php

Interesting lead bars from off the coast of Ibiza:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215074650.htm

A Roman site has led to the redesign of a car park in Leicester:

http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-12-17-Roman-townhouse-find-leads-to-\
fundamental-re-design-of-30-million-Leicester-multi-storey

National Geographic is a bit late to the party with coverage of that
necropolis find
at Himera:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081217-himera-mass-grave.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/Italy-Greek-necro\
polis-photos/index.html

More coverage of the 'lamp factory' at Modena:

http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/ancient-roman-oil-lamp-factory-town-found\
-in-italy-200812166867

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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A 4000 b.p. necklace from a stone-lined grave:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081207210018.htm
http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/4000_year_old_amber_neckl\
ace_has_been_unearthed_in_england/

More finds from melting glaciers in the Alps:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7580294.stm

Depending on the time you read this, you might get to watch
the solstice at Newgrange:

http://www.servecast.com/opw/211208/index.html

More coverage of that 2000 b.p. brain find:

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081215/NEWS11/81215013

More coverage of the Black Sea dugout:

http://www.thelog.com/news/logNewsArticle.aspx?x=8825

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 swiss watch in a Chinese tomb ... hmmmmm:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1096959/Mystery-century-old-Swiss\
-watch-discovered-ancient-tomb-sealed-400-years.html?ITO=1490
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/76140/Tomb-raiders-baffled-by-Swiss-watch-fo\
und-in-ancient-tomb
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/4806/48/

The oldest depiction of a human face is threatened:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5337657.ece

The mysterious Oshoro Circle:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKTRE4BI5CH20081219

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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The "Ossabaw Cremation Pit" (Georgia) is very unusual/interesting:

http://gashpo.org/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=456
http://gashpo.org/Assets/Documents/Ossabaw_excavation_pr_rel.pdf
http://www.northwestgeorgia.com/statenews/local_story_352144343.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfQStkrqIhmV9BHRPQNIuUJom8EgD9\
55LSE80
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081219.wcremate1219/BNStory\
/Science/home
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/18315228/detail.html?rss=atl&psp=news
http://gpbnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/archeologists-announce-rare-find.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=28312638&afid=1

A native American burial near Fort Lupton:

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20081219/NEWS/812199994/-1/rss03

Remains of an ancient village in Sierra Vista (Arizona):

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2008/12/18/news/doc4949ed3b93b5a206231009.txt

Nice feature on Alice Beck Kehoe:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=alice-beck-kehoe

A Brooklyn convent is closing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/nyregion/17convent.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of that ancient Wari city find in Peru (various
spins being put on this one):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/7787053.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/archeologists-in-peru-unearth-a\
ncient-city-1201615.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081216/sc_nm/us_peru_archeology_1
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24820294-5013571,00.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-62017.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5361471.ece
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/17/2449513.htm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKTRE4BF7NY20081216

The source of Nazca ritual skulls:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39475/title/Taking_trophy_heads_close\
_to_home

A pile of bronze items from Cusco:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=6KnV5zLC+pI=

Some interesting petroglyphs from the Peruvian amazon:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=6k8AiqGRS88=

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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Archaeology is not as exciting as Indy makes it out to be:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008544164_archaeologist21.html

Milk through the ages:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98264977

Some sketches on the backs of some works in the Louvre have been
identified as daVincis by clumsy art historians:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bh3da-us-leonardo-louvre/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7791595.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3832831/Three-da-Vinci-sketches-discovere\
d-in-Louvre.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081218/sc_nm/us_leonardo_louvre
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/arts/design/19arts-SKETCHESMAYB_BRF.html

On Italy's cultural patrimony laws:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/arts/design/18abroad.html

A roundup of the 'holiday stuff' that we usually get this time of
year ... first, some "biblical myths":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/19/the-truth-behind-christma_n_152276.html

... on mistletoe:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1218/1229523050329.html

... on how ancient folk contributed to our modern customs (maybe):

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x466474172/Ancient-winter-festivals-contribu\
ted-to-our-holiday-customs

... on Chanukah:

http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/47394/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121901491.\
html

... on the connection between Mithras and St. Nick (maybe):

http://www.areawidenews.com/blogs/1215/entry/22856/

... on assorted Christmas accoutrements:

http://www.abilene-rc.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=55F50586-19B9-E2F5-4678A6\
270E99306D

... on historical hangovers:

http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/cures-for-the-inevitable/

Interesting item on US Army historians:

http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/12/18/15312-army-historians-unearth-yesterday-kee\
p-history-alive-for-tomorrow/

... and use of technology at a Camp Pendleton dig:

http://scoutnewspaper.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=658&Itemid=2\
85

The Battle of Hastings will soon be coming to the theatres:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article53\
75566.ece

An Easter Island statue has expressed a desire to visit Paris:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/easter-island-statue-to-make\
-a-pilgrimage-to-paris-1128215.html

Latest in the homo floresiensis saga:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217124418.htm

Something about pandemics, reforestation, and the Little Ice Age:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081218094551.htm

Review of Ingrid Rowland, *Giordano Bruno*:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/21/arts/IDLEDE20.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html

Review of David Dary, *Frontier Medicine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/books/17garn.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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Afrodisias:

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=161834

Sagalassos:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?nsr=0&shva=1#inbox/11e3d24ef17ac49f

Aachen:

http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/8222/History_tour_on_a\
_wet_day_in_Aachen.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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An Italian farmer was arrested when he tried to sell a number of
Etrusco-Corinthian artifacts he dug up on his farm south of Rome:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081218-art-video-ap.html
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/139954/Farmer-digs-up-ancient-sanctuary-in-Italy
http://iltempo.ilsole24ore.com/2008/12/17/965725-sequestrate_miniature_antiche_p\
rivato.shtml
http://iltempo.ilsole24ore.com/2008/12/18/966125-tesoro_laghetto_vicino_casa.sht\
ml
http://www.artelabonline.com/articoli/view_article.php?id=3308
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Cultura/?id=3.0.2825574941
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Police-Captures-Roman-Artifacts-Dug-By-Farmer-100\
399.shtml
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=28278047&afid=1

Italian police were also happy with a couple of other operations, which
brought in objects taken from the catacombs of St. Domitilla and
some 9th-11th century statuary:

http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE4BG5C120081217
http://notizie.alice.it/notizie/cronaca/2008/12_dicembre/17/beni_culturali_carab\
inieri_eccezionale_ritrovamento_archeologico,17264488.html

After a long legal battle, the UK is returning a purloined pharaoh statue
to Egypt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7791097.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3836319/Smuggled-ancient-sculpture-returns-to\
-Egypt.html
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/A-pharaoh-cop-as-smuggler39s.4810961.jp

Some elite Maya items were returned to Honduras from the Netherlands:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=323586&CategoryId=23558

Iraq has seized a pile of artifacts which were being smuggled out of
the country:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081216/lf_nm_life/us_iraq_artefacts_2

Indian police recovered a purloined idol and made some arrests:

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Dec182008/scroll20081218107497.asp?section=s\
crollingnews

Stupid people loot sites and then post a video of said looting on Youtube (duh):

http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/1489048.html?mi_rss=Latest%20News

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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India is getting a new currency museum:

http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/09/stories/2008120961712000.htm

Someone keeps putting a Liberty Eagle coin in a Salvation Army kettle:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98409333

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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Worshiping Women:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/arts/design/19wome.html
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/arts/ny-etmet1221,0,553108.story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_re_us/worshiping_women_exhibit_2
http://www.physorg.com/news149015590.html
http://www.thestate.com/166/story/627460.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/nation/story/427010.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/20/arts/AP-Worshiping-Women-Exhibit.html

Herculaneum:

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/dec/21/202015/herculaneum-another-victim\
-of-vesuvius-is-getting-/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20081216/ap_tr_ge/travel_yesterday_s_places_1

Tombs of Eternity:

http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/live/article/156180

French Bronzes:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/20/arts/melik20.php

Behind the Scenes at the Getty (not the real title):

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=27864

Bookbindings at the Morgan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/arts/design/19morg.html

Waterhouse:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=27934

Babylon:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKTRE4BI5CH20081219

Iran is getting on the repatriation bandwagon:

http://mathaba.net/news/?x=613770

On some military antiques:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/arts/design/19anti.html

The latest from the UPenn Museum layoff situation:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20081217_U__of_Penn_museum_plans_to_go_p\
opular.html

The economy and trying to set prices at Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/arts/design/19voge.html

Big plans for Carlisle Museum:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.284783

The assorted costumes from the Brooklyn Museum are headed to the
Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/arts/design/16muse.html

The Fitzwilliam Museum has some podcasts:

http://www.huliq.com/13/74763/fitzwilliam-museum-podcasts-exhibitions
cf: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/onlineresources/podcasts/index.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Caligula:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/theater/reviews/18cali.html

Messiah:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/arts/music/19phil.html

The Play of Daniel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/arts/music/19play.html

Women Beware Women:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/theater/reviews/16wome.html

Thera:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728217252&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
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ON THE WEB
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Viaggi nella Storia (online magazine):

http://www.viagginellastoria.it/

London Archaeologist:

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/london_arch/
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OBITUARIES
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Angeliki Laiou:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bh3da-us-leonardo-louvre/

Martha Putney:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/us/18putney.html
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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Jona Lendering, Mike Ruggeri, Joan Griffith, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, 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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Evidence of our earliest cave-dwelling ancestors:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1614244/archaeologists_discover_evidence_of\
_our_earliest_cavedwelling_ancestors/

There were more men than women in the out-of-Africa migration:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/hms-aae121908.php
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/547619/?sc=rssn
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20081222/tsc-males-dominated-out-of-africa-migrat-c2\
ff8aa.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A pair of 5th Dynasty tombs from Saqqara:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7796675.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/23/egypt-pharaoh-tombs.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/247302,two-tombs-from-egypts-5th-dynasty\
-discovered-at-saqqara.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/22/news/ML-Egypt-New-Tombs.php
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5229053/ancient-tombs-unveiled-near-cairo/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Egypt_unveils_4300-yr-old_tombs/art\
icleshow/3892726.cms
http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/egypt-finds-two-more-tombs-at-saqqara\
-complex-2008122518188.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10549633
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/24/stories/2008122457312000.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1100684/Tombs-ancient-Egyptian-co\
urt-officials-4-000-year-old-cemetery.html?ITO=1490
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/popup?id=6517369
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081223/ap_on_sc/ml_egypt_new_tombs_6
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/sns-ap-ml-egypt-new-tombs,0,147218\
9.story

Latest mummy CT scan:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-big-scanner-25-dec25\
,0,1223594.story

... with another on the way:

http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/12/15/museum-mummy-murder-m\
ystery-66331-22481154/

More on the Palmyra necropolis:

http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/ancient-necropolis-unearthed-in-syria-200\
812277801

More on that half shekel coin:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128955%28IsraelNN.com
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1048260

More on satellite technology being used to locate Egyptian antiquities:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/23/satellites.archaeology.egypt/index.ht\
ml?section=cnn_latest
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-64769.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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"Noble" Greek burial from Hydai:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10650483.asp?scr=1

Roman sarcophagus from Syria:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/12/24/Stone_sarcophagus_uncovered_in_Syria/\
UPI-50881230147128/

A somewhat vague item on vague remains of a Roman shipwreck off Nardo:

http://www.portadimare.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6885&Itemid=\
30

Excellent piece on Roman numerals and how to do math with them:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/12/roman_numerals_and_arithmetic_1.php

More coverage of that possible Roman battle site in Germany:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/12/28/2003432254
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20081227-180181/Roman-battl\
efield-unearthed-in-Germany
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=154275
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081222/FOREIGN/173617228/1013/SPORT

Review of mary Beard, *Fires of Vesuvius*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/21/RVHM14OGBF.DTL

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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A Viking gold ring from South Lakeland (and assorted finds from
environs):

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/4000707.Treasures_found_in_South_Lak\
eland/

Brief item on finds from various periods at Somerset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/7785894.stm

Exploring the "mysteries"  of a pile of wooden medallions at the
Royal Palace at Stirling Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7798852.stm

Revisiting the HMS London sinking:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3964855/Mystery-naval-ex\
plosion-may-have-stinky-solution.html

Concerns for assorted heritage sites in the UK:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/77232/Heritage-sites-are-left-to-crumble-und\
er-Labour-
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4003961.Historic_landmarks__at_risk_/
http://www.teletext.co.uk/news/national/7bec91396a5136a1aa9f8df00747de56/Landmar\
ks+%27under+threat%27.aspx

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 sort of general archaeology piece on the 'era of Krishna':

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennai/New_finds_take_archaeologists_closer_\
to_Krishna/articleshow/3898205.cms

Finds from various periods at Basu Bihar:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=68929

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at saving the ancient
city of Lijiang:

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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Native Americans were eating their veggies:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/22/native-american-oven.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-earlyfoods27-2008dec27,0,6385869.stor\
y
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08362/937977-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-early_food_slider_bddec28,0,7\
755583.story

Possible burial mounds in Marquette County (Wisconsin):

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-burialmounds,0,5487952.story
http://www.nbc26.com/Global/story.asp?S=9581546
http://www.wxow.com/global/story.asp?s=9581546

On the DNA front, some 10 000 b.p. remains have not been linked to
any contemporary Alaskan Natives:

http://aprn.org/2008/12/22/10000-year-old-southeast-alaska-dna-not-yet-linked-to\
-living-natives/
http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/122408/new_370786085.shtml

That Freeport Bridge construction dig has concluded:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_604348.html

More on that village site in Sierra Vista:

http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2008/12/24/news/news05.txt

More on that Ossabaw Island cremation pit:

http://www.wsav.com/sav/news/coastal_sunrise/article/ancient_cremation_pit_found\
_on_ossabaw_island/7483/
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2008/December/Cremation-Site-Provid\
es-New-Information-About-American-Indian-Burials.html

More on those ancient footprints (maybe) from Toronto:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/12/23/sci_lepper23.ART\
_ART_12-23-08_B5_8FC8N2R.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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I think we've had this 'hallucinogen paraphernalia' story before:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081223/sc_livescience/ancientfamilyheirloo\
msusedtosnorthallucinogens
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2008/10/prehistoric-d\
rug-paraphernalia.html

More on the source of the Nasca people's 'trophy heads':

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39475/title/Taking_trophy_heads_close\
_to_home

More on the Cerro Patapo site:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/17/northern-peru-ancient-city

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 Jesus Project appears like it is going to rewalk the path of
the Jesus Seminar:

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/557548

... and I wonder if they'll be dealing with this guy:

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14825044&?vsv=HP6

They xrayed Tintoretto's 'Nativity' and found interesting things
(nice video):

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/12/23/a_nativity_revelation/

Interesting item on Viking swords:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/27/archaeology-vikings-sword

Passage graves from an astronomical perspective:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/uoc-pgf121808.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081218122206.htm

The pope is a Galileo fan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/7794668.stm

Interesting note from El Greco (we may have mentioned this before):

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=534893&ez\
_search=1

Assorted Christmas-related pieces (with assorted anachronisms):

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10549639
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Revealed-at-last-secret-of.4821441.jp

Assorted Channukah-related pieces:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013492604
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5384924.ece
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230111722068&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

If you weren't aware of what Boxing Day is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/opinion/26flanders.html

The Ten Days of Newton:

http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/the-ten-days-of-newton/

Review of Marjorie Garber, *Shakespeare and Modern Culture*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Isherwood-t.html

Review of Tilar Mazzeo, *The Widow Clicquot*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Isherwood-t.html

Review of Niall Ferguson, *The Ascent of Money*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Hirsh-t.html

Reviews of assorted nonfiction tomes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Hirsh-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
================================================================
Salisbury:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/travel/28dayout.html

Belgrade:

http://www.france24.com/en/20081225-serbia-belgrade-architecture-facelift-attrac\
t-tourism-lifestyle

Siem Reap:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/26/travel/28hours.php
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology Magazine's top ten discoveries of 2008:

http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/

Biblical Archaeology Review (Jan/Feb 2009):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/

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
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of an Australian national being arrested in
Egypt with assorted animal mummies and the like in his luggage:

http://news.smh.com.au/world/consulate-contacts-aussie-smuggler-20081225-74wx.ht\
ml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7799488.stm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/12/25/1229998662160.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hsEeFaaG2Ia88YL5ls1FRKGSY4lw
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/24/news/ML-Egypt-Mummy-Smuggling.php
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iSC2JoosNuDzERi26hBV-rqSmbLAD9\
596VT06
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1049762.html

An Iraqi 'sting' operation bore fruit:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10549630
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/23/iraq.antiquities.arrests/
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-64118.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/looted-ancient-treasures-rec\
overed-in-basra-sting-1208500.html

A number of items stolen from Egypt a while ago were returned (not
sure if this is the same case of the 'helicopter pilot' from
a few weeks ago):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/927/he1.htm

More on the return of that head of Amenhotep III:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/927/fr3.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7794437.stm

The Customs folks in Yemen foiled 447 antiquities smuggling
attempts this year:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10015428.html

More coverage of those Etrusco-Corinthian objects found on a farmer's
bookshelf:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-64391.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/22/treasure-of-satricum.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A hoard of Byzantine coins from a Jerusalem car park:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4801696a19716.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3920326/British-arch\
aeologist-finds-ancient-gold-coins-at-Jerusalem-dig.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29892/archaeologists-strike-gold-at-jerusalem-\
ruins/
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1049031.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/272898.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/22/news/ML-Israel-Treasure.php
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/22/israel.rare.coins/index.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=abz.LCPV3iqw
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1229868817220&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081222/lf_nm_life/us_israel_gold_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081222/ap_on_sc/ml_israel_treasure
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Byzantine-gold-hoard-unearthed-Israel/ss/events/sc\
/122308byzantinegold
(slideshow)

A Roman hoard from Petworth:

http://www.chichester.co.uk/6430/Major-Roman-coins-find-at.4815901.jp

Nice feature on the ANS Library:

http://www.numismatics.org/Library/NowOnView

Reading list for a graduate seminar in numismatics:

http://digitalhn.blogspot.com/2008/12/reading-list-for-eric-p-newman-graduate.ht\
ml

Tasmanian Promissory Notes:

http://www.australianstamp.com/coin-web/feature/numismtc/tasprom.htm

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Sir Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART63555.htmlzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Turner and Italy:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Revealed-at-last-secret-of.4821441.jp

Tombs of Eternity:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=27978

Worshiping Women:

http://www.physorg.com/news149015590.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/21/AR2008122101861.\
html

From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08359/937184-42.stm

Problems at the National Academy?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/arts/design/23acad.html

Another 'mixed results' auction report:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29786/antiquities-soar-at-sothebys-clank-at-ch\
risties/

... and a possible shakeup in the works at Christie's:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aW4evZqhVTtU&refer=home
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/12/22/50677/is-christies-about-to-come-unde\
r-the-hammer/

Another one of those average-works-turns-out-to-be-worth-millions
things:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/3964725/Rare-Holbein-work-bought\
-for-a-few-thousand-could-fetch-millions.html

A descendent of Louis XIV is fighting a Jeff Koons exhibit:

http://www.france24.com/en/20081225-louis-xiv-heir-files-suit-ban-art-exhibit-

More on that Michelangelo crucifix going on display:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iWyNBjeRZWBx6oBAoeC8-jZmGh_g
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Cupid and Psyche:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/nyregion/new-jersey/21cupidnj.html
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ON THE WEB
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Roman Nijmegen:

http://www.livius.org/no-nz/nijmegen/nijmegen.html
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OBITUARIES
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Angeliki Laiou:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5354309.ece
http://history.fas.harvard.edu/news/?p=258

The LA Times has a section of obituaries of assorted scholars who
died this year:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-obits2008-scholars-200\
8dec28,0,4281660.story
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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:

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Date: Sun Jan 4, 2009 1:17 pm
Subject: Explorator 11.37

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Frahm for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left
no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
European Neanderthals were fair-skinned and had freckles:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4015567/Euro\
pean-Neanderthals-had-ginger-hair-and-freckles.html

... and this week the theory is they died off due to competition:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081229105039.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/plos-ssc122908.php
http://www.physorg.com/news149769271.html
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/neanderthals-co.html

A couple of Neanderthals from Asturias apparently had type O blood:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/analisis/neandertales/hallados/Asturias/\
revela/tenian/grupo/sanguineo/elpepusoc/20081228elpepusoc_5/Tes

They were making teardrop-shaped hand axes in southern Africa
1.6 million y.b.p.:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39625/title/Stone_Age_tools_go_south

More coverage of the out-of-Africa-involving-mostly-men story:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081221210201.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/133906.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A clumsy Spanish team has found items dating to the First Intermediate
Period near Beni Sweif:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001087.htm

Another imaging-the-DSS piece:

http://spie.org/x32760.xml?highlight=x2410&ArticleID=x32760

What killed Dr. Granville's mummy?:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026877.000-what-killed-dr-granvilles-mum\
my.html

That artificial eye from the Burnt City (found a couple of years
ago) is back in the news:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5432002.ece

... and more burials have been found at the Burnt City:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=80041§ionid=351020105

More coverage of those 4300 b.p. tombs near Saqqara:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/23/2453471.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)
================================================================
Macedonian archaeologists are claiming to have discovered some
4000 b.p. writing (I hae me doots):

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/4915/2/

Brief item on the discovery of a 6th/5th century B.C. necropolis
at Spoleto:

http://www.terninrete.it/headlines/articolo_view.asp?ARTICOLO_ID=161723

... and a similarly-brief item on the results of this year's dig
at Episkopi-Bamboula:

http://www.famagusta-gazette.com/link.asp?twindow=Default&smenu=69&sdetail=7121&\
mad=No&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=

Some Punic tombs in Malta are getting in the way of private
hospital construction:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081231/local/still-too-early-to-tell\
-fate-of-punic-tombs
http://www.maltamediaonline.com/?p=3654

... as are some Roman burials getting in the way of office construction
in Clerkenwell:

http://www.thecnj.co.uk/islington/2009/010209/inews010209_14.html

The 'Lord of Amiternum' has been restored:

http://iltempo.ilsole24ore.com/abruzzo/2008/12/31/970469-ultimati_restauri_signo\
re_amiternum.shtml

The dig at Troy appears to have secured funding:

http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=2034395
http://www.halternerzeitung.de/nachrichten/kultur/art617,444508
http://de.news.yahoo.com/26/20081230/ten-forscher-knnen-ausgrabungen-in-troja-c1\
34cff.html
http://www.mz-web.de/artikel?id=1229759952968
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/magazin/wissen/geschichte/Troja;art15504,2694693

A feature on Vindolanda:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24859839-5013309,00.html

ClassCon in a piece on 2009 predictions:

http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/01/03/cassandras/

More coverage of that claimed link between drought and the
fall of Rome:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/29/roman-empire-cave.html

That Villa delle Vignacce story is still bouncing around:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Well+known+baths+awash+hidden+artifacts+rare+finds/\
1086776/story.html

Review of Mary Beard, *Fires of Vesuvius*:

http://www.tampabay.com/SearchForwardServlet.do?articleId=955342

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)
================================================================
Bulgarian archaeologists are claiming to have found 'the most
ancient civilization' in Europe:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n165021
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-67086.html

A 3rd/2nd century B.C. Celtic village near Krakow:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081229105039.htm

Archaeologists in Cyprus are concerned for Old Nicosia:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=43264&archive=1

A link between Chester and Stonehenge?:

http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/chester-news/local-chester-news/2009/01/02/pla\
que-may-provide-link-with-stonehenge-59067-22588788/

A 1000 b.p. burial site at Dorset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7804287.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-67083.html

Looks like they're playing politics with Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.296481

Reconstructing patterns of Spanish droughts:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217192739.htm

Review of Peter Ackroyd, *Thames*:

http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/12/30/thames-the-biography/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Vague item on a clumsy villager finding some ancient skeletal
remains near Malacca:

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/1/2/southneast/2915170&sec=sout\
hneast

A large section of the Great Wall from Inner Mongolia is missing:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-66900.html

Nice feature on Qianlong's retirement residence restoration:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/01/arts/01forb.php

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Did a meteorite cause a tsunami which hit the New York area some
2300 y.b.p.?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081231-new-york-tsunami.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/nyregion/30tsunami.html
A mysterious stone circle in Arizona:

http://news.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1017882
http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/arizona-20090102-sierra-vista-old\
-artifact.2f5ca411.html
http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/869844

Finds from various periods prior to bridge construction near
Louisville:

http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/644484.html
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20081229/NEWS01/812290381/1008

Divers have found the wreck of the Trajan in Newport Harbor:

http://www.eastbayri.com/detail/81248.html

Bringing archaeology (sort of) into the legend of Madoc:

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/558887.html

Brief item on the discovery of some Native American remains in Friant:

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1099425.html

Dating a pile of items found at dig in Oklahoma:

http://www.kfsm.com/Global/story.asp?S=9586845

Did comets cause the Younger Dryas (with all the baggage that
goes with it)?:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5013YZ20090102
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101490.\
html
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/nationworld/106608.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5432002.ece
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=did-a-comet-hit-earth-12900-years-ago
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090101172136.htm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008582079_nano02.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/02/comet.diamonds/index.html

More coverage of that Alaskan-dna-not-matching story:

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/southeast/story/636254.html
http://www.ktva.com/alaskanews/ci_11330898
http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=9591078
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plenty of excitement as construction workers find a 250-year-old
ship near the old port of Buenos Aires:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7805549.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news149923563.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_buried_ship_2
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/443263.html
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/635504.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=540711
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/31/spanish-galleon-buenos-aires

Human migration into the Amazon Basin apparently occurred much
earlier than previously thought:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9905/especiais/migracao-bem-anterior.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Archaeorama ponders what 2009 will bring to archaeology:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/2008/12/archaeoramas-ne.html

Feature on the digitization of the Cairo Geniza(h):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5434643.ece

Interesting item on historical drunken euphemisms:

http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/besotted-etymologically-that-is/

Plans to rebuild Berlin's Palace of the Republic (maybe):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/arts/design/01abroad.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/01/arts/01abroad.php

A group from UVa will be doing some reconstructions with
supercomputers:

http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/education/article/uva_scientists_mar\
ry_humanities_technology/33488/

Dickens may have been mistaken about Oliver Twist's diet:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/30/healthscience/30diet.php

Moby Dick as an allegory for the 21st-century U.S.:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/08/moby-dick-nationa\
l-book

Review of another bit of fiction with an archaeologist as the
main character:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/4014282/The-Hidden-by-Tobia\
s-Hill---review.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

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

http://www.indystar.com/article/20090104/LIVING03/901040312/1085/LIVING03
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
The story of a criminal curator at the V&A:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/stealing-beauty-ndash-the-cura\
tor-who-took-priceless-piece-after-priceless-piece-1222860.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Imperial Coins newsletter:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008582079_nano02.html

Revisiting the opening of the Denver Mint:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/23/sept-2-1904-coins-begin-rollin\
g-mint/

Money of the Civil War:

http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/civil-war-coins.html

More coverage of that Jerusalem coin hoard:

http://www.jewishvoicesnj.org/news/2008/1231/mideast/011.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries:

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2008/12/30/7878096-sun.html

Guercino:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-12-29_129273285.html

The Painted Tomb-chapel of Nebamun:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jan/04/british-museum-egyptian-nebam\
un-tomb

Oldest Hannukah Menorah:

http://www.bignews.biz/?id=791791&keys=DavidHBrooks-davidhbrooks-DHB-davidbrooks

Turner and Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/arts/design/01turn.html

Anadlucia's Roman heritage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7807531.stm

Colin Renfrew was all set to praise the Getty and condemn the
Met for their acquisition policies:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/01/gettys-antiquit.html

... then he decided to lighten the tone a bit:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/01/metropolitan-mu.html

Something definitely has been lost in translation in this one ... a
Turkish housewife is opening her own museum with her own artifacts
(perhaps this presages a Crime Beat story) ... nice anachronism
at the end:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/lifestyle/10682691.asp?scr=1

Neil MacGregor is "Briton of the Year":

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5429672.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/arts/design/03arts-MUSEUMDIRECT_BRF.html

The King Tut exhibit might not be the moneymaker it was thought
to be:

http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/museums/one_time_sure_thing_king_tut_exhibit_\
now_struggling_to_make_money_104547.asp

An update of sorts on the problems with Canada's National Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/arts/design/29gall.html?_r=1
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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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Date: Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:06 pm
Subject: explorator 11.38

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Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, and
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hoping I have left no one out).

Curiosity question ... if I sent links out like this, can your email handle it?:

<a href="http://www.physorg.com/news150642011.html">First Americans
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EARLY HUMANS
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What ancient necklaces from various sites reveal:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-69224.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A burial suggests people have been at the site of Istanbul for
much longer than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7820924.stm

A mummy found in a recently-found pyramid near Cairo:

http://tinyurl.com/8ncloo

... not sure if they're referring to this one, which might be
the mummy of Seshestet:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7818735.stm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=arUKcIA.Pr5c&refer=muse
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090108/sc_nm/us_egypt_mummy_2
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Hallada/Egipto/supuesta/momia/reina/Seshe\
shet/elpepucul/20090108elpepucul_2/Tes
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre507320-us-egypt-mummy/

Some Elamite 'tablets' from near Tehran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=81360§ionid=351020105
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_28166.shtml

Trying to make Um Jimal tourist worthy:

http://tinyurl.com/8xhrd7

A roundup/best of 2008 sort of thing of finds from Turkey:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/lifestyle/10726645.asp?scr=1

More on plans to rescue Babylon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/arts/design/08arts-ANOTHERRESCU_BRF.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29998/world-monument-fund-to-protect-ancient-b\
abylon/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=apwIlJ7IbtWc&refer=muse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7818735.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)
================================================================
A bit of Classical Archaeology hype for the AIA meeting:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/4163401/Ancient-Greeks-l\
oved-a-good-night-in-say-researchers.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jan/08/ancient-greeks-greece-prostitution\
-drinking
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-71206.html

... and one focussing on shipbuilding:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39810/title/Shipwrecks_harbor_evidenc\
e_of_ancient_sophistication

The Time Team crew has uncovered what appear to be four Roman temples
near St. Alban's:

http://tinyurl.com/9msdam

They're going to fix up the Forum:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-01-07_107311661.html

A vague item which appears to be documenting evidence for ancient
Pyrgos:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/fortress-depicted-on-bourgas-city-coat-of-arms-\
discovered/id_33931/catid_66

Reviving (sort of) ancient Scythopolis:

http://livedesignonline.com/architainment/reviving_scythopolis_0107/

Charlotte Higgins has some more to say about Herodotus:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/jan/05/classics-clas\
sics

The Roman theme park debate continues:

http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=319428

Interesting piece on Casale Ghella:

http://www.vejo.it/casale-ghella-cassia-grottarossa-roma/2009/01/05/

... and one on an Etruscan tomb which no one wants to fund an excavation
for apparently:

http://www.vejo.it/la-tomba-che-nessuno-vuole-riportare-alla-luce-roma-nord-la-s\
torta/2009/01/07/

More coverage of Kalefeld:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/05/germany.battlefield/

More on gladiators returning to Rome:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/06/gladiator-rome.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)
================================================================
Ancient 'raves' at Stonehenge?:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475986,00.html
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART64001.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1105428/Heavy-rock-music-Stonehen\
ge-neolithic-rave-venue.html?ITO=1490

Wessex Archaeology's next dig:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4030533.Digging_for_history_in_Winchester/

Ancient chemical warfare at Dura Europos:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39814/title/Ancient_chemical_warfare_\
comes_to_light

What radiocarbon dates are saying about Irish migrations:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5477636.\
ece

More on Viking swords:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/27/archaeology-vikings-sword

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
An early well site from Wellington (NZ):

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4814205a11.html

Looking for the Mermaid:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24882046-30417,00.html

Nice feature on Quinkan Country petroglyphs:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24891708-16947,00.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Genetic evidence suggests two waves of migration to the Americas:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39781/title/Migrants_settled_New_Worl\
d_in_tandem
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/01/08/first.americans.arrived.2.separate.m\
igrations.according.new.genetic.evidence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090108/hl_hsn/firstamericansarrivedon2separate%20p\
aths
http://www.physorg.com/news150642011.html

... not sure if this is related:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=325015&CategoryId=14095

Vague item on the possibility of shipwrecks showing up off the
Oregon coast:

http://www.koinlocal6.com/mostpopular/story/Wrecked-ships-may-show-up-along-coas\
t/N7yC9Gt76EqKoU6hFSaSAQ.cspx

An Anasazi site near Las Vegas:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/technology-reveals-significant-archaeolo\
gical-discovery-at-the-springs-preserve%2C675078.shtml

Remains of a Union soldier at Antietam:

http://www.thestate.com/166/story/644015.html?RSS=untracked
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/nation/story/459785.html

A sacred site find diverts an airport expansion project:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/08/sacred_site_d\
iverts_expansion_of_runway/

A New Guinea 'connection' for the Ohio earthworks?

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/01/06/sci_lepper06_ART\
_01-06-09_B5_PLCCRNB.html?sid=101

A nice piece on the Hunley (nothing new here, I don't think):

http://www.examiner.com/a-1776103~CSI_Hunley__Fate_of_historic_sub_a_cold_case_f\
ile.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_re_us/confederate_submarine

More (video) on the Trajan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clrdm3lBPGw&eurl=http://www.soundunderwatersurvey\
.com/SUS/Wrecks/trajan.htm

Review of Kenneth White, *The Uncrowned King*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/books/review/Rosenthal-t.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Dam construction threatens as-yet-to-be-discovered ruins in
Venezuela:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dam-construction-threatens-vene\
zuelan-ruins-1264501.html

Tomb evidence suggests a portrait of a Maya ruler was rather accurate:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

More on Nazca trophy heads:

http://www.physorg.com/news150373491.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-trophy-heads-06-jan06,0,4019481.story?tra\
ck=rss
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105120310.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
If you're considering a career in archaeology:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24891708-16947,00.html

Pondering who the first 'true scientist' was:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7810846.stm

... and the West's view of history/terrorism/ etc.:

http://mondediplo.com/2009/01/07west

What's up with Rene Descartes' skull:

http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/109/article_2592.asp

Catalina de Erauso's story is rather interesting:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Mitad/monja/mitad/soldado/elppgl/20090104\
elpepspor_4/Tes

Fighting crickets and an ancient Chinese text:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090107092718.htm

These poetry animations are kind of interesting/creepy:

http://www.youtube.com/user/poetryanimations

Feature on Morton Smith:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/grafton

Some revisionism with regard to Lucrezia Borgia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090107134631.htm

Review of Michael Faber, *The Fire Gospel*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/books/08maslin.html

Review of Chris Lavers, *The Natural History of Unicorns*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/4174819/The-Natural-History\
-of-Unicorns-by-Chris-Lavers---review.html

Review of Franny Moyle, *Desperate Romantics*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fict\
ion/article5424430.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/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Pompeii:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09004/938911-51.stm?cmpid=newspanel1
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
American Journal of Archaeology 113.1

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/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A purloined Buddha statue was recovered:

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/57172

A reviewish (Waxman) overviewish thing on assorted museums and
looted antiquities:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24884980-16947,00.html

... semi-related thing focussing more on Cuno:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/peterson?rel=hp_books

On the popularity of treasure hunting in Macedonia/FYROM:

http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/10706

More on that Italian farmer's 'finds':

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/22/treasure-of-satricum.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A Roman hoard from Chipping Sodbury:

http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/4020008.Roman_find_in_Chipping_Sodbury/

I messed up the link to this Imperial Coins newsletter last week,
so we'll try it again:

http://imperialcoins.com/newsletters/volume2/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://reflight.blogspot.com/2009/01/flying-to-byzantium.html

Age of Rembrandt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/arts/design/09remb.html

Worshiping Women:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aU3SH2jCJtUk&refer=muse
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/07/its-a-womans-world/

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the Iraq Museum:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Nice feature on the Getty:

http://www.vancouversun.com/Getty+Villa+full+artistic+treasures/1151619/story.ht\
ml

Interesting item on what happened to some important pieces in
Britain during WWII:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/7820055.stm

Is a piece in the Portland Art Museum looted hindu art?:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/01/hindu-god-ganes.html

Turkey appears to be on the repatriation bandwagon (although
they don't seem to be having a lot of success?):

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=163086&bolum=101

Pondering 'deaccessioning':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/arts/design/28fink.html

Museums are feeling the pinch of the current economy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/arts/design/11cott.html

... as is Wedgwood:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/opinion/10flanders.html

More gossip on the possible sale of Christie's:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,1811,is-pinault-planning-to-sell-christies,\
67601
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Vivian Swan:

http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/4037813.Tributes_paid_to_Roman_expert_Vivian_Swan\
/

Dider Aaron:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/arts/08aaron.html

Christopher Hibbert:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/books/06hibbert.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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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A roundup of recent finds in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/930/he2.htm

I think we've mentioned this excavation of a statue of Ramses II
near Sohag before:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=16444_0_1_0_M

... and the realization that a necropolis near Saqqara is larger than
previously thought:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9898\
6

Brief (vague) item on the discovery of a Middle Kingdom site near
Ein el Sokhna:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/14/content_10653832.htm
http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/new-archaeological-site-discovered-in\
-egypt-2009011419515.html

Digging has resumed at Iran's Nourabad-Mamasani site:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=81698§ionid=351020105
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/jan/1104.html

Vague item on items found in Izmir's Agora:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10747455.asp?scr=1

Some interesting Elamite tablets from near Tehran:

http://www.newspostonline.com/sci-tech/archeologists-unearth-prehistoric-clay-ta\
blets-in-tehran-2009011124101

Ancient water wells from Parsa:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=186803

Seeking to save items from the Old City of Safed:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1487\
&module_id=#as

Interesting piece on facial reconstruction of 'average' folks from
Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/9dzd8b

The "biblical diet" wasn't that healthy:

http://www.physorg.com/news151078460.html

More coverage of Sesheshet's mummy:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24892418-30417,00.html

More on the identity of Tut's daddy:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1622539/artifact_identifies_king_tuts_fathe\
r/

More on the antiquity of Istanbul:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-72781.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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Semi touristy sort of thing about Boudicca:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1112246/Walking-Boudicca-We-follow-his\
toric-journey--Essex-underpass-McDonalds.html

Quite a bit of coverage of evidence of 'chemical warfare' at
Dura Europos:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114075921.htm
http://www.examiner.com/x-1242-Science-News-Examiner~y2009m1d15-Ancient-Chemical\
-Warfare
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090116_chemical.htm
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=did-the-persians-use-che\
mical-warfa-2009-01-16
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Archaeological-Evidences-of-Ancient-Chemical-Warf\
are-Discovered-101996.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4240365/Ancient-Persians\
-who-gassed-Romans-were-the-first-to-use-chemical-weapons.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/uol-uol011409.php
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/chemical-warfare-ndash-ancient-persian\
style-1366720.html
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART64442.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39814/title/Ancient_chemical_warfare_\
comes_to_light
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/scientists_bring_2000/
http://www.physorg.com/news150994645.html

A fair bit of coverage on a project to digitally restore the
head of a wounded Amazon from Herculaneum:


http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.2903527263
http://tinyurl.com/aygav4 (CdS ... Italian)

A 4th/3rd century 'warrior' tomb (and associated bust of some
tombaroli ... all coverage is in Italian so far):

http://tinyurl.com/8gun8j

An infant burial from Bari:

http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/notizia.php?IDNotizia=221297&IDCategoria=\
1

Remains of some third century (or so) 'Roman' houses near San Donaci:

http://www.trcb.it/index.php?art=4102 (Italian)

Was Julius Caesar in Colchester?:

http://tinyurl.com/8d5f2t (Standard)

A Spartacus series is in the works:

http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSTRE50B1IL20090112
http://uk.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUKTRE50B1IL20090112

More on those partying Greeks:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jan/08/ancient-greeks-greece-prostitution\
-drinking

Review of Tobias Hill, *The Hidden*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/10/fiction

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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Another ancient human brain ... this time, from a Copper Age site
in Armenia:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39826/title/Armenian_cave_yields_anci\
ent_human_brain
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-74188.html

Somewhat vague item on the release of a film showing finds from
various periods discovered in anticipation of road construction
in Dorset:

http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=390745
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/7835301.stm

On the importance of 1759 to the British Empire:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5519484.ece

The Moors used powdered animal bones in the construction of Alhambra
Palace:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114210910.htm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hz5gPXmB_S7lbyJ9vKb4cvyqZVOAD9\
5O7UI00
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_building_with_bones

Chapter House at Westminster Abbey is being restored:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/13/westminster-abbey-chapter-house-re\
novation

Review of T. Falconieri, *The Man Who Believed he was King of
France*:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/12/08/081208crbn_briefly\
noted2

More on second rate Viking swords:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1564526.ece

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A pile of Nara period wooden tablets found, appropriately, at Nara:

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090116p2a00m0na011000c.html

Human remains from one of New Zealand's earliest/most important
sites have been returned:

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/ancient-bones-returned-ancestors-2444115

A 700 b.p. Maori dwelling:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4818869a11.html

The Wairau Bar dig blog:

http://wairaubar.com/

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 American 'Stonehenge'?:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-71863.html

Border fence construction has revealed remains of a
1000 or so b.p. village on the US/Mexico border:

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2009/01/09/news/doc4966f5869ba07167469550.prt

In anticipation of next week's events, there are a number of
'presidential' items ... first, one about George Washington:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/presidents/george-washington-the-father-of-the\
-nation-1391109.html

Various pieces on inaugural addresses:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_lepore
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99349493

On Lincoln's inauguration:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99450262

... and a speech by Lincoln is coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/arts/design/16anti.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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The price of Maya vanity:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5504226.\
ece
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-74356.html

Some idiots performing some sort of ritual have damage some big
Olmec heads:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090114-olmec-video-ap.html

More on Nazca trophy heads:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28657112/

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
================================================================
Using DNA to identify the origins of Medieval manuscripts:

http://news.ncsu.edu/news/2009/01/wmsstinsondna.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112093328.htm
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-old-is-that-book-dna

A nice feature on medicine in the ancient world:

http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/medicine-in-the-ancient-world.asp

A method for establishing temporal relationships between archaeological
complexes:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116091521.htm

Some interesting letters from Mary Queen of Scots:

http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/How-Mary-Queen-of-Scots.4886651.jp

The Morgan is going to digitize its Gutenberg Bible(s):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/morgan-library-to-digitize-gutenber\
g-bible/

On the origins of human creativity:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/pb-aal011209.php

On the possible 'contract killing' of Tycho Brahe:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,601729,00.html

On early farmers breeding animals of different colours for their
own amusement:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4249106/Earl\
y-farmers-bred-different-coloured-animals-for-their-own-amusement.html

The oldest baseball card?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/sports/baseball/16vecsey.html

Opeddish thing on saving our astronomical heritage:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126915.700-comment-why-we-must-save-our-\
astronomical-heritage.html

... and a related piece on ancient observatories:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16422-gallery-amazing-observatories-of-the\
-ancient-world.html

Recreating Galileo's telescope:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108082902.htm

Cambridge marks its 800th anniversary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7834827.stm

More on DNA links between Peru and Japan:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-72786.html

Review of Charles Webster, *Paracelsus*:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2009/01/12/090112crbn_briefly\
noted4

Naked Archaeology:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/

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
================================================================
Palmyra:

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/1/10/lifetravel/2913111&sec\
=lifetravel
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Past Horizons (January 09):

http://publications.pasthorizons.tv/?id=pasthorizonsjan09
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10407212/Past-Horizons-Jan-09

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 is returning a stolen statue to Iraq:

http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=19010
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/11/news/ML-Egypt-Iraq-Antiquities.php
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/12/content_10642277.htm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iMj-FkjRS8tS6ccR0rQgUN-VyCYQD9\
5L28200
http://www.bworldonline.com/BW011409/content.php?id=166
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/275455
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_iraq_antiquities_1
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/647078.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090112-statuette-video-ap.html

Italy restored a pile of purloined antiquities to Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/a7xmv2 (ASCA)
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Cultura/?id=3.0.2905012240

A wanted Lebanese antiquities dealer was arrested in Bulgaria:

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE50E0MM20090115
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/antiquities-dealer-caught-smuggli\
ng-egyptian-artefacts_100142986.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30108/alleged-egyptian-antiquities-smuggler-ap\
prehended/
http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=19115

A bust in Puglia:

http://tinyurl.com/7u9d94 (Italian)

... and Torino:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Regioni/Piemonte.php?id=3.0.2916825575 (ditto)

... and Palermo, where some guy was trying to sell a pile of stuff on eBay:

http://www.agi.it/palermo/notizie/200901141008-cro-rt11025-art.html (ditto)
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/regioni/sicilia/news/2009-01-14_114310763.html
(ditto)
http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio-local/L%C2%B4archeologia-venduta-sul-web\
/2057428/6

Italian police have recovered ten "masterpieces":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_en_ot/eu_italy_art_thefts_3
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090113/ten-eu-italy-art-thefts-5e343d7.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/13/arts/EU-Italy-Art-Thefts.php

Not quite sure where to classify this one, but one of the last
acts of the Bush administration appears to be a ban on imports
of Chinese antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/arts/design/17arti.html

A guy who was stealing pages from the British Library has received
his comeuppance:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7739953.stm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090116/tuk-jail-for-stealing-pages-from-rare-bo-dba\
1618.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A metal detectorist has found a major Iron Age hoard near Suffolk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7835228.stm
http://tinyurl.com/8wyfgx (Mail)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/17/Treasure_of_gold_coins_found_in_Britain/U\
PI-42101232239621/

Hellenic Numismatic Society:

http://www.coins.gr/hellenum/

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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Tut (sort of) in Brno:

http://www.praguepost.com/tempo/327-a-mummy-in-brno.html

Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/lifestyle/10771350.asp?scr=1

America I Am:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/arts/design/15impr.html

Harriot 'Moon Maps':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7827732.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114110948.htm

The British Museum is opening a new Egyptian gallery:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle5503003.ece

... speaking of which, the BM celebrated its 250th anniversary
last week:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b12fbe8e-e35a-11dd-a5cf-0000779fd2ac.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jan/15/british-museum-anniversary

The Met is getting a major pottery donation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/arts/design/15muse.html

The Louvre is returning a pair of Yemeni bronzes:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news174006.htm

Latest in the Penn Museum layoff story:

http://tinyurl.com/92t37m (Daily Pennsylvanian)
cf: http://pennmuseumpetition.wordpress.com/

Interesting digitization of some of the works in in the Prado:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/jewels-of-the-prado-go-\
under-google-earths-microscope-1334264.html

Free admission to French museums (for some):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/arts/design/14arts-FREEADMISSIO_BRF.html

Latest news from Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/business/worldbusiness/13auction.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Jill Braithwaite:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-braithwaite-archaeologist-who-\
advanced-the-study-of-roman-face-pots-1366590.html

John DeFrancis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/us/15defrancis.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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Thanks to  Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Arne Halbakken, Rick Pettigrew,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Latest in the homo floresiensis debate is the suggestion that it
isn't a 'homo' at all:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116091521.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/548226/?sc=rssn
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting castle inscription/petroglyph from Raima Homed:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10015606.html

A nice blog post about Masada:

http://asorblog.org/?p=71

... which was possibly a response to:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7830416.stm

Transcript of a radio program about the recent spate of fake artifacts
from the Holy Land:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/solomon_prog_summary.shtml

Ancient wells near Tehran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=186803

Smithsonian Magazine has a nice feature on Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html?c=y&page=1

More on those 4300 b.p. tombs from near Saqqara:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Newly-Discovered-Pharaonic-Tombs-Near-Cairo-Are-4\
-300-Years-Old-100710.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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Roman mosaic from Cotswalds:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/4062378._40_foot__Roman_mosaic_uncovered\
_in_Cotswolds/

... and a metal detectorist found an interesting brooch:

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/ribblevalley/4057962.Haslingden_man_fi\
nds_Roman_treasure_in_Ribchester/

Mary Beard compared assorted politicians to Roman emperors:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2009/01/why-is-gordon-b.html

... while comparisons of Barack Obama were being made to Titus:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article55\
48786.ece

The Gela shipwreck is in Portsmouth for restoration:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ancient-greek-vessel-docks-for-pompey-\
refit-1418923.html
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Ancient-Greek-ship-ready-to.4888383.jp

More on Persians 'gassing' Romans:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7837826.stm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting video/film of London at the turn of the 20th century:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1348426473?bctid=1873835598

More on the Moors using powdered bones in the construction of the
Alhambra Palace:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_building_with_bones

Review of Adam Kirsch, *Benjamin Disraeli*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/books/review/Julius-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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A site older than Mohenjodaro has been found at Sukkur (Pakistan):

http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/23/top9.htm

5500 b.p. man-made cave houses from China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/25/content_10717077.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/6576835.html

Some anchors may shed light on the Great Battle of Bach Dang:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02SUN250109

Possible 500 B.C. burial(s) from Indonesia:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/01/21/discovered-remains-may-be-ancestor\
s-balinese.html

Trying to save Old Beijing's architectural heritage:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/19/news/beijing.1-410734.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/world/asia/19beijing.html

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about the Indus Civilization:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/index.asp

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Ohio and Kentucky are arguing over Indian Head Rock:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98801044&ft=1&f=1070

Problems at Petroglyph Provincial Park:

http://www.timescolonist.com/Sacred+Island+petroglyph+sites+defiled+misuse/12013\
00/story.html

Nice feature on the Gault Site:

http://www.impactnews.com/georgetown-hutto-taylor/history/2972-the-gault-site

A study of word frequencies in inaugural addresses, 1789 to now:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Natural disasters and the decline of civilizations in Peru:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/uof-see011509.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119210342.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090119/ap_on_sc/sci_ancient_calamity_1
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-earlyquake20-2009jan21,0,853\
296.story

Heavy rains have done some damage to the Nazca lines:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jFj1FIFSCS81QfnqaXI\
dSuuDHi4A
http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/live/article/170039
http://iafrica.com/technology/news/science/1459640.htm
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090120/twl-lt-peru-nazca-lines-1be00ca.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/483069.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/4293764/Rains-damage\
-Perus-Nazca-lines.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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You know we have to have some Robbie Burns material:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/4093.html

On the DNA front, I think we mentioned the National Geographic's
Genographic project a while back ... here's a bit of an update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/geneology-geonographic-project

... we were also given a genetic "snapshot" of Iceland, 1000 years
b.p.:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073205.htm

They want to exhume Galileo and do some DNA tests to see if he had eye
problems:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28791775/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090122/sc_nm/us_italy_galileo_2
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/01/20/2470283.htm

Vinyl Archaeology:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/01/vinyl-archeologist-p\
lays-recor.html

Weehawken (near where that airplane landed on the Hudson) has
a history of rescues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/nyregion/18towns.html

Herder on the origins of language:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90003264

Some reenactors were using live ammo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/nyregion/18reenact.html

Pondering the politicization of archaeology:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404899

Latest on plans to exhume Tycho Brahe:

http://aktualne.centrum.cz/czechnews/clanek.phtml?id=627672

On archaeology and social evolution:

http://tinyurl.com/d86zsf (Dispatch)

A history of breastfeeding:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_lepore

Nice feature on McGill's Archaeology Lab:

http://reporter.mcgill.ca/2009/01/digging-in-the-sandbox-of-time/

Some 'embarassing' British placenames:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html

That prayer you usually hear attributed to St. Francis apparently
isn't his:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23italy.html

The Vatican has published a catalog of its Hebrew manuscripts:

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/21/1002396/vatican-catalogues-its-hebrew-man\
uscripts

A possible inspiration for Shakespeare's Prospero:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5576502.ece

There's a new Sherlock Holmes flick in the works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/movies/25lyal.html

More on establishing temporal relationships between artifacts in
archaeological complexes:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116091521.htm

Review of Steven Johnson, *The Invention of Air*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/books/03gewen.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/books/review/Shorto-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!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The Marion True/Robert Hecht trial has resumed in Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/arts/design/24arts-TRIALRESUMES_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Major Iron Age coin hoard from Suffolk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7835228.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120523/Largest-hoard-iron-age-gold-coin\
s-unearthed-treasure-hunter-using-metal-detector.html

Sikh coinage:

http://worldsikhnews.com/7%20January%202009/Sikh%20Legacy

Stella Coin News:

http://www.stellacoinnews.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Renaissance Journalism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/arts/design/24muse.html

Byzantium:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/23/arts/melik24.1-413375.php

Raphael to Renoir:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/design/23raph.html

Serenity in Stone:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/21/arts/jessop.1-410895.php

Etruscan Tombs:

http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=5371

Etruscan Art:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-State.Edition1.E1.ART\
0.State.Edition1.15dcc.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=28583

Nebamun:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83185§ionid=3510212
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7842004.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/richarddorment/4290640/The-tom\
b-chapel-of-Nebamun-at-the-British-Museum-review.html

Egypt is asking Sweden to return a pile of artifacts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7842594.stm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/19/news/ML-Egypt-Sweden-Antiquities.php

The top ten museums in Europe:

http://www.travelbite.co.uk/feature/uk/england/london/top-ten-museums-in-europe-\
$1262901.htm

The Louvre has to manage an endowment for the first time (!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/arts/21arts-LOUVREISLOOK_BRF.html

Yemen has sent some statuary to the Louvre for restoration:

http://www.yobserver.com/culture-and-society/10015634.html

Nice feature on the Getty:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123241646858396511.html

Iraq has a plan to retrieve all its purloined antiquities:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2009-01-22\kurd.htm
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/23/Iraq_eyeing_return_of_missing_antiquities\
/UPI-73971232742625/

An excerpt from Neil MacGregor's talk on the occasion of the BM's
anniversary (with a link to the full thing):

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle5566936.ece

A bit of hype for the upcoming Winter Antiques fair:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28755799/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/design/23wint.html

... and the NY Ceramics Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/design/23amer.html

The Palazzo Massimo is promoting itself:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/travel/25globe.html

The 'museumy' quality of the White House:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/opinion/21needleman.html

Assorted arts briefs of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/design/23voge.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Judgment of Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/opinion/21needleman.html

Caesar and Cleopatra/23 Knives:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/theater/reviews/24kniv.html
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/01/23/boals-new-play-raises-questions-abou\
t-truth-antiquity

Stradivari Quartet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/arts/music/24stra.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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
David Perlmutter, Donna Hurst, Dirk Collins , Duke Jason,
Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Richard Campbell, 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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Some 1.8 million b.p. (!) stone axes from Malaysia:

http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2009/01/malaysia-says-1-8-million-year-old-axes-\
unearthed

Now they're saying that Oetzi was the victim of two attacks:

http://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/news/research/oetzi.html
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090128_otzi
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AFRICA
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Massinissa's tomb is deteriorating:

http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/?ida=142115&idc=128

An update on that 'phoenician' circumnavigation recreation:

http://www.sail-world.com/USA/Phoenicia-Expedition---Six-months-waiting-for-wind\
/53425
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Recent finds from Tel Al-Farkha:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/931/he11.htm

A burnt child burial from the Burnt City:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.2962369040

... and more burials from the same place:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=187827

... and people from the Burnt City apparently made much use of their
teeth:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=188016

Video of recent finds at Istanbul:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090129-istanbul-video-ap.html?so\
urce=rss

Interesting Parthian burial(s) from Nakhl-e-Ebrahimi (Iran):

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83752§ionid=351020105

A summary of what happened at digs in Izmir this past year:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10886800.asp?scr=1

Plans are afoot to assess whether 'King Solomon's Mines' were really
his:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid\
=1233050211901
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/43/16460

cf: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/01-09SupperClub.asp
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2008_10_26_archive.html#2920831744432665769
(background)

Coverage of the discovery/excavation of Ebla's Red Temple and a Rock
Temple:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=44303&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO#
(Italian)

This week's mummy facial reconstruction:

http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/41170/museum039s-mummy-faces-her-admirers

More coverage of those 4300 b.p. tombs from Saqqara:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/special_reports/38753282.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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Plenty of coverage of the find of a "bust" of a Roman boxer from
Israel:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1490&mod\
ule_id=#as
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/26/israel.ancient.find/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8332454
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7853150.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127160712.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pagesShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1058861
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232643753243&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/1/26/apworld/20090126214135&sec=\
apworld
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/26/1002507/ancient-figurine-discovered-in-je\
rusalem

Interesting theory that the Pantheon is actually a big sundial:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126934.800-is-the-roman-pantheon-a-colos\
sal-sundial.html

Eva Cantarella expresses her thoughts on conditions at Pompeii:

http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio-local/Pompei-da-salvare-Eva-Cantarella-l\
ancia-l-allarme-Scavi-condannati-al-degrado/2059208/6

Another recreation of the 'lyre of Hermes':

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/lifestyle/10885631.asp?scr=1

An opeddish sort of thing on drinking in ancient Greece:

http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/the-tipsy-hero/

More coverage (something new?) on the excavations on Mount Lykaion:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/26/zeus-cult-greece.html
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/news/fullrelease.php?which=369
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/news/2009/01/28/News/Romano.Searches.For.Zeus.\
On.Mt.Lykaion-3600450.shtml
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/news/2009/01/28/News/Penn-Museum.Scholar.Searc\
hes.For.Zeus.On.Mt.Lykaion-3600450.shtml
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090126_New_evidence_of_the_cult_of_Zeu\
s_is_3_200_years_old_.html

Concerns for underwater sites are growing as Greece opens them up to
scuba divers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/greek-shipwrecks-scuba-diving-ban

Greece wants to put up a statue of Alexander at Gaugamela:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/5252/2/
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/arts/2009/01/29/193843/Greece-wants.htm

Hopefully we'll be hearing more about these shipwrecks (from various
periods) found off the coast of Albania:

http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1410051

Honours for Graeme Clarke:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/classical-scholar-with-a\
n-eye-on-the-dollar/1416144.aspx

Some details about Robert Sutherland (Queen's, 1842):

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1407726

More on 'chemical warfare' at Dura Europos:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/30/earliest-chemical-warfare.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28939111/

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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Apparently the mystery of Silbury Hill will be solved soon:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/4385933/Silbury-Hill-mystery-soon-to-be-res\
olved.html

Plans are afoot to poke around Kent's Cavern:

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Extensive-dig-hopes-reveal-cavern-s-secre\
t/article-643119-detail/article.html

They raised a tiny island (!) to get at a sunken 13th century Venetian
galley:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sunken-venetian-island-raised-to-\
reveal-unique-13thcentury-galley-668711.html

An intact medieval furnace from Polvese:

http://lanazione.ilsole24ore.com/perugia/2009/01/30/148150-grande_scoperta_isola\
_polvese.shtml

A medieval boat is on display for the first time:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News\
&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=IPED25%20Jan%202009%2020%3A52%3A07%3A250

Odyssey Marine believes it has found the wreck of the HMS Victory:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5627477.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/01/hms-victory-wreck

Some Druids are seeking reburial for a skeleton found near
Avebury 80 years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/7854134.stm

Review of Chris Wickham, *The Inheritance of Rome*:

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/Book-Review-The-Inheritance-of.4929222.jp

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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Pondering why there was no "Chinese Newton":

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3769

More on those 5500 b.p. 'cave houses' from Shaanxi:

http://it.moldova.org/news/ancient-cave-houses-found-in-china-179647-eng.html

Evidence of a 4000 b.p. indigenous culture in Thailand:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Digs-Bodies-of-Evidence.html

There's a 'golden age' of Chinese archaeology under way:

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/5292087/golden-age-of-archaeology-in-\
china/

Trying to recreate life in 2000 b.p. Chang'an:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-84349.html

A 'hangi pit' from Wairu Bar:

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/5281845/ancient-hangi-pit-found-during-\
excavation/

Some Lapita petroglyphs from Tonga:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10554544

Trying to revive 'wayfinding':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090126/lf_nm_life/us_polynesian_voyaging_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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Theory about a 'sun temple' east of Calgary (!):

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2009/01/29/8195466-cp.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5io8DJMYkhiWKCUshwFV\
c2dTnvmxw

Some cave art from Tennessee:

http://www.wsmv.com/news/18563671/detail.html

Some Hohokam canals from Mesa:

http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=9734136
http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/897575

Nice little feature on North Salem, NY:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/nyregion/westchester/01colwe.html

... and one on Colonial newspapers:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/01/26/090126crat_atlarge_lepo\
re

Celebrating Henry Hudson's journeys:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/nyregion/25manhattan.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/nyregion/29hudson.html

Concerns for a Quaker cemetery in Nantucket:

http://www.ack.net/012909quakercemetery.html

The economy hits Mory's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/nyregion/connecticut/01morysct.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Latest theory about the Nazca lines is that they were used for 'prayer
walking':

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126924.200-peruvians-walked-their-prayer\
s-into-the-earth.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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Latest theory on how a Stradivarius gets its unique sound:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122141228.htm

A followup of sorts to the Black Sea/Noah's flood thing:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123101207.htm

Peru is the latest country to make claims against Odyssey Marine:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/29/world/AP-LT-Peru-Shipwreck-Treasure.h\
tml

Very interesting feature on Andrea 'Palladio':

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/04816352-ed9d-11dd-bd60-0000779fd2ac.html

The Vatican has shelved plans to erect a statue of Galileo:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-01-29_129285872.html

Guidelines for using luminescence dating:

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-874-1/preservation_dissemination/pd\
f/luminescence_dating.pdf

Of course we'll get articles about 'lefties' with a 'leftie' in the
White House:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090129/sc_livescience/ancientleftiesthehis\
toryofobamashandedness
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10087127.shtml

Questioning the claims of the Younger Dryas comet theory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7854348.stm

Marie Antoinette's 'weeping beech' has toppled over:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/world/europe/28briefs-GALESDEPOSEA_BRF.html

Review of a couple of biographies of Samuel Johnson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Price-t.html

Review of Robin Wilson, *Lewis Carroll in Numberland*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Paulos-t.html

Reviews of all sorts of books relating to Darwin to coincide with
the 150th anniversary of *Origin of Species* (these are all different):

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/mrs-darwins-revenge/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Benfey-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Applegate-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html

Review of Simon Critchley, *Book of Dead Philosophers*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/books/30book.html

Review of *A Passion for Nature: the Life of John Muir*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Wilson-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Washington museums:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/travel/01cultured.html

Bodrum:

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=165637
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Evidence of tombaroli operating in Ragusa:

http://www.agi.it/palermo/notizie/200901301035-cro-rt11047-art.html

Phoenix Art responds to last week's reportage about Ali Aboutaam:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/090128/ny63680.html?.v=1
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-28-200\
9/0004961702&EDATE=

US authorities returned a purloined olla to New Mexico:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Feds-return-stolen-artifact-to-pue\
blo
http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1\
0441:feds-return-ancient-jar-to-nm-pueblo&catid=50:as-seen-in-the-journal&Itemid\
=77

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A purloined Edward the Confessor coin has been returned:

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/4070189.Stolen/

A Celtic hoard from the Netherlands:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6064

Another hoard of gold coins from Jerusalem ... this time some 1300 b.p.
'Chanukah money':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127161357.htm

Medallic History of Religious and Racial Intolerance:

http://www.kunstpedia.com/articles/373/1/Medallic-History-of-Religious-and-Racia\
l-Intolerance--Medals-as-instruments-for-promoting-bigotry/Page1.html

A followup (and video) to last week's 'Boudicca' hoard story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7838892.stm

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/nyregion/westchester/01artswe.html

Treasures from Shanghai:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/in_pictures/7860724.stm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gbj60g2mukQcXluveYXgJds2D\
OPw
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200901/20090131/article_389417.htm

Etruscans at SMU:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jYgs1_S9uOROzZnV7PhHFjmSbjhgD9\
61RDO00
http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090131/ten-etruscan-exhibit-5e343d7.html
http://www.kxxv.com/global/story.asp?s=9761270

Mummified:

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/news/2009/01/29/ArtsEntertainment/Mummified.Unwraps\
.The.Mysteries.Of.Ancient.Egypt-3605661.shtml

Unearthing the Truth:

http://specialartgalleryexhibits.suite101.com/article.cfm/unearthing_the_truth_e\
xhibit_at_brooklyn_museum

Greece is going to help Iraq rebuild/restore some museums:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/498817.html
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/664810.html?RSS=untracked
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSTRE50Q5GA20090127
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/nationworld/story/401677.html

Priorities for the new director of the Met:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4399655/British-direc\
tor-of-New-Yorks-Metropolitan-Museum-to-safeguard-its-finances.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jan/29/thomas-campbell-met-museum-ne\
w-york-director

... and for Neil MacGregor:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle5566699.ece

A new secretary at the Smithsonian:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/smithsonian-secretary-officially-in\
stalled/

A trip through the British Museum:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23630972-details/A+very+British+w\
alk+through+the+world/article.do

There's a new museum at Sipan:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE50S7AN20090129

Some items of interest for sale (DSS fragments, Latin Bibles) at
an upcoming antiquarian book fair:

http://mrtbooksla.blogspot.com/2009/01/some-highlights-from-our-display-at-san.h\
tml

Fallout from Brandeis' plans to sell the holdings of the Rose Art Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/arts/design/28rose.html

... background:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99974995
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/us/27museum.html

Christie's recent auction wasn't so bad:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/28/arts/melik29.1-417464.php

In case you want to sign the Penn Museum petition:

http://pennmuseumpetition.wordpress.com/
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Cornbury: the Queen's Governor:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/theater/reviews/30corn.html

Hedda Gabler:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/theater/reviews/26bran.html

Mendelssohn anniversary items:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/arts/music/30feli.html

A Barque group:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/arts/music/27rebe.html
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ON THE WEB
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OBITUARIES
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John P. Diggins:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/arts/30diggins.html

Ahmad Hasan Dani:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=269214&version\
=1&template_id=41&parent_id=23
http://pakistaniat.com/2009/01/26/legendary-archeologist-historian-ahmad-hasan-d\
ani-passed-away/
http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/27/top9.htm
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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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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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Australopithecines had 'jaws of steel':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203093125.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5645493.ece
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-86141.html

They've (finally) done a CT scan of Lucy:

http://www.physorg.com/news153146616.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51560320090207
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090206/sc_nm/us_lucy_digital_2

What would Neanderthal music sound like?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7874415.stm

Why Neanderthals survived so long in/around Gibraltar:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202140046.htm

The oldest human hairs have been found in a fossilized piece of
hyena poop (!):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090206-oldest-hair-hyenas.html

Humans were inhabiting the Mendip Hills much, much earlier than
previously thought:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/06/priest-nun-plague.html

There's a 'hobbit symposium' coming up:

http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=09020750-top-minds-hobbit-debat\
e-gather-at-stony-brook-university
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AFRICA
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Evidence of Africa's oldest human sacrifice is from the Sudan:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25010527-401,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/4517916/Afr\
icas-oldest-human-sacrifice-found-in-Sudan.html
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2009/February2009/04-02-Parthian.htm

On the DNA front they've figured out when the various 'pygmy' groups
diverged:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205133751.htm

Nothing really 'archaeological' in this one, but perhaps we'll
be hearing more from these caves they're finding in the Kalahari:

http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=7&aid=27&dir=2009/January/Friday30
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A green amulet to protect Egyptian child mummies:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/05/child-mummy.html
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-88345.html

A not-overly-informative piece on digging in the Valley of the Kings:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203173651.htm

An overview of recent finds (various periods) at Karnak:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/932/fr1.htm

Interesting tale of a garden ornament which turned out to be an
ancient Egyptian artifact:

http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2009-02-02-Garden-ornament-is-ancient-Egy\
ptian-relic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4433944/Terracotta-vase-\
left-in-garden-for-20-years-is-ancient-Egyptian-relic.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1133881/Owner-garden-patio-ornament-told\
-actually-ancient-Egyptian-artefact.html?ITO=1490
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-86563.html

I suspect this one has to be taken with a grain of salt of unknown
magnitude, but the IAA is supposedly tunnelling near/under the
Al Aqsa Mosque:

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=118983&d=8&m=2&y=2009

Using hyperspectral imagery to analyze a 10th century B.C./B.C.E.
Hebrew ostrakon:

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=118983&d=8&m=2&y=2009

Latest on the Jehoash tablet:

http://www.touro.edu/media/pr/releases/PR-Sandstone.asp

A preliminary report on University of Pisa's campaign at Dra'
abu el- Naga:

http://www.archaeogate.org/storage/15_article_1017_1.pdf

Some Parthian jar burials from near the Persian Gulf:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2009/February2009/04-02-Parthian.htm

Sites from various periods in al-Baida:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news175218.htm

Concerns (it appears) for sites and antiquities in Saudi Arabia:

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009020228\
214

Looks like someone is going looking for Noah's Ark in Turkey:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,486684,00.html

... more coverage of 'evidence' of the flood itself:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-88924.html

More coverage of King Solomon's Mines:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-85496.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 cinema fire in Izmir revealed a Roman wall:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10911397.asp?scr=1

More on those Albanian shipwrecks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28963784/
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/146906/Ancient-wreck-hunt-in-once-forbidden-waters
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/01/europe/EU-FEA-Albania-Underwater-Treas\
ures.php
http://www.rpmnautical.org/albaniasurvey08.htm

More on Mt Lykaion:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202175200.htm

More on Pantheon-as-sundial:

http://www.odt.co.nz/on-campus/university-otago/41868/otago-researcher-sheds-lig\
ht-pantheon

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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Using Henry VIII's armour to document his physical changes over
time:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article5635985.ece

A bit out of date, but I don't think this mass grave from the
30 Years War ever made it to the English-speaking press:

http://tinyurl.com/bbu5ha

Some metal detectorists have found a Saxon burial in Sussex:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/7869373.stm

Evidence that some Benedictine nuns from France were victims of
the plague:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29054365/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/06/priest-nun-plague.html

Richard III's coffin (maybe) has been moved:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/7865877.stm

(Much) more on the HMS Victory:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5678770.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_bi_ge/shipwreck_discovery
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7863840.stm
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=6636282
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/science/03shipwreck.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/US-salvage-experts-claim-700m.4938953.jp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/01/AR2009020100647.\
html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hKo0b5m6jN_bAY1zRqMets8V8vIgD9\
62S2RO0
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6780500&page=1
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,605052,00.html
http://www.canada.com/news/British+naval+wreck+hold+billion+gold/1244876/story.h\
tml

... which gave rise to a good Opeddish thing on matters marine salvagical:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/02/f-marine-law.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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Plans are afoot to search for evidence of Japan's lost Yamatai
Kingdom:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-86211.html
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200902020047.html

Something's missing from this burial chamber in a Dutch cemetery
story:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Surat/Burial_chamber_unearthed_at_Dutch_cemet\
ery/articleshow/4093322.cms

More artifacts from Mohenjo Daro:

http://www.dawn.com/2009/02/02/top12.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-85580.html
http://www.karachinews.net/story/461446

More on pre-Lapita petroglyphs:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-85747.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090204/lf_afp/tongahistoryarchaeology_200902040521\
34

More on 'competition' in the ongoing golden age of Chinese
archaeology:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9901\
7

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Plenty o' coverage of evidence for the oldest use of chocolate in
the US:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090202-ancient-chocolate.html?so\
urce=rss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_sc/sci_mmmmm_chocolate_2
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203173331.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601202&sid=aZqgPQH0Ry9k
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090202/sc_livescience/firstsignofchocolate\
inancientusfound
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-02/03/content_7440644.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28985087/
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-cacao3-2009feb03,0,6521359.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/04cocoa.html

Still arguing over the ownership of 'Indian Head Rock':

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/feb/Indian-Head-Rock-Ownership\
-Dispute-Reaches-Federal-Court.html

France lays claim to a Lake Michigan shipwreck:

http://www.grandhaventribune.com/paid/310545953032777.bsp

Interesting old murder/hanging tale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/us/02land.html

Review (by William Safire) of a couple of tomes about Lincoln:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/books/review/Safire-t.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the Incan
site and fortress of Choquequirao:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/


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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Don't know about you, but I'm semi-tired of the annual misinformation
about the origins of Valentine's Day, so this year we'll just alert
you to one item which has all the 'theories' in it:

http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090208/LIFESTYLE/902080320

Pieces from the Petrobelli Altarpiece have been reunited:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/4538663/Fragments-of-butchered-Renaissanc\
e-masterpiece-reunited-for-first-time.html

Interesting bit of technology which can be used for modelling sites:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10554277

A major Yiddish library is now available online:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/yiddish-library-goes-live-online/

Trying to revive the Manx language:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202140656.htm

The oldest free library in the U.S. may have to close:

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/38128204.html

More on Mendelssohn's bicentennial:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090202.wmendelssohn0203/BNS\
tory/Entertainment/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090202.wmendelssohn0203

More on the Vatican publishing their Hebrew manuscripts:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20090130.htm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304675756&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

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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Rome:

http://www2.canada.com/theprovince/news/travel/story.html?id=0907162c-c037-4cef-\
8d2b-dd9dc514a2bb

Pamphylia:

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=166305
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

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

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

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

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Plenty of coverage of arrests connected to a Syriac Bible recovered
in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=43870&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=43939&cat_id=1
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINTRE5152HR20090206?sp=true
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090206/lf_nm_life/us_cyprus_bible

A book dealer had been plundering the Rothschild Library:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5663010.ece

Scotland has cleared up its laws relating to treasure trove and the
like:

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Code-clears-up-39finders-keepers39.4943459.j\
p

Looks like Sweden will be next on the 'repatriation stage':

http://www.cphpost.dk/culture/122-culture/44647-ambassador-mediates-in-a-case-of\
-stolen-artefacts.html

More on Egypt returning artifacts to Iraq:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/06/Egypt_returns_ancient_statue_to_Iraq/UPI-\
88101233941292/
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2009-02-05%5Ckurd.htm

Another review of Sharon Waxman's book:

http://www.thestar.com/Entertainment/article/583718

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A search for some more medieval coins at Edenbridge came up
empty:

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/edenbridge/Edenbridge-diggers-search-treasure/articl\
e-673185-detail/article.html

Irish Mining Tokens:

http://www.mining-memorabilia.co.uk/AIMC.htm

The Royal Collection of Hanover may be up for sale:

http://coinarchaeology.blogspot.com/2009/01/disaster-in-germany-royal-collection\
-of.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Jan Lievens:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/05/entertainment/e15333\
0S84.DTL

Written in Bone:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_re_us/sci_written_in_bone

Etruscans:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-02-04-dallas-etruscan-exhibit_N\
.htm
http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2009/02/01/ap/entertainment/other/d961rdo00.tx\
t

Treasures from Shanghai:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=28861

Napoleon on the Nile:

http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/storage/paper522/news/2009/02/02/Feature/\
Rare-Napoleon.Works.From.Egypt.Come.To.Suart.Galleries-3607804.shtml

River of Gold:

http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/exhibits.shtml

A large group of Iranologists are petitioning the new U.S.
president in regards to those tablets at the Oriental Institute:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=188577

Some folks in Chichester aren't too pleased about plans for a
Roman museum there:

http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/448/Anger-as-69m-Roman-museum.4946966.jp

Ford's Theater is reopening as a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/arts/design/07linc.html

Brandeis might not be selling its art after all:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/06/brandeis

The NGA in Washington acquired a Brugghen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/arts/07arts-NATIONALGALL_BRF.html?_r=1

... while a Titian remains in London:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/titian-painting-is-saved-for-71-mil\
lion/

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/arts/design/06raggio.html
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Date: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:58 pm
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explorator 11.43                               February 15, 2009
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Chris Baker, Donna Hurst,
Duke Jason, Edward Rockstein, Geoffrey Fishburn, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mark Ynys-Mon, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W. Sargent, and William Peck for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

Not sure why, but last week was a big one for errata (mostly
cutting and pasting problems from yours truly ... really not
sure what was going on there); I've made corrections in context
below)
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EARLY HUMANS
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We now have a Neanderthal genome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/science/13neanderthal.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100648070
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090212/sc_nm/us_neanderthal_1
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5719640.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/12/neaderthal-genome
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7886477.stm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE51B5CV20090212
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-unlocks-neanderthal-secrets-16\
08222.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20090212-scientists-map-neanderthal-genome-0

... and, of course, someone already wants to bring a Neanderthal back to
life:

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/why-not-bring-a-neanderthal-to-li\
fe/

New techniques for tracking ancient hominids:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212150838.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news153674920.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/549004/?sc=rssn

More on how early hominid faces changed/adapted:

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/39396822.html
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More on pygmy origins:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/09/did-farmers-scatter-pygmy-p\
opulations-across-africa/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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One of my cut-and-paste problems last week was in relation to this
piece on using hyperspectral imagery to analyze a 10th century B.C./B.C.E
Hebrew ostrakon:

http://www.laserfocusworld.com/display_article/352592/12/none/none/INDUS/Headwal\
l-spectral-imager-helps-decipher-10th-century-B.C.-Hebrew-tex

Plenty of coverage for a cache of 30 mummies found near Saqqara:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7879366.stm
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/5310858/about-30-egyptian-mummies-found-\
in-ancient-cache/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090209.wmummies09/BNStory/S\
cience/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090209.wmummies09
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/148017/Mummies-found-in-newly-discovered-tomb-in-Egy\
pt
http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=1270692
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-02/10/content_7460193.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090209-ml-egypt-AP.html?source=r\
ss
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsmumm1012445612feb10,0,1906186.story?trac\
k=rss
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aENgkTLx1GT8
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-pyramid14-2009feb14,0,5290059.story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090209/sc_nm/us_egypt_mummies_2
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/09/news/ML-Egypt-Mummy-Discovery.php
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304726870&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXQVGk6l3e_yKhj5KYsX5Ri50LggD9\
6842PO0
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/09/egypt-tomb.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090209-ml-egypt-AP.html

I think this is a followup piece in relation to the above:

http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2009/02/11/8352791.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090211/ancient_mummy_09021\
1/20090211?hub=World&s_name=
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/11/news/ML-Egypt-Mummy-Discovery.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7883439.stm
http://www.latimes.com/la-0211-day05_kewnovnc,0,3300631.photo
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/11/content_10803810.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_mummy_discovery_4
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29137965/
http://www.france24.com/en/20090211-egypt-archaeology-most-beautiful-mummy-found\
-saqqara

Latest mummy scan was of an Egyptian priestess under the auspices
of the OI, with plenty of interesting graphics and the like:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/09/meresamun-remains-scan
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/12/mummy.mystery/index.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1139142/The-Mummy-X-posed-The-fac\
e-Ancient-Egyptian-priestess-revealed-3-000-years.html?ITO=1490
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/1421824,CST-NWS-mummy10.article

Not sure where to classify this one, but in case you missed all the
Nefertiti revelations/brouhaha this week:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,607417,00.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090211/world/egypt_germany_archaeology_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7883102.stm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=85407§ionid=3510212
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5702671.ece

The 'Future of Babylon' project:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE51A0MM20090211?feedType=RSS&\
feedName=lifestyleMolt
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L9399801.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL9399801

Concerns for Iran's six

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