================================================================ explorator 11.31-32 November 30, 2008 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! *Here's our double issue after our little hiatus last week; some of the items are a bit 'dated' (actually, they're all dated with more or less precision) but all the links should work* Enjoy! ================================================================ ================================================================ 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). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Yet another Libya-is-promoting-archaeology piece: http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnJOE4AH0GQ.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Bayside Historical Society: http://www.baysidehistorical.org/exhibits.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ 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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================================================================ explorator 11.33 December 7, 2008 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Chris Hopkins, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Kim Dammers, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Thais: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/arts/music/07davi.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Cornelius Vermeule: http://tinyurl.com/6bmwxw (BGlobe) Helmut N. 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================================================================ explorator 11.34 December 14, 2008 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! *Here's our double issue after our little hiatus last week; some of the items are a bit 'dated' (actually, they're all dated with more or less precision) but all the links should work* Enjoy! ================================================================ ================================================================ 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). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 Flémalle 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 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ 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. 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================================================================ explorator 11.35 December 21, 2008 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! Happy holiday(s)-of-your-choice to all our readers! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Christopher Wood, Ferruccio C. Ferrazza, Mitch Allen, Mike Ruggeri, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Viaggi nella Storia (online magazine): http://www.viagginellastoria.it/ London Archaeologist: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/london_arch/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Angeliki Laiou: http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bh3da-us-leonardo-louvre/ Martha Putney: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/us/18putney.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. 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================================================================ explorator 11.36 December 28, 2008 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ 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). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ "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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Cupid and Psyche: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/nyregion/new-jersey/21cupidnj.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Roman Nijmegen: http://www.livius.org/no-nz/nijmegen/nijmegen.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 11.37 January 4, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! Happy New Year! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Alfredo De La Fe, Ruben Post, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 11.38 January 11, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Mike Aquilina, Rick Darby, Alfredo De La Fe, Dorothy King, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Joan Griffith, 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). Curiosity question ... if I sent links out like this, can your email handle it?: <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news150642011.html">First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence</a> (it's an html-style link) ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ What ancient necklaces from various sites reveal: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-69224.html ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research 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================================================================ explorator 11.39 January 18, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Barbara Rodgers, Arne Halbakken, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Bob Heuman, Ross W. Sargent, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). Thanks to all who answered my question about html links last weekend; I'm hoping to implement that style of link in the near future but have to do a bit more fiddling. ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Palmyra: http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/1/10/lifetravel/2913111&sec\ =lifetravel ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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: 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================================================================ explorator 11.40 January 25, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! Thanks to all who answered my question about html links last weekend; I'm hoping to implement that style of link in the near future but have to do a bit more fiddling. ================================================================ ================================================================ 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, Ross W. Sargent, Towse Harrison, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Martin Bemmann, Tony Jackson, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ 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: 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================================================================ explorator 11.41 February 1, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! Thanks to all who answered my question about html links last weekend; I'm hoping to implement that style of link in the near future but have to do a bit more fiddling. ================================================================ ================================================================ 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). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Washington museums: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/travel/01cultured.html Bodrum: http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=165637 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 11.42 February 8, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! Thanks to all who answered my question about html links last weekend; I'm hoping to implement that style of link in the near future but have to do a bit more fiddling. ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Barnea Selavan, Diana Wright, Jan Bailey, Donna Hurst, Rick Heli, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Martin Bemmann, Andrew Smith, Duke Jason, 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). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ 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/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Ezzatollah Negahban: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=188672 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84618§ionid=351020105 Olga Raggio: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/arts/design/06raggio.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 11.43 February 15, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! Thanks to all who answered my question about html links last weekend; I'm hoping to implement that style of link in the near future but have to do a bit more fiddling. ================================================================ ================================================================ 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) ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ More on pygmy origins: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/09/did-farmers-scatter-pygmy-p\ opulations-across-africa/ ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 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 salt men: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-93567.html A small statue of Tutankhamen was found in northern Iraq (!): http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/255520,found-in-iraq-king-tut.html Somewhat vague item on some 2000 b.p. artifacts found at Mada'en Saleh: http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009021429\ 231 Similarly vague on a couple of sites in Kuwait: http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=28393&ccid=9 Something about the Ark of the Covenant: http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/x1358534046/Brocktonian-claims-discovery-of-r\ eligious-artifact More on the search for the 'real' Robinson Crusoe: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,605963,00.html The Brooklyn Museum's dig at Mut: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/tag/digdiary2009 Egyptology News Blog: http://egyptology.blogspot.com/ Egyptology Blog: http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/ Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog: http://blog.ritmeyer.com/ Paleojudaica: http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/ Persepolis Fortification Archives: http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/ Archaeologist at Large: http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A major Thracian wine complex: http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_570870591 Outside of the usual Valentine's day stuff, there was a nice piece circulating featuring Don Lateiner on the (Classical) history and/or science of smooching: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0214-kissing-sciencefeb14,0,6\ 505595.story http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090213-valentines-day-kissing.ht\ ml http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/ancient-greeks-and-romans-used-kissin\ g-to-express-deference-not-for-valentines_100155070.html Nice feature on Stephen G. Miller: http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=31&idsub=133&id=18068&t=St\ ephen+G.+Miller%3A+A+Classicist+in+Greece The Latin roots of a decision: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090214.WORD14/TPStory/Enterta\ inment More on Mt. Lykaion: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090209/sc_livescience/mythicbirthplaceofze\ ussaidfound http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/02/aracheologist-d.html?csp=34 Review of a couple of tomes on the fall/ruin of the Roman Empire: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fict\ ion/article5718248.ece Review of Jo Marchant, *Decoding the Heavens*: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-agin/book-review-tackling-the_b_167024.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/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ n.b. apologies, but I was unable to recover the 'humans inhabiting the Mendip Hills' story that I messed up ... A 13th century 'fask mask' jug from Rothesay: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7883469.stm The subject of this year's Runciman Lecture was "We Are All Children of Byzantium": http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp&fdate=\ 07/02/2009 More on the moving of Richard III's coffin: http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/grave-King-Richardarticle-476989-deta\ ils/article.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Cambodia is seeking help to raise a shipwreck discovered a few years ago: http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090210/tap-as-cambodia-ancient-ship-d3b07b8.\ html A major stupa find in Bihar: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/004200902091517.htm Brief item on a pair of bronze drums found at Quang Nam: http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/140209/culture_a.htm Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ A "pristine" Weaver Culture site in Iowa: http://www.muscatinejournal.com/articles/2009/02/11/news/doc4992f40c29d220647884\ 42.txt The Miami Circle is now National Historic Landmark: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/local/sfl-flfmiamici\ rcle0209pnfeb09,0,4205783.story http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/article974312.ece In the 2008 season, CLUE has found two shipwrecks in Lake Erie: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/in_the_field/clue4.html Mysterious stone circle at the bottom of Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/02/09/Origins_of_underwater_stones_a_myster\ y/UPI-70701234199346/ NPR on Lincoln's bicentennial: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100553857 An excerpt from Ronald White, *A. Lincoln*: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/excerpts/2009-02-03-A-Lincoln_N.htm A couple of interesting television programs (with good info in the hype) on Lincoln: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/arts/television/09linc.html Review of Charles Flood, *1864*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/books/09masl.html Review of Robert Norell's bio of Booker T. Washington: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/books/review/Steele-t.html Bureaucracy and Black History Month: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/education/12amistad.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ A mass grave in Mexico City dating from the time of the Spanish Conquest: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090211-aztec-video-ap.html http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51a0j9-us-mexico-grave/ http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/1027692.html http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6849371 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090211/sc_nm/us_mexico_grave_2 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iPF6IUn8CskP1_rkiUjuU-UZ3mXgD9\ 690QB02 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2009/02/10/8343211-ap.html A followup on assorted finds (especially a monolith) found in Mexico City a couple of years ago: http://thedartmouth.com/2009/02/12/news/monolith/ An earlier facade for the Great Pyramid at Uxmal: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2892&Itemid=150 Puerto Rico wants to salvage a John Hawkins shipwreck: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/09/puerto-rico-dive 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 ================================================================ Lots of Darwiniana this week ... first, the funny side of Darwin: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10tier.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5irkFrPHRbZid9p0hWDl6JbLx_XLwD9\ 6A7IRG0 ... some background on his life and theories: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/opinion/12judson.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/opinion/12thu4.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100542500 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5710774.ece ... some responses to Darwin's theories: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/bad-day-for-darwin-haters/ http://www.american.com/archive/2009/february-2009/why-we-still-argue-about-darw\ in-and-why-we-should http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10essa.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10evolution.html ... and book reviews: ... and an interesting response thereto: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/books/review/Letters-t- A special edition of Discover: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/mar/04-discover-does-darwin Theosophists are still around, apparently: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/nyregion/15society.html The 'Moaner Lisa': http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/seen-the-mona-lisa-check-out-moan\ er-lisa-1607258.html On the Catholic Church's revival of indulgences: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/sin-and-its-indulgences/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/nyregion/10indulgence.html Archaeologists are losing their jobs: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertynews/4569833/Archaeologists-lose-the\ ir-jobs-as-recession-bites.html A medieval love letter: http://www.repubblica.it/2009/02/sezioni/cronaca/lettere-amore/lettere-amore/let\ tere-amore.html?ref=hpspr1 The Zulu Krewe in New Orleans celebrates its 100th: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/travel/escapes/13Zulu.html Analyzing some 'plague perfume': http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/14/perfume-bottle-erfurt Tasty Tortoni: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15food-t-000.html Tracing the history of Snark (actually a book review): http://www.thestar.com/Entertainment/article/587328 An important followup to that Vatican-publishing-Hebrew-manuscripts story from last week: http://lennybendavid.com/2009/02/important-response-to-article-on.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 ================================================================ Jerusalem: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304767407&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Sussita: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304692969&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Judean Hills: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304695732&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Archaeotourism in Croatia: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/international-travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501830&obj\ ectid=10555983 Siwa: http://www.watoday.com.au/travel/travel-feature/date-palms-and-a-toy-gun-2009020\ 4-7xbn.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 ================================================================ Ancient Egypt 9.4: http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/ 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 ================================================================ Last week, for reasons unknown, I located the following repatriation story in Sweden ... it is, of course, Denmark: http://www.cphpost.dk/culture/122-culture/44647-ambassador-mediates-in-a-case-of\ -stolen-artefacts.html Britain returned some smuggled pottery to Pakistan: http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINL936787220090209 Cyprus Weekly helped a church recover a stolen icon: http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?FrontPageNewsID=304_4 I think we've mentioned this Shakespeare folio theft before: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/7881795.stm A man from Polygyros has been caught with a pile of illicit antiquities: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7312137&service=142 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/13/europe/EU-Greece-Antiquities.php More on that Syriac Bible theft: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=85114§ionid=3510212 http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =343612 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Roman coin hoard from a South Devon field: http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Rare-Roman-coins-lifetime/article-692591-\ detail/article.html Nice price fetched for the oldest German penny: http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=nw20090209172441136C832886&s\ etid=1§id=29&url=iol&vne=0&csect=A+Step+Beyond An ancient Indian coin find: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health--Science/Science/Villagers-unearth-anc\ ient-coins/articleshow/4131903.cms Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum: http://www.snponline.com/articles/2009/02/09/multiple_papers/arts/llegypt%202-_2\ 0090206_0423pm_1.txt Becoming Edvard Munch: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/arts/design/13munc.html Beyond Babylon: http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2009/02/09/Features/Los\ t-And.Found.Treasure.At.The.Met-3619119.shtml The Banksy of the 17th century: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/feb/09/saenredam-b\ uurkerk-church-graffiti-banksy China wants some bronzes formerly owned by Yves St Laurent back: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/china-asks-for-return-of-relics-in-\ laurents-collection/ Goldscheider ceramics: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/arts/design/13anti.html The new Acropolis Museum will (finally) open in June: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20090213/ap_tr_ge/eu_travel_brief_greece_acrop\ olis_museum_1 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=85650§ionid=3510212 http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100004_14/02/2009_104722 The Mary Rose museum is (finally) a go: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7888897.stm Feature on the new Gettysburg Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/us/11gettysburg.html Scientists and curators are chatting about preservation: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090208133133.htm Implications for Sotheby's from Christie's reshuffling of departments: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/arts/design/13voge.html A museum in Kent has just found out it has an Early Cycladic III kernos: http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Rare-object-from-ancient-Greece-found-in-Ken\ t--newsinkent20796.aspx How artists in the past dealt with tough economic times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/arts/design/15spea.html Iraq's National Museum is slated to open later this month: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/12/iraq-museum.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/arts/design/12arts-IRAQIMUSEUMR_BRF.html A Van Dyck has return to Hampton Court: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/4594855/Van-Dyck-painting-back-at-Hampton\ -Court-Palace-after-300-years.html I think we've mentioned this restoration of Yemeni lions in Paris before: http://www.sabanews.net/en/news176149.htm Nice price for a handwritten manuscript of a speech of Lincoln (awk): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/arts/13arts-LINCOLNSPEEC_BRF.html What might be the oldest photo of New York City is coming to auction: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/arts/design/10arts-SOTHEBYSTOOF_BRF.html ... as are some Hebrew texts: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/books/12hebr.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Oliver Twist: http://tv.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/arts/television/14twis.html Uncle Vanya: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/theater/reviews/13vany.html Twelfth Night: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/theater/13arts-ANNEHATHAWAY_BRF.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Daniel Geagan: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/former-ascsa-member-daniel-ge\ agan-19372009/ Ralph Carpenter: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/arts/12carpenter.html Rabbi Joseph Baumgarten: http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/remembering_\ rabbi_joseph_baumgarten/10579 The New York Times reprised Frederick Douglass' obit: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0207.html .... and Geronimo's: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0616.html 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Interview with David H. Koch: http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/koch/ ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Some recent finds from Egypt include a statue of Amenhotep and a bust of Hatshepsut: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-97050.html http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/19/content_10845169.htm Digging the the Valley of the Kings: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203173651.htm A few more fragments of the Heliodoros Stele appear to have been found: http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 Rethinking the Black Sea flood (again): http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/19/black-sea-flood.html Israel offered 'voluntary relocation' to some 1500 Palestinian residents living on an archaeological site in Jerusalem: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1065674 I'm still not sure how to categorize this one ... it's an update on lawsuits against Iran and seizure of inscriptions and the like in the Persepolis Fortifications Archive at the OI: http://www.heraldnews.com/opinions/x1658751189/FOCUS-Terrorism-impacting-archaeo\ logy-02-22-09 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29315707/ Nice feature on (my former prof.) Krzysztof Grzymski: http://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=1275416 A press releaseish/interviewish thing on Simcha Jacobovici: http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11753397 Assorted plans for sites in Istanbul: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11025381.asp?scr=1 A brief update on the DAI's dig at Tayma: http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009022129\ 942 Trying to preserve sites in Saudi Arabia: http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009021929\ 796 A 16 ft. Lego pharaoh sailed down the Thames this week: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090217/tuk-pharaoh-floats-down-the-thames-6323e80.\ html More on those mummies from Saqqara: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/935/he2.htm http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-pyramid14-2009feb14,0,5290059.story More on the Nefertiti bust skullduggery: http://www.afrikanet.info/menu/news/datum/2009/02/15/did-germany-cheat-to-get-bu\ st-of-nefertiti/ 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) ================================================================ Vague item (in Italian) on the discovery of a Roman city in Algeria: http://www.instablog.org/ultime/41225.html Similarly vague item on the discovery of a bridge "built by Alexander" north of Mosul: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2009-02-11\kurd.htm A nymphaeum from Southwell: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Southwell-site-provide-missing-religi\ ous-link/article-704406-detail/article.html Colchester's Roman Circus is up for sale: http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/4139331.Colchester__Roman_circus_to_be\ _sold_alongside_sergeant_s_mess/ Hyping potential Roman finds in Gloucester: http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/news/Roman-discovery-corner/article-71328\ 2-detail/article.html Evidence of Roman activities on Looe Island: http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk/news/Island-reveals-Roman-treasures-Ti\ me-Team/article-707469-detail/article.html Some recent finds at Modena: http://www.archaeogate.org/classica/article/1027/1/nuove-scoperte-dagli-scavi-lu\ ngo-la-via-emilia-a-fossal.html http://www.politicamentecorretto.com/index.php?news=10864 A piece on scanning (perhaps in conjunction with the initial piece in our 'Other items' section) which focuses primarily on the Archimedes palimpsest: http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090217-xray-archimedes.html http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090216/NATION/902160333 http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/us_news/nat_ap_anchient_secrets_beneath_the_surface\ _200902152207561 http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/sns-ap-sci-ancient-secrets,0,3146\ 270.story http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gHRg7D8ADxKvcNu2sO5gyDqZNm0wD9\ 6C5HEG0 Feature/reviewish thing on Maurice Bowra: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/maurice-bowra-a-li\ fe-by-leslie-mitchell-1625789.html Some items from Pompeii are visiting a different sort of scanner: http://www.physorg.com/news154360692.html Arguing about a statue of Alexander in Athens: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/16/statue-alexander-great-greece 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) ================================================================ New research suggests Elizabeth I's navy had some 'supergun' technology: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7899831.stm The Museum of London has uncovered a medieval waterwheel: http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/English/News/Current/greenwichmill.h\ tm http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story\ .aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemi\ d=WeED16%20Feb%202009%2020%3A43%3A49%3A903 http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=29121&int_sec=2 They've (possibly) found the location of Robert the Bruce's palace: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/22/robert-the-bruce-palace-remains Some metal detectorists have come across some 3000 b.p. or thereabouts copper ingots in Devon: http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Detector-bronze-hidden-3-000-years-ago/ar\ ticle-692592-detail/article.html The 'essence' of Stonehenge (very nice): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/4602637/The-essence-of-S\ tonehenge.html Interesting old home in Louviers, France: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/greathomesanddestinations/18gh-france.html More on the 'Stirling Heads': http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/Mystery-of-39second-Crown-Jewels39\ .5004379.jp Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ The latest (but I think we've had it before) theory on the collapse of Angkor Wat: http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-34/1234921451359\ 40.xml&storylist=topstories http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2009/02/17/8426491-ap.html Carbonated drinks from a shipwreck off Sri Lanka: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090208/News/sundaytimesnews_25.html An "ancient monolithic temple" at Hamachal: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/remains-of-ancient-monolithic-\ temple-found-in-himachal_100155637.html In a similar vein, the latest video at the Archeology Channel is about saving the Temple of Banteay Chhmar: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ Review of James Palmer, *The Bloody White Baron*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/books/review/Goodwin-t.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ I think we mentioned this claim by France on the Griffon/Griffin (in Lake Michigan) a while ago: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Technology/France+claims+historic+Great+Lakes+wre\ ck/1299362/story.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/16/shipwreck-michigan-griffin A Middle School's collection of Native American artifacts turns out to be rather important: http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_11708445 Interesting sinkhole in Florida with 8000 b.p. or so artifacts: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090218-florida-early-americans-m\ issions.html Also from Florida comes news of the possible find of a Spanish mission: http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090216/articles/902161007&tc=yahoo A few more items on Lincoln, including his being named 'best President ever': http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100746999 ... his love of music: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100675699 ... a review of a TV program postulating the theft of his body: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/arts/television/16linc.html ... and how he's viewed outside of the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/opinion/16lincolnpackage.html Rebuilding Casey Jones' house: http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2009/02/15/news/doc4998b83aa69ae720894515.txt More on that stone circle in Grand Traverse Bay: http://www.physorg.com/news153932267.html More on that Weaver Culture site in Iowa: http://qctimes.com/articles/2009/02/17/news/local/doc499b53c24de8d281802385.txt http://www.wqad.com/news/wqad-oakville-research-flood-021709,0,1951229.story ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ 2500 b.p. tomb of a 3-year-old from Peru: http://www.livinginperu.com/news/8348 Related: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071112-peru-temple.html Nice feature on the search for lost cities in the Amazon: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/02/22/finding_the_lost_cit\ y/ The annual theory on why the Rapa Nui civilization collapsed: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218095435.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 ================================================================ Interesting technology which will facilitate scanning and imaging (very) large artifacts (actually a sort of spinoff piece from the 'mummy scan' we've mentioned the past couple of weeks): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151638.htm http://www.physorg.com/news153929129.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5744170.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4677558/X-ra\ y-ten-billion-times-brighter-than-sun-to-analyse-mummies.html Geronimo's descendents are suing the Skull and Bones folk: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_re_us/geronimo_s_bones A substance for preventing graffiti damage on "cultural heritage materials": http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220075137.htm The current economic times are impacting archaeologists: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7899938.stm The AIA is honouring Henry T. Wright: http://www.archaeology.org/0903/etc/president.html Here's a way to destroy your image of Jane Austen: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/austen-meets-alien-in-pride-and-pre\ dator On some 100+ year-old recordings of the Paris Opera: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/arts/music/17vaul.html On a Virtual Library of Medieval Manuscripts: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210161916.htm On the role of humans in evolution: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10humans.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 ================================================================ Sandanski: http://www.questbg.com/en/areafocus/ruralauthentic/959-sandanski-home-of-spartac\ us Amasya: http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=167622 Review of Justin Marozzi, *The Way of Herodotus*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/books/review/Harshaw-t.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 ================================================================ Concerns over 'nighthawks' using their metal detectors for nefarious reasons in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7891530.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7891871.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/16/looting-antiquities-uk-heritage http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g43JNZQe25rFNdqEQwI5V1hVP7zw http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5741078.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4630587/Metal-detector-thieves-are-plunde\ ring-our-history-English-Heritage-warns.html ... while some detectorists don't like the label 'nighthawk': http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4131619.Detectors_angry_at____nighthawk___\ _slur/ The theft of some items from the Lydian Hoard was an inside job: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/7889584.stm Somewhat brief/poorly-translated piece on Bulgarian maps being sold to treasure hunters in Macedonia/FYROM: http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n171218 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ On investing in coins in these economic times: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7878606.stm Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Forgotten Empire: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=86009§ionid=351020105 Shah Abbas: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/20/arts/melik21.php The Silk Road in Ningxia: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/17/arts/seno.php Written in Bone: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.bones16feb16,0,749686.story http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/ Medieval Jewellery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7897113.stm Rembrandt Drawings: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/nyregion/new-jersey/22artsnj.html Hebrew Manuscripts: http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/event/EventEduDetail.jsp?event_id=29625 Nice OpEddish thing on the uniqueness of university museums: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/arts/design/20yale.html I think we've mentioned China's attempts to halt the sale of some bronzes in Paris: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/arts/design/17auct.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5irGKB8T-5homX-zMbrq2ebtV5KfQ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/arts/design/17auct.html Outside of that, folks are all agog over Yves Saint Laurent's collection (which is coming to auction): http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE51J5QU20090221 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/arts/design/19auct.html A virtual museum in Vermont?: http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090215/FEATURES07/902150318/1016/FEATURES07 Still have stories about the Iraq Museum reopening: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/16/content_10824759.htm ... although it probably isn't: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/world/middleeast/16baghdad.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ L'Isola Disabitata: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/arts/music/21goth.html In the Next Room: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/theater/reviews/18vibr.html More Mendelssohnia: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/arts/music/22kozi.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ B.J. Ndiaye: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/world/africa/19ndiaye.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ In case you missed the Google Earth/Atlantis thing: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2255989.ece http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Hopes-dashed-Google-Oc\ ean-image-lost-city-Atlantis-proves-sort.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7903169.stm http://i.gizmodo.com/5157949/atlantis-found-on-google-earth-official-explanation\ -is-dubious ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 11.45 March 1, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! Thanks to all who answered my question about html links last weekend; I'm hoping to implement that style of link in the near future but have to do a bit more fiddling. ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Joan Griffith, Deborah N. Carlson, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Michael Oberndorf, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, William Gebhardt, Ross W. Sargent, and Towse Harrison for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Plenty of coverage of an early hominid footprint find from Kenya: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7913375.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/27/earliest-human-footprint-found http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2009/02/26/8547546-ap.html http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=15-million-footprints-uncover http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090227/sc_nm/us_footprint_ancient_2 http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/rutgers_university_students_fi.html http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/feet+the+same+after+15m\ +years/3003462 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5812463.ece http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/26/kenya.footprints/index.html?eref=ib_t\ opstories http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140546.php http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/02/27/MNR7165PFH.DTL http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101191786 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/science/27foot.html (JNW) At least once a year we hear about this fungus problem at Lascaux: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/27/france-cave-fungus.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_sc/eu_france_cave_drawings_5 More on the Neanderthal genome: http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_11789588?source=rss ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ A sort of general archaeology-in-Libya piece: http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13034&Itemid=5\ 821 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Some more (4) sarcophagi from a tomb in Saqqara: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1645759/archeologists_uncover_wooden_sarcop\ haguses_in_egypt/ http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE51P39O20090226 http://news.softpedia.com/news/Saqqara-Reveals-Wooden-Sarcophagi-105534.shtml http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090226/sc_nm/us_egypt_sarcophaguses_1 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aPErvWkPyv2E&refer=muse http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/International/wireStory?id=6963537 ... I'm pretty sure these ones from Dashur are the same as above (but the source is Dr Hawass' blog, so it's a bit different than the regular press coverage): http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-wooden-coffins-and-ushabti-figurines-\ found-dahshur Cleaning operations near Menkaure's pyramid revealed a small statue of some unidentified persona: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090224/sc_nm/us_egypt_statue_2 http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/257244,ancient-statue-discovered-in-%20e\ gyptian-pyramid-during-cleaning.html http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30537/4500-year-old-wig-wearing-statue-found-n\ ear-pyramid/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29368122/ http://news.scotsman.com/world/Statue-unearthed-at--Giza.5012405.jp Some Garden of Eden stuff (Gobekli Tepe): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark\ -site-Garden-Eden.html A cuneiform tablet from Homs: http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2009/02/19/213522.htm Bridge construction whcih threatened Naqsh-e Rustam has been cancelled: http://www.payvand.com/news/09/feb/1347.html Interesting First/Second Temple site from Umm Tuba: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410694625&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066361.html http://cwnewz.com/content/view/619/2/ http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Royal-seal-impressions-discover\ ed-23-Feb-2009.htm http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Cultura/?id=3.0.3054139368 (Italian) http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/23/1003218/biblical-seal-impressions-found-i\ n-jerusalem Some more fragments of the Turin King List have been identified: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/27/egyptian-papyrus.html http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-102126.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29430681/ Can't remember if we mentioned this inscription-on-a-skull story when it first came out: http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=2&ArticleID=9 This story of a retired farmer's project to build a model of Herod's Temple was making the rounds this week: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4837608/Farmer-builds-model-\ of-Biblical-temple.html http://tinyurl.com/balpqv (photos ... wow!) Nice feature on the ongoing work at the synagogue at Umm el-Kanatir: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304824152&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull More coverage of the Nefertiti nefariousness: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/935/he1.htm In case you missed the Heliodorus Stele fragments story: http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1493\ &module_id=#as http://www.antiquities.org.il/images/press/iaa_heliodoros.zip (photos) Egyptology News Blog: http://egyptology.blogspot.com/ Egyptology Blog: http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/ Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog: http://blog.ritmeyer.com/ Paleojudaica: http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/ Persepolis Fortification Archives: http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/ Archaeologist at Large: http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ The Kizilburun shipwreck's cargo was destined for a Greek temple: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090223-roman-shipwreck-turkey-mi\ ssions.html A fresh round of concern for underwater sites in Greece: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200902/20090224/article_392044.htm A so-called Etruscan vase moon rising: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090223.html Construction folks have dug up a Roman pot in Highworth: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/4145675.Builders_dig_up_ancient_Roman_po\ t/ Colchester's Roman Circus is up for sale: http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/4139331.Colchester__Roman_circus_to_be\ _sold_alongside_sergeant_s_mess/ Battlestar Galactica as a retelling of the Aeneid: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/02/27/is-batt\ lestar-galactica-a-retelling-of-the-aeneid.aspx A triangular temple (!) from Cyprus: http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003194.html More on that ISIS scanning technology ... this time with a Classical spin: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-02/satf-oop022409.php 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 metal detectorist has found a medieval ring near Flint: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2009/02/26/flint-metal-detector\ -finds-medieval-ring-in-farm-field-55578-23013472/ Despite a recent find, scholars are still pretty much stumped about "Southwest Script": http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090228/ap_on_re_eu/eu_portugal_lost_language_1 http://www.whotv.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-portugal-lost-language,0,709902.\ story http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2009/02/28/news/doc49a983b5b0e7a807652122.txt http://www.denverpost.com/ci_11809904 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gviH8MrBKH1ZmFJT-konqjBCs7XQD9\ 6KNS400 Concerns about Odyssey Marine's treatment of the HMS Victory: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/guernsey/7915104.stm The Timewatch folks have a nice video of those Elizabethan cannons mentioned last week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/elizabethsarmada/ Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A 2000 b.p. Shiva shrine from Uttar Pradesh: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/2000-yr-old-Shiva-shrine-found/rssartic\ leshow/4172761.cms Not sure when this is from, but it's involves (very) interesting elongated skulls found in Siberia: http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/02/elongated-skulls-found-in-siberia.html Plenty o' stuff found during the restoration of a Perth cathedral site: http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=11932 Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Some landscapers digging a fishpond in Colorado came across some Clovis tools: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090225132355.htm http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008789802_apancienttools.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,501285,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_sc/ancient_tools_4 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18794396/detail.html http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-t6-college-weapons_0228.artfeb28,0,11\ 64966.story http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/26tools.html http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/1124c0243883c267a7759da4bc4a2902.html http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =346443 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ANCIENT_TOOLS?SITE=NJVIN&SECTION=HOME&TEM\ PLATE=DEFAULT ... National Geographic puts a different emphasis on this one: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090227-ice-age-tools.html Digging Latta House: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4606268/ Bybeen Pottery has been around for 200 years: http://www.kentucky.com/964/story/702106.html Searching for long-lost burials in a cemetery in Santa Monica Canyon: http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/archaeologists-join-hunt-for-long-82682.aspx Archaeological sites on desert military bases: http://www.pe.com/localnews/sbcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_S_archaeology22.3d0f1\ 14.html?npc ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Possible oldest site and/or origin of cave art in the Americas: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=328485&CategoryId=12394 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 ================================================================ Interesting coverage of the folding of the Rocky Mountain News: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/us/28rocky.html Once again, DNA confirms the identity of the remains of some of Nicholas II's children: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090225132526.htm An early Leonardo portrait?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7916351.stm http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle5785697.ece http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090227/stage_nm/us_italy_leonardo Galileo's finger is going on display: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/4861889/Galileos-finger-g\ oes-on-display-in-Italy.html http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-02-26_126317874.html Identifying the oldest English words: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7911645.stm http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/I-we-two-Oldest-words-in-English/articl\ eshow/4198133.cms Studying the effects of the 1816 Tambora eruption: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090225161422.htm Concerns about trawlers destroying underwater sites: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/22/marine-archaeology-sunken-ships An interview (transcript) with Jane Burleigh (with typos galore): http://www.soundauthors.com/nina-burleigh-live-on-sound-authors.htm Nice feature on the Battle of Poltava: http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=33208 The latest 'dying languages' piece: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100874724 A tale of errata in the Encyclopedia Judaica: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410694161&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Terrorism impacting archaeology: http://www.heraldnews.com/opinions/x1658751189/FOCUS-Terrorism-impacting-archaeo\ logy-02-22-09 More Zombie Austen: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/weekinreview/22schuessler.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 ================================================================ Ithaca: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5798358.ece Cubagua: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/world/americas/25venez.html Turkey's top ten museums: http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=168292 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ Digital Humanities Quarterly (Winter 2009) http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ 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 ================================================================ Organized gangs are stealing tiles from Portugal's heritage sites: http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=999-28 Italy returned a number of smuggled items to Bulgaria: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/257233,italy-returns-2200-smuggled-works\ -of-art-to-bulgaria.html http://bsanna-news.ukrinform.ua/newsitem.php?id=8299&lang=en 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 ================================================================ Real Pirates: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=resources&id=6679816 Cezanne and Beyond: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101142961 Okay ... the Iraqi National Museum did open up after all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7905000.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7905968.stm http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/iraq/2008798588_iraqmuseum01.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD9\ 6H6TA82 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/23/content_10877470.htm http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/23/baghdad.museum.opening/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article5792704.ece http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090223/ts_afp/iraqculturemuseumopen_20090223153947 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9957\ 3 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/world/middleeast/24museum.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/24/nationa-museum-of-iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/24/iraq-artefacts-art http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/23/world/AP-ML-Iraq.html http://www.france24.com/en/20090223-iraq-national-museum-reopens-us-invasion-ant\ iquities-heritage-baghdad-treasures http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2009/02/restored-baghdad-museum-dedicated-2 ... and talks are still being given about the looting thereof: http://www.asuherald.com/news/2009/02/23/News/Professor.Stresses.Importance.Of.S\ tolen.Destroyed.Antiquities-3643720.shtml ... while Italy is planning a virtual Baghdad Museum: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3PR9mFBRoLLT0rNXSyNob_V3MOQD9\ 6INNA81 Bronzes from France: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/design/27bron.html Some European paintings at the Frick: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/design/27fric.html Another state-of-the-art-market piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/magazine/01Brothers-t.html ... while a Matisse fetches a record price: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/23/world/AP-EU-France-Saint-Laurent-Auct\ ion.html Layoffs at the Walters: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/design/27arts-ANOTHERARTMU_BRF.html ... and elsewhere: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/arts/design/26arts-BUDGETCUTSBR_BRF.html Don't think we've ever mentioned antique spittoons before: ... and the Met closes shop(s): http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/met-museum-to-close-shops-freeze-hi\ ring http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/design/27anti.html Incredibly (over)ambitious plans for a submerged museumish thing at Seuthopolis: http://www.topnews.in/submerged-ancient-thracian-city-see-daylight-bulgaria-2130\ 657 ... probably inspired by the Alexandria thing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/20/alexandria-sunken-treasures-underwat\ er-museum They were/are on strike at the Acropolis again: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100005_27/02/2009_105102 The results of the Yves Saint Laurent auction: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-02/26/content_7516779.htm http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iMlIwXK4NqE1vLtFIWOPIsc5x3Vg http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Abroad/0,,2-1225-1243_2476371,00.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100962267 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/world/europe/27auction.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/world/europe/26auction.html In the aftermath, China responded by putting more controls on auctions: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aVRJlc8zoqLk&refer=asia http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7911691.stm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022402290.\ html ... background: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5811722.ece http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101133231 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/23/world/AP-EU-France-Saint-Laurent-Auct\ ion.html http://www.france24.com/en/20090226-china-demands-return-christies-looted-relics\ -yves-saint-laurent-auction-paris ... and, of course, the obligatory patrimony oped pieces: http://business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view/20090227-191362/More-nation\ s-demanding-return-of-relics Pondering the fate of some art formerly belonging to Nicholas Ceausescu: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/arts/design/26abroad.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Layla and Majnun: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/arts/music/01toum.html Othello: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/theater/reviews/24othe.html Winter's Tale: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/theater/reviews/23winter.html Odyssey: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/02/25/an_inspired_journey_in\ _this_odyssey ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Gerald Myers: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/arts/dance/23myers.html ================================================================ PODCASTS 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Sargent, and Andrew Szegedy-Maszak for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ... plenty o' stuff as you recover from Daylight Savings Time ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Donald Johanson talks about his book *Lucy's Legacy*: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101547347&ft=1&f=1007 More on Neanderthal DNA: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2499872.htm ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ A report from the Italian Archaeological Expedition in the Sudan (in English): http://www.archaeogate.org/egittologia/article/1036/1/the-italian-archaeological\ -expedition-in-the-sudan-univ.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Just as Explorator was going out last week, reports began coming in of the 'rediscovery' of the 'misplaced' tomb of Amenhotep: http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-303723.html http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/2/worldupdates/2009-03-01T2021\ 50Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-382746-1&sec=Worldupdates http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/02/2504496.htm http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2009/03/01/8580911-ap.html http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/570253.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090301/sc_nm/us_archaeology_egypt_tomb_2 http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5201g9-us-archaeology-egypt-tomb/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/01/world/main4837111.shtml http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-egypt-antiquities,0,4536319.stor\ y Not sure if this is another tomb from near Saqqara or one of the ones mentioned in the past couple of weeks: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/573406.html ... but this one (the burial of Isisnofret) seems to be new: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=a2jZeMFEMU44 http://www.telegram.com/article/20090304/NEWS/903040455/1102/rss01&source=rss http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-106399.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7920928.stm http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=30748 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hRqZS-quB7Wl8fehWbBN-DmPePJAD9\ 6MJFT00 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090306-egypt-cult-chapels.html?s\ ource=rss http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/06/egypt-pharaoh-amenhotep-iii http://www.france24.com/en/20090303-archaeology-egypt-noblewoman-3000-year-old-u\ nearthed-tomb-ramses-japanese http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =347076 A pair of statues of Amenhotep III: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29531095/ http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=128466 http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/258575,archaeologists-discover-massive-s\ tatues-in-egypt.html http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/5370748/archaeologists-find-statues-of-a\ ncient-egypt-king/ http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090305/world-news/statues-of-ancient\ -egypt-king-found http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKTRE52429G20090305 http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/578047.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ 6NVUJ00 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090305/sc_nm/us_egypt_archaeology_discovery_1 http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52429g-us-egypt-archaeology-discovery/ ... while another statue of Amenhotep has been resituated (for want of a better term): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5827034.\ ece A roundup of recent finds in Egypt: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/937/heritage.htm A Bronze Age seal from the UAE: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-102806.html http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/09/03/01/10290518.html A 5000 b.p. pottery kiln from the Burnt City: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-102807.html Nice item on the Egyptians' sailing abilities: http://www.physorg.com/news155399472.html Strange item about a Parthian/Sassanid cemetery near Susa being turned into a garbage dump: http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=842299 A cylinder seal from Mazandaran Province: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=87240§ionid=351020105 http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_28784.shtml Urban sprawl is apparently a bigger threat to Nineveh than looting: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0304/p04s04-wome.html A report on the 2008 season on Mount Zion: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/mtzion/mtzion.shtml Interesting item on 'desert kites' and their purpose in ancient Israel: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130209 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235898328320&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull The travails of David's Garden: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1068204 Very brief item about Jordan denying reports of damage to Karak Castle: http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090306084951/Jordan:%20Antiquities%20De\ partment%20denies%20reports%20on%20Karak%20Castle 25 sites have been found in Shabwa (Yemen): http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10015889.html In case you've missed it, here's some representative coverage of the Raphael Golb matters (this will move to the crime section next week if there are any developments): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/nyregion/06scrolls.html http://manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2009-03-05.shtml http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1362889 http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062009/news/nationalnews/dead_sea_scroll_son_in_ho\ t_water_158257.htm http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-dead-sea-scam-07-ma\ r07,0,6586030.story http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--arrest-deadseascr0305ma\ r05,0,4034633.story http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/nyu_alum_arrested_for_impersonating_nyu_p\ rof-1.1598042 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236269357365&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull ... and an interesting interview with folks at the ROM who will be hosting an exhibit of the DSS in the near future: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/03/06/transcript-q-\ amp-a-with-dr-risa-levitt-kohn-on-dead-sea-scrolls-controversy.aspx Fans of Lost might like this item on that four-toed statue: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/03/four_toed_statue.html Not really archaeological, but a Torah vending machine is interesting, no?: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130142 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) ================================================================ What the Romans learned from Greek math: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302090642.htm Nice piece on that gladiator school in Rome: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rome-gladiators3-2009mar03,0\ ,7755315.story Thierry Algrin's efforts to save Nimes crumbling arena: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5827882.ece Housesteads Roman Fort is up for a facelift: http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/news_at_a_glance/major_facelift_at_roman_fo\ rt_1_523194?referrerPath=2.1824/home Colchester's Roman Circus is up for sale: http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/4139331.Colchester__Roman_circus_to_be\ _sold_alongside_sergeant_s_mess/ Latin as the secret code of western civilization: http://www.wickedlocal.com/melrose/news/x1658748232/Excelsior-Teacher-says-Latin\ -is-the-secret-code-of-civilization-and-to-college-admissions Latin on the rise in Athens, Georgia: http://onlineathens.com/stories/030509/uga_402263154.shtml That reconstruction of an Epigonion is in the news again for some reason (a conference!): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305080734.htm http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=87736§ionid=3510212 More on the ISIS scans of some Pompeii-style objects: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224133206.htm Review of Mary Beard, *Fires of Vesuvius*: http://calitreview.com/2664 Check out Latin via Fables: http://latinviafables.blogspot.com/ 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) ================================================================ An 800 b.p. trash dump near Lyon has yielded some leather shoe soles: http://www.physorg.com/news155407868.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090307/sc_livescience/shoesfoundin13thcent\ urytrashpile Roundup of items found during construction of Olympic Park: http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2009/03/05/65473/4000-year-old-axe-among\ -olympic-archaeology-finds-photos.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1159700/Prehistoric-axe-skeletons\ -Olympic-site-UKs-largest-archaeological-dig.html?ITO=1490 An impending dig along the Lower Danube: http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/02/19/678279_bulgarian-british-archaeological-rese\ arch-project-along-lower-danube-river-green-lighted ... and at four sites in Macedonia/FYROM: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1068 Some Bannockburn revisionism: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5\ 827567.ece News of the collapse of Cologne's city archives might be of interest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7921988.stm http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611158,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5846343.ece http://www.welt.de/english-news/article3331556/Assault-on-Colognes-historical-co\ re.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aIjCeAG77sgg&refer=muse http://www.wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/2009/03/03/uebersicht-einsturz-stadtar\ chiv.xml http://www.archive.nrw.de/Kommunalarchive/KommunalarchiveI-L/K/Koeln/index.html http://geschichtekp.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/der-untergang-des-kolner-stadtarchi\ vs/ The skeleton of a medieval 'witch' found near Hoo church will be reburied: http://www.kent-online.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=58107 ... while a 'vampire' has been found in a mass grave in Venice: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,506407,00.html More coverage of the attempts to decipher Southest Script: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/01/europe/EU-Portugal-Lost-Language.php http://pantagraph.com/articles/2009/03/01/news/doc49a983b5b0e7a807652122.txt http://www9.gmanews.tv/story/150910/Experts-trying-to-decode-ancient-Iberian-lan\ guage http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10559609 Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Remains of a pre-Angkor kingdom in Cambodia: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health--Science/Science/Site-of-pre-Angkor-ci\ vilisation-found/articleshow/4227765.cms http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-105699.html Some third century Kedah structures from the Bujang Valley: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/06/malaysia.iron.civilisation.find/inde\ x.html?section=cnn_latest http://www.themalaysianinsider.com.my/index.php/malaysia/19650-usm-archaeologist\ s-unearth-ancient-kedah-buildings- http://www.gmanews.tv/story/151682/Malaysian-dig-reveals-ancient-people-mastered\ -iron http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29552914/ A Lord Rama idol from Sidha Ashram: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-106253.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Some 700 b.p. burials turned up during wastewater treatment plant construction in Aztec, N.M.: http://www.daily-times.com/ci_11823169?source=most_viewed http://www.kdbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9936837&nav=menu608_2_3 A proposed commuter rail station in Utah threatens an archaic Native American site: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11821743 Rethinking the comet and Clovis (I think we've had this before): http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/03/03/sci_lepper03.ART\ _ART_03-03-09_B5_KKD1CIV.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101 Brief piece on (a recent find at?) the Range Creek site: http://www.ecprogress.com/index.php?tier=1&article_id=7617 Preservation issues in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/arts/design/02heights.html?_r=1 Traffic was always a problem on Broadway: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02broadway.html More on that Colorado Clovis-era cache: http://www.physorg.com/news154784759.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Interesting burials from La Isabela: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5840954.\ 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 ================================================================ Earliest evidence of horse domestication (and milking): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7926235.stm http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/science/06horses.html http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/general/water_cooler_moments/horses+milked\ +in+ancient+times/3016227 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090305/sc_nm/us_horses_history_1 http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-horses6-2009mar06,0,4881906.story http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/05/asia/horses.php http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uoe-afe030209.php Nice feature on Beatrice De Cardi: http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Heritage_and_Culture/10292197.html Not a good time to be a doctoral candidate looking for a job: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/arts/07grad.html Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/ Weird one about politicians messing with Wikipedia: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm Solve Charlemagne's puzzle: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/a-prize-for-solving-charlemagnes-\ puzzle/ A social network for archaeologists: http://www.pr-inside.com/a-new-dedicated-social-network-purely-r1094388.htm Review of Elaine Showalter, *A JOury of Her Peers*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/books/review/Roiphe-t.html Review of Martha Sandweiss, *Passing Strange*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/books/review/Dreisinger-t.html Review of Andrew Robinson,*Lost Languages*: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fict\ ion/article5859173.ece 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/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A pile of objects stolen from Afghanistan were returned this week: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-106324.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/afghanistan-artif\ acts-returned/ ... and some items were returned to Mexico: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=328409&CategoryId=14091 On the decline of tombaroli (I think this is a repeat from September, more or less): http://www.sundayherald.com/mostpopular.var.1528401.mostviewed.art_hit_squad_tak\ es_on_tomb_raiders_after_relics_looted.php 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 ================================================================ Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7915493.stm Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/arts/design/03muse.html Cezanne and Beyond: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/arts/design/06ceza.html Water Lilies: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/arts/design/06Voge.html Golden Age of Persian Art: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=99764 Turkey's top ten 'smaller museums': http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=168957 Clear Light and Shining Ruins: http://www.silive.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2009/03/going_greek_at_the_co\ llege_of.html Feature on the National Gallery of Art: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/arts/design/06amer.html Oldest Star Chart: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/4951688/Oldest-star-char\ t-on-display-in-British-Library.html Berlin's Neues Museum opens: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611530,00.html http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-40349.html The MoMA is redoing its website: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/06/arts/05moma.php?WT.mc_id=newsalert Interesting twist in the YSL/Chinese bronze auction kerfuffle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7918128.stm http://www.euronews.net/en/article/02/03/2009/chinese-buyer-wont-pay-for-ysls-st\ atues/ http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/02/china.relics/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090303.CHINA03/TPStory/Intern\ ational http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4926274/Chinese-collector-s\ abotaged-animal-head-auction.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/world/asia/03auction.html http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/02/asia/auction.php A general 'repatriation' piece in the wake of the YSL auction: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/63106.html http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/573362.html Brandeis is still pondering the future of the Rose Art Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/arts/design/06Arts-BRANDEISTOWE_BRF.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Henry V: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/theater/reviews/03henry.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land: http://daahl.ucsd.edu/DAAHL/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Lucille Virgina Burton: http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/article/LBO\ B28_20090227-222224/218045/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Peking man may be much older(and colder) than previously thought: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7937351.stm http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009a/090312GrangerPekingman.html http://www.livescience.com/history/090311-older-peking-man.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_sc/sci_old_cold_humans http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52a5rw-us-china-pekingman/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29640741/ http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41596/title/Peking_Man_fossils_show_t\ heir_age http://www.france24.com/en/20090311-archaeology-china-peking-man-could-be-200-00\ 0-years-older-homo-erectus More on the Neanderthal genome: http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/saskatoon/story.html?id=1283194 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Egyptian gold jewellery find from Luxor: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a0aBPssKcdEk&refer=muse http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ 6RBTBG0 http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-discovery-tomb-djehuty-tt11-dra-a\ bu-el-naga http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-10-voa65.cfm http://www.physorg.com/news155920875.html http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/10/news/ML-Egypt-Antiquities.php An interview with Zahi Hawass: http://www.scaddistrict.com/?p=1571&cpage=1 Brief item on four 2nd century A.D./C.E. statues from Palmyra: http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2009/03/11/216618.htm Interesting (medieval) Persian potsherd found in Israel: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=88209§ionid=351020105 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29513 http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1503\ &module_id=#as (may expire) Evidence of urbanization in Iran 4500 b.p.: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=87905§ionid=3510212 Thesis on Water Supply and Management in the Near East: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/theses/kamash_2006/index.cfm?CFID=234358\ 0&CFTOKEN=68430743 Another Byzantine-era church/monastery find near Jerusalem: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070329.html http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/11/byzantine.monastery.jerusalem/index.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764158743&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/11/1003634/israeli-archeologists-uncover-byz\ antine-era-church http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Byzantine_church_e\ xposed_Moshav_Nes-Harim_11-Mar-2009.htm http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 (links to photos ... might move) In the wake of the Golb business, we'll probably see more of this sort of thing ... the latest claim is the Essenes didn't exist at all: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070797.html cf: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblical-studies/message/20202 There was a bit more coverage/aftermath stuff in regards to the Golb situation as well: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1070455 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0309/scrolls_plot.php3 If not for that, we'd probably be paying more attention to the situation with Mark Raider at the centre: http://forward.com/articles/103847/ Review of Miriam Davis, *Dame Kathleen Kenyon*: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1067736 More coverage of those Amenhotep statues: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090309/world-news/egypt-uncovers-sta\ tues-of-ancient-pharaoh More on Shushan becoming a garbage dump: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130316(IsraelNN.com 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) ================================================================ Remains of a Gallo-Roman vineyard near Dijon: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090310084846.htm They've identified the skeleton of one of Cleopatra's murder victims: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5908494.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/4995155/Cle\ opatra-had-African-ancestry-skeleton-suggests.html Dissertation on 'standards' for houses at Pompeii: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_7NNGEJ_Eng http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311085313.htm Restoring a 'folly' at Windsor Great Park: http://www.stainesnews.co.uk/staines-and-ashford-news/news-staines-and-ashford/2\ 009/03/09/runnymede-s-roman-ruins-back-to-their-best-54472-23099664/ Concerns for the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11180380.asp?gid=244 Nice feature on the Gadara aqueduct: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,612718,00.html Mary Beard's take on the Philogelos is making the rounds this weekend: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/13/roman-joke-book-beard ... and her *Fires of Vesuvius* is also being reviewed: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/books/review/Coates-t.html http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/13/arts/IDSIDE14.php More on the sound of the epigonion: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5870992.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2009/03/listen-to-the-s.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://rogueclassicism.com/ Blegen Library News: http://blegen.blogspot.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ An ancient fish trap in the Teifi Estuary: http://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/4190650.Ancient_fish_trap_discovery_in_\ the_Teifi_Estuary/ Some Viking revisionism: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-vikings-it-wasnt-all-rapin\ g-and-pillaging-1643969.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161728/Vikings-model-immigrants-lived-h\ appily-Ancient-Britons.html?ITO=1490 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/13/2 ... and maybe Robin Hood wasn't as well-liked as the cartoons suggest: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_robin_hood_3 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090314/robin_hood_090314/2\ 0090314?hub=TopStories&s_name= http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509219,00.html http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view.bg?articleid=1158611&\ srvc=rss http://www.physorg.com/news156178681.html Shakespeare's first theatre found?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7931823.stm http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29504 Dmitry Pozharsky is buried in Suzdal: http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/7899/ Much more coverage of the Venetian 'vampire': http://www.physorg.com/news156262415.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090311/s_livescience/medievalvampireskullf\ ound http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090313/NEWS14/903130222 http://www.startribune.com/science/41215137.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_sc/eu_italy_vampire_of_venice_11 http://www.nypost.com/seven/03142009/news/worldnews/dig_this_venice_vampire_1594\ 73.htm Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ More on those Bronze Age (+) finds from Myanmar: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6610228.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Plans are afoot to locate and raise three Confederate cannon from the Pee Dee river: http://www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/pee_dee/article/usc_archaeologists_to_raise_\ confederate_cannons_from_pee_dee_river/38071/ Not sure if this is related to the foregoing (but it probably is; just not as specific): http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/south_carolina/article/study_focuses\ _on_underwater_civil_war_artifacts/11826/ http://www.goupstate.com/article/20090313/ARTICLES/903130992/1083/ARTICLES?Title\ =Davy-Jones-locker-may-hold-SC-Civil-War-artifacts- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/13/tech/main4863858.shtml?source=RSSattr=\ HOME_4863858 Brief item on a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico which may have been a pirate vessel: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2009/03/10/shipwreck-artifact\ s-trigger-questions-15.php ... and another which may date from the Civil War: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6300570.html Podcast on Frederick Doublass and Abraham Lincoln from CUNY: http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/radio/podcast/newsmakers_97.mp3 Rebuilding a Jesuit chapel: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.chapel08mar08,0,7916072.story Preservation issues in Washington D.C.: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101608642 A Hopewell mound repatriation case-in-the-making: http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/mar/08/phillips-co-man-seeks-return-art\ ifacts-ny/?subscriber/national Nice feature on Pennsylvania's Meadowcroft rock shelter: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/travel/thisweek/stories/DN-meado\ wcroft_0222tra.ART0.State.Edition1.a26dcb.html Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the relationship between Pueblo people and archaeological sites: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Panels depicting the Mayan creation story from the jungles of Guatemala: http://www2.isu.edu/headlines/?p=1711 http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52a7fp-us-guatemala-maya/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090312/sc_nm/us_guatemala_maya_4 http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKTRE52A7FP20090311 http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/12/1833838.aspx http://www.sciam.com/video.cfm?id=16479429001 A Maya stele from Belize: http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/abramiuk/ Some 'new' Chachapoyas mummies: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=dMn5sxNp2r4= http://newshopper.sulekha.com/photos/slideshow/others/4/707992.htm (Photos) http://www.breitbart.com/image.php?id=app-6f14c75b-a75c-4318-a4c3-3a26fcb53638&s\ how_article=1 (ditto) Why Columbus sailed south to the Americas: http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-columbus-sailed-south-to-americas.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 ================================================================ Plenty of attention for a purported in-life painting of Shakespeare: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/mar/09/shakespeare-shoreditch-pottery-arc\ haeology-portrait http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/09/europe/bard.php http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/portrait-of-shakespeare-unveiled-399\ -years-late/ http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29545 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/ap_en_ot/eu_britain_shakespeare_portrait A secret message in Lincoln's watch: http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52a0fg-us-lincoln-watch/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/arts/design/11linc.html Analyzing Henry VIII's handwriting: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article5908506.ece Columbus was a Scot?: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/10/columbus_was_a_scot_j\ immie__whaurs_yer_walter_raleigh_noo Followup to the Cologne collapse: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,613209,00.html#ref=nlint Setting up an impending Austen smackdown: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/15/jane-austen-research-row Something new from Mark Twain: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/something-new-from-mark-twain The secret of Gouda's good taste: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309223307.htm Caravaggio as early 'photographer': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7936946.stm More on Romanov DNA: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mystery-solved-as-tests-prove-tsa\ rs-entire-family-was-murdered-1642089.html http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/11/dna-testing-lays-r\ omanov-murder-mystery-to-rest.html http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2009/03/identification-of-two-missing-romanov.html Review of John McWhorter, *Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/books/review/Shea-t.html?_r=1 Review of Andrew Robinson, *Lost Languages*: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fict\ ion/article5859173.ece Review of Mike Rapport, *1848*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/books/review/Bass-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 ================================================================ In the footsteps of Bar Kochba: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764166636&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Rujm el-Hiri: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764165362&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ I think we've already mentioned this return of items from Italy to Bulgaria: http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/Theme_Culture/Material/1203cenn\ osti.htm Theft of an ancient bead depicting Surya from a museum in Thailand: http://feeds.thailandnews.net/?rid=22610828&cat=7eb51d3138244bed Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Pondering a hoard of roman coins from Malmesbury: http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/towns/malmesburyheadlines/4198310.Experts\ _baffled_by_Malmesbury_s_Roman_coins/ Some ancient coins from Uttar Pradesh: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-1884.html South Carolina is selling some Confederate era banknotes: http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/news/26791-state-sells-confederate-era-cash-to\ -raise-money Liberty Seated Dimes: http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/LSCC.htm Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Egypt's Sunken Treasures: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123689048409311199.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Endless Forms (Darwin): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/nyregion/connecticut/0315artsct.html Another general piece on the repatriation issue: http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/health_med_fit/article/I-ARTT0303_20\ 090312-194406/230326/ Some Asia Week hype: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/arts/design/13Anti.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Thirst: A Spell for Christabel: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/theater/15blan.html Severed Ways: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/movies/13seve.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine: http://www.stg.brown.edu:8080/exist/inscriptions/about ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ George Hedges: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118001110.html?categoryid=18&cs=1 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-george-hedges13-2009mar13,0\ ,5044120.story?track=rss David Phelps: http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9970264 http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/signet-ring-crowned-nc-archaeologists-career ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent, for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Egypt unveiled a 'pharaonic embalming bed' this week: http://www.physorg.com/news156682063.html http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090319/world/egypt_archaeology_medicine_1 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iWdXRfHiN7QaEU9-sRFsG_Bnnonw http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20090319173940\ 252C838221 Egypt will be opening up the 'Bent Pyramid' to the public: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/152967/Egypt-to-open-inner-chambers-of-pyramid http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509388,00.html http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200903162023.htm http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_pyramids_5 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gYPnb7XQ7juuISHnk4WSxcukNjyAD9\ 6V6OS80 An ancient 'Sistine Chapel' near Thebes: http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.WAM20299.html http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=88877§ionid=3510212 http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_\ 351256.html Feature on "pharaoh's workers": http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/938/he1.htm 'Abraham's Gate' has been restored and reopened to the public: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1071920 Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a number of 'Stone Age' sites in Shabwa (Yemen): http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1242&p=local&a=4 Similarly vague item on the discovery of a mosaic statue of a Yemeni queen: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-6645.html Archaeologists have begun exploring the underwater site of Limantepe: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1099 Drought in Iraq is revealing archaeological sites: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102184336&ft=1&f=1010 Remembering the salvage operation at Aswan: http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.WAM40254.html More coverage of Rachel Elior's theories about the non-existence of the Essenes: http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/03/17/20090317ODDdeadsea-scrolls0\ 317-ON.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130486 http://news.therecord.com/article/507022 http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7110837&page=1 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5927336.ece http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_11932367 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885421,00.html Plans are afoot to recreate Hatshepsut's perfume: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uob-wsd031309.php http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/egyptian-queen-pe\ rfume/index.html?source=rss http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315155106.htm ... while the latest ship recreation is sailing to the Land of Punt (!): http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-4407.html http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2009/March/16-Archaeologists-recreate-Egypt\ ians-95113.asp More on that Byzantine church at Horvat A-Diri: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315114041.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) ================================================================ Hype for a television show claims to identify Arsinoe and makes claims about Cleopatra's race: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2495578.0.Cleopatra_was_part_Af\ rican_new_research_claims.php http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Skeleton_May_Reveal_Cleopatras_Ancestr\ y2256361 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89001§ionid=3510212 Interesting recent find from Herculaneum: http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-03-17_117334922.html Feature on the excavations of the Roman theatre (etc.) at Tiberias: http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1507\ &module_id=#as Followup of sorts on the roof at Santorini: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_1_18/03/2009_105606 Italy has a new 'archaeology czar': http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-33/1237325060232\ 20.xml&storylist=topstories http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509588,00.html We've heard plans to rebuild/recreate the Artemision before: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=169974&bolum=101 The food at the American Academy in Rome might be getting better: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/fashion/15rome.html Review of Leslie Mitchell, *Maurice Bowra*: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5931372.e\ ce Review of Mary Beard, *Fires of Vesuvius*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/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://rogueclassicism.com/ Blegen Library News: http://blegen.blogspot.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Evidence of Druidic human sacrifice and cannibalism (actually a some documentary hype): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibal\ ism.html http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-7531.html http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/77299.htm Police in Scotland messed up a 4000 b.p. site because they thought they were investigating a crime scene: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5927895.ece A 1000 b.p. fish trap was located off the coast of Wales with the help of Google Earth: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5000835/1000-year-old-fi\ shing-trap-found-on-Google-Earth.html Is a Shropshire landmark actually a calendar of sorts?: http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/03/21/is-landmark-an-ancient-calendar/ Feature on Kilravock Castle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7885643.stm Feature on Stonehenge theories: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0%2C8599%2C1886661%2C00.html Plans are afoot to recreate the Jacobite march from Culloden to Nairn: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7937642.stm Nice feature on the Mary Rose: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/mar/19/mysterious-\ mary-rose Those 800-year-old shoes from a dump outside Lyons are in the news again: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309223456.htm Review of Flora Fraser, *Pauline Bonaparte*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/books/review/Becker-t.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Claims that the Buddha was a Scythian: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-3900.html Protecting heritage sites in Bogor (Indonesia): http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/03/20/bunkers-stones-structures-listed-p\ rotected-heritage.html Feature on Pingyao as financial centre: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/asia/18pingyao.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Some 'hush hush' archaeology in California: http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/hush_hush_archaeology/7880/ A dig in the Grand Canyon: http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5984&Item\ id=116 More on the Pee Dee cannons: http://www.thecolumbiastar.com/news/2009/0320/society/040.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Weather conditions have revealed some 2700 b.p. geoglyphs in Peru: http://www.peru.com/noticias/sgc/portada/2009/03/21/detalle27354.aspx A pile of cave paintings ... also from Peru: http://www.peruviantimes.com/thousands-of-6000-year-old-cave-paintings-found-in-\ perus-amazon-region/ Trying to learn from the teeth of Columbus' crew: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319132954.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 ================================================================ Interesting interview with Matthew Bogdanos: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1886631,00.html A pile of books are missing from the British Library: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/17/british-library-books-mein-kampf Not sure if we've mentioned this new method of dating petroglyphs before: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316093629.htm You can get married at Juliet's house in Verona: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/13/world/AP-EU-Italy-Wedding-at-Juliets.\ html Nice feature on technology on archaeology: http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/under_the_elms/digging_change_2204.html Interesting 'map of knowledge' project: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html If you've got some time to kill, see how many famous faces you can identify in this one from the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01367/famous-faces-big_1\ 367237a.jpg More on the Jane Austen smackdown: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4995924/Oxford-academic-in-row-wi\ th-former-student-over-Jane-Austen-book.html More coverage of that purported Shakespeare portrait: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/weekinreview/15mcgrath.html Review of Jeremy Sabloff, *Archaeology Matters*: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/sabloff.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 ================================================================ Libya/Tunisia: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/5001623/Cruising-with-the-Romans-in-Af\ rica.html Athens: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/athens/5021793/Athe\ ns-basks-in-its-ancient-glory-family-holiday.html Golfing Egypt: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/travel/22journeys.html Some incredible Danish homes: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/denmark/5017084/Denmarks-a\ rchitecture-Glorious-homes-of-the-great-Danes.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 ================================================================ Interesting article on the illicit antiquities networks (mostly in Israel): http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/41640/title/Networks_of_plunder The Antiquities Trial resumed in Rome, with Marion True taking the stand: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/arts/design/21true.html A missing Italian statue has turned up in North Carolina: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090321/ap_on_fe_st/odd_missing_statue Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ An Iron Age hoard from Suffolk: http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6329 Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29695 Children in the Collection of the Louvre: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/results.asp?id=1099768 Reclaimed: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/arts/design/20goud.html Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/arts/design/13titi.html Big: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/arts/design/12muse.html Art of the Korean Renaissance: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/arts/design/20metr.html Athenian Democracy Speaking Through its Inscriptions: http://www.hfc.gr/wmt/webpages/index.php?lid=2&pid=13&apprec=109 The New York Times has a special museum supplement to peruse: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/index.html Feature on the Neues Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/arts/design/12abroad.html The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is resisting returning some disputed antiquities to Italy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/design/17retu.html Possible 'loot' in the Chinese bronzes exhibition at the BM: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=17085 New York State is trying to regulate sales of art by museums to cover costs: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/design/18rege.html cf. the fallout from the Brandeis University kerfuffle: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/design/17rose.html ... and the National Academy's revision of their policies: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/arts/design/14acad.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/arts/design/13Arts-COMPROMISEIN_BRF.html Renovations to the Israel Museum: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ajEguS7myb7g&refer=home Athens' National Archaeological Museum inaugurated a permanent exhibition of Cypriot antiquities: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7418747&service=142 Cuts to the Getty budget: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/design/17arts-GETTYMUSEUMF_BRF.html Possible closure of the Funeral Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/us/09funeral.html Layoffs at the Met: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/arts/design/13metr.html Paycuts at Sotheby's: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/arts/design/12arts-PAYCUTATSOTH_BRF.html Coverage of the European Art Fair (in Masstricht): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/5001859/European-Fine-Art-Fair-i\ n-Maastricht.html Last few weeks, the focus was on Yves Saint Laurent ... now we have results of the auction of items from Gianni Versace's Italian villa: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/arts/design/20arts-VERSACESALEA_BRF.html Some Asia Week coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/arts/design/16paci.html Interview with James Cuno on how UNESCO 1970 hinders access for museums: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41671/title/Treaty_on_antiquities_hin\ ders_access_for_museums_by_James_Cuno ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Twelfth Night: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/theater/reviews/18twel.html Early Music New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/music/17earl.html Dryden/Purcell (Music for a While): http://harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004519 ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ George Hedges: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123760072132201827.html Joseph Bloch: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/music/15bloch.html The New York Times reprised its obit of Howard Carter: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0509.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ Alexander the Great's tomb is supposedly in a cave near Broome, Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/19/2521146.htm?section=justin http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25214936-5013016,00.html http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/rumor-says-alexander-the-great-could-\ be-buried-in-australia_100168994.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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 11.49 March 29, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, and Duke Jason for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ A cast of a homo floresiensis skeleton is being hyped: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-9309.html http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/550284/ ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Feature on Nubia: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/7963042.stm ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Some 4000 b.p. steel from Kaman-Kalehoyuk: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200903261611.htm Excavating the largest Byzantine bathhouse ever discovered in Israel: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130621 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727539145&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073845.html http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29855 http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/25/1003972/byzantine-bathhouse-uncovered http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29882290/ Drought is revealing archaeological sites in Iraq: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102184336&ft=1&f=1010 Plans are afoot to build a replica of Mausolus' pile at Bodrum: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11188952.asp?scr=1 Interesting blogpost on the tomb of Djehuty: http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2009/03/hatshepsut-and-tomb-beneath-tomb.ht\ ml This week's coverage of Rachel Elior's theories about the Essenes: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/03/27/23174/ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130486(IsraelNN.com An overviewish thing of various sites in the UAE: http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090329/NATIONAL/900160589/1183/enewsletter Giants in Jericho?: http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=2&ArticleID=5 More on the underwater 'dig' at Limantepe: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=170088&bolum=100 More on that pharaonic embalming bed: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&article_id=10031\ 5 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89358§ionid=3510212 Egyptology News Blog: http://egyptology.blogspot.com/ Egyptology Blog: http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/ Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog: http://blog.ritmeyer.com/ Paleojudaica: http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/ Persepolis Fortification Archives: http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/ Archaeologist at Large: http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A Greek fisherman netted an interesting bronze last week: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_ancient_statue_4 http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/612131 http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/971461 We're getting more coverage of that triangular temple from Cyprus which we mentioned a few issues ago: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/27/europe/EU-Cyprus-Ancient-Temple.php http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=904716&lang=eng_news http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29916796/ http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?FrontPageID=304_1 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090327/sc_nm/us_cyprus_antiquities_1 If you're looking for some interesting comparanda for Lysistrata type topics: http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/great-sex-strikes-thru-history/ Nice photo of the sun setting behind Naxos' unfinished temple of Apollo: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0903/solar-scenic-portara-03-800x600pixel\ s.jpg Interesting conference on Pompeii: http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-03-27_127341798.html In case you've missed the 'Arsinoe' coverage of late: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/cleopatras+sister++in+3\ d/3043172 ... and the epigonion reconstruction: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/17/epignion-instrument.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://rogueclassicism.com/ Blegen Library News: http://blegen.blogspot.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Hype for a television program about the Druids focuses on human sacrifice and claims of cannibalism: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibal\ ism.html http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-7531.html http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/77299.htm ... and we have a story of 'stone age' cannibalism from Germany: http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1000&catID=17 A 5000 b.p. dwelling on the outskirts of Edinburgh: http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/5000yearold-home-of-capital39s-first.5097272\ .jp You know if they're building a park-and-ride site in the UK they'll inevitable find something archaeological: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/somerset/7958965.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5043498/Bronze-Age-sauna-discovered-on-si\ te-earmarked-for-park-and-ride-scheme.html Some 300 b.p. flood defences from a Northumberland village: http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/latest/Centuries-old-flood-defences-are.5102871.\ jp British Museum officials have found relics of 39 saints inside a 12th century German portable altar: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/24/british-museum-relics-discove\ ry http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10563591 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=12579 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0324/1224243318094.html Feature on Venice in the 17th century: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/joyas/Venecia/Settecento/deslumbran/Acade\ mia/San/Fernando/elppgl/20090325elpepucul_6/Tes Some Crusaders' tunnels from Malta: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090325-malta-tunnels-crusaders.h\ tml?source=rss Theory about a boulder overlooking Loch Ness: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-11701.html Some historical finger-pointing in the Mary Rose sinking: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/23/mary-rose-ship Archaeological evidence of Scotland's first smokers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7966261.stm They're fixing up Reading Abbey: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/berkshire/7957700.stm Not sure if we mentioned this Viking revisionism: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-vikings-it-wasnt-all-rapin\ g-and-pillaging-1643969.html ... but I think we did have this 2000 b.p.-skull-with-brain story: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2512136.htm Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Concerns for various sites in Bangladesh: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=81219 A 4000 b.p. burial from Tajikistan: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/28/4000-year-old_human_skelton_found/UPI-817\ 81238269635/ Evidence from animal bones of early agriculture in Asia: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081439.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/ci-eal032309.php Interesting bone inscriptions from China's Shaanxi province: http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20090326/101072.shtml Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Pondering a cemetery find in Drayton Hall: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/mar/23/archaeologist_graves_always_signi\ ficant76123/ Look for Rochambeau's camp: http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11977599 Possible mass grave of Irish-immigrant-cholera victims: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_us/irish_immigrants_grave A history of American boarding houses: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Crain-t.html Commemorating the 69th Infantry Regiment: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/nyregion/26rooms.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Earliest evidence of domesticated maize: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323212037.htm http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/550327/#imagetop A pre-Inca citadel and burials from Peru: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=ypP9LZ6frcI= http://www.livinginperu.com/news-8515-peru-pre-inca-citadel-cemetery-found-amazo\ nas-region Investigating the ball court at Santa Maria Atzompa: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3016&Itemid=150 Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ An academic claims to have identified six unrecognized works by Shakespeare: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5005557/Academic-discovers-six-works-by\ -William-Shakespeare.html There's an 'Archaeology for Dummies' book: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510487,00.html Nice feature (with slideshow) on petrolgyphs from around the world: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29844547/ A huge pile of genealogical info from London is going online: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/my-ancestor-was-a-grave-robber\ -and-other-skeletons-in-the-closet-1655361.html Just when you'd thought you'd heard the last from Ward Churchill: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/us/22trial.html The celibacy debate in the Roman Catholic Church continues: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/nyregion/22egan.html DaVinci seems to have anticipated Darwin: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/mar/23/davinci-dar\ win-apes Interesting blog item suggesting the ancients were better at data preservation than we are: http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3812496 There's a woman in charge at St. Andrew's: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/europe/28richardson.html Nice little slide show on the history of the telescope: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2009/mar/18/telescope-richard-dun\ n-history-invention A feature on Galileo's telescopes: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/27/america/galileo.php http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/science/space/28galileo.html Review of Michael Holroyd, *A Strange Eventful History*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/McGrath-t.html Review of Julie Greene, *The Canal Builders*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html Review of Anthony Grafton, *Worlds Made by Words*: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123699538163527737.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 ================================================================ Ephesus: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29839158/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ Egypt is going to be asking US customs to return a coffin claimed to have been stolen in 1884: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/arts/23arts-1-EGYPTREQUEST_BRF.html http://www.northjersey.com/news/world/Egypt_to_ask_US_to_return_artifact.html http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE52L0LT20090322 http://www.whotv.com/news/nationworld/sns-babd4c7701ad4370b866ca9f99aa0c89-1,0,5\ 932579.photo http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hx-s3ZxMvmBSc0Tc9CJ50BtZkVWw http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2489749,00.html http://www.france24.com/en/20090322-culture-egypt-ask-US-return-sarchophagus-arc\ haeology Greece is returning a pair of medieval frescoes stolen from Italy 25 years ago: http://www.pr-inside.com/greece-returns-stolen-paintings-to-r1134968.htm A New York City art gallery owner has been charged after bilking his customers of millions: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/26/us/AP-Art-Gallery-Indictment.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/nyregion/27indict.html Some Buddha thieves were caught red-handed in Poliyadda: http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/03/23/news13.asp More coverage of the True trial: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30904/four-years-into-trial-getty-curator-spea\ ks-out/ Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Not sure if we mentioned this Bareilly coin find yet: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-1884.html Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Ancient Gems: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29695 Lewis Chessmen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7968621.stm Vespasian's 2000th Birthday: http://www.telegram.com/article/20090328/NEWS/903280352/1102/RSS01&source=rss http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hail-caesar-rome-marks-birth-of-e\ mperor-who-built-the-colosseum-1655370.html http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-03-26_126330023.html http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/27/europe/EU-Italy-Colosseums-Father.php To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/arts/design/28libr.html Turner and Italy: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle5968726.ece The Chinese Emperor's Battles: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/27/arts/melik28.php Gustave Caillebotte: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/arts/design/27cail.html Babylon: Myth and Reality: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/all_current_exhibitions/babylon.aspx Ancient Glass form the Holy Land: http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1510\ &module_id=#as Gates of Heaven (Egyptian): http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/940/cu1.htm Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/26/arts/AP-Art-American-West.html Assorted items of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/arts/design/27voge.html European Fine Art Fair coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/arts/design/27anti.html The Getty will be getting some nice items on loan from Italy: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6727368&rss=\ rss-kabc-article-6727368 http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/getty-to-partner-with-florence-muse\ um/?scp=1&sq=getty&st=cse A relic of 'India's first freedom fighter' is coming to auction: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5970844.ece Yale is asserting its ownership of a van Gogh: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/arts/design/26arts-YALEFILESLAW_BRF.html Good comment piece on 'hoarding' by museums: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/27/british-museum-chessmen-scot\ land-salmond ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ People Without History: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/theater/reviews/24peop.html An Oresteia: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Leithauser-t.html Little Dorrit: http://tv.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/arts/television/28dorr.html Beowulf: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/theater/29Zino.html Age of Kings: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/television/29hobe.html Alcestis: http://www.batesstudent.com/arts/1.1602493-1.1602493 Lysistrata: http://blog.pennlive.com/go/2009/03/in_a_variation_on_a.html Iliad: Book One: http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=45535 ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ John Hope Franklin: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26franklin.html http://www.duke.edu/johnhopefranklin/index.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102401101 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102374050 ================================================================ PODCASTS ================================================================ The Book and the Spade: http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm The Dig: http://www.thedigradio.com/ Stone Pages Archaeology News: 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================================================================ explorator 11.50 April 5, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Duke Jason, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Jona Lendering, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Nina Barclay, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, "Ron", Suzan Mazur, Virginia Knight, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Evidence that early humans (ca 530 000 b.p.) may not have killed off their less-than-perfect offspring: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/5085322/Early-humans-did-\ not-kill-deformed-offspring.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090330-deformed-child-fossil.htm\ l?source=rss http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16873-early-humans-may-have-cared-for-disa\ bled-young.html Some very old stone blades: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/402/2 The Neanderthal cannibalism thing again: http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=neandertal-cannibalism-m\ aybe-not-2009-04-02 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ The big news this week is that there's a 'hidden face' inside the famous bust of Nefertiti, and it's not quite as beautiful (and everyone seems to assume it must be the 'real' Nefertiti): http://radiology.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/short/251/1/233 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iq4wJzkw8bqbVEG0t3tPVMx5J8jgD9\ 79731G4 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_nefertiti_face_8 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165893/Why-legendary-Egyptian\ -beauty-Queen-Nefertiti-woman-airbrushed.html http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSTRE52U0VN20090331 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/rson-ruc032409.php http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29974848/ http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=562222 http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2009/03/31/nefertiti_got_extreme_makeover_resear\ chers/afp/ http://www.physorg.com/news157728635.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090331-nefertiti-bust-picture.ht\ ml?source=rss http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =351573 ... with a clarification which didn't make it into all the coverage: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/02/clarification-germany-nefertiti-\ face-story-1/ The high tech search for the tomb of Monthemhat: http://www.basqueresearch.com/berria_irakurri.asp?Berri_Kod=2148&hizk=I Lining up the pyramids: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/24/giza-pyramids.html Remember that statue of Tutankhamen that was supposedly found in Kurdistan a while back? Turns out it was a fake: http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc031409KS.html There's a project to conserve the stones of the Western Wall: http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 A very nice Byzantine mosaic floor from the synagogue at Ma'on-Nirim: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130674 http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1513\ &module_id=#as http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29955 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315114041.htm A Byzantine 'bath house' near Kibbut Gevim http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1511\ &module_id=#as http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130621 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727540534&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull Archaeologists are going to be digging at Decius (Iran): http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=191245 Achaemenid palaces from Iran's Khuzestan province: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89986§ionid=351020105 Iraqi archaeologists have found a pile of mostly Babylonian items at various sites: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1445198.htm http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090401/tpl-uk-iraq-artefacts-4b8df73.html http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1006\ 30 Treasure hunters using dynamite have damaged reliefs and the like at Mersin: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11351582.asp?scr=1 Feature on recent finds from Luxor: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/941/he2.htm cf.: http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =350785 Feature on Conelis de Bruijn: http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-discoverer-of-persepolis-corneli\ s-de-bruijn/ Interview about the historical Jesus: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/03/historical-jesus.html Vague item on recent finds from various periods at Al-Akhdoud: http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009033133\ 710 The Sun had a great April 1 item: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/advertisement_feature/indiana_jones/article\ 2351750.ece Review of Susan Gubar, *Judas*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Kirsch-t.html More coverage of that embalming bed: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/941/he1.htm (photo) http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-15945.html More coverage of Hateshepsut's perfume: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uob-wsd031309.php http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074914.html http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2009/03/31/experts-recreating-pharaohs-own-\ perfume/ 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) ================================================================ Feature on Cicero's sense of humour: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6025013.ece ... and a response: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/apr/04/classics-clas\ sics ... and Charlotte Higgins was also pondering some etymologies: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/mar/23/classics A Hellenistic pier from Akko/Ptolemais/Acre: http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1547\ &module_id=#as Claims of traces of "Roman" pollution in Iceland: http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/veni-vidi-polluti-the-long-arm-of-pollution-11\ 21 Somewhat lost-in-translation item on an Alexander inscription from Bactria: http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n176236 http://www.chnpress.com/news/?id=7896§ion=2 Colchester Roman Circus is not getting some sought-after funding: http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News\ &tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED03%20Apr%202009%2022%3A04%3A13%3\ A073 Trying to save an unexcavated Roman villa in Nottingham: http://media-newswire.com/release_1087360.html Another Spartacus show in the works (with Lucy Lawless): http://www.afterellen.com/blog/karmankregloe/lucy-lawless-to-star-in-spartacus-b\ lood-and-sand-on-starz?comment=794772 Pondering Philip's palace at Aigai: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7472140&maindocimg=7471646&s\ ervice=102 ... and a workshop was found at Pella too: http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7456937&maindocimg=7456548&servi\ ce=98 Albania wants to cash in on archaeotourism: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7978443.stm What Richard Martin is up to: http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/13829.html What Michael Halleran is up to: http://flathatnews.com/content/70479/halleran-appointed-provost-college Some new galleries have opened at Athens' NAM: http://www.etravelblackboard.com/showarticle.asp?id=90077&nav=21 Andrew Chugg is working on Cleitarchus: http://www.alexanderstomb.com/main/cleitarchus/index.html In case you didn't know you could have your own copy of Gnomon: http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/gnomon-download.html Review of Barry Strauss, *The Spartacus War*: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040301312.\ html Review of Anne Carson, *An Oresteia*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Leithauser-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://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ DNA evidence suggests a movement/invasion of people from Ireland to Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7976510.stm Bronze Age site from Guernsey: http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2009/03/30/airport-dig-unearths-1500-bc-settlement\ / Nice feature on the Alhambra: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/after-650-years-the-wisdom-of-the\ -alhambra-is-revealed-1658050.html Clumsy builders have found remains of a Dark Ages village in Salzburg: http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=12244 A lost drawing of the Siege of Boulogne will be going on display after being rediscovered (obviously): http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/05/henry-eighth-drawing-uncovere\ d-siege ... and some of Henry VIII's armour is going on display: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7971616.stm A post-revolution mass grave from France: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20090331-197132/French-dig-\ uncovers-18th-century-mass-graves Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A positive story from French colonial history: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/asia/30iht-indochina.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Marking New York's 400th birthday: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/nyregion/29hudson.html Recent items from the Queen Anne's Revenge: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/blackbeard-artifa\ cts/index.html Researching iron coffin burials: http://www.adaeveningnews.com/local/local_story_089091928.html Remains of some early settlers have been found near the Welland Canal: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1505041 A paternity mystery from Gettysburg: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/whose-father-was-he-part-five/ Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Cultural Heritage of the Great Sage Plain: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/index.asp W.B. DuBois' papers will be going online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/04brfs-DUBOISONLINE_BRF.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ A possible Bagua Culture site in Amazonas: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=23o2jpGzK7Y= Not sure if we mentioned these three prehispanic mummies from Huantille yet: http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =352007 http://www.fotos.emol.com/?F_ID=707843 Feature on Percy Fawcett: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/grandin/single 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 ================================================================ Cambridge dons are still in control of the university: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/20/cambridge-dons-control How to read topography like an archaeologist: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/04/landscape-archaeology-time-team A DaVinci theme park?: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/da-vinci-the-amusement-park-16611\ 14.html On the origins and obsession with 'happy endings': http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7976192.stm Humans on various continents apparently had to deal with giant lions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/7974948.stm I missed this bit of a response to that Shakespeare portrait claim from a while back: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\ e5931174.ece Remembering Haydn: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/262362,haydn-memorial-year-opens-in-aust\ ria.html ... possibly related: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/books/03dove.html Feature on C.S. Lewis: http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2009/04/narnia-books-christian-greek Latest on the legal battles circulating around Google Books: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/technology/internet/04books.html Chocolate wisdom: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/dining/01choc.html Review of a couple of books about the seedier side of New York history: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Dominus-t.html Review of John Guy, *A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and his Dearest Meg*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Tomalin-t.html Review of Denis Dutton, *The Art Instinct*: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/08/art-instinct-brian-morton-review 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 ================================================================ Perge: http://linux.sys-con.com/node/900941 Canoeing the Dordogne: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/travel/05dordogne.html Greece: http://www.sj-r.com/features/x1931049641/A-walk-through-antiquity-in-Greece http://www.ajc.com/services/content/travel/otherdestinations/int_stories/2009/03\ /31/Greece_ruins_tours.html Geshur: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727549085&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull ================================================================ 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 113.2: http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc The February/March issue of Ancient Egypt Magazine is now out: http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/ 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 ================================================================ Feature on dealing with antiquities smuggling in Cyprus: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=45001&cat_id=9 The Oded Golan (et al) trial seems to be going nowhere: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238423655087&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull Collectors are (apparently) more concerned now with the origins of antiquities: http://www.dailyfreepress.com/art-collectors-more-interested-in-pieces-history-e\ xperts-say-1.1640105 A rather senior smuggler was caught with a number of items at Cairo airport: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/world/11332537.asp?scr=1 ... and there was another bust at Sana'a airport: http://www.sabanews.net/en/news180002.htm http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=483 Brief item on a bust in Bangalore: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-12439.html Interesting followup to the whole Euphronios Krater episode: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00350.htm Italy has returned a number of items to Bulgaria: http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/Theme_Culture/Material/1203cenn\ osti.htm Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Brief item on a silver penny find: http://www.chichester.co.uk/2290/Amateur-archaeologist-in-rare-silver.5126007.jp A podcast on ancient numismatics: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/podcast/ Trying to figure out Malmesbury's Roman coin hoard: http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/towns/malmesburyheadlines/4198310.Experts\ _baffled_by_Malmesbury_s_Roman_coins/ Interesting 'Vote the Land Free' die: http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212514 Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya: http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5314GP20090402?feedType=RSS&\ feedName=lifestyleMolt Babylon: Myth and Reality: http://www.american.com/archive/2009/march-2009/babylonian-dreams Brazza in Congo: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/arts/design/30braz.html Worshiping Women: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=29861&int_sec=2 Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123845536870071359.html Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03gali.html Amsertdam/New Amsterdam: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/03spare.html The Satirical Eye: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25269868-16947,00.html Mami Wata: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03wata.html The Chimera of Arezzo is coming to the Getty: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6727368&rss=\ rss-kabc-article-6727368 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/gettys-brand-se.html This one showed up in a somewhat obscure source, but seems to be a repeat of Ethiopia's call for the return of assorted items taken to Britain in the 19th century: http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID={CCCDAEFA-93E2-4AD2-8B03-01F9E3BEEDA9}&l\ anguage=EN A precedent in regards to Nazi loot?: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03arts-ARTRESTITUTI_BRF.html Some interesting items in the Harold Fairbanks Collection: http://www.burbankleader.com/articles/2009/04/01/entertainment/blr-museum01.txt ... and the David and Marion Adams Collection: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25269860-16947,00.html Expansion plans for the British Museum: http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/090401-NL-Museum-2.html http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31008/british-museum-unveils-expansion-plans/ In case you were wondering what the most visited museums were: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30979/louvre-is-worlds-most-visited-museum-of-\ 2008/ Assorted Arts items of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03voge.html Overviewish sort of thing on Tibetan art: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/asia/30sengeshong.html The guy behind DeForest furniture: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03anti.html What Michael Jackson is selling: http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2009/michael-jackson/icatalog3.html Sotheby's has removed a Kaaba key from auction: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/arts/design/04arts-SOTHEBYSREVO_BRF.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/sale-of-13-million-islamic-artifact\ -is-revoked/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Ahmad Hasan Dani: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/31/ahmad-hasan-dani Leo C. Curran (I missed this one a while back): http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archives/vol39/vol39n6/columns/Obituaries.html Marjorie Grene: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/science/29grene.html More on John Hope Franklin: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/opinion/27fri4.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/weekinreview/29applebome.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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 11.51 April 12, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, 'fireflye', Geoffrey Fishburn, Alfredo De La Fe, Ryan Cressida, Ivo Volt, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ We can add this to our previous 'pygmy origins' coverages: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090410075110.htm http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Todos/pigmeos/descienden/misma/poblacion\ /elpepusoc/20090410elpepisoc_5/Tes ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Not sure about this one ... Russian archaeologists have found (when?) a number of gold-masked mummies in the Fayoum: http://en.rian.ru/science/20090408/120990444.html Nice followup coverage to that discovery of Sesheshet's pyramid (and contents) back in January or so: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077147.html Radio program featuring Chip Brown and Zahi Hawass all about Hatshepsut: http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/04/egypts-she-king/ Iraqi archaeologists have been busy: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2009-04-05%5Ckurd.htm Drought and dams in Iraq are helping a lake to disappear and assorted sites (and concern for them) are being revealed: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5353XO20090406?feedType=RSS&fe\ edName=scienceNews Feature on Gohar Tappeh: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=192003 Third century A.D./C.E. finds from Humat Thiab (Yemen): http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1245&p=local&a=3 Are these foot-shaped structures the first things built by the Israelites in Canaan?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406102600.htm http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1076836 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1077036 http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=218 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/550817/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223308/posts http://www.physorg.com/news158234124.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uoh-adi040609.php Speculation that a depiction of the 'Mistress of the Lionesses' was a Canaanite king/ruler: http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9319 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132604.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/afot-wa040609.php http://www.physorg.com/news158237703.html http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-17343.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090410-canaan-female-king.html Speculation that a fragment of an inscription found in the Old City dig refers to Hezekiah: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=123\ 8562926124 http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1551\ &module_id=#as http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30099 An inspection/restoration of the Western Wall is under way: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1076534.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562913109&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562915996&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/06/top_stories/bullet_points/doc49d9d1c08\ 58ac259767828.txt Review of Susan Gubar, *Judas*: http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2009/04/susan_gubar_pries_open_the_rid.\ html ... related to the above (perhaps) is a piece revisiting the Gospel of Judas: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/993946.html More on the Hellenistic pier from Acco/Ptolemais/Acre: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30075 More on Egypt opening the Bent Pyramid: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20090406/ap_tr_ge/ml_travel_trip_bent_pyramid_\ 3 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2008992733_aptraveltripbentpyramid.\ html More on Nefertiti's 'makeover': http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331091246.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) ================================================================ The only damage to ancient items being reported from the L'Aquil earthquake are some cracks in the Baths of Caracalla: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5115343/Roman-baths-and-A\ bruzzo-churches-damaged-in-earthquake.html http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/A\ pril/international_April513.xml§ion=international Ancient Christians liked fish: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-19616.html Can't quite figure out what's new in this recent coverage of that 'Amazon' from Herculaneum: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/2428 http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/digital-imaging-reveals-the-secrets-o\ f-roman-statues_100176516.html Restoration work has begun on Newport Roman Villa's roof: http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/roofing-work-starts-at-roman-villa-25526.aspx Plans for Amathus Archaeological Park (Cyprus): http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?FrontPageNewsID=304_2 Latin in primary school: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Latin-classes-Arnold-youngsters/article-8\ 73614-detail/article.html In case you missed the Classical installment of PhD Comics: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1155 ... or today's Frank and Ernest: http://www.gocomics.com/frankandernest/2009/04/12/ A Clash of the Titans update: http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE5380B520090409 More on Colchester Roman Circus' failed funding bid: http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4269116.Roman_Circus_Lotto_bid_fails/ Review of Barry Strauss, *The Spartacus War*: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_rev\ iews/article6066272.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://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Evidence of Scotland's oldest human settlement: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Scotland39s-most-ancient-home-found.5161087.jp http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/flints-12000-bc-found-scotland/story.aspx?\ guid=%7B607750D7-3D77-4455-A6EF-1324062EE135%7D&dist=msr_2 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7992300.stm http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6069957.ece Power structures in Bronze Age Scandinavia: http://www.physorg.com/news158489844.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407144947.htm http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/174727/ http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=56823&CultureCode=en L'Aquila Earthquake damage coverage: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5115343/Roman-baths-and-A\ bruzzo-churches-damaged-in-earthquake.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/quake-damaged-host-of-medieval-ma\ sterpieces-1666137.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/arts/11abroad.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/world/europe/07damage.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/07/italy-earthquake-cultural-damage cf: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123940593723809833.html Dog sacrifices in medieval Hungary?: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-dogs-buried-hungary.html?\ source=rss This year's Easter coverage, it appears, is a claim that the Knights Templar were in possession of the Shroud of Turin for a while: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6040521.ece http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/06/turin-shroud-templars http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5113711/Knights-Templar-w\ orshipped-the-Turin-Shroud.html http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0901551.htm More on the Alhambra: http://www.france24.com/en/20090405-culture-spain-granada-alhambra-decipher-arab\ ic-inscriptions Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ They're sending a robot (again) into a 1300 b.p. tomb in Xian: http://en.ce.cn/National/Local/200904/09/t20090409_18746698.shtml Pakistan has identified a number of temples/shrines for conservation: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/04/06/stories/2009040651171800.htm ... and archaeologists from Pakistan have found pottery from various periods: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-18302.html Some Harappan buials from Farmana: http://timesofindia.ihttp://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkov\ yndiatimes.com/Pune/City-archaeologists-discover-Harappan-graves/articleshow/437\ 6788.cms Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ An impending dig of a Native American site in Hammonasset (Conn.): http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_madison_artifact_dig_200904071912_rev1 Some ancient finds from the headwaters of the San Antonio River: http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Dig-at-river-headwaters-turns-up-ancient-fi\ nds/V1bpWmAPMkKCRYq567DV_A.cspx?rss=68 Security v. conservation in D.C.: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/business/08homeland.html Native artifacts from HorseThief Reservoir (Kansas): http://www.hutchnews.com/Todaystop/horsethief2009-04-10T20-51-58 Evidence of 17th century global trade in Georgia: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/amon-due040909.php A history (of sorts) of U.S. debt: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/13/090413fa_fact_lepore Hype for a television program about Tecumseh: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/arts/television/12jens.html A threat to Native sites in California: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30014339/ More on early agriculture in Illinois: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/complexagro.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090408-first-farm.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Nice coverage of that "King of Bling"/Moche tomb find in Peru last summer: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090410-peru-tomb.html?source=rss http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/king-bling-moche-\ tomb-pictures/index.html?source=rss Assorted Ichma culture finds from Huaca Huantille: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=mxx1YjEFF3o= Holguin is older than previously thought: http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2009/04/11/16689/recent_diggins_revealed_holguin_mu\ ch_older_supposed.html Big Maya dig at Quintana Roo: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=331237&CategoryId=14091 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 ================================================================ On the origins of 'grog': http://www.teatronaturale.com/article/345.html Interesting feature on depictions of Jesus throughout the ages: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/apr/11/the-changing-face-of-jesus-the-way-\ we-depict-us/ Here's something to occupy your post-prandial Easter Sunday ... try figuring out how this 17th century code was cracked: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/games_and_puzz\ les/article6073494.ece ... or you can procrastinate like Leonardo: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i24/24b00401.htm They've rediscovered an egg collected by Darwin: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7992911.stm Surprised this didn't get more coverage: Schindler's list has been found in a library: http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20090406142221\ 194C927660 Interesting feature on the Giotto's 'Lamentation of Christ': http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/great-works-the-\ lamentation-of-christ-13056-giotto-1666447.html Feature on Galileo and his impact/implications: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/5115916/How-Galileo-brought-the-\ stars-down-to-Earth.html Epigram of lamb: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12food-t-000.html Restoring a Tudor tapestry: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6069988.ece Some Guggenheim recipients: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/10/23343/ ... more: http://www.gf.org/news-events/Guggenheim-Fellowship-Awards-for-the-United-States\ -and-Canada-2009/ The planned World Digital Library is an interesting project: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/09/world-digital-library Review of Andrea Wulf, *The Brother Gardeners*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/books/review/Seymour-t.html Review of a couple of books about Wittgenstein(s): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/books/10book.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 ================================================================ Athens: http://www.losaltosonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17225&It\ emid=59 Sightseeing strategies: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/columnists/5126287/Holiday-advice-sightseeing-\ without-the-scrum.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 ================================================================ Current Archaeology (230): http://www.archaeology.co.uk/ 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 ================================================================ Another (?) arrest of someone trying to smuggle arabic manuscripts out of Yemen: http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1249&p=local&a=5 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Another Indian coin hoard: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-16555.html Latest Journal of Ancient Numismatics: http://imperialcoins.com/newsletters/volume3 Bulgarian Paper Money: http://www.bg-papermoney.com/ Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Moctezuma (etc.): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168477/Forced-power-How-Aztec-ruler-los\ t-empire-Spanish-conquistadors.html?ITO=1490 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/07/british-museum-aztec-\ ruler-montezuma http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23672665-details/Behind+the+mask+\ of+last+emperor+of+the+Aztecs/article.do http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hBl-C1BgwhefEOOsG6L25rUlthrg cf: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/future_exhibitions/moctezuma.aspx Terracotta Army: http://www.high.org/ Kangxi Emperor: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/10iht-jessop.html?ref=arts Caesar: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/07iht-caesar.html Cezanne and Beyond: http://calitreview.com/2937 Monticello: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10mont.html Noble Tombs at Mawandui: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10tomb.html Vivat Rex: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10henr.html Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/theater/6361611.html Whistler: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10voge.html Teotihuacan: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 Lincoln Assassination: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090411/NEWS01/90411011 Living Line: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10line.html Kuniyoshi: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/arts/design/11iht-melik11.html There's a new museum on Kalymnos: http://www.kalymnos-isl.gr/en/experience/events?task=view_detail&agid=2&year=200\ 9&month=04&day=10&catids=64 Nice feature on items being repatriated by/for Afghanistan in the UK and elsewhere: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090407.wantiquities07/BNSto\ ry/International/home The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/building-rome-in-just-over-a-day/ The climate/conservation issue ... for museums: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/arts/design/05kino.html Another returned item -- this time a fresco -- from the Getty to Italy: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty8-2009apr09,0,563560.s\ torylink http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hjBT3eXYxTCfcv-AEfWGo1LjPzLg http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_12090388 http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/04/07//news/state//zad62abfa9981e4648825759\ 1007777dd.txt http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-getty-fresco,1,354982\ 1.story http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/arts/design/08arts-GETTYTORETUR_BRF.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/getty-to-return-ancient-fresco-frag\ ment-to-italy http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/08/content_11145793.htm I find this one strange: Palestinian authorities are trying to prevent a DSS exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum on the basis that the scrolls were illegally removed from Palestine (!): http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/616059 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130823(IsraelNN.com http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/04/09/scrolls-rom.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jdnIWj-W6xSz8HLSbzJIUpOL9HVg Feature on 'orientalist' art (with some novelty clocks at the end): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10anti.html More on Germany's efforts to restore Nazi loot to its owners: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10arts-GERMANYTOCON_BRF.html The Asia Society has to cut staff: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10arts-ASIASOCIETYM_BRF.html ... as has the Corcoran: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/arts/design/11arts-JOBCUTSATTHE_BRF.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ La Didone: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/theater/reviews/06dido.html Il Piccolo Marat: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/arts/music/12tomm.html Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/theater/reviews/09beow.html The BBC Concert Orchestra will be honouring Darwin (?!): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/music/10arts-BBCPROMSSERI_BRF.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ George-Jean Pinault, *Indtroduction au tokharien*: http://www.presses.ens.fr/Data/le_0154-1.pdf Amelia Sparavigna, "Digital Restoration of Ancient Papyri": http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5045 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 11.52 April 19, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Ivo Volt, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ I think we heard this a while ago ... our ancestors weren't very good at climbing trees: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/413/2 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30198636/ Evidence for subgroups of Neanderthals: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415075150.htm Did H. sapiens learn from H. Floresiensis?: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/417/3 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ The New York Times has a profile of Zahi Hawass: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/middleeast/18egypt.html Speaking of whom, Hawass was front and center during an announcement of the (renewed) search for the tomb of Cleopatra: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gYKMmuL5ZHmbklSW5GC\ tfIYFtxeg http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5joJYA-zGhwKrGUIBS8jdF0cQydkQD9\ 7J2IPG1 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=91641§ionid=3510212 http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53I10T20090419 http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.WAM40221.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6099961..ece http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8000978.stm http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/15/world/main4948841.shtml?source=RSSattr\ =World_4948841 http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tombs-of-Cleopatra-and-Mark.5174770.jp http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/5160248/Egy\ ptians-close-to-finding-Cleopatras-tomb.html http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1891437,00.html cf: http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-news-temple-taposiris-magna Some 22nd Dynasty mummies from the Fayoum: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5493613 http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/618584 http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=31444 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aZHODr744t2U&refer=muse http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2009/04/12/mummies_found_in_ancient_egypt_burial\ _chamber/afp/ Testing of the contents of some jars from Scorpion I's tomb have revealed what is being touted as the earliest human-made medicine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7992575.stm http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090413/ap_on_sc/sci_days_of_wine_and_pharoahs http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20090413/49e2b8c0_3ca6_1552620090413178\ 8027505 http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42748/description/An_ancient_remedy_B\ itter_herbs_and_sweet_wine http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090413/hl_hsn/pharoahswinejaryieldsmedicinalsecret\ s http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5148120/Anci\ ent-Egyptians-used-wine-as-medicine.html http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hswine14-nws,0,6824999.story?track=rss http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/414/2?etoc http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090413-scorpion-king-wine.html A KV-63 update: http://www.kv-63.com/ Rethinking the Antonia and the path Jesus walked: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/10/wedeman.via.dolorosa/index.html?sectio\ n=cnn_latest http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5137247/Way-of-the-Cross-is-\ wrong-claims-leading-archaeologist.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168891/Pilgrims-tracing-steps-Jesus-goi\ ng-WRONG-way-2-000-years-says-historian.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1077926 The dig at Tell Tayinat seems to be getting increasing coverage because of a recent 'Dark Age' temple find which is being tied to a passage in Isaiah: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415162649.htm http://www.canada.com/Canadian+archeologists+find+ancient+temple+Turkey/1503725/\ story.html http://www.physorg.com/news159025472.html http://it.moldova.org/news/ancient-temple-is-discovered-in-turkey-197032-eng.htm\ l The second season of digging at a 7500 b.p. site at Sialk (Iran) has commenced: http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2009/April2009/15-04-iranian.htm Feature on preserving artifacts in Iraq: http://www.euronews.net/2009/04/13/preserving-ancient-artefacts-in-iraq/ Evidence that ancient Jews used skulls in their ceremonies (maybe): http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078227.html http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=2&ArticleID=9 Overviewish thing on the Bethsaida excavations: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562932973&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Brief item on a Hamrit era site in Yemen: http://www.sabanews.net/en/news180808.htm ... this longer item may be the same site (much more detailed if it is): http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/archaeologists-discover-ancient-works\ -of-art-in-yemen_100178976.html Interesting diary of a traveller to Egypt in the 1800s: http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-04-15_115329521.html Review of Natalie Mesika, *Adama Shehora*: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077977.html More on plans to open the Bent Pyramid to the public: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30116026/ http://www.winnipegsun.com/life/2009/04/12/9090481-sun.html More on the "mistress of the lionesses": http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1010\ 97 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) ================================================================ They're going to be digging at the Roman bath at Bansko: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1152 Nice feature by Mary Beard on publishing in antiquity: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Beard-t.html Not sure why, but that chemical-warfare-at-Dura-Europos story is making the rounds again: http://www.livescience.com/history/090413-nhm-chemical-warfare.html Nice blog post on Alexander as "media bait": http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/16/macedonia-alexander-the-great-as-media-\ bait/ A digital survey of Paphos' theatre is under way: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=45214&archive=1 Rather large drop in tourist visits to Greece this past year: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090413/lf_afp/greecetourismarchaeologymuseums_2009\ 0413160936 Somewhat vague item on finds from Vergina (not sure if this is new or not): http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1163 Claims of the discovery of Alexander's tomb in FYROM/Macedonia: http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/6353/2/ http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n177761 Something for your door: http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2009/04/15/ Claudius was one of the ODNB Lives of the Week: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/2.html Polybius on state and religion: http://harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90003929 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://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Upper Paleolithic flints from Scotland: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30153685/ http://it.moldova.org/news/flints-from-12000-bc-found-in-scotland-195565-eng.htm\ l A pre-Roman midden from Iona: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/A--load-of-old.5174776.jp A 1000 b.p. 'treasure trove' of coins and jewellery found by a metal detectorist in Funen: http://jp.dk/uknews/article1664151.ece Brief item on how the l'Aquila earthquake has revealed some prehistoric dwellings (caves, actually): http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3224520451 They're going to dig at Bodiam Castle: http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/news/Archaeological-dig-begin-Bodiam-Castle/articl\ e-888143-detail/article.html Did a jousting accident lead to a negative character change in Henry VIII?: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-jousting-accident-that-tur\ ned-henry-viii-into-a-tyrant-1670421.html Interesting documents being found as they clean out Musselburgh Town House: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/Ancient-court-record-shows-thieves.\ 5170668.jp Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A tomb mural from Shaanxi depits 1000 b.p. medical practices: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-22143.html A clay seal and other items (all Gupta era?) from Bangladesh: http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/04/18/news0291.htm An ancient flute found at Xinglongwa might be really, really old: http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20090416/101611.shtml Searching for the "disappeared temples" at Jatkara (India): http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-21337.html More on Genghis Khan's palace: http://www.centralasianews.net/story/487265 Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ A mysterious 'carved' boulder from Ohio: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090417/NEWS01/3041700\ 57/ Hype for the search for the USS Patasco (a Union ironclad): http://www.thestate.com/statewire/story/753226.html Interesting 'end of the frontier' type story (with slideshow): http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/20/090420fa_fact_wickenden Remembering the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination: http://documents.nytimes.com/lincoln-assassination-new-york-memorial-diary#p=1 Preservation v recreation in Texas: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/sports/othersports/14boulder.html Trying to save the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/shoring-up-a-landmark-ruin-on-roose\ velt-island Excavating a Confederate gun platform on the Cape Fear River: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090409/ARTICLES/904099961/1004?Title=Bru\ nswick-Town-excavation-unearths-window-on-past Mystery caskets fond in rural Ohio: http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/04/11/bodie\ s.ART_ART_04-11-09_B1_5VDH8H8.html?sid=101 More on that evidence of global trade in 17th century Georgia: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409134802.htm http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/spanish.beads/index.html?section=cnn_latest Review of Richard Beeman, *Plain, Honest Men*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/books/review/Isaacson-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ MPR had an interesting feature on Percy Fawcett: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/13/midmorning2/?refid=0 Hype for an upcoming Czech (and other) expedition to Machu Picchu: http://www.radio.cz/en/article/115296 A cast iron cannon found in unmentioned circumstances in Cuba: Pondering Santa Muerte: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102928118 Not sure if we mentioned these Peruvian petroglyphs yet: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/257458/ http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2009/04/18/16806/castiron_cannon_found_villa_clara_\ cuba.html More coverage of the 'king of bling' tomb in Peru: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-19986.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 ================================================================ Inbreeding wasn't a good thing for the Habsburgs: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6094527.ece http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415075148.htm A descendent of Darwin (Ruth Padel) on matters poetical: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/books/18pade.html Nice feature on Yeats: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/theater/18yeats.html One of NASA's pictures of the day this week was an interesting manuscript page: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090417.html Shakespeare's birthday is coming next week: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/theater/13arts-TURNING445MA_BRF.html A book stolen during the Civil War has been returned to Washington and Lee University: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103183519 Remembering the Barbary pirates: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekinreview/12gettleman.html Feature on sites threatened by climate change: http://www.archaeology.org/0903/etc/climate_change.html cf: http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/8068/ Keeping the Nipmuc language alive: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103028551 The guy responsible for the zombification of Jane Austen will be vampirifying Abe Lincoln, it appears: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/books/14arts-MOVEOVERJANE_BRF.html Retracing the steps of the Canterbury Tales pilgrims: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103077315 Review of Robert Sullivan, *The Thoreau You Don't Know*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Gessner-t.html Review of a television program about Tecumseh: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/television/13rema.html ... and one about recreating some of daVinci's inventions: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/television/13davi.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 ================================================================ Laos/Vietnam: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/travel/19personal.html Leptis Magna and environs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/19/short-breaks-libya ================================================================ DIG DIARIES/BLOGS ================================================================ [please send in suggestions! current digs only please!] Norton Community Archaeological Group: http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/ Tel Kadesh: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog Tel Dan: http://teldan.wordpress.com/ Hopkins in Egypt Today: http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html ================================================================ GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeorama: http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/ Archaeoblog: http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Some apparently purloined Greek columns from Bulgaria were found in a junkyard in Greece: http://www.pr-inside.com/ancient-columns-found-at-greek-junkyard-r1180579.htm http://news.scotsman.com/world/Junkyard-arrests-over-columns-find.5169901.jp http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=919905&lang=eng_news Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ The Queen was handing out Maundy coins last week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7991228.stm 1888 Rugby Medal: http://www.1888rugbymedal.co.uk/ Rebel States Currency: http://www.rebelstatescurrency.com/ Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ New at the Morgan: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/arts/design/17morg.html Monet: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/arts/design/14arts-ATLANTATOHAV_BRF.html Moctezuma: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/moctezuma-unmasked-\ 1668030.html An interesting Dryden portrait has gone on display: http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/latest-london-news/Rare-Dryden-portrait-goes-on.\ 5172191.jp The Getty has received the first two pieces from Italy from that 'deal' it reached a couple of years ago: http://uk.reuters.com/article/stageNews/idUKTRE53E74X20090415 http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31133/italy-loans-two-ancient-bronzes-to-getty\ / http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=1010\ 57 http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-04-16_116368534.html Artbabble looks like the sort of place one could kill a few hours: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/design/07babb.html http://www.artbabble.org/ The latest Nazi loot returns: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/design/13arts-ARTRETURNEDT_BRF.html More cuts at the Brooklyn Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/arts/design/18arts-BROOKLYNMUSE_BRF.html Another feature on the Acropolis Museum: http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/news/e3i15e445736daf50e\ 4f47bcce39ff48c35 Latest on the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/arts/design/18arts-ROSEARTMUSEU_BRF.html An African American museum is in the works: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/winning-design-for-african-american\ -museum/ Auctioning off Doris Duke's stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/arts/design/17anti.html More coverage of that fresco fragment return by the Getty: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIpFCsuCa2Km0Os99JEELytUv64QD9\ 7DSTS00 More on those saints' relics found in the British Museum: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/museums-routine-check-t\ urns-up-1000yearold-saints-bones/1468693.aspx More on the Palestinian protest of the DSS exhibition at the ROM: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/arts/design/14arts-PALESTINIANS_BRF.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Chanticleer: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/arts/music/18chan.html An Oresteia: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/theater/reviews/14ores.html A Taras Bulba movie: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/world/europe/13cossacks.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/arts/15sedgwick.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/ 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================================================================ explorator 12.01 April 26, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Pettigrew, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). * n.b. I changed email programs this week, which might mean some duplicates from last week may have crept in to this week's issue; I also might be missing some items from our correspondents. I'm not sure whether this will be going out as html mail yet ... ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Interesting detail about Neanderthal births: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/420/2 Postulating/reviving different uses for bone-based tools: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17004-ancestors-may-have-used-bone-tools-t\ o-make-smoothies.html On the role of cooking in human development: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/21conv.html More on Neanderthal subgroups: http://www.livescience.com/history/090414-neanderthal-groups.html More coverage of the homo floresiensis bones being displayed: http://www.livescience.com/history/090422-hobbit-cast.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/21hobb.html http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1892606,00.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Four temples with inscriptions from the Sinai are shedding light on the Hyskos: http://www.physorg.com/news159552735.html http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-kingdom-temple-discovered-sinai http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080682.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080538.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyy_p39sNj5_F4SGHgS0j-rv-XrQD9\ 7MSNMO0 http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2504875,00.html http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidANA20090421T125403ZBAC27/New%20carvings%20shed\ %20light%20on%20pharaohs'%20dark%20age http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_temple_discovery_5 http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=286070&version\ =1&template_id=37&parent_id=17 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/21/tech/main4959915.shtml?source=RSSattr=\ HOME_4959915 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090421/sc_nm/us_egypt_archaeology_2 Nice feature on the false doors from Herakelopolis Magna: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/944/he3.htm More coverage of those burials (now numbering 53) from the Fayum: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/943/heritage.htm http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =353273 Interesting computer recreation of Karnak: http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/team-s-digital-recreation-of-ancient-89298.a\ spx Nice feature on Spanish involvement in excavations in Egypt: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/944/he1.htm It's the usual drill ... dam construction about to begin (this time in Iran) and archaeologists are scrambling: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=192709 A handful of Christian (pre 12th century) artifacts from Tekrit: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/23/Archaeological-artifacts-found-in-Iraq/UP\ I-13111240510472/ http://politicom.moldova.org/news/archaeological-artifacts-found-in-iraq-198465-\ eng.html A very nice Byzantine mosaic from Idleb: http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2009/04/22/222745.htm I think I mentioned these Hamirat-era finds from Raymah last week: http://www.sabanews.net/en/news181368.htm http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10016210.html Interview with Brian Rose who just returned from visiting sites in Iraq: http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_759_Back_From_Iraq.mp3/view (scroll down a bit) Hype for a television program about some important KV63 finds: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/science-channels-egypts-mystery-chamber/st\ ory.aspx?guid=%7B6373BE63-65B4-4556-A209-F70E3706CF1E%7D&dist=msr_1 Not sure if we've mentioned this Hebrew fragment found near the Gihon Spring yet: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090425203201.htm Not sure why the 'chemical warfare' at Dura Europos is making the rounds again: http://www.livescience.com/history/090413-nhm-chemical-warfare.html A (tongue-in-cheek, I hope) Ark of the Covenant suggestion: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Robert-McNeil-Lost-Ark-of.5187620.jp Egyptology News Blog: http://egyptology.blogspot.com/ Egyptology Blog: http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/ Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog: http://blog.ritmeyer.com/ Paleojudaica: http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/ Persepolis Fortification Archives: http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/ Archaeologist at Large: http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ The (alleged) Cleopatra tomb hype continues unabated: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5izUDLGClOQBSWBrVJ7bS77yX85sg http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/19/egypt.cleopatra.mystery/index.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNewsMolt/idUKTRE53I10T20090419 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=7373921 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/egypt-thou-knewst-too-well-is-cle\ opatras-final-secret-out-1671316.html http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1665180/kathleen_martinez_and_the_searc\ h_for.html http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10567648 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30309472/ http://news.scotsman.com/world/Finds-may-lead-to-Mark.5184620.jp http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090420-egypt-cleopatra-apvin.htm\ l http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/19/cleopatra-mark-antony.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/opinion/22schiff.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/cleopatra-tomb-pi\ ctures/index.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/21/in-search-of-cleopatra http://www.france24.com/en/20090420-egypt-cleopatra-tomb-mark-anthony http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1893329,00.html Latin is alive and well (maybe) at Fairfield High: http://www.fairfield-echo.com/news/fairfield-news/latin-not-a-dead-language-at-f\ airfield-high-school-88042.html Boris Johnson is interviewed about what Pericles would be doing: http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3557501/lets-melt-down-the-rail\ ings-to-make-bicycles.thtml Feature on 'Boudica's Way': http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/23/uk-walking-holidays-history Not sure if we've had this one on the antikythera mechanism yet: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2508608.htm More (almost a followup, but I don't really see anything new) coverage of that polynomial texture mapping of that Amazon statue from Herculaneum: http://www.vision-systems.com/display_article/360076/19/none/none/TECHN/Polynomi\ al-texture-mapping-reveals-secrets-of-Roman-painting Review of Ursula Le Guin, *Lavinia*: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/\ article6160305.ece Recent reviews from BMCR: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html Recent reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2009.htm Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Interesting cat 'burial' in the walls of a house in Ugborough: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8011361.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5200089/400-year-old-mum\ mified-cat-found-in-walls-of-cottage.html A plan to test folks in Wales to prove Bronze Age Mediterranean origins: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/8007969.stm Solving (maybe) the mystery of some cracks in the Maltese landscape: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Researchers-solve-Maltateaser.5193890.jp http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=60076&newscategory=31 Some works by Saint Neophytos were going on display in Cyprus: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=45272&archive=1 A parking lot marker in Sweden turns out to be a runestone: http://politicom.moldova.org/news/church-lot-rock-actually-ancient-runestone-198\ 713-eng.html How the tulip arrived in Europe: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105353.htm More coverage of Hapsburg inbreeding: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/revealed-the-inbreeding-that-ruined-th\ e-hapsburgs-1668857.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Plenty of coverage of the discovery of some new sections of the Great Wall of China: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6134158.ece http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/great+wall+even+longer+study+shows/3\ 099332 http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/20/apworld/20090420160800&sec=\ apworld http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10567611&ref=rs\ s http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30307130/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8008108.stm Has the language of the Indus civilization been found/deciphered?: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/23/indus-civilisation-language-symbol\ s http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uow-ise041909.php http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript.html Evidence of an early kingdom near Wari-Bateshwar (India): http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=84953 Another case of archaeological neglect in India: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=85541 Review of a couple of tomes about Hindu history: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/review/Mishra-t.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Interesting site/finds from the banks of the Saluda River: http://www.thestate.com/local/story/755229.html A Hohokam dig in Continental is winding down: http://www.sahuaritasun.com/articles/2009/04/24/news/00arch426.txt A "trove" of Benjamin Franklin letters has been found in the British Museum: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142459.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304594.\ html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/24arts-BRITISHCOPIE_BRF.html ... and some interesting Civil War era papers were found during renovations of a house in Bloomville, NY: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/nyregion/21mirror.html They've figured out where Mexican forces surrendered to Sam Houston in 1836: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-battle17-2009apr17,0,45106\ 49.story A followup to that 'turtle rock' story from last week: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090422/NEWS01/304220045 Review of Donald Shomette, *Flotilla*: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/26/books-flotilla-patuxent-naval-campai\ gn-war-1812/ More coverage of that overdue library book: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041502000.\ html More coverage of those beads found in quantity in coastal Georgia: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409134802.htm ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Hotel construction in Cuzco has brought to light several Inca walls: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=332206&CategoryId=14095 The Maya Blue story seems to be making the rounds again (not quite sure what's different about this): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420085049.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 ================================================================ They're not going to posthumously review William Wallace's conviction: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2502950.0.No_review_of_William_\ Wallaces_conviction_for_treason_in_1305.php Arguing about the 'Michaelangelo crucifix': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/arts/design/22michel.html Is the hand of Leonardo evident in a del Verrochio work?: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/design/24voge.html Can't remember if I mentioned the World Digital Library yet: http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/world/news_detail.php?ID=209244&DK=World%20Digi\ tal%20Library http://pantagraph.com/articles/2009/04/21/news/doc49edd90383a94983172511.txt http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-library_tab_22apr22,0,1841137\ .story http://www.france24.com/en/20090420-unesco-world-digital-library-launches-online\ -culture http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30324140/ ... or the ArtBabble site: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/design/07babb.html Ever heard of Konrad Witz (pre DaVinci)? Me neither: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/apr/17/art-german-\ kunstmuseum-witz Handel had a handle on finances too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7992395.stm On the domestication of the horse: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142541.htm Reactions to the identity of the 'Cobbe portrait': http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421142316.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/23/shakespeare-portrait-stanley-wells Koranic studies are changing focus: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23kristof.html Some viking words made their way into English: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421111659.htm The Archaeology Channel is featuring a preview of the 2009 TAC festival: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ In case you were wondering about the Pulitzers: http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2009 Lord Timothy Dexter seems to have been an interesting fellow: http://www.lordtimothydexter.com/ Review of James Cuno's tome: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22657 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 ================================================================ Frugal Grand Tour (?): http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/ Ostia: http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/22/111643/748 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ Iraqi troops made a major bust this past week: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=acKT3j2bEdkw&refer=muse Very interesting article from Archaeology on the impact eBay has had on the illegal/forged antiquities trade: http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/insider.html Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Islamic Bank Notes: http://www.islamicbanknotes.com/ Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Henry VIII: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/25/henry-viii-exhibition Looted Afghan Treasures: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/5201198/Looted-Afghan\ -treasure-to-go-on-show.html Assorted exhibitions in Italy: http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-04-24_124335673.html The Cleveland MoA is returning some items to Italy: http://blog.cleveland.com/entertainment/2009/04/cleveland_museum_of_art_will_r.h\ tml http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30348001/ http://www.fox8.com/news/sns-ap-oh--lootedantiquities,0,3385064.story http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/index.ssf/2009/04/cleveland_museum_of_art_w\ ill_r.html Another feature on the new Acropolis Museum: http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/peep-insights-athens%E2%80%99s-new-acropolis-museum.\ html Battling over the Friede collection: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/arts/design/25arts-ARTCOLLECTIO_BRF.html Tough economic times at the Brooklyn Museum: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30302 Antiques are on the rise again (maybe): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/design/24anti.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Haydn: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/arts/music/22trio.html Iliad: Book One: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/theater/reviews/22ilia.html Mary Stuart: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/theater/reviews/20mary.html An Oresteia: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090427/wilson ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Christine Dunbar Sarbanes: http://www.apaclassics.org/campaign/campaign.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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.02 May 3, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Patrick Swan, Mitch Allen, Don Buck, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Steve Farmer, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ... bit of a quiet week ... ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ John Noble Wilford on homo floresiensis: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/28hobbit.html I think we mentioned this Neanderthal genome a while ago: http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Finally-unearthing-the-secrets-of.5228844.jp ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Latest strange use of DNA analysis is its use to locate the Garden of Eden in Namibia (or at least that's the spin the Times seems to be putting on it): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6207399.ece http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/science/01eden.html ... here's some more responsible (maybe) coverage of same: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/05/01/MN2317BI4Q.DTL http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8027269.stm ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Latest CT scan of a mummy reveals a mummified puppy at the owner's feet: http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n31/mummies.html Rachel Elior's theories on the Essenes continue to get coverage, this time with some critique by Geza Vermes: http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/1173/full http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710803395&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull The 2008 excavation report from Bethsaida: http://www.unomaha.edu/bethsaida/reports/Excavations_report_2008a.pdf Follow the dig at Tall Jalul: http://jalul.wordpress.com Nice features on the digitization of the Persepolis Fortification Archive at the OI: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/090430/persian.shtml http://tinyurl.com/PFMellon http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uoc-tso042809.php http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/551742/?sc=rsln The (re)discovery of Amenhotep's tomb is making the rounds again for some reason: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Archaeologists+rediscover+lost+Egyptian+tomb/1\ 345560/story.html ... and that scan of the bust of Nefertiti is now being used to prove the bust wasn't 'faked by Hitler': http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/266036,nefertitis-hidden-face-proves-ber\ lin-bust-is-not-hitlers-fake.html More/followup coverage of the 53 tombs from the Fayum: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30433244/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8019872.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/5228382/Mum\ mies-unveiled-in-Egypt.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jBZy8LJHK2gqDdN1jODGEtR4beDwD9\ 7QA3VG0 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042601334.\ html http://www.kentucky.com/524/story/774871.html http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/6393396.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090426/sc_nm/us_egypt_mummies http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=6781443&rss=rss\ -wabc-article-6781443 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/27/53-tombs-found-in-egypt/ More coverage of that 'Dark Age' Temple in Turkey: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090429-dark-ages-temple.html http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-30279.html More on the reopening of Iraq's sites etc., but noting the controversial nature thereof: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/world/middleeast/03babylon.html More (brief) coverage on Christian relics found in Iraq: <http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92636§ionid=3510212> More on that Hebrew inscription from near the Gihon Spring: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-28247.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090425203201.htm More on that virtual recreation of Karnak: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429172224.htm http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3733 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) ================================================================ Plenty of coverage of the discovery/conservation of a millefiore Roman bowl from London: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8024498.stm http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090429/sc_nm/us_britain_roman_find_1 http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090430/NEWS02/704309928 http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/04/30/Bowl-may-offer-Roman-Britain-clues/UP\ I-59041241109484/ http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Unique+Roman+glass+dish+found+London+gr\ ave+site/1550056/story.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430092235.htm http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_12254131 They're putting a roof over the Lyceum: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30499784/ http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-eu-greece-aristotles-\ school,0,3940617.story http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/04/30/greece_sponsor_to_pa\ y_for_aristotle_school_roof http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/30/international/i01381\ 7D98.DTL&feed=rss.news http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibVPF7hhL0KYXbI_vrIb0qZAjN2AD9\ 7SR2GO0 Plans to investigate a Roman burial (found in the 1970s) in Gloucester: http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucestershireheadlines/Archaeologists-k\ een-trace-origins-Roman-skeleton/article-944840-detail/article.html Interesting project to document all the catacombs of Rome: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8027650.stm Possible Roman pottery kilns in a Kentish village: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/british-village-may-have-been-a-huge-\ pottery-industry-in-roman-times_100185187.html Some Roman burials from Bethlehem: http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=37371 An interview with Adrian Goldsworthy: http://newbooksinhistory.com/?p=840 Another Lysistrataesque strike: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518465,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8025457.stm cf (for more comparanda): http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/05/02/lysistratidai/ Recent reviews from BMCR: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html Recent reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2009.htm Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A possible medieval 'boatwreck' off Scotland: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Ancient-boat-remains-found.5214897.jp http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-29539.html Medieval building remains found beneath Cathedral Square in Peterborough: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-29534.html http://www.peterborough.net/news/articles/medievalcathsquare100.asp The medieval fort of Trikala is now open to the public: http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7546217&maindocimg=7544188&servi\ ce=144 The 'Little Ice Age' in Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8010513.stm 'Early' evidence of amputations: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/8025710.stm More coverage of that 'earliest' site in Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8029661.stm Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ China's earliest known 'carving': http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/28/content_11274877.htm Latest ship recreation is a 16th (17th?) century Chinese junk ... sadly, it was hit by a freighter one day before the end of its journey: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8020206.stm http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10569146&ref=rs\ s http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5228176/Replica-Chinese-jun\ k-sinks-one-day-from-end-of-epic-journey.html More coverage of that Indus Script 'decipherment': http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-30401.html http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KD30Df01.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142316.htm http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Learning-with-the-Times-Deciphering-Ind\ us-script-a-tough-task/articleshow/4452812.cms ... but we should also read some refutation: http://www.safarmer.com/Refutation3.pdf http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1374 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-30333.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ An allele is suggesting Native Americans all descend from a single population: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/04/29/native.americans.descended.a.single.\ ancestral.group.dna.study.confirms http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428223836.htm http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9101 Remains of a pair of ca 1100 A.D. palisaded villages from Macon County found in the preliminaries to airport construction: http://www.maconnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4607&Itemid=3\ 4 Another Hohokam site is being dug in Arizona: http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2009/04/30/news/49arch426.txt Nice feature on the assassination of George Brown: http://torontoist.com/2009/05/historicist_the_death_of_george_bro.php There's a US version of Time Team: http://www.pbs.org/video/program/1100231536/ Some heritage roses in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/garden/23garden.html The Georgia Guidestones: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones?currentPa\ ge=all Review of Daniel Brown, *The Indifferent Stars Above*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/review/Roach-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ An abstract of another feature on the Nazca lines: http://www.archaeology.org/0905/abstracts/nasca.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 ================================================================ Sidebarish sort of thing on 10 voyages that changed the world: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/04/28/ten.voyages/index.html Nice feature on Palladio: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2009/03/30/090330crsk_skyline_gold\ berger ... and one on Poe: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/04/27/090427crat_atlarge_lepo\ re On the evolutionary skills of ancient breeders: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227064.200-ancient-breeders-show-intelli\ gent-design.html In case you missed 'talk like Shakespeare' day: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103414533 Britain has its first female poet laureate: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/europe/02poet.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5256745/Poet-Laureate-Changing-wi\ th-the-times.html http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/01/britain.poet.laureate/ ... and in case you want to know all about this poet laureate business: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1113085_poet_laureate_all_you_need\ _to_know What some scholars are doing when they're away from their desk: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/nyregion/30towns.html On the evolution of languages: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5805522.ece OpEd thing suggesting UNESCO Heritage Status might do more harm than good: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/is-unesco-damaging-the-worlds-treasures-\ 1675637.html ... and one on the need to rethink the concept of the University: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html Backlash from Google Earth's inclusion of some historical maps of Japan: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090502/ap_on_hi_te/as_japan_google_dark_secrets More on the World Digital Library: http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID=321&cid=nl_IW\ K_daily_H http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8009974.stm http://www.wdl.org/en/ 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 ================================================================ Calcutta: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/travel/03calcutta.html Athens: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ricksteveseurope/2009139295_websteves28.ht\ ml ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ Another case of recovered Thracian jewellery from a site in Bulgaria: http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-04-30&article=27383 http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=103210 ... but it's another site which is most popular with looters: <http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n179736> Looting of sites in Arkansas: http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=10257578 Robert Fulford argues against returning looted artifacts: http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=a8bad11d-fe96-4cb1-a2da-c74d3d\ a318f9 Art theft from a Dutch museum: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1895429,00.html That guy who was slicing pages out of books in the British and Bodleian libraries had his sentence reduced: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23682949-details/Expert+who+stole\ +pages+of+rare+texts+has+prison+term+halved/article.do http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=287690&version\ =1&template_id=38&parent_id=20 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A huge cache of medieval coins from a site in Bulgaria: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1178 http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/6469/2/ Numismatic Bibliomania Society: http://www.coinbooks.org/ Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Russian Folk Costumes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/arts/28iht-Ffolk.html Art, Pen and Parchment: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30484 Baroque: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/02iht-melik2.html Pompeii and the Roman Villa: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-pompeii29-2009apr29,0,599226.sto\ ry The Myers Museum has returned a number of items to Egypt: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aTp8L4YyrY6I A (negative) review of Berlin's Jewish Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/design/02conn.html Piles of layoffs at the Getty: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty28-2009apr28,0,3464364\ .storylink http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/arts/design/30gett.html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty1-2009may1,0,1800718.s\ torylink That flu thing is affecting attendance at the British Museum's Aztec thing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/29/swine-flu-british-museum-aztec-sho\ w Some items related to female Georgian writers are coming to auction: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/arts/design/01anti.html ... while some Lincoln stamps fetched a very nice price: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/arts/design/20lincoln.html ... as did a Chinese imperial seal: http://www.france24.com/en/20090429-chinese-imperial-seal-sells-168-million-euro\ s-summer-palace-beijing-china-protests-auction-paris The auction houses are downsizing their catalogs: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/design/02cata.html They're still saying the Acropolis Museum will open in June: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100017_27/04/2009_106641 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090426/ennew_afp/entertainmentgreecearchaeologyacr\ opolismuseum_20090426200705 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ King David: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/theater/reviews/28king.html Reviewish/informative piece on the Baroque: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/arts/music/01pahu.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ How to Pack Books: wiki.coinbooks.org/index.php/How_to_Pack_Books ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Ahmad Hasan Dani: http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=82992&cid=2 Felipe Solis Olguin: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30490 Alan Vince: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/29/alan-vince-archaeologist-ceramics-\ obituary Hans Holzer: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/books/30holzer.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. 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Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers and mother-figures out there! ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ This week, homo floresiensis is considered a separate species: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8036396.stm http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090507/ts_afp/scienceanthropologyindonesiahobbits_\ 20090507011503 http://www.news-mail.com.au/story/2009/05/07/ancient-hobbit-humans-a-new-species\ / http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/07/hobbit-indonesia-primates-research http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090506/full/news.2009.448.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/evolution/5285290/The-or\ iginal-hobbits-whose-brain-shrank-due-to-remote-home.html http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/06/hobbit-species.html ... with foot problems (pretty much the same info spun differently): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/science/07hobbit.html (JNW) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506144307.htm ... and the dwarf hippo connection: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507185535.htm http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/pie/hipopotamos/ayudan/interpretar/Hobbi\ t/elpepusoc/20090506elpepusoc_7/Tes An early human appears to have run afoul of a hyena: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archeology/5299352/200000-year-old-\ human-hair-found-in-dung.html 'Biocide resistance' seems to be a problem in preserving Lascaux: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43632/title/Biocides_inducing_resista\ nce_in_Lascaux_cave%E2%80%99s_microbes Haven't had a facial reconstruction for a few weeks, so here's one of the 'earliest european': http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1683473/forensic_scientist_recreates_face_o\ f_earliest_european/index.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/revealed-the-face--of-the-first-europe\ an-1678537.html http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-32431.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Remember those 'oldest beads' found a while ago? They might be even older: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505163021.htm http://www.ccnmag.com/article/82,000-year-old_beads_discovered_in_ancient_cave ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Getting a pile of coverage this week is a story suggesting the famous bust of Nefertiti is a fake: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/07/nefertiti-bust-berlin-egypt-a\ uthenticity http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1017\ 37 http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/05/09/nefertiti-bust-fake.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hesdEvM5E_PC4GzRm3iHA9fAYdQg http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090505/ts_afp/entertainmentarthistoryegyptgermany http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25436791-12377,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8038097.stm ... not much of the coverage includes Zahi Hawass' response to the claim: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/05/09/72373.html A 5000 b.p. tomb near the Lahun pyramid: http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE54445920090505 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/8035748.stm That Egyptian fortress in the Sinai is getting renewed coverage (I think this is the same one as a few weeks ago, no?): http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5465N120090507 http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5465n1-us-egypt-archaeology/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/ancient-egypt-tem\ ples-pictures/index.html ... perhaps this 'Karnak connection' is the reason for the renewed coverage: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1684994/egyptian_inscriptions_used_to_map_o\ ther_ancient_military_outposts/index.html?source=r_science Identifiying the herbs in Egyptian medicines: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090504/ART16/905040309 Israeli police have recovered a 1900 b.p. Hebrew papyrus which was on the illegal antiquities market (more coverage under 'crime beat'): http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1083530 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710880134&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Nabatean pottery from near Jeddah: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=122347&d=9&m=5&y=2009 Now tourism is a threat to Iraq's antiquities: http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidANA20090508T040659ZDWI14/New%20threat%20to%20I\ raq's%20antiquities%20-%20tourism There's a new archaeological garden near the Knesset: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131236 http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 Rachel Elior's theories continue to garner press coverage: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710889763&pagename=JPArticle%2FSh\ owFull ... related: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710889686&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Egyptology News Blog: http://egyptology.blogspot.com/ Egyptology Blog: http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/ Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog: http://blog.ritmeyer.com/ Paleojudaica: http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/ Persepolis Fortification Archives: http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/ Archaeologist at Large: http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Remains of a Roman 'shanty twon' from Bowes: http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/teesdale-news/story,2088.html Some folks who stole a chunk of the Colosseum 25 years ago have returned it: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30639987/ http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/1031213 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5293725/US-couple-return\ -ancient-artifact-to-Rome-after-25-years.html Plans to build a highrise next to the site of Plato's Academy have been scrapped: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100002_07/05/2009_106913 Haven't had a decline-of-Rome-parallel piece for a while, so: http://www.forbes.com/global/2009/0511/056-stocks-commodities-oil-short-the-west\ .html In case you missed the 3d catacombs story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/8027650.stm http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-32450.html Rome was built in a day ... sort of: http://www.archaeology.org/0907/trenches/liz_glynn.html Romes 'talking statues' are getting some 'censorship' (?): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30587334/ ... while UNESCO sites in Paphos apparently can't be cleaned up: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=45568&cat_id=1 Latest in the Alexander 'chess game' between Greece and FYROM: http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/6596/2/ http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/18719/ http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=320&\ NrSection=2&NrArticle=20555 The Ephebe as Lampbearer is on display at the Getty: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30689 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/05/getty-pompeii.html Interesting bequest to a couple of Australian universities: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/classical-greek-and-latin-alive-and-wel\ l-20090503-argj.html http://www.smh.com.au/national/classical-greek-and-latin-alive-and-well-20090503\ -argj.html The Marbles Reunited folks are back in the news: http://au.sys-con.com/node/950449 ... not sure if this was connected or not: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7576624&maindocimg=1328581&s\ ervice=144 Susan Mazur reviews Vernon Silver, *The Lost Chalice*: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0905/S00036.htm Recent reviews from BMCR: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html Recent reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2009.htm Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A very old wooden spear tip from Slovenia: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_\ 373630.html Archaeologists are going to be looking for remains of a Redcoat camp near Fort Augustus: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8028966.stm A 'lost' Medieval church found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8039915.stm A Medieval button found a couple of years ago has been declared treasure: http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/4347556.Medieval_button_declared__treasure_\ / A Viking ship from a Swedish lake: http://www.thelocal.se/19342/20090508/ They're excavating a mass WWI grave in France: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-eu-france-wwi-graves,0\ ,2360956.story http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10570466&ref=rs\ s Bulgaria is seeking UNESCO Heritage Status for its 'Valley of the Kings': http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/News/0905B5.htm http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=103440 A 1641 'passport': http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8036982.stm Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A prehistoric cave site from Guizhou province: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/08/content_11335403.htm Some very well preserved Joseon Dynasty burials: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2904524 They're returning to the Peking Man site: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/04/content_11312426.htm Interesting item on attempts to 'modernize' China's written language: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/chinese-language-ever-evolving\ / Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Possible evidence of a tsunami hitting the New York region 2300 years b.p.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8028949.stm http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/04/tech/main4988732.shtml?source=RSSattr=\ HOME_4988732 A Middle Woodland site from Anne Arundel County: http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/top/2009/05/04-10/Dig-ask-dig-some-more.ht\ ml Some burial mound finds are hold up creation of an artificial lake in Florida: http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090505/NEWS01/905050321/1006/rss01 Flood damage inspection at Knife River Indian Villages revealed some archaeological sites too: http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=29885 Hype for an upcoming dig of the William Ladd homestead site in Minot (Maine): http://www.sunjournal.com/story/316291-3/LewistonAuburn/Hilltop_dig_may_unearth_\ peacemovement_relics/ More details of what they've found at the Macon Airport site (prior to runway extension): http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/05/08/news/02news.txt More on those Franklin letters found in the British Museum: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/may/05/ucsd-professor-discovers-important-franklin\ -letter/ Review of T.J. Stiles, *The First Tycoon*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/books/review/Kazin-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Some 'Tenon Heads' from Peru: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=mLXMZsqstxc= A large Tarascan 'ritual complex' near Lake Patzcuaro: http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=59658\ 2858 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 ================================================================ Latest claim from the art world -- Gaugin cut off van Gogh's ear: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31320/book-claims-gauguin-lopped-off-van-goghs\ -ear/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/arts/design/06arts-WASGAUGUINTH_BRF.html Trying to preserve some Tesla sites: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/science/05tesla.html Nice feature on technology and ancient manuscripts: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124173896716198603.html The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland have made the 2009 Rhind Lectures (looking at various aspects of the Neolithic Revolution by Trevor Watkins) available online: http://www.socantscot.org/article.asp?aid=257 Latest on Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/arts/09leon.html http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/paseo/geniales/artilugios/Leonardo/elppgl\ /20090505elpepucul_8/Tes Handling pirates in the 'Golden Age': http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103691069 How Google scans all those books: http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/the_granting_of_patent_7508978.html They might allow women into the Vatican army: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8035235.stm Review of a novel featuring Richard (Francis) Burton: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/books/review/Macintyre-t.html More reviews of Darwiniana: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/books/review/Barcott-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 ================================================================ Seoul: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090507/utravel/travel_seoul_on_a_budget_1 Luxor: http://www.thecolumbiastar.com/news/2009/0508/travel/085.html Paestum: http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-mozzarellapaestumside10-2009may10,0,5221260\ .story ================================================================ DIG DIARIES/BLOGS ================================================================ [please send in suggestions! current digs only please!] Norton Community Archaeological Group: http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/ Tel Kadesh: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog Tel Dan: http://teldan.wordpress.com/ Hopkins in Egypt Today: http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html ================================================================ GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ CSA newsletter (April 2009): http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring09 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 ================================================================ Israeli police foiled an attempt to sell a 1900 b.p. Hebrew papyrus document: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090506/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_plundered_scroll_3 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519167,00.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jQWGVP3Y1d5UO2kgW4ZZNLVC5lEwD9\ 80QU400 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131223 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3711796,00.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1083530.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jBxDr_P7MhQGzSG9r8HUzdBAjKiw http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30605650/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/8036881.stm http://www.thestar.com/article/630300 http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/06/1004957/israeli-police-seize-ancient-hebr\ ew-scroll ... and an "amateur antiques hunter" in Tubas was arrested: http://beth.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=37650 eBay is apparently having a 'chilling effect' on the looting of antiquities: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504193641.htm http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=ebay-lessens-antiquitie\ s-looting-09-05-06 http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/05/ebay_vs_the_tomb\ _raiders/ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-05/uoc--ehu050409.php http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/10/ebay http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/insider.html http://www.physorg.com/news160667205.html An attempted sale of a Sarnath idol was foiled in India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Person-trying-to-sell-ancient-idol-nab\ bed/articleshow/4488749.cms Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ The largest known (and previously unknown) Roman silver coin is coming to auction: http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6658 ... as is a hoard of Jacobite gold coins: http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7136.aspx Nice feature on the Ancient Coins for Education program: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09115/965529-55.stm Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of US and Colonial Coins: http://breenencyclopedia.com/index.html Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Pompeii and the Roman Villa: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-pompeii9-2009may09,0,559376\ 2.storylink http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-05_105355345.html Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/arts/design/09huds.html Painted Metaphors (Maya): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124148062911385269.html Al Ain Museum: http://www.aam.gov.ae/sections/archaeology.htm OpEddish thing on who should own antiqutities: http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2436 A pile of 16th century torture devices are coming to auction: http://news.therecord.com/article/532701 Women can now see some of the treasures from Mount Athos: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/after-1000-years-women-can-see-tr\ easures-of-mount-athos-1679730.html The Blanton Museum of Art has a new director: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/arts/design/09arts-NEWDIRECTORF_BRF.html Latest in the Brandeis/Rose Art Museum saga: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/arts/design/05arts-CRITICISMOFI_BRF.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/05/rose-art-museum Latest on the Met's 'Crystal Palace': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/arts/design/05met.html Some hype for the soon-to-be-opening Acropolis Museum: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp&fdate=\ 05/05/2009Celebratingbeneath Strategies for raising funds for acquisitions: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/arts/design/10fink.html ... and scaling back on the 'big shows': http://www.daytondailynews.com/entertainment/ohio-theater-arts/museums-forced-to\ -scale-back-on-blockbusters-113402.html?showComments=true Not a lot (groan) seems to be being offered at the big auctions any more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/arts/09iht-melik9.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/arts/design/06auction.html ... but antiques dealers seem to be doing well: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html Check out what's coming up to auction at Christies: http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/searchresults.aspx?searchids=3635|8222#action\ =refine&selectedids=3635|8222&sid=0f9e966f-5360-4b15-a737-d2979de0e5e6 ... and news of (non)restructuring: http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7125.aspx Assorted auction and antiquities news: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/design/08anti.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/design/08arts-TREASURETROV_BRF.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Merchant of Venice: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/theater/reviews/08merc.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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Plenty o' coverage of the find of a 35000 b.p. ivory 'Venus figurine' from Germany: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14venus.html http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090513/full/news.2009.473.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/8047319.stm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051301912.\ html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXbk_JfASsVGU1F48--LEj7X8n6wD9\ 85GGD80 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hOlAcj9fi2spQqio20OKBKWh5vWQ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-venus14-2009may14%2C0%2C18\ 1830.story http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=57684&CultureCode=en http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4257481,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/after-35000-years-eroti\ c-art-for-cavemen-discovered-1684569.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084126.htm http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE54D3QS20090514?feedType=RS\ S&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090513/lf_nm_life/us_art_prehistoric_3 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17121-ivory-venus-is-first-depiction-of-a-\ woman.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,624862,00.html A common ancestor find?: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html Neanderthals were sophisticated and fearless, as far as hunting goes: http://www.physorg.com/news161536699.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084115.htm ... and possibly tasty main courses themselves, as far as modern humans go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropol\ ogical-sciences-journal Not sure if we've mentioned this 'stone age superglue' story before: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090511-stone-age-glue.html http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/stoneageglue/ More coverage of very old human hairs being found in very old hyena dung: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090511/sc_livescience/oldesthumanhairsfoun\ dinhyenadung ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ 132 sites in Egypt which haven't been excavated yet have been identified: http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001147.htm Some prehistoric fishing tackle (and other items) from Egypt: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzq0GTq7lbMyj69VDimSi9ZR-l2Q http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/M\ ay/international_May855.xml§ion=international Latest from Luxor: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/947/heritage.htm Nice blogpost on Hateshepsut's unfinished obelisk: http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2009/05/hatshepsuts-unfinished-obelisk.html Latest claims of having found the site of Sodom: http://www.koat.com/news/19433106/detail.html Iran's latest attempts to preserve some of its 'salt mummies': http://www.payvand.com/news/09/may/1123.html Evidence of an interesting burial ritual at Sialk Mound: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94340§ionid=351020105 Some of Jerusalem's ancient walls have been (re)discovered: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/09/03/topnews/jerus\ alem-dig-uncovers-ancient-city-walls.html&template=/news/feeds/story-template-re\ uters.html Somewhat vague item on the find of a "king's grave" in Izmir: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11628133.asp?scr=1 Hype for an upcoming dig at Ed-Dur: http://www.wam.org.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1241072597989&p=113509\ 9400124&pagename=WAM%2FWamLocEnews%2FW-T-LEN-FullNews Interview with some representatives of ARCE from Orange County: http://ocartsandculture.com/2009/05/oc%E2%80%99s-ancient-egyptian-culture/ Nice feature on Bedrich Hrozny: http://www.radio.cz/en/article/116219 ... and Bart Ehrman: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/15/bible.critic/index.html Latest salvo in the Temple Mount saga: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97958 More coverage of the 'fake' Nefertiti bust claims: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=awM8r8vu_fS8&refer=home http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/272498 More coverage of that interestingly-dated papyrus document rescued from thieves last week: http://www.hamodia.com/inthepaper.cfm?ArticleID=226 More on Shimon Gibson's theories about the location of various events in Jesus' last days: http://wcbstv.com/national/jerusalem.old.city.2.1010228.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Possible Trajanic "palace" find in Romania: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6658347.html http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/15/content_11376185.htm Plans to 'dig' the submerged site of Pavlopetri: http://www.physorg.com/news161274284.html http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090513_pavlopetri.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093635.htm ... and to reveal (much) more of Viroconium: http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/03/11/countys-roman-city-due-to-be-expanded/ Whither the Muses?: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124242927020125473.html Feature on the 'consul's house' at Ephesus: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=175015&bolum=100 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-37554.html Claims of evidence of Roman mass production: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/268987,german-scientists-find-clues-to-r\ oman-mass-production.html http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94968§ionid=3510212 Another Thracian tomb from Bulgaria: http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n179374 This is different ... premilinary digs prior to bus stop construction found no Roman remains: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/8051902.stm How Trajan's Market has survived so many earthquakes etc.: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/13/roman-ruins-ash.html> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30731967/ Digging a Roman bath site in a Northamptonshire village: http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Archaeologists-launch-new-dig-on.5260335.\ jp A Hellenistic statue find from Alexandria (I suspect we'll hear more about this one ... eventually): http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7597593&service=142 http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001144.htm (small photo) A trio of Latin 'controversies' this week ... first, on Grace at Cambridge: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6289267.ece ... and on use of Latin in diplomas: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/opinion/15Francese.html Feature on John Hale: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090517/FEATURES/905170301/Lover+of+the+\ living+past Review of *Jesuit Education and the Classics*: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Jesuit-Education-and-The-Classics1-4438-0548-3.htm http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0548-3-sample.pdf Review of Ronald Hutton, *Blood and Mistletoe*: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5323383/Blood-and-Mistletoe\ -The-History-of-the-Druids-in-Britain-By-Ronald-Hutton-review.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/blood-and-mistleto\ e-a-history-of-the-druids-in-britain-by-ronald-hutton-1684903.html Recent reviews from BMCR: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html Recent reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2009.htm Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A neolithic burial from FYROM/Macedonia: http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =358101 Nice feature on a pile of Bronze Age finds from north of Amsterdam: http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/090513-Enkhuize\ n Paintings depicting the demise of Thoms Beckett have been revealed in Spain: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8029320.stm They've finally given the go-ahead to the Stonehenge visitors' centre: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8047968.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/may/13/stonehenge-visitors-new-centre ... which seems to have occasioned another 'king of Stonehenge' feature: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180243/The-king-Stonehenge-Were-artefac\ ts-ancient-chiefs-burial-site-Britains-Crown-Jewels.html Civil War silver from a Somerset Garden: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8052505.stm Remembering the Swiss Guard's bravery in 1527: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,623474,00.html Recreational types are destroying a Roman road: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=415581 Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Remembering the 1789 smallpox outbreak in Sydney: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2009/2557307.htm Did China's first emperor ban Buddhism?: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/11/content_11354232.htm Evidence of an ancient empire in Jharkand: http://www.dailyindia.com/show/312174.php An ancient earring from Viet Nam's Ha Tinh province: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2009/05/847053/ Some 2000 b.p. Buddhist caves from Raigad: http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/05/14131311/2000YEAROLD-CAVES-FOUND-IN.html Huge swords from Mayong may be evidence of human sacrifice: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090514/jsp/northeast/story_10958581.jsp That Indus script story is still making the rounds: http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/scientists_claim_to_have_\ found_language_of_ancient_indus_civilisation/?source=rss Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Studying Navajo smoke signals: http://www.physorg.com/news161676295.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090516/ap_on_sc/us_smoke_signals_3 Native bones from Indiana: http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/44776422.html A pre-Hohokam site at Las Capas (Arizona): http://www.explorernews.com/articles/2009/05/13/news/doc4a09f6bd89333196876955.t\ xt Dam construction preliminaries have revealed some 1000 b.p. artifacts in Kansas: http://www.kctv5.com/news/19447387/detail.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1194059.html Civil War relics from Franklin: http://www.wztv.com/newsroom/top_stories/wztv_vid_5747.shtml Preserving landmarks in NYC: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/arts/design/12vill.html Monitoring the condition of the Hamilton and the Scourge: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1563946 More coverage of finds from Macon County Airport: http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/05/11/news/02news.txt ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Possible find of remains of one of the early kings of Copan: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_\ 375009.html http://english.cctv.com/20090514/103082.shtml cf: http://mayanewsupdates.blogspot.com/ A funerary bundle from Machu Picchu: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=O6ffYqUgltI= cf: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=6m5TSrqy97g= ... and an Inca stone with 41 angles (?) was found in the area as well: http://www.livinginperu.com/news-9075-artculturehistory-inca-stone-with-41-angle\ s-discovered-peru> Possible evidence of another shaft grave from Jalisco: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 Nice feature on the Mayan creation myth: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jun/05-unearthing-the-mayan-creation-myth This month's 'ancient boat' recreation is a pre-Columbian raft: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513183516.htm http://www.physorg.com/news161446493.html The site of Tancama will be opened to the public: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 More coverage of that Tarascan 'ritual complex': http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090513-mexico-ritual-island.html http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=59658\ 2858 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-38096.html http://media-newswire.com/release_1091212.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 ================================================================ Interesting suggestion that Blackbeard and crew weren't English: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.blackbeard17may17,0,2327308.story ... and an interesting story behind a first edition copy of *Origin of the Species*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html Chinese millet made its way to Europe some 7000 years b.p.: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6657780.html UK metal detectorists are getting some respect: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30679342/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051002212.\ html?hpid=topnews An early forensic toxicology case: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12file-arsenic.html The Vatican is featuring the letter of Henry VIII requesting the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/vatican-reveals-letter-that-split-e\ ngland-from-roman-church/?hp Audio/podcasts of the Duke Archaeology Conference: http://asorblog.org/?p=252 Possible origin of the 'sardonic grin': http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-15_115343756.html Terry Gilliam is going to take on Don Quixote: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/terry-gilliam-to-take-another-tilt-\ at-don-quixote/ Erotica through the ages: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/may/14/erotic-art-archaeolog\ y Feature on torture in the ancient world (which is really more about execution): http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,625172,00.html The history of the corset (with a medical spin): http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/moments-in\ -medicine-podcast--clothing-as-medicine-1685514.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 ================================================================ Patmos (etc.): http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/05/17/style/t/index.html Athens: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/05/11/athens.greece.travel/index.html Sicily: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/5319068/Sicily-life-\ after-death-on-Italys-ragged-edge.html Roman France: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romfrance.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romweb.html ================================================================ DIG DIARIES/BLOGS ================================================================ [please send in suggestions! current digs only please!] Grand Pre, Nova Scotia (Acadian): http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/ Norton Community Archaeological Group: http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/ Tel Kadesh: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog Tel Dan: http://teldan.wordpress.com/ Hopkins in Egypt Today: http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html ================================================================ GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ Rosetta 5 (Spring, 2009): http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/issue6/ 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 metal detectorist was nabbed for selling fake coins: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6261804.ece Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Silver coins from a burial in Sweden: http://www.thelocal.se/19394/20090512/ Latest salvo from the ACCG in regards to importation of coins from Cyprus: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-13-200\ 9/0005025284&EDATE= Coverage of the Chicago International Coin Fair auction: http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6685 Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ What Do Archaeologists Do: http://www.somdnews.com/stories/05152009/reccov152737_32178.shtml Pompeii and the Roman Villa: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-pompeiicrowds13-2009may13,0\ ,4947622.story Mary Rose Hidden Treasures: http://www.maryrosehiddentreasures.org/ The Della Robbia: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/arts/16iht-robbia.html Imperium Conflict Myth: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4254590,00.html The Euphronios Krater is on display in its own glass case: http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-13_113375131.html http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-15-200\ 9/0005027160&EDATE= The new Egyptian gallery at the BM: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle5503003.ece Plans for Lindow Man: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8045257.stm http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/environment-news/2009/05/15/lindow-\ man-to-be-star-attraction-at-great-north-museum-61634-23628635/ Liverpool's World Museum returned some Aboriginal remains: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8047223.stm Some fake colonial furniture: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15anti.html The Kimbell has acquired what might be Michelangelo's first painting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/13/art-michelangelo-torment-sain\ t-anthony Sotheby's plans to merge some of its departments: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15voge.html Interesting feature on the (tactile) Museo Omero: <http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-15_115343387.html> A couple of Manets are back together at the NGA: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15voge.html More hype for the impending opening of the Acropolis Museum: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7607316&maindocimg=7607340&s\ ervice=6 http://www.live-pr.com/en/the-new-akropolis-museum-set-to-open-r1048277551.htm ... and some comments on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles: http://www.theage.com.au/world/british-a-step-closer-to-losing-marbles-20090511-\ b0kc.html> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/5304133/Greek-government\ -unveils-new-home-for-Elgin-Marbles.html Hype for the sequel to 'Night at the Museum': http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/14/arts/AP-US-Night-at-the-Smithsonian.h\ tml ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Douglas Little: http://www.odt.co.nz/on-campus/university-otago/55983/classics-professor-dies Linda Gaskin: http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-05-17/story/linda_gaskin_1945-2009_0 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.05 May 24, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Adrienne Mayor, "Duke Jason", Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Kurt Theis, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Richard Campbell, Towse Harrison, Mike Bishop, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). n.b. Thunderbird did one of its patented 'losing profile' things this week, and despite the claims, a good chunk of my email did vanish from my hard drive; I've recovered as much as I could from my online account, but I may have missed some items; I also suspect I went back a bit too far and have a few duplicates from last week ... apologies if this sort of thing bothers you ... ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ I think we mentioned this 'missing link' (now dubbed 'Ida') in passing last week ... a veritable flood this week: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/science/16fossil.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6320891.ece (video) http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/us_world/Fossil-Discovery-Hailed-as-Link-Between-\ Monkey-and-Man.html http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/19/human.ancestor/index.html?section=cnn\ _latest http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/19/ida-fossil-missing-link http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8057465.stm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519104643.htm Early hominids were primarily right-handed, apparently: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17184-teeth-hint-that-righthandedness-is-a\ n-ancient-trait.html The Laetoli footprints are going to get a 'facelift': http://allafrica.com/stories/200905181099.html More coverage of the humans-chowing-down-on-Neanderthals claim: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/us_world/Humans-Ate-Nanderthals.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropol\ ogical-sciences-journal ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ More on the ancient 'superglue' found in a Kwazulu-Natal cave: http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=vn20090521055312218C651677&s\ etid=1§id=79&url=iol&vne=0&csect=News ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Not sure if we've had this traces-of-herbs-in-Egyptian-wine story yet: http://www.ldnews.com/ci_12133696?source=most_emailed Recent finds from Egypt: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/948/he2.htm Zahi Hawass explains what he does: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/948/he1.htm The 'Menachem-handle-inscription' is the latest interesting find from Jerusalem: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1086601 http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/images/daily/D190509/245stone.jpg (photo) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_inscription\ _5 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30844981/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/20/ancient-hebrew-artifact-f_n_206085.html http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/293782.php http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/20/1005303/first-temple-remains-discovered-i\ n-jerusalem http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086817.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131460 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-israel-ancient-inscriptio\ n%2C1%2C4044129.story http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\ =359044 ... and then there's the bone seal with the name 'Shaul' on it (the first link will expire soon, I suspect): http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/First-Temple-period-bone-seal-f\ ound-19-May-2009.htm Arutz Sheva covers both of the previous very nicely (with photos): http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131460 cf: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iJfa-QD2MQYwlFeOwLk5hERiUkOAD9\ 8A5OT00 Feature on "Israel's Atlantis": http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1242212435540&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull A dig in Israel is endangering daffodils (?!?): http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087724.html Finds from various periods at Umm Al Quwain: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=/data/theuae/2009/May/the\ uae_May428.xml§ion=theuae We're hearing of another plan to send a robot into the Great Pyramid: http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001151.htm Some interesting Egypt-related youtube items (check sidebar as well): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izh8cc8VkP0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloglines.com%2\ Fmyblogs_display%3Ffolder%3D190209&feature=player_embedded More on Nefertiti: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,625719,00.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Interesting account of the find of some letters written by a schoolboy who discovered a Roman villa in Lawrence Weston in 1947: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Roman-villa-finder-s-thoughts-revealed/a\ rticle-999252-detail/article.html A Hellenistic statue (which probably isn't Alexander) from Alexandria: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7597593&service=142 Rome has opened up a pile of underground sites (including the Ludus Magnus) to the public: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6345753.ece http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/2432346/Underground-Rome-sites-open-\ to-visitors Latin is returning to state schools in the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/may/22/latin-funding-state-schools Vague press release on finds from an unmentioned period at Berenike: http://en.naukawpolsce.pl/palio/html.run?_Instance=cms_naukapl.pap.pl&_PageID=1&\ s=szablon.depesza&dz=archeology&dep=361511&data=&lang=EN&_CheckSum=2050323395 Interesting project to 'digitally' unroll scrolls from Herculaneum: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2009/05/19/4186088.htm A project to save ancient temples on Malta: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8054873.stm They'll be digging at Peperikon again: http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n181507 An online atlas of the Saxon Shore: http://inlitoresaxonico.org.uk/ An online atlas of Hadrian's Wall: http://perlineamvalli.org.uk/ Nice profile of Ruth Padel: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/17/ruth-padel-profile cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/books/18arts-301YEARMENON_BRF.html ... and one on John Hale: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090517/FEATURES/905170301/1010/rss04 More coverage of the 'dig' at Pavlopetri: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090518/full/news.2009.484.html More coverage of that reconstructed millefiore/i bowl: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/30/glass-bowl-roman-london-grave\ -heritage http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2009/05/17/jun02.asp Review of Barry Strauss, *The Spartacus War*: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/Spartacus.da.html Recent reviews from BMCR: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html Recent reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2009.htm Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ West Dorset's oldest human settlement: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8062513.stm They've been repairing Cadiz' walls pretty much the same way for 300 years: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511091534.htm A gardener in Herefordshire keeps finding interesting things: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_A%20Step%20Beyond&set_id=1&click_id=29&a\ rt_id=vn20090522054429856C685385 A medieval necropolis from Novgorod: http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/8246/ Interesting hype for a television program about the HMS Victory: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8058449.stm http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6322407.ece A survey in West Kent prior to pipeline construction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8065206.stm Nice APOD photo of moon rays over Thurso Castle: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090518.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Finds from various periods from China's Hunan province: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/15/content_11378574.htm A 2000 b.p. megalith from Tam Dao: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/05/848883/ Footprints from 2000 years ago are shedding light on some ancient war scene: http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2009-05/22/content_17819389.htm A European skull found in a New Zealand riverbed may have come from a Dutch shipwreck victim: http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/2424675/Skull-riddle-may-be-solved The mystery of the inscription on the Calatagan Pot: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20090523-206657/The-\ mystery-of-the-ancient-inscription Did 'fish poisoning' lead to the colonization of New Zealand etc.?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518111717.htm Conference on the 'Bamboo Annals': http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/may20/china-052009.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Feature on a vaguely-identified site in Granite Falls (?): http://www.granitefallsnews.com/articles/2009/05/17/news/news02.txt Global warming apparently did not wipe out the Pueblo/Anasazi civilization: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-42443.html http://media-newswire.com/release_1091672.html Finds from various periods at a condo construction site in Orillia: http://www.timminspress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1577340 An interesting item on a Union soldier who was actually a woman: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104452266 ... and the "Plantation that Moved Away": http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104494296 The search is on for some Civil War cannons in SC: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20090521/ARTICLES/905219966/1083/ARTICLES?Title\ =SC-state-archaeologist-looks-for-Civil-War-cannons- They've wrapped up the dig at the Magruder House (Va): http://www.gazette.net/stories/05212009/hyatnew171957_32523.shtml Trying to confirm a skull's link to the 1857 massacre in Utah: http://www.idahopress.com/?id=23435 On learning from revisiting old digs: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/05/17/digs.html Hype for a return-to-digging at a Rhode Island slave trader's home: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ioD9pwp0v2cZqx9gxjg\ U32tTFJ4Q Feature on John Dewberry's house (Charleston, S.C.): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/greathomesanddestinations/22Away.html Review of Eric W. Sanderson, *Mannahatta*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/books/review/Sullivan-t.html Review of Gail Fenske,*The Skyscraper and the City*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/realestate/17scapes.html More on Navajo smoke signals: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1690171/ancient_navajo_smoke_signals_gettin\ g_a_second_look/index.html?source=r_science http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090516/ap_on_sc/us_smoke_signals_3 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Interesting coverage of some 'gem-studded-teeth' evidence from Mexico and environs: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090518-jeweled-teeth-picture.htm\ l http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=122109 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-41270.html Evidence of pre-industrial mercury pollution in the Andes: http://www.physorg.com/news161885872.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-05/uoa-tfe051509.php http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/andes-ancient-met\ alworking-mercury/index.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518172644.htm Not sure if we mentioned this Mayan Creation Myth feature before: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jun/05-unearthing-the-mayan-creation-myth 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 ================================================================ I don't think we mentioned this new dating method last week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8058185.stm http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/rehydroxylation.xhtml What ancient structures can teach modern engineers: http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/conversation.html What we can learn from ancient medical stuff: http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/health_med_fit/article/I-DRUG0427_20\ 090514-185634/267755/ ... not sure if this is related to the above or not (on medicinal properties of Jordan's soil): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518222202.htm They've found Louis XVI's pre-execution testament: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5356698/Louis-XVIs-final\ -testament-discovered.html More on the possible origins of the sardonic grin: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5344257/Myst\ ery-of-the-sardonic-grin-solved.html http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/20/sardonic-smile-toxin.html More on those Thomas Becket paintings from Spain: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8029320.stm Shakespeare's Sonnets are 400: http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/the-sonnets-at-400/ Review of John Caroll, *The Wreck of Western Culture*: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/548zvlpc.asp 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 ================================================================ Israel (with the kids!): http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17kids.html Patmos: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/05/17/style/t/index.html Phrygia: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/turkey/article6343096.ece Turkey: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1187071/Six-things-Turkey.html Ten Pilgrimage sites: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124242434525025093.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Roman France: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romfrance.html? Touristy slideshow of Rome: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/05/13/travel.snaps.rome/index.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 ================================================================ Frescoes (and other items) found in that bust on Schoinoussa a couple of years ago have been returned to Italy: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD9\ 89HI0O1 http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-19_119370057.html ... not sure if this one's related: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1km7Oa1Z2SU&refer=muse Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Money Talks: http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/pressrelease.cfm?key=29&newskey=999 Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Dilettanti: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22anti.html Doors of Heaven: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/arts/23iht-melik23.html Homer in Papyri: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7626685&maindocimg=6239301&s\ ervice=144 Skin and Bones: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/arts/design/23tatt.html Developments in the Louvre/Guggenheim project in Abu Dhabi: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/19/world/AP-ML-Emirates-Museum-Labor.htm\ l The Met's new American wing is reviewed: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/arts/design/22amer.html The Brera Gallery (Milan) is celebrating its 200th anniversary: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/arts/23iht-conway.html Feature on the director of the Vatican Museums: http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=10416 More hype for the opening of the Acropolis Museum http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/arts/design/21arts-NEWACROPOLIS_BRF.html http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7620148&maindocimg=6484989&s\ ervice=102 http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/elgin-marbles-question-renewed-as-ath\ ens-museum-opens-1689481.html http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_21/05/2009_107367 ... and admission is going to be cheap: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jV-NVZV8UFR6OU5x4iVmD9lNZVogD9\ 8A290O0 ... and of course, the Elgin business is being brought up again: http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/elgin-marbles-question-renewed-as-ath\ ens-museum-opens-1689481.html ... and the Elgin heirs aren't welcome (!): http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31487/greeks-to-elgin-heirs-dont-come-to-museu\ m-party/ The Rose is (temporarily?) closed at Brandeis: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/18/rose_closes__\ _temporarily___but_art_lovers_express_anguish > A number of items were returned to Greece from various sources: http://www.physorg.com/news161955950.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090519/tsc-fifth-century-bc-objects-returned-to-c2\ ff8aa.html http://www.dose.ca/news/story.html?id=1609118 http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/05/19/greece-antiquities.html http://www.canada.com/Ancient+artifacts+return+home+Greece/1609118/story.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090519/tsc-fifth-century-bc-objects-returned-to-c2\ ff8aa.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Agora: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/17/agora-rachel-weisz-cannes-amenabar-mi\ nghella http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/45254397.html http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/cannes-reviews/agora/5001280.article http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2009/05/from-cannes-agora-alejan\ dro-amenabars-provocative-new-historical-thriller.html Night at the Museum II: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/movies/22nigh.html Ben Hur: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1186730/Like-strapped-pneumatic-drill-Ro\ bert-Hardman-goes-spin-chariot-Ben-Hur-hits-Britain.html Athalia: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/arts/music/19hand.html An Oresteia: http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2009/05/anne-carson-or-another-sudan-se\ minar.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ A clickable map of Claudius' harbour at Ostia: http://www.ostia-antica.org/portus/plan-claudius.htm ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ David Herbert Donald: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/books/19donald.html John Michell: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-michell-expert-on-ancient-know\ ledge-and-pioneer-of-the-new-age-1688481.html Linda Gaskin: http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-05-17/story/linda_gaskin_1945-2009_0 ================================================================ PODCASTS ================================================================ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). n.b. be sure to check out the Dig Diaries section; some new stuff there! ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ I think we've had this virtual reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman's pelvis story before: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528133423.htm More on ancient teeth and right-handedness: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17184-ancient-teeth-hint-that-righthandedn\ ess-is-nothing-new.html http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-43794.html More on those tasty Neanderthals: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/18/controversial-study-suggest\ s-early-humans-feasted-on-neanderthals ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Acheulian artifacts from Morocco: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/26/content_11434511.htm ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A village dating back to 9800 B.C./B.C.E. has been found in western Iran: http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/78060/-middle-east-oldest-village-found-in-ira\ n.html The German press seems to be the only source (so far) of info on a cuneiform tablet found at Tell el-Dab'a: http://public.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=6576&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=9759 http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news316817 Feature on Geza Vermes: http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4400700.Professor___s_quest_for_the____rea\ l____Jesus/ I think we've heard of plans to restore the tomb of Cyrus before: http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3365050216 http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/tomb-of-cyrus-the-great-to-be-restore\ d_100198264.html http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/arts-and-culture/italians-help-iranians-restore-\ tomb-cyrus-great The five most recent volumes of the Oriental Institute's Annual Reports are now available online: http://oihistory.blogspot.com/2009/05/annual-reports.html More on that Shaul seal: http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1557\ &module_id=#as ... and the Menachem handle: http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1560\ &module_id=#as 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) ================================================================ Interesting Liburnian 'sewn ship' from Croatia: http://www.javno.com/en-croatia/ship-over-2000-years-old-found-in-novalja_260464 > http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-45457.html Remains from a Temple of Isis at Florence: http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-28_128361264.html An architectural firm has estimated (kind of low, in my opinion) how much it would cost to build Hadrian's Wall today: http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/firm_s_estimate_to_build_hadrian_s_wall_1_5\ 59887?referrerPath=news Related (it seems) to the previous piece is an item circulating and suggesting some sort of financial scandal in relation to supplying the troops at Vindolanda (can't see it, personally): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/8073848.stm http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-47424.html http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/103280 http://www.blyth-wansbecktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=1115&articleid=\ 5313319 Why study Latin: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/may/24/latin-in-scho\ ols LIMC is complete and will be available online: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6376.html Classics is on the chopping block at UHawaii: http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinews/20090525_uh_examines_33_programs_for\ _consolidation_or_cuts.html Seneca didn't have his sea legs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/2009/may/30/weatherwatch Feature on the Phaistos Disk: http://www.examiner.com/x-3315-Word-Geek-Examiner~y2009m5d25-The-Phaistos-disk-h\ oax-ancient-calculator-or-Piltdown-cookie > ... and one on Homer: http://www.marconews.com/news/2009/may/26/homers-works-stand-tests-time/ New Classics blog -- Pop Classics: www.popclassicsjg.blogspot.com An update of sorts on Acropolis restoration efforts: < http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1480270.php/2350_tons\ _of_marble_restored_replaced_for_Acropolis_restoration_ > More on plans to 'digitally' unroll Herculaneum scrolls: http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/295131.php http://www.kypost.com/content/news/commonwealth/story/Professor-Hopes-To-Deciphe\ r-Ancient-Scrolls/fkYxTdI49UmyXzCh5ONPBA.cspx http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/813136.html http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Digitally-039-Unroll-039-1-900-Year-Old-Sc\ rolls-112411.shtml More on big bucks being spent at Peperikon: http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24163 Recent reviews from BMCR: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html Recent reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2009.htm Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ Mediterranean Archaeology: http://medarch.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Searching for the ship which was bringing financial aid to Bonnie Prince Charlie: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6366304.ece http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8067584.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5387583/Shipwreck-found-by-divers-was-ves\ sel-sent-to-help-Bonnie-Prince-Charlie.html A medieval limekiln from Ripon Wetherby: http://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/ripon-news/Medieval-limekiln-discovered-in-Ripon.5\ 311990.jp > ... and a 300-year-old broom found in a monk latrine in Paderborn: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090527-19547.html What to do with a pile of medieval pottery fragments: http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/4398059.6_000_medieval_fragments_turned_into_mosa\ ic_at_St_Mary___s_Church__Castlegate/ Remains of a road found by a metal detectorist in Swansea a few months ago have been dated to 2000 b.p.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/8064054.stm> A study suggests that medieval types took to the sea because fresh water fish were in short supply: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8058351.stm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090524170641.htm Interesting finds in a dig at a military hospital at Haslar: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Excavation-at-Haslar-reveals-horror.5315034\ .jp Who's buried at Sutton Hoo?: http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/features/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&cate\ gory=Features&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED28%20May%202009%201\ 4%3A12%3A12%3A890 Feature on Stonehenge: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/2748/sacred-stones More coverage of the search for a Jacobite sympathizer's mansion: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8070077.stm Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Massive attention given to the discovery of evidence of leprosy in India 4000 years b.p.: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0005669 http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/527/1 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/science/27leprosy.html http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsleprosy27-nws,0,151906.story?track=rss http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202805.htm http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2522694,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090527/ap_on_sc/us_sci_earliest_leper_2 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009265196_apussciearli\ estleper.html?syndication=rss http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-05-27-leprosy_N.htm?csp=34 http://www.news-medical.net/news/2009/05/26/Ancient-skeletal-evidence-for-lepros\ y-in-India.aspx 2200 b.p. pottery from Budhwar Peth: http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/may/250509-Pune-News-2200-year-old-pottery-unea\ rthed-Budhwar-Peth-Satavahaan-period-Archeologist.htm http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Ancient-pottery-found-at-construction-\ site/articleshow/4573430.cms Some Song and Ming Dynasties tombs were found in China's Jangsu Province: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=402443&type=National http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-46668.html A temple building in Myanmar has collapsed while undergoing restoration: http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/684413 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-05-31-myanmar-temple_N.htm?csp=34 Has the tomb of Queen Himiko been found?: http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200905300072.html http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/scientific-dating-suggests-anci\ ent-tomb-as-queen-himikos A pre-Islamic stupa from the Maldives: http://www.minivannews.com/news_detail.php?id=6590 On the origins of a smallpox epidemic in Australia in 1789: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/05/29/2584819.htm?site=science&topic\ =latest Not sure that 'preservation' is behind activities at Kashgar: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/world/asia/28kashgar.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Evidence of a Viking presence in Nunavut?: http://www.canada.com/Technology/Vikings+Nunavut/1632232/story.html http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Vikings+visited+Canadian+Arctic+researc\ h+suggests/1635865/story.html Not sure if we've mentioned this Hohokam irrigation system find yet: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-canals23-2009may23,0,77966\ 39.story Some bones found in an Albany (Ind.) barbershop belonged to "prehistoric American Indians": http://www.indystar.com/article/20090525/LOCAL/905250352/Bones+were+prehistoric+\ American+Indians+ Native American remains near Devils Lake (ND): http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/120608/ Feature on Gypsum Cave (Nevada): http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090526/DVTONLINE01/90525008/1053/DVTONLINE ... and one on the dig at Plum Grove: http://gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090526/NEWS/705269966 Latest plans for the Miami Circle: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090526/sc_mcclatchy/3240164_1 http://miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1068985.html Remember that turtle-shaped rock from a few weeks ago? Now they're saying it has tool marks: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090529/NEWS01/906010306/1055/NEWS/Expert++T\ urtle+rock+has+tool+marks They've refurbished a Gothic revival stained glass window in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/arts/design/25wind.html Interesting feature on the Chicago Stock Exchange building and its artifacts: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/arts/design/29anti.html ... and one on William Astor's buildings: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/realestate/31scapes.html Hype for 'Time Team America': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/television/31jens.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ A study of assorted Mayan cave sites in Belize: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-05-24-maya-cave_N.ht\ m A prehispanic burial from Tula Archaeological Zone: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 Sites from various periods along a highway in Peru: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=JktnMOurirc= A Mayan mask from Balancan: http://www.tabascohoy.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=174436 ... but the big find appears to be a Maya river port: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31108 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-45566.html More on mercury pollution in the Andes: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/19/andean-people-discovered-me\ rcury-mining%E2%80%94and-mercury-pollution%E2%80%94in-1400-bc Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ They've recreated the sound of the lituus (n.b. ... as a commenter on my blog points out, it isn't the Roman one): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8075223.stm Happy birthday Big Ben: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/31/big.ben.anniversary/index.html Trying to figure out how a 13th century English document ended up in a filing cabinet at Brock University: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/bottom-of-filing-cabinet-yields-top\ -drawer-discovery/article1161427/ ... while a librarian in France has found a piece of a Gutenberg Bible: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25555093-5012749,00.html I guess they didn't have a mummy to scan this week, so they found a couple of mammoth bones to take up some medical equipment time: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/8072128.stm http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/28/mammoth-bones-x-rayed/ Interesting feature on scripts we can't read yet (including the Indus Valley one!): http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227106.000-decoding-antiquity-eight-scri\ pts-that-still-cant-be-read.html They've relocated the "axe that clove creationism": http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/25/axe-discovery-natural-history-muse\ um Questioning the attribution of that crucifix to Michelangelo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8062309.stm http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/arts/design/26arts-MICHELANGELO_BRF.html Simon Critchley ponders happiness (happily?): http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/happy-like-god/ The role of fungus in human history (sort of): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/science/26angi.html In case you're following the Ruth Padel thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/books/26poet.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/25/books/AP-EU-Britain-Poetry-Professor.\ html http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/26/oxford-professor-of-poetry-r\ uth-padel http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8067432.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/25/ruth-padel-resigns-oxford-poetry-pro\ fessor http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5383899/Ruth-Padel-first-female-Oxford-\ Professor-of-Poetry-resigns-over-smear-claims.html ... and speculation about her successor: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/a\ rticle6366450.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5399774/Who-now-for-Oxford-Professor-of\ -Poetry.html > An interview with anthropologist Pauline Wiessner: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/science/26conv.html How people in the past dealt with climate change: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527103528.htm http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227096.600-rising-sea-levels-survival-ti\ ps-from-5000-bc.html Review of a couple of tomes about historical epidemics: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26books.html Review of John Reader, *Potato*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/books/review/Dicum-t.html Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/<
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