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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli,
Hernan Astudillo, Angie Telepenko, Kurt Theis, Michael Caputo,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Melody
McCormick,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Jennifer Cosham, and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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We now have a 'two-way street' hypothesis for human migration:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-ancient-human-migrations-two-way-streets.htm\
l
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48053
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/technology&id=8177622&rss=rss-wab\
c-article-8177622
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43299152/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://detnews.com/article/20110607/NATION/106070339/1020/rss09
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110606/us-sci-ancient-migration
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110606/full/news.2011.350.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Jun-08/Evidence-suggests-ancient-hu\
man-migrations-a-two-way-street.ashx
http://www.thespec.com/news/world/article/543858--researchers-suggest-homo-erect\
us-might-have-evolved-in-eurasia

Feature on an almost complete skeleton of a young Neanderthal from Hallan:

http://www.abc.es/20110607/ciencia/abci-neandertal-201106071213.html

On fire being mastered later than previously thought (possibly a repeat):

http://www.abc.es/20110314/ciencia/abci-dominio-fuego-tarde-creia-201103142005.h\
tml

More on roaming australopithecine females:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2011/Jun-06/Hominid-females-roame\
d-while-males-waited-study.ashx
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/science/02social.html
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AFRICA
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They're looking (still?) for a Zheng He shipwreck off the coast of
Kenya:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/kenya/110607/sea-hunt-anc\
ient-chinese-ship-african-coast
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Mysterious 'spots' in Tut's tomb are now suggestive of a hasty burial:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/hu-ttm060811.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-tut-microbial-growth-pharaoh-tomb.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-spots-king-tuts-tomb-suggest-hasty-burial-18\
0105007.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/king-tut-pharoh-buried-quickly-ancient-microbes\
-tomb/story?id=13804625

Those heiroglyphs in the Great Pyramid are likely "engineering numbers",
apparently:

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/pyramid-hieroglyph-markings-archaeologist-\
110607.html

Feature on brain surgery in Bronze Age Turkey:

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/08-bronze-age-brain-surgeons

Feature on the Nimrud ivories:

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/06/07/152288.html

Women as leaders of synagogues in late antiquity:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=224333

Eilat Mazar is certain that Temple remains lie beneath Temple Mount:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=307697

Article with dating implications for the Sea Peoples:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020232

Oped piece on preserving/the lack therof of the Bost Arch (Afghanistan):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/opinion/03Marlowe.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines\
&emc=tha212

Slideshow on the effects of rising waters due to the Ilisu Dam;

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Disappearing-Act-The-an\
cient-town-of-Hasankeyf-in-Turkey

Features/interviews about Zahi Hawass, who was in
Minnesota:

http://www.twincities.com/ci_18251086?nclick_check=1
http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/123666469.html

... some hype for his 'tour':

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/14009/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Hawa\
ss-to-give-US-lectures-to-promote-tourism-in-E.aspx

More on mummies and schistosomiasis:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/09/ancient-mummies-had-modern-disease/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43330559/ns/technology_and_science-science/(wonder
if they'll fix the headline)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110608/sc_livescience/nubianmummieshadmode\
rndisease

More on the possible preservation of the Lake Qarun petroglyphs:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/neolithic-site-virtually-untouche\
d-1.1079067



More on mummies and air pollution:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/egyptian-mummies-hold-clues-ancient-air-pollution-11380\
1883.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43286321/ns/technology_and_science-science/

More on the completion of the Assyrian Dictionary:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/uoc-hal060311.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/science/07dictionary.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8558270/Scholars-comp\
lete-dictionary-of-lost-language-after-90-years.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/07/wordsandlanguage-referenceandlanguag\
es
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48004
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-huge-dictionary-years.html

... related sidebar:

http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568301/s/15aee37b/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0C\
news0C855920A70CAssyrian0Elanguage0Ewhat0Eis0Eit0Bhtml/story01.htm
Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A possible explanation for all that broken stuff on Keros:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Education-and-Training/Universities/Smashing-dis\
covery-about-ancient-Greeks-10062011.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/10/archaeology-mystery-keros-isl\
and-greece

Strabo was apparently right about Piraeus:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/07/ancient-greek-knew-geology-\
thousands-of-years-before-his-time/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/07/scitech/main20069740.shtml

A possible Roman burial in Dr Jenner's garden:

http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2011/7674.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-archaeologists-skeleton-doctor-garden.html

They're already finding things at the Maryport dig:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/archaeology/art358098

... and other announcements therefrom:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/maryport-s-roman-past-is-a-key-to-its-f\
uture-1.845940?referrerPath=news/
http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/opinion/our-view/what-those-romans-can-still-do-fo\
r-us-1.845856?referrerPath=opinion

Plans to dig at the seat of the Odrysian kingdom:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129014
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/2271
http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/06/06/1101144_bulgarian-archaeologists-explore-an-\
ancient-thracian-residence

Those mysterious Roman dodecahedra:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/10/dodecahedrons-purpose-remains-mystery/

A followuppish sort of thing to that important find at Iklaina:

http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/research/2011/05/30/got-it-in-writing-a-surprisi\
ng-discovery-from-the-bronze-age/

There's only Italian coverage of this, as far as I can find, but apparently
the Praeneste Fibula has
been declared authentic:

http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2011/06/05/news/fibula_prenestina-17255384/

cf:  http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/06/10/praeneste-fibula-authentic/

On late antique reworkings of Virgil:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/uog-lal060711.php

Severus and the City:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/film/9071185.African_Roman_Emperor_s_influenc\
e_highlighted_in_film/

What Marianne McDonald is up to:

http://alumnews.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2011/06/06/marianne-mcdonald/

Another 'classical athlete':

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/251864

Another Aesop fable come to life (sort of):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13560247

Why you should read Marcus Aurelius:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/marcus-aurelius-dead-for_b_871640.\
html

The Riace Bronzes go on holidays:

http://www.archeorivista.it/008980_calabria-poveri-bronzi-di-riace-costretti-a-g\
iocare-a-morra/

A new comic series focussing on the Muses:

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2011/06/new-comic-series-on-the-\
muses.html

Review of Christopher Krebs, *A Most Dangerous Book*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304474804576371440506872396.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/books/review/book-review-a-most-dangerous-book\
-by-christopher-b-krebs.html

Review of *Ancient Guide to Modern Life*:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Books/2011/Jun-06/Ancient-Guide-to-Modern-Li\
fe-simplifies-grasp-of-classics.ashx

There's an I, Claudius miniseries in the works:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbo-bbc-team-i-claudius-196865

Sarmast is still looking for Atlantis near Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/atlantis-hunt-third-attempt/20110604

More on the Capitoline Venus in Washington:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gyP6tcdodCDxIDbL9wOlhvveD6PA?\
docId=CNG.161978ad878421d320b7331d7af803d4.2c1

More on purported livewells on a Roman ship:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-roman-ship-fish-tank.html

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 450 000 years b.p. (maybe) axe from Orkney:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news/The-axeman-cometh-450000-years.6781421.jp
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-4471.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/old-stone-age-axe-could-write-scottish-history-10000930\
2.html
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/north/255521-incredibly-exciting-rare-pre-ice-age-ha\
ndaxe-discovered-on-orkney/

A new dating technique suggests a 'building boom' in Britain ca 5500 years
b.p.:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/06/archaeology-dating-property-boom-3\
700bc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13647544
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-dating-technology-history-britain.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-neolithic-britain-revealed.html

Medieval finds from Winchcombe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-13686860

A triple-barrelled cannon from Croatia was possibly designed by
DaVinci:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2002102/Leonardo-Da-Vincis-foreru\
nner-machine-gun-confirmed.html

The Fadden More Psalter has gone on display:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/public-gets-first-look-at-ancient\
-book-1.1082217

Paper on further research to be done at the find site of the Staffordshire
Hoard:

http://finds.org.uk/staffshoardsymposium/papers/benjamingearey
Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some 2000 years b.p.  'stoves' from the site of the Battle of Changping:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-4907.html

A lion statue from the Barabati fort moat:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110610/jsp/orissa/story_14092569.jsp
East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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They've finally definitely declared that North Carolina shipwreck to
be the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsworldnation/922439-227/official-ship-was-blac\
kbeards-vessel.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/10/3692152/its-official-ship-found-off-nc.html

A group is trying to get funding to dig the Old Vero Man site:

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/jun/09/archaeology-group-seeks-funds-for-excavat\
ion-of/?partner=yahoo_feeds

... while a grocery store mogul in Canada is funding some research into John
Cabot:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Rich+donor+backs+probe+into+Cabot+expeditions/489\
3947/story.html

On the muddled history of moundbuilders in the Ohio Valley:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/06/06/Earthworks_hi\
story_remains_muddled.html?sid=101
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/06/moundbuilder-myth.html

Digging the likely site of the home of the eighth governor of Maryland:

http://www.somdnews.com/article/20110608/NEWS/706089935/1075/maddox-cornfield-li\
kely-site-of-colonial-governor-s-home&template=southernMaryland

They think they've found the wreck of the Crissie Wright off Shackleford
Banks:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/06/07/1254186/famous-shipwreck-found-off-nc.htm\
l

Latest from Jamestown:

http://www.dailypress.com/news/williamsburg/dp-nws-jamestown-dig-20110610,0,1756\
936.story

Deepwater cores from Rice Lake (Ontario) are shedding light on inhabitants
of Ontario some
10 000 years b.p.:

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Traces+ancient+aboriginals+found+Ontario+\
lake+bottom/4898799/story.html
http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1412719

Feature on Clarence B. Moore ("gentleman archaeologist"):

http://www.bastropenterprise.com/nown/x832287342/Real-life-Indiana-Jones-visited\
-Sterlington

More on preparations to repatriate remains of military folk from the USS
Intrepid:

http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/galloway-twp/galloway-twp-gener\
al-news/12248-eagle-readies-resting-place-for-richard-somers.html

Review of John Sayles, *A Moment in the Sun*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/books/review/the-pleasures-and-perils-of-creat\
ive-translation.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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So now we can add the Shroud of Turin to Giotto's portfolio?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000406/Shroud-Turin-fake-created-famous\
-master-Giotto-claims-Italian-art-expert.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8561812/Turin-Shroud-the-\
creation-of-a-Renaissance-artist.html

On reading Dante:

http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2011/06/dante-life-comedy-intellectual

Claim that "cavemen" were growing "genetically modified" rice 10 000 years
b.p.:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1394938/Cavemen-grew-GM-modified-\
rice-10-000-years-ago.html

... this seems to be the more responsibly-written original article:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-genetic-rice-years.html

Napoleon spent his time on St Helena trying to learn English, apparently:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48019

On use of technology in archaeology "since Indiana Jones":

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/archaeologys-tech-revolution-since-indiana-jones-033503\
512.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43358486/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

Explaining Carbon-14:

http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/may/carbon14

Abstract of an article about DNA and male migrations in the Neolithic
Mediterranean:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/24/1100723108

Pondering the fascination with Arthur and Camelot (tv show hypish):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13696160

A possible 'personal' connection to Shakespeare's character of Ophelia:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/shakespeare-childs-death-062819764.html

On the perils and pleasures of translation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/books/review/the-pleasures-and-perils-of-creat\
ive-translation.html

Where art and science meet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/arts/world-science-festival-the-intersection-o\
f-science-and-art.html

Review of Bill James, *Popular Crime*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/books/bill-jamess-popular-crime-book-review.ht\
ml

Review of Edward Larson, *An Empire of Ice*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-an-empire-of-ice-by-e\
dward-j-larson.html

Review of Brian Walker, *The Comics*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-the-comics-by-brian-w\
alker.html

Review of a translation of Rimbaud's poetry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/books/review/book-review-illuminations-by-arth\
ur-rimbaud.html

Review of some books about Jane Austen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/books/review/book-review-a-jane-austen-educati\
on-and-why-jane-austen.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Palenque:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/jun/09/travel-mayan-ruins-palenque-mexic\
o/
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Canada returned a pile of purloined antiquities to Bulgaria:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ixr82s3mDDWV3P4Y4S8Ltnh0aCEQ?\
docId=CNG.cf4ab7b7802ee16b3523514ab78e28e8.211
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Cultural+artifacts+seized+Canada+returned+gratef\
ul+owners/4928404/story.html

Egypt has recovered an artifact  from London, stolen a couple decades ago:

http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=19005&title=Egypt%20ret\
rieves%20antiquity%20from%20London

... and one from Switzerland, stolen a decade ago:

http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/wrsnews/switzerland-returns-stolen-egyptian-antiqu\
e.shtml?25001

Arrests in Greece of half a dozen "gold hunters":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13717667

William Toye pleads guilty to 'mail fraud':

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/us/08forgery.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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200 000 ancient coins from a dig in China:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/201106/07/t20110607_22466409.shtml
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/06/05/4-tons-of-old-coins-found-in-China/UP\
I-74091307253414/?spt=hs&or=sn

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n23.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World:

http://www.iol.co.za/travel/crossroads-of-culture-1.1080123

Nature and the Ideal:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/arts/04iht-melikian04.html

St Francis in the Desert:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/design/bellinis-st-francis-in-the-desert-\
at-the-frick.html

Lincoln:

http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2011/06/new-lincoln-exhibit-open-debate-get\
tysburg-national-military-park8306

Durer:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48143
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jun/08/albrecht-durer-fame-n\
ational-gallery-scotland

Coverage of Christie's antiquities auction this past week:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/09/us-auction-antiquities-idUSTRE7586VM20\
110609

The Met is testing out some new technology to ensure its art has the proper
environment:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-sensor-network-art-ny-museum.html

Austerity measures in Greece are apparently affecting museums:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/03/greece-cutbacks-cultural-treasures
http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/31/42736

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/arts/design/william-t-trego-rediscovered-at-mi\
chener-museum.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/design/robert-winthrop-chanlers-animals.h\
tml

Check out our Twitter hashtag for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lysistrata Jones:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/theater/reviews/lysistrata-jones-at-judson\
-memorial-church-review.html

Much Ado About Nothing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/arts/08iht-LON08.html

Emilie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/arts/music/emilie-by-kaija-saariaho-at-spoleto\
-festival-usa.html

Phaedra:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/arts/music/phaedra-by-hans-werner-henze-in-phi\
ladelphia-review.html

Haydn Piano Sonatas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/arts/music/haydn-piano-sonatas-vol-2.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Patrick Leigh Fermor:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/patrick-leigh-fermor-british-adve\
nturer-writer-and-war-hero-dies-at-96/2011/06/10/AG5bfpQH_story.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/06/postscript-patrick-leigh-\
fermor.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/12/patrick-leigh-fermor-by-jan-morris-o\
bituary

Hermann J. Austel:

http://continentalnews.net/christian-news/renowned-hebrew-bible-scholar-author-a\
nd-seminary-professor-passes-away-8599.html

Albert Sack:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/arts/design/albert-m-sack-antiques-dealer-and-\
author-dies-at-96.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Adrienne Mayor,
Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein, Andy Burnham,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Michael Caputo, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths,Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers and father-figures out there ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Homo sapiens apparently got an immune system boost from mating with
Neanderthals:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-neanderthals-early-humans-disease.html
http://news.discovery.com/human/mating-with-neanderthals-good-for-human-health-1\
10617.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028174.000-breeding-with-neanderthals-he\
lped-humans-go-global.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2004705/Interbreeding-Neanderthal\
s-helped-protect-modern-man-diseases-suggests-new-research.html

... not sure if this one (also about Neanderthal DNA) is related to the
foregoing ... it's pretty technical:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/06/massive-neandertal-denisovan-intr\
ogression/

Also not sure if this report on Neanderthals being 'versatile hunters' is
recent or not:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/06/neanderthals-sh\
ifted-hunting-methods-/1

The change from hunter-gatherer to farmer apparently made our brains shrink:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-farming-blame-size-brains.html

On homo erectus' varied diet:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/first-direct-fossil-evidence-of-diet-difference\
s?ret=/articles/list&category=science&page=1&search%5Bstatus%5D=3&search%5Bsort%\
5D=date+desc&search%5Bsection%5D=20&search%5Bhas_multimedia%5D=

Brief item on that Neanderthal child burial from Morocco last year:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hijgTdxz9KnVGX99agOoewgyi2KA?\
docId=CNG.7cb7d99990eea60a7a2805cbbc294dbf.2a1

Oetzi apparently had bad teeth:

http://news.discovery.com/history/oetzi-iceman-bad-teeth-110615.html

Feature on human evolution:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/19/human-evolution-africa-ancestors-s\
tringer
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The Brooklyn Museum is CT scanning all sorts of animal mummies:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/animals-did-the-darnedest-things/

Remains of a Byzantine church from Akko/Acre:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144887
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=224895
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/archaeologists-unearth-acre-church-from-the\
-byzantine-period-1.367312
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48377

They're going to clean up Hezekiah's Pool:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/king-hezekiah-s-inheritance-a-cesspool\
-of-political-garbage-1.367950

Interesting feature on the graffiti in the Cave of Coffins:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/19/137257434/archaeologists-unscramble-ancient-graffi\
ti-in-israel

On the lead codices front, Jordanian scientists appear to have miraculously
used carbon dating on lead:

http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=36972
http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=38498

Zahi Hawass continued his tour of the US:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-et-zahi-hawass-20110\
617,0,2486930.story
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/14272/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyp\
t-antiquities-minister,-Hawass-on-US-lecture-t.aspx

Early in the week, there were suggestions that the tour was actually
an opportunity for Hawass to "escape" charges lingering from a few
months ago:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/14157/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/The-\
ministry-of-state-for-antiquities-denies-Hawas.aspx

... but later in the week he was found innocent:

http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=34900
http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=19223&title=Egypt%20ant\
iquities%20minister%20jail%20term%20overturned
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/14365/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Cour\
t-ruling-acquits-Hawass--.aspx
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/egypts-antiquities-minister-cleared-977570.\
html

... but now we're hearing suggestions that Hawass was involved in
"misconduct" involving ancient
artifacts:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/06/17/Mubaraks-wife-accused-of-explo\
iting-relics/UPI-36121308325301/

Feature on one of the recently-repatriated Egyptian items we've mentioned
over the past couple
of weeks:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1051/eg1003.htm

A virtual/3d (?) tour of the Great Pyramid:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/06/fighter-jet-maker-visualise\
s-a.html

What Mark Fairchild has been up to:

http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110615/NEWS/106150355

Not sure there's anything archaeological about this recent cave/underground
river find in Israel,
but we'll mention it just in case something pops up later:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48293
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=224852
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110614095741.htm

More on the Assyrian Dictionary;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13715296

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of excitement about poking around some ancient Roman poop:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8575243/Dormice-sea-urchi\
ns-and-fresh-figs-the-Roman-diet-revealed.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13781202
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/17/ancient-roman-excrement_n_879368.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-ancient-sewer-excavation-roman-diet.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003789/Sea-urchins-dormice-figs-Romans-\
rich-diet-revealed-archaeologists-sift-tons-2-000-year-old-excrement.html

Coverage (in English) of the amazing frescoes in the Hypogeum of the
Aurelii:

http://www.romereports.com/palio/Vatican-archeologists-reveal-3rd-century-painti\
ngs-hidden-beneath-Rome-english-4352.html

Mystery huts from Vindolanda (are these a new find?):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-tyne-13798523
http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/06/2011/unearthing-roundhouses-at\
-roman-vindolanda

Interesting solstitial feature of Hadrian's villa:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110616/full/news.2011.372.html

Hyping a dig of an Antonine villa:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2011/article/archaeologists-uncover-an\
cient-roman-villa-of-the-antonines

Nice account of the dig at Nea Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/excavations-shed-light-ancient-paphos-cit\
y/20110617

Nice honour for David Gill:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/need-to-read/2011/06/18/indiana-jones-in-rever\
se-wins-archaeology-oscar-91466-28898055/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-13822695

A followup piece on those dodecahedra:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/18/roman-dodecahedron-may-remain-mystery-\
forever/

Feature on the monument of Philopappos:

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13447/43053

Concerns that NATO might be willing to drop bombs on Lepcis Magna because
of weapons hidden there (maybe):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ruins-of-leptis-magna/2011/06/15/AGWs7CWH_ga\
llery.html
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/445422.php
http://in.news.yahoo.com/nato-attack-libyas-heritage-roman-ruins-gaddafi-found-0\
72102677.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/06/14/nato_roman_ruins
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/14/libya.war/index.html?section=cnn_late\
st
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8582300/A-p\
etty-tyrant-hides-behind-the-relics-of-a-magnificent-civilisation.html

... oped on same by Bettany Hughes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8582300/A-p\
etty-tyrant-hides-behind-the-relics-of-a-magnificent-civilisation.html

Haven't heard about the Alexander-statue-in-FYROM brouhaha in a while:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/14/macedonia-alexander-the-great-statue
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jrO5JtBfav-KJ56GptsfBijpxqTg?\
docId=CNG.c06b7baf338858d0588bb3731051b716.291
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/macedonia/8576960/Greece-angere\
d-by-Macedonian-statue-of-Alexander-the-Great.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/06/14/world/europe/AP-EU-Macedonia-Statue.h\
tml

Interesting ideas about a gladiator tombstone:

http://www.livescience.com/14650-roman-gladiator-tombstone-epitaph.html

A study which examined brain injuries in Asterix comics:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/16/asterix-books-brain-injury
http://www.smh.com.au/world/good-heads-for-fighting-those-gauls-were-tough-nuts-\
20110617-1g7ym.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8577352/Asterix-comics-contain-700-\
traumatic-brain-injuries-say-academics.html

... and a Canadian paper seems to think real conclusions can be drawn (?)
therefrom:

http://www.thestar.com/article/1009242--is-this-the-real-reason-for-the-decline-\
of-the-roman-empire

On the pending remake of I, Claudius:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jun/13/i-claudius-hbo\
-remake

There's a new Classics prof at Luther College:

http://www.decorahnewspapers.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=13&ArticleID=\
25544

On the eclipse in the Odyssey:

http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-study/90045/total-eclipse-the-odyssey

More on Piraeus once being an island:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110616081855.htm

Reviewish thing of Stephen Greenblatt, *The Swerve*:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/07/swerves

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Prehistoric finds on a remote Scottish island:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13753643

Evidence of 'beer' making in 5th century B.C. France:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-early-french-beer.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13776499
http://news.discovery.com/history/beer-making-brewery-france-110615.html

A pair of 17th century (!) exploding cannon balls from Germany:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,769016,00.html

They're digging up the erstwhile 'lost' town of Dunluce:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13809545

Somewhat vague report of an 'ancient burial ground' found
during an energy construction project near Dublin (I think):

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/workers-ancient-burial-ground-091427010.html

A dig is about to begin in North Tyneside, with the hopes of medieval finds:

http://www.northtyneside.gov.uk/browse-display.shtml?p_ID=525978&p_subjectCatego\
ry=23

On the German side of Britain:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,768706,00.html

Using lasers and xray spectrometers to help virtually reconstruct some Tudor
tombs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13748889
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13780315

Rebuilding (sort of) a 300 year-old synagogue in Poland:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/arts/16iht-synagogue16.html

More on that Da Vinci cannon:

http://austriantimes.at/news/Around_the_World/2011-06-10/34008/Da_Vinci_cannon_f\
ound

More on climate change forcing the Vikings out of Greenland:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1392749/Cold-climate-forced-Vikin\
gs-Greenland.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Some construction company bulldozed China's oldest fortification:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7410093.html

Another (?) major Ming Dynasty porcelain find off Indonesia:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hijgTdxz9KnVGX99agOoewgyi2KA?\
docId=CNG.7cb7d99990eea60a7a2805cbbc294dbf.2a1
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=10910468253

A unicorn idol from Kalya (can't really see that it's a unicorn, though):

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=105370

On the DNA front, Thor Heyerdahl was partly right on the origin of
Polynesians, apparently:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8582150/Kon-Tiki-explorer-was-pa\
rtly-right-Polynesians-had-South-American-roots.html

Concerns for Aboriginal petroglyphs:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-9270.html

Not sure if we've mentioned this mining threat to a Buddhist monastery in
Afghanistan
yet:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13717471

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting study of petroglyphs in Alaska:

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/157287

Studying how copper artifacts were made at Cahokia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/nu-sea061311.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-reveal-prehistoric-native-americans-cahokia.\
html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2063510/science_explains_ancient_copper_art\
ifacts/index.html

A dig on the tip of Grand Island (New York) has found plenty of artifacts
from
various periods:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110617/sc_livescience/ancienttoolmakerspli\
edcraftnearniagarafalls

Archaeologists have determined the site of the First Batle of Boonville:

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2011/06/15/archaeologists-findings-fir\
st-battle-boonville-site/

They're looking for some shipwrecks from the War of 1812 in Lake Ontario:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43442529/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/shipwrecks-war-of-1812-search-great-lakes-1642/

A possible remnant of the 18th century boundary of St Augustine has been
found:

http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2011-06-12/dig-peels-back-more-citys-secr\
ets

Feature on what's currently going on at Jamestown (these all focus on
William Kelso but
are somewhat varied in 'dig focus'):

http://www.wtkr.com/news/dp-nws-jamestown-dig-20110610,0,1938302.story
http://www.wvec.com/news/local/Jamestowns-Kelso-sets-sights-on-another-dig-12373\
8574.html
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/Jamestowns_Kelso_Sets_Sights_on_Another_D\
ig_123715179.html

They're digging in the basement of a Monroe County (Indiana) courthouse:

http://www.local12.com/news/state/story/Archaeologists-search-Indiana-courthouse\
-basement/Gc9ht2tyB0S4g6bPPo1CKg.cspx?rss=31

Feature on a dig at the James Holliday House in Annapolis:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48294
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-06-16/news/bs-md-ar-annapolis-archeologica\
l-dig-20110616_1_mark-p-leone-historic-annapolis-home-archaeologists
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/u-md-archaelogists-in-annapolis-use-a-trowel\
-to-understand-the-past/2011/06/15/AGdeIfXH_story.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/umd-dig-at-historic-annapolis-black-home-produc\
es-surprisingly-rich-haul#.TfbReB4A8O8;facebook


Remnants of a Civil War trench on Drury University's campus:

http://www.ksmu.org/content/view/8786/66/
http://www.ksmu.org/content/view/8786/2/

A fire in Arizona is threatening sites:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110614-arizona-fire-wallow-archa\
eological-sites-science-nation/

On Blackbeard's 'terrrorist' side:

http://news.discovery.com/history/blackbeard-terror-shipwreck-weapons-110610.htm\
l

... and more on identifying that shipwreck as his:

http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-c-2011-06-11-253704.112112-Theyre-sure-\
nowIt-the-iQueen-Annes-Revengei.html

Efforts to repatriate the remains of the crew of the Intrepid continue:

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/closer-to-home/

Feature on the US's first 'whistle blowers (1777):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/opinion/13kohn.html

The preservation battle in New York City:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/opinion/11Goldhagen.html

The most endangered sites in the US:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/15/137201120/places-in-peril-2011s-most-endangered-hi\
storic-sites

The University of Iowa is using crowdsourcing in a Civil War diaries
transcription project:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/civil-war-project-shows-pros-and-cons-of-\
crowdsourcing/31749

Feature on the 'immigration debate' in New York's east side a hundred years
ago:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/century-old-immigration-debate-has-\
familiar-sound/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
470 Inca tombs from southern Peru:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13765151

A second ballplayer mnolith from Cerro del Teul:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5084-descubren-otro-qjug\
ador-de-pelotaq-en-zacatecas
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=399440&CategoryId=13003

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 feature on the development of the telescope:

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/13/brief-history-of-the-astronom\
ical-telescope-ii-lenses-and-mirrors/

OpEd on the "manly men of yore":

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/opinion/17lipton.html

Interesting art consultant squabble/lawsuit:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/14/37343.htm

A recently-rediscovered Van Dyck:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48222

More on all that treasure hunting going on in the UK:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/06/2011/increase-in-archaeologica\
l-finds-recorded-by-the-public

On the evolution of reason:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/arts/people-argue-just-to-win-scholars-assert.\
html

... and an interesting item on art and stereo vision:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/health/views/14vision.html

Venice is apparently not in peril from rising waters:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/13/venice_not_in_peril/

Review of Miles Unger, *Machiavelli: A Biography*:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/reviews/2011-06-12-Machiavelli-biography-sha\
tters-myths_n.htm
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
On holiday with Indiana Jones:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/on-holiday-with-indiana-jone\
s-2297389.html
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Vandals "destroyed" a dig at the SIUE campus:

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Vandals-destroy-archaeology-dig-at-SIUE-campus-12\
3973459.html

Some bronze idols were stolen from a Shiva temple:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-5530.html

Some diggers were caught red handed in the Elah Valley:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144924

More on those repatriated-from-Canada purloined artifacts from
Bulgaria:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gtRTduXRLCgW5F8k9T4Ghl7dnW5g?\
docId=CNG.e0a7053e6c093f750ec8db0f1cc01cc0.2f1

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Hellen and Charles Mapes collection is coming to auction:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48312

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n24.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
To Live Forever:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48284

Mummies of the World:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/arts/design/mummies-of-the-world-franklin-inst\
itute-review.html

The American Style:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/design/american-style-at-the-museum-of-th\
e-city-of-new-york.html

Edward Hopper:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/nyregion/in-nyack-celebrating-edward-hopper-a-\
favorite-son.html

The British Museum won the Art Fund Prize and was named Museum of the Year:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48329
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8580514/The-British-Museum-leads\
-the-way.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/15/us-finearts-britshmuseum-idUSTRE75E6D3\
20110615
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-13786604
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/15/british-museum-wins-arts-fund-priz\
e

... and other museums didn't win:

http://www.cambridgefirst.co.uk/news/cambridge_museum_missed_out_on_100_000_priz\
e_1_922876

... and an opEd piece on whether the BM needs the money:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/17/art-fund-prize-british-museum

The Pictish Croy hoard is going on display in Inverness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13751306

Interview with the *Chasing Aphrodite* folks:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/entertainment/jan-june11/aphrodite_06-17.htm\
l

Reflecting on assorted ancient Roman items which come to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/18iht-MELIKIAN18.html

A feature on some of the items in the National Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/15/arts/15postcards.html

Plans for a museum for James Hargreaves:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-13822526

Asian collectors are opening up their private museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/14iht-rartjessop14.html

The Acropolis Museum is preparing for second anniversary celebrations:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_3_17/06/2011_395049

... while volunteers are trying to help with the problems at the National
Archaeological Museum:

http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_07/06/2011_393900

A Walmart heiress brings art to middle America:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/arts/design/alice-walton-on-her-crystal-bridge\
s-museum-of-american-art.html

Reviews etc. of *Chasing Aphrodite*:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/2011/05/aphrodite-of-muckrakers_30.html
http://www.savingantiquities.org/podcasts.php

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Ajax in Iraq:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/theater/reviews/ajax-in-iraq-at-the-flambo\
yan-theater-review.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Jezreel Valley Regional Project:

http://www.jezreelvalleyregionalproject.com/

Celebrating the Bull Ring Henge:

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146413973/
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Virginia Fields:

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-me-virginia-fields-20110619,0,\
2643406.story

Patrick Leigh Fermor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/books/patrick-leigh-fermor-travel-writer-dies-\
at-96.html
cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/opinion/15Kaplan.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2296835/
http://m.theaustralian.com.au/fi310966.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-patrick-leigh-fermor-soldier-sc\
holar-and-celebrated-travel-writer-hailed-as-the-best-of-his-time-2296162.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

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Randolph Bragg,
David Critchley,Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Andy Burnham,
Edward Rockstein, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Laval Hunsucker,
Hernan Astudillo,Kurt Theis, Michael Caput,John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman,Rick Pettigrew, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Crafting of tools led to changes in brain development, apparently:

http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=24890&news_item=5626
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/06/21/Study-Ancient-tools-developed-human-b\
rain/UPI-58841308694628/

Some 32 000 years b.p. human remains from the Ukraine:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13846262
http://social.moldova.org/news/early-human-fossils-unearthed-in-ukraine-222117-e\
ng.html

Hominids, hominins, now hominoids ... from Swabia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110622072744.htm

They've figured out what Otzi's last meal was:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-scientists-iceman-otzi-meal.html

Lascaux's petroglyphs are at risk still/again:

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/lascauxs-18-000-old-cave-art-under-threat-145349240.h\
tml
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-lascaux-hands-off-approach-threatened-art.ht\
ml

TV program hype pondering why there is only one human species:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13874671

They did a brain endocast on a homo erectus skull:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-brain-endocast-nanjing-homo-erectus.html

More on the benefits of  human/neanderthal interbreeding:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/20/interbreeding-with-other-hu\
man-species-helped-our-ancestors-spread-worldwide/
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AFRICA
================================================================
The origins of the bow and arrow have been traced to Africa:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2011-06-19-bow-arrows-ori\
gin_n.htm
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
They've finally started to excavate that solar boat found a couple of
years ago near the pyramids, with plans for restoration:

http://news.discovery.com/history/buried-pharaonic-boat-110623.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48543
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/pictures/110624-egypt-wooden-sol\
ar-boat-sun-discovered-pyramids-science-archaeology/
http://www.theage.com.au/world/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-boat-20110624-1gji\
b.html
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=56448
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-archaeologists-ancient-egyptian-ship.html
http://detnews.com/article/20110624/NATION/106240350/1020/rss09
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43511639/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/egypt-to-restore-ancient-985487.html
http://www.drhawass.com/blog/uncovering-second-solar-boat-great-pyramid-today
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/14861/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Khufu%\
E2%80%99s-second-solar-boat-revealed.aspx
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-raise-ancient-egyptian-ship-185807393.\
html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2011-06/24/c_13946808.htm

Sixth dynasty "palaces" from Wadi al-Gadid:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/470508

Eilat Mazar and crew have unearthed Jerusalem's oldest written document
(actually from
a year ago, but in the news again)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-21/diggers-unearth-3-000-year-old-tablet-j\
erusalem-s-oldest-written-document.html
http://blogs.cbn.com/jerusalemdateline/archive/2011/06/24/the-stones-cry-out.asp\
x

cf:
http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search_eng.pl?mesge12789373133268876\
0

... and more news from about finds from the Ophel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4086258,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=225957
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/politics-get-mixed-up-with-archaeology\
-in-dispute-over-solomon-s-silwan-wall-1.369304
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145094

Concerns for Ur:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ur-archaeological-site-iraq-110620.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Travel-and-Tourism/2011/Jun-19/At-Ur-experts\
-stress-conservation-over-excavation.ashx
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-iraq-ancient-ur-treasures-danger.html
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=46793

Podcast interview with Charles Mann about Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2011/06/gbekli_tepe_1.html

The Yenikapi dig has turned up a fifth century shipwreck:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-248287-yenikapi-metro-dig-reveals-fifth-century-\
shipwreck.html

What Mark Fairchild is up to (possibly a repeat):

http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110615/NEWS/106150355

Hawass and Mrs. Mubarek are off the hook in regards to misappropriating
antiquities:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/14630/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Anti\
quities-ministry-denies-any-misappropriation-o.aspx
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/06/19/Audit-Mubarak-stole-no-artifac\
ts/UPI-83481308495983/
http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=19330&title=No%20Egypti\
an%20artefacts%20missing%20from%20presidential%20palaces

Folks might be interested in reading Simcha Jacobovici's 'response' to
critics of his crucifixion nails
thing (or not):

http://jamestabor.com/2011/06/22/simcha-jacobovici-responds-to-critics-of-his-na\
ils-of-the-cross-film/

More on those finds at Acre/Akko:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/underground-crusader-city-revealed-beneath-\
streets-of-acre-1.369079
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5glF1N5HfjwwHkDdqCVYHiLkxGRog?d\
ocId=e6b769e207634deabec80f51a12af876
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110622/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_crusader_city
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/under-old-port-city-acre-israel-much-older-102732849.ht\
ml

More on that graffiti from Jerusalem:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=137257434

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A Late Bronze Age fortress from Bamboula:

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=13365
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-uc-uncovers-ancient-mycenaean-fortress.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110620103852.htm
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2067557/uc_research_uncovers_late_bronze_ag\
e_fortress/index.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-11881.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/remains-bronze-age-fortress-unearthed-cyprus-121546680.\
html

An intact second century B.C. (or thereabouts) tomb from near Opaka
(Bulgaria):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129565
http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/06/23/1111355_archaeology-new-thracian-grave-found\
-in-northeastern-bulgaria

A giant Roman "palace" from Upper Egypt:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/469838

They're excavating the baths at Eboracum:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/a_warm_welcome_to_r\
oman_hot_tub_time_machine_1_3499449
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9095702.Roman_baths_found_on_site_of_new_council\
_HQ/?ref=mmnsp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-13866869

Brief item on that Chinese town's claims to Roman origins:

http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/06/sino-roman_history_manipulatio.\
php

We mentioned this one last week, but there's been a flood of
coverage this week on that reinterpretation of a 'mysterious'
gladiator tombstone:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110620/sc_livescience/romangladiatorsgrave\
stonedescribesfatalfoul
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/8591239/pic-please-Dodg\
y-refs-decision-blamed-for-Roman-gladiators-death.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/21/137325193/foul-gladiator-died-due\
-to-refs-treachery-tombstone-says
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2068173/gladiator_blames_ref_for_loss_on_gr\
avestone/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/gladiator-died-due-refs-treachery-says-archaeologist-10\
2419619.html
http://www.timescolonist.com/blown+call+doomed+gladiator+Canadian+prof+writes/49\
83004/story.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/06/22/3250694.htm?site=science&topic\
=ancient
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2006161/Roman-gladiator-Diodoruss\
-gravestone-blames-poor-refereeing-death.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43465625/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/gladiator-tombstone-epitaph-110621.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110620/sc_livescience/romangladiatorsgrave\
stonedescribesfatalfoul

A huge report on the dig at Carlisle (the news item isn't huge, the actual
archaeological report is, though):

http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/news/carlisle-dig-s-roman-finds-of-international\
-importance-report-1.702782

Latest on restoration efforts at the Colosseum:

http://www.agi.it/english-version/people/elenco-notizie/201106221955-spe-ren1093\
-restoration_at_rome_s_colosseum_enters_executive_phase
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/colosseum-restoration-will-increase-984662.\
html
http://www.newsday.com/news/colosseum-restoration-will-increase-visitor-access-1\
.2977018
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10733992

Latest Lysistrata comparanda:

http://wireupdate.com/wires/18400/colombian-women-on-sex-strike-until-road-is-pa\
ved/

National Geographic has a feature on Cleopatra:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/07/cleopatra/brown-text

Very nice APOD of the eclipse over the Acropolis:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110625.html

Opeddish thing on how the Romans dealt with refugees and the aftermath:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/24/roman-refugees-battle-adrian\
ople

An awfully civilized way to learn Latin:

http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110625/NEWS01/106250343/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE\
02

Honours for Gina Salapata:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/features/5176180/Getting-the-general-id\
ea/

What Paul Roche is up to:

http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=7139

Boris Johnson gives us a list of the ten greatest Greeks:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2007229/Homer-Plato-Boris-Johnso\
n-greatest-ancient-Greeks.html

Looking at 'The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus':

http://boston.com/ae/blogs/sebastiansmee/2011/06/frame_by_frame_piero_di_cosimo.\
html


There's a new Roman Frontier Gallery at the Tullie House Museum:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/opinion/mark-green/time-to-bring-those-romans-back-\
to-life-1.850368?referrerPath=opinion/
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/time/roman/art358844
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/hadrians-wall-a-horde-of-ancie\
nt-treasures-make-for-a-compelling-new-cumbrian-exhibition-2301329.html

Feature on Dacorum's Roman villa:

http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/community/nostalgia/discover_how_dacorum_s_largest_r\
oman_villa_evolved_1_2803178

Nice feature on Alexander of Abonoteichus and Glycon:

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/5614/snake_or_fake.html

David Cameron rejected a call for the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles to be
returned:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jun/22/cameron-rejects-return-parthenon-\
marbles-greece

The Alexander the Great statue in the FYROM brouhaha heats up:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h45pZSaXE3iZf5ImBlZgWe_PNM8Q?\
docId=CNG.3f4c6722959304ddd3b019ff687662db.231
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2011-06/22/c_13943327.htm
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/macedonia-erects-giant-statue-alexander-great-seen-chal\
lenge-114255559.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_21/06/2011_395428
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/21/us-macedonia-monument-idUSTRE75K3RF201\
10621
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129490

More on Roman poop:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110623-ancient-rome-human-waste-\
herculaneum-science-diet-excrement-italy/

More on that 'refugee camp' near Hadrian's wall:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2006347/Roman-camp-housed-refugee\
s-fleeing-Scottish-unrest-discovered-near-Hadrians-Wall.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/20/hadrians-wall-roman-britain-refuge\
e-camp

More on NATO and Leptis Magna:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003494/Nato-refuses-rule-bombing-ancien\
t-ruins-air-strikes-aimed-taking-Gaddafi.html

Review of Tim Whitmarsh, *Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek
Novel*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/26/narrative-identity-ancient-greek-nov\
el
Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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This is probably crime beat stuff, but here are some photos of the
destruction of one of the Priddy Circles:

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7674

A Viking burial in Dublin:

http://www.irishcentral.com/r?19=961&43=460162&44=124154204&32=7184&7=474282&40=\
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Fnews%2F9th-century-Viking-skeletal-remains-f\
ound-in-Dublin-124154204.html
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/workers-find-ancient-buria\
l-ground-2800228.html

A huge Neolithic (?) burial chamber full of bones from Orkney:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/Charnel-house-gives-up-its.6786940.jp

Interesting Celtic princess tomb (not sure of the date of this):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/pictures/110621-celtic-princess-\
tomb-gold-amber/

Jersey is being called an 'Ice Age Time Capsule':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-13840567

A medieval ring find from a monastery dig at Veliko Tarnovo:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129567

Seventeen Jewish bodies in a medieval well in Norwich:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13855238
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145168
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/50731/jewish-skeletons-unearthed-medieval-well

A medieval badge from a Ribble Valley field is declared treasure:

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9099072.Metal_detector_s__amazing_find\
__in_Ribble_Valley_field/
http://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/places_to_visit_2_1869/medieval_badge_discovered_\
1_3507437
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/20/badge-dug-field-medieval-treasure

Three 18th century Swedish cannons from the Baltic Sea:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48473
http://www.newser.com/story/121481/cannons-baltic-sea-shipwreck-three-18th-centu\
ry-cannons-recovered-from-sunken-ship.html

Denbigh Castle is getting big bucks for a vistor centre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-13898079

They're still arguing about roads and Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-13863143

More on Vikings, Greenland, and climate change:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110620095238.htm

Review of Mary S. Lovell, *The Churchills: In Love and War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/book-review-the-churchills-by-mar\
y-s-lovell.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Evidence of refrigeration use in second century A.D. China:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china/ancient-chinese-cooled-foods-with-ice-5796\
8.html

Casting doubts on a baybayin inscription:

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/224011/nation/experts-cast-doubts-on-ancient-baybayi\
n-tablet

A 1600 b.p. citadel from Viet Nam's Ha Tinh province:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pages/20110618163028.aspx

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A very expensive emerald ring find from the site of the Atocha:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/24/2283273/treasure-hunters-in-the-keys-find.\
html
http://www.wesh.com/news/28346355/detail.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/slideshow/outrageously-expensive-everyday-items-e\
merald-ring-2579104

A stash of wine in the wreckage of the Mary Celestia:

http://bernews.com/2011/06/photos-150-yr-old-wine-found-in-shipwreck/
http://bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=24&SubSectionID=270&ArticleID=52765
http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20110623/NEWS/110629987/1001/business

Utah fired all of its state archaeologists this week:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52058934-90/antiquities-archaeological-arc\
haeologist-archaeology.html.csp
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/state/story/Utah-lays-off-state-archaeologists-\
anthropologist/mtzErsEW0U6welGhrFeIUQ.cspx?rss=1451
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52048298-90/state-utah-station-department.\
html.csp
http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/9253d6152d1a4c87ac115934e59eb1e1/UT\
--State-Archaeologists-Fired/
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52048298-90/station-state-utah-draper.html\
.csp
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52063793-90/advice-archaeologists-budget-d\
epartment.html.csp
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20110622/NEWS01/110622010/Utah-lays-off-state\
-archaeologists-anthropologist
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/52057383-82/bagley-cartoon-archaeologist-fa\
cebook.html.csp(editorial
cartoon)
They're still pondering excavating the Vero Man site:

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/jun/23/smithsonian-and-uf-scientists-visit-to-as\
sess-of/

Latest from the Hunley:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48439

Archaeologists are looking for Moss Point's town cannon in the Escatawpa
River, and
are finding all sorts of things:

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/cd26cf76657547c68f44f88c6157ddb7/MS--Moss-\
Point-Cannon/

Excavating a slave village site at Monocacy Battlefield:

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=122736

I think we heard about this bone carving of a mammoth/mastodon from Florida
a few months ago, no?:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-scientists-reveal-ice-age-art.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/s-sra062111.php
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2011/06/22/image_of_ancient_mammoth_\
or_mastodon_found_on_bone/
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110622/BREAKINGNEWS/110622007/1086/rss07/A\
ncient-image-mastodon-carved-bone-discovered-Vero-Beach
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/22/scitech/main20073476.shtml

Some Native American burials from a Washington State construction site:

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/news/124209213.html
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/124197589.html

They've found the original site of Fort Recovery (Ohio):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-mystery-ohio-fort-recovery-students.html

Remembering the Tulsa race riot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/us/20tulsa.html

Latest on efforts to repatriate Intrepid remains:

http://legion.org/legislative/140074/13-us-sailors-remain-buried-libya
http://www.kjonline.com/news/snowe-among-those-fighting-for-intrepid_2011-06-18.\
html

Review of David Reynolds, *Mightier Than the Sword*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/book-review-mightier-than-the-swo\
rd-by-david-s-reynolds.html

Review of Dorothy Widkenden, *Nothing Daunted*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/book-review-nothing-daunted-by-do\
rothy-wickenden.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of a 'camera investigation' of a tomb at Palenque:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13913770
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=137383023
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/24/tiny-camera-mayan-tomb-palenque
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/jun/24/mexico-tomb-mayan (video)
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5094-microcamara-revela-\
imagenes-de-tumba-milenaria-en-palenque
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/photos/inside-an-ancient-mayan-tomb-1308928404-slides\
how/
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/06/24/Camera-used-to-probe-hidden-tomb/UPI-\
91021308951549/
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/06/24/mexican-experts-use-vi\
deo-camera-to-locate-tomb-mayan-leader/
http://earthsky.org/human-world/video-reveals-first-time-view-inside-1500-year-m\
ayan-tomb
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/9706624/tiny-camera-reveals-inside-\
of-ancient-mayan-tomb/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=13919080
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/23/6929856-micro-camera-explores-ma\
ya-tomb

A staircase at the Templo Mayor:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48463

Archaeologists have found a new entrace to Pachacamac (Peru):

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=KHOO7D6UqTA=

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 what we are learning from coconut DNA:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110624142037.htm

Assorted solstice-at-Stonehenge coverage:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/is-nothing-sacred-the-solstice\
-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-2300773.html
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/jun/21/thousands-gather-at-stoneheng\
e-for-summer-solstice/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/jun/21/stonehenge-\
solstice-takeover

cf a Life slideshow on Druids post 2010:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_newsroom/20110621/wl_yblog_newsroom/life-slideshow\
-druids-mystery-faith-myth

Google is helping the British Library put a pile of its collection online:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/06/21/british-museum-s-forgotten-b\
ooks-put-online-115875-23215245/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/20/british-library-google-digitisation-\
hippos

... while Yale has made images from its cultural collections available (for
free!):

http://lnk.ie/4LTJ/http://dailybulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8544

Also on the Yale front ... a major donation to create an Institute for
Preservation of
Cultural Heritage:

http://lnk.ie/4LTN/http://dailybulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8630

Not sure this is surprising, but half of Britons apparently have German DNA:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2005829/Half-Britons-German-blood\
-geneticists-reveal.html

Nice feature on 'beer archaeologist' Patrick McGovern:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Beer-Archaeologist.html

Latest candidates for World Heritage status:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2011-06/20/c_13940265.htm

Darwin's personal library is going online:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-darwin-personal-library-online.html

Interesting interview with the Morgan Library's curator:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/nyregion/morgan-library-curator-discusses-his-\
work.html

A hitherto unknown Caravaggio (maybe) of Saint Augustine from the UK:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48480
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/19/unknown-caravaggio-painting-u\
nearthed-britain
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/22/previously-unknown-carava_n_880931.html

... and a Van Gogh comes out of storage:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/museum-uncovers-van-gogh-_n_881818.html

Review of Duncan Watts, *Everything is Obvious, Once You Know the Answer*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/book-review-everything-is-obvious\
-once-you-know-the-answer-by-duncan-j-watts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/excerpt-everything-is-obvious-onc\
e-you-know-the-answer-by-duncan-j-watts.html

cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-what-is-distant\
-reading.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Ithaka:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite8_26940_20/06/2011_370023

Southern Peloponnese:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/8591153/The-souther\
n-Peloponnese-Greece-the-perfect-break.html

Machu Picchu:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/travel/in-peru-machu-picchu-and-its-sibling\
-incan-ruins-along-the-way.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Latest in the Utah case:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52072239-90/misdemeanor-artifacts-guilty-o\
perative.html.csp

On the illicit antiquities trade in Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_24122_24/06/2011_395882

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Ipswich Museum has acquired some Iron Age gold coins:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-13846383
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48511

Someone found an 18th century farthing on the side of the road:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/06/24/116460/raleigh-woman-picks-up-1730-farthin\
g.html

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n25.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Beyond Tradition:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/china-museum-chief-unveils-r\
ome-exhibition-2302720.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hpKzswyjluLt8ZuZCJED7ZzJoSRw?\
docId=CNG.bc7e0c7a1a9485075f48ac314a64b049.441

Treasures of Heaven:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13875977
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/24/treasures-of-heaven-british-museum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jun/20/treasures-of-heaven-b\
ritish-museum-in-pictures
http://londonist.com/2011/06/exhibition-review-treasures-of-heaven-british-museu\
m.php
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23963569-treasures-of-heaven-the-briti\
sh-museum---review.do
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/artvideo/8590577/Treasures-of-He\
aven-exhibition-at-the-British-Museum-preview.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s92L67z3i8M (nice video overview from the
Telegraph)

Mummies of the World:

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20110622/LIFESTYLE/106220310
http://www.phillyburbs.com/blogs/news_columnists/jd_mullane/mummies-and-what-we-\
can-learn-from-them/article_76c4d748-e906-569f-89ae-e643e128cbd7.html

Magic of Ancient Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48455

Huguette Clark's will seems like it will have some implications for the art
world:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/nyregion/huguette-clark-left-wealth-for-art-ch\
arity-and-to-nurse.html

e.g. a long-out-of-public-view Monet:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13901348

Big big bucks for a Stradivarius:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13852872

More coverage of the return of artifacts to Peru:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/06/23/antiquities-from-yales\
-collection-arrive-in-perus-highlands/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Dr Faustus:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/254767/First-night-review-Doctor-Faustus-Glo\
be-Theatre-London


They're building a new Shakespeare Theatre in Brooklyn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/theater/theater-for-a-new-audience-starts-buil\
ding-home-in-brooklyn.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The Tel Burna dig blog is up and running with regular updates:

http://telburna.wordpress.com/

Archaeo News Podcast #192:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/06/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-192

Latest video news from The Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hPhVP5_f2drSlMdSEz7UxsQGr9IA?\
docId=CNG.2d6aa9a8f697c60397a21dc33c6ba06f.571
http://mobile.france24.com//en/20110625-french-egyptologist-who-saved-nubian-tem\
ples-dies

Virginia Fields:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-virginia-fields-20110619,0,548505.s\
tory
================================================================
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

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Giovanna Fregni,
David Critchley, David Perlmutter, Diana Wright,Dorothy Lobel King,
Donna Hurst, Joanne Conman, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli,
Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

Belated Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canucks and early Happy
Independence Day to our friends down south ... we're sending this issue out
a bit early
as we have to drop one of our kids off at a French immersion thing early in
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EARLY HUMANS
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Latest in the multi-regional hypothesis suggests homo erectus and homo
sapiens never coexisted:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-human-ancestor-older-previously-thought.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/nyu-fsh062811.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2009746/Modern-mans-ancestor-Homo\
-erectus-extinct-108-000-years-earlier-previously-thought.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2073054/finding_showing_human_ancestor_olde\
r_than_previously_thought_offers_new/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/doubts-over-africa-theory-211157331.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/26/10375.extract?etoc

Peking Man's brain was different from modern humans:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-peking-differing-modern-humans-brain.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Finds from Osorkon II's time (or thereabouts) at San El-Hagar:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48637
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/15101/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-Ph\
araonic-artefacts-discovered-in-North-Egypts.aspx
http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=19502&title=Artefacts%2\
0unearthed%20in%20Delta
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/27/egyptian-archaeologists-discover-walls\
-sacred-temple/
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/egypt-large-inscribed-limestone-blocks-unearthed-1459\
44381.html

After five years of restoration, Egypt is opening up the Avenue of the
Sphinxes to the public:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/173157/egypt-open-avenue-sphinxes-public.htm\
l

Feature on assorted in-house burials at Catal Houyuk (for the record, I
don't think I've
spelled that the same way twice):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43580320/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20646-family-ties-doubted-in-stone-age-far\
mers.html

Finds from various periods in Hasaka Province (Syria):

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2011/06/29/355335.htm

An ossuary found three years ago with a reference to a Caiaphas has
been judged authentic:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48679
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/213881
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=227184
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=227184
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/29/israel.ancient.burial/
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20110702/LIFESTYLE/107020303
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7425926.html
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/06/30/israeli_scholars\
_say_biblical_burial_box_genuine/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8606282/Israel-scholars-say-biblical-bu\
rial-box-is-genuine.html
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1849\
&module_id=#as
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Israeli-scholars-say-biblical-burial-box-\
genuine-1445333.php

The Mughrabi Gate thing is heating up big time (Jordan is now voicing
'concerns'):

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=32568
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90052906?Diplomats%20battle%20over%20Jer\
usalem%20ramp
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-furious-with-jordan-over-condem\
nation-of-jerusalem-s-old-city-renovation-1.369943
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=227022
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4087612,00.html

Feature with videos etc. on a long-occupied site near Kibbutz Tzuba:

http://www.foundationstone.org/

A look at Alejandro Botta's class:

http://www.bu.edu/today/node/13172

More on Egypt's pending restoration of a solar boat:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48543
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/186328.html
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/egypt-to-restore-ancient-boat-1.1\
089946

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
They've found remains of another altar stone at Maryport (among other
things):

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/important-roman-altar-stone-unearthed-1.853863\
?referrerPath=news

Denise McCoskey is talking Cleopatra:

http://www.journal-news.com/news/hamilton-news/miami-professor-aims-to-tell-cleo\
patras-full-story-1198012.html?cxtype=ynews_rss
http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/middletown-news/miami-professor-aims-to-te\
ll-cleopatras-full-story-1198012.html

The Zeugma Mosaic Museum is opening soon (?):

http://www.luxurytravelmagazine.com/news-articles/museum-of-roman-mosaics-to-ope\
n-in-turkey-16099.php

Plans to build a Roman centre in Cumbria:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/plans-revealed-for-11-million-roman-centre-in-\
west-cumbria-1.852256?referrerPath=news
http://www.attractionsmanagement.com/detail.cfm?pagetype=detail&subject=news&cod\
eID=266383

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Remains of a 7700 years b.p. "BBQ" from the Netherlands:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-barbeque-aurochs-110627.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-prehistoric-bbq-bone-marrow-aurochs.html

A mysterious 6500 years b.p. burial from Bulgaria of someone who died a
violent death:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129751

... can't be sure if this is the same or not:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/06/27/1113053_archaeology-7500-year-old-skeleton-f\
ound-in-northeastern-bulgaria

A similarly mysterious 3800 years b.p. mound/burial near Weimar is
apparently even more
mysterious now:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,771569,00.html
http://freeinternetpress.com/story/The-Pharaoh-Of-Thuringia-Archaeologists-Puzzl\
e-Over-Opulent-Prehistoric-Burial-Find-30849.html

Evidence of human sacrifice in the North York Moors some 2000 years b.p.:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-13904504

Brief item on the beginning of the search for a buried medieval village:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-13919042

A 1400 years b.p. fresco of St Paul from the Catacombs of San Gennaro:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8605624/1400-year-old-St-\
Paul-fresco-discovered-in-ancient-Roman-catacomb.html
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2011/06/28/visualizza_new.html_8\
11874443.html

Social networking in the Renaissance:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110629124500.htm

With the champagne out of the way, I guess it's time to pop open the 170
year-old
shipwreck beer:

http://www.livescience.com/14798-oldest-shipwreck-beer-opened.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-vtt-bottle-year-old-beer.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2009191/Baltic-sea-shipwrecks-170\
-year-old-beer-finally-cracked-open-scientists.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43565535/ns/technology_and_science-science/

A suggestion that Bulgaria could cash in on Biblical flood theories:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129644

An archaeological tempest is brewing in Fenland:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/27/archaeologists-furious-bunny-hugge\
rs
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/development_rules_relaxed_in_the_fens_but_the_bunny_\
huggers_won_t_like_it_warns_council_leader_1_929730
http://findsandfeatures.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/fenland-council-plan-to-scrap-a\
ll-pre-development-archaeological-assessment-roundup/
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/fens_bunny_hugger_row_latest_now_the_archaeologists_\
hit_back_at_council_leader_1_931924

English Heritage is going to investigate the damage to Priddy Circles:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-13932661

Pondering the potential fate of Venice:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/that-sinking-feeling-what-would-t\
he-death-of-venice-mean-for-all-of-us-2301865.html

More on Jewish bones from a medieval well in England:

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=226928

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
More than a hundred well-preserved burials from Henan:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7421666.html

A pile of 2000 years b.p. objects found during excavations at a stupa near
Taxila:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-19634.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C07%5C02%5Cstory_2-7-2011_pg\
11_4

Very valuable treasure found in the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13994351

Australia ponders 1788:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/8607157/Why-wer\
e-debating-1788-and-all-that.html

Interesting computer approach to deciphering the Indus script:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/jun/30/2

I think this is the same Ming Dynasty shipwreck we mentioned last week:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/867863-divers-find-43million-worth-of-ming-dynasty-p\
ottery-on-shipwreck
East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
They're finding plenty of Oneida artifacts at a dig in Holmen (Wisconsin):

http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/La_Crosse_Students_Find_500-Year-Old_Artifact\
s_124768869.html

Archaeologists have been called in to investigate bones revealed during a
levee break
in Missouri:

http://www.kcci.com/news/28383036/detail.html
http://www.ksdk.com/rss/article/264943/3/Crews-try-to-identify-bones-near-blown-\
up-levee
http://newstribune.com/news/2011/jun/29/crews-try-id-bones-near-blown-levee

Developers were apparently warned that they'd find Native American remains
during work at Oak Harbor (but apparently ignored it):

http://heraldnet.com/article/20110624/NEWS01/706259943
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Swinomish-want-remains-found-under-Oak-Harbor-st\
reet-respectfully-handled-124891729.html

... and archaeologists are now on their way:

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/news/124675714.html

... in case you missed the story:

http://wenatcheeworld.com/news/2011/jun/25/native-american-remains-found-in-oak-\
harbor/

They've raised a cannon from a 'mystery shipwreck' off St Augustine:

http://www.news4jax.com/news/28385224/detail.html
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/209183/3/Shipwreck-Cannon-Being-Raise\
d-off-St-Augustine
http://m.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-06-28/story/shipwreck-yields-cannon-st\
-augustine-coast
http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2011-06-29/story/cannons-retrieved-mystery-\
ship-st-augustine-begin-long-restoration

The NOAA and Navy are surveying a couple of Civil War shipwrecks in Hampton
Roads (Va):

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/survey-civil-war-shipwrecks-james-river-continue\
s
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110627_archaeologicalsurvey.html

The search for the remains of the Franklin Expedition has resumed:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/8609951/Canada-unv\
eils-plan-to-find-Franklin-Expedition-ships.html

Civil War memorials in NYC:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/05/09/110509taco_talk_gopnik
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2011/05/civil-war-memorials.htm\
l
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/06/110606mama_mail2
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A ninth century burial ground in Tabasco:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48684
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=48662
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/06/29/mexican-archaeologists\
-uncover-th-century-cemetery/
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=402611&CategoryId=13003
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5107-localizan-posible-c\
ementerio-prehispanico-maya(fotos!)

A Clovis point and other items from Chihuahua:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5109-descubren-sitio-pal\
eontologico-en-chihuahua

More on camera peeks inside a tomb at Palenque:

http://theweek.com/article/index/216766/the-stunning-peek-inside-an-ancient-maya\
n-tomb
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/26/peering-into-the-past-camera-looks-inside-an\
cient-mayan-tomb/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/pictures/110629-tiny-camera-maya\
-tomb-palenque-mexico-science/(photos
... may or may not work)
More on that staircase at Tlatelolco:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48479

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 top ten list of historical novels:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/29/andrew-miller-top-10-historical-nove\
ls

A 'lost Leonardo' (maybe):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576413871074587708.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8611203/Lost-Leonardo-da-Vinci-p\
ainting-to-break-all-records.html

... along with a roundup of Leonardo-based conspiracy-type theories:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8611343/Leonardo-da-Vinci\
s-best-conspiracy-theories.html

Now they want to dig up Shakespeare to see if he was a pothead:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-exhumation-shakespeare-death-drug.html

cf: http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/09/shakespeares-tenth-muse.html

Some Hemingwayiana:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0701-hemingway-20110701,0,232\
5960.story

Using a computer to discern authors in the Bible:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/israeli-software-aims-to-shed-light-on-the-b\
ible-1.370343
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=137500077
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/06/29/international/i09311\
6D52.DTL
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-israel-bible-algorithm,\
0,1454957.story

Big bucks for a Stradivarius:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13852872

... and why they're so special:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13852872

Reviews of Robert Hughes, *Rome*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8608302/Rome-by-Robert-Hugh\
es-review.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/29/rome-robert-hughes-review
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/roads-to-rome/story-e6frg8n6-122608423\
1849
http://www.economist.com/node/18894900?story_id=18894900&fsrc=rss
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/80980,news-comment,news-politics,ancient-rome-why-\
let-the-facts-spoil-a-good-story
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/book/article-23963552-the-noblest-modern\
-roman-of-them-all.do

More on coconuts:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2070435/scientists_decode_deep_history_of_c\
oconuts/index.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110624142037.htm

More on Darwin's marginalia:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/darwin-marginalia/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Taormina:

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-taormina-20110704,1,1466892.story

Crete:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/8602498/Crete-Minoa\
n-treasures-hitthe-bullseye.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Latest African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter:

http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html

================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Another Roman hoard declared treasure:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/9110056.Hoard_of_Roman_coins_found_by_Te\
tbury_farmer/

A hoard of silver Viking coins from Furness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-13987176

Spanish coins from the wreck of the San Miguel de Arcangel:

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/06/29/Rare-Spanish-coins-found-in-shipwreck/UPI\
-84111309364453/

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n26.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Mummies of the World:

http://www.delconewsnetwork.com/articles/2011/06/28/entertainment/doc4e0a05a2240\
22027926704.txt

Twombly and Poussin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/28/twombly-poussin-arcadian-pain\
ters-review
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/arts/design/one-exhibition-in-london-for-twomb\
ly-and-poussin.html

Treasures of Heaven:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/jun/30/treasures-o\
f-heaven-kiss-relics
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dfb8cfca-a333-11e0-8d6d-00144feabdc0.html

Splendours of Mesopotamia:

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/ancient-wonders

Mystery of the Maya:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110627/en_artinfo/the_mysteries_of_maya_civili\
zation_are_unveiled_at_pariss_muse_du_quai_branly_1
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48631

Faberge Revealed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/arts/design/faberge-in-virginia-summer-reads-a\
bout-collecting.html

The Royal Ontario Museum is opening its refurbished/new Roman and Byzantine
galleries (and dang it, I was there a
couple of days too early):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48721

The British Museum is still the UK's top tourist attraction:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=48666
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/28/british-museum-top-attraction

That Tang Treasures exhibition at the Smithsonian has been cancelled:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/21719/shipwrecked-tang-treasures-and-monsoon-wi\
nds-at-smithsonian-cancelled/
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/shipwreck-show-postponed/

Brandeis has settled that lawsuit over a sale of some of its art:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/brandeis-settle-suit-over-proposed-\
art-sale/

More WWII Nazi loot repatriations:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/eight-old-masters-to-be-repatriated\
-to-the-netherlands/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Measure for Measure:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/theater/reviews/measure-for-measure-at-del\
acorte-theater-review.html

Hamyul/Hamlet:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/theater/reviews/hamyulhamlet-korean-langua\
ge-adaptation-at-la-mama.html

Concerns for Rome's Teatro Valle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/theater/teatro-valle-in-rome-is-occupied-by-pr\
otesters.html



Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/8611729/Christi\
ane-Desroches-Noblecourt.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g2MQfEnZhuhOtiabiMRW16hrBarQ?d\
ocId=11fcdf4f6ddd4fe68856a3%207e002922ef

Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/28/rachel-maxwell-hyslop-obituary
================================================================
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

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Ealiest Europeans were bling-wearing cannibals, apparently:

http://news.discovery.com/human/early-humans-cannibalism-jewelry-110706.html

Arguing about the Denisovans:

http://en.rian.ru/science/20110704/165004984.html
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AFRICA
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Evidence of humans in Cameroon some 5000 years b.p.:

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/west/Archeological-Findings-Reveal-Ce\
ntral-African-History-125075209.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The Philistines and the dig at Gath/Tel el-Safi are getting some press
attention:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48948
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43695120/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://detnews.com/article/20110709/LIFESTYLE04/107090344/-1/rss29
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Sophistication-of-Philistines-is-unearthed.679853\
0.jp
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/07/08/in_israel_digger\
s_unearth_the_bibles_bad_guys
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hnyu8HXeC7UAfNiZgsD4tEBTA7XA?d\
ocId=28b4b3ad4baa46a2abe9a26092dfb4fb
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/In-Israel-diggers-unearth-the-Bible-s-bad-guy\
s-1457568.php

Some 'new' items from Karnak:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/187745.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Jul-03/Ancient-Egypt-treasure-\
gate-unearthed-in-Luxor.ashx
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/9776087/ancient\
-egypt-treasure-gate-unearthed-in-luxor/
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/15535/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Two-ne\
w-monuments-uncovered-at-Karnak-Temple.aspx
http://mobile.france24.com//en/20110703-ancient-egypt-treasure-gate-unearthed-lu\
xor

Some very interesting 5200 years b.p. petroglyphs from near Aswan (not sure
if this is a repeat)

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48810
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/15743/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/The-\
first-ever-ancient-Egyptian-epigraphy.aspx
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/04/3746464/5200-year-old-ancient-egyptian.html
http://www.3news.co.nz/Ancient-Egyptian-drawing-unearthed/tabid/1160/articleID/2\
17562/Default.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/5200-year-old-rock-drawings-of-e\
arliest-ancient-egyptian-celebrations-unearthed/2011/07/04/gHQAw07kxH_story.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/04/2298873/5200-year-old-ancient-egyptian.htm\
l
http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2011/07/659-377105-9-arqueologos-fra\
nceses-realizan-nuevos-hallazgos-en-egipto.shtml

A Kingdom of Israel-era house from Tel Shikmona:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-uncovering-kingdom-israel.html
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-israeli-house-surprises-archaeologists-122006989.h\
tml
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=227791
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145369

Semi-related feature on Khirbet Qeiyafa:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2011/07/06/ime.maktabi.city.o\
f.david.cnn/

Phoenician artifacts from Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Jul-07/Sidon-excavations-uneart\
h-5000-year-old-antiquities.ashx

They've wrapped up the season at Tel Burna:

http://telburna.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/wrapping-up-2011-season/

... meanwhile, Zahi Hawass was getting awards in Peru:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/44/15746/Heritage/Museums/Hawass-rec\
eives-Perus-highest-award.aspx
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g9Z3nNTCgy4ShxLZ-KOnFz9JukwA?\
docId=CNG.6e39fdd7112e1ce5ecf68e638a1d06ef.df1
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/peru-decorates-egyptian-antiquities-minister-214828591.\
html

... and people were still calling for his resignation:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/474052

Recreating Luxor in 3D:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630165959.htm
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/2011_06defanti_luxor.asp

Using technology to discern the DSS provenance:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/89/i28/8928scene1.html

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145492

More on Jordan's archaeological database:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Jordan-gets-a-%E2%80%9Cmega%E2%80%9D-arc\
haeological-database/24318

More on that Caiaphas-daughter ossuary:

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=32599

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 Roman-era basilica from Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48962
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvpLdL3Y7I7XtpBurhEc8y3t1Zww?d\
ocId=cdcd69ef4f5544c0b972b25f5262cac4
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/41/15847/Heritage/GrecoRoman/Earlies\
t-ever-civil-Roman-basilica-found-outside-A.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9732590
http://news.yahoo.com/team-unearths-first-roman-era-basilica-egypt-154503320.htm\
l
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/07/04/international/i09185\
0D52.DTL&tsp=1

A 1st/2nd century A.D. sarcophagus from Gabii:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.1.2206054175

A roundup sort of feature on what's been found at Geronisos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/history/geronisos-island-offers-insight-ancient-pilgr\
ims/20110708

Hadrian's Villa is the latest monument at risk of collapse in italy:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hDuY3ltQuZLiamBdO3cj-4xf6PvA?\
docId=CNG.bf1abcab2fe14bbe8efd2b795b61ddb4.1d1

Latest find from the seat of the rulers of the Odrysian Kingdom is an iron
labrys:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129942

Funding for Venta Icenorum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/08/norfolk-roman-town-archaeology-ven\
ta-icenorum
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/funding_boost_secures_future_of_norfolk_s_ro\
man_town_1_957876
http://www.24dash.com/news/housing/2011-07-08-Britains-most-important-Roman-town\
-saved-for-the-nation

Digging has resumed at Nikopolis ad Istrum:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188354.html

All about underground Rome:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-07/04/c_13964526.htm

That box of ancient  medicines from a shipwreck is in the news again (don't
really see anything new here):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8627715/Roman-era-shipwre\
ck-reveals-ancient-medical-secrets.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10737289&ref=rs\
s

Not sure where to put this one ... they're working on a new version of the
Greek New Testament:

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20110709/LIFE07/107090314/0/RSS/

Interesting item on assorted gods and opera:

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/gods+opera/5049980/story.html

Reminiscing about Loebs:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/6352589-452/the-little-red-books-with-big\
-old-ideas.html

Review of Krebs, *A Most Dangerous Book*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-most-dangerous-book-only-in-\
the-eye-of-the-reader/2011/07/01/gIQAOrwS1H_story.html

Review of Matthew Sturgis, *When in Rome*:

http://www.westendextra.com/reviews/books/2011/jul/books-review-when-rome-2000-y\
ears-roman-sightseeing-matthew-sturgis

More reviews of Robert Hughes *Rome*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/10/robert-hughes-rome-review

More on FYROM and its statue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/world/europe/24iht-macedonia24.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/world/europe/22briefs-MacedoniaBrf.html

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
An 8000 years b.p. dog burial from Portugal:

http://www.theportugalnews.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1120-22

A 4000 years b.p. burial from Norfolk:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/woman_s_skeleton_found_at_sedgeford_dig_sheds_light_\
on_norfolk_4_000_years_ago_1_951125

Irish archaeologists may have found the remains of Ireland's "Helen of
Troy":

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Medieval-skeleton-remains-may-reveal-Irelands-H\
elen-of-Troy-125246039.html
http://www.tyronetimes.co.uk/news/local/reconstructed_face_of_medieval_skeleton_\
may_reveal_ireland_s_helen_of_troy_1_2847951

Some redating and revelations that Vikings filed patterns into their teeth
(inter alia):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/04/teeth-viking-warriors-dorset-grave
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-14019172
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-vikings-english-grave-teeth.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/04/teeth-viking-warriors-dorset-grave

Bulgarian archaeologists have found a major church built during the last
dynasty
of the Easter Roman Empire at Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=130003

An aquamanile (not sure if that's singular or plural) from Cosmeston:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-revealing-cosmeston-medieval.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-14035383

The Scots 12th century pottery industry was much larger than previously
thought:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-14030616

Interesting/strange Egyptian-inspired 'chamber' from a villa in northern
Italy:

http://news.discovery.com/history/egyptian-room-110705.html

Big expectations for the Staffordshire Hoard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-13991723

Funding for Flag Fen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-13989619

A 12th century castle needs a key keeper:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-14012755

Marking Offa's Dyke path's 40th anniversary:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-14051834

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Ten 3000 years b.p. tombs from Viet Nam's Quang Ngai  province:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/213006/3000-year-old-artefacts-une\
arthed-.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188065.html

They're finding even more treasure at that temple in India:

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/07/04/a-kerala-temples-indiana-jones-mom\
ent/

... and asking questions about it:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/SC-wants-to-know-source-of-Kerala-temple-treasure/\
Article1-717935.aspx
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/supreme-court-seeks-sou\
rce-of-sri-padmanabhaswamy-temple-treasure/articleshow/9122656.cms

... and looking for a curator:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=137600083
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20110706-287849.html

... and arguing about who owns it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/world/asia/09temple.html
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MG08Df02.html
http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/860/f/517308/s/1685d96e/l/0Len0Brian0Bru0Cart0Ilivi\
ng0C20A110A70A80C1650A90A10A50Bhtml/story01.htm
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/06/137645373/indias-supreme-court-ta\
kes-steps-to-protect-22-billion-treasure?print=1

... and making lists of the 'top five treasures from arond the world':

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-top-five-treasures-from-aroun\
d-the-world/20110707.htm

In case you missed some of the initial coverage:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/06/137627235/some-22-billion-in-gold\
-diamonds-jewels-found-in-indian-temple
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/world/asia/05india.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137617830/the-last-word-in-business
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-04/thiruvananthapuram/297353\
33_1_kg-of-gold-coins-chief-priest-temple

Palm leaf manuscripts of unspecified date turn up during gym construction
near Puducherry:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-21097.html

They've finished taking apart and reassembling a temple at Angkor:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14005258

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A 1000 years b.p. "effigy" from Franklin County (PA):

http://www.livescience.com/14913-embargoed-tiny-clay-head-ancient-effigy.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/tiny-clay-head-may-used-ancient-effigy-202401531.html

Starting them digging young in Brunswick:

http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/open_access/local_news/FREDERICAN-w-brkout-97981\
1-HR#

Students dig the Gallows Hill Road site (Conn.):

http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/thereddingpilot/news/localnews/98371-studen\
ts-dig-history-gallows-hill-road-site-offers-hands-on-archaeological-experience-\
at-dig-.html

Interview with Solveig Turpin about some Texas petroglyphs:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/08/137704350/archaic-texan-rock-art-reveals-prehistor\
ic-culture

Latest on efforts to repatriate remains of soldiers from the Intrepid:

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/07/04/remains-sailors-tripoli

Feature on the Martin Housse Complex (Buffalo):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/design/martin-house-seeks-original-frank-\
lloyd-wright-windows.html

More on rings from the Atocha:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/22147/breathtaking-treasure-discovered-in-atoch\
a-shipwreck/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plans to look for a lost city in Honduras (tv hype):

http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/music/2011/07/ky-professor-gets-gran\
t-search-lost-city
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/07/05/117030/kentucky-professor-to-search-for.ht\
ml
http://www.kentucky.com/2011/07/05/1800368/transy-professor-gets-national.html

Photoset of evidence of human sacrifice at Chichen Itza:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/pictures/110706-human-sacrifice-\
bones-maya-chichen-itza-ancient-science-mexico-cenote/

Depictions of captive Copan warriors from Tonina (pardon the awkward
description):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48884
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5119-hallan-en-chiapas-g\
uerreros-de-copan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14064450
http://www.edgeprovidence.com/index.php?ch=technology&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=12199\
0
http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-finds-2-sculptures-mayan-warriors-205932972.html

A pile of Aztalan culture petroglyphs fro Nayarit:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5116-descubren-petrograb\
ados-en-el-occidente-de-mexico

What Maya glyphs tell us:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/07/06/glyphs-document-1000-y\
ears-mayan-leaders-intrigues-wars/

Feature on the 'Pompeii of the Americas'  in El Salvador:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/07/08/in-el-salvador-pompei-amer\
icas-gives-up-its-treasures/

Marking the centennial of the rediscovery of Machu Picchu (these are all
different):

http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-machu-picchu-fact78-20110623,0,205112\
7.story
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/07/07/peru-celebrates-machu-\
picchu-anniversary/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14057296 (photos)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14060341
http://www.elpais.com/fotogaleria/cultura/Machu/Picchu/anos/despues/elpgal/20110\
707elpepucul_3/Zes/1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14057296

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
================================================================
New York is checking into possible weather damage to Cleopatra's Needle:

http://online.wsj.com/article/APb15d6f2430de4444ac7f2095a7a0c9db.html

... and associated oped:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/egypt-or-central-park-where-does-an\
-ancient-obelisk-belong/

A painting at the Courtauld Institute of Art turns out to be a forgery:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8612890/Master-forgery-17th-cent\
ury-work-exposed-as-a-fake.html

Tourism is a threat to Venice lagoon, apparently:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-mass-tourism-threatening-venice-lagoon.html

The earliest-ever commercial recording?:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/07/vintage.recording/
http://esciencenews.com/sources/cbsnews.science/2011/07/06/123.year.old.talking.\
doll.record.speaks.again

cf: http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6388&start=0

Feature on John Hancock's signature:

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/the-story-of-john-hancocks-signature-2505538\
/

Feature on G.K. Chesterton:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e7176025.ece

Review of John Norwich, *Absolute Monarchs*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-absolute-monarchs-a-h\
istory-of-the-papacy-by-john-julius-norwich.html

Review of a couple of biographies of Clarence Darrow:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-biographies-of-claren\
ce-darrow-by-andrew-e-kersten-and-john-a-farrell.html

Review of Marc Fumaroli, *When the World Spoke French*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-when-the-world-spoke-\
french-by-marc-fumaroli.html

Review of Orlando Figes, *The Crimean War: A History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-the-crimean-war-a-his\
tory-by-orlando-figes.html?ref=books

More on that 'identified' Leonardo:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48949
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
A list of ten archaeological sites that "can't be missed":

http://cmvlive.com/life-style-a-fashion/travel/1192-10-famous-archaeological-sit\
es-that-cant-be-missed

... similar;

http://uk.travel.yahoo.com/p-promo-3361380

Rome:

http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=102691

Greatest historical journeys:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110630-greatest-historical-journeys
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some items looted by contractors in Iraq were returned:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/08/us-iraq-usa-artifacts-idUSTRE7667KS201\
10708?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/08/Looted-antiquities-returned-to-Iraq/UP\
I-44051310102819/?spt=hs&or=tn
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2011/July/m\
iddleeast_July175.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/7/antiquities-looted-in-war-returne\
d/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/us-returns-artifa\
cts-hussein-era-objects-to-iraq/2011/07/07/gIQAhlC81H_blog.html

The Codex Calixtinus manuscript was stolen from Santiago de Compstela:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/07/codex-calixtinus-manuscript-stolen-s\
antiago-compostela
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/medieval-spanish-jewel-stolen-fro\
m-cathedral-2308901.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8623872/12th-Century-Span\
ish-guidebook-disappears.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/calixtinus-codex-religious-manuscript-c\
ollection-stolen-spanish-cathedral-_n_893139.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14063868
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Desaparece/Catedral/Santiago/Codice/Calix\
tino/elpepucul/20110707elpepucul_4/Tes

I think we've heard this before ... illegal antiquities fund terrorism,
apparently:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.looting.bogdanos/

... in a similar vein:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=416699

A 17th-century statue stolen from a London church during the Blitz turned up
at auction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/10/statue-looted-in-blitz

An art dealer is charged with having all sorts of purloined artworks in a
vault in Paris:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/wildenstein-faces-criminal-charge-o\
ver-trove-of-artworks/

An erstwhile sommelier is charged with stealing a Picasso:

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/07/07/alleged-picasso-thief-mark-lugo-\
was-also-a-sommelier-at-blt-fish-staffer-at-per-se/
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/picasso-work-is-stolen-from-san-fra\
ncisco-gallery/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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The Edge Hill hoard of Roman coins will soon be on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-14039680
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2011/07/07/hoard-of-roman-co\
ins-found-at-edge-hill-go-on-display-at-warwickshire-museum-92746-29013291/

Feature on the 'ides of March' coin:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-most-famous-ancient-coin-of-all/

A hoard of gold coins from the 16th-18th centuries found in a French cellar:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14080228

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n27.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/international_tours/the_body_beautiful.asp\
x

The Etruscans:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48801

Amazing Egyptians:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48799

Mummies of the World:

http://weeklypress.com/mummyspeak-unraveling-mysteries-at-the-franklin-institute\
-p2599-1.htm
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/06/2431675/renowned-mummies-show-coming\
.html

Lux in Arcana: Vatican Secret Archives:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48840
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/07/05/Vatican-to-exhibit-Secret-Arch\
ives/UPI-80481309915789/?spt=hs&or=tn

Devotion by Design:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jul/06/devotion-by-design-na\
tional-gallery(slideshow)

Treasures of Heaven:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/05/british-museum-treasures-_n_890830.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8616614/Devotion-by-Design-Na\
tional-Gallery-Treasures-from-Heaven-British-Museum-review.html

Vishnu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/design/vishnu-hinduisms-savior-at-brookly\
n-museum-review.html

Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/design/at-folger-library-shakespeare-foli\
os-venerated-as-relics-review.html


Mother India:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/design/mother-india-at-metropolitan-museu\
m-review.html

James Cuno's 'exit interview':

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/art/ct-ae-0710-art-institute-cuno-si\
de-20110708,0,3388204.story

Review of *Chasing Aphrodite*:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/8/book-review-chasing-aphrodite/

... oped arising therefrom:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38057/the-road-from-cicero-to-marion-true-what\
-chasing-aphrodite-reveals-about-the-gettys-notorious-antiquities-trafficking-co\
ntroversy/

Peru's next target: Sweden:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/9785154/peru-to\
-sue-swedish-city-for-theft-of-ancient-textiles/

Big bucks for a Guardi:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14059460

... and more results from Christie's Old Masters sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/arts/09iht-MELIKIAN09.html

Feature on Templetown pottery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/arts/a-niche-of-stylish-power.html

More on the ROM's new Roman and Byzantine galleries:

http://torontoist.com/2011/07/friends_romans_show_us_your_galleries.php

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Sholem Aleichem:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/movies/sholem-aleichem-laughing-in-the-dark\
ness-review.html

As You Like It:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/theater/reviews/royal-shakespeare-companys\
-as-you-like-it-review.html

Dr Dee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/arts/music/damon-albarn-opera-dr-dee-at-manche\
ster-festival-review.html

Guillaume Tell :

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/arts/music/rossini-and-his-abrupt-farewell-to-\
opera.html

Emperor and Galilean:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/theater/ibsens-emperor-and-galilean-at-nationa\
l-theater-in-london.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Archaeonews Podcast 193:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-19\
3
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Edmund Carpenter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/edmund-carpenter-archaelogist-and-anthrop\
ologist-dies-at-88.html

Otto von Habsburg:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14019319

Eddy Nicholson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/us/04nicholson.html

Patrick Leigh Fermor:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e7177139.ece
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Yaacov Behrman, Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo,Kurt Theis,John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
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EARLY HUMANS
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On mixing of African and non-African populations post-migration:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110713/full/news.2011.413.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713131419.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-algorithm-insights-evolutionary-exodus-afric\
a.html
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AFRICA
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The first female archaeologist in Uganda:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201107110448.html

Ethiopian lake sediments and their implications:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-ethiopian-lake-sediments-reveal-history.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Overview of recent finds from assorted sites in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1056/heritage.htm

A major cache of Ushabtis:

http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-discovery-at-dra-abu-el-naga-\
and.html

Recovery of more items stolen during Egypt's revolution in January:

http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/07/more-artifacts-stolen-during-egyptian-revo\
lution-recovered/

Another mummies-had-heart-disease story:

http://news.yahoo.com/scans-egyptian-mummies-show-heart-disease-ancient-malady-1\
60405961.html
http://news.yahoo.com/mummies-show-heart-disease-ancient-problem-20110403-110403\
-269.html

... and they found all sorts of interesting things when they did the CT scan
thing on mummies at the
Field Museum:

http://www.suntimes.com/6461128-417/ct-scans-unravel-mysteries-of-field-museums-\
mummies.html

Feature on animal mummies:

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=32703

Folks think there are Second Temple artifacts beneath an Ein Karem toilet:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/second-temple-artifacts-may-be-buried-\
under-ein-karem-toilet-1.373285

A Shabbat boundary stone with some Hebrew writing on it:

http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=228941

Suggestion that Israeli archaeology is an 'old boy's club':

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/professor-b-z-kedar-is-israeli-arc\
haeology-an-old-boys-club-1.372752
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-right-wing-culture-mini\
ster-making-appointments-based-on-politics-1.372567

On problems with cement and Temple Mount:

http://www.bib-arch.org/scholars-study/temple-mount-walls.asp

On some mystery kosher ungulates from Deuteronomy:

http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=5275

Nice feature on archaeology at Dura Europos:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2011/article/study-sheds-new-light-on-\
archaeology-of-the-dura-europos-expedition

... somewhat related, artifacts from Mount Scopus which were supposed to go
on display in
1948 finally are going on display:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/ruins-from-ancient-syrian-synagogu\
e-put-on-display-in-israel-after-63-year-delay-1.373628

Landmines interviews about assorted digs in the 2011 season:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads-3/files/LM-130711a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads-3/files/LM-130711b.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads-3/files/LM-130711c.mp3(Elah
Fortress)
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads-3/files/LM-130711d.mp3(cont\
.)
Video report on the dig at Tel Akko:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIdtvZOrVI

Feature on synagogue excavations in Israel:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=37&Issue=4&ArticleID=7

Another technique to determine he DSS origins:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/89/i28/8928scene1.html

More scrutiny of/interviews with/features about Zahi Hawass (all different):

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=guardian-of-the-pharoahs
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/world/middleeast/13hawass.html

... and an interview with Fayza Haikal:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/476827

More on finds from Gath:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/13/biblical-bad-guy-archaeologists-uncover-goli\
ath%E2%80%99s-hometown/
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=229291
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/11/in-israel-archaeologists-unearth-bible\
s-bad-guys/?cmpid=cmty_email_Gigya_Archaeologists_Excavate_Biblical_Giant_Goliat\
h%27s_Hometown

More on finds from Khirbet Qeiyafa:

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/07/14/israel.cityofdavid.archeology/inde\
x.html
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_159.pdf

Simcha's got more stuff coming out ... you've been warned:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2011/12/c4756.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
That statue of Caligula that was found last January was formally presented
to the press
this week, along with info about other finds associated with it:

http://news.discovery.com/history/caligula-statue-unveiled.html
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_europe/2011-07-13/police-uncover-treasure\
-trove-after-foiling-tomb-raiders.html
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Italy-Recovered-Caligul\
a-marble-statue-unveiled_312235826456.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8633343/Caligula-statue-d\
iscovered-by-tomb-raiders-unveiled-in-Rome.html
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/us-italy-caligula-idINTRE76C3VG20110713
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Italy-Unveils-Newly-Discovered-Statue\
-of-Emperor-Caligula---125496908.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/uk-italy-caligula-idUSLNE76C02M2011071\
3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/sets/72157627054554301/with/5\
931149624/(photos)
http://www.3news.co.nz/Tomb-raiders-foiled-ancient-treasure-trove-found/tabid/11\
60/articleID/218767/Default.aspx
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2011/07/12/visualizza_new.html_7\
86877940.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49004

Significant finds at the Maryport dig:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-14173527

Some recent finds from Corinth:

http://corinthianmatters.com/2011/07/14/service-excavations-unearth-corinth-city\
-walls-and-other-buildings/

Dorothy King believes she has identified the mothe of Mausolus:

http://phdiva.blogspot.com/2011/07/introducing-aba-mother-of-mausolus-of.html

Not sure where to put this one ... connections made between Jesus and
Adonis:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2011/3269350.htm

Services have been "upgraded" in a pile of Greek museums and sites:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/07/13/services-upgraded-in-169-museums-and-\
archaelogical-sites/

A list of ten books set in Rome:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/jul/13/top-10-books-rome

A political scientist translates the Nichomachaen Ethics:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7656509.html

The poetry of Dioscorus of Aphrodito:

http://www.byzantineegypt.com/

Review of Paul Johnson, *Socrates*:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/17/2457633/life-and-death-of-socrates-m\
arked.html

More on that Roman-era basilica from Alexandria:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=48962
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188463.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/team-unearths-first-roman-1003647.html

More on pills from a Roman shipwreck:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013157/Roman-aid-kit-discovery-sheds-ne\
w-light-medicines-used-ancient-times.html
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/8158-roman-er\
a-wreck-may-hold-key-to-cures-for-modern-disease

More on the Olympia Hypothesis:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110710204240.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-tsunamis-cult-site-peloponnese.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/jgum-oht071011.php
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-26058.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2077362/tsunamis_buried_cult_site_on_the_pe\
loponnese/index.html
http://io9.com/5820068/the-lost-city-where-the-olympics-began-may-have-been-dest\
royed-by-tsunamis

More on that sarcophagus from Gabii:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Italy-Ancient-sarcophag\
us-unearthed-near-Rome_312206054175.html

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Bulgarian scientists have found the 'original' shores of the Black Sea:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-24789.html

Human remains from an Iron Age site in Caithness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14154062

A 12th century or so 'cog' (a ship) found off the coast of Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/34952/20110715/

Recent (medieval) finds from Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=130256
http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/07/14/1123260_archaeology-discovery-of-gothic-amul\
et-at-bulgarias-perperikon

A 16th century Ark found during excavations of Vilnius' synagoge:

http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2031701/Site-of-Holy-Ark-Uncovered-in-Excavati\
ons-of-Great-Synagogue-of-Vilnius.html

Plans to dig at a Henry VIII blockhouse on the Angle peninsula:

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=21807

Another renovated castle (Oystermouth) reopens:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-14167952

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A report on some preserved fruit found a while ago in a shipwreck off
Australia:

http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2011/07/150-year-old-preserved-fruit-from-shipwreck.\
html

Archaeologists are scrambling to save as many artifacts as they can before
mining begins
at a site in Afghanistan (we've mentioned this in the past):

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/asia/la-fg-afghan-archeology-20110\
712,0,1385452.story
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2015603964_webafghan14.html

Sand mining threatens an eighth century tower in Dac Lac province (Viet
Nam):

http://vietnamnews.vnanet.vn/Life-Style/213204/Sand-mining-threatens-ancient-Cha\
m-tower-.html

They're still arguing about that temple treasure from Kerala:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=446261&version\
=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A possible Russian site from Alaska:

http://newsminer.com/bookmark/14673005
http://www.adn.com/2011/07/12/1963515/project-yields-likely-russian.html

A Native American burial along the Tennessee River:

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/15074715/riverbank-project-uncovers-american-indian-\
remains

... and an account of a dig at the Hollywood Mounds (Mississippi):

http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/Archaeologist-Digging-Up-Signs-of-Early/f_\
O-NQfzAEyRWXWkn3KVcA.cspx?rss=59

Haven't had a child-finds-an-arrowhead story in years:

http://www.thecomet.net/news/letchworth_boy_makes_4_000_year_old_arrowhead_disco\
very_1_960770

They've found the wreck of the Queen of the Lakes in Lake Ontario:

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/57270-sunken-1906-shipwreck-fou\
nd-in-lake-ontario
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/3-masted-canadian-schooner-that-sank-in-1\
906-is-found-by-shipwreck-explorers-in-lake-ontario/2011/07/15/gIQARXd7FI_story.\
html
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S2200128.shtml?cat=565
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1025512--shipwreck-hunters-find-150-y\
ear-old-schooner-in-lake-ontario?bn=1
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/wreck_of_1853_schooner_discove.ht\
ml
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/07/15/us/AP-US-Old-Shipwreck.html

... and the survey behind the find:

http://morningjournal.com/articles/2011/07/16/news/mj4810512.txt

Meanwhile, Project Shipwreck was finding wrecks in Lake Huron:

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/07/high_school_student_calls_sh\
ip.html

A major survey is underway off the coast of Maryland:

http://www.mdcoastdispatch.com/articles/2011/07/15/Top-Stories/Major-Shipwreck-S\
urvey-Off-Coast-Underway

... and there's a survey of Civil War shipwrecks in the James River going on
too:

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/survey-civil-war-shipwrecks-continues-james-rive\
r

... and they're looking for the USS Scorpion:

http://mptscorpion.blogspot.com/
http://scorpionarchaeology.blogspot.com/2011/07/already-on-wreck.html


Using DNA to identify some Joseph Smith descendents:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700150651/DNA-solves-a-Joseph-Smith-mystery.h\
tml

Workers in Connecticut came across some 18th century graffiti:

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_london_cty/workers-uncovers-ancient-graffiti

Budget cuts shut down a realllllllllllllllly old ferry in Connecticut:

http://www.courant.com/community/rocky-hill/hc-ap-ct-ferryclosingjul15,0,43014.s\
tory
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/middlesex_cty/grassroots-effort-to-keep-connecticut\
-ferries-afloat

Theory about some strangely-bent trees in Georgia:

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/199/article/52953/

Review/interview with Lori Ginzberg about *Elizabeth Cady Stanton*:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/13/137681070/for-stanton-all-women-were-not-created-e\
qual

More on the shores of Tripoli:

http://grasstopconcepts.com/e/8565/t.php?b=203&c=3&e=rogueclassicist@gmail.com&p\
=http://tinyurl.com/6zbo2gs
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
An 8th century monolith of the Aztec rain god from Mexico:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Mexico-unearths-monolith-of-Aztec-God/tabid/1160/articleI\
D/218358/Default.aspx

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 British Library wants to buy the St Cuthbert Gospel:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_CUTHBERTS_GOSPEL?SITE=INEVA&SE\
CTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&partner=RSS
http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=11428&catid=2

A lost 'Michelangelo' from Campion Hall, Oxford:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14105645

Martha Nussbaum on why we need the humanities:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/our-world-needs-the-humanities/\
story-e6frgcjx-1226093342154

A history of blood transfusions:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=blood-lust--the-early-history\
-of-tr-2011-07-12

Algae from Roman Bath could fuel cars (not sure whether this one is in our
purview):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-14102932
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-roman-algae-fuel-future-video.html

Mozart may have had vitamin D problems:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-mozart-longer-spent-sun.html

The 'mystery' of Leonardo:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/jul/13/leonardo-da\
-vinci-art-mystery

An early attempt at relativity:

http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2011/07/by_the_1860s_the_classical.php

Feature on the Last Supper:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/13/arts/design/kimmelman-postcards-da\
-vinci-last-supper.html

More on that Edison talking doll:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-edison-1st-doll.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Malta:

http://www.slate.com/id/2298756/entry/0/

Rhodes:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite8_24589_15/07/2011_398544

Meteora:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110715-meteora-greeces-city-in-the-sky

Bath:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110701-bath-from-above-an-elevated-guide-to-\
britains-most-beautif
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
An Egyptian smuggling ring was busted this week:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/15/new.york.antiquities.smuggling/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/arts/design/federal-authorities-charge-4-peopl\
e-in-antiquities-smuggling.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/07/14/2011-07-14_feds_bust_group_t\
rying_to_smuggle_ancient_egyptian_mummy_coffins.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/crime/2011/07/14/2011-07-14_mummy_thief_fals\
ely_claimed_artifact_belonged_to_his_daddy_.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/feds_bust_is_cur_of_the_mummy_8Bf7iqk7G6b0Pkq\
pq2cD2O
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/feds_bust_in_brooklyn_based_egyptian\
_jfphVFmJokBq463BUc1g4O
http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-joseph-lewis-egyptian-sarcophagus-charged-chesterf\
ield,0,5416944.story
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43760588/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-charges-antiquities-dealers-collectors-us-united-ara\
b-145425053.html

A smuggler in Florina (Greece) was busted too:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=10169698&service=142

Someone attacked a Poussin at the National Gallery:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/17/poussin-attack-national-gallery

Tombs along the Silk Road are being plundered:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/201107/12/t20110712_22536678.shtml

The guy accused of stealing a Picasso is going to plead not guilty:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/man-accused-of-stealing-picasso-dra\
wing-to-plead-not-guilty/

A list of items purportedly stolen by him:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/07/15/us/AP-US-Purloined-Picasso-Glance.htm\
l

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some 3rd century Greek coins from Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=130182
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/07/14/ancient-greek-coins-found-in-sozopol-bulg\
aria/

More on that Ides of March denarius coming to auction:

http://www.presstv.com/detail/188942.html

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n28.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Cleopatra:

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory?id=14052701
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/125394348.html

Vasari:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/arts/14iht-vasari14.html

Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20110714a1.html

Treasures of Heaven:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/8639735/Treasures-of-Heaven-at-British-Mu\
seum-Seven-magazine-review.html

A top ten list of museums/galleries in Rome:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/jul/13/top-10-museums-galleries-rome

Not sure when this 'history of Ireland in 100 Objects' began:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0716/1224300799309.html

Review of the renovated galleries at the ROM:

http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21735&Itemid=86

That 'Lost Leonardo' will be going on display (of course):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8632230/Lost-Leonardo-da-Vinci-t\
o-go-on-display-says-National-Gallery.html

A pile of antiquities returned to the Swat Museum:

http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/14/antiquities-to-return-to-swat-museum.html

Big bucks to acquire an African Art Collection:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/newark-museum-gets-1-million-grant-\
for-african-art-collection/

Feature on Robert S. Duncanson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/arts/design/painter-robert-s-duncanson-and-2-j\
ewelry-exhibitions.html



Feature/interactive tour of the Barnes Foundation:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/09/arts/design/20110709-barnes-art-pa\
no.html?hp?hp


The Hermitage has an interesting 'virtual academy' online devoted to
assorted objects in
their collection:

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/06/hm6_2.html

Big bucks for a Jane Austen manuscript:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14152092
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jane-austen-manuscrip\
t-fetches-993250-2313668.html

Recent auction results:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/arts/16iht-MELIKIAN16.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Guillaume Tell:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/arts/music/rossinis-opera-guillaume-tell-at-ca\
ramoor-review.html

Romeo and Juliet:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/theater/reviews/royal-shakespeare-companys\
-romeo-and-juliet-review.html

Henry V:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/theater/reviews/henry-v-new-york-classical\
-theater-review.html

The Magdalene:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/theater/reviews/in-the-magdalene-gnostic-g\
ospels-take-the-stage-review.html

What's going on on some London stages?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/theater/richard-iii-at-old-vic-and-other-londo\
n-shows-offer-catharsis.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Latest video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Archaeonews Podcast 194:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-19\
4
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Stanley Seeger:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/arts/design/stanley-seeger-81-dies-collected-a\
rt-quietly.html

George M. Ross:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/us/14ross.html================================\
================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Now we're on the human-neanderthal interbreeding thing again:

http://www.livescience.com/15196-dna-evidence-neanderthals-sex-humans.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43866502/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/there-s-a-little-neanderthal-in-most-of-us-1.\
3045134
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/neanderthal-human-mating/
http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics-neanderthal-110718.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/uom-grc071411.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110718085329.htm

... and pondering what red-haired neanderthals looked like:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/07/what-did-red-haired-neanderthals-\
look-like/

... and they were pretty good at making tools, whatever their hair colour:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/26/neanderthal-tools-were-a-ma\
tch-for-early-homo-sapiens/comment-page-1/
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110715163826243

Human-like walking began 3.7 million years ago:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110719194356.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-ancient-footprints-human-like-began-million.\
html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/uol-afs071811.php
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15251635,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-footprints-reveal-earliest-signs-human-gait-180607\
056.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2016705/This-ones-got-legs--Human\
s-walked-upright-far-earlier-previously-thought.html
http://news.discovery.com/human/ancient-footprint-ancestor-walked-upright-110701\
9.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/earlier-evidence-human-walking-233444814.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
On protecting cave paintings in Somaliland:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/110718/somaliland-cave-pa\
intings-hargeisa
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A tiny, Second Temple bell from near the Siloam pool:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=230527
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145970
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4098615,00.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jsZLC3DMeM7IHVK1W-RwZDB1TBgw?\
docId=CNG.9917d443fadc07586017a75a3b0a0fee.581
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Gold_bell_excavati\
ons_Jerusalem_24-Jul-2011.htm

They're digging again at Tell Belata (Nablus):

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/in-west-bank-city-of-nablus-archaeologists-\
uncover-biblical-ruin-1.374728
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/23/159004.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/07/22/international/i03532\
6D73.DTL
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/22/in-palestinian-city-diggers-uncover-bi\
blical-ruin/
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49288

A symbol in Syriac might be the first example of a question mark:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-riddle-syriac-dot-world-earliest.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/symbol-syriac-may-worlds-first-mark-170017192.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/us-academic-questionmark-idUSTRE76K4ZI\
20110721
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/227185/odds-and-ends/symbol-in-syriac-may-be-worlds-\
first-question-mark

Archaeologists are trying to keep politics out of the IAA:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeology-professors-call-on-livnat-\
to-keep-posting-scientific-1.374336
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-right-wing-culture-mini\
ster-making-appointments-based-on-politics-1.372567

.. while work has resumed to remove a number of 'fake gravestones' from the
Mamilla Cemetery:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=230291

The Hawass saga resumed ... first he was fired/quit:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/egypts-antiquities-chief-says-he-wi\
ll-lose-his-job/
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/egyptians-celebrate-fir\
ing-of-the-mubarak-of-antiquities/242110/
http://www.observer.com/2011/07/new-egyptian-antiquities-minister-quits/
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE76I00720110719
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/zahi-hawass-fired-as-egypts-antiquities\
-minister/article2101021/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Arts&utm_c\
ontent=2101021
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/zahi-hawass-egypts-indiana-jones-sacked\
/story-e6frea8l-1226096616264
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijBtFZ08OmsLpDoUeg-YSLO-p1Sg?d\
ocId=036d849b7eed4fd4ab3516b948a1f7ad

... and replaced:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/479253
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/16802/Egypt/Politics-/Corruption-ac\
cusations-stir-anger-in-Egyptian-anti.aspx(sort
of)

Then he  wasn't replaced/was rehired:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Zahi+Hawass+remains+antiquities+minister\
%E2%80%94for+now/24336
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/egyptian-antiquities-boss-is-\
still-minister-animated-sita-sings-the-blues-stirs-controversy/2011/07/21/gIQAbx\
9aRI_blog.html
http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=36964

Then he had to talk about it:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/zahi-hawass-discusses-his-departure\
/

Then the antiquities ministry was dissolved (although the order of all these
is very confusing):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/eqypt-antiquities-department-downgr\
aded/

And there were opinion pieces, of course:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/22/sacking-zahi-hawass-egypt-re\
volution
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=230113

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Reuniting two halves of a Weary Herakles in Boston and Antalya:

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2011/07/17/museum_of_fine_arts_to\
_return_weary_herakles_statue_to_turkey/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017629/Weary-Herakles-reunited-half-loo\
ted-bust-returns-Turkey.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14246476

A Roman burial among Bronze Age items from Watton:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-14235458
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/2_000_year_old_body_found_in_watton_1_970819

Roman glass from Doncaster:

http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/community/roman_jug_unearthed_at_site_of_new\
_theatre_1_3603555

On Alexander and the area that would become Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=alexander-and-the-land-that-became-turk\
ey-2011-07-20

Protesting the gold mine that threatens the Alburnus Maior site in Romania:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jDRfLW1JreHFOG3oIJ1Ew-xuSeYA?\
docId=CNG.34434e71dd0d8f6f1db55d736e69a70c.5d1
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iR77cWAd4MURrbUdVuE1FyASjUEw?\
docId=CNG.887f499000e6a91584af43f31977bd2a.151

The ruins of Cyrene are open for visitors, if you don't mind the revolution
going on:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#label/5explorator/1314d86aa4450000
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/21/7133908-libyas-ancient-greek-rui\
ns-open-for-visitors

A call for a revival of 'classical' education:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=416843&\
c=1

Review of Ann Wroe, *Orpheus, The Song of Life*:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hKSvlf6FtDEWzvchcyzdvMIa0utQ?\
docId=CNG.bdac60bc01523cb81732d8109017db35.151
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/orpheus-the-song-o\
f-life-by-ann-wroe-2318120.html

Review of Stacy Schiff, *Cleopatra*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/22/cleopatra-life-stacy-schiff-review

Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303795304576453922766839818.html

Review of Robert Knapp, *Invisible Romans*:

http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/book_review_invisi\
ble_romans_by_robert_knapp_1_3589189

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
12 000  years b.p. 'erotic art' from Germany:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iUd_KgXLe5z5OnnrvD35jBoY_9Ng?\
docId=CNG.6d2e05e533c3dc6e09198e9891bddf87.ae1

A mesolithic 'rest stop' found during supermarket construction  near Nairn:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14189794

UK's oldest 'open air' cemetery:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14239742

Mysterious tunnel networks in Bavaria:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,775348,00.html

Interview with NIkolay Ovcharov about Peperikon:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=f2579

They're finding gold in the wreck of the Royal Charter:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/07/18/tragic-historic-shipwrec\
k-begins-to-give-up-a-rich-treasure-of-gold-91466-29070968/

... and in a dig at Bamburgh Castle:

http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local-headlines/french_student_strikes_\
gold_in_dig_at_bamburgh_castle_1_1736687

French heavy armour at Agincourt contributed to their demise:

http://news.discovery.com/history/armor-glitch-110721.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/armour-doubles-effort-moving-233444709.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14204717

Pondering the Irish Potato Famine:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-world-1840s-ireland.html

Piratical plans to celebrate Scottish Archaeology Month:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7588518.stm

Preparing to mark the Battle of Harlaw:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-14219634

Panmure House will be restored:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14239253

Turf cutting at the Osmington White Horse:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-14182099

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Latest on the NanAo 1 shipwreck:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7443765.html

A court has ordered that temple treasure to be cataloged:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/court-orders-antiquities-expert\
s-to-catalog-trove-of-temple-treasures-in-southern-india/2011/07/21/gIQA9ZeKRI_s\
tory.html

More coverage of the find in general:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/kerala-temple-treasure-\
shows-indias-legendary-hunger-for-gold/articleshow/9304186.cms

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
10000 years b.p. First Nations artifacts from New Brunswick:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/07/21/nb-first-nation-arc\
haeology.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/190425.html

A 600 years b.p. Nez Perce artifact from Hells Canyon:

http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/600-year-old-Artifact-found-in-Hells-Canyon--1259\
54468.html

Skeletons from a New Haven construction site might be from a long forgotten
cemetery:

http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2011/07/21/news/doc4e2428df2fd21501158599.tx\
t
http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2011/07/17/more_old_skelet\
ons_found_at_conn_construction_site

Cleanup from that Gulf oil spill has revealed a pile of sites:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2015631160_apusgulfoils\
pillindiandiscoveries.html

Feature on using microdebitage to locate sites and/or ancient coastlines:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2011/07/17/debris-points-to\
-lost-lake-sites.html?sid=101
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/07/microdebitage-analysis-makes-big.ht\
ml

Bones from Gaspe might belong to victims of a 19th century shipwreck:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/bones-found-on-gasp-coast-co\
uld-be-of-1847-shipwreck-victims/article2102896/?from=sec431

Teddy Roosevelt was apparently infatuated with  Irish folklore:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Revealed-President--Teddy-Roosevelt--was-infatu\
ated-with-Irish-mythology-126004803.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0722/1224301126143.html

Feature on conservation of Blackbeard's shipwreck:

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20110721/ARTICLES/110729913/1004/sitemaps


Pondering the fate of the first Bull Run prisoners:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/private-conant-and-the-first-bul\
l-run-prisoners/?hp

... and a memorial for three sailors:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138482457/a-memorial-for-three-mysterious-sailors

Review of Gordon Wood, *The Idea of America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/books/review/the-idea-of-america-by-gordon-s-w\
ood-book-review.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Marking the anniversary of the discovery of Machu PIcchu:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=machu-picchu-bingham-centennial
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/110721-machu-picchu-100th-annive\
rsary-archaeology-science/

A Lambayeque culture executioner burial:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/20/ancient-peruvian-tomb-points-to-human-\
sacrifice/
http://www.itv.com/news/pre-inca-tomb-found87599/
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=CT/DumQKNd4=

Evidence of cannibalism in Maguey Cave?:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/07/22/mexican-anthropologists-fi\
nd-evidence-cannibalistic-tribe/
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/8-investigaciones-y-estudios-historic\
os/5145-hallan-evidencia-de-antropofagia-entre-xiximes

An Azlatlan culture burial from Zacatecas:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5139-descubren-rica-ofre\
nda-funeraria-en-zacatecas

Did the Mayans mess with turtle DNA?:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2011/07/22/18457476.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-endangered-river-turtle-genes-reveal.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The US and Greece signed an agreement restricting the import of antiquities:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Clinton-signs-memorandum-with-Greece-res\
tricting-import-of-antiquities/24369
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hKSvlf6FtDEWzvchcyzdvMIa0utQ?\
docId=CNG.bdac60bc01523cb81732d8109017db35.151
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_europe/2011-07-18/u-s-greece-agree-on-cra\
ckdown-on-antiquities-looting.html

How to teach archaeology:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jul/18/archaeology-resources-teacher-ne\
twork

Difficult to describe this one from the Atlantic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/do-i-repeat-myself/8572/

A reprint of L Sprague de Camp's article for Natural History on lost
continents:

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12467/lost-continents

Maybe Calvin wasn't so strict after all:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-calvin-strict-thought.html

... and maybe Isaac Casaubon was an "industrious Hebraist" among his other
claims to fame:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Books/Article.aspx?id=230354

Feature on Reflectance Transformation Imaging:

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/acrg/AHRC_RTI.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14239742
http://www.youtube.com/user/ecsnews#p/a/u/1/Kqi-85U2zYs

Feature on misericords:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8641401/Mermaids-in-the-church-choir.ht\
ml

Out of our period of interest, but interesting, so we'll put it here ... a
skull of a Japanese pilot found
at Pearl Harbor:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017173/Pearl-Harbor-pilot-skull-belong-\
downed-Japonese-pilot-1941.html?ITO=1490
http://straitstimes.com.feedsportal.com/c/32792/f/524621/s/16ce408e/l/0L0Sstrait\
stimes0N0CBreakingNews0CWorld0CStory0CSTIStory0I692970A0Bhtml/story01.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10739888&ref=rs\
s

OpEd on books and digitization and the like:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/opinion/sunday/17gleick.html

Tony Perrottet on why some writers belong behind bars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/books/review/why-writers-belong-in-prison.html

Review of  Howard Markel, *An Anatomy of Addiction*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/books/review/an-anatomy-of-addiction-by-howard\
-markel-book-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/books/howard-markel-on-cocaine-in-anatomy-of-a\
ddiction.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/books/excerpt-an-anatomy-of-addiction-by-howar\
d-markel.html

Review of Charles Freeman, *Holy Bones, Holy Dust*:

http://www.historyextra.com/book-review/holy-bones-holy-dust?utm_source=Adestra&\
utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=Read%20more&utm_campaign=History%20NL%20-\
%2022%2F07%2F11

Review of Brian Fagan, *Elixir: A Human History of Water*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8637678/Elixir-A-Human-Hist\
ory-of-Water-by-Brian-Fagan.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Milos:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite8_4164_22/07/2011_398996

Rome:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2011/07/why-bother-to-visit-the-colosse\
um-1.html

Sevilla:

http://www.sevillaen360.es/
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A call for museum guards to be armed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jul/10/arm-museum-guards-looting-war

I think we mentioned this Poussin vandalism:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/two-poussin-paintings-vandalized-in\
-london/

A strange art theft situation/case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/arts/design/french-art-dealer-spends-time-in-d\
etention-in-case-of-missing-artworks.html

More on that Brooklyn-based smuggling ring bust:

http://gothamist.com/2011/07/14/mummy_smuggling_ring_busted_in_broo.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/arts/design/federal-authorities-charge-4-peopl\
e-in-antiquities-smuggling.html

... and some followup at the VMFA:

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/entertainment/2011/jul/22/2/federal-artifacts-smug\
gling-case-being-felt-at-vir-ar-1189870/
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/jul/22/vmfa-reviewing-artifacts-after-ch\
esterfield-man-in-ar-1190011/
http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-vmfa-mummy-chesterfield-museum-art-egyptian-joseph\
-lewis,0,4714400.story

We're still getting sentences in the Utah case:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52213496-90/probation-blanding-smith-artif\
acts.html.csp

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Not sure if we mentioned these hoards found at Colchester:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=22089

More on that Ides of March coin:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015699/Hail-Caesar-Killers-Ides-March-s\
ilver-coin-set-fetch-300-000-auction.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/869606-rare-julius-caesar-assassination-coin-expecte\
d-to-fetch-300k-at-auction

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n29.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Hajj:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14214855
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jul/19/british-museum-hajj-exhibition
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/190388.html
http://www.mandh-online.com/news/content/1618/british_museum_to_host_worlds_larg\
est_hajj_exhibition
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/british-museum-plans-exhibition-showcase-\
for-the-haj

Pharaoh: King of Egypt:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2011/jul/19/great-north-museum-briti\
sh-museum-egypt-neil-macgregor-shelley-ramses-ii-eximious
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/archaeology/art360776

Twombly and Poussin:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8646079/Cy-Twombly-and-Poussi\
n-Arcadian-Painters-Dulwich-Picture-Gallery-review.html

Unmythable:

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/9149896.Preview_of_Unmythable__Ashmolean_Mu\
seum/

Picasso:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/arts/20iht-picasso20.html

Indian Kalighat Paintings:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/451373.php

The Elegant Image (Hindu bronzes):

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/96d38998787b4c3ebd939b036aae23e6/LA\
--NOMA-Hindu-Bronze/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/art-culture/New-Orleans-museum-to-exhibit\
-Hindu-deities-in-bronze/articleshow/9271052.cms

Greece is planning to build a museum at the Piraeus:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/07/23/new-museum-of-marine-antiquities-in-p\
iraeus/

Feature on the Zeugma Mosaic museum:

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/in-turkey-a-home-for-ancient-mosai\
cs/

The Met had a good year:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/design/philadelphia-museum-announces-acqu\
isition.html

The Getty is involved in the conservation of the Berthouville Treasure:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49201

Coverage of Christie's and Sotheby's recent 'trophy' auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/arts/16iht-MELIKIAN16.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/arts/23iht-melikian23.html

More on antiquities being returned to the Swat Museum:

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=103870

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
King Lear:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/theater/reviews/king-lear-by-royal-shakesp\
eare-company-review.html

Luise Miller:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/london-theater-journal-amoral-clari\
ty/?hp

All's Well That Ends Well:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/theater/reviews/alls-well-that-ends-well-i\
n-central-park-review.html

Measure for Measure:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/theater/reviews/measure-for-measure-at-del\
acorte-theater-review.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Nice presentation of the Great Isaiah Scroll:
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Peter Ramsden, David Critchley,
Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, Tim Parkin,John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Michael T. Stulac, Mata Kimasitayo, David Perlmutter,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Jennifer Cosham,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
This week we are being told that humans 'crowded out' Neanderthals in
Europe:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49462
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-strength.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110728144928.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/uoc-sin072711.php
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-human-neanderthal-20110729,0,6450193.\
story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/28/neanderthals-demise-modern-human-i\
nvasion
http://www.canada.com/technology/Humans+have+crowded+Neanderthals+study+says/517\
8634/story.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/261770/Revealed-How-mass-migration-destroyed\
-the-first-Europeans
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43931691/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/modern-humans-crowded-europes-neanderthals-194133635.html

... but the interbreeding theory is still kicking around:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/07/18/science-neanderthal-human-int\
erbreeding.html

... and early humans may have exploited lava flows for fire purposes:

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/07/24/2107805/wwu-researcher-says-early-hum\
ans.html

On early grandparents:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-grandparents-success-human.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2084815/the_role_of_grandparents_in_ancient\
_civilization/index.html

More on when human-like walking began:

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2011/07/31/jun04.asp
http://earthsky.org/human-world/our-ancestors-walked-upright-two-million-years-e\
arlier-than-thought
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Suggestion that a mystery object from and Egyptian tomb might be the first
protractor:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20748-egyptian-tomb-mystery-may-be-worlds-\
first-protractor.html

On the "serious weaponry" wielded by ancient Egyptian royalty:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/25/ancient-egyptian-royalty-wielded-serio\
us-weapons/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/25/scitech/main20082924.shtml

Pondering why Tell Qarqur seemed to thrive when other places were
struggling:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43945216/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/15267-ancient-city-mysteriously-survived-mideast-civi\
lization-collapse.html

A 3000 years b.p. altar from Tel Tzafit:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/3-000-year-old-altar-uncovered-at-phil\
istine-site-suggests-cultural-links-to-jews-1.375305

The tomb of St Philip has apparently been identified:

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/75127/
http://www.cathnewsphil.com/2011/07/28/tomb-of-st-philip-the-apostle-found-in-tu\
rkey/
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=157662&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO&ssez=VETRI\
NA
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/27/tomb-st-philip-apostle-discovered-in-t\
urkey/

A 3D trip through the pyramid of Khufu:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14334046

Bronze Age burials from Terqa:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/07/tough-times-rep\
orted-for-ancient-warrior/1


A 3000 years b.p. stone altar from Tel Tzafit (Gat):

http://www.foundationstone.org/ (with links to audio)
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/3-000-year-old-altar-uncovered-at-phil\
istine-site-suggests-cultural-links-to-jews-1.375305
http://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php?id=33&pt=20&pid=117&level=2&cPath=33&type=1&new\
s=1471

... see also Aren Maeir's blog posts on same:

http://gath.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/the-news-is-out-a-large-stone-altar-in-area\
-d/
http://gath.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/the-altar-is-out-and-a-possible-inscription\
/
http://gath.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/removing-the-altar-from-area-d/
http://gath.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/short-clip-explaining-about-the-altar/
http://gath.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/inscription/

A 2800 years b.p. lion statue from Tell Tayinat:

http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/07/2800-year-old-lion-statue-discover\
ed-at.html

Some backtracking on those lead codices:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-14251461

Turkish archaeologists have taken over excavating at Xanthos:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=xanthos-excavations-turned-over-to-turk\
ish-archaeologists-2011-07-26

A Dead Sea Scroll was a 'precursor' to the Jewish calendar:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=7274
https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-sc\
w:128116&datastreamId=FULL-TEXT.PDF

... perhaps you want to adopt your own DSS:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020595/

Op Eddish thing on conservation efforts to raise awareness of sites:

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=230962

I'm really not sure what Zahi Hawass' employment situation is anymore:

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/egypts-own-indiana-jones-za\
hi-hawas-is-pushed-from-power

The clash between politics and archaeology continues in Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/knesset-legislation-gives-right-wing-g\
roup-control-over-city-of-david-park-1.375645
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/government-move-would-cement-rightist-group\
-s-control-of-jerusalem-national-park-1.375546

More on that bell from Jerusalem's Old City:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49345
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Gold_bell_excavati\
ons_Jerusalem_24-Jul-2011.htm
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/2000_Year_Old_Bell_20110727.shtml
http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/22/tiny-2000-year-old-golden-bell-found-in-jerusalem\
.html
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_18542433
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/9907921/ancient-bell-found-in-jerusal\
em-sewer/
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/5336971/Ancient-bell-found-in-Jerusalem\
-Old-City-sewer
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/In-Jerusalem-a-2-000-year-old-bell-\
rings-again-1567355.php
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/07/24/3088678/in-jerusalem-a-peal-from-the-\
past

... and if you want to hear it ring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjx9tP3yTRI
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53224

More on that Syriac question mark:

http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/140323/
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/452666.php

More on Tell Balata:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=230833
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/23/159004.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)
================================================================
Big news this week appears to be the discover of a mosaic of Apollo
on the Oppian:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49468
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-14356604 (video)
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/29/3803443/dig-through-ancient-rome-finds.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/dig-through-ancient-rome-finds-mosaic-1.3061085
http://www.thespec.com/news/world/article/571133--dig-under-ancient-roman-baths-\
reveals-apollo-in-the-altogether
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g53qM-SnVhZQVGe7JcDWp5D_Awmw?\
docId=CNG.6b44e7e4e2bbd63a32abdf8eea663c41.501
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Dig-through-ancient-Rome-finds-mosaic-1639883\
.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8671524/Dig-under-ancient\
-Trajans-Baths-in-Rome-turns-up-mosaic-depicting-a-nude-Apollo.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2011/07/29/une-mosaique-representant-apoll\
on-decouverte-pres-du-colisee_1554282_3246.html

Those possible 'gladiator' remains from York/Driffield Terrace are
going on display:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/gladiator_ideas_do_battle_in_public_arena_1_36263\
77
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-14324813

Plenty of press coverage for the Ancient Lives crowdsourcing project to
transcribe
Oxyrhynchus papyri:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-grant-combines-astrophysics-archeology-decip\
her.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/papyrus-fragments-crowdsource-110727.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8663385/Ancient-papyri-frankly-theyre-still-a\
ll-Greek-to-me.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/29/calling-all-egyptology-geek\
s-help-decipher-ancient-papyri/
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/28/7189930-help-scientists-decipher\
-lost-gospel
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/26/volunteers-wanted-to-transcribe-lost-g\
ospels-online/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14289685
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018848/Oxford-University-appeals-help-t\
ranscribing-200-000-ancient-Greek-letters.html?ITO=1490
http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7124483/no-ordinary-book-learning.thtml
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100055048/what-to-do-in-the-scho\
ol-holidays-number-one-discover-a-rare-greek-papyrus/
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2011/110726.html

An Etruscan 'holy site' near Viterbo:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/07/26/Bronze-Age-holy-site-studied-in-Italy\
/UPI-25271311697633/

A Roman villa from Bedford:

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Historic-find-dates-back-to-the-Romans-2\
9072011.htm

Remains of a Roman village from Corby:

http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/local/corby/ancient_artefacts_unearthed_at_sit\
e_1_2903595

A chariot relief from Mugla:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=relief-shows-chariot-race-in-ancient-ti\
mes-2011-07-27

Suggestion that a theme park next to Pompeii might be a good idea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/today/hi/today/newsid_9548000/9548526.st\
m

... more on the reasoning:

Feature on Viminacium:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sasa-milosevic/viminacium-a-new-life-of-_b_911556.\
html

Wroxeter's 'roman style' villa is getting a lot of vistors:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-14284407

Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14181005
http://www.denverpost.com/rss/ci_18570942?source=rss
http://abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2011/3279400.htm (interview)

Review of Vicky Alvear Schecter, *Cleopatra's Moon*:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/books/la-ca-vicky-schecter-20110731,0,\
3182643.story

More on concerns for Hadrian's villa:

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1654098.php/Roman-emp\
eror-s-villa-decays-for-lack-of-funds

More on that 1600 years b.p. burial from Northamptonshire:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/1-600-year-old-human-remains-unearthed/H1-Article1\
-725445.aspx

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Possibly the UK's oldest rock art  (from Wales):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-archaeologists-chance-discovery-britain-earl\
iest.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/07/25/Cave-art-could-be-Britains-oldest/UPI\
-79031311632355/
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2011/7812.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-14272126

I couldn't find any English coverage of this incredibly unique tomb
find from Bosnia-Herzegovina:

http://www.ilmeridiano.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4818:sen\
sazionale-scoperta-archeologica-in-bosnia-erzegovina-una-tipologia-di-tomba-mai-\
vista-prima-&catid=114:cultura&Itemid=540

Finds from various periods (mostly Neolithic?) from southern Bulgaria:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/07/28/1130455_new-archaelogical-discovery-illumina\
tes-practices-from-the-copper-age

Possibly medieval skeletons found prior to flood defence work in Kempsey:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-14329903

A Saxon logboat has gone on display in Portsmouth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14288357

A skull from the UK's 'oldest cemetery' is one display in Bridgwater:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14332346

Plans for Peperikon:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-07-29&article=36885

Medieval armour was a bit of a hindrance, apparently:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110719194352.htm

They're looking for Miguel de Cervantes' bones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/25/cervantes-bones-madrid-convent-searc\
h

More on that Mesolithic rest stop:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49326

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
An ancient battlefield canteen from Shanxi:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/ancient-battlefield-canteen-found-china-115035140.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/24/c_131005498.htm

A possible 2000 years b.p. burial from Vientiane:

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20110731-291950.html

On the antiquity of the Korean surname 'Kim':

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-common-korean-surname-tale-nationhood.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
They're back digging at Fort William Henry:

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/07/29/archaeology_team\
_returns_to_historic_ny_fort_site/
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_18581696

Remains of a 19th century village beneath Central Park:

http://news.columbia.edu/columbia-archeologist-unearths-19th-century-village-ben\
eath-central-park

A somewhat hidden 'dig-and-lab' blog of students working on an 18th century
Inuit excavation
near Cartwright, Labrador:

http://www.mun.ca/labmetis/lisablog/

Using GIS to map out Civil War sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/geographic-information-systems-help-schol\
ars-see-history.html

They're going to look for lost graves at the Uncle Tom's Cabin site in
southern Ontario:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/07/28/wdr-uncle-toms-cabin-grav\
es-probed.html

The oldest pizza joint in the US:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/a-pizzeria-from-jersey-now-claims-t\
o-be-the-nations-oldest/

Review of James Grant, *Mr Speaker*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/books/review/mr-speaker-biography-of-thomas-re\
ed-by-james-grant-book-review.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A 2800 years B.C. Olmec relief from Chalcatzingo (Mexico):

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/191174.html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5149-descubren-relieve-o\
lmeca-con-imagen-de-felinos
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=410713&CategoryId=13003

They've exhumed Simon Bolivar and are not sure what he died of:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14286902
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/07/25/remains-bolivar-are-au\
thentic-venezuela-says/

On developing theories about war and the emergence of states from
evidence in the Titcaca basin:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725162529.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/uoc--wiw072511.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43885035/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/15215-devastating-fire-war-destroyed-ancient-peruvian\
-society.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-war-good-civilization-archaeology-peru.html

The site of Tancama is now open to the public:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/7-zonas-arqueologicas/5158-abre-tanca\
ma-en-el-corazon-de-la-sierra-gorda

More on Machu Picchu centennial celebrations:

http://news.yahoo.com/machu-picchu-celebrates-discovery-centennial-191500820.htm\
l
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/24/scitech/main20082680.shtm
http://news.yahoo.com/machu-picchus-place-archaeology-173300418.html

More on that 'sacrificer's tomb' from Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/100728-ancient-human-sacrifice-p\
eru-tomb-executioner-science/

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
================================================================
Feature on Virginias Rare Book School:

http://www.therecord.com/opinion/columns/article/571053--virginia-s-rare-book-sc\
hool-attracts-the-world-s-bibliophiles

What Robert Ballard is up to:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2011/07/28/titanic_explore\
r_details_new_deep_sea_journey
http://www.newser.com/article/d9ooufio1/titanic-oceanographer-on-new-exploration\
-for-artifacts-from-antiquity-geologic-discoveries.html
http://www.theday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011110729524

Humans living at higher latitudes have larger skulls:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14279729

On the various factors that can affect tree ring records:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/w-stw072511.php

A collection of Arabic medical manuscripts is going online:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-historic-arabic-medical-manuscripts-online.h\
tml

Interesting APOD of abandoned kilns in Nevada under the Milky Way:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110725.html

Ben Franklin's off the hook for an invasive species importation:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-genetic-evidence-ben-franklin-video.html

A bit out of our period, but the history of Black Swan records is
interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/nyregion/answers-to-questions-about-new-york.h\
tml

Another potential 'lost DaVinci' going through the authentication process
(sort of):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,777266,00.html

================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Ephesus:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/travel/a/-/more/9926741/ephesus-ahead-of-its-ti\
me/

Delphi:

http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/travel/article478927.ece

Austrian castles:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110722-castle-hunting-in-austria-ten-of-the-\
best
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Not sure where to put this one ... a man has returned a Second Temple
ossuary after realizing that
it was just that:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/man-returns-stolen-second-temple-ossua\
ry-1.375255

I think we mentioned this case of an historian being charged with document
theft:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/us/29brfs-HISTORIANISI_BRF.html

A collection of 300+ year-old silver has been stolen from a Derbyshire
church:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-14345369

An art dealer has been charged with smuggling ivory:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/art-dealer-charged-with-smuggling-i\
vory-into-u-s/

Columbian authorities recovered a pile of artifacts destined for the black
market:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/2011/07/25/494398/colombia-rescata-seis-mi\
l-piezas-arqueologicas-de-culturas-milenarias.html

More on what we're learning from that big mummy smuggling bust:

http://www.livescience.com/15234-ny-mummy-smugglers-reveal-vast-antiquities-blac\
k-market.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ny-mummy-smugglers-reveal-vast-antiquities-black-market\
-120804314.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/27/mummy-smugglers-reveal-vast-antiquitie\
s-black-market/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43915215/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A large Roman hoard from Montgomery:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-14307381

An award for a Roman coin press find:

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/local-news/award_winning_treasure_found_in_win\
g_was_used_by_roman_criminals_1_2889061

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n30.html

... but a new one should be out later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n31.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Teotihuacan:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49370

Gandhara Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/design/asia-society-show-on-buddhist-art-\
from-pakistan-is-to-open.html

Charles Eastlake's Collection:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/24/national-gallerys-pioneering-\
collector-exhibition

Great American Hall of Wonders:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/arts/design/smithsonian-art-museums-american-h\
all-of-wonders-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/27/arts/design/Smithsonian-American-Art\
-.html(slideshow)

Old Javanese Gold:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/nyregion/a-new-look-at-yale-at-old-javanese-go\
ld-review.html

Frans Hals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/arts/design/frans-hals-at-metropolitan-museum-\
review.html

Medieval Illuminations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/arts/30iht-melikian30.html


The National Museum is set to reopen after renovations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14313739

The Textile Museum is moving to GWU:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/textile-museum-to-move-to-george-wa\
shington-university/

The Yorkshire Museum just acquired a very nice Viking/Anglo Saxon ring:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/sapphire-ring-belonge\
d-to-anglosaxon-or-viking-royalty-2328242.html

The Tudor House Museum in Southampton has been 'saved':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14043007

Maybe the Or-O'Keefe Museum of Art wasn't such a good idea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/us/28ohr.html

The Met is returning 19 artifacts to Egypt:

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFL6E7IU02K20110730
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/481703
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g2ZcsiTo7DRpJMBAfGvHQXLnwOzg?d\
ocId=52de17a177c74f2785bb0521090c2414
http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=37932

Germany is returning the Hattusas sphinx to Turkey:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Jul-30/In-isolated-case-Germany-ret\
urns-3500-year-old-sphinx-to-Turkey.ashx
http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2011/07/28/18481796-reuters.html?cid=rsstravelne\
ws
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFLDE76R1E020110728
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011\
/07/28/feature-03
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=hattusa-sphinx-returing-to-anatolia-201\
1-07-26

The Staffordshire Hoard is on tour:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14353261
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14301534

Some medals associated with Captain Bligh are coming to auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/86592\
34/Rare-Captain-Bligh-medals-to-be-auctioned-in-Australia.html

Big bucks for a 200 year-old bottle of Chateau d'Yquem:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/8662962/Worlds-most-expensive-white\
-wine-sold-for-75000.html

Review of *Chasing Aphrodite*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/chasing-aphrodite/2011/06/08/g\
IQA5vTafI_story.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Unmythable:

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/9168708.Unmythable__Temple_Theatre__The_Ash\
molean_Museum__Oxford/

Medea (Epidauros):

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13453/45299

Winter's Tale:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/theater/reviews/the-winters-tale-at-park-a\
venue-armory-review.html

Silver Tassie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/theater/world-war-i-reverberates-in-silver-tas\
sie-and-war-horse.html

A Doll's House:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/theater/reviews/a-dolls-house-at-williamst\
own-theater-festival-review.html

Assorted London productions of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/27iht-lon27.html?ref=arts

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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ON THE WEB
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ANE placemarks for Google Earth:

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/07/ane-placemarks-for-google-earth.h\
tml
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OBITUARIES
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Simon Price:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8\
666537/Simon-Price.html
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

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Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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On climate change and human evolution:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128244.700-thank-climate-change-for-the-\
rise-of-humans.html
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/233962
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article2319868.ece
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52303909-78/cerling-carbon-human-university.ht\
ml.csp
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52303909-78/carbon-cerling-university-forest.h\
tml.csp
http://news.yahoo.com/e-africa-grasslands-influenced-human-evolution-study-11343\
4873.html

More on crowding out the Neanderthal set:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2011/article/neanderthals-were-outnumb\
ered-to-death-study-shows
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AFRICA
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Possibly the oldest Meroe structure (a palace) ever found:

http://www.livescience.com/15420-remains-ancient-palace-discovered-central-sudan\
.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Latest finds at Karnak:

http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/world-news/9765-two-new-monuments-uncovered-at\
-karnak-temple.html

Drought apparently 'brought down' Old Kingdom Egypt:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Ancient-Egypt-was-destroyed-by.6811426.jp

Earliest example of the White Crown found in Egypt (I think we had this a
few
weeks ago in a different form):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110804220442.htm

An Achaemenid palace from Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/191663.html
http://www.payvand.com/news/11/aug/1008.html

Five Byzantine tombs from Tyre:

http://www.presstv.com/detail/192711.html

Somewhat vague item on some burials (bronze age?) from Tartous:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2011/08/03/362109.htm

Can't remember if we mentioned this opportunity to "adopt' pages of the DSS:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020595/The-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-adoption-ju\
st-1-200-PAGE.html

Feature on the Smithsonians squeeze-digitization project:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/digitization-project-bring\
s-ancient-inscriptions-into-21st-century/242420/

What's happening at Petra:

http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/petra.html

Some videos from the dig at Sussita/Hippos (see the sidebar too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkSxAZI8CqY

Feature on Kahena, the seventh-century Jewish Berber queen:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=232489

Remembering Herbert Armstrong:

http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8515.7241.0.0
http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8512.7235.0.0

Translating the Book of Jubilees:

http://nd.edu/research/research-stories/scrolls/
http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/22970-dead-sea-scroll-scholar-finds-error-in-book-of\
-jubilee-translation/

Some silliness about interpretation of Tut's DNA results (by a company that
is in the DNA-genealogy
business):

http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110802/king-tut-dna-european-1\
10802/20110802/
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-king-tut-european-men-dna.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/oukoe-uk-britain-tutankhamun-dna-idUKTR\
E7704OR20110801

cf:
http://allaboutegypt.org/2011/08/caucausian-dna-on-tutankhamun-swiss-scientists-\
say/

Another, on Jewish ties to Africa, seems a bit more reasonable:

http://www.forward.com/articles/140721/

Item on the 'new' biblical archaeology:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=231868

Review of Hoffman and Cole, *Sacred Trash*:

http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/24081/Trash_Talk/

More on that 'first protractor' claim:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20748-egyptian-tomb-mystery-may-be-worlds-\
first-protractor.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Last week I mentioned -- but forgot to include the link -- that
Caroline Lawrence had a more detailed set of reasons why Pompeii
might do well to have a theme park next to it:

http://flavias.blogspot.com/2011/07/should-pompeii-have-theme-park.html

A Roman 'farmstead' from Sheffield:

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/rare_roman_remains_are_found_on_ci\
ty_farm_1_3644230

They're going to be digging around those Roman remains at Caerleon:

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/9179295.Dig_set_to_reveal_Romans__secrets/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14400654

The largest Roman settlement ever found in Devon:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/08/05/Roman-settlement-found-in-western-Bri\
tain/UPI-37061312578793/
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-roman-civilization-history.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14340933
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/roman-hoard-of-coins-dug-up-in\
-devon-2332089.html

That Pantheon-as-sundial thing is being brought up again:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/pantheons-design-put-hadrian-in-the-spotli\
ght-20110801-1i876.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8673508/Romes-Pantheon-ma\
y-have-been-built-as-a-massive-sundial-researchers-reveal.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2021133/Pantheon-Rome-actually-gi\
ant-sundial.html

... and some Pantheon background:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100055195/the-pantheon-an-astoni\
shingly-avant-garde-building/

Pondering where the Romans got the wood for the siege of Masada:

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53322
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=5360
Recent finds from Larnaca:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/bronze-age/important-finds-late-bronze-age-site/20110\
805

Feature on assorted ancient oracles:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_03/01/2011_371555

Plans to digitize Loebs:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/02/loeb_classical_library_plans_for_d\
igital_version_of_its_classics

Something vague about Constantine's palace in Serdica:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-08-07&article=36955
http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-08-05&article=36947

... and this is a possibly-more-detailed version of the same:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=117418
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=130866

Nice feature on Thorikos:

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13452/44875

One of those local-girl-digs-at-Gournia things:

http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-summer-for-the-ages-Greenwich-native\
-working-1726249.php

What Robert Wolverton is up to:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/579387/

Charlotte Higgins had a nice series on what the Greeks can teach us:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/31/ancient-greece-lessons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/01/what-can-ancient-greeks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/02/ancient-greeks-lessons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/03/ancient-greeks-lessons-socrates-teac\
hing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/04/what-made-greeks-greek
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/ancient-greeks-health

A Bronze Age 'feeding cup' from Cyprus turns up at a garage sale:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/tribune/5381899/Ancient-feeding-cu\
p-a-rare-find

That ancient pharmaceuticals shipwreck thing is bouncing around again:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2011/0805/Ancient-first-aid-kit-disco\
vered-in-shipwreck

Not sure if this is an old item or new ... a feature on Sulla's siege of
Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_14392_05/08/2011_370803

Coverage of the recent gladiatorial reenactments in London:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/31/gladiator-games-hacking-aplenty-phones

Interesting paper on Hero's Michanikos:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1101/1101.3470.pdf

Hype for a proposed Roman fort reconstruction project in Cheshire:

http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/chester-news/featured-stories/2011/08/04/world\
-first-roman-fort-project-could-be-built-in-cheshire-59067-29176645/

Classical 'statuary' heading to Jupiter:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20088149-1/jupiter-bound-legonauts-in-giant-\
leap-for-toykind/

More on that Apollo mosaic from Rome:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/01/ancient-mosaic-discovered-in-downtown-\
rome/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2088249/archaeologists_unearth_2000yearold_\
mosaic_in_rome/
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Aug-06/Archaeologists-find-Apollo-m\
osaic-in-Rome.ashx
http://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/fotos/descubren-antiguo-mural-romano-1311956601-\
slideshow/

More on the York gladiator debate:

http://www.mandh-online.com/news/content/1625/york_gladiator_debate_battles_on

More on St. Philip's tomb:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/archaeologists.think.newly.discovered.tomb\
.may.be.philips/28391.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/tomb-of-jesus-apostle-110801.html

More on crowdsourcing Oxyrhynchus papyri:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/110725.html
http://cscoedinburgh.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/new-unknown-gospel-fragment-identi\
fied/

Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:

http://www.htrnews.com/article/20110731/MAN04/107310414/How-ancient-Rome-built-i\
ts-Mediterranean-empire

Review of Ann Wroe, *Orpheus*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/29/orpheus-ann-wroe-john-banville-revie\
w

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Research on Bronze Age Austria give hints about when the 'elderly' (vaguely
defined) began to
gain power:

http://www.livescience.com/15400-ancient-graves-reveal-elderly-gained-power.html

Remains of an Iron Age settlement from Devon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-14428164

A Spanish Armada shipwreck (maybe) from off the Donegal coast:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Wreckage-of-Spanish-Armada-ship-is-found-off-Do\
negal-coast-127062123.html

A 13th century mill site from near Barrowburn:

http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local-headlines/underwater_dig_finds_13\
th_century_mill_1_1768795

A recent discovery is causing a rethink on the origins of the Lewis
Chessmen:

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-islands/264572-discovery-raises-questions-\
about-origins-of-lewis-chessmen/
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/new-theory-on-chessmen-1.1115237
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2377026

Recent (medieval) finds from Peperikon:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-08-04&article=36942

Not sure about this Stone-Age-underground-tunnels thing:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/stone-age-man-created-massive-network-underground-tunne\
ls-115637654.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2022322/The-massive-European-netw\
ork-Stone-Age-tunnels-weaves-Scotland-Turkey.html

The CBA's Festival of Britiah Archaeology was a huge success:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/news/110803-festivalsuccess

Plans to compile of map of prehistoric England (and beyond):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-landscape-england.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8675237/Project-to-map-ancient-landsc\
ape-of-England-may-reveal-burial-grounds-under-your-house.html

Also on the mapping front ... the (medieval) Gough Map of Britain has been
put online:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-earliest-medieval-britain-online.html

Plans to restore Bells Farm:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14386102

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 33 000 years b.p. dog skull from Siberia:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14390679

Chinese stone tool techniques made it to Japan some 20 000 years b.p.:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2011-08/03/c_131027429.htm

Finds from the 14th century from Azerbaijan's Fuzuli region:

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=152586

Excavating Hobart's Penitentiary Chapel (Tasmania):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-19/20110719convict-past-unearthed/2801712
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2011/07/21/33155_editorial.html
http://www.portarthur.org.au/index.aspx?sys=News Article&intID=2341
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfQYNEwNdE

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Purportedly 16000 years b.p. artifacts from central Texas:

http://www.ntdaily.com/?p=55809

Resurrecting the Tunica language:

http://www.thetelegraph.com/articles/language-57566-tunica-tribe.html
http://timesherald.com/articles/2011/08/06/news/doc4e3d973b4fe5a752422713.txt

The Mariemont serpent mound might be the world's largest:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110731/NEWS01/110801008/Mariemont-serpent-m\
ound-discovered

Hype for a conference about assorted aspects of Great Plains peoples' lives:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2091357/new_technologies_and_tires_reconstr\
uct_ancient_bison_hunts/index.html

Interesting OpEd on slave families in the ante- and postbellum south:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/opinion/putting-an-antebellum-myth-about-slave\
-families-to-rest.html

More on that Uncle Tom's Cabin investigation in Ontario ... with a techy
focus:

http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3242795
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An Olmec (maybe) 'three cat monolith' from Chalcatzingo:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110801-three-cat-carving-felines\
-triad-olmec-mexico-science/
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5149-descubren-relieve-o\
lmeca-con-imagen-de-felinos
http://www.abc.es/20110803/ciencia/abci-monolito-gatos-201108031546.html

A pair of partially-mummified burials (no date assigned yet) from Chihuahua:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49527

A possible find of a Captain Morgan-associated shipwreck:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14391855
http://news.discovery.com/history/captain-morgans-pirate-ship-found-110806.html
http://gizmodo.com/5828429/archaeologists-believe-theyve-found-captain-morgans-s\
hipwreck
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/underwater-archaeologists-discover-shipw\
reck-believed-to-be-from-captain-henry-morgans-lost-fleet-126776523.html

Searching for the 'lost city' of Paititi:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14387741

More on 'what war is good for':

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/science/02warfare.html

The 'hombre de cobre' is being remembered on the anniversary of
Chile's mine rescue/accident:

http://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/cultura/2011/08/05/chile-quiere-recuperar-al-\
hombre-de-cobre-el-primer-minero-atrapado/

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Something I forgot to mention last weekend was the Day of Archaeology
project in which
some 400+ archaeologists shared one of their 'days' ... their various
blogposts are definitely
worth a look (and are categorized) at:

http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/

On the recent cancellation of assorted dig permits in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=8216made-in-turkey8217-archaeological-d\
igs-raising-concerns-2011-07-31

When archaeologists 'hack' Kinect:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44010392/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
http://www.fastcompany.com/1771025/kinects-most-cultural-hack-archaeology-site-3\
-d-scanning

A letter of Lord Byron in a New Jersey Museum is a fake, apparently:

http://www.observer.com/2011/08/a-lord-byron-letter-in-a-new-jersey-museum-is-re\
vealed-as-a-fake/

On marathon poetry/literature readings:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2011/08/07/reading_marathons_spur_inte\
rest_in_classic_literature/

On being a 'beer archaeologist':

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Beer-Archaeologist.html

A lost book relating the tale of a forgotten shipwreck:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-lost-tale-forgotten-shipwreck.html

What facebook and Rembrandt have in common:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-facebook-rembrandt-common.html

Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts online:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/07/wellcome-arabic-manuscripts-online
http://wamcp.bibalex.org/

Feature on music archaeology:

http://chronicle.com/article/Field-Report-Music/128407/

Review of Gordon Bowker, *James Joyce: A Biography:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/05/james-joyce-biography-bowker-review

Review of Hughes' *Rome* thing:

http://www.counterpunch.org/kampmark08012011.html

More on sheep and dendrochronology:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/w-stw072511.php

More on the search for Cervantes:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/07/search-cervantes
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Izmir:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/turkey/8678795/Wake-up-and\
-smell-the-coffee-in-Turkeys-beautiful-Izmir.html

Matera (caves):

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110712-italys-secret-caves-the-sassi-of-mate\
ra

Golden Age of train travel:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20110727-the-golden-age-of-train-travel

Pilgrim's Way:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14415811
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/============================================\
====================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
An oped on the illicit artifacts trade:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/07/egypt-antiquities\
-trade

The UK is returning four items from an auction to Egypt:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/483757

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n31.html

... and a new one will come out in a couple of hours:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n32.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/rembrandt-and-the-face-of-jesus-at\
-philadelphia-museum-of-art/2011/08/02/gIQAGcpdwI_story.html
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110805/LIFE/110805003/Rembrandt-face-Jes\
us?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CHome%7Cp

Pissaro's People:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/arts/design/pissarros-people-at-clark-art-inst\
itute-review.html

Crypta Balbi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX8UHsCjr64

OpEd on Chaucer not making it to the Treasures of Heaven exhibit:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/aug/05/chaucer-tre\
asures-of-heaven-pilgrimage

Feature on James Cuno at the Getty:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-jim-cuno-first-week-at-getty-201\
10806,0,7507846.story


The British Museum paid big bucks for the Cuthbert Gospel:

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=11281

Feature on the Explorations in Antiquity Center:

http://www.times-herald.com/close-up/A-peek-into-first-century-Israel--1779527

The Met is borrowing a huge pharaonic statue from Germany for a decade or
so:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/arts/design/the-mets-next-blockbuster-is-expec\
ted-to-stay-for-10-years.html


More on the Met's return of 10 items to Egypt (although the number seem
to vary):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49471
http://news.discovery.com/history/king-tut-treasures-returned-110805.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Aug-01/19-ancient-Egypt-artifacts-f\
inally-come-home.ashx
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/us-museum-to-return-19-trea\
sures-from-king-tutankhamuns-tomb-to-egypt

More on Germany's return of a sphinx to Turkey:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=49494

... and increased pressure on museums to return items from colonial times:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15290057,00.html?maca=en-newsletter_en_bull\
etin-2097-html-newsletter

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Raphael Loewe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/04/raphael-loewe-obituary

Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8680069/Rachel-Max\
well-Hyslop.html

Philip Rantz:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/29/philip-rahtz-obituary
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HUMOUR
================================================================
Somewhere on the savannah (I guess):

http://www.creators.com/comics/42/79653_thumb.gif
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Kris Curry, Donald Whitcomb,
David Critchley, Tim Parkin, Diana Wright, Dorothy Lobel King,
Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein, Joseph Shaffer,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Richsc, Joanne Conman,
Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Latest on homo floresiensis:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110808/full/news.2011.466.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333112/title/Taking_the_measure_of_a_\
hobbit

... semi related:

http://www.livescience.com/15523-john-mccain-meet-real-hobbits.html

Feature on the DNA we got from our Neanderthal (and other) forebears:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110809/full/476136a.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/08/the-hunt-for-ancient-dna/

Latest coverage on finds from Georgia challenging the 'out of Africa'
theory:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-08/caveman-zezva-has-1-8-million-year-grin\
-forces-georgia-to-rewrite-history.html

... I"m not sure the previous item is referring to the Denisovans or not
(I'm getting a bit confused):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128254.000-stone-age-toe-could-redraw-hu\
man-family-tree.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
More on that palace from the Sudan:

http://news.yahoo.com/remains-ancient-palace-discovered-121203796.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The Tayinat Archaeological Project folks have unearthed the remains of a
monumental
lion gate:

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/social-sciences-business-law/u-of-t-archeologists-un\
cover-3000-year-old-lion.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110809104309.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uot-au3080911.php
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/08/09/archaeologists.uncover.3000.year.old\
.lion.adorning.citadel.gate.complex.turkey
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-archaeologists-uncover-year-old-lion-adornin\
g.html

Keep up with the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavations (a lot happened this week):

http://gath.wordpress.com/

The Jericho Mafjar Project has a website:

http://www.jerichomafjarproject.org/

A cartouche of  Apries from the Tal Defna area:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/484815

Jomon period (?) artifacts from Damascus:

http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=92604

Interesting items (Roman sword, image of a menorah), possibly dating to the
Jewish Revolt,
from an ancient drainage tunnel in Jerusalem:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146499
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-archaeologists-present-ancient-arti\
facts-found-in-jerusalem-tunnel-1.377614
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Artifacts_destruct\
ion_Temple_8-Aug-2011.htm
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49696
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeSSRFveM4
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvWgyWvlYHXUl4Z73GqE32BGNpHw?d\
ocId=417d2e3365f042fa837a593dd201bc1e
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gYBkIhHMSqoq9SQxhZBU6boXc-GA?\
docId=CNG.32c732cf1e90321ab700d5c1ff2bb1cd.391
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Aug-12/Archaeologists-link-ancient-\
sword-to-fall-of-Herods-temple.ashx
http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-era-sword-110810.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8689595/Jerusalem-tu\
nnel-contains-2000-year-old-sword-pots-and-coins.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2011/August/Archaeologists-Discover-Roma\
n-Era-Sword/
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/08/09/Roman-sword-menorah-engraving-found/U\
PI-29151312889225/?dailybrief
http://news.yahoo.com/jerusalem-tunnel-glimpse-ancient-war-111649346.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4106700,00.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/In-a-Jerusalem-tunnel-a-glimpse-of-an-anci\
ent-war-1764386.php
http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat.html?func=view&catid=17&id=293564 (images)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/in-an-ancient-jerusalem-drainage\
-tunnel-remains-from-a-2000-year-old-war/2011/08/08/gIQAXqU71I_story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/08/israel.artifacts/

Tyre is fighting to keep its World Heritage Status:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Aug-11/Tyre-tries-to-defend-Wor\
ld-Heritage-status.ashx

There is funding for the restoration of Zoser's pyramid:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Travel-and-Tourism/2011/Aug-08/Committee-to-\
fund-Zoser-pyramid-renovation.ashx

The Bible Project is being given different spins (in headlines, at least):

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/12/bible-detectives-jerusalem-scholars-tr\
ace-bibles-evolution/
http://www.newser.com/article/d9p2f4s80/in-jerusalem-5-decades-of-detective-work\
-trace-evolution-discover-changes-in-old-testament.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44117239/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itVOexAUQyzm63cPPJabqJgexpHw?d\
ocId=6af926e599c0480daf772f95786ad395

Another illegal construction site about to get under way in Jerusalem?:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146639

We are told that Jewish archaeologists are 'contesting' Jewish ties to
Jerusalem:

http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpM\
O%2bi1s7iPBlfG0HELPl1bLBC3jEHfEfncxWsut8Wiq59wubt82e5pc512RN%2bKKN383fDtiO1eOJ75\
vLXXiNrOxQRkcY4B3aPKLUEYBtns%2b7%2frwEPyY%3d
cf: http://www.forward.com/articles/137273/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Five Thracian tombs from northeastern Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131075

A horde of coins from off the shores of Pantelleria:

http://news.discovery.com/history/punic-coins-retrieved-110812.html

A Roman child burial from Dorchester:

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9187166.Roman_child_s_remains_dug_up_in_Dorches\
ter/

Not sure if we've mentioned these recent finds from Serdica:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-08-13&article=37011

Vladimir Putin went diving at Phanagoria and brought up
a couple of broken amphorae (!) ... such an archaeologist!:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/putin-scuba-diving-russia-atlantis-_n_9\
24300.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/12/vladimir-putin-greek-urns-ridicule
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8695956/Vladimir-Putin-g\
oes-diving-in-the-Black-Sea.html
http://en.rian.ru/video/20110811/165707271.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jBLQxkmJApzgc6aTsZj8J9oc5JBw?\
docId=CNG.89b3c13baf8dcf2c4895a7fb620f18d0.6d1
http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-russian-pm-must-be-putin-it-on-with-this-stunt-2\
0110813-1is27.html

Big crackdown on phoney gladiators -- er, centurions -- outside the
Colosseum:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzyOb6dP4Etmq-b53adOjOGIC0CA?d\
ocId=149a23dcca5f49898b7a6aac7221ff18
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/08/12/general-eu-odd-italy-gladiators-busted\
_8620497.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44117037/ns/world_news-europe/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-14503878
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/police-in-italy-unleash-hell-on-fake-\
gladiators/story-e6frg6so-1226113674328
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/news/italian-police-pose-as-gladiators-to\
-catch-criminals/story-e6frg8ro-1226113608837
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/11/roman-gladiators-arrested-swordfight\
-colosseum
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iKeYgVIVmDuh8or5ar3LdtD3l45w?\
docId=CNG.bcc175a221e675aba87f38e758d9b014.481
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15314290,00.html

... there was a bomb scare there as well; no one seems to be connecting the
above to that:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/07/us-italy-colosseum-bomb-idUSTRE7761PA2\
0110807
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Report-Colosseum-evacuated-after-device-fo\
und-1752061.php
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/08/07/general-eu-italy-colosseum-suspicious-\
package_8606861.html

Someone got the date (year) of the 2500th anniversary of Marathon right:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/127602348.html

Latest in the search for Cleo's tomb (such as it is):

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2011/8/10/40538/Dominican-archaeologist-c\
ontinues-attracting-glances-of-the-worlds

They're poking around the wreck of the Mentor (which carried the
Elgin/Parthenon Marbles):

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/08/10/research-on-the-shipwreck-mentor-whic\
h-carried-elgin-marbles/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-08/team-explores-19th-century-parthenon-ma\
rble-shipwreck-in-greece.html

Feature on the role of rivers in ancient Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_15999_14/08/2011_370823

They're hoping to find more fragments of the Severan Marble Plan during
metro
contstruction:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-roman-map-puzzle-may-get-new-pieces.ht\
ml

On the Ars Amatoria:

http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/601-the_longest_banned_book.html

... and a feature on Diane Middlebrook, who was working on a bio of Ovid
when
she passed:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/12/narrative-magazine-friday_n_924924.html

On Socrates as Islamic prophet:

http://www.ibna.ir/vdcb0fb8wrhb8fp.4eur.html

Review of Gregory McNamee's translation of Aelian:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-on-the-nature-of-a\
nimals-by-aelian/2011/08/01/gIQADt4Q9I_story.html

Review of Aloys Winterling, *Caligula*:

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110811/BLOG5201/110809967

Reivew of Anneliese Freisenbruch, *First Ladies of Rome*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-first-ladies-o\
f-rome-the-women-behind-the-caesars-by-anneliese-freisenbruch-2337180.html

More on the Yewden 'brothel':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14401305

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A 25 000 years b.p. 'pendant' from Spain's Basque region:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/08/10/archaeologists-uncover\
-25000-year-old-pendant-in-spain/

Remains of a 2600 years b.p. wall from Saxony-Anhalt:

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110808-36825.html

A bog body from a County Laois bog in Ireland:

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/earth-science/archaeology/2000-yr-old-bog\
-body-discovered-in-ireland/31582.html

From Salme comes evidence of the oldest use (ca 750) of sails in the Baltic
region:

http://news.err.ee/culture/00225c4a-581e-4ee0-b87c-6fda799a5476

Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a burial cist on the Isle of Skye:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14509160

Remains of St Eburg found beneath a block of flats?:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025127/Patron-saint-flats-Remains-St-Eb\
urg-discovered-apartment-block.html

Remains of English Civil War 'casualties' from the grounds of the Pontefract
General Infirmary:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14476817

Finds from various periods at the Ribat de Arrifana (Portugal):

http://www.theportugalnews.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1125-31

I think we had this Viking massacre stuff last year ... now it's tv hype
masquerading
as 'news':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14476039

The Uley Long Barrow site in Gloucestershire is open after restoration work:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-14442631

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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I think this item on finds from Dikranagerd (Armenia) should be in
this category (please correct me if I'm wrong ... it seems we'll be
hearing more from this one):

http://www.armenianweekly.com/2011/08/10/excavations-in-artsakh/

Tombs from assorted dynasties found in Suzhou:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/7568198.html

A massive Tang Dynasty sarcophagus from Hebei:

http://www.f-paper.com/?i720565-Giant-sarcophagus-found-in-the-Tang-Dynasty-Hebe\
i-weighing-5-tons-buried-a-3-%28Figure%29

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A 10 000 years b.p. village from Calvert Island (British Columbia) ...
maybe:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/anthropologist-bel\
ieves-he-has-found-bc-village-that-may-be-10000-years-old/article2122298/

Possible remains of slave quarters at William and Mary:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/possible-slave-quarter-found-at-wi\
lliam-and-mary/2011/08/09/gIQANhUP5I_story.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-archaeologists-brick-foundations-wren.html

Civil War bullets from a Gettysburg Oak:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49738

Last week we mentioned Ken Tankersley's thoughts about the Mariemont
Serpent Mound ... here's another view:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/08/03/prof-claims-hes-found-e\
ven-greater-serpent-mound.html

What's happening with the USS Monitor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/science/09monitor.html

Finds from various periods prior to road construction in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52313490-78/sites-hansen-area-pit.html.csp

UConn is going to digitize a pile of Puerto Rico historic records:

http://www.wshu.org/news/story.php?ID=9013

Edgar Allan Poe house is having financial problems:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/arts/edgar-allan-poe-house-in-baltimore-faces-\
closing.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Another Olmec (style) monument from Chalcatzngo:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5174-descubren-altar-pre\
colombino-en-morelos

More on that 'Captain Morgan' shipwreck:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8\
689215/Captain-Morgan-shipwreck-found.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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This thing about Marco Polo not making it to Asia seems like old news:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024221/Marco-Polo-reached-China-picked-\
tales-Orient-Italians-claim.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193741.html
http://www.smh.com.au/world/marco-polos-exploration-may-have-pulled-up-short-201\
10810-1imqg.html

More libraries are joining Proquest's Early European Books digitization
program:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8712947.htm

A sort of previewish/hypish thing about Paul Holberton, *Caravaggio's Eye*:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49766

A nice castle-at-night APOD:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110813.html

Feature on 'Peter the Wild Boy':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14215171

Maybe Heraclitus was right?:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/08/08/139006531/the-end-of-a-physics-worldvie\
w-heraclitus-and-the-watershed-of-life


Reviewish of Charles Mann, *1493*:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/138924127/in-1493-columbus-shaped-a-world-to-be

Review of Michael Holroyd, *A Book of Secrets*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/arts/edgar-allan-poe-house-in-baltimore-faces-\
closing.html

Review of Sharon McGrayne, *The Theory That Would Not Die*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/arts/edgar-allan-poe-house-in-baltimore-faces-\
closing.html

Review of Brook Wilensky-Lanford, *Paradise Lust*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/paradise-lust-by-brook-wilensky-l\
anford-book-review.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Caesarea:

http://www.thespec.com/living/travel/article/577924--ancient-caesarea-may-have-b\
een-home-to-pontius-pilate

Asine:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_27731_11/08/2011_371568

Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/features/rediscovering-cyprus-ancient-heritage/201108\
08
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Eight thefts from monuments in India:

http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/articles/story94059.htm

Probation for a Colorado antiquities dealer:

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/35dcce02a47e4906ae48a13129c3e371/UT--Artif\
acts-Looting/

They're recovering an awful lot of smuggled artifacts in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkish-museums8217-storage-crowded-wit\
h-smuggled-artifacts-2011-08-08

A bell was stolen from St James' Church in Bix during restorations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14447105

Donna D'Errico has had to call off her plans to search for Noah's Ark:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2011/aug/11/donna-derrico-h\
unts-noahs-ark

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest eSylum newsletter (the first one is a special ANA issue):

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n33.html
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n32.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus:

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20110808/LIFESTYLE/108080301
http://www.citypaper.net/arts/2011-08-11-rembrandt-face-of-jesus-philadelphia-mu\
seum-of-art.html
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/8863/rembrandt-and-the-face-of-jesus-in-philadelph\
ia/

Caravaggio and his Followers in Rome:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/26298/major-caravaggio-exhibition-at-kimbell-ar\
t-museum/
http://www.dallasartnews.com/2011/08/major-caravaggio-exhibition-opening-at-the-\
kimbell-art-museum-in-october/

Faberge:

http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Va-Museum-of-Fine-Arts-displays-\
Faberge-treasures-1771813.php

Tut is setting records in Melbourne:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mummys-boy-tutankhamun-sets-new-record-20110\
810-1ilry.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/tutankhamun-smashes-attendance-re\
cord/story-e6frf7jx-1226111620480

I think we've heard about the Brisith Museum and Wikipedia getting cozy
before:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2011/aug/08/british-museu\
m-wikipedia

Looks like the Shellal Mosaic might be the next repatriation focus:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/questions-raised-over-looted-mosaic-20110813-1irr\
a.html

... and the Ankhhaf bust in Boston's MFA isn't going to be returned:

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2011/08/14/egypts_request_for_ret\
urn_of_ankhhaf_bust_rebuffed_by_mfa/

A review of the North Carolina History Center:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/arts/design/north-carolina-history-center-at-t\
ryon-palace.html

Tony Curtis' art collection is coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08/09/arts/AP-US-Tony-Curtis-Auction.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Emperor and Galilean:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/emperor-an\
d-galilean-national-theatre-london-2298752.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/8579898/Emperor-and-G\
alilean-National-Theatre-review.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jun/15/review-emperor-and-galilean-olivier

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Simon Price:

http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/News/Sermon-at-the-funeral-of-Simon-Price.aspx
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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I'm pretty sure we had this homo erectus sailor story a few months ago:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-human-precursors-sea-team.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/early-humans-were-very-efficient-mariners/177174-19.h\
tml
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/general/view/20110816human_precur\
sors_went_to_sea_team_says/srvc=home&position=recent

An interview with Sandi Copeland:

http://www.livescience.com/15642-early-humans-lifeways-nsf-sl.html

More on the 'neanderthalness' of non-'Africans':

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/18/scitech/main20080408.shtml
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AFRICA
================================================================
The Garamantian civilization was apparently practicing some form
of trepanation:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333452/title/Ancient_Saharan_head_cas\
es

A 16th century Portuguese shipwreck off Namibia:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?storyid={43eff3ba-0599-4354-aa5e-2f95161\
98402}
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Clumsy archaeologists at Tel El-Dafna have found an inscription believed to
belong
to a 26th dynasty pharaoh:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/18838/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Engr\
aved-stelae-found-near-Ismailia,-urban-settlem.aspx

Did a carcinogenic balm kill Hatshepsut?:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-deadly-medication-scientists-dark-secret.htm\
l
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uob-dm081911.php
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ancient-egypt-queen-killed-by-poi\
son-in-flask-2340826.html
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=453717&version\
=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17
http://www.history.com/news/2011/08/19/did-skin-cream-kill-egypts-queen-hatsheps\
ut/
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-germany-egypt-queen,0,656\
9081.story?track=rss

Latest mummy CT scan (a mummy from the Wistar Institute):

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/17/3d-photos-reveal-brainless-2500-year-o\
ld-mummy/
http://news.yahoo.com/brainless-mummy-revealed-3-d-images-140003689.html

Another mummy study revealed the importance of the post-mortem coiffure in
ancient Egypt:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20809-ancient-egyptians-believed-in-coiffu\
re-after-death.html

Burials of unspecified date from Amrit:

http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=92066

An overview of archaeological activities in Israel last month:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/rep358015.shtml

They've restored the 'crown' of the Damascus Gate:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49914
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1870\
&module_id=#as
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=234086
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/how-to-renovate-an-ancient-gate-and-ke\
ep-your-friends-1.378976
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jerusalem-old-city-renovation-shows-ga\
teway-to-the-past-1.378976

Semi-touristy thing on water sources for Caesarea:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/rendering-water-unto-caesarea-1.379536

Imagining the first Christians:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-carey/imagining-the-first-christians_b_929268\
.html

Interesting feature on the fight over Nefertiti:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,780599,00.html

There is a new head of antiquities in Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/19165/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-\
Antiquities-gets-new-chief-.aspx
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/487589

... and Egyptian antiquities were apparently 'suffering' due to the lack of
leadership:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/487166

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
TV hype masquerading as news retells the story of evidence of pre-Roman town
planning at Silchester:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14555449
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8709340/Archaeologists-find-first-pre\
-Roman-planned-town-in-Britain.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2027433/Planned-Iron-Age-town-pre\
-dates-Roman-conquest-Britain-unearthed-near-Reading.html?ITO=1490

cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/08/18/pre-roman-silchester-town-planning-not-new\
s/

In a similar vein (i.e. hype for Digging for Britain) is an item about an
Iceni-linked road discovery, but I'm
not sure how much coverage this one had (if any) previously:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14503302

A statue of Hercules from the Jezreel Valley:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49868
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4109238,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8703872/Rare-statue-\
of-Hercules-discovered-in-Northern-Israel.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/15/scitech/main20092569.shtml
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/rare-statue-of-hercules-found-in-northern-i\
srael-1.378789
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44148368/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/15571-headless-hercules-statue-israel.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-15/ancient-marble-statue-of-naked-hercules\
-found-in-jezreel-valley.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/hercules-statue-from-roma_n_928875.html

Remains of a 'legendary' 'lost amphitheatre' from Yorkshire:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/17/lost-yorkshire-amphitheatre-aldbor\
ough
http://fallenscoop.com/25483/archaeologists-unearth-lost-roman-amphitheatre-in-y\
orkshire-uk

They're digging at Caistor St Edmund again:

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/excavations_hope_to_uncover_secrets_of_norfo\
lk_s_roman_town_at_caistor_st_edmunds_1_993793

A fifth century B.C. Thracian rock sanctuary in the Rhodopes:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131174

... and a brief item on a fifth century B.C. theatre find from  Myndos:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=77547

A Roman shipwreck from off Albania:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194730.html

Some Roman statuary from Tlos:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=excavations-at-tlos-reveal-roman-works-\
2011-08-18

Concern for Roman remains at Caerleon:

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/9203198.Roman_remains____at_risk\
____from_Caerleon_store_bid/

What Herbert Golder is up to:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/herzogs-modern-greek-tragedy-20110814\
-1isve.html
http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/movies/herzogs-modern-greek-tragedy-2011\
0814-1isve.html

Some Tacitean retrospectivery from Christopher Krebs:

http://www.historytoday.com/christopher-krebs/tacitus-continuing-message

A mysterious Roman 'jar':

http://www.livescience.com/15629-ancient-roman-artifact-mystery.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44209279/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194869.html

... and I'll give you my theory (since the Livescience people repeatedly
deleted
it from the comments):

http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/08/19/roman-mystery-pot-full-of-holes-solved-may\
be/

Something on bronze age finds from Cyprus, which I can't get to appear this
a.m.:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/bovine-statue-tops-bronze-age-finds/20110\
818

I *think* this Carian house find fro Turkey goes in this section:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=77091

... and I'm never quite certain where Sardinia fits in culturally in the 4th
millennium
B.C. ... here's a wall full of menhirs:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2011/statue-menhirs-found-in\
-a-sardinian-wall

On the misuse of the 'Sword of Damocles':

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139799434/sword-of-damocles-reference-sometimes-mi\
sused

On the myth of Platonic love:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-sex-greek-exposing-myth-platonic.html
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=7333

Plans for the site of Plato's Academy:

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13456/46108

I'm not sure, but I think we've had something on using Roman glass to help
figure out what to do with radioactive waste before:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/12/1800-year-old-shipwreck-holds-key-to-r\
adioactive-waste/

Roman fashion was more varied and innovative than previously thought:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,781214,00.html

Some commentary on Putin's diving adventures last week:

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2011/08/18/politics-and-archaeology-russian-style/

... and you knew someone would tie the Enoch Powell thing to the recent
riots:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100101077/rivers-of-blood-what-enoch-po\
well-got-wrong-and-what-he-got-right/

Skopje stuff continues:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/14/alexander-great-macedonia-warrior-ho\
rse

This is really touristy, but it's a nice slide show of Ephesus:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/travel/2011-08/19/c_131060461.htm

Review of Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:

http://calitreview.com/19419
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=52573

Review of Freisenbruch, *First Ladies of Rome*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-first-ladies-o\
f-rome-by-annelise-freisenbruch-2339976.html

Odyssean inspiration:

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/off-the-shelf-the-wanderings-of-od\
ysseus/

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A followup to that bog body find in County Laois:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/3000-year-old-bog-body-is-likely-sacrificed-Iri\
sh-king-127898048.html

A 'unique' 1500 years b.p. (maybe) stone house from  Gunwalloe on the
Lizard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-14512930

It seems rats are off the hook (again) in regards to the Black Death:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/17/black-death-rats-off-hook

A hitherto unknown bishopric/sanctuary at Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131150

Overviewish sorts of thing of recent finds from various periods in Bulgaria
(these are all different, although there is some overlap):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131177
http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/08/16/1139891_archaeology-finds-from-work-on-bulga\
rias-maritsa-highway-on-display
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131219

... and an early (how early?) Christian church near Starosel:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-08-21&article=37058

Three medieval walls were found on the grounds of a Conwy Hotel:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-14545255

A 16th century Swedish shipwreck in the Baltic:

http://www.thelocal.se/35646/20110819/
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Shipwreck+16th+century+Swedish+vessel+found+Baltic/\
5282851/story.html

The wreck of the Mary Celestia also had some 150 year-old perfume:

http://bernews.com/2011/08/150-yr-old-perfume-found-in-shipwreck/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/pictures/110817-civil-war-wine-m\
ary-celestia-shipwreck-science-bermuda-perfume/

Stonehenge is really popular, tourist-wise:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-14554689

In case you're interested in living in Sweden, with a medieval tomb
in your cellar:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14566625

Nice to know they're taking precautions with an original King James
Bible at a Wiltshire church:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-14522033

Feature on the Pendle witch trial:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14490790

Feature on the fate of some 15th century 'crypto-jews' in Spain:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=234415

Studying Victorian naval medicine:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-victorian-naval-medicine.html

They've digitized the Gough Map:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-unravelling-mysteries-medieval-gough.html

Marking the Vikings' raid on Canterbury:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-14521574

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Digging Arastu Tepe (Iran) in search of remains of the Kura Aras culture:

http://tehrantimes.com/index.php/arts-and-culture/1698-archaeologists-excavating\
-arastu-tepe-for-signs-of-kura-aras-culture

A possible 19th century shipwreck found off Viet Nam is being
examined:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/214554/Divers-examine-19th-century\
-shipwreck.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Pig Point (Maryland) carbon dates to almost 9300 years b.p.:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-pig-point-archaeology-20110814,0\
,3824207.story
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-pig-point-archaeology-20110814,0\
,2921724,full.story

A 7000 years b.p. site from Des Moines:

http://thegazette.com/2011/08/18/ui-archaeologists-find-7000-year-old-site-in-de\
s-moines/

The sunflower was domesticated in the "U.S." not "Mexico":

Did George Washington use 'bioweapons'?:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/08/george-washington-bi\
owarrior.html

A Civil War POW camp in southeast Georgia:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49943
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/20110818_ap_archaeologistscomb\
newlyfoundcivilwarpowcamp.html

NPR interview with Hugh Thomas about his *Golden Empire* tome:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139799442/exploring-the-spanish-empire

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
I think we've had variations on this peruvian-desert-was-once-a-breadbasket
story
before:

http://news.discovery.com/earth/peruvian-desert-once-a-breadbasket-110816.html

Evidence of pre-Incan (Chimu)  child sacrifice near Chan Chan:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Archaeology-Children-found-sacrificed-in-pre-Incan-ritual\
/tabid/1160/articleID/222764/Default.aspx

Panama isn't too pleased with the BBC coverage of that Morgan shipwreck:

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/08/11/cultura/a06n1cul

... in case you missed it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14391855

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
================================================================
Some British Museum based manga:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/14/professor-munakata-british-museum

On the utility of ratios of stable isotopes and isoscapes:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8926sci1.html

Studying van Gogh's yellows:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/89/i08/8908scene4.html

A project to compile the complete works of Ben Jonson is almost at an end:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/21/ben-jonson-shakespeare-complete-wo\
rks

... while the Tempest may have been originally a musical?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/21/robert-johnson-tempest-william-sha\
kespeare-composer

Interesting computational history timeline:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/docs/timeline/

... and whence came our alphabets:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14544388

Latest Mona Lisa theory ties her to Rome, rather than Florence:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/18/prweb8726882.DTL

A restoration project for St Peter's Square:

http://news.discovery.com/history/st-peter-square-restoration-110815.html

On digitizing Old Bailey trials:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/books/old-bailey-trials-are-tabulated-for-scho\
lars-online.html

Reports of Sabratha being in rebel hands in Libya:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/19/rebels-claim-roman-city-sabratha

Review of Brian Fagan, *Elixir*:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/books/la-et-book-20110818,0,7274622.st\
ory

Review of Reeva Simon, *Spies and Holy Wars*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e7178916.ece

Review of John J. Miller, *The Big Scrum*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/the-big-scrum-by-john-j-miller-bo\
ok-review.html

Reviewish thing of Julia Lovell, *The Opium War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/arts/19iht-opium19.html

Reviewish/hypish thing on George R.R. Martin's books:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/george-r-r-martin-and-the-rise-of\
-fantasy.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Crete:

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/from-real-to-imagined-20110817-1ixp0.html

Thessaloniki:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite8_20932_15/08/2011_402344

Aegean Islands:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/travel/the-aegean-as-odysseus-knew-it.html

Best Berlin museums:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/aug/17/top-10-museums-berlin-city-guides
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology Magazine (September/October 2011):

http://www.archaeology.org/1109/

ERCIM News (special ICT and Cultural Heritage Issue ... all free):

http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/

================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some more stolen antiquities have been found in Mosul:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2011-08-20%5Ckurd.htm

A Rembrandt was stolen from a California hotel:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49873
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14525731

... then turned up at a church:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49888
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/aug/17/stolen-rembrandt-found-church
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14541880

Searching for some stolen Louhan head sculptures:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/fbi-and-westport-police-search-for-\
ancient-statues/

The US returned some 67 artifacts to the Dominican:

http://imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11101&It\
emid=1

Aftermath of the Four Corners case:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-raids-artifact-dealers-slowly-regain.html
http://news.yahoo.com/raids-artifact-dealers-slowly-regain-trust-080332476.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n34.html

... next one should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n35.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49972

Water, Stone, Fire (Ammannati):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/arts/13iht-ammannati13.html

Art of Gandhara:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/arts/design/the-buddhist-heritage-of-pakistan-\
art-of-gandhara-at-asia-society-review.html

Treasures of Heaven:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/8709996/Exhibiti\
on-in-focus-Treasures-of-Heaven-the-British-Museum.html

Isambard Brunel:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/14/brunel-archive-bristol-docks-exhib\
ition

The British Museum tops the list of favourite attractions in the UK:

http://www.superbreak.com/news/archive/british-museum-tops-favourite-visitor-att\
ractions-in-uk/800703353

... and museum attedance in the UK is up:

http://www.observer.com/2011/08/museum-attendance-climbs-in-england/

Meanwhile, the American Folk Art Museum is still trying to figure out its
problems:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/20/arts/design/american-folk-art-museum-considers\
-final-options.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Mozart's Sister:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139639352/mozarts-sister-imagines-a-second-musical\
-genius

Beethoven:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/arts/music/louis-langree-leads-beethoven-at-li\
ncoln-center-review.html

Native American dance and music:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/nyregion/four-festivals-celebrate-american-ind\
ian-heritage.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Latest video news from The Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
John Rawlins:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/\
8709908/Sir-John-Rawlins.html

Alan Treloar:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/eminent-linguist-fought-for-country-20\
110814-1isuq.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Trevor Watkins,
Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli,
Hernan Astudillo, Michael Caputo, D. Buck,Kurt Theis, Peter Ramsden, Patrick
Swan,
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upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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A Neanderthal skull fragment from Nice:

http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/provence-cote-dazur-article/items/neandert\
hal-skull-fragment-discovered-in-nice-6698.html

Interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans apparently was a good
thing for us, immunity-wise:

http://news.discovery.com/human/neanderthals-interbreeding-humans-110825.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-sex-neanderthals-denisovans-gave-healthy.htm\
l
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/08/22/the-daily-brief-august-22-2011/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2028547/Was-human-race-given-last\
ing-boost-breeding-Neanderthal-man.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11233/1168455-37-0.stm?cmpid=travel.xml
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-neanderthal-immune-genes-20110826,0,3\
77237.story
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/26/MN971KQCVQ.DTL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14673047
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/neanderthal-sex-helped-human-race-180941126.html

... but some agencies are emphasizing the negative side:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/aug/25/neanderthal-denisovan-genes-h\
uman-immunity

Homo erectus was apparently first to master cooking food:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-homo-erectus-master-kitchen.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/homo-erectus-first-master-kitchen-study-184009577.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/22/cooking-origins-homo-erectus
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
It appears they've found a replacement for Zahi Hawass (again):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/egypts-names-antiquities-chief-to-r\
eplace-hawass/
http://bikyamasr.com/40360/egypt-gets-new-antiquities-chief-replaces-zahi-hawass\
/

... and he's already getting things moving again:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/19860/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyp\
t-Antiquities-authority-schedules-debt-to-push.aspx



Pondering the future of Egypt's artifacts:

http://www.observer.com/2011/08/pyramid-scheme-what%E2%80%99s-next-for-egypt%E2%\
80%99s-artifacts/

... and this has some remarks which are semirelated:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90058045?Egypt%26%23146%3Bs%20Brotherhoo\
d%20declares%20war%20on%20the%20bikini

Remains of a 5000 years b.p. port from Turkey:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=77965

... and a 4th/5th century shipwreck found at a construction site in
Istanbul:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-255175-best-preserved--shipwreck-found-at-istanb\
uls-yenikapi.html

Overview/review of the 2011 dig at Tel Zayit:

http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2011/08/09/Reflections-on-the-2011-Season-a\
t-Tel-Zayit-Israel.aspx#Article

Report on work in the Great Causeway:

http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.asp?id=1738

Nice feature on Masada:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146924

On September 1, Carol and Eric Myers will be live on Duke's ustream channel
answering
questions about archaeology and such things:

http://www.ustream.tv/dukeuniversity  (won't work till September 1, at 1
p.m.  eastern)

More on the Damascus Gate/Old City Walls restoration:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hynL7eag7NwaMW3kI4H6t4RHmWhg?d\
ocId=252f6d16907946f7afd98f5ad72a60f4

More on mummy hair gel:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-archeologists-egyptian-mummies-styled-fatty.\
html

More on Tell Qarqur;

http://newswire.uark.edu/Article.aspx?ID=16629
http://www.livescience.com/15266-photos-survival-ancient-civilization.html

More on chemical analyses of the DSS:

http://cenblog.org/artful-science/2011/08/25/the-peculiar-life-of-the-dead-sea-s\
crolls/

Plenty at the Gath excavations blog this week:

http://gath.wordpress.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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Remains of a Roman port in Wales:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2029532/Roman-port-unearthed-sold\
iers-launched-invasion-Wales-2-000-years-ago.html
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/08/24/romans-who-conquered-wal\
es-may-have-landed-at-caerleon-91466-29291545/
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=22171
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/23/archaeologists-discover-roman-port-wale\
s
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-lost-roman-port-wales.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14628286

Zeus and Hera have left the Acropolis:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ibVe33fh9g7kJZj1OI3tECOiSedw?\
docId=CNG.b8c6206079ef2416b87f96a4bc571f48.01

Nice feature on the Paideia Institute's "Living Latin" program:

http://www.slate.com/id/2302020/

Uncertainty over the site of the battle of Mons Graupius:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14668152

Latest finds from Idalion:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/important-finds-latest-dig-ancient-idalion/201\
10826
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/08/26/completion-of-2011-excavations-at-anc\
ient-idalion/

Somewhat vague item about a theatre and accoutrements found in Myra:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-254770-archeologists-find-new-monument-theatre-m\
asks-in-ancient-myra.html

A flood of coverage for that shipwreck off Albania which we mentioned
previously:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50010
http://news.discovery.com/history/shipwreck-amphoras-110825.html
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_first-century-bc-roman-shipwreck-that-car\
ried-wine-jars-found_1580086
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/27144/roman-shipwreck-found-off-albania/
http://www.pressherald.com/news/nationworld/wreck-of-roman-cargo-ship-found-off-\
albanias-coast_2011-08-23.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/5490870/Roman-shipwreck-full-of-wine-jars-fo\
und
http://www.newser.com/article/d9p99ub00/2100-year-old-roman-shipwreck-with-hundr\
eds-of-wine-jars-found-off-albanias-coast.html
http://www.kspr.com/sns-bc-eu--albania-ancientshipwreck,0,2934440.story

Those purloined kouroi from Corinth were returned:

http://corinthianmatters.com/2011/08/22/kouroi-arrive-in-corinth/

Renewed concerns for Libya's antiquities (from UNESCO):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14676197
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iOo27_wsUtuWTu4kw4Ale0_cuw2g?d\
ocId=8cd09bc3a3ce4bbfb2b250de83e48ad5
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/19867/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/UNES\
COs-alert-to-protect-Libyan-monuments.aspx

More on robot plans re: Cleo's purported tomb:

http://www.dentistryiq.com/index/display/news-display/1485062191.html

Reflections on a Rome 'study abroad' experience:

http://www.loyolamaroon.com/life-times/column-student-reflects-on-rome-study-abr\
oad-1.2614234

More on that 'mystery jar':

http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-roman-jar-riddled-mystery-121405949.html

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Some prehistoric 'mummies' from Scotland were actually made from
several different people (!):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14575729

A medieval ring from a farmer's field at Bishopsbourne has been
declared treasure:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/news/2011/august/22/treasure_u.aspx

A bronze reliquary with a saint's hair from Peperikon:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n257758

A 12th century tollbooth from St Andrews:

http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/st_andrews_12th_century_tolbooth\
_unearthed_1_1810918

40 medieval skeletons found during flood defense work in a Worcestershire
village:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-14616596

A pile of medieval manuscripts are going on display:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8720677/Medieval-manuscripts-shine-a-light-on\
-royal-family.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/25/british-library-dark-ages-exhibition

This year's claim for the site of King Arthur's round table:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8724183/King-Arthurs-round-table-may-have\
-been-found-by-archaeologists-in-Scotland.html

... while on an only vaguely-related note, King Arthur Pendragon lost his
case
over ancient human remains:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-14630468

Divers have recovered some items from the Lusitania:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0823/1224302863236.html

Not sure if we've had this DNA based theory that farmers didn't displace
hunter/gatherers
in Europe (some sources are specifically tying it to 'British men'):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14630012
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110824214601.htm
http://article.wn.com/view-mobile/2011/08/25/British_Men_May_Have_a_HunterGather\
er_Past/
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-gene-british-men.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/study-challenges-lineage-beliefs-231300499.html

Mystery shipwreck at the bottom of Lake Geneva:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-scanners-reveal-bottom-lake-geneva.html

The Suffolk Archaeological Service and Record Office is facing cuts:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-14632612

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
I seem to have misplaced the url for that
sunflower-domesticated-in-US-not-Mexico
story ... so here it is:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-sunflower-domesticated-mexico.html

An update on the dig at Fort Recovery:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2011/08/21/scientists-find-more-\
secrets-at-ohio-fort.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-discoveries-at-fort-recovery.ht\
ml

More on perfume and wine from the Mary Celestia (slideshow):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/pictures/110817-civil-war-wine-m\
ary-celestia-shipwreck-science-bermuda-perfume/?now=2011-08-17-00:01

Still coming up empty in regards to the Franklin Expedition:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/08/26/nunavut-franklin-ships.html

On which, coincidentally, a review of Anthony Brandt, *The Man Who Ate His
Boots*:

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/the-man-who-ate-his-boots-the-doome\
d-quest-for-the-northwest-passage

Latest on repatriation efforts from the shores of Tripoli:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/american-legion-sailors-libya_n_933342.\
html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Remains of a wall/fortress complex from Temixco dating to 650 - 900 A.D.:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5206-inah-investiga-fort\
aleza-prehispanica-en-morelos

A Tlaloc vessel from Morelos:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5200-descubren-ofrenda-a\
-tlaloc-en-sierra-de-morelos

Interview with folks working on a  17th century shipwreck off Bermuda:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11233/1168455-37-0.stm?cmpid=travel.xml

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Feature on the origins of chemistry:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139972673/science-diction-the-origin-of-chemistry

A Saudi excavation suggests horses were domesticated 9000 years b.p (most
sources
seem to be emphasizing the horse side of things, so it seems to be best put
in this
category).:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-saudi-horses-years.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14658678
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Aug-27/Saudi-excavation-shows-horse\
s-were-domesticated-9000-years-ago.ashx
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-24-saudi-archaeologists-saddled-with-9nbsp000-ye\
arold-civilisation/
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_705868.ht\
ml
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2011/domestication-of-horses\
-may-stretch-back-9000-years
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre77n5tl-us-saudi-archaeology/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/24/us-saudi-archaeology-idUSTRE77N5TL2011\
0824
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50096

... somewhat related DNA study of wild horses:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uoy-awh082211.php

Some Italian art experts who worked on restoring a medieval 'phallic fresco'
are
being accused of censorship:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8714235/Italian-art-experts-accu\
sed-of-censoring-phallic-fresco.html

Did Mozart have a serious vitamin D deficiency?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/aug/22/mozart-death-sunlight-vitamin-d

A UK court rejected a bid for trial by combat:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1416262/Court-refuses-trial-by-combat.htm\
l


Very interesting detail in the history of lager:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-years-yeast-epic-journey-gave.html

More on rats not being blamed for the Black Death:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/17/black-death-rats-off-hook

Review of John France, *Perilous Glory*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8706224/Perilous-Glory-The-Rise-of-Western-Mi\
litary-Power-by-John-France-review.html

Review of Bruce Duffy, *Disaster Was My God*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/books/disaster-was-my-god-by-bruce-duffy-revie\
w.html

Review of Nassir Ghaemi, *A First-Rate Madness*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/a-first-rate-madness-by-nassir-gh\
aemi-book-review.html

Review of Charles Mann, *1493*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/1493-uncovering-the-new-world-col\
umbus-created-by-charles-c-mann-book-review.html

Review of a couple of novels based on Shakespeare and Austen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/shakespeare-and-austen-updated.ht\
ml?ref=books
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Tarragona:

http://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/201108235968/romanb-heritage-tarragona-spain\
/

Greece:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2015950884_webgreece21.htmlI

Timna Park:

http://israel21c.org/travel/a-tourist-goldmine-in-these-ancient-copper-mines
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Biblical Archaeology Review (Sept/Oct toc):

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

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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
That stolen/recovered Rembrandt from last week might not actually be
a Rembrandt:

http://laist.com/2011/08/22/stolen_rembrandt_sketch_may_not_be_a_rembrandt.php

A 250 years b.p. sundial was stolen from Avington Park near Winchester:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14617352

On the difficulties of claims of wartime theft:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/suit-against-moma-highlights-time-limit-r\
ule-in-nazi-looting-claims.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A horde 200 coins from Inner Mongolia dating mostly to the Northern Song
Dynasty:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-08/23/c_131068560.htm

Feature on Athens' Numismatic Museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_25/07/2011_399801

... and a numismatic diary/tour thing on a trip through Greece:

http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/4?&id=735

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n35.html

... sometime tomorrow afternoon the next one should appear:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n36.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Amenemhat II:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/arts/design/amenemhat-ii-at-metropolitan-museu\
m-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/17/arts/design/pharoah.html

Art of Gandhara:

http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/performing-visual-arts/relics-of-religiou\
s-tolerance-1.855973

Pre Columbian Gold:

http://www.faberge-museum.de/show.php?news&nid=31

Heart of the Maya:

http://www.voelkerkundemuseum.com/

Inca Trail:

http://www.barbier-mueller.ch/barcelone/expositions/

Indiana Jones:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/indiana-jones-and-the-adventure-of-archaeology-\
heads-to-museums/

Best small museums in France:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/8717474/Frances-best-small-muse\
ums.html

There's a new director at the Jewish Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/jewish-museum-chooses-claudia-gould-as-di\
rector.html

... and so does the Art Institute of Chicago:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/art-institute-of-chicago-names-new-\
director/

Things aren't looking good for the Museum of Folk Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/arts/design/american-folk-art-museum-weighs-su\
rvival-strategies.html

More on British Museum manga:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/14/professor-munakata-british-museum

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Feature on Liszt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/music/liszt-a-piano-virtuoso-whose-genius\
-was-interpretation.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Simon Price:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/21/simon-price-obituary

Marek Zvelebil:

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/zvelebil.html

Emmet Robbins:

http://cac-scec.ca/ccb/ccb17/ccb17_12.1.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
Archaeo News 196 (missed this last week):

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-19\
6

The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Homo erectus led he way in toolmaking:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/science/01tools.html
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2011/09/humans-shaped-stone-2011083\
1
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/31/ancient-humans-used-fine-crafted-tools\
-much-earlier-than-thought/
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/news.2011.511.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14754314
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-humans-used-hand-axes-earlier-thought-171718527.ht\
ml
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-humans-stone-axes-million-years.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/31/hand-axes-oldest-advanced-stone-to\
ols
http://www.abc.es/20110831/ciencia/abci-humanos-fabricaban-hachas-piedra-2011083\
11417.html

The La Cotte de St Brelade site is suggesting Neanderthals were a bit more
technologically
adept than previously thought:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14677434

The press sure loves that Neanderthal-Homo sapiens interbreeding story:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/paul-taylor/nookie-with-ne\
anderthals-may-have-pumped-up-immune-systems/article2141831/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2030140/Neanderthal-sex-boosted-h\
ealth-human-race-improving-immune-systems-disease.html
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Neanderthal+gave+modern+humans+immune+bo\
ost+study/5310842/story.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5i7QHwg6m0SgHue-Lr3o5ryhJ_\
6ng?docId=N0015851314286426553A
http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_105455.asp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14673047

... good/better commentary:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/sep/01/1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU0ei9ApmsY

Ice Age mariners in Greece:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-volcanic-artifacts-imply-ice-age-mariners.ht\
ml
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Foreign missions are resuming digging in Egypt:

http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=20759&title=Foreign%20m\
issions%20to%20resume%20excavations%20in%20Egypt

A Parthian 'cairn wall' and items from other periods from Nowshahr (Iran):

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-56651.html

Interesting feature on caves around Jerusalem associated with Bar Kokhba and
others:

http://www.haaretz.com/travel/israel-s-ancient-rebel-caves-a-hidden-adventure-1.\
381597
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032155/Caves-Hirbet-Madras-Jewish-rebel\
s-hid-Roman-soldiers.html(photos)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44330400/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/30/uk-israel-caves-idUSLNE77T05720110830
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=235992

I think we heard a while ago of the ossuary which was associated with
Caiaphas' granddaughter ... it's deemed
authentic and provides info about Caiaphas, of course:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2031669/Clue-crucifixion-2-000-ye\
ar-old-biblical-burial-box-new-link-death-Jesus-Christ-claim-scientists.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44347890/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/08/29/Ancient-burial-box-offers-biblical-cl\
ues/UPI-19721314667743/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110829142513.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-year-old-burial-reveal-family-caiaphas.html
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1849\
&module_id=#as
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/afot-2bb082911.php
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/31/2000-year-old-biblical-burial-box-reve\
als-fresh-clues-about-death-jesus/
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=15161

Coincidentally (I think) is a feature on graffiti in some of those caves
(and elsewhere?):

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=33129

In case you're wondering what's happening with the Jordan Codices:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGw0orL78I4&feature=player_embedded

Controversy over suggestions to move Nemrut statuary:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-255304-ministers-museum-proposal-for-nemrut-scul\
ptures-sparks-controversy.html

An Old Jaffa 'mystery' solved:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=37&Issue=5&ArticleID=1\
0

A last-minute attempt to halt the dig at Ir David:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147372

More on mummy hair gel:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44329958/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/08/30/Mummy-study-Egyptians-used-hair-gel/UPI-2\
4471314720725/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A major Roman amphitheatre/gladiator ludus find near Vienna:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18787301?nclick_check=1
http://www.theprovince.com/Gladiator+school+uncovered/5332482/story.html
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/310961
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/206643/20110831/roman-amphitheater-uncovered-vie\
nna-austria-colosseum-sized-archaeological-park-carnuntum.htm
http://m.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/30/archaeologists-uncover-amphitheatre-\
gladiators-vienna?cat=science&type=article
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=346&sid=2520415
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Austria-Archeologists-e\
xcavate-sensational-gladiator-amphitheatre_312400711687.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50196

A site in Scotland shows Roman-Pict trade links:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Iron-Age-site-shows-Roman.6829451.jp
http://news.scotsman.com/dundee/Fort-reveals-Picts-and-Romans.6828754.jp
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/broch-casts-light-on-picts-roman-co\
ntacts-1.1121033
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14730005

Claims of finding a Temple of Dionysus at Peperikon (didn't we hear that
last summer?):

http://in.news.yahoo.com/bulgarian-archaeologist-claims-found-ancient-temple-dio\
nysus-125939133.html
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131652

Mary Beard is doing a show  on Rome for the BBC:

http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=4&article=62398

Seeking funding for a Hadrian's Wall visitors' centre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-14744430

The Iliad is Madeline Miller's 'book of a lifetime':

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/book-of-a-lifetim\
e-the-iliad-by-homer-2347496.html

Plans to reenact Marathon:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5giXKOki9zwN2XejyaKoeuqaSdlcw?\
docId=CNG.e640b6ebf4d3ef9d38c3cbe9706a3a05.1a1rogye

Feature on Libya's archaeological sites:

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/03/libya.archaeological.sites

... and one focussing on Leptis Magna:

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/230905/lifestyle/lost-in-libya-in-the-grandeur-that-\
was-leptis-magna

That 'holey' pot continues to get press attention:

http://www.vancouversun.com/Holey+Roman+likely+held+tasty+dormice/5326616/story.\
html
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Holey+Roman+likely+held+delicate+mous\
ey+morsels/5323628/story.html
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Museum+seeks+help+solve+mystery+year+clay/5325865\
/story.html

The Yewden villa claims about brothels and infanticide is getting out of
hand:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Ancient-Roman-hookers-killed-the\
ir-newborns/articleshow/9844037.cms
http://timesofindia.feedsportal.com/fy/8at2Ete0RAcrp0mP/story01.htm
http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=970384
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/roman-prostitutes-killed-babies-after-birth_\
729538.html

What Ian Johnston is up to:

http://www.mediasyndicate.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17143

Review of Krebs *Germania* book:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/birth-of-a-grave-new-world-20110818-1i\
yqb.html

Reviewish/interviewish thing with Bettany Hughes about her Socrates book:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7206338/the-original-philosopher.thtml
Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
They're digging at the Iron Age fort site at Ham Hill:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-britain-biggest-iron-age-fortress.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/01/iron-age-hill-fort-excavation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14735689

A tomb -- possibly of a Stonehenge builder -- at the quarry whence came
Stonehenge stones:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14733535

An "ancient gold necklace" from Iceland:

http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Ancient_Gold_Necklace_Found_in\
_West_Fjords_0_381631.news.aspx

The Scottish Treasure Trove report has some interesting items mentioned:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14761114

A Bronze Age site near Lanyon (Cornwall) is getting the dig treatment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-14776192

A 15th century will reveals someone who fought on the York side during the
Battle of Bosworth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14715466

Being on one of Nelson's ships wasn't the greatest thing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8737661/Conditions-in-Nelsons-na\
vy-uncovered-by-scientists.html

Video report on the restoration of St Peter's Collonade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUXb8EW7qs&feature=uploademail

Plans to restore some Byzantine monuments on Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/eu-funds-byzantine-monuments-restoration/20110\
904

Feature on Aethelstan:

http://www.historytoday.com/sarah-foot/giving-life-%C3%A6thelstan

More on what is possibly the UK's oldest cave art (Gower) :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14721056 (video)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Eastern Zhou Dynasty horse and chariot pits from Luoyang:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032697/Trip-Zhou-Remains-horses-chariot\
s-unearthed-3-000-year-old-Chinese-Dynastys-tomb.html?ITO=1490
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/201109/02/t20110902_22667656.shtml
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/874221-remains-of-horses-and-chariots-found-in-3-000\
-year-old-tomb-in-china

A shipwreck revealed by Cyclone Yasi off the coast of Queensland is to
remain "undisturbed":

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-02/minister-says-historic-shipwreck-to-remain\
-undisturbed/2867738

They've identified the headless remains of Ned Kelly:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/science/06kelly.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-body-infamous-aussie-outlaw-ned.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14742311
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/body-infamous-aussie-outlaw-ned-kelly-found-053106760.h\
tml

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Archaeologists are still finding artifacts from the HMS Investigator:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1048003
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/divers-find-artifacts-1854-shipwreck-north\
west-passage
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1261366.html

... but they're still coming up empty on the search for Franklin's ships
themselves:

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/archaeologists-out-luck-latest-quest-unear\
th-famed-arctic-shipwreck

A dispute over road construction which will go through a couple First
Nations burial sites
in B.C. is headed to the (provincial) Supreme Court:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=a153f6e3-901\
4-40bc-8d6f-270ea010da3b&k=63711
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/First+nations+take+government+court+save+\
ancient+burial+sites+from+road+construction/5330596/story.html

Semi-related to the above, SFU is going to return some First Nations human
remains:

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/return+ancient+remains/5324759/story.html

They've confirmed (again?) that the ship they've been calling the Queen
Anne's Revenge did
belong to Blackbeard:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/blackbeard-wreck-north-carolina_n_94372\
4.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/206356/20110831/pirate-blackbeard-shipwreck-exca\
vation-north-carolina-n-c-queen-anne-s-revenge-notorious-edward-teac.htm

They're digging at the Abyssinian Meeting House in Portland:

http://portlanddailysun.me/node/27978/

Some Saginaw High School students found a couple of shipwrecks in Lake
Huron:

http://www.freep.com/article/20110828/NEWS06/108280466/Saginaw-high-school-stude\
nts-find-2-Lake-Huron-shipwrecks

Hamilton Grange National Memorial has reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/arts/design/hamilton-grange-national-memorial-\
reopening-in-manhattan.html

Feature on the death of Joe Hill:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/us/27hill.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
More finds from Plan de Ayutla (Chiapas):

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5218-descubren-restos-de\
-milenario-palacio-maya

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 suggestion as to what Jack the Ripper looked like:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14207581

If it wasn't rats, what was responsible for the Black Death?:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/02/140146784/dna-detective-work-identifies-black-deat\
h-culprit
http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/09/black_death_not_initiated_b.php?utm_source=n\
ytwidget
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/science/30plague.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110829173751.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/study-medieval-plague-may-extinct-190131056.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-mild-mannered-killer-plague-rapid-evolution.\
html

On the restoration of the Topkapi Palace:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-255342-pm-erdogan-visits-topkapi-palace-upon-res\
toration.html

Some works by Otto Dix have been discovered:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/works-by-otto-dix-said-to-be-discov\
ered-in-germany/

The guy who stole the Mona Lisa is to be honoured as an Italian patriot:

http://www.france24.com/en/20110822-art-painting-mona-lisa-thief-to-be-honoured-\
as-patriot-peruggia-dumenza

They're looking for a DaVinci mural behind a fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio
(again):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/arts/design/leonardo-mural-in-florence-may-be-\
revealed.html

Review of James Pennebaker, *The Secret Life of Pronouns*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/the-secret-life-of-pronouns-by-ja\
mes-w-pennebaker-book-review.html?ref=books

Review of Charles Mann, *1493*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/1493-uncovering-the-new-world-\
columbus-created-by-charles-c-mann/2011/08/01/gIQAQ4tSeJ_story.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Paros:

http://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/travel/when-relaxation-is-the-goal-head-for-\
the-greek-island-of-paros

Royal Tombs of Jerusalem:

http://www.jpost.com/Travel/TravelNews/Article.aspx?id=236357

Aegean:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/travel/the-aegean-as-odysseus-knew-it.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some tourist was caught trying to take a souvenir from the Colosseum:

http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/201109032113-cro-ren1080-\
tourist_took_colosseum_marble_fragment_in_rome_arrested

We were told that there was massive looting going on in Libya:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2406278.ece

... and then it was denied:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/09/claims-of-mass-libyan-looting.\
html

Egypt is becoming a greater target for looters/smugglers:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/491642

A Rubens stolen a decade ago was recovered in Greece:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50217
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i1EE_2YYAB6vqlquXTyCzrTvLXzQ?d\
ocId=fc00f14bced8476989e7fc7aa9ff5684
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hyj8jP5E9bF2QFLyMGrA2Ue-WOCg?d\
ocId=99d471f878d045d08bae22fa785cb5df
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/01/us-finearts-rubens-idUSTRE78059F201109\
01

How's this for international: a pair of Mexicans were arrested for trying to
steal Egyptian antiquities
from an exhibition in Chile:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=420470&CategoryId=14094

In the wake of the bombing in Oslo, more than 100 artworks are missing:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/scores-of-artworks-missing-in-wake-\
of-oslo-bombing/


Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A major sale of Republican Roman coins is coming up next month:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50121

Some Viking coins found near Furness have been declared treasure:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viking-coin-haul-is-officially-treasure-1.874059?r\
eferrerPath=news/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-14737200

More hype for that Ides of March coin coming to auction:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903461304576524750216570500.html

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n36.html

... and the next one should appear some time today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n37.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Islamic Science Rediscovered:

http://www.mercurynews.com/sal-pizarro/ci_18821938

Pompeii:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/ashes_to_crashes_dust_to_bust_zyA4ja2\
XNVp5DF8dKgqsUK

Degas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/arts/dance/degass-ballet-at-the-phillips-colle\
ction-and-royal-academy.html

African Innovations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/arts/design/african-innovations-at-brooklyn-mu\
seum-review.html

The Age of Forgeries:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/swiss-exhibit-features-world-class-forgeries\
/story?id=14436482
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,783676,00.html

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus (interesting commentary):

http://www.forward.com/articles/142039/

Cleopatra:

http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20110826/ENT07/308270010/Museum-\
Center-extends-Cleopatra-exhibit

Van Gogh (Denver):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50240

The British Museum has given copies of items from the Oxus treasure to
Tajikistan:

http://en.trend.az/regions/casia/tajikistan/1924781.html

A history group is trying to get the return of the Harry Swan Collection:

http://www.inishowennews.com/011HarrySwan389.htm

Feature on the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/us/28memorial.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Odyssey:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/arts/design/odysseus-at-hell-gate-to-play-at-s\
ocrates-sculpture-park.html

Judgement of Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/arts/music/the-judgment-of-paris-by-morningsid\
e-opera-review.html

Bach:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/arts/music/bach-concertos-and-sinfonias-for-ob\
oe.html?ref=music

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
John Evans:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8738496/Professor-\
John-Evans.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Australopithecus is now being touted as the 'missing link':

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/m-hth090711.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14824435
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/science/09fossils.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2035021/Best-candidate-missing-li\
nk-lived-South-Africa-2million-years-ago.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/found-mankinds-missing-link/sto\
ry-e6frgcjx-1226133167039
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/09/140337459/examining-ancient-fossils-for-clues-to-h\
uman-origins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/08/australopithecus-sediba-ancestor-m\
odern-humans
http://www.itn.co.uk/home/28785/Caveman+may+be+%27missing+link
http://www.ology.com/politics/two-million-year-old-fossil-confusing-sexually
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-australopithecus-fossils-20110909,0,7\
812788.story
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/09/09/1.977-million-year-old-karabo-makes-\
world-debut
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903285704576558382651436242.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/melbourne-researchers-uncover-missing\
-link/story-fn7x8me2-1226132520436
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/scientists-find-missing-ancestral\
-link-in-sediba-1.1133833
http://news.yahoo.com/game-changer-evolution-african-bones-140125430.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-sediba-hominid-skull-hints-brain.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-game-changer-evolution-african-bones.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-fossil-discovery-evolutionary-link-australop\
iths.html
http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?feed_id=0&catid=20103228&videofeed=36
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/australopithecus-sediba-bones_n_954212.\
html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110908-apes-humans-evolution-aus\
tralopithecus-sediba-lee-berger-science/

... and I agree with this opinion piece thereon:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100104050/australopithecus-s\
ediba-can-we-stop-calling-it-a-missing-link/

... and this reconstruction of 'virtual brains' of human ancestors seems
somehow connected to the above:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14822438
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-human-brain-evolution-insight-x-rays.html

... as is this 'hand analysis':

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-handier-homo-habilis.html

A gallery of human ancestors:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2011/sep/08/human-evolution-ancestors

A sort of 'how human evolution worked' piece:

http://chronicle.com/article/How-Our-Brains-Got-BigOur/128878/?sid=wb&utm_source\
=wb&utm_medium=en

Apparently humans were interbreeding with more than Neanderthals (I think
this is a different story, but not much):

http://www.livescience.com/15911-humans-interbred-extinct-relatives.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-modern-humans-interbred-archaic-hominin.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-ancestors-interbred-homo-\
genus
http://news.yahoo.com/humans-had-sex-regularly-mysterious-extinct-relatives-afri\
ca-025605344.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/uoa-ahw090211.php

Donald C Johanson tells why he studies human evolution:

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/08/lucy-discoverer-why-i-study-human-evolu\
tion/
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Looking for damage to monuments in Libya:

http://www.france24.com/en/20110907-libya-combs-priceless-ruins-war-damage
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Some more details on restoration plans for Djoser's pyramid:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/20382/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyp\
ts-Djoser-Step-pyramid-in-intensive-care.aspx

I think we mentioned that excavating has resumed in Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/20260/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Excava\
tion-works-resumed-in-Egypt.aspx

Some hype for the Hittitology Congress in Warsaw:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=hittitology-congress-at-polish-capital-\
2011-09-06
http://www.warsawvoice.pl/baza_wydarzen/wydarzenie.php?layout=nwv&lang=en/23797

... and for the First Haredi conference on "Torah archaeology":

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/torah-archaeology-sheds-light-on-ancie\
nt-talmudic-dispute-1.383343

... and for the City of David Conference:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147666#.TmylLeyTN-5
http://www.jpost.com/LifeStyle/Article.aspx?id=23702
http://www.cityofdavid.org.il/hp_eng.asp

Related to the foregoing, here is (with Hebrew narration) a preview
of a Canaanite period pool found near the fortifications of the CoD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQRt1Iz9iO0&feature=uploademail

I think I've missed a number of LandMinds episodes ... you can catch up
here:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/

A campaign (?) to preserve the ruins at Sebastia:

http://www.proterrasancta.org/sebastia/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Latest on plans for Roman Maryport:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/roman-maryport-plan-will-go-ahead-1.876\
480

A major surveying project for Ostia:

http://www.surveyequipment.com/news/article/roman-port-to-undergo-complete-gnss-\
surveying-177727.html

Marking Marathon Bristol-style:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2011/7882.html

Theory that Roman mosaics can tell us things about ancient fish:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/september/grouper-art-research-090211.html

Latest issue of Teaching Classical Languages:

http://www.tcl.camws.org/spring2011.php

In case you were wondering about how that Marathon reenactment turned out:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gXARXuUc4gFuTJbWh-RY5zRXX50Q?\
docId=CNG.ee29706d29744c955731a90381f66cc5.171

Photos of those Kouroi which were returned to Corinth last week:

http://www.athensnews.gr/photo/46336 (scroll down a bit)

On Rugby and Gladiating:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/off-the-field/5569724/Those-wh\
o-scrum-salute-you

Review of Schiff's *Cleopatra*:

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/article_b20f33b5-6bb1\
-5b64-8183-a9da71823806.html

Review of Stephen  Greenblatt, *The Swerve*:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/17a83246-d876-11e0-8f0a-00144feabdc0.html

Much more coverage of that Roman Gladiator school:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50277
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,784726,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-14795756
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/europe/2011/09/2011964401518417.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gc2M_D6e3-fiSCyYF4tviqmu5pDw?d\
ocId=c794ba51cdf04818a7c5cb077c86c90f
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/07/sensational-discovery-ancient-gladiator-scho\
ol-found-east-of-vienna/
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/09/06/Roman-gladiator-school-located-in-Aus\
tria/UPI-42561315348881/
http://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/gladiator-school-06092011/
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/27857/school-for-roman-gladiators-discovered-in\
-austria/
http://www.tampabay.com/news/ruins-in-austria-housed-gladiators/1189929
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/ruins-reveal-how-roman-gladiator\
s-won-their-spurs-2349802.html
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Massive-gladiator-school-is-found.6831299.jp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp65sdQcXVY (video)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034020/Archaeologists-discover-remains-\
Roman-gladiator-school-Austria.html
http://morningjournal.com/articles/2011/09/05/news/doc4e64e98a42606077849892.txt
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=14450025
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-unique-roman-gladiator-unveiled-austria.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/scientists-discover-gladiator-school-\
in-vienna-was-a-prison-for-criminals-and-slaves/story-fn5fsgyc-1226130379575

I'm pretty sure we've mentioned this 'online journey planner' based on the
Tabula Peutingeriana:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/8742884/1700-year-o\
ld-map-of-Roman-roads-used-for-online-journey-planner.html

cf: http://omnesviae.org/

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
The dig at the Pillar of Eliseg has begun:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-14774061

A Brandon Hill fort wall may not date to the English Civil War after
all:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-14794115

Possible Saxon burials at a Southampton building site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14836530

Metal detectorists find some medieval/renaissance small items at a
York farm:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9236562.Treasure_seekers_dig_up_jewels_on_farmla\
nd/

... while a 13th century seal from Cornwall has been declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-14837144

... as has a medieval ring found near Ripon:

http://www.ripongazette.co.uk/news/ripon/medieval_treasure_found_near_ripon_1_37\
53171

Feature on what rituals may have sounded like at Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14746589

On Pucellina of Blois:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=236316

Feature on the HMS Royal George:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14691988

A model of a lost Surrey Tudor palace has been unveiled:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-14801476

Moot Hill in Driffield is coming up for auction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-14808673

The Antiques Road Show team found/identified a lock of Napoleon's hair found
at
Walter Scott's house:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-14787806

The Lewis Chessmen have returned 'home':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14835915

The Guardian has put up a series of British architecture guides:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/series/british-architecture-guides

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Chinese archaeologists are working on the capital of the Liao dynasty:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/7588748.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting artifact from the Noatak dig in Alaska:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50376
http://www.uafnews.com/headlines/noatak-prehistoric-site-contains-new-artifacts-\
for-alaska
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2011/alaskan-archaeologists-\
find-ancient-artefacts
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/18dd2c20b5b843e2b0b11540b675eb32/AK--Alask\
a-Artifacts/

A team is looking for te original Newtowne (Md) chapel:

http://www.somdnews.com/article/20110909/NEWS/709099855/1044/team-digging-for-or\
iginal-newtowne-chapel&template=southernMaryland

Latest on the WTC shipwreck:

http://news.discovery.com/earth/secrets-of-wtc-ship-revealed-110907.html

Pondering what we know (and ever will know) about the Franklin expedition:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14847091

Possible mammoth petroglyphs in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52493139-78/rock-malotki-art-images.html.csp

Feature on the history (mostly flooding) of the Susquehanna:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-ancient-susquehanna-frequent-fact.html

On assorted (largely forgotten) memorials in NYC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/nyregion/when-memorials-outlast-the-sentiment-\
behind-them.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Surveys are revealing a series of walls used as defensive borders between
some Maya sites:

http://www.archaeology.org/1109/features/maya_warfare_yaxchilan_piedras_negras.h\
tml

A Chontal burial from Chilacachapa:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1051082

Review of Ian Graham, *The Road to Ruins*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e7179700.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
================================================================
Interesting feature on the Replica Workshop (which produces replicas
of ancient sculptures):

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/arts-entertainment/berlin-workshop-produces-repl\
icas-of-ancient-sculptures-61329.html

Five surprise attacks that changed history:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/06/140156564/5-other-surprise-attacks-that-changed-hi\
story

Why the Mona Lisa is famous:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/210129/20110907/mona-lisa-why-is-it-so-famous-sm\
ile-leonardo-da-vinci.htm

On Michelangelo's David and the birth of science:

http://helenair.com/lifestyles/michelangelo-s-david-and-the-birth-of-science/art\
icle_b6c12198-d912-11e0-bd13-001cc4c002e0.html

Feature on Russian Orientalism:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e7179656.ece

On the DNA trail for lactose tolerance:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-indians-europeans-milky.html

Father tongue appears to be more appropriate than 'mother tongue' in the
grand
scheme of things:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-mother-tongue-prehistoric-father.html

A mysterious page in Tristam Shandy spawns an auction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/11/tristram-shandy-sterne-art-au\
ction

In addition to last week's 'reconstruction' ... a number of academics are
working on Jack the Ripper:

http://chronicle.com/article/Jack-the-Rippers/128842/?sid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_m\
edium=en

Review of Jonathan Yardley, *Second Reading*:

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/09/review-second-reading-notable-and-neglected-b\
ooks-revisited/

Review of Tim Jeal, *Explorers of the Nile*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/11/burton-speke-african-exploration-nil\
e

Review of Hunt and Lipo, *The Statues that Walked*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/sep/07/3

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Cyprus:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destination/cyprus/35375/Cyprus-attractions.ht\
ml

Istanbul:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/luxurytravel/8737438/Istanbul-Turkey-Old-city-\
new-spirit.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Latest CSA Newsletter:

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#fall11

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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
On looting of sites in Pakistan:

http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/11/smugglers-rob-kp-of-archaeological-wealth.html

Somewhat vague item on some purloined antiquities of "historical oldness"
from
Afghanistan (I think):

http://bakhtarnews.com.af/en/index.php?news=6423

An Egyptian smuggling ring was busted:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/20859/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/An-Egy\
ptian-antiquities-smuggling-ring-falls-into-.aspx

More details on the folks who stole that Rubens that was recovered last
week:

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/greece-couple-who-had-1163093.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/greek-art-expert-says-couple-who-rece\
ived-stole-rubens-painting-clearly-amateurs/2011/09/08/gIQAwQpECK_story.html

More on Vandals in Rome:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-14782948
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/vandals-or-at-least-one-sack-a-roma\
n-fountain/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Frome Hoard is back in Somerset:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14784721
http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/9237515.Frome_Hoard_in_Taunton/

Some hype for the Prospero Ancient Coin Sale:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/baldwins-discusses-the-upcoming-prospero-a\
ncient-coin-sale/

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n37.html

... the newest one should be out later today at:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n38.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Giacometti and the Etruscans:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/27879/%E2%80%9Cgiacometti-and-the-etruscans%E2%\
80%9D-soon-opening-at-paris-pinacotheque/

A Nation Divided:

http://www.thesuburbanite.com/communities/x219196038/Civil-War-exhibit-at-Canton\
-Museum-of-Art

Dura Europos:

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2011/09/01/diversity-of-cultures\
-in-ancient-city-of-dura-europos-explored-in-special-exhibition-at-nyus-institut\
e-for-the-study-of-the-ancient-world-at-nyu-.html
http://www.iewy.com/33295-diversity-of-cultures-in-ancient-city-of-dura-europos-\
explored-in-special-exhibition-at-nyu%E2%80%99s-institute-for-the-study-of-the-a\
ncient-world.html

Life and Death in the Pyramid Age:

http://www.41nbc.com/news/state-news/7204-oldest-egyptian-mummy-in-west-in-exhib\
it-at-emory

John Martin: Apocalypse:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8754977/John-Martin-the-artist-v\
ilified-by-establishment-had-gained-a-royal-fan.html

Dix in Dusseldorf:

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/von-spesshardt/otto-dix-watercolors-discov\
ered-8-30-11.asp

The Getty has acquired a 13th century Bible:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50303
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/getty-museum-medieval-bib\
le-.html

Hype for Bonham's upcoming antiquities auction:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50378

... and Christie's upcoming antiquities auction:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50351

A sacred Aboriginal stone has been withdrawn from an auction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14840926
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/87466\
18/Auction-of-sacred-Aboriginal-stone-cancelled.html

More on Turkey wanting the BM to return the Sidamara Sarcophagus:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/08/turkey.archaeological.repatriation/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/turkey-demands-return-of-its-elg\
in-marble-2349791.html
http://www.bna.bh/portal/en/news/471164

Review of Madeline Miller, *The Song of Achilles*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-song-of-achill\
es-by-madeline-miller-2352559.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Tomas Hagg:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/09/09/d-m-tomas-hagg/

Michael Hart:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart

Christopher Small:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/arts/music/christopher-small-cultural-musicolo\
gist-is-dead-at-84.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Stan Nadel, Gidget,
Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Yaacov Behrman,
Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan,Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,
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EARLY HUMANS
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After all the hype of humans mating with Neanderthals, we're now being
told it didn't happen often:

http://news.discovery.com/human/neanderthal-human-intercourse-110913.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/09/neandertal-introgression-and-admi\
xture/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112381511/humans-didn%E2%80%99t-often-mate\
-with-neanderthals/
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Human+Neanderthal+coupling+rare+study/5\
394353/story.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/humanneanderthal-coupling-rare-stu\
dy-20110913-1k6fo.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44491039/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/neanderthal-human-sex-rarely-produced-kids-study-suggests-\
190602052.html

... and the BBC is just picking up on the original story now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14947363
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-14936641

Otherwise, we are learning that Neanderthal types were dining on shellfish
earlier than previously thought:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8765346/Neanderthal-man-l\
ived-on-seafood-far-earlier-than-previously-thought.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-neanderthals-ate-shellfish-years.html
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/neanderthals-ate-shel\
lfish-150000-years-ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5itQhYDsaeUUcWemP30dAJN3yxuJw?\
docId=CNG.845572e84348f2e5c01e7818573012ea.91
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2011/09/15/neanderthals-at-shellfish
http://www.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/975832-homem-de-neandertal-comia-mariscos-ha\
-150-mil-anos-diz-estudo.html

An item on bringing fossils to the computer age seems to touch on some of
the above and more:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,784921,00.html

Remains of a Neanderthal girl from Pinlla del Valle (Spain):

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/madrid/Hallados/restos/nina/neandertal/Pinilla/Va\
lle/elpepusoccie/20110913elpmad_1/Tes

Latest theory about Otzi:

http://news.yahoo.com/otzi-icemans-20th-anniversary-comes-scenario-071743745.htm\
l

... and marking the twentieth anniversary of his finding:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/crucial-mummy-found-20-years-ago-monday-012054612.html

The Paleo diet is getting press attention again:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-grain-caveman-diet-gains-traction.html

Remains of a mousterian (?) era tool from Spain:

http://prehistoria.urv.es/es/node/445

Pondering what happened to Neanderthals:

http://summitcountyvoice.com/2011/09/17/archaeology-were-did-the-neanderthals-go\
/

More on A. Sediba:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201109092

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AFRICA
================================================================
Tripoli's antiquities museum has escaped revolution-related damage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/11/tripoli-museum-antiquity-shattered\
-gaddafi-image
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A 3500 B.C./B.C.E. era 'clarinet' and dice found at Gohar-Tappeh:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/2414

A Byzantine (? ... seems a bit early or the journalists have math problems)
anchor found
by an Israeli lifeguard:

http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=38876&catid=863
http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/09/israeli-lifeguard-rescues-sunken-treasure
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-israel-sunken-treasure,0,\
5649318.story
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2011-09/13/c_131136720.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110914/ml-israel-sunken-treasure/
http://my.news.yahoo.com/israeli-lifeguard-rescues-sunken-treasure-152555764.htm\
l

Not quite sure where to put this Islamic-era-roman-style-bathhouse
-in-a-fortress story:

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=33234
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2011-09/14/c_131136792.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-seaside-fortress-stronghold-early-islamic.ht\
ml
http://www.aftau.org/site/DocServer/YavneYam_Fischer_FINAL.doc?docID=15381
http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/35931.php?from=194004
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=237967

Nazca-like lines in Saudi Arabia (!):

http://www.livescience.com/16046-nazca-lines-wheels-google-earth.html

UNESCO is going to help Egypt restore is World Heritage Sites:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/21050/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/UNES\
CO-to-help-Egypt-restore-its-World-Heritage-si.aspx
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?storyid=1093441084

Concerns for the site of Mari:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/september-2011/article/ancient-mesopotamian\
-city-in-need-of-rescue

Overviewish/latest fromish thing from Gezer:

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=36120

Google is just starting to get Israel in Street View:

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000681839&fid=1725

Feature on the ancient turquoise mines of the South Sinai:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/494222

Latest on the lead codices:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/PDFs/Update%20_Codices4.pdf
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/ver358012.shtml

Mel Gibson is yakking about Judah Maccabee and semi-related
things:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/09/mel-gibson-on-judah-mac\
cabee-christopher-hitchens-and-circumcision/244828/

Review of Weston Fields, *The Dead Sea Scrolls*:

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29722

Review of Jodi Magness, *Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit*:

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33304

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Remains of a Roman bath in south London:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/16/roman-baths-thameslink-site-southw\
ark

Very interesting Thracian chariot-woman-burial from Elhovo (Bulgaria):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=132006

The latest in the collapse of the House of the Gladiators (et al):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Controversy-over-Pompeii-funding/24455

Excavations at Erimi (Cyprus) have concluded for the season:

http://your-story.org/cyprus-department-of-antiquities-completes-erimi-excavatio\
ns-266945/

Some coverage of that Marathon reenactment:

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/news/world/world/general/history-buffs-sweat-it-ou\
t/2289635.aspx
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gXARXuUc4gFuTJbWh-RY5zRXX50Q?\
docId=CNG.ee29706d29744c955731a90381f66cc5.171

A new archaeological park in Izmir:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-256687-archeological-park-opens-in-izmir.html

Not sure there's anything new in this piece on the dig at Apollonia:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/09/12/1154450_archaeology-remains-of-ancient-greek\
-settlement-studied-on-island-off-sozopol

Interesting finds from Gortyna:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/32/47289

Latest in the Roman Maryport development plan:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/trust-chief-warns-development-would-des\
troy-roman-maryport-1.878590

Lots of new Iliad spins on the way:

http://www.channel4.com/news/homers-iliad-translated-to-the-modern-age

A Latin program bites the dust:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18875099

One student's experience with the Iliad:

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/09/13/why-iliad-more-exciting-you-think-it

Celebrating 65 years of excavation at Perge:

http://www.gadling.com/2011/09/12/excavations-at-ancient-city-of-perge-in-turkey\
-celebrate-65-year/

The Guardian on the Greek orders:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/11/identify-greek-orders-archite\
cture

The Socrates "you" don't know (but actually probably do):

http://www.salon.com/books/2011/09/14/xenophon_socrates/index.html

Lucky undergrads at Baylor get to work with actual papyri:

http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&story=100064
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/580552/?sc=rsln

The folks at Oxford are commercializing a scanner they helped develop:

http://bulletin.sciencebusiness.net/news/75407/University-of-Oxford-commercialis\
es-scanner-that-reveals-secrets-of-ancient-and-modern-documents

More on mosaics and fish biology:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-mosaics-marine-conservation-110913.htm\
l
http://io9.com/5840288/roman-art-reveals-regular-fish-were-once-full+fledged-sea\
-monsters

More on gladiator schools in Austria:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jZrzT-7WeHuFwNzBzAr7kuSpJTRQ?d\
ocId=6cb23106864e4f35af724752d629206b

Review of Stephen Greenblatt, *Swerve*:

http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/201\
1/09/11/swerve

Review of Madeline Miller, *The Song of Achilles*:

http://news.scotsman.com/arts/Book-review-The-Song-of.6837698.jp

Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/129945988.html

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A 5900 years b.p. woman's straw-woven skirt from Armenia (this sounds
familiar):

http://news.am/eng/news/73915.html

Neolithic finds from a Wrexham quarry:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-14930058

An Iron Age hillfort at Ham Hill suggests a possible 'suburbia' around it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/01/iron-age-hill-fort-excavation

An Ottoman mausoleum at Peperikon:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/09/14/1155871_archaeology-mausoleum-of-ottoman-con\
queror-found-at-perperikon
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/2340

A medieval ring found near Ripon has been declared treasure:

http://www.ripongazette.co.uk/news/ripon/medieval_treasure_found_near_ripon_1_37\
53171

Medieval 'Zombie' burial from Ireland (isn't this a 'vampire' burial?):

http://news.discovery.com/history/zombie-skeletons-ireland-grave-110916.html
http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?feed_id=0&catid=20107552&videofeed=36
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44549702/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2038565/Skeletons-buried-stones-m\
ouths-stop-returning-zombies-discovered-Ireland.html

Plans to restore the Boutrizi fortress:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/9/47533

Archaeologists are working at Abbey Craig:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14945291

Pondering William Wallace's motives (this sounds familiar ...):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-true-story-william-wallaces-english.html

Review of Hugh Thomas, *The Golden Empire*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/books/review/the-golden-empire-by-hugh-thomas-\
book-review.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Using tree rings as evidence of forest fires in the Appalachians:

http://tamutimes.tamu.edu/2011/09/07/tree-rings-reveal-forest-fires-from-hundred\
s-of-years-ago/

A site in Montana reveals some dark days in Crow history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/us/11tribe.html

Archaeologists in Maryland have found Zekiah Fort:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-archaeologists-maryland-long-sought-zekiah-f\
ort.html
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-09-14/news/bs-md-zekiah-fort-found-2011091\
4_1_archaeologists-maryland-indian-gravel-mine
http://www.somdnews.com/article/20110916/NEWS/709169597/1074/1074/archaeologists\
-find-so-md-holy-grail&template=southernMaryland

A dig from Kodiak has turned up a 3000 years b.p. hunting/manufacturing
site:

http://www.adn.com/2011/09/17/2073887/kodiak-dig-unearths-clues-and.html
http://newsminer.com/bookmark/15562363

Someone is looking at runestones again:

http://itemonline.com/local/x478402746/Professor-investigates-ancient-carvings

Alexander Hamitlon's Grange has reopened after renovations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/design/alexander-hamiltons-renovated-gran\
ge-review.html

More on those clay disks from Alaska:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/2011/09/archaeological-dig-turns-sma\
ll-clay-disks
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Remains of human sacrifices  from Huanchaquito, Peru:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/214940/20110916/remains-of-ancient-human-sacrifi\
ces-unearthed-in-peru-huanchaquito-trujillo-religious-ceremony-of-th.htm

Meanwhile, a Peruvian family that used to own Machu Picchu is seeking
compensation:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/8755875/Peruvian-fam\
ily-claiming-Machu-Picchu-take-fight-to-UN-heritage-body.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
================================================================
History's most overlooked 'mysteries':

http://www.livescience.com/11361-history-overlooked-mysteries.html

Latest facial reconstruction is on Simon of Sudbury:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14896640

Can't remember if we had this mother/father tongue story before:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110915225843.htm

Five other surprise attacks that changed history:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/06/140156564/5-other-surprise-attacks-that-changed-hi\
story

ULeeds has come up with an improved method for detecting sites from the air:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-beneath-soil-uncover.html

The Smithsonian's Conservation Institute have figured out how to date silk:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-team-technique-dating-silk.html

A nice harvest moon APOD:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110916.html

Feature (with slideshow) on Hemingway as art lover:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/design/hemingway-the-museumgoer-at-the-me\
t.html

On dating stone tools:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/science/13qna.html

Review of Carlo Rovelli, *The First Scientist*:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/09/who-was-the-first-scientist\
-1.html

Scathing review of a number of books about Columbus and his ilk:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904836104576558540795723736.html

Review of Nigel Cliff, *Holy War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/books/review/holy-war-by-nigel-cliff-book-revi\
ew.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Tuscany (with a literary spin):

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110902-through-the-pages-of-tuscany

Suriname:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/travel/suriname-south-americas-hidden-treas\
ure.html

In the footsteps of the Tenth Legion (Israel):

http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=238089
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The first Hellenistic gold coin ever struck (really?) is coming to auction:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8787509.htm

Big bucks for that Ides of March denarius:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=23683

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n38.html

... and the one which likely comes out later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n39.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Life and Death in the Pyramid Age:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/AccessAtlanta-sharing_/life-death-in-the-1180957.ht\
ml

The Art of Dissent in 17th Century China*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/arts/design/the-art-of-dissent-in-17th-century\
-china-at-the-met-museum-review.html

Ingres at the Morgan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/arts/design/ingres-at-the-morgan-drawings-and-\
letters-review.html

Infinite Jest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/design/infinite-jest-at-the-metropolitan-\
museum-review.html

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus:

http://global.christianpost.com/news/face-of-jesus-exhibit-comes-to-philadelphia\
-art-museum-55477/

Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=279
http://www.newsday.com/news/archimedes-hidden-writings-to-go-on-display-1.316692\
1
http://www.cdapress.com/news/national_news/article_1f6adbbe-7fab-58df-bd17-554a3\
32f8df5.html
http://www.ydr.com/rss/ci_18883051

Renaissance Portrait Art:

http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_europe/2011-08-25/renaissance-art-exhibit\
-kicks-off-in-berlin-germany-.html

The Met's Islamic collection is reopening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/arts/design/asia-dominates-new-season-of-art-s\
hows.html

The Hatay Archeology Museum is getting a new building:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-256686-hatay-archeology-museums-space-problem-to\
-be-addressed-with-new-building.html

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is returning a vase to Italy:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50498
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/ancient-greece-antiquitie\
s-getty-.html
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/129919903.html
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/09/15/minneapolis-museum-agrees-to-return-anc\
ient-vase/
http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_18907047
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/09/15/minneapolis-museum-agree\
s-to-return-ancient-vase/

The Kimbell acquires a Poussin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/arts/design/kimbell-art-museum-acquires-poussi\
ns-ordination.html

The Seaport Museum was saved:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/a-2-million-lifeline-to-save-seapor\
t-museum/

The BM is putting a semantic web version of its database online:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=50520

The folks at Oxford are commercializing a scanner they helped develop:

Some coverage of Bonham's latest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/arts/10iht-melikian10.html

... and Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/arts/17iht-melikian17.html

Assorted exhibitions news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/arts/design/byzantium-to-the-bronx-a-world-of-\
art.html


Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
===============================================================
Atys:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/arts/music/atys-french-baroque-opera-by-lully-\
at-bam.html

Rachmaninoff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/nyregion/reviving-a-rachmaninoff-link-in-a-cen\
terport-concert.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Latest Archaeonews podcast:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-19\
8

Latest video news from The Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Michael Hart:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/09/project-gutenberg-founder-mic\
hael-s-hart-has-died.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,David Critchley,
Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, David Emery,
Hernan Astudillo, Michael Caputo,Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan,Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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The latest homo erectus find from Indonesia:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/ui-led-team-sheds-light-on-ice-age-human-evolut\
ion-in-asia

On the DNA front, latest research suggests humans settled in eastern Asia in
two waves:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-aboriginal-australians-explorers.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110922141858.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/science/23aborigines.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15020799
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112388020/ancient-humans-settled-east-asia\
-in-two-waves-not-one/index.html
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/09/23/studies_suggest_2_waves_of\
_ancient_asia_settlement
http://www.3news.co.nz/Studies-suggest-two-waves-of-ancient-Asia-settlement/tabi\
d/417/articleID/227031/Default.aspx

... and the San people split from other African populations some 130 000
years b.p.:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-technique-genomes-human-migrations.html

Giving various Australopithecines the CT scan treatment:

http://asunews.asu.edu/20110920_FamilyTree
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/ucl-njs091911.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-skin-deep-ct-early.html

Feature on Oetzi:

http://news.discovery.com/history/iceman-discovery-110919.html

More on A. Sediba:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/foss-s23.shtml
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AFRICA
================================================================
Feature on Sada Mire and her work with petroglyphs in Somalia:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14592866

The Roman basilica at Kef (Tunisia) is threatened:

http://www.tunisia-live.net/2011/09/16/roman-basilica-in-kef-threatened-by-salaf\
is/

... we're still being reassured that sites in Libya are ok:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-14998085
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The most recent Supreme Council of Antiquities head submitted his
resignation:

http://english.cri.cn/6966/2011/09/20/1461s659202.htm
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/21883/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/-Head-\
of-Egypts-Supreme-Council-of-Antiquities-con.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/21841/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Unco\
nfirmed-reports-New-Secretary-General-of-the-S.aspx
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/09/protests-drive-out-egypts-anti\
quities.html

The Azraq oasis has yielded the oldest human remains ever found in Jordan:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093444209&src=RSS

Video feature on the Umm el-Jimal project (Jordan):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MyreMP5B0&feature=uploademail

Digging a Byzantine site near the Be'er Sheva Central Bus Station:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148010#.Tn8IJeyTN-4

LandMinds visits and discusses Tel Socho:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-210911a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-210911c.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-210911d.mp3

That professor at the University of Western Australia who spotted a pile of
sites in Saudi Arabia via Google Earth has spotted a couple thousand more
in the region:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-unearth-201109\
23-1kol7.html
http://www.kiamaindependent.com.au/news/national/national/general/google-unearth\
-aussie-discovers-new-treasures-from-the-past-from-his-office/2302154.aspx
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-unearth-aussie-discovers\
-new-treasures-from-the-past--from-his-office-20110923-1kol7.html

Latest court ruling says that items at Harvard and the Boston MFA are not
the property of the Iranian government and can't be seized in court actions
against that government:

http://www.payvand.com/news/11/sep/1234.html

Interesting item from the Cairo Geniza:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=238087

I think we mentioned this 'lost fleet' of Egypt being discovered back in
June:

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jun/02-egypts-lost-fleet-its-been-found

More on those 'Nazca Lines' in the Middle East:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2037850/Thousands-strange-Nazca-L\
ines-discovered-Middle-East.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Big news of the weeks appears to be the discovery of a large Roman shipyard
(maybe)
at Portus:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/09/22/Ancient-Roman-shipyard-believed-found\
/UPI-91371316725963/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/brit-team-discovers-vast-roman-shipyard-234808672.html
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16074558
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/24/huge-ancient-roman-shipyard-unearthed-\
in-italy/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44652693/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.history.com/news/2011/09/22/evidence-of-major-ancient-roman-shipyard-\
found/(photos)
http://www.livescience.com/16201-rome-ancient-shipyard.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-73220.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-15016053
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-hampshire-15021956(photos\
)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040402/Ancient-Roman-shipyard-discovere\
d-Portus.html

We're now getting English coverage of that 'Pompeii red was actually yellow'
story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/22/pompeii-red-yellow
http://www.inewsone.com/2011/09/23/pompeii-red-is-actually-yellow/78599

Heavy rains have revealed a hitherto unknown Mycenean cemetery in Soha:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/47400

Recent finds at Gortyna:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/32/47289

Not quite sure where to put this one ... a clumsy, unemployed Bulgarian has
found a Bronze Age hoard:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Sep-24/149548-jobless-bulgarian-stu\
mbles-across-ancient-treasure-worth-$2-million.ashx


Followup to that split 'Weary Herakles' statue dispute between the Boston
MFA
and Antalaya Museum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50671
http://www.wbur.org/2011/09/23/mfa-reunites-ancient-turkish-sculpture

Feature on all the research being don at the Wiener Laboratory:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_18/09/2011_406919

Feature on Archimedes and Euclid:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/degrees-of-freedom/2011/09/20/archimedes-and\
-euclid-like-string-theory-versus-freshman-calculus/

Mary Beard's top five list of books about religious cults in antiquity:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576580971074369248.html

... and Madeline Miller's top ten classical books:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/21/madeline-miller-top-10-classical-boo\
ks

Latin threatened in Hartford (and environs)?:

http://www.courant.com/community/suffield/hc-suffield-latin-0925-20110923,0,1667\
094.story

... but returning to Norfolk:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/education/roman_invasion_take_two_as_latin_returns_t\
o_north_norfolk_classrooms_1_1030377

Bernadette Brooten is looking at ancient slaves:

http://thebrandeishoot.com/articles/10742
http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2011/september/brooten.html

A.E. Stallings gets a MacArthur grant:

http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.7729095/k.8301/A_E_Stallings.htm
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2011/09/21/uga-grad-stallings-named-maca\
rthur.html

What Anne Feltovich is up to:

http://www.thesandb.com/features/feltovich-%E2%80%9903-experiencing-a-classic-re\
turn-to-grinnell.html

Princess Charlotte of Monaco likes ancient languages:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/09/20/princess-charlotte-of-monaco-learns-ancie\
nt-greek/

A Pompeii painting by John Martin has (finally) been restored:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/19/140604524/damaged-by-1928-flood-p\
ompeii-painting-by-john-martin-now-restored
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/19/john-martin-pompeii-painting-\
restored
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/25/john-martin-apocalypse-tate-r\
eview?INTCMP=SRCH

... while Pompeii itself is facing a funding crisis:

http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2011/09/funding_crisis.shtml

More on Oxford's multispectral analysis tool:

http://optics.org/news/2/9/25

Feature on Burnum:

http://archaeology.about.com/b/2011/09/21/burnum-the-roman-empire-in-croatia.htm

Feature on Lucretius:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=140533195&ps=cprs
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/09/16/140533195/lucretius-man-of-modern-m\
ystery

Reviews of Stephen Greenblatt, *The Swerve*:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20110922_New_book__quot_The_Swerve__q\
uot__a_gripping_tale_of_an_ancient_poem_that_conveys_the_cosmos.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/stephen-greenblatts-the-swerve\
-reviewed-by-michael-dirda/2011/09/20/gIQA8WmVmK_story.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/130323333.html
http://www.npr.org/books/titles/140464239/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-modern
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110925-ENTERTAIN-109250305

Reviews of Schiff's Cleopatra tome (now in paperback):

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-0924-editors-choice-2\
0110923,0,2778863.story
http://www.wbez.org/blog/claire-zulkey/2011-09-23/stacy-schiff-interview-92342(i\
nterview)
http://blog.al.com/entertainment-press-register/2011/09/cleopatra_a_dazzling_fig\
ure_in.html
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/130390453.html

Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:

http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-18/news/30172178_1_punic-wars-tyre-rome

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-song-of-achill\
es-by-madeline-miller-2359189.html

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Trying to figure out why Neolithic types at some British sites decided to
start farming:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-excavation-islands-britain-neolithic-period.\
html

Ancient Swedish fisher folk used to put human heads on stakes for 'display'
purposes:

http://www.thelocal.se/36226/20110919/
cf:
http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/09/ancient_swedish_fishers_put_hu.\
php

An Iron Age burial from Leicestershire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-15033961 (video)

A medieval seal from Stone Priory found in a Surrey field:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14984296

The Vale of York Viking hoard has returned to the area it was found:

http://www.ripongazette.co.uk/news/ripon/viking_hoard_returns_to_harrogate_1_378\
3090

Spain has prevailed in that long-standing legal battle with Odyssey Marine:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9PTIS1O1.htm
http://www2.tbo.com/business/business/2011/sep/22/spbizo1-treasure-hunting-odyss\
ey-defeated-again-in-ar-259595/
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/tribunal/EE/UU/ratifica/Odyssey/devuelva/\
Espana/tesoro/Mercedes/elpepucul/20110921elpepucul_15/Tes

... while a ship found at the mouth of the Thames by Odyssey Marine a few
years
ago has been identified (not sure how 'new' this news is):

http://www.sail-world.com/Canada/Discovery-of-English-shipwreck-at-the-mouth-of-\
the-Thames/88646

Feature on various map-depictions of Scotland:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15008220

They're looking to close some of the roads near Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-14985660

A Jewish-Indian Haggadah turns up in a garage sale in Salford:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-13907225

The Bodleian has digitized its copy of a work by Maimonides:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14973052
http://maimonides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

More on that 'zombie' burial from Ireland:

http://news.discovery.com/history/zooms/zombie-skeletons-ireland-grave-110916.ht\
ml

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A tiny tomb dating to the Le Dynasty found in Nam Dinh (Viet Nam):

http://my.news.yahoo.com/tiny-300-old-tomb-found-041002210.html

Mapping the tombs of China's emperors:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Scots-map-the-tombs-of.6840437.jp

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Artifacts have been returned to a Coeur d'Alene tribe:

http://nativetimes.com/life/culture/6072-ancient-artifacts-returned-to-coeur-dal\
ene-tribe

Suggestion that the north-south orientation of the Americas hindered
settlement:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110921074744.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/w-dto092111.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-continents-human-migration-technology.html

A pile of artifacts found at Game Creek suggests folks may have lived near
Jackson Hole year round:

http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=7749

Irene revealed a Native American burial in Branford (Conn.):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44640880/

Canadian archaeologists have dug up the bones of some Basque whalers dating
to
400 years b.p.:

http://www.eitb.com/en/news/life/detail/739465/canadian-archaeologists-dig-400ye\
arold-basque-bones/

The campaign continues to repatriate the remains of marines from the
Intrepid:

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/09/bring-us-naval-hero-home-america

More on that Kodiak dig:

http://classifieds.newsminer.com/bookmark/15562363
http://www.adn.com/2011/09/17/2073887/kodiak-dig-unearths-clues-and.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Strange ... a mummy found abandoned in the streets of Lima along with other
items:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-71398.html

Remains of mass child and animal sacrifice by the Chimu culture:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/214940/20110916/remains-of-ancient-human-sacrifi\
ces-unearthed-in-peru-huanchaquito-trujillo-religious-ceremony-of-th.htm(photos)

Remains of a female Maya ruler from Nakum (Guatemala):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110922-rare-mayan-femal\
e-ruler-tomb-found-guatemala/?now=2011-09-22-00:01
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2041348/Rats-riches-Maya-Queens-s\
keleton-riches-2-000-year-old-rodent-infested-tomb.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 physicist comments on philosophers:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/09/23/a-physicist-flirts-wit\
h-philosophy-and-lives-to-tell-the-tale/

I think we had this 'lost DaVinci' (the Salvator Mundi) thing a few weeks
ago:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48949

Top five 'lost cities':

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\09\23\story_23-9-2011_pg9_7

Nice rant about the 'History' Channel's offerings:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/09/19/an-archaeologist-watches-the-hi\
story-channel-and-questions-the-part-about-the-aliens/

Interesting feature on the history of the restaurant:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/how-the-tables-t\
urned-in-18thcentury-france-2359738.html

Xrays reveal a hidden Goya:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15018174

A 400-year-old Methodist coverup?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/20/bare-breasted-statue-uncovere\
d-john-wesley
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3824607/Goddess-of-chestity.html

The British Library has released a number of 'rare' items as ebooks:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8777840/British-Library-releases-rare\
-titles-as-ebooks.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3824607/Exposed-statues-great-breast-c\
over-up.html

... and the Kindle is now able to read library ebooks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/books/amazons-kindle-to-make-library-e-books-a\
vailable.html

Eve's Diary is back on the shelves:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/us/eves-diary-banned-twain-book-back-at-charlt\
on-mass-library.html

This year's MacArthur Grant recipients:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/arts/macarthur-foundation-announces-winners-of\
-genius-awards.html

An erotic poem by Frederick the Great was found in a Berlin archive:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/frederick-the-great-poems_b_966460.h\
tml

Talking about he role of religion in the collapse of civilizations:

http://universe.byu.edu/index.php/2011/09/19/religions-role-in-the-collapse-of-c\
ivilizations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=religions-role-in-the-c\
ollapse-of-civilizations

Challenging the Indy 'stereotype':

http://www.miamistudent.net/2.8198/archaeology-professor-to-challenge-indiana-jo\
nes-stereotype-1.1151000#.Tn8FzuyTN-4

Rethinking the effects of the Laki volcano eruption in the 18th century:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-ben-franklin-wrong-volcanic-eruption.html

Review of Laurence Bergreen, *Columbus: The Four Voyages*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/books/review/columbus-the-four-voyages-by-laur\
ence-bergreen-book-review.html

Review of Mary Gabriel, *Love and Capital*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/books/review/love-and-capital-by-mary-gabriel-\
book-review.html


http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Corinth:

http://www.news-mail.com.au/story/2011/09/23/tyrants-city-still-treasure-corinth\
-greece/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10753043

Petra:

http://www.thestar.com/travel/africamideast/article/1058708--the-ghost-city-of-p\
etra

Turkey's ancient sites:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/turkey/8773959/Turkeys-bes\
t-ancient-sites.html

Kabul:

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/City+where+history+hangs+thick/5404508/story\
.html

Moravian Castles:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/travel/in-the-czech-republic-moravia-and-it\
s-castles.html

Perugia:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/travel/36-hours-in-perugia-italy.html?hpw
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A warehouse full of looted Native American antiquities in Salt Lake City:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700182124/Warehouse-protects-thousands-and-th\
ousands-of-looted-Indian-antiquities.html

Looters have plundered Ivory Coast's national museum:

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Looters-plunder-8-5M-from-Ivory-Coast-museum-2\
184923.php

The site of Apamea is being vandalized/plundered:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/20/370499.htm

More on the MIA returning a purloined vase to Greece:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/09/18/stolen-ancient-greek-vase-returns-to-ital\
y/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Feature on the Alexander Medallion:

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110925/Plus/plus_05.html

A couple metal detectorists found a Roman coin of some sort:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/home/duo-find-rare-roman-coin-buried-in-a-furness-field\
-1.879046?referrerPath=news/

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n39.html

... and, as always, a new one should appear later today at:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n40.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2011/09/22/hidden-writings-of-archimedes-on-display\
-at-baltimore-museum/

Kingdom of Alexander the Great:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2011/09/19/the-kingdom-of-alexander-the-great-trave\
ls-to-the-louvre-via-stavros-niarchos-foundation/

Cleopatra:

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Milwaukee-museum-gears-up-for-Cleopatra-exhibi\
t-2181002.php
http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/2011/09/milwaukee-museum-gears-cleop\
atra-exhibit

Face to Face:

http://www.cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2011/09/20/face-face-johnson

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/19/3922011/dead-sea-scrolls-life-and-faith.html

Pompeii: A Way of Life:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/19/pompeii-villa-paris-musee-maillol

Magna Carta:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/8770754/700-year-old-copy-of-Magn\
a-Carta-goes-on-display.html

Giacometti and the Etruscans:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Sep-22/149340-sculptor-alberto-giac\
ometti-may-have-been-the-last-of-the-etruscans.ashx

Gertrude Bell in Mesopotamia:

http://dailybulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8913

Christmas Cards:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/design/american-christmas-cards-1900-1960\
-at-bard-graduate-center.html

Munch:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/a-different-view-of-munch-at-paris-\
exhibition/

Degas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/24iht-melikian24.html

Charles Dickens at 200:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/arts/design/morgan-librarys-charles-dickens-at\
-200-review.html

Interesting Roman items in the newly renovated Glasgow Hunterian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/19/antonine-wall-gaps-roman-occupatio\
n

Feature on the Edirne Archaeology and Ethnology Museum:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-257364-edirne-museum-plays-home-to-time-and-trad\
itions.html

The Menil Collection is returning some frescoes to Cyprus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/design/menil-collection-is-to-return-fres\
coes-to-cyprus.html

Feature on the Met's new Islamic Art galleries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/arts/design/islamic-art-treasures-at-the-metro\
politan-museum.html
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/09/22/arts/design/100000001067254/islamic-ar\
t.html(video)

First we hear of the financial travails of the American Folk Art Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/arts/design/preserving-the-american-folk-art-m\
useums-place-in-new-york.html

... but it apparently will remain open:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/nyregion/american-folk-art-museum-to-stay-open\
.html

The Getty is returning two items in its collection to Greece:

http://news.getty.edu/article_display.cfm?article_id=5590
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50649
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-cm-getty-museum-greece-sl,0\
,4007380.storylink
http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/09/23/29028/getty-museum-agrees-exchange-greek-gov\
ernment-anti/
http://www.newsday.com/news/getty-to-return-more-antiquities-to-greece-1.3192532
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/22/getty-to-return-more-antiquities\
-to-greece/
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/getty-return-antiquities-greece-14\
583907
http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_22/09/2011_407655

A big buying spree at Christie's latest, apparently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/arts/17iht-melikian17.html

Nice price for a Chinese Bell:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50646

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Gemma di Vergi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/arts/21iht-LOOMIS21.html

Atys:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/arts/music/lullys-atys-at-bam-with-les-arts-fl\
orissants-review.html?ref=music

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Archaeonews Podcast #199:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-19\
9
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Archie Christopherson:

http://classics.uc.edu/index.php/component/content/article/2-newslist/145-christ\
opherson

Mohammed Ghani Hikmat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/arts/design/mohammed-ghani-hikmat-iraqi-sculpt\
or-dies-at-82.html

A.Richard Turner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/arts/design/a-richard-turner-dies-at-79-wrote-\
inventing-leonardo.html
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HUMOUR
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Geek Legends:

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1582.html
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Feature on the folks who dated the oldest known Acheulian hand axes:

http://www.shu.edu/news/article/366373

Neanderthals apparently had a reasonably balanced diet:

http://www.livescience.com/16338-neanderthals-diet-balanced-fish-birds.html

More on Sediba:

http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-26/news/30204168_1_australopithecus-anthropol\
ogists-tool-users
http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/20110926_Our_ancient_ancestors__\
When_did_they_become_human_.html

On climate change and human evolution:

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/history/archaeology/rapid-temperature-ris\
es-coincided-with-early-human-evolution/39385.html

Whence came H. floresiensis?:

More on the latest theory about Oetzi:

http://news.yahoo.com/otzi-icemans-20th-anniversary-comes-scenario-071743745.htm\
l

More on two waves of human migration to Asia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/m-mrl092611.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Latest CT mummy scan ... of one in the Tasmanian Museum:

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/breaking-news/ct-scan-reveals-mummys-boy/story-e\
6frg12u-1226151212554

Plenty of coverage of the announcement that the DSS have been
put online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15063895
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?ID=239683&R=R1
http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1443459
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/09/dead-sea-scrolls-now-online/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/google-helps-publishing-ancient-dead-sea-scrolls-online\
-060007081.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700183927/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-go-online-thanks-t\
o-Google-Israel-Museum.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBh2um-vn0LUEZIJdmfUivpI3ygw?d\
ocId=993c6b388ffb4e22acd3f513564ef948
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2042048/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-online--\
mouse-pointer-instantly-translates-English.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/dead-sea-scrolls-go-online-as-google-jo\
ins-israel-museum-to-help-scholars.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=140806284
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/dead-sea-scrolls-online-i\
srael-museum-google-.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/26/scitech/main20111650.shtml
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/09/dead-sea-scrolls-published-online
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/26/dead_sea_scrolls/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0927/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-now-available-to-all\
-online-VIDEO
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50710

A 'lost city' is found in the Dardanelles ... older than Troy:

http://www.nationalturk.com/en/lost-city-older-than-troy-found-in-canakkale-turk\
ey-14086
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=ancient-lost-city-found-in-the-dardanel\
les-2011-09-27

cf: http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

... nice sidebar thing:

http://www.history.com/news/2011/09/26/unraveling-the-dead-sea-scrolls-six-fasci\
nating-facts/

... and some will be on  display at this year's SBL meetup:

http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=9259FA8E-15C5-E47C-F9A1B7006DD15907

Latest LandMinds includes interviews with Aaron Burke about Jaffa:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-Seg1-220911a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-Seg2-220911b.mp3

... and Matt Goldish about Shabtai Zevi:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-Seg3-270911c.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-Seg4-270911d.mp3



Feature on the trials and tribulations of the Tell Halaf artifacts:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Jan/28/Syrian-gods-rise-from-the-ashes-\
of-World-War-II.ashx

Thousands of unregistered antiquities turn up in Cairo University restrooms:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/499738

Israel returned some 620 artifacts to Jordan:

http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?lang=2&site_id=1&NewsID\
=44302&Type=P
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1665215.php/Jorda\
n-recovers-620-artifacts-from-Israel-says-official
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article507956.ece
http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=41712
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148298
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8789208/Google-digitises-Dead-Sea-Scr\
olls.html
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2011/Septem\
ber/middleeast_September517.xml§ion=middleeast&col=

Plenty of antiquities-related protests in Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/22698/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Politi\
cal-battle-rages-around-Egypts-antiquities-a.aspx

... and a new head for the SCA:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/23109/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-\
antiquities-head,-new-plan,-protestors-satisfi.aspx

The Tel Nagila Publication Project:

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/wl/digsites/SLevant/Nagila2006/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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All sorts of Roman artifacts from a former Wrangler Jeans factory site
in Camelon:

http://news.scotsman.com/dundee/Axes-bones-jewellery-and-60.6845124.jp

A 'luxury residence' found in Izmir:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=ancient-luxury-residence-of-rich-family\
-found-in-izmir-2011-09-23

Roman-era burials from Amrit:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2011/09/26/371737.htm

Just starting to get coverage of this 'earliest Christian inscription'
identification
story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/30/scitech/main20113931.shtml
http://www.livescience.com/16319-earliest-christian-inscription-pagan-artifacts.\
html

What Iannis Lolos is up to:

http://utdailybeacon.com/news/2011/sep/16/lecturer-gives-details-ancient-city-st\
ate/

What Jonathan Shay is up to:

http://theithacan.org/15387

What Philip Freeman is up to:

http://www.luther.edu/headlines/?story_id=356813http://blogs.nature.com/news/201\
1/09/hobbit_blog_1.html

A collector has opened his own Classical Art museum in France:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b806d1ea-e8f5-11e0-ac9c-00144feab49a.html

Latest coverage of the Royal Holloway threat:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23992890-campaigners-resist-class\
ics-course-death-by-1000-cuts.do

High speed trains threaten a Roman villa in Spain:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/2011092889373/news/spain/ancient-roman-villa-at-ri\
sk-due-ave-high-speed-train-in-barcelona.html

OpEd on the state of Pompeii:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/29/restore-painting-pompeii-its\
elf

Feature on some words with classical roots:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576597201215250720.html?m\
od=googlenews_wsj

On assorted translations of the Iliad:

http://www.news-journal.com/opinion/columnists/frank_t_pool/the-rosy-fingered-da\
wn-of-literature/article_69b05501-2ded-5d85-97b5-e353d56e6d6d.html

More on the return of that half of the Weary Herakles:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=tugba-tanyeri-erdemir-2011-09-30
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/boston-museum-returns-bust-to-turke\
y/

... and an interview about raising awareness of antiquities
in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=return-of-8216herakles8217-a-victory-fo\
r-turkey8217s-cultural-heritage-2011-09-30

Albert Uderzo has retired from drawing Asterix:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15072853

Reviews of Greenblatt's *The Swerve*:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-30/religion-a-delusion-said-lucretius-don-\
t-worry-be-happy-lewis-lapham.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-swerve-how-the\
-renaissance-began-by-stephen-greenblatt-2362956.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2011/09/stephen_greenblatt_s_the_swerve\
_did_lucretius_s_poem_really_brin.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/books/review/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-m\
odern-by-stephen-greenblatt-book-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/books/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-modern-b\
y-stephen-greenblatt-review.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/harvard-prof-extols-wicked-roman-poem-h\
idden-by-monks-manuela-hoelterhoff.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/09/the-swerve-beauty-and-pleasure-a\
re-worthwhile-pursuits/245652/

Review of Bettany Hughes, *The Hemlock Cup*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-hemlock-cup-so\
crates-athens-and-the-search-for-the-good-life-by-bettany-hughes-2364191.html

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles*:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2011/09/27/original-take-on-homer-\
s-classic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8781879/The-Song-of-Achilles-by-Madeline-Mill\
er-review.html

More on that Roman shipyard from Portus:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/201131.html
http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/news/2011/09/29/university-of-southampton-archaeolo\
gists-discover-ancient-shipyard/
http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/219402/20110925/roman-portus-shipyard-italy-ancie\
nt.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44652693/ns/technology_and_science-science/

More on scanning technology at Oxford:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/09/document-analysis
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110926230110.htm

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Some petroglyphs found in the Dordogne (France) were apparently made by
children:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15109188
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15119701 (Video)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/30/stone-age-toddlers-art-lessons

Bronze Age items have turned up at that dig at the Pillar of Eliseg:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-15007707

A medieval burial ground found in Rush in Co Dublin earlier this year
turns out to be quite a bit older:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1001/1224305085946.html

More on that supposed 800 years b.p. 'witch' burial from Italy (did we
mention
this one?):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041671/800-year-old-remains-witch-disco\
vered-graveyard-Tuscany-Italy.html
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8352006/witchs-graveyard-unearthed-in-italy

Some inscribed slate found at Nevern Castle (Wales) designed to keep the
evil
spirits away:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/09/30/archaeologists-uncover-s\
late-at-nevern-castle-that-kept-evil-spirits-at-bay-91466-29511417/

A metal detectorist found the pommel of a 'Crusader's' sword in
Selkirkshire:

http://www.selkirkweekendadvertiser.co.uk/news/local-headlines/generous_george_s\
_crusading_discovery_1_1883326

The Chiseldon Cauldrons are returning -- in replica form -- to the village
whence
the originals came:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15093297
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/9272499.Artefact____returning____thanks_\
to_donation/

Interesting feature on Benvenida Abravanel and 'high society' in 16th
century Italy:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=239623

Four of Hampton Court's roundels have been restored:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/28/hampton-court-palace-roundels-rest\
ored

... and Cardigan Castle is getting a major restoration:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15103905

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
China just won't give up on that 'Lost Roman Legion' connection:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/02/c_131172311.htm

A Warring States copper sword turns up in Jiangxi province:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-79055.html

Not sure if we mentioned this chariot-and-horses burial from China:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110927-chariots-horses-\
tomb-science-luoyang-china/(slideshow)

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
They're digging at the Battle(s) of Saratoga site:

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Dig-under-way-at-historic-Saratoga-battlef\
ield-2188054.php

A mummified hand shows up in Idaho:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/us-mummified-hand-idUSTRE78Q6R12011092\
7
http://www.standard.net/stories/2011/09/28/mummified-hand-found-idaho-museum-go-\
utah

Civil War casulaties may have been higher than previously thought:

http://scienceblog.com/47973/u-s-civil-war-killed-20-more-than-thought-750000/

The folks working on Ferry Farm are creating 3d models of some of them
for public interaction purposes:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/092011/09272011/654031

Review of Charles Lachman, *A Secret Life*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/nyregion/books-on-presidents-cleveland-and-mck\
inley-and-on-tony-bennett.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some rather ancient footprints from Mexico:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50727
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/World/2011/09/27/Ancient_human_footprints_found_\
in_Mexico_666679.html
http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2011/09/27/ancient-human-footprints-found-i\
n-mexico/
http://www.elmostrador.cl/vida-en-linea/2011/09/26/descubren-en-mexico-huellas-h\
umanas-de-25-000-anos-de-antiguedad/

Some incredibly old (really?) petroglyphs from Peru:

http://peru21.pe/noticia/1304610/descubren-pinturas-rupestres-cuevas

Cannibalism is confirmed in remains of the Xiximes people:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/news/2011/11/110930-cannibalism-cannibal\
s-mexico-xiximes-human-bones-science/

Photos of that mass grave of children and llamas at Huanchaquito (I think
we mentioned this before):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110926-child-sacrifice-\
llamas-science-peru-chimu-inca-burials/

Possible evidence of a lost language discovered in Peru:

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004383.php

Feature on Cuban architecture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/design/new-books-on-cuba-and-an-americana\
-collection.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The BBC started a debate on the BC/BCE v AD/CE thing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8788464/BC-or-BCE-The\
-BBCs-edict-on-how-we-date-events-is-AD-absolute-drivel.html
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2011/09/ad-vs-ce.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2011/sep/26/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/sep/25/1
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2041765/BBC-BC-AD-debate-Our-language-\
hijacked-Left.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041720/Andrew-Marr-says-ignore-BBC-dikt\
at-stop-use-BC-AD.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8788038/Stars-attack-BBC-over-\
politically-correct-drivel.html
http://themediablog.typepad.com/the-media-blog/2011/09/daily-mail-bbc.html

Nice little history quiz:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/are-you-a-master-of-history-2363\
498.html

On the animal-human communication link in human development:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/02/anthropology-pat-shipman-animals-l\
anguage

The story of that guy who saved that gold treasure from Afghanistan back
when the
Taliban was blowing up buddhas and the like:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/28/earlyshow/main20112633.shtml

The last bullfight in Catalonia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/europe/adeu-to-catalonias-matadors.html

Feature on the Guidonian Hand technique:

http://scienceblog.com/48020/understanding-the-art-of-memorization-through-a-med\
ieval-singing-tool/

Still looking for the Battle of Anghiari:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-argonne-scientist-energizes-quest-lost.html

Implications of the 19th century 'Protestant work ethic':

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-19th-century-protestant-ethic-heart.html

Pondering the 'reality' of fiction:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/quixote-colbert-and-the-reality-\
of-fiction/

More coverage of the Odyssey Marine v Spain decision:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/28577/odyssey-case-american-court-confirms-unde\
rwater-treasure-belongs-to-spain/

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Santorini:

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/life_and_style/holidays/s/1460378_at\
lantis-back-on-the-map

Loire Valley:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110919-mini-guide-to-loire-valley-france

Ethiopia:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110920-once-upon-a-time-in-ethiopia
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
American Journal of Archaeology 115.4 (October TOC):

http://www.ajaonline.org/toc/1154-0

================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Investigating possible looting attempts by metal detectorists around a Roman
walled town in Northamptonshire:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/pair_investigated_on_suspicion_of_a\
ttempting_to_loot_buried_treasure_from_northamptonshire_roman_town_1_3091909

The drought in Texas is contributing to looting of sites:

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201109/texas-drough-exposes-history-dinosau\
r-age

Some 13th century frescoes are returning to Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/theft/13th-century-frescoes-coming-home/20110925
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/cyprus-church-says-rare-13th-century-\
orthodox-frescoes-to-be-returned-from-texas-collection/2011/09/30/gIQANEOV9K_sto\
ry.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/texas-museum-return-orthodox-fresc\
oes-cyprus-14639476

Feature on Icelandic sagas:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/09/sagas-icelanders-one-great-riddles-lite\
rary-history

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A Roman coin found near Dorking:

http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/

The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild is appealing their test case court
decision:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ancient-coin-collectors-appeal-dismissal\
-of-baltimore-test-case-130569833.html

The Frome Hoard is going on display:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/29/roman-coin-jar-frome-hoard
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2043141/The-Frome-Hoard-Largest-single-c\
ollection-Roman-coins-display.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-15090781

A Tay Son dynasty coin from Viet Nam:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/216072/Tay-Son-dynasty-coin-uneart\
hed-.html

More on that 'Ides of March' coin:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=50712
http://www.coinnews.net/2011/09/29/roman-ides-of-march-ancient-coin-sets-record-\
at-heritage-long-beach-auction/

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n40.html

... and the one which will turn up later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n41.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jIIQdBueRfYZK2rYnwFbi4akha5A?d\
ocId=811566c3ad1d4dc48daaf45188aa5086
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/2011/09/26/archimedes-sent\
-a-fax-to-xxi-century/

Bodleian Treasures:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9279790.Priceless_artifacts_shown_by_Bod\
leian_Library/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/25/bodleian-library-shows-treasures-s\
hakespeare

Cleopatra:

http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20111002/FON05/110020367/Cleopatra-exhibit-op\
en-Milwaukee

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50827

Civil War Portraiture:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50824

Pergamon:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903791504576588322659386688.html?m\
od=googlenews_wsj

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/event/Aphrodite-and-the-Gods-of-Love/1121\
730

Rembrandt and the Faces of Jesus:

http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-26/news/30204128_1_rembrandt-exhibit-anti-jew\
ish

Karanis Revealed:

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/09/16/mich-excavation-in-egypt-exhibit-opens-at\
-u-m/

Master Painters of India:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/design/putting-names-to-the-greats-of-ind\
ian-art.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/09/29/arts/design/20110930-WONDER.html

Manifold Greatness:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/design/manifold-greatness-and-king-james-\
bible-at-folger-review.html

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe:

http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/detail.dot?id=33226

David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/design/drawings-from-the-louvre-at-the-mo\
rgan-library-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/09/29/arts/design/20110930-LOUVRE.html

Dura Europos:

http://www.nyunews.com/life/2011/09/26/26isaw/

Book of the Dead:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50751
cf:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2011/09/20/repairing-the-boo\
k-of-the-dead/
On the 'curse' of the Lydian Hoard:

http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=257844

The Brooklyn Museum is returning some artifacts to Costa Rica:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44734377/ns/travel-destination_travel/#.ToeoYXK3N2I

Germany is returning some Namibian skulls:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-german-museum-namibian-skulls.html
http://www.southerntimesafrica.com/article.php?title=A%20long-awaited%20%20homec\
oming&id=6245
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15127992

More on the Getty returning items to Greece:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/getty-museum-to-return-mo\
re-ancient-pieces-to-greece.html

We keep hearing that the National Museum of Iraq is reopening:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?storyid=1093446093

The Met has given its website a major do over:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/metropolitan-museum-unveils-revampe\
d-web-site/

Check out our Twitter hashtag for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
A 'lost' Beethoven piece is to be performed for the first time
in a couple centuries:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15073541
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-lost-beethoven-masterpiece.html

Interesting interpretations of Shakespeare are on tap for the 2012 Cultural
Olympiad:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15058047

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Archaeo News Podcast 199:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Latest Archaeology News from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews25sep11.mp3
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Almon Richard Turner:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/09/26/28817/

Richard Hall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-15057582
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9256469.Renowned_York_archaeology_expert_dies__a\
ged_62/?ref=rss
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9256469.Tributes_paid_to_world_renowned_York_arc\
haeologist/?ref=rss
================================================================
HUMOUR
================================================================
A Mark Zuckerberg lookalike? (or vice versa):

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/09/lookalike-mark-zuckerberg-and-renaissan\
ce-gent
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Wesley Smith,, Joanne Conman,
Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Evidence of a 400 000 b.p. (!)'production line' of stone tools at
Qesem Cave (israel):

http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=240535
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=240452
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=33400

Burial of three paleolithic dogs, one with a mammoth bone
in its mouth, from the Czech Republic:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44819678/ns/technology_and_science-science/

More on Neanderthals having a good diet:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44752400/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Review of Dean Falk, *The Fossil Chronicles*:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/10/evolutionary-clues-from-anc\
estors-brains-1.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter (September 2011):

http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0911/news0911.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A mummy coffin in the Torquay Museum turns out to be 3500
years old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2046440/Sarcophagus-lay-years-sea\
side-museum-owners-realised-3-500-years-old.html
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Coffin-reveals-secret-past-mummified-royal-boy\
/story-13481724-detail/story.html

New suggestion that those 'temples' at Goblekli aren't actually
temples at all:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111006162535.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/07/Use-of-ancient-buildings-in-Turkey-de\
bated/UPI-21261318031564/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/worlds-oldest-temples-were-houses-men-not-gods-11594207\
6.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-archaeologist-world-oldest-temples.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uocp-aaw100611.php

Again, we're hearing of plans to dig at Carcemish, once they clear the
landmines
(I think they're done?):

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-258491-excavation-of-historic-city-of-karkamis-s\
lated-to-begin-as-mine-removal-ends.html

Bronze Age dwellings from Jerusalems 'Holyland Hill':

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/dig-at-jerusalem-s-infamous-holyland-h\
ill-uncovers-bronze-age-dwellings-1.387977

This should probably be a crime story, but excavation equipment was
found in the White Desert Natural Reserve:

http://english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=345936

There's a new head of the SCA (can't remember if we had this last
week):

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/28928/a-new-secretary-for-egyptian-supreme-coun\
cil-of-antiquities/

Meanwhile, despite the appointment of a new head of antiquities,
archaeological work is still at a standtill (there's all sorts of tidbits
in this one):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1067/eg14.htm

... and elsewhere, we're getting reports that the temple of Amenhotep III
was flooded:

http://www.kv64.info/2011/10/temple-of-amenhotep-iii-flooded.html

What Donald Redford is up to:

http://dnj.com/article/20111003/NEWS01/110030313/1002/rss

The online version of the Dead Sea Scrolls is proving to be a popular
destination:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/virtual-dead-sea-scrolls-get-more-than\
-a-million-hits-in-just-one-week-1.387769

... if you haven't checked it out:

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

Somewhat rambling feature on assorted powers in the Ancient Near East:

http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8715.0.139.0

Italy is going to help train Iraqi archaeologists and fix up the National
Museum:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2011-09-30\kurd.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)
================================================================
6th century B.C. tombs from Kozani:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/3/48748

Looking for a Roman road in Stirling:

http://www.stirlingobserver.co.uk/stirling-news/local-news-stirling/news-stirlin\
g/2011/10/05/archaeology-works-start-at-heritage-centre-site-51226-29536401/

... and at Sandford Heath (I think this is different from the previous):

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/9285882.Dig_hopes_to_answer_Roman_Road_rid\
dle/

TV hype for a digital recreation of Pavlopetri:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15191614
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111008130348.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-greek-city-digital\
ly-recreated-2367183.html

Apparently some folks didn't realize Putin's Black Sea
archaeological 'discovery' was fake?:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045848/Vladimir-Putins-Black-Sea-scuba-\
diving-treasure-stunt.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/spokesman-putins-scuba-dive-treasure-was-sta\
ged/2011/10/06/gIQATPsmPL_video.html
http://www.telegram.com/article/20111006/DIGESTS/110069529/1052/RSS01&source=rss
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/video/video-putins-dive-treasure-find-was-st\
aged/article2192681/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_conten\
t=2192681
http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_19049716?source=rss
http://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/article/604697--putin-s-discovery-of-ancient\
-deep-sea-treasure-was-staged
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Putin39s-setup-ancient-jug-find.6848421.jp
http://www.smh.com.au/world/putin-treasure-dive-staged-says-chief-spokesman-2011\
1006-1la8s.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/06/vladimir-putin-spokesman-urns-staged\
?newsfeed=true

More details about that Dionysus mosaic from Bulgaria that we mentioned
a few weeks ago (I think):

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=f2664

Interesting burial of humans and livestock in northern Greece:

http://straitstimes.com.feedsportal.com/c/32792/f/524622/s/191caf50/l/0L0Sstrait\
stimes0N0CBreakingNews0CTechandScience0CStory0CSTIStory0I720A9250Bhtml/story01.h\
tm

Semi-touristy thing on Vindolanda:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-writing-competition/8812940/Just-back-o\
rdinary-treasures-in-Englands-Pompeii.html

Facebook's version of the Rise and Fall of the Roman empire:

http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6546880/facebook-news-feed-history-of-the-wo\
rld-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire

Michael MacKinnon talks about 'Animals in the Agora':

http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/videocast-animals-in-the-agor\
a/

What Garret Fagan is up to:

http://www.al.com/samford-crimson/index.ssf/2011/10/davis_lecture_to_host_dr_gar\
re.html

What Elizabeth Greene is up to:

http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2011/October/uncovering_family\
_ties_across_the_ages.html

Lewis Lapham talks with James Romm:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-07/elephants-trampled-losers-in-battle-for\
-alexander-s-throne-lewis-lapham.html

A Classics student does the math:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/indialenon/100109604/why-tuition-fees-are-terr\
ible-news-for-the-humanities/

Reviews of *The Swerve*:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2016424842_br07swerve.html
http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/10/04/the-swerve/

Review of *Song of Achilles*:

http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=155028
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-m\
odern-by-stephen-greenblatt/article2194842/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2016424842_br07swerve.html

More lost legion nonsense:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/201110/03/t20111003_22736853.shtml
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/02/c_131172311.htm

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A prehistoric teen girl burial near a newly-found henge in Kent:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44806944/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/perhistoric-teen-grave-henge-111006.html

A 2000 years b.p. salting site from Willow Tree Fen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-15168543

A 1900 years b.p. hunting 'coat' from a melting glacier in Norway:

http://www.norwaypost.no/culture/melting-glaciers-reveal-ancient-artifacts-25795\
-25795.html

A number of Anglo-Saxon skeletons found last year in Oxfordshire
were reinterred:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-15228557

A Pictish symbol stone from a Highland farm building:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14881753

The petroglyphs at Altamira apparently continue to be at risk:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44808221/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Possible mass grave on the Batle of Shrewsbury site:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/10/05/another-mass-grave-under-shrewsbur\
y-incinerator-site/

They're digging test pits at Bannockburn:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/war+%26+conflict/pre-20th+centu\
ry+conflict/art365372

Newstead Abbey is now on the threatened list:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-15184025

Assorted Byzantine and Venetian fortresses in Greece are at risk too:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/10/05/historic-byzantine-and-venetian-fortr\
esses-at-risk/

A number of WWI artifacts are turning up at Gallipoli:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uom-hou100411.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-hundreds-undiscovered-artefacts-gallipoli.ht\
ml
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112395726/world-war-artifacts-uncovered-at\
-gallipoli/index.html

Latest facial reconstruction is on a former Archibishop of Canterbury who
was
beheaded:

http://news.discovery.com/history/reconstructed-face-of-simon-of-sudbury-111003.\
html

Funding for Newcastle's Black Gate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-15173660

More on those 'kiddie petroglyphs' at Rouffignac:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-archaeologists-uncover-prehistoric-pre-sch\
ool-video.html

More on those Nevern Castle warding-off-evil inscriptions:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-15153026

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Paleolithic weapons from Sri Lanka:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/10/03/news11.asp

Studying a vanished city on the Silk Road:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/04/Vanished-Silk-Road-city-studied-in-Ch\
ina/UPI-78801317774638/

The Taj Mahal is not on the verge of collapsing:

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/oct/081011-Agra-Taj-is-safe-experts.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/07/could-taj-mahal-collapse-in-2-years/

Floods are threatening the ancient city of Ayutthaya:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44772469/ns/weather/
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Thailand-Flooding-Threatens-World-Herit\
age-Site--131329414.html

The Makli necropolis may be pur on the endangered list too:

http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=102601&heading=Pakistan

Radio feature on Aboriginal astronomy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00kdr09/Discovery_Aboriginal_Astronomy/
cf: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15098959

... and I think we've had some version of this Aborigines-reached-Asia-first
story:

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110930190112174

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Possible skeletal remains from the Battle of the Plains of Abraham:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Possible+remains+unearthed+from+1759+battl\
e+Plains+Abraham/5514166/story.html

Latest on at Zekiah Fort find in Maryland:

http://www.somdnews.com/article/20111005/UNKNOWN/710059729/1059/archaeologists-f\
ind-so-md-holy-grail&template=southernMaryland

Hampton taverns were pretty high class a couple centuries or so ago:

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/hampton/old-hampton-taverns-served-the-e\
lite

Environmental effects of tar on Chumash people heads over time?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111006-tar-toxic-pollution-chuma\
sh-health-indians-science-heads/

They're back poking around the Queen Anne's Revenge site:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/expedition-starts-nc-site-blackbeards-ship-14\
668619
http://www.jdnews.com/articles/carteret-95774-county-expedition.html

Restoring the Park Avenue Armory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/arts/design/park-avenue-armory-to-get-swiss-ma\
keover.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A round Aztec ceremonial platform found at the Templo
Mayor in Mexico City:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/10/researchers-find-aztec-temple-platform-me\
xico
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/06/501364/main20117008.shtml
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/aztec-temple-mexico-city_n_999145.html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-arqueologia/5279-descubren-platafo\
rma-de-la-antigua-tenochtitlan
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=14686834
Inca 'takeovers' were usually peaceful, apparently:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335022/description/Inca_takeovers_not\
_usually_hostile

During restoration of a Mayan mural, some previously hidden figures emerged:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=430173&CategoryId=13003

A 1400 years b.p. village find leads to a Mayan road discovery:

http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_19049230?source=rss
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uoca-ctd100511.php
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112396418/ancient-mayan-road-buried-by-vol\
canic-ash-1400-years-ago/index.html
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19059963
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19054421
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-team-ancient-road-maya-village.html

Archaeologists have found remains of what may have been
the first Catholic church in Peru:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/10/ruins-may-be-first-roman-catholic-church-\
peru
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/archaeologists-think-they-uncovered\
-ruins-of-first-roman-catholic-church-built-in-peru/2011/10/07/gIQAJvOvTL_story.\
html

Trying to figure out obsidian beads from Teotihuacan:

http://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/article_20ad0fa6-ed89-11e0-967c-001c\
c4c03286.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
================================================================
Archaeo News 200:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/podcast-200

Chinese researchers are suggesting climate change is behind much
'human crisis' in the past:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-chinese-early-climate-responsible-human.html

A missing medieval Spanish document turns up in a UVa library:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-wm-professor-chronicles-history-year-old.htm\
l

CNN had a feature on archaeology of 'garbage/trash' sites of various
periods:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/04/world/europe/archaeology-ancient-trash/

Interesting use of drones to help map burial mounds in Russia:

http://www.livescience.com/16443-micro-drone-archaeology-burial-sites.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/07/Tiny-drones-used-in-archaeology/UPI-2\
8551318032850/

Nice feature (with photos) on underwater archaeology photography by Wes
Skiles:

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/wes-skiles-photogra\
phy/

Two (different)  'course description' type stories focussing on the
'marriage' of science and the humanities:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct11/RiceCourse.html
http://www.whitman.edu/content/news/classicsfrontier

Richard Hodges gave a talk on matters relating to the Holy Grail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBb5CnQWyk&feature=uploademail

Suggestion that Archaeology degrees need some updating:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417632

On the DNA front, they've traced a type of anemia back to southern Italy,
some 3000 years b.p.:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-tracks-mutations-cda-ii-roman.html

Just so you know it's coming ... some guy has found a 'hidden code' in the
"Last Supper":

http://news.yahoo.com/real-life-da-vinci-code-found-hidden-last-134209947.html

This one touches on a pile of our categories ... all about how a 'Frenchman
helped
invent the English garden':

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100056700/how-a-frenchman-helped\
-invent-the-english-garden/

The World Monuments Fund's list of at-risk sites has come out:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-world-monuments-idUSTRE7944C4201110\
05
http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/u-k-bus-depot-greek-graves-among\
-monument-funds-at-risk-sites/40687?sid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en

Review of Steven Pinker, *The Better Angels of Our Nature*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/books/review/the-better-angels-of-our-nature-b\
y-steven-pinker-book-review.html

Review of Sylvia Nasar, *Grand Pursuit*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/books/review/grand-pursuit-by-sylvia-nasar-boo\
k-review.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Nazareth:

http://israel21c.org/travel/rediscovering-nazareth

Greece/Athens:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/196470/where-mythical-creatures-nature-come.\
html

Lesser-known citys of the ancient world:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/of-goddesses-and-empire-20111006-1lbbi.ht\
ml
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/of-goddesses-and-empire-20111006-1lbbi.html

Morocco:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/07/travel/destination-adventure-morocco/index.html?se\
ction=cnn_latest
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/============================================\
====================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Plenty of press coverage for yet another bust in Thessaloniki:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44808667/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/greek-a\
uthorities-seize-smuggled-antiquities/#.TpF2jXK3N2I
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15214974
http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_07/10/2011_409792
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/10/07/priceless-antiquities-seized-from-smu\
gglers-in-thessaloniki/
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/10/07/Smuggled-antiquities-recovered\
-in-Greece/UPI-82911318015070/
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n261119
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0tmwOiTlWOspC9bBVApvgZCxrEg?d\
ocId=b6971fe679c64c099eb2f23ea0a978d2

A number of Bibles from various places around the world were 'rescued' and
returned to Israel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4131254,00.html

The Saudis have recovered a number of Mousterian artifacts taken
by a British national:

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2011100510\
9989

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Iron Age gold coins from Kimbolton:

http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/latest-news/iron_age_gold_coins_discovered_in_ki\
mbolton_1_1081859

Latest e-Sylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n41.html

... and the one that will come out later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n42.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-tale-of-math-treasure

Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50962

Warriors, Tombs, and Temples:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/10/-warriors-tombs-and-templ\
es-at-the-bowers-museum.html

Cleopatra:

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/cleopatra-reigns-in-new-museum-exhibit-131\
230189.html

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2011/10/06/go/10287813.txt
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111006/ENTERTAIN/110\
060302
http://museumpublicity.com/2011/10/02/museum-of-science-opens-a-day-in-pompeii-e\
xhibition/

Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-hosts-egyptian-mummy-exhibit\
ion-20111003-1l4lm.html

Athena: Goddess of the Acropolis:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/3/48495

Power Play: China's Empress Dowager:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50848

Picasso's Drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/design/lines-that-kept-moving-and-knew-no\
-boundaries.html

John Martin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/arts/01iht-melikian01.html

Rome: From the Origins to Italy's Capital:

http://www.boston.com/travel/blog/2011/10/rome_comes_to_q.html

A Redcar museum is suddenly popular:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-15147976

The Greek and Roman stuff at Bonham's did quite well:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50928

... elsewhere, estimates were a bit off:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/08iht-melikian08.html

More commentary on the Met's new website:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/design/the-metropolitan-museums-new-web-s\
ite.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Tchaikovsky:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/music/mariinsky-orchestra-at-carnegie-hal\
l-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/music/carnegie-hall-opening-night-gala-mu\
sic-review.html

Reviving a lost work by Beethoven:

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110930185939795

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Digital Egypt:

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Piero Weiss:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/arts/music/piero-weiss-83-pianist-and-musicolo\
gist-dies-at-83.html
================================================================
HUMOUR
================================================================
Ancient Grammar Police:

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2011/10/06
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,David Critchley,
Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, 'tkavanag', Feral Boy.
Edward Rockstein, Tim Parkin, Joanne Conman, Rick Heli,
Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Possible Neanderthal remains from Sardinia:

http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/ancient-human-remains-found-in-sardinia_7\
35961.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-84644.html

On a genetic mutation and human evolution:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44849021/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/sugary-mutation-may-led-humans-rise-191203953.html

Evidence of paleolithic dog domestication:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-evidence-domestication-dogs-paleolithic-peri\
od.html

Feature on Sterkfontein Caves:

http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-10-14-sterkfontein-caves-75-years-of-dis\
covery

More on early hominid diets:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-technologies-ideas-early-hominid-diets.html

Just in case you *must* read about some Yeti 'proof' silliness:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-siberian-region-yeti.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/scientists-found-siberian-yeti_n_100363\
9.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of what is being dubbed a 100 000 years b.p.
'artist studie' in Blombos Cave:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15257259
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-year-old-ochre-toolkit-workshop-south.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/science/14paint.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/13/stone-age-painting-kits
http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Ancient-art-studio-uncovered-in-SA-20111013
http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568301/s/194302a1/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0C\
culture0Cart0Cart0Enews0C88257270CAncient0Eart0Estudio0Euncovered0Ein0ESouth0EAf\
rica0Bhtml/story01.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/african-cave-yields-paint-\
from-dawn-of-humanity/2011/10/12/gIQApyHrhL_story.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/13/science-ancient-paint-shop-di\
scovered-in-south-african-cave.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/ancient-art-studio-uncovered-in-af\
rica-20111014-1lno7.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6053/219
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-art-supplies-found-south-african-cave-182951176.ht\
ml
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11287/1182014-115-0.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049154/Ancient-art-materials-discovered\
-South-African-cave.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A Second Temple miqveh found near Kibbutz Zor'a:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134818,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148686#.TpWvJOxXGZZ

Eilat Mazar is rather critical of the Elad association and IAA:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/top-archaeologist-decries-jerusalem-di\
g-as-unscientific-tourist-gimmick-1.389244
http://forward.com/articles/144184/

cf: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/10/11/neve-gordon/concealing-the-past/

... while archaeology is being used in Palestine's bid for statehood:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134091,00.html

Revisiting the James Ossuary:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-eisenman/the-james-ossuary-is-it-a_b_100505\
2.html

Latest from Tel Burna:

http://telburna.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/google-earth-image-of-tell/
http://telburna.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/article-on-negebite-pottery-published-b\
y-amit-dagan/

What Akkadianish things Benjamin Foster is up to:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/oct/14/akkadian-prof-likes-his-few-except\
ional-students/

Using computer algorithms to separate the multiple sources/hands in the
Torah:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ghostwriting-torah-algorithm-distinguishes-c\
ontributors.html
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=15391
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2049105/Computer-program-reveal-w\
rote-Bible.html

Not sure if we've had this story about efforts to save the mosaics in
Hisham's Palace:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Jan/21/Saving-the-Middle-Easts-biggest-\
mosaic-with-a-masterpiece.ashx

Some groups are still protesting outside the Supreme Council of Antiquities:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/23704/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Temp\
orary-staff-of-Supreme-Council-of-Antiquities-.aspx

... and Egypt may have asked for the Rosetta Stone back (but it doesn't seem
to
be 'in all the papers'):

http://english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=346507

More on Gobleki Tepe:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51115
http://www.canada.com/Gobekli+world+oldest+temple+just+tricked+Stone+condo/55283\
42/story.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/10/13/141216522/the-worlds-first-temple-or-no\
t?ft=1&f=1057
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=gobeklitepe-site-unveils-mystery-2011-1\
0-13
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/andrew-curry-contributor.html
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/10/world%E2%80%99s-first-temple-possibly-ju\
st-a-stone-age-condo-canadian-scientist/

More on digitizing the DSS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBLF357soE&feature=uploademail
http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/museums/dead_sea_scrolls_access_all

The Bible History Daily's Week in Review (I'm curious whether others can
click this):

http://whatcounts.com/dm?id=9115C9B7CC89FD328FB6F8F0B49401E63800056256428243

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Important study shows that amphora carried more than just wine:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dna-shows-ancient-greek-ships-c\
arried-more-than-wine
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111014/full/news.2011.594.html

A pile of Roman shoes found at a supermarket construction site in Camelon,
Scotland:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111010-roman-empire-shoes-fort-b\
ritain-archaeology-science/

Remains of a possible Roman bath in Cumbria:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/west-cumbrian-dig-uncovers-roman-buildi\
ng-1.887605

For reasons unknown, that purported Lupercal find is back in the news:

http://news.discovery.com/videos/history-mythical-roman-she-wolf-cave-discovered\
.html

Evidence of a Roman 'presence' (of sorts) in Chennai:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennais-links-to-ancient-Rome-found/articles\
how/10348895.cms

cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/10/12/omg-that-purported-lupercal-find-is-back-a\
nd-i-still-dont-buy-it/

David Blank gives the New York Times a bit of a slap on the wrist:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/epicurean-fragments.html

Nice feature on a student digging at Monte Testaccio:

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=83401

Oxford Greek Play 2011:

http://www.ogp2011.com/

A recreation of the Antikythera Mechanism (hmmmmm):

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/12/hublot-rebuilds-the-famed-antikythera-mechanism\
/

Interview with Peter Lilley about Samuel Johnson:

http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-lilley-mp-on-samuel-johnson

Interview with Adrienne Mayor on enemies of Rome:

http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adrienne-mayor-on-enemies-ancient-rome

Review of a couple of tomes about children in the Roman empire:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article796886.ece

Review of David Mattingly, *Imperialism, Power, and Identity*:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/10/imperialism-power-and-identity

Review of Aloys Winterling, *Caligula*:

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/12/the-most-famous-dog-in-movie-history/

Review of Paul Johnson, *Socrates*:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/12/book-review-socrates/

Reviews (etc.) of *The Swerve*:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/10/stephen-greenblatt-reads-from--i-\
the-swerve--how-the-world-becam0
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20111012/OPINION04/710129955
http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/10/the-swerve-by-stephen-greenblatt-named-a-nati\
onal-book-awards-finalist
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/epicurean-fragments.html

There are a spate of Iliad translations out being reviewed singulatim and
together:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/131321754.html
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/10/13/29038/
http://www.economist.com/node/21532253
http://www.mercurynews.com/books/ci_19100667

Semi-related reviewish thing of David Malouf's *Ransom*:

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/137919020/ransom
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/10/135778962/dawn-tripp-on-david-malouf-s-novel-ranso\
m

Semi-related ... interview with Madeline Miller:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/books/2011/10/11/q-a-with-historical-noveli\
st-madeline-miller

More on Pavlopetri:

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212386207.shtml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111008130348.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/10/Underwater-Greek-city-brought-to-life\
/UPI-92701318291412/

More on the rejoined Weary Herakles:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51000

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Confirmation of a major Viking site at a County Louth village:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Major-Viking-site-discovery-described-as-mind-b\
lowing-131442918.html

Latest on the three stone circles at Stanton Drew:

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Stanton-Drew-8211-new-Great-Circle-entrance/story-13\
556812-detail/story.html

... while some idiot driver hit and broke a standing stone at Bedd Morris:

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/9303748.4_000_years_of_history_crashes_to\
_the_ground/

They've figured out the genetic side of the Black Death:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15278366
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4755328.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-reconstruct-genome-black-death.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-death-genome
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/science/13plague.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/10/whats-next-after-sequencing-the-blac\
k-death.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/12/black-death-genome-sequenced-dna
http://news.yahoo.com/deadly-black-death-bug-hasnt-changed-170111133.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZYb2Jl22g&feature=digest_refresh_thu
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228344.800-black-deaths-origin-is-identi\
fied-at-last.html

Hot on the heels of the find of a WWII ship full of silver (which is out of
the period of our purview),
Odyssey Marine announced the discovery of a WWI shipwreck full of silver
(which is in the period of
our purview):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11shipwreck.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=103943429&date=10-10-2\
011&archiveAnchorId=141209082
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15252259
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK8Himo43JA
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/usa-britain-shipwreck-idUSN1E799113201\
11010
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-10/silver-laden-wwi-ship-found-by-under\
water-salvager-odyssey.html

Feature on Nikolay Ovcharov:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=132871

More on the threat to the paintings at Altamira:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21020-ancient-cave-paintings-threatened-by\
-tourist-plans.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Sui and Tang Dynasty finds from Jiangxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/11/c_131185265.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90782/90874/7615525.html

Some mystery tombs along the Silk Road:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2011-10/12/c_131187122.htm

A Maori adze find is confirming (sort of) an oral tradition:

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/ancient-maori-tool-found-in-old-lyttleton-post-o\
ffice-4459812

Archaeologists are calling for a major part of Mohenjodaro to be reburied
for preservation
purposes:

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/16/call-for-reburial-of-ill-preserved-moenjodaro-par\
t.html

Tantalizingly vague item on a Cimmerian necropolis find in
Kabardino-Balkaria (I'm guessing
this is in Asia, but might be wrong ... this part of the world always
challenges me from a
geographic point of view):

http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/culture/18793.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some unexpected finds from the Queen Anne's Revenge dig:

http://www.witn.com/watercooler/headlines/Expedition_Starts_At_Site_Of_Blackbear\
ds_Ship_131124518.html

... but bad weather isn't helping that dig progress:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/12/dive-to-rescue-blackbeards-pirate-ship\
-hits-snag/

A pre-1820 shipwreck find in the Connecticut River:

http://www.wfsb.com/story/15698606/piece-of-ancient-marine-history-turns-up-in-c\
onn-river

Looking for burial sites during road construction in Iowa:

http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1772909.html

Feature on the Krieger site and its implications for agricultural
development:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2011/10/09/agricultures-role-in-\
our-societies-not-so-simple.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/10/start-revolution-without-me.html

Feature on the 'Cardiff Giant' hoax:

http://wrvo.org/post/remembering-cardiff-giant

Review of Jeremi Suri, *Liberty's Best Guardian*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/libertys-surest-guardian-by-jerem\
i-suri-book-review.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
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 use of neutron imaging in archaeology:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-artifacts-yield-secrets-neutron.html

Some revisionism in regards to Van Gogh's suicide:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/new-biography-argues-van-gogh-did-n\
ot-kill-himself/

Arguing over whether DaVinci painted a portrait or not:

http://www.livescience.com/16549-lost-davinci-portrait.html

... and arguing over a Girolamo Romano painting is giving rise to
fundraising:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/arts/design/for-florida-museum-dispute-over-ro\
mano-painting-is-a-boon.html

Interesting 'movement' to create 'historic' meals from old recipes:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203499704576624851086404190.html

National Book Awards finalists:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/finalists-named-for-national-book-a\
wards/

Feature on a clairvoyant who appears to have located assorted archaeological
items,
inter alia and FWIW:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/nyregion/marinus-b-dykshoorn-psychic-is-mourne\
d-in-bronx.html

There might be some interest in this semiotics piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/i-was-an-under-age-semiotician.ht\
ml

More on the use of a drone to map out burial mounds in Russia:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=drone-reveals-burial-sites
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44847461/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/tiny-drone-reveals-ancient-royal-burial-sites-130007879\
.html
http://www.livescience.com/16443-micro-drone-archaeology-burial-sites.html

Review of Michael Krondl, *Sweet Invention*:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/09/141052658/quest-for-the-holy-doughnut-and-the-firs\
t-dessert

Review of Denise Gigante, *The Keats Brothers*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/the-keats-brothers-by-denise-giga\
nte-book-review.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Mosel:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/germany/8817814/Germany-wa\
lking-the-Mosel-Heights-Trail.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Thieves stole a relic from the Holy Cross Abbey in Thurles:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048625/Thieves-break-monastery-steal-an\
cient-relic-cross-Jesus-died.html

Libya is trying to protect its sites from looters:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world/africa/libya-benghazi-theft/index.html

Iraq is still missing "thousands" of antiquities:

http://www.thenational.ae/business/travel-tourism/iraq-wants-its-heritage-return\
ed

A pair of Egyptian reliefs stolen in the 80s were recovered:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/24162/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Two-\
reliefs-stolen-from-Hetepka-tomb-found.aspx

A Jules Breton painting missing for over 90 years was returned to France:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/stolen-masterpiece-discovered/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest E-Sylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n42.html

... and the one which will be out later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n43.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Tut:

http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-14-11-00-00-king-tut-shines-at-mfah/
http://www.chron.com/life/article/Tut-exhibit-is-just-the-beginning-of-the-MFAH-\
s-2217917.php
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Tut-artifacts-tour-perhaps-for-the-last-time-2\
217892.php

Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-archimedes-palimpsest-pg,0,\
6412718.photogallery
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-archimedes-palimpsest-20111\
014,0,3593057.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/walters-art-museums-manuscript-pro\
ject-restores-the-voice-of-the-great-mathematician-archimedes/2011/10/12/gIQAsfI\
1jL_story.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204612504576608960149816094.html
http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/x1611323592/Pompeii-new-exhibit-at-th\
e-Museum-of-Science-is-a-poignant-trip-back-to-79-A-D

Georges Braque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/design/georges-braque-pioneer-of-modernis\
m-review.html

Pompeii:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/newenglandarts/museums/x765170634/Pompeii-exhibit-Bla\
sted-into-eternity-with-video

Alexander the Great:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/10/alexander-the-great-goes-to-france/

Syrian Bibles:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iADaW_NIYgJYFKcgoMowMXc1lg8Q?d\
ocId=426e5785999441b2bc27bd855410a9a1

Lippi and Botticelli:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNGLIA8gmtA&feature=uploademail

The  new National Hellenic Museum looks like it might be worth a visit:

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/8176696-421/gods-myths-and-mortals-to-debu\
t-in-chicagos-new-museum.html

The first map of Australia is coming to auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/88244\
77/Worlds-first-map-of-Australia-goes-on-sale.html

A bit out of our period of purview, but of interest ... a letter of Albert
Einstein fetched a reasonable price:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15278482

An account of the Art & Design London show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/arts/15iht-Melikian15.html

The Musee d'Orsay is reopening aftern remodelling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/arts/15iht-Orsay15.html

The MoMA's annual 'To Save and Protect' festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/design/to-save-and-project-momas-film-pre\
servation-festival.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Arthur Dubin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/us/arthur-dubin-historian-of-railroads-golden-\
era-dies-at-88.html

Richard Hall:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/13/richard-hall-obituary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8822930/Richard-Hall.html

Michel Peissel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/world/europe/michel-peissel-tibet-scholar-and-\
adventurer-dies-at-74.html
================================================================
HUMOUR
================================================================
For future archaeologists:

http://failbook.failblog.org/2011/10/14/funny-facebook-fails-planning-way-in-adv\
ance/
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Using 'foodprints' to determine the diet of early humans:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-hominin-diet-20111022,0,7613706.story

Pondering the short legs of Neanderthals:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-mysteries-short-legged-neandertals.html
http://www.livescience.com/16623-neanderthal-short-legs.html

We can apparently blame backbone fractures on evolution:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/cwru-bbf101911.php

On the evolutionary roots of 'culture' in humans and apes:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-culture-humans-apes-evolutionary-roots.html

A Neanderthal find from the Netherlands ... so far the coverage is only in
Dutch:

http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/2643248/werktuigen-neanderthalers-gevonden-in-limbur\
g.html
http://www.blikopnieuws.nl/bericht/135825/Honderdduizend_jaar_oude_werktuigen_Ne\
anderthaler_gevonden.html
http://www.limburger.nl/article/20111017/REGIONIEUWS06/111019666/1021
http://www.wetenschap24.nl/nieuws/artikelen/2011/oktober/Gereedschappen-Neandert\
halers-ontdekt-in-Limburg.html
http://www.hartvannederland.nl/nederland/limburg/2011/bijzondere-archeologische-\
vondst/

Feature on figuring out where the various 'ape men' fit on the family tree:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2011/10/how-africa-became-the-cradle-of\
-humankind/

... and the mutation which may have led to the genus homo:

http://www.nctimes.com/news/science/article_cf0b51dc-531b-5a9a-9ef1-b2cb9fbeb21a\
.html

More on the blades (and their implications) found in that Qesem Cave
'production
line':

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-archaeologists-blade-production-earlier-thou\
ght.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Concerns from UNESCO once again for Libya's ancient sites:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/22/worldupdates/2011-10-22T07\
5011Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-600598-1&sec=Worldupdates
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/libyas-ancient-heritage-risk-looting-unesco-195620554.h\
tml

More on the paint workshop in those South African caves:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204934.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1013/Caveman-cosmetics-Scientists-say-oche\
r-tool-kits-date-back-100-000-years
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Not sure where to put this one ... an Ugaritic inscription from Tiryns
(maybe):

http://www.ufg-va.uni-hd.de/md/zaw/ufg/mitarbeiter/17._cohen-maran-vetters.pdf

Egypt's SCA is going to review a number of archaeological projects:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/24484/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/SCA-\
to-review-archaeological-restoration-projects.aspx

... and is conducting an inventory of all the land it owns (not sure how
different that
is from the above):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/24287/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Counci\
l-of-Antiquities-survey-paves-way-for-land-s.aspx

Rethinking the location of Gan Hamelech:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-researchers-jerusalem-s-trendi\
est-street-built-over-biblical-site-1.391423

Saudi Arabia seems to be taking antiquities a bit more seriously:

http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article520367.ece

... and Egypt is trying a new strategy to prevent the illegal trade of
antiquities:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/24873/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-st\
rategy-to-prevent-illegal-trade-in-Egyptian-.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/24559/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-\
security-plan-for-Egypts-archaeological-sites.aspx


OpEd on the antiquities trade in Israel:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/ker358019.shtml

Meanwhile, they're arguing in Egypt about why a statue fell over:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/507300

Nice feature on various aspects of the Cairo Geniza:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/reuniting-the-dispersed-fragments-1.39\
1259
http://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/1.1522698 (in Hebrew, but with a nice
slide show)

cf:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/afot-ptt101811.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-piecing-priceless-cairo-genizah.html
http://www.genizah.org/index.htm

Review of Hoffman and Cole, *Sacred Trash*:

http://mobiletrunk.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=99241419

Feature on Sukkot iconography through the ages:

http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/50055

More on that miqveh from Tzora:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Ritual_bath_Second\
_Temple_Period_discovered_23-Oct-2011.htm

More on Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050908/Gobekli-Tepe-Temple-thats-6-500-\
years-older-Stonehenge-house.html

Review of Alice Hoffman, *The Dovekeepers*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/the-dovekeepers-by-alice-hoffman-\
book-review.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Very interesting Etruscan find of a depiction of a woman giving birth:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51197
http://news.discovery.com/history/etruscan-mother-birth-art-111019.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020025756.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2051729/Ancient-unprecedented-art\
work-showing-woman-childbirth-discovered-blind-archaeologist-dig.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-depiction-childbirth-etruscan-site.h\
tml
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/smu-rda101811.php
http://blog.smu.edu/research/2011/10/ancient_childbirth_scene_is_ne.html

... and a UT Arlington student was there:

http://www.cisionwire.com/university-of-texas-at-arlington/r/ut-arlington-gradua\
te-student-helps-to-unearth-ancient-images-of-childbirth,c9177279

More Roman remains in India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Marketplace-of-the-ancient-world-Roman-\
remains-near-Tambaram-show-2000-yr-old-trade-links/articleshow/10410302.cms

A bit out of this period, perhaps, but getting much attention is a burial of
a 'Roman'
couple holding hands (and it isn't even Valentine's Day!):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2052247/Together-eternity-The-ske\
letons-Roman-lovers-buried-holding-hands.html
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44990654/ns/today-today_tech/t/roman-era-couple-he\
ld-hands-years/

The wrestling community is really excited about this papyrus 'find' and are
making
all sorts of claims based on it:

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/World-s-\
oldest-sports-manual-found-covers-wrest
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/story/2011-10-18/wrestling-artifact-hist\
ory/50817198/1?csp=34sports

Latest 'wall collapse' at Pompeii (not quite as serious as it might sound):

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/22/3999318/ancient-wall-collapses-in-pompeii.html
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Wall+collapses+Pompeii+after+flash+storms/559250\
4/story.html
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/23/worldupdates/2011-10-22T22\
1957Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-600679-1&sec=Worldupdates
http://my.news.yahoo.com/wall-collapse-pompeii-renews-worries-164954039.html
http://www.canada.com/news/Wall+collapses+Pompeii+after+flash+storms/5592504/sto\
ry.html

There was some serious flooding at the Colosseum, Circus Maximus, and
environs in
Rome this week:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8841553/Severe-flooding-s\
huts-Colosseum.html

A huge mosaic and other items found (apparently) during construction for a
new hotel in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey8217s-largest-mosaic-discovered-o\
n-the-med-2011-10-14

... and a Lycian tomb complex:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=80360

Feature on Ayios Epiktetos-Vrysi:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/antiquities/ayios-epiktetos-vrysi-national-treasure/2\
0111023

Classical languages are gaining strength in Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/all-greek-to-them-classics-back-in-vogu\
e-as-schools-embrace-languishing-languages-20111016-1lrfe.html

They've translated de Rerum Natura into Persian:

http://www.ibna.ir/vdcfv1dytw6dyja.r7iw.html

Debbie Felton is hanging out the Hallowe'en shingle:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1160081.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-halloween-popular-ancient-greeks-romans.html

Coverage of the second part of the "Classics Renewed' conference at Brown:

http://www.browndailyherald.com/late-antique-woodstock-brings-latin-to-life-1.26\
53411

Review of Bagg and Scully's new translation of Sophocles:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/132305053.html

Reviews of Mitchell's *Iliad* translation:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8827455/The-Iliad-by-Homer-translated-by-Step\
hen-Mitchell-review.html
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/19/on-homer-fine-tuning-the-iliad-and-being-the-\
rock-star-of-translators/

Review of Winterling's *Caligula* bio:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee_on_caligula

Review of Schiff's *Cleopatra*:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20111017/FEATURES06/310170014/Book-detail\
s-real-Cleopatra?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CHome%7Cs

Review(ish) of Victor Davis Hanson, *End of Sparta*:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/17/141427464/end-of-sparta-mixes-history-with-inventi\
on
http://radio.nationalreview.com/betweenthecovers/post/?q=ZDc4ZDc3ZTdmNTgxOGJiMjV\
iNzBiN2I1NmI2NWZkZjk=

More on analyzing contents of amphorae:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111014/full/news.2011.594.html
http://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/greek-amphora-archaeology-18102011\
/
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-greek-ships-wine.html

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================

A Viking boat burial from Scotland:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51213
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/19/viking-burial-ship-found-scotland(\
video)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/viking-boat-burial-uncovered-002747938.html
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/historic-sites/viking_burial_boat_sur\
faces_after_1_000_years_1_1917446
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-viking-boat-burial-uk-mainland.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15333852
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/archaeologists-find-viking-burial-\
site-scotland-14774354
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44960443/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/world/article/611777--archaeologists-unearth-a\
ncient-viking-boat-burial-site-on-west-coast-of-scotland
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-viking\
-boat-burial-site-on-west-coast-of-scotland/2011/10/19/gIQAZCQswL_story.html
http://www.batangastoday.com/viking-burial-site-viking-boat-unearthed-in-scotlan\
d/17959/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112404376/archaeologists-unearth-viking-bo\
at/index.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15333852

... and, of course, there's some Viking cultural invading going on too:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/23/viking-culture-invasion-tv-bo\
oks

Archaeologists are poking around Newgrange again:

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/search-on-for-a-second-passage-in-newgra\
nge-2908492.html

Russia plans to raise a shipwreck off Finland which is associated with
Catherine the Great:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3480286/Russia-to-raise-\
shipwreck-containing-Catherine-the-Greats-treasures.html

Latest facial reconstruction is on some 7500 years b.p. skull from Norway:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-face-to-face-ancient-human.html

A mystery object from the Staffordshire Hoard:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/mystery-gold-object-eme\
rges-from-the-staffordshire-hoard

... and a nice feature on the Hoard itself:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/gold-hoard/alexander-text

Russia plans to raise a shipwreck off Finland which is associated with
Catherine the Great:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3480286/Russia-to-raise-\
shipwreck-containing-Catherine-the-Greats-treasures.html

Assorted finds from various periods declared treasure:

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/news.cfm?id=39132&headline=Inquest%20rules%20%E2%80%98\
treasure%20trove%E2%80%99

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Traces of a civilization dating back 4500-5000 years b.p. from the
Badain Jaran desert:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-89565.html

Earliest domestication of chickens was in China, apparently:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/16/c_131194217.htm

A Han Dynasty fortress associated with dinosaur tracks:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/16/c_131194282_2.htm

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Archaeologists are looking for 13000 year b.p. sites in Lake Minnewanka
(Alberta):

http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/10/21/13000-year-old-mysteries-beneath-lake-minne\
wanka

Evidence of hunters arriving in North America earlier than previously
thought:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141549739/what-slew-an-ancient-mastodon-dna-tells-\
tale
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25mastodon.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-hunters-north-america-years-earlier.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/581947/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/tau-tas102011.php
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/20/mastodon-hunted-north-america
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112406010/hunters-arrived-in-north-america\
-earlier-than-previously-thought/index.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-15391388
http://www.livescience.com/16641-early-american-hunters-mastodon.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-americans-researchers-rec\
onsider-peopling-new-world

A paved road in Santa Fe dating to the 1600s:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/santa-fe-new-mexico-road-1600s\
.html

Plans to raise Blackbeard's cannon next week:

http://www2.wnct.com/news/2011/oct/19/3/blackbeards-cannon-scheduled-recovery-ne\
xt-wednesd-ar-1516498/

A class is digging at MSU:

http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2011/10/archaeology_dig_unveils_artif\
acts_from_first_campus_building

On the 'Starving Time' at Jamestown:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-bad-contribute-starving.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-starving-horses-dogs-ate-rats.html

Celebrating Archaeology Month in Massachusetts:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/bellingham/news/x663898253/Digging-the-Past-Massachus\
etts-celebrates-archaeology-month

Review of Andre Deutsch, *New Yor: The Story of a Great City*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/nyregion/new-york-the-story-of-a-great-city-dr\
aws-on-museum-archives.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A pile of 8000-11000 years b.p. stone tools from Baja:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/10/20/mexican-archaeologists\
-find-000-year-old-tools/

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
================================================================
Another theory on the Little Ice Age:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-team-european-ice-age-due.html

On protecting sites from the effects of climate change:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Dec/10/Protecting-archaeological-sites-\
from-the-destruction-of-climate-change.ashx#axzz1bSuVKDkv

DNA has revealed the cause of the Black Death:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8823748/Black-death-DNA-unravell\
ed.html

A top ten list of translations:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/19/adam-thorpe-top-10-english-translati\
ons

On the origins of red and green at Christmas:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-color-coded-christmas.html

Using math to restore a fresco bombed during WWII:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,792781,00.html

More on neutron imaging:

http://www.ornl.gov/info/features/get_feature.cfm?FeatureNumber=f20111012-00

Showing the non-Indiana-Jones side of archaeology:

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=340100

Hype for a book which will apparently challenge a millennium of
scholarship about the Crusades:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/historian-peter-frankopan-is-challengi\
ng-a-millennium-of-scholarship-in-his-view-of-the-first-crusade/story-e6frg8nf-1\
226166509828

Plenty of hype for the impending (not really ... the program is being
broadcast on
Monday) mummification of a taxi driver to learn about the process
(conveniently
forgetting that Bob Brier did this sort of thing already, in most reports):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-uk-taxi-driver-mummy-years.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049740/Preserved-like-Egyptian-Pharaoh-\
Body-terminally-ill-man-mummified-Channel-4-documentary.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44945609/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/taxi-driver-mummy-111018.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hrcDyTPVWXRg3DR5vAROxGXXwToA?\
docId=CNG.ad1a10878c80dae7d2f2d5795cf1546d.101
http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/british-scientist-mummifies-torquays-tutankha\
mun/
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/egyptian-mummificati\
on-method.html


Interesting item on 'language fossils' that are stuck in your brain:

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/08-the-brain-language-fossils-buried-in-you\
r-cells

... while 'caveman instincts' apparently affect our voting behaviour:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-caveman-instincts-role-political-leaders.htm\
l

An APOD of the Draconids over some Celtic ruins in Spain:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111019.html

On the 'allure' of the 'midnight oyster':

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/10/19/141521348/the-historic-allure-of-a-l\
ate-night-oyster

Some 'newly released' photos from Scott's South Pole expedition:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/18/science/20111018-pole.html

Slide show of Moby Dick book covers:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/22/books/review/moby-dick-slideshow.htm\
l

Review of Simon Goldhill, *Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave*:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/a-scholar-takes-a-literary-tour%e2%80%94and-\
wonders-why/29522

Review of Dava Sobel, *A More Perfect Heaven*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/science/space/18scibooks.html

Review of Naifeh and Smith, *Van Gogh: The Life*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/books/van-gogh-the-life-by-steven-naifeh-and-g\
regory-white-smith.html

Review of Susan Orlean, *Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/rin-tin-tin-by-susan-orlean-book-\
review.html

Review of Nathaniel Philbrick, *Why Read Moby Dick?*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/why-read-moby-dick-by-nathaniel-p\
hilbrick-book-review.html

Review of Robert Bellah, *Religion in Human Evolution*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/books/review/religion-in-human-evolution-by-ro\
bert-n-bellah-book-review.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/evolution-of-theory.html
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Libya:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/8841356/Libya-is-back-on-the-map.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/5788386/Libya-eyes-post-war-tourism
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
================================================================
Archaeo News 201:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
1

Latest from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Vandals hit a Punic tomb in Tunisia:

http://www.tunisia-live.net/2011/10/17/vandalism-of-national-heritage-in-el-haou\
aria/

Felch and Frammolino were talking about the antiquities trade:

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2011/10/journalists_experts_speak_on_t.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
We're getting more details on that hoard from Bredon Hill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-15400603
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8829908/Biggest-haul-of-\
Roman-gold-in-Britain-could-have-been-found.html


Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n43.html

... and the one which should appear within a few hours:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n44.html

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n14.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/5/25/24777/Arts--Culture/Visual-Art/Il\
luminated-Islamic-manuscripts-and-handwritten-Qu.aspx

In the Kingdom of Alexander the Great:

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13465/49163
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/arts/22iht-MELIKIAN22.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204002304576629160830311304.html

Les Gaulois:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hs3ScrBs2o6Y2OsD7FlXVREO_1cA?\
docId=CNG.9c21252ab1b3ed62f1d6aa69fd8db7b6.3e1

Warriors of the Plains:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15392681

Dura Europos:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=241958

Masters of Venice:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/23/PKSF1LH4KE.DTL

Imprinting the Divine:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51235

French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th Century Rome:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51232

Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51151
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/23/2461770/maryland-lost-and-found-the-secret\
s.html
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2011/10/19/1000-years-old-palimpsest-of-archimedes-\
exhibited-at-walters-art-museum/
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/breakingnews/us-exhibition-showcases-arch\
imedes-text-uncovered-by-scientists-scholars-132009778.html
http://straitstimes.com.feedsportal.com/c/32792/f/524622/s/195a3d3a/l/0L0Sstrait\
stimes0N0CBreakingNews0CTechandScience0CStory0CSTIStory0I72450A10Bhtml/story01.h\
tm
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/17/1000-year-old-text-by-archimedes-on-di\
splay/?test=faces
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/arts/secrets-of-archimedes-at-walters-in-balti\
more-review.html
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/4db7079de14147668323e92eb753c21a/MD--Archi\
medes-Palimpsest-Exhibit/

... an interview with one of the curators:

http://baltimore.citybizlist.com/1/2011/10/21/Editors-Eye-on-Baltimore-Archimede\
s-and-the-Entrepreneur-A-Conversation-with-Will-Noel-Curator-of-Ancient-Manuscri\
pts-The-Walters-Art-Museum.aspx

Cleopatra:

http://onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/cleopatra.html?27979
http://www.uwmpost.com/2011/10/17/cleopatra-at-the-public-museum/

Vermeer's Women:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8832615/Vermeers-Women-Secret\
s-and-Silence-Fitzwilliam-Museum-Cambridge-review.html

Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51202

War Horse: Fact and Fiction:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/18/us-exhibitions-britain-warhorse-idUSTR\
E79H4WM20111018

Johan Zoffany:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/arts/design/johan-zoffany-portraitist-diaries-\
of-m-louise-baker.html

Degas and the Nude:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/arts/design/degas-and-the-nude-at-museum-of-fi\
ne-arts-boston-review.html

Mummy portraits:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/19/ancient-egyptian-mummy-portraits-a\
shmolean-museum

Did Christie's sell a 'lost DaVinci' cheap?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1017/Lost-da-Vinci-Priceless-da-Vinci-port\
rait-sold-for-21-000

The Berthouville Treasure is coming to the Getty:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/welcoming-the-berthouville-treasure-to-the-getty-vil\
la/

Picassos are coming to the Guggenheim:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/design/the-guggenheim-will-open-picasso-b\
lack-and-white.html

The British Museum is putting together an online catalogue of artifacts
unearthed by
Flinders Petrie:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/24251/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Onli\
ne-catalogue-underway-of-,-of-Petries-archaeol.aspx

The Dallas MoA has a new director:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/a-new-director-for-dallas-museum-of\
-art/

Nice donation for the Rubin Museum:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/rubin-museum-will-get-25-million-an\
d-a-new-chief-executive/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Due Figaro:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/arts/music/i-due-figaro-at-connelly-theater-re\
view.html

Baroque Evening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/arts/music/juilliard415-at-peter-jay-sharp-the\
ater-review.html

Anonymous:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/movies/roland-emmerichs-anonymous-seeks-to-unm\
ask-shakespeare.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/opinion/hollywood-dishonors-the-bard.html

Three Musketeers:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/movies/the-three-musketeers-with-christoph-\
waltz-review.html

Island of Lost Souls (DVD):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/movies/homevideo/new-on-blu-ray-erle-c-kentons\
-island-of-lost-souls.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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John M Blum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/nyregion/john-m-blum-historian-who-gave-theodo\
re-roosevelt-his-due-dies-at-90.html
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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Ralph Hancock,Jim Lockmiller, Kris Curry, Diana Wright, David Pettegrew,
Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
Michael Caputo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
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Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
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EARLY HUMANS
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National Geographic has a feature on Otzi's latest autopsy:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/iceman-autopsy/hall-texte
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025091533.htm

The evolutionary history of the dog:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203554104577001843790269560.html

More on concerns over Altamira:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-controversy-reopening-sistine-chapel-stone.h\
tml
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8943sci1.html

A Berlin restaurant caters to the 'modern' caveman:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,782747,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/caveman-cafe-brings-\
stone-age-diet-to-the-berlin-masses-2376372.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Latest on efforts to repatriate the remains of Intripid crewmen:

http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-25/news/30320472_1_dean-somers-moammar-gadhaf\
i-somers-family

More on that 'paint shop':

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/14/MNUD1LHCV8.DTL
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Evidence of Assyrian trepanation from Kultepe (I think ... some characters
are
garbled in this one):

http://www.aina.org/ata/20111028204303.htm

Ancient 'take out windows' from Godin Tepe (Iran):

http://www.livescience.com/16773-ancient-takeout-window-godin-tepe.html

Evidence of a 'belief system' at Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=gobeklitepe-site-unveils-mystery-2011-1\
0-13

A mummy has the oldest known case of prostate cancer in Ancient Egypt:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/10/mummy-has-oldest-case-of-prostat.h\
tml

Interesting feature on conservation work on an Egyptian sarcophagus at the
Ashmolean:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9325406.Modern_work_takes_place_on_ancie\
nt_coffin/

A number of Egyptian items which were headed to Australia are being returned
to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/25378/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyp\
t-receives--stolen-artefacts-from-Australia.aspx

A Byzantine "prayer box" (reliquary?) from an Ir David dig:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149159#.Tqx-u3Ik-uI
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/miniature-byzantine-prayer-box-fou\
nd-near-city-of-david/

An early Islamic site north of Jericho:

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2011/10/26/joint-palestinian-american-dig-near-\
jericho-yields-clues-about-early-islamic-cult

Nice 'backgrounder' on Hanukkah:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/lifestyle/holidays/holiday_traditions/a-little-backgr\
ound-on-hanukkah/article_26d8f2d6-00cc-11e1-a7a2-001a4bcf6878.html

... and a feature on the 'real' "occupiers":

http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/50095

Quite the kerfuffle over the Elad contract in the City of David:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-ngo-elad-group-has-veto-power-\
over-jerusalem-s-city-of-david-1.391619

... but the High Court ruled the contract legal:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/high-court-critical-of-elad-contract-i\
n-city-of-david-park-but-rules-it-legal-1.392184
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=243280

... and the Mughrabi bridge is back into full saga form:

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=243110
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149063
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=243189
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149078
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149083#.Tqx_r3Ik-uI
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/222984

cf: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=243165

... and there's an uproar-in-the-making over treatment of graves at the
Museum of
Tolerance site:

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/grave-concerns-1.391852

... oh ... and there's a McDonalds at Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/all-in-all-a-hamburger-1.391188
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mcdonald-s-at-masada-not-worth-killing\
-yourself-for-1.386158

Dig opportunities in Israel:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Archaeologic\
al_Excavations_Israel_2012.htm?mid=50

The Dead Sea is nominated as one of the seven natural wonders:

http://www.janglo.net/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&page=display&catid=99&tid=\
177874

More concerns because of tourism at sites in Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-261336-tourism-development-versus-historic-prese\
rvation-in-turkey-reaches-fever-pitch.html

Some infrastructure funding for Babylon:

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-14129-iraq-sets-aside-85m-for-baby\
lon-infrastructure/

Feature on Acre:

http://www.macon.com/2011/10/29/1763443/crusader-town-being-rediscovered.html

Concerns for archaeology and sites in Syria:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-upheaval-halts-race-to\
-reveal-secrets-of-ancient-fort-2370224.html

Review of Simon Montefiore, *Jerusalem: The Biography*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/jerusalem-by-simon-sebag-montefio\
re-book-review.html

More on those 'nazca lines' in Saudia Arabia:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2011-10-23/google-e\
arth-satellite-ancient-structures/50857592/1

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Major find of a Roman military camp on the Lippe:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8853054/Lost-Roman-camp\
-that-protected-against-Germanic-hordes-found.html

On the very edge of our period of purview for this section ... a
proto-Byzantine
martyrion from Cyprus:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/27/cyprus-department-of-antiquities-reveals-\
proto-byzantine-monument-at-akrotiri-peninsula/

The Paphos Theatre dig on Cyprus has a dig blog:

http://www.paphostheatre.com/paphos-theatre-education-blog.html

Reading a lot into an amphora find at Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/lifestyle/entertainment/fort_find_adds_to_potted_h\
istory_of_romans_boozing_1_3904282

Recent finds from the Palace of Zakros:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/10/24/news-from-finds-at-the-minoan-palace-\
of-zakros/

Feature on Septimius Severus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/29iht-edmeyer29.html

... and one on the 100th anniversary of the LCL:

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/In-the-Margin/Adam-Kirsch-on-the-Loeb-Clas\
sical-Library/ba-p/6057

Ancient history is doing well in schools in Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/modern-history-proves-to-be-so-last-century-20111027-1\
mm7b.html

1930s 'society women' dress as assorted Greek myth folk:

http://flavorwire.com/224624/1930s-society-women-dressed-as-mythological-figures

An Oxford Don is penning an Ode for the upcoming Olympics:

http://oxfordstudent.com/2011/10/27/oxford-don-pens-ode-for-boris/

cf: http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/10/27/primus-a-boris/

Playing the blame game now with that Pompeii wall 'collapse':

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/uk-italy-pompeii-idUSLNE79N02D20111024

Review of Paul Woodruff, *The Ajax Dilemma*:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/10/the_ajax_dilemm.html

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles* (and more):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/28/song-achilles-madeline-miller-iliad

Review of Mathew Dennison, *Livia: Empress of Rome*:

http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2011/10/24/books-livia-empress-of-rome/

Review of Alice Oswald, *Memorial*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8853326/Memorial-by-Alice-O\
swald-reviewal.html

Reviews of *The Swerve*:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-sirens-call-20111030,0,3471139.s\
tory
http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/10/stephen_greenblatts_the_swerve.\
html

Review of Schiff's *Cleopatra*:

http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2011/10/24/stacy-schiffs-cleopatra/

More on that Etruscan childbirth scene:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/first-western-childb\
irth-image.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/10/blind-archeolog\
ist-uncovers-ancient-childbirth-inscription-university-texas-william-nutt-etrusc\
an-/1

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Searching for a second passage tomb at Newgrange:

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/news/meatheast/articles/2011/10/26/4007335-search-f\
or-second-passage-tomb-at-newgrange/

It apparently took a while for farming to catch on in Europe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/24/food-ancient-cooking-pots-farming
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-cooking-pots-reveal-gradual.html

A Bronze Age "treasure trove" from a Pembrokeshire field:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-15493977
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/10/29/bronze-age-treasure-trov\
e-found-in-pembrokeshire-field-91466-29681996/

A site dating to 3500 B.C. or so in Belfast:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15477796

A Viking burial site from the Scottish highlands (we may have had this
last week; I'm somewhat confused among Viking finds of late):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111023143850.htm

A metal detectorist has found a Viking silver hoard in a field along
the Cumbria-Lancashire border:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-15495283
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8852780/Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds\
-Viking-hoard.html

Feature on Linn Duchaill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15430864

... and more on Viking finds in Ireland (told you I'm confused!):

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/25/Ancient-Viking-settlement-found-in-Ir\
eland/UPI-97891319578517/

An 18th century iron foundry from Ormskirk:

http://www.osadvertiser.co.uk/news/ormskirk-news/2011/10/13/rare-18th-century-ir\
on-foundry-unearthed-in-archaeological-dig-on-church-street-in-ormskirk-80904-29\
583188/

A Glen Calliche site has been saved from hydro development:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-15496261

Feature on assorted British legends:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15428024

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a shipwreck associated with Kublai
Khan:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15452071
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8848282/13th-century-Mongol\
ian-wreckage-discovered-off-Japanese-seabed.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-mongolian-kamikaze-japan-coast.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1028/1224306622337.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-25/asia/world_asia_japan-archaeology-shipwreck_1\
_fleet-ship-invasion
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/25/world/asia/japan-archaeology-shipwreck/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/archeologists-believe-shipwreck-found-off-japa\
n-belongs-kublai-145206810.html
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/89163/mongol-shipwreck-found
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/26/japanese-researchers-discover-medieval-mongo\
l-shipwreck/

A Buddha statue from Angkor Wat:

http://news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-discover-rare-statues-angkor-wat-140243851.\
html
http://www.allvoices.com//contributed-news/10739124-buddha-is-not-head-discovery\
-800-years-old

Feature on archaeologist Fan Jinshi:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-10/30/content_14002464.htm

Feature on archaeology around that soon-to-be-mining-site in Afghanistan:

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Afghan-Archeologists-Race-Against-Time-\
to-Find-Treasures-132702638.html

Humans settled on the Marshall Islands almost as soon as they emerged,
apparently:

http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/humans-do-it-\
quickly

HMS Sirius has been added to Australia's  National Heritage list:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-25/first-fleet-wreck-added-to-heritage-list/3\
598648
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/10/26/3348423.htm

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the raising of a cannon from the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8851906/Blackbeards-p\
irate-ship-cannon-recovered-from-ocean.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct/27/blackbeard-cannon-wreck-pirate\
-ship-video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45056443/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre79q078-us-blackbeard/
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/blackbeards-cannon-salvaged-shipwreck-off\
-nc-14821505
http://www.newsday.com/news/blackbeard-s-cannon-salvaged-from-shipwreck-off-nc-1\
.3275512

Some knapped glass turned up at that William & Mary dig:

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/brafferton-project-unearths-foundations-of-c\
olleges-early-history.php

The Lost Towns project has a dig blog:

http://losttownsproject.blogspot.com/

Feature on the Hopewell earthworks:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/23/pilgrimage-unearths-hop\
ewells.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/10/fort-ancient-earthworks-place-of.ht\
ml

Hypish sort of thing for an impending book about the Donner Party:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uoo-ao102711.php

Feature on the restoration of the Presidio:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/23/BA941LK8G9.DTL

Review of Richard Brookhiser, *James Madison*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/james-madison-by-richard-brookhis\
er-book-review.html

Review of Tony Horwitz, *Midnight Rising*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/midnight-rising-john-brown-and-th\
e-raid-that-sparked-the-civil-war-by-tony-horwitz-book-review.html

More on pre-Clovis evidence of hunting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25mastodon.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of a 'standard measurement unit' at Teotihuacan equivalent to
roughly
83 cm:

http://www.thejapannews.net/story/200516154
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-95735.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/numerical-pattern-found-ancient-mexican-city-053724854.\
html

Another Sican tomb from Lambayeque:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=8zV4pTCsLEo=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJ9yghKxLI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-latin-america-15450252

Growing coverage of shipwrecks associated with Francis Drake and/or
his 'final resting place':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15447632
http://www.keysnet.com/2011/10/29/391585/pat-croce-reports-finding-sir.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8\
857309/Wrecks-that-promise-to-unlock-the-mystery-of-Francis-Drakes-final-resting\
-place.html
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Shipwreck+could+yield+Francis+Drake+coff\
in/5629214/story.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8\
857309/Wrecks-that-promise-to-unlock-the-mystery-of-Francis-Drakes-final-resting\
-place.html

This time, it's a Peruvian mummy that gets the CT treatment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15486720

Columbia has come out on top in an ownership dispute over the
wreck of the Galleon San Jose:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/10/25/court-rules-in-favor-colom\
bia-in-holy-grail-shipwrecks-case/

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 coverage of the 'cracking' of the Copiale Cipher :

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/california-researchers-crack-secret-society-\
cipher-142752408.html
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/405424/computer_analysis_online_translat\
or_intelligent_guesses_crack_ancient_german_code/
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-scientist-mysterious-copiale-cipher.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/machine_translation_cracks_occult_code/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025102320.htm

... the paper:

http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-1202.pdf

... page images:

http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale150.pdf

... English translation:

http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale150.pdf

Apparently Oxbridge students invented 'binge drinking':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/8851964/Oxbridge-students-invented-\
binge-drinking-400-years-ago.html

... and Prince Charles is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1027/Vlad-the-Impaler-Prin\
ce-Charles-a-descendant-of-Dracula

A long-lost manuscript associated with Ben Jonson has been found:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025113215.htm

A somewhat tantalizing item on NASA's involvement in looking at ancient
texts:

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/268630/

A recently-identified Velazquez has been unveiled:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15474873

Answering the conspiracy theories in *Anonymous*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/8848884/Only-foolish-snobs-dont-belie\
ve-in-William-Shakespeare.html


The history of the signet ring (not sure about some of this):

http://eva-news.com/dating/dating/the-story-of-style-the-history-of-the-signet-r\
ing/23865885/

An interview with Umberto Eco about his latest book:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kwp40

Portsmouth has healed a 'rift' with Carl Roberts over Dickens:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15421286

Pondering difficulties of translation:

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/19/hard-as-nails-literature-and-translati\
on-today/

Review of David Bellos, *Is That a Fish in Your Ear?*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear-transl\
ation-and-the-meaning-of-everything-by-david-bellos-book-review.html

Interesting feature on the Royal Society's archives:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15445507

... and one on mosaic production in Ravenna:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/28iht-rartravenna28.html

More (slideshow) on Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/18/science/20111018-pole.html

More on the Black Death genome:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111025/full/478444a.html

Review of Mark Peterson, *Galileo's Muse*:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/10/renaissance-learning-that-s\
haped-galileos-genius.html

Review of David Abulafia, *The Great Sea*:

http://nationalinterest.org/bookreview/somewhere-beyond-the-sea-6074

Opeddish thing on Qaddafi and the deaths of tyrants:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/opinion/qaddafi-and-the-lives-of-tyrants.html

Two painters named Church:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/design/2-painters-named-church-faberge-eg\
gs.html


Review of a couple of books about Dickens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/books/charles-dickens-by-claire-tomalin-becomi\
ng-dickens.html
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Jerash:

http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2576859.ece

Egypt:

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/26/ancient-egypt-well-worth-seeing

Cape Sounion:

http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2011/10/28/greece-sea-god-site/

Gothic Italy:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/travel/a-gothic-tour-of-italy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/travel/20111030-gothic-italy.html

Anhui (China):

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/travel/in-anhui-china-centuries-old-charm.h\
tml
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/travel/20111030-anhui.html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Two "stone slabs" dating to Assyrian times and had been stolen were
returned to Iraq:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/5869096/Ancient-Assyrian-stone-slabs-re\
turned-to-Iraq
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/uk-iraq-artefacts-idUKTRE79Q6GU20111027
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/10893564/ancient-assyrian-stone-slabs-returne\
d-to-iraq/

The Tourisim and Antiquities Police in Egypt recovered some stolen items:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/25317/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Stol\
en-ancient-Egyptian-artefacts-recovered.aspx

Some vandalism at a site in Nine Mile Canyon (Utah):

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52781695-78/site-canyon-campfire-damage.html.c\
sp

A Picasso thief pleads guilty:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/accused-picasso-thief-pleads-guilty\
/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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(Really) Big bucks for a Cretan stater:

http://www.coinweek.com/news/auctions-news/ancient-cretan-stater-coin-brings-479\
000-world-record-price-at-morton-eden/

Latest e-sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n44.html

... and the one that will come out later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n45.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Islamic Manuscripts:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/rare-muslim-manuscripts-go-on-display-\
at-israel-s-national-library-1.391637

Royal Manuscripts:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8857250/Middle-Ages-illumi\
nated-as-Royal-manuscripts-shine-in-new-exhibition.html

Rembrandt in America:

http://www.reflector.com/news/groundbreaking-rembrandt-exhibit-opens-743479

Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/howard/events-entertainment/ph-ho-visual-art\
s-walters-20111025,0,6075072.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/26/archimedes-palimpsest-ahead-of-time

Alexander the Great:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-25/great-drunk-alexander-gets-louvre-ex\
hibit-of-treasures-review.html

DSS:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/arts/design/the-dead-sea-scrolls-at-discovery-\
times-square-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/29/arts/design/20111030-scroll-ss.html
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2011/10/dead_sea_scrolls_are_amon\
g_the.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/stone-dead-sea-scrolls-111027.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/scroll_fmj4lTdySYAgxYjDKMiFYN
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/the-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-nyc-20111028
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/28/2011-10-28_dead_sea_scrolls_ancie\
nt_pieces_of_hebrew_bible_discovered_in_caves_head_to_time.html

Last Days of Pompeii:

http://www.jimsullivanink.com/content/view/2049/44/

Aphrodite:

http://www.wbur.org/2011/10/26/aphrodite-mfa

Res Mortis:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/52796242-81/umfa-roman-utah-greek.htm\
l.csp

Davinci and Michelangelo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSf1CcJPtM&feature=uploademail

Olympia:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/27/ancient-olympia-exhibition-hosted-at-berl\
in-and-doha-museums/

Feature on the Met's Islamic galleries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/magazine/at-the-met-a-new-vision-for-islam-in-\
hostile-times.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/design/the-mets-new-islamic-galleries-rev\
iew.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/26/new-york-met-islamic-treasures

... slideshow:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/artsspecial/islamic-treasures-at-the-metr\
opolitan-museum-of-art.html

A restored Michelangelo painting will soon be on display:

http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/Restored-Buffalo-Painting-Set-to-Exhibit-in-Rome-\
132455568.html

The Prado will be open seven days a week:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/prado-to-stay-open-seven-days-a-wee\
k/

The book version of *History of the World in 100 Objects* is being
published in the US this
week:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/arts/20111030_NEIL.html

A sign language tour of the Penn Museum:

http://www.youtube.com/user/pennmuseum#p/c/17/CLCfoWgRtLE

Check out our Twitter hashtag for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Arms and the Man:

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/21303.html

Othello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/toni-morrisons-desdemona-and-peter-\
sellarss-othello.html

Anonymous:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/28/141772025/for-anonymous-scribe-a-shakespearean-spe\
culation
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/anonymous-by-roland-emmerich-review.\
html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/theater-talkback-who-wrote-shakespe\
are-who-cares/

... and a different Anonymous takes on 13th century nun chants:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/anonymous-4-at-corpus-christi-churc\
h-review.html

Songs of Purcell:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/andreas-scholl-and-the-english-conc\
ert-review.html

Bach's Unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/jennifer-koh-at-the-american-academ\
y-of-arts-and-letters-review.html

The Aquila Theatre troupe will be performing at the White House:

http://dc.broadwayworld.com/article/Aquila-Theatres-Ancient-GreeksModern-Lives-t\
o-Perform-at-the-White-House-1116-20111012

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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HUMOUR
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Archaeotoons:

http://structuralarchaeology.blogspot.com/2011/10/archaeo-toons.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Rethinking those footprints at Laetoli:

http://www.livescience.com/16894-human-ancestor-laetoli-footprints-family.html

Genetics suggest humans first left Africa by crossing into
Arabia (I think we had this a few months ago, no?):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/