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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The so-called Nebra 'sky disk' is in the news again:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031124/misc/24german.htm
The collapse of Egypt's Old Kingdom has been linked to drought:
http://hnn.us/comments/23139.html
Zahi Hawass has a piece warning folks not to sell antiquities
from Egypt:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/664/he3.htm
cf: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o151123y.htm
A pile of antiquities recovered in Iraq (including items
mentioned in last week's Explorator) went on display this week:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/992097.asp
http://tinyurl.com/v77g (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/v784 (Canada.com)
Plans are afoot to restore (for public performance) the
Theatre of Dionysus:
http://tinyurl.com/v797 (Kathimerini)
Not sure why, but the discovery of ancient Puteoli is in the
news again:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031110/littlerome.html
Vietnam revealed all the artifacts found during construction of
their new parliament buildings:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/992099.asp
http://tinyurl.com/v77c (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/v787 (CNN)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3261065.stm
A pile of ancient Tibetan writings are in the process of being
preserved and studied:
http://tinyurl.com/v776 (Xinhua)
An 850 b.p. church in Norway caught fire this week:
http://tinyurl.com/v7ah (Aftenposten)
Fears of the sulphuric acid problem of the Swedish Vasa has
brought together researchers trying to preserve the Mary
Rose:
http://tinyurl.com/v7ao (Independent)
First the Chines discover America ... now they're discovering
New Zealand too:
http://www.ashburtonguardian.co.nz/index.asp?articleid=2701
They still find the remains of soldiers in Flanders Fields:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/11/flanders.remains.ap/
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THE AMERICAS
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Alaska's horses may have died 12,500 years ago due to climate
change:
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/reuters11-12-074841.asp
http://tinyurl.com/v789 (Yahoo)
A vague feature on the Rainbow Rocks Petroglyphs site:
http://www.thederrick.com/stories/11142003-5010.shtml
A 'suburb' of Machu Picchu has been found:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7240933.htm
Human remains dating from Olmec times have been found in
Honduras:
http://tinyurl.com/v77a (Reuters via Yahoo)
Ancient Americans were selectively breeding corn varieties
4,000 years b.p. (interesting that the phrase "genetically
modified" is used in this article):
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_838073.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/993137.asp
http://tinyurl.com/v78n (Yahoo)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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So ... who was behind Piltdown Man?:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3264025.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_838028.html
Ice cores from the mountains of Peru may shed light on climate
change 5000 years b.p.:
http://tinyurl.com/v78i (NASA)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/11/031107055850.htm
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/quelcoro.htm
Atlantis received the John Noble Wilford treatment this week:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11ATLA.html
Was Chaucer murdered?:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031103/chaucer.html
A Swiss team has created a 'map' of one of the Bamiyan Buddhas
in the hope it can be rebuilt:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/992711.asp
http://tinyurl.com/v78a (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/v79r (Reuters)
Australia's National Museum is coming under fire for the 'spin'
being put on some of its exhibits:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1112/p13s01-lire.html
The Arc de Triomphe is getting a bit of a facelift:
http://tinyurl.com/v75h (Telegraph)
An eighteenth century painting of Stornoway -- apparently one
of the earliest of Britain's western isles -- is on public
display:
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=1246092003
A piece on various digitizing projects, particularly the LOC's
project to digitize its Gutenberg Bible:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/technology/circuits/13bibl.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 56.6 (November/December 2003):
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
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ON THE WEB
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Here's another website devoted to the Maria Theresa Thalier:
http://www.employees.org/~groeck/en/mtt1780.html
A couple of sites devoted to the history of lotteries:
http://www.naspl.org/history.html
http://www.lotterycollectors.com/page4.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Are bits of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Switzerland?:
http://tinyurl.com/v77r (SwissInfo)
Recent thefts from Pompeii are behind a move to make copies of
all artifacts (including the Alexander Mosaic) which aren't
nailed down:
http://tinyurl.com/v78u (Telegraph)
Egypt is retrieving/will retrieve (tense problems in the article)
a number of stolen antiquities from Switzerland:
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o151123d.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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B. Bobrick, *Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War*
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/books/review/16BYRDT.html
(first chapter available)
J. Leonard, *Pushkin: Aleksandr the Great*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/books/review/16LEONART.html
(first chapter available)
J. Stevenson, *The Shadow King* (Historical fiction):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/books/review/16UPCHURT.html
R. Harris, *Pompeii* (fiction)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/books/10HARR.html
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~28~1769377,00.html
Cervantes, *Don Quixote* (trans. Edith Grossman):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/books/14BOOK.html
Anne Carson, *Autobiography of Red* (all about Herakles):
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/09/1068329423953.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Julius Caesar:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/arts/theater/15JULI.html
Handel's 'Oreste':
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/arts/music/15ORES.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Huge coverage of a story of Aeschylus' 'Achilles' being performed
after being found in a mummy (it's not a recent discovery, although
all the news services seem to think so):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3269965.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1084699,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/v778 (reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/v791 (The Statesman)
http://tinyurl.com/v79c (The Star)
http://tinyurl.com/v79g (Reuters)
A number of British athletes have joined the chorus of voices
asking that the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles be returned:
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1429_W_1027683,00.html
An interview with Steven Saylor (including info about his
next one):
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/article-36023.html
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
http://tinyurl.com/v7b2
Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/
U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
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Bactrian Hoard Security Guard:
http://tinyurl.com/v79v
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/148273_kabul14.html
Billy the Kid DNA:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/989722.asp
British Museum Metal Detectorist Celebration:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1085547,00.html
Louise Leakey Takes Up Family 'Business':
http://www.msnbc.com/news/991581.asp
http://tinyurl.com/v77m
Mayan Altar Recovered:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/vu-ams111003.php
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/
About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm
Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm
Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index
Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm
CBA Newsfeed:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html
CBA Archaeoblog:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/
Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html
Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/
Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html
Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:
http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm
Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk
Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand
Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca
Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com
Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/
Stone Pages Archaeo News:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/
Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
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