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Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have
left no one out).

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Plenty of excitement over the discovery of the mummy of a lion
in the tomb of Tut's wet nurse:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3957990/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3395487.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3ad4a (AP via Yahoo)
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=51720
http://tinyurl.com/2co3f (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/25ecn (National Geographic)

The CBC had a recent Disclosure documentary on the controversy
surrounding Dr. Fletcher's identification of Nefertiti's mummy;
you can watch the whole thing online:

http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/040113_nef/main.html

A riverbed in Croatia is yielding artifacts from the Bronze Age
down through Roman times:

http://tinyurl.com/ytzx8 (IC Birmingham)

The excavation of what was once one of Commodus' residences is
revealing info about Roman building techniques:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040112/ancientlime.html

A peat bog has enabled scientists to figure out the
environmental history of a Celtic mining town in France:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040112/040112-1.html

An Iron Age site has been found in Biggleswade (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/39r2f

A medieval salt ship is going to be extricated from Cheshire
mud:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3401473.stm

The earliest example of written Welsh may be returning to Wales,
sort of:

http://tinyurl.com/2a7bq (IC Wales)

Moulded bricks from the Eastern Han period have been found
in China's Chongping municipality:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-01/12/content_1272153.htm

A medieval cemetery in Siberia is revealing the existence of
a Siberian trade route:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/01/16/201.html

Excavation of a medieval fort from Indian has also turned up the
remains of an elephant:

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan112004/n5.asp

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THE AMERICAS
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Remains of a mammoth have been found near the Texas Gulf Coast:

http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/2/2004/01/13/story006.html

A 9300 b.p. shaft of a hunting dart (among other things) was
among the many items excavated from melting 'ice patches' in
the Yukon this past summer:

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011604/sta_yukon.shtml

A midden in Skagit Valley (Washington State) is causing
controversy:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3941702/

Some sort of 'moundish' Woodland Period site in Alabama is
(finally?) going to be investigated:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3984496/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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A piece in the Telegraph ponders the future of assorted
archaeological treasures from Iraq and Afghanistan:

http://tinyurl.com/2yqxr

Jerusalem's Old City will not fare well if there is an
earthquake:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3980139/

A nice piece on the Nimrud Treasure and the Bactrian Hoard:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/13/1073877824063.html

Conservation/archaeological work at the Monastery of St. Paul
near the Red Sea (Egypt) is nearly complete:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/672/he1.htm

An interesting little item on 'diagnostic dolls' from China:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2273

A piece on the Federal furniture craze of the late 18th century
might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16ANTI.html

A history of salt:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0113/p18s02-hfks.html

The New York Times' extended coverage of the Winter Antiques
show has a number of pieces which might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16FIFT.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16SMIT.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16BFAIR.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/garden/15ANTI.html

We haven't mentioned Mel Gibson's *Passion* lately, so here's
a bit of the latest news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/arts/18RICH.html

A group of rabbis is seeking permission to search Vatican
storerooms for items looted by Titus during his sack of
Jerusalem:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36631
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Atlantic Monthly is celebrating the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo
Emerson's birth with an online collection of pieces written for
the magazine by him:

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/emerson.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Rochelle Altman, "“First, …recognize that it's a penny”: Report
on the "Newark" Ritual Artifacts":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Altman_Newark.htm

A piece on Isaac Newton's tenure as Warden of the Mint:

http://www.royalmint.com/about/newton.asp
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CRIME BEAT
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A colossal head of Trajan which was auctioned at Christie's a
while ago has been seized by police:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/17/arts/design/17TRAJ.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2785430a12,00.html

The UK's latest efforts to deal with the sale of looted
artifacts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3392057.stm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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D.H. Donald, *We Are Lincoln Men*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/books/review/18MILLERT.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Persians:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/17/arts/theater/17ROUN.html

Henry IV (I and II):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/theater/16REVE.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens From New York Collections:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/arts/design/16COTT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Another campaign to get the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles returned in
time for the Olympics started this week, with attendant mass
coverage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3394951.stm
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/8021.html
http://tinyurl.com/3g8ja (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/3yrpw (Guardian ... different)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/arts/design/18BERN.html
[includes slideshow/flythrough of new museum]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/arts/15ARTS.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2409990 (best)

... and if you've ever wondered about Elgin himself:

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

Humanities Magazine's bio of Frank Snowden:

http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2004-01/medals.html#snowden

Biowarfare in antiquity:

http://tinyurl.com/3erzq (Newsday)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:
http://tinyurl.com/278zl

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
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Dead Sea Anchor (now a.k.a. 'Herod's Anchor'):

http://tinyurl.com/2s7kv (Herald-Sun)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_855276.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2403336

Paleolithic Figurines from Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/23ura (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/ytphg (Seattle Times)

Roman Port in Naples:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040112/naples.html

All the Stuff They've Found in Athens:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2004/01/15/314066-ap.html

Early Siberian Habitation:

http://tinyurl.com/2d64v

Iron Age Diet on the Blessed Isle:

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