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the attachments -- of course, some ISPs probably blocked them,
but it also seems to have worked alphabetically -- from what
I could figure out from the bounces, etc., at least one of the
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A brief item on the discovery of some Neolithic cave paintings (?)
in Sicily:

http://web.latercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_52861958,00.html
(in Spanish)

The British Museum has acquired a very nice 4000 b.p. Mesopotamian
terracotta relief dubbed 'the Queen of Night':

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2622685
http://tinyurl.com/2v8yw (Telegraph ... includes photo)
http://tinyurl.com/yugo3 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1165034,00.html
(photo)

New research suggests bubonic plague may have originated in ancient
Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/2ml2r (National Geographic)

A few Explorators ago we mentioned the Beit She'an warehouses in
which were stored piles of antiquities ... a suspicious fire has
destroyed one of them:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/403906.html

Plenty of folks sent this one in ... a horde of some 20,000
4th-century Roman coins has been found during fishpond construction
in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3501426.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=500343

Time Team is excavating a Roman villa:

http://tinyurl.com/285de (East Anglian Daily Times)

This is really a repeat, but a piece in the Tufts Daily has much
more detail than our previous coverage on the discovery of 'Roman
Paris'/Lutetia:

http://www.tuftsdaily.com/articleDisplay.jsp?a_id=3524

This is also a bit of a repeat, but is a sort of update on those
Cetina Valley finds from Croatia:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1164711,00.html

A Byzantine-era villa has been found near Netanya (Israel):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/403404.html

A bit of Viking graffiti has been found (looks awfully clear to
me):

http://test.thecourier.co.uk/output/2004/03/09/newsstory5696643t0.asp

A nice feature on the "Pompeii of the Silk Road":

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/12/content_314240.htm

An urn burial dating from 3000 - 2000 b.p. has been found in
India:

http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/14/stories/2004031400151100.htm

A touristy photoish thing on some temples in Pakistan:

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=57726

Here's better coverage (and links to photos) of that Brunel Bridge
discovery mentioned last week:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_txo_en/ART20161.html
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THE AMERICAS
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A 4000 b.p. burial has been found in Argentina:

http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=3368
http://tercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_55738823,00.html
(in Spanish)

A nice piece on the excavation of a Hohokam mound in Marana
(Arizona):

http://tinyurl.com/2p2ve (Tucson Citizen)

An 11,000 b.p. jasper mine has been found in Virginia:

http://www.madison-news.com/2004/March/11/mine.shtml

Artifacts from Oregon's early Chinese community have been found
in Jacksonville:

http://tinyurl.com/38toa (Oregonian)
http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2004/0312/local/stories/01local.htm

A survey is searching for the home of Hiram/Harmon Good, a
"notorious Indian hunter":

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4469860/

What may be the first "planned" community for African-Americans
in Connecticut is being excavated:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4421968/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The big news under this rubric has to be that the Greek government
has halted the construction of the Acropolis Museum and charge
those who approved it:

http://tinyurl.com/2vl7d (Telegraph)

A Discovery Channel (Canada) piece on how hard-headed homo
erectuses (homines erecti?) were (includes video):

http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2004/03/10/53.asp

An interesting interviewish sort of thing with Gabriel Barkay
('Biblical' archaeologist):

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Mar/03132004/saturday/147291.asp

Here's an interesting piece on the numbers of Europeans who
were enslaved by African slave traders during the 16th-18th
centuries:

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040310-115506-8528r.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1166720,00.html

John Noble Wilford has written a good piece on the ancient
Olympics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/science/09OLYM.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/509517.html

This one's kind of strange (to me, at least) ... they're going
to return five stones which comprise a Bronze Age burial chamber
to their original site somewhere in Devon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3546433.stm

The Jehoash Inscription saga continues:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/402579.html

An interesting piece on Egyptian medicine:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/681/hr1.htm

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/681/hr2.htm

An interesting piece on the miniature illuminations in a manuscript
known as the Padshahnama, which chronicles life of a 17th century
Mugul emperor:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0311/p18s03-hfes.html

Road construction threatens a Maori site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2842585a11,00.html

As the Passion furor begins to wane, we now get nice pieces on
what we know about Pontius Pilate:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/8171443.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Ludemann_Passion.htm

Folks might also be interested in the "scholarly smackdown"
on the Passion and related issues between John Crossan and
Ben Witherington III:

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/141/story_14197_1.html

... or a Tibetan viewpoint:

http://www.timesoftibet.com/artman/publish/article_1108.shtml

... or a piece on Aramaic:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/110/52.0.html

So who wears the pants in your family:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200403100265.html

A restaurant cooks the way the ancient Egyptians did:

http://tinyurl.com/2wm2g (Newsday)

Temple Mount Saga:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=59262
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=59214

Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga:

http://tinyurl.com/yss6b (IC Liverpool)

St. Patrick's Day stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/2hvss (Toronto Star)

Ides of March stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/2jbxa (National Geographic)
http://national.snitch.com/2004/03/12/caesar
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Biblical Archaeology Society March/April 2004:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html

Minerva Magazine's website has a pile of news items of interest:

http://www.minervamagazine.com/news.html
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ON THE WEB
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George Saliba, "Greek Astronomy and the Medieval Arabic Tradition":

http://tinyurl.com/3yg8e (American Scientist)

The Medieval Science Page:

http://members.aol.com/mcnelis/medsci_index.html
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A guy who found a stone axe head in Scotland faces prosecution
for refusing to turn it over to authorities:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3503804.stm

A rare coin, stolen back in 1967, has been recovered:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21187-2004Mar1.html

Cyprus is taking legal action to recover a pile of antiquities
stolen during the Turkish invasion and now in Germany:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=13348&;archive=1

A couple of guys have been charged with looting some Pueblo
burials in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/2jkdk (WMI Central)

Minerva Magazine has an article suggesting the media is blowing
the whole antiquities trade thing out of proportion:

http://www.minervamagazine.com/news.html#article1

Another batch of smuggled/looted antiquities were returned to
Egypt this week:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/681/eg4.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Philip Freeman, *St Patrick of Ireland*

http://tinyurl.com/352o8 (New York Times -- scroll down)

Robert D. Kaplan, *Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History
and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece*

http://tinyurl.com/3948z (Globe and Mail)

Duncan Sprott, *House of the Eagle* (fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/2qko2 (Guardian)
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PERFORMANCES
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King Lear:

http://tinyurl.com/3ccfx (New York Metro)

Metamorphoses:

http://tinyurl.com/2g4mu (Zwire)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Trust Pravda to take a perfectly good story about research into
the remains found recently in the North Sea and turn it into
a story about Atlantis:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12245_Atlantis.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at
Chatsworth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/arts/12ANTI.html

Bible in English: Before and After the Hampton Court Conference:

http://tinyurl.com/28eqo (ABC)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Japan Times has a feature on naming practices which has a nice
section on Roman names:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20040314x3.htm

Is Venus in your garden?:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/8171443.htm

And what's Gregory Aldrete up to?:

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_15107411.shtml

What they've done at Olympia in anticipation of the Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/2p4rg (athensNews)

The Rosicrucian Museum is reopening its planetarium with a show
focussing on Mithraism:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/8178084.htm

Nice feature on UBuffalo's informal Grex Latine (includes a
reading of the last section of the Aeneid):

http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol35/vol35n26/articles/latin.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2e9zv

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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OBITUARIES
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Russell Weigley (Military Historian)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/national/12WEIG.html
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REPEATS
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Gladiator Diet:

http://tinyurl.com/36tu6 (Telegraph)

HMS Beagle:

http://tinyurl.com/35jlq (Telegraph)

Recent Ethiopian Finds:

http://tinyurl.com/2cpob (Telegraph)

Rebuilding the Colosseum:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&;storyID=4520307

Romanian Hominids:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040306_494.html
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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 in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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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