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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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What might be the first evidence of use of fire has been revealed
by electron spin resonance:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3557077.stm

Good coverage of Egypt's restoration of the sarcophagus of
Rameses VI (and assorted other objects):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4579973/
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/247-03222004-268676.html
http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=1725947
http://tinyurl.com/25d73 (CNN)

... which is related to Egypt's desire for the British Museum
to return the face:

http://tinyurl.com/2ns93 (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/3fqwl (Reuters)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=334492004

Here's another potential saga-in-the-works ... the ivory pomegranate
which is the only relic of Jerusalem's First Temple, might be
a forgery:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/408911.html
cf. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/409140.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=60121

A followup on the Beit Shean fire:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/408751.html

The excavations in Tiberias are already producing newsworthy items;
the first we read about is the discovery of a basilica that seems
to be associated with the Sanhedrin and some mosaics in a bath
building:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/407113.html

A kouros has been found on Chios:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=41122

Those clumsy archaeologists are at it again, this time stumbling
on the Indian port of Muziris, a centre of Indo-Roman trade:

http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/23/stories/2004032303340500.htm

Another site in India which has demonstrated evidence of Roman
contact (Pondicherry) will soon be excavated:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/584155.cms

A 7400 b.p. bamboo mat has been found in China's Hunan province:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1071479.htm
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THE AMERICAS
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Excavating the Winterville Mounds (in Mississippi):

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0403/27/m08.html
http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2004/03/27/news/21village.txt

Sounds like there's a lack of foresight/planning in Lansing,
Michigan when it comes to identifying/preserving archaeological
sites:

http://www.detnews.com/2004/oakland/0403/25/d04-102675.htm

... while plenty of artifacts from Penn's Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology are stored improperly and are being damaged:

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/405ea2329388b

The dig at Fort St. Joseph (Michigan) will resume this summer:

http://tinyurl.com/2vch3 (South Bend Tribune)

They'll also be digging into the site of the Fetterman Battle
(Wyoming):

http://tinyurl.com/27ath

Nice coverage of the Lima Lake (Illinois) Middle Woodland site:

http://www.whig.com/350173089679017.php

A touristy sort of thing on Pecos National Historical Park:

http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/travel/157798traffic03-28-04.htm

Seems we're told about the threat to Peru's Nazca lines every
couple of months or so, but no one's doing anything about it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3554495.stm
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On the DNA front (I think this is a repeat), hopes are high that
DNA can be extracted from early hominid bones to help figure out
all that evolution stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/237g5 (National Geographic)

Iraq's National Museum should reopen "within a year":

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9403

Erosion of fortifications in Charleston is being studied to help
determine the age of all kinds of structures:

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1739682&;nav=0RaPLoya

An interesting theory about a jaw-dropping genetic mutation which
led to the development of human speech:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4593822/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040322/slimjaw.html

A touristy sort of thing on the Sterkfontein Caves/'Cradle of
Humankind' UNESCO Heritage Site in South Africa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/travel/28cradle.html

... and a touristy thing(s) on the Roman ruins at Leptis Magna:

http://tinyurl.com/ywqlh (Arizona Republic)
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2004-03-25-libya_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3568509.stm

Lottery funds will be used to restore Northern Ireland's 'lost'
Bagenal Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3564113.stm

Interesting piece on New York's Prospect Cemetery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/nyregion/22tour.html

Tiepolo's Banquet of Cleopatra has been getting plenty of coverage
in Australian newspapers over the last year ... here's a good
example:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/24/1079939712818.html

The ANS comments on the first (likely)U.S. Silver Dollar ever
struck:

http://www.money.org/press/20040315-1794dollar.html

The first numismatic museum in India has opened:

http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=33732

Interesting item about advertising and Archaeology magazine:

http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsID=243055

Coverage of the historical side of The Passion seem to be on
the wane (although the film did debut in the UK this week) but
we're still getting some items of interest:

http://www.thehoya.com/news/032304/news12.cfm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Neusner_Judaic_Reading.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Chilton_Passion.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Flesher_Mel's_Jesus.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Ludemann_Passion.htm

USC has a project to virtually restore (and produce copies of) the
Parthenon marbles (not just the Elgin ones):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3486476.stm

William Tell ... more than just an overture:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/0324/p12s01-trgn.html

India wants to arrest an American scholar who has written a
book about the 17th century warrior Shivaji:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561499.stm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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The Digger 32 (March, 2004):

http://tinyurl.com/3au8e

Biblical Archaeology Review (March/April 2004):

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

Didaskalia 6.1 (Spring 2004):

http://didaskalia.open.ac.uk/issues/vol6no1/contents.html

Labyrinth 83 (March 2004):

http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/CLASS/labyrinth/issue83/issue83.html

Labyrinth 82 (October 2003):

http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/CLASS/labyrinth/issue82/issue82.html
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ON THE WEB
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Documenting the American South:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/

Exploring Burned Rock Middens at Camp Bowie (part of the Texas
Beyond History website from UT at Austin):

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/bowie/index.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Walter MacDougall, *Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American
History 1585-1828*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/books/review/28WOODLT.html

William Rehnquist, *Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election
of 1876*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/opinion/21SUN4.html

Mark Prendergrast, *Mirror, Mirror: A History of the Human Love
Affair with Reflection*:

http://tinyurl.com/2xnog (Guardian)

J. Weatherford, *Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern
World*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0323/p17s01-bogn.html

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PERFORMANCES
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Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/368yf (NOLA)
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EXHIBITIONS
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Heaven on Earth: A Late Antique Masterpiece and the Rise of
Christian Culture, 300-600 A.D:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/arts/design/26ANTI.html

Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/arts/design/26KIMM.html
(nice slide show)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/arts/design/22BYZA.html

Assorted Asian Art Shows/Sales:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/arts/design/26COTT.html

The British Museum (and the Victoria and Albert) has acquired
some nice Buddhas:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&;int_grd=419&int_modo=1
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2695387

The Glory of Baroque Dresden

http://tinyurl.com/3aber (NOLA)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Okay ... I've read this three or four times now and I just can't
quite see the connection between Suetonius and George Bush that
the author is trying to make:

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair03272004.html

Athens' National Museum will only be 'semi open' for the Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/3cb8v (Kathimerini)

An exhibition in Athens includes a painting of same from the 17th
century (i.e. pre-Parthenon-explosion):

http://tinyurl.com/2o4md (Athens News ... includes photo)

Albert Steiner was 'professor of the week' at Butler:

http://dawgnet.butler.edu/archive/040321/2261.html

Brock University recently honoured David Rupp:

http://tinyurl.com/33etg (BrockU Press)

Another Latin revival piece:

http://tinyurl.com/2dm5k (USA Today)

Trevor Hodge is still commenting on Roman lead in the water:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16400-2004Mar22.html
(scroll down)

More coverage of Socrates Cafes (Classicists have to exploit this
boom somehow):

http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/books/0304/24socrates.html
http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGA9H5W04SD.html

The Classics crisis in Scotland continues:

http://news.scotsman.com/education.cfm?id=331192004
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=333212004
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=334692004

American Idol's Classical roots:

http://tinyurl.com/2596b (SF Chronicle)

The New York Times has a nice feature on Anne Carson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/arts/27POET.html

ClassCon in a poetry review piece:

http://tinyurl.com/29rl6 (Telegraph)

Interesting stuff in a review of a documentary about Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/287sh (Telegraph)

Reviews of 'Ladykillers':

http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24409~2043258,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2qna4 (Mercury)

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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King Tut's Wine:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13792-2004Mar21.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040322/redwine.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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