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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Items from Tanzania suggest humans were "decorating themselves"
rather earlier than previously thought:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4640531/
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/03/31/sci-tech/beads040331
http://tinyurl.com/2bv7u (National Geographic)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994839

A one-million b.p. hominid from Eritrea was reported on in a
conference in Florence:

http://tinyurl.com/2eb7f (AGI)

A study of numerous Bronze Age monuments and tombs (esp. Menorcan
taulas) notes the vast majority of them are oriented toward the
rising sun (the tinyurl link to a German article on the subject
has a nice photo of a taula):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3592631.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3dwr6
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/01builder/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1184066,00.html

A pile of 7000 b.p. flints have been found in Glen Dee (Scotland):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3581355.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=366562004

The 6000 b.p. remains of a child have been found in Norway:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article764163.ece

Some 5000 b.p. human remains have been found in Leicestershire:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART20695.html

What might be the first full frontal portrait of a pharaoh has
been pieced together by Egyptologists:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4648930/
http://tinyurl.com/ysp4n (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62902,00.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994847 (photo)

A report on some recent finds in Egypt (one is a repeat for
Explorator readers):

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=1598_0_1_0_M

More items have been found during the excavation of Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/410156.html

Excavation of a Roman site outside Carlisle Castle has found
a comb and remains of a head louse:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3582603.stm

The eastern wall of Temple Mount is in danger of collapse in
the wake of that earthquake in February:

http://tinyurl.com/25uee (Jerusalem Post)
http://www.truthnews.net/world/2004040003.htm

A big row has erupted over relics from the battle of Bannockburn:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=357422004
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THE AMERICAS
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An excavation in Delaware has found "memorabilia" relating to
both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln:

http://tinyurl.com/2nohf (Delaware News Journal)

The Yellow Jacket site (Grand Pueblo in Colorado) has been
added to the National Register of Historic Sites:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4648562/

A dig in anticipation of renovations to Charleston City Hall is
turning up all sorts of stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/32t3c (Herald Tribune)

The discovery of a 'family cemetery' (rather large) has temporarily
halted subdivision construction in Wake Forest:

http://www.nbc17.com/news/2961848/detail.html

A press release on recent research into the Maya by Boston
University folks:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/bu-rvc040204.php

Some Comanche (maybe) petroglyphs have been found in Colorado:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/uoca-rad033004.php
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This one just came in and hopefully we'll get more details later ...
according to Corriere della Sera, the skull in Petrarch's tomb
is not Petrarch's:

http://tinyurl.com/2v349 (in Italian)

Ha'aretz has an interviewish thing with New Testament scholar
Joshua Efron, who comments on the Passion, among other things:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/410912.html

... semi-related, in that it's sort of a review of the Passion,
is Gary Wills' piece in the New York Review of Books:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17026

Utah State has produced a cd called "Archaeology - Why It Rocks"
to get kids interested in the subject:

http://utahstatetoday.usu.edu/newsreleases/ (scroll down)

The Vatican Library is going high tech:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51642

Edinburgh University is refusing to return some manuscripts
looted from Ethiopia in the 1860's:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/12938.shtml
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=507872

A while back we reported on the discovery of some mummies in
Siberia; now those mummies are being blamed for a number of earth
tremors in the region (not dated April 1):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3593481.stm

On hair length and military success (again, not dated April 1):

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_48775.asp

Descendents of slaves are suing Lloyds of London for their role
in underwriting slave traders (again, not April 1):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3578863.stm

A lost score by Johann Sebastian Bach has been found in Japan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3596027.stm

In case you missed it, they've found some other stuff beneath
the Sphinx (note: this was originally broadcast on April 1 ...
links on the lower right of the page are in German, but the
report is in English):

http://www.bremen2010.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=67
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ON THE WEB
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City Maps of Ancient Rome:

http://www.euratlas.net/Roma/

Interesting children's site on Hercules (requires Flash):

http://www.accessart.org.uk/hercules/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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A number of books at the 'Baldwin Project' with stories aimed
at children:

Old Greek Stories:

http://tinyurl.com/23hk7

The Aeneid for Boys and Girls:

http://tinyurl.com/37x7x

The Burning of Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/2z4yo

To The Lions:

http://tinyurl.com/2yne9

The Odyssey for Boys and Girls:

http://tinyurl.com/yv22d

The Crown of Pine (Isthmian Games):

http://tinyurl.com/25bq5
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CRIME BEAT
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The Kosovo conflict appears to be still bubbling up, with
a number of medieval churches and their contents as victims:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/03/arts/03CHUR.html

Jordan is going to return a huge number of antiquities which
were smuggled out of Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/2aw8t (New York Times)

... but the looting continues, despite efforts to curb it:

http://tinyurl.com/2eewj (New York Times)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4703631.html

A pair of illegally-excavated Egyptian limestone steles which
ended up in a New York gallery will be returned to Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02MONU.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/513200.html

A French archaeologist being held in Egypt on suspicion of
smuggling antiquities has been released on bail:

http://tinyurl.com/2lkv7 (Expatica)

Someone is still tracking down coins stolen from the DuPont
collection back in the 1960's:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/8239050.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Carl Zimmer, *The Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain --
and How It Changed the World.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/books/review/04ZEMANT.html

Russell Short, *The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic
Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped
America* :

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/books/review/04BAKERT.html
(first chapter available)

Tom Holland, *Rubicon*:

http://tinyurl.com/2afbb (Contra Costa Times)

A couple of works on the historicity of the Exodus:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/134656-2251-047.html

Erich Segal, *The Death of Comedy*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/411568.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya:

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/mayainfo.htm

Cities in the Americas: A Celebration of the Phelps Stokes
Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02CITI.html

Ancient Art to Post-Impressionism

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1184792,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=507868

Vixerunt Omnes: Romani ex Imaginibus

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fa20040331a1.htm

Adriano: Le Memorie al femminile:

http://tinyurl.com/2yx59 (in Italian, but with a nice photo)

British Museum Enlightenment Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31RIDI.html

Eternal Egypt:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0331/p25s01-stin.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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A nice letter re: Classics in Scotland:

http://www.sundayherald.com/40977

A lament on the decline of knowledge of Latin and Greek:

http://tinyurl.com/348v3 (Spectator)

Only one in 600 people could name all seven Wonders of the
Ancient World in a recent poll:

http://tinyurl.com/398o5 (Telegraph)

New trailer and poster for 'Troy':

http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4138

Professional sports as Greek tragedy (I think this is actually
a repeat):

http://tinyurl.com/2udzz (Baptist Standard)

Nemean Games revival:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/30_nemea.shtml

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/yu4we

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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David Oates (Near Eastern Archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/2hwjb (Independent)
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REPEATS
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King Tut's Wine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/science/30OBSE.html

Libyan Tourism:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=358622004
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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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