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and Yonatan Nadelman for headses  upses this week (as always hoping
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A Paleolithic site near the sea of Galilee has revealed the
earliest example of bedding:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040503/bedding.html

The oldest boomerang has been found ... in Britain:

http://snipurl.com/697h (The Australian)

A Bronze Age hoard has been found by a metal detectorist in
Mickleham:

http://snipurl.com/697s (IC Surrey)

A trio of metal detectorists from Liverpool have had similar
success:

http://snipurl.com/697u (IC Liverpool)

A Murgab mausoleum dating to 3 000 B.C./B.C.E. has been found in
Turkmenistan:

http://tercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_75933136,00.html
(Spanish)

A housing 'compound' for labourers who mined gold in Egypt near
the Red Sea has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/yr5jy (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o050524p.htm

A Polish-Egyptian team has found the site of the "University" of
Alexandria:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05092004/nation_w/164862.asp
http://snipurl.com/6971 (LA Times)
http://snipurl.com/6972 (Seattle Times)

One I missed last week ... Smithsonian Magazine has a piece on
the Jiroft civilization:

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/may04/iran.html

The Roman bridge at Corbridge is to be excavated:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/viewarticle.asp?id=94567

For reasons I can't quite comprehend, the discovery of seven
skeletons near Maastricht is being connected to the Three
Musketeers:

http://snipurl.com/696v (CNN)
cf: http://snipurl.com/697l (Expatica ... scroll down)

A survey of Pakistan's Swabi district has revealed a number of
sites from various periods:

http://snipurl.com/696r
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THE AMERICAS
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Plenty of coverage this week of the discovery/excavation of the
Mayan city of Cival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/science/05maya.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4901704/
http://tinyurl.com/22a7o (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3693671.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040503/maya.html
http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2004/05/08/53816.html
http://tlc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040503/maya.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/518523.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/05/04/mayan.metropolis/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2151-2004May4.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994956

Also plenty of coverage of the discovery of the tomb of a
Mayan queen in Guatemala:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040506073833.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4916517/
http://tinyurl.com/3gs24 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.iht.com/articles/518607.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/2554605
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/smu-aad050504.php

More (?) on the discoveries at Cancuen:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040505070714.htm

Recent finds from Teotihuacan will be going on display:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0509teotihuacan09.html

The Book Cliffs site in Utah is shedding light on the Fremont
people:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view2/1,4382,595060153,00.html

A touristy sort of thing on Aztec Ruins National Monument:

http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/travel/169932travel05-02-04.htm

Construction has damaged a number of Hohokam sites near Tucson:

http://snipurl.com/697r (Tucson Citizen)

A new bit of legislation to deal with submerged artifacts in
Alabama is causing controversy:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4892828/
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On the DNA front, biologists are going to use DNA evidence to
track down the origins of the domestication of agriculture:

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/print.php?sid=2146411607

The British Museum has put the oldest printed book -- the so-called
Diamond Sutra -- on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3696333.stm

Nice piece on the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative project:

http://snipurl.com/697n (Boston Globe)

A brief item on the Persian 'mail' service:

http://snipurl.com/6982 (Chicago Tribune)

Some sort of radiation technique has confirmed that a nosepiece
on a Corinthian helmet in the Manchester Museum is a modern
addition:

http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/4/16

The Carta Marina from 1539 may be the first to map a "giant
ocean front":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3683087.stm

The Dunhuang star map is going on display:

http://snipurl.com/697z (Independent)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_941028.html (photo)

More on the Medici exhumation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/04/international/europe/04flor.html

They're going to x-ray the Mona Lisa to figure out what is
causing it to deteriorate:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4837369/
http://snipurl.com/698a

A touristy sort of thing on Albania:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/travel/02albania.html

... and one on Rhodes:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,6903,1212416,00.html

... and pre-Olympics Athens:

http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/content/0504/09athens.html

An overview of Judaism during Jesus' times:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/144720-7691-021.html

The statue of St. James 'the Moorslayer' is being moved
from a church in Santiago de Compostela because it is
offensive to Muslims:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3680331.stm

The plague may have originated in Egypt:

http://www.geotimes.org/may04/NN_plague.html

Zahi Hawass has written a book about the pyramid of Cheops:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o060524u.htm

Interesting item on the Elizabethan diet:

http://tinyurl.com/yv6rc (New York Times)

Not quite sure how to classify this one ... some company is
offering tours based on the Da Vinci Code:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/travel/09qna.html

The history of the Princeton Elm might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/nyregion/07ELM.html

... as might an account of what's up for sale at the International
Art Fair in NYC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/arts/design/07SMIT.html

A group in New Zealand is building their own Stonehenge:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63227,00.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2004):

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

Minerva (May/June 2004):

http://snipurl.com/698r
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ON THE WEB
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An interesting website devoted to the Celtic divinity Epona:

http://epona.net/

The latest salvo in the James Ossuary debate:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Meyers_Response.htm
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A Stradivarius Cello was stolen from a member of the LA
Philharmonic this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08CELL.html

Dutch tourists are returning some 'trinkets' they purchased in
Indonesia which turned out to be rather older than they thought:

http://tinyurl.com/34soz (Reuters via Yahoo)

Latest news from the Baghdad Museum:

http://snipurl.com/696j (USA Today)

A major bust in Cairo:

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1523839,00.html

A pile of purloined artifacts were recovered in Sicily this week:

http://snipurl.com/696p (AGI)

I think we've already mentioned this 'basement museum' case:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11647

A man has been convicted of looting Apache artifacts:

http://snipurl.com/6970 (Independent)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, *The Rule of Four* (Fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/books/06MASL.html

A pair of books on ancient Jewish marriage practices:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/424708.html

Stephen Hodge, *The Dead Sea Scrolls Rediscovered*:

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004b/050704/050704l.php

*Byzantium: Faith and Power* (exhibition catalog):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17115
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PERFORMANCES
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Antigone:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/living/8612307.htm

Trojan Women:

http://snipurl.com/697w (Nashville City Paper)

Rape of Lucretia:

http://snipurl.com/6985 (Relish)

Julius Caesar:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05092004/arts/arts.asp
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Rasputin seems to be the inspiration for much of the spam that
I get (this one is potentially offensive):

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/28/rasputin.shtml
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EXHIBITIONS
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Caliphs and Kings:

http://tinyurl.com/2be4e (AP)

Buried Treasure

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

The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on the Italian Renaissance:

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/05/05/32022.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Pre-release reviews of Troy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/movies/moviesspecial/09MCGR.html
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20506.htm
http://snipurl.com/697e (New Zealand Herald)
http://snipurl.com/697q (reuters)
http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=17443&;r=true
http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=126023

Related items:

http://snipurl.com/697x (Time Magazine)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/8619227.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7434-1099174,00.html
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/20172.htm

... and some items which will probably be cribbed for undergrad
papers:

http://snipurl.com/6978 (Palm Beach Post)
http://snipurl.com/697f (The Australian)
http://snipurl.com/697j (Arizona Republic)

... and advice for folks about to see the movie:

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/5/emw123226.htm

And what do kiddies thing about the story of Odysseus?

http://www.cadillacnews.com/articles/2004/05/01/news/news04.txt

Robin Lane Fox wrote a column for the Times about his experiences
as historical advisor for the Alexander the Great flick:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7434-1101601,00.html

cf.: http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2004/05/06/colinfarrell/

Some updates on forthcoming series set in Rome:

http://snipurl.com/697y (Reuters ... must read)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4925874/
http://snipurl.com/697a (Seattle PI)
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0504/145192.html

And in case you missed the 'Braveheart in a bra' coverage:

http://snipurl.com/6989 (IC North Wales)
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=498322004

Greeks and Romans are blamed for irregular plurals in English:

http://snipurl.com/6983 (Star)

Victor Davis Hanson on how the Greeks weren't just like us:

http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/22/may04/hanson.htm

Lessons from the decline and fall:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/davidson1.html

The 'Greek Society of the Friends of the Ancient and Followers
of the Religion of the 12 Gods' are in the news again:

http://snipurl.com/697c (Telegraph)

Archaeologists have okayed the shot put event at Olympia (!):

http://snipurl.com/696u (AP via Miami Herald)

A brief item on unrolling and reading the Herculaneum papyri:

http://wcbs880.com/osgood/osgood_story_121195943.html
(scroll down)

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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John Rowe (Peruvian Archaeologist):

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/05/07_rowe.shtml
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REPEATS
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Earliest Fire:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/04/science/04OBOX.html

Neanderthal Maturity:

http://snipurl.com/696t (Telegraph)
http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040428/g042804A.html

Noah's Ark Expedition:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1208224,00.html

Atlantis Expedition:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=34123
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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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