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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Some 4 000 B.P. wooden pipes from Ireland may be the world's
oldest wooden musical instruments:

http://tinyurl.com/27r54 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1105308.htm

Al-Ahram has a nice piece on the discovery of a boat chapel in
the Temple of Hathor at Denderah last March:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/he1.htm

A touristy sort of thing on Egypt and Nubia:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2904417a2181,00.html

A couple of mummies have been found in Saqqara:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o140524i.htm

There's going to be all sorts of things to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of Cheops' Solar boat:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o130524a.htm

How to rescue the Osirion at Abydos:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o130524.htm

An 1800 b.p. piece of Roman pottery has an ancient fingerprint
on it:

http://tinyurl.com/2paau (Lincolnshire Echo)

A 4th-Century A.D./C.E. 'nail' from Holland may be the earliest
example of high carbon steel found in Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3705205.stm

A restored Roman villa on Malta will reopen to the public soon:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=153884
http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=136808&;pid=23

A metal detectorist in the UK has found a nice medieval brooch:

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1252&;ArticleID=790285
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THE AMERICAS
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There were human settlements in the Amazon Basin 4000 b.p.:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/idrp-hsa051204.php

Some overviewish sort of things on recent Mayan finds in
Guatemala:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/science/11MAYA.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/519611.html (not the same as above)
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2151082,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-05-10-maya-city_x.htm

Some more details on those recently-discovered murals from
Guatemala:

http://tinyurl.com/2hs2c (Boston Globe)

... and the royal tomb from the Tak'alik Ab'aj site:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/11/guatemala.archaelogy.ap/

I think we've mentioned this one before ... they're building a
huge particle detector to probe the Pyramid of the Sun at
Teotihuacan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3710735.stm

A touristy sort of thing on ruins in Peru and/or the search for
El Dorado:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/international/americas/13cuzco.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/science/0504/13peru.html

A site near Mariemount (Ohio) is turning up piles of Native
American artifacts:

http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=1870034

A lengthy piece on recent research into the Anasazi and their
agricultural skills:

http://tinyurl.com/2rp9u (Rocky Mountain News)

Bill Kelso and Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/3dztu (Daily Press)

A document suggests baseball may date to before 1791:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3710967.stm

To mark the anniversary of the 'setting out' of the Lewis and
Clark expedition, the National Archives has a display about
their provisions list:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4971046/

Construction confusion has destroyed a site in Guam (I'm not sure
how to classify Guam):

http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20040513/localnews/405421.html
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It's National Archaeology Week in Australia, and they've put up
a nice website for the event, which includes an online Dig Diary
for an excavation of the Old Naval Stores at Kangaroo Point (among
other things, of course):

http://www.archaeologyweek.com/

They've come up with some guidelines regarding the reburial of
Christian remains in the UK:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994984

The New York Times has a touristy thing on the Taj Mahal:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/travel/16taj.html

Zahi Hawass is doing the book tour thing, it seems:

http://tinyurl.com/2nplm (Providence Journal)

... and still writes a column in Al Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/he2.htm

Nice piece on the importance of volunteers at dig sites:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2570679

The Guardian has a thing on Henry Fielding:

http://tinyurl.com/yrxwy (Guardian)

National Geographic has a nice feature on Icelandic sagas:

http://tinyurl.com/33e54

Tom Harpur doubts the historical existence of Jesus:

http://tinyurl.com/yu79e (Toronto Star)
cf: http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&;u_pg=57&u_sid=1092659

The history of kissing:

http://www.lavozdeanza.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/05/10/40a02c8ccd487

Turns out you CAN see the Great Wall of China from space:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040512042526.htm

... and here's one for all you Holy Blood, Holy Grail fans:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Cryptic-Carving.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 57.3 (May/June 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/index.html

American Journal of Archaeology 108.2:

http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/i_toc.html

Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2004):

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

Minerva (May/June 2004):

http://minervamagazine.com/index.php (TOC only)

New Zealand Archaeology e-News:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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At the SBL site:

Ronald F. Hock, "Writing in the Greco-Roman World":

http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=264

others (with a Biblical focus): http://www.sbl-site.org/

Medieval Arts and Sciences database:

http://www.midlaurel.com/wsnlinks/

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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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James Curle, *A Roman Frontier Post*

http://www.curlesnewstead.org.uk/
cf: http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=554002004
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CRIME BEAT
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Using the Iraq strategy to recover purloined pre-Columbian
antiquities:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/art/2570506

I'm genuinely not sure if this is the right category for this
one (yet) ... an online auction of Viking artifacts has raised
the ire of the Swedish researcher:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2004/05/14/458614-ap.html
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/8661668.htm

350 items have been recovered in Umbria:

http://tinyurl.com/29spt (Adnkronos ... in Italian)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Eve LaPlante, *American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne
Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/books/review/16CALDWEL.html

Simon Goodhill, *Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the Ancient World
Shapes our Lives*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1217729,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Ancient Roman Civilization (?):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/15/content_1471244.htm
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TROY STUFF
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I doubt this will be a regular segment (it probably won't live
past this week), but it seemed useful to put all the Trojan stuff
in one section ...

Comments on the 'historicity' of the movie and/or the Iliad and/or
the historical Troy:

http://www.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040524/misc/24troy.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yss4w (National Geographic)
http://tinyurl.com/2rt2y (Mirror (!))
http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/085768.htm

On Homer:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1217918,00.html
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/051404/e0114iliad.html

On characters in the Iliad/Troy ('cheatsheets'):

http://entertainment.iafrica.com/features/322303.htm

Trojan artifacts on display in Turkey:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4979507/

Editorialish things arising from the movie:

http://tinyurl.com/2zld7 (Arizona Republic)
http://tinyurl.com/2vdlq (Globe and Mail(!))
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0514-02.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3fd2s (Up and Coming)

Complaints about the lack of a "black presence":

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/8664012.htm

Reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/movies/moviesspecial/09MCGR.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/movies/14TROY.html
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/troy/index.html
http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/troy.html
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/reviews/story.jsp?story=521311
http://www.iht.com/articles/520006.html
http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/story/0,4567,116667,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2qs6v (Orlando City Beat)
http://www.sfexaminer.com/article/index.cfm/i/051404a_troy
http://tinyurl.com/24wym (Kalamazoo Gazette)
http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&;id=3310
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/14/troy.pitt.ap/
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05142004/friday/friday.asp
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/entertainment/8658208.htm
http://www.freep.com/entertainment/movies/troy14_20040514.htm
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/movies/8654148.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2s3j9 (Ottawa Citizen)
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieReviews/view.bg?articleid=342
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25869-2004May13.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/16091.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100463/
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=8216
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0514/p13s03-almo.html
http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/hiatus?art=2004_05_13_01
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/12/1084289735257.html

If you just want 'overviews' of several reviews:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1216951,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3714139.stm

On the revival of sword and sandal flicks (with nods to previous
ones):

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/thereview.cfm?id=555332004
http://tinyurl.com/234so (The Australian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3690889.stm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/13/1084289809008.html

Interviews with actors, directors etc.:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2908732a1860,00.html
http://u.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,218~24207~2145979,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2kqsh (Times Picayune)
http://tinyurl.com/2apss (Globe and Mail)
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=546872004
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1216310,00.html
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Spotlight/2004/05/12/455829.html
http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa051004.htm

Is your man a Troy Boy?

http://tinyurl.com/ytdvj (quiz in the Mirror)

Which Homeric Hero Are You?

http://film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5952,1214346,00.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The movie Dogville looks like it might provide some comparanda:

http://tinyurl.com/23v6j (Arizona Republic)

On getting jobs in Classics:

http://chronicle.com/jobs/2004/05/2004051101c.htm

The Kirinean ship arrived in Piraeus this week, bearing a load
of copper from Cyprus:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=455538

Archimedes' Stomachion is back in the news:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040515/bob9.asp

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2ft69

Interesting little brouhaha at a debate over whether the Elgin/
Parthenon Marbles should be returned:

http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2004-05-13/news/8

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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Samuel Iwry (Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar)

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8674444.htm?1c
http://tinyurl.com/3dbcm (LA Times)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22661-2004May12.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/8644362.htm
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REPEATS
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British Boomerangs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3700483.stm

Earliest Controlled of Fire in Israel:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12768-2004May9.html

Oriental Institute Returns Tablets to Iran:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040513/oi.shtml

Petrarch's Skull Isn't:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040510/petrarch.html

Site of Library of Alexandria Found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3707641.stm
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05092004/nation_w/164862.asp
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/85120/1/.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/09/1084041273125.html

Stanford's Forma Urbis Digitization Project:

http://tinyurl.com/yqmmm
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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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