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Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Paul James Cowie, Richard C. Griffiths,
Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan
Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left
no one out).

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the Battle of Stoney Creek ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Ancient Egyptians were jokesters:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040531/egypthumor.html

Al-Ahram has a feature on Gurna:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/fe1.htm

A Roman bathhouse/villa has been found in Maidstone (UK):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3774197.stm

A nice piece on the excavation of a Roman burial ground near
Beirut:

http://tinyurl.com/3ap4y (Daily Star)

... and they're looking for Byblos' ancient port as well:

http://tinyurl.com/3x92t (Daily Star)

BBC Radio had a nice feature on Babylon (click on 'listen again'):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

Turkey is hoping to cash in on 'Troy':

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2610162

... speaking of which, the New Zealand Herald has a touristy
thing on Truva:

http://tinyurl.com/2n837

Recent finds from the harbour of Alexandria include bits of
the famous lighthouse:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/040603/2004060321.html

A sizeable chunk of an Etruscan highway has been unearthed:

http://tinyurl.com/3g7ls (CulturalWeb ... in Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/2rqz2 (La Repubblica ... ditto)

The Australian version of Sixty Minutes has a nice feature
(with audio and video) about the ongoing threats to Pompeii from
tourists and the like:

http://tinyurl.com/2qtf3

Nice Roman bowl found in a thrift shop:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040604-033458-8042r.htm
http://www.ba.no/nyheter/article1136450.ece (Norwegian ... with photo)

Geotimes has an article in a similar vein about Petra:

http://www.geotimes.org/june04/feature_petra.html

A Third Century sculpture has been found near Kota (India):

http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_803778,000600030012.htm

A sort of 'roundup' piece on recent discoveries in China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/04/content_1508961.htm

A neolithic site was found in China's Heilongjiang Province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/02/content_1504299.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3gf63 (Eastday)

A Viking site near Waterford may be the "find of the century" (of
course, the century is only four years old or so):

http://tinyurl.com/3hc92 (Ireland Online)

They've just started an excavation at Tutbury Castle:

http://tinyurl.com/2vtve (Evening Telegraph)
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THE AMERICAS
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An excavation of a Native burial ground near Los Angeles is
causing controversy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/national/02burial.html

... while some Civil War remains were dutifully reburied after
being disinterred by Hurricane Isabel:

http://tinyurl.com/272xx (AP via NY Times)

... and historic African-American cemeteries in Tennessee are
threatened by development and neglect:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5140685/

Digging for bottles in outhouses:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/newsdemocrat/8850660.htm

Searching for the Hopewell people:

http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/060104/sta_0601040015.shtml

A day in the life of a San Antonio archaeologist:

http://tinyurl.com/2g4xl (San Antonio Current)
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On the DNA front, tests have demonstrated that a preserved heart
did, in fact, once reside in the chest of the Dauphin Louis XVII:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5130086/
http://tinyurl.com/3e42k (CNN)

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/693/he2.htm

... and how archaeology and politics are mixing in Israel:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/693/he1.htm

Arctic ice cores are going to be studied (I'm sure we'll hear
more about this):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3774051.stm

It appears that at least one person is questioning the paternity
of the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/nyregion/02towns.html

A discussion of the Creed might be of interest in the wake of
the DaVinci Code:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/national/05beliefs.html

John Noble Wilford ponders the activities of Alejandro Malaspina:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/science/01expl.html
http://www.ifao.egnet.net/

On the constancy of the North Star:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/science/space/01star.html

London's Royal Geographic Society is making a pile of artifacts
available to the public:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5123168/

That 'lost' Afghan gold will be going on a world tour:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5112571/
http://tinyurl.com/ys6rd (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2fy9g (Kathimerini)

The 'Jesuit Caves' near Maastricht seem rather interesting:

http://www.rnw.nl/special/en/html/040526dh.html

The voyage of the Minoa (a replica Minoan ship) is getting
mentions here and there:

http://tinyurl.com/2w87q (NY Times ... scroll down)

Latest on the Titanic:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1920387
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5139413/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5131208/

Interesting idea ... using cell phones for self-guided tours
of American Revolution sites:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5058646/

Not sure how to classify this piece on the Shroud of Turin:

http://tinyurl.com/2ybuv
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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D Day:

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/d-day/
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Europe07.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/dday/

Battle of Stoney Creek:

http://www.imuc.org/oldsite/stoney/stoney.html
http://www.hamilton-scourge.city.hamilton.on.ca/stoney.htm

Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire (site is in
French ... they have some very useful fonts available under the
Outils section which Hellenists and Latinists should also
check out):

http://www.ifao.egnet.net/

Rob S. Rice, "The Antikythera Mechanism: Physical and Intellectual
Salvage from the 1st Century B.C. ":

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rrice/usna_pap.html

Greg Doudna, "Redating the Dead Sea Scroll Deposits at Qumran:
the Legacy of an error in Archaeological Interpretation":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Doudna_Scroll_Deposits_1.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Frances Ellen Lord, *The Roman Pronunciation of Latin: Why We Use
It, and How To Use It*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7528

Tacitus, *The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus: The Oxford
Translation, Revised With Notes *:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7524
 
Charles Thomas Cruttwell, *A History of Roman Literature From the
Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7525

St. George William Joseph Stock, *A Guide to Stoicism*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7514

Cicero, *De Amicitia; Scipio's Dream*, (ed. by Andrew P. Peabody):

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7491

*The Biblical Antiquities of Philo*, trans. by M. R. James:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/bap/index.htm

*The Pyramid Texts* (translation volume only), ed. by
Samuel A. B. Mercer:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/pyt/index.htm

Alfred John Church, *Stories From the Greek Tragedians*:

http://tinyurl.com/2jaby

H. A. Guerber,*The Story of the Greeks*:

http://tinyurl.com/ysjwr

Herodotus and Alfred John Church, *The Story of the Persian
War From Herodotus*:

http://tinyurl.com/2qkyq

Alfred John Church and Ruth Putnam, The Count of the Saxon
Shore, or, The Villa in Vectis: A Tale of the Departure of
the Romans From Britain*: 

http://tinyurl.com/386ga
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There's a few more details in this piece on that 'private
museum' which was raided in Spain back in March:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/arts/design/02SPAN.html

That trial of a couple of guys who stole some petroglyphs in
Nevada is sparking some discussion of how to best protect such
artifacts:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5112564/
http://tinyurl.com/3d8sn (AP via Yahoo)

... and the guys were ultimately found guilty only of theft of
government property:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5123113/
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8820636.htm

There are still some 15,000 artifacts missing from the Baghdad
Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/2vme6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2s8jz (New Kerala)

A salvage operation off the coast of Mozambique is causing
controversy (not sure if this is technically a 'crime' yet):

http://allafrica.com/stories/200405280907.html

A thief in India gets his comeuppance:

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=86567

Proposed US legislation would prevent importation of artifacts
from Afghanistan:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04154/325685.stm

Hebron police recoved six hundred purloined artifacts this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/2kgra (Jerusalem Post)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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'Gumshoes in togas' (assorted Roman-set fiction):

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040606wof2.htm

A couple of works on the ancient Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/27uqz (Weekly Standard)
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PERFORMANCES
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Le Malade Imaginaire:

http://tinyurl.com/2b95g (New York Times)

Oedipus:

http://www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/6518.aspx

Antigone:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0422/finkle.php
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The Unfinished Print:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/04/arts/design/04SMIT.html

Masterworks of Six Centuries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/04/arts/design/04MAST.html

Etruscan Treasures:

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/06/02/32091.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Cambridge Online Latin project in the news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3766261.stm
http://tinyurl.com/37b9d (IC Wales)

More on Homer in MessengerSpeak:

http://tinyurl.com/2sg3q (Telegraph)

Applying Leo Strauss' teachings to the Middle East:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FF02Ak03.html

Homer, Troy, and Iraq:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/arts/05CONN.html

Daniel Mendelsohn on Troy:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17220

The National Review review of Troy:

http://www.nationalreview.com/stuttaford/stuttaford200406020832.asp

Homer v. Hollywood:

http://www.opednews.com/pagano_060204_troy.htm

Homer through Arab eyes:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/693/cu5.htm

On Attila's romp through the remains of the Roman Empire:

http://national.snitch.com/2004/06/02/dunn

The Elissa race  might be of interest:

http://tinyurl.com/2gddv (Daily Star)

Father Foster:

http://www.vaticanradio.org/inglese/105/en_latin.html

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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'University' of Alexandria found:

http://tinyurl.com/264uy (AP via Yahoo)
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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/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

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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