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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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They're finally going to catalogue all the stuff in the basement
of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo:

http://tinyurl.com/2sx4p (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2vtxt (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/2aq6f (Reuters)

Al-Ahram has a nice feature on Seti I:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/694/he1.htm

The Pool of Siloam was discovered near Jerusalem last week:

http://tinyurl.com/372rk (Jerusalem Post)

On attempts to ensure that Masada remains stable:

http://tinyurl.com/2xsvu (Jerusalem Post)

The restored frieze of the Pergamon Altar was revealed this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/35v7d (AP via Yahoo)

A Roman industrial site has been found beneath a medieval track
site in Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/3786093.stm

On Moorish guards on Hadrian's Wall and their descendents:

http://tinyurl.com/2jxx6 (Telegraph)

A Greek inscription was found at Segesta this week, which is helping
to define where the agora was:

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

A Thracian temple to Orpheus (?) was found recently in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=35668

Upcoming work at Pompeii is in the news this week:

http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=81693
http://tinyurl.com/2o48l (Greeley Tribune)

A major Viking discovery in Ireland is causing excitement:

http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=14729

A map of shipwrecks from the 4th to 10th centuries suggests there
was lively trade in the Mediterranean during the Dark Ages:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1138735,00.html
(see the note on bugmenot.com in the front matter if you can't
access the Times)

Recent research suggests Angkor Wat's decline may have been due
to "ecological failure":

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-10/s_24741.asp
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,255460,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/06/08/fallenangkor.ap/index.html

A brief item on the discovery of Neolithic sites in China's
Heilongjiang province:

http://tinyurl.com/yuf49 (The Star)

Western Zhou Dynasty artifacts from China's Shaanxi province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/07/content_1512849.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2pybk (China Daily ... I think this is the same)

China may have had the first complex machines:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3792819.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995103

While ants are threatening the survival of ancient buildings in
Xian:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3783511.stm

A fair bit of coverage about the discovery of a 1000 b.p. padded
bra in Inner Mongolia:

http://tinyurl.com/2s7qs (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/2zlnr (NZ Herald)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_983935.html

AGI reports the discovery of a mummy of uncertain date in the
desert of Libya ... hopefully we'll get more details on this:

http://tinyurl.com/2smng (AGI ... in Italian)
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THE AMERICAS
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The petroglyphs in Utah's Nine Mile Canyon are under threat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/national/13canyon.html

On powerful chiefdoms in Hawaii (well, it's sort of the Americas):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040611074300.htm

Construction at ASU has revealed a Hohokam burial:

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=1935305&;nav=HMO5Nqbj
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, an interview with Bryan Sykes (who does a good
chunk of the DNA testing stuff that gets mentioned here):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/science/08conv.html

Also on the DNA front, the double strand (or parts of it) is being
used to identify the origins of the species (with implications
for human migration etc.):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/science/08obox.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5160080/
http://tinyurl.com/yvfwc (SciAm)
http://tinyurl.com/2qh86 (NG)

The fate of the Amber Room continues to get press coverage:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5174876/

A previously-unknown Arabic map depicting an 'egg-shaped' England
will be on display at the Bodleian:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1232461,00.html

A row has broken out over where best to house the bones of the
'Wookey Witch':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/3779505.stm

On the growing interest in Chinese art by Chinese collectors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/arts/design/07COLL.html

Interesting item on verifying the authenticity of a painting
using computer technology:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/arts/design/13HEIN.html

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/694/he2.htm

Venus in various cultures:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/725016.cms

Another touristy Libyan thing:

http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2004/06/13/out_of_seclusion/

Herschel Shanks and the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/2eezb (Daily Progress)
cf.: http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/060604/lif_scrolls001.shtml

So how's the new Library of Alexandria doing?:

http://tinyurl.com/ytzya (Daily Star)

Better coverage (than last week) on the identification of
Louis XVII's heart:

http://tinyurl.com/2su7o (New York Times)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5130086/
http://tinyurl.com/29t3g (Telegraph)

Controversy at Cordoba's Mezquita:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0526/p01s04-woeu.html

On presidential funerals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/politics/11history.html

On the history of novenas:

http://www.catholicherald.com/saunders/04ws/ws040610.htm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Bible Review (June, 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html

Antiquity (June 2004) ... Project Gallery; includes the article
about Atlantis in Spain, among others:

http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/300.html
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ON THE WEB
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Israel Museum (online catalogue of the 'Coin of Coins' exhibition):

http://www.imj.org.il/calendar/innerpages/exh.asp?exh=current

Aquae Urbis Romae:

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/waters/first.html

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology:

http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/

David Salisbury, *Pushing Back Maya Origins*:

http://tinyurl.com/33efo (Vanderbilt University)
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CRIME BEAT
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A Byzantine kiln floor was stolen from an archaeological park
in Israel this week:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/437324.html
http://tinyurl.com/39c2y  (Seattle PI)

A number of pieces of Roman jewellery is missing from Egypt's
National Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/yu9dm (IOL)

An Austrian woman will be allowed to sue the government to
recover a Klimt painting once purloined from her family by Nazis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/national/08scotus.html

A Bronze Age necropolis on Cyprus is being bulldozed (with permits!)
to build some luxury homes:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=14699&;archive=1

Someone tried to mail five mummified skulls out of Peru:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4195683,00.html

A probe has been launched to investigate whether Coalition forces
have damaged the site of Babylon:

http://tinyurl.com/ys5ts (AFP via Yahoo)
cf: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2004/n06112004_200406115.html

The good relationship between an archaeologist and locals led
to the conviction of a looter of Mayan sites this week:

http://tinyurl.com/32hcp (AScribe ...cf the 'on the web' section)

A Danish family theft ring which specialized (it seems) in rare
books received its comeuppance this week:

http://tinyurl.com/2obpt (AP via Yahoo)

Buddhas in Afghanistan are still being looted:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0608/p06s03-wosc.html

Cambodia still has major looting problems too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3784135.stm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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David Rains Wallace, *Beasts of Eden*: Walking Whales, Dawn
Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/books/review/13FISHERL.html

Fik Meijer, *Emperors Don't Die in Bed *:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n11/jone01_.html
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PERFORMANCES
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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This week, Atlantis is back in the area of Spain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3766863.stm
http://tercera.cl/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_78492751,00.html (Spanish)
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-6-9/21897.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1127929.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2c93y (Telegraph)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040607/atlantis.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_980335.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Men and Gods in the Rome of the Caesars:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/11/content_1521755.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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One of the UK's big exam boards is dropping Latin and Greek from
its list:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1237027,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3797821.stm

... which prompted this defensio linguae Latinae:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1237025,00.html

Coverage of Harvard's Latin Oration:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=502913

An Athenian v. Spartan debate might be of interest:

http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=1938&;lang=US

The New York Times had a nice feature on Adrienne Mayor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/12/arts/12MAYO.html

Let's all 'pull' for this Classics graduate:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3054858

An online presentation of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite:

http://users.hol.gr/~kaamos/zygomalas.html

There's a trailer out for the forthcoming Alexander flick:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/alexander/large.html

Some hype for the flick:

http://www.latercera.cl/articulo/0,5819,3255_5700_77529486,00.html
(Spanish)

Reviews of Troy keep popping up:

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair06132004.html

National Mythology Exam coverage:

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=70636

A good article on the so-called 'golden ratio':

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_06_04.html

The 'Swallow Song' will illumine children's life in Ancient Greece:

http://news.amn.org/press.jsp?id=2226

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/24l2u

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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Paul Rehak (Classicist and Aegeanet founder):

http://tinyurl.com/2f442 (Duke Chronicle)
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REPEATS
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MessengerSpeak Iliad:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/724818.cms
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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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