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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The earliest known use of grains by humans has apparently been
pushed back some 10,000 years due to a discovery in Israel:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5263435/
http://tinyurl.com/36p4h (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3826731.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ypm2l (SciAm)

Analysis of remains in some burials is lending credence to the
Welsh origins of Stonehenge:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1152542,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1152541,00.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040614/stonehenge.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/22/1087844934269.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_995282.html

... leading, of course, to immediate demands that it be returned:

http://tinyurl.com/yvt5l (IC North Wales)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3830547.stm

The excavations of Athens' Agora continue:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040622/dctu027_1.html

Brief item on the discovery of fragments of two Roman glass armlets
in East Linton (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/2plep (East Lothian Courier)

A Roman villa from the Dorset countryside:

http://tinyurl.com/28thv

Some info in this one on the discovery of Roman remains during the
pre-construction survey of a housing development in Cramond (Scotland):

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=716052004

Brief item (in Italian) on the discovery of a Roman burial in Rome's
Salario district:

http://tinyurl.com/23p9g (Corriere della Sera)

The prow of a ship dating to the First Punic War has been found off
the coast of Trapani:

http://tinyurl.com/yrlcq (in Italian ... La Sicilia web)

Some urn burials have been found in India:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040621/asp/nation/story_3395697.asp

More on the fate of Angkor:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04173/335082.stm

Neolithic tombs in China are pointing to the beginnings of
social stratification and rituals:

http://english1.peopledaily.com.cn/200406/21/eng20040621_146974.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/19/content_1535276.htm

An arrowhead is pointing to (sorry ... couldn't resist) the
likely site for the Battle of Bannockburn:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/18702.html

East Lothian Today has an appeal for help identifying a mysterious
stone anchor which was recently discovered:

http://tinyurl.com/3e2zz

A "treasure trove" of Jewish artifacts have been found near
Auschwitz:

http://tinyurl.com/3d4pa (AP via CNN)
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THE AMERICAS
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A stunning site has been found/revealed in Utah:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5288477/
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jun/06252004/utah/178742.asp
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=39&;sid=102764
http://tinyurl.com/3dsya (Las Vegas Sun)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040621/cereal.html

Timucuan remains at Marineland in Florida (?):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5291166/

A major site (1000 b.p.) has been uncovered at a construction site
in the S.F. Bay area:

http://tinyurl.com/326mm (SF Chronicle)

On efforts to preserve petroglyphs in Nevada:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5269974/
http://tinyurl.com/yuqwu (AP via Yahoo)

They're apparently trying to shame developers into being more
cognizant of the threat to Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/yswqw (AFP via Yahoo)

A possible Woodland or Mississipian culture site in
Minnesota?:

http://www.anokacountyunion.com/2004/June/17mound.html

Prehistoric artifacts in Loudoun County:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63176-2004Jun23.html

On the search for Aztlan/the origins of the Aztecs:

http://tinyurl.com/2ul7r (Reuters via Yahoo)

... and where the Hopewell people went:

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/842142.html

Some more info on those slave journals we mentioned last week
(url probably won't last past Sunday):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/weekinreview/20word.html

Some aboriginal bark etchings on loan from the British Museum
are the latest items at the centre of a repatriation dispute:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/26/1088145022684.html

1776 through British eyes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/arts/television/23STAN.html
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Interesting theory on when human ears began to adapt to human
speech (kind of circular, this):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/science/22obse.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3836439.stm

Disputes are arising over methods of preservation of Cairo's
Islamic monuments:

http://tinyurl.com/3eys9 (Reuters via Yahoo)

A 'lost' renaissance fresco has been found beneath the false
ceiling of a cathedral in Spain:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5288480/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3840659.stm

... while a medieval image of St. George has been found in
a Welsh church:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/3825719.stm

... and a 10th century image of some saint has been found in
Gloucestershire:

http://tinyurl.com/yuvfa

Scientific American has a piece on the Voynich Manuscript:

http://tinyurl.com/2xung

Nice article in the New York Times on that Bactrian Gold hoard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/arts/design/24GOLD.html
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=68704

There are fears the Leaning Tower of Pisa may be a terrorist
target:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3838101.stm

The preserved tattooed heads of three Maori heads have been
returned from a museum in Scotland:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3574540
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1246966,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3107998

Auction news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/design/25INSI.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/design/25ANTI.html

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5288000/ (1700 b.p. glass)
http://tinyurl.com/2dpzt (Bonham's page on the above; photo)
http://tinyurl.com/3h85m (catalog of the above auction)

A resolution to the dispute over rights to Columbus' bell:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5257041/
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=533509

A touristy thing on Saalburg:

http://tinyurl.com/36392 (estripes)

Solstice activities at Stonehenge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3823379.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3089370

Somewhat more interesting Solstice activities at Bahrain's
Saar settlement:

http://tinyurl.com/3x5mp (Gulf Daily News)

Clan McArthur and Clan Campbell are battling over who can lay
claim to Arthur:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=707342004

Did Lenin have syphilis?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/science/22leni.html

"Reacting to the Past" in the classroom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/education/23barnard.html
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ON THE WEB
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Alexander Joffe, "Are Fakes So Bad?"

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Joffe_AreFakesSoBad_1.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Archimedes:

http://www.gutenberg.net/etext05/geomc10.txt

Charles Lamb, *The Adventures of Ulysses*:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7768
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CRIME BEAT
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More details on potential damage to the site of Babylon by
military construction:

http://www.detnews.com/2004/nation/0406/12/nation-181467.htm
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1973682 (audio)

cf.: http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=6076
(and consider the source!)

Assorted sites in Sri Lanka are falling victim to the usual
suspects:

http://tinyurl.com/34uvj (Yahoo)

A mummy and other items were stolen from a tomb near Luxor:

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/8985729.htm
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/8985729.htm

If this isn't a crime, it should be ... remains of a Celtic
fort in County Kerry were bulldozed this week:

http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=108358292&;p=yx8358998&n=108359052
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Roy Strong, *Feast: A History of Grand Eating*:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17237

Richard Holland, *Augustus: Godfather of Europe*:

http://tinyurl.com/2fcus (Telegraph)
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PERFORMANCES
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Frogs:

http://tinyurl.com/232xg (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/2w7th (NYT ... different)

Electricidad:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/wkp-news-stage25.html

Iphigenia at Aulis

http://tinyurl.com/2wy2z (Telegraph)

Julius Caesar:

http://www.pitch.com/issues/2004-06-24/stage.html

Women of Trachis:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64273-2004Jun23.html

Agamemnon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/arts/music/22AGAM.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Pravda comes through again with a review of a book placing
the Odyssey in the Baltic and making Odysseus Dutch:

http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/13193_Odysseus.html

A book review of a tome called *The Parthenon Code*:

http://tinyurl.com/2cllv (PR Newswire)
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EXHIBITIONS
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Assorted art museums in Madrid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/travel/20spain.html

Mummy: The Inside Story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1248425,00.html

Vitrum: Glass Between Art and Science in the Roman World:

http://www.iht.com/articles/526628.html

Magna Graecia:

http://www.sportsfeatures.com/PressPoint/show.php?id=9860

Athens' National Archaeological Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/2dq95 (Kathimerini)

Treasures from Tuscany: The Etruscan Legacy:

http://news.scotsman.com/arts.cfm?id=718432004

Byzantium: Faith and Power:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52429-2004Jun18.html
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The Parthenon's 'restoration' won't be complete in time for the
Olympics:

http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/062704/oly_LS0304-5.shtml
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1138518.htm

... and there's news of a Classical opening to the Olympic soccer
tournament:

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_26-6-2004_pg2_26

It's been a good year for Stephen Dyson:

http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol35/vol35n40/articles/DysonBook.html

And there's renewed coverage of the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles dispute:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3841179.stm
http://tinyurl.com/37ufx (VOA)

The Troy stuff continues to trickle in from Asian sources ... here's
an inteview with Brad Pitt (with ClassCon):

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040626/windows/main2.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yuk5v (Times of India)

... and there's another 'real Troy' piece at CNN:

http://tinyurl.com/384w8

Also on the Troy front comes news of Brian Johnson (the AC/DC guy) and
his plans for a musical based on Helen of Troy:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=737443d3604dcae8

Meanwhile, we're still getting fallout from the Passion about Pontius
Pilate:

http://tinyurl.com/2wnl9 (NC Times)

In case you missed it, there's plenty of buzz about the 'Cleveland
Apollo', possibly by Praxiteles:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/8999500.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/arts/design/22APOL.html
http://tinyurl.com/2t29d (Kathimerini)
http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/apollo/html/ (photos)

S.A.L. Dunn at Snitch:

http://national.snitch.com/2004/06/23/dunn

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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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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