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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Another homo erectus skull has been found (in Kenya):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/science/02skul.html
http://tinyurl.com/394jc (Jerusalem Post)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3857113.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/nographic.jsp?id=ns99996106
cf: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5343787/
http://tinyurl.com/3a5ef (SciAm)

Human remains possibly dating to 7000 b.p. have been found in
Abu Dhabi:

http://tinyurl.com/2mldl (Khaleej Times)

Some pharaonic fortifications have been uncovered in the Sinai
peninsula:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5334605/
http://tinyurl.com/3xfo5 (Reuters via Yahoo)

Baalbek has been identified as the ancient city of Tunip:

http://tinyurl.com/3e58p (Lebanon Daily Star)

The search for evidence of Roman-era piracy off the coast of
Turkey is on:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/9068331.htm

Pravda reports on the discovery of an "Aryan" burial:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/13206_burial.html

Ming Dynasty artifacts have been found in a shipwreck off Malaysia:

http://tinyurl.com/37hum (Channel News)
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THE AMERICAS
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John Noble Wilford looks at evidence for pre-Clovis peopling of
the Americas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/29/science/29clov.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/527362.html
cf: http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4854962.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/science/0604/29archaeology.html

More details on that site in Utah (Range Creek):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/national/01RUIN.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5334476/
http://www.dhonline.com/articles/2004/06/25/news/nation/nation08.txt
http://tinyurl.com/35g7g (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ywyrz (Las Vegas Review Journal)
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040630_2304.html

... and, of course, there's controversy over it now:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Ancient-Find.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595075033,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yssh5 (Daily Herald)
cf: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~11676~2247614,00.html
cf: http://166.70.44.66/2004/Jul/07012004/utah/180201.asp

Some interesting bits of copper have been found at Jamestown:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5319974/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13246-2004Jun28.html
http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3757

The Battle of Fort Necessity revisited:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/03/opinion/03ANDE.html

A developer has made an interesting proposal to preserve a
native burial site in St. Augustine:

http://www.staugustine.com/stories/063004/new_2418549.shtml

There are concerns in Oregon that latrine digging may disturb
artifacts:

http://tinyurl.com/2gnrb (Herald and News)

Smithsonian Magazine has a nice article on Tikal:

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/jul04/tikal.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Egypt is stepping up the campaign to get Germany to return the
bust of Nefertiti to Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/2mgvg (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/22jea (Daily Star)
http://www.metimes.com/2K4/issue2004-27/eg/come_back_home.htm

Development of a quarry near Stanton Moor has not been approved,
which is good for assorted monuments in the area:

http://tinyurl.com/34dgb (ITV)
http://tinyurl.com/2u3pj (Matlock Today)

Monteverdi's 'audition':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/arts/music/04KOZI.html

A self-propelled vehicle designed by Leonardo DaVinci is getting
a pile of coverage this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/international/europe/02ital.html

Sites proposed to be on UNESCO's World Heritage Sites list:

http://tinyurl.com/2mp5p (UNESCO)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3857953.stm (slideshow)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3856171.stm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/03/content_1566908.htm
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3153513

On the history of folks observing Saturn's rings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/science/02rings.html

The Liechtensteins are opening a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/arts/design/28VIEN.html

On Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/weekinreview/27smit.html

The hype (including historical tidbits) for King Arthur, which
opens this week, has begun:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/movies/04MCGR.html
http://tinyurl.com/2hh56 (The Star)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595074525,00.html

An e-museum is launching in Pakistan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3839579.stm

Rochelle Altman has a piece in Jewsweek reiterating why the
inscription on the James Ossuary is a fake (or rather, the
second half of it) [I'm wondering about the date of this
article]:

http://www.bee.net/cardigan/attic/ossmirror.htm

Here's the technology behind that VR mummy exhibit at the
British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/2sx6b (Computer Graphics World)
cf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3839523.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847217.stm (slideshow)

Background for the above:

http://tinyurl.com/2kwz7 (Telegraph)

A research team is heading to China in hopes of solving the
mystery of the origins of the 'three hares' motif:

http://tinyurl.com/3fky8 (Telegraph)
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ON THE WEB
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Coin Archives features coins which have come up for auction:

http://www.coinarchives.com/

Megalithics (mentioned on the Britarch list):

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/megalithics/index.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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Even at a major site like Mycenae, stuff goes on:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=44382

Some nutbar with a hammer was going around Venice smashing bits
of Renaissance statuary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/30/arts/30ARTS.html

... and he's been caught (scroll down a bit):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/international/02brie.html

An antiquities dealer had to face the music this week:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11710

A pile of plundered Byzantine objects are being returned to
Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/2pcmz (The Australian)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward, *History Lessons: How Textbooks
From Around the World Portray U.S. History.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/books/review/04SWIFTL.html

Ezra Pound, *Poems and Translations*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/poetry/0,6121,1252833,00.html

Barry Strauss, *The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that
Saved Greece and Western Civilization*:

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/9073596.htm

Brian Fagan, *The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilisation*:

http://tinyurl.com/2ud5t (Guardian)
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PERFORMANCES
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Electricidad:

http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/jul04/240936.asp

Oedipus Rex:

http://tinyurl.com/2ofjj (Kathimerini)
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EXHIBITIONS
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Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court:

http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/luxuryLuminosity.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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On why Greek and Latin are irrelevant:

http://tinyurl.com/2xtxg (The Australian)

Folks might also be interested in what was said in the House of
Lords in regards to 'minority subjects' (i.e. Latin and Greek):

http://tinyurl.com/37e5z (Hansard)

Age of Bronze: Sacrifice:

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/news/10888069983482.htm

Wanna help pay for the Woodchester pavement?

http://tinyurl.com/3hzub (This is Gloucestershire)

A nice series of letters in response to the suggestion that
Alexander the Great died because of West Nile Virus:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no7/04-0039_104_396_320.htm

Hopefully these BBC Olympics ads will make it to the web somewhere:

http://tinyurl.com/yvxwf

Speaking of the Olympics, here's a bit of an update of matters
relating to restorations etc.:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5317382/

... and a piece on the 'ignobility' of the ancient Olympics:

http://www.iht.com/articles/526958.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-6-2004_pg2_10

What to do with a Classics degree:

http://tinyurl.com/27jul (NYT)

Why majority rule is avoided:

http://espacestemps.revues.org/article.php3?id_article=268

On the evolution of the tale of Boudicca:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1250467,00.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2xj4m

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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Fresco in Valencia:

http://tinyurl.com/ytz2t (CNN)

Bactrian Gold:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4857341.html

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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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