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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Al-Ahram has a feature on recent finds at Karnak:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/698/hr1.htm

The Rosetta Stone has been given a new display:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=537959

A number of significant Bronze Age artifacts have been found on
Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=15053&;archive=1

A section of a Roman road which once connected 'London' to
'Essex' has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/34aqk (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/2pflx (WF Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/3h326 (Evening Standard)

The Time Team folks have found a Roman-era burial:

http://tinyurl.com/3glxn (Sheffield Today)

A pre-Roman/Samnite temple has been found at Pompeii:

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

Burials of some 1900 b.p. Europeans have been found in
China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/06/content_1576929.htm

Items found during construction for the Olympics are on display
in 'outdoor museums':

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/9118904.htm

I'm not sure whether we've mentioned the damage suffered by
Masada due to rain recently (awk):

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3154027 (audio)
http://tinyurl.com/39xxj (Israel Insider)

Indian archaeologists have found the names of a number of the
workers who built the Taj Mahal:

http://tinyurl.com/3a8cu (Taj Mahal)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2004/07/06/527091-ap.html

Who first circumnavigated the globe? Wrong:

http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/08/content_1583224.htm
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THE AMERICAS
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A Spanish fort is being excavated in North Carolina:

http://www.wp.cc.nc.us/News/nws_dig_prs.htm

cf.: http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/moore/
and: http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~arch/Moorepaper.html

A group is searching for remains of a couple of members of Custer's
group:

http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~23248~2263421,00.html

A native American site has been found on the Roanoke River:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/7526.html

Fire threatens sacred sites on Arizona's Mount Graham:

http://tinyurl.com/3haje (Casper Star-Tribune)

What lies beneath Washington D.C.:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34229-2004Jul7.html

It looks like a salvage company is about to search for the
'Terra Firma Fleet of 1691':

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5385883/
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On the DNA front, there's a search on for descendents of Genghis
Khan ... and a free meal is thrown in too:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5379014/

Tracing the development of human longevity in the fossil
record:

http://tinyurl.com/325ba (SciAm)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5378189/
http://tinyurl.com/3ejah (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,43645778,1438,f/

Were Neanderthals responsible for some Aurignacian period art?:

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040705/full/040705-4.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35315-2004Jul7.html

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/698/hr2.htm

The Medicis' 'secret crypt' has been discovered:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1256459,00.html

A Vermeer -- once of questionable authenticity -- brought in
$30 million at auction this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/arts/design/08VERM.html
http://tinyurl.com/2tbh4 (Reuters via Yahoo)

XRays have revealed the earliest known painting of Antarctica:

http://tinyurl.com/2v5n2 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040705/painting.html

The New York Times has an interesting feature on folks who
collect historical autographs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/national/04button.html

The pope is returning an icon to Russia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3883627.stm

Interesting item on 'cultural diplomacy' with Iran:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11718

Martin Frobisher's ill-fated expedition to Canada's north
appears to have been involved in some sort of pre-Bre-x gold scam:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040706080233.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-07/nsae-ayf070504.php

Reviews of 'King Arthur':

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/9108138.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/08/1089000284079.html
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3200015 (audio)
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/9095059.htm

Edinburgh University is pondering whether to return some 'looted'
manuscripts to Ethiopia:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/19441.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New Zealand Archaeology e-News:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

AIAC News (in Italian):

http://www.aiac.org/Aiac_News/index.html

Minerva (July/August 2004):

http://minervamagazine.com/index.php (some online content if
you scroll down)
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ON THE WEB
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Demotikos (Roman Egypt page ... in Spanish and Latin):

http://demotikos.com.ar/
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CRIME BEAT
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Vandals hit the Glen Carbon dig site this past week:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12197851

... while there are fears that the 'pristine' Book Cliffs site
may have already been looted:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595075025,00.html

This item from National Geographic is about the 'Red List' of
items missing from Iraq [I'm not sure about the date of this
one]:

http://tinyurl.com/39zr6

A truck full of Yemeni antiquities was seized in Oman this week:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=720&;p=local&a=10

Scotland Yard recovered a stolen 11th century medical book (among
other things) from an auction house:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3170326
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1255679,00.html

Angkor Wat has been removed from UNESCO's 'endangered' list:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3866683.stm

On efforts to curb looting of sites in Guatemala:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3178033 (audio)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Matt Goldish, *The Sabatean Prophets*:

http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=nadler200407071105

Myno Ben-Guigui Yeger, *I Am Shalom Bat Shmuel* (historical
fiction set at/during Masada):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/446405.html

Dan O'Neill, *The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the
Bering Land Bridge*:

http://tinyurl.com/yv3uu (Anchorage Press)

David Young, *A Brief History of the Olympics*:

http://tinyurl.com/23da3 (AScribe)

Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, *The Rule of Four* (fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/2s6tu (The Australian)

Roy Strong, *Feast: A Grand History of Eating*:

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

Mary Beard reviews a pile of books on the history of the Olympics:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2107790
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PERFORMANCES
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Iphigenia at Aulis:

http://www.iht.com/articles/528181.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrukh (New York Times)

Hippolytus:

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

Ziggurat!:

http://tinyurl.com/2oepu (Globe and Mail)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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As usual, Pravda takes a perfectly reasonable artifact (in this
case, that 3d mummy thing at the British Museum) and puts an
anachronistic spin on it:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/13345_mummy.html

cf: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/19441.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Leonardiano Museum has made models out of many of daVinci's
drawings:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5371900/

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/161284-1528-047.html

Eternal Egypt (now in Victoria):

http://tinyurl.com/357tj (Vancouver Sun)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34229-2004Jul7.html

Treasures from Tuscany: The Etruscan Legacy:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=788422004
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Recreating the naked Olympics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3860261.stm

This week's 'history of the Olympics' pieces:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04188/342215.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39935-2004Jul9.html

Apparently, the opening ceremonies of the Olympics are designed
to assert the primacy of the Olympian deities (over Roman):

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=50481

Olympic Soccer preliminaries (I think we've mentioned this
before):

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-OLY-Argonaut-Athletes.html

What Kathimerini thinks about the EU decision not to include a
quotation from Thucydides in the preamble:

http://tinyurl.com/2ku65

Ten famous Greeks:

http://sport.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3164232

Here's some more photos of the Apollo Sauroktonos recently-
acquired by the CMA:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cbustapeck/17910.html

Umberto Eco's column in l'Espresso recently looked to Cicero's
electioneering advice to his brother as inspiration for advice
to Berlusconi:

http://tinyurl.com/yvf79 (in Italian)

In case you missed it, a draft of the Troy script has made its
way to dailyscript.com:

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/troy_by_david_benioff.pdf

Pompeii: The Last Day looks interesting:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/07/1089000210989.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/05/1089000074989.html

Toronto's loss is Harvard's gain:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=502996

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/yw8z4

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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Robert Burchfield (Lexicographer):

http://tinyurl.com/22tux (Spectator)

Reuben Bullard (archaeological geologist/Christian scholar):

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/07/07/loc_loc5a.html
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REPEATS
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Book Cliffs site in Utah:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595075033,00.html

Searching for Roman-era Pirates:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5365986/
http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/story/0,4567,121776,00.html
http://www.thewpbfchannel.com/news/3496698/detail.html
http://www.wesh.com/news/3496698/detail.html

Ming Dynasty Artifacts from Malaysia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3864517.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3161748
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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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