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Mark Sugars, John Hall, John Hill, Bob Heuman, king123, Hernan
Astudillo, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
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Paul Glynn, George Pesely, Richard C. Griffiths, Sally Winchester,
Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
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editor's note: this is the giant catch-up/no mowing of lawns
today issue! All of the links should still be alive, but since I
started on this one a bit earlier than I usually do, some may
have expired. There might also be some duplication of items from
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Creswell Crags might have the first 'nude' in British art (I don't
see it):

http://tinyurl.com/3pfu7 (Telegraph)

Sligo is apparently the oldest megalithic site in Europe:

http://www.westernpeople.ie/news/story.asp?j=20778

... while the Rollright stones are to be cleaned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/3527352.stm

A Neolithic "sanctuary" has been found in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=37222

A pair of 4500 b.p. (surely b.c.?) terracottas supposedly refer
to 'the oldest myth of humanity':

http://tinyurl.com/5c33h (ANSA -- in Italian)

A New Kingdom sarcophagus has been found in a Cairo suburb:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5580262/
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/02/1091432117915.html
http://tinyurl.com/6xrzl (Reuters via Yahoo)

The Guardian has a feature on Abydos:

http://tinyurl.com/4t366

An Egyptian vase gathering dust on a shelf in Harrogate Museum
turns out to be older than the pyramids:

http://tinyurl.com/44ksg (Harrogate Today)
http://tinyurl.com/4hd42 (Leeds Today)

A huge statue of Ramses II has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/7ys9r (News 24)

Archaeological evidence of New Kingdom scandals:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3539284.stm

... while pollution is forcing another statue of Ramses II to
be moved:

http://tinyurl.com/5pf3o (Daily Star)

Egypt Today has a sort of roundup piece on recent discoveries:

http://tinyurl.com/6fmfe (scroll down)

A sort of overview piece on artifacts found in the Carmel
Caves (Israel):

http://tinyurl.com/6pnf3 (Jerusalem Post)

Archaeologists are looking for the quarries which supplied
the Jiroft civilization:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jul/1134.html

... while the mines which allowed Pasargadae to built have
been found:

http://netiran.com/?fn=nwt(856,1)
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_3196.shtml

... and they've figured out how architects buttressed Pasargadae:

http://netiran.com/?fn=nwt(747,1)

Meanwhile, German and Iranian archaeologists are excavating the
ancient industrial city of Erisman:

http://netiran.com/?fn=nwt(858,1)

... and a Sassanid era mud-brick bridge has been found:

http://netiran.com/?fn=nwt(801,1)

Ten types of chisels were used to carve Persepolis:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jul/1136.html

Some Achaemenid era tombs have been unearthed in Lebanon:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/aug/1045.html

... while an 'underground city' has been found in Iran as well:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=8/4/2004&;Cat=10&Num=12

The dig at Qumran is (apparently) suggesting that the Essenes
had nothing to do with it:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/458059.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/458273.html

The Washington Post has a good article on that Israeli site
where grain use has been found (I think this is a repeat):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40951-2004Aug4.html

A 3500 b.p. temple has been found in Jordan:

http://tinyurl.com/5taws (Daily Star)

The US Army is helping to restore some antiquities associated
with Nineveh:

http://www4.army.mil/news/article.php?story=6237

A sort of history/touristy thing about Temple Mount:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/455939.html

Evidence of early Jewish settlement at Ein Karem has been
found:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/456215.html

A Crusader era burial has been found at Jaffa:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/460506.html

A pile of late Minoan tombs has been found on Crete:

http://tinyurl.com/6rq3a (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/49epk (The Australian)

A 4000 b.p. terracotta 'toy' head has been found on the island
of Pantelleria:

http://tinyurl.com/5xqoh (ANSA - in Italian)
http://www.strettoindispensabile.it/index.php?id=1569&;category=3

An update (?) on the Persian War Shipwreck Survey:

http://tinyurl.com/4lyfv (The Battalion)

An interview with Jeanine Davis-Kimball:

http://tinyurl.com/5vqqg (Chicago Tribune)

Archaeologists are excavating the remains of a Roman bridge
which once crossed the Tyne:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3905903.stm

A metal detectorist has found a handful of Iceni coins
near Fincham:

http://tinyurl.com/4t89m (Lynn News)

A fourth-century Roman baptismal font has been found in
Lincolnshire (hmmmm):

http://tinyurl.com/5bz7v (Echo)

A touristy thing on Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/9239296.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6vh99 (Arizona Republic)

A bust of a female deity found at Groundwell Ridge (UK)
might be of Isis:

http://tinyurl.com/6k8sa (TIW)

A large Roman tile production site is being excavated in
Belgium:

http://tinyurl.com/5pu57 (in Dutch)

A nice feature on pre-Roman Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/7xf7b (Boston Globe)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04214/354388.stm

... and electoral graffiti at Pompeii is going to be
"refurbished":

http://tinyurl.com/3mfkc (AGI)

A brief item (in Italian) on the discovery of a 3rd/4th
century Roman commercial vessel off the coast of Sicily:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGNDispacci/20040806/ADN20040806140211.htm

A good article (in English) on those Punic War-era
shipwrecks off Sicily:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1205741,00.html

An Iron Age "nerve centre" has been found in Scotland:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=863592004

Archaeologists are trying to figure out why Iron Age Scots
abandoned a hilltop fort:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/20667.html

Chinese archaeologists have found what they believe to be
the world's oldest earrings:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/26/1090693898741.html

An eighth century Islamic necropolis has been discovered north
of Lisbon:

http://tinyurl.com/5dcdt (AFP via Yahoo)

Searching for the wreck of the Meermin off the coast of
Madagascar:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0729/p13s02-stgn.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408020614.html

Some 'mystery bodies' have been found in the tomb of the
Medicis:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040719/medici.html

Russian archaeologists are embarking on a search for the 'Kyrgyz
Atlantis':

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040721-025050-5689r.htm
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THE AMERICAS
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Flakes from a toolmaking site have been found in Granite Falls
(Washington):

http://tinyurl.com/5j844 (AP via Yahoo)

An ancient brewery has been found in Peru:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5562690/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-07/fm-abd072704.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3942507.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6g5ev (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/6bpl9 (AP via Yahoo)
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040801/D846AMCG0.html

Assorted remains keep turning up at Marineland (in Florida):

http://www.staugustine.com/stories/072404/new_2465164.shtml
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5486541/

A touristy sort of thing on Nine Mile Canyon (Utah):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5538383/

Assorted excavations in Maine:

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/040801digging.shtml

A Spanish fort is being excavated in North Carolina:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1488717p-7640935c.html

A pair of mysterious ditches might define Chief Powhatan's village:

http://tinyurl.com/5s5ek (Daily News)

A 'Fort Ancient Indian' site has been found in Kentucky:

http://tinyurl.com/5x7uu (Courier Journal)
http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/3591876/detail.html

A power parachute is among the technology being used to examine
the Winterville Mounds:

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/9337993.htm

Kennewick Man ... it just won't end:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3909421.stm

A 'treasure hunter' is searching for the Griffin:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul04/246655.asp

A 16th century Basque galleon has been found off the
coast of Newfoundland:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/08/04/568806.html

Also in Newfoundland ... the oldest (maybe) coin ever struck
for use in 'Canada':

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/08/03/oldcoin040803.html

A 17th century cemetery has been found during construction in
Trois Rivieres:

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/07/26/remains_found040726

A possible Mississippian site in Indiana:

http://tinyurl.com/645j6 (Courier Journal)

Excavating Fisk Fields (Penn.):

http://tinyurl.com/3u7ck (Express Times)

Restoring/rediscovering a cemetery in L.A.:

http://tinyurl.com/5cms5 (LA Times)

Walmarts and archaeological remains seem to go hand in hand (this
time in Honolulu ... not really 'The Americas' ...):

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/sports/9231096.htm
http://starbulletin.com/2004/07/26/news/story2.html
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Jul/29/ln/ln07a.html
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Jul/24/ln/ln03a.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, dingoes have been traced to a small group of
dogs which were probably brought as pets from South Asia:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5582395/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3529010.stm

Also on the DNA front, it's possible that dna might be used to
determine skin colour of ancient remains:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040719/skincolor.html

Still on the DNA front, DNA evidence suggests that ritual human
sacrifice was not as 'common' in Bronze Age Europe as previously
thought (not sure I follow the logic of this one ... I guess they
haven't heard of Iphigenia):

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1158845.htm

National Geographic has a piece on the origins of wine:

http://tinyurl.com/48xtn
see also: http://tinyurl.com/3m834 (American Scientist)

A piece on the British School of Archaeology in Iraq:

http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=62754

An OpEd piece on the D.A.R. (and more):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/31/opinion/31barboza.html

Boudicca continues to get attention:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3539652.stm
http://www.sundayherald.com/43547

Chaucer's scribe has been identified:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1265005,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5469048/

Homing pigeons may have followed roads since Roman times:

http://tinyurl.com/4uykh (Telegraph)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2004/07/26/pigeons040726.html

Napoleon's doctors are the latest to be blamed for his death (dang
... there goes one of my undergraduate papers!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3913213.stm
http://www.iht.com/articles/531480.htm
http://tinyurl.com/58sl2 (IOL)

Following the spread of Buddhism through Asia:

http://www.iht.com/articles/531974.htm

Interesting piece on Henry the Navigator:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040816/misc/16ender.htm

The UK is re-examining its policy on the repatriation of human
remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3930697.stm

The Elgin/Parthenon Marbles are getting more coverage as the
Olympics approach:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2712766
http://tinyurl.com/5kdmc (Guardian)
http://www.iht.com/articles/532540.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/530021.htm

Assorted repatriation issues (mostly Aboriginal, but also including
some Elgin Marbles):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3927833.stm
http://tinyurl.com/56oar (Manila Times)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/01/1091298572344.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/28/1090694027138.html

Developers threaten some of the UAE's earliest mosques:

http://tinyurl.com/6xed7 (Reuters via Yahoo)

Another dam project is threatening sites in China:

http://tinyurl.com/3laq4 (AFP via Yahoo)

A different dam project threatens the site of Pasargadae:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jul/1185.html

Sand is threatening the ancient silk route city of Heicheng:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200407/31/eng20040731_151460.html

A movie about Gilgamesh is supposedly in production now:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404985/

Assorted items of interest from various 'Arts Briefs' in the
New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/arts/21arts.html

A touristy thing on Rosslyn Chapel:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/mem/travel/article-page.html

A history of humans and how they made light:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0720/p18s02-hfks.html

Proving the Red Sea miracle:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2004/004/9.11.html

There's a job opening for a court jester (apparently filled
as of this a.m.):

http://tinyurl.com/4y62r (Reuters via Yahoo)

Celebrating Sir Richard Owen:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3909889.stm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Electronic Antiquity 8.1 (July 2004):

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V8N1/

Transoxiana 8 (June 2004 ... I think I missed this one):

http://transoxiana.org/ (full text)

Bible Review (August 2004):

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

Archaeology Odyssey (September/October 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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ON THE WEB
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Library of Congress Exhibits (ca 50 of them!):

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/

Ceremonial Secretariat (UK Honours):

http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/ceremonial/

Earliest Photo of Lincoln:

http://www.lincolnportrait.com/

A Common American Soldier (article from Colonial Williamsburg
site):

http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/autumn04/soldier.cfm

Archaeoptics:

http://www.archaeoptics.co.uk/

Brian Britt, "The Moses Myth, Beyond Biblical History":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Britt-Moses_Myth.htm
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The trial of a scholar accused of smuggling antiquities out of
Iraq is getting quite a bit of press:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/02/nyregion/02smuggle.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/nyregion/03trial.html
http://tinyurl.com/3l4dv (AP via NYT)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/nyregion/04trial.html (guilty)
http://tinyurl.com/4dop6 (al Jazeera)

A trio of smugglers from Guatemala have been imprisoned:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11735
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/arts/04arts.1.html (scroll)

US Customs seized a pile of 4000 b.p. artifacts being improperly
imported from the Dominican:

http://tinyurl.com/49tr3 (Reuters via Yahoo)

The Jerusalem Post has a lengthy article on antiquities theft
and thieves:

http://tinyurl.com/3jlhc

Two thieves have been sentenced for their theft of some Van Goghs:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Van-Gogh-Theft.html

Not sure whether we ever mentioned Minerva Magazine's list of
things missing from Iraq (with photos) ... a good chunk of these
things have been recovered, near as I can tell:

http://tinyurl.com/5qjnv

Vandals are doing damage to assorted monuments in Rome:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=846212004

Assorted states are offering an amnesty to antiquities thieves:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3817995 (audio)

Four monks have been arrested for stealing artifacts from a
chapel on Lesvos:

http://tinyurl.com/57hlm (Kathimerini)

Meanwhile, an MEP is hiding behind diplomatic immunity to avoid
prosecution for antiquities theft:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=15395&;cat_id=1

Looting in Cambodia continues to get press coverage:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/07/30/2003181014
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Sent from Dave Welsh, owner of the Unidroit-l list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unidroit-L/

COIN COLLECTOR'S ADVOCACY GROUP FORMED

Collectors of ancient coins, noting the recent proliferation of cultural
property legislation whose hastily drafted and poorly thought out provisions
could (probably unintentionally) cause very serious problems for coin
collectors, have founded the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild. The goal of this
guild is to foster an environment in which the general public can continue
to confidently and legally acquire and hold, for personal or professional
use, any numismatic item of historical interest regardless of date or place
of origin.

Some objectives of the ACCG are:

* To lobby effectively against the imposition of import restrictions on
coins of any age or place.

* To seek, in the event of adverse legislative action, a federal court
ruling affirming the right of individuals to collect objects from the past.

* To fight for the continued existence in the U.S. of a free market for all
collector coins.

* To bolster legitimacy of the ancient coin market through establishment of
a national dealer code of ethics.

The ACCG website address is http://accg.us/.

There has been a huge response to the announcement of this new advocacy
group's formation, and membership of the ACCG is rapidly growing as coin
collectors, alarmed about efforts to portray collecting of antiquities as
immoral and unethical, flock to join.
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Jack Turner, *Spice: A History of Temptation*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0803/p15s02-bogn.html?s=hns

Patrick E. McGovern, *Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins
of Viniculture*:

http://tinyurl.com/6p9ox (American Scientist)

Francine Segan, *The Philosopher's Kitchen: Recipes From Ancient
Greece and Rome for the Modern Cook*:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/style/fooddrink/homeplate/s_205556.html

Paul Cartledge, *Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1273515,00.html

Erica Jong, *Sappho's Leap*:

http://tinyurl.com/558e8 (Telegraph)

Ian and Jenifer Glynn, *Life and Death of Smallpox*:

http://tinyurl.com/5upvd (Telegraph)
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PERFORMANCES
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Antigone:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/theater/reviews/30CREO.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0431/ng.php

Frogs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/theater/reviews/23FROG.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7651-2004Jul22.html
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040726-074528-4487r
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,673536,00.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0430/feingold.php

Beowulf:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/06/1091732078337.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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This week, a geographer has located Atlantis in Ireland:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5623857/
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/07/1091732142347.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3304675
http://tinyurl.com/4up49 (Reuters)
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Bishop Jades:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/06/arts/design/06COTT.html

The Enemy Within: Terror in America:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/arts/design/05SPY.html
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OLYMPICS-RELATED
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Assorted archaeological finds summary type things:

http://tinyurl.com/45hvf (The Star)

General history stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/4u7mh (Telegraph ... excellent)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5570112/site/newsweek/
http://tinyurl.com/7ycaa (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/52kuf (IC Berkshire)
http://tinyurl.com/46qaq (CTV)
http://www.sundayherald.com/43700
http://tinyurl.com/6bx8f (Ithaca Journal)
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/sports/9231096.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/530579.htm (on Olympia)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/20469.html

Scandals and cheating at the Ancient Olympics:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5467740/
http://tinyurl.com/48rkd (Boston Globe)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/living/travel/9265227.htm

Nero at the Olympics:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/21459.html

Ancient Olympics in Art (all different):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/arts/design/23GLUE.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/arts/design/08UNGE.html
http://tinyurl.com/536o2 (Boston Globe)

The Olympic Truce (ancient and modern):

http://sport.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=907822004
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=OLY-TRUCE-08-05-04&;cat=AN
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/9261866.htm

A couple of books on the Ancient Olympics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/books/08KNOXDIX.html
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040808wof2.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6nphy (Guardian)

All that stuff at Nemea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3941541.stm
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/08/04_zeus.shtml
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3505009

Marathon related (cf. redating issues below):

http://tinyurl.com/5ynrg (Globe and Mail)
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/sports/9279873.htm

Pindar redux?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1277473,00.html

Interesting flame-related items:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=468852
http://www.sportsfeatures.com/PressPoint/show.php?id=11524
http://www.sportsfeatures.com/PressPoint/show.php?id=11268

Touristy:

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/living/travel/9324040.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Astronomers have added some credence to the ancient version of
the Marathon tale (mostly in terms of the date):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5462299
http://tinyurl.com/468f7 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996175
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1306_1.asp
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14668
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,672523,00.html
http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/articles/2004/07/20/news/news3.txt
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040719/full/040719-1.html

cf.: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/zoomify/main.html
(photo of the route?)

The 'what killed Alexander the Great' thing is in the news again:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040802/alexander.html
http://tinyurl.com/4qd8l (Newsday)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/9239296.htm
http://tinyurl.com/63xvw (Daily Star)
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=33952

... and news about the 'Young Alexander' movie:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jun/1060.html

Oliver Stone has been trying to put his Alexander flick together
for quite a while:

http://tinyurl.com/3hu5h (Hollywood Reporter)

There's a Hercules flick in the works:

http://tinyurl.com/5jrsp (Hollywood Reporter)

Now we hear about the breed of Darius' horse:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1273977,00.html

NPR spent some time considering the excavations in the Athenian
Agora:

http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2004/jul/agora/

On the Cambridge Latin E-Course:

http://tinyurl.com/3pedh (Telegraph)

The 'examination' controversy in the UK continues:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3926731.stm

Latin is alive and well in Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/68ggq (Reuters)

What we can learn from ancient Greek medicine:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5592045/

On Fraenkel's seminars:

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i46/46b01601.htm

Nice article on the Classical Pursuits programme at the U of T:

http://tinyurl.com/6962h (Globe and Mail)

On the origins of the Michelin Man:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040803/detu034_29.html

Interesting outreach program from the Cincinnati Art Museum:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/07/28/loc_loc3b.html

An interview with Thomas Cahill and Barry Strauss on why the
Greeks matter:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3810405 (Audio)

Aristophanes continues to cause controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/6e3op (Kathimerini)

On the Classical origins of the red carpet treatment:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64980-2004Jul20.html

On translating Harry Potter into Greek:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/greek_harry_potter/

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/4m2by

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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Martin Weaver (Historical Preservationist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/31/obituaries/31weaver.html

Bastiaan Van Elderen ('Biblical' Archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/5sgnw (Grand Rapids Press)

Michael Comber (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/3utvb (Telegraph)
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REPEATS
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Donner Party:

http://tinyurl.com/55c6c (National Geographic)
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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

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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