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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A site dating back to 15,000 B.C./B.C.E. has been found in
Morocco:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5772797/

More coverage of the petroglyphs at Creswell Crags:

http://tinyurl.com/53zq4 (NG)

Assorted sites have been found around Tara in anticipation
of highway construction:

http://tinyurl.com/43pz6 (Meath Chronicle)

Shoch and West's redating-the-Sphinx theory looks like it's
making its way back into the popular press:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/

Another robot is going to be sent into the Great Pyramid:

http://english.people.com.cn/200408/12/eng20040812_152630.html

A possible burial site is delaying construction of a hotel
in Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/465039.html

Cyprus is again complaining about Turkish excavations at the
site of Famagusta:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=15663&;archive=1
cf.: http://tinyurl.com/6nxvs (rogueclassicism links)

Shimon Gibson has made another spectacular/controversial
discovery ... a cave which is apparently associated with John
the Baptist (huge coverage of this one):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1217975_1,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-08-16-cave-israel_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3571502.stm
http://tinyurl.com/4borm (New York Times)
http://tinyurl.com/6zxfh (Star)
http://tinyurl.com/5784w (CNS)
http://tinyurl.com/55txh (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.dawn.com/2004/08/17/int9.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5kxdz (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/6yjs2 (CBC)
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/364/13816_baptist.html
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040816/D84GD8U80.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3354083
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=18886
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39990

Forward has a 'biblical archaeology' piece:

http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=hazony20040812151

The tomb of a Thracian king was found this week in Bulgaria and
has some spectacular artifacts:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5772957/
http://tinyurl.com/4jo45 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/67wfs (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4et9x (Toronto Star)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/18/1092765003303.html

The site of Fanagoria on the Black Sea may have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/6n6ky (in Italian)

A hitherto unknown Roman town was found this week in
Gloucestershire:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3358930
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3573548.stm

Where was Boudicca's big battle?:

http://tinyurl.com/6qrvu (IC Coventry)

A Goth settlement has been found in the Ukraine:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=4dcec4ce5fd0ef1b

A Viking burial has been found at an undisclosed site north of
Dublin:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1181842.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3qozh (AFP via Yahoo)
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THE AMERICAS
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A site on the Potomac might date to 14 000 B.C./B.C.E:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5745846/
http://tinyurl.com/3vpys (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6xsd9 (Newsday)

An ancient walled city has been found in the jungles of Peru:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5738905/
http://tinyurl.com/58k9e (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/3s3mw (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4ruut (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/08/17/588046-ap.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040816/perucity.html

Plans are afoot to restore a number of Inca trails:

http://tinyurl.com/6zfhx (NG)

... and to search for a slave ship which sank near the Turks
and Caicos:

http://tinyurl.com/592au (AP via Yahoo)

The New York Times has a nice feature on Rufus Porter (who
painted murals in New England):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/arts/design/20ANTI.html

'Annals' of old Allegheny:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04224/359531.stm

A dig in Virginia City at the site of a store which burned down
140 years ago is finding some interesting stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/6xdbq
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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A new tool to help find and map archaeological sites:

http://newsdesk.inel.gov/press_releases/2004/08-18serawhite.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/040820084157.htm

The debate over whether the Essenes wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls
is heating up:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/465542.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5750610/
http://tinyurl.com/6tdjl (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5ewu7 (CNN)

Semi-related and on the DNA front are plans to test bones found
with the Dead Sea Scrolls to see if they can shed light on who
wrote them (not sure I understand the connection here):

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

What is Coptology?:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/704/he1.htm

The planned tunnel near Stonehenge is still controversial:

http://tinyurl.com/7xyvh (Reuters via Yahoo)

London's Royal Academy of Arts is trying to extricate itself
from a pile of scandals and such:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/18/arts/design/18acad.html

Museum officials in Ireland insist Ireland is not Atlantis:

http://tinyurl.com/4ou8m (Irish Examiner)

cf. Ulf Erlingsson's clarification of what his theory is
actually about: http://tinyurl.com/5qzmh (rogueclassicism)

cf. also: http://tinyurl.com/644ph (NG)

The Cutty Sark is in dire need of restoration:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3573894.stm

Stirling Renaissance Fair was up for auction on Ebay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/nyregion/16festival.html
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=276720

Documentation of the Behistun inscription is nearly complete:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/aug/1149.html

Temple Mount:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=67671
http://tinyurl.com/57htu (Jerusalem Post)

Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/7yjo5 (SF Chronicle)
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OLYMPICS-RELATED
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Reviews of some U.S. exhibitions with an ancient Olympic focus:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/?040823craw_artworld

Features on the site at Olympia:

http://tinyurl.com/42kuw (NYT)

NPR interview with Tony Perrottet (Naked Olympics):

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3863331

Artifacts found during construction of venues:

http://tinyurl.com/47du2 (VOA)

Modern Olympics are closer to the ancient than we think:

http://sport.independent.co.uk/olympics/story.jsp?story=553636
http://tinyurl.com/58puk (Globe and Mail)

Articles on the ancient Olympics:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/133/53.0.html
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/9439204.htm

Literary types at the ancient Olympics:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0433/essay.php

Stephen Miller and Nemea:

http://tinyurl.com/3mbos (ABC)

A 'cynical' view of the Olympics:

http://www.asahi.com/english/vox/TKY200408190157.html

UPenn professor David Romano at the Olympics:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/9450825.htm

The Committee for the Hellenic Religion of the Dodecatheon are
'sitting out' of the Olympics:

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/sports/9453349.htm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 57.5 (September/October 2004)

http://www.archaeology.org/0409/index.html (TOC and abstracts)

ASOR Newsletter (Summer 2004):

http://www.asor.org/pubs/news/54_2.pdf
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ON THE WEB
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Catch up with Archaeology Magazine's 'interactive digs':

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/index.html

Menorah Coin Project:

http://www.menorahcoinproject.org/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Ovid, *Fasti*:

http://www.tonykline.co.uk/Browsepages/Latin/Fastihome.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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A stolen artifact which was discovered at a Christie's auction
was returned to Egypt this week:

http://tinyurl.com/5ugen (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/nyregion/20art.html

Egypt has decided to focus some attention on domestic suppliers
of antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/65n8e (Concord Monitor)

Sudanese officials recovered some artifacts stolen from a
museum last year:

http://www.sudan.net/news/posted/9522.html

That journalist who was kidnapped this week in Iraq was working
on a story about antiquities theft:

http://tinyurl.com/4ghqp (Newsday)

A Chinese curator who stole antiquities has been sentenced to
death:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3575500.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5nlpe (CNN)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1284729,00.html

One fifth of the art in Europe was looted by the Nazis?:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/464046.html

The 'fresco incident' at the Monastery of the Holy Cross:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/467057.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A couple of books about ancient Judaism and ancient Christianity:

http://tinyurl.com/72b5v (Jerusalem Post)

Charles Beye, *Odysseus: A Life*:

http://tinyurl.com/5ctaw (Financial Times)

Simon Goldhill: *Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World
Shapes Our Lives*:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/18/1092765003303.html

Jack Turner, *Spice: History of a Temptation*:

http://tinyurl.com/4of76 (SF Chronicle)
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EXHIBITIONS
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Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travelers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/arts/design/19wome.html

National Museum of the American Indian

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/arts/design/19indi.html

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/18/arts/design/18unde.html

Lucy in Houston:

http://tinyurl.com/6chun (Naples News)

The Age of Titian: Venetian Renaissance Art From Scottish
Collections:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0820/p12s02-alar.html

Roman Trade with India:

http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/08/19/stories/2004081902380200.htm

Edward-Dean Museum:

http://www.edward-deanmuseum.org/index.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Another what-we-owe-the-Greeks piece:

http://tinyurl.com/6e4jd (Lowcountry)

The 'crowning achievement' of the Greeks:

http://www.asahi.com/english/vox/TKY200408210197.html

Elaine Fantham was on NPR's Weekend Edition chatting about
ancient oratory:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3863482

Why Vin Diesel's Hannibal flick must be made:

http://tinyurl.com/5wvaa (Guardian)

Is the Greek of the Gospels vulgar?:

http://tinyurl.com/6aebf (Athens News)

Nice feature on Sounio:

http://tinyurl.com/6pxpw (Athens News)

On the origin of 'solecism':

http://tinyurl.com/5lz66 (Chicago Tribune)

A lengthy piece on the Gaius Verres case (in Italian):

http://www.quaderniradicali.it/agenzia/index.php?op=read&;nid=1302

A feature on 14 Greek divinities (and their Roman counterparts):

http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/living/religion/9432883.htm

Aeolus and the Games:

http://tinyurl.com/3nnta (Guardian)

LEGAMUS Vergil:

http://www.reviewatlas.com/articles/2004/08/17/news/local/news2.txt

The Sun (UK) prayed to Zeus last week to help British athletes
(some potentially offensive stuff here):

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004382445,00.html

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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Harry Currie (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/66pwj (IC Teeside)
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REPEATS
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Megiddo Dig:

http://www.detnews.com/2004/nation/0408/19/a14-246723.htm

Marathon Date:

http://tinyurl.com/4rlhj (LA Times)

What Killed Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/5q3ly (Hartford Courant)

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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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