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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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There appears to be great interest in animal mummies this week:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6010687/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3658334.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6fjwc (NG)
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040913/full/040913-17.html

Ramesses II apparently had a degenerative form of arthritis:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040913/ramesses.html

Nice coverage of the Australian excavation of the tomb of
Mereruka:

http://tinyurl.com/66xkk (news.com)

Al-Ahram has a piece on 'the world's oldest dam':

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/708/he1.htm

An update of sorts on excavation of the Jiroft civilization:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/sep/1133.html

Military activity in Iraq is apparently threatening the site of
Hatra:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10257

... and elsewhere:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/12/1094927432173.html

... while 'unrest' in the Middle East is definitely having an
impact on archaeological research:

http://tinyurl.com/4pkq9 (Baptist Standard)

A large Roman coin hoard has been found in Surrey:

http://tinyurl.com/6zqnb (IC Surrey)

Discovery of Roman legion remains (!) in Israel has halted
underpass construction:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476556.html

A missing chunk of Hadrian's wall has been found in some
grandmother's garden:

http://tinyurl.com/4axgm (IC Newcastle)

Fire has damaged part of the ancient site of Perge:

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=26959

A followup piece to that discovery of a gold mask in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=39360

The search for the Persian armada apparently came up empty
this year, but research will continue:

http://tinyurl.com/4a48q (Kathimerini)

The Cleveland Museum of Art's Apollo (and its origins) is
generating a pile of controversy:

http://www.woio.com/Global/story.asp?S=1963717
http://tinyurl.com/4klpe (Plain Dealer)
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2289896

A 1500 b.p. Christian burial ground has been found in Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/23860.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3652824.stm

Archaeologists in China have found a 3000 b.p. pot depicting
horse pasturing:

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040912-050903-2786r.htm

I'm not sure I understand why this is taking so long, but there
is apparently some delay in deciding how best to deal with
construction which will run through a Viking site in the UK:

http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=15648

A man out walking his dog found a coin belonging to some Mercian
king named Coenwulf (I think we mentioned this story previously):

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6204583
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3590904

Amateur archaeologists will be given the opportunity to help
excavate a windmill site in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3663572.stm

What did the Time Team folks find in Stamford?:

http://tinyurl.com/3w2ey
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THE AMERICAS
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Excavating the Chachapoya civilization in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/493dn (NG)

An update on what they've found recently in Range Creek Canyon
(Utah):

http://tinyurl.com/5woov (Rocky Mountain News)

They're still excavating at Little Big Horn:

http://tinyurl.com/3se25 (Billings Gazette)

A nice piece on the Weatherman Draw site (Montana):

http://tinyurl.com/4hwq5 (Billings Gazette)

Was cannibal Albert Packer guilty of murder?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6022228/

A cement company 'stumbled upon' a cemetery on its property
(in Alabama somewhere, I assume):

http://tinyurl.com/4daj6 (Daily Home)

A sort of touristy/historicy thing on Rogers Rangers:

http://tinyurl.com/3q4ro (Times Argus)

The World Bank is lending Peru money to help protect Machu
Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/4hkml (Yahoo)

More on Walmart and Teotihuacan:

http://tinyurl.com/5xa9s (CNN)
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There are plans afoot to create an Iron Age tourist camp in the
UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/3649052.stm

The Stonehenge visitor's centre plans have been unveiled:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/3658024.stm

Human obsession with material goods goes back to "stone age"
times (this is the way the Sun covered the story):

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004430995,00.html

... here's the original bit from Ananova:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1104798.html

Interesting item on Alexander Thom and the 'megalithic yard':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1254567,00.html

A major article on the British Museum's plans to lend the
Cyrus Cylinder to Iran:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11767

Did Rembrandt's 'walleyedism' contribute to his genius?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/arts/design/16remb.html
cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/18/opinion/l18rembrandt.html

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1198105.htm

Interesting piece on the evolution of languages:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3662928.stm

Maybe bloodletting wasn't such a bad idea after all:

http://tinyurl.com/6fr3y (Newsday)

A missing piece of Queen Charlotte's throne has been found in
an attic:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/24088.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1087352004

Trying to keep the Macclesfield Psalter in the U.K.:

http://tinyurl.com/64a6q (Chicago Tribune)

Dallas Morning News has an interview with Thomas Cahill:

http://tinyurl.com/3teu8

An interesting item on attempts to find the origins of baseball:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/sports/baseball/12origins.html

Why do humans do the Crane Dance?:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/507031/

A touristy thing on Santorini:

http://tinyurl.com/58fk4 (Chicago Tribune)

... and one on Cairo:

http://tinyurl.com/5v8sc (Lacrosse Tribune)

Time Magazine has a feature on Temple Mount:

http://tinyurl.com/5wdfj

How Shakespeare became Shakespeare (maybe):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/magazine/12SHAKESPEARE.html

... while the British Library is making some of the earliest
quartos of Shakespeare online (possibly a repeat item):

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3919703 (audio)
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html (site)

On the cholera epidemic in London 150 years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3632856.stm

A preview of forthcoming Asian art sales at various auction
houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/17/arts/design/17ANTI.html

The Museum of Fakes:

http://www.newsitaliapress.it/interna.asp?sez=240&;info=96220

Top ten ancient shrines:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/15/content_1985161.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Kevin Wilson, "The Campaign of Pharaoh Shoshenq I in Palestine":

http://tinyurl.com/6gglp (Bible and Interpretation)
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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A site devoted to the fire at the Anna Amalia library:

http://www.anna-amalia-library.com/en/
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CRIME BEAT
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A man has been charged with vandalizing a petroglyph in Utah:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595091965,00.html

A 'plundering the past' piece focussing on Montana:

http://tinyurl.com/6twop (Billings Gazette)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Joanne Fletcher, *The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an
Amazing Discovery*:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/nefertiti/index.html

Jennifer Wallace, *Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological
Imagination*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20040918-111124-9531r.htm

Stanley Greenspan and Stuart Shanker, *The First Idea: How
Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from our Primate
Ancestors to Modern Humans*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0914/p11s01-bogn.html

Earl Shoriss, *The Life and Times of Mexico*:

http://tinyurl.com/3vkcz (SF Chronicle)

Arthur Phillips, *The Egyptologist* (fiction)

http://tinyurl.com/65zj4 (SF Chronicle)
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PERFORMANCES
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Alcmeon in Corinth:

http://tinyurl.com/6sxzx (IC Teeside)

Antigone:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/theater/cst-ftr-antigone16.html

Cyclops:

http://starbulletin.com/2004/09/17/features/story8.html

Hecuba:

http://tinyurl.com/5rvps (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/5ktjb (Telegraph)

Henry VI:

http://tinyurl.com/468cm (New York Times)

Oedipus Rex:

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=71060

Persians:

http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1549~2397359,00.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Historians have discovered a children's menu on the back of the
constitution:

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4035&;n=2 8^)
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EXHIBITIONS
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In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Art of India, Selections From
the Leon and Cynthia Hazen Polsky Collections and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/17/arts/design/17COTT.html

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/3ucx7 (VOA)

Changing Face (Masks):

http://tinyurl.com/5s6a3 (IC Newcastle)

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya:

http://tinyurl.com/4rq8j (SF Chronicle)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Archaeology Magazine has an interview with Robin Lane Fox about
his role has historical advisor to the impending Alexander
flick:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/fox.html

The EU as the new Roman Empire:

http://tinyurl.com/5rls3 (Telegraph)

Stanley Lombardo was reading Homer this week:

http://www.knox.edu/x8091.xml

On how today's sword and sandal epics differ from their 1950's
counterparts:

http://tinyurl.com/4zb2h (Toronto Star)

David Sedley will be giving the Sather lectures at Berkeley this
time around:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2004/09/16_sather.shtml

Jonathan Shay is off to Washington:

http://tinyurl.com/6chxh (Washington Post)

ClassCon in 'Pearls Before Swine':

http://tinyurl.com/6sqss
http://tinyurl.com/4lsm9

A touristy piece on Perugia makes claims about an Etruscan
inscription that I'd love to have confirmation about:

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=9761

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/6krjc

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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Michael Jameson (Classicist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/arts/16jameson.html
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REPEATS
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Ancient Skeleton from Mexico:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040909_1620.html

Cromwell's Crewman:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3651682.stm

First Americans from Australia?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5927028/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040913090256.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040906/full/040906-5.html

Viking Burial in the UK:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5926726/
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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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