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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The oldest clay 'kilns' (dating 34000-24000 b.p.) hitherto found
have been uncovered in Greece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3757198.stm

A Mesolithic site from Aberdeenshire:

http://tinyurl.com/4w3wb (Press)

Neolithic burials have been found near the site of Olympia:

http://tinyurl.com/4sjvx (Seattle PI)

A somewhat vague item from the Egyptian State Information
service on the discovery of what seem to be petroglyphs from
various periods in the Eastern desert:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o201024h.htm

Digging has resumed at the Bahariya Oasis:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o211024g.htm

More from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=40588
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3945023.stm

The site of the Archaic Panionion have been found:

http://www.zeit.de/2004/44/Panionien (in German)

An unlooted Sarmatian burial from Russia:

http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=14483

Vague item on a fisherman's discovery of a 2400 b.p.
Greek statue:

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2449344
http://tinyurl.com/4bvqa (Kathimerini ... photo)

New theory/evidence that the Romans weren't prevent from
advancing into Scotland by an 'impenetrable forest':

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1213412004

A sort of 'what-did-all-the-foreign-schools-in-Greece find
this year' piece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=48426

An update on the excavation of a  Fifth Century (or so)
synagogue in Albania:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-10/huoj-hu101904.php
http://tinyurl.com/5p7mn (JPost)

3 000 b.p. tombs from China:

http://tinyurl.com/4y87u (Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6wjbe (People's Daily)
http://tinyurl.com/5r9zn (AFP via Yahoo)

Will the 'Viking Pompeii' be fully excavated?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/viking.html

A 14th century cemetery has been found in Croatia:

http://tinyurl.com/53j7g (IOL)

Lots of attention being given to the discovery of a lavatory
possibly used by Martin Luther:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3944549.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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5,000 b.p. artifacts from the Rio Grande:

http://tinyurl.com/5luqx (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/4zmnf
http://tinyurl.com/4n4d6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20041018/D85PVNE80.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2853418

A slave cemetery has been found on a Virginia Tech farm:

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2440696

A possible Pequot burial ground in New Hampshire:

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=2462762

Receding Lake Mead is revealing assorted sites of interest:

http://tinyurl.com/6j898 (Orlando Sentinel)

Potentially interesting twist in the Teotihuacan v. Walmart
potential saga:

http://tinyurl.com/4jh28 (CNN)

cf: Mexico's track record in regards to preservation:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6310327/

Archaeologists have recovered the bones of B.C.'s 'iceman':

http://tinyurl.com/4jgya (Vancouver Sun)

They're still trying to figure out what to do with the Native
American burial sites uncovered by hurricanes on Hutchinson
Island:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6290072/

... while we hear more about things uncovered by those same
hurricanes:

http://tinyurl.com/59gqq (ctnow)

Strange property dispute involving historic homes in Charleston:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/realestate/22DRIV.html
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So ... was Scotland as historically significant as England?:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/26193.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1209792004

I don't think this made it into last week's issue ... there is
evidence/a theory about a comet hitting the earth in Southern
Germany ca. 205 or so B.C.:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3636946

Lake Constance in Germany is apparently the 'home' to a pile of
shipwrecks from various periods (hmmmm ... I wonder if this is
somehow connected to the recent hype about Ballard's stuff):

http://tinyurl.com/5k3k2 (IOL)

A 'new' El Greco has been discovered in Spain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3762514.stm

Zahi Hawass gives 'his side' of the hidden-chamber-in-Cheops
story (interesting):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/hr2.htm

Al-Ahram also has a piece on the 'connections' between ancient
Egypt and the "religion of the biblical Hebrews":

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/713/he1.htm

Ethiopian tabots in the British Museum:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=573603

I think we mentioned this one a few months ago, but it's still
interesting ... the Vatican is apparently using high tech means
in its library to keep track of things:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/14/spark.rfid.vatican/index.html

Nice feature on the late Leo Mildenberg and his collection of
antiquities which is up for auction next week:

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1181152004

... check out the highlights of the auction at:

http://www.christies.com/promos/oct04/7017/overview.asp

... and the catalog:

http://tinyurl.com/5gx6n (Christie's)

Nice feature on the Utah Papyri Collection:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595099068,00.html

... and one on the technology behind the dating of the 'Priestly
Benediction' thing mentioned a few weeks ago:

http://www.dailytrojan.com/main.cfm?include=detail&;storyid=770958

Touristy feature on Trier:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1367087,00.html

The directrix of the Getty Museum quit this week (and it made
the news?!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/national/20getty.html

Interesting item on Yale's first Chinese student:

http://www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n4/story2.html

That dispute over the return of several Aboriginal artifacts
in Australia is jeopardizing future loans of items from the
British Museum (and causing the use of very strange words
in headlines):

http://tinyurl.com/5kmdm (the Australian)

From the ironic death department comes news that the guy who
discovered Otzi's body has himself died while hiking in the Alps:

http://tinyurl.com/4zmnf (IOL)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3753580.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6g5nw (AFP via Yahoo)

Real Pro Wrestling is claiming ancient roots:

http://tinyurl.com/4p63c (Miami Herald)

NPR had an interesting feature on Mt. Vesuvius' 'current state':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4123769

Is the Taj Mahal tilting?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3759938.stm

Beowulf movie site:

http://www.beowulfandgrendel.com/
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 57.6 (November/December 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/0411/index.html
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ON THE WEB
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Yaron Ben-Ami, "The Enigma of Qumran":

http://tinyurl.com/64pjs (Bible and Interpretation)
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Tacitus' Annals (Gordon translation):

http://tinyurl.com/52rpn
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CRIME BEAT
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A recovered Titian was apparently in Cyprus for a while:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=16485&;archive=1

Iran recovered a Jiroft artifact this week, just before it was
to go on sale:

http://tinyurl.com/5y2fr (Reuters)

A cave looter from Oregon has made things even worse for himself:

http://tinyurl.com/59ypa (AP via Yahoo)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Steven Saylor, *Judgement of Caesar*:

http://tinyurl.com/675jd (about.com)

Gertrude Himmelfarb, *The Roads to Modernity: The British,
French, and American Enlightenments*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/books/review/24MCLEMEE.html

Paul Cartledge, *Alexander the Great*:

http://tinyurl.com/62vdu (Seattle Times)

Joel M. Hoffman, *In the Beginning: A Short History of the
Hebrew Language*:

http://tinyurl.com/6fnmg (JPost)

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PERFORMANCES
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Temptation of St. Anthony:

http://tinyurl.com/6l2f6 (NYT)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/arts/music/20reag.html

Gospel at Colonus:

http://tinyurl.com/62rlq (NYT)

Bacchae (not Euripides):

http://tinyurl.com/5f6ss

Medea:

http://tinyurl.com/4htck (Sun-Sentinel)
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EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM NEWS
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Rubin Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/arts/design/20rubi.html

Agnelli Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/arts/design/22anti.html

Bob the Roman: Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of
Robert Adam:

http://tinyurl.com/4vmg9 (NYT ... scroll down)

Bode Museum ancient coins on disply:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/arts/23arts.html (scroll down)

Gilbert Stuart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/arts/design/22glue.html

Cranach's 'Judgement of Paris' is going to the Kimball:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/arts/design/22voge.html

Pharaoh:

http://tinyurl.com/4yycx (Daily Star)

Men and Gods in the Rome of the Caesars:

http://tinyurl.com/6fy3p
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Greek is potentially threatened in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3764856.stm

An update on HBO's 'Rome' miniseries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/arts/television/21rome.html

Colin Farrell on playing Alexander (gag!):

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041018/nym197_1.html

Arma virumque gets attention in a South African legal case:

http://tinyurl.com/45bl9 (IOL)

On the popularity of Greek tragedies today:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0442/mcnulty.php

On Harry Potter in Greek:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110005786

Alden Smith is a master teacher:

http://business.baylor.edu/news/details.aspx?articleID=433

Coverage of the Ludi Octobres:

http://tinyurl.com/6y47w (Contra Costa Times)

Piles of people are paying to hear the Iliad in Rome:

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3208,36-383663,0.html
(in French)

New Ancient Studies Initiative at Brown:

http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=2440255&;nav=F2DOS508

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/4vzo5

Dot Wordsworth is also worth reading:

http://tinyurl.com/5kete

Tom Palaima in the Sacramento Bee:

http://tinyurl.com/3w6ho

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OBITUARIES
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Anthony Hecht:

http://tinyurl.com/3pbsf (Washington Post)
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REPEATS
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Ballard:

http://tinyurl.com/6w822 (Washington Times)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2862065
http://tinyurl.com/4o3sn (Daily Times)

Genghis Khan's Tomb/Palace:

http://tinyurl.com/6ej29

Roman Finds at Carlisle:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=145603
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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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