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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The latest on homo floresiensis:

http://tinyurl.com/4wt4y (New Zealand Herald)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/science/09tiny.html
http://tinyurl.com/5gsz3 (TechNews)

A Russian Stonehenge:

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?msg_id=5081228

A 13th dynasty wooden (!) pharaonic sarcophagus:

http://tinyurl.com/6y4hu (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/3jk79 (Arabic News)

Plans are afoot for another robot to make the jouney up one of
the shafts of the pyramid of Cheops:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o071124g.htm

Also on the 'repeat' front (sort of), Egypt plans to Xray the
mummy of Tut to try and figure out why he died:

http://tinyurl.com/5auvq (SwissInfo)
http://tinyurl.com/6gktv (Al Jazeera)
http://tinyurl.com/55fdw (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/5u2s5 (IOL)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4010303.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1315102004

Tar used during the mummification process is being used to
elucidate ancient trade routes:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2891222

High-res satellite images may help locate tombs in the Valley of
the Kings:

http://tinyurl.com/3v7n6 (USA Today)

Interesting item on the Temple artifacts found by Yadin back
in 1960 (a tie in to a television documentary):

http://tinyurl.com/4fowr (Jerusalem Post)
see also: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/scrolls/

Some major finds from Thebes (the Greek one)(a fair bit of
variation in the coverage of this news):

http://tinyurl.com/488ms (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/6nowh (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/589gw (Kathimerini)

It turns out that controversial burial site at Acre is
Roman:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/499090.html

Bulgaria hopes to 'cash in' on recent finds:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3091438a2180,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3999145.stm

Remains of a major centre of Manicheanism have been found
in Azerbaijan:

http://tinyurl.com/6dgfk (Tehran Times)

Trying to save an Elamite site before it is flooded because
of dam construction:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4425.shtml

A Celtic 'ritual sacrifice' site has been found in Austria
(article in Italian):

http://tinyurl.com/6o7yx (Kataweb)

A survey (or rather, "full assessment") of Traprain Law
(in Scotland) has revealed a number of interesting Neolithic
items:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4005157.stm

Interesting piece on the frozen remains of nomads who died
ca 850 A.D. and how they died:

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

Some sculptures from the Pala period have been found in India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/919031.cms

4000 b.p. skeletal remains from Ha Long:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-11/09/Stories/23.htm

Mac Dynasty remains in Hai Phong:

http://tinyurl.com/4vkon (VNA)

A 13th/14th century settlement has been found on the dry bed of
the Aral Sea:

http://www.inform.kz/txt/showarticle.php?lang=eng&;id=99800

A 14th century Ming dynasty palace was recently found in Nanjing,
but construction workers have destroyed much of it:

http://tinyurl.com/3k9kz (Washington Times)
http://tinyurl.com/4b6jz (AFP via Yahoo)

A Napoleonic shipwreck off Wales?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/3999895.stm

A pile of 18th century medical manuscripts are now available to
the public:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4007407.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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More on those finds from Bolivia:

http://tinyurl.com/4yt22 (Europa)

Some plates to print paper money in Charleston dating from the
War of 1812 have been found (in a safe, not a dig):

http://www.charleston.net/stories/110204/loc_02oldmoney.shtml

A nice feature on mounds in Louisiana:

http://tinyurl.com/6pefa (Times Picayune)

The guys reenacting the journey of Lewis and Clark are taking a
break:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6452975/

The remains of the USS Chickasaw have been found in a bend of
the mighty Mississippi:

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2561017

What Ivan revealed in Alabama:

http://tinyurl.com/3lafl (Register)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Kind of surprising I didn't see more coverage of this one ... a
lost poem of Coleridge has been found:

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

Italy's proposed approach to how to deal with antiquities
discovered by 'amateurs' has many folks worried:

http://tinyurl.com/4lvyd (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/4q56t (SMH)

Interesting piece on the Baluch tombs:

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=70513

Earliest village life can be best identified by garbage:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996646

The Met has paid big bucks for a Duccio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/arts/design/10pain.html

A cartoon about Mohammed's life (!)deals with an obvious problem
in an interesting way:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/movies/13prop.html

Suffolk County is seeking a "Garbology Officer":

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6469556/

Afghanistan is seeking the return of the "Dead Sea Scrolls of
Buddhism" from the British Library:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=582016

African rock art is threatened by the usual things:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3993819.stm

Translating Sumerian while on vacation:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10141317.htm?1c

They're going to move the giant statue of Rameses II in Cairo
to a less urban environment:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o071124h.htm

"The Classics in the Slums":

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_4_urbanities-classics.html

They're still looking for Amelia Earhart:

http://tinyurl.com/5vewk (Guam PDN)

Apparently humans aren't entirely to blame for wiping out the
moas:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996650
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ON THE WEB
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Coinarchives.com:

http://www.coinarchives.com/
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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They Were Here: Ice Age Humans in South Carolina

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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90% of sites in Pakistan have been plundered:

http://tinyurl.com/6alej (Daily Times)

Similar item from the Times of London (which won't work for
everyone):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1349052,00.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Treasures of York:

http://tinyurl.com/6cbsd (Yorkshire Post)

Peter Green, *From Ikaria to the Stars*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1351398,00.html
(I'll post this to rogueclassicism later today for folks who
cannot access the Times)

Philip Matyszak, *The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila
the Hun*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1351397,00.html
(ditto)
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PERFORMANCES
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Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/3wyyy (Advertiser)

Antigone Project:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv%5C13692.html

Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/6b786 (Citizen-Times)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Okay ... Robert Sarmast's expedition to find evidence of
Atlantis somewhere off Cyprus just got a pile of press coverage
due to a supposed discovery:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=16924&;cat_id=1
http://tinyurl.com/6e6yb (Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5z7mz (Reuters)

... if you visit Sarmast's site, you'll see some photos of
what is apparently the 'evidence' ... we're in 'faces on Mars'
land here, I think (click on New Atlantis Location Pictures
when you're there)

http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com/press_sarmast_bio.htm
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EXHIBITIONS & MUSEUM STUFF
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On museums and corporate donors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/arts/design/13muse.html

Wisconsin Historical Society is closing its museum in the wake
of budget cuts:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6468219/

Interesting item/review of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George
Washington:

http://tinyurl.com/66e93 (New York Metro)

Asian Games: The Art of the Contest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/arts/design/12glue.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/arts/design/14eski.html

Raphael: From Urbino to Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/arts/design/12kimm.html

The Price of Freedom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/arts/design/11free.html

Queen of Sheba:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p12s03-alar.html

Tutankhamun: The Golden Hereafter:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/716/he1.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Brown has established an Institute for Archaeology and the
Ancient World:

http://tinyurl.com/62pu7

Problems with Roman numerals:

http://tinyurl.com/5ycxk (zwire)

Classics possibly threatened at UAlabama?:

http://tinyurl.com/64rkd (Crimson White)

Robin Lane Fox on the upcoming Alexander flick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/movies/14baker.html

The costumes and the sets:

http://romanticmovies.about.com/od/alexander/a/alexancs110104.htm

A somewhat foreboding clip:

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/565/565095p1.html?fromint=1

Down at USF they're hoping they'll see an enrollment boost in
the wake of the Alexander flick:

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGF03981E.html

Some Latin tats:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1108/p09s02-coop.html?s=hns

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting piece on
the downside of technology in education:

http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i12/12a03101.htm

Empire Rising:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/198413_empire07.html

What's David J. White up to?:

http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&;story=21294

Peter Jones:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5256&;issue=2004-11-13
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OBITUARIES
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David Shulman (lexicographer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/nyregion/07shulman.html

Stanley Vandersall (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/47udg (Daily Nebraskan)
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REPEATS
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Roman Cosmetics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/science/09obse.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041103234140.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041101/full/041101-8.html

Cave site (Roman) at Ashkelon threatened:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/499089.html

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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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