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A comparatively quiet week ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A major Bronze Age burial site has been found in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1349772004
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6575635/
http://tinyurl.com/5dwnd (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5j7z5 (Independent)

An unplundered Mycenean burial site has been found in the
Peloponnese:

http://tinyurl.com/4awua (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/4te9u (News.com)

An update (kind of late?) on the row over a housing development
at a Bronze Age necropolis in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=17073

A 4200 b.p. fortress has been found near the Red Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/3qfyp (AP via CTV)

A followup of sorts on claims of a secret chamber inside the
pyramid of Khufu:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=585377
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=3612886

Kent Weeks thinks he might have evidence about the 10th plague:

http://tinyurl.com/6zuzu (Boston Globe)
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/10268180.htm
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1126sci-egypt26.html

Some inscribed bricks dating to 3000 b.p. have been found in
southern Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/52bt7 (netIran)

A roundup piece of sorts on things found (and lost) during the
construction of the Athens subway:

http://tinyurl.com/67u47 (Telegraph)

I can't get this one to come up, but maybe it will work for you;
it's about the discovery of the first Roman 'service station' in
Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/4uqec (Telegraph)

A pile of Gallic military artifacts have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/6arwb (AFP via Yahoo)

An archaeologist thinks there may be more to be found in the
Cave of Letters (this is actually an item designed to promote
a documentary):

http://tinyurl.com/6tq9g (Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/arts/television/23heff.html
http://tinyurl.com/3zbly (Sun Sentinel)

Assorted Buddhist artifacts have been found in Taxila:

http://tinyurl.com/5a8bk (Daily Times)
http://tinyurl.com/4ftlh (New Kerala)

A Ming Dynasty coffin has been found in Shanghai:

http://tinyurl.com/4fm49 (China Economic Net)

A while back we mentioned the discovery of a shipwreck near
Indonesia laden with porcelain etc. ... here's a followup on
the salvage/excavation operation:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1247600.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5fj69 (AFP via Yahoo)

I can't remember if we've already mentioned this discovery of
'lost' medieval village:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/28461.html
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THE AMERICAS
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Nice feature on that 16th century Spanish fortress in North
Carolina:

http://tinyurl.com/6cm59 (National Geographic)

An update on that graving yard in Port Angeles wherein a major
Native American site has been found:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6565164/

A 19th century shipwreck has been found near St. Augustine:

http://www.wesh.com/news/3946526/detail.html
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, humans might not be to blame for wiping out
bison, mammoths, etc. in North America:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6568061/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4042693.stm

Interesting item on the history of 'natural history
illustrators':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/science/23natu.html

The ecological impact of the arrival of Europeans in the
Americas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/opinion/25mann.html

They're (finally) going to repeal a rather racist law affecting
Native Americans who wanted to visit Boston:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/national/25indian.html

Using grape harvest records to track climate change through
history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/science/23obox.html
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=2885 (Spanish)

That mystery inscription associated with the Holy Blood, Holy
Grail crowd has possibly been deciphered (?):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4044765.stm
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14973063

Using math to establish the authenticity of paintings:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6561065/
http://tinyurl.com/4ms2u (National Geographic)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996695

This probably is a book review, but they never give the title
of the book (!) ... as such, it is the latest salvo in the
Elgin/Parthenon Marbles debate:

http://tinyurl.com/5nflm (Kathimerini)

Temple Mount is now apparently stable:

http://tinyurl.com/6edh4 (JPost)

Learning about sepsis from the Battle of Waterloo:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4035849.stm

Intensive fishing in the U.K. in the 9th century?:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996711

The earliest piece of printed pornography is going up to auction:

http://tinyurl.com/6acus (IOL)

Nice feature on the Golden Hoard:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-11/goldenhoard.html

... and one on the discovery of that Viking house in Iceland
a few months ago and its implications for Norse sagas etc.:

http://tinyurl.com/6vcx5 (Smithsonian)
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ON THE WEB
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There's a webcam at Maeshowe:

http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/

Ancient Coin Collectors Guild:

http://accg.us/

Inscriptions From the Land of Israel:

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some German tourists who were lost in the Sahara were found,
attempting to purloin some Neolithic artifacts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4028431.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/international/23briefs.html
(scroll down)

A pile of purloined antiquities were returned to the Nasiriyah
Museum this week:

http://tinyurl.com/4wa8w (Xinhua)

Stolen Algerian artifacts are showing up on websites:

http://tinyurl.com/43jee (Washington Times)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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David Crystal, *The Stories of English*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/books/24grim.html

Robert Alter (trans.), *The Five Books of Moses*:

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041122-124127-1746r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5phbs (Reuters)

Tore Janson, *A Natural History of Latin*

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1374676,00.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Hecuba:

http://tinyurl.com/4o3f8 (Union Tribune)

Oedipus at Colonus:

http://tinyurl.com/3kg5a (Playbill via Yahoo)
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ALEXANDER MOVIE RELATED
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Reviews (just the interesting ones):

http://newyorkmetro.com/movies/listings/rv_41959.htm
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/movies/24alex.html
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/10248535.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6559669/
http://tinyurl.com/5b5ej (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/5y4eu (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/4xd4y (Washington Times)
http://www.nypost.com/movies/32176.htm
http://tinyurl.com/695gz (St. Petersburg Times)
http://tinyurl.com/53dmb (Telegraph)

... the review from the Journal-Star is noteworthy as being one
of the few postive ones:

http://tinyurl.com/3q3d9

Features on the 'real' Alexander:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/10244905.htm?1c
http://tinyurl.com/6elyc (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/3top5 (Statesman Journal)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4184528
(Mendelsohn)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4189023
(Fantham)

The film is adding fuel to the controversy over the U.S.
recognition of Macedonia:

http://tinyurl.com/4fvc8

And there's controversy over the depiction of Alexander's
'orientation':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4032245.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=585756
http://tinyurl.com/6xvmr (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/6yspq (Kathimerini ... seems to be)
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/10260112.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5e4dz (Herald Sun)

Interview with Oliver Stone:

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

Interview with Robin Lane Fox:

http://tinyurl.com/52yht (Telegraph)

Related Book Reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/books/26alex.html (assorted)
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EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM NEWS
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China: Dawn of a Golden Age:

http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?041129ta_talk_hessler

The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/26morr.html

Aztec Empire:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1126/p12s01-alar.html

Pontormo, Bronzino and the Medici: The Transformation of
the Renaissance Portrait in Florence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/26cott.html

The Colors of White:

http://tinyurl.com/6kmcq (Guardian)

Murtogh D. Guinness Collection (assorted mechanical instruments
and automatons):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/27/arts/27mech.html

Assorted auctions and acquisitions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/26voge.html

Napoleonic items up for auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/26anti.html

The roof of the Iraklion Museum collapsed this past week,
damaging some Minoan artifacts:

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041123/w112358.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Another reaction to Sarmast's claims about Atlantis:

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

Pondering Cleopatra's asp:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1362193,00.html

What Edith Hall is up to:

http://mustudent.muohio.edu/article.php?d=112304&;s=campus&n=5

Hebe is not welcome in Roseburg:

http://tinyurl.com/5p54f (Democrat-Herald)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/5ouk7
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REPEATS
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Early Arrival of Man In the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/3qpwx (Southern Standard)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm
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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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