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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
Sowdon, Francis Deblauwe, Donna Hurst, Hernan Astudillo,
Cressida Ryan, Janica Hindle, John McMahon,John McChesney-Young,
Joseph Lauer, Keith Armstrong,Jim Lockmiller, Michael Oberndorf,
Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Sally Winchester, Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, Richard C. Griffiths, and  Yonatan Nadelman
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no
one out).

A very slow week (again) ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Remains of some ancient Egyptian *sea-going* vessels have been
discovered in a cave(?) near the Red Sea:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7190

Not sure of the date of this article ... a pile of mummies
dating from the seventh century B.C./B.C.E. to the Ptolemaic
period have been found in Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/4st4m (CNN via Netscape)

Hellenistic sarcophagi have turned up during construction of
a customs building in Turkey:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=9063

Apparent remains of the Loulan Kingdom (China) have been
found (some math problems in the first article):

http://tinyurl.com/4ucy8 (China Daily)
http://english.people.com.cn/200503/21/eng20050321_177585.html

Digging medieval Coventry:

http://tinyurl.com/4a69q (icCoventry)

Remains of a large Chinese camp has been found in New Zealand:

http://tinyurl.com/4rd83 (TVNZ)
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THE AMERICAS
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The Basques were here (Canada) before Cartier:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0325/p18s03-hfgn.html?s=hns

An Anasazi calendar:

http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&;sid=157234

Remains of an 18th century bridge are emerging from Lake
Champlain:

http://tinyurl.com/4pubh (AP via Yahoo)

Coverage of a talk about the excavations at Cival:

http://tinyurl.com/53w69 (IME)

There is a house in New Orleans ...:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=6&;ObjectID=10116468

Semi-touristy thing on Hohokam sites in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/683dp (Republic)

Radiation illuminates some aspects of Inca culture:

http://tinyurl.com/4c39r (Gazette Times)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The 'mystery' behind Faberge eggs:

http://tinyurl.com/69oxg (SFGate)

Interesting book excerpt on the discovery of Tut:

http://tinyurl.com/47hrw (MeTimes)

On the origins of Irish 'gypsies':

http://tinyurl.com/5u5b4 (Independent)

I don't usually include stuff about dinosaurs (or fossils not
connected to 'hominids' in Explorator), but this one's too
interesting to let pass ... scientists have recovered some soft
tissue from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil (and, of course,
everyone's now thinking Jurassic Park):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/

The battle over the site of Mons Graupius is heating up:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=302582005

Lithuania's 'Troy' is getting Heritage status:

http://www.baltictimes.com/art.php?art_id=12358

Some more mummy ct scans are coming up:

http://tinyurl.com/6un2q (Art Daily)

... and another mummy has been 'identified':

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/35750.html

Interesting item on the Jenkins Venus and a new copy made
thereof:

http://tinyurl.com/4xava (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/546nh (Yorkshire Post)

A portrait of Michelangelo?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050314/michelangelo.html

More revelations from the tomb of the Medicis:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050321/medicichild.html
http://tinyurl.com/58wmk (ABC)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1442285,00.html

An 11th century manuscript has returned to Canterbury:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4381161.stm

Folks might be interested in reading how Dan Brown is coping
with all the attention his novel is getting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/books/21code.html

Touristy thing on Japan's Naskendo highway (with slideshow):

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/travel/20japanhike.html

... and one on Nimes:

http://tinyurl.com/5le9m (Telegraph)

A 'lost' novel by Dumas is to be published:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/arts/23arts.html (2nd item)

The New Clairvaux chapter house has an interesting history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/arts/design/27hall.html

This item on a teacher's theory about the Shroud of Turin has
been getting increasing press coverage over the past couple of
weeks (these are all variations on the same AP wire story):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7287936/
http://tinyurl.com/65s4c (Times-News)
http://tinyurl.com/4gx3w (News 24)

Nice preview of tonight's forthcoming program (on the National
Geographic Channel) about crucifixion:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7291066/

... and another one on the Church of the Holy Sepuchre:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6785872/

Last week we had a group claiming ownership of the Taj Mahal ...
this week it's a family claiming ownership of Machu Picchu:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3225518a12,00.html

The latest in the Nebra Sky Disk soon-to-be-saga:

http://tinyurl.com/7xtd6 (FAZ)

Another Voynich manuscript piece:

http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20050223-000004.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Nice article on Roman remains in Libya in Smithsonian mag:

http://tinyurl.com/4pajt
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ON THE WEB
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Egyptian Royal Genealogy:

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Ephemera: Archaeology on Television:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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This might have some ramifications ... a British court has
ruled that the BM must return a manuscript to Italy which was
demonstrated to have been looted during WWII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/arts/26arts.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1539101,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4300658
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1444759,00.html

Not sure where this one should be categorized, but this seems
appropriate ... the UN's IAEA is part of the effort to curb
the sale of counterfeit artworks/antiquities:

http://news.newkerala.com/world-news/?action=fullnews&;id=84329

This was (apparently) the big news of the week: a Canadian teen
was charged this week with stealing a rock from the Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/4wl8m (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/6jhfu (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/4xo3o (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/4oeev (Globe and Mail)
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-4221771,00.html
http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=63174
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=2&;nid=26126

Did British collectors in the 1800s 'ruin and defile' a number
of Ethiopian manuscripts?:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200503250381.html

A possibly-looted Thai crown on display in San Francisco?:

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GC26Jp02.html

An interview with P. Kyle McCarter about the James Ossuary:

http://ydr.com/story/religion/62876/

... and an excellent 'state of the case' piece from Macleans
magazine:

http://tinyurl.com/58dtx

Cambodia's artifacts continue to be at risk:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/21/news/cambo.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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James Grant, *John Adams: Party of One*:

http://nytimes.com/2005/03/23/books/23grim.html

Jeremy Cohen, *Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and
Jewish Memories of the First Crusade*:

http://tinyurl.com/4o35j (JPost)

John Mann, *Attila: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome*

http://tinyurl.com/4s6zf (Guardian)

K.D. Ackerman, *Boss Tweed*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/books/review/027HAMILL.html

J. Pelikan, *Whose Bible Is It?*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/books/review/027KUGELL.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lysistrata (+)

http://newyorker.com/critics/music/index.ssf?050328crmu_music

Iphigenia:

http://tinyurl.com/6ldhu (NYT)

Dido, Queen of Carthage:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=506639

Fools in Love:

http://tinyurl.com/64wuf (NYT)

Seven Last Words of Christ:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/national/26beliefs.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Ark of the Covenant found (8^))

http://www.ransomnotes.info/index_files/Page3471.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Another article on exhibitions arising from stuff they find
in Cairo's Egyptian Museum basement (really nice photo with
the Telegraph piece):

http://tinyurl.com/5wwe4 (Telegraph)

After the Pharaohs:

http://tinyurl.com/5gvw3 (Budapest Sun)

Salvator Rosa:

http://tinyurl.com/5rq9k (Guardian)

Literary Treasures of the National Library of Finland:

http://tinyurl.com/4jhno

Spinario:

http://tinyurl.com/4ysnv (Art Daily)

That recently-found Domitianus coin is on display:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4293504

The Brooklyn Museum is getting a major grant to catalog its
vast costume collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/arts/design/23clot.html

The Seattle Art Museum is expanding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/arts/25arts.html (scroll)

Chinese Works of Art sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/arts/design/25ANTI.html

Coming soon the Christies:

http://tinyurl.com/3tytp (JPost)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Tips on reading the Iliad:

http://tinyurl.com/6l44k (Excalibur)

So what's Michael Halleran up to?:

http://tinyurl.com/6sdsc (Business Wire)

A new Classics minor for Ithaca College:

http://tinyurl.com/4wdoe (Ithacan)

Ajax as charismatic narcissist:

http://tinyurl.com/5udqd (Age)

Fallujah and Dionysus:

http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=4833

Vegetius and Iraq (sort of):

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43479

They spent twenty minutes reading Pliny's Natural History
(in Latin) on the BBC last night:

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=623439

... listen again at (there's a bunch of ads at the start):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/betweentheears/

Roman cookery:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1068-1542319,00.html

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http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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OBITUARIES
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Stanley Sadie (musicologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/arts/music/23sadie.html
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REPEATS
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Cradle of Zoroastrianism:

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

Homo floresiensis 'damaged':

http://tinyurl.com/4fy6d (USA Today)
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=137555&;source=r_science
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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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