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explorator 11.20 September 7, 2008
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AFRICA
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The Axum Obelisk was finally unveiled:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-04_104258946
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7597589.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Senusret II:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/01/2352151.htm
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24273505-5005962,00.html
A "goddess" figurine from Iran:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68642§ionid=351020105
Some phallic figurines and other Neolithic items from Israel:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/thuo-pfp090108.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080905-israel-burials.htm
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/02/sciphal
lic102.xml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080901085355.htm
Much coverage of using mouse remains from a "bronze age shipwreck"
(Ulu Burun?) to determine its origin:
http://tinyurl.com/5mrszq (NS)
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-19057.html
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/779879.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/news-scan/2008/09/03/1220121331202.ht
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Some Canaanite burials (etc.) near Sidon:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_i
d=95699
Excavating the Hittite city of Nerik:
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=114147
Pigeons plague the Sphinx:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/913/he1.htm
Those foetuses in Tut's tomb are likely a pair of twins he fathered:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/uom-ctm090108.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080902143322.htm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/02/twins-found-in-tuts-tomb/
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/09/tuts_tots_could_be_tw
ins.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/2659
871/Twins-found-in-Tutankhamuns-tomb.html
More evidence of Second Temple era walls in Jerusalem:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080901085355.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6nmoyz (MFA)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1017862.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220444319782&pagename=JPost%2
FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10078007.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_archaeology_1
http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/jerusalem_ancient_
walls_unveiled/
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL342025420080903
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24291594-23109,00.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hULCIa_wLA2b2BkhgMpPKtJn3rvgD92VB1TG0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7595613.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6bekwb (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5wsytv
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/sc_nm/israel_archaeology_dc_3
http://wejew.com/media/2730/Ancient_Jerusalem_Wall_Discovery/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127489 (video)
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26526464/
Interesting spin on ongoing excavations in Turkey:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=152052&bolu
m=110
This week's installment of the Temple Mount saga:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3591329,00.html
More on the DSS going online:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2348701.htm
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&
id=1422&module_id=#as
Reviewish sort of thing on plants of the Bible:
http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2008/09/02/plants-of-the-bible/
Egyptology News Blog:
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
Egyptology Blog:
http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
Persepolis Fortification Archives:
http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
Archaeologist at Large:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Using computer technology to reproduce the sound of an Epigonion:
http://www.newkerala.com/fs/b/ai-1356.htm
http://www.publictechnology.net/article_avantgo.php?sid=17177
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080905/tuk-network-reproduces-ancient-
music-45dbed5.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/epigonion_grid_computing/
http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=6421
... listen to it in mp3 format:
http://www.astraproject.org/examples/dufay.mp3
A Sarmatian burial:
http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=73495
Feature on the Dhaskalo Kavos site:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4
662664.ece
Plenty of coverage of a study linking lower HIV resistance to
the Romans:
http://tinyurl.com/64qyg9 (NS)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2440091.0.Romans_helped_
spread_Aids.php
http://tinyurl.com/5j2pbx (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7596532.stm
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24293754-5007185,00.ht
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http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQu6fgrIqW4T79HVGP0_fSHSK5Ag
Evidence of Roman presence in Moray:
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/815790
... and a Roman camp on the outskirts of Keswick:
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.232739
Roman remains from the east Cleveland (UK) coast was reported here:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/3641421.Unearthed_Roman_site_excite
s_experts/
... and seriously messed up reportage-wise, here (howler alert):
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/270794.php
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68446§ionid=3510212
A possible Roman villa site in Northampton:
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Roman-villa-may-be-buried.4465048.
jp
A car park in Rome will seriously impact some important sites:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/historic-area-of-rome-thre
atened-by-new-car-park-915420.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10530808
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Celebrities-fight-car-park-.4465246.jp
Hadrian's Wall will be the next ancient monument adding to the
world's light pollution:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/07/heritage.hadrian1
The next installment of the Kefalonia-is-Ithaca story:
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hj0BrZqhnuOXH5ogpGDH_qvbeYwQ
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/evidence+backs+h
omers+isle+theory/2439827
Followups to the 'pagan' protests on the Acropolis:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-09-02-pagan-athena_N.htm?csp=3
4
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/01/acropolis-pagans-museum
.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700255437,00.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1138575,CST-NWS-athena01.article
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/arts/design/01arts-PROTESTERSBE_BRF.htm
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/01/greece.protest/?iref=mpsto
ryview
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-09-02-pagan-athena_N.htm
More coverage of the gold wreath from Aigai:
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=465835&sid=ftp
Recent reviews from BMCR:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html
Recent reviews from Scholia:
http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm
Visit our blog:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
Blegen Library News:
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting Neolithic figurine from South Moravia:
http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/416/czech_national_news/27678/
Neolithic burial from Poland:
http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/news/?id=90480
Plenty of Neolithic stuff is emerging as a Swiss glacier melts:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jq06XaBVeoFDw8ema5tW2JrEl1mg
http://tinyurl.com/5c9lvg
A bronze bowl from Sweden:
http://www.thelocal.se/14050/20080901/
Feature on some petroglyphs from Anglesey:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/drawingsonthewall_20080302.shtml
Possible tannery in Wallingford:
A letter from Oliver Cromwell:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7595836.stm
The London Metropolitan Archive is going online:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7596765.stm
The efforts to save the HMS London:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4687257.ece
... and a good oped piece on the state of such shipwrecks:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/ar
ticle4685992.ece
An Opeddish sort of thing on Famagusta:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7596392.stm
cf.:
Russian archaeologists believe they have found the ancient Khazar
capital:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080903/lf_afp/russiahistoryculturearchaeolo
gy_080903160809
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/03/2354822.htm
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting 'porcelain tomb' from Chongqing:
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-18535.html
http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-09/03/content_16383185.htm
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Plenty of native American finds at a Colchester site:
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080901/NE
WS02/80831008/1007
This week's coverage of the Franklin Expedition expedition:
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=31a65b83-7ef4-4
c16-af12-d29fd22cae73
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=07bf3d6d-4519-4e
ae-bd7b-aafc14cc6531
Feature on Fort Ticonderoga:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/nyregion/04fort.html
I didn't know the Wright Brothers were involved in military
aviation:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94332520
Plans are afoot to restore Gettysburg:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94290401
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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On prehispanic dentistry:
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1685&Ite
mid=150
This year's finds at Cahuachi:
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=fQivUwOHa2I=
Remains of a wall from Cusco:
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=asj7yPwA42s=
Pre-Incan remains from Peru's Colca Canyon:
http://www.livinginperu.com/news/7286
Possibly the oldest skeleton ever found in the Americas is from
an underwater cave in Mexico:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080903-oldest-skeletons.h
tml
Searching for the Aztec 'homeland':
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5974701.html
More on urbanization in the Amazon:
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/2050057
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94104997
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On DNA and European origins:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02gene.html
http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS096098220
8009561
The Archaeology Channel is experimenting with an HD movie
format:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
The Catholic side of the Shroud debate:
http://www.zenit.org/article-23537?l=english
They're pondering a 'parchment centre' in Turin:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-02_102236538
.html
Using digital photography in archive collections (not sure why
this is considered 'novel'):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080904151624.htm
Laying claim to Poe:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/06poe.html
Modena's philosophy festival sounds like a good time:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-03_103244082
.html
On the origin of the term 'maverick':
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94312345
Review of Julian Barnes, *Nothing to Be Frightened Of*:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082
802898.html
Review of a book about artists' wives:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/books/04butler.html
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/
Arts and Letters Daily:
Past Preservers:
http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]
Norton Community Archaeological Group:
http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/
Tel Kadesh:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog
Tel Dan:
Hopkins in Egypt Today:
http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:
Archaeorama:
http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/
Archaeoblog:
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some Shelby White returns were exhibited in Greece:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080903/ennew_afp/greeceusarchaeology_080903
162540
http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10077906.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/sc_nm/greece_antiquities_dc_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/04arts-GREECEWELCOM_BRF.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw200809031358
48560C475999
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL340449420080903
A bronze mirror was stolen from a museum in China:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/03/content_6995924.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/od_nm/theft_dc_1
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A followup on those gold Carausius coins found a while back:
http://www.ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk/ashbournenewstelegraph/DisplayArt
icle.asp?ID=345589
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Mommsens' Hercules:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25878&int_modo=1
Olhando o Céu da Pré-História: Registros Arqueoastronômicos no Brasil:
Picasso Sculpture:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05pica.html
Prayers at an Exhibition:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/arts/design/06monk.html
The MoMA is increasing its Braque holdings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05voge.html
This week's Met theme is 'hands':
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/05/arts/20080905_HIDDEN_GRAPHI
C.html
Folks are "aghast" at plans to sell off some rare books from
Wales:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7593883.stm
Italy's museums etc. are cash-strapped:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/design/04pinc.html
Sotheby's is suing a collector for non-payment:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05soth.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Agamemnon:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/06/212634.php
http://www.presstelegram.com/lifestyle/ci_10391450
http://www.huliq.com/13/67445/cursed-house-atreus-falls-agamemnon
Masque of Red Death:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/theater/reviews/05masq.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Claims a Viking ship might be found in a Wisconsin native
American burial ground:
http://tinyurl.com/5px9ad (Press Gazette)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
The Dig:
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
Archaeologica Audio News:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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