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explorator 10.44 February 24, 2008
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hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Paleolithic finds in Abu Dhabi:
http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=17467&t=1&c=33&cg=4
An 'ancestral human skull' from China:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080220-china-fossil.html
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AFRICA
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The latest guy looking for the Ark of the Covenant:
http://tinyurl.com/yp2ytd (Daily Mail)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Brief item on an Iron Age site in Iran:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43524§ionid=351020105
Jewelry and makeup in Ancient Persia:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43514§ionid=3510304
A fragment of what is being billed as the 'oldest Christian
document' was found in an Egyptian monastery:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7562
http://tinyurl.com/2nl4zn (Independent)
The oldest known use of oil paint has been found in Afghanistan:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/19/oldest-oil-painting.html
Another article on the damage being done to sites by foreign
troops in Iraq:
Celebrating 25 years of the Australian Institute in Egypt:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/885/he2.htm
The Zoroastrian community in Iran is shrinking:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-iran-zoroastrians.html
More coverage of the discovery of the 'Red Snake':
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080218155534.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2pwkqu
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=24804
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/great-wall-gorgan
More coverage of that 'warrior tomb' find at Luxor:
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15166.shtml
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/885/he1.htm
More coverage of the politics of archaeology in Israel:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/17/MNILV017H.DTL
http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s19&SecId=19&AId=58045
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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A Bronze Age whistle/toy from Cyprus:
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?LocalNewsID=437
Remains of some Roman ports have been found in Italy:
http://www.culturalnews.it/Article.aspx?c=39&a=6563
http://guide.dada.net/latino/interventi/2008/02/322820.shtml/
http://www.archaeogate.org/subacquea/article/839/1/scoperti-due-porti-rom
ani-in-cirenaica-libia.html
Plans are afoot to rebuild Sevtopolis:
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_867826041
... and to restore a tannery at Pompeii (didn't we have this
a long time ago?):
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/01/21/4785240-ap.html
Roman remains in Sophia:
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1067904105
The new Acropolis Museum will open in the fall:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/02/20/acropolis-museum-fall.h
tml
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22arts-ACROPOLISMUS_BRF.htm
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... while the old Acropolis Museum might be turned into a cafe:
http://tinyurl.com/2lhnzm (Kathimerini)
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNATF0RIA8TM_f_qs1mhf-cZiy9
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Jamie Keller has built a successful Latin program:
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_8270549?source=most_emailed
UF has awarded the first online doctorate in Classics:
http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/02/20/classics-degree/
BU held a declamation contest:
How to Read a Vase lecture:
http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/20088/Thursday/ArtHistory2_21_08.cf
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A petition against a power plant which threatens sites in Viglafia:
http://www.petitiononline.com/adepuydt/petition.html
What made Homer laugh? (if anyone can find this podcast on ITunes,
can they please tell me how they found it? I thought I found it and
it disappeared?):
http://www.thefalcononline.com/story/6495
Recent reviews from BMCR:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html
Recent reviews from Scholia:
http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.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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Sarsen stones under Silbury Hill?
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/the-mystery-of-silbury-hill
Tomb of the 'gay lover' of Edward II?:
http://tinyurl.com/yopkun (Telegraph)
Mary Queen of Scots' death warrant has been saved for the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7251438.stm
More coverage of that possible Druid burial:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,536402,00.html
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=15425
A 12th century monastery is being excavated on Paphos:
http://tinyurl.com/2tu3jk
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=37672&archive=1
Beowulf's End Times:
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002198
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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More coverage of that big city find in India:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7250316.stm
... and a spinoff piece on how archaeologists estimate populations:
http://www.slate.com/id/2184814
Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on a temple of Shri
Shiva Nataraja:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Cannons found on an Oregon beach:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/12034797141
21960.xml&coll=7
Lincoln's summer cottage is now open:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19148438
http://www.lincolncottage.org/
... and some photos of Lincoln's inaugural ceremony have been
found:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19094867
A presidential 'firsts' quiz:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19148447
... and the answers:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19148465
The "Mount" faces foreclosure:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/books/23moun.html
OpEd piece on George Washington as lame duck:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18hogeland.html
History and borders and the Tennessee River:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/22water.html
Review of Alan Guelzo, *Lincoln and Douglas*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/books/20grimes.html
Review of Jerome Charyn, *Johnny One Eye*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/books/review/Schiff-t.html
Review of Gretchen Holbrook, *Mr and Mrs Prince*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/books/review/Waldstreicher-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Satellite images have helped to locate some temples in Guatemala:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2021122720080220
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080220/sc_nm/guatemala_maya_nasa_dc_1
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080221/tsc-uk-guatemala-maya-nasa-a337f0f
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http://tinyurl.com/3at8ky (Gazette)
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=23282045
A pyramid complex in Peru:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080220-vicus-pyramids.htm
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http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=160856
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Has the Amber Room been found?:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,536358,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2cj3sr (Independent)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/arts/21arts-THEAMBERROOM_BRF.html
... folks might want to compare previous coverage of the Amber
room suggested it had been destroyed:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/may/22/russia.arts (2004)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3738593.stm
... and prior to that, there was a 'recreation':
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E6D9163DF930A15752C0A9
669C8B63&scp=2&sq=&st=nyt
I think we've already mentioned this high tech search for Leonardo's
Battle of Anghiari:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/23/wark123.x
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The Cranach nude brouhaha:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/arts/design/18arts-LONDONUNDERG_BRF.htm
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DNA and 'out of Africa' again:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080220132608.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/22/MN5RV6L1C.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_sc/out_of_africa
Columbus' eclipse:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080218/sc_afp/spaceastronomyeclipsemoon_080
218152911
On tight budgets and recording history:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19144445
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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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter (Winter, 2008):
http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter08
About.com Archaeology:
Archaeoblog:
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Operation Ulysses has recovered a pile of antiquities in Italy:
http://tinyurl.com/37uj75 (ANSA ... Italian)
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-19_119186886
.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/19/europe/EU-GEN-Italy-Looted-Art.
php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_en_ot/looted_art_1
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4408354a12.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/02/19/italy-recover-artifacts
.html
http://www.repubblica.it/2008/02/sezioni/cronaca/tombaroli-bene/tombaroli
-bene/tombaroli-bene.html
http://news.therecord.com/article/311434
Marion True's trial in Rome has resumed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/arts/21arts-ANTIQUITIEST_BRF.html
The New York Times looks at some famous art heists:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/weekinreview/17kennedy.html
(includes a slide show)
Interesting Roman item purloined from Libya recovered at a Paris
auction (no photo, alas):
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=583012
More arrests in that Asian/Native American investigation:
http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26
07&Itemid=109
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Nice price fetched for a penny collection:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19141322
Using numismatic evidence to date Revelation:
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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Poussin:
Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/23/america/NA-GEN-US-Museum-Armor.
php
Mummies:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-19_119183070
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Inquisition:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-20_120184433
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_en_ot/vatican_rare_documents
Parmigianino's Antea:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22fric.html
Nazi loot:
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL189719620080218
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7255353.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/arts/design/20muse.html
Zhang's fakes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/arts/design/24unge.html
Romanesque:
http://tinyurl.com/3alyqa (El Pais)
Sacred Arts of Bhutan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/arts/design/24emer.html
Charles Ethan Porter:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24artsct.html
The New Yorker visits the Met's new galleries:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2008/02/11/080211craw_artw
orld_schjeldahl
Interesting item from the days of protest of the Stamp Act:
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=4434&type=UTTM
Latest twist in the Lewis Chessmen saga:
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Chessmen-keepers-reveal--fear.3809954.j
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... and the 'tug of war' has begun for the Lindisfarne Gospels:
http://tinyurl.com/38xphz (Independent)
... and there was a big debate about the Elgin Marbles at
Cambridge:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/24/2170928.htm
... and China is apparently going to start going after some of
its 'lost' artifacts:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1161019.ece
OpEd on the Yale-Machu Picchu dispute:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/opinion/23karp-toledo.html
Time ponders the 'Who owns history' question:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1715290,00.html
A sale of Qing textiles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22anti.html
A Monet is back on the market:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22voge.html
A new director at the Wadsworth:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24musect.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Duchess of Langeais:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/movies/22duch.html
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ON THE WEB
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Texas Beyond History:
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/index.html
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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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