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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An Old Kingdom 'middle class' tomb:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080118-egypt-tomb.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=14566
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/99324

A Hemiriate Dynasty 'queen's' tomb from Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10013577.html

Brief item on the discovery of a bronze coffin:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news145011.htm

... and its destruction:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news145241.htm

Some Achaemenid city remains from Iran:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=39054&sectionid=351020105

Recent finds from Catal Huyuk:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=93856

Hyping the National Geographic's 'Black Pharoahs' issue:

http://tinyurl.com/2k4h8w (NYDN)

A First Temple seal from Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/356rbv (JPost)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/139914

The Talpiot Tomb was back in the news, most notably on why it
was kept 'secret' for so long:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/945442.html
http://tinyurl.com/2vemjr (JPost)

... it was part of a conference on the subject:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1704299,00.html
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080118/30896.htm

... and there was a very self-serving press release by JC and
SJ claiming their views have been 'vindicated':

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=811301
http://tinyurl.com/36gusw (Streetinsider)

cf: Jim West's comments:

http://tinyurl.com/2q4zej

... and:

http://www.uhl.ac/blog/?p=393

Meanwhile, it is unlikely that approval will be given to
renew the dig:

http://tinyurl.com/2ub53w (JPost)

The Tomb of Cyrus is threatened:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124898

... or maybe not:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/2006/September2006/02-09.htm

Nice feature on the Nabateans:

http://journal3.ifrance.com/spip.php?article229

David Plotz visited some Biblical sites (it's a series):

http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181865/
http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181915/
http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181916/
http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181917/
http://www.slate.com/id/2181864/entry/2181918/

A bit of clarification on Egypt's copyright efforts:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080115-egypt-copyright.html

A somewhat late item from the IAA on that Queen Helena house find:

http://tinyurl.com/2trogh

Latest on Temple Mount:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=945297

More coverage of recent finds at Karnak:

http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2008/January/17/Excavations-Karnak-29922.asp

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

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 Roman bridge on the Tyne has been reconstructed:

http://tinyurl.com/ytmo7g (Journal)

Nice feature on Vindolanda:

http://tinyurl.com/2e9qvh (Daily Mail)

... and one on the Nabateans:

http://journal3.ifrance.com/spip.php?article229

Dr King and Greek lit:

http://tinyurl.com/359xjf (WTimes)

Scandal in the Greek Culture Ministry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/design/19loot.html

Princeton has acquired a Greek coin collection:

http://tinyurl.com/34cojl

Latin's doing fine in Monmouth:

http://www.reviewatlas.com/articles/2008/01/16/news/news2.txt

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:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Latest finds found during construction of that highway near
Tara:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080114-tara-ireland.html
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/99630

Bronze Age finds at Cambridge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7194650.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2smdjv (EADT)

Predictions of medieval sites at a 'regeneration project' in
Preston:

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Tithebarn-could-yield-medieval-treasures.3687861.jp

Brief item on the find of a 2000 b.p. ring from Norway:

http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=115816

A 16th century Welsh chronicle is now online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/7189408.stm

Interesting items found in the apartment of a dead collector in
Prague:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/99630

Plans are afoot to examine "Britain's Atlantis":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7187239.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3xh9sq
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080116165058.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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Very interesting 2500 b.p. sword find from Jiangxi (looks kind
of small for a sword?):

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-01/16/content_6399567.htm
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200801/17/t20080117_14264929.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6339547.html

I think we mentioned these brick-lined tombs from Chongqing a
while ago:

http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20080115/101246.shtml

This time, the clumsy archaeologists have found a Buddhist
monastery:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=12739
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/318178

... while at another temple site, some 'shell script' inscriptions
have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/2yfue5 (TIndia)
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan152008/scroll2008011546765.asp

A brick structure from Bogra:

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=19882

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Latest on those bones found during LRT construction in
Edmonton:

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/Commentary/2008/01/17/4777869.html
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id26037

They're digging at Lincoln's boyhood home:

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/13891772.html

The early New World was a wetland:

http://tinyurl.com/2wjxdh (New Scientist)

A King Island mask has been returned:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_us/ghost_village_mask

The Shoshone are trying to acquire an historically-significant
graveyard:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7965320

Remodelling a church with an interesting history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13churchwe.html

More coverage of Native Americans' efforts to recover human
remains from Berkeley:

http://tinyurl.com/32tv4e (Globe)

Review of a couple of books focussing on the carnage and the
results therefrom of the Civil War:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/01/21/080121crbo_books_gopnik

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A Mexican time capsule:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-SalgXrLK4v5rMnStHSiZuBFfwAD8U6L4I00

More coverage that agriculture was being practiced in Peru
earlier than previously thought:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=14151
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/andean-crops-cultivated-almost-10-000-years-ago

More coverage of that 'lost city' found in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080116-lost-city.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=13642
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080116-paititi-video-ap.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5019419649355201755

More coverage of that 4000 b.p. temple from Peru:

http://www.mnweekly.ru/world/20071115/55289911.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Nice editorial on what the 'archaeological top ten lists' left
out:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/01/15/sci_archaeology.html

Columbus is 'credited' with bringing syphilis to Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7183540.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2jwmdr (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080115/od_nm/columbus_dc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/columbuscarriedsyphilisfromnewworldtoeuropestudysuggests
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/15/america/columbus.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15syph.html
http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000148

William Caraher has put together a nice online feature for
Archaeology Magazine on archaeological blogs:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/blogs/

A very strange DaVinci codish thing involving the Koran:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA15Ak03.html

The 'brutal reality' of the tournament:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7192262.stm

Latest on the identity of the Mona Lisa:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080114/ts_nm/germany_mona_lisa_dc
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/arts/16arts-MONAREALLYWA_BRF.html

Book scavenging:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/nyregion/18bigcity.html

Nice overviewish thing on the popularity of dna/genealogy
stuff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13wwln-medium-t.html

Do fortune cookies really come from Japan?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/dining/16fort.html

Arguing about Beethoven:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/arts/music/20whit.html

On the perils of popularization:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Gee-t.html

In light of the primaries, an interesting item on equal rights
and civil rights:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/weekinreview/13leibovich.html

Pope Benedict cancelled a visit to LaSapienza due to protests
with an historical basis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/world/europe/16pope.html

Review of Jack Repcheck, *Copernicus' Secret*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Gingerich-t.html

Review of Bill Hayes, *The Anatomist*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Max-t.html

Review of Andrew Nicholson (ed.), *The Letters of John Murray
to Lord Byron*:

http://tinyurl.com/3x2lz7 (Times)

Review of George Mankari, *Revolution in Mind*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Prochnik-t.html

Review of Geraldine Brooks, *People of the Book*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Fugard-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Athens:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004120061_webathens14.html

Review of assorted Baedeker Guides:

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article3159576.ece
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Italy feels it has the upper hand in combatting the antiquities
trade:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=17154&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO

A purloined bust of Marcus Aurelius has been returned to Algeria:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=88115
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hVLIB3USJkQsKqEExRQIvjZuizbA
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=23911
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/080115washington.htm

... as has a Chinese pagoda:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6340684.html

Shelby White has returned some looted items to Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/18collect.html
http://tinyurl.com/38xd8j

Recovery of some pages from a manuscript of Isidore of Seville:

http://tinyurl.com/2s3wd5 (El Pais)

Italy still wants the Getty Bronze:

http://tinyurl.com/2phpsz (ANSA)

This 'World Collections Programme' looks interesting:

http://media.netpr.pl/notatka_91939.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Bruce Brace Coin Collection:

http://arendt.mcmaster.ca/~coins/index.php

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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Pompeii Red:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=4032611&page=1

Subsaharan Terracottas:

http://tinyurl.com/3cj89x (El Pais)

The Aesthetic Movement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18anti.html

Chinese antiquities at the Royal Ontario Museum may have been
illegally acquired:

http://tinyurl.com/3cx58n (Globe and Mail)

The Euphronios Krater is back in Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/design/19bowl.html
http://www.decanter.com/news/174012.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080118/lf_nm_life/italy_art_krater_dc_2
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/19/2142137.htm

... and the Met will be getting some nice loans in return:

http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=14804&monthview=0&month=1&year=2008

A major exhibition focussing on Hadrian is in the works:

http://tinyurl.com/26rwjd (Times)
http://tinyurl.com/39snqq
http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/latest-news/Hadrians-bronze-comes-north.3679348.jp

The Louvre is lending some oenochoe to Singapore:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=avQUAqulUqdw&refer=home

They're talking about moving Michelangelo's David:

http://tinyurl.com/348dxn (ANSA)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3345178.ece

A couple of antique shows in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18armo.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18pavi.html

On Montebello's legacy:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=auikLCXvzcyw&refer=muse
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/weekinreview/13donadio.html

How not to run a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/design/19arts-BRAZILIANMUS_BRF.html

I think this is a repeat of the latest word from the BM on
not returning the Elgin Marbles:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/18/2121370.htm
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Maria:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/arts/music/06gure.html

New Jerusalem:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/theater/reviews/14new.html

BBC Jane Austen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/television/19bell.html

Some Shakespeareana:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/theater/20ishe.html
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ON THE WEB
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Not sure whether I've mentioned this military history forum
yet:

http://feldpost.tv/forum/

Museum of Underwater Archaeology:

http://www.uri.edu/mua/

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Wilhelmina Jashemski (Pompeii historian):

http://tinyurl.com/2s5kuu (WPost)

Bernhard W. Anderson:

http://sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=746
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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