explorator 16.02

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John
McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Wilfried
Zankl, George Somsel, Geoff Roberts, Joos Postma, Dan Kiernan, David Critchley,
Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Simon Stoddart, Richard Campbell,Richard C. Griffiths,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses thisweek (as always hoping I have left no one
out).

... in a bit of an uncaffeinated rush this a.m. ...

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Evidence of early humans using fire some 2 million years b.p.:

http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/09-archaeologists-find-earliest-evidence-of-hu
mans-cooking-with-fire#.UXzqE0pHb8k

http://news.yahoo.com/australopithecus-sediba-most-important-human-ancestor-discov
ery-ever-182400834.html

Neanderthal (?) finds from near Windsor:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-22321419


Pondering the importance of sediba:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/04/24/is-australopithecus-sediba
-the-most-important-human-ancestor-discovery-ever/

Nice overview of floresiensis:

http://www.livescience.com/29100-homo-floresiensis-hobbit-facts.html

More on their brain size:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7446/full/496401a.html
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AFRICA
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Nice feature on how they saved all those manuscripts in Timbuktu:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112898?utm_source=The+New+Republic&utm_ca
mpaign=8169dbb9ff-TNR_Daily_042513&utm_medium=email#

An 18th century prison on Reunion is being excavated:

http://www.clicanoo.re/365739-l-ancienne-prison-de-la-rue-juliette-dodu-chantier-arche
ologique-au-coeur-de-la-ville.html (French)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The ‘catering site’ that fed the pyramid builders is being excavated:

http://www.livescience.com/28961-ancient-giza-pyramid-builders-camp-unearthed.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2314472/The-ancient-burger-vans-Archa
eologists-uncover-remains-massive-catering-operation-feed-builders-famous-pyramids
-Giza.html

http://news.yahoo.com/giza-secret-revealed-10-000-pyramid-builders-got-125146214.ht
ml

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/24/17896388-how-did-they-feed-10000-pyra
mid-builders-like-this?lite

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/town-feeds-pyramid-builders-130424.h
tm

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51643726

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51643726/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/giza-secret-
revealed-how-pyramid-builders-got-fed/

Interesting research into Egyptian chariots:

http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/ancient-egypt-chariot-486726


Illegal burials/tombs are causing concerns for archaeologists in various pyramid

areas of Egypt:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/28/pyramid-tomb-dahshur-egypt-archaeolog
y

... and, of course, we’re still getting reports of illegal digging:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/04/25/Building-damage-blamed-on-ill
egal-digging-for-Egyptian-artifacts/UPI-54531366921534/

... and smuggling attempts being caught at Cairo airport:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/70082/Heritage/Islamic/Egyptian-police
-foil-coinsmuggling-bid-at-cairo-ai.aspx

Archaeologists are attempting to save some burials in Ras al Khaimah:

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritage/archaeologists-make-last-ditch-atte
mpt-to-rescue-remains-of-pre-historic-tombs-in-rak

Evidence of bride prices being paid some 4000 years b.p. from Kultepe tumulus:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bride-prices-existed-in-ancient-era.aspx?pageID=23
8&nid=45547&NewsCatID=375


A burial dating to 1300 years b.p. from Oman:

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/oman/millennia-old-burial-chamber-found-in-oman-1.117
5535

Latest from Khirbet Qeiyafa:

http://www.israelvalley.com/news/2013/04/22/39799/archeologie-decouverte-d-un-culte-
a-l-epoque-du-roi-david


The politics behind TAU’s dig in the City of David:

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=309761


A smuggling attempt in Bethlehem was thwarted:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=589239

An 11th-century minaret in Aleppo has collapsed:

http://www.newsdaily.com/article/709727e115b8df86b756c7450da44da8/minaret-of-fam
ed-mosque-in-syria-destroyed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22283746

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-25/ancient-minaret-destroyed-during-aleppo-battle
/4650298

http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/1-000-year-old-minaret-felled-in-syri
an-war

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10016169/Syria-11th-cent
ury-minaret-of-Great-Umayyad-Mosque-of-Aleppo-destroyed.html

http://www.france24.com/en/20130425-syria-destroy-world-heritage-mosque-aleppo-mi
naret

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=352101

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/24/178906558/minaret-of-iconic-syrian-m
osque-destroyed-in-fighting

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314459/Umayyad-Mosque-Archaeologists-lef
t-horrified-historic-11th-century-minaret-reduced-rubble.html

More on that ‘structure’ in the Sea of Galilee:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/24/possible-ancient-burial-ground-discovered-beneat
h-sea-of-galilee-in-israel/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Greco-Roman ‘industrial complex’ in the Northern Sinai near the Suez Canal:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/70077/Heritage/GrecoRoman/
Roman-industrial-area-uncovered-in-Egypts-Suez-Can.aspx

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/egypt/2013/04/25/Archeology-Maqs
ud-discovers-200-industrial-zone-Sinai_8612079.html

http://ansamed.ansa.it/ansamed/it/notizie/rubriche/cronaca/2013/04/25/Archeologia-sco
perta-Suez-area-industriale-greco-romana_8611727.html (Italian)

Feature on Roman eating habits:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/dinner-at-the-pompeii-t
akeaway-the-empires-feasting-was-legendary-but-what-did-ordinary-romans-eat-8588
878.html


Roman walls in Bath:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22279047

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/story-18779724-detail/story.htm

... and a possible ‘precursor’ to Hadrian’s Wall:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315871/Hadrians-Wall-bigger-older-Scottish-
brother-Archaeologistss-10-year-study-uncovers-120-mile-defence-built-AD-70s-north
ern-tribes.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

A Roman dwelling from Navenby:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/story-18788883-detail/story.html#axzz2RNz4xO3W

http://www.sleafordstandard.co.uk/news/local/navenby-archaeologists-delight-as-they-
unearth-potential-roman-site-1-4978720

http://navenbyarchaeologygroup.tumblr.com/


Get caught up with the Vindolanda excavations blog:

http://vindolanda.blogspot.ca/2013/04/week-4-little-bit-of-interruption-from.html

They’ve saved “Thessaloniki’s Pompeii” from relocation:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130428/thessalonikis-pompeii-saved-relo
cation


On the sorry state of Pompeii:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/04/20/world/europe/100000002182319/pompeii-falli
ng-from-grace.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130423

Philosophy in an Hour featured Plato this week:

http://www.historyinanhour.com/2013/04/23/plato-philosophy-in-an-hour/

On engaging students with Plato:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/04/22/essay-students-who-are-engaged


Hype for a new (children’s) website about Africans in Roman Britain:

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/children%E2%80%99s-website-tells-stories-rom
an-britain%E2%80%99s-africans

Pondering a theory that an earthquake brought an end to the Myceneans:

http://www.livescience.com/28969-earthquake-ended-mycenaean-culture.html

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/26/17933241-experts-seeing-if-quake-killed
-off-the-first-greeks?lite

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/did-earthquake-destroy-ancient-greece-
130426.htm

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/did-earthquake-destroy-ancient-greece-photo-17345485
4.html

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/26/17933241-experts-seeing-if-quake-killed
-off-the-first-greeks

Interesting use of Latin twenty years ago:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/From-The-Art-Newspaper-Archive-May-/
29330


Coverage/hype of Kagan’s last lecture:

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/04/26/web-yheadline-here-11/?utm_source=rss&ut
m_medium=rss&utm_campaign=web-yheadline-here-11

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/04/24/graver-so-long-thrasybulus/

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/04/26/web-yheadline-here-11/

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/04/donald-kagan-looks-back.php

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/04/25/news/new_haven/doc5179c918bf64c2464
01503.txt

What Patricia Johnston is up to:

http://thebrandeishoot.com/articles/13301

What Henry Bayerle is up to:

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/04/er_profile_henry_bayerle/campus.html

A potentially interesting Iliad seminar:

http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/29813/

Another feature on gamifying Latin instruction:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130418104203.htm

A pile of freebies from the AJA:

http://www.ajaonline.org/ed-picks?utm_source=MailerMailer&utm_medium=email&ut
m_content=American+Journal+of+Archaeology&utm_campaign=AIA+e-Update


Some more media love for YLE’s Nuntii Latini:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/finnish-radio-keep-latin-alive/
4624068


Some official security types have been implicated in antiquities smuggling in Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_23/04/2013_495362

... while Italy is putting on a display of recovered artifacts:

http://archaeology.tumblr.com/post/48660900159/exhibition-of-stolen-and-recovered-ar
tifacts-begins-in


Reviews of Lindsey Davis, *The Ides of April*:

http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/394883/Book-Review-The-Ides-Of-Apri
l-by-Lindsey-Davis

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-ides-of-april-by-lin
dsey-davis-hodder--stoughton-1899-8585175.html


Review of Aldo Schiavone, *Spartacus*:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/09/pinning-down-spartacus/
?buffer_share=f13e1&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buf
fer%253A%252Bnybooks%252Bon%252Btwitter

More on Thonis/Heracleion:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/10022628/Lost-city-of-Her
acleion-gives-up-its-secrets.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Dam construction in Portugal reveals a pile of Paleolithic artifacts:

http://theportugalnews.com/news/dam-digs-archeological-finds-dating-millions-of-years
/28260

http://theportugalnews.com/news/dam-digs-unearth-archaeological-finds-dating-million
s-of-years/28273

Very interesting wealthy burial from near Windsor Castle dating to some 4000 years
b.p.:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fourthousand-year-old-goldad
orned-skeleton-found-near-windsor-8581819.html

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-gold-adorned-skeleton-found-1
30423.htm

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/26/17932695-bejeweled-skeleton-may-be-th
at-of-ancient-queen?lite

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/22/remains-woman-buried-discovered-wind
sor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-22251263

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312859/The-Queen-Windsor-Royal-4-400-yea
r-old-skeleton-unearthed-near-historic-town.html

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2013/04/19/beaker-burial

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/horton2013

http://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/04/23/88726-ancient-wo
man-of-importance-discovered-buried-with-gold-at-kingsmead-quarry-in-horton/

... while digs around Sandringham are causing a different sort of delay than we’re used
to:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-william/10012234/Archaeological-dig-c
ould-delay-Duke-and-Duchesss-country-move.html


On the DNA front, a number of early European burials are ‘shedding light’ (of course):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22252099

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423134037.htm

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-ancient-dna-reveals-europe-dynamic.html

Evidence of fertilizer use some 5000 years b.p.:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-excavations-fertilizers-years.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uog-nei042613.php

An Iron Age site with gaming pieces from Burrough Hill:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130422100959.htm

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/story-18755384-detail/
story.html#axzz2RDgEFTe2

http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2013/april/significant-collection-of-pr
ehistoric-metalwork-discovered-at-iron-age-site-2013-along-with-gaming-pieces

http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/local/dig-reveals-iron-age-relics-1-5028270

A couple-holding-hands burial from Romania that apparently missed Valentine’s Day:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/393958/Love-beyond-the-grave-Skeletons-discov
ered-holding-hands-in-coffin-together

http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-archeologists-uncover-romeo-juliet-medieva
l-couple-buried-together-with-hands-clasped/80224/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312967/Skeletons-discovered-holding-hands-c
offin-Romanian-Romeo-Juliet-monastery-courtyard.html

Seven more burials have been found near that burial of a medieval knight in
Edinburgh:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/7-more-skeletons-found-near-old-town-knight-grave-1-
2908534

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-22293782

The search for Arthur continues:

http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/story-18755462-detail/story.html#axzz2RE5Do1uA

http://www.glastonburypeople.co.uk/Rallying-Arthur-echoes-Avalon-afar/story-187555
04-detail/story.html

Plans to further excavate the church where they found Richard III:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22282722

Radar has revealed a possible hidden tunnel beneath a Nottinghamshire market:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22318213

One for the ‘big cat’ fans:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-museum-exotic-big-cat-prowled.html

Concerns for a bridge near Kidwelly:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22226639

A webcast of a seminar on some Ice Age caves:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22296689

Plans to build on the site of the 1066 Battle of Fulford:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-22302298

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/features/health/10375178._/

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10378603._/

... and near one of Richard III’s camps:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22265215

Holy Cross Abbey (near Tipperary) has been restored:

http://www.tipperarystar.ie/community/district-notes/holycross-the-latest-restoration-1-
5014844


An Iron Age gold bracelet is coming to auction:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62101#.UXz2HUpHb8k


More on Stonehenge as burial ground:

http://www.universetoday.com/101771/stonehenge-was-an-ancient-burial-ground-for-th
e-rich-study/

... while Malta seems to be jealous of all the attention Stonehenge gets:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130420/local/Despite-Stonehenge-find-M
alta-s-temples-still-oldest-oldest.466271

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Pondering who and how many comprised the first Australians:

http://www.livescience.com/28985-australia-founding-population.html

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-australians-.html

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/who-were-the-first-australians-a.html?
rss=1

http://www.nature.com/news/first-australians-may-have-been-migrants-rather-than-drif
ters-1.12865

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/04/24/3743648.htm

A 2000 years b.p. mirror workshop from China’s Shadong province:

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/archaeologists-find-first-ancient-mirror-workshop-in-chin
a-1.263168

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-04/24/content_28645674.htm

http://english.sina.com/culture/2013/0424/585101.html

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/8222089.html

A 8th century statue of the founder of Jainism:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/stone-idol-of-mahaveer-excavated-f
rom-river-bank/article4653236.ece

An 1100 years b.p. structure from Dinajpur:

http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/1100-year-old-structure-unearthed-in-dinajpur/

http://www.bangladeshchronicle.net/index.php/2013/04/pala-age-structure-unearthed-in
-dinajpur/

Another opEd on Chinese mining threats to sites in Afghanistan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/opinion/a-chinese-threat-to-afghan-buddhas.html

Concerns for one of the minarets at Agra Fort:

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1827368/report-asi-closes-biggest-minaret-of-agra-fort-f
or-tourists-agra

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/travel/article4657589.ece

More on those piles of burials from Sumatra (not sure if we mentioned this one,
actually):

http://www.livescience.com/28910-art-skeletons-indonesia-cave.html

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/skeletons-found-in-cave-130422.htm

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NORTH AMERICA
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They’re digging at the ‘Fountain of Youth’ in St Augustine:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/rss/article/310303/3/Archaeological-team-digs-at-the-Fo
untain-of-Youth

They’re finding more artifacts at the University of Texas:

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2013/04/12/more-native-american-artifacts-foun
d-on-ut-land-with-increase-in-oil-gas-exploration

I’m never sure where I should classify Hawaiian things, but apparently archaeological

surveys won’t be needed prior to building any more:

http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/April-2013-1/Senate-Bill-1171-T
he-next-PLDC/

http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=204438311

Pondering a mystery of Lincoln’s funeral train:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-mystery-lincoln-funeral.html

Feature on petroglyphs in the Carolinas:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/04/21/2831989/carolinas-rocks-hold-ancient-messa
ges.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Suggestion that humans may have arrived in South America some 22 000 years b.p.:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23441-humans-may-have-reached-the-americas-
22000-years-ago.html

... while a genetic study might suggest otherwise:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-america-settlers.html

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003460


Petroglyphs from Argentina:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62162

http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/8-investigaciones-y-estudios-historicos/6526-inah-reg
istra-sitio-rupestre-argentino (Spanish)

... and some from Veracruz:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62110

A robot has found three possible chambers beneath the Temple of the Feathered
Serpent

at Teotihuacan:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-robot-chambers-ancient-mexico-temple.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313312/Robot-discovers-unexplored-passage
s-2-000-year-old-tunnel-near-Pyramid-Sun-Mexico.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-205_162-10016636.html

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2013/04/24/robot-unearths-secret-aztec-chamb
ers/

A temple complex at Oaxaca is suggesting some sort of early state organization (and

possible human sacrifice):

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-oaxaca-mexico-temple-2013
0422,0,5947630.story

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/22/17865041-300-bc-mexican-temple-hints-
at-human-sacrifice?lite

http://news.yahoo.com/oldest-temple-mexican-valley-hints-possible-human-sacrifice-19
1047703.html

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/temple-hints-at-human-sacrifice-130423
.htm

http://www.livescience.com/28919-oldest-temple-oaxaca.html

Rethinking the origins of the Maya:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130425-maya-origins-olmec-pyramid
-ceibal-inomata-archaeology-science/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2314820/How-Maya-mixed-Researcher
s-say-early-civilisation-mingled-previously-thought.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130425142343.htm

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/25/dig-deeper-origins-of-the-maya/

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-prevailing-theories-maya-civilization-began.html

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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Archaeology is straining Germany-Turkey relations:

http://www.dw.de/archaeology-strains-german-turkish-relations/a-16772755

Pondering the ‘spin’ we put on things when we say ‘medieval’:

http://www.historytoday.com/stephen-cooper/positively-medieval

Interesting feature on the (Inquisition?) trial of Sancho di Ciudad and his wife:

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/His-story-and-her-story-311101

On some new archaeology apps:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/23/new-archaeology-apps-may-make-armchai
r-indiana-jones/

On Jane Austen and game theory:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-pride-prejudice-strategic-jane-austen.html

A very interesting stolen books story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22249700

The voice of Alexander Graham Bell:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22294017

http://m.cnet.com/news/alexander-graham-bells-voice-captured-from-old-recordings/
57581310

A pile of Charles Wesley’s letters have been published:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-letters-hark-herald-published.html

This medieval architecture newsletter (Peregrinations) might be of interest:

http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/vol4_1/Discoveries41.pdf

Pondering assorted Shakespearean questions:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22206151

Something about footprints:

http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2013/04/22/tracing-our-footsteps-archaeology-in-the-digi
tal-age/

The Miniature Books Society:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/redefining-a-little-library/

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/arts/design/the-beauty-that-remains-beyond-the-fin
al-curtain.html

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Pompeii/Herculaneum:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-advice/10017166/Visting-Pompeii-and-Hercula
neum.html

Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/10013002/Gobekli-Tepe-Turke
y-a-new-wonder-of-the-ancient-world.html

Lesser-known sites in Turkey:

http://travel.cnn.com/turkeys-lesser-known-travel-spots-827701

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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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That court case about a fake Greek coin has come to an end:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/23/56949.htm

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n16.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n17.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Uruk:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/berlin-show-offers-a-glimpse-of-the-hist
ory-of-uruk-pioneering-metropolis-in-present-day-iraq/2013/04/24/292b31ca-acd8-11e2
-9493-2ff3bf26c4b4_story.html

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Uruk-maybe-the-1st-metropolis-gets-Berli
n-show-4459401.php

http://newsok.com/uruk-maybe-the-1st-metropolis-gets-berlin-show/article/feed/
532082?custom_click=pod_headline_europe

http://www.welt.de/geschichte/article115544919/Uruk-die-aelteste-Megacity-der-Mens
chheit.html (photos)

Mesopotamia (hype):

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/travel/Mesopotamia+exhibition+includes+ancient+cu
neiform+tablets/8287367/story.html

http://www.timescolonist.com/life/travel/mesopotamia-exhibition-at-rom-includes-ancie
nt-cuneiform-tablets-jewelry-1.117383

1001 Faces of Orientalism:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/exhibit-displays-1001-faces-of-orientalism-.aspx

Old Carriages:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/nyregion/old-carriages-on-display-in-renovated-gal
leries-at-long-island-museum.html

Pompeii/Herculaneum:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/archaeology/art433208


Archaic Greek nudes were a bit much for a Qatar exhibition, apparently:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2013/04/24/Nude-statues-pulle
d-from-Qatar-exhibit.html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hyK_CmX3F87FtgFwXb45h2X
caz3w?docId=CNG.a002dc6b3bd491731d0ebc4ad2b385fb.501

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_23/04/2013_495420

http://dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2013/Apr-24/214811-nude-statues-pulled-from-qatar
-exhibit.ashx#axzz2RVYY1Xuu

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/25/70019/Arts--Culture/Visual-Art/
Greece-pulls-statues-from-Qatar-Olympic-show-over-.aspx

http://world.greekreporter.com/2013/04/23/greece-yanks-doha-statues-over-nudity-ban
/

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3746874.ece

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2013/04/25/official-greeks-pull-nudes-from-q
atar-art-exhibit/tTSGD0idWQzcpnyS77uiLK/story.html


The Greco-Roman museum in Alexandria is reopening:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/egypt/2013/04/23/Archeology-Gree
k-Roman-museum-reopen-Alexandria_8600943.html

... as is the Morocco Jewish Museum:

http://forward.com/articles/175283/morocco-jewish-museum-reopens-after-renovations/


Feature on the Sharjah Archaeology Museum:

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritage/a-history-of-the-uae-set-in-stone-at-
the-sharjah-archaeology-museum

Roman Machines:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/entertainment/arts-reviews/8591392/Ingenious-Rom
ans-mighty-machines-inspire-awe

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Macbeth:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/theater/reviews/macbeth-with-alan-cumming-at-t
he-barrymore-theater.html?ref=arts

Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/arts/music/le-jardin-de-monsieur-rameau-at-bam.ht
ml?ref=arts

Kon Tiki:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/movies/kon-tiki-directed-by-joachim-roenning-a
nd-espen-sandberg.html?_r=0


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Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
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Peter Walsh:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10013612/Peter-Walsh.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130421.mp3
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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Frontiers of the European Iron Age (September 20-22):

http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/iron_age/2013/index.html

PaleoAmerican Odyssey (October 17-19):

http://www.paleoamericanodyssey.com/
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

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