explorator 6.7

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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What are believed to be the oldest homo sapiens skulls ever found
have been, er, found:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/924977.asp
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993814
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2978800.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0612/p03s02-stgn.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/science/12FOSS.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-06/uoc--1fs061003.php
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_789516.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030611_410.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=624&e=3&u=/ap/20030611/ap_on_sc/oldest_humans

Since the Times link last week was rather more ephemeral than it
initally appeared to be, here's more coverage of the claim that
the mummy of Nefertiti has been identified:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030616-457370-1,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2978710.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/924365.asp
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/243893.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,975411,00.html

Egyptian authorities are balking at the identification, by the
way:

http://eturbonews.com/editions/13JUN2003.htm#article8 (scroll down)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20030612/od_nm/egypt_nefertiti_dc

Still with Nefertiti, the claim that German museum officials
mounted her famous bust on a 'body' is causing a major row:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2979394.stm

Egypt Today has a nice piece on Gurna and the people who live and/or
used to live there:

http://www.egypttoday.com/issues/0306/A963/0306A963.asp

Plenty of coverage of the return of the Warka vase this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/international/worldspecial/13LOOT.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2986868.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/12/sprj.nilaw.museum/
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=650952003

... and the treasures of Nimrud (news of which arrived just as
Explorator went 'to press' last weekend):

http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=7&aid=D7RH8I3G0_story
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/07/iraqi.treasures.ap/index.html
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_34205522,00.html
(Spanish)

More coverage of in the 'most of the artifacts were safe and
sound vein' (with varying numbers, of course):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32129-2003Jun8.html?referrer=emailarticle

The count is somewhat confusing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29518-2003Jun7.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2763-713846,00.html
(duration of link unknown)

... and now the editorials begin on who's to blame for 'fudging
the numbers' of missing items from Iraq:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57406-2003Jun13.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52824-2003Jun12.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974193,00.html
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003614

cf. the BBC's lengthy report at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/iraq/iraq_after_the_war_01.shtml

Journalists' focus is now turning to looting of archaeological sites:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6064613.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/international/worldspecial/12LOOT.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993825
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=585&e=7&u=/nm/20030611/sc_nm/iraq_archeology_dc
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/20_05_03_b.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47252-2003Jun11.html?nav=hptop_ts

Hopefully this will be of use to someone (the article is in Farsi
and I'm trusting my source for the content) ... a number of
Parthian period artifacts, including an anchor and some
pottery, has been found on the shore of the Persian Gulf near
Gonaveh:

http://www.chn.ir/shownews.asp?no=1262

The Jehoash inscription has (apparently) been declared to be
a fake:

http://tinyurl.com/ecqb
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=44699

Athens News has a touristy sort of thing (written by Jonathan Carr)
on Eupalinus' water tunnel on Samos:

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13016&m=A20&aa=1&eidos=S

Die Welt has a feature (in German) on the Scythians:

http://www.welt.de/data/2003/06/02/105740.html

Here's more recent coverage of the excavation of that Roman barge
found in the Netherlands:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2969638.stm

A possible human sacrifice site has been found in Yorkshire:

http://tinyurl.com/ecte

Somewhat vague coverage of the latest from Ayodhya:

http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en28468&F_catID=&f_type=source
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2003-daily/11-06-2003/main/main17.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_877648.htm

cf:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2981106.stm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=585&e=2&u=/nm/20030611/sc_nm/religion_india_temple_dc

Chinese archaeologists 'did a Hawass doing a Geraldo' and opened
a 1000 b.p. coffin on live television:

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0612ChinaCoffin12-ON.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_789775.html

The Great Wall of China isn't in as great condition as it might
appear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/international/asia/12WALL.html

More coverage of the claims of oldest writing from China:

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2003-06-12/118859.html

More Fujimura fallout:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=644342003
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THE AMERICAS
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A pair of firepits has been found during construction in the Pacific
Northwest:

http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/134186

A feature on the Vore Buffalo Jump site:

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2003/06/10/news/wyoming/240dd7ac129a45ebfe206398d42db0fc.txt

A large number of aboriginal artifacts from Ontario are on their
way to a dump in Michigan because workers doing renovations at the
U of T thought they were trash:

http://tinyurl.com/dw61

The New York Historical Society discovered recently that it had
a couple of 1792 quarters in its possession:

http://uspatterns.com/uspatterns/2j117quarfou.html
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On the DNA front, it appears humans might have been almost extinct
some 70,000 years B.P.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2975862.stm

A wireless sonar system which can measure things accurately within
a "cubic centimetre" should be useful to underwater archaeologists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/technology/circuits/12next.html

A sort of overview of the budgetary situation of the Antiquities
Department on the Turkish half of Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/8/features5.htm

The Archaeology Service in Greece is doing some major hiring:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100017_12/06/2003_30700

The British Museum is celebrating its 250th anniversary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2969256.stm
http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_34842378,00.html

An interesting account of the results of the search for a living
relative of Marco Polo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/09/nyregion/09POLO.html

Coinciding with an exhibition devoted to the stuff, the New York
Times has a nice piece on the history of chocolate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/10/science/10CHOC.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/arts/design/13CHOC.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/99249.html
cf.: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s878479.htm

The Met has acquired a Barocci:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/arts/design/13INSI.html

Music of the French Baroque is suddenly popular again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/09/arts/music/09CHRI.html

An item on Britain's Museum of Immigration and Diversity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/arts/design/11IMMI.html

The New York Times has a touristy thing on Sicily (mostly
Ragusa):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/travel/15sicily.html

... and Naples:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/travel/15naples.html

Might as well include some stuff on Friday the Thirteenth:

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/061303/new_061303new004001.shtml
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Anistoriton 7 (2003):

http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/anistor/cover_en.htm (full text)

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 14.1 (May 2003):

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0905-7196&vid=14&iid=1&oc=&s=
(TOCS and abstracts)

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77.2 (Summer 2003):

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm77.2.html
(MUSE)

Journal of Early Christian Studies 11.2 (Summer 2003):

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_early_christian_studies/toc/earl11.2.html
(MUSE)

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16.1 (June 2003):

http://www.continuumjournals.com/journals/index.asp?jref=13
(abstracts)

Quaderni della Casa Romena 2 (2002):

http://www.geocities.com/serban_marin/quaderni2002.html (all articles
online)
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ON THE WEB
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I just came across this one -- Hubert Chanson has a website devoted
to his various professional interests, among which are Roman
aqueducts. There's a nice presentation of the technical aspects of
same at the following link and if you make your way to the bottom
there is a link to reprints of his research papers, many of
which deal with matters aqueductal. Worth a look:

http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/rom_aq.html

The Newton Project:

http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/ (site)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/technology/circuits/12newt.html
(coverage)

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has put all its content from 1841 to 1902
online in a rather useable (but slow, if you're on dialup) way:

http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/

The New Yorker has a little feature on sites dealing with Captain
Cook and the Endeavour:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?020722on_onlineonly02

... and some stuff on Cleopatra (although these aren't necessarily
the best links out there):

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?010507on_onlineonly02
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906):

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
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CRIME BEAT
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A number of items were stolen from the Rothschild collection:

http://www.arts.scotsman.com/headlines_specific.cfm?id=7344

The looting continues in Afghanistan, apparently:

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=28319

A report on looting of sites in China:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_body.asp?section=Opinion&oid=25428
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ling Ouyang, "Tacitus and Tiberius":

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_ouyang1a.htm

Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on health and safety in
the field:

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/fieldlabgear/a/safety.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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The New York Times has a feature on Elaine Pagels (*The Gnostic
Gospels*):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/books/14PAGE.html

and:

Elaine Pagels, *Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/review/15KERMODT.html

Easter Islandiana:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/review/15UPCHURT.html

James Gleick, *Isaac Newton*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/review/15GINGERT.html
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PERFORMANCES
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The Persians:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/arts/theater/11PERS.html

Les Boreades (opera):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/arts/music/11BORE.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the
Classical Past:

http://news.amn.org/press.jsp?id=1579

Turner: The Late Seascapes (good slide show!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/arts/design/13COTT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Latest installment of what to do with a classics degree:

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2003/06/15/news/wyoming/39e5c73b4cbf74f39581af28a1386062.txt

Some results from a Greek Translation contest:

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0306/13/m15.html

ClassCon in an editorial that is somewhat hard to follow:

http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8207

Interesting tidbits in coverage of 'Private Lives of Pompeii':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/arts/television/13TVWK.html

More coverage of Leo Strauss' 'influence':

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/opinion/L13STRA.html
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105513011183328200,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1054693171392

The movies about Alexander must be coming soon ... we're beginning
to get coverage like this, which claims Alexander wasn't the big
spreader of Hellenism that he is claimed to be:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/06/12_great.shtml

Peter Jones has a lengthy feature on jargon in university settings:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2003-06-14&id=3194

Peter Jones' regular column:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2003-06-14&id=3213

Perfess'r Harris:

http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Bernard Williams (philosopher):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/obituaries/14WILL.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,976477,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/14/db1401.xml
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REPEATS
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Mount Nemrut Restoration:

http://www.metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-23/cultent/archaeologists_to_restore.htm

Otto the Great's Cathedral:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s877416.htm
http://www.welt.de/data/2003/06/04/110842.html (German)

Search for the Beagle:

http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_34204056,00.html
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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Ancient World Web Breaking News Page:

http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html

Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

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/

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

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand/

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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