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(v1.60q) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <86572951.20020616090402@idirect.com> To: explorator@yahoogroups.com CC: classics@u.washington.edu, ancientmed@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, latin@vlists.net, , Subject: Explorator 5.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ================================================================ explorator 5.7 June 16, 2002 ================================================================ Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap (especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to W. Richard Frahm, Sandra Bingham,Arthur Shippee, Dale Armstrong, Ardle MacMahon, 'Ivygab', Maurice O'Sullivan, Rick Pettigrew, John McChesney-Young, and Sally Winchester, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) Happy Father's Day to all the fathers and father figures out there ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ It might be bacteria which is eating away at the paintings of Altamira: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020614/ap_on_sc/spain_cave_paintings_5 There's another replica of an ancient boat plying the waves ... this time a replica of a pre-pharaonic reed boat: http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmnews/2002/02-06-13.cmnews.html#02 Archaeologists (without stumbling, even!) have found what appears to be the oldest intact sarcophagus: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4520152%255E1702,00.html http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA7C397I2D.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_608585.html The Lebanon Daily Star has a nice feature on the excavations at Urkesh: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/13_06_02/art3.asp Here's a news release on an upcoming dig at Kenan Tepe: http://www.newswise.com/articles/2002/6/TURKEY.UUT.html Looks like there's going to be a serious challenge to the Pitman and Ryan Black Sea Flood hypothesis: http://www.rpi.edu/web/News/press_releases/2002/noahsark.html http://www.newswise.com/articles/2002/6/NOAH.RPI.html A Hellenistic tower on the island of Ro will be restored: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12966&m=A10&aa=2&eidos=S Greek archaeologists don't want artifacts to leave Greece: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17612 There is evidence that sea trade between Rome and India was more extensive than similar trade via the Silk Route: http://www.ascribe.org:2201/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20020611.161623&time=16 http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405011230,00.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=624&e=1&cid=624&u=/ap/20020612/ap_on_sc/ancient_trade_1 http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA4L6WVC2D.html Maureen Fant has written a nice touristy piece for the New York Times all about her visit to Pompeii: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/travel/POMPEII.html .... and Francine Prose has one on a stay in Rome: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/travel/ROME.html The Amphitheatre in the center of London which folks have been excavating for the past 15 years or so is now open to the public: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2037000/2037732.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2038000/2038109.stm (photos) http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=304378 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F12%2Fnamph12.xml http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_605474.html http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=640072002 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020611/ap_wo_en_po/britain_roman_amphitheater_1 A Gupta era statue has been found in India's Patna district: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=12872702 Ethiopia once again asked Italy to return its obelisk: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/international/africa/11ETHI.html More on the impending construction of a new antiquities (!) museum in Egypt: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020613/ap_wo_en_po/egypt_antiquities_1 A statue of Venus reached a record price at Christie's this week: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020613/ap_wo_en_ge/britain_venus_1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F14%2Fnvenus14.xml (good photo) http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2043000/2043017.stm http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=J5EVZQCP02J3UCRBAE0CFEYKEEATGIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=1087809 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-326232,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,737281,00.html http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=305089 More from Christies: http://www.christies.com/presscenter/pressread.asp?pressId=367 They're letting the public into the convent at the top of Rome's Spanish Steps: http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2041000/2041326.stm ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Among the many digs about to get under way is one to search for Fort Bedford (in Bedford, PA, of course): http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020609/ap_on_re_us/brf_fort_bedford_1 Detroit News has a feature on the excavation of Fort St. Joseph: http://www.detnews.com/2002/metro/0206/16/metro-515609.htm .... and Bingham's Fort is slowly coming to light: http://www.standard.net/standard/news/news_story.html?sid=00020612231501588319+cat=news+template=news1.html The Hunley crew are the subject of a forensics exam: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0614_hunley_recov.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ Time has a nice article on the ongoing 'dig' in the harbour of Alexandria: http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020617-260666,00.html There's a new issue of Bible Review out, with a full text article on the 34 Gospels, among other things: http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html HS and crew have obviously been busy since there's also a new issue of Archaeology Odyssey out, with a nice article on Troy and the Trojan War, among (as usual) other things: http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Anita Cohen Williams has started a 'Blog' devoted to Archaeology devoted primarily to links of archaeological interest: http://archaeology.blogspot.com/ .... she also has one devoted to museums (check out the Museum of Depressionist Art, a nice parody): http://www.museumguru.blogspot.com/ Explorator, by the way, will have a Blog counterpart debuting in the next few weeks ... ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ *Encyclopedia of World History*: http://www.bartleby.com/67/ ================================================================ ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL ================================================================ Last week I forgot to mention the Archaeology Channel's feature on the Maya Lancandon culture and its struggles to survive: http://www.archaeologychannel.org .... and we should also mention the debut of a new audio series at the same site called "The Human Experience", which should be of interest to those with an anthropological bent: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/AudioNews/humexp.html ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Frederick Schultz was sentenced this week (the articles from Archaeology Magazine will hopefully clear up confusion about the pharoah's head ... Reuters seems to have dropped the ball on this one): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/arts/design/12SENT.html http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/features/schultz/details http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/news/schultz2 http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/12/stolen.art.ap/index.html http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2040000/2040769.stm While folks were oohing and aahing at the record price of the Venus sculpture at Christie's (see above), others were pointing out that one of the offerings had been stolen from Egypt (something lost in translation in the Egyptian version): http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020613/ap_wo_en_po/egypt_stolen_antiquity_3 http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o150622e.htm An Egyptian national was imprisoned briefly because he had been excavating in his house, which happened to sit upon a temple archaeologists have been searching for for years: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o090622l.htm ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Tom Huntington, "Bad King Herod": http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blkingherod1.htm ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Queen of Sheba (British Museum): http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_2037000/2037712.stm ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ NPR has a nice feature on 'keeping Latin alive' at Roosevelt High School: http://www.npr.org/news/specials/roosevelt/index.html More on the giant Aphrodite theme park proposed for Cyprus: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/15/index.htm The group Avaton make ancient Greek poetry "mainstream": http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12965&m=A39&aa=3&eidos=S There will be a production of Rossini's "The Siege of Corinth", appropriately, near Acrocorinth: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12966&m=A39&aa=3&eidos=S An interesting method of learning one's conjugations: http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/perspective/bal-pe.column16jun16.story?coll=bal%2Dperspective%2Dheadlines Since I was poking around a few blogs this a.m., folks might be interested in the Bloggus Caesari (in English, alas): http://www.sankey.ca/caesar/ Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-15&id=1960 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-15&id=1964 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Rodney H. Hilton (medieval historian): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/14/obituaries/14HILT.html Phyllis Bober (classical/renaissance art historian): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/obituaries/15BOBE.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020615/ap_on_re_us/deaths_17 ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Hunley watch: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20020610/hunley.html?ct=2319.61397760646 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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