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(v1.60q) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <19014352589.20020811091834@idirect.com> To: classics@u.washington.edu CC: aia-l@brynmawr.edu, BRITARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, ane@listhost.uchicago.edu Subject: Explorator 5.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ================================================================ explorator 5.15 August 15, 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 Bill Thayer, Ross Sargent, 'Salinas17', Michael Ruggieri, Maurice O'Sullivan, Terry Gibson, 'mb2400', Bill Kennedy, Paul James Cowie, Arthur Shippee, Joseph Nicholas, W. Richard Frahm,'alesmonetos', and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) n.b. Last week I carelessly suggested the team which had claimed to have found El Dorado was Polish; it is, in fact, an international team led by a "Polish-Italian" journalist/explorer. Apologies for any confusion this may have caused. ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ John Noble Wilford attempts to clarify the Chadian skull thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/science/06SKUL.html In the what-can-DNA-tell-us-about-antiquity department, the latest suggestion is that there is genetic evidence "middle easter farmers 'civilised' Europe": http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992634 http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F08%2F06%2Fngene06.xml A log boat which might date to 3000 B.C. has been found off the coast of Ireland: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0805/2854861586HM2LOGBOAT.html http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/index.php3?ti=41&ca=9&si=801897&issue_id=7825 The Cerne Abbas Giant was recently, er, 'defaced' (not permanently ... potentially offensive content in this one): http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20020806/od_nm/sex_dc_1 Satellite technology has revealed a prehistoric site near Northumberland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/2178530.stm .... and a prehistoric cemetery has been found near Cheshire: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_644681.html They're still making significant finds in the 'workers village'near the pyramids: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0805_020805_giza.html Gulf News has a nice feature on the alignment of a Dilmun temple at Saar: http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=29638&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=25142 Plenty of coverage of a story on Bronze Age 'drug trade': http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020807_922.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020808/ap_wo_en_po/israel_ancient_narcotics_1 http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/791265.asp http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/08/08/ancientnarcotics.ap/index.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1028814634905 The Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be marking its centennial by hauling up a bunch of never-before-seen artifacts from the basement: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020805/sc_nm/leisure_egypt_museum_dc_1 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1522113 Another piece on politics and archaeology in the Holy Land: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-asecisraeldig04080402aug04.story .... while archaeologists seem to be quietly excavating a Byzantine monastery in Gaza: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19621 A first century cemetery has come to light near Palmyra: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020809/ap_wo_en_ge/syria_archaeology_1 A human-size statue of Baal Addir was recently revealed in a Sardinian context: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4855902%255E1702,00.html A Celtic Iron Age fort in Wales is "revealing its secrets": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/2178489.stm A large number of Eastern Zhou Dynasty tombs have been found in China: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/10/content_519198.htm .... as has an important tomb of an aristocrat: http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2002-08-11/81655.html Four Buddhas have been found hidden inside another Buddha rarely seen by the public: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_643946.html Sanskrit is in danger of becoming extinct: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2173400.stm There's a battle brewing over the fate of the "Welsh Mary Rose": http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,771543,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/2183191.stm ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ There is evidence of pre-Columbian dentistry in Mexico: http://www.thenewsmexico.com/printedformat.asp?id=31882 Bones found near Lake Jackson (Texas) might be 11,000 years old: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1528019 A nice report on excavations near Fort Vancouver: http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Bay-Dig.html Home construction in Virginia has revealed the grave of a slave: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020808/ap_wo_en_ge/us_slave_remains_1 ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ A new issue of Bible Review, with online articles on a collection of New Testament manuscripts, the Exodus debate, and other things: http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html .... and Archaeology Odyssey, with articles on the ten most endangered archaeological sites, Moses Shapira (wow), et alia: http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ I came across the Into Archaeology website this week; it's worth a look for a number of reasons, but in particular its articles section has some good stuff (currently, an interview with Adrienne Mayor, a piece on the Thera ships, and a piece on the work at Bird Cove): http://www.intoarch.com/ The Oriental Institute has recently added a whole pile of publically- accessible articles to its News and Notes section: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/NewsAndNotes.html ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ George Dennis, *Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria*: http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/.Periods/Roman/Archaic/Etruscan/.Texts/DENETR*/home.html Horace, *Odes and Carmen Saeculare* (Conington trans.): http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5432 Horace, *Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica* (Conington trans.): http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5419 ================================================================ ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL ================================================================ Calleva: The Roman Town of Silchester: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ There are claims that recent Al-Qaeda casualties were actually potential antiquity thieves: http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/08/07/afghan.gunfights/index.html ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ .... can't seem to connect today (hmmmmm...) ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Iain Pears, *Dream of Scipio*: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/07/books/07PEAR.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/books/review/23CROWLET.html Tony Perrottet, *Route 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists* http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/134447835_route66ad05.html Anton Powell, * Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek political and social history from 478 BC* http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12974&m=A19&aa=2&eidos=S Antigone (Epidavros): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19644 ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Treasures from a Lost Civilization (Toronto): http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020809/wl_canada_nm/canada_arts_china_col_1 ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Famed debunker James Randi has been running a series on Lucian's debunking of Alexander of Abonutichus which is worth a look. It's in four parts (you'll have to skim through some other, readable, stuff to get to the bits on Lucian ... it tends to be near the end): http://www.randi.org/jr/071902.html http://www.randi.org/jr/072602.html http://www.randi.org/jr/080202.html http://www.randi.org/jr/080902.html In case you meet someone who asks, "What's all the hubbub about those Elgin Marbles?", here's a nice article to hand them: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fv20020806a1.htm Classical precedents cited in a piece on gossip: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/arts/10GOSS.html Latin content in a story of a man with way too much time on his hands: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,770241,00.html How not to pursue a classics degree: http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/news/NEWS6.html Some guy is studying why ancient Greek buildings seem to do so well in earthquakes (do they?): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19704 A reader alerted me to LewRockwell.com, this week, which is a political site which at least one item of interest ... a piece by Daniel McCarthy on Greek ideas of liberty: http://www.lewrockwell.com/dmccarthy/dmccarthy35.html Plenty of ClassCon in a Newsweek piece "Why We Need Heaven": http://www.msnbc.com/news/789252.asp .... and a reason for studying Latin and Greek in an interview with David McCollough: http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2002-07/danger.html Not sure whether there's comparanda potential in this bit on the crowning of King Puck: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=856&ncid=856&e=1&u=/nm/20020810/od_uk_nm/oukoe_ireland_puck_1 Peter Jones in the Spectator (there's a Hannibal movie coming!): http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-08-10&id=2137 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-08-10&id=2138 Perfess'r Harris' Classics Corner: http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html 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/ ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Ancient Chinese Mail: http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,770922,00.html Birth Bricks: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/science/social/06BRIC.html?ex=1029729600&en=cbb6833f14483e22&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER "Hidden Nazi Gold": http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Germany-Nazi-Gold.html http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4859169%255E663,00.html http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=195691&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Monitor (the coverage varies quite a bit in these): http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/05/uss.monitor.ap/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/09/science/09MONI.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020805/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/uss_monitor_5 http://www.msnbc.com/news/789905.asp Ninkasi Beer: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020806/od_uk_nm/oukoe_britain_beer_1 Old Chess Piece: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F08%2F06%2Fwchess06.xml Replica Egyptian Tombs: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/598/hr1.htm Return of Ramses I: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9856 Return of Roman sculpture by Princeton: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9855 Roman Plane from York: http://www.fragmentsoftime.com/new_page_8.htm Vinland Map: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=624&ncid=624&e=12&u=/ap/20020730/ap_on_sc/vinland_map_3 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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