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(v1.60q) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <183635493.20020804092142@idirect.com> To: classics@u.washington.edu CC: aia-l@brynmawr.edu, amun@yahoogroups.com, BRITARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, ane@listhost.uchicago.edu Subject: Explorator 5.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ================================================================ explorator 5.14 August 4, 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. 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Richard Frahm,'alesmonetos',and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ There have been a number of significant discoveries in excavations near the Sphinx of late, including a "fully stocked and functioning bakery": http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020728-115753-2198r http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o010822i.htm .... and at Saqqarah: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o010822b.htm Also recently excavated are a pair of New Kingdom tombs: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/596/hr2.htm The latest installment of "we've revived the recipe for ancient Egyptian beer": http://www.msnbc.com/news/789133.asp http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAM7HB5E4D.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2169957.stm .... and as a sidenote, the ancient Sumerian goddess Ninakasi has lent her name to a 'female friendly' beer in the UK: http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,768670,00.html Here's an interview with Renée Dreyfus, one of the curators of the Eternal Egypt exhibition (now in San Francisco, or soon to be there): http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/3797709.htm Gulf News has a nice overview of archaeology of the region: http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=58891 The Guardian has an interesting not-quite-touristy but not-quite- political-opinion with plenty of NearEastCon focusing on a visit to assorted monuments in Iraq: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,767576,00.html A Roman-era woodworking plane has been found on the Yorkshire Wolds: http://yorkshirepost.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=news&aid=4 76970 Excavations at Qumran have revealed a skeleton which some are suggesting might be the 'Teacher of Righteousness' (and/or John the Baptist): http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_642240.html http://www.ctnow.com/news/education/hc-skeleton0802.artaug02.story Construction of the museum to house the Elgin Marbles in Athens appears to be doing rather a lot of damage: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14435-2002Jul28.html An interesting item which suggests excavations at Tel Rumeida have more to do with politics than archaeology: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-asecisraeldig04080402aug04.story The remains of a first century 'giant' warrior have been found in Kazakhstan: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_640713.html A 'lost' Buddhist city has been found in Afghanistan: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_638491.html http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4793829%255E1376 2,00.html A 2500 B.P. city is being excavated in China's Anhui province: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-07/29/content_502251.htm There appears to be evidence (maybe) that Christianity had reached China as early as 86 A.D. (!): http://www.chinaartnetworks.com/news/show_news.php?id=1369 Those bamboo slips recently found in China (see Followups if you missed the story) suggest there was an "express postal service" in the third century B.C./B.C.E: http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/02/china.archaeology/index.html Welsh researchers are investigating how medieval medicine might help us somewhat more modern types: http://www.nature.com/nsu/020715/020715-15.html There's some rather disparate coverage of the dating of the so- called 'Vinland Map' (you definitely have to read more than one of these): http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr072902a.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-07/acs-tvm072902.php http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_640234.html http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/31/nmap31.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/07/31/ixnewstop.html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/tech/main516827.shtml http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=320020 Bangkok is busy trying to save underwater sites from treasure hunters: http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,135556,00.html? The Tay River expedition is starting to find stuff: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_643101.html They're talking about a new tourist centre for Stonehenge (don't they do this once a year?): http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_640941.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020731/sc_nm/britain_stonehenge_dc_1 Not sure how to classify this one (which I missed last week) .... the contents of Charterhouse School Museum, which includes antiquities from Europe and the Americas, is being put up for auction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,763979,00.html Also not sure, but there's a new theory about the identity of Jack the Ripper: http://observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,764416,00.html ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Here's a piece on the prehistoric climate in (mostly) South America: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/020801080424.htm Low water levels are giving access to a 6000 B.P. fish weir in New Jersey: http://www.weather.com/newscenter/topstories/schoolday/020802xschlxdroughtriver.html A pre-Columbian mausoleum has been found in Mexico: http://www.thenewsmexico.com/printedformat.asp?id=31325 A Polish team is certain it has found El Dorado: http://library.northernlight.com/FB20020727450000013.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0 Once again, Mesa Verde was threatened by wildfires: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020731/ap_wo_en_po/us_wildfires_8 .... and the fire revealed more sites: http://www2.dailycamera.com/bdc/state_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2419_1302186,00.html Will they ever finish St. John the Divine?: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/realestate/28SCAP.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology: http://www.kl.oakland.edu/kraemer/edcm/ Classical Mythology Directory: http://www.temple.edu/classics/mythdirectory.html ASOR Newsletter (Summer 2002): http://www.asor.org/pubs/news/52_2.pdf Transoxian 4 is out, with online articles (mostly in Spanish) dealing with various subjects pertaining to the ancient Near East: http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/ ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ Charles Leland,*Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition*: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/err/index.htm ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A (somewhat grotty) head was stolen from the Greek Archaic gallery at the British Museum: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2166867.stm http://yorkshirepost.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=news&aid=476970 http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=285426 Egypt is demanding the return of an item from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9835 A number of old Torah scrolls purloined by Nazis are to be returned by Lithuania: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterFull&cid=1027506387968 ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Harry J. Maihafer, "Upset at Issus": http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blissusa.htm Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Cerén: http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb073102a.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Iphigenia (Epidavros): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19466 ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Queen of Sheba (British Museum): http://www.iht.com/articles/66643.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Classics Eireann has set up a page with addresses to write to in regards to the impending closure of the Classics department at Queen's University (Belfast). The page includes facts/stats about the school, which is the only school of Classics in Northern Ireland: http://homepage.mac.com/classicseireann/qub_status.html In case you missed it, NPR's Talk of the Nation had a segment on the revival of Classics (requires RealPlayer): http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/totn/20020801.totn.01.ram The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on what's been done to and in various monuments this summer: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/travel/ATHENS.html The Atlantic has a nice touristy thing about a visit to Rome: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2002-06-26.htm .... and fulfilling the scholastic law of three, here's a nice touristy thing on Cappadocia: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/04/TR111893.DTL .... and totally violating that law is a nice touristy thing on Ostia: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0730/p14s01-altr.html Hercules is to be performed in front of the Temple of Zeus: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/arts/design/02ANTI.html The Bibliotheca Alexandrina's first book fair has some content of interest: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/597/cu1.htm A future classicist is among those who managed to escape serious injury in that blast at Hebrew University: http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,0-1059531,00.html A nice piece on the Panathenaion stadium: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12973 &m=A09&aa=1&eidos=S A somewhat bizarre appeal to ancient Greek precedent (?) in an editorial about bilingual ballots in Denver (this one's a head scratcher): http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E417%257E764330%257E,00.html And a somewhat more thoughtful investigation into the concept of the homo sacer: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/27982.html A poem in Slate inspired by Catullus (potentially offensive use of a certain word in the last line): http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068633&device= The Washington Post has a nice article on the state of teaching about ancient Greeks (and Romans) in Maryland schools: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31622-2002Jul19.html More on Olympic truce efforts: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020731/ap_on_sp_so_ne/soc_turkey_greece_truce_1 Wow ... Greek is going to be taught in a public school: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/216/learning/Barnstable_teacher_gets_to_root_of_Greek_language+.shtml Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-08-03&id=2113 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-08-03&id=2110 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 ================================================================ Birth Rock: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020729/0801egypt.html Chinese Bamboo Records: http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/01/china.archaeol ogy/index.html Florida Canals: http://www.iht.com/articles/65652.html Monitor: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1907868,00.html http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/3740240.htm http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.monitor27jul27.story?coll=bal%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines Replica Egyptian Tombs: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/597/hr1.htm Teaching Young Egyptians about Ancient Egypt: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020801/ap_wo_en_po/egypt_children_s_museum_1 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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