From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jan 21 06:18:04 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id GAA121916 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:18:03 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA14779 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:18:02 -0800 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-25.look.ca [216.154.52.153]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA34908; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 09:09:08 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010121091614.0205b320@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 09:17:16 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu, ancien-l@listserv.louisville.edu, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com, PreModernWorldHistory@egroups.com, From: David Meadows Subject: In the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed What follows is an abbreviated version of Explorator, the free weekly email newsletter devoted to matters archaeological and ancient, tailored to the focus of this list. If you would like to subscribe to the full version, with archaeological news from around the world and in various time periods, send a blank email message to: mailto:explorator-subscribe@egroups.com ------------------------------------------------------ OLD WORLD NEWS Just when you thought the 'Noah's flood' thing had died down, a team of researchers from Canada is suggesting the site may have been near the Persian Gulf: http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0101/14_manitoba-cp.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_173982.html?menu= http://www.nypostonline.com/news/worldnews/21462.htm The Frontier Post has a (somewhat strange) article on the Near East and Aegean art: http://frontierpost.com.pk/weekend.asp?id=4&date1=1/21/2001 Nando Times and the Macedonian Press Agency report that the FBI has (finally) returned a large number of antiquities purloined from the museum at Corinth a decade ago: http://www.nandotimes.com/global/story/0,1024,500301332-500481694-503309637-0,00.html http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpab/2001/01-01-19.mpab.html#12 The Athenian News Agency has an all too brief report on the discovery of some Geometric period tombs in Cyprus: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2001/01-01-15.ana.html#19 The International Herald Tribune has a piece on the Etruscans: http://www.iht.com/articles/8109.htm I'm sure we'll hear more about this one next week ... EurekaAlert has an interesting press release on how a Classics grad student (yay!) has found proof that Homer was right about burnt sacrifices in the Bronze Age: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uc-cds011901.html Techie types will be interested to learn that archaeologists have unearthed a prehistoric C compiler (sorry ... I couldn't resist including this one): http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/16227.html ON THE NEWSSTANDS The January issue of Scientific American has an interesting commentary piece on the development of writing: http://www.sciam.com/2001/0101issue/0101wonders.html Discovering Archaeology has put up an article on the city of Aperlae (in Lycia): http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/011401-turkey.shtml http://www.usatoday.com/weather/science/archaeology/2001-01-16-aperlae.htm CLASSICIST'S CORNER Ekathimerini has posted an article from December 1969 (I doubt that's right .... there's a ref to 1998 in it) about the 'Cabernet Sauvignon of Antiquity' -- Phliasios wine -- with plenty of ancient refs ... interesting stuff: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=67087 The New York Times has an extended piece on Cleopatra, with refs to the exhibition in Italy, movies, etc.: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/20/arts/20CLEO.html FOLLOWUPS Baharaiya Oasis mummies: http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010118/2001011829.html Karachi mummy: http://news.excite.com/news/r/010119/08/odd-mummy-dc http://www.timesofindia.com/160101/16nbrs26.htm Zeugma: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:FAITH1/1:FAITH10119101.html AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Hanno of Carthage's little trip: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa011801a.htm?terms=a1 Latin Guide Janet Burns' has a guest-written feature on Augustus: http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/weekly/aa011401a.htm .