From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Oct 1 08:22:35 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA108714 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 08:22:34 -0700 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA32747 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 08:22:33 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-163.look.ca [216.154.53.35]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA54546; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:22:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001001112325.01e40020@postoffice.idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@postoffice.idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:27:03 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu, ancIEN-L@LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com From: David Meadows Subject: In the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From my post-virus newsletter: THE BIG NEWS The big news of this week (although it received very little coverage ... I suspect the followups column next week will be replete with more refs) strikes me as being the discovery of a contract which has what appears to be the signature of Cleopatra: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000928/hi_cleopatra.html OLD WORLD NEWS The BBC reports (a couple of times) on Egypt's plans to open various underwater sites in Alexandria to tourists (my father would say "Don't hold your breath" as an editorial comment of sorts here, but holding one's breath might be appropriate): http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle%5Feast/newsid%5F940000/940067.stm http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle%5Feast/newsid%5F939000/939930.stm Researchers have 'rediscovered' a famous chair from Olympia used by judges during the ancient games: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/sti/2000/10/01/stiscosco03006.html The Times of London has a tantalizingly brief item which appears to be revealing the discovery of an Etruscan city: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/09/26/timfgneur01001.html The Times also reports on the discovery of Ovid's villa on the banks of the Tiber: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/09/21/timfgneur01003.html NorthernLight brings a vague report on the discovery of Roman-era shipwrecks off the coast of Sardinia: http://library.northernlight.com/EA20000930910000025.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc The Sunday Times has an interesting piece on the "Reigate Witch Bottle" (interesting comparative material for folks studying ancient magic): http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/09/28/timcrtcrt01002.html The Columbus Dispatch has an interesting piece on a sort of private museum devoted to Biblical Archaeology: http://www.dispatch.com:80/news/newsfea00/sep00/439012.html The same source also has a nice piece on coinage from around the time of Jesus: http://www.dispatch.com:80/news/newsfea00/sep00/439005.html ABCNews has an interesting piece on resurgence in interest/practice of trepanation: http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/trepanation000927.html CLASSICISTS' CORNER The Olympics has brought out more coverage of the ancient Olympics (finally), and there seems to have been more interest among newsies in Stephen Miller's efforts at Nemea: http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/092900/nemea.sml http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/09/09262000/zeus_3070.asp The Times of London also has a piece on the 'myth' behind the modern Olympics: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/09/29/timfeafea03005.html Salon's Olympic commentator managed to squeeze in a learned reference or two this week as well: http://www.salon.com:80/news/sports/olympics/2000/09/25/spear/index.html FOLLOWUPS Ballard and the Black Sea: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/People/Profiles/2000-09/profile170900.shtml http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/09/09252000/ballsea_3066.asp http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/09/09192000/artifacts_3053.asp Queen of Sheba's Temple: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_72849.html Midas' Feast: http://library.northernlight.com/HA20000924680000015.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc ON THE NEWSSTANDS Discovering Archaeology has a number of new items: On Petra (no photos!): http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com:80/1000toc/10feature4-metropolis.shtml OBITUARIES Robert Cook: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/09/20/timobiobi03002.html .