From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jul 25 06:38:59 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA25258 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 06:38:58 -0700 Received: from icarus.idirect.com (icarus.idirect.com [207.136.80.7]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.06) with ESMTP id GAA03718 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 06:38:58 -0700 Received: from orion.idirect.com ([207.136.80.167]) by icarus.idirect.com with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 118OUT-0006Zi-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:38:57 -0400 Received: from idirect.com (liv2ham-35.idirect.com [207.136.126.163]) by orion.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA83895 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:38:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from default ([127.0.0.1]) by idirect.com with SMTP (Mailtraq/1.0.0.992) id IDRC27933653A for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:36:28 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990725093623.00714038@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: dmeadows@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:36:23 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: in the latest explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Hops: 1 Some repeats here, but some new stuff too: One of the big news items of the past few days has to be the discovery of four tenth century B.C./B.C.E. tombs in Rome's Forum, as reported best in Il Messaggero: http://www.ilmessaggero.it/hermes/19990724/01_NAZIONALE/28/ROMOLO.htm For the Italianless, CNN's Custom News picks up the rather more brief Xinhua report (although they're identified as ninth century there)(watch the wrap): http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=4132965&p_section_na me=On+Target&p_art_type=985349&p_subcat=archaeology&p_category= Earlier this week, the New York Times picked up an AP story on the discovery of some major Gallo-Roman sites in France, including 400 or so tombs dating from "400-800 B.C." (thanks to Mark Williams for the heads up): http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-France-Tombs.html L'Unione Sarda has a brief report on the discovery of some Roman ships during the excavations for a tunnel at Olbia (thanks to Bob Rowland for the heads up ... watch the wrap): http://www.unionesarda.it/unione/1999/22%2D07%2D99/22%2D07%2D99%5Fsas01%5Ft0 2.html CNN's Custom News also picks up a Reuters 'feature' on Alexandria which gives a sort of overview of what's been going on there (nothing really new)(watch the wrap): http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=4125809&p_section_na me=On+Target&p_art_type=985349&p_subcat=archaeology&p_category= The Linux Journal has an interesting article called *Archaeology and GIS- the Linux Way* (thanks to coauthor R. Joe Brandon for the heads up): http://linuxjournal.com:82/lj-issues/current/2983.html Discovering Archaeology has a bunch of new features online, including a profile of Zahi Hawass, a piece called "The Artistic Soul of Greece" and plenty more http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0499toc/0499toc.shtml Mercator Magazine has updated its site and the current issue has a couple of interesting articles on "Discovering the Moral World" (morality maps) and "Mapping All Under Heaven" (on the effect of Jesuit maps on the Chinese world view): http://www.mercatormag.com/toc.html The Guardian reports the sad news (in an obituary by Anthony Birley) of the death of Barri Jones: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,67813,00.html REGULAR FEATURES CTCWeb's Words of the Week http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html English translation (probably delayed): http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html ]|[ David Meadows ]|[ http://web.idirect.com/~atrium ]|[ Rogue Classicist ]|[ .