From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Apr 29 04:22:36 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3TBMY948746 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 04:22:34 -0700 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f3TBMYb27141 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 04:22:34 -0700 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-02-110.look.ca [216.154.52.46]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA28630; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:22:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010429072049.03db6070@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:22:31 -0400 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@yahoogroups.com ------------------------------------------------------ First of all, apologies to all who received an html-formatted newsletter last week and whose systems couldn't process it. I did not intend to send out html mail and am still trying to figure out why it went out that way. That said, thanks to all who responded to my query about an html-formatted Explorator; from private mail it is very clear that this would not be a good thing for the vast majority, so we'll keep things as they are. Thanks to Curtis B. Edmundson, Jean Laplante, Tim Parkin, Sally Winchester, 'mauros', Michael Ruggieri, 'Sujazz', and Bill Kennedy for several headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) OLD WORLD NEWS The Daily Star has a feature on the Canaanite site of Yarmuta: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/28_04_01/art3.htm A conference on how best to preserve the monuments of the Middle/Near east has political implications: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1295000/1295319.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1295000/1295008.stm MSNBC (and others) has an interesting item on black magic in the ancient Greek world: http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/560131.asp http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12907&m=A05&aa=1&eidos=S http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=79231 Police have confiscated a hoard of interesting illegally-excavated artifacts near Vonitsa: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=80390 AthensNews has a lengthy touristy piece on ancient Troezen: http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12907&m=A24&aa=1&eidos=S A fourth-century Egyptian coffin is on display in Rochester: http://library.northernlight.com/EB20010427170000046.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc Another bit of fallout from Afghanistan: the left foot of Zeus is on display in Tokyo: http://www.asahi.com/english/asahi/0426/asahi042604.html The Aberdeen Herald has a brief item on a recent Iron Age discovery in that city: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/24-4-19101-0-1-2.html The Times (South Africa) has a feature on the excavations at Uxellodunum ('eat your heart out Asterix'): http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=79&art_id=qw988311781884B216 (cf. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_275516.html?menu=) There was a fair bit of coverage this week devoted to the discovery of a Roman-era armoury/armour in Roman Carlisle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1297000/1297752.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,478537,00.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-120182,00.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0427_romanarmor.html A Roman villa at El-Jem will soon be open to the public: http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1014411,00.html A third-century Celtic fibula has reached a rather high price at auction: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=gjSGSbru&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/4/26/ngold26.html Also at auction at Christie's ... a pile of Italian vases, many of them looted apparently: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-118293,00.html ON THE NEWSSTANDS Archaeology Magazine has a new online issue with abstracts of articles on ancient Abydos, the recently-discovered inn at Pompeii, the spiritual life of slaves in America, and numerous other items: http://www.archaeology.org/0105/toc/toc.html The Art Newspaper has apparently updated its archaeology page (but not copyright date!), with items on Stonehenge, the statue of Cybele recently found in Greece, threats to sites in Sicily, and a cache of coins from Syria: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/archaeology/archeology.asp Biblical Archaeology Review also has a new online issue, with articles on stone shrines in the Negev, the battle over ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Abraham's Ur, among other things: http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html Egypt Revealed has a piece in anticipation of a F. Goddio lecture on the layout of the sunken bits of ancient Alexandria (with a fairly good map): http://www.egyptrevealed.com/042601-goddio-sunkencity.htm CLASSICIST'S CORNER This is the sort of thing I've been dying to do with my classes: http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/04/26/local_news/PDIG26.htm The Independent has a precis of Peter Wiseman's presidential address to the Classical Association: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=69022 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-117802,00.html More from the meeting: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-118372,00.html FOLLOWUPS Cleopatra at the BM: http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12907&m=A02&aa=3&eidos=S Herculaneum Papyri: http://www.standard.net/stories/local/04-2001/ftp0103@local@20decode@ogden.asp Karachi mummy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=fsDwD0os&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/4/29/wmum29.html Pyramid hidden cavities: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1285000/1285707.stm http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12907&m=A16&aa=4&eidos=S http://www.egyptrevealed.com/042301-debunkfrench.htm Troy: Myth and Reality: http://www.msnbc.com/news/556889.asp OBITUARIES Laurence Flanagan: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-120135,00.html AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest feature is on Spartacus: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa042101a.htm .