From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Mar 18 04:22:13 2001 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+UW00.12) with ESMTP id EAA45918 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:22:12 -0800 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id EAA22274 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:22:11 -0800 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-117.look.ca [216.154.51.117]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA46662; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 07:20:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010318072151.00a60e30@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 07:23:42 -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@yahoogroups.com ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks to all who signed the UNESCO petition last week! Alas, it was in vain (see the followups section), apparently, as many folks suspected it would be ... There are a couple of reports on what mummy portraits tell about the health of the folks they were put on: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o170321a.htm http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o150321.htm http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=117&art_id=qw984654782186B252 An errant tourist has apparently returned a chunk of something he purloined from the Acropolis: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2001/01-03-13.mpa.html#12 The LA Times has a touristy piece on a mosaic in the National Museum of Naples: http://www.latimes.com/travel/stories/20010311/t000021342.html The Telegraph has an interesting piece on the "hidden costs" of finding archaeological remains (from a homeowner's/developer's p.o.v.): http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=gjGblZYu&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/3/17/tparch17.html The illicit antiquities trade seems much in the news this week; an article in the Art Newspaper, e.g., deals with "my life as a tombarolo" (this might be an older article): http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=4890 REVIEWS One I missed: another review of the Barrington Atlas: http://www.latimes.com/travel/stories/20010311/t000021342.html The Cinci Enquirer has a review of E. Cline, *The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age: http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/02/27/tem_israel_war_history.html .... you can also listen to an interview with the author about the book at: http://www.wamu.org/ram/2001/p2010315.ram ON THE NEWSSTANDS I don't know how to classify this one, so I'll put it here: the American Journal of Archaeology is apparently going to be available (for a price, of course) on line with a new document delivery model: http://library.northernlight.com/FB20010314240000182.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc CLASSICIST'S CORNER In case you missed it, Loyola University in Chicago is preparing to dump its classical studies program: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/loy15.html eKathimerini reports that Cyprus is supposedly planning to erect a statue of Aphrodite which will rival the Eiffel Tower(!): http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=75128 Gladiator is, of course, mentioned in a nice piece in the Independent which focuses on the fallout from the recent spate of Hollywood historical (hysterical?) epics: http://www.independent.co.uk/argument/Commentators/2001-03/evans120301.shtml A restaurant in London is supposedly offering authentic ancient Greek fare: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3837311,00.html There's a nice piece in the New Republic on marginalia (honest!): http://www.thenewrepublic.com/032601/kermode032601.html A review of a performance of the Agamemnon in San Francisco: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/15/DD221460.DTL Northern Light has a piece from the WSJ which deals with the Latin version the 'The Grinch', but I couldn't get it to connect this a.m.; maybe it will work for others: http://library.northernlight.com/UU20010316090000027.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc The Kentucky Post has a guest column which defends the humanities: http://www.kypost.com/2001/mar/15/kguest031501.html WEBSITES The Bible and Interpretation site has posted the field report of the 2000 excavations at Sepphoris by the Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/archaeology/zippori/2000/zippori-2000-reoprt.html The same site also had a link I followed to Brown University's website on the excavations at Petra ... both are nice sites worth a look: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/Petra/ AT ABOUT.COM: Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of Steven Saylor's *Venus Throw*: http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa031301a.htm Latin Guide Janet Burns has a feature on augury in ancient Rome: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa031501a.htm Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a feature on Leicester University's distance learning Ph.D. program in archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/weekly/aa031401a.htm .... last week's chat was with Anita Cohen-Williams; the transcript is available at: http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/chat/n_cohenwilliams.htm .... tonight's chat is with Barto Arnold of the INA (you can now ask a question even if you can't make the 9-11 EST time slot): http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/chat/blchatarnold.htm .... next week: Judy Bense from the University of Western Florida will chat about public participation in archaeology FOLLOWUPS Despite the protests, the Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed (the Times of India page has a pile of links to stories with various viewpoints from around the region; the page from Archaeology Magazine is also rather in depth): http://www.timesofindia.com/today/pagetali.htm http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/afghanistan/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1216000/1216110.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1218000/1218577.stm http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?eo20010317a3.htm http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Asia_China/2001-03/taliban130301.shtml http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-100189,00.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010317/wl/afghanistan_buddhas_9.html Marathon rowing site: http://sports.yahoo.com/oly/news/ap/20010314/ap-athens2004.html Hand taken from frieze in BM: http://www.eKathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=74528 http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=VDDDk8fK&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/3/11/nmus11.html Iron Age Chariot (Scotland): http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1215000/1215962.stm http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-98036,00.html Coin hoards from Britain: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/archaeology/archeology.asp .