From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Nov 5 08:52:53 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA102766 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 08:52:51 -0800 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA05508 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 08:52:51 -0800 Received: from default.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-30.look.ca [216.154.52.158]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA73562; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:49:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001105113558.00aa1eb0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 11:42:32 -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 a shortened version of Explorator, the premiere email newsletter devoted to matters archaeological and ancient, edited to the subject matter of the list; should you desire to subscribe to the full version (with archaeological news from around the world in various time periods), please send a blank email to: mailto:explorator-subscribe@egroups.com THE BIG NEWS The second bit of big news, of course, is Ballard's discovery of a 1500-year-old ship with mast intact (!), and passing mention that evidence for human structures on a shelf of the Black Sea have proven rather more recent: http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/11/11032000/blacksea_3252.asp http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20001103/hi_ap_ship.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1568-2000Nov2.html http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/friday/nd4781.htm http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Sat/nat/A5ballard4.html http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/484872.asp?cp1=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/national/03FLOO.html OLD WORLD NEWS Unisci brings a story on the discovery of remains of the Sarmati people (shouldn't that be Sarmatian?): http://unisci.com/stories/20004/1101006.htm The Guardian reports on the restoration of a Roman cavalryman's visage: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,390219,00.html In Britain, archaeologists have rediscovered a 'lost' section of Hadrian's wall: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-11/wall021100.shtml http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=VklxxjZx&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/11/2/nwall02.html They've also found evidence which suggests the Romans paid the Scots off to keep them out (hmmm ... that reminds me of a very bad joke about Romans and Scots ...): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-11/roman031100.shtml CLASSICISTS' CORNER The closest thing to 'classical content' this week is in a nice little feature on the history of Halloween (late, I know, but maybe for next year?): http://www.cadillacnews.com/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=49069?CDNfrontpage My desperation to find something for this section can also be seen in my actually including a couple of articles on how a woman has decided to name her son after the lead character in Gladiator, and subsequently has not been allowed to baptize him (even though the two things aren't really connected ... sort of): http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,30274,00.html http://www.sky.com/news/uk/story18.htm ON THE NEWSSTANDS British Archaeology has a new issue out with online features devoted to a Neolithic campsite in the blessed isle, the Neolithic site of Skara Brae, and the decline of Roman influence in Britain in the early 200's, along with some news links: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba55/ba55toc.html REVIEWS The Sunday Times has a review of A. Gottlieb *The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance." (watch the wrap) http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/sti/2000/11/05/stibooboo01009.html The Independent has a review of sorts of the *Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World* http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Science/2000-11/ancient051100.shtml FOLLOWUPS New Library at Alexandria: http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/10/10302000/alexandria_3229.asp Mummy from Karachi (this one has potential saga written all over it; just check out the diverse coverage): http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/oct2000-daily/27-10-2000/main/main6.htm http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o021120.htm http://www.arabia.com/article/0,1690,Life|32473,00.html http://www.dawn.com/2000/11/02/top13.htm http://itn.co.uk/news/20001101/world/02mummy.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_997000/997588.stm http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/001103/2000110334.html http://www.brecorder.com/story/S00DD/SDJ30/SDJ30317.htm Midas' feast: http://www.sciencenews.org/20001104/bob1.asp Helike: http://www.amnh.org/naturalhistory/features/1100_feature.html Ovid's Villa (note to discutants on various lists ... this discovery was originally reported back in September in the Times of London)(watch the wrap as necessary): http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,SAV-0011040263,FF.html http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0557_BC_Italy-Ovid'sVilla&&news&newsflash-international http://www.worldnews.com/?action=display&article=4255533&template=worldnews/search.txt&index=recent AT ABOUT.COM Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is a nice list of term paper starters: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa103100a.htm .