From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jun 10 05:48:20 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f5ACmG039150 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 05:48:16 -0700 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f5ACmFX06256 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 05:48:15 -0700 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-145.look.ca [216.154.51.145]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA81392; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:33:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010610084925.00a3cb50@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 08:50:35 -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 Explorator 4.6 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. 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OLD WORLD NEWS The same source has a similarly brief item on the discovery of a Ptolemaic-era olive/grape press: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o030621d.htm There's plenty of (re)coverage of the discovery of the sunken city of Herakleion in Abukir Bay [you might also want to check out Franck Goddio's website: http://www.franckgoddio.org ] ... there's actually a fair bit of variation in the coverage (especially photos ... if you want to jump to them quickly, scroll down a bit here): http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1375000/1375708.stm http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010604/egypt.html http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o090621k.htm http://www.egyptrevealed.com/060701-ancientportgoddio.htm http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/alexandria010607.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_318764.html?menu= http://www.bergen.com/news/egyptbg200106061.htm http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/06/07/international1253EDT0614.DTL&type=printable http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=86162 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,503588,00.html http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=79348 http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/06/07/egypt.sunken.city.ap/index.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2001/06/08/sunken2.jpg&paper=news&file=international1253EDT0614.DTL&directory=/news/archive/2001/06/07&type=printable Some good photos: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale07d http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale01d http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale05d http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale03d http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/egypt/city/20010607/ale02d The DAI is going to return some of the Olympia Philippion to Greece: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=86146 http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpab/2001/01-06-09.mpab.html#04 http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2001/01-06-08.apeen.html#01 The Guardian has an interesting piece on how Britain has become the centre for trade in illicit manuscripts: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4201560,00.html The Orlando Sentinel has a similarly interesting piece on the evolution of war: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/science/orl-sci-warfare061001.story?coll=orl%2Dnews%2Dheadlines%2Dscience ON THE NEWSSTANDS Discover Archaeology has a piece on the Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth exhibit which will be coming to Chicago: http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/060501-cleopatra.htm EXHIBITIONS RNZ has a piece (in German) on an exhibition called Das Haupt Ioniens (I think that's the title of the exhibition): http://www.rnz.de/15_regional/heidelberg/07_heidelberg.htm CLASSICIST'S CORNER Jean-Michel Jarre will be performing a "Hymn to the Acropolis" next month: http://www.iht.com/articles/22061.html Also on the Acropolis front, a new road has been opened to the public which should ease traffic around the Parthenon: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12913&m=A09&aa=1&eidos=S Folks will probably be interested to read of 'Greek Week' activities at a school in Englewood: http://www.bergen.com/bcoast/olympjg200106065.htm New book ... "The Emperor's Babe" ... 'nuff said?: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,217-2001192199,00.html FOLLOWUPS Marathon Rowing Row (they have found something at the site!): http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=85552 Temple Mount: http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=06/07/01&id=121022 OBITUARIES Edward Wright: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/world/10WRIG.html?searchpv=nytToday AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is probably going to be updated today or tomorrow ... check out http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/ Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on -io verbs of the 3rd conjugation and the 4th: http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/bl3io4-1.htm Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on Llangorse Crannog: http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/library/weekly/aa060601a.htm .