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Happy Memorial Day to our friends south of the 49th parallel! ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ What might be the earliest human attempt at sculpture was found in Morocco: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3047383.stm A number of items were returned to Egypt this week: http://metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-20/eg/ancient_pharaonic_relics.htm http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o220523.htm There's been a security upgrade at Giza: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o160523l.htm The Temple of Edfu has been made more 'tourist friendly': http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o220523a.htm The tomb of Amenhotep III will undergo emergency restoration: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o220523b.htm Slovak archaeologists are investigating what their ancient forebears dined upon (scroll down): http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?cl=12817 The University of Warwick has given Roman theatres a somewhat different VR treatment: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030521092430.htm Wow ... maybe the legal system does work ... Greece's highest court has ruled against government plans to build that ugly thing passing for a museum on the Acropolis: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/arts/21ARTS.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041595.stm .... or maybe it doesn't (scroll down a bit): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/arts/22ARTS.html http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11093 There was a conference devoted to Nicopolis this week: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=21060 A bit of a teaser on the excavations at Halkan Bunar (Bulgaria): http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22633 .... which is probably related to the discovery (maybe) of a Thracian temple of Dionysius: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_24/05/2003_29992 http://cooltech.iafrica.com/features/238966.htm An Etruscan gold book (?!?) has been donated to Bulgaria's national museum (this sounds awfully suspicious on several levels): http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22691 This is interesting ... archaeologists are using fingerprint evidence to trace the work of a Roman potter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/3045753.stm There's big plans afoot to excavate Roman Chester: http://tinyurl.com/cli8 http://tinyurl.com/clib An article (in the Times!) looks at ancient Rome's problems with flooding and mentions in passing the possible location of the Temple of the Deified Augustus(!): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-685904,00.html The BBC has a feature on Hadrian's Wall: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2931730.stm Big news this week (in the sense that it actually was mentioned on our local radio station) was the discovery of six more burials near Stonehenge: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/international/europe/22STON.html http://www.iht.com/articles/97243.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/916976.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/wiltshire/3047469.stm http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_783642.html http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/press/eba_burials_21-05-03.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-05-21-stonehenge_x.htm http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/894308p-6230695c.html http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/5912149.htm http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=iol1053695678141W253&set_id=1 .... and the Telegraph has a piece on the Boxgrove site: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2003/05/22/ecfaxe21.xml Latest on the Ayodhya dig: http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/may/22ayo.htm Japan's Yayoi period may have started some 500 years earlier than previously thought: http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2003052100218.html Most of the sites excavated by disgraced Japanese archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura have been discredited: http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=260991 The ancient mosque of Herat is being restored: http://metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-21/cultent/herat_hones_ancient.htm ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ A previously-unknown civilization may have been found in Nicaragua (I'm not sure whether this is related to last week's Honduras story): http://www.brightsurf.com/news/may_03/EDU_news_051603_e.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3035113.stm http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_32610587,00.html (Spanish) Ancient Inca agricultural techniques are making a comeback: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3047421.stm Here's coverage of the excavation of a Fort Pitt blockhouse: http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030524blockhouse0524p5.asp A Lake Woodland site is being excavated in Illinois: http://www.muscatinejournal.com/display/inn_news/news2.txt The New York Times has a piece on the Mountain Meadows Massacre: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/opinion/24DENT.html ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ This is really marginal, but folks might be interested in the next appearance of 'The Turk' -- an eighteenth century chess playing automaton: http://rfeditor.tripod.com/turk0303.html Marivaux's "Triumph of Love" has been given the TV treatment: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/arts/television/18EDEL.html Was Sargent's "Madame X" actually a Monsieur (correcting the semi- mixed metaphor in the original headline): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/arts/design/18DILI.html .... and a semi-related piece to cf.: http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/n_8685/ Books damaged by flooding in Prague -- including incunabula -- have been saved: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/24/wxczek24.xml http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2003-03/prague.html A manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony annotated by the composer fetched a nice price at auction this week: http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/0503/22beethoven.html Last week we were digging up Jesse James for DNA tests ... this week, it's Billy the Kid: http://www.msnbc.com/news/917607.asp ================================================================ MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ Archaeology 56.3 (May/June 2003): http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index Archaeology Odyssey http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html Arethusa 36.2 (Spring 2003): http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/toc/are36.2.html (MUSE) Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2003): http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html Mneomosyne 56.2 (March 2003): http://ernesto.ingentaselect.com/vl=1201938/cl=65/nw=1/rpsv/cw/brill/00267074/v56n2/contp1-1.htm (TOCs + Abstracts) Omnibus 45 (January 2003): http://www.jact.org/currentissue.htm (TOCS) ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ In case you missed it (like I did) Archaeology Magazine's latest 'Interactive Dig' is the distillery at Mt. Vernon: http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/mtvernon/ The AMICO library of museum images might be of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/technology/circuits/22muse.html .... as might the Medici Archives Project: http://www.medici.org/ Bruce Chilton, "The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/The_Missing_Jesus.htm Jeff Blakely, "Davidic and Solomonic Bazaars, Barracks, Stables, Warehouses, Toll Stations, Tripartite Pillared Buildings, or Entrepôts ...Whatever: Beyond the Structures Themselves": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Davidic_and_Solomonic.htm ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a piece on various myths associated with Hades: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aahades.htm Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on the Japanese city of Nara: http://archaeology.about.com/cs/asia/a/nara.htm ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Erica Jong, *Sappho's Leap*: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/books/review/18CONNOLT.html Christopher Logue, *All Day Permanent Red*: http://slate.msn.com/id/2082824/ ================================================================ PERFORMANCES ================================================================ Cultural Olympiad things: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/arts/dance/22ARTE.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ Claims of the discovery of anchors from the Apostle Paul's shipwreck have resulted in a lawsuit: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/119/42.0.html These mysterious 'stone faces' keep popping up in various smaller online newspapers ... I suspect this is the appropriate rubric to file them under: http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/local_regional/ap_stonefaces05252003.htm ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Art of the First Cities: http://washingtontimes.com/arts/20030523-083435-7845r.htm "Art of the First Cities* has prompted a NYT editorial: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/opinion/24SAT4.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ ClassCon (sort of) in musings about postwar Iraq: http://slate.msn.com/id/2082871/ .... and in a piece on Izaak Walton's *Compleat Angler*: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/opinion/24SAT4.html More Bogdanosiana: http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/latest&f=03052335.plt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml Another Classicist involved in spelling bees: http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_1978477,00.html http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/145/learning/Ex_spelling_champion_earns_loquacious_role+.shtml A nice piece on the student who will deliver Harvard's "Latin Oration" this year: http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/5941294.htm Victor Davis Hanson's latest opinion piece: http://www.chronwatch.com/featured/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2793 Kathryn Gutzwiller has a nice detail to add to her c.v.: http://newsrecord.tuc.uc.edu/read.asp?ID=13362 What some of the younger set are doing: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1464&dept_id=369559&newsid=8034534&PAG=461&rfi=9 An 1842 photo of the Temple of Olympian Zeus reached a record price at Christie's last week: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11092 A piece on travel in the ancient Roman world: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030520/5171576s.htm So that's what the 'Allegory of the Cave' was all about: http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la-sci-branes17may17002430§ion=/printstory Peter Jones: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-24&id=3131 Akropolis News in Classical Greek: http://www.akwn.net/ Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/ U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ William H. Forsyth (Met Curator): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/obituaries/21FORS.html John Hurst (Medieval Archaeologist): http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/23/db2302.xml ================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Biblical Committees: http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/030526crbo_books No Homo sapiens/Neanderthal Interbreeding: http://www.sciencenews.org/20030517/fob1.asp Vatican Latin Dictionary: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3030169.stm http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20030516.htm ================================================================ IRAQ ================================================================ UNESCO (finally) sent a team over to ascertain what is and isn't missing in Iraq: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-05/17/content_873647.htm .... and found roughly 1000 items are missing: http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=180710 .... or is it 2000 - 3000 pieces?: http://www.iht.com/articles/97393.html Much was apparently taken to Baghdad's central bank, which is now under guard: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11095 Iraq's universities have also been looted: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/international/worldspecial/19BASR.html We are now hearing of archaeological sites being looted as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/23/international/worldspecial/23LOOT.html http://www.iht.com/articles/97285.html http://www.iht.com/articles/97373.html More gloom (all different): http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/639/re7.htm http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/20_05_03_b.asp http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2003/s861573.htm http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V5596.AP-Iraq-Plundering4.html http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_876400_1_A,00.html http://hnn.us/comments/12429.html Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site: http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html ================================================================ OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS ================================================================ Ancient World Web Breaking News Page: http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html Archaeologica: http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index Bible and Interpretation Breaking News: http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm CBA Newsfeed: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html CBA Archaeoblog: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/ Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News: http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand/ Mirabilis.ca (blog): http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html Texas A&M Anthropology News Site: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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