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 From issue 2.77:

Al-Ahram has a nice feature on the opening to the public of the 'Villa of 
the Birds', one of the few Roman villas extant in Alexandria (thanks to 
Judy Underwood and Cosma Shalizi for the heads up):

http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2000/466/eg11.htm

Here's one I missed: a couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post had a 
semi-editorial piece on 'dead digs', which has much to say on digs which 
are done and never published:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/10/122l-011000-idx.html


AT THE NEWSSTANDS

Archaeology Odyssey has updated its online content, with a nice feature on 
the Garamantine kingdom and the Beirut Museum

http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html


FOLLOWUPS

The Elgin Marbles are back in the news; the BBC reports that Turkey is 
backing Greece's claim to have them returned while the Telegraph reports 
that Greece offered a secret deal to get just a few pedimental sculptures 
back (watch the wrap on the latter):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_632000/632430.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001889058918707&rtmo=aN22RJHL&atmo=6666666J&pg=/et/00/2/3/wgre03.html


OBITUARIES

Tim Potter (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001889058918707&rtmo=wQAnisib&atmo=6666666J&pg=/et/00/1/29/ebpott29.html


Peter Levi (watch the wrap):

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/02/02/timobiobi02003.html?999

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=wQA55QKb&atmo=HHHHHH8L&pg=/et/00/2/5/eblevi05.html


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