From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Apr 22 04:48:37 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3MBma9113564 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 04:48:36 -0700 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3MBmZU21587 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 04:48:35 -0700 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-158.look.ca [216.154.53.30]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA28128; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:48:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010422074653.03ca3df0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:48:59 -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 the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" What follows is an abbreviated version of Explorator, the free weekly email
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Greetings archaeophiles!  Curiosity question: if this newsletter went to an html mail format (which would help with the perpetual url wrap problem), would it bother anyone?

Thanks to Bill Kennedy and Gene Barkley for the headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ...


OLD WORLD NEWS

eKatherimini reports on the discovery of a 5th-century B.C./B.C.E. copper cauldron at Argos:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=79099

eKatherimini also has a report on a 4th-century B.C./B.C.E mass grave found at Pydna:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=79054

The Times reports on the restoration of Trajan's arch at Benevento:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-113354,00.html

The Independent reports on plans to locate and excavate a Roman ship which sank in the Tyne estuary:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=67471

This was actually announced already within the last year or so, but a group at Stanford is going to use computer technology to reassemble the Forum Urbis:

http://sanjose.bcentral.com/sanjose/stories/2001/04/16/daily37.html

A large section of the Aurelian wall in Rome collapsed this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1280000/1280611.stm
http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1011661,00.html
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=64721
http://my.cnn.com/jbcl/cnews/Go?template=otmDetStory&art_id=6690997&uid=987437873088&page_exclude=1

The Architects' Journal supposedly has a report on the discovery of an "ancient carving of a Roman warrior" but I can't get it to load properly at my end; maybe it will work for you:

http://www.ajplus.co.uk/news/news_article/?pid=2&aid=14379&sid=60&channelID=4&NewsComingFrom=Construction

The Irish Times reports on the discovery of an iron age skeleton:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0421/reg3.htm

The Getty Museum has returned a second-century bust of an athlete to Italy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4171745,00.html

Thor Heyerdahl is looking for the origins of the Vikings ... in Russia:

http://news.24.com/News24/World/Europe/0,1113,2-10-19_1013838,00.html


CLASSICIST'S CORNER

The Times has a piece on the benefits of a classical education (in anticipation of the meeting of the Classical Association):

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-116056,00.html

.... and Hollywood's depiction of gladiators:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-117357,00.html

eKathimerini has an article on learning ancient Greek via the internet:

http://www.eKathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=79064

.... and what's on at Herodes Atticus' theatre in the next month or so:

http://www.eKathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=79032

The Independent has a piece on the fifty best places to see in Rome (with links!):

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=67582

.... and a passing mention on the influence of Thucydides on Colin Powell:

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=67848

I'm not sure what to make of this one ... claims of Egyptians in the FYROM:

http://www.eKathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=79017

Folks might be interested (for comparative purposes) in the Christian version of the torch race:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=qxbLKd99&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/4/16/wholy16.html

.... and a new 'Slavocentric' view of history:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=asbXxHwL&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/4/19/warth19.html

The University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology has discovered some Ming art in its storage rooms:

http://worldnews.about.com/newsissues/worldnews/gi/news/~5a0e214.htm?PM=n3042001e

The hype is beginning in anticipation of the official opening of the new Library at Alexandria:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o150421y.htm
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o170421p.htm

AT ABOUT.COM

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a piece on Artemis:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa041701a.htm

FOLLOWUPS


Cleopatra at the BM:

http://library.northernlight.com/EC20010418040000036.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

Herculaneum papyri (nothing new ... I wish they'd just get on with it):

http://www.oweb.com/newslink/national/ScorchedPapyrusP0225.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,270013890,00.html?
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/04/20/scorched.papyrus.ap/index.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500475007-500729186-504140350-0,00.html
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/US/0,3560,862492,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_266946.html?menu=news.technology
http://www.msnbc.com/news/562226.asp

Karachi mummy (with photo):

http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,106425,00.html

Latest Bahariyah Oasis finds:

http://www.egyptrevealed.com/042001-valleyofmummies.htm

Vesuvius:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-113355,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/17/science/17OBSER-1.html


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