From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Dec 17 06:26:45 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id GAA367984 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 06:26:44 -0800 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA23956 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 06:26:43 -0800 Received: from default.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-168.look.ca [216.154.53.40]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA69285; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:20:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001217091329.00a9b2e0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:15:47 -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 an abbreviated version of Explorator, the premier free email newsletter devoted to matters archaeological and ancient, edited to the subject matter of the list you are reading it on; 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 ================ OLD WORLD NEWS Xinhua via Northern Light has a brief item on the discovery of a third century BC/BCE doll in Iraq: http://library.northernlight.com/FC20001214220000152.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc Ha'aretz has a nice piece on what's been done lately to spruce up the site of Masada: http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=10&datee=12/12/00&id=103217 The Macedonian Press Agency has a brief item on the discovery of a number of tombs near Xanthi: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2000/00-12-11.mpa.html#06 The BBC has a piece on various discoveries in Alexandria's harbour (nothing new, though, er old ... you know what I mean): http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/newsid_1071000/1071761.stm The Observer has a thing advocating the giving of ancient coinage as Christmas gifts this year: http://observer.co.uk/cash/story/0,6903,412245,00.html CLASSICISTS CORNER A brief item from the Macedonian Press Agency reports on the revival of the Delphic Games in Moscow: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2000/00-12-12.mpa.html#07 The International Herald Tribune picks up a New York Times piece on the Barrington Atlas: http://www.iht.com:80/articles/4250.htm The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting little piece called "Everything I need to know is back on the shelf" with which many of us can identify, I suspect: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/15/p23s2.htm The Daily Yomiuri has an editorialish thing on history being all a matter of interpretation and how the negative has to be mentioned as well as the positive, etc.. which sounds not too unfamiliar ... http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20001217wo81.htm The Telegraph has a piece on what's wrong with museums today: http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=kCk7q33p&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/12/16/bamuse16.html Northern Light has a piece on the many incarnations of Santa Claus: http://library.northernlight.com/FC20001215550000103.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc REVIEWS Salon has a review of Gary Taylor's *Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood* http://www.salon.com:80/books/review/2000/12/13/taylor/index.html FOLLOWUPS Pompeii paramours: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/121100/times_pompeii.sml http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=wew0Kstb&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/12/9/wpomp09.html AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is about various incarnations of democracy: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa121200a.htm?terms=a1 Archaeology Guide Kris Hurst has a feature about the technology of hunting: http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa121100a.htm Latin Guide Janet Burns has a feature on Saturnalia and other Roman winter festivals: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa121400a.htm .