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Richard Frahm, Donna Hurst, 'alesmonetos', and Paul Cowie, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) .... a rather slow week ... ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ A huge Bronze Age horde has been found in Austria: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_739588.html Correspondence found at Qatna is shedding light on the Hittite conquest of the region: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=370697 The Addis Tribune has the first in a series looking at the ancient connections between Ethiopia and Yemen: http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/01/17-01-03/Let.htm A touristy sort of thing on 'what if's' associated with an impending war in Iraq: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=368337 An ancient recipe for toothpaste has been recreated: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F01%2F19%2Fwtooth19.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=81773 In the wake of the James Ossuary fooferah, the recent discovery of the so-called 'Jehoash Inscription' -- which supposedly details some repairs to the Temple -- is being much hyped (but is meeting *much* skepticism from academics): http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=251230 http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=252531 http://www.msnbc.com/news/858803.asp (photo) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2655781.stm http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El1865&enZone=Culture&enVersion=0& http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/14/israel.tablet.ap/index.html http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/18/wsolom18.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/01/18/ixworld.html http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA1AC2SWAD.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2318006,00.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=535&e=4&cid=535&u=/ap/20030113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_ancient_tablet Another Thracian royal tomb from Bulgaria: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=18161 We're beginning to get details on the discovery of the oldest shipwreck found in the Black Sea: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030113_blacksea.html (photos) http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/17/1042520776188.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/859773.asp http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Ancient-Ship.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/16/science/16SHIP.html http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=18299 http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20030116/localnews/783710.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2325402,00.html A Roman amphitheatre is being excavated in Jordan: http://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2003/01/item20030114124236_1.htm Some Roman pottery has been found in East Barnet (UK): http://www.edgwaretimes.co.uk/news/display.var.685344.index.pottery_at_pub_left_by_romans.html Chinese archaeologists are using Japanese spy photos from 1937-45 to find new sites: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/18/wchina18.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/01/18/ixworld.html ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Melting glaciers in the Yukon continue to reveal interesting archaeological items: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_914542.html http://www.latimes.com/la-sci-mummies3jan03,0,6581994.story http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4967364.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp A 200-year old shipwreck lies off the coast of Louisiana: http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1042872909106041.xml ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ The Pitman-Ryan Black Sea flood theory is being questioned: http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsnoah14,0,2079747.story?coll=ny-health-headlines http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4949335.htm http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~1113188,00.html Uncertainty in the Middle East is causing uncertainty in scheduling digs for this summer: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20030115/RVDIGG/Arts/thearts/thearts_temp/4/4/11/ The hikers who found Otzi are seeking recognition/compensation: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/16/wice16.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/01/16/ixworld.html A sort of travelly touristy piece on an author following the path of medieval writer Ibn Battutah: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/11/arts/11TRAV.html El Cid's sword is at the centre of another battle: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/18/welcid18.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/01/18/ixworld.html Blog fans might be interested in Pepys' diary (scroll down a bit): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/16/technology/circuits/16diar.html A thing on 'burial art': http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=253000 Assorted interesting items coming up for sale: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/arts/design/17INSI.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new issue of Archaeology out: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index .... and Ancient Egypt Magazine: http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue15.htm ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ C. Fornara and L Samons II, *Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles*: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2p30058m/ G.L. Dickinson, *The Greek View of Life*: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6200 ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is an overview of the Iliad and Trojan War: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa011503a.htm Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on the Windover Bog site: http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb120901a.htm ================================================================ PERFORMANCES ================================================================ Children of Herakles (Cambridge): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/arts/theater/14SELL.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Post Byzantium: The Greek Renaissance: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/arts/design/17COTT.html The Pharoahs (Venice): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-542794,00.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Another Latin program faces hard times: http://www.townonline.com/bourne/news/local_regional/ucc_newucschlbudget01152003.htm What sort of person translates the Wizard of Oz and Charlotte's web into Latin?: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/01/14/11032-cp.html ClassCon in a review of Donna Tartt's latest: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,876278,00.html Etymologies: http://www.msnbc.com/news/861338.asp (Sony) http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1042894581299630.xml (senate (etc.)) http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2288&dept_id=475621&newsid=6728733&PAG=461&rfi=9 (semper) http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,166530,00.html (aquosus (?)) http://www.sgvtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,205~12220~1114546,00.html (aboretum) http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/011403/tp3ew4.htm?date=011403&story=tp3ew4.htm (locum tenens) 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 ================================================================ Julius Held (art historian): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/obituaries/13HELD.html Robert and Linda Braidwood (Near Eastern archaeologists): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9066-2003Jan17.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/obituaries/17BRAI.html Elie Borowski (Bible Lands Museum founder/?): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/obituaries/17BORO.html ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Chinese Discovery of America (a.k.a. Menzies book hype): http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/01/13/1421/index.html http://www.npr.org/programs/musings/2002/nov/columbus.html http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=907602 (includes an interview with Menzies in .ram fomat) Easter Island Heads on Sale: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,872557,00.html Hunley: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/science/0103/18hunley.html James Ossuary: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/621/he1.htm http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1180609.html Welsh 'Mary Rose': http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2656475.stm ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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