From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Apr 22 06:23:45 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3MDNh974832 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:23:43 -0700 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3MDNh708277 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:23:43 -0700 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-04-1.look.ca [216.154.53.65]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA91132; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:23:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010422092453.00a4b9d0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:25:22 -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/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Pardon if this is a duplicate ... I'm getting strange error messages -------------------- What follows is an abbreviated version of Explorator, the free weekly email newsletter devoted to matters archaeological and ancient, tailored to the focus of this list. If you would like to subscribe to the full version, with archaeological news from around the world and in various time periods, send a blank email message to: mailto:explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ------------------------------------------------------ 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 .