From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Mar 31 05:36:20 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g2VDaJDN174634 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 05:36:19 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Mar 31 05:36:18 2002 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g2VDaIIe015756 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 05:36:18 -0800 Received: from on-ham-a53-03-68.look.ca (on-ham-a53-03-68.look.ca [216.154.52.196]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA37375; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 08:36:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 08:41:09 -0500 From: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.54 Beta/45) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <10912264428.20020331084109@idirect.com> To: exploratorclassics Subject: In Explorator 4.48 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ================================================================ in explorator 4.48 classical world edition ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Bill Kennedy, "alesmonetos", Arthur Shippee, Elizabeth Griesman, and David Gressett for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.). ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Last month's issue of Discover had a nice article on the chemistry of mummification: http://discover.com/mar_02/featchemistry.html Also on the mummification front, National Geographic has an interview with the guys behind 'The Mummy Roadshow': http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0326_0327_mummyroadshow.html Amongst the seasonal offerings comes a claim that the image on the Shroud of Turin is actually that of Jacques de Molay: http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=338412002 .... and a report on Martin Biddle's work in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre: http://www.msnbc.com/news/726054.asp .... and a report on the discovery of a shrouded body which "may have been a witness to Christ's crucifixion": http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_556208.html http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F03%2F29%2Fwcruc29.xml http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020330-91611276.htm .... and a piece on resurrection motifs in various ancient cultures: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4384424,00.html The Scotsman has a nice piece on the ongoing work at Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=332482002 .... and the LA Times has a feature on the etruscans: http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-000021251mar24.story?coll=la-travel-headlines If you can get this url to work, it will bring up an article on the official report of how the Elgin Marbles were cleaned back in the 1930's (remember that brouhaha?): http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9151 The British Museum has admitted that it has sold some of the Benin Bronzes which Nigeria wants returned: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4383374,00.html .... and just in case you want to keep score at home, there's a pile of countries asking the BM to return stuff: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/news/returns As might be expected, doing archaeology in the Middle East is a bit more trying than usual these days: http://www.msnbc.com/news/727752.asp http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-exp-mideast-archaeology0324mar24.story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10394-2002Mar24.html Some guy has recreated a Renaissance water organ: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-248694,00.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new edition of Bible Review out, although not much online of archaeological interest: http://www.bib-arch.org/BSWB/bswb_BR/indexBR.html The Economist has a piece on how ethical considerations are affecting archaeology: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1056932 ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Michael Counsell, *Every Pilgrim's Guide to the Journeys of the Apostles* (reviewed by John Carr): http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12955&m=A24&aa=2&eidos=S ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Someone *must* have done this before, but a statistical analysis of Homer's works suggests it's the work of several poets: http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/03252002/grapha.htm National Review has, well, a review of "War Music": http://www.nationalreview.com/stuttaford/stuttaford.asp As was (hopefully) expected, plans to build that ugly pile on the Acropolis is causing a bit of a row: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4382872,00.html Above we mentioned how things are changing for archaeologists in the mideast ... the same goes for classicists, in a different way: http://www.detnews.com/2002/nation/0203/31/a05-453439.htm Folks might be interested in this account of the 'Socrates Cafe': http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0326/p13s01-lecs.html Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-03-30&id=1727 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-03-30&id=1725 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1806000/1806495.stm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0326_0326_iceman.html Temple Mount: http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/26/News/News.45876.html ================================================================ Useful Addresses ================================================================ Past issues of Explorator are available on the web at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to: 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