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(v1.53d) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <18213488572.20020210084026@idirect.com> To: classics@u.washington.edu CC: ancientmed@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, latin@vlists.net, latinteach@vlists.net, , Subject: Explorator 4.41 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The full issue for a change ... just to see what you've been missing ... ================================================================ explorator 4.41 February 10, 2002 ================================================================ Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap (especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. ================================================================ Thanks to Janice Siegel, Bill Kennedy, Terrence Lockyer, Arthur Shippee, Ardle MacMahon, Chris Renaud, Mark Elliott, Albert Lusnia, Maurice O'Sullivan, Trevor Watkins, Michael Ruggieri, and Jack Sasson for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ For some reason, Naperville High School in Chicago has a mummy, and it's going to be featured on National Geographic's "Mummy Road Show": http://www.msnbc.com/local/scdh/a37296363.asp L'Espresso has a feature on mummy faces (in Italian): http://www.espressonline.kataweb.it/ESW_articolo/0,2393,30375,00.html A number of sites dating back to 2000 B.C./B.C.E. have been found in Oman: http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=39959 Arab News wonders who is protecting the heritage of Beirut: http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=12720 Chinese archaeologists have found remains of six ancient cities superimposed on one another in Henan province: http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,101649,00.html A hundred Ming Dynasty tombs have been found in Yunnan province: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-02/10/content_276206.htm Here's one to be on your guard for: the recent discovery of apparently submerged cities off the coast of India are something which Graham Hancock thinks will prove his theories true: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,645451,00.html Archaeologists are examining a site in Inverness thought to be the grave of Duncan (Macbeth's victim): http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=140652002 An amateur archaeologist with a metal detector came across a Tudor-era crucifix in a farmer's field this week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1803000/1803915.stm The Alqueva Dam (Portugal) was officially opened (or rather, closed) this weekend, and soon plenty of archaeological sites will be submerged: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,646902,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1808000/1808734.stm http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F09%2Fwport09.xml http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4352152,00.html The outgoing director of the Museum of London made an interesting point in his farewell speech (a complaint I'm sure many of us have had for years): http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002064745,00.html .... likely related to the Museum's opening of its archives to the public: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020204/london.html http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F08%2Fnpots08.xml ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Caral is apparently under threat from erosion and the elements: http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/701063.asp .... and coincidentally, the BBC's *Horizon* featured Caral recently, and has a nice intro and transcript available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/caral.shtml Archaeologists have found evidence of an Andean "Silk Road": http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_513473.html cf: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0204_020204_tvperutemples.html and: http://npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2002/feb/peru/020204.peru.html A human skull found near Lawton, Oklahoma is likely to lead to a dig, I suspect: http://www.channeloklahoma.com/okl/news/stories/news-122407820020206-160216.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new issue of Archaeology Odyssey out, with a major online feature on whether looted antiquities should be returned to "rogue states"(specifically Iraq); the Field Notes are also worth checking out (Folks who teach first-year classics/archaeology will like the cartoon): http://www.bib-arch.org/BSWB/bswb_AO/indexAO.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Dr. J. has done a major revision of her On-Line Survey of Audio- Visual Resources in Classics (and moved it to a new url): http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics2/ The Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae project has put a 'test site' online: http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/ The 2000-2001 Annual Report of the Oriental Institute has been put online: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/00-01/00-01_AR_TOC.html The Bible and Interpretation site has an article by Harris Lenowitz, "The Jewish Messiahs": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/online_messiahs.htm The Winter 2002 edition of the CSA Newsletter (put out by the Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology) is online: http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter02 ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ The British Museum is refusing to return a number of previously looted Ethiopian tabots: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Britain-Returned-Art.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020208/ap_on_re_eu/britain_returned_art_2 Similarly complex issues of the status of looted antiquities are being debated in Korea and Japan: http://www.time.com/time/asia/arts/magazine/0,9754,197704,00.html Greek police have busted up a small antiquities theft ring, which had some really nice stuff, including a stunning Hellenistic gold wreath: http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap02-08-105838.asp?reg=EUROPE http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020208/ap_on_re_eu/greece_antiquities_theft_2 http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13156 Al-Ahram has a feature on recently-returned previously-pilfered antiquities to Egypt: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/571/tr3.htm A Tiberias man is suspected of stealing a number of ancient millstones (didn't anyone notice?!): http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=125811Src=Y ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Archaeology guide Kris Hirst's latest is a feature on the Narmer Palette: http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb020302a.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ The Boston Globe has a review of Jean-Pierre Vernant,*The Universe, the gods, and Men* (I believe that's the title): http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/039/living/Greek_myths_shine_as_adventure_stories+.shtml The Egyptian State Information Service has a (p)review of A. Youseff, *The Seven Secrets of Alexandria Library* (sic): http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o050222h.htm ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Newsbytes has a brief item on Smith College's exhibition of ancient inventions ... there's a link on the page to the exhibition itself (presumably), but it seems inaccessible at the moment: http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174280.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ A New York Times editorial is calling for the return of the Elgin Marbles: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/02/opinion/_02SAT3.html .... while the Guardian (or at least a politician) has a contrary view: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4349880,00.html .... while AthensNews reports on concerns the new Acropolis Museum won't be finished by 2004 anyway: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=117868 http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12948&m=A03&aa=3&eidos=S The Oracle of Delphi and the gas emitted therefrom is back in the news: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19017-2002Feb4.html eKathimerini has a feature on wines from Santorini which might cause some folks to rethink the 'mixing of wine' thing: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13075 The Times has a piece on James Dyson: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002060535,00.html The New Republic has a review of a production of Seamus Haney's "The Cure at Troy": http://www.tnr.com/online/mccarter020502.html Folks might be interested in a touristy thing from the Guardian on the Zagoria, one of the last places in Greece (apparently) "that isn't overrun by sun-worshippers, yachties or classical scholars": http://travel.guardian.co.uk/countries/story/0,7451,647193,00.html Frank Johnson has written a piece for the Spectator suggesting we drop the "fascist Caesar": http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-09&id=1571 Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-09&id=1573 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-09&id=1572 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ John D'Arms: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/obituaries/26DARM.html ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Egyptians First to Mine Gold: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020204/egyptian.html Ethiopian Tabot Returned: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1811000/1811267.stm Hunley: http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20020209/localnews/1614183.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020208/sc/life_submarine_dc_1.html Oetzi: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1806000/1806495.stm Ptolemaic Temple etc. in Egypt: http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/02/02/egypt.archaeology.ap/index.html http://news.24.com/News24/Africa/Northern_Africa/0,1113,2-11-38_1137931,00.html Schultz Trial: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/571/tr1.htm ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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