From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jan 7 04:34:08 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id EAA14546 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:34:07 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id EAA14390 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:34:06 -0800 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-152.look.ca [216.154.53.24]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA39731; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:31:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010107073000.00a3dbd0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:32:04 -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 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@egroups.com ------------------------------------------------------ Acknowledgements: Thanks for the to Sally Winchester and Bill Kennedy for their contributions to this issue. OLD WORLD NEWS Kathimerini has a tantalizingly brief article on a dispute over rights to dig where what is possibly the oldest human skull in Europe was found: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=65090 Also on the Egyptian front, the Independent has an interesting item on how a scholar has traced the origins of the concept of "the mummy's curse": http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-12/mummy311200.shtml The Sunday Times has a report on Greece's plans to destroy a huge chunk of the site of the Battle of Marathon for Olympic event purposes: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/01/07/stifgneur01004.html ON THE NEWSSTANDS There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review on the stands, the highlight of which is its annual guide to digs: http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html Bible Review also has a new online issue, with articles on "King David, Serial Murderer" and "The Gospel of Thomas" , among other things: http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html And we might as well round out the BAS triad: Archaeology Odyssey has a new issue out (new to me) with an article on kingship in Sumer, another guide to digs, etc.: http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html CLASSICIST'S CORNER Kathimerini has a report on an exhibit of photos of the Acropolis over time (pardon the awkward description): http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=65101 I missed this one ... the Boston Globe a month ago had a report on the revival of Classical Greek in a certain county jail (!): http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/344/metro/At_county_jail_study_of_classical_Greek_enjoying_a_revival+.shtml The Cincinnati Enquirer has a piece on the return of Latin to a high school in that city: http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/12/26/loc_latin_classes_return.html SAGAS Elgin Marbles (same story, different papers): http://www.southam.com/ottawacitizen/newsnow/cpfs/world/010105/w010540.html http://www.vancouversun.com/cgi-bin/newsite.pl?adcode=w-mm&modulename=world%20news&template=international&nkey=vs&filetype=fullstory&file=/cpfs/world/010105/w010540.html AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Solon: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa010201a.htm?terms=a1 Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on archaeology-related careers: http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa010101.htm Latin Guide Janet Burns' lastest is on why datives and pluperfects are called that: http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/weekly/aa011701a.htm FOLLOWUPS Egyptian petroglyphs: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20001229/hi_hu_rockart.html Cities in Aboukir Bay (watch the wrap ... this is the same AP story from last week) http://www.thestar.com/apps/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=978496256338&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News .