From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Mar 25 05:29:17 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id FAA93762 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 05:29:16 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f2PDTFU32643 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 05:29:16 -0800 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-29.look.ca [216.154.51.29]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA84476; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:24:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010325082721.00a5d040@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:28:43 -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@yahoogroups.com ------------------------------------------------------ OLD WORLD NEWS This is sort of a followup: more mummies have been discovered at the Barhariya Oasis site: http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0103/22/A31127-2001Mar22.shtml http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o220321h.htm http://www.oweb.com/newslink/international/EgyptArchaeologyP0617.html Greek police have recovered a bunch of smuggled Minoan artifacts: http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/547808.asp A trio of Greek shepherds have found bits and pieces of eight or so Greek statues: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/International/0,3561,800431,00.html http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12902&m=A35&aa=6&eidos=S http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw985010101340B262 Greek archaeologists have been busy excavating the palace of Alexander the Great: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-101058,00.html .... and the Times has a little article on the cultural context of Al: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,649-102173,00.html .... and a piece on how the Macedonians weren't really barbaroi: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-101056,00.html New Scientist reports on evidence that the Vikings who came to Scotland in the ninth century planned on staying: http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999541 Some guy with a metal detector has found an Iron Age horde in Britain: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-102839,00.html .... and as long as we're on the subject, the Guardian has a report on what metal detectors have been turning up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4158370,00.html Iraq is celebrating the 5000th anniversary of the development of writing: http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=aC5JdBKJ&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/3/21/wirq21.html http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/iraq010320_writing.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,56-102938,00.html Discovering Archaeology has finally put up some different content, including a feature on Ignatius Donnelly, who pretty much created the Atlantis story as we usually see it: http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/011701-atlantis.shtml Fans of Time Team (I wish they'd show it across the pond here), will be dismayed to learn that the hoof-and-mouth breakout has pretty much nixed excavation of most of the sites they'd planned on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4150290,00.html Folks thinking of a career in archaeology/museology etc. might be interested in some pieces in the Guardian this week: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4155535,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4155116,00.html ON THE NEWSSTANDS There's a new online issue of Bible Review out, with features on the authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the evidence for the historical King Saul: http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html There's also a new issue of British Archaeology, with features on Traprain Law, power drinking in Iron Age Europe (honest!), and Claudius' harbour: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba57/index.html CLASSICIST'S CORNER More on Loyola: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010323.atc.04.rmm http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/class19.html http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,270007420,00.html EXHIBITIONS Antioch: The Lost Ancient City: http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/03/25/28294.html http://www.clevelandart.org/AntiochExhib/html/index.html AT ABOUT.COM: Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the Jewish calendar: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa032001a.htm Latin Guide Janet Burns has a feature on Roman names: http://latin.about.com/library/blnames.htm FOLLOWUPS Taliban activities and results: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Asia_China/2001-03/statues220301.shtml http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0323_statuefree.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0320_smuggled.html http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/032101-terrorism.htm Marathon rowing site: http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/546223.asp http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12901&m=A35&aa=1&eidos=S http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12902&m=A06&aa=1&eidos=S http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010320/sp/oly_athens_2004_3.html http://www.eKathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=76140 Cleopatra's signature: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-102814,00.html Elgin Marbles: http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20010324_492.html .