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Accordingly, I have adjusted my copyright statement, so if you are a website owner who is making use of this material or someone who is reposting this material to other discussion groups, please read it and act accordingly! ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Interesting stuff on a possible genetic mutation being responsible for humans being able to speak and make use of symbols: http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/julaug/features/anthro.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/science/15LANG.html?ex=1030248000&en=f412e995454ce475&ei=5040 http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000CCE7E-A2A7-1D5A-90FB809EC5880000 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/healthscience/134513634_language15.html A Bronze Age axe has been found in Norway: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=382361 A piece of a statue of Sekhmet was recently excavated near Luxor: http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Northern_Africa/0,1113,2-11-38_1240916,00.html .... more from Luxor: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o130822n.htm A pre-Ptolemaic cemetery is being excavated: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o110822d.htm Al-Ahram has an article on a prosthetic toe found in an Egyptian tomb (but I don't believe it was found four months ago cf. the Yahoo piece .... nice photos at both though): http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/599/hr1.htm http://asia.news.yahoo.com/020813/afp/020813142438top.html I think this is referring to those Egyptian temples found in Nubia a while ago: http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2001/07/20/52.asp Here's another article on the politics of archaeology in Israel: http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/world/3830513.htm eKathimerini has an article on "anti seismic" systems in the ancient Mediterranean world: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19704 The Washington Post has a nice article on when the Mongolians became the fearful horsemen they are remembered as being: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6542-2002Aug11.html An unspecified 'treasure' has been found in a well in Cyprus (hopefully we'll hear more about this): http://www.cyprus-mail.com/August/13/index.htm Two Roman Villas have been found under a playing field in Wiltshire: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_652587.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/18/nrome18.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/08/18/ixhome.html A guy with a metal detector found something Saxonish to the puzzlement of archaeologists: http://tinyurl.com/120v A somewhat puzzling medieval burial ground has been found in London: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/2191129.stm In a semi-related story, the British Museum is displaying a pile of artifacts found by people with metal detectors to demonstrate how changes in the law have been a good thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2192661.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4481867,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-384273,00.html .... the full report mentioned in the foregoing is available at: http://www.culture.gov.uk/heritage/index.html The tomb of an Eastern Han dynasty feudal prince has come to light in China's Shaanxi province: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_647986.html http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/11/content_519603.htm A new ... er, a hitherto unknown section of the Great Wall of China has been found in China's northwest desert: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAJAKZST4D.html http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020813_457.html The team searching for Genghis Khan's grave have been accused of desecrated royal tombs: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=903262002 http://www.nando.net/world/story/498168p-3971220c.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/793779.asp Archaeologists in Vietnam have uncovered a "record haul": http://www.vnagency.com.vn/Public/Readnewse.asp?FileN=frav1708.003 Time for the annual "The Ark of the Covenant might be in Ethiopia" story: http://www.naplesnews.com/02/08/neapolitan/d810296a.htm Those clumsy archaeologists are at it again, this time "stumbling" onto a tunnel supposedly used by Robin Hood: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_651998.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/2198224.stm Rabbits are being credited with the discovery of a 14th century glass window (rabbits "burrow", archaeologists "stumble"): http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_649042.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,774163,00.html http://news1.iwon.com/odd/article/id/259242|oddlyenough|08-13-2002::08:25|reuters.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020813/ap_wo_en_po/britain_archaeologist_rabbits_1 http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/793785.asp What might be the fortifications of Oxford Castle have been found in Oxfordshire: http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/news/NEWS15.html A Canadian team will investigate the "Stonghold of Cameroon": http://www.canada.com/calgary/story.asp?id={E60918DB-3351-4E9F-B2FE-4BC30322F5EF} http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/unicomm/news/strongholds/ A textile expert hired to repair the Turin Shroud has been accused of damaging it: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_648601.html On the soon-to-be-coming-to-a-tv-near-you front, someone is researching a WWII sub sinking which is supposedly connected to German attempts to find the Holy Grail: http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/readstory.php?id=1772 .... and it sounds like we can't be sure who's buried in Napoleon's tomb for the time being (that's an awkward sentence!): http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,775975,00.html ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ A possible Anasazi (?) site has been found in New Mexico: http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/496284p-3958570c.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020812/ap_on_re_us/exp_anasazi_excavation_1 http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-exp-anasazi-excavation0812aug12.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnation%2Dheadlines A nice piece on the use of TIMS to find sites in Costa Rica: http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2002/05/30/52.asp Scientists are examining west coast Native American myths to see if they might confirm a Japanese Tsunami in 1700: http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020812_429.html Remains of the long-thought-lost Fort Constantine have been found in Canada's Yukon Territory: http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={394C3F0D-C210-40CD-A74D-87C854AD8CA4} A nice report on finds made during a rescue dig in West Windsor (New Jersey, I believe): http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5034674&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425695&rfi=6 A Native American burial ground has been found near Norton (Oklahoma?): http://www.ljworld.com/section/stateregional/story/102713 ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new issue of Archaeology out, with abstracts to articles on Roman Libya, the Crusades, that big Napoleonic grave, and quite a few other things: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The Crucible Damascus Steel site provides a nice look at the production of Damascus steel as evidenced from a site in Turkmenistan: http://home.att.net/~moltenmuse/ The British Library site has a section called "Turning Pages" which allows you (if you have shockwave) to look at some of the more interesting tomes in its collection, such as the Lyndisfarne Gospels, the Tyndale Bible, and most recently, the Sherborne Missal (among others ... definitely worth a look): http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation.html# .... and as long as we're looking at manuscripts, the Chester Beatty Library site is also worth taking a look at: http://www.cbl.ie/ ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ There's a pile of books relating to the Ancient Near East recently put up at the Etana site: http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/abzu-processquery.pl?SID=&UID=&CID=&auth=&selectsearch=etana&searchstring=active Petronius, *Satyricon* (trans. W. Burnaby): http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5611 ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A number of Byzantine artifacts were stolen from a museum in Bodrum: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020815/ap_wo_en_ge/turkey_museum_theft_1 Egypt will be pursuing more stolen antiquities: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o140822k.htm http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o170822m.htm A nice piece on tomb raiding in the Ukraine: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19837 ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Tom Huntington, *The City of the Dead* (Petra): http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blcityofthedeada.htm Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is a review of Martin Jones, *The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA*: http://archaeology.about.com/library/read/bljonesm.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Robert Solé and Veronique Valbelle, *The Rosetta Stone*: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1461-385669,00.html Pierre Hadot, *Philosophy as a Way of Life*: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/books/review/18GEWENT.html Hercules (Epidavros): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19823 ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ They're performing Euripides'Hypsipyle!: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020814/ap_en_ot/wkd_lost_play_1 A Latin teacher celebrates the revival of the Latin participle: http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/3163850.html A movie based on the Iliad: http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story=4089 And Leo DiCaprio seems to be caught in a tug of war between directors of two different Alexander flicks: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/eo/20020815/en_movies_eo/10399 http://www.teenhollywood.com/d.asp?r=16499&cat=1055 http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,10399,00.html Aristotle is in the political news in Berkeley: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/13/BA200448.DTL If classicists ran the world: http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.oldhouse16aug16.story?coll=bal%2Dlocal%2Dheadlines ClassCon (Livy!) in John Derbyshire's column in the National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire081502.asp What to do with a Latin degree: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/225/living/A_writer_with_a_gift_for_gags+.shtml Septimius Severus as "Libyan strongman": http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020816/lf_nm/libya_tourism_dc_1 Here's the latest on that Aphrodite theme park in Cyprus: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/August/14/news2.htm http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=19845 In case you're wondering what's going on in Athens, Olympics-preparation- wise: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020812/sp_nm/olympics_greece_dc_1 .... semi-related, Steven Miller (the Nemea guy) has a letter in Athens News: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12975&m=A11&aa=1&eidos=S .... semi-semi-related ... ever wonder what's going through the heads of the guards at sites in Athens?: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12975&m=A06&aa=1&eidos=S The situation with Queen's University (Belfast) sounds all-too-familiar accourding to some letters written in protest: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/letters/story.jsp?story=324649 Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-08-17&id=2168 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-08-17&id=2167 Perfess'r Harris: http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/ U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Monitor: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020805/monitor.html Recent Discoveries Near the Sphinx: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/598/hr1.htm http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020805/bakery.html Welsh "Mary Rose": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2191881.stm (photos!) http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readRelease&Releaseid=10544 http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/humanities/story/0,9850,771754,00.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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