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(v1.54 Beta/45) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <3515039997.20020526085239@idirect.com> To: explorator@yahoogroups.com Subject: Explorator 5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ================================================================ explorator 5.4 May 26, 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 W. Richard Frahm, Bill Kennedy, Arthur Shippee, Alex Rentzis, John Hill, Ethan R. Longhenry, and Maurice O'Sullivan for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) Mind-boggled editor's note: After the week I've had, this kind of makes sense ... Mike Tyson has apparently said that he wants to be an archaeologist: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,483-304413,00.html ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ What is possibly the "oldest" African agricultural settlement has been found in Eritrea (this doesn't quite sound right): http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_2000000/2000297.stm http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200313.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_592296.html An important underwater UK prehistoric site is being explored: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2001000/2001942.stm http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_592993.html A 2500 b.p. tomb has been found in the Barharia Oasis: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o210522p.htm http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Features/0,1113,2-11-37_1190449,00.html The Egyptian State Information Service is stirring up interest in the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great (hmmmmm): http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o250522.htm .... and singing the praises of Rosalie David: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o200522n.htm The Guardian had a report on KV5 this week: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,718687,00.html Egypt's hundredth pyramid has been found (?): http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o230522f.htm .... as has Thutmose III's granite quarry: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o210522q.htm There was plenty of coverage this week of the discovery of a skeleton of someone who was probably a priest of Cybele (or, more sensationally, a cross-dressing Roman skeleton ... the New Zealand Herald has the best headline) ... the discovery was actually made twenty years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1999000/1999734.stm http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw102198438146B241&set_id=1 http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/409012p-3260401c.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020521/ap_on_re_eu/britain_roman_eunuch_2 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_592309.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,719756,00.html http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw102198438146B241&set_id=1 http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=989180 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2042615&thesection=news&thesubsection=world Apparently they're NOT resuming the excavation of the library at Herculaneum, contrary to earlier reports: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-301556,00.html A site with artifacts ranging from "Indo-Greek" to Hindu Shahi has been found in India's Dir district: http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/21/local30.htm A number of significant 15th (and later) century fortifications have turned up in county Sligo: http://www.unison.ie/sligo_champion/stories.php3?ca=38&si=759545&issue_id=7460 The tomb of Henry VIII's elder brother has been located in Worcester Cathedral: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1748787,00.html http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1419191 http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$4AEKYJAAADIGZQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2002/05/20/nprinc20.xml Excavations are being conducted in Norway to determine whether construction work is hastening decomposition of skeletal remains in a church cemetery: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=336080 A number of 2000 b.p. crop seeds have been found in China's Gansu province: http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2002-05-21/70559.html I think I have mentioned the manuscript discovery at the Deir el Surian monastery before, but the Art Newspaper presents the find in rather more detail: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9539 Who is buried in Columbus' tomb? er ... tombs?: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/international/europe/23SPAI.html Also on the mysterious burial front, construction workers have revealed a mass grave at the site where Nicholas II and his family were murdered: http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_2007000/2007956.stm I think I forgot this one last week -- work on a new exhibit at a zoo in Sydney has revealed a trio of Scottish cannons which date back to the 1700's: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020519/ap_wo_en_ge/australia_scottish_cannons_2 ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ The "mother lode" of jade which was a major source of Olmec wealth appears to have been discovered: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/international/americas/22JADE.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/05/22/MN195858.DTL http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2003000/2003775.stm .... and a major underground river has been found in the Yucatan, which may shed light on the environmental situation the Maya (and others) had to deal with: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/science/21MAYA.html A nice piece on petroglyphs in Arkanasas: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0521/p16s02-lehl.html Satellite technology has revealed some ancient footpaths in Costa Rica: http://www.colorado.edu/NewsServices/NewsReleases/2002/1818.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/05/020521071618.htm The hype is beginning again for the search for lost civilizations off of Cuba: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1746406,00.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020519/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/exp_lost_city_1 http://www.msnbc.com/news/753882.asp Less controversial (perhaps) are other Castro-sponsored explorations of shipwrecks off Cuba which have revealed the wreck of the Palemon: http://www.msnbc.com/news/753883.asp ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ George Ebers, *Cleopatra*: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5482 ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Another bust in Greece: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020520/ap_wo_en_ge/greece_antiquities_theft_1 Here's more on that art-connoisseur/thief/waiter from France: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/arts/design/22ARTS.html .... and a very interesting tale of manuscript theft from a French monastery: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,721292,00.html A new antiquities bill is before the Greek parliament and, if passed, will no doubt provide more content for this section of Explorator: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16749 ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Bruce Heydt, "Bronze Age Riddle Uncovered at Flag Fen": http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blflagfen.htm ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Queen of Sheba (British Museum ... not so much a review as a nice article on the Queen of Sheba): http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4421501,00.html The Greek Classical Period (Berlin): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16866 ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Another installment of what-you-can-do-with-a-classics (vel simm)-degree: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36091-2002May17.html This "Harvard professor" should drop by the classics department, I suspect: http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/05/05212002/reu_47270.asp Anyone want to confess to being the unnamed UMich TA and/or the prof alluded to in this one: http://www.nationalreview.com/nordlinger/nordlinger052302.asp Potentially interesting classcon in this one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53486-2002May21.html Sounds like someone got the Lysistrata right (or something like that): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/arts/theater/20LYSI.html .... while a production of the Frogs is causing controversy in Italy: http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/20/italy.play/index.html http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=297179 Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-25&id=1906 .... kai Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-05-25&id=1904 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Jake Hoffman: http://www.denverpost.com/framework/0%2C1918%2C36%257E11777%257E632174%2C00.html ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Amenhotep III statue returned to Egypt: http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1996000/1996241.stm Cuneiform Digital Library Intiative: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=711&ncid=738&e=5&u=/usatoday/20020521/tc_usatoday/4126897 Kouros (the eKat articles are genuine followups): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16663 http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16664 http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=16662 http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/11/greece.statue.ap/index.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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