From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jul 16 11:30:10 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA27648 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:30:09 -0700 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA30260 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:30:09 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-04-143.look.ca [216.154.53.207]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14387; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:22:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000716142814.00b3d750@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:30:43 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu, ancIEN-L@LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com From: David Meadows Subject: In the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Some items of interest from my newsletter: OLD WORLD NEWS The Archimedes Palimpsest returns to the news, with a few stories about what is being done with it (this should probably be a followup, but it's been so long!): http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/scripts000713.html http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/07/13/p17s1.htm The Independent reports on the rather amazing discoveries of the remains of the Garamantes civilization: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-07/sahara150700.shtml The Aftenposten (Norway) reports (in English) on the discovery of a rather large Viking home (thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads up): http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/d150063.htm CLASSICISTS' CORNER The LA Times has a obituaryesque thing on Sally Fitzgerald, wife of Robert (the translator) which might raise a few eyebrows: http://www.latimes.com:80/news/state/20000714/t000066151.html The Orange County Weekly has a reviewesque thing called "Big Old Jews" which eventually talks about Philip Roth's *Human Stain*: http://www.ocweekly.com:80/ink/00/45/books-bonca.shtml FOLLOWUPS The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a somewhat bland editorial on Zeugma: http://www.post-gazette.com:80/forum/20000712eddig3.asp The Washington Post has a lengthy article on the Temple Mount activities: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7462-2000Jul8.html ON THE NEWSSTANDS USNews and World Report has a bonus double issue thing which is devoted to ''Mysteries of History', many of which are of interest to folks who read this e-rag; I've culled the ones which I believe will be of interest; the final link is to the main index page which has links to all the articles (just in case my interests and yours don't quite overlap!): Indus Civilization: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/indus.htm The Sphinx: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/sphinx.htm Homer: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/homer.htm Anasazi: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/anasazi.htm King Arthur: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/king.htm Stonehenge: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/stonehenge.htm Shroud of Turin: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/shroud.htm Marco Polo: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/marco.htm Pope Joan: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/pope.htm Columbus: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/columbus.htm DNA analysis: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/dna.htm Whodunit? (how assorted folks died, including Tut and Al the more than adequate): http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/whodunit.htm Also of interest would be the article on hoaxes: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/great.htm Index: http://www.usnews.com:80/usnews/issue/000724/mysteries/index.htm OBITUARY William Willis (scroll down a bit): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/latestap/A47068-2000Jul14.html .