From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Oct 28 04:28:34 2001 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f9SCSXN103022 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 04:28:33 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Oct 28 04:26:59 2001 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f9SCQwQ21993 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 04:26:58 -0800 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-02-181.look.ca [216.154.52.117]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA93470; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:07:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011028072650.02a4bec0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 07:27:46 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com, PreModernWorldHistory@egroups.com, ancientmed@egroups.com, latinteach@vlists.net, latin@vlists.net From: David Meadows Subject: In Explorator 4.26 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.26 classical world edition ================================================================ Thanks to Bill Kennedy, Curtis B. Edmundson, Jim Fucci, Michael Stowe, Terrence Lockyer, "Ivygab", Alastair Millar, John Hill, Karl Wittwer, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ There's lots of coverage of a Nature article on new findings on the mummification process: http://www.msnbc.com/news/647203.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1618000/1618181.stm http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011024/sc/mummy_methods_1.html http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991475 http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20011021/mummy.html Research suggests that King Midas' high-meat-diet might have contributed to the destruction of his tomb: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991461 A dozen or so mummies have been discovered in Gynecopolis: http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1098470,00.html Jerusalem Magazine has a feature on the discovery of Herod's palace: http://www.jewishmag.com/48mag/herod/herod.htm The Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria has begun the task of restoring a pile of Ptolemaic era coins: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o251021f.htm The Guardian has a touristy sort of thing on Carlisle, with its Roman, Norman, and cursed remains: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4285785,00.html .... and an interesting thing on Flaubert's sojourn in Egypt: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4286015,00.html The Elgin Marbles saga has taken an interesting turn (maybe): http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001372085,00.html There's a move afoot to privatize many of Italy's museums: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7834 While many of Britain's regional museums face closure: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,579604,00.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001370317,00.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ Archaeology Magazine has a new online feature called "Dining with Martial", which takes its start from epigram 10.48: http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=online/features/martial/index .... as well as abstracts from the new print issue dealing with Roman culinary habits and love of wine, the battle of Hembrillo Basin, the nuraghi of Sardinia, and other things: http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=curiss/index There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out with features on Philistine Gath, the Monastery of the Cross, and other things: http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Julie Apley has put together a very nice virtual reality 3D reconstruction of the baths at Isthmia: http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~japley/html/isthmia.html ================================================================ ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL ================================================================ The Archaeology Channel has a new streaming video on what is involved in being an archaeologist: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ .... and an interview with Charles Orser on Atlantis: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/Atlantisint.html ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ The Guardian has a review of Waquet's *Latin, or the Empire of the Sign*: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4285335,00.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Possibly in this category is an item in the Guardian related to the Agatha Christie: Mystery in Mesopotamia exhibit ... it appears that AC made films of some of the archaeological digs she visited: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4286745,00.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ A piece on theatre design ... with classical content, of course: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4281983,00.html A piece on the demise of various currencies in the wake of the Euro, with some interesting classical content (of course): http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,261-2001372161,00.html Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-10-27&id=1241 Dot Wordsworth in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-10-27&id=1240 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ St. Luke's teeth: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=wKfKlsKb&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/10/25/ecnst25.html Neolithic Petrolglyphs on Andros: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12933&m=A35&aa=4&eidos=S ================================================================ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2001 David Meadows. 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