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(v1.53d) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <17313348205.20020303085747@idirect.com> To: exploratorclassics Subject: In Explorator 4.44 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ================================================================ in explorator classical world edition ================================================================ Thanks to Sally Winchester, Susan Herrmann, Bill Kennedy, John Hill, Mark Elliott, Arthur Shippee, Maurice O'Sullivan, Glenn Meyer, Michael Ruggieri, Eoin Bairead, Jean Laplante, and Trevor Watkins for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ John Noble Wilford has written a nice piece on the debate over when humans became identifiably 'human': http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/science/social/26HUMA.html cf: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020225/eve.html .... and it would appear that the Neanderthals-weren't-so-dim articles are making the rounds again: http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3836688%255E703,00.html German archaeologists claim to have found a bronze age star chart: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_533690.html In a much anticipated bout, Korfmann and Kolb finally came to blows at a conference over their differences about the site of Troy (the two pieces from the Times are different): http://www.thetimes.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-218343,00.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-218264,00.html An early Christian cemetery has been found in Athboy (Ireland): http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/index.php3?ti=50&ca=34&si=693684&issue_id=6920 In case you've ever pondered following in Alexander's footsteps to make the pilgrimage to Siwa: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020225/lf/egypt_hotel_dc_1.html With Easter and Passover coming up, we're going to see (probably) usual brief wave of articles on the historicity of the Exodus; here's one which is definitely pro-Christian in its outlook, but which has enough archaeological stuff in it to be included here: http://vcmagazine.org/vcm/article.asp?volume=4&issue=3&article=exodus While on the subject of matters religious, here's a piece on the origins of the Qu'ran: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/arts/02ISLA.html (cf: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/koran.htm) .... and a controversy which has arisen due to the method of transport of a sacred relic of the Buddhist faith: http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/02/25/story/0000125299 http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2002-02-25/57998.html http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/02/28/story/0000125766 Coming a bit closer to archaeology is a report on the discovery of the oldest Christian church in China: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/arts/design/24CAMH.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out, with articles on Herod's death, the SBL/AAR meeting in Denver, and the identity of a biblical eunuch: http://www.bib-arch.org/BSWB/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ At the Bible and Interpretation site: A. Millard, "Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Millard_Jesus.htm The University of Pennsylvania has put up a "Southeast Asian Archaeology Scholarly Website" which looks like it will be useful: http://seasia.museum.upenn.edu ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Vandalism has been committed in the archeological park of Kos and damaged a mosaic: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13977 http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=254412 Another raid on a Greek home: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12951&m=A10&aa=5&eidos=S ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ (auth?) *Ancient Greek Sites on the Northwest Coast of the Black Sea*: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12951&m=A46&aa=2&eidos=S ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ "The Classical Period of Ancient Greece -- Idea or Reality": http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13905 ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Teacher Magazine has a nice little feature on yet another teacher helping to keep Latin alive and lively: http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=06colleagues.h13 .... as does the Eastside Journal: http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/84442 Folks who have visited Segesta will be interested/shocked/amused/ insert-the-emotion-of-your-choice in whatis planned there: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F27%2Fwpop127.xml http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,658568,00.html We can now anxiously await the tome which puts the Iliad in the Pacific: http://www.philstar.com/philstar/show_content.asp?article=68822 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Bamiyan Buddhas (becoming a saga): http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1849000/1849843.stm http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=8971 Egyptian makeup: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020225/makeup.html ================================================================ Useful Addresses ================================================================ Past issues of Explorator are available on the web at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to: mailto:Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To send a 'heads up' to the editor: mailto:dmeadows@idirect.com ================================================================ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2002 David Meadows. 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