From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Dec 3 05:25:23 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA227156 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 05:25:22 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA19220 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 05:25:22 -0800 Received: from default.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-103.look.ca [216.154.52.231]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA25768; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 08:20:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001203081525.01e35670@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 08:17:57 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu, ancien-l@listserv.louisville.edu, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com, PreModernWorldHistory@egroups.com, From: David Meadows Subject: In the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed What follows is a shortened version of Explorator, the premiere email newsletter devoted to matters archaeological and ancient, edited to the subject matter of this list; should you desire to subscribe to the full version (with archaeological news from around the world in various time periods), please send a blank email to: mailto:explorator-subscribe@egroups.com ============ A somewhat quiet week ... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gratias vobis ago for the heads up to: Bill Kennedy, Janice Siegel (a.k.a. Dr. J.), and Arnd Lis(as always, hoping I haven't left anyone out, which lately might have been the case ... I've just discovered I had an unbeknownst email problem throughout November which might be continuing!). OLD WORLD NEWS Potentially big news, but really just an application of technology to already know remains, is the massive coverage of a 'virtual tour' of various mummies, which have been catscanned and reconstructed. The CNN coverage has the most to play with here (note that in some of the articles is buried info on the mummies from the Carlos Museum in Niagara Falls): http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/11/29/mummy.movies/index.html http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/112800/mummies_ct.sml http://www.msnbc.com/news/495814.asp?cp1=1 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/dailynews/mummy_scan001129.html http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/features_a332c48c2786625c00b0.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1046000/1046700.stm Also on the mummy front, the Washington Post has a preview/review of the 'Unwrapped' program which will be on TLC tonight: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13842-2000Dec2.html National Geographic News also reports on new evidence for the source of the marble used to make the Parthenon and various other things: http://209.19.141.102/news/2000/11/11172000/elginmarbles_3308.asp The Athenian News Agency reports on the discovery of a "huge marble statue of a woman" at Thera: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2000/00-11-29.ana.html#18 Also in an ANA report is a short item on the Mycenean acropolis at Midea, which apparently has much evidence of earthquake damage: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2000/00-11-30.ana.html#19 The Macedonian Press Agency has a vague report on some new finds near Philippi: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2000/00-11-29.mpa.html#12 The Philadelphia Inquirer has a nice feature on various efforts to showcase Athens' archaeological sites during the Olympics: http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/11/28/front_page/GREECE28.htm Also worth looking at is a brief article on ancient coinage: http://fredericksburg.com/news/Local/Region/1201ep.htm CLASSICISTS CORNER The Hindustan Times has a review of a local production of Prometheus Bound: http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/021200/detCIT13.asp AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest feature is on various divinities' genealogies: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa112800a.htm?terms=a1 Latin Guide Janet Burns has put up a pile of online jigsaw puzzles which are kind of interesting: http://latin.about.com/library/blAugustusJig.htm http://latin.about.com/library/blWolfJigsaw.htm http://latin.about.com/library/blSmileWolfJig.htm http://latin.about.com/library/blTwinWolvesJig.htm http://latin.about.com/library/blEtTuBruteJig.htm .