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 From Issue 2.81:

Also in the category of major news are a couple of reports on what the 
Tabula Cortonensis tells us about the Etruscan language:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/03/04/timfnffnf01011.html?999
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000303/history_etruscans.html


The BBC reports on the discovery in Iraq of a pre-Islamic 'castle':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_665000/665486.stm


The Jerusalem Post reports on the recovery of a purloined Roman-era bust:

http://www.jpost.com:80/Editions/2000/03/03/News/News.3514.html


ON THE NEWSSTANDS

Biblical Archaeology Review has a new online issue, which includes one out 
of three in print articles on the historicity of the Bible among other 
thing; worth a look is the piece on Tel Rehov:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar2.html


Bible Review is also online with new content, chief among which are a pair 
of articles dealing with the Nazareth v. Bethlehem debate:

http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html

EXHIBITS

The Bergen Record has a review of the "Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from 
Roman Egypt" currently at the Met:

http://www.bergen.com:80/previews/mummy03200003037.htm

TOURISTY PIECES

The Montreal Gazette has a nice little feature on Malta:

http://www.montrealgazette.com:80/travel/pages/000304/3696513.html

Something called FeedMag has an essay on Leptis Magna:

http://www.feedmag.com:80/essay/es290.shtml

This one didn't make the cut:

A review of *Ovid Metamorphosed*, an anthology of various modern authors' 
reworkings of various tales in the Metamorphoses:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/03/02/timbooboo01002.html?999


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