From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun May 11 05:49:50 2003 Received: from mxu5.u.washington.edu (mxu5.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.164]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h4BCno1M054234 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 05:49:50 -0700 Received: from photon.look.ca (photon.look.ca [207.136.80.123]) by mxu5.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h4BCnmvw010397 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 05:49:48 -0700 Received: from on-ham-a53-02-148.look.ca ([216.154.52.84] helo=raoul) by photon.look.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 19EqGu-0002pn-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 11 May 2003 12:49:44 +0000 To: "classics@u.washington.edu" From: David Meadows MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:49:19 -0400 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Subject: Explorator 6.2 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=6.5 tests=USER_AGENT version=2.53 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XXIIII, Probability=24%, Report="RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, SUPERLONG_LINE, TO_ADDRESS_EQ_REAL, TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY, USER_AGENT, X_OSIRU_DUL, X_OSIRU_DUL_FH, __EVITE_CTYPE, __USER_AGENT" ================================================================ explorator 6.2 May 11, 2003 ================================================================ Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap (especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. 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Richard Frahm, Dave Sowdon, and Paul Cowie for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out) n.b. 1: This week I had to use a number of email programs as I was trying to figure out an email problem I was having (turned out to be my anti-spam program); as a result, I may unintentionally have left out a 'heads up' acknowledgement. n.b. 2: Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers out there, redneck and otherwise! ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Fungus is threatening the petroglyphs at Lascaux (is this really news?): http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003457 The Sorbonne will continue its dig in the Sinai: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o080523n.htm A Thracian gold wreath is on display in Sofia: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22244 .... and excitement is building about a pending dig in the Halka Bunar area: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=22202 Athens new subway turned up piles of artifacts: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13011&m=A06&aa=1&eidos=S A rather ornate Roman bridge once spanned the Tyne, it appears: http://tinyurl.com/bhho The vikings were apparently responsible for introducing ironing to Scotland (evil!): http://tinyurl.com/b2j4 The latest on the Ayodhya dig: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?msid=45593923 ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Archaeologists believe they have found the site of Werewocomoco, which, of course, is getting much press attention as the village whence came Pocahontas and/or her father: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/national/07INDI.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3009217.stm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/cowa-so1050603.php http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=6&aid=D7QSBQP80_story http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/08/MN224987.DTL http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.powhatan07may07,0,6063582.story?coll=bal-home-headlines Drought in Arizona has helped to reveal a Salado site: http://www.msnbc.com/news/907855.asp http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/may/05/050509544.html The Peoria Journal Star has a feature on the Tampica Mounds: http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/g172585a.html The reburial of a child who was a slave has some interesting reading: http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2003/05_09-07/TOP A rural slave jail from Kentucky will be part of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/national/06SLAV.html ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ An item of interest (perhaps) to those who research the Etruscans: http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200305061148-0087-RT1-SST-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia It's National Archaeology Week down under (or up over, depending on your point of view -- nice poster for art teachers who want an example of rhythm): http://www.archaeologyweek.com/ John Kluge has just given the humanities a huge shot in the arm (and/or pocketbook): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/national/08KLUG.html Some news on the efforts to repair the bulge in Temple Mount: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid=1052362483494 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1052362486494 Ha'aretz has an interview with Israel Finkelstein: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=291264&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y .... and the Washington Post has an interview with underwater archaeologist Susan Langley: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27364-2003May7.html The Lindisfarne Gospels are returning to Holy Island, sort of: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/tyne/3017903.stm A pair of Romanian astronomers claim to have pinpointed the exact time of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_778195.html Oetzi is now claimed to be a "Stone Age Rambo": http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,949144,00.html Another 'let's look for Viking DNA in the UK' research project is underway: http://tinyurl.com/bhfo Mystery stone faces in Massachusetts: http://www.boston.com/dailynews/130/region/Ancient_artwork_or_modern_hoax:.shtml A large number of Aborigine remains were repatriated this week: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2637861,00.html First UK Education Secretary Charles Clarke was denigrating Classics; now he's turned to medievalists (nice list of the degrees held by cabinet members in this one): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3014423.stm http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,11032,953166,00.html cf: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,953113,00.html The UK's Channel 4 caused a bit of controversy this week when it used the Uffington Horse as a sort of publicity stunt to advertise 'Big Brother': http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3000243.stm http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,949147,00.html (interesting neologism in this one) ================================================================ MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ Ancient Egypt Magazine: http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/issue17.htm Antiquity 77 (March 2003): http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html (TOC only) Arethusa 36.1 (Winter 2003): http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/toc/are36.1.html (abstracts/MUSE) Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77.1 (Spring 2003) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm77.1.html (abstracts/MUSE) Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12.2 (October 2002): http://tinyurl.com/bhez (abstracts) Classical Quarterly 52.2 (December 2002): http://www3.oup.co.uk/clquaj/current/ (TOCS and claimed abstracts) Greece and Rome 50.1 (April 2003): http://www3.oup.co.uk/gromej/current/ (TOCS and claimed abstracts) Kadmos 41 (2002): http://www.degruyter.de/journals/kadmos/kadmos41.pdf (TOC) Minerva (May/June 2003): http://www.minervamagazine.com/ (scroll down for the new content) Mnemosyne 56.2 (March 2003): http://gessler.ingentaselect.com/vl=11601038/cl=40/nw=1/rpsv/cw/brill/00267074/v56n2/contp1-1.htm (TOC/abstracts) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 13 (2002): http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/pia/cvol.html (TOC/abstracts) TAPA 131.1-2 (Autumn, 2002): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_american_philological_association/toc/apa132.1.html (abstracts/MUSE) ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Richard Benkin, "The Modern Destruction of Temple Mount": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Modern_Destruction.htm Charles Isbell, "More Comments on the Davies-Dever Exchange": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/More_comments.htm The James Ossuary is the subject of a Skeptical Inquirer article: http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-03/bonebox.html ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ The Characters of Theophrastus (trans. Jebb.): http://www.eudaemonist.com/biblion/characters/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ One of the steles at the centre of the Shultz case was returned to Egypt this week: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/international/middleeast/08ARTI.html .... along with other items: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o100523o.htm Egyptian police seized close to two hundred 'Islamic dynasty' coins this week: http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_31065213,00.html (article in Spanish) ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a feature on the Circus Maximus: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa030903a.htm Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a review of Robert F. Boszhardt's *Deep Cave Art in the Upper Mississippi Valley*: http://archaeology.about.com/cs/rockart/a/deepcaveart.htm ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Adam Nicolson, *God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible*: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/books/08MASL.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium From the Mediterranean to the Indus: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/09/arts/09KIMM.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Another Bogdanos-has-a-classics-degree piece: http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=38687§ion=NEWS&subsection=AMERICA_AT_WAR&year=2003&month=5&day=11 An interesting double major: http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/05/11ky/met-5-uk05110-7494.html Political comments from an LSU classics prof: http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/105263430749480.xml I'm not sure whether this opinion piece is endorsing Classics or not: http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/5817958.htm Cambridge appears to know how to do fundraising for Classics: http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge/story.asp?StoryID=18962 Anyone else find this choice of commencement speaker strange? (not Panetta ... scroll down to the person talking to the ancient history types): http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1726~1380260,00.html Hmmm ... didn't we see this as the future of Classics a decade ago?: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/19-nagy.html There's a shortage of Latin teachers in Texas: http://web.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?wcd=5705 Peter Jones: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-05-10&id=3087 Akropolis News in Classical Greek: http://www.akwn.net/ Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/ U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Edward A. Dowey (Theologian): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/obituaries/08DOWE.html Geoffrey S. Kirk (Classicist): http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,949461,00.html ================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Earliest Writing: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg6_18 Language Follows the Plough: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/science/06LANG.html http://www.iht.com/articles/95527.html Mummy of Ramses I Returned: http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5726_30716564,00.html (Spanish) ================================================================ IRAQ ================================================================ The interesting story this week (and not purely of archaeological interest) was what was found during the search for a seventh century copy of the Talmud: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/international/worldspecial/07FIND.html More reports that artifacts were actually safely stored away prior to the conflict: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/international/worldspecial/06MUSE.html http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=528232003 .... but also more reports that we might not ever know how much was actually stolen: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-iraq-usa-exhibit.html .... and also more reports about organized gangs doing the looting: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Looted-Art.html More reports on things being recovered (although we aren't getting news of 'specifics', other than 'only 38 articles are missing'): http://wcbs880.com/siteSearch/terror_story_118164331.html (somewhat out of date) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2700378 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/international/worldspecial/08CUST.html http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/07/sprj.nilaw.iraqi.artifacts/ The St. Louis Post-Dispatch seems skeptical of lots of things (I think they mean 'eludes' in the headline, though): http://tinyurl.com/bhhe .... and more reports that Marines and the officials of the Baghdad museum just can't seem to get along: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,950071,00.html The New York Times had a nice piece on the illicit antiquities trade in the region: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/05/international/worldspecial/05LOOT.html The opinion pieces continue: http://www.edinburghnews.com/opinion.cfm?id=526652003 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/637/op11.htm Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site: http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html ================================================================ OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS ================================================================ Archaeologica: http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index Bible and Interpretation Breaking News: http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm CBA Newsfeed: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html CBA Archaeolblog: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/ Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News: http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand/ Mirabilis.ca (blog): http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_history_archeology.html Texas A&M Anthropology News Site: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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