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explorator 8.52 April 23, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
Sowdon, David Moody, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, 'Duke Jason',
Francis Deblauwe, George Pesely, Hanan Charaf, James Stewart,
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe,
Bob Heuman, Shelley Wachsmann, Susan Jaslow, Tom Wukitsch,
W. Richard Frahm, Yitzhak Sapir, and Yonatan Nadelman for
headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
out).
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AFRICA
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More on the trans-Saharan mineral trade:

http://tinyurl.com/n34oc (UA press release)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A pair of 1400 B.C./B.C.E. cartouches are shedding light on
Thutmoses III (possibly more noteworthy is the accompanying
photo of Zahi Hawass without his hat):

http://tinyurl.com/rmwls (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ouqlt (News24)

Updates from the KV-63 site:

http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/

The current state of Babylon (alas):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/world/middleeast/18babylon.html

... and an interesting video game to learn about it:

http://tinyurl.com/ppsso (USA Today)

... and more coverage of possible apologies:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200604151413/154054d6

More coverage of those ancient Egyptian seagoing vessels:

http://www.oceannavigator.com/articles/9712/

More/updated coverage of the Cana dig:

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060416-115958-4935r.htm
http://torontosun.com/News/World/2006/04/16/1536389-sun.html

... and some semi-related (?) vandalism:

http://tinyurl.com/o4b3o (JPost)

Ancient ostrich eggs from Israel?:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3240850,00.html

Things don't look good for Palestinian archaeology:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5772/352b

More coverage of that Knights Templar burial in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/gz4v7 (Telegraph)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Roman remains in Baalbek:

http://tinyurl.com/gdmhu (Daily Star)

... some semi-related photos (text in Arabic):

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/MANTK060420.HTM
http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060422.HTM

... and an (Arabic) correction to the above:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060421-1.HTM

A Roman shipwreck off Lebanon (Arabic, no photo):

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060421-2.HTM

Claims of a Roman fort in Furness:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=358426

A group is trying to rebuild the Argo (!):

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060423/3/2jgp9.html

Archaeologists have nixed the idea of another athletic event
at Olympia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060422/sp_nm/athletics_olympia_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/f2u7c (Reuters)

The new building housing the Ara Pacis is causing a stir:

http://tinyurl.com/r6jyd (Age)
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=358426
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/21/ara-pacis.html

Ancient Greeks and Romans are being blamed for spikes in lead
contamination in the Nile:

http://tinyurl.com/rhkke (New Scientist)

General coverage of the opening:

http://tinyurl.com/qe95c (AGI)

Nice piece on that equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius' new
home:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/21/news/conway.php

Very nice slideshow of various objects in Roman museums to
accompany the article too:

http://tinyurl.com/owkrr (IHT)

Preview of a documentary about an interesting Roman 'cold case'
in Yorkshire (personal view: decimation):

http://tinyurl.com/sx77o (YPost)

The Caesar cipher and its modern users:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/mafiaboss_tec.html

Worshippers of the Olympian deities want access to the
Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/s7yux (Kathimerini)

JCL coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ztol6 (Leaf Chronicle)

Brief item on Celtic wine in Italy:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1852868
http://www.slashfood.com/2006/04/19/celtic-wine/

Philip Pullman celebrates the epic (mostly the ancient ones):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2143858,00.html

Followups to that UA 'favouritism' case:

http://tinyurl.com/mopz9 (KVOA)
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/allheadlines/125694.php

Nice coverage of a class participating in the ACE coins
project/thingy:

http://tinyurl.com/n938n (Enquirer)

More coverage of that 'Roman seaside villa' find:

http://tinyurl.com/ewhja (UPI)

More on those Roman 'burial urns' from Cornwall:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART36479.html

A semi-serious call for the return of 'honest' combat sports:

http://tinyurl.com/rm953 (Forbes)

More on those ancient italian forgeries:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/forgery_arc.html

Robert Novak has endowed a chair at UI:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14379021.htm

Review of Frederic Raphael, *Some Talk of Alexander*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-2139219,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Assorted items found during the restoration of Leeds Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4928718.stm

Saxon remains in Southampton:

http://scatoday.net/node/6091

Recreating life in the Iron Age:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4921824.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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2000 b.p. beheaded skeletons from China:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1678622,00050004.htm

A pile of tombs from various periods from China's Henan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/15/content_4426669.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Artifacts associated with the Haudenosaunee people:

http://tinyurl.com/n6bwq (BU Press release)

Remains of a Native American village in downtown Santa Fe?:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42518.html

Digging a Wichita site in Arkansas:

http://www.arkcity.net/stories/041706/com_0002.shtml

More gold from the Atocha?:

http://tinyurl.com/kf4vs

What war time presidents have endured in the past:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346798

A reviewish sort of thing on recent work on the Pilgrims:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/060424crat_atlarge

Virtually rebuilding Ohio earthworks:

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=3757

The history of gossip in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/opinion/21caldwell.html

Review of Alan Taylor, *The Divided Ground*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/books/review/23brookheiser.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More Nazca lines have been discovered:

http://tinyurl.com/mmhzj (METimes)
http://tinyurl.com/p95rw (Mainichi DN ... photo)

Another Kon-Tikiesque expedition:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12395086/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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St. Peter's basilica is celebrating 500 years:

http://tinyurl.com/oblph (Star Telegram)
http://tinyurl.com/lrll8 (AP via Yahoo)

Humanities in the med school curriculum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/design/17sina.html

OpEd piece arising from a Yale conference on demagogues and
democracy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/17conn.html

NPR piece on bows (the musical kind):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5345507

The BBC has an interesting series ongoing called Trench
Warfare about digging in dangerous places:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/trenchwarfare/

The history of gossip:

http://tinyurl.com/rcn6u (Oxford Press)

Rumblings about a deal the Smithsonian made with the Showtime
folks keep popping into my box:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346804

While there was more general coverage of/reaction to the GoJ:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=417358
http://tinyurl.com/reps4 (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/lkssy (Standard)

... and the Gnostic reaction:

http://tinyurl.com/p52ek (LAT)

... there was also an interesting twist in the case as it was
revealed that there are more fragments in the hands of a
rather well-known dealer of manuscripts (who is fighting
bankruptcy):

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/3811400.html
http://tinyurl.com/m33u8 (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/og77c (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/nrb23 (NG)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12407083/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_sc/gospel_of_judas_3
(slideshow)

Review of James Robinson, *The Secrets of Judas*:

http://tinyurl.com/r429o (Record)

On Sabbaticals for non-academics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/business/22sabbaticals.html

History of the depiction of the female nude in art:

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=590302006

Just when you thought the DaVinci Code case was done, some
Russian guy steps up to the plate:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2129945,00.html

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Pompeii:

http://lowellsun.com/ci_3717288
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter (Spring 2006):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring06

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Incredibly major coverage of the seizure of a pile of antiquities
from a villa on Schinoussa, which appears to have connections to
the Marion True case:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2138616,00.html (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/m4x26 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/re2bc (CBS)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/18/greece-getty.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192164,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/ej2px (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/mo2yh (ditto ... additional details)
http://tinyurl.com/pvx46 (Courant)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/16/content_4431284.htm
http://tinyurl.com/n9j87 (M&C)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/arts/design/19loot.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=587932006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5764009,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/rc85e (Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/18/news/greece.php

A head of Dionysus, stolen ages ago from a villa once owned
by Mussolini, was returned to Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/arts/design/22arti.html
http://tinyurl.com/omrcd (KRT)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/411019p-347703c.html
http://tinyurl.com/z3shw (Newsday)

Interesting talk by Philippe de Montebello asking why only
US museums are the focus of recovery efforts:

http://tinyurl.com/mxr4d (LAT)

cf.:
http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-04-18_1183542.html

This just popped into my mailbox ... a press release about a
documentary DVD on the antiquities trade:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/4/prweb376021.htm

Dealing with the looting of sites in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/mopz9 (Daily Comet)
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/14405749.htm
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NUMISMATICA
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More on those ancient italian forgeries:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/forgery_arc.html

The Queen continued the 'Maundy coin' tradition:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4905376.stm

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Joseph Gandy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/arts/design/21anti.html

Veronese:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/060424craw_artworld

Anasazi Heritage Center:

http://www.telluridewatch.com/042106/anasazi.htm

Ancient Japanese Art:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2006/20/c9141.html

The Morgan Library will soon reopen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/arts/design/20morg.html

Cradle of Christianity:

http://www.forward.com/articles/7667

The Prato Haggadah:

http://www.jtslibrarytreasures.org/prato/prato.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antony and Cleopatra:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1756984,00.html

Odin: The Opera:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/music/17odin.html

Khan: The Rock Opera:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346789
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ON THE WEB
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H-Net's dictionaries and language resources page:

http://www.h-net.org/~hre/language.html

Canadian Currency Museum:

http://www.currencymuseum.ca/

Underwater Archaeology in Greece:

http://www.underwaterarchaeology.gr/
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OBITUARIES
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Walter Ristow (Maps):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/us/17ristow.html

Jack Lucas (Excavator of Tripontium):

http://tinyurl.com/n2x45 (Harborough Today)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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They began digging into that 'bosnian pyramid' this week and
claim to have found cut stone (although I'd like someone to
mention that natural geologic phenomena such as columnar
jointing are probably a more reasonable explanation):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=237
http://tinyurl.com/nha2e (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/pgvz8 (NG)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12402157/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_sc/bosnia_pyramid_5
(slideshow)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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