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================================================================ explorator 6.18 August 30, 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. Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication.
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Editor's note: over the past few weeks I have been fiddling with the concept of starting up a daily weblog devoted to Classics and ancient Greek and Roman history. It's official 'launch' is tomorrow, but there's already quite a bit of content available (only two days show on the page, but there's a week and a half of archives). If you want a 'preview' (500+ have already visited!), please visit it at:
================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ If you've gone out to look at that red dot near the horizon over the past few days and wondered what folks might have been up to the last time Mars was this close, the BBC will tell you:
Evidence of metallurgy being practiced in Bulgaria some 1500 years earlier than conventionally thought has been found:
A farmyard wall and burials dating to the Bronze Age have been found in Wales:
A stone circle dating to at least 3000 years b.p. has turned up in the Outer Hebrides:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3186601.stm http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/28-8-19103-0-5-38.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_813926.html
Speaking of stone circles, Thornborough Henge is under threat from development
The New York Times has a piece on the quarry whence came the sarcophagi and obelisks of the pharaohs (nice bit of rock art -- no pun intended -- also included -- okay, maybe the pun was intended):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/science/26ASWA.html http://www.iht.com/articles/107910.html
Zahi Hawass thinks the mummy identified as that of Nefertiti actually is a man:
http://tinyurl.com/lrfy (CNN) http://tinyurl.com/lrhg (Yahoo) http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/653/eg8.htm
Close to 400 (unlooted) Macedonian tombs dating between the seventh and fourth centuries B.C./B.C.E. have been found near Pella:
A workshop dating from the 4th/3rd centuries B.C/B.C.E. which made bone tools (or something like that) has been excavated in Bulgaria:
In case you missed it, one of the most heavily-covered news items this week was the discovery of a foot from a Roman statue, which suggests that Romans may have worn socks in the sandals (I had called this the 'Sicilian Nonno' look in my 'blog, but it appears to be a trait of folks from the blessed isle as well):
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_813129.html http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7078174%255E13780,00.htm l http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/26/1061663791617.html http://tinyurl.com/lrec (yahoo) http://tlc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030825/romans.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3181443.stm http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/26/london.roman.socks/
Bulgaria seems to be the place to be ... this week archaeologists also found a 4th century A.D. Christian tomb:
The site of Merv (Turkmenistan) is at risk, largely due to Soviet era attempts to preserve it and/or irrigate the area:
An old graveyard of unspecified antiquity has come to light in Mullingar (Ireland):
The low levels of the Danube have revealed a Romanian for that disappeared in the 15th century (mentioned in passing):
If your eyes have glazed over during the Aydhya dispute, the latest is that remains of what might be a Hindu temple have been found:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/27/international/asia/27TEMP.html http://tinyurl.com/lrdx (Guardian) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3178849.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/3183027.stm http://tinyurl.com/lrf2 (Yahoo)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/shipwreck.html ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Archaeologists have determined how large (and off what shape) the fort at Jamestown originally was:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/28/national/28JAME.html http://tinyurl.com/lrgc (San Francisco Chronicle)
The mud from Long Island Sound provides evidence of 1000 years of change:
In San Francisco, archaeologists have found what they believe is the home of one of that city's early prominent families:
http://tinyurl.com/lrfq (San Francisco Chronicle) ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ On the DNA front, it appears we have a lot in common with a "humble mud worm" (as opposed to all those arrogant, hubristic mud worms down the beach a-ways):
The New York Times has an interesting piece (with photos) of artistic (i.e. painting) depictions of scenes from Shakespeare:
The Italian government is willing to pay people to move away from Vesuvius:
http://tinyurl.com/lrd6 (New York Times) http://www.iht.com/articles/107703.html
With all the hubbub over the Ten Commandments in Alabama, folks might be interested in a piece on the various versions of the Commandments:
http://tinyurl.com/lrf4 ================================================================ MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ Heroic Age 6 (Spring, 2002)
http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/6/toc.html (full text) ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Lin Ouyang, "The Achievements of Augustus Caesar":
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/ancient_rome ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ John Yarker, *The Arcane Schools: A Review of their Origin and Antiquity; with a History of Freemasonry and its Relation to the Theosophic, Scientific, and Philosophic Mysteries*:
http://djvued.libs.uga.edu/sib/ (requires free plugin) ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from a private collection in Scotland (scroll down a bit in the New York Times piece to read about the recovery of some Russian icons):
http://www.arts.scotsman.com/headlines_specific.cfm?id=7637 http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1030289,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/28/arts/28ARTS.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3185441.stm
In a related piece, the BBC has a rundown of the 'greatest' art thefts ever:
On a happy note, the Bactrian artifacts excavated at Tillya Tepe, which were feared looted under the Taliban, have been found to be safe:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3193091.stm http://tinyurl.com/lrhv (eKathimerini) http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_4464.shtml ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Jean-Pierre Chretien, *The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History*:
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~28~1598192,00.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ A number of Ron Wyatt's devotees are searching a cave system near Jerusalem for the Ark of the Covenant:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34103 ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Bob the Roman: Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam:
================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ The Archimedes Screw has come to the rescue of Flint:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/arts/31HIGH.html cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/arts/music/31ROCK.html
http://tinyurl.com/lrce (New York Daily News) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/30/movies/30PASS.html
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 ================================================================ Mary Eccles (collectrix of Johnson-Boswell stuff):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/27/obituaries/27THES.html http://tinyurl.com/lrig (Spectator)
================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Donner Party Camp:
http://tinyurl.com/lrhi ================================================================ OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS ================================================================ About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/Ancie ntAmericaand/
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