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================================================================ explorator 6.19 September 7, 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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Donna Hurst, Greg Dow, Hernan Astudillo, John Hill, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Karl Wittwer, Leanne Archer, Mark Elliott, Mata Kimasitayo, Maurice O'Sullivan, Pippin Michelli, Mike Ruggeri,W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ What may be the oldest examples of figurative art have been found in Germany:
Archaeologists digging at Motza (Israel) have found a settlement which dates back 9500 years:
A better account of that 7000 b.p. clay 'fertility symbol' found in Germany a couple weeks ago:
Not sure the press coverage is fair on this one ... petroglyphs found this summer in Norfolk which were thought to be possibly 2000 years old have turned out to date from 1995 ... A.D.:
Recent excavations are suggesting (apparently) that Egyptian civilization had its origins in the Delta:
A German archaeologist is casting doubts on whether the Queen of Sheba ever existed:
The search for a missing motorist (!) in the waters near Rhodes turned up a number of amphorae, many with their seals intact:
A Greek bronze fished out of the sea near Croatia a few years back has been reassembled:
Evidence of brain surgery on the island of Chios, ca. 300 B.C. has been found:
http://tinyurl.com/miyv (eKathimerini) http://tinyurl.com/miyw (the Australian) http://hnn.us/articles/866.html#greekbrain9-2-03 (slow loading)
Plenty of coverage this week of relics from a Celto-Roman shrine to a hitherto unknown divinity named Senua:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1033318,00.html http://tinyurl.com/miuc (Mirror) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/3199191.stm
The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing about a visit to Hadrian's Wall and environs:
A dugout boat dating to the Dark Age has been found in Portsmouth Harbour:
An emergency dig in Lancashire is underway to save a pile of medieval burials from being washed into the sea:
Not sure the press coverage is fair on this one (why are the archaeologists characterized as "blundering" in the Guardian piece?) ... petroglyphs found this summer in Norfolk which were thought to be possibly 2000 years old have turned out to date from 1995 ... A.D.:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_815768.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3199721.stm (photo) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1034647,00.html ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ The debate on whence came the first Americans is heating up again:
http://tinyurl.com/miw2 (Scientific American) http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030901/migration.html http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/09/03/skulls_baja030903 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994128
Construction of a parking lot seems to be spurring on efforts to learn more about a "suspected" Native American burial mound in Waukesha:
Archaeologists have found evidence of "prehistoric agriculture" in Door County (Wisconsin):
GeoTimes has a piece on the various mineral resources exploited by the people of Ancient Peru:
Human remains found during construction of a school playground in New Jersey may be of African-American slaves:
http://tinyurl.com/miy2 ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ The Alexandria National Museum opened this week, with artifacts from plenty of eras:
Jerusalem Report has a feature from back in July on William Moses Shapira, a 19th century Jerusalem antiquities dealer whose 'artifacts' fooled many an expert:
Fans of 'miniature reconstruction' for want of a better description will want to visit "Mini Israel":
The Telegraph took a swipe at the National Trust's handling of Sutton Hoo this week, and started a bit of a row:
http://tinyurl.com/mh3c (Telegraph ... original piece) http://tinyurl.com/mh2o (Evening Star ... reaction) http://tinyurl.com/mh3k (Telegraph ... letter)
We'll hear more about this one (hopefully, and see a picture), but when a Petra exhibition opens in New York in October, the two pieces of 'Zodiac Tyche supported by Winged Victory' will be reunited for the first time in 1500 or so years:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/design/05INSI.html (scroll down)
First it was Shakespeare ... now some statistician is claiming that the works of Molière were actually penned by someone else:
... while a Renaissance scholar is pointing out Shakespeare's use of co-authors:
An interesting piece on the Duchess of Devonshire (a Mitford sister) and her house:
http://tinyurl.com/mir3 (New York Times) ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Niels Peter Lemche, "Conservative Scholarship -- Critical Scholarship: Or How Did We Get Caught by This Bogus Discussion"
The American Institute for Roman Culture (they're the ones excavating in the Forum who have found remains of Caligula's palace) has a website with progress reports etc.:
Technically, these are all repeats, but they contain photos and info on stories we've covered in the past ... The 24 Hour Museum has a number of items of interest, e.g.
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART17702.html ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ Robert Pennell, *Ancient Rome From Earliest Times Down to 476 A.D*:
http://tinyurl.com/miwa (About.com Ancient History) ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A few Explorators ago, we mentioned the theft of the Cellini salt cellar (the "Saliera")... the latest update is that the insurance company has received a ransom demand for it:
Meanwhile, the Kunsthalle in Frankfurt refused to pay a ransom for the "Waft of Mist" stolen nine years ago, but still managed to recently get it back:
ArtNews has a lengthy piece on how current U.S. Museum practices actually encourage looting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/design/05ANTI.html ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Brendan Kennelly,*Martial Art* (Roman poetry)
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0306/reviews/oakes.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ An icon has been removed from the Hermitage Museum because its 'energy field' is killing people (and this goes beyond Pravda!):
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/364/10818_icon.html http://tinyurl.com/miuw (Telegraph) http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-icon04.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of the Classical Past
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/design/05GLUE.html (excellent coverage with a photo or two)
http://www.iht.com/articles/109005.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ An "all black" version of Oedipus (no, it has nothing to do with rugby), is heading to Greece:
Plenty of reviews of the Human Stain out this week ... don't read this one if you plan on seeing it though:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue= 2003-09-06&id=3472
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 ================================================================ Michael Maclagan:
================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Purported Nefertiti Mummy a Male:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/960470.asp http://tinyurl.com/mis4 http://tinyurl.com/mivf (Yahoo) http://tinyurl.com/miya (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2644171a12,00.html ================================================================ 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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