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http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/ ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ We begin with a somewhat difficult-to-read piece on the excavation of Azikh cave (a paleolithic site in/near Azerbaijan):
http://tinyurl.com/prz4 (Guardian) http://www.maltamedia.com/cgibin/news03/print.pl?article=3630
Last week we mentioned the discovery of an Iron Age Silver hoard in Lapland (Inari, Finland) ... here's much better coverage (with photos) sent in from someone closer to the discovery:
Lottery money has helped Bolton Museum to acquire a statue of Nefertiti's daughter from a private collector:
A third season of excavation is under way at a Sassanid site in Iran's city of Takab;
Alas, as mentioned far too often here and elsewhere, looting of archaeological sites in Iraq continues on a near-massive scale:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-ancient30.html http://tinyurl.com/prt5 (Arab Times ... scroll down a bit)
In a related bit, PBS has transcripts and online video of an interview with Col. Michael Bogdanos:
Last week we mentioned new rules which would apply to foreign missions digging in Egypt ... now Zahi Hawass is defending those rules:
Israel's Antiquities Authority is considering selling pottery shards which are found during digs:
Big news this week of the discovery of a Roman patera inscribed with names of fortresses (and other things) near Hadrian's wall:
http://tinyurl.com/prrv (Telegraph) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1052925,00.html http://tinyurl.com/prso (ABC)
Archaeologists are excavating some of the older layers of Pompeii:
The UK's 'Long Man of Wilmington' has now been dated to the mid-16th century (A.D./C.E.):
http://tinyurl.com/prsa (Telegraph) ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ There was much coverage of the 'pageantry' to rebury a number of remains of slaves found during office construction more than a decade ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/nyregion/04BURI.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-African-Burial.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/nyregion/02PROF.html http://tinyurl.com/prqg (NY Daily News) http://tinyurl.com/prqh (WCBS)
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/6936675.htm http://www.charleston.net/stories/100403/hun_04hunley.shtml
There's supposedly a hidden code lurking on the back of the Declaration of Independence (or is it just a movie?):
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030929-123101-6547r.htm (scroll down a bit)
This one's been kicking around for a while ... an Egyptian professor is launching a lawsuit to reclaim gold taken by the Jews during the Exodus (yes, my mind is boggling too):
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/30_09_03_c.asp ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ On the DNA front, dingoes are apparently descended from domestic dogs:
The Chicago Tribune has a nice piece on the Oriental Institute's collection:
A new method of dating pottery based on fat preserved in pottery walls looks interesting:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030930055244.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/acs-ta092903.php
An interesting piece on different motives for France and Britain in their involvement in Egypt:
http://tinyurl.com/prs8 (Guardian) http://www.artdaily.com/links.asp?idl=28&id=173
A letter to the editor on what life is like being an archaeologist in Greece:
A week or so ago, the Brooklyn Museum reopened its Egyptian galleries ... now its European Painting collection is back on view:
An article in the New Yorker on the relationship between John Churton Collins and Edmund Gosse:
Folks might want to read a William Safire editorialish thing on the recovery of the Warka Mask:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/975467.asp ================================================================ MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ The Atlantic has a nice piece on what lies beneath St. Peter's:
To be quite honest, I'm not sure what the title of this journal in the making is ... it was mentioned on the ANE list and has to do with Egyptology; there's a couple of full text articles available as .pdf's:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/bswbBRKprd.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The Etruscans: An Ancient Culture Revealed (museum exhibition site):
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Ludemann_Life0fJesus.htm ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ The latest case involving Nazi art theft (or not ... this one's kind of strange):
Rubens''Tarquin and Lucretia' has been (or will be) returned to Germany after the Russian government confiscated it from its most recent 'owner':
There seems to have been some confusion about Afghanistan's 'Bactrian Gold' and whether it had, in fact, survived the Taliban:
Oxford's Christ Church College is in a dispute with Nippon Dental University over the ownership of a text by Vesalius:
Ethiopia has recovered a book of Psalms looted by British soldiers 150 years ago:
Egyptian authorities recovered a number of items in Italy this week:
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o300923e.htm ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Brenda Wineapple, *Hawthorne: A Life*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/books/review/05ALLENT.html http://tinyurl.com/prq3 (first chapter)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/books/review/05SCHULMT.html http://tinyurl.com/prq9 (first chapter) ================================================================ PERFORMANCES ================================================================ Henry IV, Part I:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/29/movies/29GOSP.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Lice and Clothing History:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/arts/X03KIMM.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/29/arts/design/29GREC.html
http://tinyurl.com/prtd (Yahoo) ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Much more of Classical interest can be found at our blog, of course, (which I keep flogging here because my tracking service suggests it isn't being consulted much by people with edu addresses! ... there's job listings, calls for papers, more ephemeral news items and plenty more):
Swedish researchers suggest Constantine's vision might have been the result of a meteor shower:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3013146.stm http://tinyurl.com/prui (Space Today)
The Public Interest has a lengthy piece trying to figure out Leo Strauss:
Plenty of ClassCon in this piece from the Guardian about Boris Johnson:
... and a nice piece on why Classics *should* be enjoying a revival:
Akropolis News in Classical Greek (on hiatus?): 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/ ================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Alaskan Munitions Factory:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/27/arts/27SPAI.html ================================================================ OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS ================================================================ About.com Ancient History (blog): http://ancienthistory.about.com/
About.com Archaeology (blog): http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm
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 Archaeoblog: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/
Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog): http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html
Cronaca (blog): http://www.cronaca.com/
Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site: http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html
Maritime Underwater Archaeological News: http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm
Megalithic Portal http://www.megalithic.co.uk
Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News: http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/Ancie ntAmericaand/
Mirabilis.ca (blog): http://www.mirabilis.ca
Paleojudaica (blog): http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com
Phluzein (blog): http://www.binref.com/phluzein/
Stone Pages Archaeo News: http://www.stonepages.com/news/
Texas A&M Anthropology News Site: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
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