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================================================================ explorator 6.27 November 2, 2003 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication.
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================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ The latest on Oetzi suggests he was found not that far from the valley he was likely born:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/987030.asp http://tinyurl.com/tbqa (Telegraph) http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/3227339.stm http://tinyurl.com/tbsm (AP via Yahoo) http://tinyurl.com/tbvm (NG)
The return of the mummy of Ramses I is prompting calls for the return of other items for exhibition purposes (is ZH softening his stance?):
The Guardian has a piece on the various sites found during preliminary digs prior to construction of the Chunnel rail project:
Digs have resumed in Serbia, and we get a nice report on what they're working on:
================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ A coastal migration theory is now suggesting the migration of folks to North America ca. 16,000 bp:
St. Petersburg Times has a touristy sort of thing on the 'Cave of the Stone Sepulcher' in Belize:
Possibility of mineral exploitation is leading to hasty documentation of sites in Alaska:
Human remains somehow ended up in the trash at a demolition site in Philadelphia:
http://www.nbc10.com/news/2585839/detail.html ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ On the DNA front, tales of blond Inuit are definitely a myth:
On the Olympics front, it is nice to hear of an impending exhibition of antiquities from Cyprus:
... while the mind boggles at the stupidity of suggestions that the ancient site of Olympia be used for at least one athletic event:
http://tinyurl.com/tbxn (ekathimerini) http://tinyurl.com/tbxy (ditto) http://tinyurl.com/tbxv
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the pros and cons of various software in use and under development which allows museum visitors to virtually handle medieval (or other) manuscripts:
Also on the software front, the BBC has an item on technology being developed to 'see' what lies beneath already-existing buildings;
The New Yorker has an item on 'historically authentic performance' of music:
Descendents of Harriet Tubman are seeking back pay for her various military services:
Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't include some Hallowe'en- related items ... here's scary tales of the tower as told by a yeoman warder:
... and the medical side of things such as vampirish and werewolfism:
Folks might want to keep their eye open for fallout from a television drama (in the US) based on the DaVinci Code which, among other things, suggests Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3229829.stm ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Emmanuel Anati, "Where is Mount Sinai?":
This one's of 'quirky interest' ... The Political Graveyard provides biographical info on piles of dead American politicians and reveals where they are buried:
http://politicalgraveyard.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Folks might be interested in the political spin being put on looting of sites from Iraq:
Plenty of coverage of archaeologists' role in recovering a stolen Maya altar from Guatemala:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/science/30MAYA.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/986720.asp (photo) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994330 (photo) http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/americas/3228117.stm http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s978946.htm http://tinyurl.com/tbvp (NG) http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/30/1067233320572.html
A senior government official and a pile of governmental employees were charged with trying to sell and Egyptian mummy this week:
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap10-31-114238.asp http://www.cjonline.com/stories/110103/pag_egyptians.shtml http://tinyurl.com/tbxu (Seattle PI)
While this is actually an obituary, Jack and Jane Meador, two figures in a prominent WWII-purloined art case, have died:
Another antiquities dealer seems to be coming into the spotlight for his association with nefarious activities:
http://tinyurl.com/tbz5 (Kathimerini) ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ R.P. Hogue, *The Dominion of the Dead*
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Daily/News/0,1145,2233,00.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ While one group is now seeking Atlantis near Gibraltar:
... the book about Atlantis being off Cyprus continues to get press coverage:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/986685.asp http://tinyurl.com/tbqe (Reuters via Yahoo) http://tinyurl.com/tbta
There's some coverage of the 'Michigan Relics', which were put on display this week:
http://www.woodtv.com/global/story.asp?s=1497992 http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Oct/10272003/utah/105884.asp http://tinyurl.com/sg9h ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ A pair of India-related exhibitions at the Yale Center for British Art:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/30_10_03_c.asp ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ The Washington Dispatch has an interesting piece on the 'First Principle of Higher Education':
The Lumberjack suggests the Romans were rather more tolerant than we are:
A Fargo man has launched a lawsuit to have the statue of Themis removed from the courthouse:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/985585.asp http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21111-2003Oct26.html http://tinyurl.com/tc0b (reuters) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1071756,00.html
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/
Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Ramses I Returns:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/985361.asp http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/international/middleeast/27EGYP.html http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/662/eg3.htm http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_832220.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3215747.stm http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/28/3f9d7f367b97a
http://tinyurl.com/tbrd (IOL) http://tinyurl.com/tbrf (ProLog) http://www.nordbayern.de/dpa_art.asp?art=501651&kat=8036&man=15 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sz/feuilleton/red-artikel1476/ (German) http://www.gesellschaft-fuer-archaeologie.de/mat/kuenzing.pdf (detailed press release in German)
http://tinyurl.com/tbw7 (AthensNews) http://tinyurl.com/tbxe (Taipei Times) ================================================================ 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/ind ex
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/AncientAmericaand/
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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