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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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The oldest stone head in Britain?:

http://tinyurl.com/6orel (Times; I'm still curious whether folks
outside the UK have problems with this one)

40 000 b.p. axe heads found in Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/3l6eg (News.com)

The Greek government is launching a seismological study which
may answer what happened to Minoan Civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/69pvl (Kathimerini)

Nice article on the excavations of the Herodian palace at
Ramat Haadiv:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/482022.html

'Local' interest in the Qumran excavations:

http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/articles/2004/10/02/news/news5.txt

That discovery of ancient grain milling in Israel 23000 b.p story
is in the news again for some reason:

http://tinyurl.com/5qaf4

Lots of coverage of the discovery of a torso of Venus in Koln:

http://tinyurl.com/3q8qt (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/6sxpy (Australian)
http://www.macarthur.org/programs/fel/complete_list_5.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1119807.html
http://www.stadtrevue.de/index_archiv.php3?tid=722&;bid=3
(photo)

Plenty of versions of an AP story about the discovery of four
2500 b.p. pomegranates near Corinth:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6152274/
http://tinyurl.com/66jl8 (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/3s2wr (Las Vegas Sun)

Nice report on excavations off the coast of Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/466nl (AGN)

A ring depicting the Celtic divinity Toutatis has been found
in Lincolnshire:

http://tinyurl.com/4bec3 (Lincolnshire Echo)

Numerous Roman burials (including one of a slave boy named
Martialis) have been found beneath an Esso station in Gloucester:

http://tinyurl.com/4l2zf (Gloucester Citizen)

More coverage (with photos) of the excavation of that Roman
bridge on the Tyne:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART24230.html

If you have access to a Nature subscription/login, here's a
nice article on the Roman ships from Naples:

http://tinyurl.com/4nwfz

A Roman-era 'horse ornament' has been found in Croatia:

http://tinyurl.com/59vno (IOL)

Looks like we'll continue to hear about fantastic discoveries
from Bulgaria's 'Valley of the Kings':

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=39674
http://tinyurl.com/58a5w

... and that mask should end up in a museum:

http://tinyurl.com/4eszs

A set of five reliefs depicting Ganapatis in various poses have
been found in India:

http://tinyurl.com/4juv8 (Calcutta Telegraph)

Ancient granaries from China:

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-9-29/23476.html

A Tudor/Stewart era ring has been found at West Wycombe:

http://tinyurl.com/3t5nw (Bucks Free Press)

Excavating St. Leonard's nunnery (Scotland):

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1123902004

... and Hexham's Moot Hall:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/viewarticle.asp?id=140599

A medieval coin hoard has been found in France:

http://www.spink.com/news/current_news/4018b.asp

Some interesting inscribed copper plates (16th century) from
India were rescued from an antiquities shop this week:

http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/27/stories/2004092706510600.htm

Coastal erosion is threatening a number of sites in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1154462004
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Homo erectus in the Americas? (almost 'don't eat that Elmer'
material):

http://tinyurl.com/5ndzy (Fox23)

The remains of some 17th century Pequot people have been found
in Connecticut:

http://tinyurl.com/4f4w5 (Newsday)

Good coverage of a dig of a Mississipian site in Indiana:

http://tinyurl.com/69au5 (Courier Press)

A major site (it seems) has been found in a prior-to-construction
dig near Palmerdale (Alabama):

http://tinyurl.com/46k5p (Birmingham News)
http://tinyurl.com/6gzos (Herald Tribune)

A nice feature on petroglyphs in South Dakota:

http://tinyurl.com/3om56 (Bismarck Tribune)

What happened to the Fremont people?:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/041004/misc/4tribe.htm

The mystery of Mummy Lake:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2422770,00.html

The long-forgotten (it seems) plans to excavate what appears to
be the Queen Anne's Revenge are underway again:

http://tinyurl.com/58r3h (Daily News)

A genuine 'strawberry leaf' cent has turned up:

http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D8584U300-264.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/6q6j3 (Boston Herald)
(photo)

They're still excavating that graving yard at Port Angeles:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6103198/

George Washington's Distillery is the start of the 'Whiskey
Trail':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/business/01norris.html
http://tinyurl.com/3nxke (Guardian)

And apparently the Kennewick Man saga is not quite over:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6145131/
http://tinyurl.com/6bppp (AP via Yahoo)
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On the DNA front, they're still not positive who can lay claim
to having Columbus' grave:

http://tinyurl.com/3sv6o (AP via Yahoo)

... also on the DNA front, although I'm not sure how/why, are
plans to determine whether Agnes Sorel, the mistress of Charles
VII, was poisoned:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1134272004

According to the latest statistical model, we all have a common
ancestor who lived about 2300 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/6ft64 (NPR Audio)

Did Arab scholars decode heiroglyphics centuries before
Champollion?:

http://tinyurl.com/4vq3s (Observer)

Al Ahram has a nice feature on the International Congress of
Egyptologists:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/710/he1.htm

Zahi Hawass' column in Al Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/710/he2.htm

The authenticity of some artifacts found in 1979 bearing the
'Priestly Benediction' and predating the Dead Sea Scrolls has
been confirmed with new technology (check out the graphic in
the NYT piece):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/science/28scro.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/540868.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483019.html

The missing pages from the Sforza Hours have been reunited with
their book:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/25098.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3565385
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/01/1096527940728.html
http://tinyurl.com/43mvw (Telegraph)

DaVinci Code effects:

http://tinyurl.com/6jp28 (CNN)

The charges against Dante have been made available to the
public:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3687282.stm

A piece on the history of the Turks and Caicos (who apparently
want to join Canada):

http://tinyurl.com/68bv4 (BBC)

Was Kenneth MacAlpine a Scot or a Pict?:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1149902004

... and were the Picts rather more cultured than they are
usually portrayed?:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/24272.html

Should Scotland be honouring Somerled?:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1149922004

Byzantine filler:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/magazine.cfm?id=1136942004

The Rosslyn Chapel folks wouldn't let the Time Team folks in:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1154182004

How they did gilding before electroplating:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/science/28qna.html?oref=login

So ... who got this year's MacArthurs?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/arts/28maca.html
http://www.macarthur.org/programs/fel/complete_list_5.htm (list)

Nice little piece about Alexander Pope:

http://tinyurl.com/5kkd2 (Guardian)

Where to look for antiques in France:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/arts/design/01anti.html

Babylon has lost its World Heritage status:

http://tinyurl.com/5zb5l (Iraq Press)

Nice feature on ancient breweries in various cultures:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041002/bob8.asp

Happy birthday Taj Mahal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3692702.stm

A 1900 b.p. Indian gold coin is expected to do well at
auction:

http://tinyurl.com/5ex8y (Reuters via Yahoo)

Another one of those 'what was it like being on a dig
last summer' pieces:

http://tinyurl.com/6cucw

The University of Rhode Island has a program in archaeological
oceanography:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6099556/
http://tinyurl.com/6vrp3 (AP via Yahoo)

Nice piece on various dating methods (archaeological, obviously):

http://tinyurl.com/5z3ld (SF Chronicle)

Time Magazine has an interesting article on heroes and folks who
have written about them:

http://tinyurl.com/4hnjt

Temple Mount:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/482613.html
http://tinyurl.com/3o57l (AP)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/482026.html
http://tinyurl.com/4edhc (Independent)
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=22221
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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The Digger 33 (October, 2004):

http://www.bajr.org/DiggerMagazine/Latest/index.html

American Journal of Archaeology 108.3 (July, 2004):

http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/i_toc.html
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ON THE WEB
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12 Black Classicists:

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/mvr/black_classicists/

Fasti Online (database of digs in Europe):

http://www.fastionline.org/

Preliminary Program for the AIA meeting in January:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10096

Preliminary Program for the APA meeting in January:

http://tinyurl.com/3zw34 (pdf)

The World's First Coin (maybe):

http://rg.ancients.info/lion/article.html

Numismatic Collection at Princeton:

http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/department/numismatics/

Nice photos of Persepolis and environs:

http://www.livius.org/a/iran/persepolis/persepolis.html
http://www.livius.org/a/iran/persian_gates/yasuj.html
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A major smuggling ring from Iraq appears to have been broken up
somewhat (not sure about the grammar in the third paragraph of
this one):

http://tinyurl.com/6wbml (TVNZ)

A sort of update piece on smuggling of artifacts from Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/5rytu (Washington Post)

A short interview with Michael Bogdanos:

http://tinyurl.com/5f6oa (US News)

Trying to stay ahead of looters in Montana:

http://tinyurl.com/4e7t6 (Helena Independent Record)

This one's a bit of a tease ... Atlantic Monthly has a feature
on the looting of sites in Iraq prior to the U.S. 'occupation'
... just a couple of paragraphs, but it might be worth tracking
down:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200411/sandler

On 'losing one's marbles':

http://tinyurl.com/3kvu8 (Guardian)

A number of purloined artifacts from Iraq were recovered in
Rome this week:

http://tinyurl.com/5jurb (AGI)

An antiquities dealer has returned an 'incantation bowl' of
questionable origins to Jordan:

http://tinyurl.com/6hxqb (Guardian)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Stephen Greenblatt, *Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became
Shakespeare*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/books/review/03TOIBINA.html
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/books/01BOOK.html
http://tinyurl.com/4wn6r (Orlando Sentinel)

*Essential Shakespeare Handbook: A Bard Compendium*
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/books/review/03BARD.html

Peter Ackroyd, *The Clerkenwell Tales* (Fiction):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0921/p15s01-bogn.html?s=hns
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PERFORMANCES
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The Ten Commandments(musical!):

http://tinyurl.com/5youx (NYT)

Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/5bggc (Boston Globe)

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/6pu5q (Daily Planet)
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EXHIBITIONS
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Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of the Northwest Passage

http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/exhibitions/milberg.html
http://tinyurl.com/5asqn (online version)

Dead Sea Scrolls

http://tinyurl.com/5ru3r (Houston Chronicle)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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A very good article by the editor of Skeptic magazine on recent
claims about finding Atlantis:

http://tinyurl.com/5yuz6 (SciAm)

Responses to the 'Bush as Alcibiades' piece in the LA Times:

http://tinyurl.com/6jwjg (LA Times)

So what's Hunter Rawlings III up to?:

http://www.colby.edu/news/detail/507/

... and Barry Strauss:

http://tinyurl.com/6qr8p (Cornell Chronicle)

A.D. pedantry:

http://tinyurl.com/4zvw7 (Daily Tribune)

More concerns about the CMA's Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/3m3hf (Plain Dealer)

Latin's all around us:

http://tinyurl.com/5sr6q (Victoria Advocate)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (hiatus?):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Paul Rehak:

http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/pdfs/AJA1083.pdf#younger

Krzysztof Nowicki:

http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/pdfs/AJA1083.pdf#nowicki

Norman Cantor:

http://tinyurl.com/48xtj (Telegraph)
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REPEATS
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Megiddo Excavation (Washington Post story):

http://www.charleston.net/stories/092604/fai_26arm.shtml
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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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 in Europe (blog):
http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

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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