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King, Ginny Lindzey, Glenn Meyer, John McMahon, Keith Armstrong,
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Watkins, Mark Morgan, Rochelle Altman, Robert Heuman, Richard C.
Griffiths, Sally Winchester, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
have left no one out).
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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More on Edom:

http://tinyurl.com/3kanb (JPost)

An ancient (4000 b.p.) perfumery has been found on Pyrgos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=18533&;archive=1
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=212432005
http://tinyurl.com/3l5tp (Reuters)

A bunch of stuff from Tang-e Bolaghi:

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=160048

Plenty of attention (and lots of discussion in various online
sources) given to the discovery of a pile of decapitated bodies
in a Roman cemetery in York:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1498756,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4175395
http://tinyurl.com/5cwq8 (This is York)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4295653.stm

cf: http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/driffield.htm

Some 2000 b.p. catacombs on Malta which were thought 'lost'
have been rediscovered:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=178624

Roman coin hoard from Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/4rwfl (EDP24)

A pile of sites have been found near Taxila:

http://news.newkerala.com/world-news/?action=fullnews&;id=77110
http://tinyurl.com/5h36k (Hi Pakistan)

Follow-up exploration in the wake of the stuff revealed by
the tsunami in India:

http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2005/february/104045.htm

The skeleton of a giant panda has been found in a 4000 b.p.
Chinese tomb:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7742299
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=531179
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7017821/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6978212/

The 'battle' over the Sigiriya site (Japan):

http://tinyurl.com/3vj3r (Asian NewsNet)

A new dig at Acre will start this summer:

http://tinyurl.com/4kpke (JPost)

Storms have revealed a medieval cemetery in the Orkneys:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=208372005

A dig at an Augustinian priory in Taunton:

http://tinyurl.com/47aq4 (This is Devon)

Digging into Medieval Grimsby (presumably not the Grimbsy
down the road from me):

http://tinyurl.com/5lofz (This is Grimsby)

A 1000 b.p. coin hoard from Morocoo:

http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=11&;id=4158
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THE AMERICAS
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A farmer in Ohio has found a pile of artifacts on his property
over the past 50 or so years:

http://tinyurl.com/55n2g (Gazette)

More on the excavation of that slave site on Ossabaw Island:

http://tinyurl.com/5mq8m (Seattle PI)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Slave-Relics.html

An as-yet-unspecified-tribe site near Seattle:

http://www.komotv.com/news/story_m.asp?ID=35450
http://tinyurl.com/3zb7c (Seattle PI)

Smithsonian Magazine has a nice feature on Utah's Barrier
Canyon petroglyphs:

http://tinyurl.com/4fst7
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On the DNA front, tests have been approved for the skeleton
believed to belong to Jamestown's founder:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7026925/

... while indications are that groups may have 'reverted' to
hunting and gathering:

http://tinyurl.com/6j9gy (PLoS)

A portable xray machine might be the next big thing at
archaeological sites (especially in Egypt):

http://www.detnews.com/2005/wayne/0502/23/B03-98436.htm

I think this is a repeat ... plans are afoot to use 'muon
detectors' to see if there are hidden chambers in the Pyramid
of the Sun at Teotihuacan:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7017833/
http://tinyurl.com/4ae9e (Telegraph)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4156114

A sort of 'what's up with the James Ossuary' piece:

http://tinyurl.com/4t44a (Washington Post)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4829

Eritrea is going to demand the return of artifacts from
Italy and Ethiopia:

http://tinyurl.com/5b6pk (MET)

... while Bodrum is going to try to get back bits of
the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus from the British Museum:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=6927

... and Russia is wavering (maybe) on returning the treasures
of Troy to Germany:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=535130

Ramses II at Abu Simbel 'saw the light' this week:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/731/eg6.htm

A sort of roundup of things we've learned about Otzi:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7742297
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=531177
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7013975/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6983084/
http://tinyurl.com/6c5a2 (Reuters via Yahoo)

... and interest continues in his shoes:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1492973,00.html

A touristy thing about Alexandria:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/magazine.cfm?id=149032005

... and one on the walls of Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/4mwxp (JPost)

... and Petra:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1418907,00.html

Another plan to save Venice from the sea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/22/science/22veni.html

The restoration of Iraq's marshes (a.k.a. the Garden of Eden)
is under way:

http://tinyurl.com/3hwjc (CNN)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7044
http://tinyurl.com/3rxlw (Telegraph)

Germany's oldest throne has been identified:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1495915,00.html

The religion of the U.S. founding fathers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/weekinreview/27kirk.html

Some letters by P.B. Shelley turned up in a trunk this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/arts/25arts.html (2nd item)

A 'pronunciation researcher'?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/books/21rese.html

400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4286345.stm

The 'hobbit saga' continues:

http://tinyurl.com/5q2d5 (SMH)

Advice for budding archaeologists:

http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=18448

On the need for foreign archaeologists in Iran:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4833

A different approach to medieval manuscripts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4294943.stm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 58.2 (March/April 2005):

http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/index.html

Archaeology Odyssey (March/April 2005):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html

Biblical Archaeology Review (March/April 2005):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html
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ON THE WEB
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Eric Meyers, 'Should Scholars Authenticate and Publish
Unprovenanced Finds?':

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Meyers_scholars_publish.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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A pile of antiquities stolen decades ago were found in an
Egyptian apartment:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/731/eg7.htm

Antiquities thefts rose sharply in Israel last year:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/543586.html

Five smugglers were arrested in Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=819&;p=local&a=2

A sort of roundup of thefts from the British Museum/British
Library:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1502486,00.html

Thai police recovered a pile of stuff this week:

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050227-120151-4994r.htm

I think we'll start tracking these articles about sales of
stolen antiquities on eBay:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=614896
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Simon Singh, *Big Bang*

http://tinyurl.com/3rjfj (NYT)

Ted Widment, *Martin Van Buren*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/books/review/27KAZINL.html

David Riggs, *The World of Christopher Marlowe*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20050226-101209-2979r.htm

Ancient Stadia: Stadia and Games from Olympia to Antioch:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=53093
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Yokastas Redux:

http://tinyurl.com/6cfoq (NYT)

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/666t4 (Chronicle)

A new Globe Theatre?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/arts/design/26glob.html

... and maybe a Rose:

http://tinyurl.com/5bqur (Independent)

A couple of versions of Henry V:

http://bostonreview.net/BR30.1/stone.html

Dido and Aeneas:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=22502&;pid=1262

Medea:

http://tinyurl.com/4dd2j (Press Telegram)

Women of Troy:

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/02/24/63414

A Very Naughty Greek Play:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91387.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Providing for the Afterlife:Brilliant Artifacts from Shandong:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/arts/design/25anti.html

Roman Allegories:

http://tinyurl.com/6bzlr (NYT -- fourth item)

Creating St. Peter's:

http://tinyurl.com/4hgfv (Washington Post)

Impending opening of de Young Museum in San Francisco:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/arts/design/26ocea.html

Arundel Castle is putting a pile of medieval documents from its
archives on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4280203.stm

How a pile of Chinese imperial artifacts ended up in Taiwan:

http://tinyurl.com/4dl4p (Reuters via Yahoo)

Plans for a new exit at the Uffizi have been halted because
of discovery of some medieval stuff:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1423872,00.html

The museum for the Pisa ships will be ready (maybe) by 2009:

http://tinyurl.com/4ep7y (AGI)
http://tinyurl.com/5fvjd (adnKronos ... Italian)
http://tinyurl.com/5uzxu (ANSA ... Italian)

Relics of computer history on sale:

http://tinyurl.com/5v2tg (Reuters)
http://www.christies.com/promos/feb05/1484/overview.asp
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Review of Shadow of Rome video game:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/critique.cfm?id=161012005

Alas ... this leads to stereotypical comments:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/spectrum.cfm?id=215202005

More on the Colossus of Rhodes rebuilding plan:

http://tinyurl.com/4lv5m (Telegraph)

An interview with Michele Valerie Ronnick:

http://tinyurl.com/6kzqd (Chronicle)

Baz Luhrmann's Alexander flick is still on:

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8463
http://www.timeout.com/film/news/298.html
http://www.filmfodder.com/mt-weblog/archives/001402.shtml

24 as Greek Tragedy:

http://www.nationalreview.com/hibbs/hibbs200502211213.asp

Another "Roman Day":

http://tinyurl.com/4vksw (IC Surrey)

... and another:

http://tinyurl.com/593u4

Classics v. the 'new humanities' in Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/68v5y (Australian)

A Classics Bee:

http://tinyurl.com/6uraa (Review Atlas)

Classicists should be interested in this reprised interview
(from 1947) from the New Yorker with Albert Einstein:

http://tinyurl.com/6r5ve

Tom Palaima's latest:

http://hnn.us/articles/10112.html

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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Hugh Nibley (religious scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/obituaries/25nibley.html
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2584205

Peter Moorey (archaeologist):

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=195082005
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REPEATS
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Ancient Egyptians Hoarded Oil:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050214/egyptoil_print.html

Coptic Manuscripts:

http://tinyurl.com/55zcb (MET)

Etruscan Chariot fracas:

http://tinyurl.com/3twf4 (AGI)

How Meat Changed Human Anatomy:

http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,72921495,3484,f/

Omo Skulls:

http://www.sltrib.com/healthscience/ci_2581199
http://tinyurl.com/3rzhz (Advertiser)

Roman Palace:

http://tinyurl.com/4cfwk (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/45h27 (Al jazeera)

Tomb of St. Paul:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050221/stpaul.html

What the Tsunami Revealed in India:

http://tinyurl.com/6ygo4 (Sun-Sentinel)
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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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